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Hope you all like Chapter 4!
Elsa Two had been running for a while. She had no idea where she was going, but she kept going. Eventually, she found herself at the castle.
Should I go in? She wondered. Maybe I could find something to help me, like my gloves.
Before she could have another thought, Elsa walked up to the gates. They were still open.
"Hello? Is anyone here? Anna?" She called.
There was no response.
Elsa walked up the stairs and approached a large door, painted with blue adornments. With shaky hands, she pushed open the door to a frozen room.
"It's exactly the same…" She muttered, looking around. Her gaze fell on her desk, which was covered in papers.
She walked over to the desk and picked through the papers. She found one with a drawing of a blue snowman and two stick figures smiling at it. Written at the top in all capital letters was: "DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A SNOWMAN?" Elsa chuckled at the backwards "S". But then, she read the bottom. "WHY DON'T YOU LIKE ME ANYMORE?"
She closed her eyes, remembering when she first got that letter.
"Elsa!" Her parents swung the door open to find Elsa sitting in the middle of the room, her cheeks stained with tears, holding a piece of paper.
"What?" She sniffed and hid the paper behind her back.
"You're freezing the walls outside of the room." Her father said. "Why? Are you okay?"
Elsa was about to tell him about the note Anna gave her when she remembered something: Conceal, Don't Feel.
"I don't know." Elsa lied. "I'll do better."
"You can control it, Elsa, remember?" Her father reassured. "Conceal,"
"Don't feel," Elsa added.
"We love you." Her mother gave her a soft yet worried smile as she closed the door.
Elsa re-read the note. Biting her lip, she sang softly, "Don't let them in, don't let them see, be the good girl you always have to be. Conceal, don't feel,"
Elsa crumpled it up and stuffed it into her desk drawer with the rest of Anna's lonely notes. "Don't let it show,"
She sighed. "Make one wrong move and Anna will know."
Elsa shook her head as she picked up the next piece of paper. She recognized her handwriting, but she never wrote it. There were things messily written in all directions on the paper. It was hard to read, but she could figure out a few things.
"What's a sword sacrifice?!"
"My heart is NOT frozen!"
"Prophecy on page 394 of Papa's purple book in the library."
Elsa picked up the other papers to see that most of them were just the same;messy, all over the place thoughts about a prophecy, a sword sacrifice and a frozen heart. She read through each one of them until she came across one dated the day before her coronation. On this one, there were no crossed out words, and it was a lot easier to understand. Elsa read it out loud.
"To whoever finds this,
All my life, I've been locked in a room, being forced to conceal my powers from the world. All my life, I've been surrounded by servants that know of my powers, and when they think I'm not around, I hear them whispering about how I'm the prophecy. All my life, I've tried to control my monstrous powers to no avail. All my life, I've been told by everyone that I'm the prophecy. My parents, the servants, the trolls. All my life, I never accepted it until today. Today,I've decided to stop denying it and show them all the monster they say I am. By the time you're reading this, I've probably cursed the land with unending winter. So, go tell them all I'm a monster. Why? Because I am a monster and there's nothing I can do to change that.
Signed,
Elsa the Snow Queen
P.S. Good luck figuring out what the heck a sword sacrifice is. I spent thirteen years trying to figure it out and look how far I've come."
Elsa gasped. No wonder she was so bitter and called me a monster. Is she right? Am I a monster? Elsa shook her head and decided she had to find the prophecy. She grabbed a bag off of Elsa One's bed post. It's technically not stealing, She thought as she stuffed the letter inside. Since we're sort of the same person, it's sort of mine.
Elsa walked down to the library, remembering that Elsa One had said the prophecy was on page 394 of a purple book. She was almost positive that she knew what book it was. She walked over to one of the shelves, and immediately went to the same book her father had found the map to the trolls in. Just seeing the book brought back bad memories, but she pushed them to the back of her mind as she flipped to the page.
Sure enough, written at the top was "Troll's Prophecy." Underneath it was written,
"Your future is bleak,
Your kingdom shall splinter.
Your land shall be cursed with unending winter.
With blasts of cold will come dark art,
And a ruler with a frozen heart.
Then, all shall perish in snow and ice,
Unless you are freed with a sword sacrifice."
Elsa felt dizzy. She fell back onto the couch, still holding the book. This could work in my universe, She realized. Could it exist in my universe?
Elsa re-read the prophecy over and over until there was a sudden bang at the window. She rushed over to see what it was. Through the window, she could see a blizzard forming on the North Mountain. "Elsa One…" She whispered.
Elsa ripped page 394 out of the book and slipped it into her/Elsa One's bag. She ran out of the room and stopped in front of a suit of armor holding a sword. Elsa pulled the sword from its metal hand. "I think I may need this."
