After Elsa (wearing a blue scarf and a purple cape), explained to Mayor Butler what was happening with her and her sister, he replied, "Elsa." He paused for a moment before looking at her with his brown eyes and said, "Good luck down there."
Elsa smiled back, and exited his office where her sister was sitting (bundled tightly in two cloaks, three scarves, and a jacket Mother wore when she was alive that was far too big for the tiny girl), with a giant satchel hanging from her small body. She walked over to her sister, whose face was beaming with happiness at where they were going and possibly staying. "Time to go, princess," Elsa said as Marshmallow flew onto her shoulder, and Olaf landed on their satchel. Anna handed the satchel to her older sister, as Olaf ducked into the bag and peeked out of the flap. Elsa pulled the heavy satchel over her opposite shoulder and took her sister's hand and they walked over to the train station. Elsa handed their tickets to the conductor, and they boarded the caboose and cargo train. The caboose was pretty crowded, and everyone was sitting on the floor, some children were running around; others were being fed by their parents, and some young people were holding maps, but it was still warm. Elsa pushed through the crowd, holding tightly to her sister and avoiding the perverted gaze of some jerk on the other side of the car. Elsa took her little sister over to the corner and they sat on some bags filled with hay.
Elsa held onto her sister's hand as the giant whistle sounded and the wheels began turning and turning until they were speeding down the mountain. When they were halfway down the mountain, Elsa finally stop squeezing her sister's hand, Anna began to take off her bundles of warm clothes and put them in the satchel with the clothes their cousin sent them. "Hey, Elsa. What are we gonna give Rapunzel for her wedding?" Anna asked. Elsa realized they had nothing to give her cousin, but she remembered her powers were able to create unique items. So, she pushed out as much ice as she could manage until, and poured her most creative ideas into the object, and when she knew she was finished, she gasped. As the frost began to clear, Elsa could clearly make out that it was necklace, but not just any old necklace; this necklace twinkled in the bright sun of the Summer Land, illuminated with all colors of the rainbow. The pendant was shaped like the golden sun, and the chain was a hundred rampion flowers stringed together that were pristine and gorgeous. Elsa then conjured up a jewelry box that was etched with a golden sun etched into the lid, and placed the ice necklace gently inside. "That'll be perfect," Anna commented, as her sister carefully put the box under their clothes and pelts.
"I hope so," Elsa said, undoing her thick bun and it came out in a long, messy braid. Anna sat down next to her, and looked as if she was about to say something, but she paused. "Yes, Anna?"
Anna looked out the cargo window as rolling, green hills grew smaller the farther away the train grew. "It's nothing, Elsa," Anna replied, sadly as her gaze was permanently locked onto the green fields, that were both strangeā¦.and beautiful.
"Anna. I know you're lying, so why don't you just come out with it," Elsa said, by for once Anna kept her mouth shut. Elsa sighed, as she noticed a sweet, little girl with her teenage sister and their parent. This brought her back to the days when she was a teenager just trying to get by in the Mountain with her sister.
(*)
Two years passed since Idun and Adgar Arendelle passed away, and their fifteen-year-old Elsa was forced to raise her two year old sister, Anna.
"Can I help?" Anna said, while Elsa was pouring in some defrosted ice in the boiling cauldron that would serve as their water. Elsa looked over at her sister, put only pointed her back to some books in the corner of the house near the beds. Anna sighed, and walked away from her sister and began drawing on the book's pages, while her sister worked hard around the house. She scrubbed at the wall with the handkerchief she wore around her hair that was tucked in a messy braid, then she pulled up her purple gown and blue apron and began sweeping the floor, and finally preparing the rest of the food her and Anna. She rested on the floor as Anna shoved some food in her mouth, and Elsa was smiling until she heard knocking at their door. She sat up and walked over to the door, mending their old garments into a brand new ones, and outside stood her former employer Bodil Avai, her face glum.
"Ms. Avai. How might I help you?" Elsa fearfully asked. For the past two years she had been working for Ms. Avai in her dress shop after her mother died and made beautiful dresses of ice that were covered in icicles and snow flurries, but were as warm as any other gown.
Bodil gave her sad stare and said, "I'm sorry, but you're being discharged, because some people are complaining that you are taking so much time off is unfair to the other employees." Elsa nearly choked on those words, and as she felt her legs turn to ice.
"NO! Please, I need this job!" Elsa cried collapsing to her knees, and holding her hands in a begging position. Elsa had worked so hard to keep this job, but also raise her sister on the side. "I'll do anything! I'll scrub the outhouse, clean the linens, or...or-"
Bodil turned her back on the girl, and said, "Goodbye, Ms. Arendelle," and like that she was gone. Elsa fell to the ice floor and cried tears of ice for about an hour, until she noticed her little sister hovering over her sad body.
"Elsa, why are you crying?" Anna asked, innocently. Elsa forced herself up and pulled her sister in a tight hug, that it seemed to crush her. "ELSA!" Anna cried, and Elsa quickly let her little sister go. Anna smiled happily, but then her king face looked grim, "What do we do now?"
Elsa nearly cried again, as she begrudgingly said, "I-I don't know, princess." Anna wrapped her arms around her sister, and Elsa quickly felt foolish. What kind of guardian is she if her Little sister has to give her comfort? This thought nearly caused her tear up, when Olaf landed on the table followed by Marshmallow. What can I do? Elsa asked herself as Anna guided her back to the table and they silently ate their dinner.
(*)
"ELSA!" Anna cried, for it seemed Elsa had drifted away in her thoughts. Elsa quickly popped back to reality to see that the train had stopped and everyone was getting off the train, and Anna was already pulling Elsa to get up. Meanwhile, Elsa quickly grabbed their satchel, but Anna was pulling at her harder.
"Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm coming," Elsa said, when she had pulled on the satchel over her shoulder, as they pushed through the crowd of people heading for Sunrise Village wearing it was warm and kind. When they were outside the station, Elsa let Olaf out of her and whistled a low tone. Olaf quickly began to fly and Elsa grabbed her sister's hand, and they raced after the white owl, because he knew the way to their aunt and uncle's inn and home. Marshmallow left her shoulder and began flapping alongside the much smaller bird.
Anna looked over at the different stalls, where they were saddled with fruits, vegetables, and all kinds of things she had never seen before. They were looking at them like they were insane and Anna began to slow her pace, but to no avail as her sister was nearly dislocating her arm to keep track of Olaf. Olaf sped around a corner followed by the young woman and little girl until they came upon a tall building with the words Corona Inn. The Corona Inn was a thick timbered building with many windows in the shape of a small T and teal tile roof.
Elsa saw a woman with emerald green eyes, waist-length birch wood - colored hair, and wore a long violet-colored gown, a lavender shawl and apron. The woman looked up at the girls, and dropped her basket of bread. "Anna! Elsa!" the woman said, taking each of them in a tight hug. "My goodness. Elsa look at you a young woman with the beauty of your mother, but that fiery passion in your eyes...just like Adgar," she said sadly as Adgar was her brother before his demise along with Idun, Anna and Elsa's mother. Their aunt didn't acknowledge what happened, but instead turned to the younger sister, and said, "Look how big you've gotten! Last time I saw you, you were just a babe." Then seeing her confused expression said, "I'm your father's sister, Genevieve, and your aunt."
Anna smiled and hugged the adult in front of her. Genevieve looked back up at her eldest niece when something caught her eye. Elsa had been wearing a pale bandage across face that blended into her skin, and gasped. "Elsa! What happened?" she asked, and Anna let go of her aunt as she stood up to get a better look at her niece.
Elsa looked confused at first before she felt the skin-colored bandage, and said, "Oh! This." Aunt Genevieve nodded and felt the bandage to make sure it was really there. "It's nothing really," Elsa replied and ripped the skin colored bandage off to reveal a large, throbbing, red scar that made their aunt gasp when she saw it, across her nose and temple. "It hurt when I got it," Elsa continued, before seeing her aunt nearly faint, and quickly said, "but not anymore!"
"You have to see Rapunzel this instant," their aunt said, pulling her inside the inn followed by Anna and the birds. The inside of the inn was quite simple with stairs for the guest rooms, a kitchen in the corner that was sealed by double Dutch door that was separated in the middle, a dining room to the south of it where some waiters of both genders were serving the guests their noon meal, to the right of Elsa current position was a bathing house with separate baths for the different genders, and in front of them was counter where an older man with graying brown hair that was almost the color oak, a thick beard that was the same as his hair, grayish-eyes, and wore a navy blue tunic that most older men wore, and yellowish pants. Elsa knew it was their uncle, Frederick, who opened this inn originally, but with her aunt trying to pull upstairs it was kind of hard to wave to him.
While Elsa was being pulled upstairs, Anna looked around for some kids to play with as she rarely got outside in the mountains where it was almost cold, but now done here she was sweating like big from her thick wool gown and the intense heat, so Elsa will have to let her out! She looked around until her eyes locked with one boy who was about her age, whose own eyes were staring straight at her. The boy had messy blonde hair that unlike her sister was darkish and with brownish roots, his eyes were a greenish brown color, and he wore a blue shirt under a black vest, and over his brownish-black pants was a multi-colored belt. Their eyes were locked for what seemed forever, until someone called for him in the kitchen and Anna couldn't make out his name. The boy sighed, and gave her one last glance before heading into the kitchen. Anna didn't know why she wanted to just stared at that boy longer. Could it be because of her isolation on the mountain? The fact she had never really met any boys? Probably, but who knows.
"Anna!" her aunt called, and Anna's daze seemed to disappear, and reality seemed to slam her in the face. Quickly, she raced after her sister, aunt, and birds who were at the top of the second floor where some of the tenants were complaining about stupid stuff, but her aunt and sister's pace quickened up another flight of stairs where the richer, snobbier guests were gorging themselves with fine, purple wine and caviar. One snotty men whistled at her sister as they couldn't see the scar, and she quickly gave the man her infamous ice glare and when they caught a glimpse of that scar no one even gave them a second thought.
After what seemed like an endless staircase, Elsa, Anna, the birds, and Genevieve came across a long hallway surrounded doors with rustic doors at the only entrance to each of the doors. They followed their aunt down the long corridor until she stopped and knocked on a white door with a lining of golden suns along the outer area. "Come in!" a bubbly voice said from inside the room, Genevieve opened the knob and they entered. Elsa looked over the simple room to where the roof slanted a bit and on the right was bed with purple sheets and a yellow pillow with purple embroidery and a white pillow underneath, to the left was rough spun cot where a young man with scruffy brown hair, a slight after shadow, and wore a blue-buttoned vest over a white shirt, brown pants, and black boots lie still, and in a wooden chair sat young woman with long, blonde hair tied in an intricate braid that she tied around the man's arm as she sang a beautiful song and hair began to gleam. As the song concluded, the man began to arouse from his bed and the sisters (who were not surprise, because their cousin mentioned having these types of powers).
"Seriously, Eugene! That's the third time this month," their cousin said, wiping off her purple, embroidered skirt. She looked over at the one's who entered and her face turned into a bright smile and raced over to her cousins. "Elsa! Anna! It so good to see you guys again."
Anna was already happy to see her oldest cousin and hugged her tightly, "Thanks for the dresses, Punzie."
Rapunzel knelt down to her cousin's level, and said, "You're very welcome." Anna looked her up and down, for her dressed was stranger than what she was used to in the mountains. Rapunzel wore a knee-length purple gown with yellow and dark purple embroidery near the bottom, black flats on her feet, a yellow undershirt with purple lining near the collar, and purple shawl with lily flowers along the wool.
"So," Elsa said taking her eyes away from her sister who was still looking on curiously at their cousin. "Who are getting married to, Rapunzel?"
The man groaned and pushed past the sisters and their aunt. Rapunzel sighed and said, "Don't mind, Eugene. He may be a jerk, but he's still a good guy. And to answer your question, his name is Hans Westerguard."
Author's Note: Didn't see that coming, now did you? I'll be updating OoftheSMB very soon so keep your eyes open for that.
