Hello everyone! Welcome to my first Frozen sequel fanfic. I want to thank everyone who supported this idea, ever since I first published it here. Hopefully you will enjoy it.
This story was in development for several months, and it was problematic, but I finally think its ready. For anyone who has been waiting for this and read my original outline, note that several changes have been made so do not expect everything to turn out as you might think it will. For those who are new, don't read the original outline if you don't want spoilers.
It was quite cold outside, for autumn had begun only a few days ago. Though it had gotten colder earlier in September, it seemed to take some time to actually get to be as cold as it normally did during this time of year, not counting that only 3 months ago, it was even colder, as in colder than it was supposed to be. That's what happens when you're a snow queen that doesn't know how to control your powers and you accidently unleash it.
That could pretty much sum up July when Queen Elsa of Arendelle took the throne on her 21th birthday.
Queen Elsa had not had what could be considered a normal life for a princess growing up as she did. She had everything any princess could want. Loving parents a sister to play with and all the potential to become the queen that you were meant to be when your parents decided that you were ready be given the throne.
The difference was Elsa had been born with powers that she could not control very well at the time.
At a young age Elsa was able to control ice and snow. How no one knew the answer to that. All they knew was that Elsa and Elsa alone had this power.
It had seemed harmless enough at first; Elsa happily used her powers for her own enjoyment, and after the birth of her sister, Anna's too. The two would do everything together from building snowmen to making snow forts, even doing snowball fights in the ball room. It seemed that together, they were an unstoppable force that no one could ever break apart.
Alas things were not meant to be.
One night, at the tender ages of 8 and 5, Elsa and Anna had done the normal routine of going down to the ballroom late at night, were Elsa proceeded to created her famous 'winter wonderland' for the two to play in. they would skate around on the ice, build snowman and just enjoy themselves while they could. However when Anna had began jumping on platforms that Elsa created for her, Elsa found that she could not keep up with her younger sisters speed and slipped on the ice. Without a moment to loose, Elsa hastily tried to save her sister from falling onto the ice, but only succeeded in accidently striking her head with ice.
The result was Anna becoming ice cold and unconscious. Adgar and Idun, the King and Queen had taken Anna and Elsa to see the trolls that resided just outside of Arendelle in order to seek help.
The trolls managed to save Anna by removing any memories of magic from Anna, but the resulting aftermath was the worst blow to the sisters that night.
In order to protect Anna and all others from Elsa while she learned to control her magic, Adgar forced her to stay within her own room and closed the castle from the outside world.
Elsa however would never learn to control her powers, at least in the time that she was apart from her family. They only continued to get stronger.
What made it worse was when she and Anna were 18 and 15 respectively, her parents left for a foreign country to deal with matters that had called them away for two weeks and during the time away, a massive storm hit, causing the ship to sink.
Following this Elsa spent the next three years without anyone to guide her. She and Anna were never around each other out of fear that Elsa would accidently hurt her as she had in the past.
Then the eternal winter happened.
It was the night of her coronation and Elsa had managed to keep her powers in check for pretty much the entire night. The only time she had even needed to take off her gloves was when she needed to hold Arendelle's heirlooms (she had unfortunately coated them in ice, though nobody noticed it)
The party went well enough at first, Elsa simply being the regal queen that she was, dealing with dignitaries congratulating her on her coronation.
However most of it went out the window when Anna had decidedly brought one of the dignitaries, namely prince Hans of the Southern Isles to her proclaiming that they were going to get married.
Elsa needless to say had been completely shocked by this. Not only was Anna 18 years old and therefore did not know anything about love, she had only met him that day.
Elsa had refused her blessing and as a result argued with Anna about the issue and it culminated to Elsa's powers being revealed that night. In fear of being prosecuted (as the troll had warned her that fear would be her enemy) she had run off hoping to live the rest of her days away from those that could bring her harm (and vise versa)
After managing to secure herself on the north mountain, Elsa had created a home for herself, but the next day Anna had arrived begging her to return home. Elsa however refused and tried to force Anna away, accidently freezing her heart in the process.
After forcing Anna out, Elsa was attacked by some guards that were sent to 'stop the winter'. Though she had managed a good fight, she was captured and brought back to Arendelle, presumably to be killed. However, using her powers she was able to escape.
As she wandered through the blizzard however, Hans came to her telling her that Anna was resigned to her fate, heartbroken that Anna was dead, but to her shock Anna had survived and managed to stop Hans from killing her.
In the process however, Anna had frozen solid as a result of the earlier attack by Elsa. Elsa had cried, knowing that her only family was now dead.
Miraculously, however Anna thawed and with it, Elsa finally found out how to control her powers. Love. With love, she undid the damage to Arendelle and brought back summer.
Everything was ok after that. Anna found true love with a man named Kristoff
(whom she had met that day as well) and the two sisters could finally reconcile after many years.
It was a very typical morning for Elsa. It was still relatively early, for the sun was barely rising over the horizon. It was normal for Elsa to get up before the sun; being queen had made this a habit for her. Oh the joys of being the queen of an entire nation.
It wasn't like that Elsa wasn't grateful for this. Being the queen was who she was meant to be, and she took that in stride every day. With each new day that came, Elsa took confidence in her ability to rule Arendelle kindly and justly, like her father had done before her.
The only thing she was concerned about was the safety and welfare of her own subjects. When it came to herself, she was just concerned that she would mess up and cause problems for Arendelle.
Arendelle was a small town, barely on the outskirts of the coast. It lacked a large army that other nations had. If it ever came to a war, Elsa was not confident that Arendelle would be able to survive on its own.
Arendelle however did have allies both foreign and domestically. Elsa however just hoped that it would never have to come to such horrors.
The worst part was that the citizens might look to Elsa for help on the matter. Being a magical snow queen, Elsa could theoretically use her powers as a weapon as she had done when she was attacked during the eternal winter. But because she wasn't that strong yet (she still had to practice and extend the use of her powers) she wasn't sure that she could do so effectively.
Not only that Elsa absolutely refused to be a weapon. She did not care that in an outburst she could blanket everything under snow. She was not ever going to use her powers in a way that could harm others. She was a queen not a soldier.
She never wanted that to change. No one would be able to tell her otherwise. She was a peaceful person.
Currently Elsa was in her study, reading over several documents that discussed several topics that she would have to go over with their respective nations in meetings later that day. However she wasn't pleased with it at all. It seemed that these foreign kingdoms were a little too demanding in their want for supplies, she would need to be able to compromise an agreement that did not drain as much resources; Arendelle would need some of the excess good, just in case.
Elsa wrote on the document, fleshing out, or altering any of the differences that she felt needed to be done. Once she finished with this document, she would be able to go eat breakfast.
Normally Elsa only had tea when she woke up in the morning, it was all she needed really. It wasn't until sunrise that she would normally go down to have breakfast. She was able to go without food for sometime in the morning, unless she really needed it.
The only downside to breakfast was that Anna, being as she was, was not around for it. Elsa did not normally see her until lunch and that was only because Anna did not get up early. In fact, Anna probably did not even known the definition of the world early. she probably didn't even know that early even existed.
In another life, Elsa would have scolded her sister for being lazy, but she didn't have the heart to. Anna was who she was and Elsa could not see it any other way.
In some cases, Elsa was actually envious of Anna, in regards to her not needing to worry about ruling of Arendelle. Anna wasn't exactly a normal princess though, far from it as far as 'standards' were concerned. Anna however was not one for such things so it didn't really matter.
In either case though, Elsa was the heir and was so far doing an ok job at being queen as far as her family and friends were concerned. However Elsa did not want all this power to corrupt her. She had seen what a lust for power could do to people and she did not want that to be reflected on her during her time as queen.
Elsa smiled as she finally finished the last touches on her final document that morning. Though she had several meetings after breakfast and no doubt would have to deal with even more documents following that, she was just content at the moment.
With a sigh Elsa stared at the window, watching the world go by. It seemed so different that what she had been used to, spending her life in isolation the way she had growing up. Back then she would stay in her room, wishing praying that she would be able to control her powers and have her freedom back. These days however, she was just happy to watch it, knowing that the world outside was no longer her enemy.
The colors of autumn blending in brilliant shades of red and bronze, quite that change from the overlaying shades of green that had been prevalent only several weeks ago. It just seemed so peaceful out there. Elsa wondered how the people of Arendelle were taking the change in weather.
Elsa had not gone into the town very much, given that she was very busy for most of the day. If she wasn't working, she was usually reading or practicing with her ice magic, just to name a few things. Not to mention she spent time with Anna, if said sister wasn't busy causing trouble or going out with her boyfriend Kristoff.
Elsa was glad that Anna was happy with Kristoff; he seemed to make Anna happy and that was what Elsa wanted for her sister; if she wasn't Elsa would not take it lightly, Anna had a hard life as it was considering her own lonely childhood.
Anna however was still young and learning a lot about the game of love. Of course that wasn't saying much, because Elsa had no idea what love was either, but she was not nearly as naïve as Anna was in this day in age. Then again Anna was only 18 but still Elsa knew that love was complicated. On the other hand, considering Anna had been dating Kristoff for some time, it was more than likely that she was ahead of the game.
That being said, Elsa was not interested in a suitor, like at all. She had only been a queen for a short amount of time; there was so much for her to learn and do. Adding the pressure of marriage right now would only be more stress than it's worth right now.
Thankfully she had received no such proposals so far in any dealings she had over the course of the past few months. She knew that it would happen, but hopefully not as quickly as it had for Anna. One monarch was enough for Arendelle right now.
If anything at this rate is was more likely that Anna's children would become Elsa's heirs, once she had some (though not for a few years). Elsa figured that was more than likely, because marriage did not seem to be her type of thing.
Anna would no doubt begin questioning at some point whether or not Elsa liked someone or not, but Elsa would honestly say that was a no. she hadn't met any suitors as of yet, but knew that would come eventually.
As long as Arendelle was well care for, that was all Elsa needed during her time as queen. No one ever said she needed a husband as of yet, though politically that would give Arendelle and advantage because it would gain another kingdom as an ally, but that could be accomplished amicably, not romantically.
With a sigh Elsa turned to her clock. It was barely past sunrise. perhaps it would be best to go down for breakfast before continuing her day. Without a word she stood from her desk and stretched before walking out the door to head to the dining room, where no doubt, so breakfast would be awaiting her.
Elsa regally walked down the hall, taking in the sights of her own castle. Despite having lived in the said castle her whole life it never ceased to amaze her. The design of the castle was simply very beautiful. Of course it helped that she had put her own flare on it back when she learned to control her powers.
Still she never spent as much time simply looking at the castle, given that most of her days had been spent in her own room. That again had mostly occupied most of Anna's time (though Elsa had heard her). Anna had spent most of her time talking to paintings from what she heard, if not riding her bikes around the halls. It still surprised Elsa that Anna managed to keep that same spark of vivacity, despite the depression that had plagued them both growing up.
She certainly handled it far better than Elsa had, that was for sure.
The wall was decorated with a large amount of paintings, ranging from people to landscapes, the detail brilliant. Elsa may not have cared about art the same as others might, but she could always admire it.
The rest of the castle was just as well decorated. The only thing better was the library where Elsa spent most of her alone time. Elsa enjoyed reading, anything from fiction the history; it always amazed her.
She had learned quite a lot simply from reading. It was the only thing she was thankful for from being isolated. She only wished that she could have done it with Anna.
Then again Anna would have more likely just fallen asleep out of pure boredom. She certainly did enough of that when Elsa tried to teach her things. Anna was more for the thrills of life than Elsa was, if the fact was that Anna had always rushed into things. Elsa was more for enjoying life, not risking her own life for enjoyment.
How Anna had managed not to kill herself doing all the dangerous stunts that she had done continued to elude Elsa. Not counting the fact Anna had indeed died saving her life, but Elsa did not want to think of that again. Simply experiencing it was a nightmare. Reliving it would be far more than Elsa could ever hope to bear.
The only good that had done was bring them together again, and Elsa would not lose her again. If that was to ever happen again, there was no telling what Elsa would do. People thought of her as a monster when her powers were revealed to the world; they had no idea what she was truly capable of. Just blanketing the land in snow was cruel, but she could freeze people to death.
Elsa however was adamant that she would not become the monster that she was afraid she could become. It was more than a hope, it was a promise she had made to herself; and she would not break it so easily. She had lost control once and lost everything. If it happened again, she couldn't be sure as to whether or not it would corrupt her forever.
True she would have her enemies not matter what she did, but she would also had her supporters. That's what family was for right?
That's what mattered to Elsa. Family. Anna her sister. Kai and Gerda her caretakers and surrogates. Kristoff, Anna's boyfriend. Sven, Kristoff's reindeer. Olaf, the lovable snowman. They were Elsa's family and that was all Elsa would ever need in this life.