Tempest-A Jack Frost and Elsa Fanfiction

Elsa-Chapter 34

Elsa could feel herself falling but her voice was frozen with fear in her throat so she couldn't scream. This was it, this was how she would meet her end. She closed her eyes and waited for the end that never came. Instead, she found herself slowing down until she landed with a soft thwump in the snow. Opening her eyes cautiously, she saw Theo leaning down toward her.

"Come on, lass," he barked, tugging her out of the way as one of the giants made a snatch for her. "We have to get you out of here."

Elsa nodded, casting one last look back at Jack. He was so fearless, so wonderfully selfless—no one deserved to live more than he did and here she was abandoning him to die. The thought made her sick but still, she obeyed Theo's commands. Thousands counted on her, she could dwell on her private pain later. If only...

"Hurry!" Theo called, sucking the oxygen away from one of the giants so that its powers were useless as it prepared to launch a fiery blast at them both. He kept taking air from the giant until it crumbled in a heap on the frozen earth. Another raised its arms, preparing to strike Theo from behind but Elsa created a massive shard of ice and drove it up through the giant's chest.

Theo didn't even have time to say thank you before they were running again toward safety where Elsa could hopefully find someone to take Jack's place. The thought broke her heart so badly that she felt as though she couldn't breathe. He deserved so much more than this.

Suddenly, the wind caught and picked up the sound of a small child whimpering in fright and carried it to Elsa's ears. She turned in horror to see two giants bearing down on a small boy who sobbed fearfully for his mother. Without thinking, without pausing to consider, Elsa sprinted toward the child, fear for his life overriding all else. Certainly, she could save him at least, even if she couldn't save Jack.

"Elsa!" Theo barked as she ran, but she ignored his calls, hurling sharp shards of ice at the giants to draw their attention away from the small boy.

"Why don't you pick on someone who can fight back?" she screamed, her rage fueling her as she blinded both giants with a hurricane of swirling snow. Running forward, she created a path for herself until she found the little boy, cradling him in her arms.

"It's okay," she whispered, her voice strangled with tears. "I've got you."

Above them, the giants unleashed a fiery blast, tearing through her snowstorm as though it was nothing. They started toward Elsa and the little boy again, but with a wave of her hand, Elsa created a thick, protective dome of ice over their heads to shield them from the giant's attack. The giants began to attack the ice with their fire and it took all of Elsa's strength and energy to hold it together. But she couldn't give up now, she had to save this little boy. She just had to. Somehow losing Jack and losing this little boy had become tied together in her mind and she feared she would break if she couldn't keep the little boy safe.

One of the giant's fists pounded on the top of the dome, creating a fissure in the ice. Elsa hastily repaired it but it was a patch job, it wouldn't hold much longer and she was running out of strength to hold up their shelter.

"Listen to me," she said frantically to the little boy. "When the dome breaks, you run. No matter what happens, don't look back. Just keep running until you find the others."

Another crack appeared and Elsa felt as though she would capsize under the weight of the magic she performed. One more beating like that and the dome would splinter. With a tremendous heave, Elsa thrust more of her magic into the shell, buying them a little time.

"Get ready," she said as the shadow of a giant's fist appeared above them. It hit the dome of ice and shattered the entire thing, sending shards spraying in all directions. The little boy took off as Elsa shot ice at the giants and she hoped against hope that she had managed to save at least one life today. The giants rounded on her and their gaze made Elsa shiver. There was no pity there, nothing but cruelty.

She shot another blast of ice at the giants, but it was met with a more powerful burst of fire. Elsa struggled to keep her footing, but she was already weakened from trying to protect the little boy, she wouldn't last much longer.

Summoning all her energy, she managed to drive another beam of ice through the skull of one of the two giants, causing him to fall to the earth with a sickening thud. The other let out a roar of rage, plucking her from the ground where she stood and holding her tightly in his fist.

Elsa tried to throw more ice in its face but her hands were trapped by her sides and she couldn't free them. The ground was too far away and a breeze would do nothing more than annoy the giant.

"Well, well little Ice Queen," he sneered and Elsa could see the evil in his eyes as he stared at her. "Where is your protector now?"

"As long as the rest of Ledas lives, that's all that matters," she snarled, staring the giant defiantly in the face. The giant let out a rumbling laugh at her words.

"They will be joining you shortly, I can assure you of that."

Elsa closed her eyes, bracing for the end. But it never came. Instead, she felt something streak past her and before she'd even had time to open her eyes, the giant was falling, his hold on Elsa slackening. This time she let out a scream as she began to fall, trying desperately to find something to grasp, but her hands meeting only air. She closed her eyes, hoping that her end would be quick. Of all the ways she had ever imagined her life ending, this hadn't been one of them.

"Gotcha!" a triumphant voice sounded in her ear as a pair of strong arms enfolded her. Elsa's eyes flew open, hardly daring to believe that the voice she had just heard was real. But it was real and she found herself staring up into Jack's handsome face, his eyes twinkling with amusement at the shocked expression on her own face. And she realized the tips of his hair were white again.

"Jack!" she cried as he set her down in the snow. "How?"

Laughing, Jack said, "I'll explain later. Right now we kind of have to stop an army of giants that are bent on trying to kill us. You coming or what?"

In answer, Elsa sent another sharp shard of ice through the chest of a giant that was running at them from behind Jack. He turned around just in time to see it fall, clearly impressed by her aim.

"Duck!" he commanded and Elsa obeyed as Jack whirled and sliced the arm off one giant with his sword before encasing it in ice.

"Let's end this," Elsa said, her mouth set in a determined line as she shattered the giant Jack had just frozen into little tiny pieces. "For Ledas."