The Dronningenslivvaktkorps (Queen's Life Guard Corps) is a multinational group of soldiers tasked to protect the Monarchy of the Kingdom of Arendelle.
Following multiple attempts on the life of Queen Elsa of Arendelle, in the August of 2014, the Dronningenslivvaktkorps was founded by Kommandør Stefan Frederiksen in order to provide a highly trained personal guard for the Royal Family.
After Frederiksen met with senior military commanders of seven other nations, the Dronningenslivvaktkorps became an inter-European brigade with elite soldiers from the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands.
By 2016, soldiers from Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Ireland, the United States and Canada became members of the Dronningenslivvaktkorps, cementing its status as an international military unit devoted to protect the Queen of Ice.
The cold air blasted the UH-60 Black Hawk. The journey from the carrier had been rough all the way, stuck on the same helicopter for almost an hour was tiring. With the added bonus of being pelted by the snow which came down heavily.
A grainy voice began to talk in my headset.
"ETA ten minutes. You'll be touching down in the castle, be on your best behaviour".
"You said the exact same thing ten minutes ago". The American said. "So is this time the correct one"?
"Jones I could push you out if I wanted to". I said to him. "Enough with that".
"My apologise Corporal. It's just we have been sat freezing our asses off for at least an hour now. I need to get inside".
"Yeah but we need to introduced to the Queen properly first". The Canadian opposite him said. "Not like the brief one we had on the first day of training".
"I still don't see what the point of that was" Tobias the German replied. "Our training was cut short for five minutes for some little introduction".
"Goes to show how much you Germans care about efficiency". I said jokingly. A few people responded with laughter. Tobias was one of them.
"I've got to say I'm with Jones on this one". Said Chris the Irishman. "It's too fucking cold to stand outside".
We all nodded in agreement. Chris was right; being out in the cold for more than another thirty minutes would make our journey here completely useless. We may be elite soldiers, but we are just as susceptible to cold as anyone else would be.
We sat in silence for what seemed like five minutes until the grainy voice of the pilot came over our headphones once again.
"Welcome back to Arendelle. I have been your captain today and we hope you fly with us again sometime".
I looked out of the opened door of the helicopter and the spires of the castle were in full view. The flashing lights of the helipad below stood out from the snow covered ground. We finally touched down and all ten of us stepped off the helicopter and into the castle courtyard.
We stood in the courtyard waiting for the Queen to formally greet us. It must have been a good ten minutes before she finally exited the warmth of her castle and into the courtyard. We all instinctively stood to attention and formed up into a line facing towards the castle.
She started by greeting our Sergeant, Anders Kallestad from Norway. It seemed weird to me that a Norwegian was serving in this regiment considering the history of the two nations. The Queen however was open to as much support she could get at the moment.
She moved to me next. Even though I was tasked to protect her, I was astonished by her beauty. Her platinum blonde hair was tied in a braid which went over her shoulder. Her silk like ice blue dress hugged tightly against her figure. Everything from her chest down to her legs seemed to be perfectly sculpted. Her bright blue eyes were enough to hypnotise a person, and even with the training I received, I was finding it hard to resist.
She stretched out her arm towards me so I outstretched mine to greet hers. Despite the gloves I wore, her cold touch managed to evade every single fibre of them to greet me with the coldest touch I have ever felt in my life.
"Welcome to Arendelle". She greeted me with a soft voice.
Before I could respond, she continued down the line until she had finally finished greeting all of us personally. She walked back to the centre and we all saluted to her. I have to protect her with my life. Despite my nationality, I gave up my allegiance to my own Queen to protect the life of another. And in all honesty, despite missing home, I preferred this.
We were final shown to our barracks. I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of it. Five beds lay on each side of the room parallel to each other. Each one had a chest at the bottom of it which included the names of us all. The insignia of our unit was painted above the door. A crocus flower lay within a shield flanked by swords on each side. Above the shield lay tiara which resembled what the Queen wore. "Dronningenslivvaktkorps" was displayed above the tiara and below the shield was the unit motto "Til Døden" meaning "To the Death".
I went to where my bed was which was close to the door. I put a few of my civilian clothes in the chest and I sat down to rest myself for a bit. It was pointless to get comfortable because Anders posted the first rota on the wall.
"Alright, listen up". He said. "This is our first day, so I don't want any fuck ups".
"How could we fuck up toady sarge"? Chris asked. "Would it not just be a routine thing of guarding the royals".
"No because there is a delegation coming this afternoon and is staying until tomorrow".
"A delegation"? Quizzed Nyck, the Dutchman in our squad. "What kind of delegation"?
"A delegation we need to be wary about".
"And why is that"? I asked.
"Because it's a delegation from the Southern Isles. And Prince Hans is one of them".
Everyone who wasn't paying attention before was paying attention now.
"Wait". John the Canadian said. "Wasn't he the one who tried to kill the Queen and the Princess? I thought he was banished".
"He was". Anders replied. "But for some reason, his ban was lifted".
The entire room sighed. What was a hard enough job already just became a lot harder. The fact that there was a Prince coming who tried to kill the people we are sworn to protect meant that we had be on our toes for the next twenty four hours.
"Anyway". Anders continued. "As we have been taught, five of us will be on duty, four for the Queen and one for the Princess. Even though the remaining five are off duty, I want you to carry some form of communications around in case things go bad".
He looked at the list.
"Okay. Myself, Jones, Tobias and Chris are guarding the Queen. Codename Ice".
Well that's fucking original, I thought to myself.
"Emery".
My head shot up.
"You're with the Princess. Codename Fire".
"Understood Sarge".
"Okay Gentlemen". Anders said. "Gear up".