"No, never," Hans replied. "I'd sooner throw myself off this boat." Hans took off his coat and wrapped it around Kai so he could keep warm. "Hans, there's something I need to show you," Gerda said, taking out something that was hidden in her left boot. It was a dagger. "What is this?" Hans asked. "Surely… surely this isn't…" "Yes, Hans," Gerda replied. "This is the Eternal Dagger." She breathed on it and a thin layer of frost formed on it. "Then this means the dagger Liz took from you was a fake," Hans concluded. "Yes, Hans, the dagger Liz took from me was the dagger you gave me," confirmed Gerda. "Please, I don't want to see that dagger right now," Hans sadly said. "Get it out of my sight." So Gerda hid the dagger back in her boot.
Gerda noticed a ship in the distance, and that ship was close to Arendelle. It began sailing towards them. Perhaps the crewmembers aboard that ship noticed the lantern hanging on the boat. "Help!" Gerda yelled at the top of her lungs. "We have an injured sailor here!" As the ship sailed closer, they began to realize that the ship looked strangely familiar. "THE SUMMER GULL," growled Hans.
THE SUMMER GULL stopped sailing once it was meters away from the rowboat. Jacob looked at them and grinned. "I had a feeling you were all going to Arendelle after I heard news from your foolish crewmembers," scoffed Jacob. "But I never figured you'd be stuck in this small rowboat. Come on in!" But they would not, for they were afraid of what Jacob and his crew would do to them. Suddenly, the crewmembers of THE SUMMER GULL fired a cannonball at them. The cannonball struck the rowboat, leaving a massive hole in it. The rowboat was starting to sink. "Freeze the water and make a run for it, Gerda," Kai begged her. "No," Gerda argued. "I beg you," sobbed Kai. Gerda took off her boots and stepped on the water with her bare feet and she froze it. She stepped on the ice and ran as fast as she could. But Jacob was prepared. Jacob's crew fired cannonballs at the ice, causing it to break. Gerda fell through the ice into the water. "I'm afraid you all have no choice but to come aboard," sneered Jacob.
And come aboard they did. Jacob was exceedingly glad to see them come aboard his ship. When Kai was pulled onto the ship, he collapsed to the deck in agony. Caleb looked at him with a concerned expression on his face, while Jacob sneered at Kai. Caleb looked at Hans and asked, "Why haven't you used the power of the dagger to cure your nephew? Do you not have it?" Hans lied, shaking his head. "Search them!" Jacob commanded his crew. The crewmembers placed their hands around Hans, Kai, and Gerda in order to find the dagger. One of the crewmembers took a look at Gerda's boots and found the dagger in one of them. He tossed the dagger over to Jacob. Jacob breathed on it and saw a layer of frost form on the dagger. Caleb looked at Hans in distress, as Kai's eyes began to glow red. "Kai, no, please no!" sobbed Gerda.
"I don't understand," Caleb cried. "You had the dagger all this time, Hans. Why didn't you use it to help your nephew? He's poisoned!" Hans laughed while his eyes watered. "You don't understand anything, do you, big brother?" laughed Hans. "Don't you think that if the dagger was capable of curing my nephew, I would have used it already? You're old enough to be my father, yet you still follow papa around like you're his pet. Think for yourself! The dagger has no power to break your curse. He lied to you!"
"No, that's not true. Why would he lie? Father would never!"
"Look within, big brother, you know it to be true. Our father poisoned my nephew with the same crystal that cursed all of you. Does this seem like the action of someone who wants to break your curse?"
"But… but he promised. I was so sure that the power of the dagger could break my curse. I was so sure I'd be able to finally return home to my wife and children."
Caleb fell to his knees and sobbed. "Father, tell me this is not true," Caleb sobbed. Jacob smiled grimly. "Of course it isn't, son," Jacob replied. "The reason Hans couldn't use the dagger to help his nephew is because the dagger can break curses, but Kai hasn't seen fully cursed yet. The curse is still spreading. That's why Hans couldn't use the dagger to help his nephew." Caleb shook his head. There was no way anyone of sound mind would believe this. "Bull!" one of the crewmembers scoffed. Jacob roared with rage and pointed the dagger at that crewmember. A blast of light came out of the dagger and struck him, causing his to shatter into a thousand crystal shards. "I didn't know the dagger was capable of this," Jacob said to himself. "With this sort of power, taking over the world will be a piece of cake." Unfortunately, for Jacob, everyone on the ship heard this. More tears flowed down Caleb's face as his worst suspicions were confirmed. "So Hans was telling the truth, wasn't he?" one of the crew yelled. "Our king doesn't want the dagger to set us free. He wants it to take over the world!" "I misspoke!" lied Jacob. "Sure you did," scoffed another crewmember. Many voices of discontent echoed around the ship.
"Throw our king into the sea," shouted a crewmember. "For too long he's been leading us down this wretched path." All the other crewmembers nodded in agreement. Some even tried to grab hold of Jacob, but Jacob threw them off. Jacob pointed the dagger at Hans. "I'll see you in hell, throwaway!" Jacob roared. A flash of light came out of the dagger and began hurtling towards Hans. "Nooo!" cried Caleb, throwing himself in the pathway of the light. The light struck Caleb and he collapsed in agony. Hans looked on, but he was too speechless to say anything. Caleb could already feel his body disintegrating. "Hans, please forgive them all," begged Caleb. "Everyone on this ship didn't know what they're doing." With that, he breathed his last, and he disintegrated into shards. Hans' eyes watered a little, but no tears came out.
Suddenly, everyone on the ship could feel a blast of energy radiating from the area where Caleb got destroyed. The undead aboard the ship could feel something changing within them, and even the ship began to change as well. The undead could feel color brightening their pale skin, and the cracks on their skin beginning to heal. Their glowing red eyes changed back to normal, and their fangs disappeared. "We're mortal again!" some of them laughed. "But how did our curse get broken?" "An act of true love is capable of many things!" Gerda shouted. Hans laughed to see that Kai was healed. "An act of true love," Hans exclaimed. "Who would have thought?" All of the crewmembers were glad that their curse was finally over, except for Jacob. "Nooo, my power is gone!" he cried.
"Good riddance to your power," one of the crewmembers said. "Now the question is, what shall we do with you?" "What are you going to do?" scoffed Jacob. "Certainly not go back to the Southern Isles. There's no longer any place for you there. Do you really think the people of the Southern Isles will welcome you back after you've all spent decades devouring other people? You'll all be called freaks." "That's just something we'll have no choice but to deal with," said one of the crewmembers, pulling the Eternal Dagger out of Jacob's hand and tossing it to Gerda. "Leave this ship while you still can," that crewmember shouted to Gerda. "There's a rowboat hanging over the side of the ship." Gerda, Hans, and Kai were just about to get on the rowboat when Jacob shouted at Hans. "Hey, Throwaway, have you forgotten your father already?" shouted Jacob. "No, but Caleb begged me to forgive all of you," Hans replied. "I don't like it, but I'll try to honor it." A devious plan formed in Jacob's mind. "Hans, did you know that I saw your brother Lars die?" said Jacob. "And that watching you react to his death is the most intoxicating thing I've ever experienced." Hans roared with anger and ran over to Jacob to give him a pounding.
But this was just what Jacob wanted. As soon as Hans raised his fist against him, he took out a knife from his belt and slashed Hans' waist with it. "You're still the same throwaway I raised, aren't you, Hans?" sneered Jacob. "Always acting without thinking." Hans collapsed to the ground in pain. The wound inflicted by Jacob was not a big wound, yet it stung like a thousand bee stings. Green veins began to quickly appear in the area where Hans was slashed. "Poison!" gasped Gerda as she inspected the wound. "It was a blade soaked in poison." "Indeed," chuckled Jacob. "A poison with no cure known to man." "Leave while you still can," shouted one of the crewmembers to Gerda. "We'll take care of Jacob." Gerda nodded. She and Kai helped place Hans into the rowboat, and then they set off for Arendelle.
On THE SUMMER GULL, the crewmembers did their best to restrain Jacob. "Put him in chains," one of them shouted. "Face it, you have no idea what you're doing!" he roared to his crew. "You don't know what you're going to do without me." In the struggle, Jacob knocked one of his crewmembers over. That crewmember fell and dropped his lantern through the open deck door. The lantern fell below deck and shattered. The hold of the ship began to catch fire. Realizing that the ship was on fire, Jacob shouted, "Let me go, you fools! Can't you see there are explosives below deck? We're all going to die unless the flames are put out quickly." But the crewmembers paid no attention to him. They didn't even seem to care that the ship was on fire. "Maybe we deserve to die for our crimes," one of the crew shouted. Jacob roared with anger and managed to get free from the crewmembers who restrained him. He took out the magical crystal shard he used to wound Kai, and stabbed himself with it. Boom! The ship exploded! The explosion was so intense that it almost caused the rowboat Gerda was on to sink.
The flames from the explosion could be seen for miles, and the burning remains of the ship could also be seen for miles. At that time, Anna was on the balcony of the castle of Arendelle. She couldn't sleep, for she was gravely worried about Gerda. Where could Gerda be? Kristoff walked onto the balcony. "Anna, please," he said. "Go back to bed." "Don't you see, Kristoff?" Anna replied. "I can't. I can't put my foot on it, but I've got a strange feeling that Gerda isn't far away from me." Suddenly, she saw a flash of bright light in the ocean. Was a ship under attack? Anna wasted no time running over towards her servants to ask for a ship. "We're going to sail towards that light in the ocean," Anna shouted at them. "We have to hurry before it fades. Gerda's out there, I can feel it. Get Inger!" Kristoff shook his head in disappointment. "There's no way to be sure our daughter's out there," he protested. "Kristoff, make yourself useful and get some medicine," Anna said in a dismissive tone. "Gerda might need it." Anna quickly woke Inger up and explained everything to her. "You're surely being superstitious," Inger said in a dismissive manner. "You just really want your daughter to be with you. Gerda's probably not even out there."