Prologue
"Auntie, please tell me a story." The soft spoken child looks at her aunt with her big blue eyes that no one can resist. The aunt sighs and sits herself in resignation beside the little one's bed.
"So what story do you want to hear little one?" The aunt looks at the bookshelves at the bedroom waiting for the child's answer.
"I want the story of the Fire and Ice!" The child blurted with excitement that only a little kid could. The said aunt stopped at her tracks as if she was frozen. She breathes heavily and slowly walks at the velvet armchair besides the bed.
"Are you sure you want to hear this story? This story is too scary for you" The aunt leans near the child's bed while saying it in a dark tone. The little girl didn't flinch even for a second but rather nods her head fast that is seems like her head was going to fall off. The aunts sighs heavily and relax herself to the armchair.
"This story starts with trolls."
"Like uncle's family?"
"No, a different kind of trolls. A much powerful one."
"Bring me the amulet!" The giantess howled at the another giantess beside her. Her big rock like body going left and right through the small cottage filled with leaves and fern. Her gray arms was grabbing everything in the shelf. From the bottle filled with the leaves of goldenseal to the jar with the skin of the snake. A loud screamed was heard from the lithe, dark-skinned woman in the cottage. She was lying at the floor only with a mat made of leaves covering the floor. Her legs were apart and her eyes was filled with tears from the pain.
"Faster!" Yelled the giantess outside the door. She stumbled from some of the formation of dirt at the floor and went near the young woman who was screaming. She grabbed her hands and caress it to help her from the pain of giving birth to a child. The giantess went near the hearth to throw some jasmine flowers. Slowly, the smell of it filled the cottage like a warm hug from the flowers gently circulating only the two of them.
Suddenly, the door slammed hard and another rock-like giantess entered the cottage holding a small red flower-shaped necklace, the amulet. The other giantess kneeled down and offer her hands holding the amulet to the bigger giantess.
"Mistress Ma'er, The amulet" Her rock-like head bow down in front of the giantess called Ma'er.
"Thank you Mtoa" Ma'er bowed her head while Mtoa stumbled trying to get out fast.
Ma'er held her hand up high nearly reaching the ceiling. Her eyes from gray turned to deep black like the night. Her raspy voice started chanting "The power of sun and fire combined bless this woman to have her child."
Suddenly, a bright light formed from the center of the amulet filling the whole cottage. Everything went quite, from the rustling outside up to the woman screaming here. The whole place was still until a cry from a little baby was heard. Ma'er kneeled down and held the small child at her rocky arms. His eyes fluttering open while crying. Ma'er opened her mouth gasping for air and setting down the child on the floor as she realized that the child's eyes was orange with a hint of red like the sun.
"Wake the mother up and get them out of here." She announced to the whole village of trolls as soon as she got out of small cottage. Everyone looked up to her and saw the serious face she was wearing.
A troll went in the cottage and a cry and a scream was heard. The mother was rudely awaken due to orders and the baby too. But orders are orders, the troll held the mother's hands outside while she was holding the baby to her shoulder while silently crying.
"Please, we have no home." She pleads with her thick accent rolling from the tip of her tongue. She was thrown off the gates of the trolls' village while still crying and her child wailing from the commotion.
Ma'er sat at the nearby log beside the pond. She was staring blankly to the far way place with only the tall castle appearing from the lines of trees in the forest.
"What's wrong mistress Ma'er?" A troll servant bigger than the tree besides them asked the other giantess.
"The child is the prophecy child and only heaven knows what will happen if he meets his opposite." Ma'er said to the servant as she looks at the castle in the Southern Isles.
The mother ran far away from the forest and only stopping when she saw the bridge to the kingdom. She held the baby's head near her and looked at her back and saw the trolls' village. She took a deep breath and started walking to the kingdom of Southern Isles with many opportunities waiting for them.
The mother entered the gates and settled quietly near the castle gates to hush her own child. She held the child at her arms to give the little one a milk so it won't cry while she tries to find a job. The baby's eyes opened revealing the firey colored orbs that seems unfit to his caramel colored skin. The mother saw it and smiled at herself thinking of a name for her own child.
"Brann, I will call you Brann." The mother whispered to her child as she whistles a song trying to let him sleep.
The sun sets below the mountains of Arendelle leaving only the dark sky with the stars and the moon illuminating the whole sky. The king of Arendelle held his head up high on the balcony of the palace. He was staring the night sky as his wife give birth to the heir of Arendelle, hopefully a boy.
Suddenly, the door opened and a man sweating profusely and breathing heavily entered the room. As soon as he saw the king look at him straight to his eyes, he straightened himself out.
"It's a girl" The man announced to the king and bowed his head down low to show a sign of respect. The king almost drop his wine from the announcement. Disappointment ran through the course of his veins making him hold the glass tighter.
"Get out!" He forcefully said to the misfortuned messenger who saw the king's temper. His body was shaking with anger due to the lies the trolls said to him. He believed for the longest time that he will have a boy due to the prediction of the Southern Isles' trolls when he visited them. He held his pride and went inside the castle to visit his wife.
There, inside the chamber, resting the small child on a blue crib decorated with various animals. He peeked and all of his disappointments were gone as soon as he saw his little girl. His heart swelled at the image of his little princess resting.
"She didn't even cry." The queen looked at him from her bed. She was laying there resting from the exhaustion of pregnancy.
"Does she have a name yet?" He looked over to look at his wife with a peaceful look on her face.
"Elsa, her name is Elsa."
The king held her daughter only to noticed that she was as cold as ice. His eyes widen as a thought struck him.
"No, no, this can't be happening" The king said shaking his head over and over while holding the child closer. His eyes full of disbelief but with a sign of resignation from his sigh were heard across the room.
"What's wrong, my love?" Asked the queen who was sitting from her bed weakly.
"She was born with 'it'" He stressed the words as if the queen already knows about it but he only got the confused look from her face.
"Powers. Ice powers, a curse, like father" He whispered to himself but loud enough to let the queen hear.
"Not a curse, a gift." The queen said gravely to her husband. She tries to sit herself up from the bed but her body still refuses to move. She looked over the window and saw snow falling from the sky. "A gift from heaven."
The king nodded at his wife's words and held his daughter tight hugging her despite of the chill he felt from just touching her. He suddenly realized that the trolls were almost right all along. This power or curse was only given to male heirs such as the case of his brother who died after his coronation but to avoid the power vacuum in Arendelle, he had replaced him as a king. They have detected the powers of Elsa and thought she was going to be a boy but it seems as though fate have another plans for them.
He brought down the sleeping Elsa to the crib so she can rest peacefully. The king smiled.
I will try to protect you from harm others might cause you my little one.
A/n: First story here in criticism needed!