A/N: Yay! New chapter time, and so soon! I did not know that was possible. :D Anyway, this one should be quite funny, I hope. It's definitely one of the shortest chapters, but I hope you still like it! Here's a shout-out to the guest ILoveKitties and another guest for reviewing. You're awesome! :D Well, thanks for reading!
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Enjoy!
-MagicFireTiger
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
SNOW QUEENS AND FLYNN RIDERS
Rapunzel watched from the sidelines as each side advanced. She had to shield Melody and herself once from a flying snowball, and that scared her enough to decide not to participate in the game. Except for one snowball. That one she just had to throw. Especially well it was right in the middle of Eugene's face and she knew he had never felt anywhere near as cold in his life… not counting Elsa's coronation.
Eugene winced and looked at his wife, shouting at her, "That hurt!" before being hit by another snowball, this time in the side of his head. Looking to see who had thrown it, he noticed Anna laughing at him. "Oh, it is on!" he yelled, quickly grabbing a snowball from the pile of them nearest to him and throwing it in the direction of Anna.
However, Kristoff had moved into his line of fire at just that moment and got hit on the top of his head with the snow. Amidst the air filled with whizzing snowballs being tossed from either side, he stood there. Then he slowly nodded towards Eugene and tackled him.
"Nonononono—" Eugene then attacked him and got in the middle of some sort of weird men battle that can't really be described, except that all of the boys ended up cheering them on and the girls were trying to get their attention back to the battle.
"Ugh, what in the world of worlds are they doing?" Anna asked in an exasperated voice.
"I have no clue," Tiana said.
"We need to get them back into the fight!" Belle exclaimed loudly.
"Yah!" the others agreed.
"Here, I'll see if this works." Merida made the biggest snowball of the day, and, after carefully aiming in the direction of where both Eugene and Kristoff would get hit, she launched it into the air. It landed smack dab on top of both of their faces, and, turning them, they both raced to get started on some serious snowball fighting.
"That's more like it!" Merida shouted, before ducking behind the snow wall to avoid getting hit by a snowball sent in her direction.
Elsa was laughing her head off. This was completely ridiculous, and one of the strangest things she had ever done. Of course, she had had snowball fights when she and Anna were little, but never with this many people before and it had definitely never been nearly as vicious as this!
Scooping up a pile of snow, she carefully made it into a round snowball. And, with ever so much skill, Elsa aimed and threw it straight at Nathan. He was hit in the side and turned furiously on her, throwing snowball after snowball at her, showering her with the solid water.
The only drawback to this, in Elsa's case, was that she could not see exactly where she was hitting, and was slowly being 'blinded' by the snow. However, she was also laughing, and realized that she had never had this much fun in her life. Ducking her head, finally remembering the wall that she and her fellow Snow Queens had built so carefully, she scooped up a large pile of snowballs in her left arm. And then she started throwing them as though she could never stop. Elsa's arm was on fire, zooming around in circles and whizzing around and around while firing snowballs in every direction she could.
If you would like to better imagine what this would look like, you had better watch the movie "Elf". This was basically what Elsa was like. Soon, most of the Flynn Riders had ducked below the wall, some of them saying things like, "Cheater!" or, "Not fair!" However, Elsa's arm soon gave out and the fight was back to normal.
At least, as normal as a snowball fight can get. People were practically trying to kill each other, never backing down except literally when not wanting to be hit by a flying snowball. Rapunzel could not tell which side was winning, it was so crazy and snow was everywhere. She did start having to duck quite a bit more often, and protect Melody as well. This was getting a bit more dangerous than she had anticipated. But only just a bit.
After starting to feel rather bored, she decided to help her team a bit more than just with moral support. She knew that none of the Flynn Riders, not even the most 'boy-like' of them, would ever throw a snowball purposefully in her and Melody's direction. So, using this knowledge to her advantage, Rapunzel bent down as best she could with a very large belly and small baby in her arms, and grabbed a pile of snow. She constructed it into kind of a lopsided snowball, and then threw it in the direction of the boys.
Rapunzel was pleased to hear what sounded like the word, "ouch" come from where the snowball had landed. She was then content with just watching for a while until every so often Rapunzel would launch a snowball at the Flynn Riders, mostly her very own Flynn Rider.
She looked at her team, and there she saw Nya and Mary, both expertly constructing snowballs in there small hands. Then they threw them at just the crowd of boys. Rapunzel thought she could hear Nya saying something like,
"No, I don't want to hit Kristoff. He's too nice. I don't hurt nice people."
Rapunzel smiled at this. Nya was just too cute! She looked down into her arms to see that Melody was alright. Fortunately, she was cooing happily and the Coronian princess was glad. She sighed contentedly, but then, in the distance, very far off, she thought she saw something. Over the heads of the battling snowball throwers, far up on a very tall hill but hidden mostly by a pile of bushes and trees, was a tall figure. Looking more closely, Rapunzel thought she saw a hint of green where the eyes were. And that red hair looked very familiar.
She gasped. Could that really be that person? Could it really be that traitor? Could it really be him? Rapunzel shook her head to clear it, closing her eyes in the process. When she looked up again, the figure was gone.
This left Rapunzel very troubled. However, she had no time to brood over this because the battle seemed to be growing more and more vicious by the second. Snowballs were flying more violently, harder, and in more numbers. But nobody seemed to be getting tired at all. Indeed, the Snow Queens and the Flynn Riders seemed to be growing more and more exhilarated and excited. It did not seem to matter how many times they got hit in the face, head, neck, chest, or any part of their bodies, really.
Rapunzel had to shield herself even more and backed away towards the castle, sitting on a snow covered bench after having wiped the frozen water off. After a minute, Nya came to join her. She was panting and laughing and had a huge smile on her face.
"Hi," she said.
"Hi," Rapunzel said in reply, looking at her. "Getting kind of tired out already?"
"No," Nya said resolutely. "Just need a break."
"Ah," Rapunzel said. "I see."
After about a minute of sitting, Nya suddenly jumped up and back into the fray. Rapunzel sighed and looked down at Melody, thinking about how wonderful it would be when this would be her own baby.
And then, she felt another kick in her stomach. Rapunzel put a hand to it and smiled contentedly. "You like the snowball fight, huh, baby?" She felt another kick in reply. Rapunzel looked down at her belly and knew that everything was going to be OK.
Meanwhile, the war was still raging ever more fiercely. Elsa seemed to be bruised all over, and her hair was coming out of her neat bun she had done it up in earlier that morning. She was laughing and seemed to be hitting mainly Nathan, and he seemed to be hitting only her. It was basically a private battle inside a larger one, which, actually, really, it was.
After a few more minutes, Nathan pretended to faint behind the Flynn Riders' wall, making Elsa laugh even harder. She then had the sudden erge to run at him and tackle him. Which is exactly what she did.
Elsa leaped over the wall, through the no-man's land, and onto the other side of the boys' snow barrier. And then she actually did tackle Nathan, who had been starting to stand up, in a very unqueenly-like way. With a shout of surprise, he fell, with her on top of him. And then the most unthinkable thing happened.
They kissed.
Elsa was not sure what exactly was going on, if she was the one who had started it, or him. All she knew was that she had only known him for a few days and never even really talked to him much, and she was in bliss.
And that was how the war between the Snow Queens and the Flynn Riders ended, with one soldier from each side coming together in the middle of the battle and kissing.
"Whoa." This was the only word spoken, and it came from Anna. Everyone was staring at the couple, who broke apart after about three seconds. They looked around, blushing, and then got up.
"Excuse me," Elsa said, clearing her throat. "Umm…. Shall I have the cooks get some hot chocolate for us?" she asked the crowd at large.
Rapunzel was the first one to move. "Yes, and I can teach them this recipe for hazelnut soup that everyone will enjoy!"
This roused everybody from their trances, and they all nodded their heads or said things like, 'yes' in reply.
"Good!" Rapunzel said decidedly, and then handed over Melody to Ariel again. "Here, she's so sweet!"
Ariel smiled at her and said, "Thank you."
Rapunzel grinned back and then went to find her husband. "Eugene!"
"Over here!" Eugene joined her. Now everyone was on their way to the palace. Coincidentally, it was now lunchtime and everyone was starving. They had been battling for hours and were now ready to be rewarded by hot chocolate and hazelnut soup.
"Who actually won, though?" This came from Merida.
Cinderella, who was standing next to her, said in reply, "I have absolutely no idea."
Meanwhile, Anna was still in slight shock at Elsa. "What came over you, there?" she inquired of her sister, who just shook her head.
"I don't know, Anna," she said. "I really don't know."
Anna shook her head. "Well, at least you've known him for longer that just fifteen minutes, right?"
"I could swear it was five."
"No, fifteen."
They both giggled, and then lapsed into silence once more.
After a few minutes, Rapunzel came rushing over to the two sisters.
"Elsa, Anna," she said distractedly.
"What is it?" they said at the same time.
"I need to talk to you," Rapunzel said.
They both looked at her. "Yes?" Elsa asked, raising an eyebrow. She seemed to be acting perfectly normal, besides the fact that she had just kissed someone for the first time in her life. On the lips.
"Elsa, you know how you said something about Hans starting the fire the other day?"
The queen was listening closely now.
"I think I saw him, up on the hill over there, during the snowball fight." Rapunzel pointed in the direction behind the castle that she had seen the figure in earlier.
"Hmm, we'll have to be on a lookout for him." Elsa tried to sound as though it wasn't a huge issue, but inside she was shocked. Her hope and knowledge that everything was perfect was now shattered, and she was struggling to find a way to get out of this mess.
"Elsa," Anna and Rapunzel said at the same time, and then they looked at each other.
"It'll be OK," Rapunzel said consolingly.
Elsa looked at her. "I don't know, Rapunzel. I really don't know."
