Chapter 1- Under threat
Anna entered Elsa's office one morning, carrying her sisters usual breakfast of earl grey tea and cookies. "Morning Queenie, I brought some grub!"
As she entered the office, however, she found a rather pleasant surprise. Elsa was sleeping on the desk, a drip of saliva from her lips, the soft sound of her breathing coming from her body.
"Awww, looks like you had a late night," Anna cooed as she walked behind Elsa's desk, finding another very big surprise. Her sister was completely naked.
Anna's face went into a deep blush, "Psst Elsa."
"Mmmm," Elsa groaned.
"Umm sis, hate to spoil your beauty sleep, but you're stark naked."
"Issokayy" Elsa murmured, "Illldealwithitinmorning."
"It is morning, Elsa," her sister reminded her.
Suddenly Elsa's eyes jolted open and she leaped off her chair, quickly covering her body in snow, "Ahhhhhh!"
Anna giggled, "it's okay, Elsa."
"It is not okay!" Elsa complained, removing the snow from her body and forming her usual ice dress, "this is the fifth time this has happened this week."
"You getting so tired you can't keep your ice clothes on?"
"Yes..." Elsa sighed, "oh gods, why does this keep happening?"
"Maybe you're just stressed, you ever think of having some time off?"
"Being a queen is a full time job, Anna," Elsa explained to her sister, "and yes even though I find time to spend with you, Kristoff and all our friends, I still have my royal duties to perform."
Anna looked over at the desk, covered with paperwork. "You ever thought of getting some help with this stuff?"
"No, I'd prefer that I handle all this personally," Elsa replied. "I am the Queen, and like it or not, I have to do this stuff."
"Well... maybe you could let me do it for a while?" Anna offered, "I was given pretty much the same lessons you were, so I could do this stuff probably, and I've done it before, remember when you went out for a few days and gave me that letter of things to do?"
"Yes, but that was a one-off thing, Anna," Elsa responded, "and even though you did pretty well when I was away, I would prefer a more personal touch."
"I guess," Anna looked down.
Elsa smiled and walked over to her sister, kissing her on the cheek. "Don't worry, snowflake, I'll be okay. Now come on, you look like you need some chocolate in you."
Anna smiled and held her sister's hand, "I get dibs on the milk chocolate."
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"So let me get this straight, you are worried about Elsa being stressed, but she wont let you do anything about it?" Kristoff asked Anna.
"Yeah, but you know how much I worry about her!" Anna answered him. "I mean you'd worry about her just as much if she was your sister, best friend and girlfriend all rolled into one."
"I know how you feel, feisty-pants," Kristoff replied, lugging a chunk of ice onto his sleigh, "sometimes I feel as though Sven isn't up to pulling the sleigh as much as he used to, but he always wants to keep going on."
"So do you have any ideas on how I can help her out?"
Kristoff thought. "Well,maybe there is something at Oaken's store that might help Elsa, you know how he prides himself with those homemade remedies of his."
Anna jumped into the sleigh, "then take me there, Mr. Bjorgman!"
They began to ride up into the hills, the sleigh pulling them fast into the woods. As they took a shortcut through some farmland, Anna noticed something rather unusual.
"Hey Kristoff," Anna wondered, "do police usually go around farmyards?"
"No why?"
"Because there are about five carriages full of officers parked at that farm over there," Anna stated, pointing to the farm she saw on her left hand side.
Kristoff squinted his eyes, "you are right, that is rather odd. Sven take us there!"
The reindeer grunted as the sleigh headed off the track and into the nearby field.
Anna jumped out and began to walk towards the farm. As they neared the farm she saw barns and sheds tattered and broken, planks of wood destroyed or missing.
"Excuse me!" Anna called over to the head police officer, "What is going on here?"
The policeman turned around to face Anna, "ah Princess Anna, we are investigating a disturbance here."
"What kind of disturbance?" Anna inquired.
"The monstrous kind!" a old weary voice called out.
An old woman, with hair of silk white and a cane in her hand walked over to them. "Last night something came into my husband's barn, started disturbing the cows. He went to have a look and it attacked him."
"Attacked? Listen miss, I'm sure it was just some wolf or something," Anna assured the woman.
"No wolf could have done that," the woman replied, her hand motioning to a large gaping hole in the barn nearby. The wood in the walls had been ripped apart, shredded with large claw marks.
"That's one big wolf," Kristoff commented when he saw the gashes in the wall, "nothing like the one's that chased me and you when we first met, huh feisty-pants?"
Anna knelt by the wall, looking on the ground. She saw some sharp bone like objects by the wall, lying on the ground. "Looks like our monster chipped a nail breaking out."
Anna picked up the bony objects in her hand. They felt cold to the touch, almost like... ice.
"Anna?" Kristoff asked in a concerned manner.
"I think this monster might have been something made by Elsa," Anna realised.
"Marshmallow?"
"No, he's too big, and besides he would only hurt people who'd threaten Elsa and me."
"Then what is it?"
"I don't know," Anna simply said, "but we better let Elsa know."
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"A monster?" Elsa wondered as she had her tea with Anna.
"Yeah and I think you might have had something to do with it," Anna replied, rather worried, "I found little bits of what felt like ice at the scene."
"Well I don't know, Anna," Elsa began, "the only living things I ever made with my powers were Olaf, Marshmallow and the Snowgies. If there was something else I had created, I would have been able to sense it."
"Maybe it's someone with similar powers to you who made it?"
"No, it won't be that," Elsa sated, "I spoke with Grand Pabbie about this, he told me that my powers were unique, that no one else would have abilities like mine."
"Maybe you made it without knowing it was made?" Anna suggested, "like you could have had a nightmare and you accidentally created in your sleep."
"It's possible," Elsa sighed, "I am prone to nightmares, ever since you and I were reunited."
Anna hugged Elsa tight, "whatever it is, I won't let it get you, Elsa, I promise."
Elsa hugged her sister back and gave her a kiss, "I'll go see Grand Pabbie about this creature in the morning, you just relax. Besides, your birthday is coming up, and I'd rather not see my little sister all worried."
Anna smiled, "just don't get sick from it again like you did last year."
"Trust me, I won't" Elsa assured her, "now are you up for some chocolate?"
"You bet I'm up for chocolate," Anna chirped.
xXx
"And that will be thirty- four dollars please?" Oaken cheerfully explained to Kristoff as he was paying for his carrots.
Kristoff placed the notes of money on the desk and hauled the sack of carrots on his shoulders. "Thanks Oaken, at least your not throwing me out any more."
"Ah, let bygones be bygones," the large man replied with a smile. "Hey, did you hear about that monster?"
"Hear? I saw the scene where it hit that farm," Kristoff responded. "Why did you ask?"
"Well I'd rather not see you nor the beautiful royal sisters get hurt by it," Oaken stated. "You are one of my best customers after all."
"Well... that's very thoughtful of you Oaken," Kristoff said, a bit startled at Oaken's concern for his safety, "Goodnight."
"Goodnight, Kristoff!" Oaken bid him farewell as he left the cabin.
Kristoff trekked over to the stable by Oaken's hut, gently creaking open the door, "Hey Sven I got your carrots!"
The reindeer, who was slumped in the corner of the room, perked up, a joyful expression on his face.
Kristoff tossed the sack of carrots over to him, "have a ball buddy, you earned it."
The reindeer happily took a carrot out of the sack and began to devour it in earnest, grunting softly.
Kristoff yawned and sat down on a nearby heap of hay. "Nothing like hitting the hay at the end of a long day."
"But there's more comfier hay back at the castle," Sven replied, in actuality Kristoff doing a goofy voice.
"Yeah, but it's more cosy up here," Kristoff explained.
"But your friends will be lonely," Sven reminded him.
"Don't worry, Anna and Elsa will be fine. Besides, those girls deserve some alone time."
"It's your funeral," Sven stated.
Kristoff pulled out his lute and began to strum his fingers along it. Playing the lute was one of his favourite hobbies, or rather it was his only hobby. He remembered how he used to play it for Anna back when they were a couple. Those were good times back then.
Kristoff let his mind flutter back to when he and Anna were together, how she would usually greet him in a flurry of kisses whenever he came to see her. As time went on however, their love began to lose its meaning. To both Anna and Kristoff, their romance soon felt more like a friendship.
It came to an end one day, Anna and Kristoff finally setting things straight over dinner, both of them agreeing that their relationship wouldn't last.
Unlike most breakups that couples go through, Kristoff and Anna didn't regret theirs and happily stayed as friends. It pleased the royal ice master greatly when he found that Anna had found love in Elsa, a love he knew was meant for her.
Suddenly, his flashback was interrupted by a sharp scraping sound from outside.
"You hear that Sven?" Kristoff asked his reindeer friend.
The reindeer shook his head.
"I'm gonna go see what it was, if anything happens go get Oaken," Kristoff told him, taking a pickaxe from the rack on the wall.
Kristoff carefully motioned to the door, his pickaxe in hand. He creaked open the door and stepped outside, feeling the cold night air brush his soft skin.
"Hello!" he called out, gripping his weapon tight, "is anyone out there?!"
A soft growling could be heard in the distance.
"It's gonna be okay!" he called out again, "I won't hurt you, but I will if I have to!"
The growling slowly became louder and louder, as if it was getting closer.
Kristoff gripped his pickaxe tighter. "Come out! Whatever you are!"
In that brief moment, something rushed out from behind Kristoff, striking the pickaxe from his hand and knocking him off balance.
Kristoff grunted and turned around, only for the creature to strike him again, slashing his arm. Kristoff growled as he felt his wound sting in the air.
He tried to reach for his pickaxe, but looked up to see two piercing red eyes in the nearby trees. They looked like they belonged to a tiger or some sort of feline.
Kristoff managed to lift his axe off of the snowy ground and stood ready to face the creature, bearing his teeth.
In a few short seconds, Kristoff saw a beastly inhuman shape leap from the trees pouncing on him, when everything went dark.
Sven was startled again back at the barn, to the scream of his friend howling in the wind. The reindeer galloped at full speed out of the barn, hoping his friend would be okay.
What he found, made the poor animal's heart feel weak.
He found Kristoff lying in the snow, shirt torn open, various bloody cuts all over his body, a deep gashing wound on the side of his head.
Sven grunted and shook Kristoff with one of his front hooves, but his friend did not awaken.
The reindeer then rushed over to Oaken's cabin, kicking the door with his hooves.
"Whatever is the matter?" Oaken stated as he opened the wooden door, looking out onto the open snow. "Oh my god!"
He ran out with Sven over to Kristoff's body. "Is he still alive?"
Sven made a gesture of "I don't know."
Oaken thought for a moment. "Get his sleigh, my reindeer friend, get him to the queen, she'll want to know."
Sven nodded and rushed back to stable, hoping to get Kristoff to safety.
Author's note: Hey everyone! Hope you enjoy this first chapter. There will probably be about 12 or 13 chapters in total, and there will definitely be some smut, violence and character death, but that will all be later in the story. Until next time ^^