"Alright, that should be it" You said, just as you finished off packing the necessary food and weapons you will need (at five in the morning no doubt) since this was going to be a stealth mission you decided to pack your khopesh, knives, bow and hidden blades. Food wise Gerda was kind enough to have a few cupcakes, bananas and melted cheese sandwiches prepared for you and were given just before you left the castle yesterday. As soon as you were about to mount Sugi you turned your head to see the love of your life, who had come to see you off.

"Be careful out there Elliot" Elsa said as she pulled you into a hug. "Aren't I always?" you joked holding her in your arms, Elsa in reply you huffed through her nose in amusement, before you pulled back and planted a gentle kiss on her forehead "I'll always come back to you... my angel" You whispered lovingly, with Elsa replying by pressing your hand to her heart while saying "I will be looking toward the horizon of the mountains until you are back in my arms... my king" To which you snorted in amusement "King? ...if only it were possible"

"And it will happen Elliot, I believe that... one day everyone in Arendelle will see you for who you truly are, and you will be the kind of king everyone deserves. By the way, could you see if you can make it back in time for the winter festivals?"

"You sure you want to be there Elsa? This is the very first Christmas in the kingdom since more than a decade, I don't want to be ruining it by having everyone keeping uncertain eyes on me" you replied nervously

"I'm positive Elliot, it will be my first Christmas with Anna yes, but I'd love it if you were back in time for the announcement. And if it makes you more comfortable, Anna, myself and the others will stop by your place for Christmas eve" Elsa said, obviously knowing the secret fact that you have never had a real Christmas before, since your parents were so horrible. "Have I told you just how much I love you?" You asked, a beaming smile smacked onto your face, Elsa smiled back and passionately kissed you to answer your question with a yes

"You ought to get going, you still have a queen to serve" she said in a joking tone "As long as she remembers me for all eternity, anything" you replied, before gently nipping at her neck, with an accompanying sigh of pleasure from Elsa just as planned.

"Anna where are you? As much as I love being with you in the snow at this time of year I-" SMACK. Elsa's little speech was interrupted by a snowball throw to the face, which was then followed up a laughter from the crown princess of Arendelle, also known as her trouble making sister Anna.

"Oh Elsa I got you! I got you good!" Anna shouted from her snow made bunker. For a couple of moments Elsa just stood on the spot with a face covered in snow and wide shocked eyes, then her eyes narrowed and an evil playful grin edged its way on to her face, Uh oh. Anna thought, and then taking a few steps back with wide eyes and an agape mouth once she saw her sister make three giant snowballs appear above her head with a twist of her hands and fingers. Now Anna thought she had a choice, try to convince her sister to not unload a freezing hell of snow on her.

Or turn around, and run.

"Uh... hey Elsa... buddy... chum..." Anna started off, deciding to persuade Elsa rather then take the safer option of running her ass the hell out. "You wouldn't really do that to me, would you?" Elsa still kept her smug grin on her face, yet tilted her head to the side with a evil looking questioningly look, wanting to keep up this little game up as long as possible. "I mean... you and I both know what happens when we end up in the snow like this..."

"I'm listening" Elsa said in a dangerous yet playful tone, knowing she had her sister cornered.

"Well I... um... uh...-LOOK ITS ELLIOT!" Elsa quickly looked behind her, giving Anna the chance she needed to run, and run she did.

"DARN IT ANNA, GET BACK HERE!" Elsa yelled, quickly catching on her sisters little trick and started chasing her all around the gardens. The rest of the morning to early afternoon was filled with laughter, snowballs and play and by then the both of them were covered in snow and on the ground, panting.

"Your fault" Anna said, after the girls got their breath back. "Excuse me? You were the one who got me out here just to through a snowball at my face" Her sister replied back "No, excuse me actually, if you didn't chuck those giants at me after I hit you, none of this would've happened" Anna said with a smug playful grin on her face "Well what was I meant to do? just let you hit me and allow you to get away with it? I, the queen of Arendelle doesn't think so!"

"Your majesty" Kai suddenly called out, grabbing both of the girls attentions. "Yes Kai?" The queen called back, both girls getting off the ground in the process "The ambassadors from Corona have arrived" The head servant said with a smile on his face, it was then that a very excited look appeared on Anna's face "YES! THEIR HERE! THEIR HERE! THEIR H-" Her yelling was cut of by a hand to her mouth, one that belonged to a grinning Elsa who had a finger pressed to her lips, who then turned to address Kai "Thank you Kai, please tell them to make their way to the courtyard, we'll meet them there"

"At once your majesty"

"So then I was just like AHHHHHHHHH! And then suddenly as soon as I hit the snow I'm like 'Hey you were right, just like a pillow'" Anna said giggling, being accompanied by the girls cousin princess Rapunzel and her husband Eugene, who just chuckled at the little misfortune she and Kristoff had, and then the Arendelle princess couldn't help but laugh more when she saw the glare on her sisters face, shooting a look that says 'We've got a lot to talk about, mister!' toward her boyfriend, she truly did feel bad for him, but the look on his face when he notices Elsa giving him the death look, she couldn't help but laugh out loud

"So how long is it until the winter festival starts" Rapunzel asked her more refined cousin

"It begins in five days, this will be the very first Christmas in forever. I will say now that I really hope to make a good impression." Elsa said, who was about to get out of her seat when Eugene spoke up with"I will be honest myself here, after seeing the things you can, Punzie and I don't think you'll make a good impression, we know so. So cut yourself a bit of slack." Elsa shot the former thief a grateful smile for his support and walked toward the library's windows, and looked out towards the mountain, for she knew that somewhere, out there in the cold, was the one person she preferred the company of other than Anna.

Namely you.

"You okay Elsa?" A voice suddenly popped out, bringing the queen out of her thoughts, she turned to see Olaf looking at her with a look of concern on his face "Yes Olaf I'm fine... I'm just missing someone" Elsa confessed, but Olaf being the oblivious snowman he can be, didn't quite catch on on what his creator was getting at "Missing someone, who?" It was then the usually happy little snowman started listing down all the people he knew that mattered to her "You have Anna, you have Rapunzel, her husband Eugene, you have Kristoff and Sven, and you have me, who else is meant to be on that list?" Elsa couldn't help but chuckle at confused look on Olaf's face. This was going to be a long tale to tell

"Fancy little operation Hans has got here, huh Sugi. trying to find him in that mess is going to be like looking for a needle in a hay stack" You muttered to her, receiving a predatory hiss of agreement. At this moment at dusk you and Sugi were lying on your stomachs and looking down from atop a small hill nine hundred yards from the exit of the eastern pass, seeing at least fifty large tents, in a valley which comes with a cove leading out to sea, large and wide enough to house a sizeable fleet of ships, which worryingly was sitting in it right now. You found this 'small encampment' thanks to a friend in the form a swallow you named 'Sid', who was kind enough to look around the camp and tell you that the former prince was here meaning to meet up with a dealer of some kind from off shore.

The only problems, were that because all the tents were the same size, and up to more guards then you can count, all equipped with crossbows and swords, it was going to be damn near impossible to search even one of them without being spotted and being killed in milliseconds.

"Unless, he and his contract have decided to park their cowardly carcasses, on what I would have to name his personal flagship" you said, shifting both of your gazes to the centre of the bay, where there anchored a large ship that had not one but two bowsprits, four sets of three enormous sails, a huge ram at the front under the bowsprits made from iron or steel, and one can only imagine the number of cannons it must have since you could actually count six of them at the bow. And if that weren't enough this monster ship was currently surrounded by brigs, frigates and even a man o' war, along with a countless amount of gunboats and weaponized schooners, all of which wore a white flag sporting the head of a dragon in the centre. "But why would either of them need an entire forest worth of wood when they already have an armada that big?" You wondered out loud, just as you started hearing voices right below your hiding spot.

Your eyes snapped to a group of three men, two of which were large armed guards wearing red coats with one of them slightly bigger then the other two put together while also having a moustache, with his companion on the other hand only being a little shorter. The third one however was skinny and much shorter then the guards, sporting greying hair and moustache, a black suit of royal design and wearing glasses.

You and Sugi decided to follow these new figures, along the borders of the camp to remain out of sight, keeping to the shadows just outside of of the lightened zone, which proved to be rather tricky since most of the camp was lit with torches and lamps. That was until your target closing in on what could only be a command tent, which was more square in shape and larger, with the only light source being a pair of lamps hanging down from wooden stakes dug into the ground, and being guarded by a women with what could only be a manes worth of red hair just like Anna's bed hair, equipped with a bow and arrow quiver and sword, all the while wearing a grey long dress, a large owl on her left arm and a giant black horse tide to a post on her right

"The big boss will yer now sir" The woman said with an accent that would suggest that this woman was Scottish "Excellent, the sooner we get this started the better" the man replied crankily, and with that, the men, woman and the owl went inside. For a little moment you weren't sure what to do, peak through the tent door and risk getting noticed by the large bird, or sneak through an near unavoidable encampment to a row boat that you could use to row to the monster ship out on the water and see if there was anything on board that you could use to destroy it.

Your mind had been made up.

"Are you sure everything is in preparation for the attack on the kingdom prince Hans" The Duke of Weselton asked, a man who wanted wanted the 'Ice witch' dead the moment she cut off all trade with his land and Arendelle "I said once I'll say it again, everything is prepared for the invasion. all we need now is to wait until queen Elsa has settled down into the Christmas swell of things which will happen in four nights time" Hans replied, then the guard woman with them brought her voice in by saying

"That will be when A, the moon is full, B the tide is high and C when most if not all of the guards in the castle will be spending their time either getting drunk or have settled down with their families. Hahaha I love it! The element of surprise and the art of the ambush, two of my favorite things to learn about while growing up" The redhead said enthusiastically.

"I am glad you are satisfied about this plan" The former Prince said with an evil smirk on his face "Sir, not to sound doubtful, but I thought you made it clear to everyone including us that the fleet and accompanying army was only a distraction" The bigger of the dukes guards questioned.

"And you would be correct. It just appears that Hans just has a thing of keeping everyone on their toes, their minds calculating and blades sharp, while everyone is busy scrambling around to find either a safe haven or a weapon to fight for that witch, the castle will be vulnerable... and the sisters exposed... you two are to find and eliminate the princess, but you are to leave the queen unharmed... her downfall will belong to Hans and myself" The duke answered in a sinister tone "But wot about me, am I to wait in a frickin cabin in the fleet while you four get all the glory!?" The Scottish woman exclaimed "Not at all, according to what Hans says next might peak your interest" The duke said "He is correct... while the sisters of Arendelle will be without the royal guard, that doesn't mean they won't be protected by a very dangerous someone..else"

Woman "Go on"

Hans "Recently, a man from beyond the north mountain has become somewhat of an untrusted yet very deadly citizen in Arendelle... a man who has unnatural abilities like the queen, yet also a very unique companion as his protector."

From there Hans told the woman, the duke and his guards about the new nemesis he had in you, the abilities he knew you had, how his six rapists got mauled to death by Sugi and shot down by your bow and arrow, everything. As his tale finished his associates eyes were as wide as saucepans, and their mouths agape "This by far is going to be the most interesting challenge I will ever face, I'm quite looking forward to having a saber head mounted on my quarters wall"

"You'll get your chance dear, but in all seriousness, business before pleasure" As Hans said that he then lead the others around a table in the center of the tent, where there laid a map that showed two different routs from the cove to the ocean outskirts of Arendelle's bay "Now according to this map that an explorer owned and that I... 'Persuaded' to give me. We have two options, we either go straight out to the sea from the coves mouth, which will take four days to reach Arendelle, or we can go through this wide revenue through the mountains, which might be a bit more risky cos of rock slides. But will lead to a good ambush point further inland where we can launch a surprise attack"

And it wasn't even a second later that the woman opted to go for the surprise attack option, while the duke agreed with her after a careful moment of calculation and seeing the advantages this strategy would bring, when suddenly a flash of lightning from a nearby storm illuminated the back wall of the tent. One thing that didn't go unnoticed by the girl who was facing the said side was a human shadow that was shown by the flash, she informed the men with and all of their heads were turned to the tents mouth.

There they saw a wide eyed, startled man as if he was trying to sneak off, a man with short light brown hair, hazel brown eyes and wearing a light green hunting top with a white undershirt and a giant fur coat covering said tops, black skin made hunting shoes and trousers with shin guards on them, and sporting a sword, bow and arrow and metal gauntlets on his wrists. To the woman and duke this seemed like an unfamiliar intruder, but unfortunately for him-

"IT'S THE WIND DEMON!" Hans yelled, seeing as how you were busted, you quickly reached out with your hand and a strong gust of wind blew over the map on the table into the said hand, and then bolted "He knows what we're up to! SOUND THE ALARM!" The duke shouted to his guards, one ran off to the nearest bell, while the other mounted a horse and made chase.

Not that far away lying in the darkness of the night, a golden green eyed predator was slinking it's way along the edge of the forest, it's ears picked up the sounds of the bell ring out and than sprung into action, dashing out of its hiding place and on the prowl for its hunts mate, a moment later the creature saw you parrying away one too many swordsmen with your khopesh, it roared signaling its arrival and tore a man apart with her claws. "Lets go Sugi" you exclaimed, jumping onto her back as she began running back up the hill into the forest. It was then you thought to yourself however: Wait a moment, just because I have this map, it doesn't stop that giant of a ship and its fleet disappearing somewhere on the sea where no one can find it! You spoke your thoughts to Sugi a second later, who was about to respond when an arrow suddenly whizzed pass your head.

You turned your heard around to see the same redheaded woman from that tent meeting with Hans and the Duke, who was now riding a black giant of a shire horse nearly three times her size, making him bigger than Sugi and had a new arrow knocked on to her own bow and ready to fly. "I believe you have something that isn't yours lad!" She called, letting her arrow fly, poised to strike your feline friend, luckily for you both you were able to bring your khopesh back out, and deflected the arrow away "I would make a similar comment if you would not try to kill us for a second and let us go Scot free" You called back, with a roar from Sugi to go along, Hoping to discourage the horse... but shockingly to no avail. "Unfortunately, not a chance" She called again, letting another fly, which you once again deflected. This went on for a whole mile, arrow after arrow she fired, only to be parried off with you trusty new favorite of a melee weapon, until she decided enough was enough "Come on Angus!" She yelled, revealing the horses name and spurred him on to pick up the pace while summoning her sword, which took the form of a scottish claymore

So that's how you want to play huh bitch? Let's dance. You thought to yourself, slowing Sugi down, and since the woman would have the high ground on her mount you began to stand up on her back, while doing everything you could to keep balance. Then the blow exchanging began with her attempting a left swipe, poised to decapitate you, with you being quick enough to counter with and upward parry, it was then you attempted to preform a right slash at her abdomen, only to be met with the same fate. Up for another hour swords clashed, with you constantly fighting to keep balance, until she made a swipe at your legs, hoping to make you drop the map to ground with you tumbling after it. But instead of the result she hoped for you quickly preformed a back flip and landed on the snowy ground, the woman pulled her horse to a stop, jumped off and charged, sword drawn and her face in a scowl. As soon as she was in range you rolled the left, and allowed four knives to fly, yet staggeringly she manage to parry nearly all of them.

One ended up scaring one of her cheeks, two ended up stuck in a tree and the least ended up flying off into a nearby stream, when she then counted by by firing two arrows at once. You cried in pain when one arrow caught you in your right shoulder, and you dropped to your knees, leaving you defenseless as you couldn't bring enough focus into your powers because of said pain allowing the woman to close in, ready to finish you off.

"Looks like you won't be a problem, after all" She said sinisterly with blood thirsty look in her blue eyes, raising her sword with both hands above her head and pointing the blade downwards, prepared to stab you through your chest.

"Don't be so sure lady" You replied, seeing a certain someone you know, the woman barely had time turn around be she was thrown to the ground, and met with a very angry set of teeth glaring down at her. For that entire moment you saw terror in her eyes, unsurpring for you as anyone would be wanting some chance of survival, however, you didn't expect a scream of terror from her lips as Sugi opened her jaws and giving of a growl of a predator on the prowl, ready to give the killing bite, tears could also be seen in her eyes.

"Sugi, down!" You ordered, she turned her head around and gave you a look that said 'Are you crazy!? This two leg tried to kill you!'. "I mean it" You deadpanned, and it was the look on your face that eventually made her comply, although she kept her predatory eyes on the woman, who on instinct backed up into a rock as soon as her paw stopped pining her, taking shaky breaths to calm herself.

Since you now know that she won't be a problem you got back on your feet, went over to your feline companion, and grabbed a small bag from the harness, from it you grabbed a bandage and a little pot filled with a special remedy you were taught from the plains people who live in the far north. You opened the pot to reveal what to the untrained eye would be a disgusting looking green slime of mushed up grass, something to steer clear from. However although as revolting as it may seem, this substance is made from water, and a local herb filled with a special medicine that possesses the ability to enter any kind of injury, and expelling any bacteria that may infect the said wound which in this case would be the arrow attack from the girls bow.

"I will confess here, I am impressed" You spoke, breaking the awkward silence that had settled in, while removing the arrow from your shoulder, wincing in pain while doing so. "To be able to shoot two arrows at once in such little time and hitting a mobile target like that, you must've practiced for years." You spoke again, walking over to the stream and dampening the bandage in the water. You then applied the remedy to the said bandage just as the woman finally relaxed began to talk, though still being watched very closely by Sugi "I got ma first bow from me father when I turned five. First arrow went way over the target and into the woods" You chuckled a bit at that last sentence, just as you tied the bandage with the remedy over the wound. Now all you had to do now was not agitate it for 5 days until you can use it properly again. "There's a story of why your so far from home right?" You wondered out loud, "No' now, and probably no' ever, you still have that map I want back" She glared, causing a warning growl from Sugi, you however glared back saying "I'd apologies and return it, but instead I think I'll keep it, what I saw in that tent was a conniving former prince and a sniveling old crow that want a ruling female monarch removed from the world for the things they deserved. But in there I also saw a complete different person who had nothing against the queen to begin with. " You both kept your glares, however at that moment you did also see a hint of hurt in Her eyes

"So what are you, a sword for hire? Someone who likes to kill for what you think is the winning side? Or are you another one of those jackasses who thinks that anyone who's different to normal people are-"

"Princess" She cut you off looking down and seemed broken at this point, you were sure your eyes had widened at least a bit "..what?." Was all you could mutter.

A few things I want to say here: 1: I am so so sorry for an update to take this long. 2: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I have reasons for testing your patience like I said before in my previous update for chapter 4, not knowing what to add, my now deceased grandmother, college, etc. But now I'm back and ready for more. (You'll also get a congrats from me if you can guess who I decided to put in this story as well!) Peace for now lads and ladies!