There is a surprise announcement at the end of this chapter...

***Silence***

Timeline: After the Switch

"Elsa!" Anna yelled as she kicked open the door to Elsa's study. The sound caused her sister to jump in fright and spill ink all over her documents. With a scowl, Elsa threw a snowball at her sister's face, though she dodged it as she ran over to her sister and pounced on her.

"Anna! What could it possibly be now?" Elsa asked through gritted teeth as she tried to save some of her documents.

"I wanna play a game!" Anna said as she sat on the edge of her sister's table.

"Anna. I'm busy at the moment." Elsa said as she looked in at the documents that so were ruined.

"Oh c'mon. Don't you even want to hear what game it is?" Anna asked.

"Humor me."

"It's a game of...silence."

"You...silent?" Elsa asked before she burst into laughter, to Anna's annoyance. "Even in your sleep you're not silent."

"Hey! I'm not the one that keeps mumbling and making mini flurries in the middle of the night." Anna said with a pout.

"Yeah...yeah...but anyway, the answer is still no...I have work to do."

"Please Elsa. Canon. Just this once." Anna begged. Elsa looked up at her sister to see her pouting, her eyes wide, as she let out a small whimper.

"Are you trying to imitate a monkey?" Elsa asked. Anna gasped as she lunged at her sister and dragged her to the ground. "Anna! Get off!"

"Not until you agree to play this game with me." Anna said as she lay all her weight on her sister's back.

"Anna. Even if I did play...and I'm not saying I will, but if I did, what chance do you have against me. You can't control your rambling for five minutes. How would you keep silent for an entire day?" Elsa asked as she tried to force her sister off.

"Well then, if that's what you think, then it should be really easy for you then. C'mon please...the winner gets a prize!"

"What kind of prize?" Elsa asked as she finally managed to shove her sister off.

"Four whole boxes of white chocolate..." Anna stated with a grin.

"Okay. Where do you keep getting all this chocolate from. Are you taking them from me or the kitchen?" Elsa asked sternly. There was no way that Anna could always have access to chocolate, and if she was taking it from the kitchens or her personal stock, then she would find out.

"I have my own contacts and suppliers...I don't knick them from you if that's what you are asking." Anna replied.

"Well, what exactly are the rules of this game?" Elsa asked curiously. She knee that she would regret this in the long run, but a game to get her sister to shut up for an entire day was just too good to be true.

"Well, speaking is absolutely prohibited. Not a single word the entire day till tonight. The only things allowed are screams, coughs, growls...you know. Stuff that doesn't have any discernible form of language " Anna said.

"Discernible...how long did it take you to learn that?" Elsa asked with a giggle. Anna just rolled her eyes as she continued. "Next, no matter the circumstance, you cannot break the first rule. Even in your boring meeting or when you're talking to the council. I know there are no foreign dignitaries today, so you won't have a problem there."

"Okay...no talking allowed noatter the circumstance...what else?" Elsa asked.

"Well, instead of asking the entire staff to watch us and have you bribe them to lie to me..."

"Hey! I don't bribe anyone!"

"...I've decided that the most perfect way to keep track of each other, is to actually never leave each other's side. I'll follow you wherever you go, and you'll wherever I'll go." Anna said. Elsa just cocked a brow at this unorthodox method but decided to agree with it anyway.

"So what happens if we lose sight of each other?" Elsa asked.

"Automatic...wait...KAI!" Anna screamed out through the open door.

"Yes your highness?" Kai asked as he stepped inside the room.

"I want you to listen carefully...you will be the witness to what I am about to say." Anna said. Kai frowned at first but eventually nodded. "Right, if we shall lose sight of each other, then, BOTH of us will go without chocolate for two weeks."

Elsa gasped in horror at what her sister had just told her.

"No way! Never mind. I'm too busy anyway...plus, I don't like the thought of going without chocolate for that long." Elsa said as she sat back down.

"So you also don't like the thought of four boxes of luscious white chocolates?" Anna asked with a sneer as she leaned on Elsa's shoulders.

"I...I do but, there's just too much to gamble for such a simple prize..."

"Loser becomes the winner's servant for a day." Anna shouted out to Elsa's shock. She was honestly not expecting that wager. Anna, being her personal servant for the entire day? That sounded too good to be true. But then she remembered, that if she lost, she would become Anna's servant for a day...and that was Elsa's second worst nightmare! But the thought of having her little sister as her personal servant was just too much an opportunity to pass up.

"Are you sure about that?" Elsa asked, making sure that this wasn't some sort of trick.

"Positive! I'll even sign on it..." Anna said with a grin. Elsa nodded as she grabbed a blank contract from her desk and started writing on it. A few moments later she handed the contract to her sister.

On this day, Anna of Arendelle officially entered the silence game and wagered:

Four boxes of chocolates...

One day service to the winner of the contest.

I, Elsa of Arendelle, hereby accept the terms of this contract and officially swear to obey it.

I, of Arendelle, hereby accept the terms of this contract and officially swear to obey it.

"Just wrote your name in the blank space and we'll be good to go. Plus, we have Kai as our witness." Elsa said as she handed her sister the fountain pen. Anna nodded in response as she dipped it in the ink, and signed her name on the blank space. With a smirk, Elsa grabbed the contract and locked in her drawer. "Now, since that's done, when do we start?"

"I knew you could never resist a little game with your sister." Anna said as she shook Elsa.

"That...and I couldn't resist the temptation to have you as my personal butler for an entire day." Elsa laughed.

"We'll see who's laughing when you are the one to be serving me all day!" Anna said.

"The queen serves no one!" Elsa laughed. "So, when do we start?"

"Well, in the morning!" Anna said as she looked at the clock which read, half past eleven at night. "Why you stay up all night I will never know..."

"It's refreshing." Elsa said as she stood up and followed her sister to her bedroom.

"It'll kill you...are you staying with me tonight?" Anna asked. "I mean, Kristoff is staying with s friend in the woods tonight...so..."

"You just need to ask Anna..." Elsa said with a smile as she entered her sister's room and jumped on the bed. Within minutes, she was fast asleep, not even bothering to change. Anna gave a sigh as she saw that her sister was taking up the entire bed. With a shrug, she laid on top of Elsa's chest and closed her eyes, listening to the relaxing sound of her sister's heart.

"Your majesty...its morning!" Kai called through the door.

With a yawn, Elsa pushed Anna of her chest and sat up. She opened her mouth...

Slap!

Elsa stumbled back in shock as her sister's hand collided with her mouth. She looked at a smirking Anna who was shaking her head and signaling to her lips. Elsa's eyes widened as she realized that the game had already started.

Anna patted her sister on the head as she jumped out of bed and waltzed over to her wardrobe. She was quickly hit on the back of the head with a snowball. She turned round and was about to scream at Elsa, but held back when she remembered what she was playing. Her sister just giggled at her as she stepped out of bed and walked over to the mirror, tempting Anna to say something. Anna just ignored her as she turned around and resumed her dressing.

Elsa threw another snowball to catch her sister's attention. Anna just ignored this, knowing that her sister was just trying to annoy her so she would speak first. Another snowball hit Anna on the head as she grabbed a dress, causing her to growl as she looked at her laughing sister. Anna hid behind her dressing curtain as she removed her nightgown.

CRASH!

Anna screamed as she was buried in an avalanche of snow while still in her underwear. The ice on her body was like...well ice. Anna quickly donned on her dress before grabbing a fistful of snow and storming out of the dressing curtain, and being met by a giggling Elsa. With a scowl she threw the snowball at her sister who simply just dodged it. Anna so desperately wanted to say something, but she knew that if she lost...her sister wouldn't dare go easy on her.

Anna sighed as she walked past her sister, and tackled her to the ground, and walked out of the bedroom to have breakfast.

Dining room...

"Good morning your majesty, your highness." Gerda greeted as she watched the queen and princess take a seat. "What would you like for breakfast this fine morning?"

Elsa gestured a square with her hands before imitating the spreading of something on it. She then made gestures of drinking something. Gerda just stared at her, the expression on her face perfectly describing what she thought.

"Er..." Gerda glanced to the princess who was suppressing a giggle before looking back towards the queen. The queen just repeated her gesture to the servant, who continued to stare at the queen incredulously. "Umm, butter on toast?"

Elsa nodded in response.

"And...milk?...oh wait, hot chocolate?" Gerda asked. Elsa nodded, with a large sigh of relief, as she lay her head in her hands. "And you princess?"

Anna took a deep breath and started her gesturing. First she gestured for an egg, before doing a smilies gesture to that of Elsa's toast. She then added gestures for bacon, butter, hot chocolate, ham, more toast, water, changed the gesture for the bread since she wanted cheese instead of butter, and finally, milk. By the end of Anna's breakfast gestures, Elsa was barely holding her laughter in and Gerda was looking at Anna as if she had just been told to jump off a cliff.

Elsa so desperately wanted to ask her sister what the heck she had just signed for, but Gerda beat her to it.

"So, you want eggs, on bacon, spread on cheese, topped with toast...mixed with hot chocolate and ham, topped with water and milk..."

Elsa could barely breath since she had not stopped laughing for the last few minutes, and Anna so desperately wanted to walk up to Gerda and hit her.

"I'm sorry your highness, but that's what I interpreted." Gerda said holding back a chuckle. Anna sighed as she gestured to Elsa and indicated that she'll have to same. With a nod, she disappeared into the kitchen, leaving a giggling Elsa and a stumped Anna outside. Anna looked at her sister with a questioning look, who just giggled in response. With a roll of her eyes, Anna rested her head on the table, thinking whether it was really a good idea to bet a day of service as the prize for the winner. She had better win this because there was no way in hell she'll ever live that down.

"Hey girls..." Kristoff greeted as he entered the room. "What, no greeting?"

Elsa and Anna smiled and waved in response.

"Silent today...aren't we?" Kristoff said with a laugh as he sat next to his wife. Anna nodded as she looked at her sister, who was busy grinning evilly. "So, what are you going to be doing today dear?"

Anna Gabe a shrug of her shoulders as she gestured to the courtyard and then at the town.

"Uh...wouldn't it be better to say it rather than sign it?" Kristoff asked. Anna nodded in response as she looked to her sister who was busy staring at the two of them. A few moments later, Gerda emerged from the kitchen carrying two light breakfasts which she deposited in front of the queen and princess.

"Will that be all your majesty?" Gerda asked, to which Elsa nodded in response. She then looked at Anna but decided ask in case she ended up with some sort of hybrid sign/dance gesture.

"So uh...anyone want to talk today?" Kristoff asked as he looked between the sisters. Anna nodded, but didn't say anything, and Elsa just ignored him. "Okay...I'll just sit here and feel left out then."

20 minutes later...

"Your majesty. You are wanted in the council room immediately." Kai announced as he passed by Elsa and Anna. Elsa's eyes widened as she thought of what the council could possibly want at this time a day...then she remembered the game she was playing. She looked towards her sister...who just shook her head with a smirk, as if she knew exactly what she was going to say. With a sign, and lots of regret, she made her way to the council room to confront them in silence, her sister in tow.

At the council room...

"Your majesty...your highness?" That turned out more a question rather than a greeting. The military adviser quickly looked away as Anna started to frown at him. "So, we're sorry for such an early meeting, but there was an important topic that we had to discuss...regarding the taxes in this kingdom."

Elsa just nodded for them to continue.

"I'll make it simple...the citizens want lower taxes." Albert said. "I say...screw them. Our taxes are still lower than a majority of the kingdoms around here...they're lucky that we don't charge much for taxes because we don't spend much on our infrastructure."

"Exactly! Our military expenditures are less than our private expenditures, because we have virtually no military..." One of the advisers laughed causing adviser to scowl.

"Anyway, what exactly is your opinion on this your majesty?" Albert asked. Elsa looked once more at her sister, who still shook her head, before looking at the councilmen. Elsa took a deep breath as she gave a thumbs up and a smile.

"Er...so...is that a yes?" Albert asked in confusion as to why the queen wasn't speaking, and got even more confused when the queen nodded instead of actually answering yes. "Your majesty, I don't mean to be rude or anything, but wouldn't it be easier to actually speak rather than gesturing?"

Elsa looked at Anna then back at Albert, and nodded with a frown...before gesturing back to her sister. Albert looked between Elsa and Anna before sighing. Of course this was Anna's doing. Elsa wouldn't do something like this on purpose, well, jot unless she had a good reason behind it.

"Okay then...so, should we raise the taxes...keep them as it is...lower them?"

"Assassinate anyone who complains..." One to the guys suggested.

"Marvin!" Albert snapped. "Anyway, your decision your majesty?"

Elsa put up two fingers indicating she chose the second suggestion. Albert nodded in response.

"So...put taxes up by 2 percent." Albert said to Elsa's shock. She shook her head as she put up two fingers again. "Put taxes down by two percent?"

By this time, Elsa was starting to get annoyed as she repeated the same gesture again.

"What is she saying?" A councilman asked.

"Make two new taxes?"

"Assassinate two people?"

"Put up taxes by two gold pieces?"

"Make peace?"

"Fire two councilmen? I say we fire the military adviser and the prime minister..."

"In a second, I'm going to set you on bloody fire!"

"I think she wants scissors..."

"What? I thought she was signalling to end the meeting."

"The universal signal to end a meeting is a sword up the prime ministers ass..."

"No...that's the signal for a new government. To end a meeting is usually punching someone in the face."

"It looks like queen Elsa wants to hit someone...her face is so red..."

"Wait, that symbol. Don't men usually use that to refer to a woman's..."

"Okay! I think that's enough..."

"You are all retards. She's clearly signalling for the second option that Albert gave which is no change in taxes."

"Bullshit...I think...wait...queen Elsa is nodding...I think that's the right answer...my god you were right!"

"TELEKINESIS!"

"I think you mean telepathy..."

"WHAT HE SAID!"

Elsa just slammed her head onto the table as Anna laughed away on the floor next to her. She had never known so many idiots in her life...until know.

"So...how about we now discuss our trade relations with out allies?" A councilman asked. He was quickly hit in the face with a watermelon sized snowball. "Maybe not...meeting dismissed."

"Elsa dear. I've been looking all over for you...how are you?" Nicholas asked. He could have sworn that her eyes twitched in annoyance, but he pushed that thought aside as Elsa nodded and smiled. "So...wanna go out to town for a while?"

Elsa's eyes widened as she shook her head, but she was quickly pushed out of the way by an eager, and nodding Anna.

"Great! I'll go get Kristoff." Nicholas said as Elsa groaned and put her head in her hands. As if things couldn't get any worse, she now had to go into town and couldn't speak the entire time...and she was almost certain that Anna wouldn't make this easy for her.

At the castle bridge...

"Judging by the way you two have been acting...I'm guessing that this was Anna's idea and you've been dragged into this..." Nicholas said. Elsa and Anna nodded in response. "And...I'm guessing, that Anna must have bet something so insane that you couldn't resist truing to win.."

Elsa nodded again. She them pointed at the servants passing by before pointing to her sister.

"Oh...so Anna becomes a servant... WOAH! The loser becomes the winner's servant?" Nicholas asked. Elsa nodded. "Anna! You have to win...uh I mean...I'm rooting for both of you." He corrected noticing the glare Elsa was giving him. "Cmon. Let's go into town."

Elsa followed the two men silently, she didn't have a choice, into the town, her smiling sister following right next to her. Anna was gonna make sure she would lose this thing, so she had to think of her own strategy to win. Maybe if she threw enough snowballs at her...

Her thought was interrupted when she noticed that they were standing in front of the local chocolate shop. She watched as her sister brought a small box of chocolates and handed it to Nicholas.

"Elsa...you want? Yes or no?" Nicholas asked. Elsa nodded in response but Nicholas just frowned. "I'm sorry...I don't understand sign language...is that a yes or a no?"

Elsa began to growl in annoyance as she attempted to snatch a piece from the box in Nicholas's hands, though he pulled away at the last moment. Elsa quickly crafted a snowball and chucked it at Nicholas's face, and grabbed the box as it fell.

"Elsa!" Nicholas growled as he wiped the snow off his face to reveal a laughing queen.

A few hours later...

By the time Elsa got back to the castle, she was blushing in embarrassment. Anna had deliberately dragged her tot the busiest part of town. Over three dozen citizens had tried to talk to her and all she could do was nod or shake her head. She dared not start gesturing randomly as the people might have though she had gone insane. Several guards and even a visiting dignitary had tried to talk to her, but to no avail. All they got were head shakes and random gestures which had left them feeling weirded out by the end of the encounter. She knew that Anna had deliberately led her on this route, and it had taken all of her patience and willpower to stop her from speaking and losing the contest.

Anna tapped her sister on the shoulder as she pointed towards the stables. She then gestures to the surrounding forests and Elsa automatically interpreted this as her wanting to go horse riding. Since Anna would always end up getting her way and not accompanying her would automatically mean no chocolate for two weeks, she had no choice but to go with. Even worse was that, Kristoff and Nicholas had already separated from them earlier on meaning that she had only Ber sister to rely on...which from past events, wasn't the best of things.

Anna pulled Elsa towards the stables where rhea and Venus were already waiting for their riders. With a sign, Elsa mounted her horse, Anna immediately following. With a silent roar, Anna commanded her horse forward. Elsa's just stood there waiting. Elsa looked at her sister who was a couple of feet away, a smirk etched onto her face, as she stared at Elsa's horse. She immediately knew why her horse didn't run and that was because hers didn't understand gestures or silent commands, unlike Anna's.

Elsa tried to command her horse to move, but it just stood there. She looked back towards her sister who was giggling silently on her own horse. Anna looked back at her desperate sister and, with a roll of her eyes, gestured for Elsa to ride with her. At first she hesitated, but realizing how intent Anna was, and that Venus wasn't going to go anywhere without a vocal command, she dismounted her horse and mounted behind Anna instead. With a small nod, Anna commanded her horse to take off towards the forest.

Little did Elsa know, this was what Anna was planning all along...and she had completed the final step.

In the forest...

Elsa sighed as she began to fall asleep. The slow waltz through the forest was proving too boring...even for her. She laid her head on her sister's shoulder as she began to droop off, unknowing that Anna was about to pull of the most insane stunt to get her sister to lose.

When Anna was certain that Elsa had closed her eyes but not fallen to sleep, she gently patted rhea on the head in a specific pattern. Rhea nodded in response knowing exactly what Anna commanded, since at a young age, she had trained rhea to understand silent commands in case stealth was required. And now, to put the plan in action. Anna slowly closed her eyes as she leaned back slightly, not enough to push her sister off, but enough to wake her. At the same time, rhea started to walk faster, which turned into a gallop, then into a run...and then finally, she was sprinting at top speed.

...

...

...

Elsa groaned as she slowly lifted her head off Anna's shoulders. She looked around at the trees as they whizzed by, the wind howling in her ears. Elsa slowly snooker her sister...who did not respond. Elsa was getting very concerned now at this speed which was nearly twice as fast as her own horse. She held onto her sister's waist tightly as she started to shake her again...but still no response. Now elsa was panicking. She tried to grab the reins but they were told far. She then crafted a small burst of snow in front of the horse in an attempt to scare it to slow down, but it didn't work, and to her horror, rhea actually sped up. Now she was really panicking...reflected by the ice forming on the trees and ground behind her.

She shook Ber sister violently but she still did not move or wake at all. She was really unconscious. She wanted to scream...but the competition...what if Anna hears her...she would lose.

Those thoughts vanished when she saw the massive drop ahead of them. Elsa's eyes widened when she realized that going off that cliff would mean instant death and there was no way in heck that a competition was more important than her and her sister's lives. She had no choice...competition...or death...

"ANNA!" Elsa screamed as loud as she could into her sister's ear causing her to jump in fright. With a smile, she quickly gave rhea her secret pat, causing her to slow down and stop quite a distance from the cliff.

"Good girl..." Anna said as she patted her horse on the head. She could feel her sister's breathing on her back as she turned around and was greeted by a fear stricken Elsa. "Are you alright?"

Elsa slowly nodded as she calmed down.

"Well...I guess I won...you didn't seriously think that i was going to run us off a cliff did you?"

"Wait...so this was all a set up?" Elsa gasped. The grin on her sister's face told her everything she needed to know. "Aaaaannnaaaa!"

"What?" Anna laughed. "I didn't say how we could win...I just said that the loser was the one to speak first...and you spoke first!"

"I spoke first because I thought you were going to run us off a cliff!" Elsa screamed.

"Well, its not exactly against the rules...we never said what we could do and what we couldn't so, this was perfectly within the boundaries of this game...plus...if you didn't speak up, I would have stopped rhea by that tree anyway..." Anna said as she patted her sister on the shoulder. "I took advantage of how gullible you are...who's the smart one now?"

"Nearly running us to our death is not smart!"

"We were never in danger. Neither me nor rhea is stupid!"

"You cheated!"

"Did not! I won fair and square...and you know what that means..."

"Oh no...if I give you our kingdoms chocolate supply, will you forget it?"

"I already have access to our kingdoms chocolate supply...and even if I didn't...I wouldn't accept that trade...so, I'll give you three days to prepare...then...its service to the princess of Arendelle for 24 hours!"

"Sometimes...Argh.!"

At the castle...

"So...who won?" Nicholas asked as the two girls entered the room. He watched as Elsa grumpily walked past him, while a smiling Anna cheerfully walks besides her. "Never mind...I think I already know..."

"This is going to be downright hilarious..." Kristoff laughed.

Elsa was going to lose all her dignity on that day...and Anna was going to ensure it!

-Athena of wisdom: for the idea of a silent game between Elsa and Anna. Not sure if this is what you expected.

Thanks for all the reviews to 'Mayhem in Solaris' and to my last chapter. And you don't need to apologize for long reviews since I love long reviews much more than one liners...not that i don't like those as well.

Anyway, since I've gotten quite a fair amount of reviews and followers for this fanfic, I've decided to give you a surprise as a way of showing my gratitude to you, my fellow readers. I've posted the first chapter to the sequel.

No...that's not a typo...i shit you not...I have posted the first chapter to the sequel. Its not very long, and its an extraordinarily unorthodox way to start the story, but, I love suspense so...this will make a break from traditional story beginnings.

-TacticX (a.k.a. King William of Arendelle.)