"Your highness. It's time to get up. The guests will be arriving any time soon."

"Mhmm...just...a few more minutes." Elsa yawns as she rolls over and buries her head underneath the pillow. A few more minutes pass before Gerda knocks on the door this time. Sighing when she hears no response, she pulls out the spare key and unlocks the princess' door and enters.

"You are just like your father, you know that?" Gerda says as she strolls over to the curtains and tips them open, flooding the room with sunlight, Elsa groaning as the light penetrates the pillows on her head. "Get up, get up. This is not how the crown princess of Arendelle should act."

"Well that's how I act..." Elsa mumbles. "So there..."

"Don't make me get your mother again."

Upon hearing this, Elsa jumps up and falls out of bed before stumbling over to the dresser whole mumbling that she is up.

"Great. I expect that you'll look your best today, what with the amount of guests and dignitaries that will be visiting our nation this evening. Your mother has sorted out a dress for you to wear which is residing within your cabinet. Please wear it."

"What if I don't like it?" Elsa asks as she tries to unravel her hair which is all knotted up from her sleep.

"I think you will." Gerda says with a smile as she exits the room and closes the door behind her. Elsa finally manages to unknot her hair and lets it flow loosely as she walks over to her cabinet and opens it, revealing the blue, snowflake encrusted, dress that her mother has prepared for her. She smiles as she undressed and begins to change into the attire. She inspects herself in the mirror and makes sure the dress is correctly fitted before she begins to weave her hair into a braid. She finishes it all off by creating a few snowflakes in her hair and a few more around her dress.

Ever since she was born, she knew she had been different. For one, she was a lot paler than a majority of the local population which is saying something considering she is living in Norway. Her parents had first discovered her gift, or curse as Agdar originally put it, when she was a few months old. The surprise then got when they entered her room one night and found it covered in ice and snow. Over the next few months, Elsa's powers began to reveal itself more with the more frequent snowy wonderlands and ice covered everything that used to surround the princess. As months turned to years, Elsa's powers became stronger, along with her control of them which allowed the king to somewhat accept his daughters 'gift', though it still stayed a secret from the kingdom.

But such powers weren't without their bad side. Whenever the princess used to get angry as a child, snowstorms and icicles were a common appearance. Even with her increasing control of her powers as she got older, they still posed a threat to anyone who would dare anger or hurt the princess. And then, there were the secrets. Though Elsa didn't know it, she was supposed to, at the age of three, have a baby sister. Unfortunately, her powers got in the way of that.

One night, Elsa's crying had woken the sleeping queen up. She had yet to announce to her daughter that she was going to have a younger sister and thought best to do it within the month. Her tiredness, coupled with the ice covering the floor of the three year olds room, created the perfect circumstances for a disaster to happen. Upon entering the room, the queen slipped on the icy surface of the floor and fell hard against the door frame. Though she wasn't severely injured, the unborn child wasn't so lucky. Within a week, the royal physician had declared the baby dead in the womb and it had to be removed. Since that day, the king and queen had sworn to keep those events a secret from Elsa, as they had no idea how their daughter would react if they found out she was technically responsible for the death of her unborn sister. Unfortunately, since that day, the king has always been weary of his daughters capabilities and what she had done, though he kept that all to himself.

Now, here they were, 15 years after the 'accident' and the royal family has all but forgotten about the events of past and it's secrets lay hidden deep inside them.. Unfortunately, it isn't only the king and queen who have been keeping secrets from others.

"About time your highness. Oh my...might I say that you look beautiful in that dress." Elsa smiles as the young servant, her name being Kaira, enters the room. The 19 year old, has been Elsa's personal servant and close friend since she was twelve and she was one of the very few people who knew about Elsa's 'secret'.

"How is her highness feeling today?" Kaira asks as she inspects the princess' dress.

"A bit nervous to be honest." Elsa answers as she puffs out part of the dress around her abdomen.

"No, no. That'll make you look fat. We want to impress the gentlemen now, don't we?" Kaira asks. Elsa bites her lip in response and she understand why. "Your highness..."

"Please...Elsa will do fine."

"Elsa...you know, if you tell your parents, you'll feel more at ease with yourself. Some secrets aren't meant to be hidden away from your loved ones."

"But some are." Elsa sighs as she sits on the chair and slouches. "I'm not really afraid of mother would say. I'm sure she'll be shocked at first, but she has the tendency to accept the strangest of things. But my father...I'm afraid of how he'll react."

"Well just threaten him with ice." Kaira laughs. Seeing the unamused looks on the princess' face, she adds,"Wrong time?"

"You look so cute when you're caught out, you know that." Elsa laughs, her eyes widening when she realizes what she just said. "I'm sorry...that was uncalled for."

"It's alright." Kaira answers as a blush threatens to escape. "I'm just not used to hearing that from another girl...let alone the princess. Look...you are still the king's daughter, and no matter what, he'll always love you. Maybe slightly less for the first few weeks...or months after you tell him...but he'll still love you."

"My father is completely straight. So was my grandfather and mother...and their mother and father...and pretty much my whole ancestral tree. Do you know how messed up it sounds if I were to tell them I like women? They might disown me. Or punish me. Or think of me as some sort of abomination!" Elsa says as she begins to pace around the room nervously. "And what if the people find out? What of other royals find out? They might declare war on us!"

"Who the heck declares a war because someone is a homosexual?" Kaira asks as she looks at Elsa.

"The royal family of Desdron did!" Elsa exclaims.

"Wow! Really? They must be really homophobic." Kaira mumbles to herself. Ever since she was little, Elsa has always had an unexplainable attraction to girls. As she grew older, she learned to hide this from her parents and a majority of the household staff in fear of what they might ay or do. Kaira and a handful of others were the only ones who knew about her attraction preferences.

Kaira squeaks in shock as Elsa grabs her by the shoulders and shakes her.

"I can't put the lives of everyone in Arendelle in danger because of my...preferences! That would be selfish!"

"Okay...how did this go from a talk about revealing yourself, to a talk about the mass murder of all of Arendelle?"

"It's all related!" Elsa says as she flops down on the bed.

"Sure it is." Kaira mutters with a roll of her eyes. "Look...of you're so scared of revealing yourself to our father, then you should just do it...slowly. You know...like show signs...but not large enough for him to get it right away."

"You mean slowly reveal myself?"

"Precisely. Eventually, he'll get the idea and he'll be a lot more accepting then if you were to walk up to him and say, Papa, I love to screw women!"

"Kaira!"

"Sorry..."

"You think it'll work?" Elsa asks.

"Maybe..." Kaira says as she shrugs. She gasps when the princess pulls her into a hug. "You know I have a boyfriend right? Not that I don't like hugs from the princess...I actually do...but..."

"Thanks for the advice." Elsa says as she stands up. "You've always been there for me..."

"That's what friends are for." Kaira says with a smile as she stands up and brushes her dress. "Now remember, there'll be a lot of prince's trying to get to you, I mean, you are beautiful...and you have magic."

"I would have thought that would drive them off."

"Nah...if they want someone they wouldn't care what stands in their way. Just politely decline and show your interest in some of the Queen's and princesses. When your father asks what you're doing...tell him."

"Erm...suddenly your plan doesn't sound so good."

"Either way...revealing yourself will probably get a bit ugly. But still...it's your preference and there is nothing they can do about it!"

"Please tell that to my father." Elsa mumbles as she makes some final adjustments to her dress.

"Remember...whatever he says to you, it's only the anger speaking. None of it is true." Kaira says. "Be who you are and remember...don't let anyone change that. That...is who you are."

"Thank you. You're the best friend a princess could ask for." Elsa says as she pulls Kaira into a hug.

"You are too. Ooh...the door is open. We should probably pull apart before a passing servant sees this."

Elsa breaks the hug and takes a deep breath as she looks at the bright skies over the Arendellian fjord, signalling a new day and one that she hopes will change her and her family forever. Oh how right she was there...

"Elsa! We're entering you into an arranged marriage with the prince of the southern isles."

"WHAT?!"

"Elsa. There's no need to shout darling." Idun says as they stand by the entrance to the ballroom. The whole day, Elsa has been preparing her 'revealing' speech to her parents as well as her plan during the royal ball, only for it to be completely torn to the ground with her father and mother's announcement.

"The southern isles is one of our largest allies. With their massive military strength and numerous economic connections, a marriage agreement between Arendelle and them would cement our relations with them for centuries to come. Me and king Heinrich have come to an agreement this morning. You will be wedded off to Prince Hans Westerguard of the Southern isles. He's a handsome fella if I may add and despite his position when it comes to the throne, he will make a worthy husband. Did you know he's skilled in stealth combat and reconnaissance?"

Elsa is completely speechless as she stares at her parents who are talking about the prince she has just been married to.

"No..."

"Pardon darling? I couldn't hear that?"

"No!"

"No?"

"NO!" Elsa says as she looks at her father in anger.

"What do you mean no?!" Agdar asks with a raised brow.

"I mean no! I am not marrying anyone!"

"Darling. This is an arranged marriage! The deal has already been done and actually, as of 2 this afternoon, you and Hans are already married." Agdar says.

"I don't want to marry Hans though! I don't even know him!" Elsa exclaims.

"But you will get to know him. He's a very entertaining fella."

"That's not what I mean!"

"Then what do you mean?" Agdar asks, his anger rising as he becomes more frustrated with his daughter's stubbornness.

"I don't want to marry him because...because..." Elsa stutters as she contemplates whether to reveal herself know. This would he the perfect opportunity with to do so, but it could also lead to very disastrous consequences. "He's not the right person for me! Why can't I find someone on my own?"

"Oh...and who would that be? A commoner? A meager prince from a small kingdom?" Agdar asks angrily.

"Have you seen how small Arendelle is?" Elsa retorts. "And there's nothing wrong with marrying a commoner."

"We're royals! We don't marry peasants." Agdar spits as his wife tries to comfort him. By now, nearly all the guards and servants outside the ballroom are watching the argument with fascination as Elsa continues to argue with her father. "All you are doing is making stupid excuses! You haven't give me one legitimate reason why you don't want to him. Now I'm putting my foot down here! The southern isles is our strongest ally and to cement our relationship with them, you will marry Hans, you will be his wife..."

"Your majesties?"

"...and you will end this conversation right now!" Agdar shouts.

"Well I am not marrying Hans and that's final! I will choose my own life and who I want to marry!" Elsa shouts back with equal force.

"Who do you think you are!" Agdar growls, now on the verge of slapping her in pure anger. "I am your father and you will do as you are told! You will marry Hans and that is final!"

"I WILL NOT!"

"ONE MORE ELSA AND I SWEAR TO GOD..."

"I LIKE WOMEN! THAT'S WHY!" Elsa has finally had enough and screams out those five words so loudly that she can hear them echoing down the castle hallways, amplified by their silence. Agdar looks at her in compete and utter shock and Idun looks on the verge of passing out. Slowly, Elsa's senses come to and she realizes that something seems off. She looks to her left and to her complete horror, she sees a servant standing in the ballroom entrance, shocked, with the doors wide open and everyone inside looking at her in compete silence, eyes wide, unable to comprehend what the princess has just blurted out.

"You married me off to a homosexual?" Hans mutters to his father with a gaping expression.

"I had no idea." Heinrich replies in a whisper.

"Come with me now!" Agdar growls as he grabs her by the dress and drags her down the corridor towards one of the empty rooms. Elsa tries to pull out of her father's grip but it is too strong.

"Agdar!" Idun screams as she runs after her husband to make sure he doesn't hurt her daughter. Elsa finally manages to escape her father's grip and turns around to face him as they enter the throne room.

"You...are a disgrace to this family!" Agdar growls as he takes a step towards Elsa, while she takes a step back in response. "How dare you scream such disgusting things in front of all our guests! Do you realize what you just made us look like?"

"That's the truth!" Elsa states. "I like females! I have always liked females! And there's nothing you can do to change that!"

"Oh yes there is!" Agdar says. "You will marry that prince and I honestly don't give a fuck what your gender preference is! You will marry him, you will honor the agreement, and you will never speak those words again! Do you understand me?"

"No I do not!" She retorts fiercely, her eyes narrowing as she can clearly see the fury in her father's eyes. "You have no right to control who I love..."

"I am your father! I have the right to choose what is right for you and what you just said is the most embarrassing and disturbing thing I have ever had. You are an embarrassment! Liking the same sex as yourself is an abomination. In other kingdoms they would burn you at the stake or banish you for such thoughts!"

"Well that is my choice! I will not change that no matter what you say!" Elsa screams as she glares at her father.

"COME HERE!" Agdar yells as he tries to lunge at her, only to collide with the edge of the table.

"Agdar!" Idun gasps as she runs over to him and helps him up.

"I WILL NOT MARRY HANS AND I WILL NOT ENTER ANY ARRANGED MARRIAGE NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY! I AM PROUD OF WHAT I AM NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK!"

"HAD YOU NOT KILLED YOUR SISTER, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN A MUCH BETTER PRINCESS THAN YOU!"

By the time Agdar realizes what he had just said, it is too late. The words have already left his mouth and now everyone in the room and in the hallway outside could hear it. Several of the servants gasp while others look in each other in fear. They had know about the princess' powers, but not this secret and this is one secret that they wished they never heard.

Elsa can only stand in shock as she looks at her father, wondering if this was just a lie, but why would he lie about something like that? Idun is completely speechless, looking at both her husband and daughter in horror.

"No...you're lying!" Elsa says as she refuses to believe it.

"You and your powers are the reason you don't have a sister. You killed her before she was even born! Her death is on you!"

"No...no...NO!" Elsa screams as her emotions begin to spiral out of control, along with her powers. The room begins to grow colder with each passing second and Elsa knows it's only a matter of time before things will begin to get awry. "You're lying!"

"You were three!" Agdar growls as Idun tries frantically to calm her daughter and shut her husband up. "Your mother went to check on you and she slipped. Thanks to your ice, your sister died! Her death is on your hands! First you are born isn't this curse, then you kill your sister...and now you tell us that you like...women? You are not my daughter! No daughter of mine would ever speak of such despicable things!" Agdar yells.

At this point, Elsa reaches her breaking point.

"NO!" Elsa screams as a blast of ice shoots out in all directions. One narrowly misses her father, but one strikes her mother right in the head. She gasps in horror as her father yells while running over to his, now fallen, wife.

"What have you done?" Agdar gasps as he holds his wife's freezing form in his hands. Her head was as cold as ice and her breathing shallow. The room is beginning to freeze over as several guards and dignitaries enter it after hearing the commotion from within it.

"What the...SORCERY!" The duke of Weselton screams as he sees the ice and the princess standing back fearfully. She takes one more look at her father and her unconscious mother before fleeing from the room and through a back entrance.

She can hear scuffling from behind her and knows that there must he people following her. As she runs out of the castle, she slams the door shut and hears the consequential whimper as someone smashes into the door.

"Your highness?!" A guard gasps as the princess rushes past him, a trail of ice following in her wake. She steps to the edge of the fjord and immediately freezes the water over so that she has a path to cross, just as she hears several yells from behind her.

"There she is!" A weseltonian guard shouts as he sees her running across the fjord.

"Come on. The duke wants her alive." Another guard says as they rush to the edge of the lake and look at the ice with an uneasy look on their faces. They take on step on the ice and it immediately collapses and causes them to fall into the chilly fjord waters below. They scramble towards the shore to see the ice dissipating and the princess' small form disappearing into the distance. "Damn it!"

"How is she?" Agdar asks anxiously as he stands outside the castle infirmary.

"Well...I am not an expert when it comes to magical incantations or curses so I'm not entirely sure what we're up against. She's unconscious but seems to be stable, at the moment. What is most concerning is that her temperature is lower than the surroundings. If we don't find a cure, she could succumb to hypothermia...or worse, the curse might kill her." The physician says.

"Is there anything you can do?" Agdar asks.

"I'm afraid not. You will need magical intervention here. I know someone in town who says that he knows a place where magic could be used for healing and other stuff. I'll see if I can find him...he might know how to help her."

Agdar nods as the physician disappears from the infirmary, leaving just him and several other guards.

"Please...leave us for a second." Agdar orders the guards who curtsy in response and relieve their positions. He closes the door behind him and walks over to his unconscious wife. He cringes at the coldness of her hand as he holds it and sits next to her. "Don't worry darling...I will find her...if it's the last thing I do."

Elsa isn't sure how long she has been walking for, but she is certain she is a long way away from Arendelle now. She looks up to see a small cluster of trees which should provide her with a little shelter, at least for a while. She walks over to it and sits down on a small boulder, resting her head against the trunk of the tree and sighing as she closes her eyes. She snaps them open again when she feels the boulder beneath her beginning to move and knocking her off.

"Hey there..."

"AAH!" Elsa yelps as she flings a snowball at the creatures in front of her, causing it to cough out some snow.

"Hey! Is that how you greet everyone you meet?" It asks with a cough as it looks at the girl in front of it.

"What...what are you?" Elsa asks as she eyes the creature wearily.

"Troll. The names Lance. And you are?" He asks.

"Elsa." She answers after a few second of pause. "You're...you're magical?"

"You could say that. You ran away didn't you?" He asks as he rolls over to her.

"How did you know that?"

"Magic...that and you don't usually see formally dressed women in the middle of the woods at this time a night." He says. "Do you have somewhere you are staying?"

"No...not at the moment." Elsa answers.

"Well you can come with me. Me and the tribe have a place you can stay at." Lance says. Elsa looks at the troll with a slight look of distrust on her face. "Hey...I'm not trying anything. We're trolls."

"Don't you like...eat people or something?" Elsa asks.

"Dear...do you seriously think I could fit a human inside me? Plus, that's just plain racist thinking that since we're trolls, we automatically eat everything moving. Wrong type of troll there dear." Lance says. "So, you coming or what? It gets pretty cold out here at night."

"I don't get affected by the cold."

"There are wolves as well. I'm sure you're not immune to those."

Elsa contemplates for a second whether or not to accept. In the end, deciding to not end up as dinner for wolves, she follows the troll up the hill towards the sender parts of the forest. She looks around anxiously as she realizes she has no idea which way they came from, or which way they're even going. She also realizes that it was also a stupid idea to follow a random troll she met who could have easily lied about eating her. Her thoughts are interrupted as they enter a clearing filled with numerous other trolls all conversing with each other or just sitting back and relaxing.

"Well hello dear. What brings you to the valley of the living rock?" A troll asks Elsa as she rolls up to her.

"Found her in the woods. She ran away and now needs a place to stay." Lance says before rolling away.

"Well, you're welcome to stay here if you wish. Its not much but I'm sure grand pabbie can provide some shelter for the night. Let me just go fetch him." The troll rolls away for a few minutes before coming back with another, even older, troll besides her.

"You must be Elsa." Grand pabbie says as he walks up to her.

"How did you know that?"

"I can sense magic and I can identify the wielder's of it. Snow and ice am I correct?" He asks. Elsa nods in response before she is ushered away from the clearing towards a small set of caves by the side.

"I am grand pabbie, and I'm what you would call the leader here. Answer me this child, why did you run away?" He asks. Elsa bites her lip for a second before sitting down on one of the rocks and explaining what happened, only omitting the final part where she struck her mother with her powers.

"I see. You know...being proud of who you are is one of the greatest strengths in life. Who you are is who you define yourself to be, and that is something only you and you alone can control. Not anyone else." Grand pabbie says. "It's like magic. Some people accept it while others don't. Some people are outraged by it while others are happy. No one is perfect, and no one can satisfy everyone because you will always have someone who criticizes you for your choices. But what you ultimately decide to do with your life is up to you. It's your decision and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. And though it wasn't the smartest idea to run away, it was brave one. I will allow you to stay here for the night and you can decide what to do tomorrow."

"Thank you." Elsa says.

"Rest well young one. You have a long road ahead." And with that the troll rolls away leaving Elsa to sit by herself at entrance of the cave. She stays there for a few minutes before leaning back and closing her eyes. She is right on the verge of passing out when she snaps awake for no reason. She looks around to see if anybody woke her up but she sees no one. She gets up and peers around the dark and silent valley. The aurora that usually lights up the night sky has all but vanished now and the entire fjord is plunged into darkness. Elsa struggles to see where we is going as she tries to navigate the valley.

As she approaches what she guesses is the valley, her attention is caught by a faint glow to her side. Curious, she creeps through the trees and finds herself in a small clearing with a stone pedestal in the middle, and atop it is a small, reddish gem, that seems to be glowing faintly. It seems to react to her presence as she gets closer to it, the light becoming more and more intended the closer she gets. Captivated by its luminosity, she decides to reach to it and touch it. The glow gets ever brighter as her fingers float just above its surface. Then, as if by an unknown force, her fingers are drawn to it and she touches it.

The result is faster than she can comprehend as the crystal suddenly flares up, filling the entire clearing in a bright red glow before it then subsides as quickly as it started. The valley is now completely empty, the only signs that anyone was there being the faint footsteps in the rocky ground.

If this chapter seems slightly rushed, it is because I wanted to get this chapter over and done with.

So, this is my first attempt at an Elsanna story. Here, Elsa and Anna are unrelated so this story is non-incest. I'm kinda new to writing Elsanna so please don't flame if something seems a little off.

-TacticX