Elsa was currently sitting in her favorite chair, since she had become queen several weeks ago she had only ever been inside her bedroom to sleep or change gowns. She spent a majority of her time in her office (formerly her parents) and spent most of the day signing papers or reading the newspaper. She had also spent an ungodly time (in her mind at least) in the council chambers. Her council had served her parents as well, it was an even mix of elders, economical geniuses, and many nobles with greying hair.

They would talk her ears off forever talking in circles if she let them. But for her sake they had been going easy on her making their points clear and short. But her favorite job as Queen by far was getting invited to every social gathering in the city, not that she had time for even a fraction of them but she managed to squeeze in the more important ones. The ones she could but should go to (or she wasn't in the mood) she had sent Anna in her place, who was more than willing to help.

Right now she was sitting in the chair that her father often used and she would sit on his lap, she was reading the newspaper while nursing a hot cup of tea. The paper wasn't from Arendelle actually, but from a print shop in the colonies across the ocean to the west, she read on about neighboring empires fighting tooth and nail for the favorable warms waters, of rogues who attacked convoys and of the deep never ending wilderness that was a fresh start for any man or woman.

Elsa felt a rebellious shiver leave her heart and shoot up her spine but she quickly banished the thoughts and fantasies, reminding herself of her responsibilities. She continued reading, about the increase of fur being traded, new foods the colonist had learned to grow and bring back to the mainland. She made a mental note to send a couple diplomats to the colonies to negotiate some trade agreements. she wasn't interested in the bales of beaver fur, but hopeful that they could bring back foodstuff that could be grown in Arendelle's harsh climate, to supplement their usual diet of sheep and seafood.

Elsa put down the newspaper and turned her chair so she could enjoy the view of her city. Ships where sliding into and out of the harbors, taking advantage of the warm seasons favorable waters while they could. Carts full of wood, ice and wool came in at a steady rate, the wood generally going into the direction of the shipyards to produce her fishing and trade fleet. Now that she had broken off trade with Weasletown she was sure to step up her game to fill in the void of Arendelle's need for foreign goods. Many merchants were ready to meet her challenge drooling at the thought of they ample payday that awaited them.

Elsa sighed in content and took a sip of her cooling tea when her hyperactive sister came in at full speed per usual and raced to her side with a huge smile on her face. Elsa had hide a grin behind her cup at her sister's childlike behavior. She was secretly toying with the idea of an elderly version of Anna and Kristoff, the poor mountain man trying in vain to keep up with her. The idea almost made her choke on her tea.

Elsa looked at her sister whose smile only seemed to widen.

"You're not going to believe this" she said

Anna had news for her? Great. Her sister had probably yet again defied reality, or at least common sense.

"Who do we owe money too?" She asked nervously

Her sister shook her head "Some guys were at some island a few weeks ago, they found a whole dragon frozen in ice, every doctor, scientist and collector have come out of the woodworks to start a bidding war at the docks" her sister explained

"A dragon? You can't be serious"

"Nope, and the story gets more weird, all the ice harvesters have never seen nothing like this before. Not lake ice or sea ice or anything imaginable, it hasn't melted an inch in the sunshine anywhere"

Elsa raised an eyebrow? "Really?" she asked skeptically

her sister grin only widened, her eyes had a pleading quality

"Why don't you go with Kristoff?" she asked

"He's going to meet us there, besides! if anything interesting is going to happen it's going to be because of you, and i want to be there when it does!"

"And what makes you think I'm going?" she asked

Anna's grin disappeared and she sighed in exasperation, she looked at her sister like the answer to her own question was obvious

"This is a really interesting thing that the whole town's going to be talking about, it involves ice and you're the Queen of it so it only seemed fitting"

Now it was Elsa's turn to sigh in exasperation "leave it to my sister that should anything interesting happen she pencil's it in for me"

"So thats a yes?"

""I probably don't have much choice do I?"

Anna shook her head in agreement "None"

Elsa finished her tea and set it down and rose to start walking out the door. "You know the only reason you get away with this is because you're my sister, right?"

"Yup!"

The two sisters walked down to the docks, there they were greeted by a sizeable crowd near of the larger ships, the crew were unloading kegs of whale oil but the crowd didn't care as they had surrounded a huge block of ice.

It was fairly obvious that the crew took off some ice with saws to make transport easier, though how they managed she decided not to ask. It was five feet tall and had a maximum radius of about five feet, the color itself was some kind of light blue, like aqua or teal. At its center was a huge black beast, perfectly preserved from the sands of time. It was curled into a ball shape with one wing spread over the top of its body.

She began to move into the crowd and they finally took notice of her, they quickly cleared a path and most gave a polite bow at the hip. A man she presumed to be the captain came forward.

"Your majesties! what a pleasant surprise, do you wish to make a bid on this one of a kind object?" he gestured to the frozen creature, she couldn't help but notice more that a few older men had shot heated glares in her direction.

"Not today, just curious" his face fell a bit then lit back up

"As you say, do you wish to inspect closer your majesty? anyone can purchase the ice samples we collected because we don't want to risk the beast, but for you I think I can make an exception" he gestured to the beast and she stepped forward, eyes alight with awe and curiosity.

She reached forward and touched the ice, discreetly sending i miniscule blast of cold magic so no one would notice, she tried with all her might to try to make this, this, thing to give up its secrets.

It was not like ordinary ice was the first thing she quickly deduced. It was much the same as frozen salt water yet it wasn't, there was organic residue everywhere, but it wasn't plankton or algae or anything she could think of. based on the grain of the ice she could tell that when the ice formed the saltwater/organic material was in motion. which seemed bizarre.

Then there was the creature itself, it was curled up in a ball but when she closed her eyes and used the magic as her sight she could tell the dragon was curled around something. To get a better idea she redoubled her efforts and sent in more of her magic trying to forcibly try to pry the secrets of the frozen dragon wide open, she finally saw a humanoid something inside the ice disturbed her magic, it was faint and disappeared just as fast as it came from nowhere. She sent another similar blast and this time tried to tune into what had set her magic off. This time there was two things, both similar in the fact she could faintly register something.

Pain

It shocked her at first and just like before one of the things went silent, the other however did not.

She almost lost it when it reignited itself, this time something new.

Fury

Elsa's eyes popped open and jumped back from the ice like it bit her. Something was in the ice. It was alive, it was angry, and she woke it up.

The people in the crowd jumped back as she did looking at her for an explanation, Anna had rushed to her side asking what had happened. But none of that registered fully as her eyes were locked onto the ice. Then it came a blue light, very dim at first but then it quickly grew as if a whole warehouse of whale oil were on fire. Then came the most ungodly noise she had ever heard as it shot fear up and down her spine and her heart filled with dread as her instincts were yelling at her to take cover but fear kept her rooted firmly at the spot.

Someone pulled her away and she found herself behind a cart but was still unable to look away as the ground shook and the ungodly noise screamed until the heavens themselves heard its Fury.

In haste she raised ice walls to protect the remaining crowd with better protection. When the blue light turned itself and the whole ice block itself white there was an explosion that rocked the entire harbor and ice chunks ranging from a grain of sand to a full grown horse flew in every direction without discretion.

From the crater the mighty black dragon rose, green eyes pierced it surroundings and blue light seemed to be tattooed to the dragon ebbed a little before it came forth again and it roared with all it will and might. Challenging even the heavens and any that would dare stand in his way.