Jack awoke later in the afternoon to the smell of meat cooking on the stove. As he sat up from his bed he noticed that there was a cane leaning next to his bed, rather the cane was from Elsa or Baymax he didn't know but what he did know was that he was still to weak to walk on his own so as he sat up in his bed he grabbed the cane and forced himself up out of his bed.
"What's cooking?" Jack asked as he walked from his room to the kitchen, using his cane to help him walk.
"Hey Jack," Elsa said as she was frying a piece of meat over the stove. "How you feeling?"
"Well I can move around," Jack said "Which is good I guess, you didn't answer my question though, what's cooking?"
"Oh Rapunzel stopped by the store earlier and picked up some steak and some ears of corn for dinner tonight. Dinner should be ready in five minutes if you want to take a seat till then.
"I've been off my feet all blasted day I want to stretch my feet for a few minutes." Jack said
"Fine but I doubt you can be much help in your condition so can you find Anna and ask her to help set the table."
"Nonsense I can still help, I may be dying but I'm not dead yet." Jack said slowly making his way to the cupboards to get out some glasses for the table. But the glasses were on the top shelf and he was to weak to stretch that far up. He tried to reach his free hand up but he ended up losing his balance and fell to the floor.
"Jack!" Elsa said running up to pick Jack off the floor. Elsa bent down and picked Jack up by the hand and led Jack to the table where she had him sit down.
"Jack I'm sorry but you can't do this." Elsa said as Jack rubbed his head in pain from making contact with the floor. "You got to take it easy."
"I've never felt so helpless before." Jack said in pain. "I'm sorry, I guess I got to admit that I can't do anything by myself anymore."
"Just promise me that you will sit down till dinner's ready okay."
"Yeah, OK." Jack said in a depressed tone. He hated feeling helpless, he hated feeling like he couldn't do anything anymore. He was Jack Frost, the most toughest Bounty Hunter in Texas, the mere mention of his name struck fear into the eyes of criminals, and now here he was siting at the kitchen table, to weak to even get a glass of a shelf. He didn't no what was killing him more, the cancer or the sense of helplessness.
Ten minutes later Elsa had finished cooking dinner and set the tables and the rest of the crew came in and grabbed and filled their plate with a meal that consisted of steak, corn on the cob and a green salad (Dammit now I'm hungry). As Anna fixed a plate for Jack Elsa brought out a bottle of red wine for the drinks.
"Wine huh, what's the special occasion?" Jack asked as Elsa started pouring the red liquid into glasses.
"What do you mean?"
"Back when I was younger my family would only drink wine if it was for a special occasion, like birthday's or anniversaries, otherwise it was either water or the extra hard stuff."
"No special occasion, just thought it would go good with dinner." Elsa said as they all sat down at the table.
"Well why don't we make a special toast anyway." Jack said as he lifted up his wine glass. "Come on, we are all alive and together, we just successfully freed Anna from prison and took out one of them bloody members of Pitch's gang, I think that alone is worthy of a celebration."
"Couldn't agree more." Elsa said lifting up her glass for a toast. "To Jack Frost, for freeing my sister out of prison."
"And to life," Jack added, "Don't ever take it to granted."
"I'll drink to that." Kristoff said taking a sip from his wine glass.
As they all sat there at the table laughing and chatting it up for the next hour as they ate their meal it was the first time since his diagnosis that Jack actually felt peace and comfort. Jack had finally came to accept his fate that he wasn't going to beat the cancer but he was comfortable with that fact. Since he had been diagnosed he had found a friendship with a beautiful strong young woman he doubt he ever would have gotten close to if he hadn't got cancer. Hell, he probably just would have treated her like any other client, took her case, put a few bullets in a few people, get paid and then never talk to her again. But instead with her following him for medical aid he actually got the chance to know her personally and not only build a friendship with her but with everybody at that table with him, even his pain in the neck doctor Baymax. While he was there at that table, laughing and picking fun at Baymax for the fact that he was a vegetarian and didn't eat meat, Jack actually felt more alive then what he was before he was even diagnosed with cancer.
After dinner Jack retreaded back to his bedroom for some much needed rest. The cancer drained him and as Elsa and Anna cleaned up the kitchen and did the dishes for him, Jack walked slowly to his room and fetched the paper he was starting to work on earlier before he passed out. Jack grabbed the paper, as well as a pen and a bowl of ink, grabbed a book to use as a hard surface and re read what he wrote before.
As my last will in statement. I Jack Frost leave all my possessions to..." Jack then dipped his pen in the ink bowl and finished writing. My dear friend Elsa Winters.
On the other side of the city Reid, still disguised as masked vigilante the Lone Ranger was at Mayor's North's house acting as his personal body guard. It was getting late and North was getting ready to call it a night, but Reid wasn't going to sleep, not until he knew for sure that North was longer in danger.
"You just going to stay up all night?" North asked as the masked man sat in a chair in the living room with a glass of water.
"I need to make sure you aren't in danger. So for the time being yes." Reid said
"Suit yourself." North said as he went to his bedroom for the night. All the candles in the house was turned off but one so that Reid could have a little bit of light to see. He used that light to read some of the books off North's bookshelf to past the time. For the first couple of hours their was nothing but silence and Reid was starting to wonder if nothing was going to happen tonight.
Reid then suddenly heard the ruffling of a window being opened. The sound wasn't coming from the living room or the kitchen however, it was coming from the bedroom. Reid instantly dropped his book and reached for the gun and made his way to the bedroom. When he got in he saw a man in a dark hood standing above North as he slept and raising his knife ready to stab him.
"STOP!" Reid shouted, firing his gun and shooting the knife out of the intruder's hand. The sound of the gunshot instantly woke North up and he opened his eyes long enough to see the intruder climb out of the window.
"What the hell is going on here?" North asked
"Stay where you are," Reid said as he chased the man out the window. "I got this."
Reid instantly whistled for his horse Silver and once Silver arrived he hopped on his horse and ran after the intruder who was on his horse as well. No way was Reid going to let him get away (Now would be a good time to play the Lone Ranger theme)
As Reid chased after the intruder, the intruder was firing his gun at Reid. Reid dodged every bullet however and returned fire with his own gun. Reid soon chased the intruder clear to a on coming train. The Intruder was desperate not to surrender however. He had his horse jump onto the top of the train and keep riding. Reid followed suit, having Silver jump on top of the train and race after the intruder. Reid was destined to make sure this man didn't get off the train. If that man got off the train Reid wasn't sure that he would be able to catch him. So he forced Silver to pick up speed and get as close to the intruder as he could. Then once he was in close enough range, with the train still racing down the tracks, he leaped off Silver and tackled the intruder down. The two of them wrestled on top of the speeding train, Silver jumped onto a rocky cliff as the two tangled so that he wouldn't get in the way. Reid then picked up the intruder and punched him in the face twice, then once in the gut before uppercutting him in the chin knocking the man on his back
"By order of the Texas Rangers." Reid said "Your under arrest."
"In a body bag or not at all." The intruder said before swinging his right leg and tripping Reid. The intruder then got on top of him punched him in the face a couple of times before wrapping his arms around his neck in a attempt to strangle him. Reid quickly responded by kneeing the man in the chest as hard as he could forcing him off him. The two of then quickly got back on their feet as the train went under a tunnel. The intruder charged at Reid and wrapped his arms around Reid. The intruder grabbed Reid's head and tried to drag it against the tunnel wall, but Reid forced his head to avoid contact with the wall. Then as as the train exited the tunnel Reid grabbed the intruder by the collar and slammed him onto the roof of the boxcar.
"This is the end of the line"
"For you maybe." The intruder said getting up and reached for his gun. Reid saw him draw his gun however and quickly got his and got a shot off before the intruder did. Reid shot the guy in the shoulder and the force of the blast caused the man to fall off the train and onto the tracks where the weight of the boxcars ended up crushing the man. Reid could hear the mans bones get crushed by the weight of the boxcars and knowing that the threat was over he whistled for Silver Silver leaped off the rocky cliff and onto the train and Reid hopped onto Silver and hopped back onto the cliff and watched from their for the train to pass so that they could retrieve the body of the man that attacked them.
Three minutes later the train passed allowing Reid and Silver to walk onto the tracks and walk up to the body of the man that tried to kill him. The man's body was mutilated and coated in blood from where the train crushed his but not to a point that Reid didn't think he could ID the man. Reid hopped off Silver and crouched down to remove the hood and when he did he noticed it was judge Frollo underneath it. The fact that the body belonged to Frollo was the evidence Reid needed to prove to North that the higher ups were involved with Pitch. Knowing that Reid picked up Frollo's bloodied up body and put it on Silver and rode back to North's house.
When he arrived back to North's, North was up and waiting for them outside his house.
"Did you get the guy?" North asked.
"Yes, I got him." Reid said as he hopped off Silver and threw Frollo's body onto the hard ground.
"That's... That's Frollo!" North gasped
"Yes, he was working for Pitch in secret, as well as Nottingham, and the majority of my fellow Rangers. You and eye, we may be the only two honest people left in the business."
"What do we do now?" North asked
"Come with me, fight this battle with me." Reid said "Jack is letting us use his place as a hideout for the time being as we plan our next move. We need to stop Pitch, we need to take him down and we need to do it before they take over this city."
"Oh I'm joining you." North said "Pitch is messing with my city, and I will stop at nothing to bring down."
The following morning Nottingham walked up to Pitch's office with urgent news.
"Pitch, Hades and Frollo have been killed."
"What!?" Pitch asked in shock.
"Jack Frost broke Anna out of prison, murdered Hades and has a team working for him to take you down."
"I thought we took care of Frost and that Winters girl?" Pitch said
"I thought we did too but Hades reported to me before he died that Elsa visited her sister in prison before the break out. I then sent some men to the old shed where we had Elsa and Jack tied up and we discovered that the ropes were snapped off and the door was shattered, signaling that they broke out."
"And Jack broke Anna out of prison and killed Hades and Frollo?"
"Hades yes but my men found Frollo's body outside of North's house this morning and saw that he had a silver bullet lodged in him. I have known Jack for many years and I know that he doesn't use silver bullets. Only one person I know uses silver bullets, John Reid."
"The Texas Ranger?" Pitch asked
"Exactly." Nottingham said
"Where are they now?" Pitch asked
"I don't know but we will find them, even if we got to track down Jack's address ourselves." Nottingham said
"Fine Jack, and finish him once and for all. No one will stop us from gaining control of this city, kill him and all else who is fighting with him."
"Yes boss." Nottingham said, then he got a team together of fifty of their toughest men and rode out to find where Jack was hiding, and this time Nottingham swore that when they found him again, he would make sure Jack wouldn't escape alive.
Something big is happening next chapter, one that will change the whole story. I don't like to hype up a chapter to much but trust me when I say after the next chapter nothing will be the same.
Also since this chapter had a lot of Lone Ranger in it I am curious as to what your thoughts was on the Lone Ranger movie that came out a couple years back. I know a lot of critics slammed it and it was a flop in the box office but I thought that while it wasn't a great movie it wasn't near as bad as some of the critics made it out to be. Although I did think Johnny Depp would have been better in a role other than Tonto.
Any way that's my personal thoughts on the movie, curious to here yours and if you want to please leave your opinion of both the movie and this chapter in your review and if I don't update again before Thursday have a happy Thanksgiving.