Anna stared at Rapunzel's frightened eyes while she stuttered her confession, then she looked back at her father and expected to see a surprised reaction whatsoever, but no... Even with such an accusation, he was serene... Something was wrong, and she knew it.
"W-What?" Anna looked back to Rapunzel, but she was already running away towards her castle. Her brunette friend stood her ground, waiting for the outcome of what was about to happen.
"Papa?" Elsa stepped back until she reached her sister cautiously.
It was only then when Agdar finally started to show nervousness. He stepped forward to reach out to his daughters, but both Anna and Elsa flinched away.
"What does that mean? W-What Rapunzel said about you being the sorcerer?" Elsa nervously asked.
"I-It's nonsense, Elsa... I'd never do something wrong to anyone in my life. Y-You know it!" Agdar said, filling his voice with honesty, but the strawberry blonde would not fall for his trick.
"Elsa... we-we better go." Anna tried to drag Elsa away from the docks, but the blonde freed her hand and stepped forward to her father.
Is she believing him? Anna thought when she saw Elsa reaching out for her father's left hand.
But Anna panicked when she noticed a green mist forming around her father's right hand. "Don't touch her!" Anna screamed and launched herself forward, forming a massive fireball between her hands.
Agdar reacted fast. He grabbed Elsa quickly and put her behind him, turning to his other daughter quickly and launched a green light beam toward her, but after he blinked, Anna nor the other girl close to her were there. They simply vanished.
Anna's vision turned into black and white and granulated. An odd sensation had spread throughout her body, forcing her to close her eyes. Only when she felt that she was released from such sensation, she finally opened her eyes, and then she noticed she was back to the castle, specifically in Rapunzel's room.
She heard someone panting behind her and she looked back, Elizabeth was spent, starting to sweat and muttering something inaudible under her breath. Anna reached out a hand and touched her friend's shoulder, who flinched on the touch and suddenly looked up with her eyes filled with terror, startling the redhead a bit.
"Elizabeth? It's alright... He's not going to hurt us anymore." Anna tried to comfort the shivering brunette, who then began to shake her head.
"Y-You don't know that, Anna." Anna finally looked at Elizabeth's side and noticed a large burn on her skin through a hole on her dress.
"This looks really bad… Does it hurt?" Anna carefully placed her hand over the injury, expecting any reaction from Elizabeth, like pain, a shriek, or something, but she only heard a deep breath.
"A little."
"We have to seal it to prevent an infection." Anna said and ripped a small piece of her own dress, placing it over the wound and applied pressure. "We need to find a doctor. I can't seal a magical burn with fabric." Anna joked lamely.
The redhead looked around the room and realized that only her and her injured friend were there, alone. Rapunzel and Elsa nowhere to be seen, and that brought her mind to something that started to bother her: What happened? They were at the docks and suddenly she got brought back to her cousin's chambers.
"Elizabeth?" Anna asked and Elizabeth turned her face to look at Anna. "What happened back there?"
"Well? I guess that you noticed my powers..."
"Your powers? You have powers, too?" Anna reacted in surprise to her friend's statement.
Before Elizabeth could say anything, Rapunzel entered the room, panting heavily, result of running all the way from the docks to the castle.
"You... you... You used a tear?" Rapunzel barely managed to speak anything due to her heavy panting, but she said it anyways.
"Yeah... Why not?" Even with the noticeable pain in her left side, Elizabeth smiled.
"Not... not fair... You could have... picked me up," Rapunzel walked to her bed and plopped on it.
"Yeah... no. You weren't in danger. You know how this is tiring, right? I mean, just to carry one person to side A to B makes me feel tired for over an hour. Oh, and I'm fine, by the way, thanks for asking."
"Wait, wait?" Anna interrupted the conversation. "Tear? What's that?"
"It's a way of traveling through the space-time continuum. I can travel through dimensions and bring determinate stuff from them - if they're in reach, of course - so I can go to the past and to the future and move to anywhere I want faster than the light takes to travel through the planet's length eight times - which is basically a blink of an eye." Elizabeth quickly explained, to her chagrin, it wasn't exactly understood by the redhead girl.
"O…kay..." Anna then returned to what was bothering her since she arrived back to the castle. "Where is my sister? Where is Elsa?" Anna asked.
"I... I couldn't reach her without bringing the sorcerer as well. We didn't want that to happen."
"And what if she's hurt? I-I need to get back there! I need to save my sister!" Anna said, quickly getting up.
Rapunzel sat up on her bed and moved fast to grab Anna's wrist, stopping her dead on her tracks. "It's not such a good idea. You don't have the power to beat your father alone and Elizabeth is injured. We'll find her later Anna... I promise."
Tears flowed freely on the redhead's cheeks as she played every possible situation of what might be happening to her sister right now. Were her powers being taken away? Was she being tortured? Worst, is he killing her?
"You... You don't know that," Anna squeaked.
"Papa, what happened to Anna?!" Elsa asked frantically.
"I…I'm not sure. I didn't do anything to make her disappear," Agdar said, just as baffled as his daughter.
"Then how did she vanish?! Where is she?!" Elsa yelled.
"I don't know, Elsa… But her brunette friend is gone as well, so at least she's not alone," Agdar said.
"Papa… Why did Rapunzel accuse you of being the sorcerer?" Elsa asked timidly.
Agdar let out a long sigh, running his fingers through his auburn hair.
"Darling, why don't we take a walk around? It will give us a chance to calm down, and I'll explain everything," he suggested.
Elsa nodded, pulling the hood of her cloak over her head to make sure no one recognized her. Her father quickly used his powers to disguise himself. If word got out that the king of Arendelle was alive, who knows what would happen?
At first, Agdar and Elsa walked around in silence. Elsa was still shaken up at what had occurred earlier. Her Papa was accused of evil sorcery by her cousin, and Anna mysteriously disappeared. Where could she be? What was happening to her?
Her father's voice snapped her out of her thoughts.
"I don't know why Rapunzel accused me of such actions. I would never take away someone's gift for my own desires," he said.
"I don't know either… I can't believe she would jump to conclusions so fast. I thought she was better than that," Elsa said.
"That's what I thought, too. I guess being raised by Mother Gothel all her life has had a negative impact on her when it comes to judgment," Agdar said.
"Maybe…" Elsa mumbled.
"And Anna seemed to have taken her side…" Agdar said.
"You think so?" Elsa asked.
"Did you see how afraid she looked after the accusation? She backed away from me… As if I was going to harm her. She should know I would never do anything to hurt my own flesh and blood," Agdar said.
"You have a point, Papa… I'm surprised she was quick to side with Rapunzel. I know she's our cousin and she's family, but…you're our father. Anna should've stayed by your side," Elsa said.
"Just like you did," Agdar said, smiling at her warmly.
Elsa smiled back and linked arms with her father, leaning on him slightly as they continued to walk. Agdar bent his head down and kissed the top of his daughter's head before sighing sadly.
"What's wrong?" Elsa asked.
"It hurts that Anna was so quick to turn against me," he said.
"Oh, Papa… I'm sorry you feel that way. It's not like Anna to turn against her family so fast. I don't know what has gotten into her," Elsa said.
"Do you think she was afraid that I would take her powers away?" Agdar asked.
"I don't know…" Elsa said.
"It's a nice possibility. I mean, she has a very powerful gift, and she's mastered it already. All of her life, she was completely ordinary, and now she's the opposite," Agdar said.
"Yeah… I think that was the reason she was scared. At least one of the reasons, of course," Elsa said.
"I guess her new abilities are more important than her family," Agdar said bitterly.
Elsa was shocked to even hear Agdar say that. It was really hard to believe that Anna cared more about her powers than her family. But… It was odd, because Elsa felt 100% on her father's side. She had just gotten him back, and she didn't want to lose him again, no matter what. Even if it meant believing him over her cousin and only sister.
After a few more minutes of walking together, Elsa piped up again.
"Papa?"
"Yes, dear?"
"What are we going to do now?" she asked.
"Well… We have to find out where Anna is. I have a feeling that she's still in Corona somewhere," Agdar said.
"I hope so… I just hope she's okay," Elsa said.
"I'm sure she's fine. I promise you, darling, we're going to find Anna. And we're going to have a long talk with her about what had occurred today, as well as Rapunzel and her friend. Everything will work out," Agdar said.
"Are you sure?" Elsa asked.
"I'm positive. As long as you stick by me, everything will be fine," Agdar reassured.
Elsa smiled, full of relief. She kept her mouth shut for the rest of their stroll. Unbeknownst of her, Agdar was having a lot of trouble trying to wipe the smirk off his face.
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