Lullaby for a Princess by Ponyphonic (listen to it, although I did change a few things.)And a little bit of: Do You Wanna See the Moon Rise? By Scyrina. Two shot: Elsa's Lullaby & Anna's Reply. Post-movie. Fire!Anna. Very OOC! No Kristoff or Olaf. K+ just to be safe. I own nothing (except for tweaking the cover a little bit). Plot from song/MLP. Enjoy!:)
Lullaby for a Princess
Ever since Elsa returned to Arendelle and reclaimed her throne as queen, the citizens were never happier under anyone's reign. She could finally be free from her fears and become the queen she was meant to be. The citizens adored and admired their queen and happily accepted her for who she was. She was gorgeous and stunning, so great and powerful, wise and generous, the greatest queen to ever live. They were all charmed and amazed by her magical ice powers and her beauty, even people from outside the kingdom came far and wide to witness her. She was an exceptional ruler and was extremely fair with ruling her kingdom and led it to great success. It was safe to say that Elsa was loved by all, a feeling that Elsa could get used to.
Anna was so happy and proud for her sister. She loved her with all her heart. It made her cry tears of joy to see her being happy and ruling her rightful kingdom rather than shutting herself up in her cold room. However, being queen meant that Elsa had duties to attend to and that Anna had to be left alone... again. But Anna didn't mind, she would always see Elsa for herself time to time and they were both happy and loved. Although being princess was quite a leisurely job compared to the queen, Anna still had power in the kingdom and would stand by her sister whenever the two praised the citizens above on their palace's balcony. She was so happy now.
But alas, as the years drew on, history began to repeat itself. But the roles had been swapped.
Elsa began to grow more isolated from Anna once more and began to bask in her royalty while Anna was beginning to be brushed off to the side and forgotten by all. Elsa would never spend time with Anna anymore and would always claim herself to be 'busy.'
Because of course, how could little optimistic Princess Anna stand up to the powerful and magical Queen Elsa?
Days would go by and Elsa would think as she stood over her kingdom and sighed;
"Surely there is nobody so lovely or so well beloved as I..."
Elsa was magnificent;
So great was her reign, and so brilliant her glory that long was the shadow she cast, which fell dark upon the young sister she loved, and grew only darker as days and nights passed...
As time grew on, Anna began to turn invisible. It was like she didn't even exist. When Elsa stood above her kingdom, the citizens were hailing her and only her. It was painful, not even Elsa whom Anna still loved payed any attention to her now. It was a pain and darkness that consumed Anna's mind and heart. After all, what was a princess compared to a queen? What was a silly mortal girl compared to a royal ice magician? Anna had no more place in this world. What's the purpose of living like this if you were never there and no one cared for you?
Anna felt no purpose to even leave her room. So, she locked herself in one day and never left, and nobody noticed. Anna cried away the days and nights, her heart slowly growing darker and more insane by the second.
But soon did Queen Elsa take notice that others did not give her sister her due, and neither had she loved her had she deserved, she watched as her sister's unhappiness grew...
But it was too late, and Elsa didn't even know what had been happening. Elsa had calmly checked upon her weeping sister one day, only to be greeted by a furious and enraged princess who had slammed the door in front of the queen, tears rolling down the young sister's face. Elsa, stunned, stood outside the door for a brief moment, listening to the wails and screams of pain and grief from within. Elsa trembled with fear, what had become of her dear and beloved sister? What had gone wrong? She didn't understand. Tears brimmed the queen's eyes but she promptly wiped them away and simply kept on walking, not daring to care about her insane younger sister. Anna would be fine.
But such is the way of the limelight, it sweetly takes hold of the mind of it's host, and foolish Queen Elsa did nothing to stop the destruction of one who had needed her most...
Anna was confused. Anna was afraid. Anna was furious. How could her sister do this to her?! After all they had done?! After all she had done for her?! She saved her sister with an act of true love, and so did Elsa! Anna thought that love would last forever! Did Elsa not love her anymore? Well, if so, neither did she! Queen or not, Elsa had no right to abandon her like this... again! How could she?! HOW COULD SHE!? Anna loved her! With all her heart! How could Elsa abuse her royalty like this and think that she's better than everyone else? And here she was, crying away the months, the years in her room with only her now checking on her and not being the least bit concerned?!
It wasn't fair! Even though she was Queen Elsa, Anna had the right as Princess to rule Arendelle together! Queen Elsa and Princess Anna ruling the kingdom of Arendelle side by side, inseparable by the true love of sisters. She guessed not!
Anna couldn't stand the pain anymore. Elsa, the kingdom, the citizens, needed to be taught a lesson! Not to ignore her anymore! The kingdom will know Princess Anna! Anna finally declared;
"There can only be one princess in Arendelle, and that princess will be ME!"
At that moment, a rage burning so harsh and so violent had ignited within her heart and Anna was succumbed to the fire of revenge within her, becoming a slave from the flames within.
Anna burned and wreaked havoc to every town, shop, street, home, and dock within the kingdom. People ran for their lives with their children and prized possessions while the soldiers of Arendelle pulled out their shotguns, bow and arrows, cannons and catapults and reluctantly used force against their princess. After every single weapon had been burned to dust and splinters, everyone resorted to bowls and buckets of water but Anna's flame of was much too strong to be snuffed out.
By nightfall, the kingdom was nothing but flames and ruin. Many of the citizens had been cindered by the dangerous fires and others were severely injured. The survivors jumped into the lake surrounding the kingdom to escape but Anna set the lake on fire so whoever came up to breath would choke on smoke or burn whilst the others would drown. The soldiers stayed to battle but eventually all of them were slaughtered dead. Arendelle was now a living Hell.
No person or weapon was a match against Princess Anna, the Flame Princess...
Not even the Ice Queen.
Elsa honed more skills but it was no duel against Anna's raw power that was fueled from rage, not to even mention that ice wasn't very effective against fire. Anna dished out attack after attack, and each hit being stronger than the next while Elsa's ice powers dwindled by the minute. Anna, blinded by insanity thought she had won when she had finally brought the Ice Queen down, but she had underestimated her once loved sister. Elsa was clever and would not go down without a proper fight. The Flame Princess had vanished for the night and Elsa took this time to retreat back to her burned down castle to recover and recuperate with the remaining villagers.
Anna thought she had already won, that was her greatest mistake.
Elsa didn't rest, her and other kings and queens and dukes from other kingdoms who had survived gathered around to form a plan that night. A plan that would work but would take incredible power that only Elsa herself could muster. Elsa didn't agree to the plan. But with much persistence and discussing, she agreed to it with a heavy heart. She was the queen and had to do her duty to do whatever it takes to protect her kingdom... but deep in her heart; just once, could she simply not be queen and be the little sweet girl she was with her lovable sister all those years ago? No, it had to be done, Anna must be stopped.
The next morning, Anna returned, sought out and ready to sink Arendelle and rule over the land as the Flame Queen. Long live the queen. With the burn of revenge in her heart and eyes, Anna blasted towards the castle, ready to finish the kingdom of Arendelle once and for all.
But Elsa was ready and waiting along with the remaining villagers who would do their part in the plan. Elsa was patient, on her mark, the plan would fall into action, but she had to be patient and wait for the perfect moment to pull off the element of surprise. It was now or never. If the plan failed, Arendelle was done for. In the distance, Elsa could spot a flame soaring through the sky, growing larger and larger as it was approaching them. She could hear the shuffling and murmuring of concerns of the citizens up-head about the plan. Elsa could only wish for the best.
Anna made eye contact with the castle of Arendelle. Oh, her home! Her once beautiful home where she spent her days crying and growing insane by the moment with no one to care for her. That castle was sinking to the bottom of the lake first! However, a glint of ice blue caught the Flame Princess's attention as her flaming fire red eyes set upon the- no, wait, it couldn't be! The Ice Queen, Elsa. She thought she was dead! Anna roared with fury as she charged towards the castle, after all, no kingdom should go down without it's queen.
As Anna came closer, Elsa grew more afraid and more saddened. Guilt pooled within her system as tears clouded her vision and threatened to fall, but she swallowed them back. Anna was blasting towards the castle like a meteor, driven to sink it and it's queen. But Elsa had to remain still and calm.
50 yards, 40 yards, 30 yards... Elsa's heart pounded as her mouth wavered, an unknown force tugging the corners of her lips downwards, a pang in her chest growing, and it wasn't her sore heart beating against her chest...
20 yards... Tears broke free and trailed down the queen's face, she didn't want to do this! She wanted it to stop! No! Why did she agree to do this?!
10 yards... Elsa forcefully prepared for the attack, it hurt so much! Why did she have to?! No! N-
1 yard...
"NOW!"
Just as Anna's flaming hands of fire were about to obliterate Elsa, a tsunami of water was dumped on her overhead. Anna was temporarily weakened and distracted for a split second- that was all Elsa needed.
Without missing a beat, Elsa conjured a blizzard as big as Arendelle itself and cast it at her sister, tears flying out of her eyes, unable to witness what she was conjuring. She couldn't believe, she didn't want to believe what she was doing. It was too late now though, she couldn't stop it. It was done.
The water had momentarily washed out Anna's flame and when Elsa's blizzard made contact with Anna's wet figure, she was frozen- too cold to even regenerate, her flame had finally been put out for good. But the blizzard was not done doing it's job; the wind picked up around the frozen girl and cast her far away from the kingdom and banished into the forest and mountains beyond... forever.
The blizzard and magic Elsa had conjured was similar to the one she had cast on her sister long before... it froze her heart and it would slowly soothe away the flame of hatred in her heart. Anna was not coming back any time soon, the idea was supposed to be that she would never come back. She was forever banished to the land beyond. How could Elsa conjure something so powerful? True Love. But how could true love do something so vile? Elsa didn't want to do it, she herself thought and knew it was wrong in her heart, it was a bad thing to do, but she had to save her kingdom... and put her dear, sweet, younger sister to rest.
While the citizens rejoiced of the Flame Princess's defeat, Elsa retreated to her room (that hadn't been destroyed in the fire) and wept from daylight's end till the moon rised. She didn't want to do it! Why did she do it?! She didn't have to do it, did she?! Why did this have to happen?! If only she had just noticed when this happened and stopped it before it started! If only she had been a true sister and looked out for Anna, none of this would have happened! Elsa felt like she didn't deserve to be Anna's older sister, she wasn't there for her like she should have been. This was her fault...
Sister please forgive me
Why did it have to end like this?
If only I had just been there for you,
Just like I ought' have to... I was remiss
So distracted by my duties
Now I'm alone
I just don't know what to do...
Do you wanna build a snowman?
For the rest of that day, Elsa didn't play queen and cried herself to sleep, wanting to forget about the past as it was in the past and just let it go. But for the first time in forever, this was something Elsa couldn't let go. Her love for her sister was an open door, but she had closed it, again. Elsa could not fix up her mistake, not this time. Her beloved sister was bewitched with a frozen heart. Anna was gone, forever.
The next morning, it was back to being queen. Elsa shuffled out of her bed and made her way to the balcony where she watched over her people, who this time were building back together the future of Arendelle. It took everything in Elsa's willpower to not cry. She felt so lonely and so wrong without her sister next to her up here and yet, it was like this for years and she failed to notice. She had failed Anna. This was all her fault. She just wanted her sister back. Her eyes drifted to the land beyond, and surprisingly, she smiled. Perhaps she could see her sister again, maybe, one day she could see her and hope for her forgiveness. She was just happy to know that Anna was in peace once more.
But now, to ease her troubled mind and her sister's alike, Elsa began to sing in harmony:
"Fate has been cruel and order unkind. How could I have sent you away? The blame was my own; the punishment, yours. The harmony's silent today.
But into the stillness I'll bring you a song, and I will your company keep. Till your flaming eyes and my lullabies, have carried you softly in peace.
Lullay flame princess, my sweet sister mine. Rest now in sunlight's embrace. Bear of my lullaby, winds of the earth. Through cloud, and through sky, and through space. Carry the peace and the warmth of the light, and carry my sorrow in kind. Anna, you're loved so much more than you know. Forgive me for being so blind.
The years now before us, fearful and unknown. I never imagined, I'd face them on my own.
May these thousand winters swiftly pass, I pray. I love you; I miss you... All these miles away.
May all your days be free from fright. Safe in your land of sunlight. And know not of sadness, pain, or care, that when I'm free, I'll come your way and meet you there.
Wait..."
Anna's reply coming up soon:) Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed and liked it! Please listen to the song! PLEASE leave a review, and check out my other stories;) Peace!
-SkatingDJ