Last regular chapter, guys! Sorry it took so long, Winter Break ended, and this has been my first free moment this week. Next one'll be the epilogue, and then I'll be retiring Heidi and Joseff for good... since none of you asked for another story about them. See, this is what happens when there are no reviews! BUUUT I'm not quite done with Frozen yet. I'll be doing a little post Great Thaw Kristanna one shots, or maybe even a whole young Kristanna fic. But you guys need to let me know! I'm getting a lot of views, but not too many reviews. And I need reviews. Seriously. Because otherwise I'll have eternal Writer's Block.

Anna clutched the brass statue, hoping that it'd be enough to fight off the soldiers. But she, Kristoff, and Elsa knew that the battle was nearly hopeless. Her husband gripped her shoulder, and chuckled.

"What's that thing about impossible battles you always say?" he asked. "'Cause I could use that right about now..."

Anna trembled. "Impossible battles are the ones you need to fight," she whispered. "If you know you can win, it's not a battle, and if it's impossible, you have to fight to achieve it."

Elsa nodded. "Well, let's achieve this impossible battle right now."

The six soldiers charged toward them, and ganged up on the three royals, outnumbering them two to one. After fighting for only a few moments, Kristoff ditched his sword, and decided on using his ice pick instead, grabbing it from its place on his maroon belt. Elsa immediately froze one of the soldiers to a wall, and kept him pinned, while she worked on another, one who was very good at dodging the blows.

One of the soldiers sent Anna toppling to the ground, and both Elsa and Kristoff stopped to help her up, which gave the remaining soldiers enough time to bind the three of them. Anna sighed, and shook her head disapprovingly.

"You should have left me to get up!" she cried. "I was fine!"

"Right," Kristoff replied. "Says the woman who just gave birth. Why the heck would I leave you alone?"

"She's right," the soldier answered. "You should have left her. Because now... you're all going to die."

XxX

Heidi was hardly enthusiastic. "What is it now?"

But Joseff didn't care what his sister thought. "I always hide a pocketknife in my belt. I thought for sure that they'd find it, but I guess they didn't disarm me very well."

"What's a pocketknife gonna do? It's too big to fit in the padlocks."

Joseff smirked. "For the average person, yes. But royals have to be able to escape capture. And that," he said, finally picking the lock with just the tip of the pocketknife, "is what makes royals extraordinary."

Heidi rolled her eyes as her brother swung open the door of his cell. "Right," she said. "As if you cared about being a royal at all."

"Look, it was wrong of me to abandon you guys," Joseff murmured, picking the padlocks to Heidi's cell. "It was stupid of me to rush into marriage, especially after Mama's experience with Hans. But Heidi, I understand why she accepted Hans' proposal."

"And why's that?"

Joseff smiled. "Because things were happening so fast," he told his sister. "Because in all the excitement and action, she thought she loved him. And honestly, I still think I love Blomsy. But maybe it was a bad idea to get married so soon."

"Well, look who's finally waking up."

Joseff sighed, and yanked his sister out of the cell by her arm. "Come on," he said. "We need to get out of here."

XxX

Anna stifled a smile as the guard cursed the Arendelle royal family. When they had been taken to the dungeon, two of the cell doors had been opening, obviously indicating the escape of her children. She looked over to her husband and sister, nodding her head the slightest bit.

Another second passed, and Kristoff kicked one of the soldier's feet out from under him, and grabbed the sword from the soldier's belt. This sparked Anna to elbow the soldier binding her hard in the stomach, and grabbing his sword, as well. Elsa froze the feet of the guards holding her, and wrenched away from them without the slightest problem.

"Looks like you've bested us," the first soldier muttered.

"Looks like we have," Anna replied smartly.

One of the soldiers frozen in place growled, "You may have gotten us, but there's no way you'll defeat the Duke. Prince Kristoff WILL pay for his crimes."

XxX

"When are you going to tell me what we're doing?!" Heidi screamed after her brother, running to catch up with him.

Joseff was not in the mood to discuss details. "You'll see."

Heidi stopped running. "You know what? Whatever! I don't even care what your plan is! I'm going to see if Hans is okay!"

Joseff ignored her, and just kept speed walking to wherever his destination was. "Whatever," she muttered. "I don't need him."

She pushed through the door to her parents' room carelessly, and walked over to Hans' cradle. The baby was still there, but no one else was. She picked him up slowly and carefully, and rocked him back and forth. Hans started fussing, and for the second time that day, she wished she were her aunt, so that she could calm him with an icicle-pacifier. Suddenly, a few soldiers came bursting through the door.

"What is it with you royals and this room?" one said, chuckling.

Heidi held her little brother close. "What are you talking about?"

"We just got report of your parents' capture," the soldier continued. "We were told to come in here to get the baby. But now we have two of the next generation right here!"

Heidi looked around the room quickly, and saw the sword that her father had dropped for his ice pick, and quickly scooped it up, holding Hans in her other hand. "I will never let you take my brother!"

"Oh yeah? And who's going to stop us?"

XxX

Joseff picked up speed, and began running to the armory, hoping to assemble even the smallest brigade of soldiers. He knew there was no way to beat the Duke without an army, and he hoped that by assembling some soldiers, he'd try to undo what he'd done. He burst through the doors of the armory, and the sight before him was absolutely horrifying.

Arendelle soldiers.

Hundreds of them.

Dead.

"What have I done?" he whispered. "This is all my fault!"

XxX

Anna, Kristoff, and Elsa ran through the halls of the palace, and Kristoff stopped abruptly. His wife looked back to him as if he were crazy.

"What's wrong? We need to go!"

"Maybe we should go to the armory."

"We need to get our things and leave!"

"No!" Kristoff protested. "If we go to the armory, there might still be a few soldiers that we can round up! There could be a chance to win this thing!"

"There could also be a chance we run into more of the Duke's army," Elsa intervened.

"Fine! You girls go and pack, and I'll try to assemble the soldiers. It's what I should have done in the first place."

XxX

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK!

Joseff jumped, grabbed a sword from one of the armory posts, and stood ready to fight. The doors creaked open, and there stood an exhausted Kristoff, looking for the soldiers as Joseff had. His father acted similarly to Joseff, and caught sight of his son, a look of disgust on his face.

"This is all your fault!" he roared.

"Papa, I know. Don't remind me."

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" Kristoff screamed louder. "If you would have LISTENED to me instead of being a COWARD, we wouldn't be in this situation!"

"I wasn't being a coward. I was-"

"Betraying us?! Leaving us all to die and not caring about the consequences?! Joseff, I don't care what you were doing, but the fact that you abandoned us is NOT permissible!"

"Papa. We should be focusing on trying to beat these guys. Not fighting each other."

"NO!" Kristoff barked. "NO! I was coming in here to assemble the soldiers, like YOU were supposed to do. And now that they've all been killed, we have no choice but to flee!"

"I refuse to believe that!"

"We'll head for Mist Haven," Kristoff continued. "We'll live there for awhile. Once the Duke takes over this place, there's no coming back."

"NO! Papa, we can't give up!"

"You're right," he murmured. "We don't give up. But we can give up. But now, we have no choice."

OOOH! Another cliffhanger! Lol I'm really sorry, I have MAAAAJOR Writer's Block. I don't wanna scrap the story, but it looks like these guys are pretty stuck here. WHYYYY JOSEFFF XD Anyway, the epilogue will definitely be longer than most of the other epilogues for my stories, or I might do a chapter 6. Not sure. Oh well.