Authors note: Thank you so much for all the reviews and comments.
Out of popular demand I decided my hand to write this story, hopefully it will be good. Its a Frozen story very loosely inspired by the little mermaid with some historical details as it will show habits of that age and ideas. Plus I always critize the fact that the little mermaid fell in love with the prince just like that...I would have liked for there to have been more interaction between them before the little mermaid did what she did.
There will be more interactions and twists to this story which I hope it will please.
Summary:
Hidden underneath the sea was a palace where resided the rulers of the artic ocean with their 2 daughters, left alone Elsa decided to go and explore, when she does she runs into a bit of trouble and gains a rather unexpected friendship with a human named Hans. As they grow older so their friendship and with it problems as both the merworld and the human world collide.
What will become of it? We shall see...
Any way hope you all enjoy it and please review when done.
Southern isles palace:
They say that being the youngest child in the family is the best thing in the world, your babied, given all the attentions and all the good things. Sadly it could not be far from the true when it came to the Westergaar family.
There was a phrase which was said, been there and done that, it was very well applied to the family as they had 14 children, all whom which had many talents, sadly those talents mostly went to waste as they dedicated in making each others lives as miserable as possible while the parents, the king and queen, would rather spend their time doing their own things rather than spend time with their children.
The mother liked the idea of having 14 children, but she wanted a daughter more than anything which is why she tried again, in that there were good and bad, the good was that she finally had the daughter she had coveted, the bad news was that with her came a twin boy.
Very sickly and pale, the boy was forgotten while his sister birth was celebrated with a grand feast.
"Oh fiddle faddle what a nerve" said one of the servants as she paced around the small room in the attic, she was a plump woman in her early 50's, she wore the traditional southern isle servant uniform which was brown, red and black dress with apron and a bonnet which covered her curly brunet graying hair,
"I am sure they did not forget mother, their just exited for their daughter" said another woman, she was the daughter of the servant, she too wore similar clothing to her mother though her hair was blond like her fathers,
"Oh they did forget, I am sure of it Giselle, it makes no sense to celebrate the birth of one child and not the other" said the woman,
"Well...maybe its a phase" said Giselle as she moved the old crib, rocking it gently as the baby slept, he had been crying all day and night so it was a miracle that Agatha finally got him to sleep.
"Its not a phase, I can tell you that" said the mother shaking her finger as she paced around, this was not good, not good at all for the child.
"There has to be.." she though then her eyes lit up and said "There is!",
"There is what?" asked Giselle confused,
"What if we took care of the baby?" asked the mother,
"We?" said Giselle shocked, not that she had anything against it, she liked the idea of having a baby, but...
"What if we get caught?" asked Giselle "The King will have our heads...if we are lucky",
"Nonsense, I doubt that the king would even realize what is going on" said the mother rolling her eyes,
"Well...I guess" said Giselle then added dreamily "I always wanted to have a baby",
"Oh no your not! Not until your properly married you will not" chastised the mother,
"I mean not now...but you know what I mean mom" said Giselle sheepishly,
"It better be" said the mom warningly before sighting and saying "Well...better get my cooking on...good thing I have many recipes", Giselle winced as she heard that, she did not remember her mothers "recipe's" quite fondly, recipe's which she claimed that would keep a person healthy, make a person look better and all such other good qualities...so she claims...
"It will make good practice when I have children" said Giselle as her mother left when she did she said to the baby "I wish you good luck Hans, my moms creations will make your taste buds rot away".
Years later:
"Nooooo" whined 5 year old Hans as he sat on a small wooden stool in the kitchen, his hands on his mouth as he did not wanted to have the spoonful of the cod fish oil the cook turned surrogate mother wanted him to have.
"Come on Hans, open wide, it will make you big and strong" she said as she held the spoon near,
"No" muffled Hans as he did not want to have the disgusting fishy oil substance in his mouth,
"Hans, just cover your nose and swallow quickly, it worked on me" said Giselle as she felt sorry for him as she knew what he went through, so many countless years she had to endure her mothers "recipes" and "remedies".
Hans grimaced as he resolved to do what he was told to get it over with, opening his mouth, immediately Hans felt like he wanted to puke as the oily substance entered his mouth. It was disgusting tasting, even worse as it had an after taste that would not go away.
"See? It was not so bad was it?" said the chef/servant as she patted Hans head gently,
"Gha" said Hans as he held his hands on his stomach, he was quite sure he was going to be ill because of the fish oil,
"You complain now, but you will see, in a couple of years you will be the most handsomest lad in the land thanks to my recipes" said the chef holding the spoon up proudly.
The chef was named Agatha, she had some...strange...remedies and so forth...since Hans had been in her care he had been forced to endure a rather strange diet, exercise and life style.
While his family gorged themselves in large amounts of red meats, wine, liquor and sweets Hans was given very little red meat and more white meat or fish , huge amounts of fruit, vegetables, milk, honey and water which the chef purified all by herself.
Hans like most children was very picky about vegetables but resorted to eat them just because Agatha had quite a scary temper...which terrified him like nothing else...
Whenever he questioned her strange methods she would always say the same thing "You will thank me when your older".
Though there had to be a method to her "madness" as he had noticed that her daughter Giselle had been on the same life style and diet that he was in right now and she despite the fact that she was almost 40 she looked quite beautiful and young compared to most women her age...quite frankly she looked to be in her 30's...
"Maybe her recepies do work" he though between gags,
"Alright now go out and play, I will call you when its time for your lesson" said Agatha as she pointed out the kitchen door.
"Thank you nana" said Hans leaving quickly before she decided to give him any more of her "recipes".
Going pass the door he ran about the small garden which Agatha had in her small home, he quite liked it there in the cottage by the coast than he did in the Southern isle palace. The cottage was clean and he never felt ill, plus he always had somebody to play with as he would go to the village and play with the children there or speak to the adults.
While the palace he was always lonely as everybody acted as if he did not exist, he was not even allowed at the dinner table and his parents acted as if he was more of a pest than a child they loved, then there was the smells and sickness, the place always had this particular bad smell which made Hans quite ill to his stomach, it was kind of a strong garlic very offensive odor which was so bad that at times Hans opted to sleep outside in the barn than sleep in his own room.
He had pointed out the smell to others but they claim that he must be imagining it as they do not smell anything.
Finally the smell got so bad that Hans begged his surrogate mother and Giselle to let him stay with them, which they agree after a couple of minutes of crying and pleading which he never liked to beg or plea but he did not care. That was just how bad the smell was.
Shaking his head Hans ran around and rolled on the grass, enjoying the feeling of the soft grass as he laughed,
"This is the life" he though happy as in his mind as he stopped and just lay there, looking up at the sky and counting the lazy clouds.
Meanwhile under the sea:
Deep beneath the atlantic ocean, one would think that it was dark and without light, but it could not be far from the truth as deep underwater the sands were white and glowing, there was life as fish of all manners swam about, there were algae's and all manners of underwater plants growing, they glowed in the colors of blue, pink, green and purple very beautifully.
Set in the middle of all the beauty was a kingdom with a grand castle, the town was made out of white coral while the castle was made out of colorful coral, shells and had all manners of jewels encrusted on it for decoration.
The windows were open allowing the fish to come in and out freely, visiting the mermaid princess who lived in the palace.
She was a very unusual yet beautiful girl, her skin had icy blue scales and delicate webbed hands, her tail was dark blue with what looked like frost designs on it, her "hair" was platinum blond almost white which made her icy blue eyes pop. Like all child mermaids she was quite small, being no bigger than the size of a goldfish, but in time she would grow to be normal size mermaid.
Sitting on her tower she read a bit on a book which was recovered from a recent shipwrecked, stroking the picture of a white flower she wondered about it, closing the book she took some coral bits and ate it before crushing it a bit and allowing the nearby fish to eat it.
Of course she would have hand fed the fish, but she was afraid of hurting them with her...unusual abilities...
"Your highness" she heard, looking she saw her maid Gerda swim in, she had a brown tail, her skin was dark green, her "hair" was done in a bun and pinned with a shell hat, she had a tray of food with her,
"Hello Gerda" said Elsa as she swam over till she was close to the adult mermaid whom was quite large in size compared to her,
"Hello your highness, your parents sent me to-",
"It matters not Gerda...for I know what they think" said Elsa sadly as she turned her head to look out of her window towards the kingdom,
"Your highness, its not true, they love you and want what is best for you" said Gerda softly as she reached for the little mermaid whom grew tense when she cupped her hands around her tiny form,
"I doubt it, their afraid of me...they want me to be shut up here...out of sight out of mind" said Elsa softly as she stayed as still as a statue in the palm of her maid turned surrogate mothers hand, Gerda frowned sadly as she swan over to the vanity, taking a tiny shell comb which was laying on it she ran it gently through Elsa's "hair",
"Your the only one that cares for me Gerda...for that I thank you" said Elsa softly as she lay her head against Gerda's thumb,
"Oh Elsa...that is not true...there are others...if you just take the time to look outside the tower...there are many friends which you are yet to meet" said Gerda always wise as ever.
Elsa gave a small smile then frowned as she doubted that anybody would want to be close to her with her ice magic,
"Well, what's this?" said Gerda hoping to change the subject to make her feel better, she took the book Elsa was looking at and held it,
"I don't know...What are those?" said Elsa as she pointed at the flowers in pictures of the book,
"Their land flowers, not as pretty as sea flowers...but its something for humans" said Gerda as she turned the page,
"What are humans?" asked Elsa,
"Their well...like us...kinda...with no fins..." said Gerda,
"If they have no fins then how do they go from place to place?" asked Elsa in awe,
"Well...they have these two things they use...its hard to explain as you have to see one to understand" said Gerda then muttered as she moved pages about "I am sure there should be a picture of one here...ahhh there" she pointed at a picture of what looked like strange two legged creatures wearing strange clothing and dancing about among the flowers and building, it looked like they were having a good time,
"Their unusual and strange" pointed out Elsa,
"Well...yes, but everybody is different, like would be no fun if everything was the same" said Gerda with a smile,
"Can I see one?" asked Elsa,
"I would not advice it...but shall plan a day for you to go to the surface...so long as you get back before your parents find out and you don't let any humans see you" said Gerda,
"Really? Oh thank you thank you" said Elsa before hugging Gerda's thumb happily only to back away in fear,
"Its okay, you won't hurt me your highness" said Gerda with a small reassuring smile, Elsa carefully swam over and hugged Gerda's thumb softly ready to let go if her magic acted up. Which thankfully it did not.
To be continued...
Authors note: Well, its a start. lol ;p
Bear with me, the story will start slow but will pick up overtime.
Fun fact: Arsenic and lead were a common use all product used back then in the 1800's, it was used in soap, clothing, food, whatever you can think of. The reason for this was because arsenic made a stunning green color which could not be matched which was why it was used to dye clothes or wall paper and lead made a stunning white which was brighter than most and people would wash their faces and use it in make up thinking it would help them achieve the perfect completion. It was mostly used by the nobles or aristocracy, basically anybody who can afford it.
True arsenic is odorless but it has been discovered that there are some people who can smell it and often times the smell is described as either bitter almonds or garlicky, very offensive to the nose which gets worse when exposed to warm temperatures. While lead can cause nausea, melancholy, dizzy spells and other ill effects.
Any way...Please review when done and stay tuned for the next one, for in the next one I promise it will be longer plus a lot of interesting things will happen. :)
