Hey guys, I'm back!

I'm terribly sorry for the long, long, long delay. I will explain more at the end of the chapter.

I'm still trying to get back in the hang of things, and back into writing again.

I haven't in a while, so I don't know if this is the best quality. I will let you guys be the judge of that :)

For now, I'm going to let you guys read since you haven't for a long time.

So with that, here is chapter 7 of "A Frozen Past: Warfare" Enjoy!


Anna was being dragged out through the gardens, by a mysterious masked man. She was trying everything; she tried to scream, but no thing came out, as her kidnapper had his hand sealed tight over her mouth. She tried violently thrashing around, trying to get away, but the man was surprising my strong, and had a death grip on her.

He yanked her by the fountain, past the outside hedges, and into the dark shadows casted by the old weapon shed. With one arm, the man started to open the door; and held onto Anna with the other arm.

Anna felt the man slightly loosen his grip. That was her chance; she bit his hand, and backwards kicked the man's leg with the heel of her shoe. He winced in pain, and she shot out of his arms.

Anna was getting away; the man grunted in annoyance and started to chase after her. Anna then looked back to see if the man was following.

He was, and gaining in her very quickly.

Anna yelped. She frantically turned around, and tried to run even faster than ever before. What she didn't know, that there was a dip in the ground. Her left foot sunk into the little crevice, and she tripped. She landed hard on the packed dirt, and slid a few feet before recovering. She quickly got back up and started to run again.

When Anna fell, and was getting up, that gave the man time to catch up with her. He grabbed her hair, and yanked back, hard.

She shrieked in pain. The man abruptly slipped his hand back over her mouth, this time pressing harder than earlier. He also wrapped his other arm around her neck, temporarily cutting off circulation. Anna whimpered under the man's hand, but couldn't continue, as she couldn't breathe.

The princess's cry alerted some of the guards stationed near the barracks. They speedily rushed in the direction of the scream.

"Shut up!" The man seethed, squeezing harder. He dragged her back over to the door of the weapons shed. This time, a new man was standing in the doorway, with a smirk on his face.

"My, my, she's quite the troublemaker." The new man stated.

Anna continued to squirm around, which ended with the man squeezing tighter and tighter around her neck. He looked down at the princess in his arms. "That she is."

They then heard faint commotion of the guards in the distance. "Well, what should we do? How are we going to get past the guards and through town, without them noticing?" The man holding Anna asked.

The man in the doorway stood there silently in the doorway, for a few moments, then spoke up. "I've got an idea. Bring her in here, quickly." He urged.

The man complied. Shoving Anna into the weapons shed's dark inside; the man closed the door behind him. It was extremely dark, but Anna could see the faint outlines of the walls and the stacks of practice weapons for the royal guard. The leader out of the two men quietly shut the door behind him. He then lit a nearby lantern, which blinded all three of them for a moment.

"What the hell?! Couldn't you give a little notice before you make us all blind?" The man who kidnapped Anna, asked as he held up his arm, sheltering his eyes.

"Your fine, Martin. Get over it." The other man said, slight annoyance in his voice.

"Martin? Who are these men?" Anna thought to herself.

The man named Martin, nervously glanced over at Anna, then back to his partner. "I thought we weren't going to give out our names just yet?"

The other man leaned against the wall, and shrugged. "Oh well. Were kidnapping her if she knows our names or not. Besides, she can't tell anybody anyway." He said coolly.

Martin thought about it, and was about to say something, but chose otherwise. Anna had been watching and listening quietly in the opposite corner, before she spoke. "Then if he's Martin, then who are you?"

He laughed. "You will know soon enough. But for now, we need to get you out of the city without being seen."

Feeling a bit defiant, Anna crossed her arms. "And how do you think you're going to pull off that? Arendelle's guards are numerously scattered around the city, we have people who know my face anywhere. And I will make such a scene and noise, that you will have no chance at escape." She said with a snobbish tone."

The leader chucked again. "Not a bad speech for someone like you. But I don't think you will give us any trouble at all."

Anna's mood changed to confused.

"Martin will you grab that burlap sack in the corner over there?" He pointed to a table in the left corner by the door.

Martin nodded, and walked over to the corner. The man turned back to Anna, with a smug expression on his face. "Oh and for next time, know that it is a stupid idea to state what you are going to do, to your attackers, princess." He said in a mocking voice, and bowing.

Anna wanted to smack him right in the jaw, but was suddenly cut off before she could anything. The man who grabbed the sack, had temporarily set it down, and walked up behind Anna. He grabbed the side of her head, and abruptly slammed it against the wall, knocking her out cold.

Martin smiled at the unconscious princess on the floor. He then quickly stuffed her into the sack, and threw it over his shoulder. He looked up to see the leader already at the door.

The leader spoke. "Are you ready, martin?" he asked, with a mischievous grin on his face.

Martin smiled back. "Ready as you are...Halden."


Meanwhile in the ballroom...

"Elsa calm down." you urged to the young queen, who was seemingly losing her mind.

Elsa shook her head. "I-I just can't! Anna is gone, and I have absolutely no idea where she is!" Elsa started to excessively pace back and forth. She was absolutely freaking out; and she kept muttering something under her breath, but you couldn't make out what it was.

"Elsa, please just..." you trailed off. Sighing, you turned to the mountain man, who was in as much stress as Elsa was. "Kristoff." You asked.

He looked up, "What?"

"Where was the last time you saw Anna?" you asked.

He looked at Elsa, then back over to the food table from where he had previously come. "Anna had come over and gave me a good-hearted lecture on not eating everything." Kristoff chuckled. "Then while we were watching you and Elsa dance, Anna nudged my shoulder and told me she had to go get something. She said I would like it, but wouldn't say what it was."

He looked down at the floor, "She smiled, and told me to come to the hallway in like 2 minutes, and she would show me her 'surprise'."

"So did you?" you asked him.

Kristoff nodded, "Yeah, but when I got there, Anna wasn't anywhere to be seen. I waited a minute or two longer, but she didn't show up...that's when I noticed the note sitting atop one of the hallway tables." he froze. "Wait!" he exclaimed, looking back over to the door, which lead to the hallway. "I-I remember seeing something go behind a corner way at the other side of the corridor..." his eyes shot back towards you. "I think I saw Anna! And she was being dragged away!" he almost shouted. Kristoff turned in the direction of the hallway. "I have to go find her!" and before you could say otherwise the burly mountain man shot off towards the door.

"Kris...toff." you trailed off, as he was long gone.

You turned around to see Elsa still pacing, who seemingly had no clue what just happened with Kristoff. "Elsa?" you asked.

The Queen looked up. "Yes?" Before you could respond, Elsa finally noticed that there was no sign of the mountain man. "Where's Kristoff?" she asked.

You look back over to the door from which he left. "Umm...he thought he saw Anna, and so, well...he went after her." you stammered.

Elsa's eyes went into more shock. "What! So now I have two of them gone?"

You nodded.

Elsa looked like she would lose it; but then calmed down a bit, she briefly put her hands to her temples, massaging them lightly. She then turned towards a nearby guard. "Guard! Get more men, and go out and try to find Kristoff and Anna! Immediately!"

"Yes, your majesty." he replied. The guard quickly shot out of the ballroom.

Elsa turned back towards you, "Roman, stay here. You don't need getting hurt, I won't allow it. And I'm terribly sorry, I know you just got here, and this is no way to treat a guest."

You were quite shocked that she wanted you to stay here, even though you had experience in the military. "Elsa, you have to remember that this isn't any normal 'guest' situation. These things don't just regularly happen when you have guests. This is an emergency, and we need to find Anna and Kristoff."

Elsa was just about to say something, but you cut her off. "That being said, it's almost pitch dark out there and there's a slim chance we'll find them tonight. I suggest we wait till morning before we begin our full search."

She stood there quietly, pondering your words. She sighed, "Yeah I guess you're right. But right at sun-up, no later. I need to find Anna as quickly as possible." She started walking in the direction of the hallway, before she stopped and turned back around. "Not to mention Kristoff." She then continued walking away.

You chuckled. You were surprised that she gave up that easy, knowing what she and her sister went through in the past. You felt sorry for Elsa and tried to imagine the pain she felt for losing her sister for most of her life.

Your head shot up. "I'm not going to let her lose Anna again." you thought.


Somewhere up in the mountains above Arendelle...

"Can we take a break?" Martin asked.

"No, were almost there. We have just a little bit more to go...see its right over there." Halden pointed to their little campsite, about 50 paces away.

Martin grunted. "Well to you, it's not that much, but if you're carrying an overweight princess, it's feels like a hundred miles away."

"Stop complaining. She's not overweight, you're just weak." Halden remarked.

"Whatever."

They reached the campsite a few moments later. Martin bluntly dropped the sack containing Anna on the ground. They heard a moan, and watched as the sack moved. Then it started rolling back and forth.

Halden looked at his partner. "Well, it looks like our little princess has gotten her beauty rest for the day. How about you let her out, and let her breathe some fresh air." He smiled.

Martin, who was still rubbing his sore shoulder, hesitated. "Why don't you do it? I carried her up here, and I haven't seen you do anything to help."

Halden smile dripped off his face, he stepped over to him and got right in his face. His extra tall and muscular figure dwarfed Martin, and he had to look up to his towering figure.

Martin sighed, "Fine, fine. Whatever." he walked over to the sack and untied the bottom. He then lifted it up, revealing the newly awoken princess.

Anna had to wait a moment for her eyes to adjust, even though it was dark outside and it was pitch black inside the sack. "W-Where am I?" she asked.

Halden smiled, he walked around the campsite. "This, Anna," he held up his hands like a tour guide, "is your home away from home." he said sarcastically.

Anna glanced around. It looked like a regular campsite. There was a fire pit, clothes and other supplies hung over branches of nearby trees, and of course, the shelters for the two of them to sleep in.

"Well, it doesn't look like much of a home." Anna said.

Halden walked back over to her. "That's because you're a spoiled brat. You get anything you want, right then; you don't have to wait for anything." he stated.

Anna was still angry and scared at the same time, that she was kidnapped by these two men. Although she basically didn't know a thing about these two, but their name, she still was oddly used to them. That made her feel a bit defiant. "That's not true. Maybe you should find out everything about what you're talking about before you start listing off 'facts'. Besides, it looks like you probably won't ever be welcome..." Anna couldn't finish, before Halden had forcefully backhanded her cheek.

She fell bluntly to the ground, her face tingling in pain.

"My, my, you really need to learn how to hold your tongue better in the future. That or you might be getting more of those coming your way." Halden remarked.

Anna's right cheek was still tingling, but the pain was slowly fading away again. She looked at the two men, and then glanced around the campsite, but she didn't stand up.

"What do you want from me?" Anna asked.

Martin, who had been silent the last couple minutes, spoke up. "Well, you see..." Halden cut him off.

"Shut up Martin. I will do the talking." Halden firmly stated to his partner. Martin crossed his arms, and walked over to some of the supplies hanging over low tree branches.

Halden turned back to Anna. "We don't want or need anything from you really; all we want is your sister. You basically can't do anything; therefore you're worthless to that point. The only reason we have you here, is to get the queen. You know, that she will obviously come looking for you." He looked up at the sky, then down the mountain to see if there were any search lights. "But if she's smart, she will most likely wait till morning."

Anna also looked down the mountain, but didn't find any lights. She knew he was probably right, but dearly hoped he was wrong.


Everybody at the castle was getting ready for bed, preparing themselves for an early start tomorrow. You were presently in the gardens, and had been continuously looking for Elsa, after she left the ballroom nearly an hour ago.

Guessing that Elsa probably already went to bed, you decided to give up on her for the night, and let her sleep. You made up your mind: you were going to head out while everybody was asleep and start your search early.

You went past the fountain and over to the stables. When you reached it, everything was as usual. You met the stable boy who was napping against a post next to Sven's pen. Looking over the boards were Sven and Kristoff peacefully sleeping in the hay. You didn't want to awaken Kristoff, so you lightly tapped the stable boy's shoulder.

Fortunately, he awoken gradually and wasn't startled by you. He looked up at you with a dazed expression. You held up your finger to your lips, insisting to keep quiet.

"I need a horse, can you help me out?" you whispered.

He hesitated for a moment, but then nodded his head. He rose from the stool, rubbed his eyes, and started to walk down the aisle, motioning you to follow. He continued down to the other side of the stable where he stopped at stall containing an elegant pitch-black thoroughbred horse.

He opened up the door, and brought it out. You then watched as he saddled the horse fairly quickly.

As he finished tightened the last strap, he smiled and stepped back. You smoothly mounted the horse. Although you hadn't ridden a horse in a few years, you tried to act professional, so you just smiled back at the stable boy and mouthed, "Thank you."

He nodded in acknowledgment, and waved goodbye as you directed the horse out of the stable. This was the start of the journey into the mountain of Arendelle, and the beginning of a very long night.

Two hours later…

You were on a winding trail, in some thick brush somewhere up in the mountains above Arendelle. The horse was getting extremely uncomfortable to sit on and you might have to give it a rest also.

A few moments later, you came out of the thick brush and everything cleared up a little bit. Suddenly you saw a faint light in the distance; you halted the horse and dismounted it. You tied up the straps to a nearby tree, and began your way up to the light, which looked about a good 50 yards away.

Stealthily, you made your way up there; stopping about 10 yards away, you hid yourself behind a tree. Peaking out from the trunk, your eyes adjusted to find 2 men seated around a fire.

Observing around them you saw two regular looking shelters, normal traveler's equipment, and a…another person.

Tied up against a tree was a figure of a smaller person. As you looked closer, you realized who it was. "That's…that's Anna." You whispered to yourself.

Anna looked like she had been beaten a few times. Her face was bruised and swollen, while she had various cuts on her arms. The thought deeply angered you, "Why would they do this to her?" you thought.

You clenched your fists. "Well, they damn well aren't going to do it anymore."

You made your way around the campsite over behind the tree which Anna was tied to. Not wanting to startle her, you started humming a tune that Anna was familiar with. You noticed that Anna's eyes shot open; you didn't want her looking all around so you quietly whispered to her. "Anna it's me, Roman. Don't panic, just stay still like you were and act like nothing's going on. I'm going to try and untie these ropes."

Anna nodded in acknowledgment, and went back to looking forwards. You silently leaned over and grabbed a nearby knife belonging to one of these men, and started to carefully cut the ropes, trying not to cut Anna.

Finally finishing the last rope, you whispered to Anna again. "Don't move; I know you are able, but try to continue to keep still until I find a way to take out those guys."

She nodded again.

By that time one of the men had heard something coming from over by Anna. He stood up and started walking in the direction of the princess. Reaching her, he squinted his eyes to see beyond her but couldn't as it was still fairly dark. He looked down, it was Martin. "So princess, what have you been doing over here?"

Anna kept silent.

Martin continued, "Huh? Any...trouble by chance?" he asked.

She shook her head.

"Well, you see I'm pretty sure..." Martin heard some ruffling of branches to his right, then his left. "What the he..." He heard more ruffling of branches then a snap of a twig. "H-Halden," Martin was getting nervous. "I think you should come over here a second."

"Oh stop being a baby. You're hearing things." Halden replied; he was so mesmerized by the fire, that he wasn't really thinking about anything else.

A few minutes went by...

You were patiently waiting in a branch above the man, but fortunately he didn't see you. You were thinking of how to kill him without his partner hearing. You decided to simply jump down on him and thrust the blade in his neck. You waited a few more seconds for the man to turn around the right angle, and then you jumped.

You fell a few feet before landing knife-first onto the man. He let out a brief cry of pain before your feet hit the ground, and you grabbed and snapped his neck. The man previously known as Martin, dropped lifeless to the ground.

Unfortunately, his partner heard Martin's cry of pain. He broke from his daze and quickly stood up. "Martin?...Martin!" there was no answer. "Stop playing games with me and get back over here."

Still no response. The man stood up, hesitated, and then started walking in your direction. You yanked the knife out of the lifeless man's neck and swiftly pulled yourself up into the upper tree branches again.

The man kept getting closer and closer; he was about ten feet away before he stopped dead in his tracks. His long time partner and friend, was lying there on the ground in front of him, motionless.

"M-Martin?" The man immediately ran over and kneeled down next his partner. He checked his pulse and tried to do everything to bring him back to life, but couldn't. The large man, who looked like he could break rocks just by touching them, now looked like he was close to tears.

The saddened expression quickly turned to utter hatred and anger.

You hurriedly looked around for Anna to see if she was anywhere around the man. Luckily, she had already gotten a good distance away, and was hiding behind a tree roughly twenty yards behind you.

Although she was a fair distance away, Anna saw the man's expression and whimpered softly. It wasn't much, but it was enough to get the man's attention. He stood up, and speedily took off towards Anna. She obviously saw him coming, and this time let out a scream.

You jumped off your branch, bluntly hit the ground and rolled. You turned around just in time to see the man almost reaching the tree which Anna was hiding behind. You took a deep breath; and with deadly accuracy, let the knife fly.

You heard the sound of the blade cutting through the air, before hitting its target. The man, like the other one, also let out a shriek of pain, and this time instantly dropped.

You rushed over to Anna, who was still breathing hard, probably because the man almost got to her.

You briefly checked to see if he was dead, and to your knowledge, was. Anna stood there, with wide eyes. "Is he dead?" she asked.

You kicked the man, nothing happened. "Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's dead."

She sighed, "Well, can we go home?'

You were surprised that she wanted to go home almost instantly, but then nodded. "Of course Anna. Follow me." You motioned to her as you started walking back in the direction of your horse, which was farther down the hill.

"What did they do to her?" you kept asking yourself as you descended the slope.

Both of you managed to get down there in about five minutes, at a walking pace. Your horse was still there, waiting patiently and eating some nearby vegetation.

Untying the straps, you helped Anna mount the horse, and then you got on. Looking up at the sky, you noticed that the early lights of the sun were peaking over the horizon. It wrapped the landscape of Arendelle up in a warm blanket of red, orange and yellow. The sounds of morning leaves ruffling, birds tweeting to their families, and a crisp breeze consumed your hearing.

You gently nudged the horse with your heels, and began your journey back to Arendelle. You felt so good that the previous long night was over; the welcoming embrace of the daytime melted away the darkness and any other hateful or unpleasant thing like an ice cube. What you didn't know, that the troubles weren't even close to ending.

They were just beginning.


There you go, chapter 7. I really hope you liked it :)

Now, about the delay: I'm sorry for taking so, so long to update. A while back I had started this chapter like regular; but without me knowing, my parents had planned a surprise trip to Colorado for more than a month.

We stayed with my grandma, went to Denver Broncos games etc. (You guys don't want to hear all that)

Anyway, I didn't have access to a proper computer at all; but I did do about 500 words on my kindle on the way back (very difficult)

Then once I returned home, I had to work on getting my schoolwork done, which I had a lot to do(x30) no exaggeration. And in my free time lately, I haven't had any inspiration.

I had to go as far as watching the movie again. Lol.

That is basically why the long time to update, but I'm not the person that likes to make excuses. I can just say I'm terribly sorry and hope that this didn't make me lose readers or let you think I gave up on it.

But now I'm back, and will try my best to get back in the swing of things. That being said, I won't be updating as frequently, because of school. But will continue this story until I finish. And am definitely not going to give up on this story (for those who were wondering)

I thank everyone who left a review while I was gone, and I apologize for not being able get back to you. I was able to PM a few readers on my phone while I was gone though.

It means a lot to me that you understand. I will have you know that I have a lot planned for this story and there is a lot yet to come. (a lot)

That also being said, I would love to incorporate some ideas that any of you might have for the next couple chapters. (I'm running a bit short on the next few)

Since it took me so long to update, I will allow anybody that wants to PM me on any ideas for the story or even if you want to comment on me taking so long time to update.

I thank all those who took the time to read this. I would really appreciate if you would please like, review, and follow if you want. It helps me out a bunch :)

Again, I would love to hear any ideas for the next few chapters. And I will consider all of them.

So with that, thanks for reading. See ya next chapter.

~Rowboat1001~