Kai lowered the plank on the side of the ship, creating a path to walk down on to the shore. Olaf merrrily ran down the plank, jumping onto the sand. Olaf layed on his back, creating sand angels. He was having the time of his life.

Kai and Elsa smiled and laughed, watching Olaf play. Olaf reminded them of when they were kids, before the time when they hurt a loved one. It amused and pained them watching Olaf play.

Kai and Elsa watched Olaf play from the ship.

"Ever played in the sand here?" Elsa asked.

"Once." Kai answered. "That seems like a very long time ago."

Kai looked down at his feet, and Elsa put her hand on his back. It felt good to have someone care for you this much. Kai didn't know what kind of relationship the two had now. He didn't know what to call it, but nevertheless, he liked it.

Kai loved Elsa. Elsa loved him back. They have never felt this way about anyone else. Kai never had romantic interest before, but now, being around Elsa gave Kai butterflies in his stomach. His heart was dancing.

Elsa truly felt that Kai was the one. He's helped her so many times. They understood each other. They both experienced the same pains. They wanted nothing but to be together, but they remembered the task at hand. Elsa realized that Anna was more important to her than Kai.

"Come on." she said. "We have a job to do."

Kai nodded. Elsa walked towards the plank, but Kai beat her to it. He knelt and offered her his hand. Elsa smiled warmly, and took his hand. Together, they walked down the plank, holding hands.

Kai took the first step on the sandy shore. He truned around to face Elsa, who was still on the plank. Elsa was about to take her step, but she stopped her foot, and put it back on the plank. She was hesitating.

"Something wrong?" Kai asked.

Elsa had never seen sand before. She hasn't seen much before, since she was locked in the castle most of her life. She didn't know what would happen. Would she sink? Would she slip? She was being silly.

It's just sand, she thought to herself.

"Oh I see." Kai said. "The princess doesn't want her shoes getting wet." He said teasingly.

That irritated Elsa. She immediately stepped on the sand and punched Kai in the gut. Kai wheezed and grabbed his gut.

"What was that for?!" He asked.

Elsa smiled. She leaned in closer to Kai. "For being a pain in butt." she said happily. Elsa then kissed Kai in the cheek.

Kai forgot about his pain, and blushed. "What was that for?" He asked.

Elsa giggled. "It's my way of apologizing."

"Your way? So you apologize like this for others?" Kai asked jealously.

Elsa grabbed Kai, and pulled him in for a kiss.

"No." She said. "Just you."

Kai and Elsa smiled at each other. Even for a serious mission, they still had a way of habing fun. Now, Elsa was glad that Kai ruined her sister's wedding. Kai was glad that he left the Bandits.

The Bandits. Kai totally forgot that he had to face them sooner or later. He would have to fight the family he knew most of his life once again. He would have to face Lyre, the man who took him in. In a way, Lyre was Kai's father.

"Hey guys, look over here!" demanded Olaf.

Kai dropped what he was thinking about and focused his attention on the snowman. Kai turned his head in Olaf's direction. Olaf was standing in the middle of 4 snowmen made of sand.

Elsa laughed. "What's this?" she asked.

"These are my friends!" Olaf answered. "The sandmen!"

Olaf pointed his stick arms at a sandmen that was bigger than the rest. "That's Jennifer! The father of the family." Olaf said. Olaf named the next 3 sandmen. "Robert is the mother, and those are the twins Olaf Senior and Olaf Junior!"

Kai couldn't help smiling. Olaf would always amuse him. Kai never acts like it, but Olaf was his friend. Kai would do anything for a friend.

Elsa's giggles turned into uncontrollable laughter. She was almost crying.

"You're so cute, Olaf!" she exclaimed.

Elsa wanted to join in on the fun. She took of her heeled shoes, and took off her socks. She raised her stockings up. She ran around the beach, creating footprints wherever she went. She put her feet in the water, and giggled when she looked at the wet sand around her toes. She was having fun. It seemed like it was forever ago that she had fun.

Something about this "beach" was familiar to Kai. He tried to remember. He has been on this beach before. Many times. Kai looked back in his memories. He looked at Olaf's sandmen. An image of a sandman flashed in Kai's mind. Then, a memory became more clear.

Little Kai and his friend Deren built a sandman on this beach a long time ago. Kai used to go to this beach as a child. He went as many times he could a week. This was one of the only good memories of his childhood.

Something clicked in Kai's mind. The beach was close to his hometown. He was very close to home. Never before had he wanted to go to his home so badly. He wanted to see his parents. He wanted to see what had change. But, he didn't want to face the people that saw him as a monster. But to Kai, it would be worth it to see his parents.

Kai looked to see Olaf and Elsa drawing things on the sand. Olaf took off his arm, and grabbed it with his other arm and drew with that. Elsa created a stick of ice, and she drew with that and her feet.

Kai walked over to the two.

"What're you guys drawing?" He asked.

He looked at their drawing on the sand. They were drawing all three of them together. He saw himself standing next to Elsa, with Olaf standing in front of their legs. Kai noticed that the drawing had him and Elsa holding hands.

Kai felt Elsa's hand wrap around his. Kai smiled. He wanted to go to his hometown and show Elsa to his parents. They would be proud that he found someone. Kai didn't want the picture to be washed away.

"Stand back." Kai ordered. Elsa and Olaf followed his command.

Kai shot a blast of fire at the sand drawing, creating glass. In the glass, the lines of the drawing were visible. He essentially trapped the picture in glass.

Elsa and Olaf gasped.

"The glass is stuck to the ground, but at least it won't wash away." Kai said.

Kai turned to face his friends. "You know, my old home is around this area."

"The home you had before you were banished?" Elsa asked.

"Yes." Kai answered. "That home..."

"Sorry, Kai. I worded that wrong." Elsa apologized.

"No, it's fine." Kai lied.

"Can we go there?" Olaf asked excitedly.

Kai smiled. "That's the plan."

Kai led the others into the forest. He knew the way like the back of his hand. Elsa walked next to him.

"Are you sure you're ready to see these people again?" Elsa asked.

Kai looked at his feet. "I don't know." He said. "I don't know if they remember. I hope they don't."

"Remember what?" Elsa asked.

Kai told her the full story as he led them through the forest. Elsa listened carefully.

"A long time ago, when I was a kid. My friend, Deren... He woke me up late at night. We played for a bit, and then... and then he jumped off a roof. I was scared. I raised my arm out and..."

"I got it." Elsa said. She put the rest of the story together on her own. "I'm sorry you went through what you did."

"Don't be sorry. I'm sorry you went through yours."

They had a mutual understanding.

"Guys," Olaf said, "I'm going to run ahead."

Olaf ran ahead of them blindly. Kai and Elsa looked at each other. They knew they couldn't let Olaf do that. They raced to Olaf yelling out his name. They saw the opening out of the forest. They rushed through the opening, finding Olaf standing on a hill overlooking a huge clearing.

"Don't do that!" Kai told Olaf.

Olaf didn't respond. He was paralyzed.

"Olaf..." Kai said. Kai looked at elsa, and saw her paralyzed as well, with her eye's widened. "Elsa..."

Kai looked to see what they were looking at. Below the hill, lay the ruins of a town. The buildings seemed to be leveled at the ground. No one seemed to be there. Smoke rose from the grey ashes of what was left. This once great down was now reduced to ashes. It was a wasteland.

"No..." Kai said.

Kai ran down the hill, towards the ashes. Elsa and Olaf ran after him. He ran inside the the ruined area. He looked around. Nothing stood over a feet. The place was completely destroyed.

Kai stood in what seemed like the middle of the small town. Kai looked closely around him. Burnt bodies littered the ground. Elsa held back a barf.

"This was my home..." He said.

"Who could've done this?" Elsa asked.

Kai ignored her. He looked to where his house used to stand. It was nothing but rubble. An arm stuck out of the rubble, laying on the ground. Kai walked to it.

The arm was that of a woman's. It was holding what seemed to be a hankerchief. Kai took the hankerchief out of his hand. Kai remembered it. The hankerchief belonged to his mother. She would always wipe the tears out of his eyes when he was scared. It always conforted him. The arm was his mother's. Now, she was gone.

"Mom..." Kai said. He clenched the hankerchief in his hand.

Elsa walked behind Kai to confort him.

"Kai... I'm so sorry." she said.

Before Elsa could put her hand around a kneeling Ka's back, a blast of energy was exerted around Kai, pushing Elsa back, and making her fall to the ground.

Olaf ran to Elsa's aid, but she waved him away.

'Kai, are you alright?" Elsa asked.

Kai didn't answer. Elsa look around Kai. Little pebbles were shaking near him. Kai burned the hankerchief in his hand. While kneeling, Kai turned around, his eyes closed.

"Kai?" Elsa asked.

Again, he did not answer. Rage fueled his body. Kai opened his eyes. They were glowing orange. Kai started to yell. A vortex of fire formed around him.

Elsa got up, and stood back. Olaf hid behind Elsa.

The vortex of fire became more powerful, and Kai yelled louder. His eyes glowing with more fury. Kai stood up, and he started to levitate. Blasts of fire shot out of the vortex. Elsa did her best to dodge the fire.

"Kai," she said, "you must calm down!"

He didn't calm down. The fire became more fierce. Elsa looked at the sky above them, and she saw it slowly turn red.

"Please, Kai stop!" Elsa pleaded.

Again, he did not answer. Rage covered his ears. He couldn't hear what she was saying. Kai wasn't himself. Elsa looked at something forming next to kai's vortex. The spirit of a flaming bird danced around Kai. No, it wasn't a bird. It was a phoenix.

"Kai, stop!" Elsa continued. "Please, for me!"

Nothing Elsa said could calm Kai down. His screams were echoing around the world.

Little did they know it, Strife was watching from the distance. He was leaning on a tree, with a group of Bandits around him.

"Where you planning on this to happen?" asked a bandit.

"I wasn't planning on it." Strife answered.

"What did you do?"

Strife slowly turned towards his men, and smiled through his mask.

"I broke him." Strife answered, and with that, Strife continued to watch what would happen.

If Elsa didn't calm Kai down, she would be in danger. His vortex got bigger, and hotter. Elsa backed up from the fire. She continued to plea for him to stop.

"Kai, this isn't you!" She said. "Stop!"

Right now, Elsa was invisible to him. The only thing that was real to Kai right now was the pain and rage. Elsa created a wall of ice around Kai's vortex. She moved the wall closer into Kai, in hopes of containing him, but Kai was too strong. His vortex shattered the ice wall.

If Elsa didn't stop Kai right now, he would engulg the entire area in flames. She couldn't let that happen. Elsa knew a way to stop Kai, she didn't like it, but it would work. The source of Kai's power was his heart. His fire would be as strong as his heart wills it to be. She knew what she had to do.

"I'm sorry..." Elsa said sadly. A tear ran down her cheek. Elsa shot a blast of ice from her hand. The ice ran through the vortex of fire, and through Kai's heart. The vortex immediately dispersed, and Kai fell to the ground.

Elsa ran to Kai, holding his head in her lap. Olaf stood back. Around Kai and Elsa, something was drawn into the ground by fire. The fire formed a huge drawing of a phoenix under Elsa and Kai.

Elsa looked to see what she had done. She struck Kai's heart. A strand of Kai's black hair became white. Kai slowly opened his eyes, and saw his love looking over him. She smiled.

"Hey." Elsa said.

Kai jumped up, and backed away from Elsa.

"Elsa," he said. "keep your distance from me. You'll be safe."

"Don't be ridiculous." Elsa said.

"My rage took over my body. You almost died. I can't put you in danger again."

"But Kai-" Elsa gasped.

Kai winced and grabbed his chest.

"You struck me..." Kai said. "Good."

"No!" Elsa disagreed. "We can thaw the frozen heart! I know it!"

Kai looked down at the phoenix, and then looked back at Elsa.

He smiled. "Well, we can't save Anna with a frozen heart now, can we?"

Elsa smiled back. She ran to kiss him, but something got in her way. Strife jumped in between the two, and kicked Elsa down to the ground.

"Strife!" Kai yelled. Kai raised his hand up, and created a fireball to throw at Strife, but another hand grabbed Kai's arm, and put it around Kai's back. Kai yelled in pain.

Kai was thrown to the ground by that same bandit, and the bandit forced Kai's hands on his back. Kai felt something being put around his hand. He turned his head to see a stone box trappig his hands.

Kai looked at Strife.

"What a show." Strife said. Strife then looked at Elsa. "Queen Elsa of Arendelle. It's a pleasure." Strife bowed formally.

"Save it." she said.

"Hmm." Strife continued. "Rude, just like your sister. You must know my Queen, Kai hasn't been telling you the complete truth."

Author's Note: I decided I would post a new chapter before my vacation. Here it is. Once again, no more chapters for a week. Hope you guys don't kill yourself figuring out what happens next. Ciao.

PS: I had to replace another doc to upload this chapter. It wouldn't let me create a new doc. Fanfiction tells me it's Error Type 2. Is fanfiction down for everyone or just me.