A/N: Hello again! Hope you like this new chapter. Again, not one of the most eventful chapters, but still pretty cute, I think. :P :D Anyway, here's one thing I'd like to say, as I should have said before. There was someone who reviewed saying that they're glad I read their story, but it was posted as a guest, so if anyone could let me know who posted that review, then that would be great! ;) So, thanks for reading!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN FROZEN, TANLGED, OR ANY OF THEIR CHARACTERS. I ONLY OWN THIS STORY. AND, AS I KEEP FORGETTING TO SAY, ANY PART OF IT THAT IS IN ANY WHAT WAY RELATED TO ANY OTHER STORY IS ENTIRELY COINCIDENTAL.

Enjoy!

-MagicFireTiger

CHAPTER NINE

A "NORMAL" PRINCESS MORNING

Now, finally, Elsa, Anna, Rapunzel, Kristoff, Eugene, Kaara, Mary, Nya, and Nathan were able to have a long-awaited sleep; at least, for most of them. As planned, Elsa, Anna, Kaara, and Mary, along with Nya, would be sleeping in Elsa's bedroom; Kristoff and Nathan would be sharing one; and, of course, Rapunzel and Eugene would still stay in their own. Olaf had decided to watch over the two little girls in their shared bed; he could not sleep, as a snowman. And so, all of the humans slipped off into a peaceful slumber.

The next morning dawned bright and sunny. The queen was the first one to wake up, for which she imagined was because of the long nap she had had the day before. Elsa stretched and sat up in bed, looking down at her younger sister, who was snuggling under the covers with her, which Elsa thought peculiar. Then she decided to wait until everyone had woken up before heading down to breakfast, which is when she remembered exactly why Anna was sleeping next to Elsa.

"The dignitaries," she thought out loud.

"What?" The voice came from Olaf, who had been staring at Elsa.

"The dignitaries who've come for Anna and Kristoff's wedding."

"Anna and Kristoff are getting married?" Olaf looked puzzled for a moment, and then his face broke out into a broad grin. "Oh, yah! I forgot!"

Elsa giggled a little at this. Olaf reminded her so much of Anna when her sister had been a little girl. "Yes, Olaf, and today we have to fix everything so that Anna can have the perfect wedding." Then her stomach gave a low growl. "Oh! We'll have to provide everyone with breakfast…that'll be difficult. Then again, I would expect that everyone would have had to have eaten something for dinner last night…." Her words lapsed into silence.

Olaf looked at her blankly. "OK," he said uncertainly.

Elsa shook her head. "Never mind. I hope they wake up soon."

Just then, Elsa heard a great big yawn coming from the direction of Mary and Nya's bed. She yawned, too, because once you've heard a yawn, or seen someone yawn, or even just heard or read the word yawn, you, well, do just that: yawn. While she yawned, Elsa looked over and saw Mary sitting up in her bed, stretching her arms out.

"Good morning," Elsa said to the girl.

Mary replied, "Morning, Elsaww," whilst simultaneously yawning. Of course, the Snow Queen couldn't help but yawn again herself.

"How was your sleep?" Elsa asked.

"It was good," Mary said, and then giggled. "Elsa, your hair."

Elsa slowly climbed out of her bed to look at herself in the mirror. Her white-blond hair was all over the place; not literally, of course, but it had mostly come out of its braid and the queen now realized that she had an extreme bedhead.

"I only thought Anna got these!" Elsa said, surprised. "I never get them! And oh, she'd be proud!"

"Speaking of Anna…." Mary looked over and saw the Arendelle princess was slowly rising from her pillow like a zombie. Her hair, too, was unsurprisingly a humongous mess that would be fit for an army of rats. It was just as bad as Elsa's.

Anna blinked open her eyes sleepily and looked up groggily at her sister. Then they opened up wide as her blue-green eyes met Elsa and her hair. Anna's mouth dropped open in a perfect comical O. "What happened to your hair, Elsa?" she asked in astonishment.

"I think it might be something to do with having slept with you, Anna." Elsa smiled mischievously. "But, honestly, I do not know."

"Whoa," was all the princess said. She turned her head around to see Olaf, who was waving at her. "Oh, g'mornin', Olaf."

"It sure is!" the snowman said enthusiastically.

After a few more minutes, Kaara and Nya finally woke up and the five girls decided to change and go find their friends.

"Alright, Kaara, would you like to borrow one of my dresses again?" Kaara had been using Elsa's dresses ever since she had been brought back to her brother, which hadn't been very long at all, as a matter of fact.

"I suppose so," Kaara replied. "Sure, thanks."

"As a matter of fact," Elsa continued. "You may have some of these dresses for your own! This is much too many for me alone, and I daresay you've ever had a dress as nice as these…. No offense." The queen looked a little sheepish.

"None taken," Kaara said to her. "Now, who will change first?"

"I don't think anybody except you, Anna, and Elsa will be getting different clothes on," Mary remarked.

"Hmm, you're right, Mary," Elsa realized, putting her hand under her chin. "We'll have to do something about that, now, won't we? Just a moment, please." The queen walked over to the big double doors that were in her room, and to a small side table beside them. She opened the doors. On the slightly charred wooden table stood a small bell, which Elsa took and rang. The bell gave off a soft, musical tinkling noise that rang very loudly.

A minute later, a servant Gerda came by. She curtsied and then said, "Yes, ma'am? What can I do for you?" If she was surprised that her queen's hair was such a mess, Gerda didn't say anything in any way.

"I need to see a selection of Anna's and my old clothing," Elsa stated firmly. Gerda curtsied again and walked off, back the way she had come.

A little while later, the woman came back to the door, which was still open. Everyone was sitting on Elsa's bed, chattering away while they waited for Gerda.

"Here you go, ma'am," she said, setting a basket of young girls' clothes onto the bed. "Can I get you anything else, ma'am?"

"No, thank you," Elsa replied. Then she called the servant back. "Hold on a moment, Gerda, there actually is something I need."

"Yes?" Gerda inquired, smiling.

"The royal dignitaries will need breakfast, and so will the townsfolk. How will we be feeding them?"

"Well, as you know, the palace has quite a large supply of food. We've been giving them a small portion of it; not what they usually have, of course, as the fire destroyed most of Arendelle's food supply," Gerda continued, looking a little sad at this. "But that is how they were able to have dinner and such the other day. We will be doing the same today, and I am afraid that the royal family will have to not have such feasts for a little while. But we should still have enough to host a proper wedding. Is that all, ma'am?"

"Yes, I think so. Thank you so much, Gerda!" Elsa said to the older woman, who curtsied again and went out the door.

"Now!" she continued. "Mary, Nya, you get to pick out one outfit each to wear today and keep forever."

Both girls looked as though Christmas had come early, along with their birthdays.

"Really?" Mary asked in astonishment.

"Yes, really," Elsa replied. "Now, here." She proceeded to carefully take the dresses, socks, hats, and other clothing out of the basket and setting them gently onto the bed. There lay an assortment of beautiful clothing, with soft blues, greens, pinks, reds, oranges, yellows, purples, every other color you can imagine, and what seemed like hundreds of combinations of them.

Mary and Nya stared at them for a split second before instantly grabbing a bunch of the clothing and looking at them carefully. After what seemed like enough time for Elsa to have built her ice palace again, both girls had a dress exactly their sizes held out in front of them. Mary's was a beautiful blue of the finest satin, with swirls and curls and intricate designs of a deeper shade of the color. Nya had chosen a yellow and pink dress with decorative blue flowers that seemed to dance around the cotton dress.

"This one!" they cried simultaneously, and then giggled.

"All right!" Elsa said, clasping her hands together in satisfaction. "Now to get dressed."

The five girls decided that, to make things faster, Elsa would help Mary get changed, Anna would help Nya, while Kaara would get dressed in Elsa's bathroom, insisting that she would take forever. Elsa and Mary waited patiently outside the doors with Olaf to keep them company, while Anna dressed into one of Elsa's dresses just for the sake of not wanting to disturb the people sleeping in her room, and helped the little girl joyously put on her dress. Nya instantly proclaimed her new clothing item the most glorious thing she had ever seen, and bounced around, making it slightly harder for Anna to put it on her.

Next, Elsa and Mary stepped into the room, after Anna and Nya had come out of it, both beaming broadly. Elsa helped Mary into her new dress, and then, with her face turned towards the beautiful paintings Rapunzel had made on the walls years ago and away from Elsa, the little girl waited for the queen. She quickly decided on a simple dark green dress that would show up very well against the snow now whirling through the air outside. Then they all brushed each other's hair in a sort of circular train of people, with Elsa brushing Nya's, Nya brushing Anna's, Anna brushing Mary's, and Mary brushing Elsa's.

Finally, after Kaara came out of the bathroom with a pretty yellow dress on, she, Elsa, Anna, Mary, and Nya were ready to wake Rapunzel, Eugene, Kristoff, and Nathan up. They ventured swiftly down the hallways to Rapunzel and Eugene's room. Then, Anna knocked on the tall double doors.

"I forgot you knew how to knock!" Olaf said, laughing. "Silly me!"

Everyone smiled at this, but did not say a word, except Anna, who remarked, "Of course, Olaf, who doesn't?" Then she giggled, not meanly, but because she just loved the snowman so.

Just then, the door opened to find Rapunzel, with her hair as neatly brushed as possible (it couldn't really be much changed, as it was now very short and very spiky and fly-away-y). Her emerald colored eyes were sparkling as though they were real jewels, her cheeks were very rosy, and her soft lips were turned up into a pleasant smile. She managed to pull off wearing her purple and white dress wonderfully, besides the fact that she was extremely pregnant.

"Rapunzel, you're beautiful!" Anna remarked in awe, looking at her cousin.

The Princess of Corona blushed. "Thanks. Come on, I was just about to wake Eugene when you came." She led them inside the large room, which was also filled with her artwork that had been done the last time she had visited. Luckily, it was not very much damaged at all by the fire, and the pretty suns and fairies and flowers were as noticeable as ever. On the bed was a very much asleep man, snoring with his stomach on the bed and his head turned to the side.

"Eugene!" Rapunzel said sweetly, coming up to him and poking his arm with her finger. "Eugene!" The princess became more insistent. However, the snoring man snoozed on, unaware that his wife was silently walking over to the side table beside the bed. He was unaware that she was stealthily scooping up the small chameleon that was lying on a tiny bed up into her hands, and of her walking quietly over to him. He was still unaware of her as Rapunzel sneakily set Pascal onto the side of his face that was facing upwards, and unaware of anything at all except his frying pan filled dreams up until the point where the chameleon stuck its long, sticky tongue into his ear.

"YACK!" Eugene Fitzherbert cried out in shock as he sat up backwards in bed, rubbing his ear tenderly as Pascal the chameleon crawled back onto Rapunzel's arm and up her shoulder, smirking at him. "Honestly, one would think that you hadn't done that a million times before!" He turned around and gave Pascal an indignant look, to which the chameleon just smirked more smugly. "Frogs," he muttered, shaking his head.

"You would not get up any other way, and he is a chameleon." Rapunzel and Pascal's faces were so alike in smugness and superiority at this moment it was a wonder that Eugene didn't cower.

The man cleared his throat. "Anyways, wha—oh." He had just noticed their company. "Good morning, guys. How'd you wake up?"

Kaara, Elsa, Mary, and Nya all looked baffled at this. "Excuse me?" Kaara said.

"Oh, never mind," Eugene said, waving them off. Then his stomach gave a huge growl.

"Let's go wake up the others and get something to eat," Rapunzel suggested, to which everyone else agreed very heartily. Then, with Eugene insisting that he did not care that he was still in his pajamas, they all went to find Kristoff and Nathan in one of the smallest bedrooms in the palace. Fortunately, both of them were awake and dressed. And so, the party of friends headed off for breakfast in the large dining room: Elsa, Anna, Rapunzel, Kristoff, Eugene, Kaara, Nathan, Mary, Nya, and lastly, Olaf.

The group arrived at their destination to find the dining hall quite filled with people. All of the townsfolk were there, with the royal dignitaries set off in their own end of the extremely long table. The friends walked towards that end, however, not before several Arendellers had begun bombarding them with questions, greetings, and general talk.

"My queen!"

"When are we going back home again?"

"This castle is huge!"

"How was your sleep, your Majesty?"

Elsa, of course, did not have time to reply to all of this, and, to be polite, she merely nodded her head to each of the people while continuing walking at the head of her party. She led them to the far end of the table where the royal visitors sat, eating sugar-sweetened porridge as like the rest of the diners. Finally, they arrived, which all of, or, at least, most of, the royal dignitaries noticed.

"Queen Elsa!" A woman that looked as though she could be the age of the Queen of Corona, with long, dark hair, stood up.

"Hello!" Elsa said, and quickly found a spot for her and her quarry to sit down, which was at the very head of the table. Surprisingly, there was enough room for all ten of them to sit down, including Olaf. A few people had given their surprise at seeing a living snowman earlier, and some were still getting over the shock of it.

Before the friends were bowls of porridge and started to eat. Elsa, who had never been very fond of the food, was surprised to find that it tasted rather good this morning. No one else cared except Eugene, which was unsurprising. He was often very picky when it came to food. Rapunzel wolfed hers down, Anna ate ravenously, Kaara chewed slowly, Mary and Nya ate theirs in approximately thirty seconds, and Kristoff just… ate.

After a while, the townsfolk and royal visitors seemed to be growing restless. Elsa was finished by now and decided to get going on the matter of the houses. She stood up and all went quiet, except for some boys who had been throwing food at each other for about a minute until their parents stopped them. Finally, everybody was looking at her expectantly while they waited for their queen (or, in the case of the royal trade partners, well, royal trade partner) to speak.

Elsa cleared her throat. "As you all must know," she started, looking around at the many, many pairs of watchful eyes. "I have had an idea to temporarily fix the townsfolk's homes with ice that is not cold to give the visiting royals a more comfortable and proper place to stay, and for the wedding preparations to go on as planned. I have finally been able to make, if not warm, at least room-temperature ice. I would like to go forward with this project today, and right now, if possible. Are we all agreed?"

Most of the adults nodded their heads, and so did some of the older children; the younger ones did not care in the least. Somebody even said, "Better now than never, aye, Percy?" Elsa was relieved, even though she had almost known that they would.

"Thank you!" Elsa sat back down into her seat and breathed a great big sigh. Today was going to be a long day.