Frozen Creed

A Raiding we will Go

March 1 1770

Anna stood on a window across from the Arendelle customs house. She had decided that while the smugglers information was probably accurate having actual paperwork that listed the warehouses and shipping routs wouldn't be a bad idea either. She slowly climbed down to street level and snuck around the building, and managed to pick the lock on one of the doors. She slipped into the dark and empty office and activated her eagle vision to help guide her. She saw what she was looking for glowing in the last room down the halls. She picked another lock and slipped inside and opening the file drawer found the paperwork that listed the locations of the warehouses and shipping lanes.

"This is too easy" She thought as she slipped the items into her pouch and left, making sure the doors were closed behind her.

"They can't be this arrogant" Anna thought as she looked over the files back in the sanctuary. The locations and shipping lanes weren't even encoded, but written like any shipping manifest.

"Has father become so blind that the templar's can steal what they want and without him even noticing?" She asked enraged. Then she took a breath.

"I can't do anything to fix his blindness or fear, but if he does not snap out of this soon I may have to deal with him another way" Anna thought darkly as she stared at her wrist, unconsciously extending her hidden blade.

"The brotherhood has killed leaders for less, and I have to start thinking about the kingdom, no matter the consequences" Anna thought before leaning back and sighing.

"But not tonight. I have to try and sleep. The next few days are going to be exciting" She thought as she ascended to the castle. Gerda was waiting and sighed in relief.

"I'm going to bed" Anna said.

"Sweet dreams" Gerda said as Anna went to her room and tried to sleep.

March 2 1770

The next day Anna wished her parents a warm departure and a safe return but stood at the top of the staircase and watched as Elsa gave a formal and proper curtsey, as prim and proper as anyone could want. Scoffing and biting back her anger and jealousy Anna walked toward the library.

"What is with her? She can't even act human in front of mom and dad?" Anna wondered in confusion.

"Is she trying to prove how "good" how "proper" a lady she can be? Is she trying to rub it in my face that I'll never be that kind of "proper" noblewoman, that I don't want to be?" She wondered angrily as she put on her robes.

Elsa curtsied to her parents, wishing she could hug them, but terrified of freezing them. She thought she saw someone watching them but when she turned to look, the staircase was empty. As much as being without her parents for the next few days scared her, being alone with Anna was even more frightening. She still knocked on Elsa's door regularly, still tried to connect, and it was getting harder and harder to ignore her. The thought of not having her parents their as the bulwark between them terrified her because of the temptation, the temptation to actually be able to answer Anna and talk to her without fear of her parents anger and disapproval. Once they were gone, Elsa went back into her room and curling up on her bed, thinking.

"Are you sure you have to do this?" Gerda asked as Anna finished her preparations.

"Yes" She replied shortly, still stinging over Elsa's behavior.

"It's like the warm, funny, playful sister I had is gone or maybe she never existed" Anna thought. Over the past few days she started to wonder if maybe Elsa never liked her, that their playing together was just her indulging her annoying younger sister until she was old enough to ignore. Anna shook the thought away as she turned to Gerda.

"Do you best to keep suspicion off me" She said simply and the woman nodded before stepping forward and hugging her.

"You just come back safe" Gerda said and Anna nodded into her shoulder. The woman released her and Anna turned away walking out the door toward town. Anna boarded the Skidbladner to find something different about it.

"Yer noticing the new hull" Aldric said.

"I used the money from the sale of chocolate to bolster the hull, making the old girl stronger" He said.

"So the more money we have the better we can make the ship?" Anna asked.

"Ay, and the old girl could use some updating" Aldric said.

"Then let's go get some money" Anna said and the men cheered as they raised sail into the wind.

March 4

1770

Elsa had not heard Anna knock on her door for two days. She expected with their parents gone Anna would have been pestering her non-stop, but not a peep. On the one hand it made her relieved that Anna wasn't pushing her, on the other it ripped her heart out at the fact that maybe, her sister had finally given up on ever reconnecting with her. Anna's knocks had become less frequent and Elsa was sure she had seen anger and frustration leak out of her sister's face when she thought no one was looking at her, only to put on her same happy smile when mother or father talked to her.

"Anna's reaching her limit. Personally I'm amazed she lasted this long with the lies, the cold, and the rejection." Elsa thought as she put her head in her knees and cried, ice covering her room. All Elsa wanted, more than anything, was her sister back. She wanted to play with Anna again, talk to her, touch her feel her warmth without being afraid of freezing her. Reaching under her bed Elsa pulled out the pillow she had stolen from Anna's room. She had been so desperate for any contact between them that she had not been thinking when she had snuck into her sister's room and taken it. She held it to her face, and breathed in her sister's sweet warm scent, like spring time and sunlight. She kept her face buried in the pillow as all the ice in the room faded.

Anna looked at the coast of corona through her telescope.

"I don't think those two ships are going anywhere" Anna said noting the two ships that were patrolling the coast.

"With our new hull we can take more damage, but our firepower leaves much to be desired" Aldric said.

"We've come this far. I'm not leaving without that shipment" Anna said and Aldric nodded.

"Battle stations lads" Aldric shouted as Anna took the wheel and pointed the Skidbladner toward the first of the ships.

"Fire chains" She shouted and the crippling rounds were sent aloft, hitting the first ship, tangling and mangling the sails. She kept the ship moving forward.

"Fire again when reloaded" She cried, and no sooner were the words out of her mouth than the chains fired again, crippling the ship further. She turned the ship slightly, putting the now crippled ship between her and the other able one.

"Fire broadsides" She shouted as the passed and the cannons hit the side of the ship full force.

"Fire carronades" Aldric shouted and the small mounted guns shot at the ships causing explosions that foundered the ship.

"One down captain" Aldric said as Anna felt the able ship pull up behind them.

"Damn, where'd they come from?" He growled.

"Drop oil" Anna shouted and the trail of oil hit the water the ship sailing into it. Anna swung the wheel around to face the ship.

"Fire chains" She shouted, and the chains hit the burning ship.

"Brace" Aldric shouted as fire from the enemy hit them. Anna kept the ship moving toward the enemy

"Captain, we're going to hit" Aldric shouted, and Anna nudged the wheel slightly. The Skidbladner ground against the other ships hull.

"Fire everything" Anna shouted, and felt the explosion from the cannons filter through the Skidbladner hull. The other ship foundered as well.

"Drag them in" She shouted, releasing the wheel as the crew boarded the other ship. Anna leapt across as well unsheathing her sword and stabbing a man dressed the colors of the Corona navy. She met swords with another man before parrying and stabbing him as well. Eventually the ship surrendered and they gained a few crew members and some supplies, as well as what they needed to repair the ship. By this time the occupants of the other ship had scuttled their own vessel and escaped in lifeboats.

"Alright captain, let's move on" Aldric said and they sailed toward land. The ship docked near shore and Anna swung across a line into the water. She swam to shore and silently walked up the beach. She crept into cover in a bush and examined her surroundings. The camp was circled by a wooden palisade. Anna saw a fallen tree and made her way toward it. She had never climbed on natural structures, so she had to move more slowly than she liked to walk up it to the end. She crouched and saw men walking below her. She activated her eagle vision the patrolling soldiers taking on a red hue. Seeing a building near the branch she leapt to it and crept silently across, keeping her vision up until one figure lit up in gold, the man holding the key to the warehouse. Seeing a haystack nearby she leapt from the roof into it and waited. After about five minutes the man approached her hiding place. Anna whistled, alerting the man. He walked over, and Anna leapt out, hidden blade stabbing him and pulling him into the haystack. She fished the key out of the man's pocket and rolled out of the hay diving behind the building. She looked around the corner and saw an alarm bell in the middle of the village. She ran quickly and dove behind another building. She activated her eagle vision and saw through the walls red figures patrolling. Only one was making his way to the bell, then away again. Once he was gone and Anna was sure no one would see her she ran to the bell and gut the rope. She slipped away again and quietly made her way to the warehouse. She peered around the wall to see two guards at the door. She slowly walked around the wall and toward the first guard; he barely had time to flinch before her hidden blade was in her throat, and throwing knife in the other. She breathed a sigh of relief as she unlocked the door and went inside.

"I can't carry all of this" Anna thought panicking as she looked at the supplies when she saw papers lying on a desk. She looked them over and saw that it was the right to ownership of the property for all the supplies.

"Perfect" She thought smiling as she tucked the papers into her cloths and slipped out. Another ten minutes of careful maneuvering found her sneaking back out the way she came in, and back to skidbladner.

"Well?" Aldric asked and Anna handed him the papers.

"Ha, this will do nicely. A little working and all that cargo will be ours" He said.

Okay. New chapter. For those of you wondering about the papers, I had to do something to explain a better way of getting the cargo than either leading a full scale raid like in black flag, or magically getting the loot like in Rogue.