Chapter Eleven
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Entering into his tent, Thorne saw with delight, the corrupted Princess of Arendelle standing and smiling at him with the great black raven Diablo resting on her shoulder. He pulled back his hood, to show is scared and misshapen bald head and bowed. "Princess Anna, welcome to the Raven's Eye."
Anna simply looked down to her bindings, and Thorne snapped his fingers, and two guards entered and released her. She stepped forward and turned to face her once fellow prisoners, and smiled. "It is almost over, don't worry Flynn Rider, your name will remain dead." As she rubbed her swore wrists, Anna knelt before him and stared deeply into his eyes.
Just when it looked that she was about to kiss him, she turned away. Flynn showed no emotion, he simply studied her eyes, calculating her true feelings.
The Princess then turned to Karina of the Arendelle Scouts. "You however will be known as the women who failed to stop her Princess from turning to darkness and killing her sister. Your family will disown you, as your name will rot forever as the one who brought Arendelle to ruin."
Karina looked away in disgust, and this had Anna bellow in her ear. Anna once more turned to Flynn and placed a kiss on his cheek and whispered into his ear, "Only if there was someone left to save you."
As Anna stood, she looked back to Thorne and smiled, "Keep them alive long enough to see the fall of light, then kill them."
"Of course." Thorne said, as he went and opened the tent flap for Anna to walk out of.
Once alone, Karina punched the ground and hissed, "I can't believe it's over. What did we do wrong? How did we lose her?"
At first it was just a silent chuckle, but then Flynn began to laugh out loud. When Karina stared at him in anger, he looked to her full of hope. "We didn't fail."
"You heard her," Karina countered. "She has given up, and the darkness within her is now in control."
"If that was true." Flynn said as he looked over to the table to the sight of Pascal holding up a set of keys with his tail, "She would have remembered that there was a fifth member to our company." Karina stared in shock as Pascal hopped down and tossed the keys around his tale to Flynn. Unlocking himself Flynn looked to Karina. "She hasn't given up, just changed strategies, if she wasted all her strength resisting the Raven, she would have had none to protect us from the darkness with in. She is giving us a chance."
After freeing, Karina he pulled the dagger that was lodged in her side. "Sorry, need to barrow this." She fell to her knees in pain as Flynn walked outside to the first guard outside of the tent backstabbed in the heart. As he burst into ash, he grabbed his falling sword and used it to parry an attack from the second guard. This exposed the follower, allowing him to strike and kill him when he hit the black cloaked man's heart.
Looking off to the sight of the battle, Flynn saw Princess Anna on horseback riding towards it. When Karina came to his side, he kicked up the sword of the second guard with his feet, and she caught it with ease. He looked about and saw on horses overlooking the battle field from a safe distance was the Duke of Weselton, and the Crown Prince of Glowerhaven.
He sprinted towards them, with Karina right behind him. With no guards facing behind them, they easily came up on the nobleman. He ran up to the first guard, and kicked him in the back knocking him into the snow, the second was ill prepared for the attack and was struck down by Karina. Flynn than grabbed the Duke of Weselton by his leg, and threw him off his horse. Once on the ground, he kicked him in the head and mounted on the Duke's horse.
Just as the Crown Prince drew his sword, he was thrown off his horse by Karina, who slashed her sword across his face splitting open his cheek. She went to mount his horse but paused and went over to the Duke of Weselton and kicked him in the chest. Finally mounted on the prince's horse, Flynn and Karina rode off after Anna.
"Did that make you feel better?" Flynn asked.
Looking back to the Duke, Karina smiled. "Hell yes!"
With sword at the ready, Flynn raced after the Princess, taking down any who tried to stop him. She was surrounded by members of the Raven's Eye, and as he drew close, they realized his presence and four turned back to engage him. Flynn had no time to fight, and dodged the first attack and parried the second with his sword. Karina was able to strike one down as he ran by her.
Their progress however was not rewarded as they were now forced to maneuver their horses around the charging columns of Glowerhaven's reserve force. He heard an explosion and saw lightning was striking a wall of ice that the army was desperately climbing over. When a crossbow bolt struck him in the back, he shouted in pain to see the three remaining followers who turned back to fight them were now in pursuit.
He cut his horse and ran past a line of archers and snatched a bow from one's hand, then a quiver from the next. Knocking the bow, he spun on his horse, facing backwards, he opened fire striking one of the riders in the head.
"Give me the bow!" Shouted Karina. You need to stop Princess Anna!"
Tossing her the bow and quiver, Flynn turned back on his horse pushed his mount faster. Staying behind him, Karina shouted, "We could really use that Army you said your wife has!"
Looking to the darkening sun overhead, Flynn began to worry. "Don't worry, Raps has never let me down before."
After killing the second pursuer, Karina smiled, "What kind of name is Raps."
"It's short for Rapunzel!" Flynn used his sword to slap the rear of his horse driving it faster as he caught the bobbing twin braids of Anna. "You got this?"
Dodge crossbow bolts, Karina was riding backwards on a horse surrounded by thousands wanting to kill her and she still couldn't stop gawking at Flynn. "You mean Princes Rapunzel of the Holy Kingdom of Corona! You mean at Rapunzel!"
After cutting down a black cloaked figure Flynn stared at her and finally changed his posture to that of Prince Eugene. "Well duh, there is only one Rapunzel. So are you good here?"
Striking down four men with arrows, Karina narrowed her eyes. "You really need to work on your communications skills Flynn!
Shrugging his shoulders, Flynn cut down a man with his sword and said "The name is Eugene, Prince Eugene! So seriously, do you got this?"
"Yeah, why not. this is fun"
With one last look to Karina, Flynn pushed forward, and with his sword ready, struck down the rear guard of Raven's Eye followers escorting Anna. He was about to strike a second, when a massive ball of snow nearly fifteen feet wide came crashing down on top of the cloaked figure. Dodging the snow mountain, Flynn looked to the snow giants that were terrorizing the soldiers of Glowerhaven that were climbing over the wall.
The rider in front of Anna looked back to him, and Flynn grimaced at the sight of Thorne. He held out his hand, Flynn pushed his horse to leap just in time to dodge a ball of lightning being shot at him. For the Glowerhaven soldiers behind Flynn, dozens were blown to ash by the blast. After dodging such an attack, Flynn strafed to the side to put Thorne's own followers between them. He watched as Anna pulled away from the group and he realized that was Thorne's plan all alone. Flynn had no choice but to engage the Raven's Eye and he did so with fury and rage.
After easily killing two of them, he was blown into the air as his horse was killed by a bolt of lightning. Landing on the ground, Flynn rolled and picked up a spear from a dead soldier. He pushed up from his roll and spun in the air, when he landed on his feet, he threw the spear at Thorne striking him in the shoulder. Thorne turned towards him, pulling the spear out of his shoulder as if it was nothing. With Thorne between him and Anna, he screamed out and ran towards him sword in hand. He watched as Thorne rose his hand and it crackled with the sparks of magic.
Before he could cast a lightning bolt, an arrow struck him in his out stretched arm. As he screamed out in anger, Flynn leapt into the air and with a swing of his sword struck down the dark wizard. Thorne fell off his horse and burst into green flames as Flynn ran his blade through his chest. When there was just a pile of black robes, he looked back and saw Karina standing with bow in hand glancing to him with a smile.
Anna road into the chaos of the massive battle between the ice walls. When her horse stumbled on the dozens of bodies that littered the ground, she was thrown off and landed in blood stained snow. She rolled to a stop, she tried to stand but was knocked to the ground by a Glowerhaven soldier. The soldier's eyes were filled of panic and confusion, and she honestly couldn't say he knew who he was about to kill as he raised his sword above his head. Just as he came down to strike, an ice lance struck him in the chest, and he flew across the battlefield.
"Anna!"
Turning, Anna stared in disbelief at the sight of her sister. "Elsa!"
Seeing her sister, Elsa discharged a massive blast of wind knocking all around Anna to their feet. Slowly coming to her feet, Anna cried at the sight of her sister and she held out her arms as she stumbled towards her. Seeing her sister was too much for Elsa and she simply couldn't do anything but go out to her. As she raced towards her, she heard a voice call out.
"Queen Elsa no!" She looked up just in time to see of all people Prince Eugene of the Kingdom of Corona racing towards her his eyes filled with panic and fear.
Anna ran into Elsa's arms and embraced her as she cried uncontrollably. Elsa wrapped her arms around her sister, and kissed her on her head. "Thank God Anna you are okay!"
Shaking her head, Anna whimpered, "I am so sorry, I can't stop it, I can't control it."
Rubbing Anna's back, Elsa looked down to her. "It is okay Anna you are…" Elsa froze when she saw the white streak in Anna's hair.
Then came a cry from the man she has loved for years. Dragna's voice was full of panic as he shouted, "Elsa look out!"
It happened a white hot blade shattered her armor, and pierced her body. She looked down to Anna who was pulling away from her, and held the short sword that penetrated her armor just below her left ribs and deep into her body. As blood began to trickle from Elsa's mouth, Anna pulled out the blade and held it into the air releasing a blood cluttering scream.
Green fire erupted around her as the sun's light overhead was shadowed by darkness as black as night. In a massive flash of an explosion, all around Anna were thrown to the air and deafened by a rapture of breathtaking power. A wave of energy burst from the epicenter of hopelessness, and swept across the land. The sky blackened and the earth quaked, as if the entire world trembled in terror at the reckoning, the reawakening of an evil that's very name shatters the very fabric of time and space.
The world was changed forever at that moment, as powers beyond life and death collided to bring about a tempest of hate itself. Anna felt like her body and mind were ripped apart a thousand times over. Every memory she ever held shattered as the world itself disappeared into utter nothingness, a darkness that could last forever.
"You do remember, the first time we met was long before this war young child. I have been a part of you for a lot longer than you think." A voice hissed within Anna's fractured mind.
What semblance of consciousness she could muster, had her vision returned to her. It was to the sight of disorienting figures standing all around her. She felt nothing, not her body, not her heart, not even her breath. As if she was floating within a sea of consciousness. As her vision cleared, the figures around her all came into focus. It as if she was standing within a room of mirrors, as the dozens of figures morphed into reflection of herself.
Your humble beginnings, a time that was far closer to the present than what you think.
These figures were not herself, some taller, some shorter, some with long hair some with short, yet they all felt like her. The figures seemed at peace, floating in a dim undiscernible light with in a black void. Even though she found her lifeless body naked like the rest of the figures, she felt no embracement, as if it was natural, and peaceful. Still finding no movement or feeling to her body, Anna could only focus on what was in her view. She discovered there was no randomness to her or any of her replicates movements, they were all orbiting something. It was small and translucent, every so often a faint blue light would pulse from it. With each pulse the center revealed a tiny uncut white crystal.
The pool of the forge, with one's heart is forged. Your heart is as old as mine like a diamond perfected over time.
Time seemed irrelevant, and she felt she was staring at the figures for only moments or a lifetime. Even as one by one the faded away into nothingness, until there was only one other left. She was nearly just like her, staring at her naked body peacefully floating in the fetal position. She was stockier with a body that one would see in a farmer, or a mason, not a Princess. Her hair was much thicker, and longer, reaching to her thighs. The vision felt peaceful, and Anna had no memory on why or how she was here. She couldn't even remember her own name, her peace was so sublime. Gentle whispers could be heard like enchanting lullabies casting a spell upon her.
You are but one of many possibilities, and you pathetic and weak. You gave me the opportunity for us to meet.
Closing her eyes to give into the sleep, she opened them again just in time to see the drop of Princess Han's sword come down upon her freezing body. It wasn't a dream, or a memory, the moment was now, and all Anna could think of was protecting the one she truly loved, her sister, Elsa. Just as the sword stuck her sight was lost consumed by her frozen heart. Her mind faded from existence, and back into the dark void.
A dark haziness came over her, as she felt herself floating once more. Trying to sleep, but there was a dark presence burning her mind. Her body thought it was dead, but she wasn't prepared to the unholy agony she felt as if someone was reaching within her soul to rip out all that was good within. She just died for her sister, what has God unleashed on her for such a sacrifice. When the pain reached a point her soul was to be ripped to shreds, it ended.
A dark and empty feeling consumed her, as if a part of her soul was bleeding all the love within her. Blurry visions of green fire, and purple lighting flashed all around her. The blur of a figure in blue and gold streaked across her incoherent vision wielding a silver blade, that cracked and snapped with every swing.
The vision faded too black again, and she heard a whisper of a child like voice, "oh dear, a future has been broken, before it has begun. The battle for the present, rests in the hands of a future."
The vision had ended, and Ann found herself consumed with darkness the blood from her sword slid down her arm and spattered across her face. The very fabric of reality broke apart like glass, as despair and hopelessness clawed at the hearts of all. For those who witnessed its beginning, they could not yet feel the wrath of such horror. As the blinding light faded, Anna fell to the ground. The snow within a fifty feet radius was vaporized and a dense fog surrounded her.
Pushing herself up with her arms, Anna vision was blurry and she looked about in confusion. She saw some distance away, a figure lumped over and she began to crawl to it, praying that she did not just kill her sister. She resisted to the very last second, Anna even tried to wielded the blade so it would not penetrate her sisters heart. All her effort however could not stop her body from betraying her.
The figure began to move, and Anna breathed a sigh of relief, Elsa was alive. Anna wished her legs would allow her to get to her feet, but every time she moved them she was brought to agonizing pain. She crawled a little further but stopped as the figure rose, and its black cape fell over its shoulders. When it finally stood up straight, Anna stared in horror at what looked like black horns on the top of its heads.
Holding out her arm, a gold staff with a green emerald on its top materialized in it. As the fog finally cleared, Anna looked up at the Tormentor of her soul, the Lady of Hatred, the Nightmare Within Dreams, the Empress of Darkness, the Mistress of All Evil… Maleficent. Her ghostly white skin and blood colored lips brought unspeakable terror to Anna that she never knew was within her. She forced herself to get away, even willing to endure the agony of standing, to flee from such terror. She stumbled and fell many times, and finally out of strength she fell to the ground in front of the body of her sister.
"Elsa!" Anna reached out to touch her, and when her hand grazed her skin, she saw her sister move.
Grasping her wound, Elsa opened her eyes in horrid shock at her sister. With tears in her eyes, she whispered, "Anna why."
"Oh my, the Snow Queen is still alive." An evil and malevolent voice chirped from the mist. "You disappoint me Anna. Without her dead, the light in your heart will not die. I cannot retain my full power."
Seeing a sword, Anna took hold of it and with every last ounce of strength in her body, rose to her feet. "You witch!" Turning, Anna held the sword up ready to defend her sister. "You will have to kill me before I let you touch my sister!"
The Dark Sorceress snapped her fingers and black thorn covered vines rose from the ground entangling Anna's legs and arms. With every move of resistance, the thorns of black dug deeper into Anna.
Maleficent looked about the battlefield, and rose her hands above her head, and the defensive walls of ice erected by Elsa began to crumble to the ground, allowing the bulk of the Glowerhaven's army to storm into combat. She looked back to Elsa to see her raise her hand, just as the ice lance formed, it was destroyed as vine lashed out from the ground and wrapped around Elsa's wrist slicing it with its thorns.
With a sudden turn, Maleficent parried a sword swing with her staff. Dragna, his heart filled with rage and vengeance, pushed off the staff, and swung at the Empress of Darkness. She parried a second time, and she lashed out as thorny vines reached out to Dragna. He dodged them, and rolled to the side charging forward, and his efforts paid off as he nicked the arm of the evil queen. As blood seeped from her wound, she rose her hand and Elsa watched in horror as a bolt of lightning blasted through Dragna's body knocking him to the ground.
"Dragna!" Elsa ripped her hand free of the vine, and raced to his side. Taking his hand, she stared down at him tears dripping from eye. "No Dragna, please stay with me!"
Cupping his hand upon her cheek, he whispered, "My Queen. I..."
Pulling her hand against her cheek, Elsa cried out. "I am not your Queen. I am your Elsa. Please God no… Please don't leave me Dragna!"
His brown eyes stared into Elsa's and he began to weep. "Elsa, I… I will obey, I want to obey, because I love you."
When his hand fell to his side, Elsa fell over his body crying. Maleficent looked down to the familiar sight of grief, and it pleased her. She was feeling her life slowly being restored from the agony of those around her.
Looking to the Mistress of All Evil, Elsa saw the pleasure in her shallow and dark eyes, and it enraged her. She rose to her feet and fired a blast of magic at her, only to have it strike an invisible shield and rebounding the spell back onto her. Knocked to the ground Elsa was about to stand as two vines with spear like tips came down to kill her. Just when they were about to strike a sword swiped through them cutting them in two.
Sliding to a stop between Maleficent and Elsa, Prince Eugene held his sword up and pointed it at the Nightmare. "You face me, you ugly old hag!"
"Oh." Maleficent relished the chance to have the Snow Queen witness more suffering. She flicked her wrist, and Eugene was forced to dodge the attack of vines from both his right and left. When Maleficent cast out a bolt of lightning, Eugene rolled behind one of the vines for protection.
The vine was vaporized, but it protected him, and he rolled forward throwing his sword at Maleficent chest. Just before it struck, the sword stopped in midair, and flew back at Eugene. He leapt out of the way, and when he landed, his leg was entangled by a vine. It whipped in to the air, and then slammed him into the ground.
It rose a second time and Eugene had his boot knife out and cut the vine dropping him to the ground. As soon as he landed he charged Maleficent, just before reaching her he was struck in the abdomen by her staff. It stunned him long enough for her to grab him by the throat lift him off the ground and throw him to aside as if he weighed nothing. He crashed into Anna who still struggled against the vines that entrapped her.
"It is over, the war is lost, your army will be over run, your kingdom will burn in the darkness of my power!" Maleficent shouted.
Just as Maleficent was about to cast a lightning bolt to kill Eugene, Snowflake came swooping in attacking the evil queen clawing and biting at her. Elsa looked up as did Eugene and then all paused as they heard the sound of a great horn bellow from the east.
A lone figure on a white horse stood over the battle, and Eugene smiled and said, "Why, hello beautiful."
Looking down to Eugene, Anna didn't understand why he was smiling, "Who is that?"
Standing Eugene looked to the young princess and said, "My wife."
Reaching the crest of the hill first upon her horse, Princess Rapunzel looked down over the Osle Valley and to the great battle within it. With Elsa's walls shattered, Arendelle's forces were desperately holding formations, but were being overwhelmed and out flanked. She placed her hand upon her golden hair that was thickly braided and resting over her shoulder. She could feel the evil below and it only made the light within her shine brighter.
Coming up to Rapunzel's side was Kristoff, he looked down to his countryman and the bloodstained battlefield hoping those he cared for were okay. He looked back as King Henrik of the Southern Isles, brought his horse to be beside Rapunzel. He stared to the battle below in calm reverence to its power and danger. Next to join him were his twelve brothers, all fully armed and ready to enter the hells of war. Finally, to crest the hill was the combined heavy and light cavalry of Corona and the Southern Isles. Nearly ten thousand men on horseback. Behind them, still marching up from the shore line was an army of fifty-thousand infantrymen.
"The blood has been spilled, light is turning to darkness, we cannot wait for my father with the rest of infantry. We must do what we can to free the world from darkness's foothold." Rapunzel stated in a collective tone.
"You mean Maleficent… She was brought back from the dead?" Kristoff asked in fear.
Rapunzel only nodded as she took in a deep breath. She looked to King Henrik and he nodded his head and drew out his sword. He was followed by all of his brothers, then the sound of all ten thousand reading their weapons were heard.
Looking to his brothers, the King called out. "We will protect the Princess at all cost! Only she can banish this darkness, and we will make sure she reaches the foul witch to do just that!"
Closing her eyes, Rapunzel looked up to the darkened sun and whispered, "You will shine again, I promise you." When she opened her eyes she stared down to the battlefield with unbridled determination. She rose her hand, and by her command the ten thousand horsemen, began their charge into battle.
The Twelve Princes of the Southern Isles, with their King at their center formed a V formation around Rapunzel, who had Kristoff just behind her as a final line of protection. As their speed increased, the wave of cavalry shook the ground. Causing it to rumble like thunder across the land. The moment Maleficent looked towards the east, Rapunzel's began to glow brighter then any star in the sky.
Glowerhaven marshaled its forces to defend from the attack, the Mistress of All Evil struck down Snowflake with a lightning bolt, and the bird feel to the ground lifeless. She turned to the new threat and rose her hands high, and a thorny wall of black vines burst from the ground at the base of the eastern hill.
Anna looked to Eugene in shock and said, "And who are all these people with her?"
Picking up the sword at Anna's feet, Eugene stared at her as if the answer was obvious. "I told you before, her army!"
"I thought that was a metaphor!" Anna cried out, as Eugene charged the Black Queen.
She turned to him and parried the sword, and struck him upside the head with her staff and with a weakened force fired a blast of her magic at him, knocking him back to the feet of Anna. She looked to her hand and glared at the red headed princess. "You are a heart forged from light, what have I have not comeback with my full strength? You weak and stupid girl, I your guardian must die."
Facing Elsa, Maleficent wrapped her thorny vines around the Queen's body and arms and raised her in to the air. Elsa could barely lift her head; her wound was not fatal but the loss of blood was going to be. She stared down at the Empress of Darkness, and whispered, "You used my own sister against me. I will not rest until you are dead."
Searing with hate, Maleficent declared, "It is you who will die!"
Just as she rose her hands to strike down Elsa with a lightning bolt she was violently knocked off her feet by a rolling rock. Transforming in front of Elsa, Geir stood between her and Maleficent, with his spear at the ready. "Come and face me you witch!"
Rapunzel had held no fear, as she radiated in the glory of heavenly light. Holding out both arms, she looked out to the wall of thorns and the moment they reached them, the vines shattered into brilliant shimmering star dust. The cavalry of Corona and the Southern Isles burst through the glittering cloud. to the astonished and stunned Glowerhaven army.
With such speed and force behind their charge, the allied cavalry simply trampled over the first line of defense and continued through them with King Henrik at the tip of the spear. He and his brothers began hacking away at their enemies with furry and power as they charged towards Maleficent.
Seeing her wall of thorns shatter into dust, Maleficent rose back to her feet and screamed out in rage. She summoned a ring of green fire to encircle her and protect her from the onslaught that was baring down on her, and give her privacy to take care of those trying to kill her.
Her eyes met Geir's and she yelled, "You dare defy your master, troll!" Looking to Anna, she gave a diabolical smirk. Diablo landed on her shoulder, and stared at Anna. "You do not have to defend the Snow Queen from me."
Slowly standing to his feet, Eugene looked up just in time to see Anna's fist strike him in the face. Pulling the sword from his hands, Anna turned to her sister her eyes cold and filled with hate. She screamed out and charged to her. Geir turned to face Anna but just as she passed Maleficent she swung down her sword decapitating the head of diablo before collapsing to the ground. Shrieking in horror at the sight of Diablo fall off her shoulders headless, Maleficent struck Anna with a weakened bolt of magic.
Rolling on the ground in agony, Anna couldn't help but laugh, "I really hated that bird."
Before Maleficent could build up enough magical energy to strike down Anna, Geir charged forward and attacked with his spear. Forced to defend herself, Maleficent dropped back and parried multiple attacks before she finally was able to ensnared the troll in vines and throw him a side.
Geir was undeterred, he quickly recovered rolled towards her leapt into the air with his spear at the ready. After and exchange of blows, Maleficent finally was able to strike him with a bolt of lightning. Powerful enough to kill any life of flesh, the rock troll however simply fell to the ground seriously wounded.
Nearing the ring of fire, Rapunzel called out. "Break off and help the Arendelle army! I must face Maleficent alone!"
The King and all but one of his brothers broke off, giving Princess Rapunzel a clear path to the Ring of fire that separated her from the Queen of Darkness. She looked to see that Kristoff was still behind her, and he simply stared at her, "Don't even try it Raps! I will not let you face that witch alone!"
To the side of Kristoff was Hans who smirked, "I will not let you take all the glory, goldy!"
Nodding her head, she turned back and whispered to her horse, "Alright Maximus lets show them you can fly."
Breaking into his full stride, Maximus pulled far ahead of Kristoff, and Hans, before he sprung into the air. Maximus easily cleared the seven foot wall of fire. While in the air, Rapunzel's hair began to unfurl and glow. When Maximus landed on the other side she jumped from him and landed on the ground discharging a wave of light.
Slowly rising up, she stared to Maleficent and only saw cruelty, and emptiness. Rapunzel was surprised, she thought a lot about how she would feel about such evil, such hate, but the first feeling she felt was pity. Maleficent shielded her eyes with her cape and stepped back from Rapunzel as she slowly stepped closer to her, her aura of light burning the nightmares eyes.
"Do you even remember?" Rapunzel asked softly with curiosity.
Glaring at the Princess of Light, Maleficent hissed, "What?"
"Do you even remember being a child, your dreams your innocents?" Rapunzel asked with purity and heart.
The question was not what threw off Maleficent, it was Rapunzel's very presence. "A second heart forged of light? How is that… No matter, nothing can stop me!" Maleficent countered. "Kill her!" Maleficent shouted as she pointed to the girl with the magical glowing hair. Bursting through the flames were the followers of the Raven charging toward Rapunzel with the same furry and hate as she.
Before they could even reach Rapunzel, Kristoff and Hans burst through the flames, on horseback with their sword at the ready struck down the black cloaked figures. Also running to Rapunzel's aid, Geir rolled into the battle and as he leapt into the air transformed into his humanoid form striking an attack with a spear to the heart.
As a follower neared Rapunzel she held out her hand and blasted him into the green fire with a flash of light. A second charged towards her, and before she could react, a knife flew across the air and struck him in the chest.
She looked back to see Eugene staring at her in shock. "I go away for two months! Just two months, and you go and change your hair!"
Raising her hand, she discharged a beam of light and struck a follower coming up behind Eugene. "Yeah, and I am still mad at you for that!"
"Weapon first, lecture second!" Eugene said as he turned and stepped back to his wife's side.
"Max!" Rapunzel called out as she blasted one of Maleficent allies. After head butting one and back heel kicking another, Maximus trotted over to Eugene and glared at him. Rapunzel rolled her eyes and said, "You can be mad at him later Max!"
The horse sighed and turned so Eugene could get to his saddle bags. Quickly he grabbed the first thing inside and when he pulled it out he glared towards his wife. "Seriously Raps!" Before he could get a response he was forced to dodge a sword swing.
He parried the next swing with the frying pan he just retrieved and went on the attack, strike the man in the arm then head. As he fell to the ground, he grabbed the man's sword. "I have a feeling I am going to have to pay for this adventure, aren't I my love?"
Blasting more followers with beams of light, and cartwheeling away from their attacks to be next to Eugene she smirked. "I already got your punishment in me!"
Kicking the frying pan into the face of an attacker to disorientate him, Eugene charged forward with his sword. In a single blow to the chest killing him. Pulling his sword out, he looked to his wife with a raised eyebrow. "Maybe now isn't the best time!"
"I am pregnant!"
The statement stunned, Eugene he was almost struck down by a follower, but he was saved by Rapunzel at the last moment. He spun around and took her by the shoulder, and stared into her eyes. Rapunzel tilted her head and her eyes glimmered as she said, "I love you."
Pulling Rapunzel into a passionate kiss, Eugene didn't care he was in the middle of a war, the love he had at that moment couldn't be swayed.
Leaping off his horse, Kristoff came to the couple's defense and cut down three more Followers of the Raven. When Eugene and Rapunzel finally parted to return to the fight, Kristoff rushed forward and reached Anna taking her into her arms. "Anna." He raised and eye brow when he saw the white streak back in her hair. "Your hair?"
Opening her eyes, Anna stared at the love of her life and said, "You haven't seen me in like a month, and the first thing you ask about is my hair."
Bringing Anna to her feet, Kristoff spun her away from a sword swing, then back into his arms before striking down the follower turning him into ash. He bent down and kissed her with all the passion in the world.
Quickly coming to their defense, Rapunzel and Eugene fought off the Raven followers. After blasting one to ash with a wave of light, Rapunzel smiled, "Take your time Kristoff, I owe you."
When they parted, Kristoff smiled down at Anna and whispered. "and I love you."
Taking Kristoff's sword hand, Anna wielded it to parry and attack, then to strike the attack turning him into ash. The two shared a glance, and Anna replied, "I love you too!"
Anna's face suddenly turned sour as she watched Hans ride past her on horseback. Before she could say a word, she watched as he charged towards Maleficent. Eugene shouted out for the man to stop, but Hans would not. The chance of glory was to temping, for the his darkened heart. Before he could reach the Empress of Darkness, she blew him off his horse with a lightning bolt. He was launched into the ring of green fire, and out of sight.
Turning to Rapunzel, Kristoff eyes narrowed, "Let's finish this."
Watcher her followers fall, Maleficent built up her magic and unleashed a massive lightning bolt towards Rapunzel, it struck her on the shoulder just as she fired a wave of light towards Maleficent. Rapunzel was knocked back into Eugene, and Maleficent had her staff knocked form her hand and her feet knocked out from under her as she fell flat on her face.
Rising to her feet the Mistress of All Evil shouted out and dozens of black vines lashed out towards Rapunzel. The vines attacked all along the path, slicing through Anna, Kristoff, and Gier. Rapunzel pushed off of Eugene and held out her hands as a brilliant shield of light formed around her. When the vines hit the light, they burst into flames and denigrated.
Her hair floating as if resting on a wave of water flung out and touched upon all those of light around her. She than projected her shield out towards Maleficent knocking back and dragging her across the ground.
"Flower, gleam and glow
Let your power shine
Make the clock reverse
Bring back what once was mine."
Just as she finished singing she was struck in the chest with a ball of lightning, then her arms were entangled in vines and flung into the air landing into ground. With green fire radiating from her like an aura, Maleficent cried out, "Impossible! How are you so powerful? More powerful than a heart forged by Yen Sid himself!"
Eugene rushed to Rapunzel's side and held her as she slowly got to her knees. He watched in horror as Maleficent screamed and rose her hand. Her powerful black magical began to build with lightning crackling up and down her arm. "The light will die here!"
Just as Eugene used his body to shield Rapunzel from the what would mean his death, he called out. "I love you!"
When nothing happened, he opened his eyes and saw Rapunzel was smiling at him. He turned to see Maleficent staring at horror at her own arm that was impaled by four ice bolts. Eugene turned to see Elsa was standing before all, the black vines that held her frozen and shattered at her feet.
Stepping in front of her husband, Rapunzel looked over to Elsa to see her smiling, before they both exchanged a nod. With one final look to her husband, Rapunzel brightly smiled and said, "I love you too."
As Maleficent lashed out with a fury of bolts of green fire, and purple lightning, Rapunzel and Elsa rushed towards her parrying each strike with magic of their own. The speed and relentlessness of Elsa and Rapunzel's attack continued to push the Nightmare back. In a final summoning of her darkness, she drew upon herself so much darkness, that her very aura, screamed in terrorizing hate.
Throwing out her hands, Rapunzel discharged a massive beam of light towards Maleficent. Just as she summoned a wall of thorns to block it, she was struck with a blast of blue energy from Elsa. Falling to her knees Maleficent shot out a ball of lightning at Elsa who shielded herself with a wall of ice. Spinning from behind the wall she discharged a dozen ice lances. Maleficentwas able to destroy all but one that struck her in the shoulder.
"Impossible!" she shouted as she generated a wave of fire and projected it outwards only to have it be extinguished by a wave of light from Rapunzel.
"It is over Maleficent!" Rapunzel shouted as she held up both hands and shoot out a torrent of light towards the Dark Queen.
The Mistress of All Evil, countered with a bean of black energy, and when they struck they entangled and lashed out at each other struggling to overtake each other. The two forces of magical energy moaned and shrieked and cracked the earth. Maleficent however couldn't hold it up for long as Elsa shot out a beam of blue energy at her. Forced to split her focus, Maleficent held up her other arm and countered it with her black magic.
As one, Rapunzel and Elsa began to walk towards Maleficent watching as their magic was slowly eating away at the Empress of Evil. "The light will never fade, it will never die, you have no hope Maleficent," Rapunzel called out. "Give up you evil ways, all it has brought you is misery, and loneliness!"
"You simply don't get it!" Elsa declared as he looked over to her sister. "No matter what you have done to my sister! No matter how much hate you cursed her with, I will never stop loving her! You failed, you might have returned, but the darkness you serve will not!"
"She struck you done!" Maleficent shouted in a panic as she saw her magic was failing her. "Love betrayed heart! The darkness will come; the future is mine! The Everwinter has begun!"
Only feet from Maleficent, Elsa and Rapunzel watched as the Mistress of Evil fell to her knees. "And we will be here waiting to cast the light upon it!"
Just before he magic gave Maleficent was consumed in a brilliant flash of fire and light, that erupted high into the sky. The darkness shattered and the black clouds burst to give way to the light, as the shadow upon the sun was lifted and its brilliance shined upon the world once again. Both Elsa, and Rapunzel lowered their hands and looked to each other in relief.
With the ring of fire gone, Elsa looked about to see her army, alongside that of Corona and that of the Southern Isles stood around them victorious. Slowly, Anna pulled herself from Kristoff and hesitantly and fearfully walked towards the sister she betrayed. Her eyes swelled with tears and she fell to one knee her head bowed in shame.
"My Queen."
Gazing to Rapunzel, Elsa placed her hand on her side where Anna struck her and felt nothing. She slowly walked over to Anna and knelt before her. "I forgive you."
Bursting into tears, Anna wrapped her arm around her sister. Holding her sister tightly, Elsa brushed her hand through her hair, her eyes locked onto the white streak still there. She could not worry about what that meant, she was simply happy to have her sister in her arms once more.
When they finally rose as one, Elsa stared in surprise, but Anna was in shock as they looked before King Henrik of the Southern Isles. He held in both hands the lifeless body of his youngest brother Hans.
Going to his knees he laid his brother before the Queen and Princess. "Our debt to Arendelle has been paid."
Stepping forward, Rapunzel placed her hand on the grief stricken king. "King Henrik I am sorry."
He said nothing, simply nodded before he turned his back and walked away. Rapunzel bowed her head, but look back up when she heard Prince Alban. "Raps." She saw a forced smile on his face when he said, "It was an honor."
As Anna stared down at the body of Prince Hans, Elsa gently let her go and she slowly walked over to the place Dragna fell. Going to her knees, she cupped his head in one hand and stroked his hair with the other. Anna turned and watched as her sister leaned down and kissed the Master Scout upon the lips.
Slowly standing, her armor of ice melted away, and her shimmering blue dress took its place. Staring out to what looked like an endless field of dead and wounded, Elsa looked back to Rapunzel and called out, "For the light!"
The men around her all rose their weapons and cried out with great cheers of joy. "For the light!"
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