"What do you mean, you were locked in a casket?!" Anna shouted as they were running towards the dungeon doors. Everyone had managed to make their way through the castle without getting caught by any guards who might have been suspicious or uninformed of the situation at hand.
"It's a long story! But let's just say I'm grateful the servant boy found me." Hans said gratefully as they managed to bust the door open.
"There they are!" Nakumoto said as he caught the attention of Trevor and Elsa, who were being freed from their chains thanks to Jeremy's quick initiative.
As they ran towards them, Elsa followed suit, almost tackling her sister in gratefulness and relief. "Oh Anna! I'm so sorry! Are you okay?!"
"Yes I'm fine! Nakumoto gave me this potion that heals everything." Anna said joyously, and Trevor turned his head towards Naku, who pulled out the pink vial.
"Well, I can't say minecraft is a savior for us all, but good thinking." Trevor said as he chuckled to himself. "Did you come across our attacker?"
"Yeah. He tried to kill Anna but we managed to stop him before he could get an answer out of her. It's not Hans, it's a shadow clone. Like the heartless, except in human form." Naku explained as he got closer towards Trevor, trying to say something to him privately. "I don't trust Hans though. He was in perfect condition when we got him out of his confinement. No bruises, no struggle. We still need to keep an eye on him."
Trevor nodded his head in agreement before walking towards Elsa. "We need to inform the council. If we confront the Duke now, we could stop him from doing anything else crazier than attempted regicide."
"Right this way." The guard said as his men gathered to assist him. "Currently all of the Duke's are held in the meeting room. Should we assemble the army, your majesty?"
"No. This is a fight for us. I need your men to protect the citizens once we deal with the winter and the Duke of Weselton. He will pay for this." Elsa said angrily.
"Naku, you go with Hans and try to arrest the duke. I'll go with Elsa to stop the storm." Trevor said firmly as he pulled the slide back from his pistol. "Remember to arrest him."
"Got it. Come on, let's go." Nakumoto said as they, along with the guards, began heading to the council room, while Elsa and Trevor ran off outside to stop the storm.
With Anna and Nakumoto…
"Here we are." A guard said as he motioned his other mates to open the door. As they opened it, they saw all the Duke's talking amongst each other, and when they saw the posse of guards come in with Naku and Anna, the Duke of Weselton was the first to speak.
"What's going on here?!" He asked demandingly, "I thought prince Hans said you were frozen?"
"Well that man is a liar!" Anna shouted angrily at him, fuming at the sight of him. "And he's not the real Hans. You tried to have my sister killed!"
"Nonsense! I would never do that to our trade partner!" The Duke said, trying to fool everyone.
"We have witnesses, including the guards who came with the imposter." One of the guards said before turning to Nakumoto. "He's all yours sir."
"Duke, you are under arrest for attempted regicide, extortion, and treason. Put your hands up or be forcefully detained." Naku ordered as he pointed his revolver at him, causing the Duke to become frightened as he began to run, but not before one of the other duke's tripped him.
The other guards quickly restrain him, allowing Naku to place him in handcuffs. "Damn you! Just who are you? And who lied to me?!"
"I'm a Guardian, and a shadow was the one that fed you lies." He answered as he cuffed him tight. "You'll be sent to a prison where you'll rot for the rest of your days. Take him away."
The other soldiers gladly followed his orders as they dragged him to another room despite his pleas. Naku then turned to the other Duke's. "Do what you can with the remaining occupants and hide yourselves in warm rooms until the storm ends. Be on the lookout for anything that looks like black smoke." All of the other occupants in the room left except for Hans, Anna, Kristoff and Naku, who were staying with him as planned. However, things changed when they heard an unforgiving sound.
"Gaaah!" Kristoff exclaimed as he was hit behind the head, by none other than Hans.
"Kristoff!" Anna shouted as she tried to reach him, only to be stopped by Hans, who was pointing his sword at her throat.
"You know, the shadow soldier offered me the kingdom if I would be able to kill you and your little friend." Hans said sinisterly as he pushed her out of the way. "It's going to be more difficult now that you're in perfect condition, but I'm sure a stab wound would suffice."
"You monster! I can't trust you! I can't believe I thought I loved you!" Anna said as she ran to Kristoff to check on him.
"Oh please Anna, who in their right mind would-" suddenly, an impact sent Hans back a few steps, slamming him into the table next to him. Naku scoffed and threw his gun to the floor before summoning a Katana (Silver blade, black shaft or handle) to fight him with.
"I'm tired of hearing that stupid phrase, and it's about damn time I did the only canical thing that's right in this world." Naku said as he readied his blade to fight.
"Oh? And what's that?" Hans asked, his body now glowing a dark aura. He must have gotten help from that shadow.
"Kicking your ass." Nakumoto said bitterly as he charged towards him, ready to fight the villain of this story.
Meanwhile, with Elsa and Trevor…
"Naku come in! Naku?!" Trevor asked as he tried to get the CCS to work, but to no avail. "Damn it. The storm must be messing with it. He must be okay."
"So, what do we do now?!" Elsa asked as they examined the open sea.
"See that piece of ice right there in the sky?" He pointed to the snowflake-like object in the sky. "That's the heart! If we use my heat, and your ice, we can destroy the heart of the storm!"
Elsa nodded as she held her hand out and motioned him to grab it. Trevor grabbed her hand and pointed it to the sky, and sure enough, his flames began to ignite, while Elsa's frost began to form.
"With the power of love, friendship, and all that is good! Let the storm end and bring peace to the land, as any guardian would!"
As the two began shooting a unison beam of fire and ice, Trevor turned his head towards her with amusement on his face. "Did you just make that up?"
"I thought it would boost our powers!" Elsa said jokingly as he laughed with her.
Everything seemed to be going right, as the blast seemed to be stopping the storm little by little. "Okay, just a little bit more and-" Before he could finish, he was suddenly struck, by none other than the shadow soldier. Trevor fell back onto the ice, while he then grabbed Elsa and held her up by the collar menacingly as he summoned his shadow sword.
"Such a waste of time. I'll have this mission done sooner than I thought." The shadow said as he pinned the blade towards Elsa's throat. "Say, you are a cute thing aren't you? Too bad your beauty is going to be wasted by my blade."
As Elsa screamed in fear, Trevor pulled out his pistol and shot the shadow soldier twice, causing him to drop Elsa, who immediately got up and looked at Trevor.
"RUN YOU IDIOT! GET INSIDE AND MAKE SURE THE OTHERS ARE SAFE!" He shouted as he got up slowly pointing his gun at the shadow. "ELSA, GO!"
Knowing she would be better off following his orders instead of helping, she ran off into the distance, and just when the shadow tried to follow, he got shot again and again until his mag ran dry, but to Trevor's disbelief, the bullets were doing nothing but irritating the shadow clone, who then turned his attention towards him.
"Damn you! Now I have to kill more than I have to!" He said as he pulled out his sword. "Throw that thing away and fight me like a man with honor. You clearly see it does nothing to me, so get a sword so I don't have to strike you down like the pig that you are!"
Trevor, now clearly enraged by his remarks, held out his hand and summoned his sword, which turned out to be a keyblade, but not just any keyblade, it was No Name, who's previous master was Luxu.
"What is that rancid object? Do you even think it could stop me?!" The shadow said angrily, "You won't stop me from completing my goals, even if I have to kill you and bathe you in your own blood to accomplish them!"
"Well then, guess I should show you why keyblades are special." Trevor said bluntly as he readied his blade towards him. "They'll send you to hell."
"Well try your luck then, bastard!" He roared as the Shadow charged towards him with bloodlust in his eyes. This battle would be deadly, and Trevor knew it.
As their swords clashed, Trevor took the time to get used to his sword, which was crazy during the middle of a fight. However, since his wounds would heal right up most of the time, he wasn't so worried. Using his weight to guide the blade, he was able to land successful blocks and one strike towards his arm, sending the Shadow Soldier into another
trance.
"Why must you interfere?! Why does everyone try to interfere with my master's plan?!" The soldier shouted as he grabbed his arm and ripped it off, shocking Trevor as there was no blood. He then masked it with shadows, making himself a new arm brand new. What were these things? "Don't you get it?! You're just like me! You've killed several men! You are what you are destined to stop!"
"How do you know about that?! I've never seen you before! Who are you? What mission?!" Trevor said as he backed away slowly to reposition himself.
"Oh, you poor fool. We're shadows. We know all, we see all! We are destined to destroy the realms! All of them! Purify them of their impurities!" The shadow exclaimed angrily as he again clashed blades with Trevor, who was having hard time controlling the momentum. "But you're in the way! Don't you see the flaws?! If you weren't here to help her then this would have been easy for me!"
"Oh great, more of this purity nonsense?!" Trevor yelled as he pushed the shadow back, "We are all flawed! Everyone has issues, nobody's perfect! No sense of rationality will justify your mission! Elsa might be broken, but she's not a flaw!" He then managed to strike him again in the leg, sending him down for a moment. "I will protect all the flaws of any realm from your purging nonsense!"
The shadow got back up and punched him in the gut, then kicked him back a foot as he laughed maniacally. "Then I guess I'll have to kill you and your friend!"
Trevor readied himself as he saw the shadow come forth once again. "I hope Nakumoto is doing better than me…"