Chapter 6: Uninvited Guests

Everyone in Arendelle was still enjoying themselves in the grand ballroom. Elsa and Jacob were talking to Oaken who was giving Jacob a custom-made gift which was a wooden statue of him and Elsa together. "I hope you like it. I whittled it myself.", Oaken said as he gave him the statue. "Wow! This is impressive, Oaken. Thank you so much. You've got real talent.", Jacob said. "I think it's a perfect replica of us. Thank you, Oaken.", Elsa said. "You're both very welcome. As always, stop by the store anytime whether you need something or just want to use the sauna.", Oaken said. "Will do.", Jacob said. "Hey, guys!", a familiar female voice said to the couple. Elsa and Jacob turned around to see their friend Marisol who they met earlier on in the year when they went to her kingdom Eldora. She was accompanied by her servant Omar who she locked arms with. "Marisol, Omar! Thanks for coming!", Elsa said as she went to hug Marisol and then Omar. "Thank you for the invitation, Els. We're glad to be here for Jacob's birthday.", Marisol said. "Happy birthday, bud.", Omar said to Jacob. "Thank you. It's good to see you both.", Jacob said. "I must say, you two really seem to like coming here with each other.", Elsa said. "Well, we actually started dating.", Omar said. Oh, really? That's great! Congrats!", Jacob said. "Yeah. It was last month when he finally told me how he felt when he invited me out to dinner.", Marisol said. "You two make a cute couple. Though not as cute as me and Jake.", Elsa teased. "Oh, I don't know about that.", Marisol teased back as she then kissed her boyfriend. Olaf waddled up to Jacob and Elsa and asked, "Hey, guys. Do you want any more of the cake? It's almost gone, and I was wondering if it's okay if I have the rest? That is if you don't want any more.", Olaf asked. "It's alright, Olaf. We had our fill. You can have it.", Jacob said. "Yay!", Olaf shouted with eagerness because of his love of cake. Joy and cheerfulness continued to ring out through room until a knock came at the door. Kai answered the door to the ballroom which was followed by it opening forcefully and in came a group of masked criminals with guns in their hands. The party was interrupted when one of them fired their gun in the air. Everyone was in shock and fright when they all first heard that gunshot. More and more thugs filled the room with their guns pointing at the guests. "Everyone, stay where you are and don't move!", one thug demanded. After they all came in the room, then entered their leader in his black skull mask and white suit. The crime lord looked around the room as he got a good look of everyone he planned to be ruling over soon. Everyone but Jacob was unaware who these guys were and who their leader was. "Who's the guy in the black mask?", Olaf whispered to Jacob. "Black Mask.", Jacob answered. "No, I mean who is the guy in the black mask?", Olaf asked again as he didn't know that was actually the guy's name. "Black Mask. That's what his name is or at least what he likes to be called.", Jacob answered again. "Oh, okay.", Olaf said. The masked boss began to speak to everyone. "Good evening, everyone. I see you're all enjoying yourselves at this little party tonight. I promise I won't take up too much of your time. I just wanted to have a word with your queen. The one who can make ice and snow come from her hands.", Black Mask said. Jacob and Elsa looked at each other worriedly. Before Elsa could move, Jacob made a move first and gathered his courage to confront the villain. "What are you doing here, Sionis? I should really ask, how did you get here?", Jacob asked with anger. "Same way you did. My boys found one of those crystals that led me right to here.", he answered. Black Mask then walked up to the birthday boy and said, "I'll only ask one more time. Where's your girlfriend?", he asked more impatiently. Elsa stepped in and gave the villain what he wanted. "I'm right here. Who are you and what do you want?", Elsa asked. "My name is Roman Sionis, but you can call me Black Mask. I have come all the way from Gotham City just to talk to you.", Roman told her. "About what exactly?", Elsa asked. "About me replacing you as your kingdom's ruler.", Black Mask answered. "WHAT?", Jacob and Elsa said in unison. "You heard me. I want to be the new king of this dump. Looks to me as if this place is long overdue for a good leader. Being a monarch doesn't seem like the kind of thing that's up your alley. But it's definitely up mine seeing as how I was the king of the Gotham underworld more than 10 years ago and I had the city under my thumb with great ease. But seeing as how so much has changed there, I won't be able to be that again. That's why I'm here.", he said. "Hold on a second, you and your men just blow in here in the middle of my birthday party and demand Elsa hands over her throne to a degenerate like you! I'll be damned if that...", Jacob trailed off when Black Mask took out his gun and pointed it right in Jacob's face. "You'll be dead before you can finish that sentence.", Black Mask said. Elsa got scared and angry when she saw this and said, "Get that gun out of his face!". She put her hand on the gun which made it turn to solid ice. That made Black Mask drop it and it shattered on the floor. "The stories about you weren't exaggerated. You really do have great power.", he said in astonishment. "There's plenty more where that came from if you don't get the hell out of here now!", Elsa threatened. "Sorry, Queenie, but you're in no position to make any threats. Even if you do have superpowers. I'm trying to be nice here, but if you test my patience, you'll see how unstable I can be. I'm telling you to renounce your title and put me in charge of this kingdom.", he demanded. "Hell will freeze over first before that happens.", she talked back. "Either you do it the easy way, or I make you do it by force. And by force, I mean I kidnap, torture, and maybe even kill any one of your subjects. Maybe even you're little sister that I am well aware of, or maybe your precious Romeo right here.", he threatened. Those words began to scare Elsa even more as she couldn't allow that to happen. "No, please don't do that.", she begged. "I'll give you 48 hours to hand over your throne to me and scram or you stay and we beat the shit out of you and take it by force. And I do not care that you're a woman.", he said nastily. "Apologies, everyone. I'll let you all return to your party.", Black Mask said. "And happy birthday.", he said to Jacob while lightly patting him on the cheek. "I'll be in touch soon, Your Majesty.", he said as he and his gang left. Once the criminals were gone, everyone stood silent and were unable to resume the joy they were having before over what had just went down. "What was that about?", Marisol asked. "Yeah, who was that dude?", Omar asked. "A very bad guy. Who I'm sure isn't planning anything nice.", Jacob said.