Jamie and his friends were all sitting in the Livingroom of his house, curled up before the fire place. The six friends wrapped themselves in some blankets Jamie's mother had given them. All the while, they were worrying about Elsa as well as Jack and the Guardians. Hoping that they would rescue her from Pitch. Despite wanting to help them, North and the Guardians had instead insisted they go back home before the storm got any worse.
Pippa glanced over at Jamie, who had been staring out the window for the longest time. Outside, the storm seemed to be getting worse. The snow was coming down hard and the trees were serving back and forth from the harsh cold winds. Which only made him worry even more. He wondered if Jack and the other Guardians were okay. If they had found wherever Pitch had taken Elsa.
Jamie narrowed his eyes, pondering. Pippa came up next to him, placing her hand over his shoulder. Causing him to shift his glance back at her.
"Don't worry. I'm sure they're alright." Pippa reassured him.
Turning back to gaze outside at the raging storm, Jamie narrowed her eyes, still feeling quite unsure if that were true.
"I hope so..." Jamie said.
Though despite Pippa's reassurance, Jamie couldn't help but worry something might have happened. Suddenly, they heard something coming from the Back Yard. It sounded like a horses neigh which startled the six friends, thinking that it was one of Pitch's Nightmares.
"What was that?" Monty asked, shuttering a bit.
Squinting his eyes, Jamie stood up as he made his way over to the back door. Much to the dismay of his Pippa and the others.
"Jamie... No!" Pippa whispered to him.
Though despite Pippa's insistence, Jamie made his way into the kitchen, peering through the the window of the door. Only to see the thick grey fog and falling snow of the storm outside. When suddenly a familiar ice horse came into view, startling Jamie as he fell over the floor. Only to then peer up and realize it was Nokk.
"Nokk!" Jamie said, standing back up.
"Guys, it's Nokk!"
Nokk uttered another neigh as he stood up over the porch. Over his head, Jamie also saw Bruni.
"Bruni?!" Jamie asked.
He quickly rushed over to grab his jacket before coming back into the kitchen. He then opened the door which was blown open by the heavy winds of the storm. Jamie and the others came outside, where they were hit by the heavy winds and snow. Jamie glanced up at the water horse, still encased in ice.
"Nokk, Bruni, what are you doing here?" Jamie asked, curiously.
"Did they find Elsa?"
Bruni leaped off Nokk's head, landing in Jamie's as he reached out and caught him. The small blue salamander gawked up at him, seeming
Nokk suddenly turned and came back to the fence. He narrowed his head, knocking aside the loose board to create an opening in the fence. He then turned back to then as he gave another neigh. Pippa glanced to Jamie.
"I think they want us to follow them." Pippa insisted to them.
Jamie turned back to them, squinted his eyes, curiously.
The yetis and Elves were alerted by a familiar sound of one of North's snow glob portals. Turning back to see the portal open before the fire place, where they say the Guardians emerge. Tooth and her fairies being the first. Followed by both Bunny and Sandy. Though as they entered North's workshop, they could not help but take notice the look of despair in their expressions.
Tooth slowly descended over the floor, coming down over her knees. She then narrowed her head, frowning. All but distraught by the death of Jack. Baby Tooth and the other fairies came up to comfort her. Bunny came up to one of the pillars as his ears were dropped down behind his head. He narrowed, glancing to the side. Sharing a frowning glance to Sandy, who patted him over his shoulder.
North and Elsa were the last to emerge from the portal just before it closed. Elsa came forward with her arms wrapped around herself. Her sullen eyes narrowed as her tears continued to seep down the sides of her face. North walked behind her with his large burley hands over her bear shoulders. Seeming to be the only thing holding her together from falling apart completely.
Elsa glanced to the side. First at Tooth before turning to look at Bunny and Sandy. All three of them appeared just as distraught as she was at what had happed to Jack. Proving to her just how close they all must be to one another. And proving just how badly Pitch had struck at them.
North bought Elsa up to the controls.
"Elsa, come sit." North insisted to her.
Elsa closed her eyes as she came up, coming down to sit over edge. North then took his large coat, where he then placed it around her. Though despite his kind gesture, Elsa continued to look away in her sadness. Heartbroken by the death of Jack, the man she had come to love. A loss that she hoped to never again feel. Not after losing her sister
North sighed, narrowing his eyes. Knowing well of what she must be going through. Losing the one you love. Reaching out his large hand, he placed it firmly atop her left shoulder.
"I'm sorry... Elsa... There was nothing you could have down for him." He said to him.
He knew those were not the words that she wished to hear. Not at this time. But they needed to be said as there was no doubt she blamed herself for what had happened.
Elsa did to respond to North. Instead turning away her sadden gaze without uttering a single word back to him. Which only made North sigh and narrow his eyes.
North suddenly heard one of the Yeti's muffled grumbling behind him. He cocked his head back at them.
"What is it?" North asked, curiously.
The yeti's pointed up at the Globe. Looking up at the globe, he noticed several of the Lights going out. Most notably the places where Jack would be. Where he would be spreading the fun of winter during the spring. But with Jack gone, there was no one to spread winter to the children.
North stared in awe.
"The Lights...!" North proclaimed to them.
Bunny came hopping up along with Tooth and Sandy. They then turned back to North.
"They are going out so fast." Tooth said, urgently.
"Crickey, not this again. What do we do now?" Bunny said, glancing to North.
North did not answer him. It was a question that he himself was confronted by himself. Keeping the children believing in him, Tooth and Bunny was easy enough. But Jack's role was much more different compared to all them. Spreading winter to the worlds children was a task only Jack himself could ever do. None of them possessed any such ability to do so.
And with Christmas and Easter still sometime away, there was not much they could do. Especially for when Pitch comes for them as well.
"North?" Tooth asked, curiously.
North then shook his head.
"I... I don't know..." North insisted to them.
"YOU DON'T KNOW? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW?" Bunny exclaimed to him.
"With Jack gone, there's little we can do to make children believe in him." North insisted to them.
Tooth came flying up as she gazed up at the Globe.
"But... we can bring him back, can't we?" Tooth asked, curiously.
"Yeah and how do we going to do that?" Bunny argued.
"We brought back Sandy? We can do it again, right?" Tooth insisted, trying to lift everyone spirits.
"That was different, Tooth. Jamie and the children were the ones that brought Sandy back." North reminded them.
"Besides, you heard Pitch! He's going after the children !" Bunny insisted to her.
"He's already started turning Sandy dreams into Nightmares He could be coming after any of us next!"
"But Jack..." Tooth then said.
"Jack is Gone!" Bunny blurted out in frustration.
The entire workshop suddenly fell silent at Bunny's sudden outburst. From off to the side, Elsa lifting up her head as she stared to them with her sullen gaze. Having heard the words that Bunny had said. Words that caused her heart to shatter to pieces. North and the others looked back at Bunny with the same look of shock and awe at his sudden outburst.
Bunny gaze softened as his ears dropped down behind his head. He then sighed, turning away as he frowned.
"he's... gone." He said again.
Elsa narrowed hers eyes, a sudden feeling of guilt take hold of her. Knowing well she was the cause of all of this. Jack's death. Jamie and the children being in danger.
It was all because of her...
North narrowed his head, frowning. Before uttering a sigh for what he was about to say.
"Bunny is right... We cannot concern ourselves with this." He said, sounding rather saddened in saying it.
"Not while the children are in danger. We must do what we can to protect them and..."
North paused, glancing over to where Elsa was sitting. Only to see that she was gone with only his large red coat in laying over the edge.
"Elsa...?" he said.
Elsa made her way through the snow as North's workshop became further and further away. Trudging through the deep snow, she wrapped her arms around herself as she sobbed. The sides of her face burned by the Feeling the freezing cold winds of the North pole brush against her face. Though she was too lost in her grief she hardly noticed it.
As she continued aimlessly through the snow, Elsa suddenly came to a stop. Before dropping down to her knees into the snow below her, cupping her hands together against her chest. Unable to hold back the pain she felt anymore. Letting the tears fall from her eyes as she cried.
"Jack..." She sobbed, shaking her head.
Once more, having lost the one she loved and was helpless to stop it. Once more was she left to wonder the world alone. And now once more, she had come to unleash another eternal winter upon the world. Endangering Jamie and all the children of the world were in danger.
Once more, she had become the monster that her long ago feared she was.
"Jack... Jamie... I'm sorry..." She said.
"It's all my fault... All this happened... because of me..."
As Elsa continued to cry, a familiar bright light came upon her. She then lifted her sadden gaze and was met by the moon itself. The one who had chosen her for something. Though now, she questioned as to just why after everything she caused and after all she's done.
Elsa narrowed her head.
"Why did you choose me...?" She sobbed.
Elsa lifted her tearful gaze up at the Moon.
"Why did you bring me here...? I'm not who you think I am..." Elsa insisted to him.
"I'm not a guardian a danger to everyone. You chose the wrong person."
The Man in the Moon only stood silently as he always had. Despite the pleads of the Snow Queen.
"I'm the one who caused all this... I'm the one who is endangering everybody...!" Elsa continued to say.
"I never should have left the forest. None of this would had happened... Jack would still be..."
Elsa suddenly paused, unable to finish that sentence. Unable to say his name and relieve the pain she felt. She closed her eyes as her tears continued to seep down the sides of her face.
"They were right about me..." She proclaimed to him.
"I'm a monster..."
Saying those very words, Elsa bowed her head. As if finally facing the truth the world had for so long had been saying about her. The truth she had for so long denied to be true. She then slunk down into the snow, bowing forward with her hands pressed again her chest. With all that could be heard were the gusts of wind and her cries of despair.
The light of the moon began to shine brighter upon Elsa. Though she hardly noticed it at all, continuing to cry. Though as her tears continued to fall, she suddenly felt a hand atop her shoulder. Though this one did not feel like North's large yet gentle grasp. Rather this one felt smaller like her own.
"Elsa."
Elsa's tearful eyes flashed open at the sound of the voice. Her once sadden gaze suddenly turned to shock and awe. That Voice. She knew that voice. It couldn't be mistaken for anyone else.
Could it really be...
Elsa turned back to look and it was there she saw her, smiling back at her.
"Anna...?!" Elsa said in awe.
Elsa stood up from the snow, turning back to face her sister, who she embraced in her arms. Anna in turned hugged her back.
"Oh, Elsa." Anna said.
The two sisters came then departed from each other, as they came to face one another. Elsa shook her head, squinting her eyes in confusion. Reaching up her hand to touch her sisters cheek, all but thinking her eyes were fooling her. Only for her touch prove that it was so. That her sister truly now stood before her now
"Anna... But... How... can this be... your...?" Elsa said, trying to make sense of it all.
Anna simply glanced up at the moon above.
"It was Manny..." Anna insisted to her.
Elsa glanced back up at Manny.
"He thought you could use some sisterly advice." Anna insisted to her.
Elsa cocked her head back to Anna. She then frowned, narrowing her eyes.
"Anna... I don't know what to do! Jamie and the other children are in danger!" Elsa insisted to her sister.
"And it's all because of me."
"No... it's not. " Anna insisted to her.
"Yes it is. I've lost control of my powers and now without Jack... I feel so lost." Elsa insisted to her.
Anna shook her head, placing her hand over sister forearm.
"That's not true, Elsa. You can't think that way." Anna insisted to her.
"None of this is your fault."
Elsa glanced to the side, wishing she could believe it.
"Manny chose you because he believes you are worthy of being a Guardian. They still need you." Anna insisted to her sister.
"Jamie still needs you."
The mention of Jamie caused Elsa to lift her gaze to meet here sister's again. Despite everything, she still cared for Jamie the same way she did Anna. In a way, he reminded her so much of Anna.
"Remember what we said long ago... when one can see no future..." Anna said before Elsa spoke up.
"One can only do the next right thing..." Elsa finished her sister's sentence.
Elsa then glanced away as she pondered for a moment. She knew that she needed to protect Jamie and the Children from Pitch. But there was something else she remembered North saying back at the workshop. Of Jamie and the children bringing Sandy back and only someone who had the same powers as Jack could keep the children believing in him.
And if they brought back Sandy, perhaps they could do the same for Jack!
Elsa lifted her gaze as the realization then came to her.
"That's it... I know what I need to do!" Elsa proclaimed, turning back at her sister, this time with a hopeful gaze.
Anna smiled, nodding her head to her sister.
"I know you do. I believe in you, Elsa." she insisted, taking hold of her sisters hands.
"More then anyone or anything."
The reflection of her sister suddenly began to flash into a bright white light as she began to fade away. Much to Elsa's dismay.
"Anna wait... don't go!" She pleaded to her.
Anna smiled, nodding her head to her.
"I love you." Anna said.
With those last words, the reflection of Anna the disbursed in a flash of light before disappearing from sight. Leaving Elsa there in awe at what had happened. But also with the sisterly advice she needed. Elsa paused there for a moment, whipping the tears from her eyes. She then turned back to face the Man in the Moon, who continued to glisten in the sky above.
She closed her eyes for but a moment before looking back up at him, smiling.
"Thank you." She said in a whispering voice.
There came a sudden bright glow from the moon that lasted but an instant. As if to he was reaching out to her in his own way. Elsa turned back in the direction of North's workshop, knowing now what she needed to do.
