Chapter 10
Last time the heroes… actually the assassin and the murderer; Elsa and Jack were helping Kristof and catching up on what had happened to the once lovely land of Arendelle. The story was a shocker and the journey was finally coming to an end with the three of them taking a huge crate full of food to the kitchen's at the castle, along with ice blocks to keep the perishables from going rot. While Jack helped Kristof unload, and bring it into the kitchen, Elsa sat on the cart. There weren't many kitchen helpers that had come out to help bring in the huge load. Jack had kept his eye on Elsa waiting for a signal, eventually she looked directly at him and nodded, so Jack pretended to fall over and hurt himself, making many of the workers (particularly of the younger female kind)fawn over him asking if he was alright including Kristof. Elsa quickly snuck off and began to look around, she knew she had to be careful as to not be spotted especially in the clothing she was wearing of a traveler, one as shabby as her wouldn't be walking around the corridors after all. Eventually she found a spare maids uniform that she put on to hide her clothing and her stand out pale blonde locks, it was sure to get noticed as it wasn't common. She slipped along the corridors, occasionally being told off and to get back to work, but she slipped her way into the upper floors and with her fast memory and acute eyes, making work to remember every detail so that she could accurately trace it. Elsa stopped in front of an old worn door, it's pale paint worn away, as if it hadn't been used in a long time, she didn't enter but duly noted it in her mind. As she quickly made her way of the upper floors, she managed to find Pitch's bedroom. With this in mind she hurried away, back to the lower floors and kitchens. Eventually she had a general idea of the lower halls of the castle and some of the servants' corridors, so she headed back out after quickly discarding the uniform, she noticed Jack was still making a fuss over something, having caught the phase, "How clumsy," she looked directly at him and nodded, he smiled and they quickly went back to the cart. Kristof had spent the return journey to their lodges complaining about how unhelpful that was and he was thankful that all the clumsy issues had happened on the last delivery ad hadn't cost him any problems for his job. Elsa and Jack let him complain and mutely took it, mainly as Elsa was focused on remembering the castle and was itching to draw it before she forgot a single detail, and Jack because he was trying to stop himself from laughing over what an idiot he must have looked like to have that many girls fawning over him. Eventually they reached the original spot they met up and the two disembarked and said goodbye to Kristof and Sven before heading out on their way.
"well, did you get a good look around?" Jack asked, leading the way back to the meeting area of the gangs, that Jack had just decided to dub, 'The Hovel'. Elsa nodded, she was shocked that she managed to remember her way around as well as she had, it had been a long time, and not much had changed.
"yeah, not much changed around, good work though on keeping me out of the picture, though those girls seemed pretty keen on you," she teased him, he laughed and swung his arm around her shoulders, "we should head to the gangs, I'm not abandoning my group over this, we will need help to get in, out and kill them off," Jack nodded along with what she said,
"yeah, and we said that we would meet Manny there, so let's go and tell him what we have got so far for his plans," Jack added, this time Elsa nodded as they swiftly took the back streets. The journey there was full of surprises, mainly because as soon as they went around a corner a group of ruffians would attack them and threaten them to hand over their possessions or their lives. So a journey that in the old days that would have taken 10 minutes, ended up taking them over an hour to get where they needed to. so when they arrived at 'The Hovel' in a horrible state. Clothes with slashes in them from dodging knives in close quarters, with some nicks and cuts. Both of them were smeared with mud and goodness knows what else, from rolling around on the ground in a scuffle. Elsa's plait bun had come undone and stray hairs were hanging free and had a black eye forming. Jack had managed to get a busted lip and a dislocated shoulder and somewhere along the way his hoodie had been damaged to hang from the rest of the jumper by a thread. Bow and Dragon Whisperer had come running out towards them,
"Snow! I thought that you said you were going to be careful!" Bow raged, quickly looking over all the marks of an attack, "what did you two do, try and go in through the front gate?" Dragon asked, annoyed as he quickly went and pulled off Jack's jumper, "or is the alliance between the two of you over?" Elsa finally shook of Bow,
"actually we got jumped,"
"repeatedly," Jack added,
"yeah, repeatedly, and we defended ourselves against them, every one of them is a rookie with a blade," Elsa shrugged Jack gave a grin,
"if you think we look bad you should see some of them!" Dragon shook his head and Bow rolled her eyes,
"if they didn't then something is wrong with you, you are top after all!"
"yeah, I'm sorry, Bow, was it? But look, right now, the alliance is still on between us two and we have a meeting to conduct with Manny, so if you don't mind, we need to go," Jack steered Elsa towards 'The Hovel' before Dragon called out to him,
"yeah, Winter, that's not going to happen, I mean we did try but that idiotic Hans came in and looked in every room, there was nothing we could do to stop them, he knows about this place and uses it to his advantage, he found Manny waiting for you in a room and the guards took him," Elsa and Jack stopped walking,
"what do you mean?" Elsa asked, looking at the two of them,
"What he said Snow, Manny was taken, said to be working against the law, they have no proof as everything was kept by you two and what wasn't he had burnt but the fact he was here doesn't change a thing, he is being held in the royal dungeons," Jack and Elsa are completely silent as the news takes hold,
"What?!"
Hey, yeah, cliff hanger, I'm mean, but at least that's all that's going on, yeah, it was necessary but not too worry, it had to happen, I felt as if there wasn't enough drama.
I am so sorry, I didn't realize that this story was so over due for a chapter update, I was going, focus on school work because I'm in my last two years of school that are compulsory and the workload has increased so much, even though compared to my last four years of school I'm doing less classes, then I got dragged into another few fan doms, though I probably won't be writing any stories for them yet. Seriously, the workload has me constantly drained, if I don't have something for school (which is like, never) I have university extension course work yep, I am turning 17 at some point this year and am doing work I shouldn't be doing for another few years, oh and it's astrophysics that I'm doing, and if I have a free moment from them, (which I'm sure you can tell is probably 5 seconds) I have karate classes or I'm playing soccer. So I'm going at the start of the year, I'll update soon, the next moment I'm looking at the date and going 'IT'S BEEN MONTHS, WHERE DID MARCH, APRIL AND MAY GO?!'
Sorry for ranting, I have been super stress from my hectic life, and you at least deserve to know why this hasn't been updated recently, but I pledge to every reader, past, present and future, that I will not abandon any story I write and put up here until I have finished it, because if I do that, I can not call myself a true writer. Start writing a story, and then not finish it, is not what I do.
On a positive note, yes! 10 chapters! And to mark the 10th chapter I made a book cover! And then, if that's not stupid, I can't place it on here because of the file it's under won't be allowed! I asked a friend, so I'm going to try and get it up later, so keep an eye out for it!
Please any questions, critics, and reviews welcomed. I will even accept comments of how I am a truly evil person for not updating sooner as I deserve it (probably).
Hasta la pasta!