AU: Infinite Winters
Part 1: Fragments
Her phone rang.
The pale blond woman woke up from her messy bed and answered it. "Hello?" She rubbed her eyes and yawned. "Elsa here."
"Elsa! This is Anna! Where are you?" It was her sister and she sounds worried. "The concert's about to start!" Immediately, Elsa got up remembered her plans for the night. "Is your favorite boy band there?"
"The Southern Isles? YES!" Her sister screamed on the phone. "Hurry!"
"Alright! Alright… I'm changing. I'm changing See you there." Elsa went straight to her bathroom to wash her face. After that, she's awake. Thanks to the warm water. She had a quick shower and then dries up with her hair dryer. She dressed up for the concert and left her apartment. But then, she forgot something. "Oh, no. My gloves." She left it on the bed. Elsa doesn't want to make another scene like the time when her powers gone haywire.
She went back but before she could get in, a powerful blast of ice froze her apartment door. Elsa turned around and saw a tall and pale masked woman floating in mid-air. Her white dress illuminated the cold summer night. Her mask looked creepy and threatening.
"Who are you?" The frightened girl asked.
"I'm here for you." The masked woman said as she descents. The pavement immediately froze when her bare feet touched it. Elsa quickly knew who the woman is and she's in trouble.
"What do you want from me?"
"I'm doing this to save everyone... including your loved ones."
"What do you mean?"
The woman stepped forward but then Elsa raised her hand and threatens the woman. "Stay away or I'll freeze you!" Elsa showed her power to the masked lady.
"Forgive me but you have to go so that your loved ones will live." With her quick reflexes, the woman grabbed Elsa by the neck and slowly freezing her. "Don't worry. They'll be okay without you."
Elsa can feel the woman's power going through her skin and through her nerves and veins. Before her body froze solid, she muttered one last word. "Anna."
When it's done, the woman shattered the girl's frozen body into pieces, dropping her clothes and stuff on the ground. Thousands of bits and pieces of ice scattered around the pavement. The pale woman picked up one of those.
A glowing piece of pure blue light.
She immediately kept it inside her sleeve. Then she felt a dark presence behind her. She immediately turned and saw a shadow man who witness what she did. She beat him to it. He asked, "How many people have you killed, Snow Queen?"
She did not answer. She knew her job is done and so she took the prize and disappear, leaving the shadow man behind.
"Curse you, Wynter." The shadow man said before he left the scene.
On the ground, Elsa's phone rang and rang until it turned to voice-mail. It was Anna. "Where are you now, Elsa? They are already here! Call me if you are nearby, okay, Elsa? Bye."
Elsewhere, the whole kingdom mourned the loss of their beloved princess, firstborn child of King Agdar and Queen Idun. The people of Arendelle buried the small casket of the baby princess. They have no body to bury, just some crystal fragments of the young Elsa.
The last moment they saw their beloved daughter was when a cloaked woman took their baby and killed her in front of them. They were horrified to see their Elsa shattered into pieces. After that, the cloaked woman took a small piece from the those fragments and escaped without a trace.
The queen weeped, barely hold down her tears. "Why? Why would they harm my beloved child?"
No one has the answer.
In another place and another time, the royal hunting party turned into a search party after Prince Elias went missing. His brother Prince Anton lead the party to search for his brother. It goes on for days until they found a crystal fragments in the middle of a sunny day. The knights investigated but soon they found out that the crystal fragments were the remains of their lost prince.
They found the Arendelle crest on one of those fragments.
Later, Prince Anton arrived at the scene after he heard the news. When he saw it with his own eyes, he was shocked to see his beloved brother shattered into millions. "Who? Who did this?"
One of the guards, who has encounter countless dark sorcery, said. "It is possible a witch did this. Those horrible creatures. They deserve to be burned."
The prince doesn't want that. He wanted to investigate more. "We can't blame the entire community for this. We must find one culprit."
"How, your highness?"
"Hunt all of them down but don't kill them. We are not killers here. We just want some answers." Prince Anton made a decision. "Now, go." The knights began to scatter around, moving everywhere to small villages and arrest dozens of witches in the land.
Now.
In the void, a spark of light appeared and a pale woman emerged carrying three twinkling tiny stars. She moves around and placed those three in a glassed tube and kept it on a crystal shelves full of glass tubes. Each one of them has three twinkling lights inside.
The pale woman said, "130,997 down."
Then she turned her eyes towards the last empty glass tube. "3 to go."
TO BE CONTINUED