Love Endures Chapter 1: Welcome To The Past

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Hey there everybody! So it's been a few weeks, and after taking what I have dubbed a 'lazy break' I am now back in style! Just a little warning, there are mentions of self harm and attempted suicide in this chapter, so if you don't like that stuff, beware! Anyway without further ado, on with the chapter!

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They say that God created humans in halves, sent down to earth in order to find their other half among a sea of incompatible halves. The halves that are able to find each other are known as soul mates.

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The spirit of Christmas was in the air of the grand kingdom Arendelle. Happy friends and families all hustled and bustled around the towns surounding the castle like a hive of bees as they all participated in the kingdom-wide effort to decorate the province in the grandest of decorations that they could possibly find. Trees, candles, wreaths, bows, all of it was present. Even the royal family was getting into the holiday spirit on such a joyous time of year. Princess Anna and her consort Kristoff Bjorgman happily volunteered to help in decorating, despite Anna being almost incapable of walking, thanks to her pregnancy which had advanced quite considerably in the last 6 months to a large belly that put Anna almost completely off balance if she wasn't careful.

The royal family's new guests, consisting of Roc Ruthford, Hannah, and Hope were all enjoying life in Arendelle. They had all been treated extremely well, and Roc had decided to help the guards and footmen in Arendelle's army by teaching them more modern combat techniques, which would give them quite a significant advantage in the defense of Arendelle from bandits and wild animals. It was quite a change for the guards, to be ordered around by someone who wasn't the queen or princess, but accepted the training none the less, since Anna had vouched that Roc had taught her quite a decent amount of new and interesting ways to fight to the point that the guards couldn't possibly resist such a potentially prosperous learning experience.

Hannah meanwhile had voluntarily procured herself the seemingly never-ending task of raising Hope; teaching him to be a respectable member of society and what not. Anna did her best to help whenever she was around; but unfortunately the princess wasn't exactly the best of role models for young Hope to be learning off of, and so Kai was ordered to assist in the boy's instruction after a few days of useless lessons that Anna would make up literally as she spoke.

Kristoff was in quite high spirits as well; after all, he was about to be a father, and that absolutely carried with it an obligatory sense of pride. While it was hard work having to end up helping Anna with almost everything she did, he didn't mind it at all. For one thing it meant that Anna's constant pranks ceased seemingly overnight, as she was so over-encumbered that she couldn't actually pull off any effective shenanigans without accidentally waking up the entire castle through her gasps of exertion from walking around with such a swollen stomach. However it was not always joyous for Kristoff, he often thought about Sven during times when he was alone. While it was a heavy emotional blow for the ice harvester to have left Sven in the future, he realized after a few days of mourning that it was all in all a useless endeavor. Wherever Sven was, Kristoff prayed that he was happy and healthy, knowing that the reindeer would not want him to mope around for a situation that could not be helped. His priority now was Anna.

There was however someone who constantly mourned for the loss of their loved one every signal day, and every single night, all in hopeless resistance to the truth of her lovers demise; Queen Elsa of Arendelle. At first it was more surprise than sadness, but that was quickly replaced by an overwhelming sense of crushing depression that always lingered, no matter what anyone did to cheer her up. Heaven knows that Anna tried, probably more than she should have; chocolates, day trips, meeting the townsfolk, even going so far as to throw entire parties in a futile attempt to cheer Elsa up. It never worked; in fact it eventually ended up doing more harm than good.

After they had arrived back in Arendelle, Elsa began to wear her old clothing, no longer wearing the snow dresses that made her who she was, but instead donning her old coronation dresses. What was perhaps the largest and most tragic of her withdrawals was that the young queen had begun to wear gloves once again, covering the engagement ring that she still wore from the rest of the world. Anna had attempted to convince Elsa to remove the ring multiple times, but the latter sister wouldn't dare let anyone near the ring, which usually meant that Anna would leave Elsa's room covered in snow.

Currently, Elsa was in her study. She wasn't attending to the mass of papers on her desk however; rather she was gazing out of the window sadly, watching her subjects toil in the cold to decorate Arendelle. Her hands were softly grasping at something hanging around her neck; Andrew's dog tags. They hadn't left her neck even once in the last half-year; not for showering, not for sleeping, not even for political meetings with fellow kingdoms. She received odd stares for such an odd piece of 'jewelry' but was never questioned, which was all for the better anyhow.

"It's almost Christmas Andrew..." Elsa whispered sadly before sighing softly and biting her lip, her hands causing the two metal sheets resting in her palms to dance with each movement of her hand muscles. She gazed down at the floor as she continued to speak. "I miss you, you know... I hope you can hear me up there in heaven... I've told everyone, Kai, Gerda, the rest of the servants about you; how you were so kind to me, and how brave you were... They would have loved to have met you... Everyone in the entire kingdom would have honestly... They would have reveled in the idea of meeting the man who made their queen so happy, and saved her life..."

Even though she knew she would never receive a response to her ramblings, Elsa couldn't help but to feel a stabbing pain in her broken heart when she was met with no more than forlorn silence every time without fail. It was self-destructive behavior, and she knew it, but she didn't care one bit. She had even attempted suicide a few times in order to be with Andrew in heaven, but the attempts never worked out; she always reconsidered at the very last moment. There were multiple times that she had found herself standing at the top of her castle's tower, poised to jump; and every time she chickened out for multiple reasons. She had to be there for Anna, Kristoff, Hope, and the others, she just couldn't leave them to rule the kingdom themselves, not to mention that there was no guarantee that her powers wouldn't end up catching her and breaking her fall.

That didn't mean she was above self harm however; as the bloodstained razor blade that used to rest on the queen's workspace could attest to. A week after Elsa had attempted to kill herself, she realized she could never go through with the process, and so she settled for the cold sting of a razor blade being dragged across her arms.

It was the perfect solution for multiple reasons; the first being that her powers caused her skin to close up within hours, not even leaving a scar. The most important however, was the pain it brought, it was just enough to keep her mind off of the larger pain in her heart. The first few days were rather hard, but the pain slowly began to take away her sadness one cut at a time after she grew accustomed to the blade dancing across her pale skin.

That solution dissipated quickly once Anna discovered the razor blade a few days after Elsa had begun her self harming activities in the young queen's work desk. Anna confronted her sister about it within the hour, and after they both stayed awake for an entire night and had a heartfelt conversation throughout, Anna was able to convince Elsa to cease her cutting, mostly on the grounds that Andrew would be devastated to learn of his love's actions; and while Anna hated to have to use Andrew's memory in such a way, if it meant that Elsa would be tempted to at least socialize with her kingdom, then so be it.

"Elsa?... You in there?... Everyone is having fun in town; do you want to come and join us?..." The red-haired princess that Elsa was contemplating on knocked as her voice drifting into the room from behind the closed door, breaking Elsa out of her depression ridden trance, prompting her to turn to the door as she wondered whether or not she should even bother answering her younger sister. Somehow in the end though, she rationalized that Anna would probably make a better conversationalist than her reflection in the window, and decided to confirm Anna's suspicion of her location.

"I am... Enter if you wish, but don't expect me to join you down in the village..." Elsa replied, prompting Anna to slowly open the door, shuffling in a few moments later. While the princess would normally be one to bound through the door at top speeds, her swollen belly now prevented her from doing so. Upon seeing that Anna was safely inside of the study room, Elsa sighed and turned back to the window; the window that she spent hours on end gazing out of, remembering her time with Andrew. The time when she was truly happy and free. "What do you want Anna?"

"You're thinking about him aren't you?..." Anna muttered, plopping down on the couch situated to the side of the room so that she wouldn't have to stand for any longer than was required of her, all while Elsa continued to silently stare out of the window, although Anna would be a fool to miss the twinge of Elsa's eye when Andrew was mentioned. "Listen... I understand the pain you must be going through but you-..."

"No... You have no idea Anna... He was going to be my husband... He was my first kiss, I gave him my heart and soul... He even proposed to me... And he was ripped away from me..." As Elsa continued to speak ice spikes flared up around her feet, giving her quite a menacing appearance, despite her queenly attire. "He was ripped away from me by Hans' men! All because that selfish deceiving monster can't get it through his head that you aren't interested in him, and that I am no longer interested in trading with the Southern Isles... His death seconds only Andrew's revival on my list of happiness..."

It was true; shortly after arriving back in Arendelle, Elsa cut off any and all trade with the Southern Isles, completely severing the thin ties that two kingdoms held with each other, which were rather fragile to begin with following Hans's little scheme. Elsa had no problems with this; the main export of the Southern Isles was merely fish, and there was absolutely no shortage of such a commodity in the kingdom of Arendelle.

"Elsa... C'mon, you just need some fresh air... Just for a few minutes?..." Anna begged, even going so far as to clamp her hands together and shake them in front of her chest like a street vagrant requesting money. She knew it would break through Elsa's emotional walls eventually; it always worked in the end. "It's better than sitting here in the dark moping over a guy who you left half a year ago... He's never coming back, and you need to deal with it somed-..."

"...What did you just say Anna?" Elsa hissed, prompting Anna to make the fearful discovery that she had accidentally tumbled into very dangerous territory, which was evident by her sudden interest in the floor. As quick as she could, the princess stuttered out a flimsy response.

"No!... I-... I didn't mean it like that I-..."

"Get out..." The harsh tone in Elsa's voice was honestly heart stopping for Anna; who's mouth hung open as her eyes grew to the rhetorical size of dinner plates. Had those words truly just truly come out of her elder sibling's mouth? The princess's assumption was proven to have been true when Elsa turned around and displayed the tears streaming down her face in streams before facing the window once again; unable to look her sister in the eye. "Get out of my office right now Anna; I don't want to hear it..."

Without even giving her sister time to reconsider her words, Anna chocked back a sob before she ran, or rather quickly hobbled, out of the room while using her winter cape to mask the tears flooding her features, running what little make-up that she bothered to put on that day down her face, staining her tears in various different shades of black and blue.

After an awkward few seconds of silence, Elsa sighed as she finally realized what she had said to Anna, but before she could turn around to apologize, Anna was already gone, the door slamming behind her. She should've gone after her hurt sibling, that much was clear even to her, but what Anna had accidentally blurted out just stung all too painfully for Elsa to even consider it for the time being.

"Andrew?... Why couldn't you have come with us?... I need you... Wherever you are..."

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Meanwhile in the far off kingdom of Corona; the kingdom of the sun...

"C'mon Blondie; how much longer do I have to sit around like this?" Asked a man who was sitting on a couch in a rather uncomfortable looking pose. He was an attractive man; of that there was no doubt. He had light skin and short brown hair along with a small goatee of the same shade, which was the perfect contrast to his eyes, which were obviously full of life. His clothes were quite plan despite his current location, a castle. They consider of no more than dark brown trousers, a dark blue vest, and hiking boots.

"No moving around Eugene! This painting needs to be absolutely perfect!... And you really need to come up with a better nickname; I haven't been blonde for 3 years now..." Replied a thin woman with rather short brown hair that barely reached the back of her neck. She was also of an extremely light skin color, however, unlike the man's dark shades of blue and brown cloth, her clothing was of quite feminine colors, ranging from light pink to nearly white cloth. Topping off her outfit was a beautiful crown; which shimmered brightly in the sunlight permeating through the windows into the Victorian era style castle.

"Fine... But don't think I like this one bit... Rapunzel..." Eugene flitted back, deciding that the best possible comeback would just be to use his wife's full name; although it really only came out as more of a small pathetic growl that said woman never even noticed, painting away like a mad-woman who had never seen the color purple before; said color was flying around on the floor which was covered in a small canvas which stretched a few feet in all directions in order to give Rapunzel enough space to 'express' her creativity without damaging anything expensive.

It was quite a quiet day in Corona castle all things considered. After Eugene's latest 'accident' which left the guard captain without a sword, and until a new one was forged the king declared Eugene to be under house, or rather castle, arrest with Rapunzel to watch over him so that he couldn't cause the kingdom any further trouble; at least any more trouble than Rapunzel wouldn't get them in as well.

"Finally finished!..." Rapunzel sighed happily as her shoulders dropped, before she picked up the canvas with both of her hands to show Eugene her work with a smile. "Look Eugene! Isn't it fantastic?! I made sure to capture your... Adventurous side! Do you like it?"

"Um Punz?..." Eugene began cautiously, before Rapunzel nodded as a signal to continue whatever statement was hanging on the tip of his tongue. "You got my nose wrong again..."

"Seriously?! For the love of-..." Rapunzel was suddenly cut off as she began to hear a low humming noise began to permeate the air, causing both her and Eugene to glance up to the ceiling in both curiosity and apprehension to find what appeared to be a purple portal floating near the murals Rapunzel had painted. "Eugene?! What on earth is that thing?!"

"I don't know; but get behind me!" He replied as he jumped up from the couch while he drew a dagger that was hidden in his vest, before running up to Rapunzel in a way that if anything or anyone came out of the portal, they would need to deal with him before they would be able to even touch his wife.

Was this just a new, and quite creative in Eugene's opinion, break in and assassination method that some wizard or witch was employing? He would get his answer in the form of an intruder soon enough, for the moment that his dagger was pointed towards the portal, the ethereal conjuration spit out two figures that landed with a thud on the couch, one male and the other female; both wearing hoods that concealed their faces.

Just when Rapunzel and Eugene didn't think that such a situation could possibly grow to become any stranger, the portal began to hum once again, and a few seconds later out popped a reindeer, who landed on his feet next to the couch, although it looked as if he was knocked out by traveling through the portal.

Suddenly, all three of the figures began to stir, or rather begin to wrestle with each other in an attempt to pull themselves to their feet.

"Ow! God damn it, get your butt outta my face!" The male yelled as he used both of his arms covered in black cloth to push the thin female off of him, despite the fact that he was obviously well-toned, and that the female looked as if she weighed no more than a hundred pounds, if that. After a few seconds of struggling, the female ripped the hood from her face to reveal long black flowing hair and a pale complexion, along with grey eyes that were so lifeless that Eugene assumed she was blind at first; he was proven wrong rather quickly.

"Get your face out of my butt!" The female hissed back in a thick Russian accent, whipping her first downwards onto the male's forehead, prompting him to clutch at his now red forehead in an attempt to sooth the pain that his companion's fist had just caused him.

"Well maybe if you got up, I would be able to!" The male responded, before throwing the female off of him onto the floor, the woman landing with an involuntary squeak as she made the soft impact with carpet and marble.

"Well maybe if you hadn't transported us 20 feet up when you took us into the past, you wouldn't have had my ass in your face!" The woman countered, throwing a pillow at the man.

Eugene was floored; did he really just witness a man, woman, and reindeer fly out of a portal from what was most likely another dimension onto the couch that he spent the last 3 weeks posing for a painting like a fool on? While he was absolutely speechless however, Rapunzel was far from such an incapacitated state.

"Ooh a reindeer! Are you guys Santa Claus's helpers?!" She asked, causing the two strangers bickering on the couch to freeze both their bodies and voices, before snapping their gaze over to the brunette princess, who was poking her husband. "Aren't they Eugene? Mo-... Gothel used to tell me Santa had helpers to help him make all sorts of toys! Is this them?"

"No Punzy, these two look like assassins... Hey wait a minute..." Eugene trailed off as he squinted his eyes at the reindeer, who was sniffing the rug like a dog in search of something that no one could quite understand; however Eugene had finally pinpointed the section of his thoughts where the reindeer's name rested. "...You're Sven aren't you?! You're Princess Anna's boyfriend's reindeer!"

"Wait what?!" The female demanded, and before Eugene could even react, the woman was on him, holding him against the wall with one hand, and holding his own knife that she'd ripped from his grasp in the other. With a sneer, the woman pressed the knife against Eugene's neck while growling out, "How do you know Princess Anna?! Where is she; and where the fuck is Arendelle?!"

"Woah! Woah! Just calm down; put the nice man down before you skin him... He's no use to any of us dead..." The man soothed as he drew closer, prompting the female to sneer before she dropped the knife and threw Eugene to the floor, where Rapunzel was already waiting to catch him, although he was able to stay on his feet, if only barely. After Eugene was able to regain his sense of balance, and proceeded to size up the two intruders. The male seemed as if he was the more dangerous of the two, but it was obvious by his former predicament that the female possessed quite a fiery temper. Suddenly the male stepped forward and held his hand out tentatively. "My name is Plague, the nice woman who nearly ripped your throat out is named Purge... We need to... Speak to the queen of Arendelle as soon as we possibly can..."

Eugene was completely tight lipped; there was no way on earth that he was going to reveal to these two strangers, who were most likely hired assassins, where Arendelle and more importantly, the Hjroth family were located. Unfortunately, Rapunzel was much looser lipped, and much more naive, which resulted in the princess bounding up to shake Plague's hand voraciously as she began to speak, "Hi Plague! I'm Rapunzel! Eugene and I are actually traveling to Arendelle tonight to attend a really huge party! Right Eugene?"

"Uh.. You know you really shouldn't tell the trained killers where their target is..." He pointed out, causing his wife to blush and silence herself with a week 'oh'; an event that was rather rare, as most who were acquainted with Rapunzel knew.

"We're not assassins... We were hired to bring a message to the queen of Arendelle... Nothing more." Plague explained, although Purge looked as if she was unsure. Of course it could have also been the fierce desire to pin Eugene against the wall and beat him half to death. Noticing this, Plague turned to face his companion and in the most demeaning voice he could possibly conjure up on the fly he said, "Isn't that right Purge?"

Receiving no answer, Plague turned back to Eugene, who was glaring at him, distrust evident on his features. "How do I know your telling the truth? For all I know, you could have a knife in your boot right now, and the second I turn away it'll go right into my back."

"Because I know you; you were a thief, and I know that you can sense other criminals, it's in your nature..." Plague shrugged as if what he said wasn't exactly of any real importance, before chuckling darkly, "But if you still don't believe me... Then call your guards; have them arrest us."

Silence prevailed out of the room, Eugene never breaking his glare that Plague dent back with just as much determination, although something was different about Plague; his hood still hid his face like a shadow looming over a hidden enemy.

"I thought so..." He muttered after a few more seconds, before whipping around to the door, "Let's get going; I don't want to be late for this 'party' that they're throwing in Arendelle..."

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"No Kristoff! Put it over there!" Anna directed impatiently as Kristoff lugged around a large wooden crate. It appeared as if he could barely hold it up, despite his immense strength, and overall muscle mass.

"I'm trying Anna, you could give me a little hel-... Never mind..." Kristoff groaned when he realized that his argument would be countered with the 'I'm pregnant' excuse before he would even get a chance to finish his sentence. Anna knew this too, as she merely wore a smug grin on her face, holding an iron bar which had been forged and shaped specifically for opening wooden crates such as the one giving Kristoff a hernia due to its overwhelming weight.

It had been nearly 2 weeks since Elsa had snapped on Anna; and so far, no one had seen the queen leave her room, much less the castle. While it was quite polarizing for most diplomats, as she refused to meet with them, it was also quite nice for Anna. While Elsa had spent the 2 weeks moping around in either her office or bedroom, her younger sister had been out sending out invitations and throwing up decorations for what she had dubbed the 'Christmas Party Extravaganza' in order to surprise Elsa with a huge Christmas party. Christmas was both Anna and Elsa's favorite holiday after all; snow, presents, family, and most of all, all of the winter themed confections that came with the wondrous occasion.

Of course, Anna was silently praying that Elsa would even partake in the festivities. Both knew that the queen was in no mood to celebrate anything, even something as joy filled as the winter holidays; especially Christmas. There was only one thing that she wanted, and no one in Arendelle or beyond would be able to provide it to her. It was heart breaking for Anna as well; after 13 years, she had finally ripped her sister out of her emotional cell, only for her to regress into it once more after all they had all been through.

A loud crashing noise broke Anna out of her thoughts, causing her to glance up to find Kristoff on the ground next to the box, which had been placed exactly where Anna had instructed, with the exhausted ice harvester laying next to it, gasping desperately for air that felt as if it was meandering its way into his lungs.

"Why are we throwing Elsa another party anyway?..." Kristoff groaned in pain, rolling over so that he could face his pregnant girlfriend. "It's never worked before, and I seriously doubt that it'll work this time..."

"I know!... But it's Christmas time, so Elsa has to come out right?" Anna reasoned in an attempt to calm herself more than anything else, although her nervous pacing gave her true feelings about the whole situation away quite easily. "Besides even if it doesn't work, then at least everyone else in town will have a good time..."

Kristoff's gazed turned both hard and sarcastic before it softened quite considerably, since he was speaking to his girlfriend, not some oversized store clerk who refused to give him a deal before kicking him out of the store like trash. The blonde man had never quite gotten over that, but his thoughts still rested with the pregnant girl fiddling with a brightly colored ornament which had been dyed red and blue. "Anna... Something's bothering you, what's wrong?"

"What if... What if Elsa never gets over this?... What if I've really lost my sister forever this time?..." The princess replied with tears in her eyes, the ornament slipping from her grasp and smashing on the stone pathway. At first Anna was annoyed, but then she glanced at just exactly how the ornament had broken; in two clean halves, one half red, and the other a light blue.

Kristoff sighed as he pulled himself off of the ground before he held his arms open for a hug; which the red-head filled without even a moment's hesitation. "I don't know Anna... I just don't know..."

"Hey..." Anna stopped crying for just a moment in order to pull away from the hug, looking around for something in particular. "Have you seen Roc by any chance? I sent him to go and get Elsa from the party by any means necessary but he hasn't come back yet; do you think he's okay?"

Suddenly before Kristoff could even so much as shrug, as if from nowhere a loud piercing scream that sounded as if it was from a young woman echoed throughout the courtyard of the castle, causing both Anna, Kristoff, and the rest of the citizens of Arendelle that were assisting the royal family in decorating the castle to whip their heads up to the window of Elsa's office in suspicion that Roc was dragging Elsa down to the now fully decorated courtyard.

Against the suspicions of the occupants of the courtyard however, when the double doors of the castle finally opened, they were not greeted by the sight of Roc carrying Elsa out of the structure, but rather a large snowman nearly the size of Marshmallow carrying Roc in one hand, with a large paint roller covered in green paint in the other. The moment the doors were open, the snowman threw Roc into one of the fountains of the courtyard, followed by what was most likely his paint roller, striking him directly on the head, nearly knocking him out cold; only kept conscious by the constant stream of water hitting his face.

Satisfied that his job was done, the snowman nodded confidently before turning back into the castle, closing the double doors behind him; leaving Anna, Kristoff, and the citizens of Arendelle to tend to any wounds that Roc could have possibly sustained from the involuntary flight.

"So..." Anna began as she bit her lip nervously, "Did she say she would come?..."

Roc could only hold up his middle finger to the red-haired princess before losing his consciousness completely.

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"So let me make sure I've got your name's right... Your Eugene..." Plague, who was still covering his face with his hood, asked as he pointed to the man in question, earning a nod before his finger moved towards the brunette next to him. "And you're Rapunzel; correct?"

Another nod. Plague smirked; he was becoming quite apt at this whole 'socializing' thing, although it was a tremendous amount of work. Hopefully it would all be worth it in the end when he and Purge, along with the prince and princess, arrived in Arendelle for the party.

"And... The horse is Maximus and the lizard is... Pascal right?" The hooded young man asked, prompting Rapunzel to nod in affirmation once again, while the horse and gecko in question gazed to the path ahead.

"You know Plague, even dragon was better at introducing himself than you are; and that's really saying something if you can recall the stories relating to him..." Purge commented, earning a small flick on the forehead from her companion in response, causing her to growl softly, ready to reprimand Plague for his joking strike to her head. "Asshole..."

This sudden use of such profane language surprised Rapunzel and even Eugene to some degree. It was quite rare for anyone in their time to use such profane language so freely; and the added bonus that Purge was a female just ended up supplementing the overall perplexity of her vulgar language.

Suddenly, before either Rapunzel or Eugene could make any comments on Purge's obscene use of words, Maximus and Sven, who were both pulling the carriage around neighed loudly, causing everyone in the large white carriage to whip their heads to the direction that Maximus had turned his head to meet and amazing sight. In the valley below stood the port kingdom of Arendelle, which had been decorated to celebrate the holidays. Rapunzel let out a giddy squeal as she nearly jumped out of the carriage in excitement. "Look! There it is! The kingdom of Arendelle! Isn't it pretty Eugene?"

Eugene chuckled softly, before throwing his arm over Rapunzel's shoulders, before kissing her lightly on the cheek. "Yeah; it's really an amazing place when it's queen isn't running around freezing it like a crazy-..."

"Shut up..." Plague's voice echoed through the forest, along with what sounded like a blade being drawn. Eugene found this to be the case when he glanced over at the hooded man to find him grasping a dagger, the hilt of which appeared as if it was designed to look like the jaw of a great flying beast. Evidently, Plague sensed Eugene's gaze, causing him to whip his head up. "You heard me; don't you dare talk about her like that..."

"Um... Alright, sorry..." Eugene surrendered, not wishing to engage in a brawl while his wife was next to him, although even she appeared as if she was surprised by Plague's actions. "Why are you defending her anyway? I wasn't even insulting her and your acting like I killed her."

"She used to be romantically involved with someone I knew... His name was Dragon... He died in order to keep her safe..." Plague explained, causing Rapunzel's eyes to widen considerably as she began to bounce up and down in her seat as her hand shot up into the air as if she were a student in a class, desperately attempting to catch the attention of an uncaring teacher.

"Ooh, Ooh, you mean Andrew Consara?! He was engaged to Elsa; she says that he was from the future like you guys and everything!... That's actually why Arendelle is having a Christmas ball... It's going to also be a memorial to him, thanks to Anna... She wants Elsa to be happy again, although with all of the princes there I doubt that she'll be sad much longer." Rapunzel said with a smile, although the smile quickly disappeared when she heard a sharp but low growl emanating from Plague, his hand wrapping around his dagger so tight that his knuckles nearly turned completely white.

"You know Plague, you tell me to mind my temper yet you growl at a princess... You had better get it out, because we're going to be meeting Queen Elsa soon..." Purge smiled faintly before casually glancing at Plague who was staring hard at Castle Arendelle which stood proudly amongst its kingdom. "Well here we are... Welcome home Plague..."

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That's the end of the first chapter of Love Endures! Who do you guys think Plague is? A new love interest? Perhaps an ally of Andrew's from the past? The only way you'll be able to find out is by tuning in next time! Until next time my minions!