Hi hope you all enjoy this story and I have decided to take a break after this chapter and finish writing the story in my journal then type it up for you to read within seconds. So with any further ado, the disclaimer.
DISCLAIMER: Must I say this yet again and may this remain for every other chapter, I DON'T (THAT MEANS DO NOT) own anything but the storyline and the ORIGINAL CHARACTERS!
With that out of the way, enjoy.
This is Virgil Crymyst's POV.
Chapter 4: Three weeks till a Ball!? (Part 1)
I never knew what a dream was until now, every time I would fall asleep, which normally would be in the woods, ice, or even a boat; I would have nightmares or visions of horrifying things. But this was completely different, in this… dream I have a family, I would run with my children and play with them till the sun went down. But when I looked to see my wife all I saw was a bright light. I couldn't see her, well that isn't completely true, I could see her dress; blue and white and even little dazzles from the occasional shine of the diamond like design of the dress. As amazing as the dream was and how good the feeling was to have a dream, it didn't last long.
I groaned getting up from the bed-like couch I was only, maybe they had put me here so I would be comfortable when I slept; I don't see why they didn't want to take me to a room but no matter. I tried to open my eyes to get adjusted to the shining bright sunlight. From the few seconds I had to look I only saw orange glow of the warm sun. When I couldn't stand to look at the light or anything else; I turned to the side letting the side of the couch that was meant for your back to lean on, block the sunlight that seemed to aim to hit my poor red eyes. I stared up trying to get used to the light, minute by minute which seems to work as I could make out the beautiful creative outline on the roof.
I rolled slightly which ended in me falling off the couch making my breath get shot out like an arrow being shot from a crossbow. As quick as I fell and lost my breath was as quick as I got it back, getting up holding my head and started to feel the pain of the rock blow that had hit me earlier today. My only natural response was "Urgh that actually hurts."
I went to the window as it had blinds and curtains to pull to block out the intense light. Guess I been spending way too much time in the dark. As soon as I got to the window, I made the blinds shut and the curtains cover making everything much more bearable and better to see. That's when I noticed a huge portrait. I had glanced at it but a certain near white head and strawberry colored hair made my attention turn to it. There was a portrait of Elsa and Anna, I smiled at how they looked and it had said in a small golden plaque that this was recently made, about five months ago.
"Huh they look like teens rather than Adults." I thought to myself, then I decided to stop looking at the fine art of the princess and Queen and moved on to looking at the other paintings, one was of John of Arc. Then it hit me like a snowball… I haven't seen a single portrait of the King and Queen of Arendelle. I looked around the room several times but still saw nothing of the King and Queen.
I sighed feeling slightly disappointed at how I couldn't see the parents of the woman I'm falling for… whoa did I just say that in my mind? I am stupid, she will never fall for someone like me… I went back to the subject of looking for her parents. Then I realized that it must be in another room, once I thought about it for a moment, my legs moved to the door and I opened it, exiting into the hall. It seemed to have no sign of human life whatsoever. I closed the door softly, not wanting to make a sound to disturb the surreal feeling of being alone in only silence, it was a feeling unlike any other. The halls were quieter than I expect still since there has to be someone around walking at least. Maybe the maids and servants lived in the town instead of living in the castle.
While walking through the halls, portraits of Anna became more of a common sight as five minutes ago they weren't, but with each painting I saw of her, I had noticed Elsa wasn't really in any of them. Or in a portrait of her own besides the one in the gallery I had slept in earlier. She must be somewhere… she was the queen after all.
"Strange, I thought there would be some of Elsa." I said aloud to no one in particular. My eyes went across the corridor, occasionally closing when the sunlight came and hit my eyes. Then finally I hit the picture that made my heart skip a beat, my lungs closed and seemed to be chocked by something so incredible… Elsa during her coronation, she was holding a golden ball with a stick of some sort that was also golden, and there was Elsa in her coronation dress looking on to a crowd of people. It must have been a very quick shot with one of those cameras and painting on this big canvas because it did seem to be somewhat hard to see some details but it didn't matter. Elsa was just gorgeous with her hair and the crown on her head, speaking of a crown I haven't see her with one despite her being a queen. As I stared I noticed that she seemed to be nervous, although that wasn't a problem since her beauty masked that, and her dress was just perfect on her.
"Hey Virgil." I heard and turned to see Kristoff standing there with some messed up hair. First thought to cross my mind was that he and Anna had some fun during the day… and not the innocent type, then I pushed that thought away seeing how wrong that thought was. I guess my older brothers' perverted talk had slightly rubbed off on me.
"Oh, what's up?" I asked and picked my head up and down once, back where I came from that was the newest way to say hello if you didn't want to speak; and I must admit it did catch on rather quickly because when I did it Kristoff seemed to know what to do and repeated my gesture. Was it just wired into the brains of men or something… possibly?
"Hey didn't you want to know where the shower was before you fell to sleep? You have a huge noticeable red stain in your hair." I checked my hair by walking to a picture frame and saw the blood stain on my white hair.
I was shocked that I had forgot about it for a moment that my head was bleeding earlier, thankfully it had subsided but unfortunately the blood that had accumulated turned into a massive red spot in my white hair. "Oh, crud I forgot… yeah can you take me to the showers?" I asked as I rubbed my hand through the slight gravity defying hair I had. It was sticking up but that was never much of a bother.
Coming from my trip into my past yet again; Kristoff had waved his hand in front of my face and kept repeating "Come on, I'll show you where it is."
Finally I responded much to his annoyance since he apparently been waiting for some time. When we started walking I found myself turning my head to the portrait of Elsa for a little longer before I walked on.
For ten minutes we walked in silence, I didn't know if he trusted me so I took a chance and asked him simple questions about the trolls to my surprise was his "Family" which was bizarre. Then I asked something really started up a conversation.
"How did you meet Anna?" That made him blush and smile at the thought of his fiancée.
"I really didn't expect to meet her, I was working when a freak blizzard came in." He said and before I knew it we had sat on a bench in front of a door at a dead end hallway, and talked about what happened last year.
"Wait so let me get this straight, Elsa got mad at Anna for taking off her glove and asking her permission to get married and when Elsa said no to Anna she got upset? Why did she get mad over a glove?" I asked looking for a sign that I got that part right.
"Actually Anna was asked to marry Hans, a guy who wanted to rule the kingdom and when she asked her sister to bless their wedding, Elsa had said no, and when Anna tried to get her Elsa so she can talk to her, she grabbed at her hand but pulled off the gloves Elsa used to not show her powers, the gloves had helped concealing the gift. But when Anna took it off, she had tried to get out but Anna had started to make a scene and Elsa tried to tell her to stop but then accidently revealed her powers. She then fled in fear of being persecuted by her town, going to the North Mountain and made the most beautiful ice palace I have or will ever see. Then I went to go get supplies at a little shop, where Anna was at. And then after that I guess that's where I started to like her, that first sight but I didn't want to show it. I had gotten thrown out of the shop, and she ended up buying me my supplies." He finished with a small gasp for air.
"Oh… that makes sense." I said, then stood and walked to the door that was next to us and opened it.
"Thanks and see you around later." I said getting into the shower room not sparring a moment for Kirstoff to reply. Once in the shower room and making sure the door was locked so no one can get in, I had took off my shirt and looked into the big human sized mirror. There I saw three huge scars and several others. Memories of sword slicing through the air cutting me had surfaced reminding me how I got the scars. When I was done remembering the past, I stepped away from the mirror to see something for bigger than what a shower was meant to look like. It had three bath tubs all three having two steps with golden décor all over it, even the towels looked extremely fancy.
"At least there isn't anyone in here." I thought as I was looking for something other than a bath tub. "If I wanted to have a tub bath I would have said so, but… oh there it is. A proper shower. But seriously this is a twenty by thirty bath house dang!" Thought to myself as I took off the rest of my clothing and made my way to a blurry glass mirror meant for people not to peek at your body. I went in and turned the knob to hot, as I never really get to feel heat on my skin. "Ohhhh." I moaned and blushed as the hot water pelted my skin, sending shivers down my spine with every little drop. But it was the type of shiver that you just wanted, you craved to have and feel.
Three minutes had passed by in the shower as I washed my hair with the cleaning supplies the Royal sisters had. I sighed letting the shower run for a few more minutes in order to prepare for what was going to happen after I turn off the hot water. "Better now than later." I thought as I held the knob and quickly turned the hot water to cold quickly and then to off.
The thing about having ice powers and the cold run through your soul is a good thing, never getting sick and never getting to hot or too cold but just perfect. It is great unless you come in contact with water. It seems water is the one thing that effects anyone with powers. Back when I was living with Katniss, she used to shower and squeal loudly since she said she loved how cold water felt. So every time someone showers and they have powers that reflects ice or fire, it seems that when they get hit with the opposite temperature of water, they will feel the effects of going back to what your body heat is always been at.
As for me, once that knob was turned off I had felt my body freeze, I felt what my body's temperature is truly at. For twenty long and seemingly endless seconds as my body was going to back to the low body temperature, it was so cold it made me start to regret taking a warm shower, falling to my knees in the small little area, I gasped for my breath. Finally my body adapted to the cold and I stopped shivering and got up to my feet. I stepped out of the little shower by opening and closed the blurred glass door and made the remaining water get off my body. Since I control some of the water properties, I made the water fly off my body by freezing them to little droplets and made them levitate around in circles and fly into the tub. They will unfreeze later… I think.
When I walked back to the human sized mirror; I started to look for the towels not that I needed it but I like to make sure I get all the water off me especially in my hair that was now clean of blood. Then I started to look for my extra clothing then it hit me… I had forgot to get extra clothes. When I travelled around for so long, the way I would change clothes is buy and self my old ones after I wash them or steal them. I would normally have to steal a lot of under garments. Once I got the towel on I thought to myself about how I should clean my clothes. I got my hoodie, shirt, pants, and socks and filled up the tub with warm water. I poured some of the soaps into the tub, and dropped a few making me have to reach in with my arms getting them wet again.
"Great, now I need to wash, and dry my clothes." I said to no one. I grabbed my clothes and threw them in the tub. I started to wash them and pull them out after a few minutes of cleaning and twisting the clothes to get the water out. That's when I let my thoughts wonder about various things, I then started to think about Elsa when I just found myself saying something my sister said to me. "Remember this when you meet someone that still your heart little bro."
"Hold me close
Hold me tight
Hold me and let me know I'm alright
Hold my love
With me in your arms and swinging me
Around to look at your face from above."
My feelings for her were like that of when I was near Katniss but the thing was I couldn't have fallen in love with Elsa, could I? Thoughts of when I first met her entered my mind and my heart beat quicken. Before I knew it I was done twisting my clothes around and folded them to get and getting up.
"What the heck, why am I feeling all fuzzy? URGH I can't fall for someone I just met can I? I guess I should talk to her… but about what?" I groaned and took my pants, shirt, and socks when the thought came across my head, how am I going to get new clothes? Then it came to me, I need to find new clothes with towels wrapped around my body and run through the castle until I reach a wardrobe or something to change my clothes.
I wrapped three towels around my form and gathered my closed and wrapped them together. Once I was mentally prepared for any embarrassment of running through halls naked, I dashed out the door while holding my still slightly wet clothes. I don't like to use water magic to much only when I need to, it's tough to explain but control water doesn't come easy, with at least three year worth of training with it, you maybe could lift water off the earth for at least three feet high.
But when using water magic since its only part or a slight extension of ice magic but still is just nearly impossible to control it all the way. No matter I sprinted down the hall knocking down and saving the head sculptures that were place in the halls. They weren't too heavy but only one of them, which was pure gold. It felt like a hundred pound, the others felt more like fifteen since it was made of wood. Kind of cheap but who am I to judge.
When I turned the corner my face came in contact with a wooden door. I hit the door at my top speed so hard that I thought when I looked at the wood that my face would show on the wooden frame. The noise had attracted some attention of the maids that I had to say. I hit me head accidently. When I stared up to see the one who hit me with a door, I saw that it was Kristoff.
"Oh, Virgil I was just about to go see if you were done so I can talk to you." He said looking down.
"No need, but I have to say those aren't showers. That is a twenty by thirty bath house!" I said making him laugh. He held out his hand and I took it and gathered my clothes. My hair fell back to normal which had some of it standing up.
"Yeah that was my reaction when I first saw that place." He said backing up to give me some space as I got up making sure that I had all three towels on.
I groaned at my headache caused by my reckless speed I was running with. "Gah, do you always swing the door open that fast?" I asked only getting a shrug from his shoulders.
"Well that's sure nice and answering." I thought when he motioned for me to enter the room.
"Come with me, I have some clothes because you forgot your clothes, and you didn't come with any when you arrived." Kristoff said. He was right, I forgot them and needed clothes.
He walked back into his room or what I believed to be his room. When I stood up the pain of the concussion from the door had made my legs shake as I got up to my feet. It took a while but when I finally got to move my feet into the room, inside the room had bed with two wardrobes that were on separate ends of the room. One huge window with rays of light coming into the room.
"Hey man, I have some stuff for you since you don't have your clothing I figured you need this." Kirstoff said as he pulled a few clothes out for me. He let me have them and he said "Come on there is a changing room you can use." As he escorted me down the hall we came into a room where maids had prepared. They were young, pretty but not as beautiful as Elsa, but still they were pretty. The youngest was about fourteen and she was blushing madly at a towel cover teenage looking naked man walking around the castle, making me blush.
As I passed through and walked into a part of the room that was covered with curtains, when I went into the darker part of the room I had put on the new fresh undergarments… back where I came from kids would call them underwear or even underpants since that was a better word to call them rather than undergarments. Which I don't blame them I would much rather call them underwear or boxers even. As I put on the boxers I put on the pants that had more of a jean like feel. When I got a better view of the pants I was wearing, I saw that I was wearing black jeans with pockets in the front sides but none in the back. Next was the shirt, a fine cotton made shirt, a simple white shirt that cover my body and finally I put on my hoodie.
"So what brought you here?" Kristoff asked, "To the kingdom?"
I thought about it and remembered that a man; whom was a merchant… but now I am not too sure seeing that Anna and Elsa bear a strong resemblance to him… the merchant. "I met a merchant a while back, three years ago, he was on a floating piece of wood when I was out sailing." I had finished getting fully and comfortable in my new clothing. I then put on some socks and found a nice pair of black shoes mostly fit for a courier, which they had a new style and type of shoe called snickers; a very strange name. As I walked out of the darken part, some maids went in the part I just came out of and came back out holding my stuff. The youngest girl who had blushed madly came to me and said that they will wash and clean out my clothes and put it up in the guest room. When I looked at her with a question look she grew even redder, she said it was next to the queen's room and that made me blush.
As they left I continued. "The man was floating so I had jumped from my boat into the ocean and swam to where the body was. And when I had got to it I pulled him back, I made the water form into a huge large stable ice circle. It had been a stormy night, the waves were huge, about fifty feet in the air or more, so when one came I had stood on the circle of ice and froze at least one hundred feet of the water around. When I did that I heard a woman scream to my left, bringing the man with me I had run to the part where I hadn't froze and saw that there was a woman floating and shaking with fear, and most likely was cold due to the water growing into more walkable ice.
That's when I got scared, I didn't wasn't her to freeze or drawn so I ran and dove in and pulled her out by throwing her onto the ice. When I did that I got up by using my powers and carried both of them to my boat. When I thawed the ice, I sailed to east where my boat had gotten destroyed by a wave, since it wasn't a big boat more like a little twenty foot boat. So when it was shattered I made a huge ice bridge and carried both of them to shore. It took about two hours of walking." I had saw that there was a cup of water and drank it. Kristoff stopped me from continuing and asked if we could go to the great hall to eat. Since I was starting to get hungry and it was most likely lunch or dinner I had agreed.
"Later the man had woken up when we had arrived on the shore, after I had made a fire to warm the two up. He flipped out and was screaming out, he demanded where he was and it became apparent after some time he had amnesia. It had taken me about five minutes to calm him down and once I did the woman had woken up which was a pain since I had to calm her down too. She kicked me thinking I was trying to do something horrible to her. Let me tell you, trying to calm someone down when they have amnesia sucks, but when a woman freaks out and has a thought and sticks to it, especially when that thought is about someone trying to do something to them. But thankfully I calmed her down after she place a few strong kicks to my chest, knocking the air out of me.
Finally she stopped kicking and screaming and noticed the shaking man behind her. She quickly got up and hugged him screaming out 'my husband' repeatedly. She had explained that they were going to a wedding but that was all she could remember. Her memory was damaged and I figured it would be a while before she got her memories back and especially the husband. I had brought them to Corana and from there I left them, I wasn't really welcomes around there that much anymore after an incident with a friend and I. The man had been getting well after a year and I had showed them my ice power and he said something about the princess of Arendelle having the same thing before he had a bad headache and said he couldn't remember anymore. That had sparked my interest into coming here, but I didn't get around to actually coming since I lived for two years longer with my friend Katniss; but once I left I had headed here since the thought of someone like me with powers, well ice powers had interested me. It only took a couple months to get here but my boat was destroyed by some rocks.
And now I guess you know some about my life story, jeez it's like I been telling everyone that and being reminded constantly of it." I chuckled as did Kristoff.
He seemed to want to ask a question and finally he asked. "You have an interesting history, you been around plenty of place, but why did you try to leave when you were asked to stay?" He sounded like he was accusing me for a crime I didn't do.
"I'm not sure myself but I just felt concerned about the kingdom's safety. "I just was worried about everyone's safety with fact that he is out there." I spat the word he not wanting to say the name of the man who poisoned Elsa. "That's my truth. Now can I ask you a question about Elsa?"
He looked at me with a suspicious look that can only be describe as an "I know what you're going to ask." He nodded in approval and mouthed "Go ahead."
"Well…" I began "Is there a King involved with her? Or does someone have her heart? Or something." I asked.
"You do like her!" He said loudly making the maids look at us as we walked out of the halls to go to the great hall.
"SHH! I don't want to let the world know!" I said making him roll his eyes as if it was obvious I liked her.
"Ok, listen man, Elsa doesn't like anyone at least that's what I know. She doesn't have a boyfriend, and I don't know if she even likes anyone at all." That crushed my hope of her liking me, but then again I did feel a connection with her. "Although around you, she seems to be like Anna and is more trusting and different… maybe she does like someone. But that's just a thought" He said as we went into the great hall and ate some eggs. I honestly think he is just trying to mess with me, but I don't know. Once we were done eating I had suggest we go to the library since I felt like reading.
"By the way, in three weeks we are going to a ball and Elsa requested you came with. As an escort." That was a hope shot done, now I am sure he is messing with me.
Great a Ball, I wasn't too fond of parties but at least I can go with Elsa, I hope she is happy there at the least; seeing her smile is wonder, a smile I only saw when she was with her sister yesterday. But even with that short period of time had to see her smile, it was a truly magical moment.
