Ch. 98 - Betrayal and Deception

[Flashback, Tigress's PoV]

Everything was just doing fine, I was eating while Anna was narrating her fantasy stories when the ceiling of the hall suddenly exploded and flooded us with large debris, killing off several people.

Everything happened quickly as each and everyone in the hall panicked and started running off, some even daring to leave their children and relatives just to save their skin.

My face grimaced just by thinking about it.

Anyways, thanks to my presence in the scene, me and Anna managed to get away while Shrek and Fiona handled themselves just fine. And that's when I saw Jin flying towards the castle.

After waving at Jin, who waved back at me. I saw that he entered back into the castle. Probably gonna do something related to the attack, so I resumed my pace and catches up to Anna, who has already ran quite a distance away from me.

While I was going to catch up to her, I noticed that the people on the front seemed to have come to an abrupt stop.

"What's going on?" I hear Shrek speak in confusion.

Using my sharp eyes, that's when I saw that in the front was a proper line up of silver knights that looks similar to the Knights in Arendelle except for having a different flag on their armor.

"What the hell are you all doing!? Get out of my way this instant or you shall face the consequences!" A woman with a regal gown stepped forward and angrily yelled at the knights who were blocking their way.

"No can do, your highness." Suddenly, another silver knight with a different design of armor came forward while riding in his horse.

"What do you mean? Who do you serve? What Kingdom do you serve?" The woman in a regal gown asked three questions one by one.

Irritated, the silver knight in a horse unsheathed his long sword and pointed it at the woman with a regal gown.

"Too many questions! All you should know is that I am the General Knight of the Thalassar Kingdom!" The General Knight loudly declared.

"Thalassar Kingdom? Aren't you part of the Alliance?! What is the meaning of this?!" A middle aged man stepped forward and angrily shouted.

Meanwhile, the knights of the Arendelle Kingdom noticed the commotion and quickly approached the scene, protecting the people from the Thalassar Knights behind them. Since the Arendelle Kingdom became an open Kingdom, they never truly cared about who entered the Kingdom as they believed that the peace that their past ancestors achieved is eternal which means it is easy to enter the Kingdom through the several entrances that Arendelle has, so they never expected this kind of situation to appear inside their walls.

"Round them up!" The Thalassar General Knight quickly ordered his men and surrounded the large crowd of royalties and staff, including Tigress and Anna.

With Thalassar Knight's growing numbers, they were slowly being surrounded, much to everyone's fear.

"Tigress, what's going on? I'm scared." Anna shivered in fear and hid behind Tigress while looking at the General Knight with a scared look on her face.

"Everything will be fine. Just stick close to me and never leave my sight." Tigress assured her and pushed her behind her. Her eyes squint towards the Thalassar Knights, especially at their General Knight. From the earlier interaction and conversation, she could already deduce what is truly happening here.

If what she assumes is true then the Thalassar Kingdom's King must've planned this right exactly during the Solstice Summit in which all the Kings in the alliance would attend. Which must also be the reason why she can't find an ounce of the Kings's presence right now.

Seeing that the Thalassar Knights were surrounding them, the Arendelle Knights fearlessly fought back with relentless vigor and unyielding will. This is their land and they serve the King of Arendelle. It's normal for them to fight their enemies.

"It's useless." The Knight General smirked in arrogance. He is confident in his troops especially since he had the advantage in numbers and formation.

However, his arrogance didn't last long when an orange haired woman suddenly flew in the air and landed in the middle of their formation, causing a shift in the troop's formation and balance.

*Boom!*

"Ahhhh!"

Surprised by the sudden arrival of Tigress, their formation was disrupted, causing the tables between the Arendelle and Thalassar Knights to be flipped and put into balance.

"Who is that?" The General Knight pulled the reins of his horse, stepping back from the battlefield in fear of being accidentally knocked off by the small flying debrises or pebbles.

"It seems to be a woman, General." A lanky knight by his side reported in a hurry.

"A mere woman? She should've stayed at home and pleased a man. Take her down!" The General Knight maintained his arrogance and even insulted Tigress just for being a woman. In this current era, women are still looked down upon by the men for they believe that only men are destined for greatness due to their capability and greater strengths than women.

However, that would be his last mistake as his ranks of knights started flying one by one as Tigress kept delivering a flurry of kicks and punches around her, making a distance between her and the knights. With this distance, Tigress managed to swiftly avoid their attacks and strike back at them with ease.

'This is just a warm up at best.' Tigress shook her head in disappointment when she saw the scared looks on her enemy's faces.

"Focus on the royals! We can't defeat her but she surely can't protect everyone." The General Knight loudly ordered, making Tigress panic slightly, although she doesn't care about protecting the royalties since she doesn't have any slight connections to them especially after seeing and hearing their arrogance back in the hall, but she left Anna among the crowd and she can't have her getting involved in the fight.

However, Tigress's worries turned null when an icy blast suddenly blasted the Thalassar Knights away from the crowd, putting them to safety while at the same time, building a wall that separates them from each other. Meaning, the Thalassar Knights won't be able to touch the royalties and civilians thanks to the ice wall she built.

Meanwhile, Tigress sighed in relief though at the same time, she was worried at Elsa revealing her powers to the public, especially in such a situation like this. She knows how much humans tend to fear something they cannot control.

"Run to the back gates! Half of you all will come with them!" Elsa shouted at the crowd who froze in shock, waking them up from their stupor while turning to look at the Arendelle Knights and gave order.

"Do as Princess Elsa says! You boys, come with me!" A dark skinned knight was the first one to respond and quickly relayed the order to his fellow knights.

"Understood!" Soon, half of the knights left the battlefield so they could guide the defenseless crowd to the back gates.

Meanwhile, Elsa filled in their position and used her icy powers to create tens of knights made of her own ice magic.

"A-an evil sorceress! Kill her!" Although he heard the rumors about Elsa having magical powers, he only waved it off with an excuse that people are only spreading it to give the Arendelle Princess a bad name. Though he didn't expect it to be true!

Expecting that she would meet retaliation, Elsa commands the ice knights to intercept the Thalassar Knights and incapacitate them.

Unfortunately for the Thalassar Knights, the Icy knights were made of durable ice magic, which means that they're more durable than them. Though the ice knights also have their own disadvantage and that is their lack of numbers and their swords aren't as sharp as theirs, probably due to the fact that Elsa's powers only grow as she ages. So, her ice powers aren't that much capable yet when it comes to fully replicating things or objects.

Though, their ice swords are just exactly what Elsa needed as she doesn't want to kill them, only incapacitate, so the ice sword is more like a blunt weapon instead, which makes it easier to take the Thalassar Knights by smashing the hard ice swords in their heads.

*Bam!* x10

One by one, every Thalassar Knights that tries to approach Elsa were met with an icy smack on their heads.

"This is impossible!" The General Knight of her Thalassar Kingdom gritted his teeth in both anger and fear. If only he believed in those silly rumors, then perhaps he could've prepared or at least made an emergency plan in case something goes wrong.

His King merely told him to scare off Arendelle's citizens and the guests in the Solstice Summit before capturing them to ensure that the plan goes smoothly.

Unfortunately, his information was not only wrong but also lacking as there's also the orange haired woman who is decimating his troops as time goes on. In fact, he even saw two knights flying so high that it went somewhere in the King's Castle.

"A hostage. We need a hostage." The General Knight muttered to himself before looking around for a hostage and that's when he saw a brown haired girl running back towards the castle with worry on her face.

'Gotcha!' Smiling evilly, the General Knight dismounted his horse and started sneaking towards the unsuspecting brown haired girl.

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Meanwhile, Anna got worried for her parents since the last time she remembered were the two of them joining along the meeting of the Kings.

Though she wished that her mother stayed by her side instead.

'Mama Papa, please be okay!' Anna prayed to whoever God she could remember, she even prayed on the God of Chocolates that she used to pray to back then for fun, not knowing that a vile and evil man was walking towards her.

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