Thanks to everybody who helped make this story what it is! I've never thought that I'd have nearly this many people reading it! But, all things must come to a close. But fear not! Starting Friday January 17th, I will begin posting "Frozen Short Stories." There will be a single story posted every week, about as long as 3-5 chapters of these full-length stories. I have some ideas for some stories, and I want to hear from you! You can decide what story I post first things on Friday.
Should it be: A look back on Anna and Elsa's childhood? Olaf and Sven's antics around Arendelle? A mystifying story about the Trolls? Stian's time in Corona? You decide! Just leave a review with what you'd like to see, and whatever gets the most love by Friday will become its own short story.
Anyways, thanks for coming and reading "The Frozen Heart: Part 2." I don't know what's in store for the future of Stian and Elsa, but there may be more tales from Arendelle to come, that may not be in short story format. That's all I'm saying.
Enjoy the finale of "The Frozen Heart: Part 2!"
Chapter 25
Elsa
She wasn't a big fan of parties. Greeting guests and curtsying every thirty seconds could do a number on a lady. Kristoff and Anna enjoyed themselves, though. Not once did they stop dancing that night. Except, of course, to eat the soup roast and ice cream.
"Long day, huh?" Stian asked, rocking Neiva. The Queen looked over her shoulder. In his throne sat the King, holding their daughter in his arms. Elsa looked back at the party going on in the banquet room, and sat down too.
"How could you tell?" Elsa asked.
"After the fifth hour of bowing, I got a little tired too. Hodur left. He said he had somewhere to be, somebody to help. I guess we won't be seeing him soon. But Neiva's wide awake." Stian said.
"She is?" Elsa laughed. Her daughter had only awoken a couple dozen times in the past week, most of the time while Elsa was absent. The Queen gazed into the Princess' eyes. They were a light blue, just like her's and Stian's. The baby grinned, and held her small hand up to her Mother. Elsa laughed back, timidly. The baby took Elsa's finger in her hand, and studied it. She moved it around, and gripped it tighter. Elsa giggled. She never knew what she was capable of.
"Elsa! Hi." Anna greeted them. Elsa looked up.
"Hello. What's up?"
"Oh, you know, just partying."
"You're tired too?" Stian asked.
"Exhausted." Anna admitted. Elsa thought for a bit. She knew what she wanted to do.
"Anna?" she asked.
"What?"
"Do you wanna build a snowman?"
Her sister grinned, and jumped for joy. Stian looked at his wife, quizzically. Elsa took his hand, and the two stood up. Elsa used her scarf to tie Neiva to her torso, making sure she wouldn't go anywhere. Anna ran to Kristoff, and took his hand.
"Where are we going?" he asked.
"You'll see." Anna answered.
They wondered through the castle, aimlessly. Stian held Neiva in one hand, and held Elsa's hand in the other. They jogged through the castle, which was largely deserted. Everybody was at that painfully long party. The group came to a pair of large oak doors. Anna threw them open, and ran into the ballroom, spinning and laughing.
"Do the magic!" she said. Elsa rubbed her hands together, and threw them up towards the ceiling. It began to snow tiny blue flakes, and the group stood watching Anna take it all in.
"Ready?" Elsa asked. Stian nodded. Elsa lifted her dress, and struck her foot to the floor. A thin layer of ice grew from where her foot had impacted, and spread all around the ballroom. Stian and Kristoff began sliding backwards.
"What now?" Kristoff asked.
"Let's build a snowman. We'll, uh, need some snow." Anna said. Elsa shook her head, and retrieved Neiva from the King.
"Stian's got this one." she said, smiling.
Stian breathed, and waved his hands around each other. He spread them slowly, sending a blanket of snow across the entire ballroom. Elsa laughed, and retreated behind a pillar. She emerged a few seconds later, pushing a large snowball through the snow. Stian got the idea, and began rolling an even bigger one with Kristoff. Anna began rolling out the head. She molded it to look almost exactly like the version of Olaf the sisters had built as kids. The ballroom doors opened, and who else but Olaf and Sven waddled in.
"I heard fun! I want to have fun too!" Olaf said, upon entering.
"Come on!" Elsa laughed. Olaf's smile faded when he saw the other snowman.
"Who's this?"
"It's just a snowman, Olaf."
"You named this one Olaf, too? Oh, I get it. You're replacing me."
"No, no! Just having a bit of fun!" Kristoff promised. Olaf's eyes narrowed.
"Okay! Snowball fight!" he laughed, rolling a handful of snow into a ball. He hurled the ball at Stian, whom it hit square in the head.
"Hey! Olaf, you're gonna get it!" Stian laughed. He circled his hands, and threw a snowball at the snowman. Olaf giggled, and ran behind Anna. The snowball instead hit Anna on the shoulder.
"So that's how we're playing, huh?" Anna grinned. Soon, everybody was throwing snowballs at each other. Even Neiva got in on the fun, making crude snow blobs, and dropping them in the direction of Aunt Anna.
Elsa wasn't sure she had powers. She didn't even know what to think. But time would tell. Until then, they had to savor every minute with this baby. The sun was set, and now the moon was out. The snowball fight continued. Elsa and Stian had even constructed a fort for each opposing team, Boys vs. Girls. Elsa's looked like a mini-version of her Ice Castle. A fifteen foot pink and blue tower emerged from the ground, with two small seven foot tall turrets leading out from that. Stian's was more of a snow fort. It was a small half dome, with ice shielding the lower half. The boys, Kristoff, Olaf, Stian and Sven, had to lay down to avoid Elsa's barrage of snowballs, while she, Anna and Neiva kept shelter behind the turrets of ice. Who knows how long they played and laughed. Maybe a few hours, maybe more. The game ended when Elsa sent a snowball sailing into Olaf, the MVP, knocking his nose back into his head.
Elsa laughed, and fixed it. The ballroom began to thaw. Elsa loved spending time with her family. Anna, Kristoff, Stian, Sven and Olaf. They were all family.
"This is so fun. I wish it could be like this all time." Anna laughed, hugging her sister.
"Me too." Elsa confirmed. Anna looked up at her sister.
"Can it be?" she asked.
Elsa thought. Between her duties as a Queen and her duties as a Mother, she would have a packed schedule. But everyday, when Anna and Elsa had free time, they would spend whatever time they could together. This was her new life. Mother, Sister, Queen. The Castle gates were never closing ever again, and that's just the way Elsa intended to keep it. She may look cold, but she loved the sun. The Kingdom of Arendelle was a bit nervous about their new Queen at first, but they grew to love her. Stian was accepted soon, too. Now, she had to introduce Neiva to everybody. She was perfect. Elsa wanted to build a snowman every day. Stian, Kristoff and all the others gathered around the girls. They all smiled.
"Whenever the sky's awake, I'll be awake..." Elsa said.
"And that means we'll have to play."
End of Part 2
