Loved - Battle at the Ice Palace

Loved - Battle at the Ice Palace

Elsa ice heels clicked loudly around the room as she paced back and forth. She was trying to fit her feeling back in the box around her heart but they didn’t go back in anymore.
This was so bad. She had had Anna thrown out of her Palace. She knew that Marshmallow wouldn’t actually hurt Anna, but he was big and scary enough to keep her away so Anna would be safe.
But was Anna safe?
Anna had gone down to one knee like she had been hit by something, but she had stood up and been okay, angry even.
Anna had to be okay.
But Elsa wasn’t, couldn’t be, sure that Anna was okay.
Something had happened, but she couldn’t exactly remember what.
That scared her like the spikes growing out of the walls around her.
She had been bowled over by the implications of Anna’s revelation. Arendelle was under deep snow.
Arendelle should be fine. She had travelled so far, she had been sure that Arendelle was out of her range. Her powers never extended beyond her room or the grand hall.
Of course they went further outside, but she had never conceived that her powers could reach so far.
She had to control her powers.
She just had to.
Somehow.
But…they…just…didn’t…fit…anymore.
She had locked her powers away for so long, they had been mostly under control, but now she had let them loose so she could just be herself and now they didn’t fit back inside.
What was she going to do?
How could she help her people?
How could she help Arendelle?
How could she help Anna?
A loud roar shattered the evening quiet.
“Marshmallow?” Elsa asked, as she ran to the door.
She peaked outside.
There was a squad of men fighting her guardian.
She shut the door and backed away.
She had to do something, but she didn’t want to use her powers, she had to stop using her powers so Arendelle would thaw.
Men were running up the stairs to her door.
Elsa dashed up the steps, hoping they wouldn’t follow, but two men gave chase. They were not her soldiers.
She stopped in the middle of the room.
She was trapped.
“No, please.” She begged.
The big man raised his crossbow and loosed at her.
Elsa threw up her arms to protect herself, but the bolt didn’t come.
“Go around! Toss it!” she heard.
She opened her eyes and saw a crossbow bolt hanging right into front of her face, embedded in ice. They really were trying to kill her, just like the troll had said. They truly thought she was a monster.
She saw them moving sideways to get a clear shot.
She had to protect herself so she could protect Anna.
“Stay away!” She shouted as she used her powers to form some ice spikes she hoped would scare them away.
“Look out!” They jumped out of the way.
Elsa was panting from having to do that. She had promised herself after hurting Anna that she would never use her powers against people.
Why couldn’t they just leave her alone?
“Fire! Fire!”
The small one was lining up a shot, she threw some magic down to distract him. Trying to split them up so they couldn’t work together against her.
“Get her!”
The larger one brought his crossbow up so she shot magic just to his right causing him to duck and followed it up with another wave of ice.
Elsa gasped as she realized they had her surrounded.
“Aim!”
She had to do something or they would kill her. She could see that in their eyes, they had no mercy for this monster.
Father had taught her that the use of force was a last resort, but if you had to it had to be overwhelming.
The younger guard raised his crossbow and she caused a forest of ice spikes to pick him up and pin him against the wall, one last spike growing slowly toward his throat to make it crystal clear he was in her power.
The other sighted in on her and she now had slung her powers around enough to be confident in her aim. She blasted the crossbow from him hands, but he just couldn’t leave well enough alone.
Elsa threw up an ice wall to block his path. All he needed to do was stop but he wouldn’t. Why wouldn’t he just go down? She blocked him with another wall.
She grew another wall and pushed it toward him forcing him back against the doors of her balcony, and still he fought her.
Fool! You came to confront the monster in her very lair. You wanted to confront the monster. Then behold just how much the monster I can be!
“This way, this way!”
“Whoa!”
“Queen Elsa!”
She heard voices behind her. So, more soldiers had come to fight the monster. Let them taste the full wrath of winter.
“Don’t be the monster they think you are.”
Elsa nearly snarled in anger as she turned, ready to face this latest threat, but then she blinked as the words reached her. She could see Prince Hans, his face was filled with concern. The soldiers with him, her soldiers, ones she recognized and knew their names, they looked so sad.
Elsa let her powers fade. As she straightened, she saw Hans look to her left, the smaller guard in Weselton livery was pointing his crossbow at her. Before she could knock it away with her powers, Hans raced over and forced it up. He was so brave and gallant. He seemed like such a good person to protect her, her, a monster.
But as she watched the arrow fly up into the air and hit the link connecting the chandelier to the ceiling.
Elsa’s foot slid as she tried to get out from under her fallen chandelier.
She scampered with all her might.
The tinkle of scattering ice grew into a roar.
Shards of ice surrounded her, picked her up and threw her headfirst into a wall.
Blackness took her as Elsa was knocked out.