History of the World: Volume 3: First Edition Print

Chapter I: The World of Animation

Once Upon A Time…

In the world of Animation, there lived many Kingdoms. The two largest Kingdoms in all the lands was the Kingdom of Disney and the Kingdom of Dreamworks.

For centuries, the two kingdoms lived side by side in peace. And for centuries to come, we can only hope that they continue to be the peaceful neighbors they have been since the beginning of time.

The Kingdom of Disney - A Recent History

Many years ago, in the harmonious Kingdom of Disney, the King and Queen had two lovely daughters, Princess Iduna and Princess Arianna.

Next in line for the throne, Princess Iduna married Lord Agnar and had two beautiful daughters of their own, Princess Elsa and Princess Anna.

May they rest in peace, Princess Iduna, Prince Agnar, and Princess Elsa, were all murdered in a horrible assassination by the ruthless Nightmares. Princess Anna luckily survived the attack and was adopted by her Aunt; Princess Arianna and her husband, Prince Fredrick. As for the Nightmares, they were all captured and hung for their crimes.

Unfortunately, the King and Queen died later that year of grief.

Elsa rolled her eyes, grief is an understatement. Everyone in Disney knows they were murdered just like Iduna and her family. She ignored her woeful opinion and continued reading.

After the coronation, Queen Arianna and King Fredrick lived in the palace with their niece, Princess Anna. Nine months later, Queen Arianna died giving birth to her first child, Princess Rapunzel.

King Fredrick, one of the most peaceful king's in all of Animation, felt that his two daughters needed a mother, and Disney needed a Queen. Ten years after his wife's death, he married a beautiful and kind woman, who is now our Queen Gothel of Disney.

May he rest in peace, one year after Gothel became our Queen, King Fredick died of an unknown illness.

Queen Gothel now lives in the palace with her two step children, Princess Anna and Princess Rapunzel.

The Kingdom of Dreamworks - A Recent History

Luckily, The Kingdom of Dreamworks has had a more pleasant history than the one of Disney.

King North and Queen Toothiana live with their son Prince Jackson Overland Frost—

"Elsa," Flynn said at the door of the castle's library. "I've been looking all over for you! Ray needs you to come to the kitchen now. Her Royal Highness is having another meeting." Flynn rolled his eyes. Everyone knew Queen Gothel's meetings were usually just parties. "Ray needs you serve food."

"Another party already? Didn't she have one yesterday?" Elsa smirked. She put the book back on the shelf and walked over to Flynn.

"You know how her Royal Queenliness is," Flynn gave her an amused look as they walked down the palace hallway. "Weren't you supposed to be cleaning the library, not reading all its books?"

"I was taking a break," Elsa elbowed him, maybe too hard because she heard him groan.

"What would a maid like you even be interested in reading?"

"A history textbook. I wanted to actually learn something for once but it only told me what everyone knows. The kingdom of Disney and Dreamworks lived together in harmony…"

"You know maids aren't supposed to be learning right?" Flynn said as they made a left towards the secret passage created only for maids and servants of the castle.

"You know, thieves aren't supposed to be working as kitchen boys right?" Elsa mimicked his tone, pushing the secret door -which looked like a wall- open. She made a left and Flynn followed, anyone else would have immediately gotten lost in this maze of hallways that led to the deepest corners of the castle, but Elsa knew these passageways as well as anyone could.

"Hey listen here," Flynn argued, "I only steal for the good of humanity!"

"And how is stealing good for anyone?" Elsa teased. Since the day they met at Pabbie's orphanage, Flynn Rider has always been her best and only friend. He always took care of her and she did the same for him.

"If I don't steal food to eat, I die." He moved in front of her and started pacing backward to face her, his chestnut eyes glowing with amusement. "And if I die, that's awful for humanity since I'm so nice to look at-"

"Oh please!" Elsa bit down on her tongue so she wouldn't laugh. Flynn Rider was the most arrogant man alive.

When they reached the end of the secret passageway, they walked through the door to the castle's hallways. Unfortunately, no secret passageways led directly to the kitchen. She heard Flynn suck in a breath.

Elsa moved her gaze towards the clear white ceramic tiles on the floor and stopped walking. Royalty must be near.

"Good day Elsa," she heard Princess Rapunzel's voice somewhere down the hall ahead. "Good day Flynn."

"Your Highness." Elsa and Flynn both replied, continuing to keep their heads bowed.

"Don't be so formal," Rapunzel giggled. But they still stood stiffly which caused Rapunzel to sigh loudly before continuing to wherever she was off to.

"The Princess is so kind," Elsa whispered, her pace quickened to match Flynn's as they continued to the kitchen. None of the royal family would ever even look at palace staff but Rapunzel always greeted them and she knew their names too.

"Yeah," Flynn coughed. He'd been tense since Rapunzel left. It was always Rapunzel that made him anxious…

"You like her!" Elsa teased.

"WHAT?" From the corner of her eye, Elsa could see him turning red. "I DO NOT!"

After a moment of silence.

"So what if I do?" Flynn said. "I'm just a kitchen boy. I could never end up with someone like her."

And at that, he entered the kitchen leaving Elsa alone in the hallway.

After a moment of peace and silence, Elsa took a deep breath then walked into the kitchen. It was as catastrophic as a war. Ray was yelling commands at everyone while servants were running around with trays, every chef was cooking non-stop, including Flynn now.

"Look who's finally showed up!" Ray said in his French accent. He sounded stressed. "Princess Elsa! Here—take this tray to the throne room. Her Highness has been having a meeting all day." He shoved a tray of chocolates into her hand.

"Ray, you have to stop calling me Princess Elsa," she giggled. "It's disrespectful to the actual Princess Elsa who died."

The real Princess Elsa died in an assassination about eighteen years ago. The name Elsa was so common in the kingdom of Disney, there were even three other palace staff with the name. Although the joke was morbid, Ray liked to call her Princess Elsa because apparently, she was 'his favorite Elsa.'

"Get out of here!" Ray pushed her out the doors of the kitchen.

She laughed quietly to herself and walked down the corridor towards the throne room.