2.

She was in her study, working, as usual. She hardly had time to even go down to eat now, the servants just send her meals there. Arendelle was growing, there was no doubt about that. Arendelle remained stagnant because of the years of absence of any ruler. Don't get her wrong; the counselors did all the best they could, but it was just not enough without a King or Queen.

She couldn't remember on what paper was working right now, but before she could figure it out, they knocked at her door.

"Elsa?" a voice from behind the door called. "Do you wanna build a snowman?" Anna said in the typical singing voice. She slightly opened the door and peeked her head from the door, making Elsa laugh.

"Sure, Anna" she said. One little break wouldn't hurt, right?

Both sisters made their way to the castle's beautiful garden. Elsa quickly turned it in a little winter wonderland, earning gasps in awe from her little sister. She added a thick coat of snow on the ground, more than enough for having fun.

They build snowmen, they played in the snow, they had snowball fights, and they laughed endlessly.

Elsa decided to sit down for a minute, in one of the garden's bench. She observed her little sister, how she made snow angels in the snow, how she was having so much fun with her magic.

"Too bad this is going to end soon" a strange velvety voice said from behind her. She gasped and turned around to find no one.

"In less than two weeks, little Anna is going to be leaving" he said again, the voice coming from everywhere.

Elsa searched frenetically for the owner of the voice, her hands up in defense.

Her heart was beating like crazy, her breathing was uneven. After a moment looking at her surroundings, something catches her eye.

A slender shadow of a man could be seen in the corner of the garden, it looked to be wearing a vest, and it had spiky hair.

But the most terrifying thing was that there was nothing creating that shadow.

"Wha-"she muttered, but stopped when the garden scenario was suddenly changed. She gasped again, and then she was in front of the door of Anna's room.

For some odd reason, she felt compelled to knock.

She waited, and waited… but no one answered.

She knocked again, and again, and again.

She was starting to get desperate, why wasn't she answering?

She heard an evil chuckle just behind her ear, sending shivers down her spine. She gasped, and turned, but no one was there.

She turned to Anna's door once again, and opened it.

The room was empty.

All of Anna's decorations were gone, and her possessions. The remaining things were just the furniture that was all covered in white sheets.

"What? Where's everything?" she asked, searching for Anna's stuff in the empty room.

The same chuckle was heard.

"Oh, you know where everything is" He said, while the room was getting darker, and the remaining furniture started disappearing, one by one. "There are on Anna's home, in the woods, with his husband" he added.

"W-what? No." Elsa whispered. "She didn't even got married yet!" she screamed, to whoever was talking to her.

"No? Well, then at least you know how it would look like when she's gone" he said. Elsa tried to contain her tears.

"I-it doesn't matter" she said, not even sure of her own words. "She's going to visit me a lot, we're still going to see each other" she said, trying to sound strong.

"Are you sure?" the voice asked, she could see shadows surrounding her, but nothing creating them. What was going on? "Wanna see a sneak peek of the future?" he asked.

Everything began to transform once again, she was now in her room. Everything was dusty and old. She started to look for the shadow of that man once again.

"Why don't you look at yourself in the mirror, your Majesty?" the voice asked. Elsa felt her breath hitching. She didn't want to, but she couldn't help but being curious.

She turned at her now old body length mirror, and slowly walked to it.

She gasped at what she saw.

She was old, very old. Like 80 years old. She had much less hair, and now it was completely white. Her eyes where tired, wrinkles where all over her face and body. Spots where there too. Her back was curved, her legs couldn't stay straight.

"This is your future, Queen Elsa" the voice said, as it was just behind her. "Your little sister Anna found true love, she lives happily, and in love. Now with grandchildren that keep her happy every day, her family loves her dearly" he announced. Elsa felt like smiling. Her sister had her happy ever after. "And guess what?" he asked. "She never returned to the castle after moving out" he stated.

Elsa gasped, and her now old and tired eyes filled with tears. Anna never came?

"You, on the other hand" he said "You waited, and waited for your sister. You rejected the people that wanted to help you, thinking you didn't deserve company, thinking that maybe you didn't deserve love. You never found anyone. You didn't find true love." He announced. "You don't deserve company, your Majesty. You for sure don't deserve love, not like your sister." He added.

Elsa was crying hopelessly. Maybe it was true. Maybe she didn't deserve anything after all. Not after shouting the world out.

"No one would ever love you" the voice said. Elsa looked at herself in the mirror. Just behind her, a pair of glowing yellow eyes appeared. Gazing at her in disgust.

"No matter what, you'll end up alone. Forever"

"ELSA!" a high pitched voice suddenly made her snap her eyes open.

Her vision was blurry, and she was clearly being shaken.

"Elsa wake up already!" she repeated. Elsa blinked repeatedly, trying to adjust her vision to realize what was going on.

Anna was there, shaking her in her bed with a mixture of urgency and worry in her eyes. Her head hurt a bit, and her whole body was soaking in sweat.

'Was all a dream?' she though.

"Gosh! What happened to you? I was trying to wake you up twenty minutes ago nonstop! You were groaning and turning! Are you okay?" her sister asked in preoccupation.

Elsa sat up on her bed, rubbing her forehead with her head.

"Yeah.." she just answered.

"Okay, doesn't matter at the moment. I need you to get ready right now!" Anna said with a serious look in her face, moving from the bed in urgency. She was wearing a 'meeting' dress, which she only wears when she's going to accompany her sister on a meeting or get pictured for a newspaper of something. What was going on?

"What? What's going on Anna?" Elsa asked, staring at her sister in worry.

Anna turned to look at her sister, with a sad face.

"…A man killed himself in the woods yesterday" she answered quietly.

Elsa felt her heart stop. A suicide? In Arendelle? That was so surreal. Suicides were never heard of in Arendelle.

Anna left the room, and Elsa took a quick shower to remove the sweat from her body. She braided her hair and in a quick motion created one simple but serious dark blue gown like Anna's.

She quickly moved to the front gate, where a carriage was already waiting, Anna already inside of it.

There still were no cars in Arendelle. Like she said before, the kingdom remained stagnant for a long time. Their port was unable to receive such large ships or such heavy merchandise, and there obviously was no airport yet. Hopefully they were going to build one soon.

The two sisters traveled in deep silence, very affected by the current situation to talk, but unaware of the presence of The King of Nightmares in the very same carriage.

Pitch couldn't help but grin.

They found the man way sooner than he expected. Arendelle was a small country, everyone knew everyone, so that means that an event like this will surely awake a lot of fear among the citizens. It was just too good to be true.

He was a bit annoyed, though. He was doing such a great job with the Queen's nightmare. He did his best to keep her asleep, but her stupid little sister won at last, and by the mere sight of her, Elsa's fears disappeared like magic, all his work went to waste.

They arrived finally, both sisters took a deep breath, watching the scene from the windows of the carriage. Arendelle police/guard was there, so were two journalist and a photographer that were clearly from the only newspaper that Arendelle had.

"Your Highness, Princess Anna of Arendelle" one of the guards that escorted the carriage announced, signalizing Anna to step out of the carriage.

Anna got out, and Elsa prepared for her announcement.

"Your Majesty, Queen Elsa of Arendelle" the guard said. Elsa stepped out in her typical queen pose, head high and hands clasped together at the front. A few snaps of the old camera belonging to the newspaper photographed her, she ignored it and stood next to Anna.

"Deputy Bjarne, Your Majesty, in charge of this case" one man in guard/police uniform presented himself to Elsa, with a salute.

"Good morning, deputy, could you do us the favor to fill us in?" Elsa asked, feeling the attentive gaze of Anna. The deputy cleared his throat, to then nod.

"Yesterday, the forensic suppose that around 19 and 20 o'clock, the man identified as Arvid Haraldsson, committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope around his neck from a tree, and dying from suffocation." He explained. Elsa felt herself paling. "According to his wife, Cecilie Haraldsson, they were having difficult troubles with the bills, and Arvid wasn't receiving any income from his business from about 2 months ago" he added "He was a hatter".

Confusion stroke Elsa. Because of bills? The govern of Arendelle was very understanding, they always helped those in need, they always found different ways of taking care of the debts if anyone needed support. Why didn't this man come to her? She always attended the problems of every single citizen, and she was for sure that no one in two months came to her asking for support with debts.

Her eyes trailed unconsciously to the pale body that was still hanging from the tree, the forensic was working on it, trying to get him down without causing any disturbance on the body. She shivered.

"May I speak to the wife, please? Is she here?" Elsa asked as calm as she could.

"Yes, your Majesty, I'll call her immediately" the deputy said, making his way to the wife.

"This is so horrible and sad" Anna muttered, observing how they finally got down Arvid's body.

"Your Majesty" a trembling voice said, causing both sisters to look at one bowing woman. She was probably in her mid-thirties, she had dirty blonde hair, up in a braided up do, and she was wearing an old grey gown. "My name is Cecilie Haraldsson, it's an honor" she said, lifting her head up.

Her eyes were puffy and blood shot, and she had a bowler hat on her hands.

"The honor is ours, Cecilie." The queen said. "This is a very sad situation, and I know that maybe you'll like to have a little of privacy right now, but is necessary for you to answer us some questions" she explained, and the woman nodded. "Cecilie, did you know about any suicidal antics that your husband may had?" Elsa asked.

"N-no, I mean, he would constantly repeat how difficult was for him, the business wasn't going well at all, so I decided to work two turns. He was trying his best every day, but I think it wasn't just enough" she explained. "I always tried to support him by telling him everything was going to be alright" she said, starting to cry. "I just don't know what I'm going to tell to our little daughter"

Elsa's heart crumpled at the last words. How horrible.

"I'll just like to ask one last thing that I don't understand" Elsa said, trying hard to not collapse in tears. "Arendelle kingdom is very understanding, we always help our people" she started. "Why your husband didn't go to talk to me?" she asked in confusion. The woman looked at her.

"I told him to go, but he was afraid" she simple answered. Elsa frowned.

"Afraid of what?" Elsa asked.

"He thought you'd freeze him to death" the woman's words stoke Elsa like a hundred knives.

'He-he what?' The words when echoing in her head. That poor man really thought that? She wasn't a monster. Could there still be some people that feared her? Her powers?

She felt her body growing cold, and tears began to threaten to escape from her eyes. They thought she was a monster. They feared their Queen.

Pitch just couldn't believe his luck. A young queen, fearing loneliness and fearing her own powers? Things just got easier and easier by the minute. She just became even more approachable now. He had another thing to torture her with. Maybe in some little time, she would be able to finally see him.

Elsa came to her senses when she felt a warm hand squeezing lightly her arm.

"It's such a shame that your husband feared my sister" Anna stepped in. Defending her sister. "Pardon me to say that he was wrong, and if he at least tried he was still going to be with us now. Elsa is the greatest queen Arendelle ever had, allow me to say that even greater than my mother. She's got the biggest heart ever, she's incredibly wise and she's gifted with a beautiful power she can now perfectly control" Anna added.

Elsa gazed at her sister and inhaled deeply.

"All the debts that you have delayed will be gone, you don't need to worry about them anymore. And the kingdom's founds are going to cover your daughter's whole scholar tuition to help you with expenses. If you still have any problem, feel free to come to me, I'll always listen" Elsa said to the woman.

The woman smiled between tears.

"We're very sorry for your loss, we hope you do well" Anna finally said, and guided her sister to the carriage.

Once in there, Anna turned to her sister.

"Elsa I know what you're thinking, and it was not your fault" Anna quickly said once the guard closed the carriage's door.

"Anna he killed himself, he killed himself because of me!" Elsa exclaimed, hugging herself.

"No he didn't! It was because of debts!" Anna retorted.

"And he didn't want to ask for help because of my powers!" Elsa practically screamed.

"Elsa" Anna said as she grabbed her sister's hands. "Elsa you need to understand not everyone has an open mind" She started, and Elsa calmed herself a bit. "There are people with closed minds. People that don't trust in magic because they don't know that it can be good, really good. How do you think Arendelle is going to react if you showed them Pabbie's place? A lot would be delighted, but I'm pretty sure a bunch of them would like to destroy them, just because they are afraid" Anna explained. "You know your magic is good, you know you have control now, and most of Arendelle knows, but you can blame yourself if some few don't"

Anna was right. She was in control now. She was good, she knew she was a good leader also and she knew how some people could be.

Elsa smiled sweetly to her sister, and both of them hugged.

"You little brat!" Pitch screamed at the top of his lungs, obviously, not being heard. "You're a freaking pain in the ass!"

That stupid Anna was ruining it all. Sure, she was Elsa's weakness, and it was pretty easy to create nightmares with her; but she was Elsa's strength too. Just a few words of encouragement and the queen could easily forget about her fears, like nothing.

He wished the wedding was sooner, because with her around it was going to be impossible to finally manage to control Elsa. Plus, he wasn't strong enough.

He was losing precious time, deep down, he knew that the Man in the Moon was keeping an eye on him, so he needed to hurry.

He growled at Anna and decided that the best was to get more energy, he knew that in no time the news of the suicide would bring a bunch of fear he would be delighted to taste, and that would help him get strong. Then, he would return to the precious queen.

He walked through the carriage and landed on one of the Town's street, better start searching.

x

"I'm never riding this damned sled again! Never!" Bunny exclaimed, feeling his last night's dinner threatening to escape.

They finally landed on the kingdom of Arendelle.

"Could you stop complaining already?" Jack mocked him, flying just above the trees to observe the kingdom in the distance, which was beautiful from what he could see.

They decided to land in the woods. Sure, if they landed on the town adults wouldn't be able to see them, but children would, and that was not going to end well.

"We're not wearing the rings yet, we will use them just when we're in the presence of the Queen, copy that?" North said, hiding his swords on his body.

"How are we going to be able to get to the castle without being seen?" Tooth asked, her fairies nodding.

"Flying" North said. "Sandy is going to take Bunny and me" Sandy nodded and he created two small airplanes, that where ready to fly.

North without a doubt jumped on the large one and Bunny, trembling, got into the other one.

"Lets go!" North said, and the guardians got high in the sky.

They went in silence, getting near the obvious castle of Arendelle.

Jack observed the city, it was small, but cozy. He saw no cars, just carriages, and the people dressed a bit elegantly for his taste. The architecture was beautiful, though. It looked like it was taken of a fairy tale. The whole kingdom looked like it was lost in time. He really didn't understand why Pitch would choose a place like this. Maybe it was just because of the Queen.

After a short moment, they finally arrived, and landed on the castle's garden.

"What now?" Jack asked, analyzing his surroundings. The place was full of guards.

"Well, we can't just go to the Queen, when she see us she would freak out and scream, and a billion of this guards would definitely take us" Bunny said, placing his boomerang on his back.

"Bunny's right, that's a bad idea" North said "We need to knock the guards out"

"How? Can Sandy use his magic sand to make them sleep?" Jack asked once again.

"No he can't" Tooth said. "The sand does not work on adults" She said, worried.

"Then we'll knock them out manually" North said, and prepared himself to enter.

"Wha- Mate are you crazy?!" Bunny screamed. "If we go without the rings we'll just pass right through them and if we go with the rings on they all gonna see us and freak out when they wake up!"

"Then we have to take them on and off, just wear them when you're gonna strike" and after saying that, North went right through the castle. The other guardians stared at each other and sighted.

Now or never.

x

Queen Elsa has just finished her lunch, in her study, once again. After all, paperwork does not disappear even if you had a bad day.

She recalled the events of the day, it was still early but she already felt exhausted. The morning was just full of strong emotions, and not pleasant ones for sure. And to sum it up, she didn't rest last night. Yes, she was deeply asleep, but her nightmare only got her more tired.

Now that she thought about it she couldn't remember almost anything. She remembered that velvety voice thought.

She shivered. Maybe it wasn't something pleasant to think about.

She glanced at her large long case clock. Maybe she could take a nap for one hour, she wouldn't be able to work this tired anyway.

She tied up her desk a bit, straightened herself and walked out of her study, making her way towards her chambers. Once there, with a wave of her hand she transformed her previous gown in to a knee length sleep dress.

She was about to collapse in bed when she heard sound coming from outside.

She walked to her balcony, and searched for the source of the sound.

When she looked down her balcony, she couldn't help but smile sadly.

Anna and Kristoff were having a picnic in the front garden, goofing, laughing and enjoying themselves.

She liked Kristoff, she really did. He made her sister happy, and he was there for her every time in a heartbeat. Sure, he was a bit of a weirdo, but it matched Anna's weirdness just perfect.

She just couldn't help but envy them.

They were one of the lucky ones that found their respective person, their other half. They found love.

She knew she never will.

She was a Queen, tight agenda, no time to go to dates or even meet anyone that wasn't related to royalty.

Sure, a lot of kingdoms asked for her hand, but she dint want an arranged marriage. It should even be called like that; arranged marriages were business, nothing more.

And, in her personal opinion, there was no such a thing as 'learning to love'.

You can't 'learn to love' someone, maybe learn to live with them, or learn to pretend you were in love. Love was pure, in her opinion, it was something that just happened, not something premeditated, not something you needed to get used to.

That was why the idea of Anna leaving terrified her. She just knew she'll end single forever, but at least she wanted to have the company of her sister.

She obviously wouldn't force her to stay, she deserved to be happy more than anyone.

She sighted and turned to her room, the bed was still calling for her after all.

To her surprise, in the middle of the room was a large old man, a tiny gold man with spiky hair made of sand, a bird woman flying in her place with a bunch of mini bird humans, a giant rabbit standing in two feet with tattoos, and a freak that was just about her age with white hair holding a stick.

She screamed.

What in hell was going on?

Was she that tired and sleepy that she was now imagining things?

"Your Majesty, please do not panic" The large man tried to say, Elsa gazed at him with wide eyes and slowly stepped back.

'Don't use your magic, just call the guards. They're just outside the door.' She thought.

"Guards!" she called loudly. They surely were going to hear that.

"Your Majesty, please, we just want to-"The large man said again. But he was unable to finish

"GUAAAAAARDS!" Elsa screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Don't bother yourself, mate. We took care of your guards" The giant rabbit spoke. Was she finally going crazy?

"Bunny! You only are going to scare her more!" The bird woman scolded him.

"Your Majesty, if you could just listen to us" The large man started, stepping towards her.

"Stay back" She quickly warned, slowly lifting her arms in defense.

"We just need you to-"He tried to say once more, advancing two steps.

"I SAID STAY BACK!" Elsa screamed, her ice magic instantly shooting towards them, creating large cages of solid and strong ice bars, trapping them.

The large man and the golden one where trapped in one, the rabbit and the white haired guy in other, and the bird woman in another.

They were all staring at the young queen bewildered.

"Well… that was unexpected" the white haired boy said.

A.N.:

Hey there! Chapter 2 is up! I'm really really happy with the reviews and the favs! I'll hope you'll like it and PLEASE leave reviews! I really need to know what you think about it and if you're liking the fic so far!

Anyway, last chapter I forgot to say that English is not my main language! I try my best to correct typos!

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