Pretty Cure's Enchanted Forest Adventure

Chapter 6

The group continued to search through the dark tunnel as it seemed impossible for them to get out. "Hmm... Which darky tunnel do we choose?" Olaf wondered as they came to a dead-end. Suddenly, an icy blast was shot all around them. "Gah!" Pafu yelped as she hid behind Aroma. "You see, the dam will weaken their lands, so they will have to turn to me, King Runeard," A familiar voice echoed before the icy blast soon morphed in the shape of Elsa and Anna's grandfather with an innocent village man who was the leader. "The dam is hurting the forest!" "Elsa's found it." Anna whispered in realization. "What is it?" Olaf asked. "Who is that?" Minami added about the royal man behind the village man. "The truth about the past," Anna replied. "That's my grandfather, attacking the Northuldra leader who wields no weapon. The dam wasn't a gift of peace... It was a trick..." "But that goes against everything Arendelle stands for." said Olaf. "...It does, doesn't it?" Anna asked as she sat down. "I know how to free the forest; I know what we have to do, to set things right." "Why are you saying it in such a melancholy manner, then?" asked Kirara. "We have to break the dam." Anna replied. "But then Arendelle will be flooded!" Towa exclaimed. Anna looked down at the ground. "That's why everyone was forced out... In order to protect them..." she said. "From what has to be done?~roma?" Aroma guessed. "Yes." Anna nodded. "Oh... Ohh!" Olaf soon in realization before coming up to Anna and put his head in her lap as she put her arm around him while kneeling down closer to his height. "Hey, are you okay?" he asked. "I could really use a bright side, guys." Anna said emotionally. "Bright side?" Haruka asked. "I'm not sure in this kind of situation." "Um... Uh... Turtles can breathe through their butts?" Olaf suggested. "...I'm not sure that's true." Towa remarked. "And... I see a way out." Olaf said as he pointed to a way out. "I knew I could count on you." Anna smiled at the snowman.

As the group went towards the exit, Anna noticed that Olaf wasn't following them. "Olaf, come on!" Anna called to the snowman, but when she turned around, she saw tiny snowflakes drifting off of his body. The girls and fairies gasped. "I'm... Flurrying..." Olaf exclaimed. "I don't think that's it." said Minami. "No, wait, wait... That's not it," Olaf then said. "I'm flurrying away." "Flurrying away?!" Haruka asked with wide eyes. "What does this mean?!" "The magic in me is... Fading." Olaf replied. "What?!" The group panicked a bit as it seemed like Olaf was dying. "I don't think Elsa's okay," Olaf said to them as he looked worried about himself. "I think she may have gone too far." "No, no..." Anna said in denial. "Guys, I'm sorry," Olaf said softly. "You're gonna have to do this next part on your own, okay?" "Hey, come here," Anna told Olaf as she held him closely. "I've got you." The snowman gave a quiet sigh. "Oh... That's good..." he smiled weakly. "Hey Anna?... I just thought of one thing that's permanent..." "What's that?" asked Anna. "Love..." Olaf replied. By now, Anna was in tears. "Warm hugs...?" she asked. The snowman could only give a weak smile as he wrapped his arms around his best friend, using the last of his strength. "...I like warm hugs..." he wheezed with the final bit of his life force, as his eyes closed shut. "...I love you..." Anna sniffled as Olaf's body completely disintegrated. "Olaf..." Haruka said softly. "N-No..." she said emotionally. Haruka, Minami, Kirara, Towa, Pafu, and Aroma all looked very sad that Olaf was gone.

Anna was the most upset as she curled up once Olaf was gone and she began to cry, feeling so lost and alone. "...What do I do now...?" she sniffled. "I've seen dark before, but not like this; This is cold, this is empty, this is numb... The life I knew is over, the lights are out; Hello, darkness, I'm ready to succumb~" she sang. "I follow you around, I always have; But you've gone to a place I cannot find... This grief has a gravity, it pulls me down; But a tiny voice whispers in my mind: 'You are lost, hope is gone... But you must go on, and do the next right thing~" The girls and fairies frowned softly as they felt terrible for Anna. "Can there be a day beyond this night?, I don't know anymore what is true, I can't find my direction, I'm all alone, The only star that guided me was you~," Anna continued before she stood up, still emotional, though she felt that she had to move on. "How to rise from the floor, When it's not you I'm rising for?, Just do the next right thing, Take a step, step again, It is all that I can to do the next right thing~" The group began to make their way out of the den. "I won't look too far ahead, It's too much for me to take, But break it down to this next breath, This next step, This next choice is one that I can make~," Anna sang as she and the groip jumped and climbed before crawling out to continue on with their adventure. "So I'll walk through this night, Stumbling blindly toward the light, And do the next right thing, And with the dawn, what comes then, When it's clear that everything will never be the same again?, Then I'll make the choice, To hear that voice, And do the next right thing~" she finished as she looked out the horizon and saw the dam.