Emma followed Elsa's trail to the elevator, quickly unlocking the mechanism and hurrying inside. She needed to find out who this person was, and what she was up to. It was only necessary considering the last people who came to the town tried to steal a baby and sacrifice it to go back in time. Emma clutched her gun in front of her as the elevator stopped.

"Hello?" Emma called out, looking around the tunnels. A while away, Elsa turned from the person opposite her upon hearing an echo go down the tunnels. She reacted fast, releasing a stream of icy cold around her and crystalizing the cave. Soon the cavern converted to a glassy ice, reflecting anything and everything. Elsa hurried back along the stone, turning it to a clean ice with a footstep as she made her way to the doors. The queen inhaled slowly, glaring at the large entrance above her. She raised her hands above her and exhaled hesitantly.

Doors of ice slowly crept around the doorframe, intertwining and spreading in whisps of snow before turning solid. Elsa lowered her hands and closed her eyes. Emma could be heard hacking at the other side, while Elsa turned away to prepare for the onslaught.

The North Mountain stands proud in the distance, with the Ice Palace gleaming in the dark

Many years ago in Arendelle...

Elsa came down the halls sadly. Her experience with Abigail had not gone especially well, even by what she had encountered over the years. She, once again, ran into Anna, who was darting around the castle telling everyone about she and Kristoff planning to have a baby. "Oh! Hey Elsa!" Anna waved in an oblivious optimism.

"Hey Anna..." Elsa said with a sad smile and a wave. Anna's sympathy went off immediately. She knew that look anywhere. "Ok Elsa, what's wrong?"

"What?" Elsa acted unaware, a classic move.

"Don't try it, I know something's wrong. It's snowing." Anna pointed upwards.

"I'm fine." Elsa assured her. This coy was the final step.

"What is it? Is it about me and Kristoff having a baby? Don't worry, the baby will be perfectly safe. I trust you."

"What?" Elsa hid herself lashing out.

"You're afraid of hurting the baby, but don't worry. I have it all taken care of."

Elsa tried to say something, but she was interrupted by Kai. Kai was a large man, with a history as long as the folds underneath his chin. He had been known to grow fussy with age, or experience. Either option would be a preferable excuse.

"Your majesty," the pear of a man began, "There has been an incident at one of the ice harvesting lakes."

Elsa pushed Anna delicately aside to face Kai. "What is it?"

"It's really better if you see for yourself." the butler stammered. Elsa exchanged looks with Anna, who had turned serious herself.

Elsa and Anna approached on horseback, Kristoff, Sven, and Wilhelm trailing behind with ease. Anna was the first to react. "Woah..."

A massive hole was in the middle of the slowly melting lake, and a large chunk of ice had been hoisted onto shore. However, it seemed to have been split apart, and a trail of ice indicated that something came out...and froze half of the ice harvesters in the process. Elsa remained silent, not sure what to make of the scene. The signs were right in front of her and yet she still failed to muster a conclusion. To the others it was even less obvious.

"YOU!" a man from down below yelled. He had been crying into the shoulder of one of the ice statues. "YOU DID THIS!"

His face had ice crystals where tears had been, and his face, dry from the moisture that had left him.

Elsa was startled at first, watching as the man was restrained by two other workers. She was hurt, by only a minor thing. A simple man with simple sorrow had harmed so powerful a person. Nevertheless, she could not dwell on the blame thrust upon her.

"Kai." she broke the silence, "What happened here?"

The butler fumbled for a moment in his inadequate tweet coat. "It seems...your majesty...that someone or something broke out of the ice and froze these men solid. Abilities, as you are well aware, only you have known to possess."

Elsa swallowed her worry and closed her eyes to try to think. "Send a search party to track whoever did this, and once you find them, let me speak with them. I will have no more violence here."

Kai nodded and trekked down to the rest of the ice harvesters.

"Elsa..." Anna tried to reach out but the queen remained silent and firm. As soon as they were clear of the lake, Anna broke out in full volume. "There's someone else with powers like yours!"

Elsa didn't respond.

"Don't you see? This is great! You can learn from each other, you can...well...I dunno. Ooh! Maybe you could make snowmen, all three of us!" Anna stopped when she realized Elsa wasn't going to respond any time soon. She huffed and looked back at Kristoff. "I don't think she's happy..."

"Well there was a guy who accused her of turning people into icicles." Kristoff reminded her.

Anna thought for a moment, then came upon an unhealthily optimistic suggestion. "OOH! The baby should cheer her up! Or we could throw her a party! What if...we find this ice person for her and clear her name!"

"That...is a really bad idea." Kristoff concluded.

"Oh come on. What could happen?" Anna asked with a goofy shrug.

Present Day

Emma turned a corner to see large walls of sheer ice glaring back at her. The ground around it was coated with deep snow. Even a gigantic rock had sprung into view. Emma nodded to Killian and slowly walked towards the towering entrance. As soon as the snow crunched beneath her feet, the entire cold substance felt it, as if it were living as one. The rock slowly began to rise, revealing large, thick legs and a gigantic jaw. Two pure blue eyes blinked at Emma and Killian.

The ice golem growled for a moment, squinting at them.

"That's a new one." Killian remarked. The golem inhaled slowly and released freezing winds at the two, knocking them both against the ice coated wall. Marshmallow didn't waste time. He stomped over to the weakened intruders, growling between breaths.

Emma slowly rose, then instantly spotted the behemoth. She raised her hands in defense to block the giant foot about to crush the both of them. White, pale magic formed a dome around the two, blocking them from Marshmallow's mighty stomp. The golem fell back a little, but quickly recovered, charging towards the dome and pounding at it with two icy fists.

"I'll slow it down, you distract it!" Emma commanded, her forcefield slowly cracking from the golem's blows. Kilian nodded and slipped out of the forcefield, running under Marshmallow's legs towards the doors. The golem looked towards him, turning around with a growl. Killian stopped at the doors and yelled to the giant, "Over here you big oaf!"

Marshmallow roared, charging like a bull towards the twin doors.

Elsa was knocked away with a scream, tumbling across the floor onto her side. Bits of the once elegant door lay everywhere, and a frantic Marshmallow towered over her. She was limp, but not dead. Unfortunately for Killian and Emma, Marshmallow didn't know that. He nudged her with a finger, letting out a sad whimper when she didn't move. His big eye sockets turned sad for a moment, then his teeth gritted as he turned to see Emma and Killian standing in the doorframe.

"GO AWAY!" the golem roared, spikes erupting out of every part of his body in anger. Needles the size of brooms sowly climbed out of the floor towards the two. Emma instantly created another forcefield. The golem knocked her backwards with no regard. It stompted towards the two attackers with a deep inhale, preparing for the final blow.

A burst of orange struck the creature's back, mealting a good portion of his ribs. Marshmallow turned around to see the darkness Elsa had seen only moments ago. Regina glared at the golem with a hand prepared for another fireball. Marshmallow felt where he had been melted and glared at Regina He pulcked Elsa up by a leg and slung her over his shoulder, stomping back down the tunnels.

Emma rose, looking at Regina for an instant. "Regina?"

The mayor held up a hand when Emma tried to reach out to her. "I am only here to deal with the snow problem, after that, I never want to see your face again."

Emma stopped in her tracks, a tint of regret as she watched Regina walk past her to the elevator. Killian rose, rubbing the back of his head with his good hand. "What on earth was that thing?"

"I don't know, but I recognized the girl from somewhere. I think I saw her in one of the files back at the police station." Emma said, composing herself.

"Well we have the evil queen back on our side so that should be peachy." Killian remarked, tromping back to the elevator.

"We can find her, and we can find out who she is." Emma said, entering the elevator with the other two.

Many years ago in Arendelle...

Anna was still going on and on as they made their way through the mountain. "And I know that she's a little worried, but I am too, it's just the state of things. We need to stick together and stay positive and everything will be fine! Well, fine for our luck which is something not trying to squash us or throw fireballs at us or..."

Kristoff was doing his best to climb the mountain, and focus on the task at hand. This was their routine. Anna would yammer on and on, and Kristoff would try to stand it as well as the spontaneous musical numbers. He would rarely interrupt Anna, unless it was important. He hooked his pick above him, climbing up onto the top of the cliff. What he saw ahead of him was very important.

"I think I found something." he intervened at last with Anna's thought. She hurried up and spotted the entranceway. A large flat stone wall with the indentation of a rune was carved into the cliff, untouched, and seemingly recent.

"We found it!" Anna ran to it with glee, "Large scary runes have never steered me wrong!"

Kristoff climbed up and looked across the wall, thinking to himself.

"It must need a switch or a lever or a secret entrance. Ooh! Or a magic word! Abracadabra! Open Sesame! Broken Tomato!" Anna was waving her hands about to get the wall's attention. Kristoff squinted at it, then walked over to one side, and pulled the handle back. Anna, oblivious of Kristoff's actions, believed she had opened the door. "It worked! I knew it was broken tomato!"

Kristoff opened it wide enough for the both of them to get in, then slowly closed the door behind them. Anna stumbled through the dark for a moment, feeling for a torch. She felt something woody and tried to pull it from it's holster. Nothing. She tried again, putting her feet on a convenient rock to yank it out. The top snapped off, giving Anna just the amount she needed for the moment. Anna took a matchbox from her hood and lit the torch.

"What kind of holster makes the torch nonremovabl-AHH!" She leaped backwards once she saw what had been holding the torch. It was a sculpture, made entirely of ice. The details were intricate, incomprehensibly so. She walked up slowly and stared at it, using the torch as light to examine the statue. Both she and Kristoff looked around, dozens more around them, all with the same terrified expression.

"Well somebody likes making sculptures! I guess we know her hobby." Anna said, hoping in the back of her mind that's all these were. She called out again, "Hello! Hello? If anyone's here, could you turn on a light please?"

The chandelier above them lit up with glowing shards of ice, an a woman came down ice covered stone stairs. "Who are you?"

Her voice was serene, calm, but older and wise. Not necessarily in a good way, but not in a bad way like Mirror.

"I'm Anna, this is Kristoff!" Anna greeted, ignoring the statues from earlier. Kristoff was still a little fearful.

"Hello." the woman said, her face showing a tint of age and a dress of white fur. Upon her head was a crown made of ice. "I'm the white witch."

Present Day...

Marshmallow set Elsa down in the middle of the woods after creating a little snowdrift for her. She rose after a while, rubbing her head with a groan. Marshmallow was ecstatic that she was alive, and even more so she wasn't stuck with those meanies!

"Where am I?" Elsa asked, rubbing her head and looking around. Marshmallow said nothing, just watched her in stompy joy. Elsa came to a realization. "Anna! I need to find her!"

Marshmallow mumbled something little could understand.

"No...I don't know where she is. If the trolls or Abigail was here I might be able to track her, but I don't know how to find either of them."

Another mumble from the golem.

"What do you mean?"

The golem gargled something incomprehensible.

"That might work. Find my magic to find Anna." Elsa rose to her feet and began to swirl blue magic around until it created a small crystal snowflake. She held it in midair for a second. "Ok little guy, lead the way."

The snowflake flew along, swirling on the wind through the woods. Elsa ran after it, a nervous Marshmallow following behind.

Emma set the book down on the table, flipping through it. "Who are you..." she passed Snow white, Sleeping Beauty, all the secrets of the Enchanted Forest. "No! No! NO!"

She continued to flip through the storybook, finally reaching a relevant page. Two sisters were crouching against either side of a door.

"That it?" David asked, looking over at the story. Emma nodded. "The two sisters. Elsa and Anna."

"Yeah. From what I can tell." Emma said, looking at the picture. "But they were both already here before. We met them at the art museum. If they vanished after Pan's curse then why are they back?"

"That's what we need to find out." David said, looking to her, then going over to the files to try and search for any records of their newest icy resident. Regina was sitting on a bench by the door, overhearing what she could. She remembered Elsa quite well, more than she wished Emma to know. It seems that all her mistakes from the past were coming back to haunt her. First Marian, now Elsa. What next? The three pigs? Regina sighed and walked up to the book to get a closer look. She said nothing, only grazed the sight, then began to walk away.

"Where are you going?" Emma asked, looking up to see Regina.

"Certainly not wasting my time here." Regina spat. Emma was perfectly permitted to object, but a glare told Emma she shouldn't interfere.

She had already interfered enough.

Years ago in Arendelle...

Stella, or the white witch as she called herself, led Anna and Kristoff through her icy catacombs.

"So, we were wondering. Were you the one who froze everyone at the lake? Not that we're being prejudice or anything, but it was just a question." Anna blabbered. Stella turned around calmly, her hands resting beneath her. "Yes."

Anna was startled to hear a forward answer. "So you can undo it right?"

"Yes, and no." Stella answered simply, then continued walking down the hall into another room. Anna hurried after her, Kristoff following behind. He was holding the hilt of his pickaxe tightly in case Stella tried anything. She seemed...darkly soothing, if that was a description at all.

"What do you mean yes and no?" Anna asked. Stella was as calm as ever. "Well yes, I can, but no, I won't. They attacked me."

"They...did?" Anna asked, confused.

"Yes. Wouldn't you expect men who live away from civilization to be ruthless thugs, who would ambush a woman if they had the chance?" Stella asked. Annaa looked back at Kristoff, defending him, "I'll have you know that ice harvesters are very good people."

"Are they?" Stella asked, turning to them and plucking a wand from a pedestal.

"Yes." Anna affirmed, nodding her head. She changed the subject. "Could you please clear my sister's name at least? Everyone thinks it was her who did it to them because she's the only one who has ice powers other than you and..."

Stella interrupted her, "She has ice powers as well?" Stella asked, now listening. She lowered the wand.

"Yes! She does this whole thing where she's like pew pew pew and shwoop!" Anna said, flailing her hands as if they meant something.

"And you say she is your sister?"

"Yep!"

Stella thought for a moment. Another with ice powers...she was either an enemy, or a friend. She would be fine either way. It doesn't matter. She had ways of convincing people. She looked back at Anna with a fake smile. "Could you bring here? I have never met someone with similar powers to mine."

"Sure! But she's a little busy with stuff at the moment so she might not come so..." Anna said, oblivious of Elsa's current state.

"Oh that's quite alright. I understand. She will only come if she has a reason to." Stella said, picking up her wand. She whipped around and thrust it at Anna, a blast of blue jetting towards the princess. Anna fell back and braced herself, covering her head as if that would help and braced for the hit. It didn't come. She opened one eye and stepped back at who it did hit.

"What did you-Kristoff!"

The harvester was coated in ice from his feet up towards his head, the frosty trap slowly growing upwards. He could breath, but moving was not an option.

"Now," Stella began, "About your sister?"

Present Day

"Found her." Emma said, plopping the folder down on the table. It showed the profile of a woman named Lisa Stuart Arlington, the curator of an art museum. "It lines up with the story. Locked up in her room, parents died in a car crash."

"Yes..." David said, looking at the form. "We also know where she could be. Now it's a matter of tracking her down."

"I'll send a search party to the house and the museum. Regina?" Emma looked to the evil queen, who had been silent for a while now. She perked up, but didn't show any sign she was paying attention.

"You gonna help or are you still thinking about the Marion thing?" Emma asked, putting her superpower to the test. She had a tendency to tell when someone was lying.

"I'm going to help." Regina said coldy. Emma began to turn away but Regina wasn't done talking. "But don't think that you and I are good. As soon as this snow queen is found, I'll never see your face again."

David and Emma stared at her, but the subject was quickly reverted. "Come on, " David said, "We have a snow queen to catch."

The snowflake whistled and twirled on it's mission. It had been designated to find Anna, or at least magic similar to itself. Behind it, followed Elsa and Marshmallow. Elsa pretended to know precisely what she was doing, and Marshmallow admitted his obliviousness. Even so, they were still on their way. The flake trailed towards an old house with green stone and a plated roof. It was large, but not especially giant. Elsa walked slowly towards it, looking at a stone sign outside the entrance.

"Arlington School for Girls." was written in black. Elsa stared at it, the air around her slowly freezing. She walked up the knarled steps, brushing away dead spiderwebs and plants. The flake continued down the hall, but Elsa barely noticed it. She told Marshmallow to wait outside and watch for anyone. In reality of course, he couldn't fit through the door.

Elsa walked slowly around, looking through the broken walls and battered floor. She narrowly avoided a spider that was under the floor boards. She could hear something, she couldn't tell what they were, but it was clear at the same time. They were clearing, but what they were, was vague. She stepped in something, and she looked down to see damp wood by one of the many cell-like rooms. She turned to her right, peering in on an old blue room with a large window. The snowflake was hovering over the center of the room.

Elsa put her hand on the doorframe, looking around the nursery. A single blue bed was made, now coated in dust. She read the name on the door. "Elizabeth?" Elsa was short for Elizabeth. It was just a...she looked down at the floorboards, still damp and wet. Ice. Melted ice. This couldn't be her room, she was centuries away from Arendelle and yet...Elsa looked around to see the room opposite the supposed hers. It was pink, with a similar bed, and she could swear she saw an indentation of another bed, but it was no longer there. Why did it leave?

Elsa realized what the voices were. She backed away from the room, finally remembering. She remembered Hannah, she remembered Julius, she remembered Henry. She looked around frantically. She remembered Lisa...Stuart Arlington. She remembered herself. Elsa turned slowly to the left, now that the entire hall and both rooms were covered in ice.

An old bald man with a large nose wearing a misfitting onld bit of clothing stood in the hall. He had seen more battles, fought more fights, and faced more monsters than anyone, and yet he still believed a messy floor was the worst thing he had ever seen. He chuckled, looking at Elsa. "Welcome back." Kai said simply.

Hello Readers! Super spooky ending there! Ooooooo! Anywho, we got Marshmallow, we got Kai, and you all have a little bit of an indication of what's happening. Actually, not very much. SO here is the actress who played Anna in OUAT, Elizabeth Lail

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There we go! And now, I must bid you goodbye! Sorry for the wait. These take forever and my schedule is poop, so I will not post these often. However, I hope the length of this chapter or at least something about it helped.