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.

11. The Enchanted Forest: Part 1

The Enchanted Forest: Part I:

"Okay Elsa, it's just us...now, what's really bothering you...?" Elliot asked, coming over to his wife and kneeling down beside her, laying a hand on her thigh as he did.

Elsa, growing very tense at the way how her husband asked his question, lowered her eyes in worry of an answer. It was caring, yet also sounding accusing - which scared her, only to realise that he was only waiting for her to say something. It was just the way he was when he was worried.

Besides, maybe he could provide some advice for the voice she was hearing...

"Will you come lie with me, Elliot?" she asked her husband, scooting over to her side of their bed and opened her arms for a hug. Elliot, taking note of her plead, crawled his way over to her, laid down beside her and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, as the woman shifted herself so she could cuddle up with him.

"What is it, luv?...What's wrong?" he asked his wife, softly and gently.

"Do you remember the time when you took Anna and myself to the song lakes in the Highfells, where the mermaids live...?" Elsa asked him, looking up into his eyes.

"Indeed I do...It was the day where I found my true family...why do you ask?" he asked back in curiosity.

Now for the big reveal. "I'm...I'm hearing this...this voice, Elliot...some sort of, angelic song-like voice..." she told him hesitantly.

"You think it could be a fallen mermaid?" he asked.

"What do you know?"

"Well..." he started off, shifting away from his wife's arms and sat cross-legged in front of her. "There's an old Norse myth that says, when a mermaid dies, her soul remains in Midgard, in the lake, river or ocean she was born. In ancient times, sailors spread tales and rumours that they heard an enchanting melody from across the sea, saying it was like an angel's call. But what made it such a far-fetched tale for schoolboys was that only one person for whatever reason, could hear these voices," he said to her.

"Only one person?" she asked in confusion to his claim. "How does that work?"

"That's the thing, milady...no one really knows if these myths are true or not, and sailors have been known for tall tales," he told her honestly. "I doubt even my grandfather knows the answer, and he's been on this earth for nearly nine hundred years now..."

"Of course, dragon life cycles are much longer compared to that of humans..." Elsa remembered from her journey to the mountains the sky titans and their subjects call home. "But are you positive he wouldn't know, even though he's older than all of us apart from Grand Pabbie?"

"Just because with age comes wisdom, Elsa, doesn't mean one can expect to possess all the world's answers..." he told her with a shrug of his shoulders. This answer caused her to look down with a downcast and defeated expression on her face. The man next to her pinched her chin in between his fingers and tilted her head to look into his eyes. "I'm sorry, but that's all I can think of...and I don't even know if it could be true or not."

Ah, ah, oh oh...

Elsa quickly snapped her head towards her window at the strange, mysterious voice that continued to plague her. Maybe Elliot's theory on the sirens could be right? But how could she know for sure? Unless...she went north, where she felt it calling to her, searching for the origin.

She quickly shook her head, wiping away the thought. How could she have such a thought when it could lead up to nothing but a fool's errand?!

Ah, ah, oh oh...

Once again her vision turned to her window, now more annoyed than curious or concerned, as obvious from the look on her face.

"Is it the voice talking to you?" Elsa's eyes widened as they snapped to her husband. How could she have so quickly forgotten that they now share a room as they have ever since before their marriage?

Growing frustrated, she laid back down on the bed, and stuffed her head under one of her pillows, hoping that the voice would leave her alone. It didn't help when she heard Elliot snickering in humour for this action.

Ah, ah, oh oh...

Her angry frustrated eyes peaked out from under her pillow as the voice sounded off again!

Why wouldn't it just go away?!

Sitting up and leaning back on the bedpost, she looked to her husband sitting in front of her with a knowing look on his face. "Why don't we go for a little walk, hun?...Maybe that might calm you down..." he suggested, rising from the bed to put his hunting boots on. Elsa nodded in agreement, raised herself up and re-equipped her slippers from when her husband took them off.

Ah, ah, oh oh...

Hand in hand they walked out the door, with Elsa leading out as her husband closed it.

Ah, ah, oh oh...

Then once more, Elsa began to fill her husband's ears in song form, looking around her sharply.

"I can hear you...but I won't. Some look for trouble...while others don't."

(Elsa lead her husband by the arm to the end of the hallway where their room sat in, where a desk and a mirror sat. She placed her hands on it and looked at her reflection, as she carried on with Elliot leaning his body on it next to her.)

"There's a thousand reasons I should go about my day, and ignore these whispers, which I wish would go away! Oh, oh, oh..."

(Turning away from the mirror, she continued back down the hall where she came, walking past their room as Elliot followed.)

Ah, ah, oh oh...

"Oh, oh..."

Ah, ah, oh oh oh...

(They start to make their way to the throne room at the other end of the hall as Elliot took a turn.)

"I know it's a voice. Not just some ringing in your ear, and I know you hear it,"

("Don't deny it!" he told her with a pointed look and finger.)

"But know that you're safe and sound, right here..."

(Soon they reached the throne room, and looked to the paintings on either side of the two thrones in front of the two, one on the right had the sisters as children standing at the legs of the late King and Queen Agnarr and Iduna, and the other on the right had the sisters as adults along with Kristoff, Sven, Olaf (who was in Elsa's arms) Elliot (who had Javelin and Trixie on his shoulders) and Sugi, with her lips slightly curled back in a snarl as everyone else had smiles on their faces. They continued to look as Elsa took her turn again.

"Everyone I've ever loved is safe inside castle walls," (As she sings, she turns to the doors leading to the balcony, singing as if she was addressing the voice directly.) "I'm sorry, secret siren, but I'm blocking out your calls!" (She begins to pace around as she continues.) "I've had two adventures, I don't need something new," (And takes her husband by the hand and pulls him towards the door as she continues.) "I'm afraid of what I'm risking if I follow you..."

(She pushes the doors open and steps out.)

"Into the unknoooooowwn!"

(She rests her hands on the stone railing, and continues.)

"Into the unknooo-oooooowwn!"

(She soon notices her beloved staring at her fondly with an adoring grin on his mug, causing her to smile in giddiness at his look as she continued, her voice echoing outwards onto the fjord.)

"Into the unkNOOOOOO-OOOO-OO-OOOOOOOOOWWN...!"

Ah, ah, oh oh!

She continued to look to the horizon, frustrated at the voice still answering her. "Still bothering you?" Elliot asked softly, his smile vanishing as he spoke.

She sighed and looked to him in response. "Yep." She then headed back inside.

Ah, ah, oh oh...

(They soon reappear by the water's edge just outside the castle walls, walking down the steps as Elliot began again.)

"What do you want? 'Cos you are keeping my wife awake, if you come and mean to harm us, you have made a big mistake..."

(Walking right to the point where the water hits land by her husband's side, Elsa looked down into her reflection as she took another go.)

"Or are you someone out there, who's a little bit like me?"

(She looks into her love's reflection with a sad, far away look on her face.)

"Always thinking deep down, I'm not where I'm meant to be...?"

(He turns to her with a questioning look, confused as to why she would even say such a thing. She turns to him, grabs his hand, and raised her other one, lightly spraying some ice around as she waved it.)

"Everyday's a little harder, as I feel my power grow,"

(As she kept singing, the small flurry that Elsa summoned began to swirl around, forming silhouettes of a forest.)

"Don't you know there's a part of me that looooongs, tooooo go-oooooo..."

(Smiling at the beautiful scenery around them and each other, they started singing in tandem as they journeyed through this magical vision (with Elliot in low harmony)...)

"Into the unknoooooowwn! (Into the unknooo-oown!)"

(They begin to dance as Elliot lead her into a twirl.)

"Into the unknooo-oooooowwn! (Into the unknooooown!)"

(Suddenly, small reindeer silhouettes stampeded past them as they chorused together.)

"Into the unkNOOOOOO-OOOO-OO-OOOOOOOOOWWN...!"

Ah, ah, oh oh!

(After the animals pass, the forms of a boy and girl suddenly come up from behind. They watched as the girl miraculously float up into the air as the boy disappeared.)

Ah, ah, oh oh!

"Whoa-oh-oh!"

(In the heat of the moment, the Snow Queen began to spread her powers into the air as Elliot watched in awe.)

"Are you out there? Do you know me? Can you feel me? Can you SHOW MEEEEEEEEE?!"

(The snow flurry and the silhouette of the girl suddenly combined, and began to dance around them, first taking the form of a small purple fire ball.)

"Ah, ah, oh oh oh!"

Ah, ah, oh oh!

"Ah, ah, oh oh!"

Ah, ah, oh oh oh!

(Elliot soon joined in as the fireball that danced around magically transformed into the familiar form of the Nokk from a few months back.)

"Ah, ah, oh oh!"

(Next came the silhouettes of giants, which judging from the forms, looked as though they were made from rocks.)

"Ah, ah, oh oh!"

(The giant's forms then shifted into what could only be described as a flurrying wind, which darted and danced around them, shocking and intriguing Elliot at the same time.)

"Ah, ah, oh oh!"

(As the wind danced and the world returned to normal, a bellowing dinosaur-like roar could be heard in the air.)

"Ah, ah, oh oh oh!"

(The current of air suddenly darted away from them, causing Elsa to go into a run as her speed slowly increased with each step, Elliot following closely behind as best he could as she continued.)

"Where are you going don't leave me alone! How do I~ follow yoooouuu-"

(Stopping just short of a massive drop, Elsa took her husband's hand in hers as she finished off the song.)

"Into the uunnk-NOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWN!"

The song finished, and that's when, popping out of nowhere, millions of ice diamond crystals formed all around the kingdom, all of which sported four different symbols.

The first to notice them other than the married pair were the Toro and Lola - who along with the rest of the dino patrol and Killer's gang - took up the duty of keeping watch in the nights in case of an emergency. "Um...I'm not going crazy here, right?" Sweet Tooth asked, hoping what they were seeing all around them were genuinely there.

"If you are, then both of us are going crazy..." Kui said in reassurance to the Mapusaurus, gazing at the diamonds around them.

"Nah, I'm pretty sure we've all gone bonkers, cos I'm seeing all of...this." Grumpy snorted out, seeing the crystals too.

"You just gestured to all of them!" Sushi and Aqua commented simultaneously.

Lola moved her face towards the closest crystal next to her, and gazed at the symbol on it. "Look at these symbols, my love..." she said breathlessly to her mate, who was also crystal gazing. "It's like nothing I've ever seen before!"

"I don't know...it's strange, I'll admit," the gruff torosaurus captain commented in a suspicious reply.

Anna, from her bedroom balcony at the castle, too noticed the strange floating objects, and after wiping the tiredness from her eyes also began gazing at them.

Back with the Queen and her husband, the pair scanned the symbols on the diamonds around them, and it was Elsa who recognised them first. "Air, fire, water, earth." She identified them, smiling in slight satisfaction at the fact that they matched with four of the D-Team's stones.

Elliot, however thought differently. "Wait a minute...don't these symbols and elements represent-?" Elliot's hypothesis was cut short as four large multicoloured crystals flashed brightly over the opening to the fjord, so brightly the pair had to snap their eyes shut for a quick moment lest they went blind. Soon after, the millions of small crystals fell to the ground like sharp raindrops.

The sound of them hitting the ground roused everyone from their sleep, and the many adults and the families came out of their homes and began to look at the diamonds lining the ground. "How're we gonna explain this?" Venom asked his boss and Yang.

"Boss?" the yangchuanosaurus asked her torvosaurus alpha, who only continued to look around him, sniffing the air for a potential threat.

Suddenly the light posts had their fire put out by an unknown force, followed closely by the lamps and candles the people were using to provide light, startling everyone, human and dino alike.

At the castle, Max, Rex and Zoe came out with their respective gear on, they were also woken up by the sight of the crystals when they appeared first, and plan to head into the courtyard to get a closer look, only when they exited the doors, they were greeted instead by the sight of the fountains suddenly stopping flowing water. "What just happened?!" Max asked in shock at what he saw.

Rex then look to see the waterfall on the nearby hill stopped chucking water down. Widening his eyes in shock, and soon after that, the air around them began to blow ragefully, and caught off guard, the three kids were nearly blown over to the ground.

The wind also found its way into the stables, and pushed a very surprised Sven out into the courtyard.

Elsa and Elliot soon found themselves in the back in the courtyard, and the wind warrior shoved his wife into cover around a corner of the castle. "Sugi!" he yelled over the wind, hoping that his sabertooth sister-in-bond was in hearing range over the wind, but to add up to his worry he got no answer. "SUUUGIII!" he yelled again, cupping his hands around his mouth as he did. Relief found him as a loud feline roar reached his ears and saw Sugi battling against the raging winds, clawing the cobblestone ground for extra grip as she tried to reach them with squinted eyes, and his weapons in her jaws. "That's it Sugi! Come to me, big girl!" he encouraged her, reaching out a hand ready to grab her. Using all the strength in her hind legs, she leapt at the human pair, reaching her rider and his mate as he grabbed her by the loose fur on her neck. "That's it, good girl," he said in relief.

Elsa was happy to see that Sugi would be alright now, but as the wind continued to rage she began to realise that this entire phenomenon was the act of greater forces. "The air rages, no fire, no water..." Elliot said with concern. Quickly, he found his previous hypothesis was correct as she finished with wide fearful eyes. "The earth is next!" She turned her scared eyes to her husband as he quickly mounted up. "We have to get out!"

"I know! Hop on, quick!" he told her, reaching out an arm and quickly pulled her aboard behind him, and Sugi charged out of the castle gates with a roar.

They had to evacuate Arendelle while everyone still had a chance!

Back in the town, The D-Kids and their dinosaurs, the dino patrol and Killer's gang were working methodically. Evacuating scared people from their homes and encouraging them to join the growing crowd that was making a mad dash for higher safer ground with Anna leading the way up - however, there were some who were having a much more troubling time than the rest. In the new house where Rosy lived, she and her mother were banging against the door, which wouldn't open with the pressure of the wind blowing against it. The reason why to evacuate for them? It was because they saw a few houses get toppled over outside, and they could feel their own beginning to give. "HELP US! PLEASE!" the mother begged anyone who could hear her as her daughter continued to scream and cry in fright. A groan and snapping wood above their heads caused the girls to snap their heads upwards in time to see a piece of the now-broken roof falling down towards them, and with a scream both held on to each other, waiting for the end.

"OH NO, YOU DON'T!" a full-sized Terry roared, rushing towards the house, and battered the falling debris away with a tail smash, grabbed both girls by the back of their clothes in his teeth and bolted out of the house before the rest of the building collapsed.

Some other people a little ways off from that situation were grouped together near the docks where the sabre-riding pair ran into them. "It's gonna be okay, everyone up to Hunter's Ridge immediately!" The soon-to-be-King of Arendelle alerted the group and began leading them up to the higher ground.

As that began to happen, the cobblestone ground under their feet began to ripple like water, and loud monster-like groans could be heard, making some of the still running people lose their footing for a quick second. Tt really didn't help with the wind still raging like a mad bull as well, especially if you were a snowman who was about to lose his head. "OH NO, I'M BEING BLOWN!" Olaf cried as he got carried away in the currents before Kristoff and Sven could do anything, however that worry was put to rest as Spiny in his natural size came running up and stabbed his claws into his head and body, stopping him dead in his tracks.

"I gotcha, bub!" he exclaimed.

"Nice catch, babe!" Tank called out, escorting an elderly pair up the hill ahead.

Up above the kingdom though, things were worse. Since there was no cover to block the worst of the currents of air, it was free to rage in full force, and letting it get strong enough to even shake about the Space Pirate's ship like a maraca, something that was putting irreversible strain on the ship's engines and stabilizers. "What is going on?! Why are we being tossed about like a rag-doll in this wind?!" Spectre raged at his crew mates, all of which including Jonathon were at several consoles trying to keep the ship from crashing.

"Because the stabilizers and anti-gravity units are receiving too much strain trying to keep this tin-can in the air! I know it's kind of a circular argument!" Foolscap replied, typing frantically into the controls of his console.

"I can't move the ship to a safer airspace or even jump to a different time zone!" Jonathon said to Spectre. "I'm afraid none of those controls are working at all!" he continued, trying to fix the malfunctioning thrusters.

"So basically the bottom line is, we're out of control!" Sheer exclaimed, holding onto her seat for dear life.

"Well, you'll be out of the job, unless you get us back in control!" the lead pirate threatened her.

Back on the ground, everyone from human children to the biggest dinosaur had managed to regroup and was now on the safest path to Elliot's hut as the winds tore off one of the kingdom's flags, blowing into the air.

(Intro theme.)

Little did the family of heroes know that the air in Colorado was no different compared to Arendelle, as evident by the presence of a Category Five twister making its way towards the town of Denver. Brontikens, who was watching from the woods a few miles away, was fascinated, and confused by this sight, as evident by the look of caution on his face, especially since the continent's tornado season had already come and gone. How did this start? Where did it come from? Why did the leaves on the trees seem dry as he ate?

It was that last one that got him the most.

"So this is where you come for your peace..." a sickly-sounding voice stated, bringing the Apatosaurus out of his thoughts. Turning his head sideways, he made eye contact with a the form of the same woman from that tavern in the Highfells all those months ago, bearing a sinning grin on her face as she walked up to stand beside him, looking over at the natural winds in the distance. "I always had a sneaking suspicion that you were always one for the beauty of his surroundings," she claimed, looking into the giant's eyes with an evil look, her raven on her shoulder cawing in agreement.

"And I have a suspicion that you know something that we don't." Brontikens accused of the witch with hostility. He did not like this woman at all. He admitted that he could be a bad piece of work, but he had limits, boundaries that he wouldn't cross. This woman wasn't like that one bit.

And there was something more...evil, to her...that he didn't trust.

She gave a dark chuckle in response to his accusation. "Brontikens, come now, don't be so hasty. There's more to this than you understand."

"Brontikens," Gigas's voice called over, and the pair looked over to see the albino T-Rex along with Maximus and Armatus coming out of the woods. "We need to talk."

"What news have you?" he inquired the trio.

"We had a look around with this freak weather over our heads, no water as far as we could see and the scouts from Pyro's pack saw the lamps in town go out like nothing," Maximus replied. Did the Apatosaurus hear right? No water in this entire valley?

"What about the lake we drink from?" he inquired the three.

"Tha' thing's just gone! We just got back from there, it's as if there was no lake to begin with." Armatus said, shocking the sauropod as Sykes came riding up upon his horse.

"The pool in the lair under my cabin's gone too," he said, but in a tone that suggested it was just a bit of old news.

"Hmm, as I expected," The witch said calmly without an ounce of surprise, confusing the dinosaurs around her as a result of her tone "This is work of greater forces, just as I was expecting," she said, looking out into the distance, just in time to see Denver brought to ruin by the tornado from earlier.

Sykes, after watching the show, dismounted his horse and walked up beside her. "Ma'am, I know how people say curiosity kills the cat...but I have to ask what this is all about..." she faced her outlaw servant and spoke a few words in answer.

"It is the past, come calling."

DK

Back in Norway, everyone from Arendelle and had arrived safely at Sabertooth's Cabin on Hunter's Ridge, and were now settling down, now that the danger had passed. "Captain Amia, did everyone...?" Elliot asked the female Guard Captain.

"Yes, everyone made it out safely thanks to the dinosaurs," she said in reply, as Terry came in with Rosy and her mother on her back.

"You two go get some rest, you're safe now," he told the pair as he lowered himself so the girls could dismount.

"Thank you, Terry," the mother replied, carrying Rosy towards the crowd once her daughter was done giving the rex a hug.

Not far away, Spectre's ship laid crash-landed on a nearby plateau higher up the mountains from the civilian's location. The ship was rocketed so badly by the earlier storm that the ship's systems couldn't take any more strain, so they had to force a landing in a way that the ship wouldn't destroy the city, it was only thanks to Max, Rex and Zoe that they found the overlooking clearing that they found not a split second too late.

And speaking of the D-Team, they were looking up at the crash site where they could see the nose of the ship overhanging the plateau, using their Dino bracers to contact the pirates. "Spectre, Jonathon, can anyone hear me? Come in over." Max spoke into his bracer, this was the third time they tried to contact the crew, but with no answers as of yet, they were starting to worry.

"Sheer, Foolscap, Gavro, please respond!" Rex said with worry etched into his voice.

"Anyone! Please!" Zoe pleaded.

"Mas****Rex******We*****er yo*****ou*****communi*****re damage****" Jonathon's garbled voice came over, filling the three kids with relief.

"Jonathon, boy are we glad to hear your voice, status update!" Rex demanded, still worried for everyone on board.

Inside the ship...

"Hold on, I'm attempting to beam the other dinosaurs to your location now, stand by," the android said, his fingers flurrying over the controls and buttons on his console.

A few moments later, a large multicoloured light appeared in front of the three, and from it came Spectre, the pirates and Guru, followed by the rest of the dinosaurs from their herd. "There you all are!" Max said in relief.

"Is everyone okay?" Rex asked them.

"We are all fine, Your Majesty, fret not, Shep got knocked in the shaking but wasn't seriously hurt." Guru said, gesturing his head over to Mia, who was grieving for her son, despite her new mate Iguano, along with Romeo and Juliet being there beside her with reassuring nuzzles and words.

"Is Mia okay? Zoe asked in concern at the grieving dinosaur as Beta walked up to them.

"When the ship was being tossed so much in the air, the pair got separated in all the constant shaking, and when she found him unconscious afterwards she feared the worst," the acrocanthosaurus said, looking over at the maiasaura mother with pity. "That little one, though, is a strong hatchling I will say now, so don't worry!" she spoke next.

Meanwhile, Kristoff and Sven were busying themselves passing out blankets and cloaks that the guards managed to recover when everyone was evacuating. "Here, take this," he said to a passing citizen, passing over the pile before turning to see Olaf...in quite a little predicament. "You doing okay, Olaf?"

Said snowman was at the moment entertaining some of the children, sitting between a boy and girl as they started sticking some of the crystals from before all around his face. "Oh yeah, sure, we're calling this 'Controlling what you can, when things feel out of control'."

On the outskirts of the crowd, and on the porch of Elliot's hut, the man in question and Elsa were at the moment trying to pacify a rather upset Anna. "Okay, so let me get this straight..." she started, directing her words at her sister first. "You've been hearing this strange voice, told Elliot about it but didn't think to tell me...?" she finished with hurt and worry in her voice, causing the elder sister to look down in guilt as Elliot laid a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"I didn't want to worry you Anna...and I only told Elliot because I thought, he could maybe shed some light or, advice on what it could be..." she replied in a mellow tone at the weak defence for her reasoning.

"We made a promise not to shut each other out..." she said, with a sad frown on her face. "Just, tell us what's going on...!" she pleaded.

"I think," Rex's voice rang out, turning the trio's attention to the D-Team walking up to them with their dinosaurs behind them. "That's...something we all need to hear," he commented, looking at her intently, but not accusingly - much to her ease.

She looked to her husband for a moment, thinking that maybe it was time to let everyone know what was really going on. "I woke up the spirits of the Enchanted Forest..." she said bluntly with a sheepish smile.

Everyone's eyes - especially Anna's - went as round and frying pans, and even Elliot took a moment to process what his wife just uttered. "Okay, that's definitely not what we thought you were going to say..." she muttered aloud.

"Hey, hold up a moment," Max said to his teammates and the royals. "Are we talking about the same forest Elliot told us about?...The one that the Nokk creature protects?" he asked.

"Yes..." she replied, looking down at her feet.

"So...it's also the one our father warned us about..." Anna realised, with her sister nodding in confirmation.

"How come you didn't say so before?" Elliot asked her.

"Because until this happened, I never truly thought about it..." she said "I've been getting this, sort of sensation...with my powers whenever I heard the voice, but up until now, I never really paid it any mind..."

"And...now that these spirits are awake?" Zoe asked next slightly confused.

"My powers are in overdrive, which only means, they are reacting to the spirits and vice versa," The queen tried to explain. "And this may sound crazy...but I believe that this voice calling me is good."

Anna could only look at her sister in a state of shock at her reasoning. "How can you say that...? Look at our kingdom, not to mention the Space Pirate's ship!" she argued, gesturing to said places as she did.

"I know, but whatever it is, my magic can feel it...I...can feel it..." the queen said, looking in between the rest of her friends and family with a look of reassurance.

Elliot placed his wife's chin in between his thumb and fingers and turned her head so she was looking at him. "If that's the case, then I'm with you, Elsa...whatever happens next, we will not leave your side," he told her genuinely.

Anna was about to add in on that statement, but before she could, all twelve of them felt the earth begin to rumble, like a small earthquake. "Ahh man, what now?" Max asked in exasperation. Rex then pointed out something rolling down the slope of a hill nearby, and heading straight towards them.

"There!" the blond commented.

"The Trolls?" Kristoff asked himself. The things rolling like massive bowling balls were indeed the moss-covered rock trolls, every last one from the Valley of the Living Rock. Before the older blond could comment further, though, one of the leading trolls unfurled, and literally jumped at him.

It was his adoptive mother Bulda. "Kristoff! I missed you!" she squealed in delight.

One of the other trolls in rolling rock form hopped and bounced onto the porch of the hut, and, defying the laws of gravity again, he bounced up onto the small table where Elliot wrote in his notebook. He got on top, and once that was done he curled, and into a very familiar elder that they all recognised.

"Pabbie!" Elsa said in recognition.

"Hey, we remember you!" Max exclaimed on behalf of the rest of his team.

"Well, never a dull moment with you lot!" The old troll said in good humour despite the situation. "Especially since Rex has finally taken his father's place as Dinosaur King."

That next sentence took Rex and his friends completely by a complete bombshell of shock. "Wait... you knew, about my role?" The Dinosaur King asked the old troll in a demanding tone - if he knew about the work of his mother and father, why didn't he say anything?!

"Yes, young one, I did," he replied calmly. "But it was not my story to tell, rather the guardians of the earth's timeline had the right," he told him, before turning to Elsa. "And now as for you my dear..." he started off. "I hope you have prepared for what you have unleashed here Elsa, angry magical spirits are not for the faint of heart," he told her, with a note of warning.

"Why are they still angry?" asked Anna in worry. "What does this have to do with Arendelle?" she asked.

"Not just Arendelle, Your Highness," another female voice from above sounded. They all quickly looked up and were all except Pabbie taken by surprise when they saw it was Utheema who slowly circled in for a landing. Upon doing so, Elliot immediately took notice of the look of a frightened soul and quickly walked up to comfort her.

"Utheema, what are you doing here? What's wrong?" he asked her, laying his hands on her nose and chin, giving her calming strokes and chin scratches.

"The same phenomenon Arendelle is experiencing...it has spread to the Northern Highfells too..." she told him gravely.

"What?!"

"Your father sent me here to warn you about it while he, your mother and brother gets everyone to safety inside the palace," she replied to him, lowering her head in sadness.

Max, with wide eyes, then had an alarming epiphany. "Hold the phone!" he said, raising his dino bracer up and inserted a command into the device, with his dinosaurs and teammates gathering around him to see what was on his mind. A moment later, the screen on the bracer came to life, but on it appeared the news station with the anchorwoman at her desk, and on the screen behind her were videos of all kinds of the same unnatural occurrences as Arendelle was experiencing.

"Reports are coming in from all over the globe with these same situations in every major and capital city on Earth, a sudden loss of fire, electricity and water, and huge gale-force winds exceeding ninety miles an hour!" she first reported, showing two images on the board behind her desk. The first was of the River Thames in London being completely empty, with the HMS Belfast slightly tilted on its side, the other image showing Val Thorens in the Alps in the middle of a huge blizzard, knocking over trees near-instantly, and even causing an avalanche that buried half the town.

"Ninety miles?!/That's mad!" Chomp and Terry exclaimed in shock.

"Take a look at the River Thames!" Paris commented in shock.

"It's been totally drained!" Ace added.

"Not to mention that avalanche in the Alps," Tank went on.

"That's not very nice of you, Mother Nature," Spiny commented.

"We have word from the ruling governments and local authorities of each city declaring an ASAP state of emergency, effective immediately. All citizens are encouraged and advised to evacuate the cities and out towards the nearest countryside," The anchorwoman said, the screen behind her shifting to that of Sanjo City, and the massive crowd of people following the police towards the forests.

"Sanjo Two?!" Tank went.

"My Mum and Dad are still there!" Zoe exclaimed in worry.

"Mine too! They could get hurt if everyone starts to stampede!" Max added in fear.

Rex then decided to take action, as a worthy king should. He looked back up at the ridge where the Space Pirate's ship crash-landed and contacted Spectre, and brought the lead pirate on the screen of his dino bracer. "Spectre, any chance that the ship can still fly?" he asked the Space Pirate leader in a rush.

"Jonathan and my team took a look, but until it gets back in shape, she's not going anywhere. The anti-gravity systems may get us in the air but not long enough to get back to Sanjo..." Spectre replied gravely, as sheer came into the screen.

"The engines on our ship have been completely burnt out. We're dead in the water until we can get them fixed even if she gets off the ground," she told them both.

"What about that restoration thing you used on Sanjo way back when?" Rex asked, hoping beyond hope for something they can use, which was when Jonathan in person walked up to them.

"No go I'm afraid, Master Rex, the restoration device onboard took the brunt of the impact when we crashed, and has been completely reduced to waste," the android told him in a tone of regret. "To forge a new one from scratch with the spare parts we have - plus to repair the rest of the ship's systems - would take the least two weeks, including our time systems and teleporter," he told them, who widened their eyes in dread of such news. They officially had no way of returning to Sanjo for the time being.

"So...not to be insulting towards our home away from home, but we're stuck here?" Max deadpanned.

"Unfortunately, yes," Jonathan said to him, before looking back at Rex and lowering his head in a bow with closed eyes. "My apologies, Master Rex, I've failed you," he told him in regret.

"Jonathan, you take that apology back! This is no one's fault - not yours, Spectre's, our fault..." he listed sternly, before pointing a finger at Arendelle's Queen. "Not even her's," he said, before calming his tone. "All I ask is that you work the best as you can to get the ship back in working order so we can go home," he asked the android.

"Yes, Your Majesty, I won't rest until then," he said, before giving another bow and began to walk back the way he came. With that now out of the way, the Dinosaur King turned back to the rest of his friends as Max stated his next opinion.

"Alright, so until the ship is back up and running, we do everything we can help out, here," he said in determination, with the rest of his team nodding in agreement. Elsa and Anna, despite the situation, couldn't help the grateful smile that smacked themselves onto their faces. Their hearts warmed at the sight of the brave D-Team for wanting to help their people again, especially since they couldn't help their own people back home. Max then turned his attention to the elder with a question. "Grand Pabbie, sir, you know a lot about magic and how it works, and from what I can tell, you also have a rough idea of what's going on. So do you have anything we can work with to help out?" he asked the troll elder.

Pabbie took a moment to gather with thought, before he and Utheema shared a glance, and then turning back to the young boy before him. "Let us see what we can see..." he said, before raising his hands in the air as Utheema flowed her own spells into her horn. The D-Team and their dinos, along with Elsa, Anna, Elliot and Kristoff, watched as a blue enchanted cloud flowed in the air before it began to show images from the past, first showing what appeared to be a large dam. "The past is...not what it seems..." he said.

The image then transitioned into two groups of people, one from each side shaking hands as if they just made peace. These blue silhouettes then turned red as the image changed into a sword and staff that began clashing with each other. "A wrong demands to be righted," Utheema identified, just as the image turned again, this time into the seven continents of the entire world. "Arendelle, along with the rest of our world, is not safe," she added in, with a new hint of raw fear in her voice.

"The truth must be found...without it..." Pabbie said, when suddenly the continents just simply poofed out of thin air, as he and Utheema both took a step back with wide, fearful eyes. "We see no future..." he finished.

"No...future." Max said to himself out loud. Everyone looked to him as he suddenly widened his eyes in horror at a certain realisation. "If we have no future...then anything that takes place in the future...everyone we know from the future..."

It was that last sentence that everyone began to catch on to what he was getting at as he continued, "The Space Pirates, Rod, Laura, Jonathan..." The brunet then looked to Rex in fear. "Rex..."

"We all would never come to exist," Rex realised as well, before the three kids looked over to their dinosaur partners. "And, without the future, my parents would not come to be as well...and without them to go back to the time of the dinosaurs..." He couldn't finish his sentence.

"We're all goners..." Terry said, with a hint of fear in his voice, the rest of his teammates sharing the same feeling. "We would be extinct, once again."

"Not to mention, all the hard work we've done would all go to waste..." Tank commented.

A grave long moment of silence stretched between them, unwillingly letting that horrid thought slip into their minds as Anna turned back to Pabbie. "There...there is a way to stop this...isn't there?" the princess asked, with a raw load of pleading in her voice, not wanting to lose all the new friends and family she had made.

"When one can see no future, all one can do, is the next, right, thing," the troll elder replied, emphasising each of the last three words specifically.

Elsa, out of all of them, took this to heart the most, holding her chin in between her right thumb and finger. She knew what she had to do.

But she would need a guide.

And there was only one person here she could trust most to do that. "The next right thing...is for Elliot to escort me to the Enchanted Forest so I can find that voice," she said, making sure to look at her husband to give him the clear sign that she was being serious in asking him to go with her.

"You know, for a moment you looked like you were going to insist on going alone..." he commented, a small relieved smile on his face which Elsa returned in kind. "Care to explain why that wasn't the case?" he asked, just as she began to list down the reasons.

"One: If I did insist on going alone, you and Sugi would trail behind me without me knowing."

"Can't deny that!" he admitted, in a tone that says 'Carry on'.

"Two: I don't trust anyone more than you to guide me there quickly."

"Fair enough."

"Three: You're my husband."

"That's a lame reason and you know it!" he joked.

"And four: I get the feeling the trip up there is not gonna be a safe one."

That was when Elliot went over to one of the open windows of his hut, climbed in, and then back out a few moments later, with a large parchment of paper in his hand. "Could you make a table?" Elsa was quick to adhere his request, and once a small ice desk had been formed, he rolled out the paper and revealed it to be a map, one that showed a massive bird's eye view of pretty much more than half of Norway, showing the locations of Arendelle, the Highfells, and a large area of land that was labled 'Uncharted'.

"In the most northerly part of the Highfells is a series of huge spacious caves that I didn't show you and Anna the first time I took you up there," he started off. "The reason being is not because of what's inside...but what kind of beings live on the other side," he continued, before reaching into his back pocket, and out of it he pulled a small notebook. He opened it up as everyone crowded around, and in it, they saw pictures of evil-looking creatures. "Before Sugi and I travelled back to Arendelle the first time, we did a little scouting to see what was beyond the Highfells borders up north...and we almost didn't make it out alive the first time."

Everyone - minus Pabbie and Utheema - couldn't stop the gasp that escaped them. "On the other side of those caverns are probably the most dangerous beings you can face. Orcs, wargs, goblins, cave trolls - creatures who want nothing more than to wipe out the line of Draco, even before the likes of the ice age, when they first evolved," he told them.

"Wait...you mean these are all beings who crave for suffering and death?" Zoe had to ask, and received a grave nod from the soon-to-be King. "Why...?"

"No one knows...but this is why I need to guide Elsa to the Enchanted Forest with only Sugi and myself. We know the safest way to get there, and the faster we move, the better," he told them.

Elsa then, though, had an idea. "King Rex," she said aloud, and the youngest blond with them and his friends turned to the Queen of Arendelle, letting her know she had their attention. "I know this visit is far more unorthodox then all those times before, but if the Alpha Gang crosses us, I know you'd be able to make sure we get to the forest safely without delay...will you join us on our quest?" she asked them, showing her D-Team badge to show that she was serious.

Max and his teammates, dinosaurs included, all turned to each other, searching each other features to see their opinion. Deep down, they all were thinking the same thing. They had to go - not just for the fate of the world, but to save the dinosaurs they'd all fought so hard to rescue up to now. A smile showed itself on the kid's faces as they turned back to her. "Queen Elsa...it would be our honour," Rex told her, with Max, Zoe and their dinosaurs nodding in firm agreement.

The queen and her husband couldn't stop the relieved, grateful smiles on their faces even if they tried. Now there was only one last thing to ask someone. "Kristoff, can we borrow your wagon? And Sven?"

Said reindeer perked up his head at the surprising request - one that Kristoff seemed highly against, by the look on his face. "I'm not very comfortable with the idea of that," he said in reply to her request.

Anna, though, had more to say to her sister. "I'm coming with you guys!" she told them sternly.

"No, Anna, you're not." Elliot started off with more bite. "Sugi and I know the safest route through those lands, and we have our powers, along with the Dinosaur King and his friends to protect us. You don't," he finished, with a stern look of finality on his face.

And the princess was not impressed. "Excuse me, I climbed the North Mountain, survived a frozen heart, saved Elsa from my ex-fiancé, helped you reunite with your birth family, and got through an evil dinosaur invasion alive, and I did it all without powers or dinosaurs of my own, so...you know I'm coming," she said to him, as Kristoff came and laid a hand on her back.

"Me too, I'll drive," he added in.

"I'll bring the snacks!" Olaf called over, causing them all to look to him running about with...some weird dress-looking thing made from all of the diamonds from earlier that evening.

"Pabbie and I will look after your people, as well as your subjects, King Rex." Utheema told the monarchs respectively.

Elliot then came laying a hand on her nose and gave one other request. "Please make sure no one goes into the kingdom until we return."

"Of course," she replied in understanding.

"I can have Guru and Beta stay here as well, along with the rest of our herd. If the Alpha Gang attacks, I know they can protect the civilians." Rex said to Elsa, who nodded her thanks.

"Let's let them know." Terry suggested before he, along with the rest of the dinos, walked off, with the D-Kids in tow.

Elsa, again at that moment, had another thought cross her mind. "You two go with them and gather everything thing we might need, we just need a moment," she told Anna and Kristoff, who gave a confused look, before leaving them to it. Once they were out of earshot, Elsa faced the old rock troll with a look of pleading.

"What is it, child?...What else troubles you?" Pabbie asked the queen. Elsa took a moment to gather her thoughts before beginning her explanation.

"Over the past several months, before the voice I'm hearing in my head came along, I've been having these...visions..." she started off, with a deeply troubled look on her face. "These visions have me in them, along with a large, fire-breathing dinosaur who works alongside the D-Team's enemies..."

"Fire-breathing, did you say...? Like a dragon?" Pabbie asked her, with surprisingly wide eyes.

"Yes but...this dinosaur I'm talking about...he's evil, more than anything I've come across, up to now...I ran into him the first time in real life when he and his pack attacked my wedding with Elliot..." It was then that Elliot realised who she was really talking about.

"You mean him...?" he asked his wife in worry. That fire-breathing maniac had been causing Elsa all kinds of trouble for all those months...what the hell?!

"You know of this creature Rainar speaks of, Caesar?" Utheema asked him, making appropriate use of their dragon names.

"You saw him too, Utheema," he replied bluntly.

Pabbie took a moment to gather his thoughts once again about these visions. If this meant what he thought it meant, the whole world could be in more trouble than he ever anticipated. "Does this fire-breather have a name, Elsa?" he asked her.

"Pyro, Pabbie. That's what King Rex and his friends call him," she replied quickly.

"And is he seemingly as evil as you say he is?" he asked again.

"Well, yes...he attempted to kill innocent people, and he held no regrets," she said sadly.

Another moment of silence as Pabbie took in the devastating revelation. "Elsa, listen to me very carefully...these visions that you and this 'Pyro' share, they are the results of a prophecy, that originates nearly two thousand years ago."

The human pair thought for a moment that they were only dreaming.

Two...thousand years?!

"What...?" Elliot couldn't help but ask.

"Let me explain," Pabbie started off. Raising his hands into the air and re-allowing the blue mist to appear, the scenes being shown this time were on the sea, seemingly like the end of a great battle between Ancient-Greek-styled ships, with all the men on one side cheering with war cries. "In the year 450 BC, within the final years of the Greco-Persian war. Sparta, Athens and all of free Greece had come together to make a final stand against Xerxes, and his Persian hordes, under the combined leadership of the Spartan Queen Gorgo, and the Athenian General Themistocles." The image within the cloud began to swirl and change into a mass of soldiers all piling on each other, swinging swords, axes, maces, spears, all kinds of weapons, all the while the figures went from blue to red. "Ten years of fighting, loss, and bloodshed, had at long last been compensated. Xerxes was destroyed, slain by Themistocles and Gorgo."

The mist swirled and transformed once more, showing the Greek leaders in blue thrusting a sword and spear directly through the god's heart who was in red. The image then showed the armies of Greece driving their Persian aggressors out to sea, never to be seen again. "All the land celebrated - joy, relief and happiness coursed throughout the Greek world like a plague. At long last, after countless years of fighting and losing loved ones, including the King of Sparta, Leonidas, Greece was no longer a constant battleground, and life was ready to turn back to normal." His expression began to grow grim. "But unknown to everyone, during the course of the war, an ancient and unparalleled evil had been hiding in the shadows, waiting, for the right moment...to strike."

The mist swirled, and its blue haze began to take an ugly blackish-green, and within it, a white figure stood, one who had a pair of devil-like horns on her head, and holding a staff in one hand. "This...witch...was nothing short of evil in its purest form. And she attacked." All around the figure, countless bodies of soldiers, women, children all piled around her. "Her black magic feasted on the screams and deaths of anyone she attacked, sapping away their souls and morphing them into her own. No exceptions...no hesitance, no mercy. All of Greece had become her bloodbath."

The more Pabbie talked, the more and more anxious and horrified the pair came...how could such an evil thing exist? The pair watched as the evil woman raised her staff, and from it, spewed a great thundering cloud of all things evil, spread across the world, and even through the Earth's timeline. Lightning toppled buildings in Old London, forest fires burned trees to ash in what was then the new world. "Because she had harvested enough from the people she killed, she began to twist her magic into a great darkness, that infected our very way of life itself...our world you see Elsa...was destined to be void of life on Earth, and then reshaped into her own image."

The pair watched with disbelieving eyes as the ghostly voice of the witch cackled in triumph and evil, refusing to acknowledge what they were seeing in front of them.

But then, two figures took the place of the witch within the cloud, one of blue, and one of red. "But then, as all hope seemed lost, two strange people approached her, ones who had the power to challenge her rule. A Maiden of Ice and a core of goodness, and a Demon of Fire with a heart of black. The pair, previously rivals to each other, came together to fight a common enemy and to undo the wrongs the witch brought to the mortal world." The mist changed once more, this time showing a battle of one against two, the mist swirled as each combatant blasted each other with blasts of ice, and red fire vs green. "The witch, caught off-guard by the power of her enemies, was quickly defeated by the maiden and demon. But her work, despite her destruction, had yet to be undone." They then watched as the pair faced each other, and then, thrusting their powers together, shot their ice and fire fusion into the cloud of darkness, evaporating it on contact. "The pair, by merging their powers together, their yin and yang, good and evil, threw their magic into the sky, finally destroying all of the witch's hard work, and restoring peace and balance to the earth...but despite what had happened, they feared the darkness's return, and so, they gave their lives to turn in their powers into the magic of nature itself." He finished, showing the pair as the mist forms of the magic warriors slowly fall to the ground, spreading the magic into the earth. "This would go on into an ancient prophecy that states to this very moment: 'When fire and ice combine, balance may be restored'...ever since that day, it was foretold that should another caster of ice and fire arise, the prophecy will repeat again...only the said pair have the power to save the world..." he finished.

Pyro and I are part of a world-saving prophecy?! The queen thought to herself. Last time she checked, the alpha acrocanthosaurus wanted to dominate the world, possibly for his own gain. "So the reason this whole time I've been seeing Pyro...was because of this?" she had to ask.

"It is, Elsa...but it could be that you have your powers for a different reason, as I wouldn't expect you to be comfortable with such a notion," he replied, before taking her smooth hands into his rock-like ones. "For now, though, you have a more urgent matter to worry about, more in the now if you will. You must find the truth of what happened in the Enchanted Forest. Otherwise, life as we know it will be over," he told her. "May luck favour you on this journey."

"Thank you...Grand Pabbie," The queen said after a moment of silence, removing her hands from his grasp, and left to join the rest of their friends and family.

Elliot was about to follow, but before he could..."Elliot!" Pabbie called for him, turning his attention back to the old troll. "Utheema and I are worried for her, and for you to an extent," he started. "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."

Elliot took a moment to take in the mage's warning, before exhaling deeply through his nose and made a determined reply: "I won't let anything happen to her."

DK

The next morning saw the departure of the D-Team and Arendelle royalty, with Elliot riding Sugi leading the way as their navigator and guide. Elsa, Anna and Olaf opted to ride in Kristoff's new wagon which was being pulled by Sven, and the D-Team riding on Chomp's back with the rest of their dinos alongside. They ran all the way towards Arendelle's borders, passing the North Mountain along the way, and crossing a small wooden bridge that served as the connecting point between the kingdom and the Highfells. The Arendelle family also had new gear for this journey, Elsa and Anna bore their new training/travel outfits.

Kristoff had gone for a new ice harvester outfit with hints of brownish-orange.

And Elliot and Sugi had gone for a completely new look. In exchange for his traditional hunting gear, Elliot now wore a thin, short sleeve shirt of leather, underneath a thick mammoth cloak of fur to protect his bare arms from the cold winds, and underneath the cloak, he sported a light pouldron of a special northern Highfell-made metal on his right shoulder. Dragon steel, the lightest and toughest armour in his homeland, able to withstand even heavy warhammer blows without even denting. While he also wore thick vambraces of fur reaching from his hand to his elbow, hidden underneath them were his set of hidden blades in case if they were needed, and on his lower half, a pair of trousers made from the thick cold-proof hide of a giant elk, and wearing a pair of leather boots to go with. Sugi, like her rider, now sported a pair of dragon steel pauldrons on both of her shoulders and also wearing a shining open-faced helm, all of which were connected by a circle sheet of the stuff around her neck like the upper half of a lion's mane, thus giving her slightly better protection in a fight, yet also allowing her to be as agile as ever.

All in all, they were making good progress along the way to the Enchanted Forest.

But the journey had one little flaw...

And that was in the form of Olaf - despite having no organic brain, he was belching out all kinds of life's weirdest facts, facts that the rest of the group didn't care to hear, or didn't want to hear in general.

"Did you know that water has memory? True fact. It's been argued by many even up to now, but it's true!"

At first, it wasn't so bad.

"Did you know that men are six times more likely to get struck by lightning?"

But then he just went on...

"Did you know that gorillas burp when they're happy?"

And on...

"Did you know we blink four million times a day?"

And on...

"Did you know that wombats poop squares?"

Many more interesting facts continued to roll out of Olaf's mouth, and by the time they reached an overlook on a valley below, it was dark. And Kristoff had a plan to shut him up, as they started to make camp for the night. "Did you know that sleeping on long journeys has been known to prevent insanity?" he asked the blabbermouth of a snowman as he started a small campfire, as Elliot and Sugi left to hunt down some dinner a while before the group stopped. Olaf, for his part, fell on his back and cackled for a few moments before making a reply.

"Yeah, that's not true."

Unfortunately for him, that smartass comeback didn't go down well with everyone else.

"Uh, yes it is." Kristoff replied in a 'Duh' tone.

"It is," Anna agreed.

"It's true!" Elsa added.

"Uh-huh!" Max went

"Definitely true!" Rex said.

"No, it's the truth." Zoe went.

"The herd and I all read the article ourselves back in Sanjo," Ace added in, with the other dinos nodding in agreement, even Spiny.

Sven too gave his own moan in agreement with them.

"Well, that was unanimous!" Olaf commented as Elliot and Sugi returned, dumping a red deer and some rabbits on the wagon, all of which were already skinned, gutted and cleaned, and ready to cook on the fire.

"To put nicely to you, Olaf, they all just used a fact of life to say 'Shut up'!" the hunter commented bluntly, chopping up one of the rabbits with his dagger and loading them up on a wooden carved grill to hang over the fire, which Kristoff could look after.

"Elliot!" Elsa scolded in exasperation.

"Don't try persuading me otherwise, honey..." he replied with a knowing smirk, hanging one of the deers over the fire via a large skewer.

"But I thought telling me to shut up was your thing," Olaf said to him.

"Well, woop-ti-do, I'm a bad influence," he said, before looking over at the dinosaurs with them. "If you guys are hungry, there's a wild herd of cattle in a clearing nearby that you can fetch dinner from. Sugi and I would've brought some back ourselves, but the load would've been too heavy for us," he said to Terry and Ace, who nodded in acceptance and thanks and thanks before wandering off, following their noses towards the herd. "As for the rest of you, you can help yourself to a bush, and we saw some nearby rapids with some fish for you, Spiny."

"Yay!" he replied, heading towards the nearby river as Chomp and Paris started sharing a large bush of berries, twigs and leaves, while Tank claimed one for herself.

Ah, ah, oh oh...

Elsa was about to bite into an apple from the wagon when the voice reached out again, but this time now that the spirits were awake, it now actually felt like her powers were responding, and directing her north. She could rest assured that they were indeed going the right way.

I hear you...and I'm coming...she thought to herself, anxious to find out what the journey would throw at them.

Zoe for her part was about to hesitantly bite into some cooked rabbit, but before she could, a loud noise started to slightly echo around. An odd, yet alarming mix of screeching and howling like a banshee. The sound also brought Max and Rex out of a rather enjoyable conversation and began to look around in alarm, as well as the plant-eater dinos feasting nearby, all of which began to glance around in the dark as well. "What's that, can everyone hear that?" Max asked.

"What kind of animal makes a racket like that?" Tank added in bewilderment.

"Well, not the type any of you are used to, yet." Elliot answered, bringing their attention over to him. "Orcs on the prowl, they're known to do most of their hunting at night like lions, albeit with much more ferocity," he told them, looking around the dark as well with a more relaxed and calm expression on his features as Sugi soon dug in herself on the deer carcass with a possessive growl. "They'll eat anything their mounts can kill, wild pigs and horses, musk ox, yaks...sometimes if they're feeling daring enough, they'll even take on a cave bear or an adolescent mammoth, and sometimes even come out on top!" he continued, but now looking down with a frown over at the fire, Elsa overheard the sadness in his voice and came over to hug him from behind.

"I know you said orcs hate dragons for some reason, Elliot. But...I get the feeling you dislike them for another reason." Rex said to him with a knowing look.

"There is one reason..." he started grimly, laying a hand on his wife's encircled arms. "Orcs and goblins, along with their warg mounts, have a sickening joy of hunting for sport...it goes against everything Sugi and I believe in as hunters," he told them with a frown, staring at the fire still with a hidden look of cold hatred.

"That sounds similar to one of our laws from back in the day," Paris commented, briefly looking up from her meal to do so. "Of how it's treason to hunt down other dinosaurs as food. Its context is different, yes, but you get my meaning..." she added in, as the hunter nodded in understanding.

"Didn't you say there was one who took joy in doing that?" Anna asked the parasaurolophus, hearing their conversation the whole time.

"Dutch said that the dinosaur that killed his mother found it fun to kill other dinosaurs." Ace's voice rang out, now approaching the camp with Terry in tow, both of which carried dead cows in their jaws, the evidence of blood clear on their muzzles. "I asked Guru if he's ever heard of him, and he replied saying that many dinosaurs took the courage to find and slay him...none ever returned," he told her grimly, laying his prize on the ground, and started using his teeth to peel away the hide of his meal, while Terry did the same. "Thankfully, Spectre said that Rexs' parents were able to find another of his kind to turn into a card, making it so that butcher is dead" he said, still eating as he did.

A little further away on an opposite cliff, two beings watched the mixed group of humans and beasts. One of the pair was around seven and a half feet tall, and had a pale skin colour riddled with battle scars with well-defined muscle, whilst also sporting a ghastly-looking blade in place for his right hand. "We have the numbers - we attack now, yes?" the smaller subordinate of the figures said, but in a language that would be unrecognisable in any human ears from the outside world.

"No!" the taller one replied with a snarl, still speaking in their native tongue. The smaller of the two looked up to his leader in disappointing confusion as he turned away. "The beasts stand guard as of now," he said, proceeding downhill away from their viewpoint, with the subordinate following shortly behind.

Deep in the woods, the pale figure came upon his hunting party. A large group of thirteen orc hunters, all wearing crude mail armour, along with mangled pelts of fur, all of which had been killed by vicious, horse-sized wargs, one of which was bore pale white fur like her rider. Upon setting their sights on him, they awaited eagerly for his command. "Send word out to the rest of the legion that the dragon son has returned," he told them, still using their native language.

"Greetings, orcs," a female voice suddenly spoke, causing all of the pack of killers to snap their attention to the trees above them. From the trees came down the Ofu and her kunoichi sisters, who gave a bow of respect towards the hunters.

One of the lesser wargs came forward snarling and gnashing its teeth in preparation to attack the strange humans, but a quick warning growl from the white one made it quickly back off. "Who are you, humans?" the pale orc demanded with a growl.

"We are only messengers, our mistress wishes to speak with you." Ofu replied. She and her sisters took a few paces back before greenish fire suddenly erupted from the ground, causing the majority of the killers to back up in surprise. Out of the flames however came the horned witch, someone that the orc leader instantly recognised. He gestured for his pack to stand down, and walked to her, slowly...

"My greetings to you...Grarzog, descendent of Azog," she spoke to him, softly as he approached her. "I hope you can forgive my intrusion, for I wish to speak with you," she continued.

The orc, Grarzog the Cruel and final spawn of Azog the Defiler, in response to her words, reached out to gently grasp her hand with his left arm and gazed at her with a look of loyalty. "The dragon son has come back to the Fells, sorceress...I require a reason as to why you have come to me," he said to her, who gave an evil smirk as she made a reply.

"Past endeavours have caught up to the present...and important work must be done if we are to see our plans through..." she started, raising her hand out of his grasp, and placed it on one of his scarred cheeks. "You will have your vengeance, and the Highfells...and the light of this world, will belong to me..." she finished, before slowly dropping her grin for a more serious look. "But if we are to do this, Caesar must be allowed to continue on this journey with his friends...the task ahead of him, determines if this world will have any future, at all..." she told him sternly. "However, you are free to test your warriors against his entourage, if you deem so..." She smirked again.

Grarzog for his part, while frustrated at not being allowed to exact his vengeance against the Son of Dragons just yet, understood the severity of the mission of his spouse - like the rest of the world, his lands fell victim to the wrath of divine spirits, cutting off his water supply for the cliffs above, and forcing his people to go into hiding. He was however satisfied that his horde was to do what they pleased with his enemy's reptilian entourage as he saw fit. After all, they were new prey for his pack, which meant new opportunities of a test of savagery and strength.

He also knew that he could trust one of his best hunters to follow their prize to their destination. Turning back to his pack, he called out a name. "BOLG!"

Immediately after roaring out this name, one of his pack members dismounted from his warg and marched up to him. Unlike Grazog, apart from his size, Bolg had both of his hands, he was blind on his left eye with a scar reaching down and across from his forehead, and whereas Grazog only had his lower half clothed with simple pelts and leather, Bolg had that, while he also bore a set of grey, ghastly spiked armoured pauldrons on both of his shoulders, and horrid looking sheets of crude metal sticking out of his chest. "I have a task for you, my son...do you still possess that taste of battle from your youth?"

Bolg gave a low growl at his father's question.

DK

After waking up the next morning, everyone took a leisurely breakfast and were back on the road again, with the dinosaurs now in their smaller forms and all riding in the wagon with their human partners. They were now skirting the hillsides of a huge dormant super volcano, which had Elliot's homeland of the Highfells inside the crater, and well under way to the caverns that would lead them to the Enchanted Forest. And as with long journeys, another conversation was already well underway, one that was about the ancient war between orcs and dragons. "Alright, so, let me get this straight..." Tank said from her place on the wagon. "These orcs hates your birth species by a huge margin because they had some divine rightful claim to the Highfells, which they rebelled to by attacking them head-on to take it for themselves, and then all but few got burnt to a crisp - that about right?" she asked Elliot, who was as always riding up front as a guide.

"Yeah, that pretty much sums it down," he said, looking in her direction as they pressed on. "Their past leader, Azog the Defiler, sought to conquer the Highfells to become feared throughout the entire world, but as he died due to dragon fire by one of my ancestors, his hordes lost their will to fight, and they ran," he explained, before reaching into a sack in the wagon, and pulling out an onion to snack on.

"Hey, you and I have known each other for quite some time now, Eli," Kristoff then suddenly spoke, urging Sven to ride along side Sugi. "But I don't get it, why not just take a whole army of warriors, lay siege to their valley, horde their treasures while leaving no survivors, you know, like in the legends?" he asked him. However, it was a question that unintentionally offended the dragon son.

"Oh! You know what..." he said in reply, before going on a rant of what could be. "Maybe I could conjure up a Category Five hurricane and throw all my enemies into a pit of sharp spears and pikes, grab a knife, cut open their bodies and let the hyenas eat their innards!" he said, adding in a menacing glare for emphasis before replacing with a calmer, knowing smirk. "Does that sound good to you?"

"Uhhh..." Kristoff trailed off, before shaking his head. "No not really, no..." he said quietly.

Feeling like coming into the conversation herself, Elsa decided to defend her husband's case. "Kristoff, you should know by now there's a lot more to dragons than people from outside the Fells would think."

"Example?" Rex asked, looking at Elliot as they did.

"Example?" he double-checked the youngest blond, who nodded in confirmation. "Okay, um..." he thought out loud as he brought the convoy to a stop and dismounted Sugi. "Dragons...are like onions!" he said with a smile, bringing the onion he was going to eat to show them.

Terry took a quick whiff of the round vegetable in the hunter's hand and immediately pulled back from how sharp the scent was against his sensitive nose, blinking for a couple of moments before. "They stink?"

"No." Elliot replied irritably.

"Well I know from experience they don't make you cry!" Paris joked with an amused mental smile and a slight giggle, and to make things worse Chomp couldn't a slight snicker.

"No!"

Spiny then went, "Oh, it's if you leave them in the sun, they go all brown and start growing little white hairs!"

This answer was met by head shakes by most of the others as Elliot went on with an annoyed exclamation. "No! Layers!", before going off into a rant, first by taking off the skin and peeling off one of the layers inside. "Onions. Have. Layers." he started, emphasising each word before gesturing to himself. "The outer scales on a dragon! is like a layer, mammoths and woolly rhinos have fur layers..." he then trailed off, before deciding to just wrap it up. "You get it! We all have layers!" he finished in frustration, dropping his snack on the wagon, before continuing on with a frustrated sigh.

"Ohhh, you all have layers, huh..." Spiny said in a tone of realisation.

"He did just say that, babe." Tank deadpanned to him as he took a sniff himself.

"I know, I'm just thinking that not everybody like onions," he replied to her, before looking away in thought for a moment.

Until he and Olaf both came up with an idea...

"CAKE!" they suddenly yelled at the top of their lungs, making everyone in the wagon jump in surprise, and even causing Sven to nearly trip. The chibi spinosaurus and snowman then jumped out of the wagon and ran up to Elliot, despite the protests of the other passengers. "Everybody loves cake, cakes have layers!" Olaf said cheerfully.

"I don't care!...what everyone likes!" Elliot exclaimed back in an annoyed tone. "Dragons...are not, like cakes!" he growled out with major emphasis before Sugi sidestepped him and carried on.

Olaf grew a sad look on his face of his shared idea being shot down before Spiny cheered him up with another idea. "You know what else everybody likes? Parfait!" he started, bringing a smile back to Olaf's face as he continued. "Ever met someone, you say 'Ey, let's get a parfait!', they say, 'ere 'No I don't like no parfait'? Parfaits are delicious, I'm told."

"NO!" Elliot snapped, his annoyance at his peak, causing the poor spinosaur to cower in fright with wide eyes. "YOU DENSE! IRRITATING, MINIATURE, SHIT-FOR-BRAINED LIZARD! DRAGONS ARE LIKE ONIONS, END OF STORY, BYE-BYE!" He said the last part with a smile and mock wave of a hand. "See you later," he hissed with a whisper and a taunting smirk, before finally carrying on properly with everyone else following in the caravan.

It wasn't until five minutes later that a new conversation started.

"Hey, Queen Elsa, may we ask you something?" Zoe asked the queen a bit hesitantly, something that was not missed on the queen and crown princess.

"Of course, what is it?" she asked the pinkette, to which Max jumped in.

"Before we left on this journey, you said that this forest was a place your father warned you about," he said, taking a pause before carrying on. "If he knew about it, then...we take it there's some kind of story behind it?"

This question caused the two sisters to look at each other with a small smile. They were asking for that story, the very same one their father told them when they were toddlers. "Why don't you tell it, Elsa? You were much better at retelling it than me." Anna asked her elder sibling, gesturing with her head towards the D-Team as she did.

Ah, ah, oh oh...

Elsa's ears turned forwards again at the sound of the song she was hearing, still maintaining the smile on her face. It was as if it was encouraging her to tell the tale itself. With this pleasant thought in mind, she turned back towards the three kids and their chibi dinos. "There is indeed a tale with it, and I think it would be best if I share it the way our father did," she said to them.

"Well, fire away when ready, Your Majesty." Rex said with a small smile himself.

She sent the younger blond an appreciative nod, before beginning..."Far away from Arendelle, as north as we can go, stands a very old and very enchanted forest," she began, immediately noticing how everyone around her had ears only for her as she continued. "But it's magic was not of goblins, lost fairies - or for the sake of it - even dragons. It was protected by the most powerful spirits of all...those of air...fire...water...and earth." The entire D-Team couldn't stop looking at each other with wide eyes even if they tried.

That was four of the elements of the stone plates they had!

"But the forest was also home to a tribe of people, known as the Northuldra," she continued.

"Did the Northuldra possess special powers like you?" Terry asked her.

"No, they didn't," she said to him. "According to what my father said, they only took advantage of the forest's gifts," she continued. "Their ways were so different compared to us, but they promised us friendship." That next sentence caused everyone around them to give a smile.

But unknowingly to them, her husband took on a frown of anger as Sugi gave a quiet growl.

"And in celebration of that friendship, and a show of good faith, our grandfather, King Runeard, built them a huge, mighty dam as a gift of peace, to strengthen their waters." Elsa continued with that same smile.

"That's a pretty big gift of peace..." Max commented.

"That's what I said!" Anna exclaimed with a slight laugh.

"Our father, Prince Agnarr at the time, was utterly excited to be in the forest with his father to celebrate...But he was not at all prepared for what the day would bring...We let down our guard...we were charmed...everything was just...magical..." she trailed off, slowly losing the smile on her face, and growing a frown in its place.

"And...?" Zoe urged.

"Something went wrong...the Northuldra attacked us...the battle was brutal, and our grandfather...was lost..." she said, taking a break before continuing. "The fighting enraged the spirits...and they turned against everyone, killing a few in the process...He heard a voice, the same one I'm hearing... and a strange primordial roar as well...and something saved my father...soon after that, the spirits vanished, and a thick mist covered the forest, locking everyone in, or out...and that night...my father came home, King of Arendelle," she finished.

All the kids and their dinos - and even Kristoff and Sven - were all awed by the story. "Wow...that's...quite a tale..." Chomp couldn't think of anything else to say.

"What a mysterious story..." Paris said breathlessly, agreeing with her boyfriend before addressing the queen. "Did your father ever find out what happened to the spirits?" she had to ask.

Only to be disappointed when Elsa shook her head. "No, he nor my mother never found out. Since the mist fell over the forest, no one has been able to get in...and no one has ever come out..." she told them with a frown.

"Add on to the fact that since that day, the forest and the spirits had been, asleep, I guess you could say." Anna added in, laying a reassuring hand on her sister's shoulder.

"Until now." Kristoff commented with a thoughtful look as Sven gave a short bellow of agreement.

"What I'm struggling to understand is why the Northuldra attacked you..." Ace went on. "From what your father told you, they wouldn't seem like the type to turn back on such a promise...what do you think could've caused that...?"

Elsa looked down and away with another frown, as she said three words that she remembered her mother telling her and Anna from when they were very young while noticing Olaf had weirdly fallen asleep, for how long, who knew? "Only Ahtohallan knows..."

'Ahto-who-what?' was the only thing the team could think.

"Say what now?" Tank bluntly asked, voicing their thoughts.

"Tank!" Paris exasperated from the tougher girl's rudeness.

"Ahtohallan," Elliot said, bringing everyone's attention over to their guide. "A legendary magical river said to hold every answer from the past," he said, pulling Sugi to ride alongside them.

That got their full attention again.

"Every piece?" Rex asked. Could a river really do that?

"Every piece..." Elsa added in, slowly bringing a smile back to her face. "When my mother was younger than you three," she gestured the three kids. "Her own mother used to sing her a song about Ahtohallan. It never failed in putting Anna and me to sleep when she herself started singing it to the pair of us," she told them softly.

"It's a lullaby..." Ace realised.

"Exactly." Anna confirmed with her own smile. "Before we get into more detail, however..." she said, before she shifted a look of confusion over to Elliot. "Eli, I know you know about our mother's song, but I have to ask...how did you know about the Enchanted Forest when you weren't there for father to share the story with you that night?" That innocent question got Elsa confused as well. How did he know about it?

That was when they all noticed the smile on the hunter's face seemed more sad than happy, and had this forlorn look in his eye. "I know about it...because I was eavesdropping that night outside your door..." he admitted, his smile turning into a more suited look of loneliness. Elsa and Anna's eyes widened in surprise, they, nor probably their parents had any idea that he was listening in on the tale so long ago. "Your mother didn't quite shut the door behind her, and it provided a little gap for me to watch in...I wanted to come in and hear it in full, but...I couldn't risk not keeping an ear out for my tormentors..." Elsa's heart began to crack and pulse once she noticed the tears pooling in her husband's eyes, and Kristoff being interested with a sinking feeling, brought the wagon and Sven to a halt again. "By the time it got up to the moment your mother started singing to you two...it..." He turned away with a shaky lower jaw.

"It...?" Zoe softly encouraged him.

He turned back to them, and with an uncontrollably shaky voice, he continued. "It made me see...how it's like being with...with a mother and father who actually love you...parents, who will protect you...parents, who accept you...no matter what..." Finishing off his tale, he brought up an arm up to hide his eyes from his friends and family and began to struggle to hold in his sobbing, years upon years of relentless pain, suffering, torment and feelings of abandonment and loneliness rising to the surface for the first time in a very long while. All of which was from his own childhood.

Everyone else, at seeing the seemingly powerful man before them break down into tears while trying to stay strong, grew hearts racked with grief and sorrow. Especially for those who knew him the longest - that being the royal sisters and Sugi, who gave a sad croon for her hunting brother. With her own tears of said grief, Elsa quickly reached out to her breaking husband, dragged him off the sabretooth's back, and pulled him in between her legs to wrap around his back along with her arms around his neck. Not for intimacy, but so she could convey a greatly-needed feeling of love through the bond they had, and banish all of the bottled up feelings of sadness and pain that was stuck in the core of his being for so long, all because of people who stole the son of another family so long ago.

Soon Anna joined in, laying herself flat on his back and wrapping her arms around his front, cuddling her head into the back of his neck, and even wrapped her mothers scarf around him for extra comfort "Their gone, Elliot, dead... they can't hurt you anymore" She said softly, hinting to his false parents.

The D-Kids and their dinosaurs really didn't know what to think - sadness of course, but they couldn't possibly know what to say. "My God..." Max offered, speaking among his teammates. "It really isn't like Elliot to just...break down like this..." he told them, who nodded in numb, silent agreement.

"And now that we have seen this side of him...I can't believe he would try to stay strong for our sake, for so long..." Chomp added, nuzzling Paris to comfort her as she too was silently crying.

That was when they heard Elsa's voice began singing in a very soft tone.

"Where the north wind...meets the sea..."

(Anna raised her head and looked into her sister's eyes, a look of silent encouragement on her features.)

"There's a river...full of memories..."

(The D-Kids looked on with a wondrous expression at the song.)

"Sleep my darling, safe and sound...for in this river, all is found..."

(The song becomes one with the long journey ahead, shown by the team of friends and family progressing on nearer to the forest with each milestone, first by trekking down a hill with the sunset on the horizon.)

"In her waters...deep and true..."

(They make a steady progression into the night.)

"Lies the answers...and a path for you...Dive down deep into her sound,"

(They spend the night around another campfire, telling jokes and embarrassing stories, making the evening a fond night of laughing to remember.)

"But not too far, or you'll be drowned..."

(The next morning, they run into Panthos, who was hunting in the woods. They told him of where they were going, and he decided to see them off safely for the rest of the trip to the caverns.)

(He leads the team on a thin bridge of stone, all the while glancing back to make sure no difficulties among the travellers.)

"Yes, she~ will sing for those who hear, and in her sound...her magic flooo-o-o-o-o-oows..."

(As the sun begins to set, they make slow progress across one of the mountainous tundras that litter the Highfell's borders.)

"But can you brave what you most fear...and can you face...what the river knows...?"

(They stop to make camp that night, after bidding a thankful farewell to the Dragon King as he flies back to look after his people. The musical key of the song changes.)

"Where the North wind...meets the sea..."

(After waking up the next morning, Elliot, unfortunately, has a bad moment of stamping out the fire with one of his boots, which gets caught alight and having him yelp about in pain. Luckily, though, Elsa brings the situation to a close, by spraying a light sheet of ice over the fire pit and boot, eliminating the remaining embers.)

"There's a mother...full of memory..."

(So they come upon the bottom of a huge mountain that seemed to reach into the clouds, with a large cave entrance a few metres in front of them - large enough to even house a seismosaurus.)

"Come my darling, homeward bound..."

(Together they follow Elliot and Sugi into the cave, which later turned out to be a huge maze of stone bridges, pathways, inclines and declines, all the while feeling a little on-edge of the drops that greet them on each path.)

"When all is lost...then all is found..."

After nearly a full hour of travelling in the same cave system, the team were still following the most experienced guide of the lot down a steady decline. The dinos were back in their cards and the kids decided to walk alongside the wagon for once to get feeling back in their young legs, with Olaf alongside them. They were unfortunate enough, though, to encounter a rather nasty stench as they pressed on.

"Phew! Sven, did you do that?!" Zoe exclaimed to the reindeer, blocking up her nose as he gave her a confused and bewildered glance.

"Buddy, you gotta warn someone before you blow one off, our mouths were open and everything!" Kristoff told his bestie, also repulsed from the smell greeting his nose, along with the royal sisters, Max and Rex.

Elliot, however, had a different train of thought. "Believe me, guys, if was Sven..." he paused with a playful grin and gestured to the reindeer. "You'd be dead!" he said, before taking a sniff alongside Sugi, who gave a slight growl to communicate with her rider. "It's brimstone." he and Sugi identified, replacing his previous look for a more thoughtful face. "We getting close to the end."

"Yeah right, brimstone..." Kristoff muttered, whipping the reins again to have Sven move on - slowly, as to not cause an accident on the way down. "Listen, Eli, I've known Sven my whole life and I can bet that smell is not brimstone, it's not coming from any stone either," he continued.

Soon, the lot of them reached the bottom of the slope, whilst noticing that the air around them had got strangely very hot. Soon after, Elliot gave an all-knowing look to his right, and the others followed suit. However, what greeted them gave them a look of utter surprise and a hint of dread and squeamishness.

Before them laid a huge bubbly lake of molten lava, around five hundred metres squared in diameter, and above it was a slim and long wooden rope bridge leading toward a rocky stack in the centre of the lake, leading out rightwards towards a bright light. The bridge, however, looked worn and old, evidence that it had to be refinished with new wood for bridge repairs, and even the newer pieces looked a bit naffed out.

The hunter pair gave a look of amusement at seeing the gobsmacked looks of fright on their teammates' faces, and decided to have a little fun. "Sure it looks scary and dangerous enough," Elliot said to them, first off. "But wait till you meet the locals on the other side!" he started laughing in good humour at his joke, and even Sugi let loose some growls indicating she was laughing too. Everyone else, however, had a seemingly mental chatter among themselves at what they were all thinking.

They did not want to go crossing that bridge.

Somehow, some way, they had to convince Elliot to lead them on a different track.

And they all agreed that Elsa should start off on their desperate mission.

Clearing her throat, the Queen of Arendelle took her cue to start as they followed her husband up to the bridge. "Um, hunny, uh heh..." she gave a nervous laugh. "Remember how you told us that, th-that dragons have layers?" she asked.

"Yeah, I do," he replied kindly, dismounting Sugi to give her back a rest and started walking beside her. Elsa then looked at Max with a pleading look.

"Well, we've got a little confession to make, um...-" They all recoiled at the site of a horridly-burned skeleton of an elk. "Dinosaurs, humans and snowmen, as you know, don't really have natural layers, we, uh, we balance our fear right there off our sleeves," she told him, with everyone else giving rapid nods in worry as they reached the bridge.

Little to say, Elliot was not convinced. "Wait a second!" he said, looking back at the lot as he did. "Dinosaurs haven't got sleeves!"

Rex decided to say his piece. "You know what he meant."

That was when the tan-brown-haired man gained an exasperated look. "Oh, you can't tell me you're all afraid of heights!" he told them, gesturing to the wide gap wildly and looking at all of them individually.

"No, we're just a little uncomfortable going across a rickety bridge over a molten lake of LAVA!" Anna shot back in one breath, looking down towards the lake from her seat on the wagon as it spat some of its contents upwards, only for it to fall back in harmlessly.

"Come on, everyone-" His voice brought back their attention over to him as the hunter managed to coax a frightful Sven forward with a carrot on to the first steps of the bridge, and into the peril. "Sugi and I are right here beside you, okay? For...emotional support," he said. "We'll just tackle this thing all together, one little baby step at a time..." he instructed, moving the wagon onto the bridge as he moved behind them, and Sugi behind him.

"Really?" Olaf asked timidly, who had moved onto Sven's back.

"Really, really." Elliot replied with a smile.

"Okay...that makes us feel so much better!" Kristoff said sarcastically. If this went wrong now...

"Just keep Sven moving," he advised. "And don't, look, down!"

Once he said that, everyone immediately snapped their heads to anywhere but below them, knowing that the worst thing that they could do right now was panic, all the while, everyone was practically hanging onto each other, lest they started to hyperventilate. What was really nerve-wracking, was the loud creaks and groans the bridge gave for every wooden step as Sven slowly moved along with the wagon attached.

CRUNCH!

Sven gave a frightened bellow as his front left hoof suddenly went through the bridge, due to one of the steps snapping in half and falling into the lake. Unfortunately, the incident caught the alarm of everyone else, evident by a certain snowman and the reindeer now doing the thing Elliot told them not to do. "Elliot, we're looking down...!" he exclaimed.

And then...

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Poor Olaf gave a scream, scrambling off Sven's back, and pushed and shoved everyone on the wagon out of his way, and stretched out over the back to get their guide's attention. "OH, WE DON'T WANNA DO THIS, JUST LET US OFF RIGHT NOW, PLEASE!" he pleaded, everyone nodding in panic in agreement.

"But you're already halfway!" Elliot shot back.

"Yes, but we know your half is safe!"

Looks like it was time for drastic measures...

"Alright, fine!" Eli was exasperated once more. "I'll just take Elsa to the Enchanted Forest myself, you lot go back!"

That started off a bit of a contest of who was going first, as all the while, arguing had been started. "Hey! No, you!/Kristoff, will you-just!/Hey, watch it!/Please! Hey...-no!/Oh, we'll have a dance then, shall we?/What - no! Eli! You need to-!"

"GUYS, MOVE IT!" Elliot yelled, unknowingly shaking the bridge from side to side, causing everyone to yelp or scream in alarm.

"AHHHH! DON'T DO THAT!" Elsa and Anna screamed at him, clinging to each other for the life of them.

'There we go...' Elliot thought in satisfaction, his plan now in motion. "Oh, I'm sorry, do what?" he said to the adult women in mock innocence, shooting a hidden wink back at Sugi who got the hidden message within. "Oh," he said, his smirk coming back. "This?" he asked them, motioning to Sugi to roughly shift her weight from side to side, swaying the bridge as a result, badly!

"Yes, that!" Anna exclaimed with a small hint of tears in her eyes, begging her brother figure to stop.

"Yes?" he replied, halting his own shifting, before turning his eyes downwards and around. "Yes, do it...Okay!" And it was back on, more aggressively than before with the hunter pair working together, causing everyone to close their eyes as Sven went into a blind gallop.

"AHHHH! HUNNY! SUGI!"

"PLEASE! STOP!/PLEASE/WE BEG, STOP IT!-!"

"You all said DO IT! WE'RE DOING IT!" Elliot yelled back at them.

"We're gonna die, oh - gosh! Guys, this is it! - we're all gonna die!" Olaf panicked.

A moment later, everyone had pretty much closed their eyes and waited for the end...

Wait...

What happened to all the swaying?

Anna and Elsa peeked their eyes open. "Wait, what?" Anna asked in bewilderment, seeing that they were back on solid rocky ground. Her voice also got everyone else's attention, and they too looked on in stagger at the rocky surface.

Elliot, now off the bridge himself with his cat behind, walked up to them and gave the sledge a firm pat. "That'll do, everyone. That'll do," he said with a victorious smirk, walking ahead up the path towards the light of day.

Tap, tap...

Elliot turned around to see Elsa behind him, having felt the taps on his shoulder.

SLAP!

And suddenly, his world shifted to the right with a terrible stinging left cheek. Yes - Elsa just gave him a bitch slap. And she'd used an ice-covered hand to boot, too.

She...

Was...

Pissed. "You idiot! You sly, childish, inconsiderate, adulterated, handsome...Grrr! Do you realise how terrified we were?!" she shrieked at her husband.

Ah, ah, oh oh...

"Go away, you annoying voice, I'm not in the damn mood!" she raved on as Elliot's grin came back for a third time, albeit with a bit of a grimace.

"Yes, I know I'm handsome," he teased, laughing at how she told the voice in her head to shut up.

She then gave a pout that could rival Anna's. "Not with your face slightly out of shape with that mark," she said, covering her hand in frost again. "Allow me to fix that..."

SLAP!

As they exited the caverns and into daylight, none of them noticed an open dinosaur card capsule, with its dinosaur card nowhere in sight.

DK

From there, everyone was now out of the caverns and more than three-quarters of the way to the Enchanted Forest. But they were now in very dangerous territory. The lands of the Northuldra people laid on the most northern-most tip of th orc lands, and along the way, Elliot told his companions that it was likely that they would encounter some berserk wildlife, along with any orcs or goblins they came across, making it far too dangerous to stop and set up camp that night. So it was a joint decision that they carried on well into the dark, with Elliot still leading the way on Sugi's back, along with having the dinosaurs out in their larger forms in case of cave trolls.

As they pressed on, Anna, who was now sitting next to Kristoff, turned her head around to see her sister, Olaf and the D-Kids fast asleep in the back. Elsa was in the middle, under their mother's scarf as a blanket, Max and Zoe snuggled up to the left side, Rex had his own spot on the right side and Olaf had his head laid on Elsa's middle section. "They're all asleep," she told Kristoff, who looked behind as well before Anna made a certain suggestion. "So...what do you wanna do?" she asked with a suggestive grin.

Kristoff gave a short laugh before addressing his bestie. "Sven, keep us steady, will ya?" he asked, receiving an acknowledging wink and nod in return.

Little did they know, Chomp and Terry were watching them with interest.

Soon, Anna closed her eyes and puckered her lips in preparation for a long kiss. "An...Na." She snapped her eyes open at her boyfriends cough. "Anna," he asked again, causing her to smack a nervous smile on her lips and nodding her head. "Remember our first trip like this, when I said you'd be crazy to marry a man you just met?"

Her blissful smile of memory lane vanished faster than the eye could see at what he said. "Wait, what? Crazy? You didn't say I was crazy, you think I'm crazy?" she asked him incredulously, with a look to match.

That wiped away his confident smile. "No. I did...-" Their guide peeked his head around slightly to see the commotion, in interest. "You were...-" And soon, Sven looked back in alarm too. "Not crazy - clearly...just...naïve." Elliot and the dinosaur brothers struggled badly to hold in their laughs as Anna scooted away from him with an unimpressed look. "Not naïve," he quickly corrected himself. "Just - uh, new to love - like, like I was, and when you're new, you're bound to get it...wrong..."

Elliot couldn't help but facepalm himself. 'Just as useless as I was...' he thought to himself.

"So you think I'm wrong for you?" Anna went, with a look of worry and hurt on her face.

Ah, ah, oh oh...

Elsa was then quickly roused from her sleep as the voice in her head sounded off, much louder than before. "Elliot, wait a moment." She called to the front, bringing the other couple's conversation to a halt.

"Let me guess, that voice you're hearing?" he asked rhetorically, with Elsa nodding rapidly as she jumped out of the wagon, with Anna quickly waking the others up. "Come over here, all of you," he told them, riding up to the top of a small ridge rise, with the sisters, Kristoff, Sven (who was detached from the wagon), Olaf and the D-Team in tow. Upon reaching the top, they were met by a very ominous sight.

"Woah..." Anna gasped.

Ahead of them by around three hundred feet, laid a giant rising wall of fog that seemed to stretch on forever. "We're here." Elliot told them with caution.

For a moment, everyone just stared ahead, before Elsa suddenly ran on down the steep slope, and toward the fog wall. Everyone gave a look to each other before giving chase. Upon approaching the wall, everyone couldn't help but stare in awe at the sheer enormity of the wall in front of them, as if the top of the mist stretched all the way up to the heavens. Feeling more curious than most, Kristoff approached the wall, wondering if he could walk through it like normal fog.

Boom...!

"Oh! - What the?" he went after being violently shoved back out. Sadly, though, this invented a fun little game for Olaf, happily running into the wall, getting thrown back out, landing on the ground whilst laughing like a madman, and then repeating.

This continued about three more times before Tank came and grabbed his body with her mouth. "As much as I enjoy seeing people having fun, that's obviously not gonna work," she deadpanned before releasing him.

"This is obvious! We just need something bigger!" Spiny exclaimed cheerily, before latching his conical teeth onto his girlfriend's club tail.

"Hey, what are you doing?" she asked her boyfriend in shock, before widening her eyes as her boyfriend glowed blue, activating Dino Swing as everyone else cleared away a few paces.

He started spinning. "Abracadabra, a wall becomes a door!" and let her fly roaring into the wall. But as expected, she was shoved back out, causing her to fly directly back at the spinosaurus. The collision of the pair ended them up in a pile as Spiny rubbed his head, as Tank whacked him on the head with her tail. "Or...our heads become lumps..." he muttered as the team - along with the sisters - came up to them in worry.

"Tank, you and Spiny okay?" Rex asked his saichania partner in concern.

"We're fine, Rex," she replied, rising back to her feet and shook herself before glaring at her mate. "My mate just learned that not every problem can be solved by breaking something," she droned.

Whilst that was going on, Ace took the liberty of walking up to the wall and assessing it. He first thought about how it was easily able to deter Tank, Kristoff and Olaf from entering the forest, and how he noticed that it seemed to bit infested with magic-looking particles. Then he looked back at his teammates with a calculating look. Maybe physical strength wasn't the answer to their predicament. He also thought back on Elsa's story about the forest, of how the mist fell and so on.

His eyes widened at an idea.

'Hold the phone...' he thought, looking at the dino bracers that Max, Rex and Zoe possessed, knowing what was inside them. "Guys," he said, gaining his team's attention. "The stones we have are of six elements, right?"

"Yeah, so?" Max asked, not sure where he was going.

"Queen Elsa," the Carnotaurus then addressed. "In your story, the spirits that live in this forest are of water, fire, wind and earth, correct?" he said.

"Yes, indeed," she replied, though just as confused as Max. "But where exactly are you go-...wait a minute..." she stopped mid-sentence as her eyes widened at what he was thinking.

And the same thought struck her husband, too. "I see where you're going..." he told him.

"Uh, someone wanna fill us in here?" Terry asked.

"Guys, think about it!" Ace implored the rest of the team. "What elements do the four spirits of the forest have that matches our stones?" he asked them all. The three kids looked to each other in confusion at first as Rex started listing them down.

First, he looked to Ace. "Air." The realisation started to creep in as he then looked to Terry. "Fire." Then Spiny, as his eyes widened. "Water." He then looked to Tank. "Earth!"

"Exactly!" Ace went on, making everyone get a rough idea of what he was getting at. "And we have two extra elements on our side, Thunder-" he gestured to Chomp. "And Plant Life." And then to Paris. "That gives the same powers as the spirits of the forest and then some - seven, if we include Elsa's ice. Think about it, the fog appeared after the spirits vanished, I'm thinking that we have the elemental-" Cue major emphasis there. "Power to get us in. My thinking is, if we use all of our elements together in the right combination of attacks, we can temporarily open up a gap in the wall long enough for us to get through," he finished, explaining his hypothesis.

"Ace...you, my friend, are a genius!" Max commented with a determined grin.

"Then let's get to work," Chomp went, scraping his feet on the ground in determination, also.

"We'll give you guys some space..." Elliot said, moving his family off to one side as the D-Team all grouped up in an attack formation.

"Here we go, guys!" Max exclaimed, taking out his selected move cards, followed by his teammates. "Take it to 'em!" he yelled as they swiped the cards.

Chomp went first as he glowed yellow. "Go, Lightning Darts!" he called, fusing his horns and the bumps on his frill with power, before throwing his head forward and fired the rapid electric projectiles.

Soon followed by Terry as he glowed red. "Volcano Burst!" he roared, allowing his eyes to catch fire, swinging his head and spewing a flow of fire along the ground.

Afterwards came Ace. "Biting Wind!" he growled, calling down a large tornado that split in two. Soon he engulfed himself in a teal-coloured fire before boomerangs of wind went flying.

Up next was Tank as she glowed violet. "Spike Arrow!" she yelled, raising her tail as letting her arrows fly rapidly.

Then Paris took her turn in a green glow. "Nature's Blessing!" she called, firing her swirling beam of power.

And then last but not least was Spiny, who glowed blue and activating a move he borrowed from Maria. "Hydro Cutter!" he roared, firing a flow of water into the ground, which then sprang up in the shape of a blade, and then sent it flying and spinning by hitting it with his head.

The six moves combined into the form of a large multicoloured beam, and slammed into the fog wall like a freight train, causing the wall within the mist to ripple like water. "Ah, my eyes!" Anna yelped, covering them up from the bright light at the source of the collision.

"It's like having a staring contest with the sun!" Kristoff added.

"Come on guys, you can do it!" Max encouraged them.

"This is a tough bastard, alright!" Terry grunted, still keeping up his attack.

The wall continued to ripple like an ocean, showing no sign of relenting, so Terry and Chomp increased the power of their attacks as they kept firing. However, the dinosaurs began to grow tired trying to keep up the constant attacks, evident by their legs beginning to shake trying to keep them up on their feet, showing their rapid decrease in their stamina. Soon after noticing that, Elsa grew a look of determination, stepping forward and readying her abilities.

Crack!

"Hey, did you hear that?!" Chomp asked his teammates.

"Look! There!" Zoe called out. The team looked into the fog wall and saw something they could hardly believe.

A small crack had formed on the hidden wall as the mist began to swirl. "It's working! Our combined power is starting to break through the wall!" Paris called out in relief.

"Just a little more, keep pushing!" Terry roared, using up another Volcano Burst.

With the sight of the crack in the wall, the dinos' determination and confidence had been renewed, now pushing harder and harder to get through the wall, and with a swirl of her hands, Elsa had joined in, allowing a wide stream of ice to fly from her fingers.

CRACK!

A much louder crack had been made, evidence enough that they were almost done.

POOOOOOOOFFFF!

And with a loud boom, the fog had finally parted.

The plan worked!

"OH YEAH!" The three kids called out in joy, and their dinosaurs gave their own roar of victory into the air. Unfortunately, once that was done, their adrenaline wore off, and the dinos collapsed to the ground. The three kids gave a smile. "Come on back you guys, you've earned it!" Rex said, before the trio returned the dinosaurs to their cards. Now that the danger had passed, the ten of them walked over to Elsa and the team and gazed at the now-parted wall. Elsa, Anna and Elliot's interest was on a segment of four large stones that stood before them, each one bearing the mark of each of the four spirits.

Feeling a sense of nervousness, Anna took hold of her sister's hand. "Promise me, we do this together okay?" she pleaded to her elder sibling with a begging look.

Elsa, taking in her sister's look, was about to reply when she felt a firm hand on her opposite shoulder and turned to see her husband giving her a look. "Don't make someone a promise...if you know you can't keep it..." he told her softly but firmly, getting his point across with him staring at her eyes intently. As much as Elsa wanted to retort, she knew that would be for the best.

Using her spare hand, she grasped onto her husband's hand. "I understand," she softly replied, matching his look, before shooting a reassuring look to a worried Anna, who gave her a grave nod in understanding. And then, as a team, they all entered the fog, into the unknown.

But as the wall closed up again behind them, they didn't see a black clawed foot that had slammed into the ground.

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Sticking tightly together, they ventured through the thin layer of cloud around them blindly. "Stay close to each other, we don't want to get separated here..." Elliot advised everyone, latching to Elsa's spare hand and Sugi's harness.

"Did you know that an enchanted forest is a place of transformation?" Olaf asked with a smile on his face. "I have no idea what that means, but I can't wait to see what it's gonna do to each one of us!"

Before anyone could comment further, they all found themselves yelping - or growling, in Sugi's case - in shock at being pushed forward by a powerful gust of wind from the fog around them, faster than their feet could actually move. This harsh shoving from Nature itself seemed continuous for a while before one final shove forced them out on the other side of the fog wall. "Whoa!/What was that?" Max and Kristoff went.

Anna, now beginning to slightly panic, went up to the wall and tried to feel around it. "No, no, no, no!" she muttered to herself as Elsa shot a spray of ice at the wall, only for Elliot to quickly pull her aside as the shot bounced right back at her, making the sisters gasp in shock at the act. "And we're locked in...should've seen that coming." Anna then said aloud.

Elliot then looked behind and took in the scenery that greeted him. "Looks like there's no going back..." he commented as his wife gave an awing gasp.

"This forest is...beautiful..." she said with a breathless smile on her face as they all now took in the sight.

As far as the eye could see, tall, pale-barked trees stretched covered the landscape before them, all of which (the number of which seemed uncountable) had their branches choked with autumn leaves.

Feeling their curiosity overpower them, they all ventured into the woods, taking in every sight before them, while unknowingly splitting up, Elsa, Elliot and Sugi went one way, sticking together, the D-Team on another, and everyone else...who knew?

What they didn't know, though, was that from the tree branches around them, the married pair were being watched by three pairs of eyes...hostile eyes. "The last time our people have ever seen one of those beasts was..." One of them trailed off, a 20-year-old male.

"I know..." his sister said. "He's a Highfell!" she told him with anger in her words, sending a hateful glare at the man, his wife and the beast alongside them, before turning to the pair "You two go on ahead and get back to camp, tell the tribe about our...guests," she told the pair, who nodded in response and stealthily climbed back down the tree and to their village.

A little ahead meanwhile, Anna found herself at the top of a cliff that seemed to look over for miles around, and there in the distance, she saw her grandfather's dam, still standing strong after so many years. Upon seeing it, she gave a gasp as Kristoff walked up behind her. "The dam...it still stands..." was the only breathless thing she could think to say. "It was in Grand Pabbie and Utheema's vision...but, why?" she asked her boyfriend, who gave a shaking head before replying.

"I don't know, but, it's still in good shape, thank goodness," he said in relief.

"What do you mean?" Anna asked, already having a sinking feeling.

That was when he gave a grave expression. "Well, if the dam were to break, it would send a tidal wave so huge it would wash away everything on this fjord," he told her.

"Everything?" she asked in sudden fear. "But...Arendelle's on this fjord!" she said in worry, looking back at the dam as she did, dreading if it were to break.

"Wh - Hey, nothing's gonna happen to Arendelle, Anna, it's gonna be fine!" Kristoff reassured her with some believing conviction. "Come here," he said, pulling Anna into a warm calming embrace, one that she returned with a sigh of comfort

"Psst...psst!" Kristoff perked his head up, and to his right, he saw a smirking Sven and Zoe making subtle 'Go on!' motions with their respective forelimbs, encouraging him to ask the big question as Max and Rex gave a thumbs up and a grin of their own.

Steeling his nerves, he started up a new conversation in order to ease into it. "You know, under different circumstances...this would be a, uh, pretty romantic place, don't you think?" he queered to Anna with an adoring smile.

However, his innocent question didn't land on Anna's ears in the right way..."Different circumstances?" she asked, breaking the hug and looking into his eyes as she did. "You mean, with someone else?"

"What? No, no..." he replied, subtly bringing out the box that had his wedding ring for his girlfriend. "I'm just saying...-" He cleared his throat. "Just in case we don't make it out of here."

Bad move! "Wait, what? You don't think we're gonna make it out of here?!" she asked in worry.

Kristoff's confidence began to drop again. "No, no - I mean, no, we will make it out," he quickly reassured her. "Well, technically, the odds are kind of complicated..." Kristoff took that moment to rethink his words, while in the background, Sven and Zoe concealed their vision with a grimace at how bad he was messing up. "But my point is...in case we die," he 'explained', preparing to get down on one knee and ready to show the ring.

Really bad move! "You think we're gonna di!?" Anna shrieked, grabbing her beloved by the front of his shirt.

"No, no no no, I mean-"

"Where's Elsa and Elliot?"

"We will die at some point"

"I shouldn't have left them alone!" At that point, worried for the life of her sister and brother-in-law, she scampered off like a rabbit!

"Not in any recent time..."

"Elsa?! Elliot?!"

"I'm saying in the far future, we will die!"

Having watched his royal girlfriend turned a corner and out of earshot, Kristoff gave a slight grunt at how badly he messed up, putting away the ring as he did, whilst the D-Kids and Sven walked up to him.

"That was just-" Max was about to start before he placed a hand over his mouth, cutting her off.

"Don't patronise me..." he deadpanned without looking at them.

Back with the happily married pair, Elsa and Elliot still continued to wander aimlessly around the environment that met them, though one more enthusiastically than the other. "Oh, come on, Elliot, you love seeing new lands!" Elsa inquired her rather dull-looking husband. "New territories to explore, new game for Sugi to catch, it's what you do!" she pointed out, holding both hands in hers with an encouraging smile and fluttering eyes.

Elliot, in response, gave a scoff of amusement, and with his own smile, he took one of his hands out of Elsa's grip and used his now-free arm to wrap around her shoulders, in a sort of side hug, and she, in turn, freed his other arm and wrapped both her limbs around him, now walking together side by side. "Look, I'll admit, okay, honey?" he started, the pair still smiling as he did. "This place is charming," he told her, laying his cheek on the top of her head. "In a mysterious, odd kind of way..." he muttered, which was responded by his wife playfully slapping him on the shoulder.

A snapping branch caught their attention before their conversation could continue.

Something...was coming.

"Guys!" They whipped their heads around to see Anna running down a slope, putting them at ease as she came up to them. "Are you two okay?!"

"We're fine!" Elsa reassured her.

"Okay, good, good," she replied, now easing from her earlier worry. But that was when she noticed something. "Wait, where're Olaf and Sugi?"

'What?!' Elliot thought as he now noticed his missing companion.

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A little while away from the rest...

The only thought going through a certain sabretooth's mind might as well be: 'How is it that we're in this forest for five minutes, and I'm now stuck with him?!'

What got her into this situation? There she was, keeping an eye on Mr Know-It-All Snowman and giving her rider and his mate some alone time, when she didn't even catch on that he was wandering off until it was too late! And now the pair were wandering aimlessly around trying to find the others. "Uh...Anna?" Olaf called out, glancing around in all directions. "Elsaaaaa!... Sven? Elliot? Samantha?"

Sugi looked to him with a humourless expression on her muzzle as she came to a stop at what he said. Now cracking up, the snowman made another comment. "I don- I don't even know a Samantha!" At that, he fell back on a pile of fallen leaves and laughed harder, making her look down with a shaking head of exasperation. But then, the mood was quickly changed as the pile suddenly swirled upwards without warning, stopping Olaf's laughs dead in his tracks as he yelped in surprise as he got twirled, momentarily detaching his head from his body.

For a moment, neither of them moved a muscle, cautious about what could happen next. But after a while of nothing happening, the snowman gave a shrug, got back to his feet and starting right back walking around again, with a now-wary sabretooth cat for company.

POOF!

Olaf stopped dead in his tracks as a thick pile of leaves slammed down on him as Sugi growled uneasily at the air. "That's normal..." he said, walking out of the pile and onwards from there, only to faceplant the ground after tripping over a rock that suddenly dropped in front of him, and then lurched back to his feet by a geyser of water that sprayed from the ground. The pair stood rigid for a moment, with Sugi's lips curled back, and gave a yelp/snarl as they saw a pile of leaves suddenly flowing around a few tree branches with a whistling sound.

They slowly began to step forward - keeping their guard up - but then turned sharply as they heard the whistle again from behind them. "What was that?" he asked with childish fear. Hearing another, more earthly sound, Olaf gave another yelp seeing a small sinkhole in their path.

"Samantha?" he called down, peering down the hole as he did. Not getting an answer, he stepped away.

...And decided to let some music do the talking.

"This will all make sense when I am older..."

(Hearing another noise the pair turned to see a small purple fireball at the top of the trees, hopping from branch to branch in time to the song.)

"Someday, I will see that this makes sense,"

(Deciding, in the end, to just go with the strange sight, he turned and started skipping away, with a still-wary Sugi walking behind him.)

"One day when I'm old and wise, I'll think back and realise, that these were all completely normal events!"

(Suddenly the small fire dashed forward from Olaf's legs, causing the snowman to squeal in fright while jumping five feet into the air as the cat gave a startled growl. This paused the song for a minute before the snowman continued cheerily, hopping on one leg.)

"I'll have all the answers when I'm older..."

(Sugi again followed him as he wandered off, but now venturing into a very dark part of the forest, including a thorny hedge of sharp thorns, painful for her (even with her thick fur), but harmless to her charge.)

"Like, why we're in this dark enchanted woo-oods,"

(Carrying on, shadows appeared on a nearby stone wall, but not in the right way they look. Olaf's shadow portrayed him as some kind of monster, while Sugi's made her seem like a small tabby house cat.)

"I know, in a couple years,"

(Their shadows went back to normal as they pressed on.)

"These will seem like childish fears, and so I know, this isn't bad, it's good!"

(They soon stopped when they saw a dozen red glowing eyes, and growling at them with bared teeth. "Excuse us," Olaf said, managing to coax a snarling Sugi away as they made their way out of the darkness.)

"Growing uuuuup means adaptiiiiiing...!"

(A boulder suddenly rolled downhill in between them, causing Sugi to jump back in surprise, but Olaf, not having even noticed, was unharmed.)

"Puzzling at your world, and your plaaaaaace...!"

(Up next, that same little ball of fire from before came up, hopping along some tall grass as if it was dancing itself.)

"When I'm more matuuuure, I'll feel totally secure-!"

(Coming up to a small pond, Sugi crouched her forelegs down, and lowered her head to quench her thirst as Olaf looked into his reflection.)

"Being watched by something with a creepy, creepy face..."

(But then, the scariest for him of all, the familiar face of the Nokk from months earlier suddenly appeared from the depths, causing them both to widen their eyes in surprise for the cat, but for Olaf...terror. A loud scream erupted from Olaf, and nearly losing his body, and took off running, as all kinds of phenomena happened all around the now-fleeing pair. Geysers erupted from the ground, rocks landed all around until a powerful gust of wind lifted them up and dumped them into a wide pit in the ground...in the shape of a giant footprint.)

"See, that will all make sense when I am older,"

(A now completely broken up Olaf continued to sing as Sugi used a combination of her paws and sabretooth jaw to piece him back together.)

"So there's no need to be terrified, or tense,"

(Having been put back together, the pair each climbed out the hole.)

"I'll just dream...about a time...when I'm in my aged prime..."

(And finally, he managed to stuff his carrot nose out on the right face of his head.)

"Cos when you're oldeeeerr, absolutely everything makes SEEEEEEEENSE!"

As the song ended, Sugi then looked on in alarm as a twister formed in front of them. "This is fine!"

And then sucked them up and moved off.

Not far away, the rest of the team managed to get back together and started their search for the missing pair, when they heard a panicked roar to their right. They turned to see the same twister that sucked the two up, as they heard a familiar laugh from within. "Olaf!/Sugi!" Anna and Elliot called out in shock at the sight, running over with the intent of helping them. But as with twisters, its course changed, and soon they along with everyone else got scooped up into the raging winds.

Inside the tornado itself, everyone was pretty much being flung about uncontrollably. "Hey guys! Meet the wind spirit!" Olaf called up cheerily.

"Whoa, watch out!/Coming through!/Max!/Zoe, I got you!" the boys and Zoe, apart from Elliot went, being flung about like crazy.

"Ohhh, I think I'm gonna be sick!" Anna yelped, one arm around her stomach and her other hand on her mouth to prevent any vomit from spilling.

"I'd hold your hair back, but I can't find my arms!" Olaf replied, now nothing more than bits and pieces with his arms on the back of his head.

Elliot and Elsa were faring about as well as everyone else, despite the husband being a dragon in his life. At one point, Elliot noticed a big lump of wood on a collision course with his wife and quickly blasted it away with a focused blast of his own wind power. But soon after doing that, it seemed that it made the Spirit of Wind angry, gathering a large pile of leaves, it started swivelling and swerving around him. "Hey! Piss off with you! Knock it off!" he shouted angrily at the irritation.

Seeing now he found a real threat, the twister suddenly dropped Elsa and her family, along with Sugi, to the ground, and flung a yelling D-Team far away in the forest. They took a moment to recollect themselves before covering, holding out an arm over their faces to protect them from the winds. That was when Elsa noticed something horrifying.

The twister that spirit formed had transformed into a ball of wind.

It was going to try and crush her beloved!

"ELLIOT!" she screamed to him with a worried roar from Sugi.

'That's enough!' Was Elliots pissed off thoughts as a scowl came across his face

"LET HIM GO!" Anna called out to the spirit as it suddenly slammed onto the ground.

Inside the now-grounded wind ball, Elliot used every fibre of his being into his power to stop the Spirit of Air from crushing him, straining and yelling in such against its strength as his hair and clothing flapped around wildly. "GyaaaaAAAAAHHHHH!" he grunted madly.

Back outside..."ELSA, GET AWAY FROM THERE!/BE CAREFUL!" Anna and Kristoff screamed at Elsa, who was pushing against the outside blasts of air to reach Elliot.

"THAT'S MY HUSBAND IN THERE!" she shrieked back.

Still using up his power and quickly losing strength, he looked up at the sound of voices. His eyes widened as he saw the silhouette of a young girl laughing gleefully whilst running about. Soon after, she disappeared he then saw the unmistakable face of Prince Agnarr, who seemed to have a face of fear. "Prince Agnarr!" a male voice called out before the face vanished into thin air.

Growing more confused by the minute, he then heard a sword being drawn to his left, and from the wind's walls, he saw a broadsword being slashed across the air as the wielder seemingly gave an angry grunt, and from there afterwards he saw the face of a man he'd never seen in his life, one that possessed a bushy moustache. "For Arendelle!" The man seemed to growl in vengeance.

Then, as the last of his strength began to ebb away, a dragon's roar sounded off in pain. He looked to see the heartbreaking sight of a dragoness's silhouette with at least a dozen spears in her chest, falling to the ground. "MOTHER!" A male dragon's voice sounded, one that sounded raw with pain and agony.

He then shifted his tearing eyes to the right at the sound of a war cry, and the silhouette of a Northuldran elder with a cruel smirk. "There is no place for you and your people here...!" he hissed, before his face got replaced by the dying face of the same dragoness from before.

"Live on...my child..." she wheezed before her eyes closed and her face vanished.

He recognised her from the portraits in his father's palace.

It was his great grandmother...the last ruling queen of his people before the Highfells were founded and christened...and he now realised that they took her from his grandfather, who by now had long lost the strength to fly to his present age.

And something very dangerous snapped inside Elliot.

With a blink, his eyes turned from his gentle but firm hazel brown to a striking goldenrod, and his pupils turned to slits. A strength he thought he would never have again began to rise to the surface...violently.

Little did he know, a wide-eyed Elsa could feel the same energy.

As the tips of his fingers turned into sharpened spear-like claws, he slowly drew in his bulging and tensing arms into an X across his chest, now letting the wind spirit do as it pleased. But it seemed to have no effect. All around him the air seemed to cry out with the voices of the past.

"Ah! AHHH!"

"FATHER!"

And then, all hell broke loose.

With a huge primordial roar erupting from Elliot's throat, his arms surged outwards in a wide arc, and from it a blast of fire speared out, torching the winds around him and disintegrating it.

The blast from the flames made a huge shockwave that torched everything around him, burning a few trees to nothing but ash and even leaving a patch of earth barren and lifeless. But what was more worrying was that his family were caught in the blast, all of which was shielded by an ice wall that Elsa forged at the last second, which had managed to stand up to the brunt of the heat. Once the danger had passed, the ice queen evaporated her wall, and the six gave a shocked gasp at the devastation around them, and soon they turned their worried attention to the source.

There stood Elliot, still rigid in the position as before, taking deep breaths of air with clenched fang-like teeth being bared. "Elliot?" Elsa warily called to him, and as fast as lightning, he was on her. He gave a savage growl as he violently shoved the love of his life against a non-burnt tree, causing her to cry in pain as she felt his still-clawed fingers pierce her skin through the material of her outfit whilst holding in her fear as she saw his other hand ready to strike and kill her.

Everyone else, including the seemingly fearless Sugi, could only watch helplessly, frozen in terror at the sight before them...this was something they had seen of him before, and it was not a fond memory.

With teeth still bared, Elliot - no...Caesar...drew his hand back and prepared to strike for the kill...but then, the violent goldenrod eyes met those of a beautiful ocean blue. And that was when his hazel brown ones started to fade back as his pupils went back to normal, and his claws retracted back into his bare fingers. With a shake of his head, the first thing he saw was the pained and fearful expression of his wife, looking slightly down he saw a terrifying sight...his fingers were coated in a thin sheet of blood.

Elsa's blood.

He had almost killed his wife.

As for Elsa herself, she wanted nothing more at that moment to reach up and kiss Elliot madly, to tell her now shaking-in-horror husband that she was okay and not hurt. "Elsa..." Elliot whispered in his horrible state of mind, before turning and gazing at the feared faces of his family, seeing the fear in all their eyes..."I..." he whimpered, shoving himself off of Elsa and backing away from his loved ones.

"Elliot..." her voice rang out softly as she came over, and placed a firm kiss on his lips, one that he returned with equal passion while now holding in pained sobs, still horrified at what he had almost done. The kiss broke after ten seconds, and the woman brought the love of her life into a calming, loving hug.

"I'm s-sorry, Elsa..." he cried, whispering his words, hiding his face into her shoulder and neck joint. "I'm so sorry...!" he whimpered.

"Shhhh..." Elsa hushed her husband gently and almost motherly, slowly moving her hand up and down the back of his head. The embrace continued for another minute, during which Elliot's cries lessened into weak hiccups before Elsa broke the hug and took her husband's face in between her hands. "I'm not hurt...I'm okay, you understand?" she told him. "No one was hurt...we're all here," she said, gesturing for their family to come forward. The first one was Anna, who immediately held her brother-in-law close, wrapping her mother's scarf around him for immediate closure, then there was Sugi, who gave a soft, gentle croon at her brother figure, licking at one of his tear-stained cheeks.

Olaf then took his turn, giving a warm hug to him around his legs, and lastly Kristoff and Sven, who gathered around to share some brotherly support in their own ways.

After a long bonding moment of the family, Elliot had taken the courage to look at his now-scarred wife, who now sported a patch of red on the front of her outfit where his claws had pierced her. "Elsa...I'm so-"

"It's not your fault, Elliot," she told him firmly, staring into his eyes with a calm but firm gaze to get her message across. "None of us knows what just happened...how you got your abilities back just now...but everything will be okay...I'm still here...we all are..." she told him.

"And...you're okay...?" he asked her hesitantly. "You're not...hurt?"

A moment of silence. "I'm okay...we're all okay," she told him, with a loving smile, before resting her forehead against his.

This gentle group embrace continued on for a few more moments before Elliot looked back at the barren area of land, and as he did, he, along with the others, took notice of all these statues made in a circle around the area, statues made of rock and streaks of liquid fire within. "Look at these...Eli, the last time you were ever able to do this was when-" Anna began to point out.

"When I had my dragon powers..." he said, cutting her off. "I know."

Kristoff and Sven then walked up to a statue of a male reindeer. "What are these?" he asked.

Elsa, Elliot, Anna and Sugi then stepped up to one looking like the Nokk. "They look like moments from the past..." she said breathlessly

Anna then had an epiphany, from something Olaf said on the journey there. "What was that thing you said, Olaf?"

"What thing...?" e murmured over by a firepit statue, before perking his head up as he realised what she just asked. "Oh! About how modern-day technology is both our saviour and our doom?"

"No, not that, the thing about...?"

"The one about cucumbers?"

"The thing about water!" she pointed out.

"Oh, yeah!" he went, before giving them all a recall about what he said. "Water has memory; the water that makes up you and me, has passed through at least four humans, and/or animals before us." At this bit of information, Sven spat out the water he was drinking from a puddle as the trio gave a slight grimace. "And remembers everything...!" he finished, adding in a bit of flare for emphasis. That was when a small flurry of flying leaves came blowing in. "Ooooooohh! The wind's back!" he laughed as the spirit span him about in the air for a spell. "Delicious, I think I'll call you 'Gale'!"

The spirit - now Gale - then moved on to Kristoff, taking one of his arms. "HAH!" he exclaimed as was yanked in a circle, and then yelped as the wind spirit went and poofed up his top! "Get outta there!" he said, straightening down his top as Gale moved on to the girls.

"Hey/Aren't you curious!" the royal sisters said, just as Gale flipped Anna cloak over her head, enticing a snigger out of the older sibling, who then found her braid being lifted across her lip, making her look like she had a moustache. "You in a better mood now?" she asked with Anna giggling at her.

Then came Elliot and Sugi, to which Gale then slowly swerved around the Highfell pair, before suddenly yanking the man's longsword out from the scabbard on his back. Well, tried to, anyway..."You're a cheeky little sod, aren't you?" Elliot muttered aloud, forcing the sword to stay in place, before Gale gave his/her/their version of a sucker punch right in his gut, causing him to recoil in shock before Gale then hit him on the back of the head, making him fall face forward into the ground.

He would've said the obscure laughter that followed from his wife was beautiful, had it not been at his expense, and it didn't help that Anna and Olaf fell to the ground laughing their arses off. Only Sugi wasn't laughing as she tried to claw and bite the Spirit of Wind as he/she/they inspected her next.

"AHEM!" Elliot spoke loudly, not at all amused from his embarrassing experience, causing everyone else to hold in their laughs as the ones on the ground got back to their feet. They then watched as Gale flew around another statue, one that had the depiction of a girl holding a boy in her arms. Upon seeing this, the sisters and Elliot walked up to the stone and magma-made figures, and upon reaching them Anna gave a small gasp.

"Father...it's Father!" she said before Elsa started inspecting the other figure.

"This girl..." she said, squinting her eyes slightly.

"She looks...rather familiar..." Elliot commented, before noticing a scarf around her neck.

"She's saving him..." Olaf said as he and everyone else watched on.

"She's Northuldra" Kristoff identified.

Elliot would've commented further, but then a strange mixture of whistling, rustling trees and a horn began to sound off all around them. "What is that?!" Anna gasped as Elliot brought out his longbow with an arrow already in place.

"Everyone, get behind me!" he instructed them, and everyone swiftly made the motion with Olaf whimpering as they did, and soon the hunter began to take a few paces back as a growling Sugi stood beside him with gnashing fangs.

Feeling the need to defend herself just in case, Anna reached for the sword of one of the statues and somehow managed to tear it off, but nearly dropped it from the heat it gave off. "What're you gonna do with that?" Kristoff asked her frantically.

"I have no idea!" she hissed back with worry.

As everyone remained tensed up, Elliot soon noticed movement behind a bush of leaves. He quickly got Sugi's attention by lightly poking the bottom point of his bow against her leg, and gestured towards it. With an acknowledging snarl, she quickly stalked her way over, and with a roar she swiped one of her massive paws against the bush, tearing it down and revealing several people and a herd of reindeer on the other side. She backed off with a predatory hiss as she saw them armed with spears and staffs, and rejoined Elliot as more suddenly dropped from the trees. "Call off your beast, Highfell!" the leader, a black-haired woman with brown eyes demanded, glaring at them with hostile intent. "And lower your weapon...!" she snarled.

Elsa looked to her husband in worry at how venomously this woman spoke, as if these people had some kind of grudge against him.

His response, however..."Yeah, I think 'No!'" he growled back with an equal glare, raising his bow and pointing the arrow directly at her, the tip of the head giving a shining glint.

BANG! BANG!

Anna quickly looked behind her and saw the last thing she expected. "How about you lower yours?!" the leader spoke.

"Arendellian soldiers?" she said, seeing the familiar form of five Arendelle guardsmen, one of which was a dark skinned man looking older than the rest, possibly in his late fourties, with greying black hair. Before she could say more, the man was poked at the shoulder by an elderly looking Northuldran woman with long, grey hair and wielding a staff in hand.

"Threatening my people, lieutenant?" she interrogated, revealing his rank but not his name.

"Invading my dance space, Yelana?" he shot back with a pointed look.

Anna then realised something about the lead guard in that moment "Why does that soldier look so familiar...?" She said to herself, but making the big mistake of waving her rock sword at him

"Lieutenant!" one of his men alerted, who quickly turned back towards the team of heroes.

"Get the sword!" he ordered, sounding off a charge to attack, and causing the Northuldran people, of which there were a dozen at least, to do the same.

"Back off!" Max's voiced shouted out from somewhere, and soon, causing them to stop dead was the striking form of Terry's fully-grown head erupting from one of the trees and giving off a loud roar. The entire congregation stood a still as statues with wide eyes at seeing such a monster before them, and soon he was joined by two more monsters sliding in from the left and right, one was purple with spiked amour around her body and a round bone club on her tail, and the other sported a large frilled head with three massive horns on it.

"Alright!" Tank roared at them all. "Everyone get in line! Right now! Move it!" she went on, swinging her tail dangerously, causing the scared-out-of-their-mind Arendellian guards and Northuldran elder to join up with the rest.

"Quickly, quickly!" Chomp added in, advancing forward and swinging his horned head around for added conviction.

Seeing the threat before them, the reindeer tried to run off, but before they could get anywhere, Ace and Paris rounded from a corner and gave their own roars to keep the animals from running off, and soon afterwards Spiny came and waved his claws around to keep them bunched up with the rest of their prisoners.

Seeing that was now done, out of the bushes Elsa's family came Max, Rex and Zoe, all of which had faces of concern. "Queen Elsa, Elliot, are you all alright?!" Zoe asked them with concern.

"Yes, of course, we're fine," she reassured them, before turning to see the people before them staring their reptilian saviours with fright as the dinosaurs made up a line behind her and the rest of the team.

"But...I think you overdid it with that dramatic entrance." Elliot commented, seeing the looks on their faces, even if he found it funny.

"Ohhh...right..." Max said, now getting his point.

"Do...not...eat us!" One of the male Northuldrans, a twenty-year-old fellow with the same coloured hair and eyes of the woman from before, spoke hesitantly, causing the rest of the sudden prisoners to look at him dumbly. "We're...not...food!" he carried on, using his hand as an eating gesture.

"Bro, what're you doing?" the black-haired woman hissed to her apparent brother, who ignored her.

"The people of the forest...are...not...your enemies...!" he said, looking at them all with fear.

For a moment, all the dinosaurs just stood there, staring blankly at him as their partners and the rest of the team looked up at them to see what reactions they would have at literally being treated like aliens. But soon relief filled them as Terry, Chomp and Tank gave loud guffaws of laughter, Paris and Spiny gave giggles at them, and even Ace couldn't stop a chuckle escaping him. "You think we can't understand English after hearing us speak..." Chomp said out of breath as they continued to laugh.

For a moment, the rest could only look to each other dumbly at how their member's weird speech was met by the laughing, of all things, from these reptilian giants. "Thanks for the embarrassment, Ryder!" the sister hissed at her flustered brother as the laughing went away.

"Here, watch this!" Spiny said to the rest, stepping forward and began to circle the group like a shark whilst starting to speak with a more dramatic tone. "We were sent by the supreme leader, to eat delicious humans!" At that moment he flicked one of their staffs with one of his claws. "And dip them, in rat's dressing..." he said with more of a growl, causing his would-be prey to shiver in fear at his apparent intent. That was when he gave a friendly shrug of the shoulders with a laugh. "Hee hee, I'm just kidding!" he told them, before quickly scratching at an itch on his neck before addressing them again. "Half of us like plants! And the half that doesn't only like meat, cheese and fish...and eggs..." he admitted, before moving back to his teammates.

With a tired sigh and facepalm, Max took a small step forward and started addressing the group himself. "Sorry about that, he's not the smartest of dinosaurs here," he said to them kindly.

"I take offence to that!" Spiny argued back.

"Just don't, pal..." Terry muttered as his human partner carried on.

"Dino-what?" Ryder's sister whispered to the elder.

"My name's Max," the brunet said, laying a hand on his chest. "This is my best friend, King Rex." The Dinosaur King gave a kind nod as Max handled his introduction. "And that's my girlfriend, Zoe." The said pinkette gave a wave and a small friendly smile. "And these guys," he then gestured to the dinosaurs. "...Are our partners," he said proudly.

Feeling a need to at least respond, the Lieutenant gave a hesitant reply. "Your, uhhh... your, partners, you say?"

"Yeah, they're our partners, our friends." Rex said next, stepping up beside Max, before looking back at the dinos. "Right, guys?" he said, getting kind nods in confirmation of his claim.

"That's right." Spiny said, before going into a long roll call, starting from his left. "To the far right of our group is Paris the Parasaurolophus, our all-in-one package of sweet-as-roses to the as-nasty-as-cacti all-round healer," he started off pleasantly for the suddenly flustered hadrosaur, who looked down in embarrassment. "Next in the row is Ace the Carnotaurus, tactical genius in the field of battle who is, technically, a genius! Hehehe!" Ace gave a slight eye roll and shaking head as he got introduced. "Next up is ma' babe, Tank the Saichania, she's just a big cuddly teddy bear!" Tank, not amused by her lack of description, gave her boyfriend a heated glare. "If big cuddly teddy bears had club tails, armoured bodies and were incredibly violent..." he admitted, before gesturing to the final two standing either side of him. "These two, are Chomp the Triceratops and Terry the Tyrannosaurus Rex, respectively." They each gave a friendly nod in greeting. "Brothers in arms, fearless leaders of the herd, silent, but deadly, heh!" He chuckled. "And I'm Spinolangelo-" They all gave him deadpanned looks as he purposely gave himself the wrong name. "-...the Spinosaurus, you tell due to my signature sail-" He pointed to the sail on his back to show his point. "I'm a triple threat, brains, brawn, and obviously a dazzling personality, please just call me Spiny!" he finished cheerily.

"Are you done?" Chomp asked the Spinosaur.

"Yep!" he replied.

"Babe, when was your name ever Spinolangelo?" Tank went next, giving him an exasperated look.

"It's a reference!" he defended himself. "Didn't you get it?"

"That's Name-playing if we ever heard of it, Spiny, not referencing..." was Ace's muttered reply.

"Dahh! You didn't get it!" he moaned back and was about to say more when a ring of ice clamped his maw shut, courtesy of Elsa, who had a finger on her lips with a pointed look. He knows the dinos didn't need to move their mouths to talk, but he must've gotten the message to shut up.

Unfortunately, her actions were observed by their 'hosts', as seen by the guard leader, who pointed a finger at her with wide eyes along with everyone else. "That was magic...did you see that?" he asked the Northuldran elder.

"Of course I saw it." Yelana replied, looking on at this wonder.

"Well, you chose a nice entry!" Anna commented sarcastically to her sister while whispering.

"Yeah, maybe..." Elsa went.

"Mmmhmm..." Rex added.

"So they've been trapped in here this whole time?" Kristoff asked in bewilderment.

"Seems so..." Zoe replied.

"What do we do now?" Max asked.

"I'll get back to you on that...?" Elliot said, more as a question to himself than an answer to their predicament.

"I got this!" Olaf's voice suddenly sounded, before squeezing out of the many legs hiding him and revealing himself for everyone to see, earning a lot of gasps from the people before them. "Hi, I'm Olaf-" He paused seeing everyone look at him, before looking at himself. "Oh sorry, yeah, I just find clothes restricting. Bet you're wondering who we are and how we came to be here, it's really quite simple," he said, taking the liberty of stepping into a wide area in between the two groups. "Spiny here will be my assistant," he added in as the spinosaurus stepped in behind him.

"Ready to do my part, 'lil guy!" he said eagerly, while still having the ring of ice on his jaws.

From there, a very long monologue of events leading up to now followed, as the pair of idiots added in dramatic flares when necessary, while also adding in some impersonations as well.

Olaf started..."It began...with an egg stolen from dragons! Born with the curse of a human form, raised by horrible people, who would torture, hurt and yell at him, his fear of his tormentors everlasting, and limitless!"

"He's a dragon?!" Ryder's sister hissed angrily, but now with a hint of fear.

Spiny continued on. "Years pass by, and he meets two sisters - one born with magical powers, one born powerless-" Anna's face went from embarrased to offeded at that "their love of snowmen, infinite."

Olaf impersonated a younger Elsa. "'Anna, no, too high!' BAM! Ooooohhh! 'MAMA, PAPA HELP!'"

"SLAM!' Doors shutting everywhere! Sisters torn apart and boy is exiled with his horrid kidnappers!" Spiny narrated.

Olaf continued along with the narration. "Well, at least they have their parents..."

"...Their parents have been fucked!" Spiny dramatically added to the narration.

Olaf again did an impersonation - though this time, it was of a younger Anna. "'Hi, I'm Anna, I'll marry a man I just met!'"

Spiny narrated again. "ELSA'S GONE DYNAMITE! Snow! Snow! SHE'S GONNA BLOW, RUN!"

Olaf impersonated an older Elsa. "Magic pulses through my snowflakes! *GASP!* I live!"

Olaf continued, "Ice palace for one! Ice palace for one! Get out, Anna! 'PEW! PEW!'"

It was now Spiny's turn to act out and impersonate an older Anna. "My heart!" He fell over on his side dramatically.

"Oh my goodness..." the lieutenant said with a hand on his heart.

Olaf impersonated Grand Pabbie next. "Only an act of true love can save you!"

Spiny now impersonated Hans. "Here's true love's first kiss...YOU'RE NOT WORTH MY TIME! PISS OFF, I'M A BAD-ASS MOTHERFUCKER!"

"What?!" The guard leader went, with wide eyes of shock.

Olaf went back to narrating. "Then Anna freezes to death...forever..." He exhaled with a puff, and standing rigidly for a moment, demonstrating Anna being turned into ice.

"Oh, Anna..." the lieutenant whimpered.

To the lieutenant's relief, though, Olaf continued in a happier tone. "But then she unfreezes and the boy comes back! Now a full-on hunter, animal whisperer and beast master!"

Spiny narrated Elliot's side of the story. "First he disses the shit out the council, then takes the love of his life to his new homeland!"

Olaf impersonated Rohanna next. "'MY BABY IS ALIVE!'"

Spiny joined in and impersonated Panthos. "'Welcome home, my son!'"

Olaf went back to the narrating. "Christmas time in Arendelle! The first one in forever!" He said the last sentence in a sing-songy tone, reminiscent of the First Time In Forever song.

Spiny continued in a dramatically dark and booming voice. "EVIL DINOSAUR ATTACK, THEY'LL DESTROY THE CITY!"

"Three kids, six giant creatures, and a huge light! They defeat the evil monsters!" Olaf continued with a more hope-filled and positive tone.

Spiny went back to a happier tone of narration-voice, as he said, "AND WE SAVE EVERYONE!"

"And soon after that, Elliot and Elsa are finally married!" Olaf added in excitedly.

Now nearing the end, they dropped the dramatics and went on to explain the last of their sketch of a tale, in one breath. "Oh, and then Elsa woke up the magical spirits while causing natural phenomenons worldwide and we were forced out of our kingdom, now our only hope is to find the truths about the past, but we don't know how to do that except Elsa's hearing voices and Elliot just got his dragon powers back five minutes ago, so we got that going for us, any questions?" Olaf asked at the very end of the tale as the pair regrouped with their friends.

Everyone before them just stared wide-eyed at them, as though they didn't catch anything they just uttered.

"I think they got it." Spiny commented before he along with the other dinosaurs got recalled to their cards.

"Whoa! What just happened?!" The brown-haired woman asked frantically, as she pointed at where the dinos stood which had turned vacant.

"It's alright, don't worry!" Zoe said as the trio showed their cards to their sights. "We just had our friends returned safely to their cards," she told them with a smile.

Seeing as how there was no more need for worry, the Arendellian guards took this to step away from their Northuldran counterparts as the leader addressed to the married pair, "Are you two really the new King and Queen of Arendelle?"

"I am." Elsa replied, before wrapping her left arm around Elliot's right bicep. "And if all goes to mind, my husband will be the King in a few months," she told him with a smile.

"Technically, I wanted to be her husband only, but I now have to deal with marrying a queen. Yay, me...!" Elliot muttered to him, causing the lieutenant to give an amused scoff at him.

The Northuldran leader, though, had a different train of thought. "Why would nature grant a child of Arendelle with magic? Let alone allow anyone to marry such dangerous beasts, like dragons?" she asked with venom, looking at her with confusion and contempt.

"That's real rich coming from you, isn't it?" Elliot hissed back, causing the rest of his party to look at him in confusion and Elsa in worry. "Your people killed one of my ancestors in cold blood when her subjects just wanted a new home!" he snarled as Sugi gave a growl in agreement.

"Look, I hate to be the one to spoil your little charade of lies," the woman from before said, stepping in front of the elder protectively and pointing her staff at him. "But you had best take your little party a hundred miles from here, before you get hurt," she told him with a dangerous warning in her words.

"Me? Please..." he replied, shoving the stick away from his face. "I just want to protect my Arendellian wife and her friends and family while we're here."

"Oh, yeah" her brother, Ryder, mock laughed, stepping forward with his own spear in hand. "Nice try, demon breath!"

"You calling me a liar?" Elliot demanded with a low hiss, grabbing the brother by the hem of his shirt with his left hand and his right raised in a fist, looking slightly down at him.

"I didn't say that!"

"You were thinking it...!" he retorted, flicking out his hidden blade from his right vambrace.

Ryder then shielded his lips from one of his hands as he whispered to his sister. "I don't like this guy, he reads minds!"

Elliot then relented his hold on the boy and retracted his blade, before addressing the woman next to him. "My birth name is Caesar of the Highfells, lady, but you can call me Elliot Takkar - or Eli, as everyone else does these days," he told her with a slightly pleasant tone of voice.

She gave her rival a still-hostile, untrustful glare as she replied with bite. "The name's Honeymaren, not lady!"

"Fine...Honeymaren..." he sneered, before backing up towards his worried wife and still-growling sabretooth partner.

Meanwhile, the guard leader looked on with a calculating look of concern for the safety of the new apparent king of his homeland and was about to step forward when he caught the eye of Anna holding her hands out in front of her as if she was looking at a portrait. "Hi. I'm sor- uhh, what's happening?"

"That's it!" Anna beamed in happiness and recognition. "Lieutenant Mattias!"

"Wait, you know this guy?" Elliot asked her in surprise as he and Elsa walked over to her with the D-Team in tow.

"Of course!" she replied. "Library, second portrait on the right, Destin Mattias was our father's official guard!" she explained with excitement.

As they all looked to the battered soldier before them, a sense of newfound respect towards him flowed inside of them as the old man gave a fond smile. "Agnarr..." he said as if remembering an old friend. His smile dropped though at a thought. "What did happen to your parents...?"

As the girl's heads went down with sadness and the D-Team offered them sympathetic looks, Elliot brought the two girls into a small group hug. "Their ship went down in the North Sea, about four years ago..." he told him with remorse.

Mattias, upon hearing what his soon-to-be-king said, closed his eyes and mourned for the loss of the young prince-turned-king he had sworn to protect. After thirty-two years of being trapped in that forest, he'd never even got the chance to say goodbye. He reopened his eyes, now gazing at the two girls with a small smile. "I see him...I see him in your faces."

"Really...?" Anna asked him with an adoring smile, to which he nodded in reply.

"His looks were not all these girls got from him, General..." Mattias took a double-take at the young man at what he just called him, and with such tenderness and respect. "My wife, Elsa-" He gestured to her. "...Got his kindness, charm and even his stern demeanour when necessary." Elliot received a loving kiss from his wife for that. "As for Anna...she got his stubbornness, I'll say."

"Hey!" Anna retorted in playful offence.

"But he also passed down his assertiveness, and his way of not giving up when the situation calls, and they both got his protectiveness..." he told him, before his smile went. "Agnarr didn't exile me because of something I did that put his people in danger. He did it to protect me...to give me a chance to live a life without scorn and mistrust..." He continued, "I promised him I would protect his daughters and come back...and I did."

As the proclaimed general took in his heartfelt words, he could clearly see that the young man before him was a being of honour and justice, key things he fiercely believed in as a soldier. And he could clearly see that Elliot looked up to the boy he protected as more than just a king...it almost seemed like how a child would look to his father...he felt his heart swell with pride as he gave the new king a smile. "From how you talked about him...it seemed as though you saw him more than just the king."

"He was...so much more than that..." he replied softly, thinking on his next words to how he always saw him. "He and his wife showed me what it was like to have a parent who cared for his child...something I wish I had the luxury of as a child myself."

Mattias took note of how his voice sank from fondness to sadness as he spoke, while Elsa wrapped a comforting hand around his own. "Elliot's childhood was not like the one Anna and I had the pleasure of having, despite our own problems...he was raised and hurt by people who stole him from his real home when he was not even born yet..." she said with sadness in her voice.

But then, Destin's small smile came back at a thought. "I can see he made a fine choice in trusting you to protect them...just as much as I can see you making a fine king for Arendelle...maybe a father yourself one day...Your Majesty," he said to him softly and comfortingly, to which he got a thankful smile in return, and the pair even went as far to giving each other a firm handshake, showing their new loyalty to their home, and each other.

Two sniffles brought them out of the moment and saw the queen and princess trying to wipe away a few tears hastily. "This...is possibly one of the most tender things I've seen..." Anna sniffled. "...In my whole life..." she spoke through her soft crying, to which Elsa nodded to as she gave her husband a firm hug - to which he returned with love. The two men looked back to each other with grins and firm nods as the new general turned to his men.

"Soldiers!" he addressed them with confidence. "We may be getting on in years, but we're still strong!" he told them firmly. "And proud to serve Arendelle!" he said to them, stepping forward with the men to form a fierce line of swords and Arendelle-crested shields against the Northuldra, who all retreated in cowardice back a few paces in nervousness, preparing for the worst.

"Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold it!" Elliot told them, stepping forward out of his wife's arms and spreading his arms out between them to stop any potential battles from happening, catching Yelana and her people off-guard to see a Highfell standing in the way. "Is that really needed?" he asked them as his wife came forward.

"Please, something has called me here...If I can just find who it is, it may be the thing we need to free this forest. Trust us, we only want to help..." Elsa pleaded to Yelana, who gave her a cruel look in return.

"We don't trust Highfell barbarians and anyone who associates with them," she replied scornfully. "We only trust nature...when nature speaks-" She was cut off as everyone gave a frightened yelp as a nearby tree suddenly burst into purple flames.

"We listen..." she finished with fear in her voice.

A quickly breathing Olaf whimpered in the tune of the song he sang earlier. "This'll all make sense when I'm older!"

"Holy cow..." Max said in feared wonder.

"The fire spirit!" someone from the crowd yelled in fright.

Before anyone could do anything, a small ball of fire began to scurry along the ground like a mouse, but leaving a trail of fire everywhere it went. "Get back, everyone!"

"Head for the river!" Mattias yelled amidst the chaos.

As everyone got clear of the fire, Elsa, being almost a complete fool, started to use her powers to combat the flames in instinct, spreading thick sheets of ice around her and trying to isolate the flame ball.

Things could only have gotten worse as the Northudra's reindeer ran off in panic, their survival instincts leading them blindly through the flames. "No, no, no, the reindeer!" Ryder yelled in panic, gaining Kristoff's attention. "It's a dead end that way!" he panicked.

"Come on, Sven!" Kristoff said to his bestie in determination, who let him climb onto his back. "We'll get them!" he called back as he and Sven galloped off after his kin.

Back near the outside flames, Elliot managed to coax Anna and Olaf onto Sugi's back. "Get them out of here, girl!" he told her, who gave a roar as she followed her master's instructions. He then turned to see a panting D-Team by an untouched tree and went to inspect them, but that was when he noticed something that widened his eyes in dread. "ELSA! GET OUT OF THERE!" he screamed at her, but his call went unheard as she continued her battle of ice vs fire. "No, no, no!" he said to himself, running into the flames to reach his wife, blasting the ground with powerful blasts of wind, hurling huge lumps of earth onto the fires that hindered his progress.

Back with Elsa, she was spraying ice faster than the human eye could see, twisting her body and throwing around her hands that seemed more and more desperate to stay alive and find the source. "ELSA!" Elliot screamed at her again as she moved on, leaving a now-coughing Elliot to deal with the thicker and hotter walls of flame.

But help was at hand. "Guys, Elliot needs us now!" Rex told his teammates.

"Call it, Rex!" Max replied as he and Zoe their respective cards.

"DINO SLASH! SHAKE 'EM UP SAICHANIA!"

"DINO SLASH! GO TRICERATOPS, ROAR!"

"DINO SLASH! GO SPINOSAURUS, AWAKEN!"

As soon as Chomp, Tank and Spiny landed on the ground, their summoners immediately gave instructions. "Chomp, start kicking dirt on the patches of fire near Elsa!" Max told his triceratops.

"Right!" Chomp nodded as he started using his horns to kick up mounds of earth towards Elsa's location.

"Tank, back up Chomp!" Rex ordered.

"I'm on it!" she called back as she started doing the same with her tail.

"You know what to do, Spiny! Go and help Elliot!" Zoe called to her spinosaurus, who roared as he charged into the fire himself.

It didn't take that long for Kristoff and Sven to find the runaway reindeer, who found themselves at a dead end as the guy from before believed. Upon reaching them, Sven raised himself on his hind legs to get their attention and released a long bellow, who all returned the gesture as a tree on fire suddenly fell to the ground. "Come on, buddy!" Kristoff got his bestie's attention. "We can do this. Yah!" he went, getting Sven back into a gallop and leading the other reindeer to the safety of the river.

Back at the heart of the heat, ash began to coat Elliot's lungs, despite once being a fire breathing titan at one point in his life. Falling to the ground, he desperately coughed to try and get some clean air in his systems, but only more and more ash entered.

Chomp, who was nearby sorting out a pile of fire, spotted the problem immediately. "ELLIOT!" he yelled, abandoning his post to save him.

His yell also got Elsa's attention, who paused her battle to see her desperate husband's predicament. Now she was fighting to reach her husband as he tried to reach her before. "Water Sword!" they heard Zoe yell out.

With a blue glow, Spiny roared and a huge liquid sword bust from his mouth, swinging it around a few times before slashing the fire viciously, evaporating the flames long enough for him to get some much-needed air back in his systems. But before Elliot could reach his loved one, Chomp came out of nowhere and used his beak to toss him onto his back. "Get him outta here!" a weary, breathless Elsa called to the Triceratops and the other D-Team members.

"No...Elsa!" Elliot coughed back as they disappeared around a bend.

Now it was just her and the fire spirit, who quickly scurried past her like a rabbit on the run, still leaving burning trails as he went. With a new determination, she gave chase, using her powers now to corral the spirit rather than chase it off. Their track took them through the woods into a small ring of teepees of wood (possibly the Northuldran village) and soon cornered the spirit in a small dead end under a rock. Elsa gave the spirit a glare and was about to attack again, but then suddenly held short.

The fireball from before was replaced by one of the smallest lizards she'd ever seen. She called off her powers and crouched down for a closer look at the tiny thing, which glared and hissed at her in warning with its back slightly still on fire. In an effort to tell the ice caster to back off, it spat a small ball of fire from its mouth and set a small tree alight, which Elsa evaporated with a spray of ice. The creature's hostile look at that moment was replaced by curiosity, cocking its head sideways, to which the woman copied. Slowly but surely, with small squeaks and chitters, it crawled out from its hole, towards the now open palm of one of Elsa's hands, touching it with one of its clawed feet.

"Oooh! Ow, ow, ow, ow!" Elsa yelped as the burning-hot creature climbed onto her ice-cold hands. Now, though it bore a cute, content and even happy smile on its face, as Elsa saw what the lizard was, it was a blue salamander with an emblem of fire on its back in purple. As it nestled into her hands, the fires on the other trees before went out, even without leaving any indication that a fire had even been there. Elsa, in a show of goodwill, sprayed a gentle flurry of snow down on the lizard, which looked up in awe at the snow around him, even making Elsa giggle as it ate one of her flakes. She then noticed the small creature looking around her and seeing something behind her.

"They're all looking at us, aren't they?" she asked the fire spirit rhetorically, only getting a small squeak in return. "Got any advice?"

It just continued to gaze at her curiously. "Nothing?" And it promptly licked one of its eyeballs. "Hmm, should I understand what that means?"

Ah, ah, oh oh oh...

Elsa quickly turned in the direction of the voice she was hearing, and in a twist, she saw the lizard in her hand looking in the same direction. "You hear it too!" she realised breathlessly. "Someone is calling us...who is it? What do we do?" she asked it softly, as the creature suddenly jumped out of her hand, back onto the ground and scurried along to the edge of a rock, looking back at her expectantly with that same smile. "Okay, we keep going north."

Upon hearing her answer, the spirit scuttled away eagerly. But before Elsa could follow, a sharp whistling filled her ears, and she turned to see Elliot marching towards her with a face of pent-up fear and fury. "Elsa, you and I need to have a little chat!" he told her in a firm, angry tone.

But she thought to herself, 'Like he's one to talk!' "Yes, we do!" she replied back with equal bite, catching him off-guard. "Elliot, what were you thinking?! You could've been killed! You can't just follow me into fire like that!" she said to him.

But Elliot now became more angry than concerned. "Don't, you, fucking turn this on me, Elsa!" he snarled back viciously, before angry putting one of his fingers and thumbs close together. "Do you have any idea in that turd-sized mind of yours, what kind of stunt you just pulled?!"

Caught completely and utterly off-guard by such a response, Elsa's face turned to that of cold rage in how he just addressed her. "Ha! I'm sorry, but I think you were in more danger than me just there, Elliot!" she argued back, whilst secretly trying to hide the hurt from him implying that she wasn't smart. "Last I checked, I'm the one with powers capable of putting out fires, you, on the other hand-!"

"That damn ego of yours is what's gonna get you killed if you see yourself invincible to being burnt to a fucking crisp!" he shouted back at her, placing a firm hand on her shoulder, angering her even more. 'Ego?! It wasn't ego! I was actually trying to extinguish the fire so that my friends and family wouldn't be hurt!' she thought in a desperate and sad mind frame. "Having your abilities means nothing if you don't know how to deal with a forest fire like that!" he continued.

Now more angry at her husband more than she'd ever been in her life, she violently tore herself out of his grip, forgetting for a moment what emotional lines she could cross, as she was also still hurt by his insults. "Look here, homeless man! I don't know who you think you are, but how dare you talk to me like that?!" she raged, jabbing her fingers at his chest for every word, not realising what buttons she just pushed.

But he knew what she meant, not homeless in the way someone doesn't have a place to stay, but in the way that would refer to the ones he lived with, the ones that hurt and tormented him day in day out, and his tolerance of her snapped at that insult. "I fucking dare, because I lived my whole life up to this point, learning how to hunt, how to survive in the most unliveable of climates, all the while putting up with the horros and pains, of predator attacks, days that I'd go without even the taste of water and having to put up with the beatings from my tormentors, but you-" He pointed at her. "On the other hand, you spent your life locked away in a big, fancy palace afraid of yourself, and what you can do!"

And that was when he went too far, demonstrated by Elsa marching towards him with the likely intent to kill. "I could have seriously hurt people back then! I didn't know how to properly control my powers back then! And you have NO IDEA what it was like to be scared of yourself like that! I ENDED UP FREEZING ANNA, FOR GOD'S SAKE! I can show you what it takes to bloody well survive! You motherfu-!"

"You do not want to go there with me woman! I can snap your neck faster than you can-!"

"ENOUGH! BOTH OF YOU!" If it wasn't Anna's shrilling scream that stopped their fighting dead, it was the savage roar that erupted from Sugi's throat that sent chills of fear down even Elliot's spine. There they saw her staring at them with a face full of tears of rage, sadness and fear at the sight before her. "What is the matter with you two?! Can't you see the both you nearly died just now?!" She first turned her anger on the wind warrior. "Elliot, you can't just go saying stuff like that, you know the kind of life Elsa and I had growing up! Granted, it wasn't as bad as yours, but I didn't have my sister for thirteen years of our lives, because she was, as you - and Elsa herself - said, scared of what she can do!" Then she turned her anger gun on her sister. "Elsa! If you don't want people following you into fire, then don't run into fire! You're not as experienced as Elliot is when it comes to things like that, and more to it, how can you even be okay with calling Elliot homeless with the childhood he had to endure?!" She then addressed both of them. "Why are you two even fighting like this?! Throwing all these insults and gestures around in such a way?! Let alone sounding like you were willing to kill each other! Just...why?!" At that point, she began to cry, her anger giving way to sadness at seeing two of the people she loved attack each other so brutally.

As for the pair, they looked at each other again, but this time with eyes and faces showing utter shame, guilt and sadness as they now realised what was said to each other. A moment passed before they broke eye contact, now too afraid to face each other with the fear of provoking the anger of the other lover in their relationship.

Soon, the feeling of shame was something they couldn't take anymore, both for what they said to each other and for making Anna cry. Stepping up to Anna, Elsa gently cradled her sister's face in her hands and used her thumbs to wipe away her tears. "I'm sorry you had to see it...are you okay...?" she said to her sister softly.

"I've been better..." she whimpered in a soft reply, looking into her eyes. She was still worried about angering Elsa with her reply in case another argument arose somehow from it.

Feeling the need to contribute, Elliot reached into the bag that Anna was carrying, pulling out a very familiar scarf. "I know what you need..." he told the pair softly, holding it out for her to take. But to his and Elsa's surprise, when she took it, she instead wrapped it around him and his wife's shoulders.

"Not as much as you two..." she said with a small smile.

The married pair looked at each other in the eyes, and as they did, they saw no signs of their previous anger, only the signs of wanting to make up and move on. Hesitantly, Elliot took his lover's chin in between his thumb and fingers and tilted her face upwards. He saw her eyes allowed a small tear to escape them before they closed, and Elliot placed his lips gently on hers.

As soon as their kiss engaged, Elsa gave a deep shaky gasp out of her nose as she deepened the kiss, placing her hands on his face and holding it tightly with more tears escaping her, while likewise, Elliot immediately wrapped his arms around her torso and squeezed, both participants desperate to give and receive the same amount of comfort and forgiveness from each other. Their kiss carried on for three minutes before they had to break for some air, where they finally reopened their eyes. "I'm sorry Elsa...I was just scared for your life again...and I stepped out of line."

Elsa went and gave her husband a hug, resting her head on his shoulder as she gave a wobbly reply. "I'm sorry, too...I won't run into danger like that again..." She felt Elliot place a small kiss on her forehead. "We can put this behind us..." She looked up to look her husband in the eye again with a look of hopeful pleading. "Right...?"

He gave a small reply himself. "Count on it..." And a small encouraging smile split his face. "And hey...when this all blows over, we can invade my brother's mountain and bribe him to give us a romantic flight!" he suggested, getting a tearful laugh in reply as he hoped, before bringing her back into his arms. "You know I love you, Els...right...?" He rocked her gently.

"Not as much as I, you..." she whispered with a happy and relieved smile before they engaged in another kiss, this one full of happiness and joy at still having the other's love for each other despite their terrible fight. Breaking their kiss, they looked to a smiling Anna and Sugi, and Elliot opened his arm out.

"Come 'ere," he told her as Elsa reached an arm out herself to Anna, who gave a joyous skip as she wrapped her arms around the married pair lovingly, forming a group hug as Sugi came and gave gentle licks to Elsa and her rider's cheeks.

Soon the embrace broke, the fight from before completely left in the past for good - hopefully - and they turned to see, surprisingly, a bunch of wide eyes from the Northuldran people. "Where did you get that scarf?" Yelana asked, more in wonder and amazement than hostility.

"They had it their whole lives...why?" Elliot answered truthfully with a question at the end as Ryder and Honeymaren came up to them this time with amazed smiles, rather than the hostile glares from before.

"T-That's a Northuldra scarf!" Ryder said in awe, pointing to it as he did.

"What...?!" Anna exclaimed breathlessly, looking down at it in shock.

"This is from one of our oldest families...!" Honeymaren explained with a smile.

"It was our mother's..." Anna said, looking back between Elsa and Elliot who had looks of thought for a moment.

And that was when a staggering realisation hit him like a ton of bricks. "That means...!" Elsa gave a gasp at the same conclusion, and then all three of them - with Sugi running behind - quickly doubled back towards the statue of young Agnarr and the girl. Once they reached her, they saw on her back the detail and marks of a familiar scarf. "I knew it...!" Elliot gasped breathlessly. "Girls!"

"We see it...It's Mother!" Elsa replied, stroking at one of her stone cheeks whilst avoiding the streaks of magma that lined it.

"Mother saved Father's life that day...!" Anna went on in awe, before they all took account of all their friends along with the Northuldrian people and Mattias and his men forming a wide circle around them.

The two girls stepped forward, grasping each other's hands as Elsa spoke loudly and proudly. "Our mother was Northuldra!"

Everyone gave a quiet gasp in amazement - some, though, in disbelief. "Yelana," Elliot got the still-distrustful elder's attention, who faced him with a wary look as he walked up to her. "Earlier you asked us, 'Why would nature gift someone from Arendelle with powers?'...I think you have all the answers you need now," he told her, gesturing back at the statue and his wife as he did. "Iduna, a young girl of your people, saved a young Prince of Arendelle when he was gravely injured, who would later become the King...and even with the outcome of never seeing her family again, she left to live with him. Married him, and became his Queen." At this, he took out his longsword and gazed down at it, making the elder on edge again. "Her good deed...and her sacrifice, was rewarded...with her," he said whilst looking at Elsa, causing her to smile at him.

"In my homeland of the Highfells down south, my father taught me a saying...'One who makes a grand sacrifice is worthy of living in the Valley of Gods'..." He stared her in the eye intently. "She, a Northuldran, was granted passage to the dragon's sacred island in the heavens above, the moment she left, to never be able to return...and that alone, is proof enough for me to see." He raised his sword, pointing it downward with both hands. "That our people can just maybe coexist..." And plunged it downwards, sticking it into the ground, all the while staring at her intently. He released his grip and backed away towards his wife. Everyone stared at him for a while at such an offering of peace, due to the earlier confrontation between him and them.

As if the forest itself became alive at his words, gale suddenly appeared and span around the trio gleefully with her whistling as white dots began to appear on the trees, while likewise, the statures began to glow red whilst even setting themselves gently aflame. Even Olaf, due to the magic in him, began to glow blue.

Max and his friends, to their shock, also began to glow the colours of their stones.

Soon after that, three Northuldran men started a musical combination of chanting and singing, occasionally thumping the ground with the bottom of their staffs and spears. Soon after that, every one of the tribe joined in, singing in different pitches of voice, all the while, they all began to form a circle around the team, each one laying a hand on the shoulder of the member in front of them. Even Olaf, still glowing, made his own lineup, laying a hand on Mattias's shoulder. Elsa and Anna walked up to Elliot, each girl giving him a loving side hug, causing him to grin at them in return.

It went on, and Honeymaren and Ryder each laid a hand on Yelana's shoulders, who looked up at Elliot with a still-distrustful look, but not as harsh as before. She opened the palms of her hands, and slowly, Elliot placed his open hands face down on her own, all the while matching her look, with Elsa and Anna showing supporting smiles as they slipped a hand each under his own.

Soon the chant ended, allowing the elder to voice her thoughts. "If these words of yours are true..." she started slowly, looking down at their joined hands. "Then it is life-" And looked back up again. "I will fight for, if you will..."

He gave a firm nod in agreement before they lowered their hands to their sides again. "I promise you..." Elsa started with a determined smile. "We will free this forest...and restore Arendelle, and the world," she told them all, but whilst this got the many trapped people happy, Anna looked to her with worry as Rex and his friends walked over.

"That's a very big promise, Queen Elsa." The Dinosaur King told her seriously.

"It is," Elliot voiced out, gaining their attention to see a confident smile. "But I can feel this is one she can keep...partly because we don't have a choice!" His cheeky remark got a light backhanded slap to the face by a playfully scowling wife.

"Don't push it, dragon boy!" she sassed.

"Wow..." Ryder said breathlessly. "Free the forest...-" He then saw Kristoff giving him an odd look, causing the younger man's face to heat up in embarrassment. "Sorry, it's just - some of us were born here, and we've never seen a clear sky before."

"I get it..." was the mountain man's friendly reply.

"Name's Ryder," he properly introduced himself.

"Kristoff."

They shook firm hands with a smile and grin.

Back with Elsa and her part of the gang..."I heard the voice again...We need to go north," she told them as Elliot retrieved his sword.

"But the Earth Giants now roam the forest at night!" Honeymaren told her with concern.

"You can all leave in the morning." Yelana said, about to guide her though, when...-

"Just so you know, Yelana..." Elliot started off, placing his sword into the scabbard on his back as he remounted Sugi. "That wall of fog is the one thing protecting you from the beings in between both of our homelands," he told her with a note of warning. "And when it disappears, I advise your reindeer to watch their back..." He then leaned down towards her ear. "'Cos the wargs will be chewing on it!" he whispered, before riding off in a different direction into the woods.

Yelana watched with a withering glare and a raised eyebrow as he rode off, whilst the Queen of Arendelle watched with a knowing look as she turned to the elder. "He's just warning you of the kind of beings that live just next door to you, so you can prepare yourself. I'll talk to him," she reassured her. Yelana nodded before gesturing to the village.

"I'm sorry about before..." Honeymaren said to Anna. "Our peoples have...a bad history, I'll just say, and we weren't always peaceful..."

"I understand..." Anna said, laying a reassuring hand as the pair and the rest walked on. "We'll do what we can."

DK

Outside the wall, though, a familiar acrocanthosaurus was glaring at the wall with hatred, knowing who was inside. Ever since the defeat of his entire pack at the claws and fire of those accursed dragons all those months ago, Pyro had been withering in sheer anger at the humiliation in front of everyone he wanted them to fear, and it had tarnished his reputation as the leader of the Alpha dinos.

What was more angering to him, was that worm Brontikens was able to put up a fight against the said dragon, and with the help of some weakling Irritator and an alioramus, now named Bruton, pretty much almost killed him, whereas he hadn't even left a scratch on his fireproof scales.

He swore vengeance since that day - on the dragon, his son, the queen, and all who sided with them.

But not today.

It was time for Project I's proper trial run.

Turning on his foot, he walked over towards the witch and her new coalition of villains, comprising of Ofu and her ninjas, the slit-throat bandits, the Wyuumi tribe, Grarzog's orcs and wargs, Sykes, Gothel, Hans and Dr. Z and the trio, the last four of which were all slightly whimpering in fright as the huge wolves kept snarling at them. "This is definitely the place, I have the scent of the queen and her mate inside," he told the witch.

"Excellent," she said expectantly with a smirk of evil. She stepped up to the wall of fog that blockaded her way in, just short of the fog's embrace. Her staff glowed an unnatural green as she raised her hand, and placed it on the magic inside.

Upon contact, instead of bouncing her back, a green fire split the wall, opening up a direct pathway into the forest.

Everyone couldn't help but gaze in wonder and fear at how easily she surpassed the forest's defences. "Well, no one expected to see that..." Dr. Z commented, before turning back towards his henchmen. "Now you three, go find me those brats and bring their dinosaurs to me!" he ordered them.

"You got it!" the three chorused together.

Grarzog's warg, however gave a vicious snarl, effectively to keep them from moving, leaving them too scared to do so. "No," the witch told them with force, before turning her attention to her own team. "I wish for Hans, Sykes and Gothel to go inside instead."

"But...I thought...-" Hans started.

"And take Grarzog and his orcs with you, along with Bulldust, Scowler and Dynerra." she ordered, cutting Hans off.

Their eyes widened...two of those names were linked to Project I and their other operations.

"Come on, princey boy," Sykes said, pulling him onto his horse. "You heard her...and if it makes you feel better, this could be an opportunity for some well-deserved payback..." he added with an inviting tone.

"Good enough for me." Hans replied with cruel greed, urging his horse into a walk alongside his teammates as Grarzog and his pack followed up.

"Scour the entire forest!" Grarzog called out to his pack with his native tongue. "And do not hesitate to conquer!" Upon his order, every warg that didn't have a rider ran on ahead, snarling like monsters from hell.

"CRY HAVOC!" The witch yelled to them. "AND RELEASE THE DOGS OF WAR!" She allowed her staff at that moment to shoot green fire up into the sky. "Ha ha ha haha! HA HA HA HA HAAA!" Her evil laugh echoed in the night.

Next time...

Honeymaren: "There's a ninth spirit, said to be a bridge linking us, and the magic of nature."

Yelana: "Legends spoke of a reptilian creature, that protected our home and the other spirits if they could not protect themselves..."

Elliot: "Warg scouts! Which means an orc pack has entered the forest!"

Elsa: "I realise now I never should've married you! Get out of my sight, and out of my life!"

End.

COVID-19: Harold...

Me: Coronavirus...

COVID-19: You managed to get back to writing again?

Me: Yes. I. Did.

COVID-19: Anything your readers wanna say to that?

Me:...

Me thinking while looking at the readers: 'It's about to go down!'

Me: Well...uhhhhh...

Me: My pal Drew, told me to tell yoooouuu...!

Me: To mind yo' damn MOTHERFUCKIN BUSINESS, BITCH!

COVID-19: O_O

Me: YOU STUPID BITCH! YOU LIFE-TAKING, ISOLATING, DEPRESSING BITCH!

Hoooollyyyyy cow...

After I don't know how many months, and at 30,000+ words long, we finally have a new chapter...I have an explanation for taking so long, I promise!

Ever since this predicament started, I've been busy as shit with college work, clogging up my mind and free time.

I lost my job - after starting to love it, mind you! (I know I'm not the only one.) And I've been reading news articles on the web, for all the good it did.

I've just been really depressed is all, trying to get into the spirit of writing again...

What's even more depressing for me, is the whole not seeing loved ones thing...I know you can do that now, but even so...

But today is my mum's birthday, so I decided to try and get this done today. To cheer me up even more is the heavy amount of references I put into this new chapter, you should be able to spot them. And then that little me vs Corona thing above is something I took from Kevin Hart's 'Mind your damn business!' thing on YouTube, really got me laughing the first time I saw it.

As for Drew, I apologise if you didn't want to be involved with that, I just used it for rhyming's sake.

And just to let you know for those who got confused, Destin is the first name of Lieutenant Mattias.

I also wanted to delve more into Elliot's past in this one, seeing as how he always seemed to be strong and confident, but let's be honest...anyone that had a rough past as he did would be broken on the inside, especially seeing how proper parents treat their children.

My prayers to anyone that lives with a cruel family...along with everyone else losing friends and loved ones in this time of crisis.

But as Queen Elizabeth said to everyone still alive, missing everyone else they care about...

"We will meet again..."

And that's, a dream worth fighting for...