Frozen Beyond [gxg]

Into The Unknown Reprise

< Author's Note: Once more this is my first time ever doing a written "musical number" and so I had fun with it. I'm unfortunately not creative enough to come up with a song so this will be a reprise of into the unknown and I sort of made it into a light duet... I tried to match it up as perfectly as I could with the original in terms of structure — so you can listen to into the unknown while following along in the story. Let me know what you think =) >

It wasn't the same voice she heard a year ago. It was nearly the whisper of a heartbeat floating on Gale's folly.

Gale blew through the halls, pulling Elsa back. She paused, looking behind her as Gale flew around Keahi, wrapping her in a gust of wind and leaves before chittering and coming over to do the same once more to her.

Her chest hurt as she turned and hurried down the hall.

"I can feel you, but I won't. Some search for love, while others don't." Elsa whispered, motioning for Keahi to stop following.

Keahi took a small passage that rounded the corner and cut her off. Stopping Elsa.

She looked up at the woman and looked away, pushing Keahi's outstretched hand. "There's a thousand reasons... I should go about my day." Her whimsical voice echoed down the halls as she turned and ran from what Keahi offered.

"But you can't ignore my whispers. They won't just go away." Keahi's voice was oddly pleasing and caused goosebumps to erupt on her forearms. The other's voice was raspy, husky, and meshed with her way too perfectly for her to admit. "I'm not just a voice, I'm a rush of warmth that you can feel," Keahi's voice echoed along the halls behind her, dipping low in a near whisper and echoing on the Gale's wind.

Her own heart hammered sporadically in her chest as she disappeared into the ballroom. It was empty, whispers of old parties clung to the floor. Ghosts of royalty passed watched them from their dusty paintings on the wall.

Elsa swept in a wide turn to eye Keahi in the doorway. She was trapped, running from her own insecurities and getting caught within them. With a hand to her chest, she shook her head.

"And if I feel you," Elsa held up her index finger with a look of indignation as she sharply pointed at Keahi, "Which I don't. I can't be spoken for, I fear." She chided, wagging her index finger at Keahi and trying to go around the woman blocking the door.

Keahi just smirked, taking a step forward and waving her hand, causing the odd blue tinted fire to start behind her. Nothing under it burned, and no smoke wavered from its threshold. "Everyone you've ever loved is stuffed within these walls. What happens when you branch out beyond to further calls?" Keahi countered.

Elsa frowned, her brows dipping forward and with each step Keahi took, Elsa receded back. Tilting her chin, she waved her wrist and frost swept around the room and started to put out the fire.

Keahi only responded by lighting more fire into Elsa's ice. The results were a sizzling clash, creating steam that misted the room. They danced around one another in a careful cat and mouse, fire and ice clashing against one another in a graceful waltz. When the ice claimed the fire, the fire just ignited again.

"My heart is a war, I don't need someone new. I'm afraid of what I'm risking if I start loving you," she breathed out the admission, startling even herself. She stomped her foot on the ground. It illuminated blue in the shape of an elegant snowflake. Which, to her dismay, had heart shapes interwoven in its design. She groaned and rolled her head back. Red wormed through it and fire splintered its cracks, causing steam to rise from the floor.

When she looked up, she came chest to chest with Keahi, her eyes determined as they bore into an equally determined pair.

Keahi took her cold hands into the warmth of her own and swept her across the floor in a heated give-and-take.

"Into the unknown, beyond the unknown," she sung out shakily as Keahi swept her across the steam-filled room. Sparks of ice erupted from her own body, causing icy blue flakes to suspend in time. In response, Keahi's body emitted a blue-pink rain of sparkler flares that sizzled out before they reached the floor.

Laughter bubbled in her chest and warmth exploded in her veins when she looked up at Keahi's wolfish grin as they swung around on the dance floor. She tilted her head back, trusting and allowing Keahi to swing her around. She smiled, taking a deep breath and not holding back, "Into the unknooooown!" She sang out, her voice echoing within the misted steam and empty ballroom.

Gale chittered about and stirred the steam into a whirling circle around them. With every step she took, blue illuminated the floor and crackled as ice covered it. With every step Keahi took, it sizzled in response.

They slowed, Elsa's hands resting on Keahi's chest. Her eyes were downcast as she breathed in the humid air that now filled the room. "What did you want? Because you keep me awake. You're here to distract me." She sang lowly.

Keahi tilted her chin upward. "I'm not here to lead you astray. I'm just someone out here, who's a little bit like you. Who knows deep down, exactly what to do."

Elsa's heart stammered in her chest and she gripped Keahi's clothes in her fist. "Everyday's a little harder, as I feel my love start to grow. Don't you know that everything in me wants to let go?"

Elsa took Keahi's hands once more in her own, so they continued their fast-paced dance across the floor. Once more fire and ice fire worked above them, sending off sparks that ruffled within the steam.

"Together into the unknown. Into the unknown," They both sang in unison.

Elsa broke away in a graceful spin, holding her hands to her chest as she closed her eyes and spun. "Into the unknoooowwn." She used the moment to release everything she had felt was built up. She opened her arms wide into the mist, stopping only momentarily as she stepped her foot on the ground and various spots across the ballroom lit with different shapes as ice spidered its way up the walls in contoured and elegant designs. "Oh, I know you're out there, you can feel me, come and show me!" With every word she took another step and ice crawled up the walls to the ceiling.

Through the steam, sparks of flames licked at the air and traveled under her ice, causing it to glow pink and blue. Keahi came up beside her and took her hand as cold flames traveled along the walls to the ceiling, mimicking Elsa's trails of ice.

"Ahh woah oh ohh," They started together, ice and fire, husky and smooth, everything within them clashed perfectly as they harmonized with one another. Keahi dipped her low before they stood up straight and Keahi spun her.

She refused to let go of the warm hand that held her and curled back into Keahi's grasp, her back to the heat of Keahi's chest.

"Woah, oh ohh, ahh woah, ohh oh." Both of their powers seemed to have a mind of their own at the moment. Fire and ice coiled around the room in a dizzying array. Clashing and coming together with one another to create rainbows of colors.

They separated from one another for a moment, and Elsa looked around as the steam, colors, ice, and fire obscured everything around her. But she could feel Keahi there and she reached into the abyss. "Where are you going? Don't leave me alone! How do I —"

"I'll follow you—" Keahi's hand reached from the steam and took hold of hers.

"Beyond the unknown." They both finished in a breathy end as Elsa wrapped her arms around Keahi's neck and they stood there, entwined, for a while longer as the fire and ice cracked and steamed around them, obscuring them from the world for just a little while.