Dinosaur King: Project I

by Harold Godwinson

5 months had passed since the Arendelle war between the D-team and the Alpha gang. New friendships are forged, and a new alliance is born. But little do our heroes know that a new darkness is rising to take the entire Earth, with a savage pair of biological weapons. Now Elsa, Anna, and all their friends and family must come together to banish this darkness forever... or die trying.

10. Friendship, Love and Family

Friendship, Love and Family:

Last Time...

Paris: "You brought him here...?!"

Ace: "You've gone too far..."

Chomp: "...What defines, a monster...?"

Rohanna: "You look like you need some advice...and a friend."

Several months ago...

"Come on, is that all ye got, lad?!"

"I'll crush ye with me bare hands!"

Taverns in the blank county in the Northern Highfells were known to be wild from afternoon all the way into midnight, a place where dishonoured warriors, pirates and all kinds of unsavoury people gather to let their steam out on bar fights or pleasure themselves with the prostitutes in the stable's outback. It's a lowly, unruly environment almost daily, and a constant mixed horrible stench of vomit, alcohol and sex plagued the air. Proper nutritious food was hard to come by, proper medicine was scarce, and all these thugs cared for was either drinking themselves dead in a bottle or just looking for an excuse to hit or kill someone with a bullet, arrow or blade.

The two arguing at this moment were just about ready for another tussle when the swing door at the entrance opened and in stepped a woman, with a cawing raven on her shoulder. She had sickly-greyish-green coloured skin and very slim, bony hands and fingers holding on to a golden staff with a small swirling orb mounted on top, which had her other hand swirling around it. She wore a flowering black robe with a high collar around her neck, with a few hints of purple in certain places and a pair of horns mounted on her head.

For a while, this strange dark looking woman was the sole attention of the entire tavern, with every man ogling her with a look of lust. All but one in the far corner in a booth by one of the open windows.

That's...who she was looking for.

With a dark grin on her face, she made her way over to the strange lonely man but only made it past the bar when a hand roughly grabbed her by the arm. She was then face-to-face with a muscular man with a savvy look of want in his drunken features. "Hey now...what's a pretty thing like you doing here...?" he spoke seductively with an eyebrow wiggle.

"Get lost!" she hissed softly at him and walked on, only to be snagged by the shoulder and spun around again.

"Hey, don't you take that tone with me, you sickly looking whore!" he snarled.

Her dark grin returned at his words. In a split second, the orb in her hand shot out a beam of green lightning straight through the man's chest, causing a giant gaping hole of guts and gore to spill to the floor. The man's face had a mixture of stunned horror and pain, and he couldn't even muster the energy to scream as he dropped to the floor.

The whole tavern stared in mixed shock and terror at the power of this madwoman, and shortly after that, all present made a dash for the exit - every man for himself.

All but the one at the window.

The raven cawed again as she made her way over to him, and sat down opposite him. "You're a hard man to find...and a lot harder to kill...apparently."

"What do you want from me?" he replied as he directed his eyes to glare at her.

A soft cackle escaped her lips as the raven set itself down on the table, with a familiar black dino holder in its claws that caught the figures attention. "Now that is the wrong question...the one you want to be asking is 'What can we continue doing, for each other?'. Perhaps it's best if I fill you in on recent...endeavours in your absence."

(Intro theme.)

The next morning, the Queen of the Highfells took Paris to one of the many favoured hunting spots of her younger child Caesar, a spread-ed out forest halfway between the North Mountain and the mountains her people called home, with a wide lake smack in the centre, which made it a perfect stop for any migrating herds towards their southern or northern home for a coming summer or winter. There, the pair could see a large herd of fallow deer grazing on the grass, its leading buck constantly scanning the trees around them, while the rest of the herd, adult and young alike, grazed on the grass and bark of the trees, or drank from the lake. It was a calm and peaceful moment for this herd, who looked as though it had no troubles whatsoever.

"Queen Rohanna, Your Majesty, why are we here exactly?" Paris asked the ruling dragoness with confusion in her voice, but kept her volume down as to not scare the deer only a few yards away. The Queen merely continued to look out onto the herd, as if waiting for something of nature to happen.

"Waiting, my friend...waiting for an act of Mother Nature to give us both an insight of life's story..." she whispered to her quietly, not moving her sight at all.

The parasaurolophus took time to digest this strange answer, before setting her own line of sight on to the gentle grazers once more.

For a while, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. The herd continued to its daily business, and even most of the fawns began to frolic and play together, either with each other or their mothers and venturing near the water's edge as they did. That was when the green hadrosaur noticed her comrade twitching and flaring her nostrils and the pupils of her eyes turn into slits.

Confused by this, Paris scanned the lake and noticed an odd-looking log slowing floating towards the shore, where many of the herd's maturing males were currently drinking.

The log went down into the water silently and unnoticed by the parched deer.

Her eyes widened in fear as she realised what was about to happen.

Then it pounced.

With a blast and splash of fresh lake water, a large caiman burst out of the water and catching a young buck by the neck with its jaws, snapping it before the animal could make a sound. The crocodilian reptile quickly dragged the dead animal into the water, and slowly dragged the corpse to the other side.

"Is this what you wanted me to see...?" Paris said to Rohanna, horrified and appalled at what transpired.

"Partly." Rohanna replied, her pupils now rounded once more and looking at Paris in her own eyes. "Nature and life can be cruel, it never stops in taking away the ones we love," the Dragon Queen said to her dinosaur counterpart...before a small smile appeared on her face. "But a life that is taken... can also save a plethora of others," she said, using her wing to gesture a small nest on the other side of the lake. Paris then picked up the sound of several frantic clicks and squeaks, and then out from the nest, fourteen caiman hatchlings scurried out, meeting their mother at the shore. The parent, using her powerful bite force, tore into the carcass, chomping it up into little pieces that the babies could swallow whole.

At this sight though, she turned away, trudging back into the woods in big strides, the Highfell Queen frowned as she followed. "Hunting is not something that animals enjoy doing, they do it because they have to...they die, otherwise," she told her, making Paris come to a stop further in the woods. She knew Rohanna was right, hunting's part of nature, something some animals or dinosaurs had no choice but to do, lest they starve themselves away. But that doesn't mean she going to let the past go so easily...the ones she lost were special to her.

"But who says I have to forget the past...?!" Paris replied to her draconian friend, before turning her head around to face her. Rohanna could immediately see the tell-tale sign of tears pooling in her eyes. "You don't know...no one does..." she whimpered, before laying down to the ground with her head low.

The dragoness frowned even more at this, and as Paris began to softly sob, her heart went out to her. She understood what it was like to lose family - she was a young teenage dragon before losing her parents to human hunters before her mate's father had found her. She moved to lay down next to her grieving companion and draped over a wing to provide comfort. "You don't have to tell me what happened in the past...my mate and I both know how it feels to lose someone you love." The parasaurolophus looked up at the dragon laying with her. "But I am curious...I was told that you once went out of your way to know about the life of one of your fiercest enemies...so how is it you cannot do the same for one of your allies?"

Paris, in response to this, tore her way out of Rohanna's draped wing forcefully, and anger began to fill her being again as she spoke her next line. "That creature...is not my ally. Not after what his kind has done!"

"And is it justifiable to spite and loath an entire species, based on the actions of one?" Rohanna asked sternly, taking note of the sharp intake that Paris had been caught off-guard by such an answer. "You must understand that while life can be unfair, it is more so to loath an entire race, based on the acts of an individual." She stood up again as she walked up to the parasaurolophus. "Please, young Paris, listen...I know what it is like, to lose someone you love to a species different from my own...my mother and father were butchered without mercy at the weapons of human hunters many years ago, and at the time all I could think of, was making every human I came across suffer and know the pain I felt..." she said forcefully before shame crept into her voice. "But a wise dragon, my mate's patriarch, taught me the same lesson I'm trying to teach you now. Do not wish for the death of a species based on the actions of a few...surely you understand yourself, do you not?" she ended softly.

The more words the parasaurolophus heard coming from the dragon queen's jaws, the more she began to see that her actions on Dutch the previous night were indeed unreasonable. But the past still made her refuse to see a reason to confront the deinosuchus for the past. His kind still left a permanent scar in her memory that may never be cured.

"Those monsters took everything away from me!..." she sobbed with a lowered head and closed teary eyes. "My mate...my children..." As she was about to begin another tear fest, she felt the point of a wing nudging her head upwards from her chin, she opened her eyes and saw Rohanna looking down at her with a mixed look of sternness and sympathy.

"Then I beg for you...don't lose the family you have now, by clinging to the past," she spoke softly.

DK

Meanwhile, Rapunzel peeked out from her hiding spot in the woods near her husband's hut. Today, she, Elsa and Anna were playing a morning game of Hide and Seek, as the Corona Princess wanted to have some more fun with her cousins before she, Eugene, Pascal and Maximus were due to leave for home the next day. Today was Elsa's day off anyway, so why not spend some quality girl time while Elliot was off to hunt with Sugi and probably wouldn't be back before lunch?

So far, Elsa, who was the acting seeker, had caught out Anna in around a minute after she counted up to ten, and now both girls were hunting down the former lost princess relentlessly, and if she were to be honest, she felt slightly guilty of cheating up to now. Every time the other royal ladies went past her, she giggled to herself before madly dashing to a new hiding spot, her latest one being behind a tree near the small, local river that runs down into the kingdom.

"Come on, Punzie, where are you?!" Anna called out from nearby, causing the blond woman to duck behind cover as the queen and princess pair stepped out into her line of sight thirty feet away. She held both hands to her mouth to stop the giggling that was bursting to come out. That was when she noticed a tail in the nearby trees.

"Cousin dearest, if we find out that you're switching spots every time we're near you, you're gonna be in big trouble!" Elsa added in a tone of mock scolding, with a smirk on her face.

Unknown to all three girls (supposedly...), a familiar black and red saurophaganax had been observing the whole ordeal since their game started with envious eyes. Since the D-Team's arrival nearly weeks ago now, Torch hadn't been able to pluck up the courage that some of the other dinosaurs had to spend time with the royal sisters, mainly because he had no idea how to make up for the role he had in the seizing of their home while serving Seth. This troubled the Jurassic predator to a point of asking his mate Utah to advise him on how to even approach them, whilst braving through the expected looks of fear and resentment he would receive.

Her short but blunt answer was just to go for it, and to be honest, that hadn't exactly been helpful in his endeavours, if at all. So he decided to follow Utah's previous advice on proving himself to the people that he had changed. So far, the part he took in Elliot and the D-Team's rescue a few days back had significantly reduced the amount of suspicion he received from the people of the kingdom as a whole, but as far as he was concerned he was still under the warning radar of Elsa and Anna. He sighed to himself, starting to get the feeling that he would never prove himself to them, and as long as they remained uneasy around him, the rest of the people would as well.

Giving up and deciding to let the girls play their fun game, he slowly stepped out of his hiding spot and went to the stream for a drink, deciding it would be best to satisfy his thirst and hide again before he got spotted.

"Oh hello, didn't expect to see you out here!"

The saurophaganax froze at the cheerful greeting, and slowly looked to his right to see a kindly-smiling Princess Rapunzel with her eyes slightly widened in surprise at most.

The long-blonde-haired woman, for her part, had for long known about the seemingly troubled carnivore, both from her cousins for his part in taking Arendelle, and then the heart-wrenching horror from King Rex and the raptors Victor, Veloci and Vincent. She remembers the tour that the Space Pirate Sheer gave her around the entire herd, and it wasn't long for her to notice how Torch just kept his distance. This troubled her, not because she feared him, but from what she saw, he seemed afraid of her.

And that was something she was hoping to fix.

"Your Highness," the saurophaganax said to her in kind, but with a tone of caution obvious in his voice.

"What brings you out here? I thought you'd be with the rest of your herd!" The princess asked, not an ounce of fear obvious from her upbeat tone, catching the dino off-guard from her lack of fear of him.

"Just...wandering around, I guess, I've taken to enjoy a bit of solitude from time to time..." he answered, making the woman scoff in amusement.

"Believe me, I know the feeling..." she told him, before unconsciously going into a rant fest. "My husband Eugene and best friend Cassandra are always at each other's throats. I mean, if they aren't insulting each other, they're just continuously yelling and torturing each other, like this time when he borrowed her halberd without her permission, that led to a big shouting match that resulted in breaking an extremely rare, one-of-a-kind vase that belonged to my father, which then led up to me locking them up in the castle dungeons because I couldn't take their endless yelling, and I just wanted to-!" That was the precise moment where Rapunzel stopped herself mid-rant when she saw Torch looking at her with wide, but amused eyes - making her flush her face beet red in embarrassment at the fool she made of herself in front of a much more powerful being than herself. "Okay, uh...I'm gonna be quiet now," she said with a sheepish laugh.

"Actually...I'd like it if you would carry on." Torch didn't know why he said that, but he could feel himself feeling more relaxed around the blonde princess after all the stuff coming out of that rambling.

"Are you sure? I can be quite a blabbermouth without realising..." she asked sheepishly.

"I think a little company won't hurt," he replied, as he bent down to take a drink from the stream. Rapunzel, feeling bold walked up to him and rested a gentle hand on his snout.

"Well then, first things first, we'd best find my cousins and give them a heads-up about you joining us," she smiled.

"You sure that's a good plan? I'm not exactly their favourite dinosaur..." Torch asked in an unsure tone of voice.

"Well then, we're about to turn their doubts into ash!" the blonde replied determinedly, marching in the direction where she saw the royals of Arendelle walk off. Only to turn around noticing that the saurophaganax wasn't following her. "Hey, are you coming?" she asked.

Torch reluctantly lifted his head from the stream and walked after her, the Princess of Corona now bouncing in her steps.

DK

Don't lose the family you have now, by clinging on to the past.

Those were the only words that Paris could hear in her mind as she walked through the Space Pirate's ship to find the inserted pond for Dutch. That same sentence had been ringing in her ear ever since Rohanna left her to face this demon of her past. Before long, she reached the central room of the ship where the herd rested and spotted the familiar large crocodile, taking account of how he was not being around the dinosaurs of the herd.

'Just like how I told him...' she thought to herself, though looking back now, maybe an alternative means of getting her point across would've been better.

Slowly, yet tentatively, she walked over to the miserable-looking deinosuchus so she didn't startle him into thinking she'll attack him again, and once she was five feet away she clear her throat to get his attention, who then immediately backed off into his pool in fear of her.

"No, wait!" she said to him pleadingly, the tone of which stopped the croc in his tracks. "I just want to talk to you..." she said softly.

"Yes...ma'am?" He asked in reply, not daring to raise his voice against the hadrosaur in front of him.

"Listen...I'm not exactly comfortable around your kind, understandably..." she started slowly, not wanting to trigger any more incidents. "But what I did last night was...wrong, I have no excuse...I'm sorry..." she said, whispering the last part.

Dutch didn't know what to think. This was the same parasaurolophus that had attacked him on the first night he had been in the new world and now she was here apologising to him? He didn't know what to say. "I am too...for what I did in the past..." he said.

"I just need to know...why exactly did you hunt dinosaurs?" she asked hesitantly.

"I'm...I was..." he started off in reply, not sure on how to say the next part of his sentence. "I was the last of my kind alive..." he admitted, causing Paris to widen her eyes in disbelief at the revelation she heard.

"What...?"

"When I hatched out of my egg, my kind were already on the brink of extinction...the rest of my siblings never made out of their eggs, 'cos our habitat was disappearing..." Dutch said, beginning to share his life story.

Flashback...

A medium-sized nest on a sandbank was slowly being flooded by a rising stream, leaving only one out of fifty eggs to survive and ready to hatch.

"Us deinosuchus' were adapted for rivers and swamps, but due to a shift in the Earth's crust, they were being flooded by the sea. So immediately after hatching my mother took me onto higher ground before it was too late."

A large female deinosuchus was running uphill as fast as her stubby legs allowed while carrying a newborn Dutch in her mouth as their nest and the rest of the bank was swept away by the running torrents. After reaching a safe distance, she scanned around the area and picked up the scent of a nearby freshwater lake.

"Fortunately for us, she was able to pick out a new home for us, one that had enough fish to sustain us for a year or so...but what we didn't know was that we were being followed."

The mother slowly made her way through a small forest towards the lake where she would raise her child, hoping to hold enough food to sustain both her and Dutch. But a little ways back, a pack, containing a female deltadromeus, a female baryonyx and a bull giganotosaurus had sniffed them out and slowly trailed after her.

"You mean, you were being hunted by rogues of the cretaceous period?" Paris asked Dutch in shock, especially since going after an adult deinosuchus, especially as going for a mother protecting eggs or young was considered suicide.

"You got that right, ma'am, and we found out we were being hunted once mother found our new home."

After a long tiring walk, Dutch's mother had finally found the lake and was about to drag her body into the cool calm water within. But then..."Well, well, well, hehehehehe..." a menacing voice sounded, turning the mother's attention back towards the forest where she saw the baryonyx and deltadromeus looking at them hungrily. "A five-course meal and a side snack!" the baryonyx said.

"You said it, babes!" the deltadromeus replied as she started to stalk forward. In fear for the life of her baby, the croc mother dropped Dutch from her jaws and performed a mock lunge with a snapping jaw and a predatory hiss.

"Stay away from us!" the mother roared at them, not knowing about the frightened hatchling scurrying into the water behind them.

"Hehehehehehe, cute... just wait 'till the boss is here, lady." The baryonyx cackled like a hyena menacingly. Before the deinosuchus mother could ask what she meant, the giganotosaurus stomped out of the trees with a loud roar, causing the mother croc to back up in surprise.

"You'll do for a few days, a week at most..." he told her with a growl.

The mother, now fearful of her own life, turned around and made a dash for the water to join her baby, but got pulled back as the large carnosaur bit down onto her armoured tail and dragged her further away from the shore closer to the treeline where she would be easier for the predators to kill. Dutch watched in mounting horror as his parent tried to protect herself with tail swipes and jaw bites, but was soon rolled onto her back where she was vulnerable and watched as the predators bit down onto her throat, stomach and head. The giganotosaurus gave the killing blow as he made a powerful twitch that snapped the mother's neck, halting any further movements. "She is dead..." the largest hunter said, before dragging their quarry into the trees to eat.

"I couldn't even scream out to her...not a squeak could escape me...and I was forced to watch...watch my only family, die..." he said, hanging his head low, as few tears dripped into the water of his pond.

Paris was gobsmacked beyond belief. Losing family is part of nature, but this seemingly sensitive being had to watch his mother get killed maybe only a few minutes after hatching. Such a thought began to make her eyes water as the guilt of what she did began to crash down like a tidal wave, she now understood why Dutch didn't try to even stand up to her the night before. "What...what happened next?" she dared ask.

"I somehow managed to survive the rest of my youth, feeding on the fish that had been living in the lake... but soon the fish was gone, and with no other means of food to sustain me, I had to either hunt any dinosaur that came upon my home...or starve to death."

An adult Dutch watched silently from the middle of the lake as a large herd comprised of a variety of hadrosaurs' congregate to the shoreline to drink, before slowly moving towards the shore.

"I needed a dinosaur large enough to sustain me for a few months, something like a large male or two would do..."

"We'll join you to eat soon, luv, I just need to get a drink with the kids," a burly navy-blue male parasaurolophus said to Paris, who came up to nuzzle him and their young.

"Hurry back my darling, you know I don't like eating alone!" Paris told her mate lovingly, before moving to the trees to feed with the rest of the herd. Unwittingly as the male and hatchlings went to the water's edge to drink, they are in for a deathly shock as Dutch moved towards the bank underwater.

"I caught sight of a male and some hatchlings, I was planning to eat him and let the hatchlings go free..." he said to Paris, growing more and more hesitant as a painful memory to both of them began to surface.

"I know...I saw you ambush my mate, and I ran to help." Paris replied.

Paris soldiered through a dino stampede toward the water as the painful cries of her mate got more and more desperate, as Dutch bit down onto his entire middle with his jaws crunching bone. That was when she noticed her crying and panicking hatchlings dashing into the water themselves.

"Then my...my babies, they..." Paris said, looking down at the floor with wrench fully tearful eyes.

"I noticed...I was actually planning on having just the father and leave the children be..." he said, shocking the female to look at him again.

"What?...but...I saw them-"

"That was something else entirely..."

Dutch by now had drowned Paris's mate and was ready to feast, when he looked above him at the babies desperately trying to swim back to shore. His eyes widened in horror as he realised the five little ones were getting picked off one by one by hungry sharks.

"I couldn't live with myself by taking away the father if all the little ones died, so I abandoned the kill to give the babies a chance to escape."

A desperate Dutch swam with all his might, catching one of the attacking sharks by complete surprise and killing it instantly by a snapping bite to its neck and shaking it like a terrier. He quickly broke away from the dead fish a pursued the other two attackers.

"You...you were after the sharks in your lake...instead of my babies?" Paris asked, now in more earth-shattering shock than before.

"You got that right...some predatory species don't like sharing territory, and I wanted to make sure that those kids got back to their mother safely."

Two of the other sharks abandoned their hunt to engage the Deinosuchus, angry at what had become of their comrade. Dutch fought with all his might in the water, but failed to notice one shark extra attacking the hatchlings above.

"But by the time I killed the last of them...it was too late."

The lifeless bloody corpses of Paris's young slowly floated the floor of the lake, gently setting down on the sand below. Riddled with the guilt of not being able to save them and having ruined a whole family, Dutch buried the bodies of them and the adult male into the sand and paid his respects, before grouping up the sharks and pulling them by the tail to the other side of the lake, hoping for Saikatsu will forgive him for the role he played.

"After I killed the last shark, I buried their bodies in the sand so they wouldn't be disturbed anymore, hoping that they now rest in peace...taking away your mate was only meant to keep me alive and I did not want to harm the offspring...but looking back at the moment now, I guess you hate me more than anything else now..." Dutch spoke once more finishing his tale, closing his eyes and preparing for the expected pain.

One moment.

Two moments.

Three moments.

"I am such an idiot..." he heard her voice whimper, and slowly opened his eyes and shocked himself when he saw her crying. "I-I take out my anger on you-when-when you were just trying t-to survive, and now I've lost my second mate because of m-me alone!" she sobbed uncontrollably, allowing herself to fall to the ground on her side and curled in on herself. "Chomp w-was r-right...I am a-a monster...and I've lost him and the rest of my family because of it...I don't know what to do!" she cried. Dutch was about to say something to maybe help console the broken dinosaur when footsteps made their way to them.

And their owners were the last beings Paris would expect.

"You can start by learning to move on." Paris's body went still and rigid with eyes wide and teary.

'Tank...?'

"And by letting go of the past, you don't have to worry about losing those you love."

'Terry...?'

"It's all about what you do in the now, for example, like trying to keep a healthy diet, and brushing your teeth."

'Spiny?'

"But it's also about telling those you love about your past, so they can help you to move on...that way, when you face a demon from your past, they won't judge you for it."

'Ace!'

Slowly and cautiously, she rose up to her feet and turned around to face five familiar dinosaurs, all of which now had a look of sadness, mixed with guilt, understanding, relief and happiness in their eyes.

"I'm so sorry for turning our back on you, Paris...if we had known, things would've gone different...we all are." Chomp said to his mate.

"CHOMP!" Paris cried, rushing into the welcoming and loving embrace of her beloved mate and nuzzling him like they never nuzzled before with a whole water-slide down her face. Tears were dropping from Chomp's eyes two as everyone else stayed back to let them have their moment. "I-I'm so sorry, Chompy!" she sobbed loudly.

"Shh, it's gonna be okay now, Paris...it's gonna be okay..." the triceratops whispered back comfortingly, continuing the embrace.

Smiling as best they could, the other four dinos took their move and a family embrace had been made. When Paris peeled an eye open and spotted one last figure a few steps away, she quickly broke the family hug and rushed in to nuzzle the newcomer's chest with all the gratitude in the world.

"Thank you...Queen Rohanna." The Dragon Queen smiled at the dinosaur, nuzzling her and snaked her neck down to return the embrace.

"You are welcome..." she whispered back.

DK

Back with Rapunzel and Torch, the princess and dinosaur pair were still looking around for Elsa and Anna. However, the blonde was starting to worry since they had been looking for over an hour now and the other two women were nowhere to be found.

It was as if they had completely vanished. "Oh come on, where are they?!" Rapunzel exclaimed in worry.

"Don't worry, Highness, we'll find them." Torch replied to her reassuringly, before sniffing and tasting the air around them for any scent trail that could lead them to the other royals. "AH-HA!" he exclaimed.

"What-what is it?" she asked, surprised from the volume of his voice.

"I've got them, follow me..." Torch replied, before walking on ahead further uphill with the princess hot on his heels.

The following walk lasted up to 45 minutes, past Elliot's hut and further on towards the North Mountain. That was when the saurophaganax noticed something as he stopped dead in his tracks. "Why are we stopping?" Rapunzel asked Torch.

"Shh!", he hissed. "Do you hear that?" They both stopped talking at that moment, and the Princess of Corona heard the sounds of faint chattering and the clanging of tools on weapons. They each silently followed the sound to a ridge looking down on a wide hole in the ground, and Rapunzel had to hold in a gasp at what they saw.

Hundreds of men clad in leather armour of brown and black, in a large camp of tents and a forge where a makeshift blacksmith was making weapons from swords and shields, to warhammers, and a large cube-shaped tent slap bang in the middle of this built up fort. It's what was at the west side of the camp where Torch had to hold in his own shock, for there he spotted out mounted catapults on the backs of (if he was seeing right) mammoths, all chained up like slaves as crews hefted up boulders into large nets hanging from their sides, and finally up to around eighty horses, all together in a massive pen outside the encampment. "When did all this get here?" Torch asked in shock.

"I'd love to know that myself...there's enough soldiers here to take Arendelle two, maybe three times over..." Rapunzel said in dread at the size of the army before them, before noticing a rider coming into the camp. "Wait, there's someone coming!" she said as the rider dismounted and walked up to the central tent.

"Hey boss, I'm back!" he called out, and out of the flap walked a slim, pasty-skinned man with copper-coloured hair all swept to the left side of his head. What stood him apart from the rest of his men was the fact that he wore black all over, a large overcoat over a thick long sleeve shirt, black trousers and matching coloured boots.

"Were you followed, sergeant?" the new man spoke, all crisply and military-like stopping in front of his subordinate.

"Went back over the path I took twice, no one suspects a thing, not even the dragon's son!" the 'Sergeant' replied with a grim smirk, making Rapunzel's worry grow.

"Dragon's son?" Torch whispered to her in confusion.

"That a way of referring to Elsa's husband from the Northern Highfells," she replied to the saurophaganax's question, just as a wagon turned up a pulled over at the tent flap.

"Unload the prisoners!" the leader called out, and then one by one, two large sacks were tossed out the back of the wagon onto the ground in front of him. "Careful, this is royalty we have, as guests no less!" he said.

'Royalty?' Rapunzel thought to herself, before realisation and horror struck her core. 'Oh Gods, don't tell me he's talking about-'

The wagon crew undid the sacks, and dragged out for everyone to see was Elsa with iron shackles and chains covering her hands and Anna right beside and rope handcuffs behind her back, both sisters being gagged by a rope around their heads as they tried to resist their captors valiantly. "Elsa, Anna!" Rapunzel whisper-yelled, ready to dash in to the camp head-on as Torch grabbed onto her golden braid with his teeth and dragged her behind cover.

"Are you crazy?! You can't just go in head first like that!" he exclaimed to her in the same tone. "You'll either be shot on sight or taken as a prisoner as well!" This answer got a wide-eyed response out of the blonde, peeking over the ridgeline into the fort again as an idea sprang into her mind.

"No...but you can take a hit, can't you...?" she said with a smirk.

Elsa and Anna's struggling was quickly stopped by an extra man each forcing them to their knees in front of the leader, and tied to a slim post outside the central tent. Elsa's tried to voice out their demands on why she and her sister were being detained like this. "Remove the gags from their mouths," the leader told one of his men, who made quick work on removing the ropes from their mouths, who then took a moment to gasp for air and flex their lower jaws. "You are addressing to Avon Hux of the Hux Revenants." He started off in a loud formal manner. "Your kingdom and its people are soon to be my property! Unless your willing to pay the castle's weight in gold, your home and its inhabitants will belong to me as if by birthright...tell your council and generals that there will be no other deals, there will be no negotiations." He finished off with a smug face at his own words.

Elsa and Anna looked at each other in confusion with a raised eyebrow, before turning back as Anna asked, "The...what-now?"

"Hux Revenants?" Elsa added, slightly pissing off this Avon person as a result of how his speech seemed to have fallen on deaf ears.

"Ahem!" a third female voice sounded off, and Hux and his men turned to see a slightly smirking Rapunzel towards them with a group of guards flanking her with crossbows aimed at her. "I believe you might be wanting me too," she said.

"Punzie!" Anna whispered at her in horror at how willing she was to give herself up.

"And who are you?" Hux demanded.

"Well since you have my dearest cousins Queen Elsa and Princess Anna, I might as well be honest. Princess Rapunzel of Corona," she said to him whilst doing a polite curtsy.

"Avon Hux, of the Hux Revenants." Avon replied in suspicion of this woman, before gesturing to two of his men to cuff her, but to then to everyone's surprise...

"Aw, no, there's no need for that, kind sir...Don't you know that Arendelle and Corona had just declared war?" Rapunzel asked sinisterly, causing the other girls to widen their eyes in dread at what their dearly loved cousin just uttered. "That makes us allies in this."

"Arendelle and Corona, at war?" Avon asked in surprise at the revelation of this news, two of the only remaining kingdoms in the world who had been allies for hundreds of years now enemies?

"Rapunzel...no..." Elsa pleaded to her cousin as Anna's eyes grew tears at the apparent betrayal, who gazed back at her with a cold smirk and evil eyes, getting her point across.

"Oh Elsa, don't look so morose!" Rapunzel replied, walking up to her cousins and kneeling to their height, but then whispered into her ear as well as Anna's..."This is part of a plan to get you out of here, just follow my lead," she whispered to them quietly enough so only they would hear, widening the other girls' eyes at the ploy. Rapunzel pulled her head away and straightened up, keeping the cold look on her face.

"But you're part of our family, Rapunzel...we loved you like a sister...I did..." Anna whimpered, the tears on her face still real from her earlier heartbreak.

"Well like an old friend once told me, you should be careful of who you trust," Rapunzel said casually, before offering a glare into the redhead's eyes. "Especially around family..." she sneered, before turning to face the revenant head, ignoring Elsa's cold glare as she did. "Now that that's out of the way, Mr Hux, is it too much to ask for a tour around your fort, please? My father heard of your group and has asked me to look around your armaments."

Hux couldn't believe his luck, if one of the most powerful non modernised kingdoms remaining in the world had indeed turned against Arendelle, and had taken an interest in the revenant forces, he and his men could use this to his advantage. The king's army could dispose of the Arendelle forces, and then he could have his army sweep in and take the kingdom for himself. But for now, he must play along in the king's wishes. "Excellent...I can show you around our equipment at once," he said, turning on his heels and walked on in to the main tent. What no one noticed was that Rapunzel was flashing a diamond ring in the sun, blinking a bright light every time the angle was right.

Back on the ridge, Torch saw a flashing light from inside the fort and darted back downhill further towards Arendelle. Once he was sure he was out of sight, he allowed himself to glow red. "I really hope this works, princess..." he first said as fire gathered in his mouth and he stomped a foot into the ground. "Or we're all screwed..." he said, as he fired a magma blaster straight up into the sky.

The column of lava and fire could be seen for miles around, but luckily, only a mile or two away further up the mountain, one group of individuals caught sight of the dino flare. "What in the pit is that?" Tarroz grunted with his axe in hand.

"It looks like some kind of eruption but...there are no rocks of fire falling down..." Tyeema said as Elliot, Orius and Sugi walked over to the elf and minotaur pair.

"Caesar, what do you think of this strange sight...?" the Centaur Chief asked the wind warrior.

'A dinosaur distress signal!' Elliot immediately identified in concern, quickly mounting himself onto Sugi and pointed his bow to his teammates. "Get your mounts and weapons ready, we're heading out!" he declared, gesturing in the direction of the flare's source.

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Back with Rapunzel and Avon, they soon reached the fort's forge, and the blacksmith was running the princess through some of the weapons he had made for the soldiers, one of which being an oddly designed spear that the man was carrying as he thrust it forward. "These spears are barbed, so while the head will slide into the victim, pulling it out is a different story, heh heh heh heh heh..." he laughed in a sneering tone of voice, to which Rapunzel nodded to show that she was impressed by his work.

But really, on the inside, she was scared as hell. 'Maybe coming here with just Torch was a bad move, those things could really hurt him...' she thought to herself, knowing that the kind saurophaganax might indeed not get out of this unscathed. It was a good thing that she got her hair back so she could heal him afterwards. "Intriguing piece of work, kind sir...continue," she replied, following Hux out of the forge back towards her (seemingly) heartbroken cousins. Whilst Avon had given the tour to Rapunzel, they had been moved into temporary holding cells made of wood, with Elsa's hands still shackled. "Mr Hux, how exactly did you come to apprehend the royals of Arendelle?" she asked.

"One of my patrols caught sight of them and you wandering around the woods." Hux said in reply, filling her in on his endeavour. "My original plan was to use them to lure in the dragon's son and deal with him ourselves. But perhaps with you and I apparently allies, perhaps you could do the luring yourself."

"Ahh, I like the way you think..." Rapunzel smirked in reply. "My cousin-in-law always had a knack of rescuing damsels in distress, he once saved Anna here from a group of raping bandits...I'm sure I'll come up with something. However..." she continued, before turning to the wooden cells next to them. "I would like to dispose of my ignorant, annoying family members. I want to make sure they scream with the pain I plan to endure on them..." she asked darkly, scaring her cousins at how menacing she could be, and making them genuinely scared for their lives.

"I suppose losing some dead weight wouldn't hurt..." Avlo admitted, before laying a hand on her shoulder. "But only if they refuse to tell their council about our price..." He turned to the Arendelle royals. "The choice is, Your Majesties...gold, or execution?" Elsa and Anna looked at each other through the walls of their cells with resignation on their faces.

"Anna...if this is it, I..." Elsa didn't know what to say, making her eyes again teary by rapidly blinking and thinking sad, hurtful thoughts.

"I know Elsa...I love you too..." Anna replied with a sniffle, snaking her arms through the gaps in the wooden wall and bringing her dear sister into a hug, who returned it as best she could.

"As you wish..." Hux spoke, before gesturing to his men to open up the cells and drag the sisters out and onto their knees in front of the Corona Princess, who gave another cold smirk as she was given a knife.

"Punzie...please...I beg of you..." Anna whimpered as Elsa tried to comfort her, now genuinely thinking that her beloved cousin was going to be the one that killed them and dreading it with her heart.

"Sorry, Anna..." the blonde sneered, observing the sharp blade in her hand. "But I'm afraid the charade of caring about you, is over..." she said, grasping the dagger in both hands.

"Rapunzel, please, you don't have to do this..." Elsa pleaded to her cousin one last time.

"Oh yes," she smirked, before changing her face into a menacing glare. "Yes, I do...!" she exclaimed, raising her knife and pointing it downwards preparing to strike Anna.

"Don't do it. Please!" Anna screamed as the knife came shooting down.

SNAP!

"WHAT?!" The shout of Avon's shocked voice had a still very alive Anna reopen her eyes, and held in a gasp as she realised that the knife her cousin bared had sliced the rope tied around her wrists.

"TORCH! NOW!" Rapunzel yelled with all her lungs, and a loud dinosaurian roar raged throughout the area. Elsa and Anna's hearts shook with shock as a very familiar saurophaganax came running straight through the camp, upturning any tent, soldier or equipment piece in his path.

"WHAT IS THAT THING?!" Hux screamed in alarm as Torch gave another loud roar.

"It's called a dinosaur, Einstein!" another voice called in, one that filled the girl's hearts with joy relief as a certain feline used the saurophaganax's head as a jumping board, landing right in front of their captors and a familiar man shot them dead with two arrows flying from his longbow.

"ELLIOT!" Elsa yelled in joy at seeing her husband, who in response flicked out his hidden blades and used them to break the shackles off his wife's hands.

"This is hardly a place for royalty, Your Majesty!" Elliot said to his wife mockingly as Rapunzel came over to them.

"I'm so sorry, you two..." she said regretfully to her cousins as she brought them in her arms for a quick family hug. "This was the only plan I had in mind..." she revealed to them as Torch ran over to them.

"Now would be a good time to go!" he exclaimed, lowering himself and allowing Rapunzel to climb onto his back.

"YOU WILL NOT ESCAPE ME!" Hux raged at them as dozens of his men came flooding over to their leader, many of which were holding the barbed spears from earlier and pointing them at the heroes. Very soon however he found himself stepping back in shock as another arrow struck the ground right by his feet.

"We think not, Avon!" Tyeema's voice sounded in anger, riding in on a large stag and standing in front of the others protectively with her sword drawn and her scorn on her face. Soon afterwards, Tarroz barreled in with two huge axes in either hand and riding the back of a massive woolly rhino! with Orius bringing up the rear, leading two horses by the reigns.

"Horses for you, Daughters of Eve! The rest of the animals have fled to safety!" the Centaur gestured to Elsa and Anna, who smiled and nodded their thanks as they quickly mounted up.

"Now Hux, let's back up for a moment," Elliot negotiated with the revenant leader imploringly as he remounted Sugi as she growled in a warning, flashing her sabres as she did. "No one wants a fight here."

"I do!" Tarroz grunted loudly, both axes still in hand and clanging the blades together.

"So do I, if I'm being honest..." Torch muttered to the princess on her back, who gave a giggle in response.

"If you didn't want a fight, boy, you never should've come here to begin with!" Avon growled in response. "Your little party will not leave this place alive...you are outnumbered more than ten to one...and no tricks will save you from the punishment I'm willing to throw at your friends..." His glare then turned to Torch, who was standing behind the Highfell warriors with the royal sisters on either side of him. "And so help me, I'll only stop once I strangle out that princess's life...with the guts of that LIZARD!" He screamed in rage as Torch began to grow fire from his mouth.

"You want Princess Rapunzel or the royal sisters so badly?!" Torch said, stomping a foot into the ground. "You'll have to go through me!" He roared as he fired a magma blaster straight at the soldiers, forcing everyone in his path to take cover from the force and the intense heat as a wall on the far side of the fort exploded in fire, opening a large hole to escape.

"Go!" Elliot called out, and Sugi led the charge out of the camp with a roar, the rest of the party following up behind him. Any man still standing threw their spears at Torch, who growled in pain as the heads managed to stab themselves into his sides and legs, causing him to slow down.

"Torch, are you okay?" Rapunzel exclaimed in worry.

"Yeah...keep going everyone, don't stop..." The saurophaganax replied with pain in his voice.

"We'll stay with you until we reach my hut, we can take of you there," Elliot told him, slowing down the rest of the group so the injured dinosaur could keep up. Unfortunately, they were not out of the woods yet, as several wagons with mounted turrets started to close the gap.

"Elliot, we got more company coming in!" Anna exclaimed to her brother-in-law with worry as she caught sight of their pursuers.

"The dinosaur is too injured to run any faster, we may need to turn and fight!" Orius added, bringing out his twin swords from their scabbards as Elliot turned his head around to the dinosaur in concern.

"No, we can't stop because of me!" Torch called at them, before directing his attention to Elsa on his right. "Queen Elsa, you and your sister can use my legs as a shield, you and the princesses are the ones they want!" Elsa gasped at the dino's bravery. This took her back to when one of Rex's letters to her mentioned the saurophaganax had changed, originally she didn't believe it when she was told of what he did to the family who owned the butchers in her kingdom, and even seeing him again for the first time on Spectre's ship she had her doubts about him. But now...

"I will not use you as some sick shield when I have my powers to protect us!" she yelled back at him with a caring glare.

"Just do it, for Saikatsu's sake!" he roared at her. The Snow Queen reluctantly pulled her horse alongside the dinosaur in order for Rapunzel to slip off his back and onto her mount behind and having done so, she and Anna manoeuvred their horses around they were galloping right under the saurophaganax between his legs.

"Alright then, it's the hard way..." Elliot muttered to himself at the sight, before issuing instructions to his team. "Tyeema and Orius, you two put yourselves on either side of Torch so he doesn't take all the heat himself."

"Understood!" they replied, moving around the dinosaur to secure their posts. "I have his left flank, Caesar!" The Elf Queen called out.

"I will be protecting his right!" Orius added, to which Elliot nodded in reply before turning to his remaining companion.

"Tarroz, Sugi and I are gonna need your help!"

"Please tell me I get to break something!" The rhino-riding minotaur replied.

"Use your strength and do what you can to take out the wagons, I can deal with any other riders they have and help you where I can!"

"Got it boss! This'll be fun!" he laughed in excitement before the two beast riders peeled off to do their assignments.

Soon the wagons were in range and their crew began to open fire. The turrets on the wagons acted as rapid-fire crossbows, hurling bolt after bolt at Torch who roared in pain as they struck. Luckily, Orius and Tyeema were able to use their blades to cut down any arrows they came into contact with, therefore minimising the number of arrows that strike true. "Over here, whelps!" One of the crew from one of the wagons noticed the minotaur and his mount charging at them and hurried to warn his friends. Unfortunately, though, the entire contraption was knocked onto its side with a single swing of the rhino's six-foot long horn.

As the chase continued on, Elsa noticed that Torch was beginning to tire from a mix of the constant running and his injuries, and she knew deep down if they continued like this the dinosaur might potentially die. It was time she took action! Closing her eyes she made a mental image of Torch in her head, and soon stretched out her arms and let her magic flow. "Elsa?" Anna and Rapunzel wondered in concern at her actions. Soon a stream of snow flowed from her fingers and began to swirl around the saurophaganax protecting them. A few fragments of ice fixed themselves in the places of his more serious wounds, and soon he began to glow white as his eyes widened in surprise.

Finally with a flash, the process was done, and out of a bright light came Torch, now covered in a suit of armour made from ice covering his head, sides and legs. "What in the name of...?!" Torch sputtered in shock.

"What just happened?" Anna added with eyes as wide as saucepans. "Elsa?"

"He was willing to save our lives today, it only seemed fair that we returned the favour." Elsa smiled, looking into the dino's amazed eyes.

Now Torch was ready to fight back with Fire!

The team pulled to a sudden stop in front of the rest of the enemy wagons as Elliot and Tarroz regrouped with them, now being able to use him for cover without risking injury for him. They stopped their attack, seeing as they somehow herded their targets towards a steep incline into the river that ran into Arendelle's fjord, a distance away from Elliot's hut. "Thought you were just a damsel in distress a moment ago!" Torch teased, admiring his new armour.

"And I thought you were going to eat us when you came running at us!" Elsa teased back with a grin of humour.

The enemies that were holding them at arrow point were not as impressed with the dino's new look, as evident by the appearance of Avon riding to the front of the line with a mad look of rage on his face.

"Lizard!" he raged at Torch. "Step forward and surrender to me!" he demanded.

"Yeah, uh...that's not happening..." he taunted, before turning to look Elliot in the eye. "May I?"

"You may, he's actually a lot more dangerous than his sanity allows...I'm actually surprised he was able to hide that army of his for some time now..." the dragon's son said, giving his permission as the dino glowed red.

"Heat Eruption!" Torch roared, as meteors started pouring from the sky, pelting the enemy forces with blow after blow, so much so the area began to kick up dust and smoke.

When the attack ended and the smoke and dust cleared, everyone could see that their ranks had been devastated. The weapon wagons were no more than burning wrecks as the horses that pulled them fled in fright, while all the soldiers - Avon included - were either injured or just laying there in sheer terror at the power Torch possessed. He just turned a Hux revenant armed battalion into a terror-formed laughingstock.

Hux himself was absolutely furious at how easily this one creature made a laughing fool out of him, as he knew there was no hope of his plans to succeed for now. He would have to recreate his entire legion from scratch and he swore that he would destroy that cursed lizard in front of him, and everything he loves. "Retreat!" he called to any of his men still breathing, and they all fled like cowards as Torch gave a final roar to spur them on.

"We did it, we did it!" Rapunzel cheered as she brought her dismounted cousins into a hug with Elliot and Sugi walking over to them.

"You know your highness, sometimes you worry me. I didn't know you were that ballsy to come up with a plan like that!" he said, making everyone else either laugh, giggle or chuckle in amusement.

Torch, however, having now lost all of his adrenaline, had collapsed to the ground with a tremor, bringing everyone's worried gazes to him as they came to help make him better.

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Later that afternoon, everyone was able to recollect their energy and got to work on removing the spears and arrows that Torch received in his sides during the battle, during which Elsa evaporated his armour to get at the arrows easier. By the time they had accomplished that, the saurophaganax was slowly bleeding all over his midsection and legs, so now the girls took their cue to drape Rapunzel's hair all over his back, and even over his muzzle. "You know, as nice as it is to be in a warm blanket, your hair wasn't what I had in mind..." he commented, before grunting in pain as Elsa removed another arrow on his right thigh.

"Are you okay?" she asked in concern, wiping away the new blood flow with a tissue she had been carrying before using a mist of frost to dull his pain.

"Well, I can honestly say I wish that the shouting was worse than the arrow fire I got!" He laughed before a painful "Ouch!" was heard as Tyeema snatched out a crossbow bolt from his left arm.

"Oh, hold still!" she scolded the dinosaur. "You're more childish than Tarroz on cleansing day!" she told him, as the minotaur in question turned to Elliot and Orius who was keeping watch.

"Worst day of the year..." he whispered to him, who gave a chuckle in amusement as the rest of Rapunzel's hair was now in the necessary areas where his wounds were most prominent.

"You sure this will actually work, Highness? Not that I'm trying to be rude..." the predator asked her as she sat on her knees in front of him and looked him in the eye with sincerity.

"Well...just...don't freak out..." she said slowly, receiving an odd and confused look in reply as the sisters came to sit next to her.

After getting an encouraging smile, Rapunzel smiled back and closed her eyes.

"Flower gleam and glow," she began to sing slowly, as her golden hair began to shine brightly like the sun, shocking the dinosaur patient as a result. "Let, your power shine," she continued, the glow now beginning to swirl around Torch, following the drapes of extra hair. "Make the clock reverse...bring back what once was mine..." As she continued, a shocked Torch began to notice all his cuts and scars beginning to seal up, as if they were non-existent, all the while feeling much better than before. "Heal what has been hurt...change the fates' design...save what has been lost...bring back what once was mine...what once, was, mine..." Finishing off the incantation of the powerful Sun Drop Flower, she reopened her eyes, now seeing the dinosaur before them all healed up.

Unfortunately...his face and slight rapid breathing indicated that he was about to- "PLEASE DON'T FREAK OUT!" Rapunzel exclaimed with a sheepish smile, stopping Torch just before he screamed out his nerves. 'This reminds me of when I healed Eugene for the first time...' she thought.

"Ahaha, are you okay?" Anna giggled out, waving a hand in his face in order to get a response.

Torch only rolled his eyes and fainted.

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The next day...

After returning home and explaining everything that had taken place the day before, Torch was received with a hero's welcome from the herd and every Arendelle citizen as far as the eye could see, and that coming night, a feast was held in the saurophaganax's honour, praising him for his heroism. The dinosaur in question had also received the Badge of Undying Loyalty, one of the highest honours in the whole kingdom, and Elsa and Anna's friendship as a result, bringing tears of happiness to Utah's eyes. Eugene, Maximus and Pascal also expressed their gratitude for protecting everyone, and even Panthos and Rohanna commended him for his bravery.

By the next morning, sadly, it was time for Rapunzel and her family to return to Corona, and everyone from the royal sisters to the D-Team had gathered down at the docks to exchange goodbyes.

"Promise me you'll come back soon Punzie, I miss you already!" Anna sobbed (over-dramatically some might say) into her cousin's shoulders.

"I'll come back as soon as I can, I promise!" she cried back, breaking their hug as Elsa and Elliot came over.

"We can make an appointment to visit Corona one day, it's been a while since we've seen Auntie Arianna and Uncle Frederic. I'm sad they didn't come over..." Elsa said as the younger blonde brought her in for a hug.

"They miss you too, Elsa, they can't wait to meet their new son-in-law." At that, she broke their embrace and squeezed her arms around Elliot. "Thank you for making Elsa so happy, Elliot, I can't think of anyone more suited for her than you," she whispered lovingly (in a family way of course).

"It's my deepest honour, cuz-in-law!" he joked, ruffling her hair and causing the woman to giggle as Sugi exchanged her own farewell, with a nuzzle to her cheek and a deep purr.

"Take care of them, Sugi..." she whispered, breaking away with a stroke to her head as the D-Kids took their turn. "It was wonderful getting to know you and your friends, Dinosaur King," she said to Rex with a curtsy. "Please come to Corona when you can with some of your subjects, I know four little girls who would love to meet them..." she said as she brought the three into an embrace.

"We will, Princess Rapunzel." Rex replied with a smile, one that she returned with happiness. Then her eyes directed themselves to one last comer as he walked over to them, and leaned down so the Princess of the Sun could snuggle into his face, wrapping her arms around his maw much to his surprise.

"I'll miss you, Torch..." she whispered, looking into his eyes with a look of family love.

"I will miss you too, Rapunzel..." he replied, gently wrapping a clawed hand around her back to return the embrace with his new friend. A few moments passed before they broke away, and Rapunzel's group climbed aboard her ship, and soon they had undocked and were steadily sailing its way to the open sea. Feeling her friendship with the saurophaganax made Rapunzel's hair glow like the sun, waving about in the air as if it was saying goodbye.

"BYE, BIG GUY!" she called out to him one last time with a wave of her hand.

Torch gave a loud roar that echoed around the fjord and fired one last Magma Blaster into the heavens in response to her farewell.

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Sabretooth Cabin

Hunter's Ridge

November 20th

2019

Several months had passed since the wedding of Elsa and Elliot, months of a peaceful and happy marriage between the leading couple of Arendelle and the alliance with the D-Team. The queen and wind warrior had their honeymoon and imagine the D-Team's surprise when they found them walking around Sanjo City. The Dinosaur King and his friends showed them all around the mega mall, how all of their technology worked and so on. The couple were even taken on a tour through the Mega Mall and the amusement park.

However, it was safe to say that roller coasters would not be something the queen would ride ever again.

Life had pretty much returned to normal for everyone, the three kids were now back at school from the amount of leave they had while in the kingdom and preparing for the winter holidays. Even so, though, despite the amount of time Max, Rex and Zoe had to be away from their Arendelle friends, they still found time to visit between weekends and term breaks, often along with the Space Pirates - either for the same reasons as the kids, or on business of any kind. They always made sure to bring the entirety of the herd as well, which always brought a smile to the children's faces, especially since in some of those months new dinosaurs had been inducted into the D-Team's growing family.

The order of which was: Boulder the Endomtonia.

Angel the Diceratops.

Greybeard the Jobaria (with the Ophthalmasaurus' Flipper, Skippy, Speedy, Diver and Snorkel).

And Confucius the Shantungosaurus (With the Tupuxuaras sisters Flora and Fauna).

"SUPRISE!" A full-sized Terry roared in Elsa's face.

"AHHHH!" The queen screamed, frosting the ground under her feet and slipping on her own ice. Today was another visit from the D-Team, who this time around were invited to the kingdom's autumn festival, a special time when they celebrate the coming winter. Today was also Elsa's birthday, and as such everyone had been giving her surprise presents. "Terry! What did we agree upon when you're at full size?!" The queen exasperated to the T-Rex in front of her. "When you see me in the zone, as you say, do not jump at me!"

"Come on, Your Majesty, just wanted to wish you a happy birthday!" he replied with an obvious hint of glee in his voice.

"Aw well, thank you I suppose..." she smiled in reply.

"Ooh! Ow!" The rex suddenly grunted, trying and failing to reach to his mouth with his tiny arms to no avail. "Hey, a- I got- I got something stuck in my teeth!" he explained. "It's driving me crazy! Can you help a dino out, please?" he pleaded to her.

"Well, you have come to the right place my friend, Doctor Elsa of Arendelle is in the house!" Elsa played along with a smile in response to the T-rex's pleading, before swirling her hands and creating a large slab of ice on the ground in front of her for Terry to lay down on. "Please lay yourself down on my 'dinosaur examination' platform, if you may." After Terry laid himself down, he curled his lips back so the 'doctor' could take a look at the outside of his teeth. Then she opened his mouth to look on the inside. "I don't see anything," she said to him.

"It's on the left." Terry explained.

"Ahh!" Elsa exclaimed with her voice echoing outwards from the lizard's jaws, having caught sight of something stuck in a hole where one of his specialised fallen teeth fell out a day back and tried to reach out.

"Oh-a-alright..." Terry muttered in the discomfort of the woman moving around in his mouth, who then stepped back out and looked into the dino's eye.

"Okay, whatever you do, do not close your mouth..." she instructed him, who nodded in reply as she reopened his jaws, and this time moved the upper half of her body inside with a grunt.

"Okay-okay I got it!" she said, before groaning in an effort to pull the object out of the tooth hole. With one sharp tug, the object in her hand was removed and she stepped out, allowing the rex to close his mouth. "What the heck was this doing in there?!" Elsa exclaimed in shock, holding up a snow globe with Elliot and Elsa standing together in it.

"Happy birthday!" he sang in reply.

"Oh my goodness, I see what you did!" she exclaimed in surprise at the gift. "You somehow stuffed this into the place where your specially designed tooth fell out!" She smiled, showing her own teeth as she went over her hypothesis. "You're alright."

"I will say now, it wasn't comfortable..." Terry admitted, taking the globe in between his front teeth and shook around like he was ringing a bell. "But Utah and Reese helped me piece it together after hearing about your...well let's just say, unfortunate event, so now..." Terry trailed off, handing the globe back to Elsa with snowing on the inside.

The unfortunate event he was talking about was that the poor Queen of Arendelle had experienced a miscarriage during the time the D-Team was gone, and she had been broken and unresponsive to everyone around her. It was only the thought that they'll get a second chance and she wasn't the only one affected that got her out of her shell eventually. "Look at that..." she whispered to herself, seeing the snow in the globe falling around.

"Max and the others have left their presents in your room at the castle, you are gonna flip when you see some of the things they got you...and I hope you're a gaming person!" he said, before noticing the smile on Elsa's face had begun to ebb away into a frown. "You don't like it?"

"No it-it's great!" she said, putting her smile back on.

"You hate it? Gah! I should've got you the T-rex alarm clock!" he exclaimed. "As if you'd want something as lame as that garbage anyway..." he muttered to himself.

"Oh no!" Elsa exclaimed, putting the snow globe into the handbag she was carrying, a present that she had got from Anna earlier in the day, along with the new pinkish-purple dress she was wearing at this moment. "The present's beautiful, I love it!" she said, before her smile started to turn into a frown again. "It's just...another year passes on and it's the same old thing as Queen of Arendelle..." she said, before listing off said duties while pacing around. "'Sign trade agreements', 'Work on documents', 'Attend council meetings' and 'work on paperwork again'..." she said, finishing her ranting and pacing.

"I think I might see your problem." Terry commented.

"Maybe I should take a note out of Elliot's book..." Elsa said to herself.

"Just, take today to get out of that boring routine."

"What do you mean?"

Terry leaned down to let Elsa climb onto his back, and they started to head back towards Arendelle for the festival. "Today's not only your birthday, but also the day of the autumn festival! You can use that to just be yourself other than the Queen of Arendelle. Plus, now that you and Elliot are married, you got an opportunity to be like that. And live! Improvise! On the spot! Boom boom boom!" His explanation didn't quite catch on with the queen. "You know, make it fresh!"

"Fresh..." she said to herself out loud, and the more she thought about it, the more she liked the idea as her smile returned. "Okay, I can do fresh."

"Works for me!" Terry replied.

Ah, ah, oh oh...

Elsa's thoughts on their conversation were vanquished from her mind as the sound of...a voice...echoed around her. "Wait a minute..."

"What?" Terry wondered, coming to a stop.

Ah, ah, oh oh oh...

"Do you hear that?" Elsa questioned the T-Rex.

"Hear...what?" he asked quietly, sniffing the air in case they were expecting trouble. Elsa strained her ears to hear that strange sound again...but as if like a piece of one's imagination, it was just...gone.

"Nothing, must be just me..." She smiled, patting the rex's neck in reassurance as they continued on back to the kingdom.

Meanwhile, not that far away, Anna, now wearing a white satin gown, and Elliot wearing a comfortable black leather jacket and jeans he got from Sanjo, had decided to walk together along the hills overlooking the castle and spend some brother-sister time themselves, talking about anything that came to mind as Sugi trailed along with them. That was when they came across Olaf lying down on a blanket in the middle of a pumpkin patch. "Hehehe, enjoying your new permafrost, Olaf?" Anna giggled as they sat down, gesturing to the fact that the snowman was now permanently frozen thanks to Elsa's magic so he didn't need his cloud anymore.

"I'm just living the dream Anna...ahh..." He sighed in bliss, enjoying the warmth of the autumn sun shining down on him. "I wish this could last forever..."

"Mmm!/Ya ha..." The two humans hummed in agreement, just as the snowman snatched a falling brown leaf in his hands.

"And yet change mocks us with her beauty," he said.

"What's that?" the princess asked him in the humour of his sentence.

"Forgive me, maturity is making me poetic." Elliot snorted in amusement. Sure Olaf could read and was smart for a creature with no literal brain, but the odds of him getting old was like in one in a million.

"Having some maturity is good, but I don't think your age will go up anytime soon..." he said to Olaf.

"Well maybe you're right but...who knows." He sighed, before turning his attention to the hunter on his left solely. "Tell me this though, Elliot, you're older than Anna and I and thus all-knowing, do you ever worry about the notion that...nothing's permanent?"

"Uhm...no, not really..." he mumbled with a shrug of his shoulders as he laid down on the blanket himself and looked up into the clouds with his hands folded on his midsection.

"Really?" Olaf asked him, who nodded in reply. "Wow...I can't wait until I'm older so I won't have to worry about important things..." he mumbled, before laying back down on the blanket himself with Anna joining him.

"I think what he means, Olaf, is that he doesn't worry because...well he's got us, you and me, and Elsa, Sugi, and we all have Kristoff and Sven and, Max Rex, Zoe and the dinosaurs...his blood family from the Highfells love him no matter what he chooses, his fake parents can no longer torment him and...well I don't worry because the gates are open again, I have my sister back and...we're not alone anymore." She smiled as Elliot turned to look at her.

"Well technically, I am a little nervous for becoming the King of Arendelle, I'm still not sure if I'm even ready for such a role in life..." he bashfully admitted to his sister-in-law as Sugi came and laid herself down beside him, with Trixie and Javelin on her back.

"Well come on I mean...King Elliot of Arendelle does have a nice ring to it, don't you think?" she asked him with a smile, who grinned in return.

"Maybe...but there are some things that I would like to keep the same...like those things you mentioned a moment ago," he said, before taking in a steady inhale as he began to sing.

"Nature's wind blows a little bit colder... and we're all gettin' older,"

(He looks up into the clouds, reaching out a hand while twirling leaves and twigs in the air as Anna and Olaf laughed at the show above their heads.)

"And the clouds are movin' on with every autumn breeeee-ee-ee-eeeze..."

(Anna took her turn to sing as she glanced at a rotten-looking pumpkin.)

"Peter Pumpkin just became fertiliser,"

(Olaf came next, looking sadly at the wilted leaf in his twig hand.)

"And my leaves are going sadder and wiser,"

(Elliot and Anna sang together as they fed a piece of beef to Sugi, who nuzzled them in thanks before turning to Olaf.)

"That's why we rely on certain certaintieeeees..."

(Anna took another turn as the four of them start heading back towards the kingdom, first going through some wooden house frames.)

"Yes, some things never change, like the feel of your hands in mine,"

(Elliot took another turn as they came upon a painter who was doing a picture of a tree in front of him, which was quickly cut down by a woodsman.)

"Some things stay the same,"

(Angry at the sight, the painter and woodsman began an argument as the three of them and the feline quickly left the scene as they sang.)

"Like how we get along just fine!"

(Up next Anna and Olaf are skipping along a crumbling stone wall as Elliot and Sugi strutted and walked alongside them respectively, as the human pair sing with Elliot in low harmony.)

"Like an old stone wall, that will never fall,"

(The end of the wall breaks, causing Olaf to fall into a railroad handcar on a railway track and started to roll off downhill quickly. Upon instinct, the other three chase after him with Sugi pulling into the lead.)

"Some things are always truuuu-uuuuue..."

(Acting quick the cat pulls on a lever, switching the path of the track as the cart came a stopped dead at a barrier, causing Olaf to fly up into the air.)

"Some things never change,"

(Elliot used his powers to gently set the snowman into Anna's arms as they sang their final verse with the man in low harmony again.)

"Like how we're holding on tight to you..."

DK

Back in the city, Kristoff and Sven were walking through the town centre, enjoying some time between buddies as the ice harvester began to sing as well, whilst admiring the falling leaves himself.

"The leaves are already faaalling, Sven it feels like the future is caaallin'!"

(He quickly pulled his friend away from a stack of carrots as Sven took his turn.)

"Are you telling me tonight you're gonna get down on one kneeee-e-e-eeeee?!"

(The pair sat down with Kristoff's face in his hands looking pensive.)

"Yeah but I'm really bad at planning these things out, like candlelight and pulling of rings out!"

(He picks out the diamond ring he got for Anna, however, he quickly lost his grip and the object flew into the air. Luckily he had no need to panic, as the ring fell into Zoe's hand with the boys alongside her as she sang.)

"Maybe you should leave that kind of stuff to Sven and meeeee!"

(The lot began to walk around the shops of Arendelle together, looking out for any outfits that the man could use to look his best for his lady.)

"Yeah, some things never change. Like the love that I feel for her,"

(They finally came up to one store that had a cream white suit that would be considered perfect for the moment.)

"Some things stay the same, like how reindeers are easier,"

(While buying the suit, Sven spotted out a book on advice for proposing to your spouse and brought it. (Don't ask how he paid for it!))

"But if I commit, and I go for it, I'll know what to say or doooo...right?"

(Sven, Zoe and Max sang in mid harmony and took a turn as they stepped out of the store.)

"Some things never change,"

(That was when they noticed Anna, Olaf, Elliot and Sugi walking over to them, bring a smile to all their faces.)

"Guys the pressure is all on you..."

DK

Back with Elsa and Terry, they too had just re-entered the city and were slowly walking side by side towards the rest of their friends and family.

"The winds are restless...could that be why I'm hearing this call? If something's coming, I'm not sure I want things to change at all..."

(The queen mentioned the voice to herself while singing the rest of it loud enough to hear as Terry to his turn.)

"Well, these days are precious, we cannot let them slip away..."

(Elsa took her turn again, smiling into the rex's eyes.)

"We can't stop this moment..."

(And then they both sang together with Terry in harmony.)

"But we can still get out and seize this daaaaaaaaaaay!"

With that sang and done, they ran the rest of the way, bringing over the rest of their attention from their conversations. Anna and Elliot smiled and grinned at the sight of the birthday girl, and ran over to hug her as the married couple shared a passionate kiss, causing a blushing Anna to hide her face with her hands.

Terry on the other hand was greeted by a heartwarming sight. A familiar allosaurus came bounding up to him with three little ones on her heels. A green skin coloured allosaur male, a baby female rex in blue, and a baby allosaurus female in red, all of which came up to nuzzle their father as Ally nuzzled his cheek.

As they continued the song, the key that they were singing in changed slightly.

"Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ahhh-ahhh! The babies grew a little bit restless,"

(Ally sang as Spiny (whilst singing) gave a T-Rex plushy to Elsa - who, out of sheer fluffiness, hugged it tightly like a baby holding a teddy bear.)

"And I've put your family all on my friends list!"

(Tank and Ace pulled down a large cloak of a tall, silver statue, one that presented Elsa, Elliot and the D-Team in a fighting stance with their dino blades deployed from their bracers while singing (with the Saichania in harmony...))

"It is time to count blessings beneath the autumn skyyyy-yyyyyy!"

(Max and Rex then took a turn each in raising their voices as the queen lead them over to a tall flag pole with a children's choir backing them up.)

"We're always loving this ol' kingdom of plenty"

"Arendelle standing for the good of the many"

(It was then Elsa had Kristoff and Anna raise up the new flag for their home. The flag contained the original colours and crest of Arendelle, but the top half was now a rich golden yellow and the D-Team symbol right in the middle of a gaping T-Rex mouth. That was when Elliot sang.)

"And here I promise you the new flag of our kingdom will always flyyyyyyy...!"

(The royal sisters took their turn the sing as the flag began to flap in the wind.)

"Our new flag will forever flyyyyyyy~"

(That was when the crowd and any other dinosaur on the ground began to sing as well.)

"The new flag will always fly!/The flag will always flyyyy!"

(That was when the queen's party and the festival itself began, as children either started to use Gertie and Charles as huge slides from the roofs of houses to the ground and riding on Futaba, Greybeard, Dutch and the Opthalmasaurs around the fjord.)

"Some things never change, turn around and the time has flown!"

(Rosy, in a dinosaur-themed costume, roared at Terry and Ally, who gave a playful roar back in reply as their hatchlings began to run and play with her who laughed in amazement and glee.)

"Some things stay the same, though the future remains unknown!"

(Everyone was having such good fun, that by the time the party ended it was dark.)

"May our good luck last, may our past be past. Time's moving fast, it's trueeeeee!"

(Now it was just the sixteen of them left (the dinos now back in their cards) as they all made their walk back towards the castle, stepping across the bridge to the castle gates, singing one last time with heart and soul.)

"Some things never change!"

(Elsa brought Anna in for a hug as everyone began to enter the castle for the remainder of the day.)

Elsa: "And I'm holding on tight to you..."

Anna: "Holding on tight to you,"

Kristoff: "Holding on tight to you,"

Olaf: "Holding on tight to you,"

Max: "Holding on tight to you,"

Rex: "Holding on tight to you,"

Zoe: "Holding on tight to you,"

(Elliot, feeling bold, grabbed his wife by the hand and twirled her, before picking her up bridal style as if they just got married again.)

"Holding on tight to yooooouuuuu..."

(They gazed at each other in the eye with love, as they sang on last time to finish the song.)

"I'm holding on tight to you..."

They entered the castle together with a smiling Sugi behind them.

DK

"Rrrr! Augh! Reh...!" Anna grunted, making faces and making wild gestures with her body language.

Nothing like a family game of charades to end your day! (Even if everyone was in their nightclothes...)

"Uh...Lion!/A giant!/Alien!" Kristoff, Max and Zoe exclaimed.

"Grizzly bear!" Olaf shouted.

"Uh, monster!" Kristoff suggested.

"Tiger!?" Zoe proposed.

"Black Bear!" Olaf yelled.

"Ogre...?" Max asked uncertainly.

"Cyclops!" Rex said.

"Angry face?" Kristoff offered. "Uhhh!" He groaned in frustration at not getting closer to the answer.

Elliot asked, "A dragon?"

Olaf put forward another idea. "Polar bear!"

Max questioned, "A...dinosaur?"

At the word "dinosaur", Anna's eyes snapped over to the competitor and gestured wildly with one of her hands to keep going.

"Dinosaurian monster!" Elsa exclaimed, still holding on to her plushy from Spiny.

"World-class wedding crasher!" Elliot shouted, pointing a finger at her.

"Greatest mistake in the world!" Kristoff added in, copying his action.

"Worst guests for a reception!" Olaf piped in again.

That was when Sven rang the small bell in his mouth as Sugi gave a short roar, letting everyone know that the 30-second timer was up.

"PYRO!" Anna panted with a tired grin.

"Ooohhh/Ahhh!" everyone said in realisation, though unknowingly to them, a bit troublesome for Elsa. She had been having visions about the fire-breathing acrocanthosaurus without telling anyone for some time now, and she had no idea why. Every time she saw him, it was either on her training ground and battling him of all things...or him just tormenting her with threats and taunting against herself or her family. "We all kinda got it!" Olaf piped up, snapping the queen from her bout.

"Okay, Elliot, time for you to bring the hurt!" Max said, lightly shaking his shoulder in encouragement.

"Alright," he grinned in reply, swapping places with Anna as she sat on his spot on the couch next to Elsa. "Okay, Sven, what have you got for me?" he said, rubbing his hands together as the reindeer came over a small bag carrying all the charades options in it. The man took a paper piece out and 'ooooh'ed at what it read, before scrunching it up and throwing it away. "Animal impressions, Elsa vs Max." he declared. In response, Kristoff grabbed a pencil and sheet as the two challengers gave each other a glare in competition.

"Alright you got this, sis, you can do it!/Go get her Max, no pressure, alright?/ You can beat her babe, don't let her push you around!" Anna, Rex and Zoe cheered their chosen champion on as Sven flipped the timer around.

"Go!" Elsa and Max exclaimed, prompting Elliot to start with a loud and perfect caw.

"A fox!" Elsa voiced out, prompting Kristoff to give her a point.

Next Elliot gave a few yips.

"A zebra!" Max exclaimed as the ice harvester gave him a point.

"OH OH OH AH AH AH!" Elliot went while scratching his hair with both hands.

"MONKEY!" they both shouted.

A throaty roar.

"A bear!" Elsa said.

A snarl.

"Leopard!" Max said.

A whinney.

"A HORSE!" Elsa.

Another roar (one very familiar)...

"TERRY!" Max.

"Augh! Augh! Augh!" Elliot went while clapping his hands like a...-

"Sealion!" they both exclaimed.

One final roar.

"DRAGON!" they yelled.

Sugi then gave another loud roar and Sven rang the bell once more, the time was up!

"Kristoff, the scores!" Elliot exclaimed as everyone huddled around him to see the results.

He gave a laugh as he said, "Well, sorry, you two...you tied!"

"Doh!" The pair and their supporters groaned as Olaf and Elliot gave a laugh. "Well, it was fun!" Max said as they all took their seats.

"Yep, very true..." Elsa agreed.

"Alright, Olaf, your turn." Kristoff said to the snowman.

"Okay," he said, swapping with Elliot as he sat between Anna and Kristoff. "So much easier now I can read..." he muttered to Sven with the basket, who nodded in agreement as the snowman took his paper and threw it away once he saw the instructions. "Lightning round, boys against girls," he declared.

"Okay, okay!/We're ready!" Elliot and Kristoff sounded "Go!". That was when Olaf began to rearrange his body into all kinds of shapes, people and creatures. Unfortunately, though, the girls were nowhere near as quick as the boys were this time.

Kristoff said, "Unicorn!"

"Ice cream!" Max suggested.

"Volcano!" Elliot proposed.

Rex "Castle!"

Kristoff shouted, "Oaken!"

"Teapot!" Rex tried to say above the noise of the others.

Elliot yelled, "Turd!"

Max tried again. "Mickey Mouse!"

For his last acts, he draped stick hair over his shoulder and walked in a familiar sway of hips and seductive eyes. "Wap-pfft! That's my wife!/Oooooh Elsaaa!/" The adults and boys went as the bell and roar went off again signalling the round's end. The boys gave a laugh as the queen stood up to take her turn and Anna gave her boyfriend and brother-in-law a scary glare.

"I don't think Olaf should get to rearrange..." she menaced them, working on Kristoff but not so well on Elliot.

"Oh, don't pout because we beat you, Anna, where's the good sportsmanship?" he said to her with a casual look as he gently pulled Elsa's plushy away - or... tried to, anyway. "Uh, hunny, it's your turn, I need to take it now!" he said to her.

"Mm-mm!" Elsa pouted, trying to give her husband the look of a broken child with round sad eyes so she could keep her new favourite toy (aside from Sir Jorganbjorgen) - all the while hiding it in her chest behind her arms.

"Elsa, you're embarrassing us here...let's help each other out, shall we?" Elliot said, taking note of all the stifling laughing from the rest of the gang looking at them. At this, Elsa reluctantly relented, handing her husband the toy. "You can have it back afterwards, I promise," he said, sitting back down with the others as Elsa took a charades option from the basket.

Before she could start acting out what the label said, however...

Ah, ah, oh oh...

"Oh - distracted! Worried?! You definitely look worried..." She thought she heard Anna's voice, right when her mind sort of shut down.

Elsa looked around her in confusion, one moment she was in the castle's living room with her friends and family, and then suddenly...she's now in a dark void, in some sort of charred-out forest. She also felt a little strange and looked over herself holding in a shocked gasp at what she was wearing. A white off-the-shoulder dress with a right knee-high slit, like on her normal ice gowns, through which she could see she was wearing light greying blue tights and long white sleeves that seem to have these strange symbols at the shoulders. Along her chest down to her waist are diamond-shaped ice crystals resembling four elements of nature, those of fire, water, wind and earth. Her cape is now split in two like fairy wings that fades to blue, and on her feet, she now wears open-toe flats. Running a hand through her hair, she is startled to see that her platinum locks are now completely loose.

"Admiring yourself, Your Majesty?" a voice spoke.

Oh...Turning around, she met with a large fireball that shrank and terraformed itself until it morphed into a very familiar acrocanthosaurus. "Pyro..." she whispered to him in distaste.

"Hello to you too..." he taunted, walking a little past her before stopping at a nearby cliff. "I would say it's nice to see you again, but it would leave a bad taste in my mouth..." He sneered as she came up to him with a glare.

"What is going on...where are we?" She growled at him, who in turn looked at her in the eye.

"You tell me..." He mentally grinned to himself as he took in the shocked look from the ice lady before him.

"What?"

"This is not my doing...there are greater forces at work than we could possibly understand," he told her. Feeling more confused than threatened, she walked up alongside him and looked down, gasping at what she saw.

A great battle at the foot of a huge dam, the armies of Arendelle, The Highfells and the D-Team on one side, and whole bunch of Alpha Droids, Gel Jarks and...goblins?!...on the other, being supported by malicious-looking dinosaurs she had never seen before.

"What is this, Pyro. What game are you playing at!?" she demanded, who in turn lit up his sail.

"You cannot stop...what is to come..." he told her as he ignited her alight.

"ELSA!"

The Queen of Arendelle snapped herself upright on the floor, taking in the sight of everyone looking at her with a look of worry in their eyes. "Are you okay, sis?" Anna asked her with said worry.

"What happened? You just...fell..." Elliot added in, who was holding her upright in his arms. Elsa took a moment to shake her head from the sudden dizziness her mind had received and sent a reassuring smile to everyone as she stood up.

"Maybe I'm just tired, it was a long day for me today...goodnight everyone," she said, taking her plushy and walking toward her room to turn in for the night.

"Maybe a goodnight sleep is what we all need now..." Elliot suggested. The D-Kids took the advice wholeheartedly, saying they were thinking of going to sleep by now themselves, and everyone filed out until it was only himself, Anna and Kristoff in the room.

"Does Elsa seem a little different to you two...?" Anna asked them.

"Now that you mention it..." Elliot said, before doing a double-take on Kristoff as he said...

"She...seems like Elsa," he said, holding his proposal ring in his hands behind Anna with a very nervous look on his face as Elliot frantically mouthed out, 'Not the time or place!'

"That last one really seemed to throw her off, what was it?" Anna asked herself, rummaging through the paper option on the floor as her boyfriend dropped down on one knee. She still didn't quite notice him behind her.

"I-I don't know, maybe...-"

"This the one she was holding," the hunter said, handing a folded piece to the redhead next to her.

"Ice? Oh, come on she couldn't act out Ice?!" she exclaimed, getting on her feet with Elliot following up. "We'd better go talk to her, Eli."

"Sure thing," he said as he began walking out of the room while patting an apologetic hand on Kristoff's shoulder as Anna gave him a quick kiss.

"Thank you, hunny, love you!" she called as they left and closed the door, leaving a depressed mountain man all alone.

"Love you too...it's fine..." he muttered to himself.

DK

Knock, knock kno-knock knock!

"Come in...!" Elsa said, as her bedroom door opened and in stepped her sister and husband with caring looks on their faces.

"Hey, you alright, luv?" Elliot asked as they walked over to her, which was when Anna took notice of something over her sister's shoulders.

"Yeah, there's something bothering you," she said.

"How can you tell?" Elsa asked as she took Elliot's hands.

"You're wearing your mother's scarf, and you and your sister only wear that when there's something troubling you, or when you're upset over something," he said to her, feeling the fabric of the article in between his fingers as Anna gave a gasp.

"You're upset?! I am so sorry, you know family games aren't for everyone!" Anna said quickly in apology as Elsa went to sit on her bed as they sat on either side of her.

"It's not the game, I-I liked how we ended off my birthday with it. It's..." she gave a sigh, not knowing how to tell her loved ones. "I don't know..." She then felt a gentle finger rubbing her cheek and grasped onto it as she turned to look at its owner in the eye.

"Elsa...you can tell us what's bothering you whenever you're comfortable...It's just us here with you..." He told her with love, placing her dear plushy on her lap, who cuddled it to her chest like a baby.

"He's right, Elsa...like he said, it's just us, and if need be, we know when to keep something you're not willing to share with the rest of our group yet..." At the words Anna said, Elsa took a moment to exchange looks between these two individuals she loved most in the entire world.

"What would I do without you two...?" Elsa whispered, bringing them in for a hug.

"You'll always have us..." they separately said, as Anna backed up on their bed and leaned back on the pillows saying, "I know what you need...come here..."

"Go on," Elliot smiled, encouraging his wife to sit with her sister. "I think your mother used to say 'cuddle close, scoot in'..." he said, as the girls snuggled up to each other, just as Anna began to break into a gentle song. "Where the North wind...meets the sea..." she started as Elliot removed Elsa's slippers and proceeded to give her a foot massage.

"There's a river..." he sang next as they took the next verse together.

"Full of memories..." they sang as the queen quickly added in, "I know what you're doing...!"

"What?" he replied with a short laugh as they continued. "Sleep, my darling, safe and sound...for in this river, all is found..." By the song's end, Anna was dead asleep - as evident by the snoring. That was when Elliot placed the sleeping princess on Sugi's back (who had been lying down in the corner of the room) so she could take her back to her room. Once Sugi gave a purr in goodnight and left, Elliot closed the door and then knelt down beside his wife, as her eyes reopened.

"Okay, Elsa, it's just us...now, what's really bothering you...?"

Next time...

Elsa: "We have to get out!"

Elliot: "I know! Hop on quick!"

Spectre: "You'll be out of the job, unless you get us back in control!"

Grand Pabbie: "We have always feared your powers combined with that of the stones the D-Team possesses would be far too much for this world, now...we must pray that one without the other will be enough."

Honeymaren: "He's a Highfell!"

Max: "Back off!"

(A fusion beam hits the wall of fog surrounding the Enchanted Forest.)

HOLY SHITE!

After a whole load of trial and error, Chapter Ten is finally finito! (Nearly 20 thousand words aren't easy to write, I tell ya!)

I apologise for A: The long wait, I was going through a combination of Christmas, New Year's Eve, revision for exams, a new job that I'm starting on Friday and just general writer's blocks so I couldn't update before now. And B: If this chapter's too long for you to read in one go, if you like, you can skim through it and just read on your favourite parts.

Now, first off, hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year!

Secondly, a few explanations for this chapter. If you figured out who the two figures were at the start of this chapter, please do not spoil it for everyone else, otherwise, I'll be so upset. Dutch and Paris have - I think - resolved their differences, Torch has finally proven himself in being a good dinosaur in the eyes of Arendelle, (in quite an amazing way, if I do say so myself...) and yes, we are beginning to enter into the depths of Frozen 2 at long last. (I'll be putting my own twist as we get to the movie's end.)

Guest: I'm glad you're loving my story, and don't you worry, I'll update more as soon as I can.

Anyway, new characters and bad guy factions to be introduced, I take Avon's personality from General Hux from the Star Wars movies, and I like the idea of a military unit going rogue for their own goals, and I pick the name Revenants because I really couldn't think of a more appropriate name.

If you guys hadn't noticed the hinting references to various movies and TV shows, I won't hold it against you.

And finally, if you're confused about some of the creatures seen in this chapter, they'll be more detail on that when the next chapter comes out, rest assured.

And I'll leave it off by saying I don't know when I'll be posting my next chapter, since I'll be busier from here on out, but I'll work as best as I can for your viewing pleasure.

See ya around and happy new year! :D