Chapter 4 Do we have a sister?

Elsa and Anna walked into the dining room. Idun and Agdar were already there having their dinner. The sat on the opposite side from their parents and started eating.

"So what did you two did for the day?" Anna asked.

"Nothing, just played chess and played with Sunshine, Snowflake and Ruby." Agdar said.

"So how did your day went?" Idun asked.

"It went good, I just want to ask something." Elsa said.

"Ask away."

"Do we have a sister?" Idun and Agdar froze at that question.

"C-could you r-repeat that again?" Idun asked.

"I said, do we have a sister?" Elsa said.

"N-no you don't have a sister, w-why would you ask that?"

"No reason, we wish we had one though."

"Why?"

"So Anna wouldn't be so lonely when I have duties to do."

"Oh, okay." Idun resumed eating. Elsa gave Anna a look and Anna understood what Elsa wanted her to do.

"So if we did had sister would you two tell us?" Anna asked, they didn't respond. Idun looked up and smiled.

"I guess we would have to tell you because she is part of the family right?"

"Yep well good night, I really tired." Anna gave a fake yawn and got up from her chair. Elsa caught on and followed too.

"Me too, good night." Elsa said.

"Don't you two want dessert?" Agdar asked. Elsa and Anna shook their head and walked out the door giving a smile along the way.

Walking down the halls they stopped in front of Elsa's room.

"Elsa can I speak with you for a moment?" Anna asked.

"Sure, let's go inside so no one will hear us." Anna nodded and walked inside Elsa's room.

"I don't know why they are denying it Elsa." Anna said.

"Maybe they must've forgotten about her." Elsa said.

"If they did why did Mama took so long just to answer my question?" Elsa shrugged and Anna threw herself onto the bed, scaring Ruby in the process. "Sorry Ruby. I just don't get it."

"Get what?"

"I just don't get the fact that the gallery is in their room but they don't know who she is. Maybe they don't know where the gallery is hidden."

"Nonsense, Papa said he knows all the tunnels in the castle which could include secret rooms as well. Maybe they just don't want to tell us." Elsa said.

"If they don't want to tell us, then what could've happened to her for them not to tell us anything?"

"I don't know…but I'm getting tired. How about we…ask Gerda tomorrow?" Elsa said between yawns.

"Yeah, we should. Good night Elsa."

"Night Anna." Anna gave a small smile as she headed towards the door. Elsa returned the smile and Anna left.

Once Anna reached her room, she changed into her night clothes and as soon as head hit the pillow, she fell asleep. Elsa on the other couldn't sleep; she stayed up all night thinking about Crystal.

'What happened to her? Maybe Gerda will tell us tomorrow.' After a while, Elsa drifted off to sleep with Ruby curled up on her stomach.

"Did they find the secret gallery?" Idun said.

"How am I supposed to know that?" Agdar asked.

"I'm not saying you know but somehow Elsa and Anna know where it is."

"Why would they be in our room, they wouldn't be in our room unless were in it."

"Make sense but they can still sneak in and out with no one noticing." Idun said. They both got up and exited the dining room.

"True but why would they ask that question. Usually I know Anna asks those type of questions." Agdar said.

"I guess that's true." They stopped in front of Elsa's room, peeking inside; they saw Elsa sleeping peacefully with Ruby curled up on her stomach. The checked up on Anna as well, Anna was sleeping with Snowflake stretched across her stomach, sleeping.

"Well I don't know if you're gonna stay up or not but I'm heading to bed." Idun said as they stopped in front of their room.

"I was actually heading to the library but I don't feel like going now." Agdar said.

"I'm guessing you want to go to the gallery?"

"Sure do."

"Well it wouldn't harm us to see her picture one last time before we meet her in reality." Agdar nodded and follow her to the wardrobe.

The next morning, Elsa crept into Anna's room. Elsa sat on the bed and gently started to shake Anna.

"Anna wake up." Elsa said.

"No…more…three…hours…early." Anna replied, Elsa didn't really got what Anna said but shrug it off anyway.

"Anna wake up!" she shouted. Anna jolted awake, kicking Elsa off the bed.

"Who's there?!" Anna asked.

"It's me, Elsa, I'm right here."

"Elsa? Where?"

"Down here." Anna looked on the floor and saw Elsa on the floor with Ruby sitting on her back.

"Did I do that?"

"No, you weren't the one who kicked me off the bed, it was a ghost." Elsa said sarcastically, after they both burst into a fit of giggles.

"I didn't think I would kick you off the bed but hey at least I got up." Anna said.

"I guess, I need you to do something for me."

"Sure, what do you want me to do?"

"After breakfast I want you to…"

Elsa and Anna were a little surprised that their parents came to breakfast a little late but Elsa and Anna were thankful that they did. Before their parents came in they both overheard some servants talking about how Crystal was never found after an ambush. Idun and Agdar sat opposite to them and began eating their breakfast. Elsa and Anna began eating a well, when Elsa saw Gerda enter, she nudged Anna. Anna saw Gerda and nodded.

"What are you two doing today?" Anna asked.

"Nothing really, what are you planning?" Agdar asked.

"How about a picnic. There's this hill where you can see the whole town from there…" Elsa focused on her mother more than her father because Idun's hand which was holding a glass started to shake. "Only you, Mama and I will be going because Elsa have duties to do." Elsa looked at Agdar and nodded. Suddenly they all heard something shatter.

"We're not going." Idun said.

"Why, it'll be nice to go on a picnic with only me. Not that I don't want Elsa to come but she's busy and-"If I said we're not going, we're not going!" Idun interrupted.

"Why can't you all spend time with me?!"

"I'm not saying we can't do anything together, we can do whatever you want but just not a picnic!"

"I wanted us to have a picnic, why can't we?!"

Idun slammed her hand on the table, "Because I don't want to lose you the same way we lost Crystal!" When Idun realized what she said, she ran out of the dining room.

"Who's Crystal?" Elsa turned to Agdar.

"Just a friend." He said before he ran out after Idun.

"That's wasn't supposed to happen. You were supposed to lure them out of the room so I could've asked Gerda about her." Elsa said.

"I know. Let's see if Mama's alright." Elsa nodded and followed Anna out of the dining room. They stopped in front of their parents' room. They took a peek inside and saw Agdar over by the window with Snowflake, what caught their attention was that the wardrobe was revealing the door to the secret gallery. They crept inside ad tip toed over to the door, luckily the door was open so they just walked inside. Once they were inside, they saw Idun sitting on one of the couches with Sunshine sitting next to her. Idun was staring at the picture of herself with Crystal and Agdar when Elsa and Anna came walking in.

"Hi Mama." Elsa and Anna said at the same time.

"Hi." Idun replied, not taking her eyes off the picture.

"Who's Crystal?" Elsa knew who she was but still asked.

"Crystal, she was your-"Sister. We know." Anna said.

"How do you know that?" Idun asked.

"We found this yesterday."

"Oh."

"What happened to her and what did you mean by lost Crystal?" Anna asked.

"Crystal was only three when she we couldn't find her. That same hill you wanted to go on for a picnic was the same hill we lost her on. She chose to have a picnic and we agreed it was nice to have one. While we were there five men attacked us, one of them said that if your father didn't put the sword down two of them would've kill me and Crystal." Idun paused before she continued, "He put the sword down and backed away as far as possible from the sword but then that same person said that there has been a change of plans and one I think name was David threw her somewhere in the dark parts of the forest. They threw me over by a tree, in the process I sprained my ankle and began fighting with your father."

"What happened after, did Crystal die?" Anna asked.

"We didn't know, we came back to the castle and sent out search parties to look for her but everytime they came back, she was never with them. Everytime we used to send them out, I always hoped that she would come back but when Elsa turned sixteen, we stopped."

"Why?"

"I gave up, I realized that she wasn't coming back until now."

"If she's alive, where is she?"

"In Icelandia, Crystal's the Queen of Icelandia. I couldn't be more proud of her." Idun smiled.

"What do you mean?" Elsa asked.

"She liked Icelandia even though she was just three, she wished when she grew up, she wanted to rule Arendelle or Icelandia no matter what happened."

"So when will we get to meet her?"

"Aren't we going to the ball?" Elsa nodded. "Well she's going to be there."

"I can't wait to meet her!" Anna shouted. "When will we be leaving?"

"The day after tomorrow because it'll take three and a half days to reach Icelandia." Idun said.

"Where is Icelandia anyways?"

"Really Anna, Icelandia is in Iceland, where do you think the name comes from?" Elsa said.

"I was just kidding Elsa."

"Yeah right, uh…Mama?" Elsa said.

"Yes Elsa." Idun replied.

"What was Crystal like?"

"Crystal had a personality like Anna and you mixed together. At times she's would be calm and then she just wants to play."

"Really, I wonder how she'll react when she hears that were her sisters." Elsa said.

"Remember how you'd named Anna?" Idun asked.

"I remember, if I got a brother I would've named him Andy and a sister, Anna."

"Well she named you."

"I don't believe it."

"True, Crystal said if she ever got a brother, his name would've been Elliot and a sister, Elsa." Idun said.

"So, do you still want to do something together?" Anna spoke up.

"Sure, what do you have in mind?" Idun said.

"Can we see Crystal's old room?"

"Sure, since you know about her. Let's go." They exited the gallery and the room, turning right, they stopped in front of a white door with blue crystal designs on it. "She loved crystals even though her name is Crystal."

Elsa opened the door and they entered the room, the walls of the room had a white with green and purple crystals wallpaper on it. The room had a fireplace on one end and the bed on the other. Over by the window was Crystal's toy chest, next to the bed was the nightstand and against the wall was her wardrobe.

"Why was there a fireplace in a Crystal's room? Wasn't Crystal three years at the time?" Elsa asked.

"Yeah but we never used it unless it was Christmas but mostly during Christmas, she wanted us to stay with her during the night." Idun said.

"What's that?" A box on the nightstand caught Elsa's attention. Elsa picked the box up and opened it.

"That necklace was Crystal's gift for her birthday but she never came back remember?"

"Yes, it's so pretty." The necklace had a sliver chain and a blue heart shaped pendant attached to it. "Are you going to carry with you to the ball to give her?"

"Now that you mentioned that, I should carry it for her."

"I bet she'll love it even if she's seeing you after all those years." Anna said.

"I know she will." Idun said.

"Hey, let's go play with Sunshine, Ruby and Snowflake?" Anna asked.

"Sounds great but first I have to put this with the other stuff I'm carrying with me on the trip."

"Sure let's go." They went back to their parents' room for Idun to put the gift with all her other stuff, once she was finished, they went down to the throne room finding Agdar playing with Ruby, Sunshine and Snowflake. They enjoyed the rest of the morning playing with them until Elsa had to leave because after lunch, Elsa had duties to do.

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