This is an adventure story about love, friendship and family. It is mainly Kristelsa, however many other relationships will be involved
I don't own anything related to Frozen, Disney or pretty much anything...
Since these characters are from disney I will abstain from making them curse or enter in too intimate moments so be warned. They might also break into songs (Most of the songs will be from other disney movies, some will be from other movies and some will be non-movie song. I own none of them).
Okay, here is another chapter. Hopefully I'll upload the next one faster, but I've been haven a rough time at college so my time hasn't really been mine... I apologise for that. I'm very thankful for your reviews and don't worry, I might take a little longer to upload but I intend to see this story to it's very end.
_Darkest Dusk or Come_
Elsa wasn't pleased with the news of Kristoff's absence; mainly because she assumed immediately that this was an excuse to leave and spend time with his secret new love, and partially because she disliked being away from him.
It had only been two days and while Anna was still around to keep company for the queen the administration problem was taking more time from the princess than she had initially thought it would, as a consequence the two sisters had barely any time to spend together.
Elsa stood beside Anna at the docks, only accompanied by Lord Rikkard and four of the castle guards, a ship was visible at the distance; Corona's flag swayed far above the mast.
"Where you able to organise everything for their arrival?" the queen asked her sibling
"Stop worrying Elsa, I've everything ready for 'Punsie and Eugene" the princess answered nonchalantly
"And how is the work going with Master Rolf? I've been informed that it's turning harder than expected" Elsa tried to sound casual, she had never really spoken with Anna about Work, but councillor Rolf spoke highly of the princess assistance and Elsa wanted to confirm it.
"Oh, you know… We came up with a patch-solution yesterday, Rolf is working on it so I have to meet him today, after I show 'Punsie to her room" Elsa was surprised by her sister's calmness, she seemed like an expert, the realisation brought a smile to her face
"I guess I should apologise, I never trusted you with this and you've proven to be far better than I am"
Anna laughed awkwardly "Oh please… I don't have half as much work as you do, of course I can manage" the princess felt a warm feeling inside her
"Don't be modest Anna… you are doing an excellent job, I know you are"
The princess hooked her arm around her sister's -luckily- while her sister was colder than usual, her powers were under control.
"I'm glad we are closer now"
Elsa had a small smile, she squeezed her sister's hand "Me too" she answered, trying not to think about Kristoff and how her secret could easily ruin her relationship with her sister.
"Elsa! Anna!" Rapunzel rushed down from the ship and jumped into a strong embrace with the two Arendelle sisters, squeezing them tightly. Anna returned the hug with equal energy, but Elsa was frightened by the sudden touch of her cousin.
Afraid of hurting her accidentally the queen gently pushed her cousin away "It's wonderful to see you again Rapunzel" greeted the eldest
The princess of Corona parted from the youngest sister and slightly bowed at Elsa "It's great to see you too, Elsa" Anna rolled her eyes at their formalities-
"Where is Eugene?"
The brunette princess shrugged
"Inside, I guess… he was getting our stuff ready" the princess turned to Rikkard-
"It's wonderful to see you again, Lord Rikkard" the elder bowed solemnly
"Your grace. It is an honor"
Rapunzel giggled "Oh Rikkard, you really don't have to bow" she dismissed
"Formalities are always needed, your highness" informed the elder, the queen nodded in approval
"I agree, and as formalities demand, we must show you to your room"
"Okay-" Rapunzel turned to the queen "We just have to wait for Eugene"
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After a couple of minutes the prince descended the ship
"Thank God you've finally arrived, We're tired of waiting for you" the man chuckled at his wife's scold
"It's not my fault that you brought such an enormous amount of dresses Blondie" Eugene turned to Anna and Elsa, and did a quick, plain bow-
"Your highness. Anna. It's a pleasure to see you again-"
"How come I'm just Anna?" the princess asked feigning offence, the queen chuckled
"Well, last time I called you by a title you told me not to be so formal… you should make up your mind Freckles" the princess smiled at his comment and hugged him
"I've missed you"
"It's great to see you again"
The queen eyed at the man with caution, during the week before the dignitaries left she had spent a lot of time with her cousin and her husband and they had grown close, but she was still wary of him, she didn't know him as well as she knew Rapunzel
"The pleasure is ours, Prince Eugene"
He eyed her seriously "You don't have to call me Prince, your highness"
"Very Well, but Only if you call me by my name" she offered, the man nodded compliantly.
"Well, now that everyone's here we can return to the castle" announced the princess, and the four royals made their way back to the castle.
"...Where is Kristoff?"
A crash echoed across the dinning room, the three heads turned to the queen, Elsa was staring at the the pieces of the glass and it's spilled content
"Elsa are you alright?" her head shot back at Anna
"I-um… yeah" Rapunzel and Eugene stared with confusion, Anna sighed with a smile; she turned to her cousin and her husband-
"About Kristoff… he is on a field inspection or something- and, well… I think it is important to let you guys know that we're no longer courting"
"What!?" the two royals gasped in surprise
Anna nervously started fidgeting with her fingers "He… told me he couldn't be with me anymore…" she explained
Eugene looked horrified "Why?!" Rapunzel was silent, gaping in shock
"…Well… he explained to me that it was unfair of him to continue our relationship… because he fell in love with another woman… "
Elsa flinched unintentionally at the mention of the other woman "...and Anna- for some reason- forgave him and they are still the best of friends"
Rapunzel's gaze shifted from Anna to Elsa "Well of course they are still friends, I mean… he didn't do anything wrong, right?"
"He could've fell in love with Freckles, that was what he had to do" Elsa nodded in approval at Eugene's answer
"But you can't force someone to love you" replied the brunette princess
"Of course you can, does anyone know whom this woman might be?"
The queen's gaze landed on her sister "He told Anna" she answered dryly
The couple had already calmed down, the prince looked at the strawberry blonde "...And?" the princess avoided their eyes looking at the food on her plate
"I can't tell you" she answered, her voice reaching barely above a whisper
"Okay… then we won't ask further, we can interrogate Kristoff once he get's back" Eugene chose to comply with his wife, and the royals continued their meal
After a couple of minutes the room was in absolute silence
"...I have to admit this soup is incredible, I simply have to ask the recipe to the cook and bring it back to Corona. I'm sure that our head-cook will be able to do it"
The three girls started to giggle at the prince's poor attempt to change topic and break the awkward feeling that was building up, and as the giggles continued, the prince's plan was successful.
"Checkmate-" Rapunzel smiled widely at Elsa "-You know… you are by far the best player I've faced, Elsa"
The queen frowned at her cousin "When you told me to play chess I thought it was going to be more like playing against Anna, I guess I was too careless-" she smiled "-How did you learn to play?"
Rapunzel shrugged "I've played for as long as I can remember… but I've only become better the past few years, Pascal wasn't very good at chess so he wasn't a very good practice buddy"
The two royals had been playing for hours, Anna and Eugene were long gone and the night was closing in-
"Um... hey, can I ask you a question?"
Elsa curiously tilted her head "Of course, what's the matter?"
The princess eagerly scurried her chair closer to her cousin "What's your opinion about this whole- Kristoff broke up with Anna- thing?" Elsa shrugged with a smile
"I'm not really sure, I'm trying to be a good sister for Anna, if she wishes to remain close to him I will support her"
Rapunzel straightened on her chair, slightly surprised "So you approve it?"
"Oh dear God, No. I don't approve it all, in fact, I think it is a preposterous idea- I still can't believe he is able to do something like this to her. After everything she has done for him, he just goes on and falls in love with someone else... that's not right"
The princess giggled at her answer "Do you know why it might have happened- how did he fell in love?"
The queen shook her head "I'm still trying to figure out myself"
Rapunzel pondered about it for a moment, she spoke without looking at Elsa "Do you think he would've fallen in love with this girl before Anna left?"-
Elsa had never really thought about it, in fact, she hadn't thought about it at all. The blonde quickly shook her head again "I think he would've told Anna before if he had, but I can't really know…" the princess looked intrigued
"Did he seemed like he was into someone while Anna was gone?"
"N-No… in fact, he spent most of that time in the castle, helping Agathon and the other councillors" Elsa was perfectly concealing her doubt, Rapunzel's face lit with a sudden realisation-
"Elsa… Did you, by chance... fell in love with Kristoff?" she asked bluntly, the beginning of a smile resting on her face
The Queen froze; but before it became noticeable she gracefully faked a good-humoured look "H-How can you even suggest that?"
Rapunzel chuckled "I don't know… I guess I was just curious, it would've been an interesting twist" she admitted with a smile, the queen stared at her with a feigned quizzically look across her face
"How would that even turn out?" she wondered with a smile, Rapunzel shrugged-
"I think you would make a great couple"
Elsa calmly stood from her chair "Because of the hair?-" she suggested, her cousin only laughed "-Can you imagine how that would even work out, what would Anna think?" the queen did her best to sound natural
The princess' gaze was fixed on the chess board "I think she would be happy" the queen involuntarily snorted as she slowly made her way to the door
"I think she would be furious, I could never risk my relationship with her by doing something as foolish as falling in love with Kristoff" the queen gave a nervous glance at the princess and saw her bright green eyes looking directly back at her
"That's why you are hiding it?" she asked, more seriously this time, Elsa was at a loss of words before the big green eyes; she forced a chuckle
"...I told you, I am not in love with him"
The gaze of the princess saddened "Okay, If you say so…-" Elsa exhaled with relief "-I wish you could trust me more though" she added with a comprehensive smile, the platinum blonde swiftly closed the room's door
"Alright!-" she cried anxiously "-Just… please don't tell Anna" she begged as she turned to her cousin
The brunette princess rose from her chair with a gleeful smile "Of course not"
Elsa gazed at her, slightly regretting having to tell her about her secret love "I… I don't know where to start…"
Rapunzel walked up to her and gently took her shaking hands, an understanding look crossed her green eyes, a smile crept into the queen's smile as a warm feeling of reassurance beamed from the princess "You can take your time; just start from the beginning…" she suggested tilting her head with a smile shrug.
The queen took a deep breath before she started explaining Rapunzel the story behind the secret that had been troubling her for days.
Anna was on her bed doing her best to sleep, it had been an exiting day. Rapunzel and Eugene had arrived at Arendelle, the patch-solution for the administration issue had been more successful than she had initially expected and Elsa had even complimented her ability.
The castle's absolute silence was interrupted by a soft wail that made the princess jump from her bed, she looked around the pitch black room; fear slowly building up inside of her
"O-Olaf?" she called out softly, hoping that the source of the strange sound came from the jolly snowman on a mid-night adventure, but there was no answer, the princess shook the fear away and laid on her bed again.
After a couple of minutes the soft wail echoed through the room, Anna instinctually covered herself with her blankets -Calm down Anna, It's just your imagination- she told herself.
The princess was just about to drift off to sleep when a third wail reached her ears.
Anna jumped out of the bed, determined to find the source -her eyes quickly fixed on a curious green light coming from beneath the bottom rail of her door, the princess armed herself with courage, reached for her doorknob- nervously wondering what might await for her outside her room.
With one deep breath she swiftly opened the door, only to find a small gleaming green sphere floating in front of her
"Come…" called a wailing voice
Anna froze; fear gripping over her, she tried to return to her room but she couldn't move her body, the sphere slowly flew across the hallway, The princess struggled with her body as she involuntarily began to follow the green sphere
As the voice echoed once again "Come…" Anna had lost entire control over her body, unable to manifest any sort of protest against the possessing influence of the orb, she could only watch as her bewitched body followed the sphere outside the castle.
Kristoff sighed in exhaustion, he was preparing some of the equipment for the next day, it had been an incredibly tiring day, but the work had progressed better than expected
This was going to be the first harvesting season for the -newly created- oficial Arendelle Ice Guild and it had to be productive, luckily the new recruits had proven to be surprisingly cooperative.
He stared into the night sky, Sven was soundly sleeping at his side by a pile of hay, he sat beside his reindeer friend, thinking about Elsa and Anna he closed his eyes and his mind slowly drifted into sleep.
Kristoff stood upon absolute darkness, nothing could be seen or heard, he was obviously dreaming.
A moment passed while Kristoff looked around him tying to find anything amongst the dark scape, until his gaze landed on a familiar figure that stood before him, it was Grand Pabbie
"Kristoff" he called out
"G-Grand Pabbie?"
The troll elder slammed the floor with his staff making the ice harvester jump out of surprise "Wake up, come and find me. Hurry!" he ordered firmly
As soon as the word reached Kristoff he was instantly awoken from his dream
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The ice harvester quickly stood up and nudged Sven "Sven! buddy wake up!-" the reindeer opened his eyes slowly, grunting at his friend "-We have to go see Pabbie, Now!" he explained, the reindeer stared in utter confusion but ultimately chose to comply with him.
The two friends walked out of their shed, Kristoff jogged to the nearest shed and knocked the door
"Who is it?"
"Wulf, it's me, Kristoff. Listen, I have to go away for an emergency and I'll leave you in charge, okay?" the blonde didn't bother in waiting for an answer, he quickly climbed on Sven's back and the couple rushed down the mountain.
Grand Pabbie had never appeared on his dreams before so Kristoff wasn't sure of the troll's intentions, but there was something every troll -or foster troll in his case- knows. If the elder called for you on your dreams, you have to obey his calling immediately, because it means something important happened.
That's all for now, I hope you like it and I'm really sorry about the delay
Elsa is having a rough time coping with Kristoff being away and spending less time with Anna, luckily her cousin came to visit, and Unluckily things went sour that same day. What will happen to Anna now that she has been possessed/kidnapped by a green sphere of evil. Hopefully I'll update soon.
-Side note: As I've already mentioned, in my headcannon, Frozen takes place after Tangled ever after, which means that Rapunzel is 21 years old and has already been living as a princess for three years. So yeah... this Rapunzel is a couple of months older than Elsa, but she is not the oldest princess that will be introduced.
-Other side note: Grand Pabbie can appear on people's dreams to warn them about stuff, but only for a short moment.
-Other other side note: Master Rolf is the Master of Administration and Culture
I can't express how honoured I am for your time
Have a good day.