Arendelle
in Trouble
Kristoff
grew exhasperated as the Trolls continued to try to pair him with
Anna. (Although some were also looking at Lena.) “Can we please
just stop talking about this? We've got a real, actual problem here.”
They just
ignored him.
“Where is
Grand Pabbie?” Lena asked.
Anna then
collapsed as the Troll priest was about to marry her to Kristoff.
“Anna!”
Kristoff called out as she collapsed. He grabbed her. “She's as
cold as ice!”
Grand Pabbie
then came up to the two of them. “There is strange magic here,”
he said.
“Grand
Pabbie!” Kristoff called out.
“Come,
come, bring her to me,” Grand Pabbie said. “Anna, your life is in
danger. There is ice in your heart, put there by your sister. If not
removed, to solid ice will you freeze, forever.”
“What?
No?” Anna said in disbelief.
“But you
can remove it, right?” Kristoff asked.
Grand Pabbie
shook his head. “I cannot. I'm sorry, Kristoff. If it was her head
that would be easy, but only an act of true love can thaw a frozen
heart.”
“An act of
true love?”
“A true
love's kiss, perhaps?” Bulba, the first Troll, asked.
“Anna,
we've got to get you back to Hans,” Kristoff said.
“Hans,”
Anna said weakly.
“Wait!”
Lena said.
“We can't
wait,” Kristoff said. He turned to his reindeer, Sven. “Pull us
out, Sven.”
“True love
can mean familial love, right?” Lena asked.
“That's
true,” Grand Pabbie admitted.
“But the
Queen doesn't seem to be a mood to help,” Kristoff said. “And she
was the one who did this to her.”
Lena
remained silent as Kristoff, Anna and Olaf left.
“What is
important is that you tried,” Grand Pabbie said.
“What?”
Lena asked.
“I know
that you're from another world and are trying to help.”
“How?”
Leonard asked.
“You can
say that it's by magic.”
“Right,”
Lena said.
“I have no
idea of how to get you and your ship home,” Grand Pabbie said.
“At the
moment?” Lena asked.
“That's
true.”
“But more
pertinent,” Leonard added. “How bad is this situation going to
get?”
Grand Pabbie
breathed deeply. “That is up to Elsa.”
Lena and
Leonard looked at each other with concern. “But she's not letting
anyone talk to her.”
“I know.”
Hernandez
and Lu approached Elsa's ice castle. “Reading one human life sign
inside,” Hernandez reported.
“But how
are we going to get inside? And where are Andersen and Albert?” Lu
asked.
“No idea,
but we have to do something.”
“We'll
knock on the door.”
However,
they then saw a group approaching. One of them was talking.
“We are
here to find Princess Anna,” Hans explained to the Duke's men. “Be
on guard, but no harm is to come to the Queen.” He dismounted from
his horse. “Do you understand?”
“Yes,
sir.”
“Wait!”
A woman said nearby.
“Who are
you?” Hans asked.
“We're a
couple of travellers who were at the Coronation,” the woman said.
She had a similar accent to the Duke.
“So, you
want to talk to the Queen too?” Hans asked.
“Yes,”
the other woman said. She looked like she came from the far east.
“I see,”
Hans said.
“Arendelle
is in serious trouble,” the first woman said.
“I know
that. That's why I want to talk to the Queen,” Hans responded.
Elsa looked
through the castle door in response to Marshmellow's roar. She saw
that said snowman bouncer was fighting Hans and two women.
“Up
there!” Two men called out. They chased her...
Hernandez
didn't like this Hans. There was something in his demenour that
reminded her of Bond. She was more anxious as a result. She and Lu
helped him overcome the large snowman, and then followed him into the
castle.
“Queen
Elsa! Don't be the monster they fear you are!” Hans called out.
There was a
brief scuffle in which the Queen was nearly knocked out by a falling
ice chandelier, but she was knocked out.
“What do
you plan to do?” Lu asked Hans.
“We'll
take her back to Arendelle,” Hans answered.
“You're
going to lock her up, aren't you?” Hernandez asked.
“She is a
danger, and Princess Anna put me in charge,” Hans shot back.
“I'm sure
putting her in a cell will make things worse!” Hernandez groused.
“Careful,
or you might join her,” Hans said.
Hernandez
froze. She was reminded more of Bond. But at least he did what he did
for his version of Britain. She was sure that Hans didn't care about
Arendelle, only for himself!
“She has a
point,” Lu said.
“I don't
have to listen to you. Princess Anna put me in charge!”
“Still,
imprisoning Queen Elsa will certainly make things worse!” Lu said.
“Seize
them!” Hans ordered.
The soldiers
moved to obey Hans.
Lu ran off,
but Hernandez froze and got captured.
Back on
Baffin, they saw that more of
Europe was being affected by the unnatural winter.
“Report on the extent.”
“Most of Denmark, and the eastern shore of England are now frozen,”
Janal reported. “Storm activity has spread over all of the British
Isles, most of France, all of the Low Countries, most of Germany and
most of Sweden.”
That certainly wasn't good news.
Lena and Leonard had left the Trolls and followed Kristoff and Anna
back to Arendelle...
“It's worse than before!” Lena said when they reached the fjord.
The city was covered in ice!
“There may not be much time,” Leonard stated.
Kristoff, Anna and Sven entered Arendelle. The city was indeed
entirely frozen. They galloped up to the Castle. “Its' Princess
Anna!” a guard proclaimed.
Kristoff jumped off Sven with Anna in his arms.
“Are you going to be OK?” Anna asked.
“Don't worry about me,” Kristoff said.
A few maids rushed forwards. “Anna! Oh, you had us worried sick,”
one said.
“My lady!” another said as they took Anna from Kristoff.
“Get her warm and find Prince Hans, immediately,” Kristoff said.
Anna looked back at him before he turned away.
Lena and Leonard entered the city and jumped off the reindeer the
Trolls had loaned them. They ran to the Castle.
Hans saw Anna being carried in.
“He's in here, Prince Hans.”
“Anna!” Hans said as he took Anna into her arms. “You're so
cold!”
“Hans, you have to kiss me.”
“What?”
“Now! Now!” Anna pleaded.
“Woah! Slow down.”
“We'll give you some privacy,” one of the maids said before
leaving.
“What happened out there?” Hans asked.
“Elsa struck me with her powers.”
“You said she'd never hurt you.”
“I was wrong,” Anna said as she doubled over in pain.
“Anna?” Hans said as he lead her to a couch and sat next to her.
“She froze
my heart and only an act of true love can save me.”
Hans moved
as to kiss her but stopped. He pulled away with a menacing grin. “Oh,
Anna. If only there was someone out there who loved you.”
Anna didn't
believe what she just heard. “What? You said you did.”
Hans got up
the closed the curtains. “As thirteenth in line in my own kingdom,
I didn't stand a chance. I knew I'd have to marry into the throne
somewhere.”
“But...what
are you talking about?”
“As heir,
Elsa was preferable, of course, but no one was getting anywhere with
her. But you...”
“Hans?”
“You were
so desperate for love, you were willing to marry me, just like that!
I figured, after we married, I'd have to stage a little accident for
Elsa.” He went over and put out the fire.
Anna fell to the floor. “Hans, no stop!”
“But then
she doomed herself, and you were dumb enough to go after her.”
“Please!”
“All
that's left now is to kill Elsa and bring back summer.”
“You're no
match for Elsa.”
Hans cupped
Anna's chin in his hand. “No, you're no match for Elsa. I,
on the other hand, am the hero who is going to save Arendelle from
destruction.” He turned and went to the door.
“You won't
get away with this!” Anna said.
“Oh, I
already have,” Hans said as he left.
