Chapter 10
Anna's POV
It's a week later since Elsa left Arendelle. And a week of never ending work for me. Especially an intriguing week of surprises.
Kristoff and I are planning to get married a year after our engagement. But I was so overly excited that every time an idea for our marriage pops out into my head, I always blurt it out to him. Finding me funny, Kristoff's lips would just curve, dueting a small shrug and a warm look with his round golden brown eyes.
It never fails to make me flush.
"Princess Anna!"
A servant came scampering across the carpeted hall. "Princess Anna! The village! It- it..." he said breathlessly.
I frowned. Kristoff and I shared confused glances. We didn't waste any time and followed him to the village.
The common wood houses standing and the stout and loud villagers were supposed to be there. But something has changed. Gone were the festive buildings and bright crowd. And in were the heaps of snow and wet surroundings.
"What happened?" I asked.
What caught my eye was the lake beside Arendelle, half full of floating snow. I walked closer to see it more clearly. But I stepped on something sharp and cried out. Muttering not nice words, I picked the sharp object and examined it. It was a shard of ice. Glowing blue and violet. Seems it was familiar.
"A snow avalanche suddenly collapsed at the lake and caused a big wave to destroy the houses, milady!"
Gerd was telling everything; the houses were broken to splinters of wood and the people of Arendelle were trembling.
I looked ahead the lake and to the direction of the North Mountain.
"What do you think happened?" Kristoff whispered to my ear.
"Elsa's ice castle must've fell off, causing a snow avalanche. But..." I examined the snow. They were rapidly melting, even the sun's heat was just mild, "I think somebody did this on purpose."
"You're not sure it's a fact."
Olaf's already gone, and now the ice castle too? I was starting to think that something has happened to my sister.
"I'm going back to the North Mountain."
At the highest peak of the North Mountain, it wasn't the known land covered in snow anymore. All was melted off everywhere. I actually think that it was overdone. Where the ice castle must've stood showed no signs of having it there. It wasn't as cold as it did before.
The emptiness were as the same level as the quietness.
"My darling Anna." somebody said behind me.
The voice was so astonishing that I had to scream and smack the person who spoke while turning around.
A grunt. I shrieked when I saw who it was.
"Hans?!"
He massaged his jaw where I hit him and grinned. His charms weren't attractive to me anymore. All but hatred. Now I'm regretting and thinking that I should have hit him harder.
"What are you doing here?! You dare to show your face after cheating on me and my sister and-"
"I came here to apologize."
"Condolences." I said, "But your crimes were far more than punishable to get apologized for."
Not giving up, Hans knelt in front of me. "I didn't get all the way from Southern Isles and followed you to expect that kind of answer."
"But I didn't come all the way to talk to a prat like you."
Hans softly said. I felt tortured being my name on his lips. "People change."
The Love Experts doesn't think so, I mentally answered. "Wait." I said, "How did you know I went here? Were you-" my lips parted in a gape, "Did you cause the snow avalanche?"
Impossible may it seems. But there's no other evidence on the North Mountain which caused it (except when Elsa's weakening, of course).
Hans looked confused, "I don't know what you are talking about."
But he avoided my eyes.
Liar. As always. Lying has been his another hand which he got used to. Resulting to become a natural thing.
"Isn't it too obvious Hans?" I demanded, "You have a great anger against me- against us all."
"You have no proof, Anna."
He tucked both of his arms neatly behind his back. Hans slowly neared towards me. I gripped the clothing of my dress.
"As I've told you, sometimes people change." he said, "And sometimes it can be literally not what you imagine..."
He held out his hand and opened up his palm. I was about to decline. When a person does that, you're thinking that he's taking you somewhere. But in contradiction, his hand glowed.
I stumbled back, "Hans! You have a bulb inside your hand!"
Hans silently laughed and shook his head, "Goodbye Anna"
Kristoff's POV
Anna came back from the high lands an hour later. She didn't immediately utter a word. Knowing her, she isn't at her usual shine when she showed up to me.
"Anna!"
I grasped both of her shoulders. Anna's posture were slump and different from the Anna I knew.
"Hey," I touched her cheek, "What happened?"
She looked at me. Here unfocused irises were scaring me.
"Later, Kristoff." then she untangled my arms and passed by me.
"Hey- hey!" I pulled her and said, "Snap off it feisty pants!"
She said nothing. Giving me a blank stare, the flaming-haired girl left me and the townspeople of Arendelle swarming around her, wondering why the Princess was acting monotonously.
Didn't I mention how I dislike it when people ignores you?
"But what about us?" a villager asked in search for plead. Another one sobbed in tears. A baby cried.
I thought, "Just follow Gerd." I said to them. I turned to the servant, "You know what to do."
Gerd nodded, "I'll bring them to the vacant places inside the palace gates now."
The victims paraded away, following Gerd.
I narrowed my eyes to the direction where Anna has gone off to. Something has happened there at the mountain. I'm sure of it. And I will find out what that is. With no hesitation, I chased after her.
Anyway, I was planning to make a Jack FrostxElsa [Jelsa] fanfic. AU. Wherein Elsa is a wallflower ice skater and Jack is a famous ice hockey player.
AND ALSO
I was making a drabbles of all of the ships in Frozen. So tell me who and who you ship in Frozen and I'll make a drabble of it!
Thanks!
PS: I made a change in CHapter 9. Then I edited it again and add another scene. Hope you wont get tired of rereading it. x