The princesses made their way to the north mountain at a leisurely pace, to any on lookers they must have looked an old pair ridding one great black beast and the other a small golden horse barely 14 hands.
"Elsa, are you sure you know the way? It is so dark" Merida nervously questioned.
"Well Princess, you are the one who insisted we go out at this time of the night. I do know where we are and where we are going do not fret" Elsa calmly replied.
Merida nodded and they were silent for the next ten minutes or so each occupied with their own thoughts and inner turmoil.
"Won't anyone notice us missing? Me ma will have a fit if she thinks I'm missing" Merida pipes up.
I laugh "You are just thinking about this now, I did leave a note for Anna, and she will handle everything. If anybody asks we were discussing a treaty on this ride and I was showing you some of Arendelle's assets."
This earnt me a curious glance from the princess "What assets?" Merida asked with a cheeky smile. "Anyway, when is your coronation? I'm sure mother told me, but I wasn't listening. I didn't expect the future Queen to be so interesting."
"The day after tomorrow, or I guess tomorrow since it is almost sunrise" I reply.
"Oh, you must be so busy, do you even have time to be out with me? Maybe we should go back so you can get some sleep before making your preparations" Merida said disappointedly.
"I said I have something to show and tell you so that is what we are doing" I replied in a queenly manner. "Anyway, my staff all know what they are doing there is very little for me to do but discuss the relations between Arendelle and neighbouring kingdoms, which is what we are doing," I said with a smile.
Suddenly the horses started dancing around nervously, franticly sniffing the air. The princess held on to the horses preparing just in case they bolted, looking around for what had the horses so nervous.
"There" Merida said pointing "wolves"
The princesses could see the glowing eyes of the wolves peeking out from behind the trees, preparing to attack.
"Elsa, what do we do?" Merida asks franticly.
"Run" Elsa almost whispers as she slaps Angus on the rump causing him to take off before nudging Lykke into a run. The wolves burst out of the woods chasing them, their eyes showing their intent to tear the women and horses limb from limb.
Lykke caught up to Angus, despite her small size, she was very fast. "Elsa, the wolves are catching up" Merida yells.
Elsa looked back at the wolves who were indeed getting closer, she sighted. She knew what she had to do, she didn't want to reveal her secret this way, but she really had no choice.
Summoning her power she threw a large snowball right in the face of the closest wolf. It hit square in his face causing him to stumble and fall off the path. The other wolves narrowly missed him. Elsa quickly created several more snowballs and threw them at the following wolves. Elsa knew, the snowballs would not be enough to stop the wolves. Elsa decided to haphazardly throw more snowballs no distract the wolves before turning the ground behind her to ice casing the wolves to crash into a large pile, as the horses ran away.
I was then that Elsa realised, Merida was staring at her and the horses were running towards a gorge. Quickly, Elsa urged Lykke to go faster, getting her horse to cut Angus off and change his course.
Before slowing Lykke to a more reasonable pace, Merida did the same with Angus giving him a pat on the neck.
"What was that?" Merida asked "You control the weather, that's your secret? That is what you have been so worried about?"
"Ah, just ice and snow magic. Yeah, well most people are afraid of my powers particularly at first, it's not exactly something you see every day" Elsa said sadly.
"It's just so awesome and you got rid of those wolves" Merida said excitedly.
"So you are not scared? Not at all?" Elsa asked.
"No, this has definitely not stopped me wanting to come and stay with you."
Elsa smiled "Maybe I should tell you about when my parents died and the people of Arendelle found out about my powers."
Merida nodded, but you don't have to if it is too upsetting for you."
"No I think I would like to tell you." Elsa replied.
"It all began right after Anna, I and the rest of Arendelle had found out about the death of the King and Queen. I as the new sovereign, needed to make a speech to the people and plan the funeral of my parents. Now since I was a child I was hidden away even from Anna, yes I learnt how to become a great queen. However, my parents hid me away because I couldn't control my powers and they were afraid … of me."
"Oh, Elsa I can't imagine how hard that must have been. How did everyone find out?" Merida asked.
"So I was under so much pressure and inside I was just falling apart, I had just re-met Anna and everyone was asking me so many questions. I just accidently sent frozen spikes across the floor towards my sister and the staff. I didn't hurt anyone, but I was so scared, I ran away to the North Mountain. Where we are going now but in the process I froze Arendelle, bringing an intense winter."
"Wow, then what did you do? Are you freezing Arendelle again?" Merida asked as the snow started to fall.
"No" Elsa said laughing "There is always snow on the North mountain even before I developed my powers."
"Anyway, Anna of all people came after me and I forced her to go away hurting her in the process. I realised that everything she shad said was true that I was loved and needed. I went after her and helped her and the rest of everyone thawing Anna's freezing heart and the rest of Arendelle. It was Anna who taught me how, she thawed my frozen heart. Arendelle forgave me, I learnt to control my powers, all because of Anna." Elsa finished her story with tears in her eyes.
"Elsa, I am sorry all of that happened but I still am not afraid, just very grateful to your sister. What's that Elsa?" Merida asked pointing.
Elsa smiled, "This is what I wanted to show you, this is the North Palace, I made it when I ran away."
"You made that? Can we go inside and see it? Does anyone live there?" Merida asked still looking at the palace as it began to shine in the sun, beginning to rise.
"Yes we can go inside but there is one more thing I need to tell you. Yes someone, actually many someones live there. It's hard to explant the locals say it's the snowman's palace, just please don't freak out. We need to dismount here and walk the rest of the way."
"Elsa it's still so far up, do we need to climb the cliff face?" Merida asked
Elsa who had already dismounted beckoned Merida to follow and lead the way to a gleaming ice staircase leading all the way to the palace.
"Wow, it's beautiful" Merida replied grabbing Elsa and kissing her passionately before letting go.
Elsa's face lit up "I'm glad you like it, I can't wait for your reaction to the North Palace"
The princesses made their way up the stairs and reached the doors of the palace.
"Wait here for a second" Elsa said and made her way inside the palace.
"Olaf" Elsa called as she saw no sign of any snowmen. Suddenly Snowgies exploded from everywhere chased my Olaf and Marshmallow.
"Olaf" Elsa yelled again casing all snowmen to stop finally noticing her. Olaf ran up to her followed by all the Snowgies and Marshmallow.
"Ooh, your here can I come back to the castle now? Not that I'm not having fun here" Olaf asked.
"No, not yet Olaf, I brought a guest but I want you to meet her first. She has never seen a talking snowman so, be gentle Olaf" Elsa explains.
"Ooh a guest" Olaf exclaims attempting to run outside before Elsa blocked his path "Be gentle Olaf, I'm going out first to introduce you then you can come out".
A/N: I feel bad for making wolves the bad guy, they always seem to get a bad rep, but they are fantastic animals. The scene where Elsa froze Arendelle, I had to change from the cannon to fit in with my story, I hope you like it. I am hoping you are enjoying my story so far. I am always happy to receive reviews and PM's from you all.