The Curse
"Hey, you got some chocolate on your face." Hans said pointing to Anna's "chocolate whiskers."
"Oh, sorry." Anna said rubbing them off.
"Do you wanna talk?" Hans asked, having noticed the conversation Anna was having with Elsa by the chocolate fountain.
"No, I. Not here."
Anna dragged Hans by the arm and they headed towards the girls locker room, the one place where no one would be at this hour.
"Wait Anna I can't go in there I'm a guy!"
"Ok fine we'll go in the GUYS locker room."
"Thank you."
Merida stands in front of her father Fergus, mother Elinor and three brothers excitingly, she pulls out a piece of paper. It was a letter of approval from the College of the Highlands.
"I got in! Thanks to me archery Scholarship!"
"Aye ha ha that's me girl!" Fergus said as he got up and gave his daughter a big hug. He couldn't be more proud of his daughter, becoming a master of archery like he was. Merida was the captain of the archery team on Arendelle High, had been since two years ago when the previous captain, Robin, graduated. Her younger brothers gave her hugs as well.
Elinor was pleased as well, but for the application not so much the archery. She had always been a more conservative individual. She was just happy she was able to convince her daughter to get a college education before deciding to run the shop with her father.
"Alright ye Lover-birds" Sebastian said through the microphone "Now it's time for the Love Songs."
"Speaking of lover-birds? Have you guys seen Anna or Hans?" Merida asked her family, but they just gave unsure nods.
Hans and Anna were in the guys locker room, and as Anna suspected, no one was there. Anna gives the place one last look, then sits down on the bench with her hands on the sides of her face, looking depressed remembering her childhood memories.
"We weren't always like this. Me and Elsa, we were close once. We lived right across the street from each other, our parents were great friends, and we spent...all of our free time together. We were inseparable in those days, went to the same school, sure we are three years apart but that didn't stop us. Went over to each others houses to do homework, Elsa used to help me alot. We even went to the same dentist.. Some would say..we were like sisters."
"But if you were so close then what happened?" Asked Hans as he sat next to her trying to be supportive.
"I don't know." Anna said in a sorrowful voice. "One day she just shut me out one day. Stopped coming over, would tell me to go away when I knocked on her door, I knocked on her door a lot after that, even changed dentists and started getting homeschooled."
"I would never shut you out." Hans said putting his hand on her shoulders. Anna smiled as she grabbed his other hand. He leans in for a kiss, Anna leans in closer, their lips are close to touching, but then...
"Aye Lover-birds!" Merida said bursting through the locker room, the two lovers look at her with angry eyes having ruined their kiss.
"They're having couples dancing! Get your asses out there!" Merida said running back out the door as fast as she came in. Hans and Anna get up, he extends his elbow to her side and she likes hers around his, then they exit the locker room to the dance floor.
"Alright all ye love birds in t'e air!" Sebastian said bringing out his DJ soundtrack board "We got a special song for you by the "Three Fairies" their number one, love song, Once Upon a Dream!"
The whole crowd cheered, the Three Fairies were a hit all female group who had taken the world by storm just a few years ago. Their hit "Once Upon a Dream" has since been downloaded into every iPhone and used as a soundtrack in many romantic films. Aurora, one of the school's cheerleaders, was particularly excited as they were her favorite group, with Merryweather being her favorite singer. The Lyrics began playing:
I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, that look in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
And I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream
But if I know you, I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once
The way you did once upon a dream
I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, that gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
And I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream...
Everyone was dancing to the song with their special someones, it wasn't just Anna and Hans doing squirrels on the dance floor but everyone else, even the parents. She saw her father with his arm around her mother's waist, her head on his chest, Anna smiled but blushed in embarrassment. She saw Elsa's parents Kai and Gerda prancing around each other in a less regal way, Merida noticed this while dancing with her Dad as she didn't have a boyfriend "How did they manage to raise such a stiff?" Merida thought to herself referring to Elsa. Some more of Anna's friends were dancing with each other, she saw Rapunzel do crazy swirls around Flynn, Belle and Quasi we're dancing with each other since neither really had a significant other to dance with and they were good friends. Meanwhile Adam was staring at them from afar in jealousy. So was Gaston, but with a bloody nose from Merida and on the other side of the room, he didn't like it even more than Adam "So she won't get with ME but she will with that monster!" Gaston thought to himself, vanity altering his judgement.
Meanwhile Peter, another school bad boy, was dancing with his friends with Benefits Tinkerbelle, Tink for short, while his ex-girlfriend Wendy was dancing with her new boyfriend Edward. Merida's friend from archery Mulan was dancing with her boyfriend Shen, the one decision in her life that her father actually approves of, old fashioned Chinese views and all. She saw the football captain Hercules dancing with his goth girlfriend Megara "Meg", Aurora and her boyfriend Philip enjoying a romantic dance in a pink and blue dress, having changed earlier like most of the students, aside from Anna as she forgot to bring an extra dress. Ariel was finally having a break to dance with her beloved Eric, and she even saw the two school misfits Alice and Pinocchio enjoying each others company.
But Anna looked over and saw Elsa, just sitting there, alone at the table, lit only by a dimming candle light. Looking longingly at the couples dancing, and Anna's heart sank.
"One sec. Be right back." Anna said to Hans as she made her way over towards Elsa.
"Hey Elsa! Come dance with us!"
"What!?" Elsa said in shock
"Me and Hans. Come on, it will be fun."
"Anna I really don't want to."
"But I we used to do stuff like this all the time, and if you insist on not seeing me again after today you owe me." Anna said desperately, Elsa looks at her sympathetically, but then back to a serious face.
"My answer is no. Now where are my parents, I think I should leave." Elsa said as she got up and started walking towards the door with a sad look on her face.
"No! Wait Elsa. NO!" Anna said grabbing Elsa's arm. The Sebastian stops playing the track and the whole school stares at the two girls fighting. Both Anna's and Elsa's parents look in worry about what is happening. Elsa breaks free, but looking at her hand she notices one of her gloves is gone.
"Give me back my glove!" Elsa asked Anna sternly but with a hint of worry.
"Yes Anna give her back her glove." Iduna said to her daughter
"Now." Agnarr said sternly.
"Elsa please I can't live like this any more." Anna begged, her face full of sadness and desperation. Elsa's face melts into one of equal sadness and just looks at her.
"Then leave me alone." She said regretfully. Everyone in the room gasped at this statement, Elsa's parents were very affected, Kai was holding Gerda as a small tear rolled down her cheek. Elsa turns her back to Anna and begins heading back to the door once more.
"What did I do to you!?"
"Enough, Anna!"
"No why do you shut me out!? Why do you shut the world out!? What are you so afraid of!?"
"I said ENOUGH!" With that burst of emotion, blasts of ice came from the palm of Elsa's hand, they turned to large icicles as they touched the floor towards Anna and everyone else near bye. Luckily the ice stopped just an inch from her body. But one particular piece of ice went right through Fergus's leg, he got on his knee to clench his bleeding leg as his daughter was holding him giving Elsa an angry face. Everyone was staring at Elsa with a mixture of shock and fear.
Was that ice?
Where did it come from?
She made it!
What the Hell?
Witch! That particular word came from Merida.
Elsa looks around worryingly at the looks people are giving her. Then Kai begins clapping.
"Wow..wooo..What amazing special effects right?" Kai said trying to sound convincing, but no one was buying it. "Lets all give a round of applause to Principal Oaken yeah!"
"I didn't do this." Principal Oaken said in confusion.
"Oh you couldn't just play along!?" Kai said angrily.
"Elsa...?" Anna said in shock. With that Elsa leaves through the door, leaving many scared people and a trail of ice behind her.
Elsa makes her way down the hallway, but her emotions are out of control, lockers, doors, everything gets covered in ice. Luckily there are no people, but seeing her powers go haywire are only making her more anxious. She gets outside, there are more people, they look at her with strange looks as she worryingly makes her way to her car.
What's with her?
Is she alright?
Elsa accidentally touches a fire hydrant while trying to avoid touching the people, it freezes so cold it bursts, then the water freezes over from her touch. The people look in shock.
"There she is! Stop her!" Duke Weselton says as he bursts through the door, having followed the ice trail along with his nephew Gaston, as well as Agnarr, Iduna, Kai, Gerda and Anna.
"Just leave her alone you're making things worse!" Gerda screams at the man, defending her daughter.
"Please, just stay away from me. Stay away!" Elsa says, not wanting to hurt anyone else but ice accidentally shoots from her hand and turns the staircase into ice. Everyone falls.
Mr. Weselton is scared and shocked by this event "Monster... Monster!" he screams still laying on the frozen floor. Everyone else begins backing from Elsa scared of what she might do. Mothers grasping their children, fathers looking at her with aggression, willing to harm her if it means protecting their families. Elsa cannot take this anymore, she cannot stand the fear and hatred towards her, she cannot risk hurting anyone anymore, she runs away with tears in her eyes. She gets to her family's car, uses her powers to ice over the window, it shatters, she reaches her hand inside and opens the door. Pulls out the spare key her mother keeps under the driver's seat to drive away. As she does this frost forms around the car.
Anna calls to Elsa running through her fallen family and acquaintances
"Elsa! Wait, please!"
Elsa glances back at Anna, but continues to drive away. As she does the street freezes over.
"Elsa, stop!" Anna rushes out onto the frozen street, but she slips and falls. "Anna!" Hans rushes to Anna's side and helps her up.
As Elsa continues to drive, everything around the car freezes over, soon the sky turns cloudy, and it begins snowing.
It's...snow...in July." One man says in shock
Hans looks at his girlfriend "...Are you alright?"
"No." Anna says in shock.
"Did you know?" Hans asked.
"No." Anna says, then she looks over at Elsa's parents, Elsa's mother sobbing and her husband holding her, they look full of guilt. Well obviously they knew they were her parents, Anna thinks referring to Elsa. Then she looks over at her parents, they look full of guilt too, then she remembers they way they acted about Elsa, how adamant they were about keeping them separated.
"But I think they did." Anna says as she walks over to her and Elsa's parents, a angry look on her face. Just then Belle, Flynn, Rapunzel and Quasimodo come to them as well. Merida stayed behind to tend to her dad.
"What the hell just happened!?" Flynn asked.
"Flynn Language!" Punz scolded "But yeah what the hell happened!?"
"Anything either of you want to explain." Anna said to both sets of adults. They sigh, then Kai speaks.
"We don't know what it is. We took her to doctors, priests, psychics. It's like...being born with an extra finger or...different color eyes Elsa was just born this way. She was making snowflakes in her crib for christ sakes."
"This was not an extra finger, she can shoot ice from hers." Quasi said.
"The whole town is frozen now!" Belle added.
"Wait wait, what? If Elsa has had this her whole life I would have noticed." Anna argued. Then her mother Iduna spoke.
"Actually Anna, there was once a time when you did."
"What!" All the former high school students said in union. Then her father Agnarr spoke.
"Elsa used to play with you using them when you were children. But one day Elsa accidentally struck you in the head. Have you that white streak." he said pointing at his daughters hair "You were getting colder, we were able to take you too a doctor. He did some surgery on your brain to save you". Anna touched the scar above her brow, realizing that is where it was from. "But as a side effect you lost your memory. Not just of that event, but apparently her powers in general."
"He called it selective amnesia" Iduna added.
"Anyways, after that. Elsa agreed. That it would be best to keep her away from other people until she could control herself." Agnarr said.
"Especially you." Iduna said pointing at her daughter.
"And I ruined that.." Anna said putting her head down in shame. Hans grabbed her shoulder in comfort.
"Anna it's not your fault, you didn't know. And besides, no harm done I'm sure the ice will melt." Belle reassured with a sincere smile.
"Fine! Fine!?" Mr. Weselton said getting up. "She tried to murder me!"
"You slipped on ice." Hans said trying to reason with him.
"Her ice!" Gaston retaliated.
"She injured me dad!" Merida said yelling to the group from inside, she always did have good hearing.
"Oh someone would help her out." Quasi said.
"I'll call for an ambulance." Belle said taking out her phone.
"Someone has to find Elsa and bring her back!" Anna shouted, everyone looked at her in shock, some were mumbling.
"Anna no!" Iduna said.
"We will look for her, you stay here." Kai said, referring to himself and his wife.
"But I can come help." Anna said.
"No Anna, she's hurt you enough." Agnarr said referring to Elsa.
"Don't talk about our daughter like that!" kai said getting angry.
"She probably would have been more prepared to interact with people if YOU hadn't convinced her it was better to stay locked up." Gerda said asserting against the Anderson's decision. "I bet if she was YOUR daughter you would have done differently."
"Well she isn't. But Anna is and I won't let her get hurt. Anna until this blows over you are not leaving the house." Agnarr says.
"But Dad!"
"No."
"But.."
"NO!"
Anna stays silent for a moment, looks at his angry face, then to the ground, then back to his face again.
"Buuuut..."
"NO!"
Anna's face becomes pouty after that.
Yes, Gerda's line "I bet if she was YOUR daughter you would have done differently." is supposed to be a joke from the movie. I think this is the longest chapter I have ever written, but don't get used to it.
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