Frozen 4
A Frozen Christmas
It is finally approaching the end of the year in Arendelle. With the end of the year also comes the reduction of the temperature. Snow had fallen and the entire kingdom is covered in a white blanket of snow. With the fresh snow, the children of Arendelle are out in the streets to play.
As for the adults, they still have work to do. Now part of that work includes the removal of snow from in front of their buildings. For most of the buildings in Arendelle, snow removal is not a difficult task. However, the palace and the town square are taking longer to clear. This is because there is a lot more area to clear off. Enough snow has to be cleared away to allow carts to easily travel to and from the palace.
It is also the beginning of the Christmas season. Along with snow removal, servants are busy getting the palace decorated for Christmas. Of course, Anna and Elsa are helping as well. For several hours, everyone is happily busy getting the palace ready. Even Olaf, Kristoff, and Kristian are helping. However, while Kristian is helping the others, he is not as happy as the rest.
Yet Kristian does enjoy watching everyone as they happily get the palace ready, especially Elsa. Just watching her gives Kristian a warm feeling. However, these moments are short lived. While Elsa does spend time with Kristian with the decorating, she also spends time with many others. However, when Elsa spends time with Anna, Kristian can see them laughing together. It is obvious to everyone that the sisters love each other. While seeing Elsa laughing does bring a smile to Kristian's face, it also saddens him.
During one of the sister's laugh sessions, Kristian lets out a sigh. At the same time, Kristoff and Olaf come walking up behind him. Each one is carrying a box. "Hey Kristian, So what's up?" says Kristoff.
"What! Oh, I didn't hear you coming," replies Kristian, a little startled by Kristoff's appearance.
"That's obvious," replies Kristoff. "You seem a little down. Is there something that's bothering? Is Elsa not giving you enough attention?"
No, it's nothing like that," says Kristian. "Elsa hasn't been neglecting me. I'm fine. I'm just a little preoccupied with other things on my mind."
"Suit yourself; but if you need help with anything, I'm sure there are lots of people that will lend you a hand," replies Kristoff. With this said, Kristoff continues to walk towards Anna and Elsa.
"Are you sure you are OK?" then asks Olaf as he hangs back next to Kristian.
"I'm fine, Olaf," replies Kristian. "Besides, it's nothing that anyone can help me with anyway. I'll just need to work things out on my own."
"You still need to be cheered up," chirps Olaf. "Hey! Why don't you come and check out the stuff that is in these boxes. I only had a glimpse but there are some pretty nifty things in here."
"Sure, it would be good to get my mind on something else," replies Kristian as he begins to follow Olaf.
Meanwhile as Kristoff nears Anna and Elsa, the sisters see him approach. "Kristoff! Did you manage to find them?" asks Anna as she gets up and hurries over to Kristoff.
It took a little time, but I think so," replies Kristoff. "It took the servants and me a while to find the boxes."
"You should have seen all the stuff we had to go through to locate them!" exclaims Olaf as he comes hurrying up alongside of Kristoff. "There is a lot of really cool stuff up in the attic of the palace!"
"I'm glad you enjoyed the search, Olaf," says Elsa. "However, I can only blame myself for misplacing them. It was never a priority for me to keep track of the family Christmas ornaments. Having been left in storage for so long, it doesn't surprise me that the servants forgot where they were placed. Here, why don't you both place them down on the table? That way, we can examine the contents better."
So with this suggestion, Kristoff and Olaf head over to the table and place the boxes down. Then Anna and Elsa open the boxes, and they begin to pull items out.
"Ooohh, pretty!" exclaims Olaf as he watches the ornaments come out of the boxes.
"Yes, these do appear to be the right boxes," says Elsa as she reaches into one of them. Then after pulling an ornament out, Elsa says, "Anna, do you recognize this?"
"Oh, it has been ages since I have seen that piece!" exclaims Anna happily. "I think I was only four years old when our parents gave that to us for Christmas!"
"Yes, it was the last glass ornament that we received jointly as a family," replies Elsa with a smile. Then her smile fades a little before she continues. "After that, our joint ornaments were either made of wood or iron."
"I wonder why that is?" inquires Anna, mostly to herself. "Those later ornaments were beautiful, but why did our parents stop presenting us with glass ornaments?"
"That was because of me," replies Elsa a little down.
"You, but why did they stop that tradition because of you?" asks a puzzled Anna.
"Because glass is fragile," replies Kristian as he walks closer to the table. "I was having the same problem when I was younger. It was all because of your magic, wasn't it? When I was young, my magic would act up at times. If I was holding anything made of glass, it could break in my hands. I'm guessing that Elsa's magic was acting the same. Even today, I have to be careful about handling anything made of glass."
"Yes, I had to be very careful when I touched anything made of delicate glass," adds Elsa. "The glass ornaments were just too fragile for me to touch. Eventually, our parents were too concerned about the potential breakage that they stopped using the glass ornaments all together. So they were simply stored away for safe keeping."
Anna notices the sad expression on her sister's face. So she says, "Elsa, I am so sorry; I didn't realize."
"Of course you didn't," replies Elsa. "You weren't told to try and keep you safe from me."
"I wish they hadn't kept it a secret," says Anna. "I would have acted differently towards you if I had known."
"Maybe we all should have told you. Yet if we had, maybe I wouldn't be living as openly as I do now," replies Elsa.
In response, Anna reaches out and gives her sister a hug. Then she lets go and says, "Well at least now we can relive all of our Christmas pasts. It looks like nearly all the ornaments are in perfect shape."
Elsa brightens as she listens to Anna's excitement. Then she says, "Yes our Christmases were wonderful, and it will be a delight to see all those old memories again."
In a moment, the sisters begin to pull ornaments out of the box. With each ornament, the sisters talk about the memories that each one produces. Both Anna and Elsa happily discuss their share memories as Kristoff and Kristian look on. Kristoff smiles as he listens to the joy in Anna's voice. Initial Kristian smiles as well. However, as the sisters continue to talk, Kristian's smile begins to fade. For Kristian, the joy of Anna's and Elsa's family life together reminds him of the life he had lived.
When Kristian was younger, all he had was his mother. The weather was harsh on the mountain, but his mother would always try and make Christmas special for Kristian. However after she passed away, the only person that Kristian had to associate with was Goran. Goran did not celebrate Christmas. So the Christmases became a lonely time for Kristian after his mother was gone.
Anyway back in the present, Elsa and Anna were laying the ornaments out on the table as they were reliving their memories. However, the table was starting to get covered in ornaments. As space was becoming harder to find, Elsa says with a smile, "Anna, I think we better stop going down memory lane."
"What? Why?" asks a surprised Anna. "I thought we were having a wonderful time talking about our childhood."
"We were. It's just that we are running out of room to put all those memories," replies Elsa with a smile. "We've practically filled the entire table!"
Then with a grin, Anna says, "You're right! Isn't it great that we had so many wonderful memories?"
"Yes it is wonderful," replies Elsa with a smile. "However, before we continue down memory lane, we should have the family Christmas tree up. That way we can hang the ornaments up on the tree."
"You're right, but where is the tree?" asks Anna. "Elsa, didn't you send some workmen out to fetch a Christmas tree?"
"I did make a request," replies Elsa. "However, they were busy because of the heavy snowfall lately. So I did not make a priority of the tree."
"I doubt they would have had time to hunt for a tree," interjects Kristoff. "The village got pretty well covered in snow."
"Hey! If you are talking about snow removal, we have the best guy here for doing that!" exclaims Olaf. "Kristian can do it in no time at all!"
"Um sure, I can clear the streets," replies Kristian. "Just wish someone could have told me earlier. I didn't even think of it myself. Things sort of got busy here in the palace."
"I never even considered asking you," says Elsa. "I sort of felt you were more of a guest here at the palace. Well..., maybe more than just a guest."
"I know that I am more than just a guest. However, I'm still trying to figure out what my role is here in Arendelle," replies Kristian.
"Oh, isn't your role obvious," says Elsa humorously as she walks up to Kristian and places her hands on his shoulders.
"That part of my role concerning you, I understand," replies Kristian with a smile. "However, I'm still trying to figure out how I fit into Arendelle. So far, I've become an odd jobs sort of worker, useful but not really necessary."
"You're looking at your usefulness in the wrong way," objects Anna. "It is better to think of yourself as being highly talented. You're talented in such a way that it allows you to preform many different kinds of jobs extremely well."
"Anna's right," adds Kristoff. "Every time that someone asks for your help, it is when there is a difficult task that needs to be done. It is a job where your magic comes in handy."
"You're the go to guy to solve the problem!" chirps Olaf.
Kristian smiles as he listens to Olaf's happy voice. Then he says, "I guess I have been short changing myself lately. Probably because I'm still adjusting to living in amongst other people."
"I can appreciate the difficulty you might be having," replies Elsa. "You have been so use to doing things on your own, and now you have to become accustom to dealing with others. I might not have gone to the extreme that you have in doing things on my own, but I can empathize with you. Maybe I've been trying to protect you too much from those that might fear you."
"If you have, I really haven't noticed it," says Kristian with a smile. "Though, it is kind of nice to think of you as my protector. I can't think of anyone prettier that I would rather have."
Elsa begins to giggle a bit. Meanwhile, Kristoff has been witnessing all of this. Then Kristoff says, "Ick, mushy stuff."
"Kristoff, don't ruin the moment!" exclaims Anna in disapproval.
However, Elsa and Kristian just begin to laugh. Then Elsa says, "Now you know how I feel sometimes, when I have to watch you and Anna being all into one another."
With this comment, both Anna and Kristoff are embarrassed. Then Kristoff says, "OK, OK, I was out of line. So, what now? Should we go out and get the Christmas tree together? Sven will be more than able to pull us out to the woods to find a tree."
"That is an excellent idea, Kristoff," replies Elsa. "It will be a nice adventure to try and find the perfect tree."
"Oh this will be fun!" exclaims Anna. "Come on, Elsa! Let's get ourselves ready to venture outside into the snow!"
Elsa laughs a little as she waves her hand around in the air. With this motion, Elsa is able to create a wardrobe change that is a little warmer in look. However in truth, Elsa really didn't need the new clothes to protect herself from the cold. Then Elsa says with a smile, "I believe that I am ready now, Anna."
"Hey that's not fair!" exclaims Anna with a smile. "You're cheating! Well, you can then at least help me get ready!" With this, Anna begins to pull Elsa out of the room.
"OK, Anna, I'm coming!" exclaims Elsa as she laughs. Then turning to the others in the room, she exclaims, "I guess we will be seeing you boys a little later outside!" So with this final statement, Elsa and Anna leave the room.
"Come on guys! It won't take Anna too long to get ready," exclaims Olaf as he trots towards the door. "We need to be outside when they get ready to go!"
"Sure thing, Olaf," replies Kristoff. "We're coming!" With this, Kristoff and Kristian follow Olaf out of the room.
In no time; Kristoff, Olaf, and Kristian are outside in the courtyard. Both men are dressed for the colder weather. While they wait for the ladies to emerge from the palace, Kristoff is busy getting Sven and the sled ready. Around the courtyard, there are men busy piling the snow up. There are also horses and carts being used to remove the snow from the courtyard. It was during this time that Elsa and Anna come out of the palace.
"Hey Kristoff, are you and Sven ready to go?" asks Anna as she and Elsa approach the others.
"We are just about ready to go," replies Kristoff. "Honestly, I thought that I would have a little more time. You two managed to get yourselves ready in a hurry."
"Of course we did," replies Elsa with a smile. "We weren't going to let you boys sit out here all day by yourselves."
"It also didn't hurt that Elsa gave a little magical help," adds Anna with a smile.
As Anna was talking, Elsa looks around the courtyard. She notices the piles of snow that are piled here and there inside the stone walls of the courtyard. Afterwards, Elsa turns to Kristian and asks, "If you please. Why don't you relieve these men of their labors with the snow? I'm sure they too would enjoy some time with their families."
"I was just about to start when you showed up," replies Kristian. With this, Kristian raises his hands and a fire begins to rise from the cobblestones. As the fire grows it begins to swirl until it forms a twirling column of fire. Once the column reaches about ten feet in height, it begins to move across the ground.
As it begins to move, Olaf shouts out," Heads up! A magical fire is coming through!"
With this warning, the workmen stop what they are doing and look over to Kristian and the swirling fire. The fire moves slowly at first, but soon Kristian increases the speed of the fire. The swirling column of fire quickly devours each pile of snow it encounters. It only takes a few minutes for the fire to vaporize every pile of snow in the courtyard.
Once the piles were gone, the swirling fire comes to a stop near Kristian. Kristian then walks up to the swirling column and easily places his hands into the side of the column. Then with a quick motion, Kristian flings his hands off to the side. With this act, the column of fire turns into a long stream of flame. This stream quickly moves away from Kristian, and it soon reaches the walls of the courtyard. As the fire stream reaches the wall it easily begins to move along its surface. It moves at such a fast speed that the flames are almost a blur. The flames quickly circle the entire courtyard and the snow that had not been touched by the workmen quickly melts away. With the final snow gone, Kristian allows the flames to fade away.
"I should remember to ask you to do this sooner," says Elsa with a smile. She is rather impressed by the speed at which Kristian was able to work.
"Hopefully, next time I will be working on this before you ask," replies Kristian with a smile.
With this work done, everyone climbs into the sled; and Sven begins to pull it out the courtyard gates. As the sled moves past the workmen, the workmen happily wave to the departing party. They are grateful for the work that Kristian had done for them.
Outside the gates a similar situation is seen out on the bridge and the village square. The bridge was clear but there are piles along the stone hand rails. As for the village square, it was mostly covered. There are paths cleared through the snow to get to front doors and paths for carts to be pulled. However, the workmen had moved out of the square to clear the roads through town and the road out of the village.
However, this snow was not going to be there long. As Sven begins to move along the bridge, Kristian extends his hands out to the sides. Kristian has to lean forward to get his one hand past Elsa, who is sitting next to him. Kristian then produces flames from his hands. These flames shoot out to the stone hand rails, and they easily melt the snow away.
For those people watching this, it was an amazing sight. Here was Sven, pulling a sled. On either side of him, there was a short wall of fire; and Sven didn't seem to care about the close fires. Also, everyone on the sled seems to be enjoying this unique sleigh ride.
Once the sled reaches the far end of the palace bridge, Kristian brings his hands forward. With this motion, the two fires along the stone hand rails come together in front of Sven and the sled. Even with this short fire wall in front of him, Sven continues to pull the sled. Of course there was no concern about this, because everyone knew that Kristian would keep the fire moving forward.
Without a second thought, Kristian causes this fire to quickly spread across the village square. The foot and a half of snow that covered the square will soon be complete gone. However, Kristian did not notice something at the far end of the square; and he was about to cause a minor disaster.
At the end of the square, a couple of kids had built a snow. A few moments ago, the kids had gone into one of the buildings to retrieve a few things to finish off their snowman. Now the kids are coming back out, and they see the fire quickly approaching their snowman. With the imminent demise of their snowman at hand, the kids scream out of fear.
Everyone on the sled hears the kids scream, and it was Anna who was the first one to see them. "Over there!" exclaims Anna as she points towards the kids.
"Kristian, stop!" exclaims Elsa as she sees the kids.
With a quick way of his hands the flames begin to fade and go out. Then Kristian is able to take the time to see what the problem is. His eyes quickly falls onto the kids, and Kristian can see them running out into the square. His eyes then quickly move in the direction that the kids are running. By doing this, Kristian locates a melting pile of snow. It seems to be the only thing that the kids are running to. This pile of melting snow is all that is left of the kid's snowman.
In a few seconds later, Sven comes to a stop next to the melting snowman. He stops a few seconds before the kids can reach the snowman. From the sled, everyone can see that the kids are crying. These kids were crying because all the work that they had put into their snowman had just been melted away.
"Are you all right?" asks a concerned Elsa.
"No," cries out one child. "Our snowman is ruined!"
"We spent all morning working on him!" exclaims the other child sadly. "And we didn't even give him his nose yet!"
"Oh, that is sad," says Olaf as he hops down from the sled. "Every snowman should have a nose. I was real happy when I first got my nose." Then Olaf takes his carrot nose off and offers it to the kids. "Here, you can have my nose to finish your snowman."
"We have a nose," says one child. "But now we don't have a snowman!"
"This is my entire fault," says Kristian quietly. However, he said it loud enough where those on the sled are able to hear it. Yet, those on the ground really could not discern what Kristian had said.
"You need not worry about this," replies Elsa as she smiles at Kristian before climbing out of the sled. Then Elsa walks up to the melted snowman. "You don't have to say goodbye to your snowman just yet," says Elsa to the children.
Then Elsa begins to wave her hands around. As she does, Elsa's magic begins to do its work. In almost no time at all, Elsa is able to bring the snowman back to its original shape. With the sight of their snowman back, the kids are delight and quickly run over to the snowman.
"He's back!" exclaims one child happily.
"He looks better than he did before," exclaims the other child. "Queen Elsa can do almost anything!"
"Well, I won't say that I can do everything; but when it comes to repairing snowman, I am pretty good," replies Elsa to the child's compliment. Then Elsa creates two ice benches a couple of feet away on each side of the snowman. "There, these benches should help to tell people that this is a very special snowman," says Elsa with a smile.
"Thanks, we can use them as workbenches when we finish our snowman," exclaims one of the kids as he drops the things he had been carrying on one of the benches. With this, the two kids begin to work on decorating their snowman.
With the children preoccupied with their snowman, Olaf and Elsa return to the sled. From the sled, Olaf is able to watch the kids place a carrot on the snowman's face. "There, now he looks like a real happy snowman," chirps Olaf.
"Yes, he does look happy," replies Anna with a slight giggle. "But then, I don't think I have ever seen a sad snowman."
"Of course not!" chirps Olaf. "How can a snowman be sad when so much love has gone into building him? A nose only gives him something more to cherish."
Once everyone was situated, Sven once again begins to pull the sled. Then after a moment, Kristian says, "I should have been more careful of what I was doing. I was just too focused on clearing the snow. When I started, I should have realized that their might have been something in the snow."
"Don't be too hard on yourself," replies Elsa. "Accidents happen, and this one was a minor one. It was an easy and fun one for me to fix."
"Sometimes I wonder if you are too forgiving, especially towards me," comments Kristian.
"Perhaps I am. However, I like to look at it in a more positive way. After the rough start that I had as the ruler of Arendelle, I didn't want to be as harsh to others as they were too me," replies Elsa. "Honestly, I didn't think my forgiving nature would have bother you."
"Oh, it really doesn't bother me," responds Kristian. "In fact, sometimes I enjoy it. I just wonder at what point will you no longer be so forgiving."
"I hope, I will always be understanding and forgiving to others," replies Elsa. "In a way, I consider it a requirement to be a good leader."
"Besides, if she ever does stop forgiving you, you will definitely be the first to know," interjects Anna with a smile. "Elsa is very good at giving people the cold shoulder. In fact, Elsa is so good that she will literally give you frost bite."
"Oh Anna, stop, your being a pest," says Elsa humorously as she creates a snowball with her magic. Then Elsa projects the snowball light heartedly towards Anna.
With a laugh, Anna ducks to dodge the flying snowball. Then she says, "See what I have to put up with. I told you she was good at it."
Kristian begins to laugh as well. Then he says, "I've already handled her frost bite. So if this is the worst that she can do, I will be fine."
"Then you are out of luck, mister," giggles Elsa. "You haven't even sampled a portion of my strongest magic." Then Elsa raises a hand and projects an energy blast of pure magic at Kristian. All of this is done while Elsa smiles and giggles.
"Hey," exclaims Kristian with some disapproving humor as the energy strikes him. As Elsa's energy hits Kristian, his upper torso flares up with flames. However, Kristian quickly responds to this by gathering the flames around one of his hands. Then he says with a laugh as he points this flaming hand in Elsa's direction, "Do you seriously want to do this now, while we are riding on this sled?"
Elsa laughs as she reaches out and interlaces her fingers into Kristian's fingers on his flaming hand. As she does this, the flames diminish and Elsa says, "No, but at least now you know that you can't just take me for granted."
With this statement, Kristian allows the flames on his had to be extinguished by Elsa's magic. Then Kristian says, "I don't think I will ever take you for granted. If it wasn't for you, I would never have found a home and a beautiful protector."
"I hope that I am more that your protector," replies Elsa with a smile as she leans in on Kristian.
"You're many things to me, Elsa," says Kristian with a smile as he leans in on her. "However, I do think that you and I are a pretty good team." After saying this, Kristian then slowly moves in on Elsa to give her a kiss. Elsa responds favorably and kisses him back.
However, during this kiss, Olaf chirps up, "Hey, aren't I part of the team to?"
Because of the ridiculousness of this question, Anna and Kristoff begin to burst out in laughter. Their laughter was contagious, and soon Elsa and Kristian are laughing as well. Then Elsa says, "Of course you are part of the team, Olaf. You are part of a team of people that I like to keep close to me."
"Do those team members also include Anna and Kristoff?" then asks Olaf.
"They are the ones who helped create the team," replies Elsa with a smile. "Then with your help, we have added the newest member of our group."
"So who is that?" asks Olaf. "Wait! Is it the smelly fisherman that delivers fresh fish to the palace?"
Both Elsa and Kristian are surprised by Olaf's suggestion. However, Anna and Kristoff begin to laugh. Then Kristoff says, "Olaf, I thing Elsa is talking about Kristian."
"I'm certain that it is who they are talking about," adds Anna. "Olaf, if it wasn't for you pushing and encouraging Kristian to interact with us, He would never have become a citizen of Arendelle."
"I've always considered Kristian just a friend," replies Olaf.
"That is what the best teams are made of. They are a simply a group of friends," says Elsa.
"And we are probably the craziest lot of friends that you will ever meet," exclaims Kristoff.
With this last statement, everyone laughs as the sled heads out into the countryside.