Frozen: The Dragon Princess
Dragonic summer
Frost and Fire
Anna landed on a roof in the city and transforming back took the necklace out. She had planned to used scent to track Selena but with the necklace made from ice magic Anna could actually track the girl by linking their magic. It was a lesson Borealis had taught her but that she had never had to use before. It was a simple spell, combining earth and air to create a link different magic's earth for stabilizing the bond and air for motion in tracking. The moment the spell was set she saw a blue white line shoot off into the distance, Selena's ice magic, like Elsa. Anna shook the though away as she transformed and flew after the line, which led her out of the city into a dark area of mountains before settling into a heavily defended complex of buildings. Anna settled down on a ledge still invisible and looked down. Soldiers with guns were patrolling the grounds and search lights were mounted on towers, swiveling in every direction.
"Selena is in there, but why?" Anna wondered.
"My guess would be that whoever commands this place wishes to exploit her powers" Ask responded, and Anna had to throttle down a spiked of rage.
"I'm getting her out of there, no matter what" She growled.
"Agreed, but might I suggest stealth. Even as a dragon you would be vulnerable to those weapons, and they probably possess for more powerful ones still" He said.
"Right. Even I'm not dumb enough to go head to head with a dozen machine guns, and probably rocket launchers and tanks." She thought remembering the weapons she had seen in the action movies she had seen with her friends. While she loved the explosions on the screen she did not want to actually have them blow up in her face. She silently glided into the air and settled at the back of the base transforming in mid air to drop to the ground inside the gate. She quickly ran to the wall searching for a door, finding a small steel door with a keypad on it.
"Careful Anna, there might be an alarm. Try phasing in" Ask said and Anna gulped. Next to invisibility phasing was the hardest air spell to master, making one as immaterial as air in order to pass through solid surfaces. Despite her talent with air magic, Anna had been terrified to even try it, fearing that she was turn into air and dissolve away or get stuck half way through a wall. Her fear had been so palpable that both Borealis and Ursa had not pushed her to try it.
"It's alright Anna. I will help guide you through it. Do not be afraid. Fear is the enemy of magic" Ask said, his voice soothing her. She felt him reach out and gently merge with her mind in the most interesting feeling she had ever experienced. She felt air magic gather around her, and felt a strange cool sensation half way to numbness flow through her body.
"You do not need to be afraid of coming undone or becoming stuck. Magic is will and as long as you keep the will of air, of soft fluid solidity you will be able to pass through anything and anything will pass through you" Ask counseled.
"Now step forward" He said and Anna did, passing right through the door into a brightly lit hall. She felt the numbness vanish and doubled over breathing hard in fear and excitement.
"Stay focused child. Make sure of your shroud" Ask said. Anna checked to make sure she was still invisible then took out necklace and recast the connection spell. The light flickered down the hall and she followed it quickly but carefully as she had been trained. Through halls, past guards and down flights of stairs she went, sensing herself going deep into the earth. Eventually the light ended at a large set of steel double doors. Taking a deep breath she made herself intangible and slipped through. On the other side what she saw made her stop and stared. Lines of cells filled the space from the front to the back. She looked in and saw a boy of about Hiro's age sitting curled up on a hard metal bench. Instead of glass a strange blue light filled the doorway. Anna put her hand on it and it sparked making the boy jump as Anna felt a surge of energy enter her.
"Really, a force field? I thought those only existed in those picture books Hiro showed me" Anna thought.
"Who's there?" the boy asked.
"Shhh I'm here to rescue you" Anna whispered.
"Where are you?" He asked walking forward. He was tall with broad shoulders with brown hair.
"Right in front of you" Anna said.
"You can turn invisible?" He asked.
"Yeah. Why are you here?" She asked. The boy grimaced and his pale skin turned to stone, even his eyes becoming granite.
"Wow" She gasped.
"Everyone here is like this. We all have powers" She said.
"If I can free you, can you help me get you out of here?" Anna asked.
"Let me go, and I'll do whatever you want" The boy said.
"Good. I'll be right back" Anna said. She followed the glowing light right to Selena who was sitting on the floor of her cell in the middle of an explosion of ice.
"Selena" Anna hissed and the girls head jerked up.
"Who's there?" She asked. Anna dropped her invisibility cloak. The girl leapt to her feet and came right up to the force field.
"Anna, how?" She asked.
"Forget about that. We need to get out of here, all of us" Anna said looking up and down the prisons.
"We can't. The men are armed and they said they would hurt us and our families if we resisted" Selena said and Anna beat down another surge of anger.
"Then we make sure they can't hurt anyone" Anna said her eyes steely.
"Wait here" She said. A part of her training was being able to see energy patterns it was an essential part of not only being able to form complex spells, but to wield the fire and lightning that she was best at. All dragon born could see energy but she was best at seeing electricity which she saw now flowing through the walls. It took ten minutes of searching but she found the spot on the far wall.
"What are you planning?" Ask asked.
"To absorb all the power in this box and pray it doesn't fry me" She thought back.
"Anna, this is a center of power for the entire building" Ask said.
"Hence the praying" Anna replied. She used her fire to melt the latch of the power box exposing the wires and fuses.
"Come on you've channeled lightning bolts before. How bad could this be?" Anna thought as she took a deep breath and braced herself before grabbing two of the main fuses and was almost thrown backward by the amount of energy that flowed through her. It hurt as searing pain that made her cry out but she held on taking in all the energy the box could feed her until there was nothing left. When she stumbled backward away from the box she felt like every cell was vibrating and tingling.
"Anna you have to get rid of all this energy before it damages you" Ask said. Anna transformed and flew through the red haze that had fallen over the prison until she hit the ceiling high above, which was still rock and earth. Taking all the energy she had absorbed she threw it into the stone commanding a hole to open. With a rumbled and an earthquake a pit opened in the ceiling but also in the floor of the building above dumping chairs tables, people and even a fridge down into the prison. Anna saw a number of soldiers scream as they fell through the hole as she glided back down to the floor to find Selena gathered with over a dozen other children all who backed up when they saw her land.
"It's alright everyone, she's a friend. It is you right Anna?" Selena asked.
"Who else would it be?" She asked slightly light headed from all the energy she had just channeled.
"Can you create a stair case up through the hole?" Anna asked. Selena nodded and stepped forward. She took a deep breath she raised her hands and a blue white light leapt from them and into the ground and a rough ice structure grew out of the ground and halfway up to the hole. Selena ran over to the base of the rough staircase and placed a foot on it. The rime disappeared and a beautiful filigreed staircase emerged. Selena smiled the first of her smiles Anna had ever seen and raced up the staircase.
"Come on" she said as the steel double doors exploded and armed men raced in.
"Stop now!" A man shouted.
"Go!" Anna shouted as she leapt forward and let loose jet of flame from her mouth. The men dove to the side while another opened fire on her. She backed away as the bullets hit her, feeling like stinging pebbles on her skin. She kept breathing gouts of fire creating walls of flame to protect the fleeing kids as they raced up the stairs all except for one, a tall shapely red head older than her who let loose her own gouts of flame and even manipulated the flame walls Anna had created, causing them to go higher.
"All right scaly, everyone else is out" The red head said in a thick brogue before her entire body burst into flame and she shot upward like a comet. Anne took to the air after her and they ascended through the large hole, the ice staircase wrapping around the sides of it, kids racing upward. They emerged among the wrecked main building which was surrounded by most of the bases security who opened fire on Anna as soon as she flew through.
"Everyone stay down" She shouted as she let loose more fire.
"And here I was hoping not to start a war" She thought as she tried to keep from getting shot out of the sky.
"And to top it all off, I'm running low on magic" She thought as she felt her fire dim a bit. A crack of thunder boomed over head, and she felt her scales tingle from new energy washing over her. She flew back to the hole and transformed, dropping down onto a beautiful landing.
"What do we do?" Selena asked.
"Did one of you call a lightning storm?' She asked.
"She did" the red head said holding a protective arm around a mousy little girl.
"We call her sparky. She can create electricity and lightning. The more freaked out she is the more energy she puts out" the girl said.
"Hey sparky, I'm Anna" She said as she heard shouting voices.
"They're coming" Selena said.
"Sparky, I need you to let go of all the power you can" Anna said.
"b…but…I.I..always e..end up..h..hurting..p..people" She stuttered.
"Sparky if you don't let it go then everyone here will be hurt" Anna said putting her hands on the girl's shoulders.
"You won't hurt anyone, trust me" Anna said sincerely. The girl looked into her eyes and nodded, and closing her eyes raised her hands. Lightning shot from them into the sky, and Anna felt the energy increase tenfold, then a hundred. The lighting stopped and sparky tipped to the side, exhausted as thunder boomed and lightning flashed. Anna transformed and leapt out of the hole and into the sky among flashes and booms. She raced into the clouds, feeding off the lightning to replenish some of her energy. She took the rest and for the second time that night channeled more energy than she ever had or ever thought she could. She gathered the lightning in her hands and diving out of the clouds channeled all the energy of the lightning storm into one blast a wave of white light that she swept across the entire base leaving ash and devestation in her wake. When the power of the storm had been expended she saw almost nothing of the base remained. She lowered herself to the ground exhausted as Selena and the other children climbed out of the hole, crossing a field of soldiers who were knocked or worse.
"Is everyone alright?" Anna asked.
"I think so" Selena said.
"Hey" A boy said and ran over to a jeep that had been spared from Anna's onslaught.
"Here's another one" the red head said walking over to a second one. They both got in and after a moment the vehicles roared to life.
"All aboard" the boy said and the kids piled into the two jeeps.
"I don't think you'll fit" the red head joked. Anna transformed back and the girl blinked.
"Yer just a wee lass" she said as Anna wearily climbed into the back seat, exhaustion catching up to her.
"She saved us" Selena said sitting next to her and offering Anna a shoulder to lean on, which the younger girl gladly took.
"Lets go home" Selena said, and the last thing Anna saw before she lost consciousness was the sun rising.
Again sorry for the long update. This story will have an end I already have it planned out. I give you my word that I will not give up on it. So as usual I look forward to your reviews particularly on Anna's performance and character during that fight. Did she seem too bloodthirsty in her willingness to level that whole base?