
14 The Little Snowman
A/N:
Since the loss of my half written chapter I decided to switch to 3rd person. Probably for the rest of the book since I like writing in that way anyway. Please forgive me?
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3rd Person.
"What if I get out and let you out once I've found Elsa?" Jack questioned.
Charming, Eric and Phillip looked at each other.
"Well that could be one possibility. Then I would get to find Ariel," Eric mumbled.
Jack nodded his head and tried to cool down the wound on his arm which he got earlier. His powers weren't much of a use anymore.
"But he was the one who brought the new, most powerful one of the evil queens here," Charming mumbled.
"Hey, she's not evil," Jack insisted grumpily.
"Maybe not yet that is. But they locked up Jack in here like they did with us so they must see him as a threat after all," Phillip said and stroked his chin with his fingers.
Whilst arguing about the possible fact that Jack Frost, the guardian of Fun, is on their side or not, they didn't notice how he got himself up from the floor. The wounds on Jack's skin were aching while he headed towards the window, ignoring the fall down to the sharp rocks.
"Are you sure that we can trust him to let us out? What if he was used as a spy infiltrated among us?" Charming continued convincing Eric and Philip about the possible dangers of letting Jack out alone. He was wishing for Jack to be tied up until they truly know his intentions.
They didn't see him lifting his both feet over the window still, how Jack sat there wondering if he still had enough powers to control the wind and ask it to not him fall down and be pierced.
"I would love to continue this chat with you guys later but I really must get going," Jack laughed from the window getting the attention of the people who he before considered as friends. Now they doubted him which felt really sad.
Jack jumped while Eric and Phillip tried to sprint and catch him. They saw how he fell, the amount of wind which obeyed him wasn't enough to prevent his body to slam against the rocks.
He was panting, lifting himself up. Jack's whole body was scraped, without the wind his bones would have crashed though and that would take too much time to heal since he was almost out of magic powers. So few were believing in him anymore, believe is a guardians strength and weakness at the same time.
"Jack!" Eric yelled as he watched Jack slowly getting up.
Jack showed thumbs up with his shaking hands. He wiped a trail of blood which was running down from his mouth.
"I'm just fine!" He lied and glanced at his torn and bloody hoodie.
"You better not betray us," Charming shouted.
"I won't, I won't!" Jack cheered and waved his hand.
The rocks were scratching his feet. Normally he would just float but now even the slightest use of power would made him run out of magic. There was enough for one finale, until he would get people to believe in him again.
He limped back to the castle. Her scent was clear at the castle when he got in. It was coming from behind a door which then led to a staircase going down. Into a damp place where the air was flowing in from between the stone wall.
"Thank you wind," Jack whispered.
One step at a time he was hopping down the stairs. He was exhausted but he would take Elsa out first. Then the whining kings. He leaned against the cold wet stone wall, he smelled the smell of burning candle wax since the staircase was solely lighted by tiny candles.
"Elsa?" Jack called out when he reached the bottom.
It was hard to see around. The whole place was dark, there was barely enough light for him not to trip into the uneven pebble floor.
"Go away," a bitter female voice responded.
"There you are," Jack cheered.
Adrenaline started to kick in and he limped himself to the cage. In the corner he found her, crouching down.
"Get up, we're leaving," Jack insisted and started to search for something to break the door with.
"You set me up?" She asked without emotions.
It made him flinch and he put his hand inside the pocket of his hoodie. His fingers felt the crumbled paper again. The instructions to get her here were like burned to his mind.
"Yes, I knew they were here," he said honestly.
Then Jack saw a bunch of keys on the table which he quickly got to his hands.
"I see," Elsa whispered.
She embraced her knees. Trusting to him was a mistake. Coming here was a mistake.
"Just a moment and I'll let you out," Jack hummed and went to the lock. One by one he tried the keys.
Elsa felt angry. What was he trying to do now? First he let her to be taken away, he lied about her getting back home and then he left. He left her here. And now he is back, thinking that everything is alright.
"What do you get from this? By messing with me?" Elsa tried to conceal her feeling of sadness and misbelieve.
"Let's talk when we are away from here," Jack whispered.
The lock twisted. Finally the right key.
"NO!" Elsa shouted.
Jack startled when she tried to shot her with her ice powers. He stood in the cage door opening, holding the keys in his hands.
"C'mon..let's go baby snow," he tried to get her with him.
Elsa felt mad now. How did she even fall for him in the first place? Wish for something more with him if this is the person who he was? A traitor.
"Don't call me that," Elsa roared fiercely. Her heart was broken, beyond fixing.
Jack frowned. "I'll force you to come with me then," he exclaimed and stepped forward.
"So you can betray me again. Don't think so," her laughter was blank.
Jack stood still again. Elsa had created a tiny snowman. It was moving around and it was rather cute when it bounced around. However something in the atmosphere felt threatening.
"Leave or suffer," Elsa hissed. "Y-you coward!" She shouted and aimed her magic at the snowman.
"E-Elsa...let's think this rationally--," Jack gulped when the tiny snowman started to grow. The cuteness of it vanished and was replaced by horrific features. Instead of the eyes there were deep black holes which stared at him.
"Hey, I came to get you didn't I?" Jack said backing up.
Elsa stepped out of the dark. The creature which she created grew into something high, soon it would touch the ceiling.
"I don't want to go with you!" Elsa hissed.
Jack stared at her. She had a wide black stripe going in her hair which was widening up even more.
"N-no... don't be corrupted! You're good!" Jack tried to convince her.
Elsa laughed blankly. "Good? I'll show you how good I am to the people who betray me! You JERK!" She screamed.
"Be as mad as you want but don't do something which will--," he tried to stop her but she shot ice at him.
Only single stripe of platinum blonde hair was hanging over her forehead now.
"Destroy him...Marshmallow... make him suffer!" Elsa spoke quietly.
The creature howled and grew more. Jack was standing there in shock, staring at it when it hit the ceiling. But it didn't stop there. The ceiling started to crumble while it grew more. Jack dropped the keys from his hands.
"Destroy," Elsa whispered and started laughing.
Marshmallow lifted his hands up, wrecking the walls. Jack lifted his hands up to stop pebbles from flying to his face.
"We can still leave from here – NGH!" Jack exhaled once the dust was set.
Marshmallow had grabbed him from his waist and holding him in the air. He almost couldn't breathe and his staff was painfully pressing against his body.
Just one more time he tried to convince her but instead she kept laughing at him. He watched how she opened up her braid, ruffled her hair which then was like black sharp ice spikes sticking out of her head.
Suddenly he felt himself being tossed away. The walls of the prison cell had collapsed, opening up to the outside. Marshmallow threw Jack like he was a tiny piece of rock. His body just circled in the air for quite a while before he felt himself slamming against something.
Then he fell, his numb body hit against something again and again. Just moments before hitting the ground he realized that he was dropping down from top of a tree, branch by branch going down.
Air escaped from his lungs when he hit the ground. He couldn't move for a while and a single glance up told him that his staff was hanging from a branch above his head, stuck in it.
"Ah! What was that!" Some man shouted.
Jack heard sounds and soon something wet and feeling like sandpaper was licking his hand. Slowly he lifted up his finger and turned his head to his side.
"Reindeer?" He questioned and tried to lift himself up.
"Hey! Sven found something!" The voice was actually familiar.
Jack felt himself being turned around. He was now facing Kristoff and Anna. Anna looked like she was furious and Kristoff was terrified.
"Should we tie him up?" Kristoff exclaimed and made Jack to sit which made him yell from pain.
"I don't think that he can run in that state but I would gladly hit him few times," Anna growled, "WHERE'S ELSA!" She continued quickly.
"The castle," Jack exhaled quietly and stared at the tree.
The reindeer rubbed his head to the tree, making Jack's staff fall next to him.
"Where did you came from?" Kristoff frowned.
Jack pointed up and both Anna and Kristoff looked up at the sky. Until Sven kicked the tree and signaled them that they should look at the tree.
"Is Elsa up there?" Anna exhaled and tried to climb up.
"N-no... at the castle... I was thrown..." Jack tried to speak. He probably broke a rib or two.
"There's like one hour walk to the castle left like Kenai explained before he left. Heck of a throw," Kristoff whistled.
Jack nodded his head. A sharp pain struck to his cheek. Anna had slapped him and was panting.
"Why did you take my sister?" Anna cried and Kristoff tried to calm her down. Jack was now able to sit by himself, he wasn't feeling that dizzy anymore.
Jack stared at them both while starting to breathe heavily. He was starting to panic as he remembered what happened earlier.
"I'm so sorry--," he started to shed tears, "—she's evil. Because of me."
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