Frozen Beyond [gxg]

Ruins

Keahi shifted and clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth. Boy, did she have a doozy of an issue for him this time. "Would you know why my brother would want a fire giant's heart? The one in the land of fire?" She winced when he gave her a baffled look.

"The fire giant that guards Muspelheim?"

She snapped her finger, "Yep, that's the one."

"How did you find..." he rubbed her jaw and rolled his eyes, all the while shaking his head. "Never mind. The only people who can find the land of fire are those with powers, I shouldn't be surprised your brother found it so easily..."

"I mean how hard could it have been it's an island," Keahi answered deftly.

Grand Pabbie gave a sigh and Saphire popped her on the side of the head.

Keahi winced, "What?"

"Because magic, dummy," Saphire exclaimed.

Magic was confusing, truly. Keahi just grumbled, "Anyway, my brother mentioned something about some Queen, Hel? Of Nifelheim. Elsa explained a little of what that was, but we've been so worried about keeping up with the problem, everything has been jumbled."

Grand Pabbie stiffened and his eyes shot up to her. He pointed sternly. "Are you sure that's what he said?"

By how dramatically he said that Keahi had a bad feeling in her gut. "Yes." She confirmed.

He just tsked as he turned away. "Hel has been locked away from our world. Nifelheim is a world of the lost, damned souls from our plane of existence find themselves there. Stuck in a land of sin and ice, devoid of warmth. She was sealed away, the door to Nifelheim sealed with ice so hard even she cannot thaw it. But the only thing that could..." he looked to Keahi, the gravity of the situation heavy there. "Is the molten heart of the land of fire."

Of course it was. "So, what do we do now?" Keahi finally asked, exasperated.

"I cannot do anything. But there are ruins of a shrine just an hour south of here that was once used by people who worshipped Hel. Maybe you can find something there." Grand Pabbie offered, shaking his head a final time as he started to walk away. "Whatever you do, it's time for final preparations. The storm is already moving."

"Well, that's not ominous at all." Saphire mocked, arching a brow over at Keahi and started back towards Arendelle. "Well, we're all doomed time to head back."

Keahi reached out and grabbed her by the wrist, "Not so fast."

Saphire let out a string of complaints.

Keahi just scowled at her as she got what she needed from Pabbie to get to the ruins and luckily, the trolls kept Pips busy enough for Keahi and Saphire to slip out and head further into the valley.

The geysers stopped spewing steam and soon the ground, despite it being spring, was frosted and cold.

In a clearing, pillars of crumbled, old statues laced with moss sat from years of abandonment. The ground was stone and carved with various ruins that Keahi didn't know how to read. At the center, the tallest statues looked to be a woman. Though the status no longer had a head and the arm that was raised was cracked and pieces had crumbled from it.

Vines withered around it, while a semi-circle of pillars carved with the same runes still managed to stand, though a few more years and they'd be on the ground. They were decrepit and weathered, most of the runes etched into them unreadable.

Past the pillars, a mouth of a cave loomed, large and imposing, with a cold wind that howled past it.

"So we're just going to waltz into the death cave. No thanks, go get your ice princess for that. You two are perfect, rushing headlong into a bad situation." Saphire ranting as she turned on her heel.

"You've never been the best with directions, you sure you want to try to walk back to Arendelle?" Keahi asked with a scowl as she once more looked over the cave.

She wished she had brought Elsa. While she liked her time spent with Saphire as she tried to mend what she broke, she didn't think through the fact there may be danger. And Saphire couldn't handle herself as Elsa could.

But Elsa deserved some rest, back in Arendelle with Anna, while they still could.

Keahi cracked her knuckles and rolled her shoulders. Everything about this cave was ominous and foreboding. She started in. The dark pebbles crunched below her feet. She could feel Saphire nearly pressed to her back as the redhead begrudgingly followed.

The darkness was suffocating and the minute they were both within the mouth of the cave.

All light extinguished.