Ok this chapter will finally propel a bit of the plot. I'm sorry it took so long with this. I admit, partly the reason Collision was so long was because I go into really great detail or just come up with a lot of things to write. I know i'm not the best writer, but it does help me with writing. Anyway enjoy.
Karen glanced at the several representatives that she was stuck with while the Queen was doing who knows what during the festival. Actually it wasn't uncommon, she supposed that representatives appeared at meetings; she had seen them plenty of times during the years where her Queen dealt with nobles from all around Norway. As Arendelle's representative, she now knew how that felt. It was suffocating, even with the notes that she had and the coaching that the queen had provided her with. To make matters wore the people she was discussing this with, not including Corona's representative, were annoying her with how to proceed with the running of the festival while the royals were busy with the guests and having fun! Never before in her life was she this annoyed with something that her job entailed. She jus wanted to get done with the meeting so that she could go back to hating everyone in peace, maybe actually join in the festival for once. She had read a lot about it and desperately wanted to try something, but she needed to deal with the politics first. It was a good thing there weren't so many meetings that she would miss the festival for the day. After this meeting she was going to go out and have some fun actually participating in the festival. She would have fun as long as she didn't run into him. She grimaced. Life could be so hard for people some times. She could honestly fall asleep right now if she wanted too, but she couldn't because she was representing her country for the Queen. She was still young and having a fresh mind could allow for some interesting discussions, but she still needed to learn more hence why she was here, to gain the experience needed.
The only creepy thing about this meeting was two of the attendees that were here were glancing at her with a sense of…. disgust perhaps? She couldn't be too sure,, but it wasn't like they were staring at her I disgust. She was monitoring herself during the meetings. She hadn't done anything to offend them. But both of them still looked unhappy nonetheless. Well,
She knew one of them as she had met him before. King Vidar, whom she knew had a touch of a grudge against Arendelle due to Elsa not marrying his son, but that was not her fault. It was her current Fiancées fault as well the fact that they were having a child, before the said monarchs had ever met. Besides she heard that said prince of Ridgefall was happy with his new girlfriend, so why should the king disapprove when she was more than willing to marry and continue the kingdom lineage. It made no sense to her, but she wasn't going to be any less cordial because the king had it in for a blacksmith (though Karen wasn't too fond of the idea in concept either, but only because she didn't know what Elsa could see in a guy like him, after everything he had done and what he was).
The other one. The one that wasn't a king, but some sort of high-ranking official of some sort. She wasn't too sure what to think of him. Other than the fact he sported that scar and patch like some sort of crown, he had a malicious look in his eye, as if he was just that bad, but his face showed a wise representative who cared for his kingdom (which Karen couldn't recall the name of at the moment) but she honestly didn't care, she was about to fall asleep due to boredom. It really wouldn't surprise her if that was the case for everyone else; they al wanted to participate in the festival as much as the next person, but there was work to be done regardless and they were the ones who needed to do it. it was just that this guy really creeped her out and she didn't want to be near him much longer. She gingerly glanced at the clock, seeing that it was still kind of early in the morning, but they had been in this meeting for almost two hours now and she just wanted to leave.
Just how much longer until that darned Coronan representative called for a breakfast break or something. She was not happy. She was tired and hungry and would love to run out the door regardless of the consequences. She could care less about this meeting!
It seemed as though her prayers were answered as not a moment later, the Coronan representative clapped her hands together and called for the representatives to go for breakfast break (at least that was what Karen would do for her break anyway. She wanted to get to the festival and see if they had something that she could try) Karen stood up from her chair and walked out the door. She would need to organize her notes for the Queen to review later, wherever she was at the moment.
As she left the Scarred Dignitary stood up and glanced at her retreating back. He hadn't expected a representative from Arendelle to come here, but he knew that there were rumors of something in Arendelle. Something dangerous. He knew that he could not approach the Queen lest it be treason against the throne, but perhaps the councilwoman could tell him something about the rumors that he had heard about the mysterious monster that she had apparently vanquished some months ago.
Elsa Anna Rapunzel and their respective male counterparts walked throughout the busy market streets of Corona having all eaten breakfast (Kristoff had a carrot or two quickly when he met up with the others) and were none just roaming the streets looking for the best activity to try first. Much to the surprise of Anna the stores and vendors were lined with chocolate and sweet stores for everyone to enjoy.
Which was how we found both Anna and Elsa staring into a window of a sweet shop, their faces pressed up against the glasses with their tongues hanging out, panting like Sven and Kristoff if they found a bundle of carrots underneath a tree or during dinner as a surprise. Even more of a surprise was that Rapunzel was joining them, but apparently, she was busy doing the same thing while looking at hazelnut treats. Meanwhile the men in their lives were staring at them dumbfounded at the idea of their girlfriend's behavior. Even after knowing about their quirks, it never ceased to amaze them that three grown woman could be reduced to children just at the sight of their favorite food. Still it was pretty adorable and all three of them were certainly going to spend some time getting sweets for them all to enjoy later. It was just that there was so much to do that it would be better to try doing it later when they were going to have diner and return to the palace. They knew better than to let the girls buy anything now, otherwise they were going to have to carry the bags and backs of chocolate they would no doubt buy, for the rest of the day. So they were unfortunately going to have to pull the girls away from the sweets until later and actually do something together without breaking anyone's back in the process of doing so.
"Please!" Elsa cried dramatically, turning to face Ranger as he approached her. Her blue eyes were shining with tears as she glanced at him, assaulting him with a puppy dog look, a deep frown and sniffles as her lip trembled. Ranger bit his lip, trying not to chuckle and crumble under the threat of Elsa's ultimate weapon. He must not succumb he must not…
He wrapped his arms around Elsa and pressed his lips to hers, eliciting a squeak from the pregnant monarch, who wrapped her arms around his neck for balance. After a few moments Ranger pulled away "Later love. There's still so much to do and we cant have this little one fill up on just chocolate know can we" he said, patting her stomach.
Elsa blushed realizing that Ranger had used his own affections against her. She would have swore, but she would do no such thing around the baby, much less in a crowd full of people . She sighed her shoulders slumping in slight disappointment, but it would be the better thing to do to not go out and buy chocolate. She could wait a little longer before getting some more. She did have a lot of chocolate for breakfast after all.
She looked at Ranger in the eye and nodded "alright…" she moaned slightly, giving Ranger a pout. "But there better be a mountain of chocolate waiting for us when we get home." She stated. Ranger chuckled, "anything for you, snowflake" he said, before dragging Elsa away from the window.
Anna huffed following Elsa, since even if Kristoff tried; Elsa would just freeze her butt to get her to come along. But Ranger would rue the day he prevented Anna from getting her chocolate. She would make sure of it. She just needed to find the best way to be able to do it, assuming that she actually could. But the day was still young…. There had to be something here that she could do to get back at him (and not make her sister angry in the process. then again maybe she should be worrying about Rangers reaction, though he would never hurt her or Elsa for that matter)
Elsa walked down the street behind Rapunzel and Eugene, (who were serving as the guides for today) wrapped around Rangers arm with her head resting on his shoulder. It was tough trying to walk as she felt heavy due to her belly and the energy was slowly being sapped from her as a result. She was trying her best, but there may need to come a time where she could rest for a few minutes in order to get her strength back.
Pregnancy could be so hard.
There had to be something to do in this town that didn't require her to eat chocolate or do too much walking. Surely there was a show or something. She lifted her head and called out to the brunette princess leading the way "Rapunzel…"
Said princess heard her and turned to look at the pregnant platinum blond. Immediately she could tell what was plaguing Elsa and nodded "I think that there is a theater show nearby maybe we could catch a show." she suggested. It would be a great way for the group to see what the festival had to offer, and at the same time offer Elsa a place to sit in order to regain her energy so that they could go on for quite a while afterwards.
Eugene nodded "sounds good Blondie, I hear it's a double feature."
Elsa looked at them "a double feature?" she asked, very interested in what type of shows he theater would play in order to entertain guests for so long. She knew it wasn't uncommon for theaters to play multiple shows, but they could go on for hours and there was surely so much to do than just watch the show for the day.
Rapunzel nodded "they don't go on for too long, less than an hour, I believe" she said. "I know that one of them is a new play based on my story…" she stopped, glancing at Eugene with a smile… but the other one sounded scary." She trembled slightly
"Scary?" Elsa asked, "Why does it sound scary?" she didn't think that Corona would host something like that, given the circumstances. Even Rapunzel seemed uncomfortable with the idea of a scary theater production. Corona always seemed like a happy place and besides Rapunzel being kidnapped the idea of scary just didn't seem to register at all in a place like this. so why they were even considering one was just crazy, at least to her.
then again, Elsa was also not a fan of anything scary. The last thing she wanted to do was watch something that could scare her to death or something like that. she hated being afraid and she didn't want to accidently discharge a blast of ice during the play and ruin the performance for the audience
Anna and Kristoff looked at each other then at the Coronan princess and prince consort, clearly interested in what Rapunzel had to say about the subject.
Rapunzel shook her head "lets get to the theater first. I don't know how much longer Elsa can keep going like that." she said, not wanting to cause Elsa any more stress. That and she needed to work up the nerve to be able to tell Elsa and the others what the story was about. It was almost akin to some type of ghost story from what she had heard. She had been scared when she first heard it, and it hadn't been all that long ago when she had either.
The six made their way to Corona Theater, a large building where a large crowd was gathering. Thankfully being the monarchs came with the perks, and Rapunzel was able to take the group past the crowd, inside the building to the main auditorium and into the monarch's private box, which came with the added perk of the best seats and viewing in the house. Now that was some good service.
As they sat down (Elsa finally feeling some relief from walking around al day, turned to Rapunzel, ready to find out about some of the information she had about the play.
"Rapunzel, can you tell us what the two plays are about?" she asked. She might have been able to get to relax, but she didn't want to be bored sitting down with a boring play. Even Elsa had her standards. Granted it wasn't exactly like Anna, who would fall asleep at everything (which she might during this play; that is if she didn't go running from the theater
Rapunzel turned to Elsa, biting her lip. She wasn't going to be sure that Elsa would like what she had to say, but what she didn't know was that it was quite possibly the worst story for anyone of the Arendellian royal family to hear. "As I said before, one of the plays is about me. The reason that this double feature is unique, is because its close to Halloween, so they want one happy story to start out the festival and one scary one to inspire the kids for Halloween next month" she said shrugging apparently the one in charge of the play lived something similar to it a decade ago I think. Said he wrote it as a pass time or something like that."
"You think…" Eugene said, giving his girlfriend a smirk. Rapunzel rolled her eyes and sank back in her seat, choosing to ignore him. Annan and Kristoff snickered at the quarrel.
Ranger glanced at Rapunzel, slightly creeped out. What person wrote a ghost story based on some sort of myth to scare the kids at bedtime or during Halloween? It sounded quite sick, if you asked him. Well, at least Rapunzel's story couldn't possibly be bad right? Granted everyone here knew the story, but it would probably be fun to watch the adventure that Rapunzel had lived with Eugene.
However before he could question it, a voice rang out in the auditorium, , gaining the audiences attention "ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to the first play of the evening, the balled of princess Rapunzel!"
The lights dimmed and all at once actors and sets made their way on to the stage. One of them resembled Rapunzel, who was up in the tower, while the other resembled Eugene "Rapunzel Rapunzel let down your hair!" the actor said dramatically as he swished his hair back in some obnoxious manner that made Eugene seem more like a pompous jerk than a charismatic man.
Rapunzel looked appalled by the play. It wasn't that it was a bad play; it was actually quite good, but it was like it was written by someone who vaguely remembered the adventure that she had told everyone who asked. It didn't at all resemble the adventure that she had with her consort. Where was Max? The magic hair? The thugs? None of that was here. The only thing that seemed at all similar was the fact that the 'actress Rapunzel'
Meanwhile Eugene was horrified by the nose that the 'actor Flynn Rider' had. His nose didn't look at all like that of Eugene's own nose! For crying out loud could they ever get it right? They were just doing it on purpose.
However despite the vast differences between the story and the play, everyone could honestly say that it was a well-written and definitely well performed story that anyone could get enjoyment out of.
After the play was over, the sets were removed at the actors left the stage, presumably to get ready for the next play. A moment later an announcer came out. Everyone expected her to be explain the next play and to sit tight. However to everyone's surprise there was a rather odd announcement.
"Pardon for the interruption, but it seems that one of our actors has been hurt and its unable to perform. Is there anyone with sword skill out in the audience today?" she asked
Anna looked at ranger, giving him a smile "Ranger go! You can show off your skills!" she said, giving him a puppy dog look.
Ranger looked at Anna, raising a brow what was Anna trying to pull, he wasn't an actor! Was Anna really that upset over the chocolate incident that she wanted him to embarrass himself in front of the entire audience?
Well worse things have happened. He would know. He stood up, gaining the attention from everyone s he walked down the stands and too the stage. He hopped on said stage, giving the announcer a smile "I'll help" he said.
The announcer gave him a smile "thank you…"
"Josef Rangersen" Ranger said, knowing that this was probably one of those times where his legal name was to be used.
The announcer then turned to the stage " and now a word from the creator, who would personally like to thank our volunteer!"
As the announcer clapped her hands, a man came onto the stage. A man with shocking white hair, nice cloths and a scar on one side of his face.
Ranger suddenly froze as his eyes widened. Utter terror flooded his veins as he gazed at the man's face. That scar…. No… oh god! Please! No!
The man walked up to the announcer "thank you madam" he said, before turning to Ranger. It seemed he was about to extend his hand when he caught sight of Rangers face. His eyes widened in shock, before a cruel smile appeared on his face.
"Luka Fortinelli…."
I think you can all guess whats about to happen here. The scene was originally going o take place at a party, but considering the previous story had a real at the same location, I decided to change that.
I would like to point out the Rapunzel reference. I am not saying that the original story is bad, I am just pointing out how different it is from Tangled.
