When Kai had one foot out of the palace gates, he found himself stopped by a number of things. The first that was the most prominent of that which stopped him in his tracks was Mother Nature herself. She had blown a strong gust of cold wind into his face, caused his blond strands of hair to stand up in a frenzy and his entire body to start shaking. It was around that very same moment that he had been bumrushed by panicked guests, whom in which Kai recognized from the party. They trampled all over his thin body. Wool boots and heels crushed him until the last one ran over him. By this time, Kai was beaten and bruised, but his resolve to go after Anna was still just as strong as before he was the exit mat of those who lived in Arendale.

As he got up and went to leave, Cielle tugged at his arm, forcing him to stay for a moment or two longer. This time, however, Kai wasn’t being physically assaulted by strangers. The only punishment he endured was the ever-enduring torture of common sense. Oh how Kai hated that, but he couldn’t deny what she said was absolutely right. With the weather, he wouldn’t make it that long out there in the freezing cold that was suddenly brought to the land.

[color=20b2aa]“Fine. Let’s get the proper winter wear.”[/color] Kai said, grunting. He was starting to feel the effects of the cold and the various bruises all over his body.

Kai wasn’t far behind Cielle when she led him to a different area of the castle that was west to the courtyard. It was less inhabited as other places seemed to be. Good thing, because Kai watched her say some things (and later do) that weren’t exactly, as Kai thought, exactly preferred to be done to the castle. The first thing that she had said was about the Keyblade and how it was much more than a shiny object to wave at enemy hostiles. Like its name had hinted at (though Kai never put the pieces together), it was a blade that was the literal key to things. Cielle demonstrated by pointing it at the door in front of them, which had a lock. As she did, Kai watched intently as a bright, thin beam of light came from the tip of the blade and had unlocked the door, allowing Cielle to open it with ease.

[color=20b2aa]“Wow. That was way cool!”[/color] He didn’t have any other words. 

Kai was still in a bit of a state of shock, but he was brought out of it when he saw what was on the opposite end of the door. What he saw in place of whatever it was Cielle wanted to show him was an assortment of the creatures -the Heartless - that they had encountered in Traverse Town, though they were strikingly different. He remembered what the ones from before looked like. They were just normal shadows, but the ones he saw, while they did have the same black heart emblem, they were vastly different. The little ones looked like those little shadows from Traverse Town, but they had blue hats and were surrounded by an icy aura. And as for the bigger one behind them, it looked like a big snowman, except it wasn’t jolly at all. It meant business.

Kai smirked towards Cielle. [color=20b2aa]“You take the ones in the front and I’ll take the big boy.”[/color] Kai nodded, not waiting for Cielle to agree before heading first into battle. 

With his Keyblade held in a reverse grip, Kai jumped high above the little ones. His plan was to jump behind the big one and strike it that way, but as it would turn out, the snowman heartless saw him coming a mile away. Before he even realized what had happened, Kai was given a direct upercut from the big, white heartless, and ended up laying flat on his back next to Cielle, who hadn't even moved from where she stood. 

[color=20b2aa]“Well, that could’ve gone a little smoother,”[/color] he grunted, looking towards Cielle’s way.