Fire And Ice
Rated: T for Teen.
Author: Nightstar Fury from Nightstar Productions.
Pairing: Hiccup & Elsa.
Disclaimer: I do not own How To Train Your Dragon, Frozen, Tangled, or Brave.
Chapter Two: Locked Away Princess.
~Elsa's POV~
I sat in my room, my new room on my bed by myself. My little sister Anna and I have shared a room since she was about 2 years old. That was until of course I lost control of my powers and hurt Anna, after she was taken care of, I was moved in to this room away from her, to protect her. My father, the king had ordered a reduced staff, closing the gates, and keeping my powers unknown to everyone, including Anna.
I remember it as if it were only yesterday, I was 3 when my parents confided to me that I had magic in me. Snow and ice magic to be precise, that I was born with it. They also told me I was going to be a big sister because my mom was pregnant with another baby. I was happy of course, my life was perfect back then. Not a care in the world did I have about having these strange powers, I had them under control from the time I was little and told about them. Things changed when I was 8 years old, and it led to this. Me being locked away in my room, kept from everyone all because of what I did on accident and out of fear trying to save my little sister. It started 3 years ago...
~Elsa's POV & Narration~
'A humble castle, built of wood, nestled in a deep fjord surrounded by a thriving kingdom called Arendelle. Its located in Norway. We have trade partners, and happy subjects living around us. In these castle walls was the staff and royal family which consisted of King Agnarr and Queen Iduna Agoarsdotter, my parents. And their two daughters. Princess Anna and myself, Princess Elsa Agoarsdotter. Yep, everything is perfect here except for maybe one small detail. I'm the only one in the kingdom who has magic powers that control ice and snow.' I think to myself laying awake in the earliness of that morning. I was pretending to be asleep of course, I was always up early.
'My family had always been understanding about my powers, I'd never harmed anyone with them so they let me use them. Mostly to entertain my little sister who found it absolutely incredible. We played all the time together in between lessons and meals. I never imagined things could get worse, only better.' I sigh heavily.
I heard the door open to my room, I am only 8 years old and I knew who was coming in. My little sister, Anna. She's only 5 and who was always up early with me wanting to play before breakfast and our daily lessons. I closed my eyes and turned from her, now I was waited for the inevitable. "Elsa. Psst. Elsa! Psst." Came my little sister's voice trying to wake me up. I don't stir. Anna sits on me and bounces. "Wake up. Wake up. Wake up." She giggles at me.
I groaned from her method of rising me, "Anna, go back to sleep." I tell her tiredly. I'd been awake since perhaps 5am and knew I could fall back asleep if I wanted too but I just had to much on my mind. Anna rolls onto my back and spreads all her weight on me.
"I just can't. The sky's awake, so I'm awake, so we have to play." Anna tells me in a drama queen-ish tone.
"...Go play by yourself." I shove Anna off my bed. Anna lands butt to floor, sighs, defeated. But then she gets an idea. She hops back on the bed and lifts one of my eyelids as I smile but she can't see it. I merely waited for the remark to come, the only one she knew would get me to get up and play.
"Do you want to build a snowman?..." Anna asks in a mischievous voice, at that both of my eyes both pop open and I smile at her. Anna, now wearing snow boots, pulls me by the hand. "Come on, come on, come on, come on" She urged us to run down the staircase faster. I try to shush her, but Anna was too excited. We sneak into the ballroom as I shut the door. "Do the magic! Do the magic!" Anna pleaded jumping up and down.
I laugh and wave my hands together. Snowflakes suddenly burst forth and dance between my palms, forming a snowball. "Ready?"I asked her, she nodded impatiently. I throw the snowball high into the air. Snow bursts out and flurries around the room. Anna dances about, catching flakes in her palms and mouth.
"This is amazing!" I hear Anna call out. Yes she loved my magic, I did too. It was amazing indeed that I was born gifted with such.
"Watch this!" I entice my sister now as she stops and watched what I was going to do. I stomp my little slippered foot on the ballroom floor and a layer of ice suddenly coats the length of it, forming a giant ice rink. Anna slid off, laughing. Anna and I roll giant snowballs together and stack them so we can build a snowman together. Just as we intended to do when she woke me up earlier. Once he is made fully, I move the snowman's stick arms around. "Hi, I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs." I say in a goofy voice which Anna started to giggle at then she jumped up and hugs him.
"I love you, Olaf." Anna replied happily as we look at one another smiling, I get a great idea for her and Olaf to dance. Anna, I actually started propelling them across the ice floor with her magic sliding them in a circular motion together. After that, we moved on to sliding down snow banks together, Anna loved it so much. "Haha, tickle bumps!" I hear her call out. I know what that means.
"Hang on..." I remind her smiling. Anna fearlessly jumped off a snow peak into mid air.
"Catch me!" Anna giggles jumping again. I make another peak to catch her.
"Gotcha!" I tell her as we keep going. It went on like this a few times, Anna kept jumping and I kept casting magic to catch her.
"Again! Again!" I hear her ask as she starts to jump faster and faster, I began having a hard time keeping up with her.
"Slow down!" I say quickly trying to make sure she doesn't fall and hurt herself but then I suddenly slip and Anna had jumped, I shot out my hand to make another snow peak the catch her but my magic accidentally struck Anna in the head and she tumble down a snowbank and lands, unconscious. I gasped out and scrambled to my feet to get to her, I pulled her in to my lap quickly looking over her. "ANNA!" I yell in fear. A streak of Anna's hair, where I had struck, turns white. "MAMA! PAPA!" I cry out with worry. "You'll be okay, Anna..." I whisper to my baby. The room around them filled with frightening ice spikes. My parents burst through the frozen door, gasping at the sight of the room.
"Elsa, what have you done? This is getting out of hand!" My father says quickly.
"Anna!" My mother said with fear seeing her unconscious in my arms with the white streak in her hair now. The King and Queen rush to Anna and take her in their arms.
"It was an accident. I'm sorry, Anna." I say in a scared tone.
"She's ice cold..." My mother looks to my father in concern.
"...I know where we have to go." My father says quickly, with that we rush out to the library where my father began instantly sifts through a shelf to find an ancient book inscribed with Old Norse runes. He opens the book, scrambles to a page with an ancient map. My mother wraps Anna in a warm blanket as we then rush to the stables and tack my parents horses. My mother carried Anna, as I sat with my father on his, we ride their horses out of the kingdom. Snow streamed from my hands, leaving a trail of ice behind us.
We traveled to a rocky like area, nothing but boulders around us. My father holds a frightened me, my mother holds the still unconscious Anna. "Please, help. My daughter!" My father pleads to no one in particular. Suddenly, a bunch of rocks tumble down the valley toward us. It looks as though we'd be crushed! But, luckily, the rocks stop at our feet. The rocks then unfold, revealing bright faces of rock trolls.
The crowd parts for a troll as old as the Earth. They call him grand Pabbie. He approaches arthritically, but determined. He nods respectfully to my father. "Your Majesty." He begins now looking at me "Born with the powers or cursed?" The troll suddenly asked him.
"Born. And they're getting stronger..." My father stated quickly, worry in his tone. Grand Pabbie motions for my mother to bring Anna to him. She does. He examines her.
"You are lucky it wasn't her heart. The heart is not so easily changed, but the head can be persuaded." Grand Pabbie said shrugging his shoulders a little.
"Do what you must." My father insisted.
"I recommend we remove all magic, even memories of magic to be safe... But don't worry, I'll leave the fun..." Grand Pabbie says as my family and I watch him pull out a glowing blue energy from Anna's head. We see her memories floating right above her. Grand Pabbie changed all of her magical memories to ordinary memories from snowy play indoors with the girls in their nightgowns changed to outdoors on the winter fjords with the girls in winter gear. He puts the ordinary memories back in her head as a warm smile came to my sister's face. "She will be okay." Grand Pabbie says softly now.
"But she won't remember I have powers?" I ask gently.
"It's for the best." My father tells me now.
"Listen to me, Elsa, your power will only grow." Pabbie tells me holding my hand now then as he spoke, he conducts the Northern Lights to show a silhouette of an adult me creating magical snowflakes. "There is beauty in your magic...But also great danger." He says in a firm tone as the snowflakes turn to sharp spikes. "You must learn to control it..." He warned me. In the Northern Lights display, the sharp spikes cause human figures to panic and attack me. "Or fear will be your enemy." Pabbie finishes. I gasp and bury her face in my father's chest, he wraps his arms around me, protectively.
"No. We'll protect her. She can learn to control it. I'm sure...Can anything be done to help her?" My father asks the elder troll now as I began to fall asleep against my father, I was quite tired and it was still dark out.
"Love my king. Only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart." Grand Pabbie stated to him.
"We do love her, unconditionally." My mother adds and pulled me against her, kissing the top of my head.
"You misunderstand your majesties...Your love is not what is needed to control the magic within Elsa. I can not see much in her future, but I can enlighten you of what to expect...If you desire?" Grand Pabbie says. My parents look at one another unsure a moment and then look back to the elder troll and nod their heads in confirmation for him to continue. "A stranger with a gift of its own from a far away land and holds no fear riding a creature of fire will come to you. The stranger will be the one who can help Elsa control her abilities. I know not when or how...That is all I can reveal to you." Grand Pabbie tells them.
"We understand. Until then...we'll lock the gates. We'll reduce the staff. We will limit her contact with people and keep her powers hidden from everyone... including Anna." My father sighed heavily.
~End Elsa's Memories~
The changes were instant when we returned to the castle the morning. Anna remained asleep for a while, as did I because when I woke up it was nearing 11 in the morning. When I did, everything had changed. My clothes were out of the closet, my toys, my desk. All that was left in Anna's and mine's room was my bed, but once I was awake that was moved too by the staff which I noticed had a severe decrease. I was very confused, and went in search of my parents.
I located them around the corner and to the right near another room. "Mama, papa...what's going on?" I asked them. They turned sadly to me as I approached them.
"Elsa sweetheart...You and Anna can no longer share a room together...not after this morning." My mother began as I gasped lightly.
"Bu–but it...wasn't my fault...I didn't mean to hurt her. We were just playing with the snow and Anna...moved to fast for me to keep up..." I said beginning to get worked up.
"We know, Elsa but we can't take the chance again...You heard what the elder said, we were lucky you didn't hit Anna's heart...so we've moved you in to this room, and reduced the staff. Your contact with people will be limited to me and your mother. No one will know of your powers, and Anna...won't remember them." My father told me slowly.
I couldn't believe they were...locking me away from everyone, including Anna. I understood they were afraid, but so was I. I didn't mean for it to happen. I bowed my head sadly nodding to them, I wouldn't argue with them. They didn't want to take the chance of someone getting hurt again. I heard Anna come out of the room and run down the hall as I slowly opened the door to my new room and entered it shutting the door on her.
I sat on my bed sadly listening to Anna ask why I was moved out of her room, listened to her cry wanting to be near me again. We'd always been close and now I just couldn't. My powers had hurt her, that white streak in her hair would always be there because of me. I buried my face in my hands as I cried softly, constantly apologizing for what I'd done. I'd never see Anna again because of these stupid powers.
Why me, why did it have to be me. It didn't make sense, no one else in the family had powers, it was just me. How was I born with them if they weren't anywhere else in the royal bloodline? Seems more like I was cursed instead of born with. I listened as my parents calmed Anna down by telling her I was sick and had to be away from her to get better. From that moment on everything was different. I was 8 years old and kept from the world because of something that wasn't in my control.
Anna was only 5 and so confused about everything going on. As it neared lunch time my mother delivered it, this made it worse for me because no I couldn't even sit with my family during meals, my lessons would be kept in private in the library. This felt awful, I hated it. I couldn't see anyone, I didn't have friends, no one talked to me but my parents. I was utterly alone for being misunderstood. This lasted a while in fact, Anna was always knocking at my door wanting to get me to come out and play with her.
Using the one line that always worked in the past, 'Do you wanna build a snowman?' She'd knock every day, then once a week, twice a month, once a month. What could I do? I wanted to play with her but my parents wouldn't allow it. "Go away, Anna..." I told her slowly trying to sound irritated so she wouldn't persist the matter. Days turned to weeks, weeks to months, months to years and before I knew it I was 12 years old, Anna still trying to get me to play with her. The last 4 years lonely, no one to speak to but my teachers about lessons, my parents about how Anna was doing. That was the extent of my conversation with people.
I had nothing but fear but myself, as I got older in those 4 years just as the elder had told me the morning this started. My powers would only grow and I had to learn to control it or fear would become my enemy. It seems that it already had because I was terrified of even hugging my parents anymore. When I first moved in to the room, my father gave me a pair of white gloves and slid them on my hands and told me. "The gloves will help. See? Conceal it. Don't feel it..." He began softly.
"Don't let it show." He and I said together. If only it had been enough to stop my icy powers, but they only grew and soon the gloves weren't enough to stop my powers. 4 years passed since that day, and now I'm 12 and the magic was stronger than before. I remember just a few weeks ago my parents came to visit me while Anna was in lessons and I cried because my powers had gotten stronger. "I'm scared! Its getting stronger." I cried with worry.
"Getting upset only makes it worse...Calm down." My father told me softly. My parents came by today to see me and in a fit of fear I accidentally froze the wall behind me when my feet touched the hardwoods. He went to hug me but I backed away from him.
"No! Don't touch me!..." I cried out. "Please...I don't want to hurt you." I said softer now, I watched concern wash over their faces. It was true, I'd hurt them just like I had hurt Anna. I didn't want to be hugged or touched because the gloves weren't enough to stop my magic anymore. What could I do other than just keep others away from me? I was locked away because I was a danger to everyone around me, including myself now. I know my emotions controlled most of my powers so I tried to feel nothing.
I was alone so why try to act like it would be okay? I was stuck like this, my powers would always be apart of me so I'd never a normal life. I doubted my parents would even step down and want me as queen until Anna was old enough to take the crown when she turned 18. That was a long ways off since she was only 9 now. I hated it, I hated all of it. I hated being alone, these powers I had, that I couldn't see anyone, talk to anyone. I just wanted it to be over, wanted them to just let me run away and I'd stay away from people on my own terms.
Anna came by later wanted to play again, but I had to make her go away. I sat sadly on my bed after my parents had left, this was my life, for the rest of my life. This was it. I'd be alone forever. I'd never belong, or be accepted because no one understood me. I was a danger, a witch, a monster. And I would be forever. I lowered my head as a few silent tears slipped down my cheeks from my blue eyes. I was a secret, people knew I was alive and around but no one knew why the gates had been closed, why I'd been locked away, why the staff had been reduced. It was a mystery to everyone. This was my life, and I hated it because I would live in fear with uncontrolled magic forever. No one understood me, and I doubted anyone ever would.
