This chapter's a little depressing but it had to be done.
Act 1: Scene 5: The royal ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
Mystique flew out to the ocean morphed as Storm. She noticed the royal ship off in a distance and instantly started forming storm clouds ahead of them.
"Strange." The king said noticing the storm clouds forming. "I don't remember hearing about a storm coming to this area."
Suddenly lightning flashed and rain poured down hard. Powerful winds started beating against the ship causing huge waves that caused the ship to lose control. The captain tried his hardest to gain back control but the winds and waves were way to powerful. In a desperate move to try back control of the ship the king ordered everything that they could afford to lose be thrown over to try to lighten the load. The crew obeyed and started throwing things over. One of the crew however got knocked overboard by one of the waves. The king noticed it and threw a life raft out at him only to see the raft get struck by lightning. The guy quickly drowned lost at sea forever. As the captain continued to try to gain control of the ship huge waves continued to hit the ship causing water to fly into the ship and knock people overboard. Trying to avoid being knocked overboard the royal couple ran into one captain's room and locked the door shut. However it wasn't long before the sails of the ship got struck with lighting and caught fire. The fire spread rapidly quickly consuming the crow's nest before crumbling to the ground and set the rest of the ship on fire.
"OH MY GOD!" one of the crew members said. He ran to where the king and queen where hiding and banged on the door.
"Your majesties we got to evacuate the ship now it is about to burn down!" the guy screamed. The king and queen ran out the door and ran toward where the lifeboats were covering their faces with their arms to avoid being burned by the fire. Even with the rain pouring down the way it was the fire was still spreading fast and the added wind only made it spread quicker. Sadly the fire reached the lifeboats just as they arrived to them. The fire consumed all of them and the ropes snapped sending them plummeting to the ocean.
NO!" the queen cried seeing their only means of escape gone.
"Oh my god that was our only way out. And the waves are too powerful for us to swim and try to get out. We're dead!" One of the crew guys said.
The king grabbed the queen's hand as he looked at the fire that was consuming the ship. If they were going to die they were going to die in each other's arms. As he hugged the queen who was weeping over sadness he looked up at the night sky.
"Elsa, don't forget us."
These were the finals words of the king before the ship finally crumbled from the fire. A huge wave picked up the burning boat and smashed it into pieces sending the king, queen, and the whole crew sinking down to the bottom of the ocean to their watery graves, lost at sea forever.
Seeing the ship was destroyed and the king and queen dead, Mystique stopped the storm.
"It's over Erik. The king and queen are dead." Mystique said in her earpiece.
"Good, return back to base." Magneto said. Mystique let out an evil smile and returned back to base.
News spread fast about the incident. One of the royal messengers for the King raced to the castle as fast as his horse could run. He ran up to Edmond who was in charge of the castle while the King was gone and handed him the message about the Kings death. Edmonds eyes widened when he read the news.
"When did this happen?" He asked in shock
"A little over an hour ago," The messenger said.
Edmond walked to Anna's room. He hated to report this but there was no way of avoiding this situation. She had to know what happened. He knocked on the door and when she opened it he handed her the message with a sad look on his face.
"NO!" Anna cried after reading the message of her parent's death.
"I'm so sorry Anna" Edmond said in a remorseful voice. Anna fell to her knees crying. This wasn't supposed to happen. They were supposed to return with Elsa, they were supposed to be a complete family again, not die and leave her all alone.
"If there is anything I can do for you I'm here to help." Edmond said
"Just leave me be." Anna said between tears.
"Sure your highness" Edmond said. Then he closed the door and Anna lay on the ground crying.
It wasn't long that news reached the U.S. Xavier and the other X-men were watching a breaking news report on TV about the incident.
"In a shocking turn of events the royal ship carrying the King and Queen of Arendelle went down during a violent storm last night. Pieces of the ship where found by a fishing vessel but no bodies have been recovered but according to reports there were no survivors." The female news caster said.
"Oh my god" Jean gasped covering her mouth with her hands. "Poor Elsa"
"How are we going to explain this to Elsa?" Rogue asked
"Explain what to me?" Elsa asked walking into the room.
"Elsa…" Rogue cried turning around. "Oh honey I'm so sorry!"
"Sorry about what? What's going on?" Elsa asked, now feeling scared. That's when she looked at the TV and saw the report about her parent's death. Her eyes widened and tears instantly started forming. She ran out of Xavier's office and ran to her room, tears streaming down her face.
"Elsa…" Rogue started to call out.
"Let her go Rogue." Xavier said "There's nothing we can do for her right now but give her some space."
"Poor gal." Rogue said tears forming in her own eyes. Elsa locked the door behind her and knelt down in the fetal position by her door, put her head in her knees and started weeping. As she wept she caused snow to start falling from her ceiling and ice covered her walls.
Two days later the kingdom of Arendelle had a funeral for the King and Queen. The whole kingdom arrived to pay their respects for the late Monarchs. The funeral lasted two hours and afterword's Anna walked back to the kingdom, head hung low.
"I'm here for you." Royal advisor Edmond said. "Whatever you need I will take care of."
"Thanks Edmond." Anna said "Right now I just need some privacy."
"I understand." Edmond said. Anna then walked to Elsa's old room and sat down in front of it. Leaned back against the door and dressed in black she wondered how Elsa was handling the loss of their parents. Did she know? Did she even care? Now more than ever she wished Elsa was there with her.
In the tune of Do you want to build a snowman: "Elsa, wherever you are out there. People's wondering where you are. They say have courage and I'm trying to, I want to hear from you but you are so far. Your all that I have left now It's just you and me what am I going to do. Do you want to build a snowman?
On the other side of the world in New York Elsa was staring out her open bedroom window. She figured Anna was sitting by her door missing her more than ever right now. Remembering the last thing she heard Anna ask her before she disappeared Elsa cried out
Yes Anna I want to build a snowman. I want to go out and play. But there are some things you just don't understand, some things you just can't comprehend that's why I stay away. I hope to see again but right now I can't. I hope that you can forgive me. Yes I want to build a snowman.
The other X-men were listening to her from outside her closed door wondering how she was doing.
"Poor Elsa." Rogue said saddened.
"Dang that girl can sing though." Wolverine said.
"Not now Logan." Scott said elbowing him.
"Let's just leave her be for now guys," Bobby Drake, also known as Ice man said "There's nothing we can do for her right now." The others agreed and walked away.
Later that night Nightcrawler walked up to Elsa's door and knocked on it.
"How you feeling Elsa?" He asked opening the door
"How do you think I feel?" Elsa responded not really wanting to talk to anybody right now.
"Look, I'm sorry for what happened. I understand you must be going through a rough time right now but I want to let you know I'm here for you." Nightcrawler said sitting next to Elsa on her bed.
Elsa sighed "I feel like it's my fault. They died looking for me."
"No don't blame yourself for what happened. Whatever happened was out of your control."
"I just wish I could believe that."
"I know you must be confused by what's happened to you but I am praying for you."
Elsa sort of mockingly laughed at that. "It's going to take a lot more then prayer to help me right now."
"Tell me Elsa, do you believe in the power of prayer?"
"Not really, I always figured God had given up on us Mutants. I mean why would he let this happen to me? If there is a god why would he do this to me?"
"I can't say but I know that everything happens for a reason."
"OK mister preacher" Elsa said really not wanting to talk about this. "Answer me this. What reason would he have to take my parents away from me and Anna?"
"I can't really say Elsa but I know where you can find the answer." Nightcrawler said handing her a bible before getting up and starting to leave "Oh and Elsa Xavier said he could still have Jean and Scott take you back to Arendelle if you want them to."
"There's nothing for me over there anymore. I can't hurt Anna anymore then what I already have. I would rather stay here and complete my training."
"Take care Elsa." Nightcrawler said closing her door.
Elsa lay down on her bed and looked at the bible that Nightcrawler gave her it just scoffed at the idea of reading it and sat it down on her dresser. She then sat the book down and picked up her copy of Hans Christian Anderson's book the Snow Queen that she was giving for her birthday last year. She opened it up to the spot where she left off only to find a strange note in it.
"What the heck?" She asked herself picking it up.
"Sorry for your lost. A friend." It read.
"Who the heck wrote this?" Elsa thought.
Staring out her window was Mystique. Elsa didn't know it but Mystique was the one that wrote the note as a way to get on her good side. With Elsa staying put she knew it was time to move to the next part of the plan. For her and Elsa to meet face to face. Mystique smiled at the thought of that as she walked back to the lair feeling good about what she had accomplished.