Wingin' It
A heroic deed that led to a new discovery.
"Elsa! Look!" Anna screamed and pointed. Up ahead at the horizon, a cliff jutted over a cluster of jagged rocks down below, next to the sea. On the cliff, where Anna indicated, a terrified girl was slowly backing to the edge of the cliff as a stray, matted wolf crept up on her. Even from a distance, the two sisters could sense the girl's imminent doom and the wolf's glee of potentially finding himself with a full stomach tonight. The witnesses, who were down in the village square and too far away to help in time, clamored over the scene and also pointed.
No sooner than when Elsa took in the horrific scene, Anna jerked at her arm.
"Do something, Elsa! Sh-shoot the wolf w-with your ice powers or something!" Anna screamed.
"I can't, I might hit her!" Elsa cried back. It didn't help that the pressure was clouding her mind and causing snowflakes to swirl around her head.
"Well, think of something!"
"I can't just wing it-" Elsa started speaking.
Wait a minute – unless...
Elsa unleashed a soft powdery cloud of icy magic and flung it at the girl. But not the harmful type of magic that could strike down and cause hurt. Instead, the cloud of fluff settled onto little girl's back and blossomed into the recognizable shape of...
Wings...?
"Fly! Fly FLY!" Anna yelled. From afar, she made flapping motions at the girl, who whipped her head around momentarily at the delicate form attached at her back.
"Fly!" Elsa added when she sent a gust of wind to the girl's direction. It swept the girl off her feet, making her hover above the cliff peak. But not entirely out of the wolf's reach.
"AAAAAH!" the little girl shrieked when the wolf lunged up at her and locked its teeth around her shoe, dragging her back down.
Thinking quickly, Elsa waved her hands to the right for the breeze to carry the girl in that direction. The breeze was so strong that it swept up both the girl and the wolf.
"Now FLAP!" Elsa yelled.
The girl did flap. She flapped her glittering ice wings in the current's direction, towards Elsa. The wolf lost grip and, shoe in mouth, let go, painfully met ground with a yelp and rolled multiple times down the hilly slope – right into the welcoming doors of the village slaughterhouse. From that moment on, the wolf could never hurt anyone ever again.
As for the girl, she didn't cease flapping the wings in a frantic frenzy towards Elsa's and Anna's direction. The crowd below went ballistic with cheers before she awkwardly glided down onto the grass in front of the royal girls.
"Are you okay, sweetie?" Anna asked as she hurried forth and knelt down to the girl, crouched on all fours and breathing heavily. Her wings twitched anxiously.
"Y-y-you s-saved me. Y-you saved me," the girl stuttered to no one in particular. She was obviously in shock.
"Oh no, no, no..." Anna gently said and tenderly helped the girl back on her quivering feet. She pointed to Elsa. "My sis saved your life, not me."
" I can't thank you en-nough..." the girl gasped and, still gibbering out her gratitude, hugged Elsa.
"It's all right, no need," Elsa assured her. "It was the least I could do, really." She blushed. What a sweet girl. "But are you all right?"
"Y-yes, ma'am-"
"You can call me Elsa, hon."
"All right, Elsa. I think I'm perfectly fine now, thanks to you." The girl took a glance at her back. The wings' sparkly edges were quickly melting and and dissolving into flurries of mist and into the air. "These wings are also really pretty, Elsa! Wow, you know, you have the same name and type of magic as Queen Elsa!
"Yes, yes," interrupted Elsa hurriedly, "But now that I think of it, do you have a family?"
Before the girl chanced to speak, suddenly, a buxom middle-aged lady came running over to them, out of breath and her white-cloaked skirts hitched up in both hands.
"Leeza!"
The girl jerked around to the call.
"A-Auntie!" Leeza shrieked. She tore from Anna's grasp and stumbled over to the woman; both held each other tightly, and "Auntie" kept repeatedly kissing the girl on her head and gasping with sobs.
"Do forgive me, missus. I'm Norah,– "Auntie" is what the orphans like to call me. Little Leeza here is an orphan, and I'm one of the caretakers of the orphanage," the woman explained after she released Leeza and wrapped her porky arm around Leeza's tiny frame. . "How could I ever repay you for your kind work?"
"Oh..." Anna echoed. Poor girl, she's an orphan! I'm lucky I even had fifteen years with my parents.
"Oh, please, don't, it was a just a lucky coincidence," Elsa said, flushing from the compliments heaped upon her repeatedly. "It's the least I can do."
"What happened to Leeza, anyways?" Anna asked.
Auntie Norah chortled. "Well, see now, Leeza here was misbehaving again. Can you imagine? – she ran away from home earlier today!?"
Anna gasped lightly.
"But I assure you, we will keep a better eye on this imp. You'll be a good girl from now on – isn't that so, Leeza?" Auntie Norah gentled chided as she lightly shook the girl by one shoulder.
"Yes, Auntie," Leeza murmured, glaring down at the floor and not daring to make eye contact with anyone.
"Well," Elsa finished with a smile and a satisfied nod, "we'd best be on our way, we-"
"Bee-doh, Bee-doh, Bee-doh, Bee-doh!"
All the girls shrieked at the startling noise and swung around to find-"
"Kristoff-what-are-you-doing!" Anna screamed in one sentence.
Kristoff it was, indeed. He was running down the road with a flowing water hose in his hand, followed by a breathless Sven with a portable fire pump harnessed to him and an Olaf swinging by one of his antlers and bee-doh-ing like his life depended on it.
"Incoming!" Kristoff called out and, because he could not slow down in his tracks, inadvertently unleashed a hoseful of water into Anna's face. The pressurized force instantly knocked poor Anna down.
"An-n-nd special delivery for you!" Olaf shouted and threw a bucket of icy water in the direction of the girls.
"Stop, stop, STOP!" Elsa said, spraying a wave of ice at the incoming wave of water, protecting herself.
"Kristoff!" Anna spluttered, lifting up her dripping sleeve and then looking down at her sopping figure and at Kristoff with an unamused expression. "What were you thinking?"
"Um, I thought somebody said there was a fire, maybe...?" Kristoff answered uncertainly. He averted the girls' angry glares and shuffled his feet. "Oops..."
"Wait," said Olaf confusedly, "I thought somebody called for a surprise shower!"
"So what do you think of my idea, Els?
"I don't know, Anna dear, I really don't know. Sounds risky."
After saying farewell to little Leeza, her Auntie, and to Kristoff and his gang(All of whom looked too relieved to get to away and hide their hilarious blunder), the two sisters continued their leisurely stroll down the village square. It was one of those rare days when Elsa suddenly decided to stretch her legs and take a break from her queenly reign for an entire day. And whom better to spend that full day with than her little sister? But whenever Elsa and Anna had a day out, they always dressed in commoner clothes and let down their hair so they wouldn't be recognized.
"Come on, Els," Anna pleaded. She stepped forth to face Elsa, and spread her arms for dramatic effect. "Everyone knows it has been the dream of mankind to fly!"
"Wings? On me?" Elsa scoffed. She flipped her hair in a I-could-care-less way. "Yea, yea, sure."
"I know you wanna try," Anna prodded. "Come on, Els, what human on the face of this planet never wanted to have a go at flying?"
"Too bad. I don't think I can make wings for myself."
Are you kidding? If you can successfully create living snowmen like Olaf-"
"I was singing a 'meaning-of-life' song at that time, so duh."
"-then you can create wings for yourself!"
"No can do. I might crash. Or die of fright. Or crash and then die of fright. Something is apt to go wrong!"
"Oh, you worry too much!" And Anna started making clucking noises at her sister.
"It's for my safety, you little..." But Elsa didn't have the heart to insult her sister any more than she could pluck a butterfly's wings off.
Even still, for all her patience, Elsa couldn't shake off Anna's mocking clucks as they toured the cozy little village. It was when the two sisters reached an open field at the outskirts of the village, that Elsa, without a word, determinedly marched up a little hill. She had made up her mind. She was going to do this.
Anna, as well as the few passing villagers, looked up at Elsa. Her eyes closed in concentration, Elsa extended her arms and summoned the same icy cloud of magic when she first created wings. The wisps dissipated and reattached themselves into a blurry silhouette on Elsa's back. She flicked her fingers again to form the outline of the wings and add some décor. Her eyes were still closed as she concentrated on creating the wings' detail based on the image in her head.
The small crowd aahhed when the ending result finished with a burst of magic and brilliant light emanating from her newly-formed wings.
"Wow...it looks even better than it did in my head," Elsa breathed when she turned to admire the craft.
"Everyone ready?" Elsa said to her subjects, anticipation and excitement mingled in her voice.
The crowd, who were comprised of mostly simple village farmers who didn't get to see such spectacles every day, said nothing but continued staring.
"Fly! Fly! Fly!" Anna chanted.
"Okay...!" Elsa took a moment for her wings to expand even further – their reflection basked everyone in a glowing array of brilliant light. Elsa, now no longer nervous, flapped her wings and jumped.
For a moment, she glided in the air like a fairy. Then she veered sharply to one side, lost balance trying to keep control, and landed into some soggy dirt. The wings shattered and vanished – Elsa got mud on herself – it was all over. While Elsa was only a little scratched here and there, the real hurt washed over her when she realized what a laughingstock she had become to her audience. The crowd muttered and booed. One kid even threw a mudball at her.
"She's a fraud," one person sneered.
"Stop!" Anna stepped up angrily, shooing the villagers away from her sister. "I forbid you to treat her like that. You are speaking to the Queen!"
What Anna didn't expect was the string of jeers to come her way.
"Sure, the Queen of Muck!"
"The Queen has a purdy ice dress and a braid and can make ice magic! She look like a fraud witch!"
"The Queen is the only one with ice powers, you doofuses!" Anna shot back. She turned her back on them and knelt down to Elsa. "You ok, Elsie, dear?"
"Uh-huh..."
"Come on, let's go away from those teasers. They aren't worth it."
Anna helped Elsa up and led her away. It wasn't until the girls hit the main road, hand in hand that Anna spoke up.
"Sorry about what happened back there."
"Well, they did dirty my frock," Elsa said, frowning. "But never mind. What troubles me is, why didn't the wings work?"
"They did for a second there..."
"You know what I think? I think that putting wings on others is easier than on myself. I found it kind of hard to keep control there, or maybe – oh, Anna, I really don't know. Why didn't it work this time?"
"Maybe you just need to practice. Or maybe...oh! Oh! Oh!" Anna cried, snapping her fingers. "I have a great idea! Maybe you should hire Merlin to teach you all kinds of magic and how to control it better!"
"You know? Not a bad idea!"
" He's sure one famous magician. To hire him would be pretty expensive, don't you think? I mean, do we even have enough money for that?"
"Oh, Anna, don't be so ridiculous! We're royalty, for goodness' sakes. Of course we can afford it!"
"Oh, yeah. Right."
- Another story based on Icy Wind's suggestions. Oh, btw, the last chapter actually had nothing to do with Halloween.
- Happy Almost-Your-2nd-Birthday, Frozen! WOW that makes me feel old. XD
- I don't often say this(Because I feel like this can get annoying to some), but now, I would just like to say how grateful I feel to all who are reading and reviewing my fanfics. I feel so inspired to write because of you guys! And yes, even though I don't post that quickly, I still take into consideration all of your suggestions. So in one of those rare moments, let me just say THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FOLLOWING, REVIEWING, AND READING, BECASUE I REALLY APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT! IT MEANS A LOT TO ME! :D XD
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-Here are some my story ideas based on suggestions, in the order that I plan to write them:
Ladies' Etiquette - requested by Timeless Number 1
Prank War - requested by Princess Riley
Heirlooms - Requested by Timeless Number 1
Drunk Weselton - requested by FickleFerret
S'mores Galores - requested by Shapeshifter Cat
Little Leeza - requested by me XD
Annnd more to come!
- Thanks for reading! Peace!
KoolKat