A/N: Thanks for clicking on my story!:) This is a direct sequel to 'Adventures of Elsa and Anna' (hopefully my writing is better now than it was in that!:P), but I'll try to keep it so it can be read on its own.

If you're reading this on its own, let me just go ahead and say the two "big" things that are left over from 'AoE&A'. Number 1, the Annual Crocus Festival is simply a large celebration in Arendelle near the end of summer. Elsa has made an ice amusement park for it. And number 2, Elsa has a broken arm that's still healing from an incident in chapter 26-27 in AoE&A. Other than that, I think everything should make sense on its own.:)

Oh yeah, and Arendelle is on the Canadian side of Lake Erie. (It's still its canon movie self though.:))

Thanks to bananas-rule-2015 for beta-ing!:)

On to the story!:)

"Elsa, there's a small ship that just came into the fjord!" Anna exclaimed, pointing out at the fjord.

Elsa, who had made a small ice amusement park for the Annual Crocus Festival, turned from her icy control panel that let her run all of her rides from one place. I wasn't expecting any guests. Maybe someone is here for the last few hours of the festival? It was now almost six P.M., and the festival would officially end at midnight, although Elsa was sure some festivities would continue far into the wee hours of the morning.

Elsa had no intentions of staying out way after midnight. Just…no. Elsa planned to serve barbeque chicken and absolutely no wine at her home in Arendelle castle, but she knew many other people in the kingdom would probably get a bit…tipsy later on. She didn't want any part of that, grown-up girl at age twenty-one or not. "Why don't you run and investigate? If it's someone here for the festival, bring him or her here," Elsa suggested.

"What if they want to see you?" Anna asked.

"Then whoever it is will have to wait until eight. That's when I'm going to shut down all of my rides. I won't destroy them or anything, but they can't run without me here, and I'm not staying out all night." Elsa smiled and went on tapping the blue snowflakes on her master control panel, easily keeping the entire "park" she had made going. She watched Anna run towards the fjord for a moment before going back to running the rides. I wonder who's here…

A while later, Elsa jumped when someone started talking right next to her…who was not Anna. Luckily Elsa didn't press any of the snowflakes for the rides at the wrong time. Who is that?! Elsa forced herself not to stare in surprise at the young girl standing right next to her. Why did she come up here? I don't mind, but no one has tried to come up on this platform all afternoon.

"How did you get to be queen? Y'know, with your powers and all?" the girl asked. She brushed her long black hair out of her eyes and stood with her hands on her hips. "'Cause I want to know."

"I…I officially became queen when I turned twenty-one," Elsa replied, feeling totally confused. This girl doesn't sound like she dislikes my powers, but she does sound like she thinks it's 'wrong' that someone like me with powers is in charge. Almost like someone told her the idea and she's questioning it.

"I know that! What do you think I am, a moron?" The girl's green eyes flashed in anger. "I want to know why you were allowed to be queen when you have ice powers," the girl clarified. "I think it's wicked awesome, but some people think powers are unnatural and bad and all, you know?"

Elsa was now officially puzzled. First the girl insulted her by insinuating she wasn't fit to be queen, and then she said Elsa's ice powers were 'wicked awesome'. What on earth? I don't understand… Elsa made sure she could leave the control panel alone safely for a moment before turning to the girl. She came to just below Elsa's own shoulder height, and Elsa judged her to be around ten or eleven. "Miss, before I say anything more to you, I should like to know your name," Elsa said in a friendly voice. Just because this girl is a bit rude doesn't mean I have to be.

"My name is K-…I'm not gonna tell you!" the girl announced. "I don't want to. So I shan't."

"Then I don't think I am going to be able to answer any questions," Elsa said, starting to turn back to her control panel for the rides. If she's that curious about me, she'll tell me her name now.

"Wait, Snow Queen!"

Elsa's eyes grew big at that title. Only Anna calls me that sometimes. And I refer to myself as that sometimes. Why would…duh. Lots of people probably think of me as the Snow Queen and just don't say so. This girl is just the only one who's willing to call me that outright. "Yes?" she asked.

"My name is Kiara," the girl announced, as if daring Elsa to cross her. "Kiara. My name is Kiara."

Down at the dock, Anna bounced from one foot to the other, impatiently waiting for someone to disembark from that small ship. Finally, finally, Anna watched as one man stepped onto the dock and walked towards her. "Hi! Welcome to Arendelle. I'm Princess Anna!" Anna announced. "We're still having the Annual Crocus Festival till midnight, so if you'd like to join in and celebrate with us, then…ahem. Excuse me," she finished, realizing she was starting to ramble.

"I am just a messenger, Princess Anna," the man said. "I am to tell you that two visitors wish to speak with Queen Elsa as soon as possible."

"El-Queen Elsa is busy running the ice amusement park she made until eight," Anna explained. "But I know she'll be happy to speak with her guests then. You all could come to the castle around eight-thirty," she offered.

"Ice amusement park?!" the man asked incredulously.

"Yeah! See?" Anna pointed at the icy rides sparkling in the fading daylight. "My sister's ice Top Thrill Dragster is really cool. You fly at 120 miles an hour and she can pause the train at the top and everything! Maybe you and our other visitors could come try it."

The man looked. His eyes nearly bugged out of his head.

Anna frowned. I thought everyone knew about Elsa's powers, didn't they?

A few minutes later, Anna gave up trying to get the messenger and his still-unknown guests to come to the festival and she ran back to tell Elsa what was going on.

"Hey Elsa, who are you talking to?" Anna asked, noticing the young girl, Kiara, standing next to her sister.

"This is Kiara. She's just watching me run the…" Elsa suddenly realized Kiara had disappeared. "Kiara? It's just my sister, Anna. You don't have to be scared of her," Elsa said softly, figuring the girl had to be nearby.

"I'm not scared," Kiara spat as she popped up from behind the other side of Elsa's ice control panel. Her tanned skin hid the hot blushing of her cheeks. "I don't do scared."

Elsa ignored this. Kiara is scared about something. She's hiding it under all that rude tough-girl exterior and anger. I wish I knew why she was acting like that. I wonder if she is genuinely angry or if that's acting too. "Well then. Anna, this is Kiara. Kiara, this is Anna," Elsa introduced the two of them to each other.

"You're that rude little girl who knew about electricity and helped us in the castle courtyard several days ago," Anna blurted.

Kiara's expression hardened. "I didn't know helping somebody was so wrong, even if they're a naïve princess," she shot back. "And I'm eleven. Bet you wouldn't have liked being called a little girl when you were eleven."

"Kiara! My sister was wrong to call you rude like that, but the issue is, you are being rude," Elsa said firmly. "Please apologize to my sister and we can just move on."

"Never mind. You're just like everyone else." Kiara abruptly turned and ran off down the icy stairs leading up to the platform.

"I thought you'd be different, Snow Queen," Elsa was sure she heard Kiara's slightly bitter voice mutter as the girl ran off.

Elsa frowned. Part of her wanted to smack that girl upside the head, but another part of her was quite sure there was more to that girl than it appeared. She was rude, yes, very much so…but Elsa couldn't shake Kiara's last comment out of her mind. 'I thought you'd be different, Snow Queen.' Someone has mistreated her somehow, and for some odd reason, she latched on to the idea that I wouldn't. And I messed that up by trying to explain that she was being rude to Anna and should apologize. Elsa watched Kiara vanish into the crowd of people and bit her lip, wishing she had said something else. Except…I know I really didn't say anything wrong. It just didn't come off very well.

"Why do you care what happens to that little girl?" Anna asked. "She was rude to you, too!"

"I don't know, Anna. It's just…I see something else under all that annoying rudeness. Maybe she acts like that because someone's done something to her. She was wearing that same raggedy brown dress the first time we saw her too. Or maybe she's an orphan, or…I don't know. I'm just saying I would be very, very surprised if she acts like that 'just because', that's all," Elsa explained. "And not that I have any room to talk, since nobody in Arendelle looks anything like me, but Kiara doesn't even really look like she's from here." I want to find Kiara and talk to her again. Maybe I could at least get her a proper dress or something.

Elsa heard the clock tower strike eight o'clock, and she systematically began shutting her rides down until all the snowflakes stopped their blue glowing. "So, who did the visitors turn out to be?" she asked.

"Oh. Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you. I actually don't know, but there was a messenger guy, and he said whoever our visitors are must speak with you. I said you'd talk to them around eight-thirty in the castle," Anna told her.

"Then we have to hurry home! It's eight right now."

Twenty-five minutes later, Elsa sat on her throne in the Great Hall with Anna sitting on an ice throne Elsa had made for her right next to her. "I'll just wait here for the next five minutes," Elsa said with a slight smile. "I hope the meeting doesn't take too long…I can't wait till we have our own barbeque chicken dinner. And yes, I know that's completely childish of me."

Anna giggled. "I can't wait for our barbeque chicken dinner, either. I don't think that's childish."

"Who do you think our visitors are?" Elsa asked suddenly.

"I dunno, but the messenger either was surprised to see your ice-rides at all, or was surprised to find out you had ice powers," Anna said. "So it's definitely someone who's not 'up with the times'."

I thought everyone knew I had ice powers by now…that's really strange… Elsa frowned and said nothing.

Just then, Kai entered the Great Hall, and Elsa sat up straight. "Our visitors are here?" Elsa asked.

"Yes, Queen Elsa…they are here. They are here," Kai said in an odd tone that sounded slightly agitated.

Elsa bit her lip as her two visitors walked into the Great Hall. Why did Kai sound agitated like that? That is so strange. A second later, she had her answer. Elsa's eyes grew big as she stared at the two visitors. They look like Mom and Dad?! But they're dead! They died three years ago in that shipwreck! I'm imagining this, right?

"Mom? Dad?" Anna asked in confusion.

Elsa finally knew just how to find out whether these were really her thought-to-be-dead parents or not. I just need to ask a question that only either Mom or Dad could answer…and I can't think of anything at the moment. Well… She decided to just go ahead and ask the one (depressing) question that had popped into her head. "If you're really who I think you are, you can answer this…how many times did you put me in the…in the dungeon?"

Anna jerked her gaze toward her sister at that question. What kind of question is that, Elsa? If this is really Mom and Dad and that's the first thing Elsa thinks of…not good. Not good, not good, not good. They're triggering her to think of bad memories…

"Twice," their father answered instantly. "Once when you were seventeen and once when you were eighteen."

Elsa immediately stood up and dropped a curtsy. That's really them. I know it is. They're not dead! They're alive. Really, truly alive! But…will they like me now? Am I 'acceptable' now since I can control my powers or am I still going to be considered…messed up? Well, I'm going to hope for the best. She stepped down from the throne dais and nodded for Anna to do the same.

At Elsa's nod, Anna decided this meant that she should run and give her parents a hug. Surely they could all be one happy family together now. Dad can't possibly still not like Elsa. She's completely in control and everything.

Elsa's reaction was a bit more subdued. "Welcome home to Arendelle…Mama…Papa," the old childhood names Elsa called her parents slipped out. Please like me. I'm happy with who I am now, so please, please, please be happy with me, too. Please. She walked over to her parents hugging Anna and hesitantly held out her left hand.

Anna frowned. Elsa loves hugs…and she's trying to get Mom and Dad to shake her hand. "Elsa likes hugs now," she put in, trying to be helpful.

But no one moved. Elsa waited a seemingly endless minute before adding, "I'm sorry it's the wrong hand," hoping that was the reason neither her mother nor her father were shaking her hand. She glanced down at her right arm, which she had broken nine days before, resting in its sling. I wish that would heal completely already…

Elsa was about to give up when her father finally shook her hand. Thank you, Dad. Elsa's sweet smile faded a moment later at the next thing she heard.

"No gloves?" Agdar asked.

Elsa jerked her hand away as if she had been burned. What? That is a fair question-Dad hasn't seen me for three years-but…something's wrong. I know it. I just know it. He almost sounds…disappointed?

"Why are you wearing that ice-dress?" Idun asked.

"I suppose everyone in Arendelle knows about your powers then?" Agdar asked.

Elsa felt tears burning in her eyes. Nothing's changed. They haven't accepted me. I'm still just messed up and have a problem I should hide to them. Why did I ever hope otherwise? "Please excuse me." Elsa turned and speed-walked towards the door. She needed to get out of there. She didn't fit in anymore, not with her parents back, who evidently still didn't like her. Elsa paused in the doorway, her left hand pressed against the doorframe. "Mom, Dad…you don't have to be scared of me or dislike me anymore. I can control it now," she said softly. Then she turned and ran, ignoring Anna calling for her to come back. Anna can be happy with our parents back, but I can't. What's going to happen to me? Am I even queen anymore? I can't be kept locked up in my room again; I just can't! Please no. I was finally happy with Anna after the Great Thaw and now I'm afraid everything is ruined again. I want to be happy Mom and Dad are back, but…

Elsa made it into her room before her tears finally overflowed. I was willing to just forget the past and start new, but it didn't help. Not one bit. I have to get out of here, at least for a little while. Wait, I know where I can go. I'll go to my ice palace. Just for a little while. She plopped down at her desk and began painstakingly printing a note with her left hand to tell Anna what she was going to do.

Back downstairs in the Great Hall, Anna was downright angry. She had seen that awful hurt expression on Elsa's face just before she had left, and it made Anna hurt inside herself. And made Anna absolutely angry. "You hurt Elsa. Again," Anna said quietly. Then louder, as if she couldn't quite believe it, "You hurt Elsa! Again!" She paused for a moment before continuing, "What did she ever do to you to make you treat her like that?! Just be born different?! Just because she has ice powers?! That isn't fair! She's a human girl with feelings and wants, same as me or anyone else. Did you even see her face just now?! You. Hurt. Elsa! Again! I want to be happy my parents I thought were dead are back home again, but if you're going to hurt Elsa, I can't be happy. I just can't." Anna pulled herself away from her parents and started toward the doors to the Great Hall.

"What happened to Elsa's arm?" Idun asked, sounding genuinely concerned.

Anna scowled. "Why didn't you ask Elsa that instead of picking on her for being herself? I know Elsa would have gladly answered that question. But no, you guys started picking on her dress, her powers, and not wearing gloves. All the things that she's the most sensitive about. You hurt my sister! Didn't you hurt her enough for all those years when she was little?! Elsa never, ever did anything to deserve being treated like that! I know what happened with that accident and stuff now. That was NOT Elsa's fault! But nooo, you punished poor Elsa for a decade just because she was the one who was born different! Elsa's powers are part of who she is. You can't just take that away from her! My big sister has ice powers, and I love her just the way she is! So there."

"Anna, I'm sorry for asking her about the ice-dress. You have to understand it's a bit…overwhelming to come back and find the terrified eighteen-year-old girl we left behind is now a confident twenty-one-year-old girl wearing a sparkling blue dress that, quite honestly, is rather scandalous. Elsa's powers rather scared me before," Idun admitted. "She couldn't control them at all; her room would freeze over seemingly at random. It was awful."

"You shouldn't get so close to Elsa. It isn't safe," Agdar put in.

"It was awful for Elsa, you mean," Anna said, crossing her arms. Thinking that explaining how her sister had ended up with a broken arm might leave Elsa in a better light than before, Anna added, "Elsa ended up with a broken arm because there were these criminals with superpowers that captured me. She offered to trade herself in exchange for me. But the lead criminal guy just threw her through the air, breaking her arm in the process. I'm just glad she didn't get hurt any worse…so yeah, that's what happened." Anna paused for a moment before saying, "I'm thinking you guys genuinely don't know this, so I'm going to say it. Elsa is really sensitive, and she gets hurt easily. She just doesn't always show it. You saw Elsa simply leaving the room, but she was really upset. She's probably upstairs crying her heart out…and I gotta go help make her feel better…" Anna took off out of the Great Hall toward the stairs in search of Elsa. Don't be upset, Elsa…I'm coming.

A/N: Okay, so...awkward reunion at best.:/ That happened.:P

Please let me know what you think of Kiara. This is my first time writing an OC, and I really, really don't want her to be a Mary Sue. (Granted, she isn't particularly likable, but still.:P) I promise Kiara will not take over the story from Elsa and Anna.:)

Next chapter coming soon!:)