I think that the next chapter will have antics between the group, because we will finally be going into town. Sorry if you were expecting this chapter to have any, it just didn't work out...
Elsa happily munched on her breakfast, the cheese and banana sundae with chocolate syrup (or what was left of it, considering that she drank most of it from the bottle when she first arrived in the kitchen) so graciously made by Rapunzel herself as an act of friendship for the young Queen, and she was a good cook so there was that to consider. Rapunzel had been baking since she was just a child so something like a sundae was child's play, quite literally as she used to play with her food cause what else was there to do when you were all alone stuck in a tower with nothing better to do? Unlike Eugene, who often joked around with Rapunzel's cooking skills (he never hated it, but whose to say he couldn't play with Rapunzel's food, even though he usually got a frying pan in the face for it.) Elsa immediately praised her friends cooking skills and asked for another, finishing her first treat in a mere matter of seconds, she was that hungry. Now she was on her second and it was more than likely considering her appetite that she could be well on her way to asking for a third. She always did like having plenty of helpings when it came to chocolate
Despite the fact that she was slowly becoming bigger both in part due to her womb and her choice of eating habits, this was just too good to give up. Granted she didn't usually end up gaining any weight anyway and that probably wouldn't change because she didn't eat that much chocolate… much. Just a couple of chocolates a day… when she was snacking. God she really was addicted to chocolate. Well too bad, no one was going to tell her what to do! She was the Queen of Arendelle and a chocolate lover. If she was going to have chocolate, than she would have chocolate whenever she wanted to have it!
Needless to say, it really amazed everyone in the room, minus Ranger who was used to seeing Elsa act in such a manner during her craving fueled hunger pangs. It was actually one of the more amusing things about Elsa's pregnancy. Elsa just abandoned any notion of acting civil whenever she was like this and Ranger couldn't help but smile when Elsa acted so freely. Sure it wasn't the most attractive sight, but Elsa usually made up for it more often than not by getting her work done, or what little she had of it they supposed.
Karen, where she was in this castle was probably handling most of the work on Elsa's behalf. Truth be told, Ranger hadn't seen her much in the few hours they were here the previous day. She just vanished not that he minded that very much. She always seemed to want to strangle him whenever he was near her. If he could ask why, it wouldn't really bother him so much, but she couldn't be bothered to give him the time of day. Any time they did meet, she would just glare at him and walk away, as if he had done something to personally offend her. He never met a woman who hated him that much. When it was Elsa they did in fact speak to one another. It was like Karen hated him for his own existence. Except he had never met her before, so unlike his village, he had no idea why she hated him so much.
He had his suspicions, but because he couldn't talk to her directly, he wasn't sure what he could do in order to clear the air between them and put her hatred of him to rest. It was just that he wasn't sure how he was going to be able to get her to talk to him. Aside from Elsa and Anna and minimally some of the castle staff and council members that he had met during his time in the castle, Kayla was the only other woman he had talked too in recent memory and she was dead. none of them hated him for whatever reason that he knew of. Most of them were cordial, but Karen? He just wasn't sure what to think.
Ranger just put on a grin, hiding his feelings. He was on a vacation; there was no need to be worried like this right now. at least about that. if Karen hated him, then he would deal with that later. Instead, he looked at Elsa and her smiling face, before turning to his own breakfast, also prepared for him by Rapunzel.
Anna awoke, quite early this morning, which was odd considering that she usually slept in every morning since she had very few responsibilities compared to Elsa but she knew the reason why this time more so than any other time. Even though she was on a vacation, which usually warranted some sense of napping, especially coming from this certain princess, she was just too excited today and she knew the reason why. Today the festival was about to begin and with it a numerous amount of activities were going to start, with Rapunzel being the one to show them around to show them all of the events. Being the princess, Rapunzel was bound to have some sort of all access passes or something cool like that. Anna could only hope though. She didn't like abusing her status as the princess of Arendelle and given that Rapunzel had only known she was a princess for a year and was about as innocent as Anna herself was, doubted that she liked to either. Still it was going to be fun doing all those things with Rapunzel's help.
Hopefully one of them would be something up Anna's alley. (even though she was going to do her best to try all of them whenever she could since this was her first time in Corona and all that). If anything, she was going to get Kristoff to join her in her endeavors, seeing as how Elsa could not. Granted if it was a chocolate eating completion, Elsa would probably join in on that one, seeing as she had cravings for chocolates during the past few months with her pregnancy and what not. Otherwise she was certain that one of her other companions could also handle the job. She could be persuasive when she wanted to be (that is, if threatening people could be considered persuasive.) maybe she could borrow Rapunzel's trusted frying pan in order to do the job. Rapunzel had told her that it could come quite in handy when the time called for it. Apparently she had hit Eugene with it when they had first met. Now that would be quite the story when their children asked how they got together!
But more on that later in the day; she needed to get ready for the day. there were a lot of things to be done and there was definitely not a lot of time to do it. Full of energy, Anna threw off the covers to her lavish bed, and practically jogged all the way to the bathroom, where she took an extremely quick bath, got out and went to the closets grabbing the first dress she found out of it (which coincidently happened to be her best dress surprisingly), behind her barricade for privacy and got dressed into her outfit, before going to her vanity here se got her hair up in her usual pigtails, an made her way out of the room. She needed to go wake up Kristoff. That is if he wasn't already. But then again, he was used to sleeping with Sven in the barn, so maybe he just got to sleep or something like that. How he considered a bunch of hay or even the mountainside more comfortable than a bed was beyond her. You couldn't sink in the rock, while the bed was practically a marshmallow in comparison. If he was asleep, then she was going to be more than happy to wake him up, regardless of the retribution he may have for her. If he was awake, then Anna would jump into his arms and give him a passionate good morning kiss. Either way she was going to be happy to see him this morning. Just as he was going to be happy to see her.
She made her way out of the room and into the hall, right to the room next to hers, where Kristoff was. She raised her hand and gave her signature knock. There was no sound on the other side. Asleep it was then. She wasn't sure what to expect, but it didn't matter to her, at least not at the genuine moment in time. She needed to wake him up and get him ready as it were. Without a moment to lose, Anna turned the lock and opened the door, entering the room, and then shutting the door behind her. There on the bed sleeping was her gruff blond mountain man, snoring like a bear in hibernation, completely oblivious to the world around him. At least until Anna jumped on top of the bed shouting "Kristoff!" as loud as she could.
Predictably Kristoff jumped up, his head just barely missing Anna as he sat up, screaming like a little girl. He clutched his sheets sweating heavily. He glanced art Anna, his eyes originally confused, but after a few moments, they focused and he immediately glared at her in irritation "Feisty pants" he whined, holding his blanket like a child did whenever they were scared. It almost looked adorable, if Anna said so herself. She moved in close to Kristoff and pecked his lips. Don't be so grumpy my pungent reindeer king" she said slowly "it's a wonderful day!" she cried out leaping on top of him making him fall back into the bed and burying her head into his chest. After squeezing him in a death grip, Anna lifted her head so that she was staring at his face with a wide grin and a gleaming smile "get dressed Kristoff! We have a very long day ahead of us and you are burning daylight right now!" she said climbing off of her boyfriend. Kristoff rubbed his eyes and threw off his covers. Anna giggled. He was wearing the cute reindeer Pajamas that she had gotten him for his birthday. She had had them made for him by a good friend in town who specialized in tailoring outfits for people. It had taken quite few days an a bit of the coin, but it was worth seeing Kristoffs face when she first presented it to him. he wasn't sure whether or not that he would cry or laugh. Those were the only two things that seemed to get him, ice and reindeer. It was certainly fun to see him show it to Sven. It almost made Anna want to make a sweater for Sven or something like that. But Kristoff wouldn't allow it, thinking that it was too 'babying' for him. Plus Elsa wouldn't let Anna do it anyway because Sven had a giant coat of fur! Why would he need it? so unfortunately for everyone's favorite reindeer, he did not get his own sweater
Kristoff walked to his drawer and pulled out his cloths, before going to the bathroom. However as he did, he turned to Anna, giving her a raised eyebrow 'Um… Anna?" he said, a slight blush on his cheeks
Anna blushed realizing what he meant. He would probably keep her waiting a while. "Oh… oh! She said, feeling the blood rush to her cheeks. Elsa wouldn't want them anywhere near each other while one was…. Indecent. She inched her way to the door backing up against it, then opened the door backed out and slammed it shut, before running down the hall. Her face was on fire and she did not need that right now. She needed to get the blood out of her cheeks before some body noticed this.
However as she did, she nearly ran into a large bulky figure. She immediately skidded to a halt, yelling out a "Woah!" stopping barely a few inches from the figure. The figure was male and wearing a gold cape and silver armor. His hair was white and he was wearing an eye patch, which covered his missing eye,. He turned his gaze to Anna and Anna immediately recognized the figure
"King Vidar?" she squeaked, blood once again rushing to her cheeks, this time in mortification. The last thing she needed was to run into this guy. When she had seen him last all she could think was that he was extremely stuck up, even for a king. He seemed utterly disappointed at Elsa's pregnancy by Ranger even though he had obviously never met the guy. Now here he was giving her a piercing gaze under his one eye, a deep frown on his face. Anna wouldn't care what he thought of her, but It was clear that whatever grudging respect he had for Elsa, he had even less for Anna and he barely took her seriously as it was. It bothered Anna that he didn't respect her just because she wasn't the Queen, but she did try to respect him, if only to not make him completely hate her.
Vidar glanced at the young woman, a deep frown on his lips as he looked down on her judgmentally "Princess Anna" he said, a false hint of respect in his voice, which Anna immediately noticed. She stood up, folding her arms, trying her best not to lose her temper under the mans piercing gaze. Vidar bowed slightly "a princess should bow to another royal" he said, his voice biting with his familiar arrogance.
Anna curtsied, gritting her teeth behind her false smile. She didn't like Vidar then and she certainly wasn't going to like him now. "Its good to see you again." she said, hooping her voice wasn't filled to the brim with annoyance and venom. It really wasn't a joy to get back together with a King who saw your sibling as a political alliance with the hopes of making so called 'perfect babies' with his son. Elsa's child would be perfect, as would Ivar's, but only with the people they loved.
Speaking of Ivar "is Prince Ivar around." She asked, "I hear his new girl is quite the catch" she said. she had heard a little about Ivar and his new girlfriend not long after he had left Arendelle and returned home. Apparently she was quite a beautiful woman, with a nice figure and long black hair and brown eyes. This time Anna was not able to keep the condescending tone out of her voice and Vidar stiffed his gaze becoming colder, if that was even possible. Anna however stood her ground, as Elsa taught her to do in any and all royal conversation. '"My son is with his fiancé, Lady Helen" Vidar said disapproval clear in his voice. Anna shook her head lightly "he's happy, I'm sure" she said, trying to keep the conversation as light as possible
"Yes… they are to be married after this… event." he said "he insisted on coming here as a gift to her. I decided to accompany them. " he said in a tone that suggested he was here for business more so than anything else. Who goes on a vacation for business? Apparently this guy. Anna was certain that this guy couldn't find a way to relax if his life was ever to depend on it.
Anna bit her lip. "How… generous." She said slowly, not at all impressed with Vidar..
Vidar huffed and turned away "if you'll excuse me, I have to deal with your," he stopped at the word your, emphasizing the word "representative" he said bitterly, before walking away, leaving behind a fuming Anna. he wasn't even going to treat Karen with the respect she deserved, or at least he wasn't showing that he would in front of Anna. The nerve of that man…..
She huffed in annoyance and walked down a different hall, deciding to find her way to Elsa. Knowing her, she was having breakfast right now.
Anna made her way to the dining room, where sure enough she found Elsa and Ranger sitting at a table, as well as Eugene and Rapunzel. The four of them seemed to be laughing together, but only Elsa was eating. Probably her third helping. Anna laughed. That was probably why everyone was laughing. Because of how much Elsa could eat these days. She grabbed a bowl from the nearby table and helped herself to some toast and eggs graciously prepared by the chefs and made her way next to Elsa "morning everyone!" she cried happily" everyone looked at Anna "Morning Anna!" they said. Anna giggled as she went to a chair next to Elsa, sitting beside her and eating her breakfast "well is everyone ready for our trip into the town?" she asked, glancing at everyone
Rapunzel nodded as soon as, Elsa and you are done with your breakfast and… where's your boyfriend Kristopher?" she asked.
Anna swallowed her food and giggled "Kristoff is still getting ready." She said, giggling at the fact that everyone was getting Kristoff's name wrong, she had done it before, but still.
Elsa raised a brow "I'm surprised that you're ready this early." she said with a teasing grin on her face. Anna glared at her "look that's talking miss I want to stay and eat all day!" she retorted with a teasing grin of her own.
Everyone at the table looked at Elsa, expecting her to cry, but to her surprise she began laughing, very heavily in fact. Soon everyone was laughing with her.
It was a good start to the morning.
I tried something different with Anna and kristoff in this chapter, rather than Elsa and Ranger. speaking of Ranger, he might meet an unwanted familiar face in the next chapter.