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Anna's heart was racing, her breathing rapid as she dashed across the rooftops of Arendelle, her feet quick and nimble, avoiding gaps and pitfalls in woodwork, easily jumping from protruding beam to protruding beam. Her hands were delicate beneath the thin leather gloves but strong and adroit, easily catching handholds to hoist herself up or carry her hold body over obstacles. The edge of her and her sister's city came into sight, and with it, the city walls where the princess spied her target.
A shrill scream of Elsa's voice pierced the otherwise quiet night, resonating deep from within a rising watchtower from the walls.
The terrified shriek spurred the younger sister onwards at new speeds. In a single bound she flew over the streets as she leaped off the thatch roof's crest and towards the tower. She easily found her footholds and grip, and scaled to the tower's top.
"I don't know what you plan, but Arendelle will not be conquered just because you kidnapped me! And somehow disabled my powers." Anna could hear her older sister grunt and struggle, discreetly peeking over the edge and into the battlements seeing a leg in her way and looked all the way up to see a guard standing over her.
She grabbed his leg and threw him over the edge before he had a chance to scream, but taking no chances, she threw herself up over the top and drew her sword, screaming a battle cry at the top of her lungs as she put the blade into the head of Elsa's kidnapper.
"And now, I'm dead." Olaf stated in a "fancy that" manner before putting his vertically split head halves together.
"And unfortunately, so am I." Elsa said, pointing to her snowwoman doppelganger in a chair with it's "throat slit" and Anna's mentor standing over the "body".
"Well she did get me…" Kristoff commented, hoisting himself back up to the tower's battlements, each tug of the rope that suspended him also tugging on his safety harness in kind.
"Come on! I cleared all of Arendelle in…" Anna looked over her shoulder to check the clock tower. "Twenty minutes! How could I be too late?"
Orelov assumed his 'lecturing' stance. "You were too obvious coming straight in through the town. I know you're excited about your new skills in the art of freerunning, but you invalidate the point of having them if you're constantly dashing across rooftops."
"And there was a better way?"
"You could have used the passage through the wall itself, then scaled the tower in its shadows. I saw you coming for quite a ways away. Now then, let's try the next scenario and try again."
The weather was growing colder in Arendelle, and the queen had nothing to do with it. Autumn was in the air and Anna and Kristoff enjoyed a stroll around the town.
"Wait… Isn't there supposed to be two more with us?" The ice miner asked himself and the two looked a block back to see a hunched over Elsa, taking deep breaths well the assassin stood over her.
"I'll be there… I'll be there in a moment!" The Ice Queen bidded to her sister and friend who remained rooted to the spot.
"Your majesty, do you need me to carry you?" The Russian offered and was met with a shaking head that sent the queen's braid flying.
"No! No. No, no. I just need a moment here." Elsa refused and added under her breath "We've been walking for more than an hour now…" All while her passing subjects would pause and wonder about the health of their queen.
Rolling his eyes, Elsa nearly screamed when she felt the burly Russian lift her offer her feet, resulting in both of them becoming encased in a block of ice.
"You know, if you two need some privacy, the smart thing would involve making the ice walls NOT transparent." Kristoff joked and winced when Anna punched him in the sides for his inappropriate humor. In a flash, assassin and royalty were thawed and Elsa looked quite sheepish and flustered.
"I'm sorry about that Orelov."
"My fault, I was the one who forgot surprising a woman with ice sorcery is unwise. But still, you do not seem to have much in the way of endurance, I hope you do not plan to let your younger sister and guards do all the protection for you."
"I do not!" The Queen replied offended.
The Russian smiled and smacked Elsa's back playfully. "Good, I'll see you tomorrow for Anna's morning run!"
"Wait, what?"
Too late, Anna had already grabbed her sister's hands and was bouncing everywhere. "This is gonna be so much fun! We can both train to be assassins! Assassin sisters! Doesn't that sound great?"
Once more, crowd had gathered to observe the princess's training in the art of assassination, but instead of Elsa being a spectator, she found herself a participant, a trainee herself.
"Mr. Orelov!" Anna spoke up as she stood on the opposite end of the room, nervously clutching the sheathed shsashka to her chest. "I really don't see how I'll learn to be a good assassin- well, counter assassin by fighting the one I'm supposed to protect."
The burly Russian laughed and handed his strawberry student another weapon for the spar. A set of blunted throwing knives. "Princess Anna, a small fight with your sister can be an excellent way for both of you to learn many things vital to keeping her safe. This will allow you to know the limits of her majesty's ability to protect herself and in the future prioritize threats accordingly. Elsa will know your limits and skills as her protector and be able to plan her escape likewise."
As Anna nodded and nervously walked closer to the center of the room, he noticed in contrast to his pupil, Elsa was the picture of calness, dressed in a custom training uniform and glancing over a small armory of weapons that had been brought into the room, rapidly forging copies from her ice in her hands and dismissing them just as quickly to make another.
"And the two of you can work out any unspoken aggressions you might have." The assassin added under his breath and in his native tongue.
His gaze still lingering on the ice queen, he had to commend her preparation, now the question would be how she handled surprises with those emotionally fueled powers.
"Alright, are both students ready?" Orelov shouted loud enough to fill the room, making Elsa turn around and nod with an icy boarding sword in one hand.
In stark contrast, Anna shook her head emphatically. "I can't do this! I can't hurt my own sister, even in practice!"
"It's just training, Princess. The best doctor in Arendelle and the rest of the castle staff was called here to make sure it is safe and nothing lasting-"
"It doesn't matter! I can't attack her! Besides, look at that beautiful, porcelain face!"
Elsa turned red and her sword melted in her hands. "A-anna." The Queen uncharacteristically stuttered while Anna went on.
"And who would want to mar those silken, white legs!" The room was completely silent, half of it was burning varying shades of red, and it was only broken by a small cough, more silence, and then Kristoff stepping forward.
"Well, yeah, and you know you're probably just not cut out for this." The iceman assured with a snide subtext that made the redhead's eyes narrow.
"Excuse me?"
"Well, think about it, any assassin out to kill Elsa is gonna have to be smarter, faster, stronger, and figure out some way to bypass her ice magic if not possess some freaky magic of their own."
The blond sister now spoke. "What are you getting at, Kristoff?"
"I'm just saying that you could kick Anna's ass six ways from Sunday while Anna couldn't kill time if her life depended on it." As he said this, Anna stomped up to the miner, drawing the (dull) shaska and putting the (blunted) point to Kristoff's throat, all the while he continued to smirk.
"Maybe the trolls have been changing your memories, but if you recall, I did a lot to bring Elsa back home, I've spent nearly fifteen years 'just killing time' while mom and dad gave their full attention to her, and I am already better at... body stuff than Elsa!"
Her words came as a shock to everyone in the room, even the assassin who had sensed there was some buried frustrations, but assumed it was normal sibling rivalry.
"Anna..." The Queen whispered softly as Kristoff regained his composure.
"Then prove it. If you're strong enough to beat you're sister you're strong enough to protect her. If you can't beat her, you're just a spare sleigh rung in case the worst happens. Which, by the way is likely."
"Oh, I'll show you!" Anna drew back her sword for a wide arcing slash at her friend, who grabbed her head and spun her on the spot to direct her slashing charge at her sister.
"Wait, what? Anna, nothing Kristoff said made any sense!" Elsa protested and summoned a wall of ice and a column of snow to knock her younger sister over. Instead Anna road the snow column up and over the defense Elsa had erected.
"Brilliant." The ice sister inwardly chided herself and threw herself backwards to avoid a downward slash. "Anna! Shouldn't you be attacking Kristoff? He's the one who insulted you!" Elsa said, making her own attempt to redirect Anna's anger while using a cold wind to spin her to face Kristoff.
It didn't work for Elsa as well as it had for the male of their triad. And Anna kept on coming.
"What did you do?" The assassin discreetly asked the miner.
"Troll logic. Never fails to get rise out of people."
Elsa was kept on the initial defense, while Anna's attacks were far from lethal, the furious speed behind them meant every shield of ice was quickly smashed and any gusts of wind did nothing to push the princess back. But there was focus to this rage, a focus which allowed Anna to slide over sudden ice patches as easily as her older sister or use erupting spires of ice and snow as launching points instead to add the forces of gravity to her assault.
Time was only making things worse for Elsa as her limited stamina was beginning to rear itself once again. She was running short of breath, her focus was lapsing, and her defenses became increasingly weak and sloppy. "Anna! Can we call a time out?" The queen wheezed as the younger, more energetic sister easily kicked down one of Elsa's ice walls.
"No, timeouts! No breaks until this is finished!" Orelov shouted then leaned over to Kristoff and whispered. "Can you do something to get the Queen to actually try to fight?"
"I got you covered." Kristoff then shouted over the din of the fight, temporarily gaining the ears of everyone gathered. "Elsa, if Anna wins, we agreed that means she can burn all your books!"
Anna wore a momentary look over confusion before a loud 'no!' came from her opponent and she was knocked prone by an enormous fist made from packed snow. The (counter) assassin-in-training recovered in the air and skidded to a three point halt just before she could crash into the spectators who were marveling at the realization that the two women they served were so honestly capable, the strawberry princess especially.
There was a strange, almost masochistic glee the younger sister took when she watched Elsa come at her with a pair of ice swords in wide arcs, how the ice queen switched from the two blades to a frozen lance to chase Anna's backstep, an axe to follow the redhead as she spun around the point of the spear and into her sister's defenses, a hammer for when she sidestepped the falling arc of the icy head.
Anna's blades were dulled, while in her tired, swaying focus, Elsa's attacks were unintentionally made for the kill. It made the princess feel genuinely respected by the ice queen, even if it was only a mistake on Elsa's part and once she calmed down she might try to lock herself in her room for another fifteen years.
The hammerhead whiffed passed the redhead, sending her hair fluttering with its motion contrasting to Anna's rising fist which caght Elsa's jaw in a powerful uppercut, sending the queen staggering back until she fell gracelessly into one of her own snowdrifts, rear first. The blond's head was spinning from exhaustion, the blow to her head, and general confusion.
"You… Hit me." The hint of betrayal in her statement took the rush out from Anna, slowly she looked at what her own hands had wrought on her only family.
"I-I'm sorry, Elsa!" Anna stuttered out and rushed to her sister who was still rubbing her jaw.
"I didn't mean to- Well, yes, I did but I didn't mean to hit you h- Well it was kind of a heat of the-" Anna was cut off when Elsa pulled her sister down onto the snow covered floor, laughing like she had not in ages.
"Anna! That was incredible! To be honest, when you first told me you wanted to do this I never thought you would come so far! I mean the way you came after me and then when you just completely ignored my attacks like they were nothing! And then there was how you moved so quick and- That was just amazing!" The older sister praised while hugging the stuffing out of her sister.
"Her performance certainly exceeded my expectations, even when she was still holding back." Orelov commended as he offered his hand to the princess and queen after an elaborate bow. "However, your majesty's technique… I will let the princess explain, you might find it a bit more meaningful to hear from family than a stranger."
Elsa's eyes narrowed on the assassin. "You live with us for months now, and you still view yourself as a stranger to us?" Her response was just a smile.
"To graduate from stranger to friend, your majesty, there are certain things you must know about a person. Now then, princess Anna, tell me what you noticed about your sister in the fight."
The redhead frowned, wishing she could avoid potentially hurting Elsa's feelings. "You have to tell her, Anna, it's gonna be part of your duty as her shadow, bodyguard, counter assassin thing." Kristoff spoke up and stepped towards the group as the snow and ice began to disperse by the Queen's will while the only servants who remained were the medically inclined.
"Well…" The redhead frowned and looked away from her older sister's curious gaze.
"Yes?"
The strawberry princess drew in a deep breath and hurried through as fast as she could: "You're powerful, no doubt, you have a pretty good idea of what weapons to use for which situation and you are fairly imaginative. But you think pretty one-dimensionally also. When you didn't want to fight me, you could have put my hands or feet in a block of ice or tried to bury me in a burst of snow. While fighting offensively, you didn't take advantage of the fact that you could attack me from any angle and relied on fighting more like another member of the guard, and it doesn't seem like you would be able to last in a prolonged fight. I mean, not that you'll be expected to since that's my job." By this point, her voice had become raspy, dry, and wispy from trying to say as much as possible as quickly as possible in one breath, resulting in a large hand on her shoulder belonging to a friendly iceman.
"Okay, Anna, seriously, take a breath." Kristoff comforted, Elsa on the other hand seemed strangely energized, pulling her sister into another hug.
"You really learned all that just from, how long was that fight?" The queen said with unusual excitement despite her own fatigue.
Orelov glanced at the grandfather clock on against one end of the room and through the frosted glass he determined "roughly one and a half minutes, quite a long battle the two of you had." Stepping over he helped the sisters get back to their feet. "Your majesty, can you tell me what faults you might have found in your sister?"
"Well, nothing really, she was incredible! I've never seen anything like it. Not the guards, not even you. She moved with all those flips, it was like a circus performer-"
"There you have it, Princess." the Russian cut off with a smile. "You have a lot of energy, I know, but you need to learn to be more economic with your movements in combat. Less is more." The assassin then smiled and clapped his hands. "This concludes this lesson! Your majesty, Princess, please let the staff examine your well being."
The ice queen let out a sigh of relief, her shoulders dropping as all her adrenaline left her and she headed to the royal physicians, briefly noting, wondering, and marveling how her sister still seemed ready for battle. Such a change in such a short period of time-
"And once you two are done with that, we head outside and move onto the next lesson!"
And that answered Elsa's unspoken question for her younger sister.