Chapter 100: Show Yourself

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Elsa's POV

When I opened my eyes, I on the floor in some sort of ice cave. I had no idea how I got there because the last that I remembered was holding on to Cedric's body after he came out of the maze before I passed out. I stood up slowly as I tried to figure out where I was and I assumed I was alone. So, when someone called out to me, it startled me.

"Elsa! What are you doing here? Please don't tell me you died too," Cedric said as he ran over to me and wrapped his arms around me.

"Oh my god! Cedric! I thought I would never see you again! This wasn't supposed to happen! You weren't meant to die! I did everything the Nornir asked of me!" I cried as I held on to him.

"Hey! You told me everything thing that you saw in the Well of Fate but I still chose to go into the maze. None of this is your fault. But you still haven't answered my question. Please don't tell me you died just to say I told you so," Cedric said, trying to make me laugh.

"No, I'm not dead. Well, at least I don't think I am," I said as I wiped the tears away from my eyes.

"If I'm dead and you're not, well, are we?" Cedric asked as a very familiar song started to play.

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me," I muttered as I pulled away from Cedric and looked up. "Get out here now! Urdr! Verdandi! Skuld! I know your there! Show your faces, you cowards!"

"Uh, Elsa. Who are you talking too?" Cedric asked as I seemingly yelled at the ceiling.

"The Nornir. This has Asgardian magic written all over it," I told him, still glaring at nothing.

"Elsa. Look down, your clothes have just changed," Cedric said, sounding very confused.

When I looked down, I saw that I was wearing the same ice blue tunic and leggings that Elsa wore in Frozen 2. That's when it hit me, why the ice cave looked so familiar. It was Ahtohallan.

"I am not playing along with your silly little games! Not this time! This isn't Frozen 2 and I am not Queen Elsa of Arendelle! So, you might as we get out here! And I am defiantly not singing!" I yelled at the Nornir but I knew it wouldn't make a difference.

"I think you are going to have to play along and I think you are going to have to sing. You know, if this is the afterlife, it's kinda amusing," Cedric said, laughing at me.

"Glad you're enjoying yourself, Cedric. But I guess I might as well get this over and done with," I sighed.

"Every inch of me is trembling
But not from the cold
Something is familiar
Like a dream, I can reach but not quite hold
I can sense you there
Like a friend I've always known
I'm arriving
And it feels like I am home"

I braced myself as I walked further in to the cave with Cedric following close behind. I had no idea what the Nornir were playing at, but I wasn't going to walk in without being prepared for the worst.

"I have always been a fortress
Cold secrets deep inside
You have secrets, too
But you don't have to hide"

I didn't know why, but the more I walked into the cave, the more I felt like I was walking home. Like maybe there wasn't something bad wait for me at the other end. I mean, in the movie everything turned out okay at the end of the song.

"Show yourself
I'm dying to meet you
Show yourself
It's your turn
Are you the one I've been looking for
All of my life?
Show yourself
I'm ready to learn
Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah"

When the cave lit up behind me, like it did in the movie, I turned and chased the light. I couldn't help but feel hopefully as I ran through the ice caves with Cedric chasing after me and sliding on the ice as he tried to keep up. I created ice pillars to jump on as I crossed the cavern when I reached it, making sure they were big enough for Cedric to jump on to as well. 

When I reached a wall of giant, interlocking icicles, I waved my hands and moved them out of the way as simply as I would open a door.

"I've never felt so certain
All my life I've been torn
But I'm here for a reason
Could it be the reason I was born?
I have always been so different
Normal rules did not apply
Is this the day?
Are you the way?
I finally find out why!"

"Show yourself
I'm no longer trembling
Here I am
I've come so far
You are the answer I've waited for
All of my life
Oh, show yourself
Let me see who you are"

As I walked more into the cave, it grew dark and then  ice diamonds lit up the cave around me and Cedric. Following both Frozen 2 and my gut, I raised my arms up into the air and lifted the the diamonds into the air and the brought them down on to the ground. 

"Come to me now
Open your door
Don't make me wait
One moment more
Oh, come to me now
Open your door
Don't make me wait
One moment more"

When I stepped into the diamonds that were now on the floor, hundreds of tiny diamonds around me and started to lift me up with them. I turned to look at Cedric who was watching with a look of amazement on his face. When I softly landed back on the ground, the diamonds covered the walls and started showing moments from my past.

"Where the north wind meets the sea
Ah ah ah ah
There's a river
Ah ah ah ah
Full of memory"

I turned around in a circle, wanting to see all of them. One of the diamonds showed the moment Dad came into my life and I ran into his arms. Another showed Danny and me in preschool where a kid was picking on him and I was standing up for him. Then when Loki came back to Earth. The next getting my Hogwarts letter. Then meeting Cedric and finally ending with the Yule Ball. The whole time my memories played out, the next part of the song played out over the top. I knew the voice who was singing, but I refused to get my hopes up. That was until Mum appeared in front of me, and sung the next line to me as she held her arms out to me.

"Come, my darling, homeward bound"

As I sung the next part to her, my clothes changed in to Elsa's sprit dress from the movie and I ran to my Mum and in to her arms as soon as the change was done.

"I am found"

Together, we finished the song together as we held on to each other's hands.

"Show yourself
Step into your power
Grow yourself
Into something new
You are the one you've been waiting for
All of my life
(All of your life)
Oh, show yourself

You
Ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah"

"Mum, is that really you?" I asked, looking up at her.

"It's really me, Princess," she replied brushing my hair out of my face.

"I don't understand. What's going on? Is this real? Am I dead? Why are you here?" I asked her quickly, each world running into the next.

"Slow down, Elsa. Yes, this is very real and I am here. And you are not dead," she told me, trying to get me to calm down before looking over at Cedric. "Cedric, honey. You should come over here, too. You are a big part of this as well."

Cedric, who still was looking at everything in wonder, walked over to us. Even though he was as confused about what was going on and he was the one who actually died, he was holding everything together a lot better than I was.

"Elsa, what was the last thing you remember seeing and feeling before you passed out?" Mum asked me, letting me go so I could stand with Cedric who immediately held my hand.

"I...I felt warm, which was unusual. I never realised that I ran that cold until that moment. And I remember seeing a golden flash and when I woke up, I was here," I said, thinking back to the last moments before I arrived in Ahtohallan.

"Everything that has happened over the past few years as lead you to this moment. Think back, this glow has been appearing for a while now hasn't it," Mum said, as everything started to fall into place.

"Odin's beard! Aunt Frigga, the Odin sleep, the golden glow! I know what it all means!" I said as the final piece fell into place.

"Uh, Elsa. That's great but I still have no idea what is going on," Cedric said, running his hand through his hair.

"Frigga was the only person who could bring Odin out of his Odin sleep," Mum started to explain as happy tears began to fill my eyes. "She could even bring him back from the brink of death. It's a very rare gift in Asgard. The only person who had that gift was Frigga. Until now at least. But she could only use her gift on was Odin and was because of the love she felt for him."

I looked up and Cedric and smiled to see that he was looking down at me with love in his eyes. I loved him more than life itself and I could see that he felt the same about me. Now I had the chance to save him and I couldn't have been happier.

"That's what Urdr and Verdandi meant all those years ago, wasn't it? They were trying to tell me what I could do without Skuld knowing," I said, the final piece falling into place.

"And why they kept me in the Odin's sleep so long. They knew they would never be able to get through to you without my help. But I have to warn you Cedric. You won't be the same after this. You will have...abilities. I don't know what they are but you will be stronger than you ever were before," Mum told him.

"You mean I'll be Asgardian?" Cedric asked her, trying not to get his hopes up that he may wake up from all of this.

"Yes and no. Only time will tell. But at the end of the day, it is your choice if you want that life, Cedric. You have seen what Elsa life has been like over the past few years and if you choose to wake up from this, I'm guessing yours will be the same. I'm not saying that you will have to become part of the Avengers but the Nornir have let it slip that there are big changes happening. And Elsa, it's in both your worlds. The magical one and the Avengers. You will both have to be ready for it. That's if you choose so, Cedric," Mum told us.

"I don't care what will happen to me, but I'm not leaving you Elsa. Not after everything that has happened. I love you too much to leave you," Cedric told me as he pulled into his side, making Mum smile.

"But what about you, Mum? Will you wake up now that your part of the Nornir's plan is over?" I asked her, not wanting to get my hopes up that she would come back to us.

"You bet, Princess. Now it's time for both of you to wake up. Steve is probably going out his mind with worry because of how long you have been passed out," Mum said, smiling at Cedric and me.

"Why, how long have I been out," I asked her, worried about how Dad was doing.

"Believe it or not but almost a day. Now, wake up Princess. And tell your dad that I love him and I'll see him soon because this time there is going to be a safe landing."

"What does that even mean, Mum?"

"Your father will know. Now, wake up Princess and do what you were born to do."

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