A/N: Sorry about the delay in updating but it's hard to keep up the pace of earlier chapters when you have this much happening. I would like to thank /u/cupcakes_please from reddit who volunteered to beta read this chapter which was a great help and without them this chapter would not be nearly as good as it is now.

Present day

Elsa was the first to break the speechless stupor that the two sisters shared as she glared at Pabbie.

"You told me that you could handle it."

"And yet here you are mounting up horses to follow me!" Pabbie replied "I must warn you though, If you plan to confront this thing you need to know that it is powerful and cannot be beaten easily" Both Anna and Elsa could see proof of that from the burns that Pabbie had all over his body.

"Do you need any help?" Anna said

"No, thank you." Pabbie grunted and winced in pain "I've gone through worse and these marks will be gone by tomorrow. I need to rest so if you will excuse me I will be on my way." Pabbie rolled back to the valley.

"Elsa, maybe we should see if he wants to negotiate."

"Anna, after what he's done to you and to me I don't think that he wants to just talk things over!"

"No, you're right. But what else can we do?"

"We can't just sit there and let him take the throne!"

"I know, I know! But since that victory over the forces of the Southern Isles and Weselton he might be in a more talkative mood."

"Wait, how do you know about that?"

"While I was doing paperwork I came across the report."

"As impressed as I am that you actually read that, it doesn't really help with our lack of a plan for when Hans arrives!"

"Elsa, we need time to think about this! Why don't we just go back inside?" Elsa sighed

"Alright." She waved over a staff member "I want the castle put on high alert effective immediately for the arrival of King Hans of the Southern Isles tomorrow night and I want bodyguards for both Anna and I all day and night until further notice." The staff member nodded and ran off. Almost immediately the castle bells rang and guards started pouring out of the Barracks taking up positions around the castle and establishing patrol routes. A dull thud was heard throughout the castle as the gates slammed shut.

"You said that we would never close them again!"

"At the time that was the case, however with Hans coming here tomorrow night and what Pabbie said about him I am afraid I have to do this."

"But why? One man is not worth all of this!"

"One man would not allow two armies to be sacrificed and then just expect to waltz in here like he owns the place! Speaking of which, we really need to get inside."

Anna folded her arms and grunted as Elsa dragged her inside. She didn't want to untie the rope until all of this was dealt with.

Hans was confused - he hadn't foreseen this happening! No matter how hard he tried he simply could not picture what would happen anymore. Why was this happening to him now? The answers quickly came from the same people that had sent that figure that merged with him – his power was not limitless and certainly not permanent, once Elsa was dealt with he would have his powers taken from him. Hans was going to miss them but at the end of the day as a servant of the gods he is in their chains and he had no escape, he had to complete his mission or die trying. He thought about abandoning the plan entirely and waiting for Elsa to die of natural causes.

Suddenly Hans found himself in a room that appeared to be made of solidified clouds with an ethereal figure standing before him. The voice was the same as the figure that was a part of him but it was so heavily backlit that it was impossible to tell if it even had a face.

"You must complete the cleansing as soon as possible. If you fail then the gods themselves will intervene and there will be innocent casualties, they are ruthless and will show no mercy." Hans was back on his throne at the castle on the North Mountain as the figure spoke again "You are the arm of the gods and your powers are the blade. You must not fail!"

A/N 2: Updates will be less frequent but don't worry, there will be a chapter 8.