Interviewer: "So what happened in the immediate aftermath following Anna's disappearance?"

Elsa: (shifting in her seat a little to get comfortable, her blue dress hanging around her ankles): We went home and reported she was missing. The next morning, everyone was out searching the fields and the forest for her. We even *cough* … even searched the nearby villages around where she was last seen." She paused and shook her head a little, a sad look on her face. "Found nothing."

Interviewer: "And how did this affect the others? And the friendships between you all?"

Upon hearing this, Elsa looked down at the floor, her lips tightened and one hand clenching into a fist. An melancholy expression etched its way onto her face.

Elsa: "They changed …that's all I can say." She told the interviewer.

Interviewer: "In what way, though? How did they change exactly?"

Elsa (angrily): "Look, they changed alright! Everything changed, and I mean everything!"

The interviewer paused for a moment, clearly taken aback by Elsa's sudden outburst of anger. Then again, she did not find it too surprising; anyone would have felt the same way as her if they too had gone through the same thing.

Interviewer (quietly): "Right … um, okay." A pause. "So you can tell us what happened next, after you all reported her missing and began searching the next day.


"Alright, search over there in the trees. Check everything!"

"Roger that, captain. Alright, you heard him, boys. Get searching."

The light drizzle of rain from the clouds overhead were a stark contrast to what the weather had been like just twelve hours earlier. Luckily, the summer warmth and humidity still hung in the air so it was not a total bad day, well … at least in terms of the weather that is. As for those in the forest, it was an entirely different matter.

Having gone back to the nearest station after spending an hour searching for Anna, the group reported her missing and from four the following morning search parties had been out looking for her. Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf, Sven, Rapunzel, Eugene and a few others had joined them. Every inch of the woods was searched thoroughly from the point where she was last seen to a distance of about five miles so far, though the groups were informed that the police would have to expand the search to about ten if nothing turned up by the end of the day.

And that was what the last eight hours had been full of. Officers searching the woods and the nearby hills and even the villages. Volunteers came out to assist. Even the villains had all been questioned in case they had a role but so far all of their alibis were credible. Hook, for example, had been drinking on his ship with his crew, Maleficent had been sleeping, Hans had not left the Southern Isles. It just seemed to further the witness statements made by the group with Anna that she had been taken, or, as the police preferred, had disappeared.

Leaning against one of the cars, Kristoff took a carrot out and handed it to Sven; the reindeer taking a large chunk out of it but struggled to chew it properly as his eyelids kept dropping. Kristoff could not blame him. They had been searching almost non-stop since the previous night and had found nothing, absolutely nothing! His eyes were red and he stifled a yawn as he tried to stay awake. He was worried; they all were. Where was Anna? What had happened to her?
He was not on the same warpath as Elsa, who had convinced, or at least thought it very likely, that those who had been her sister in the bus at the time of the event had done something to her. But his viewpoint still did not bring them any closer to finding her. Where was she?

"Your Majesty, we advise you to rest. You haven't stopped since last night."

"I know that! But I want to find my damn sister!"

Kristoff and Sven looked over ahead of them to see Elsa arguing with a police officer whilst both were making their way towards them. So far, it looked like Elsa was on the verge of freezing someone on the spot.

"Queen Elsa, please! Just for a few minutes. You'll do yourself harm." The officer insisted.

Elsa went to reply but paused and then sighed heavily. As much as she hated to admit it, she knew that her body needed a rest. Hours of searching since the previous night had worn her body down to exhaustion and she needed to have a rest. Just five minutes or so, then you can go on. Besides, her body needed it. Kristoff could see that her eyes were puffy and her dress was wet and a few flecks of dirt were over the bottom of it and she had changed her shoes for wellies in order to not get mud on her feet. When she finally relented and decided to walk over to the car, her head was hanging low and she nearly stumbled once or twice as she went.

When she reached the car, she let out a frustrated sigh and rest her body against the bonnet. "For crying out loud, this is so frustrating!" she said.

Kristoff exchanged a sympathetic glance with Sven and put a hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry, Elsa. We'll find her." He told her calmly with a largely hopeful tone in his voice.

Elsa could sense the scepticism in his words, but nevertheless she gave a small smile and even stifled a laugh.

"Usually it's the other way around between when something like this comes up." She told him.

He gave a small smile and looked back over at the forest, wishing that he could somehow see Anna, or at least something that had not been found yet by the police or the search teams. She had to be somewhere in the forest, she had to be! The others who had joined them must have found something by now, or they had to be on the right track. At least let that be!

"Hey guys," a voice piped up and they two looked to see Mulan walking over to them, two cups of coffee in her hands. "Something to wake you up." She told them as she handed them over.

The two thanked her and took a sip, the feeling of a warm liquid running soothingly down their throats. It was not a hot chocolate but still it felt good.

"Anything new?" Elsa asked Mulan.

Mulan looked back at her sadly and shook her head. "Nothing. Shang, Pocahontas, Smith and the police have been searching that half-" she indicated to the right of her with a wave of her arm. "They've found nothing. Rapunzel, Eugene and the police have searched the other half and they've found nothing either."

As Mulan looked down at Elsa, she noticed that the Snow Queen was staring at the part of the woods that held Rapunzel and Eugene with a look of malice, as if wishing something horrific would befall them. Kristoff too noticed this and sighed.

"Elsa, there's no need to look like that." He told her.

Elsa sighed heavily. "Shut up, Kristoff!" she replied irritably. "Besides, I don't trust them. They've done something to her and I'm not lifting my suspicions off them until they've been cleared of any guilt or they admit!"

Mulan and Kristoff exchanged nervous glances with each other. Elsa was not the violent type in the slightest, or even the one to get angry for that matter. But this … Oh, it was turning her into the polar opposite of her usual self. She was becoming suspicious and snappy with everyone and was treating them as if they were all out to get her. The word 'admit' really resonated within them too. Was Elsa going to do something to them? Her demeanour highlighted something along those lines and given that this was a side of Elsa they were not experienced with … anything was possible.

I just hope she doesn't start World War three over this! Kristoff thought apprehensively.


"You see anything, Eugene?" Rapunzel asked him.

"Nothing, babe. What about your end, officer?" Eugene looked over a large burly looking officer with a raincoat around him.

"Nothing yet, sir. I'm starting to think she did vanish into thin air!" he replied.

Both Rapunzel and Eugene rolled their eyes in annoyance when they heard the officer's reply. Since last night when they had reported Anna's disappearance, they had been treated like suspects by both Elsa and the police and even a few of the other princes and princesses! It was just so unfair! They had done nothing wrong! They had been telling the truth, but no one would believe them! Then again, as the two would remind themselves, who would? A story like this was not really going to be believed straight away by anyone in authority, and with the way things were currently even their closest friends were examples of that.

As Rapunzel moved away from a bush, having found nothing in it at all, she turned to walk back to Eugene to search somewhere else. Suddenly, with a gasp and nearly jumping out of her skin, she came face-to-face with a man dressed in jeans, an orange top and coat and a white helmet on his head. His hands were covered with white gloves and in his hand was a small machine of some sort.

He smiled apologetically at Rapunzel. "Sorry, ma'am," he said. "Didn't mean to scare you."

Rapunzel examined him a moment longer, intrigued by his strange attire and presence here, and then nodded. "Don't worry, it's fine," she replied. A pause hung between them before she spoke up again. "Um … sorry to be a little nosey, but what are you doing here? Are you a police officer?"

"Oh, no, no," the man said with a shake of his head. "I'm just checking for background radiation with my G counter." He added, raising his machine, a Geiger counter in his hand to highlight his point.

Now that really got Rapunzel's attention. She was not an expert on science, but she knew a little about background radiation. But why was this man here? Was there a need for him to be here? Did the police have second thoughts about their story after all?

She felt the urge to press the ma for answers and stopped him just as he was about to walk past her. "Have you found anything peculiar?" she asked him.

The man shook his head. "Nothing, ma'am. All background radiation levels are normal."

Damn! Rapunzel mentally cursed herself. Well there goes that belief then! If this guy can't find anything to back up our story then nothing wi-wait!

Her phone! She had had it in her pocket last night when Anna was taken and as she had been outside the bus when she was taken, then surely it would have picked up traces of radiation from the object … if it left any behind that is. Besides, if it did, then it was all she had to test it with as she and the others had all changed clothes a few hours earlier.

"What about this?" she asked, reaching into her trouser pocket and taking out her phone. "Do you mind scanning it?" she asked him.

The man nodded and held up the Geiger counter to her phone.

KLLL … KLLLLLLLLLLLLLLZZZZZZZZZRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!

Her eyes widened. The needle was … it was going crazy! She could see it was reaching all the way to the highest level and looked set at continuing as if willing to burst out of the machine to record this level of radiation! It was … wow! She looked up at the man, seeing that his face was like hers; wide eyes, mouth slightly open and a look of complete shock and amazement on his face. He looked back at her, meeting her eyes momentarily.

"What do you-" was as far as Rapunzel got when the man suddenly walked past her as fast as he could go without saying another word. "Hey!" Rapunzel called after him but he did not even look back at her, he just kept on walking away as if in a trance, calling two names out to people she could not see to "Pack up and leave."

Now this was strange. As Rapunzel watched him disappear into the trees in the direction of the road, a whole series of questions began popping up in her mind.

Who was that guy? And why was he here?

All she knew for certain was that this disappearance was getting a whole lot stranger than when it started.