Tempest-A Jack Frost and Elsa Fanfiction

Jack-Chapter 25

"Elsa!" Jack shouted, his whole being shrouding over with fear. How had she gotten out of the palace gates? Right under his nose no less?

Without wasting another moment, Jack dissolved with the wind, taking him right into town where he found an enormous, looming giant holding Elsa in his hand, squeezing tighter and tighter and tighter...

Jack shot the giant's hand with a stream of ice, causing it to yelp and drop Elsa. She shrieked as she plummeted to the earth, landing in a soft pile of snow that Jack created last second. More than anything, he wanted to check if she was alright, but there was a giant in town. It could kill someone.

One after another, he shot the giant with icy spray after icy spray, making the giant flinch and stumble backward. If only Jack could drive it backward just a little bit more... Maybe he could get rid of the giant without hurting anyone else.

A stream of ice hit the giant in the face, making it incredibly angry. Before Jack even had a chance to react, the giant's hand slammed down on top of him, pressing him flat across the ground in a startling wave of pain. It then proceeded to throw Jack, causing him to smash hard against a tree and fall to the snowy ground. His body shuddered with the pain of the attack as he struggled to get back onto his feet, his vision blurry as he scrambled to find his staff amidst the white snow.

"So this is the infamous Jack Frost..." the giant's voice grumbled loudly, its footsteps shaking the earth as it walked toward him and its gigantic, smoldering face full of hatred and malice. The giant laughed, the sound cracking just like thunder. "I had come for a staff and ended up finding a queen. Your time is up, Jack Frost. You have not yet surrendered your staff to Matei. Give it to me now and we still have a deal. But since you didn't come to us yourself, the deal has changed. Give us the staff and the queen and then we'll leave this land in peace."

Jack shook his head, his nose flaring with anger. "Your kind has not proven that I can trust you. I suspect false play. All the Seasons do. This is your last chance. Leave now and never come back, or I will kill you and every last giant who dares threaten the lives of innocent civilians. Leave Queen Elsa alone. She is the best thing that has happened to this kingdom in twenty-two years."

The giant chuckled again, his charcoal eyes churning with amusement. "It sounds like you love the queen a little too much for a guardian."

Jack's gaze penetrated like ice as he stared daggers into the giant. "I do love her, and if you or your kind ever hurts anyone I love ever again, I will not hesitate to upset the balance in the realms so that the fire realm has to restart their population from scratch. Now leave while you still have a chance."

Instead of turning back the way it came, the giant lashed out again, but this time Jack ducked the attack and shot back with icy blast after icy blast. He built a thick wall of ice all around the giant, gritting his teeth at the effort it took to keep it from melting beneath the giant's own touch. With just a rock hard, swift movement, the giant punched through the thick ice wall, and Jack couldn't keep up. Instead, he made ice crawl up the giant's legs, trapping them effectively in a way that he couldn't escape.

Lifting his head to the skies, the giant let out a snarl that shook the earth, magma churning in his eyes with his anger. He stooped down, and Jack had thought it was going for him so he dodged out of the way, but little did he know that he had found Jack's staff buried in the snow and scooped it up.

Jack gasped, his eyes wide as he used his magic to try and make the giant drop it, but the giant's large hand engulfed his staff, and Jack could feel actual physical pain erupt through his body as the staff splintered underneath the giant's massive, grappling fist. Jack could feel power ebb out of him, leaving him with next to nothing.

He fell to his knees as the pain became too much to bear, every cell inside of him shuddering and gasping. What was happening to him?

The giant chuckled darkly, his eyes alight with triumph. "You are nothing without your staff, Jack Frost. Now stand aside as I take your queen."

Jack's nose flared in anger as he shakily got to his feet. "I gave you several warnings. I gave you a chance to leave with your life. I don't need my staff to kill you."

His anger fueled him just like it had at Queen Delani's death. He made a motion with his arms and a sharp spike of ice shot toward the giant, entering one side of its head and out the other. The giant swayed uneasily on its feet before crashing into the snow, its body lifeless as its black blood spilled out over the snow. Jack swallowed hard, the fear he felt inside increasing as he cradled his splintered staff in his arms. Maybe he'd find a way to fix it, but for now, Elsa needed him.

"Elsa!" Jack called as he ran back into town, searching frantically for her familiar face, his fear increasing evermore when he couldn't find her. But then his heart let out a sigh of relief as she poked her head out of one of the buildings.

"Jack!" she cried, rushing toward him and he dropped the splintered pieces of his staff into the snow so he could envelop her in his arms, cradling her close against him.

"Are you okay?" he asked, looking her over to try to find any damage.

She nodded. "Just a little bruised but I'm okay."

"Thank goodness," he whispered as he cradled the side of her face in his palm, uncaring that not even an hour before, he had sworn he would never hold her like this again. "I don't know what I'd do if you were killed."

Elsa grinned slyly, putting her hand on top of his that held her cheek so gently. "Probably go on a rampage and kill the entire giant population?" she teased.

"Something like that," he replied, reluctantly letting her go and picking up the pieces of his staff.

"Jack!" Elsa gasped. "What happened?"

He still felt incredibly emotional about it all, so he hid his face from her so she couldn't see how much he hurt. "I lost my magic as a Season. I can still control ice and magic, but I can't travel anymore. I lost that burst of power that I've always had."

Turning his head so that she looked him in the eye, she said, "I am so sorry, Jack. This is all my fault. Can this be fixed?"

"I don't know," he whispered fearfully. "Let's get you back to the castle, okay? You'll be safer there." He kept close to her as he led her back toward the castle, his heart becoming heavier and heavier with each step. The realization became clearer now more than ever.

If he could no longer travel using his magic, there would be no winter. If he could no longer have the magic of a Season, he could no longer protect Ledas with the power that he needed. If the giants attacked again, he didn't know what he'd do.