Chapter Three: The Search for Elsa
Pitch was gone, but Jack didn't have the slightest idea as to where he could find Elsa. He knew she wouldn't be in the castle, but he did know that she felt..well, how did she feel? The only thing he knew for sure was that she couldn't control her powers.
He went back to the memory of being with her in the woods when she was younger. She was having fun, and she was in control, until…
That was it.
She was in control until he said something about her powers, and that was when all of the fun ended.
Then, a blizzard started.
But, it wasn't just that a blizzard started.
She started it.
And as soon as he hid and the guards came, the blizzard started to die down.
Then, there was everything that happened tonight. The room went dark, which is when Pitch came into the picture, but then it started to get really cold and snow...Pitch thought it had been him, but Jack knew it had to have been Elsa.
When Elsa gets scared, she loses control. That was it. But, what exactly is she scared of? The room got dark, but it could have been so much worse…
Whatever it was, he was going to have to find her. She was his only hope now…
"Elsa!" he yelled as he took a ride on the wind, searching the woods they had once played in together. "Elsa, come out! Everyone is okay! There's no need to hide anymore! Elsa!"
"Elsa!" he heard someone else yell in the woods, but it wasn't him. Who else was looking for her?
He followed the desperate screams that were yelling for Elsa, and found a woman with red hair wandering through the woods.
"Elsa! Come back, please! I didn't know, Elsa. I didn't know!" she yelled.
"What?" said Jack, looking at her curiously.
"Elsa, please! I didn't know that was you...I'm sorry I let you run! I'm sorry! Elsa, please come back!"
She didn't know? What, about Elsa's powers?
"So let me get this straight," Jack said, knowing that she could neither see nor hear him, "you're saying that you had no idea that Elsa had magic? But, you're obviously from the castle, which could only mean that...does anyone know? Elsa has powers, and was just crowned Queen of Arendelle, and no one knows that she has magical powers? Which means…that day, in the woods…"
"Who are you?" yelled the boy, unsure of what to do or how to react.
"I could ask the same for you," Elsa yelled back at him. "You got me to use my magic in front of you, and I can't even do that in front of my own sister! What did you do to me?"
With every word she spoke, the weather started picking up. The winds got more powerful, and the snow thicker.
"I asked you a question, who are you?!" Elsa asked again, looking up away from her hands and at him.
Jack started walking closer to her.
"No, stay back!" she said, taking a step back. "I'm dangerous!"
The realization hit him. She was scared of herself. She was scared of her magic, and her fear of herself was what was crippling her. It's what made her run from the castle. It's what made her cause the blizzard those years ago. It's why he is the only one who knew about her magic. If Elsa ran off into the woods, she probably doesn't want to be found. She's too afraid of hurting anyone…
He looked down at Arendelle and saw the fingerprints her magic and fear had left behind. It was starting to ice over on every house, shop, and brick of the castle, not to mention the fiorde was iced over. No one was going to be leaving the kingdom anytime soon. On the other hand, Jack was now out of the fight with the Guardians, but they had no idea what he had done. They were in trouble too, and he had to warn them. There was too much at stake. The Snow Queen was in danger if Pitch were to find out what was going on with her, her kingdom needed her, and so did the Guardians. He had to find her.
He looked down at the girl with the red hair.
"I wish I could help you, but I have to find her too," he said, knowing that she couldn't hear him. "I can look quicker."
He took a ride on the winds and started looking through the mountains. He would see some kind of mark of her magic, until something hit him in the face, pushing him with the wind. He landed on the ground and looked to see a cape had hit him, but not just any cape. It was the same one Elsa had worn at the coronation. She had to be close.
"Elsa!" he yelled again as he jumped back into the air to look for her. "Elsa!"
Out of nowhere on a nearby mountain, he could see something. It started out small, but then it started to grow.
"What the…?" he asked himself as he gawked at it.
It got bigger and bigger and started to take form. It was colorful, full of blues and greens and purples. It was staggering, but organized. It had design. It...it was beautiful, and the more it took form, the more it looked like a castle.
It was an Ice Palace.
"That's got to be Elsa!" he said, heading for the castle at full force, but he continued to admire how amazing the palace was.
He landed by it and looked up, with a long whistle coming from his lips. "Wow. Now, this is impressive."
Jack looked down at his hands and realized that he probably could never do anything like this, yet he had the same powers that Elsa had.
Wrong. They had similar powers. He was Jack Frost, a name and power given to him by the Moon. Elsa, on the other hand, was a Queen. She was born royal with a destiny to rule a Kingdom, while he had no real purpose, at least not one that he knew and wouldn't know until he got those teeth back from Pitch.
He could never compare to her. She was more powerful, had an actual purpose, and not to mention that she was beautiful. She was incredible, and everything that he wasn't.
He couldn't think about that right now, though. He needed her, and right now the useful thing he could do was to get her help.
I hope she helps me...Elsa, you're our only hope.