Tempest-A Jack Frost and Elsa Fanfiction

Jack-Chapter 33

Jack did the only thing he could do. He grabbed a quiver of arrows, slung a bow over his shoulder, and strapped a sword onto his belt. He may not have his magic anymore, but he'd fight for Ledas with his every last breath.

"What are you doing?" Elsa gasped, grabbing onto his elbow before he could disappear.

"I'm a guardian of this realm with or without my magic, so that's exactly what I'm going to do. Get the Ledans to safety. There's a place between our realm and Silva where they can escape. We'll hold the Vatrans off."

"You don't have any powers!"

"Just do it!" Jack growled before he started running, not away from the attack, but toward it. If he was going to die, then this would be an honorable way to go.

As soon as Jack got close enough to the slow, looming giants overhead, he cocked an arrow, aimed, and fired, the arrow springing forward and lodging itself in between one of the giant's eyes. The arrow was just barely big enough to penetrate the giant, taking him to the ground while tripping several other giants in the process which Theo took down by smashing them with a giant oak tree.

With all his might, Jack kept fighting, but he knew they were hardly a match for the giants. Jack and Mara were the most powerful of the seasons, and Mara's magic didn't work against them. They only absorbed her heat, her fire.

"Watch out!" Alyssa cried as a spout of fire traveled in his direction and she ran at him, taking his hand, and suddenly they were another ten yards away, but Jack was drenched from head to foot with water. Alyssa's way of traveling was extremely unconventional, especially when he was a mortal. "You don't have magic," Alyssa gasped, her eyes wide.

He shook his head, cocking another arrow. "Nothing at all. I'm hardly any use to you. Don't worry about me anymore. I'm dead either way. Go! I'm right behind you."

She reluctantly nodded her head and rushed forward, sending a roaring river in the giants' direction. When the water made contact with the giants, they sizzled, steam rising up to the skies, and just that was enough to take about ten of them down. Surprisingly, Alyssa was now the most powerful of them all against the giants.

"I'm melting them!" Alyssa squealed, looking in Jack's direction for approval, but he just rolled his eyes and gave her a thumbs up. What would she do without him around?

A giant got close enough and made a grab for Jack, but he dodged out of the way and sliced the giant's hand with his sword, thick, black blood dripping out onto the snow. There were too many of them.

Right as he was despairing, a sliver of ice shot right past him and impaled a giant through the throat. All of the Seasons glanced back at him with wide, surprised eyes, but he shrugged. That wasn't him.

"Jack!" Elsa cried as she stumbled over to his side, spilling the contents of her bag beside his feet. The splinters of his staff...

"What are you doing here?" Jack growled, watching as more and more giants broke through the seal. "I thought I told you to take care of the Ledans." He cocked another arrow and let it fly, taking another giant down with it.

"I did," she panted. "The ones I could find are safe. I'm here to help you fight."

Jack panted hard as well. His body was so much weaker. It had been so long since he felt so mortal and so helpless. "You're the Ledans' last hope. Leave, Elsa. Leave and find a safe place to create another Winter who can replace me."

Her eyes widened as she shook her head. Right then, a giant slammed down his fist, creating fire sparks that flew in all directions that they had to jump out of the way to avoid.

"Elsa," Jack shouted, his heart rate accelerating as the giants started closing in. "You need to make another Winter. Do it now!"

"No!" Elsa screamed as they dodged another spout of fire from the giants. "Jack, you'll die!"

He grit his teeth together. He already knew that because there could only be one Winter, and if she created someone else just like him, he would die instantaneously. "When you have to choose between me and your people, you always must choose your people. Even Jack Frost isn't meant to live forever. If you love your people, let me go."

"I can't!" Elsa sobbed, using her magic to cause ice to crawl up six of the giants, into their mouths, and choke them from the inside out. "Jack," Elsa begged again as she latched on tightly to him. "I love you. Please don't make me do this."

Jack kissed her for what he felt like the last time and shook his head sadly. "Alyssa can only do so much. You need Winter to maintain balance in all the realms and to keep the giants from dominating over the other realms as well. You. Don't. Have. A. Choice."

"I'm sorry," Elsa sobbed as she stepped away from him. "I'll never forget you, Jack. Never."

"I know," he whispered as he backed away. "And I'll never forget you either."

And then he ran off to join the fight again, doing his best with all his mortal might to protect Elsa as she knelt to the ground right then and there with her hand pressed tightly to the ground, her eyes glazed over with frost. She was looking. She was seeking. And hopefully she'd find another Winter soon, because he didn't know how much longer the three of them would last.

Jack cocked an arrow and pulled the string of his bow back, but before he could get any further, a large black and red hand came out of nowhere and slammed against him, hitting him hard against the trunk of a tree. He gasped in pain as he fell onto his hands and knees, his ears ringing and his eyesight becoming blurry. He forgot how much being mortal hurt. It hurt a lot.

In his momentary disorientation, one of the giants managed to break through and headed straight for Elsa who was so occupied with using her magic to find another Winter that she didn't see him coming. The giant plucked her right off the ground, his eyes thirsty for blood, for vengeance.

She shot him several times with her ice, causing the giant to drop her, but he just caught her with his other hand, a sneer spreading across his face as he glared right into Elsa's eyes. "Try not to struggle too much on your way down." And then the giant opened its mouth, getting ready to drop Elsa right inside. Jack reached for an arrow and shot it blindingly fast, hardly paying attention for what he was aiming for. The arrow lodged itself in the giant's eye socket, causing him to drop Elsa for good this time and stumble backward as he screamed. But by now, all the giants were looking at Queen Elsa. All eyes were on her. They were going to kill her.

Jack rushed over to where Elsa had dropped his staff shards and he did his best to put it back together again, but nothing happened. Again and again, he tried to slam the pieces together, looking up every two seconds in horror to see the giants advancing on Elsa.

"Come on you stupid thing!" Jack growled as he slammed the pieces together again, his heart racing with fear. A sense of urgency filled the atmosphere. He needed this to happen and he needed it to happen now!

His eyes lit up in hopeful surprise as the shards of his staff melted back together to form one long, sturdy, icy staff. He could feel the magic working through him, entering into every cell in his body, through his very core. And then a grin spread across his face.

Jack Frost was back.