The vibrant town of Arendelle was brimming with life, and the ships were coming in, filled with visitors from all over the world. All the conversations people had were only focused on one topic: twenty-one year old Elsa's coronation; the mysterious princess people had barely seen since she was little, within the locked-up gates of the castle.
"Why do I have to wear this?" a boy complained, rejecting wearing a formal jacket.
"Because the queen has come of age! It's coronation day!" exclaimed his mother.
To which the boy retorted, "That's not my fault!"
Arendelle's trade partners were not so interested in Elsa's coronation as the trade opportunities it would hold. The Duke of Weselton, Arendelle's neighboring kingdom, could barely contain his excitement as he and his bodyguards neared the castle gates. "Ah, Arendelle, our most mysterious trade partner. Open those gates so I may unlock your secrets and exploit your riches!" he proclaimed in a dramatic, mysterious voice. "Wait, did I say that out loud?"
Meanwhile, in the castle, Elsa and her younger sister Anna were still asleep; however, once a servant came to wake a bed-headed, drooling Anna, she quickly tidied up her looks and scurried out of her room, fantasizing about the immense boosts to her social life and possibly romantic life.
The window is open, so's that door,
I didn't even know they did that anymore
Who knew we owned eight thousand salad plates?
For years I've roamed these empty halls,
Why have a ballroom with no walls?
Finally they're opening up the gates!
While Anna pranced around the castle in her off-shoulder dress with flowered skirt, posing like the girls in the numerous paintings that decorated the walls (and dropping a head-bust of a man onto a cake), Elsa peered down nervously at the crowd of townsfolk headed to the gates.
Don't let them in, don't let them see,
Be the good girl you've always had to be.
Conceal, don't feel, put on a show,
Make one wrong move and everyone will know.
Today, Elsa wore an elegant teal dress with black sleeves and flower embroidery. Her gloves, instead of the plain white she usually had, were also teal gloves to match. The reason she wore gloves was to conceal the secret she'd kept from everyone (including Anna; only her parents knew): Elsa had powers. Ice powers, meaning she could conjure ice with her hands, mind, anything. But after an incident in which Elsa struck Anna's head with ice, the trolls from the Valley of the Living Rock advised Elsa to keep her powers a secret. This is why Elsa and Anna had been cooped up in the castle for so long, with no exposure to the rest of the world, until that fateful day when their parents went to attend a wedding in Germany.
Elsa took her gloves off and held a candelabra with her bare hands. Soon, frost started to cover the candelabra. Uh-oh, Elsa thought. My powers still haven't gotten under control. Conceal, don't feel. Conceal, don't feel. Act as if you don't have powers. Tell the guards to open up the gates!
Anna was now outside, the buttery summer (author's note: or was it spring when the coronation happened? I can't remember.) sun shining on her skin. The crowds would look at her, asking amongst themselves, "Is she mentally insane?"
Except for two people, which Anna had ran into in her excitement.
A slender brunette girl with an extremely short bob with spiky ends, and a man with a a small beard, magenta vest, and slicked longish hair with too many cowlicks.
"Oh! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!" Anna apologized hastily. "I was just so excited about the coronation!"
"Ah, Elsa's coronation, eh?" the girl asked. Anna nodded.
"Well, I saw you coming out of the castle. Are you Elsa?"
Anna shook her head. "Oh, no. I'm her sister, Princess Anna. Elsa's in more magnificent dress."
"Oh!" the man with the cowlicks exclaimed and knelt down on one knee. "My lady."
"Geez!" Anna cried. "It's okay. You don't have to do that. If you encountered Elsa, well that'd be a different matter, but please, you don't have to really treat me like a princess. Life in the castle has been extremely lonely, until now. The only-the only time I'd ever been outside was probably my parents' funeral. They died in a storm, when a big wave capsized their ship. They said they were gonna go to a wedding in Germany, and they'd be back in two weeks..." At this, tears made their way down Anna's freckled cheeks.
"That was our wedding," the girl interjected. "When your parents said they could come, they also wrote back saying that we'd always be welcome to celebrations in Arendelle. When we heard about the shipwreck, we decided that we should come to the coronation to make up for it. Anyways, I'm Rapunzel, and this is my husband Eugene." Rapunzel did a curtsy, while Eugene did a bow.
"Wow!" Anna replied. "It's nice meeting you, but we've lost track of time! It's time for the coronation. Come on!"
First chapter over and done! Please R&R, but no flames, please. More chapters coming soon!
This is Luna, signing off.