A/N: Two chapters in one day! I'll try to upload chapter 3 tomorrow.
Disclaimer: I do not own Frozen, really I do not…
Chapter 2: Wedding Galore
2 and a half years Later….
"Do you Anna take Kristoff as your lawfully wedded husband, in sickness and in health- waaaait? Sickness? who wants to be with someone while their sick? Kristoff's nose's really clogged up when he's sick, quite shocking considering how huge it is-"
"Olaf, we are not here to discuss about Kristoff's nose." Elsa reminded the snowman while nervously patting Anna's shoulder. She looks like she's about to cry.
"It's no use!" Finally the dam broke. Big fat tears poured down Anna's eyes as she buried her face into Elsa's pillow.
They are currently in Elsa's room practicing for Anna and Kristoff's third attempt in getting married. Elsa silently cringed at that thought.
Five months ago after Kristoff finally proposed, Anna nervously asked Elsa's blessing and she agreed seeing how much Kristoff loves her sister. She volunteered to make the wedding happen herself making snow sculptures, conjuring gowns and dresses, hanging snow flake decorations while Gerda and the other maids hang freshly picked flowers from the spring sprouts, it was the best winter/spring themed wedding of the year which left Kristoff in tears. Unfortunately after a lifetime of working with ice, Kristoff -shockingly- caught a cold on the wedding day. It was really, really embarrassing…
The second attempt was in the Valley of the Living Rock. The trolls scared the vicar away, good thing Gran Pabie is a good negotiator…
At last now that the vicar -and the whole Kingdom- knows about Kristoff's family, Arendelle is preparing for the wedding, hopefully the last attempt and most successful. Elsa also remembered the other reason why the wedding should really happen and the reason why she froze Kristoff in a wall for a whole day.
"Calm down Anna, crying is not good for the baby…" Yeah, Anna's three months pregnant. Elsa should have gave Anna 'the Talk' earlier in her life. She thought her parents already did that! Anna's the only Princess she knows who got pregnant before marriage. Good thing the Kingdom embraced the new family member with enthusiasm and vigor. One of the reasons why she loves this Kingdom very much.
Well, after an hour of Kai's grueling lecture about the birds and the bees and the Vicar's preaching about the dangers of attempting a child before marriage. The couple decided that it would be a long time before they'll attempt for another baby. Unfortunately, Elsa was not spared by the talk. They say it was for… future purposes.
Amazingly, the tears stopped all together and Anna's eyes widen in panic. She immediately start to gently rub her slightly flat abdomen.
"Baby? Are you there?" she asked. "Elsa!" she cried "She's not answering me!" The tears started to flow again.
Elsa covered her face with her palms, "Oh no, not this… First the vomiting, then the hormones now this?"
Olaf started to fan the snowflakes from his flurry to Elsa, "You really looked stressed out. You looked the same as Kristoff did back when they returned from the Valley of the Living Rock. He said Baby's giving him a hard time!" he stopped, " Wait- Anna and Kristoff created that baby, Elsa created me." He dropped the pillow in realization, "Does this mean- Elsa's my mama?"
Anna continued to wail, "Where's Mama Pulba!? Kristooooff!?"
The door opened revealing a disheveled Kristoff heavily panting. Behind him is an equally exhausted Kai.
"Anna!"
"Kristoff!"
Elsa watched Anna leap off the bed and ran to her husband-to-be only to deliver a strong blow to the stomach.
"Ouch." They chorused.
"That's gotta hurt." Olaf cleverly stated the obvious.
Anna placed her dainty little hand on both sides of her hips.
"You idiot! It's considered bad luck for the groom to see his bride before the wedding! Now there's a possibility that tomorrow's wedding will fail again!" She continued scolding the poor young man on the floor clutching his offended stomach.
"But-" he let put another pained groan. Anna sure can punch. "You called me…"
"Oh!"It seems like Anna remembered why she's there and covered her mouth with both hands. Tears threatened to fall again. "I punched you.." She whispered like she just find out what she has done.
"Uhhh…" Kai awkwardly stood there.
Elsa decided to stop this nonsense, "Kai, please take Kristoff back to his fitting so Anna could rest." She politely commanded the chubby advisor who snapped out of the awkwardness and took Kristoff's elbows and haul him to his feet.
They watch Kristoff got half dragged by Kai. Anna stayed quiet during the whole ordeal.
"She's just standing there…" Olaf whispered to her.
Still no movement.
"Why isn't she moving?"
Elsa slowly walked towards Olaf.
"Did she forgot how to move?"
Then Anna faced them with a smile. "Great! Now that's that, let's rest! I can't wait for tomorrow!" she bounded to the bed and flopped down leaving a dumbfounded Elsa by the door.
"Remind me to never get to her bad side." Olaf whispered.
Elsa silently agreed. Pregnant Anna is scary…
Sleep eluded Elsa. Not because Olaf and Anna seems to be having a contest on who can snore louder, but because of the of how different her life is now than two years ago.
The people of Arendelle welcomed her curse with open arms and she's using it to create entertainment and widen the ice trade. She loves her powers now. As long as she sees the wide smiles from her people when she turns the palace halls into a skating ring she'll continue to love her powers more.
The ice trade brought immense wealth into Arendelle too. Not to mention to Kristoff and the other harvesters. Kristoff's wealthy enough to buy five sleds! but he still prefers to use Anna's gift over the other sleds much to Sven's relief. It is Kristoff's duty to maintain sanitary ice for the trade.
She has opened a trade in Corona, Solar, even in the Southern Isles after Hans King brother sent a letter of trade to compensate Hans' bad behavior, and many more Kingdoms and Dukedoms.
Valuable goods entered Arendelle too like Corona's silk and Solar's black powder used for propelling canons in case of emergency and used to start fire in winter nights.
Another issue has been brought to her notice. The issue of having a suitor or simply a potential King consort. The council brought it up during a meeting and has been the main topic in recent discussions. The problem is no suitors has spiked her interest. One of the advisors advised that she take a suitor from one of her trade partner's son. She would rather kiss Sven than to romance one of Hans' brothers. Good thing Hans' oldest brother -the King- is a kind man and it made her wonder where Hans took up his over ambitious personality. Not that she'll take the old man as a suitor.
The problem might be on her. She just can't force herself to be attracted to anybody. It seems that Anna is the lucky one when it comes to love. Kristoff is a man you can count on whenever things go bad. And he loves Anna very much that he was willing to let go of his loner past and start mingling with people, in fact It has been a year since she last heard his 'Reindeers are better than people' lullaby. She's willing to bet on her life that Kristoff would be a great father to his children too.
Her eyes begun to droop. Soon she drifted to a dreamless sleep. Before she lost total consciousness, she swore she felt the ground shake.
Four horses galloped across the plains of the eastern mountains in the border between Arendelle and the dukedom of Alexton. The riders are covered in leather cloak as protection to the spring breeze. One rider galloped ahead. If anyone would see them, they would surely wonder why flowers appeared and wilted altogether after the first rider bypass them. It isn't because of the rider. The strange occurrence came from the bundle the rider is holding across his lap.
The child coughed wildly spitting a dark purple sand. She opened her chocolate brown eyes and peered at her savior.
"M-mast-e-er J-Johanne, I-I'm so-sorr-y-ry…" She whispered as tears threatened to fall.
The first rider cursed the girl's oppressor before adjusting the hood which slightly fall of from the child's equally brown hair.
"Don't apologize, Lila. It was not your fault. Hang in there." he answered with a reassuring smile.
The girl seems to be convinced cause she shut her eyes and drifted to a fitful sleep.
The black haired ex-Prince angled his head to the right, "Lucas! How far are we?" he asked the rider with the maroon cloak.
"Almost past Alexton's border! We'll have to turn left a little farther from here to the north mountains. Turn left again and we'll be heading straight to the Valley of the Living Rocks!" the man shouted to Johanne.
The rider in dark yellow cloak stiffened. "Johanne! The wind is telling me we are being followed!" she shouted to him.
In the corner of Johanne's eyes, he saw the fourth rider in a gray cloak raise his arm.
"Lucas! Rika! Ride ahead! Kit's about to blow the ground up!" he commanded before urging his horse faster.
They nodded and ride on. The woman, Rika, extended both her hands on the side and dropped them down together causing a strong gust of wind. At the same time, the ground shook and the land behind them divided into a great rift.
The wind urged the horses faster that they where airborne for a couple of seconds. The rift continue to grow and the riders were safely on the other side of the rift.
They stop the horses and peered at the other side of the rift. They can see the silhouette of their followers.
Lucas wiped his brow. "Hooo! That would take them days to get across."
Johanne squinted. "No, just hours. They're forming a bridge already."
True to his word, they can make out a silver glint across the rift.
"Damn that silver alchemist!" Lucas cursed.
Rika closed her eyes. She opened them and made a tsk sound.
"Six of them. They're determined to outnumber us." she stated with disgust.
Johanne looked around. "Where's Kit?" he asked.
A form emerge from the ground behind them.
"Right here Johanne." the man said, his voice gruff and solid.
Lucas smirked. "Where's your horse?"
"Dead" Kit deadpanned.
They winced.
"Tsk" Lucas playfully shook his head. "Come here buddy, It's a long way to the Valley."
The large man shrugged and mounted Luca's horse who grunted in response.
"Let's move" Johanne commanded and they're off.
The Valley is empty. No signs of life it suppose to hold. Rocks are littered everywhere. Johanne dismounted his horse and let Lucas tied them together. Hot air spewed out from knuckle size holes. Lila coughed in his arms. More sand came out of her mouth.
"M-a-aster" cough "Jo-Joha-hanne" the child continued coughing.
"Sh.. shh…" Johanne peered lovingly at the girl. He wiped her brow. "You sure this is it Lucas? It looks pretty deserted to me."
Lucas scratched the back of is hooded head. "Yeah… I memorized the map myself."
Rika looked around. "The air is magical."
Johanne walked in between the two large rocks. "Hello? Anybody there?" he called.
Lucas placed both of hands on the side of his mouth forming a concave amplifier. "Hello!? We need a little help here!" he shouted.
Silence answered them.
Johanne raised a brow towards Lucas.
"Oh don't look at me like that Hothead. The freaking book must have been a fraud. All we have are damn mossy rocks!"
Someone cleared their throat. Behind them is Kit leaning towards one of the big rocks. He touched the rock and closed his eyes.
"Those are not rocks Lucas." The red headed giant simple stated.
Lucas chuckled humorlessly, "Your eyesight might be failing you Big guy cause this-" he patted one mossy rock. "Is clearly a rock."
Kit opened his hazel colored eyes. "Rocks don't breathe."
Lila coughed. The ground move. The rocks started moving, rolling towards the center.
Johanne and the others concentrated on the center of the valley. Johanne hugged the child closer to his chest. Rika flicked one blonde hair from her eyes. Lucas nervously curled his knuckles, only Kit remained calm.
"What's happening…" Johanne whispered.
Within a second, they are being stared by hundreds of beady eyes...
"It the curse!"
"Children born with the curse!"
Rika and Johanne shared a look.
"They're trolls!" Lucas gasp dropping the fighting stance.
The group of Trolls parted in front of Johanne and one troll came rolling in. A troll who looks like he has a pretty high rank due to his oldness and the number of crystals hanging from his neck.
"Great magic is at work here." The troll whispered.
Lila coughed again stealing Johanne's attention.
Pabie's rocky forehead furrowed and bid Johanne to come closer. Johanne hesitated looking at his companions. They nodded.
Johanne watched the icky looking sand puff out from Lila's mouth. He kneeled in front of Pabie and lowered Lila's hood revealing her pale skin and tiny freckles littered on her chubby cheeks. She looks no more than eight.
Pabie observed the young one. "She was struck on her back, yes?"
Johanne nodded. His crimson eyes glowing with worry.
"Her lungs has been inflicted. I can remove the magic working but not the sand. She has to cough it all up." Pabie placed his hand hovering in the child's chest. He pulled the dark violet magic out of her and closed it in his palm. Instantly, Lila sighed in relief.
Rika and Lucas happily clapped their hands, tears shining in their eyes. Kit remained silent but relief and appreciation reflected in his eyes. Johanne hugged the child in relief.
"Thank you…" he whispered, tears in his eyes.
Pabie smiled softly to each one of them. He can't believe that five cursed children found each other. Something is at work here. Not only were they in one team, they also have controlled the curse. And the child had been struck by another cursed. He has never heard of anything like it, six cursed in one place. It is very odd indeed.
Cursed children are very rare and some of them died in a young age often executed as sorcerers and witches. They rarely reach the age of thirty. The oldest cursed he knows till now is the Queen of Arendelle, Queen Elsa, who's in the tender age of twenty. But it seems this group ranges from the age of eight to twenty five.
The blonde beautiful woman in yellow stiffened. "Johanne!" She addressed the young man who seems to their leader. "There's movements five hundred miles from here. We need to go."
The handsome man named Johanne nodded and turned back to Pabie.
"I owe you my life." Johanne stated, his eyes shown gratitude.
"Yes, stay safe children of the curse."
Then they were gone. Only the galloping of the horses can be heard.
Pulba looked confused. She rolled to Pabie.
"What was that Gran Pabie? They are not from here." she asked.
"Yes, tomorrow would be dear Kristoff's wedding right? We should warn Elsa immediately. I sense dark magic at work. And that man, Johanne… Something tells me that he'll be important to Arendelle."
The sun rose from the horizon. The birds sang in harmony with the spring wind. The bell ring unendingly waking the town people for a very big day, Arendelle's awake.
Gerda relayed instructions written by Elsa herself. Sven enthusiastically watched the servants bring trays and trays of chocolate related delicacy to the ball room while he is being dressed up with a specially made saddle. Olaf carefully balanced the rings in a pillow, walking back and forth while the children urged him on.
Outside the palace gates, the people made decorations of their own. Arendelle's snowflake flag hang from every house. Blue colored flowers littered the pavement. Children wear their best white clothes earning few protests from them. The Ice harvesters carried blocks of ice on their back for the carvers to start their jobs.
Kai stood at the port greeting visitors from visitors. Ships in different colored flags docked and the crew hurriedly tied the knots. One flag of a lone island with a compass needle in the middle raised Kai's eyebrow.
So the Southern Isle finally lost their mind huh?
He chuckled to himself.
"King and Queen of the Western Woods."
Two regal couple entered the chapel waving at the throng of people.
"King and Queen of Corona."
Kristoff nervously peaked out of the curtain.
There's too many people!
He bit off one nail at a time, a habit he caught along with the nose picking. Olaf used to tease him once that it might be the reason why he has a big nose.
It's not my fault I was born with this!
"Stop it Kristoff, we already scrubbed that clean." Elsa chastised him.
His eyes nearly bulge out of his eyes. Elsa's wearing her usual light blue gown with a cape filled with snowflakes, but what really caught his attention is the lack of braid. Her hair cascaded like a waterfall on her back. A larger crown adored her platinum blonde hair. Not to mention she's wearing kohl…
Elsa shyly smiled to her soon to be brother-in-law. "So, what do you think?"
Kristoff stared. "Are you really this desperate to get hitched?"
"Are you really this stupid to be begging to be plastered on a wall in your wedding day?"
He shuddered under Elsa's icy glare, no pun intended.
"Okay, okay, you look-" he dragged out the look. "Obviou- I mean beautiful."
"You slipped" Olaf decided to intervene.
"Aren't you two suppose to be in the entrance?"
Olaf mumbled along the lines of 'Kristoff getting wedding jitters.'
Elsa chuckled and raise her glowing hand and shoot it above Kristoff's head. A heavy metal landed on Kristoff's head and he quickly brought it off. It is a silver crown with snowflakes the same designs as his Ice Master and Deliverer medal.
"What?" he stared at Elsa thoroughly confused.
Elsa smiled. "You'll be a Prince after today."
"King, Prince and Princess of Solar" rang from the background.
…
"Wait-what?"
"Yes. As you can see, Princehood is what you get marrying a Princess. Don't tell me you forgot about that."
Elsa realized what she said was a mistake cause Kristoff became a mumbling mess in a second.
"Oh no, oh gosh, I can't do this! I'm raised in the mountains- I don't know about being a Prince! I should start learning soon! Ooooh! My hands are sweating to much- Oh no. What if I blow people off with my nose-"
"You can't blow people off with your nose."
"Helloo~I'm having a nervous breakdown here."
Olaf tapped his left leg. "You'll be fine. Anna loves you so much, there must be something good inside you that she saw."
"Uhg, you're not actually helping here Snowman."
Elsa shook her head, "He means that you don't need to be someone else to be accepted. Anna loves you just the way you are. And we, your family loves you the same way."
Kristoff's frown faded and he grinned. "Now that's an encouragement!"
"The Trolls of the Valley of the Living Rock" the announcer stated along with a few gasps.
Elsa once again gave Kristoff an encouraging pat. "That's our cue. Good luck Kristoff, don't let anybody see you drool when you see your baby-mama."
He smiled as Elsa left with Olaf to the back door of the chapel. Not before hearing Olaf asked Elsa 'Who is my papa?'. He swore he saw Elsa turned a peculiar shade of red.
The Wedding started and ended smoothly… it ended smoothly…. ended….
"IT ENDED SMOOTHLY!" Cliff shouted on top of the fountain causing everyone to burst into cheers, humans and trolls alike.
"IT'S A SUCCESS!" Someone boldly exclaimed.
Elsa blushed embarrassingly as the royals stared at the cheering people in wonder. Who wouldn't when among those people are rolling rocks.
Kai lead the royals inside the castle leaving the newly wedded couple to be congratulated to death outside.
Music blared, a bouncy spring waltz was made. Anna stuffed her face with chocolates while trying to accept various of congratulations. Kristoff is silently waiting beside her with a glass of water in his hands. Luckily he didn't turn into a stuttering idiot while saying his vows. Anna really took his breath away with the glorious white pristine gown. Her hair is tied in an intricate bun and the smile she wore was simply… dazzling…
Gran Pabie already performed some kind of cultural blessing for the wedding by slapping freshly made mud into the newlywed's cheeks. He also made them pour colored sand into a vase which represent them, the colors shows them as individuals but like the sand in the vase, they'll be hard to separate. Kristoff cried during the ceremony. Now Gran Pabie is casually conversing with a royal about politics.
"Congratulations your highness." Somebody on her right said.
Anna couldn't care less. She's hungry after an hour standing in front of the vicar. Kristoff mumbled a thanks in her place and she nodded gratefully. A flash of brown made her choke on her food, Kristoff immediately hand to her the glass of water.
"You okay?" he asked in concern.
She took his hand deliberately ignoring the greetings. Then they saw him.
A man who's a spitting image of the Prince she once thought she oh-so-love but turn out to be a villain instead. Only older.
"Do you think that's him?" Kristoff whispered.
"No. He's not that desperate to die so young. Probably one of the his brothers." besides, I'll know his despicable face anywhere.
"Then, what is he doing here? I can't remember inviting him into our nuptials?"
The man took a glass of champagne. Unbeknownst to him, Pabie eyed him suspiciously from afar.
A/N: Tatadaaa! I want Elsa and Kristoff to have a comfortable relationship seeing that they'll be living together now that Anna and Kristoff's married… I Love Kristoff and his nose… Do you? Next chapter would be the meeting… Please leave a review! Thanks!