Heated Ice (Helsa)

Chapter 105:

Elsa sat in her library staring straight ahead, her mind racing with thoughts but she sat there like stone. Hans looked up from his book at her and noticed how blank her stare looked.

"Elsa?" He asked and immediately she snapped out of her state and looked up at him. "Are you okay?" He asked and he leaned forward, rubbing his thumb across her knee.

"I'm fine, just a little rattled that Silas is dead." Elsa said and looked up at him, she gave him a small smile and felt a rush of nausea. "Ooh." Elsa whispered and held her stomach.

"What's wrong?" He asked and kneeled down in front of her. "Are you okay?"

"Just nausea is all. I've been feeling sick all day." She shrugged and remembered she wanted to talk to him about their child's name. "I was thinking of names for the baby."

"I was too!" He grinned and stood up, taking a seat on her layout bench beside her, taking her hands in his. "I love the name Andrew. I think the name Natalia is nice too."

"Andrew is nice." Elsa smiled. "I think if the baby is a girl that we should name her Grace or have her middle name be Grace since that was my mother's name."

"I think that'd be beautiful." He smiled and leaned in, kissing her lightly and felt her smile underneath his kiss. "I love you with all of my heart, Elsa."

"I love you too." Elsa said and looked into his beautiful green eyes. She was so thankful for him and how their fate intertwined together.

"Queen Elsa!" A guard bursted into the library with three other men behind him and he made eye contact quickly with both the King and Queen. "A sailor said there are massive waves coming into the area. He said they're as high as a man."

"The walls surrounding Arendelle and the mountains should keep us safe?" Elsa said but he shook his head.

"I suggest you put on a coat and come outside to look." One of the guards behind the main one said.

"Is it safe for Elsa to come outside with the winds? She's carrying a baby." Hans asked.

"It is safe. We won't go farther out to the docks, that's where the winds are horribly brewing." He said and they all left the library, heading down through the castle halls and out through the front doors. They walked past the water fountains and through the gate, immediately being hit by gusts of wind. Elsa's hair went everywhere and she clung to Hans to keep herself steady to walk across the bridge into town. From where they stopped they could see the waves crashing up against the docks and Elsa noticed that it was washing farther and farther up on the docks and would soon reach town.

"I have an idea that could work." Elsa said. "I could put up ice barriers around Arendelle until the storm is over?"

"Do you have enough control over your magic to put up the barrier and be able to take it down?" One of the guards asked and Elsa scoffed, shoving his question aside and looked to Hans.

"Could you take me out on a boat to the edge of the fjord?" She asked and he nodded. "We'll need to go now before the waters get too bad."

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Elsa stood at the front of the boat Hans had driven out to the edge of Arendelle. She raised both of her hands and focused her energy into her palms, feelings her powers rush through her. Most of her missed this sensation and wished she could be able to use her powers more. Small ice crystals and snowflakes formed at her hands and they snaked their way down to the water. Ice formed at the surface and the ice began forming up, making mounds and eventually formed into almost an eight feet wall of pure ice and it spanned across twenty feet of water. She lowered her hands and smiled up at work but was reminded she had more work to do.

"That should hold!" She yelled over the winds to Hans and he nodded, giving her a smile. "I'll need to do other parts now."

Hans steered the ship as perfect as a sailor would over to a larger area of water and Elsa repeated the process. She felt the electricity running through her hands, watched as snowflakes danced away in the wind and formed into tall ice walls to protect Arendelle only this time the wall was much longer and there wasn't much work left to do.

"I think there's only a little bit more to do." Elsa stated to Hans, he gave her a thumbs up and drove the boat out to the last spot so Elsa could work her magic. (Pun intended)

She finished up the last wall of ice quickly and looked around happily. The waves calmed down on their side of the wall and Elsa hoped the ice barriers would hold long enough without her having to come back in an hour. The winds still picked up their speed, making the waves on the other side much stronger and bigger than she anticipated but the barriers held. Elsa and Hans headed back to the castle and advised that all sailors stay off their ships until the barriers were removed, that the citizens stay inside until the winds have calmed and she had reassured everyone that her ice wouldn't freeze the fjord and that they'd be safe.