The Eternal Winter
Chapter 2: Elsa's Winter
Kentin practically flew threw the front door, followed by Nathaniel and Armin. How grateful Kentin was that his father was away or he'd be read the riot act for barging in like he did.
"Ken?" Kentin's mother, Manon, appeared from the hallway and smiled, "Oh Ken you're okay."
"Sorry to sound rude mom," he said as he started for the hall closet, "but we really need all of dad's storm supplies and the snow clothes."
Manon never questioned her son so she hurriedly gathered all of what he asked for and helped them prepare for their trek to find Elsa. As they prepared, Kentin explained to his mother how this unnatural winter started, emphasizing that Deborah had been the one to really cause the disaster.
"The poor dear!" Manon exclaimed as she finished stuffing a backpack full of snacks and a first aid kit. "Please do be careful."
Kentin swung the bag over his shoulder and nodded, "We will mother, just stay inside until this is over okay?"
Manon nodded her head and waved the boys goodbye as they hurried toward they remembered where Elsa ran off. They knew Rosalya and Lysander would also run after Elsa so they expected to meet up with them along the way.
Rosa waited for Leigh to close up his store and stared up at the ice castle they could see roughly from where they stood. Because the mountain was slightly covered by some clouds it wasn't a clear sight which gave Rosalya some hope that no one would notice the structure anytime soon.
"Alright." Leigh pocketed his keys and they started off toward the mountain. "Remember Rosa, do not be rash."
Rosalya nodded, "I know."
The trio walked through the deserted streets, the snow blocked many building's doors and windows so no one was outside. They had no doubt that eventually officials would start trying to gather citizens to relocate them at the storm center and they hoped to do reach Elsa before then.
"Rosalya!" They heard behind them, "Lysander!"
The trio turned around and were greeted the trio of boys. They raced over to them and Kentin explained to a somewhat angry Rosalya that they knew Deborah was the reason for the current events.
"She's been crying to everyone." Armin explained when Lysander asked what the situation at the school was like. "Everyone's having a hard time grasping Elsa's abilities but Deborah's already jumped at the chance to make them think that Elsa's bad."
"I'd expect as much from her." Rosalya growled, "But never mind that, we have a girl to find."
Following Rosalya's lead, the group set off toward Elsa's home in hopes of seeing the girl. They knew she'd be afraid of them, afraid of them fearing her, but they had to see her. She was not as alone as she thought she was and they desperately needed to prove that.
Deborah listened in on a conversation between Iris and Castiel, she was truly enjoying how everyone was slowly turning against Elsa. How lucky was she that Elsa had strange ice powers that were at the moment uncontrollable.
"I never thought Elsa could be like this." Iris commented as she rubbed her arms, "This is too much."
"I wonder why she would never tell us." Castiel, who had been sitting, leaned back, "I would have thought she trusted us."
"Well she lost ours." Iris added, which brought a devious grin to Deborah's face, "She's been harassing Deborah ever since she came back and now this.."
Deborah was rather shock, and gleeful all the same, that no one recalled that she had asked Elsa what she was. Even the singer knew that she was the one to set of the storm and she was going to do whatever it took to hide that little fact.
"Armin?" Deborah turned around and noticed that Violette and Alexy were frantically searching the halls. "Armin where are you?"
"Alexy?" Deborah was actually annoyed with the blue haired boy as his frantic searching interrupted the conversation she was listening in on. "What are you doing?"
"Armin is missing!" the twin nearly cried, "He was here when the storm hit and now he's gone!"
"He's not the only one." Melody and Kim appeared on the other side of the hall, equally worried, "Nathaniel and Kentin are gone as well."
"What's going on?" Iris asked as she and Castiel joined the girls.
"Nathaniel, Kentin and Armin are missing." Peggy informed the duo as she appeared from behind Melody, "They left to find Elsa."
"What?!" Alexy almost screeched, "How do you know that?"
Peggy shrugged, "I followed them to the back door and Kentin said something about joining Rosalya and Lysander to find her."
"But that's terrible!" Deborah acted concern, though she was genuinely afraid that the group knew her dirty secret and that made them threats. "We have to stop them, Elsa could hurt them!"
"But we can't!" Violette argued, "We're not dressed to face the cold, we'll freeze to death."
"What about the clothing store?" Melody asked, "Wouldn't they..?"
Alexy shook his head, "No, the store sells clothes base on season and it's spring, they wouldn't have winter clothes anymore."
"The sporting goods store then." Kim brightened, "They sell anything related to sports, surely they have some."
Castiel shook his head, "Even if we get the clothes, how are we going to find them?"
They all quieted, taking in Castiel's valid point. However, Deborah needed to get her hands on the group so she wasn't about to be deterred.
"Elsa took off toward the left mountains, that's probably where they're heading." Deborah started toward the back doors, "Maybe not all of us should go since those three already caused a stir."
"I'll go." Castiel offered, "Who else wants to tag along?"
Melody and Violette were too afraid to go so Iris agreed to tag along, seeing as she wanted to make sure their friends got back safely.
"Try to cover for us okay?" Iris asked as they approached the back door, "We can't have the teachers chasing us."
The remaining four nodded and let the trio leave, praying they'd save their friends from Elsa's curse. Secretly though, Alexy blamed Deborah for causing this and he hoped that Elsa would strike Deborah and freeze the heartless girl.
Armin and Kentin did their best to cover their tracks, Nathaniel had commented on someone following their footprints so the two thought it was best to try and hide them.
"Listen boys," Rosalya tried to be patient but she was never that type. "I think you did enough covering, can we just keep going please?"
The duo sighed and nodded, "Alright." they stood up and followed the group, hoping she was right.
"You know," Lysander said as they walked up the once mountain trail, "Elsa took off around late noon, the storm lasted about an hour."
"Yeah." Armin nodded in agreement but confused at his point, "And?"
"It's going to be dark soon." he stated, "How are we going to find her in the dark?"
Rosa stopped and turned toward Lysander, in her panicking concern for Elsa she hadn't realized the time. While the night would help them out by hiding Elsa's castle it would make it difficult for them to find her.
"I have flashlights," Kentin said, tugging at his bag's strap, "and if necessary we'll just camp out until morning."
"Can't we try with the flashlights?" Rosalya asked, she wanted to cover as much ground as possible because the closer they got the closer they'd find Elsa. "The sun won't set within an hour anyways."
The group agreed with Rosalya, they to wished to find Elsa as soon as possible and at this point none could say that Deborah was still in the dark about what they were trying to do. After that brief debate, the group hurried up the mountain, Elsa's palace was far and they had a lot of ground to cover.
Elsa wandered her palace, she was amazed that she could create such a structure with her powers. It was astounding and Elsa felt incredibly proud of herself.
As she went along she noticed that she would need help maintaining her home and not to mention that she did not want anyone coming into her home so she would need guards. Elsa walked to the entrance of her palace where she had made a decorative ice fountain and decided to create her own army of ice men.
With the twirl of her hands, tapping of her fingers, and flicks of her wrists Elsa created a thousand soldiers. They would help protect her from the judging society she left behind, protect her from Deborah and from her group.
But what about Rosa? Elsa knew the outspoken girl was bound to race up this mountain and try to talk to her and she was concerned about that. What could be said or done at this point?
"Rosa will come..." Elsa said to herself, "I can't try to stop her..."
Sighing, Elsa turned to her right and gave a twirl of her wrist to make two special snowmen for her friend. One was goofy looking, a long overbite with buck teeth but carried a happy smile. His brother looked more sweet and innocent though Elsa could see mischief in the big eyes he had.
"Olaf at your service!" The happily goofy one smiled, bowing to his queen.
The other snowman followed his brother's lead and gleefully introduced himself as Snowflake.
"My dear little snowmen," Elsa cooed to the small creatures of snow, "I have a very important job for you."
"Whatever you need our queen!" they eagerly jumped up and down.
Elsa smiled at the snowmen, "I have a friend named Rosalya, I need you to find her. I have no doubt she's trying to come up our mountain so please find her and bring her here."
Snowflake raised his little stick hand and asked, "What if she has others with her?"
"So long as they do not hurt you it should be fine." After all there's no way Deborah would trudge up a snow covered mountain just to rub the current events in her face. There was no way Elsa would be worth that trouble. "And please hurry, I do not want them to freeze out there."
The brothers saluted Elsa, "Will do our beloved queen!" and hurried out the palace door.
The ice men she created had started to take their posts so Elsa summoned a messenger to inform them of the two snowmen's mission so that they wouldn't accidentally attack their guests.
"My lady?" An ice man approached his queen timidly, "My we sing as we work?"
Elsa smiled and nodded, "Of course you may but when our guests arrive, please refrain from doing so. I'm afraid of frightening them."
The ice man nodded and hurried off to inform the others.
Deborah refrained from swearing like a sailor as she walked through the snow in her thick snow clothes. Deborah hated winter and that was a great reason to hate Elsa even more than she did before. Of course, she couldn't let that on yet.
"Hey look!" Iris up the mountain, pointing out that there was something on the mountain that wasn't there before.
Deborah and Castiel took in the sight, "It's a building..?"
"Maybe that's where Elsa is." Iris suggested, "And that's got to be where they're heading."
That wasn't a very good sign for Deborah, who knew how far up they were. "We should hurry!"
Castiel wasn't sure why Deborah cared so much about whether or not the missing students saw Elsa or not, it wasn't like any of them were her friends. He was never close to Rosalya so he didn't really care of what she did the same went for the other boys. The only one he really was concerned of was Lysander since they were best friends.
"It's gonna be night soon though." Iris told the brunette, "We didn't pack much for the trip."
Castiel looked up at the sky, Iris was right that it would be night soon but seeing the utterly failure on Deborah's face made him seek an alternative idea. "Let's just try to get as far as we can, we did buy flashlights and extra batteries."
Deborah perked, how lucky was she that the idiot was so easily swayed to keep them going by the slouch of her shoulders? "Of course, no doubt they'd set up a camp once it goes dark!"
Iris was hesitant but followed the other two toward the mountain, being they were barely reaching the mountain's tourist area and their friends were more than likely close to Elsa, Iris didn't think they would make it in time.
"We have to be positive." Deborah sang, putting a smile on the the other girl's face, "They have to stop soon."
Iris wasn't so sure about that, for Rosalya to race out into a snow storm only proved the beautiful girl would do anything to reach Elsa. Iris wondered what Elsa could have done to earn Rosalya's loyalty, she's quickly lost everyone else's trust so how was it she still had Rosalya's? What was it Rosalya saw that no one else did?
Hey there peoples! I'm at starbucks again with my friend so yay! Also, during my insanely long haitus thanks to not having internet I have written up to chapter six, six is still in the works though. A guest made a comment about the Witch and Monster comment Deborah makes and it will be addressed later. Til then enjoy the other chapter and let me kniw what you think.
Rosalya lives by my morals, including the one that you never abandon a friend in need. Anyone who is annoyed by this or doesn't live by this belief and feels it's stupid, just fucking leave please? I don't care.
Oh! also in response to that guest, I did say it was based off of Frozen and I meant that. So let me be specific, this is heavily based on Frozen! And no, i will not ever change Elsa's name, I like the name and it fits really well so no. Farewell people! See ya next time!