Tidings of Evil

Chapter Three: A Vampire with Ice Powers

The cameraman hid behind a potted plant in the throne room of the castle of Arendelle. He hoped Elsa would not see him as he angled his contraption, for evidence to L, the prime detective from the world he came from, and whom had hired him as a spy on this world which held so much mystery.

Just then the doors burst open and Elsa entered. She sauntered over to a stand and placed a notebook on it, though it was hidden from the cameraman, and even if he had spotted the notebook, he would have missed what it said on the front cover:

Blizzard Note.

The cameraman did not see this notebook. Elsa's back was to him when she set it on the stand. She looked at it with worry etched on her face. Then she gazed at the statue of a man, carved in ice, which stood near the door. The cameraman had the oddest feeling that the eyes of the ice sculpture were on him as he filmed this, concealed as he thought himself to be.

Elsa's eyes also glowed bluer than the cameraman would have thought humanly possible were he to think much about he was not immune to Elsa's good looks. A co-worked in the time-travel/other universe field had joked earlier that a girl was the only one who could resist Elsa, so she should be sent to the scene instead of the cameraman. Their boss knew, however, that Jasmine Fairwinkle had sneaked a few of the photos they had managed to capture of Elsa out of the office. It was no secret that Jasmine was a lesbian, and the cameraman did not want to know what she did with those pictures.

He also could not know what was going on in Elsa's mind: The Blizzard Note must not be found.

A knock on the door caused Elsa's heart to race. Will I still have a heart if Eugene agrees to this? she thought. "Who is it?" she said aloud.

"Flynn, my queen. You sent for me, I believe."

Elsa came forward and thrust open the door. If Eugene had not been her cousin's husband, she wouldn't have abided him just barging in here without a formal introduction. Even though she was willing to have the gates open at all times as she promised Anna, she knew that people out there could take advantage of situations like this. But if Rapunzel had married him, he couldn't be all bad.

"I heard that Rapunzel has returned to being a blond," Elsa said as a prelude to what she needed to ask.

"That is correct," Eugene said, nodding his head. "As a vampire now she cannot have dark hair. Which is a bit upsetting since I've never been attracted to blondes."

"Good thing I'm not easily offended," Elsa said, fanning herself. She began pacing back and forth across the room. After five strides like this, she turned to face Eugene. "Do you know why I called you here?"

"Not to ask about Rapunzel's hair, I'm sure."

"Actually, yes...well, er, something related to that."

"What?" Eugene asked, clasping a pendant he wore around his neck.

"You offered Anna a chance to become a vampire."

"I did," said her cousin's husband. "It was to fight off the Huns army, though. A vampire could've killed them with ease. When Anna declined the offer, Rapunzel took up the mantle. I think Anna was afraid of hurting you, so she chose to abstain from vampirism."

"Anna is a wonderful sister," Elsa said, nodding, thinking that Eugene could hardly know how wonderful. "Which is why I have chosen to do it."

"To do what?"

"Become a vampire."

Eugene's eyes popped out. "But no...you can't..."

"And why not?" Elsa snapped.

"Because you're a queen...you've got a kingdom to run.."

"Being a vampire won't prevent me from doing that."

"Not in of itself," Eugene said. "But what will you do about blood drinking? Rapunzel has had to feed off me, and as her husband I am willing. But who do you have for that?"

"She has me," said Anna, bursting through the door.

"Anna! You said you weren't going to listen in to this meeting!" Elsa said, worry on her face.

"It concerns you making a life-altering decision, Elsa," Anna said. "And I want you to know that I will support you."

"I know you'd like to," Elsa said. "But what if I need more blood than you can offer? I could be a threat to you then..."

"You won't be a threat to her," Eugene said encouragingly. "I'm enough to feed Rapunzel. I get a bit woozy for about an hour afterward but she doesn't need anyone other than me to keep vibrant and healthy."

"See?" Anna said, placing her hand on the stand where the Blizzard Note lay. Elsa felt a couple of beads of sweat pour down her forehead. If Anna looked in that notebook, Elsa would seem a menace to her, and all the love she showed Elsa would evaporate and be as if it had never been there. "I can totally satisfy."

Elsa had noticed that ever since Anna returned from her two month trip away from Arendelle, she had started using strange, new phrases. Elsa thought it was cute but she couldn't gather where Anna had come by those slogans, nor why she adopted them as her own.

"The important matter, I think," Eugene said, "is for you to remember that this is permanent. Once you become a vampire, you'll always be a vampire. You can't undo this choice."

"I know," Elsa said. "And that is why I must say yes to this."

"It will solve nothing," Eugene said.

"That's not what you said when you offered vampirism to me," Anna put in."

"Yes, but back then the Huns were a threat to both Corona and Arendelle. The only danger we're really facing now is the weir from Dun'Broch, but we can handle that."

Lawliet paused in his viewing of this video. The weir from Dun'Broch? Were they saying that a Shinigami was threatening that kingdom? Or was "weir" in their universe a different thing altogether?

L had reason to believe in Shinigami,. He had no idea why.

So that there might be a Shinigami there...but hold it, people couldn't see Shinigami, could they Or interact with them. So how could a Shinigami be a threat to human beings?

He hit unpause. Perhaps the clue would be solved with further viewing.

Just then a noise emerged from a contraption on Eugene's belt. "Hello?" he said into the device. A voice crackled back with the intonation of a beaten ox: Eugene, I hate to be the one to inform you of this..."

Eugene put his hand over the mouthpiece and whispered to Elsa and Anna, "Walkie talkie." Then he spoke into the device again. "Rapunzel won, didn 't she?"

"No," said the voice on the other end, through a crackling noise. "She lost and is bleeding profusely. I thought you should know."

"Gosh darn it!" Eugene exclaimed. He smashed the walkie talkie on the floor. "Rapunzel bleeding! I've got to go help her."

"Wait a minute," Elsa said, as Eugene got ready to bustle out the door. "You still have to make me a vampire."

"There's no time," EEugene said. "But I'll let you know how it goes."

He cartwheeled out the door and was gone when the two sisters poked their heads out of the room.

"Rapunzel in trouble," Anna said, hand over her mouth. "What are we going to do?"

"Our cousin's a tough old bird," Elsa said. "She'll survive."

She had just turned back to head into the throne room again when Anna stopped her.

"Elsa, look!"

Elsa followed to where Anna's hand was pointing. The vampire pendant Eugene had brought there lay on the ground, abandoned.

"Did he leave this here so I'd make the transformation on my own?" Elsa asked aloud.

"That would be my guess," said Anna.

"Well, there's only one way to find out. And with that Elsa picked up the pendant and stuck it in on either side of her neck."

Blood fell from each puncture. Anna was very much concerned. "Elsa! You don't even know if you did it properly. You might have infected your skin."

But when her sister looked up into her face, Anna had no doubts that Elsa had become a vampire. Her eyes glowed icy-blue. Not their natural level of intensity but more something of a different turn. It felt as though Anna were gazing into the depths of the ocean, which was patiently waiting to drown her.

"Hunger..." Elsa said, as she fell, weak, into Anna's arms. This did not sound like Elsa, first of all. And secondly Elsa wouldn't have wanted to show weakness, not even in front of Anna, before this. Had the pendant puncture altered her personality? Or was she just faint from losing even as little blood that had trickled down her neck?

Then Elsa suddenly gripped Anna so tightly that the latter felt as if her arm would be ripped off. Fangs elongated from Elsa's mouth and she felt them pierce her neck like needles, and her blood soared upward to be absorbed into the digestive system of the being breathing into Anna's neck, her sister, the vampire.

Elsa's feeding lasted ten minutes straight, and Anna was just about knocked out when Elsa's fangs finally retracted and she stopped clutching her sister so tightly...

Then the cameraman vanished. The video ended, and L recalled discussing this with the third party who had brought over the recording. The other man had said, "Ransen freaked out after the vampire scene, so don't blame us if the end is noninformative. We were only sent to deliver the video that Ransen produced, but there is no guarantee, since no one has viewed it yet, that it will be as useful to you as you think it will."

Light Yagami might be Kira, Lawliet thought. But he won't stand a chance against Elsa in her vampire form.