Frozen: The Dragon Empress
Chapter 1
Re-Awakening
I don't own Frozen
Anna stumbled through the storm her body completely numb, the cold aching fire of being frozen from the inside out having subsided into her current numbness.
"At least that's something" Anna thought idly. She wasn't deluding herself; she knew she was going to die. She knew that the whole kissing Hans thing wouldn't work but it was worth a shot, if for nothing else than she was following Rapunzel's instructions.
"She better hope I don't survive this" Anna thought angrily. What she wasn't excepting was for Hans to do what he did, betraying her and locking her in the library to die, until Elsa's powers had destroyed the library wall, freeing her. Now she was looking for Kristoff, who Olaf thought could cure her with true loves kiss, but who Anna wanted to say goodbye to.
"I wish I could see Elsa one last time" Anna thought sadly but knew from her quickly freezing heart Elsa's feelings. Still she would always love her sister no matter what.
"If only I had my powers, I could at least hold of this cold a little longer" Anna thought wryly as the storm swirling around her suddenly halted and she saw Kristoff across the frozen sea. She was about to go to him when she heard the sound of a sword leave its sheath, a sound she was all too familiar with. Anna turned and saw Hans, his large wickedly sharp blade drawn over Elsa who was collapsed on the lake crying.
"Elsa?" Anna gasped and didn't hesitate and finding a burst of speed and strength she didn't know she had she managed to throw herself in front of the evil man as she saw his sword fall toward her, and everything went black.
"Seriously, how stupid are you?" A familiar voice said over her. Anna felt warm sun and soft wind as she opened her eyes and sat up to see Ask and Agrophage standing on either side of her.
"Why are you back here moron?" Agrophage huffed.
"I was protecting Elsa" Anna said getting to her feet.
"Really, haven't you given enough to the frigid little" Agrophage didn't finish her sentence as Ask hushed her.
"Thana is waiting" Ask said and once again the two of them took her hands and led her through the warm sunlit windswept grass of the farwinds, the Oroboran afterlife. Just like last time they found Thana sitting in the center of the grass under a large tree, except this time there were no eggs.
"Must be lonely?" Anna asked as Thana rose to her feet.
"Not at all" The death goddess said smiling.
"I tried reconciling with Elsa…it didn't work" Anna said smiling sadly.
"Didn't it?" Thana asked, and Anna felt a strange warmth encircle her and could hear the faint sound of sobbing in her ear.
"She's waiting for you" Thana said and leaning forward kissed Anna on the forehead and she felt heat and power surge through her.
"Congratulations Trismegistus primus. Your family is restored along with your powers" Thana said smiling as white light enveloped Anna's vision, and when it cleared, she was back standing on the lake with her sister wrapped around her weeping. Anna put her hands-on Elsa's shoulders and her sister looked up wonder in her eyes before wrapping Elsa in a tight hug.
"You sacrificed yourself for me?" Elsa asked.
"I love you" Anna said smiling.
"An act of true love will thaw a frozen heart" Olaf gasped.
"Love will thaw" Elsa whispered.
"Elsa?" Anna asked.
"Love of course" Elsa said and raised her arms concentrating. The ice around them began to break up and float into the air, lifted up on a boat that was frozen underneath them as all around the kingdom Elsa's wintery curse was broken and with a final wave of her arms banished the curse in a sparkling snowflake.
"I knew you could do it" Anna said putting a hand on her sisters' arm when they all saw Hans struggle to his feet and Kristoff moved to confront him.
"Uh" Anna said and walked up to the evil prince.
"Anna. I thought she froze your heart" Hans asked astounded.
"The only frozen heart here is yours" Anna said gracefully and turned her back on him before turning and punching him in the face so hard he flew off the ship. Turning Anna saw Elsa open her arms uncertainly and with her own heart swelling leapt into them, luxuriating in her sister's warmth as she stared a Kristoff in gratitude.
"Come on" Anna said dragging Kristoff along.
"Okay" He laughed as she stopped.
"Close your eyes" Anna said covering the mans face.
"Okay" He laughed.
"And, open them" She said uncovering them and watched as he opened them to gaze at the gift, she had gotten him.
"I got you a sled" She said as Sven showed the new sled off.
"It's the newest model. Do you like it?" Anna asked.
"I love it" Kristoff said picking her up and swinging her around, her heart fluttering.
"I could kiss you…I mean if I may…I mean wait what?" Kristoff rambled until Anna pecked him on the lips.
"You may" Anna said as the man wrapped her in his arms.
"I could get used to this" She thought as her heart melted into the kiss with the rest of her. After an hour of watching Kristoff go over (and gush over) every part of his new sled they went to find Elsa who was in the courtyard surrounded by a crowed who were waiting expectantly.
"Is everybody ready" She asked, and they cheered. With a wave of her arms she froze the fountains and with a stomp froze the courtyard and then gathering magic in her hands threw it into the sky. As Anna watched she was reminded of the happy time of their childhood, all the memories of Elsa's powers having returned to her. She came back to the present as she started to slide on the ice running into her sister who caught her.
"I like the open gates" Anna said as she saw everyone cavorting on the ice.
"We are never closing them again" Elsa said and pointing at Anna's shoes shot a small burst of magic that formed skates.
"Elsa their beautiful, but I don't skate" Anna said when Elsa pulled her forward.
"You can do it" Elsa said guiding Anna along.
Elsa was in bliss. Her subjects accepted her, she could use her powers openly, and she had her younger sister back. As she stared at Annas slightly scared expression as they skated, she saw the freckles, the round cute features, the large blue eyes. Her sister had grown beautiful, and strong, stronger than Elsa could have imagined.
"Thank you, Anna," Elsa thought as her heart filled with warmth.
It was night and Anna almost collapsed into bed after a long day of saving her sister setting the kingdom to rights and celebrating, but before she fell asleep Anna unfurled her hand and focusing created a small flame in her palm, extinguished it, and smiling fell asleep.
The next morning Anna got to work. Elsa was closeted with her advisors getting down to the real nitty gritty of rulership after Anna had assured her that she wouldn't be lonely.
"I got you back, and I know you won't leave me again" Anna said hugging her.
"Never" Elsa whispered in her ear. To be truthful Anna was glad for the time to herself. With Kristoff off harvesting with Olaf in his new sled Anna had time to reassess her abilities from the ground up. She had managed to keep herself in shape in the three years she had been without her powers but without the enhancement of her magic she couldn't push her limits like she used too, and that limitation had frustrated her as she felt herself getting physically weaker despite training herself into the ground to stay in peak condition (and to stave off boredom). On top of that she found her well of magic power far smaller than it was three years ago closer to what she had when her powers first emerged.
"I shouldn't be surprised. I've pretty much been reborn" Anna whispered to herself as she panted after trying a time spell which very nearly backfired on her.
"And note to self, no time magic until it can find…or make a new time stone" She told herself.
"Come to think of it, where did my old one go? Maybe Bor has it" She wondered as she got back to work. At the end of the day she lay on the floor of the ball room panting and sweating like she had just run for miles which in magical terms she had as she had run through every spell she knew to see if it still worked, even the destructive attack spells which she kept small enough not to do any damage and to conserve her drastically shrunken pool of magic. Even limiting the power of all her spells and taking a break to eat a large lunch to replenish her energy she was still worn out and drained.
"I can't believe how weak I am" Anna shouted to the ceiling as she put her hand over her eye and pounded the floor in frustration.
"Anna?" Elsa called having heard her sisters shout. She had finally finished all her duties for the day, and had been a bit disappointed when Anna hadn't come to check in on her, so as soon as she was free she had gone in search of her sister and found her in the ball room lying on the floor exhausted.
"Anna are you alright?" Elsa asked racing over to her and kneeling down.
"Oh, Elsa your done with your work?" Anna asked her from the floor.
"Yes…are you alright?" Elsa asked again.
"Fine" Anna said sitting up with a sigh, her air slightly plastered to her head with sweat.
"What have you been doing?" Elsa asked seeing her sisters disheveled state and Anna turned and looked into her eyes for a long moment before sighing.
"We've kept enough secrets from each other" Anna said almost to herself before opening her palm and generating a small flame in it causing Elsa to gasp in shock.
"I've spent the day taking stock of my own powers which just returned to me after three years and it's not good" She said pushing to her feet.
"My powers are the weakest they've ever been, and I don't know how to even begin getting back to where I should be" Anna said rubbing the back of her head in frustration.
"Wait, I don't understand. How can you have powers? You never showed powers" Elsa asked.
"Because I never had a problem controlling my powers, so I was able to hide them. Unlike you it takes effort to summon my magic, which is why it's never gotten away from me and why I'm so exhausted.
"After three years without my powers I'm just plain out of shape" Anna admitted to herself slumping over in embarrassment.
"Wait, three years, how long have you had your powers?" Elsa asked.
"Since I was six" Anna admitted nervously and waited for an explosion. Elsa just looked at her then turned and walked away. Anna made to go after her but then stopped at the last minute and took a deep breath.
"I don't deserve to go after her" Anna thought. Instead she went and took a bath then went down to dinner to find Elsa waiting for her.
After Anna's revelation Elsa had wandered the halls for an hour absorbing what she had learned. She wasn't angry just shocked…shocked that Anna had magic of her own almost as long as Elsa had and yet Elsa never knew.
"Anna said she had her powers since she was six, so that means her powers must have emerged after our separation…which means" Elsa thought, and a chill colder than her magic went up her spine. She went to dinner and sat at the table waiting for Anna, a cold boulder sitting in the pit of her stomach. When Anna walked in Elsa stood up almost trembling.
"Elsa" Anna asked nervously.
"Anna…you said your powers emerged when you were six" Elsa asked.
"Yeah" Anna asked uncertainly.
"I…think….it might be my fault" Elsa said shakily. Anna blinked at her then burst out laughing.
"What?" She snorted.
"Don't laugh, you don't know everything" Elsa snapped at her causing Anna to blink at her frowning.
"I know more than you think" She said seriously.
"Elsa I was born with my powers the same as you, it just took longer for my powers to emerge" Anna explained.
"You didn't curse me when you hit me when we were kids" Anna said softly causing a surge of fear to shoot through her which caused a ring of frost to shoot out from her feet and move toward her sister.
"Oh no" Elsa thought and watched as Anna sighed and raising her foot stepped down on the frost and a wave a heat washed it away.
"Yes, I remember what happened that night, and the fun we had with your powers before the trolls erased my memories" Anna explained.
"Elsa…I'm sorry for everything" Anna said as tears started running down her cheeks.
"Wait what?" Elsa asked her own fear evaporating in place of surprise.
"I'm sorry that I hid my powers…. that I ruined our childhood. I tried to fix it I really did" Anna said trying to rub the tears from her eyes as she tried not to sob. In an instant Elsa had Anna wrapped in her arms.
"Shhh…. it's all right. You didn't ruin anything" Elsa said.
"Your wrong" Anna said trying to struggle out of Elsa's grip.
"No…I'm not letting you go, never again" Elsa thought as she tightened her grip.
"I did. If I hadn't treated your powers like a toy…if I had just slowed down like you asked" Anna whispered as Elsa felt tears leak into her shoulder.
"Anna look at me" Elsa said taking her sister by the shoulders and forcing her to look her in the eye.
"It wasn't your fault. It was an accident. It was wrong of me to shut you out, a mistake. I realize that now, but now we have a chance to change that, to put the past behind us, alright" Elsa said putting her hands on her sisters' cheeks, her slightly icy fingers touching her sisters' tears and changing them into ice.
"Elsa that tickles" Anna said pulling away and wiping her face while giggling.
"The past is in the past, okay?" Elsa asked again.
"Okay" Anna said smiling softly.
"But first there is one more thing I need to show you" Anna said.
"Fine, but after dinner" Elsa said making Anna sit down.
"We're back" Olaf shouted all but bursting in, Kristoff behind him.
"Hey, you two, how did it go?" Anna asked quickly wiping away the remnants of her tears.
"Great" Kristoff said taking a seat next to Anna and starting in on his harvest with Anna listening attentively as the food was brought. Elsa kept watch on her sister seeing her return to her old self as they all talked over their dinner though Elsa was astonished at how much Anna was eating.
"Wow feisty pants, do you usually eat that much?" Kristoff asked after Anna had finished the last bight of her fourth helping of desert.
"I will now. I forgot that my normal metabolism runs about four times faster than a humans" Anna sighed as she handed the plate to the servant.
"Wait, normal metabolism?" Kristoff asked.
"Both of you follow me, I have something to show you" Anna said getting up from the table.
"Does this have something to do with her powers?" Elsa wondered but was afraid of saying anything in front of Kristoff. Anna led them through the castle and out to the courtyard that was empty of people.
"Empty, good" Anna said relieved.
"Both of you might want to stay there. I don't know how big I'm going to get" Anna said as she walked down the steps to the middle of the courtyard.
"What is she talking about?" Kristoff asked.
"I have no idea" Elsa said worry shooting through her. She watched her sister take a deep breath shaking out her limbs as if ready to exercise and then a flare of fire enveloped her and grow into a large fireball. Before Elsa could rush to her sister the fire vanished and in Anna's place stood a gigantic red dragon. Four long limbs tipped by four wicked claws held up a lean broad chested body covered in ruby scales that glinted in the sun, topped by a long elegant neck on top of which rested a lean angular head with a long snout and a broad forehead in which two glittering golden eyes with two golden horns curling out of the top of the head, with the long neck leading down over a ridged back to an equally long tail that ended in a soft point. From out of the long snout Anna's soft human voice emerged.
"Okay, so far so good. Claws check, tail check, wings" Anna said and from her sides two massive crimson and gold wings emerged and beat up and down, sending up a warm gale that smelled of hot spices.
"Check" She said as the long neck turned to them.
"So, what do you think?" Anna asked nervously, afraid of how her sister and boyfriend would react. Elsa walked toward her sister in a daze as the large head bent down to her on the long neck.
"Your…absolutely gorgeous" Elsa said breathlessly and meant it. Her sister looked like something right out of a tale as her ruby scales glowed in the setting sun her wings mantled.
"You're an Oroboran" Kristoff said awestruck.
"You know about the Oroborans?" Anna asked as she was once again encased in fire and when it vanished, she was standing in her human form.
"I used to beg Gran Pabbie for every story he knew about them, the ancient dragon gods of the celestial realm of Oroboros, but I thought they were extinct?" Kristoff asked.
"Not exactly" Anna said.
"Excuse me, what are Oroboroans?" Elsa asked.
"there one of the most ancient powerful races out there. Dragon gods who wield powerful magic limited only by their imagination" Kristoff said.
"First of all, don't call us gods, I don't like that term. Second, my magic does have its limits, I have a finite amount of energy I can use" Anna said.
"But you can pretty much do anything with it?" Kristoff asked.
"I could three years ago, but right now I'm back to square one" Anna explained.
"Wait, when did you hatch, because according to legend Oreborans gain their powers when they hit adolescence" Kristoff explained as they walked back into the castle.
"Most do. As far as I know I'm the only Oroboran to hatch as young as I did" Anna said.
"Hatch?" Elsa said.
"The term for when we first transform and get our powers. Usually it is at adolescence" Anna said.
"But you hatched when you were six?" Elsa asked.
"Yep" Anna said twirling around and sending up sparks that turned into small flaming butterflies.
"So pretty" Olaf said as the butterflies flew up and vanished.