A/N: Well we bring you another chapter of Staff and Scepter. We are extremely excited with the response that the story has been given on both sites. This is a bit smaller of a chapter, sort of meant as a filler for the time shift. It's basically here to set up the story. We hope you continue to enjoy!

Chapter 2

13 years later

Elsa paced across her room, leaving frost in her wake as she nervously played with her hands.

"Conceal it, don't feel it. Don't let it show" She muttered as the snow that fell from the ceiling continued to increase. "Conceal, don't feel."

It was a week before her coronation and Elsa was a wreck. Why did her father have to leave? He shouldn't have gone. She had asked if he had to go, and he said she would be fine. But she wasn't.

'Conceal,' she thought 'Don't feel. You can't let them know.'

For the last month, she hadn't been sleeping the best. Nightmares plagued her and made her unable to rest peacefully. She sighed, looking at the bed. She needed to sleep, but was afraid to close her eyes. Because the moment that she would, maniacal laughter followed her around, A dark voice would remind her of the monster she was and that she wasn't fit to be a queen. The voice would replay the fateful moment that she had struck her sister in the head and turned her life into a nightmare. It would remind her about her parent death and the constant loss of control she had been dealing with. She had no happy memories, nothing but fear of hurting the one person she loved.

'The troll had said fear would be my enemy. Why was I cursed with this?' She thought in despair, and she cried out in anguish. She threw her hand out in frustration and when doing so ice shot out of her hands creating spikes around her...

~SaS~

Down the hall, Anna could hear her sister's pacing and then her cry. She looked around to see if anyone was around, before making her way to the door.

"Elsa, I know you're scared" Anna whispered, leaning her forehead against the wood. "I'm right here."

Anna turned around, sliding her back against the door. She seemed to do this often of late. She would hear Elsa cry or scream, and then she would sit by the door and talk to Elsa to try and distract her sister from what troubled her.

Anna thought back to when the last time they were really happy together, and that was when Jack had come. She missed Jack. He had yet to come back, but he had promised, and Anna knew that he would keep his promise to return. Maybe he could help Elsa come out from behind the walls she built up around herself.

Anna babbled on about the preparations that were going on around the castle for her "big day", but before long, it got late and she had to get to sleep

"I love you sister. Sleep tight." Anna whispered against the door. She then turned and made her way to her bedroom. When she got in to her room, she changed into her nightgown and laid in her bed. She glanced at the window and noticed the Northern Lights light up the sky. She sighed and turned away from the window 'The skies awake' she thought

~SaS~

As Elsa heard Anna leave, she covered her mouth to muffle the sob that escaped her. Her chest heaved as she sobbed in to her pillow. The snow fell from her ceiling at an alarming rate. She soon fell into a Nightmare-filled sleep.

~SaS~

At the North Pole, the guardians gathered as the call was seen by all of them. Jack glided in past Tooth and Bunny and perched himself on the railing. Sandy flew in with a question mark over his head. North walk out of his office, with a worried look on his face. He asked if any one wanted cookies as he greeted everyone in the room.

"Oh no. I don't like that look" Tooth said

"Please don't tell me Pitch is back" Jack grumbled

Jack had been dealing with Pitch's lingering nightmares for over a decade, and was becoming very angry for the Guardian of fun. Jack had better things to do, but being a guardian tended to keep him busy and he couldn't not help his fellow guardians.

"I'm afraid so" North said crossing his arms.

"What's he doing now?" Bunny asked twirling his boomerang around.

"I don't know exactly, but he's on the move. I can feel it…." North started in his thick Russian accent, before gripping his large stomach, "...in my belly" he finished.

"Ok, so stay alert?" Tooth asked

"Yes, yes. Stay alert, and if anything suspicious happens we shall reconvene."

Jack exhaled in frustration. That's all? Why were they called just to be told to keep an eye out? It's not like he wasn't always on alert. With that thought, he let the wind take him.

The rest of the Guardians left feeling unhappy and restless, feeling the calm before the storm.

A/N: We know this was a small chapter, bigger and better ones are still to come… We hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget, we adore reviews! See you all next week!