Before I start... This isn't another Halloween chapter. Why? Because I usually write what I have most inspiration for and this chapter ended up being born first.

I'm drowning in requests which I love and hate at the same time! Hate because I can't get to them all at once and I have to dig around to try to find them. Love because I love hearing your guys suggestions and ideas which is really a main reason why I'm still even writing.

Edit: Oh hey! The requests have been claimed and confirmed so I can delete the blurb of not knowing who it was! Thank you so much you two for speaking up to tell me! It means a lot! Okay so! Request on [Elsa and Anna saying the same thing] is by Estelle and [fear of thunder and storms] is requested by LittleSneaker!

And if there's one in here somewhere that is yours then still tell me too!

So about the chapter! One: This doesn't classify as a haunted mansion chapter in my mind. Two: I have never read Phantoms of Arendelle yet (which i hope changes soon) so I guess I should say sorry if anything is alike?

~Story Title: "Who Screamed?"~

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

Rumble.

"Go away…" She hissed.

The thunder roared.

"Please… please go away…" The pillow over her head was held tightly, her fists were clenched white. She was supposed to be asleep hours ago, but the accursed storm outside kept her awake. That wasn't good. She knew she had to be awake bright and early the next morning.

As if it were mocking her, the thunder roared even louder.

"Shut up… Please shut up…" Her eyes were squeezed shut, trying to ignore the noise and go to sleep. She knew that by now her entire room was as frozen as could be. It wasn't intentional. It never was. But she couldn't help it. "Shut up shut up shut up…!"

Lighting crashed to the ground close by, the loud thunderous roar that followed seemed to shake the entire castle. But a different, distinct sound stood above all that much to her surprise.

A scream. "AHH!" Anna.

She stumbled out of bed as fast as she could, ignoring her fear and the ice everywhere because all that mattered was Anna. That scream. No one else could have made it but Anna.

She nearly broke her frozen door down from how fast she was moving but managed to fling it open before it did. Quick as can be, she dashed out of her room towards- "Wha!" Elsa tripped over something and fell to the floor.

Anna had been sitting right in front of her door, looking at her with wide eyes of alarm.

They both gasped, scrambling to see if the other was okay, "What happened?! –What?! –You screamed! –No I didn't! –You screamed! –What?! –Why would I scream?! –Because you were scared! –What?! No I wasn't!" Both of them said the same thing in unison, trying to get an answer from the other. "I didn't scream." They both said flatly. "Oh yeah? Then who did? –I don't know that's why I was asking you. –Stop copying me! –Ugh!"

They slapped their own mouths shut; giving a glare that signaled the other to start speaking first. "Well-" They started together again, once more slapping their own mouths closed. "You-" And again. "Scre-" And again. Out of annoyance they both gave a groan, "Okay seriously stop! –Ugh! –I said stop! -STOP!"

Anna took the initiative to cover Elsa's mouth herself with her hand. "There we go." She smiled, taking a deep breath that they were now free of the saying-the-same-thing.

Elsa pushed Anna's arm away, giving her own deep breath, "Thank you. So. I heard you scream and thought you were in trouble."

Anna shook her head, "I didn't scream. You screamed though and I was kind of already here but you were so fast in opening the door and tripping over me that I didn't even get to stand up to ask you what's wrong."

"I didn't scream." Elsa answered.

"Oh. Well. If you didn't scream… And I didn't scream… Then who's watching the dog?"

"This isn't time for jokes Anna there's something weird going on. Well… weirder than usual."

"I wasn't joking."

"Good because it wasn't funny."

"Ouch."

"And we don't have a dog."

"Double ouch." Anna giggled. "Who do you think screamed then?" She paused, widening her eyes a bit, "Maybe it's a ghost!" Anna gasped, smiling a bit because she wasn't serious.

Elsa was looking around the corridor, "Maybe it is."

Anna looked around with her after her face drooped, "Really?" She shuffled closer to Elsa's side, holding onto her arm.

Elsa shrugged, "Explains where the scream came from. Unless you count the castle staff but I doubt any of them would try screaming to scare us like that." She stood up, helping Anna up too. "I'm gonna go check it out." Elsa walked off.

Anna gasped, "Wait wait!" She ran after her, "I'm not going to let you go alone! What if the ghost isn't friendly?!"

"Or. What if the ghost is sad and needs someone to lift its spirits?"

Anna took a second to think about it, bursting into laughter. "Ohh! That's a good one! You're clever! You've got me in the mood to go find this ghost! Come on let's go!" She motioned to hurry.

Elsa laughed with her and followed.

Thunder from outside crackled.

They both stopped, flinching before continuing on their way.

"Okay okay. My turn. -Ahem!- What's a baby ghost's favorite game?!"

"Peek-a-bo-"

"PEEK-A-BOO-oh you said that…"

"Anna you said that same exact joke like five times already…"

"Hey it's hard coming up with these!"

Elsa opened a guest room door and peeked inside, "Oh really?" She smiled, closing the door as they continued their search, "Why are ghosts bad at telling lies?"

Anna rubbed her temples in thought.

"Because-" Elsa began to answer.

"WAIT WAIT DON'T TELL ME!" Anna held a hand up, stopping Elsa from revealing it. "I've got this one! Just gimmie a sec- uhhhhh…." She tried to think even harder.

Elsa stared at her, "Anna it's not that hard. It's because-"

"No! Shhh!"

"Because-"

"No!"

"Anna really-"

"No!"

Elsa rolled her eyes, letting Anna to think of the answer herself. She stopped walking, picking up a strange noise that was nearly drowned out from the noisy rain outside. Elsa was cautious, looking around every inch of the hallway for anything that seemed out of place. "Anna did you hear-"

"No!" Anna was still trying to think.

"Did you hear-"

"No!"

"Did you-"

"No!"

"My freaking gosh Anna stop for a second!" Elsa shook her shoulders to snap her out of it, "Listen."

Anna stopped trying to find the answer, coming back to the real world from her deep concentration. "Oh what?" She whispered, focusing on hearing anything that may sound odd. Anna took a step back. "I don't hear…. I don't hear anything except for the rai-"

A vase directly behind her fell off the side table, crashing and exploding into bits of glass.

"AHH!" They both yelled, not even checking to see where the loud crash had come from as they ran away as fast as they could. "NOT TODAY!" Their hair may as well be sticking up like cats from how scared they were. Elsa even blasted the air behind Anna with ice out of pure reflex just in case something was there.

Another roar of thunder.

They held their ears, closing their eyes shut as they continued running.

"Okay. I vote that the ghost is planning to get us. Anyone with me? Say Aye." Anna looked around, holding up a hand as she waited for more votes.

Elsa was checking everywhere, making sure they were safe for now. "Aye." She called, not actually paying much mind to what Anna meant, a tad annoyed at whatever wanted to scare her sister like that. And Anna wasn't usually scared of anything.

"Alright then! By percentage, a hundred percent of voters vote that the ghost is trying to scare us on purpose! But unfortunately for the ghost, we are Anna and Elsa! And-!"

Thunder rumbled.

They winced.

"Uh…" Anna scratched her head, "I forgot what I was going to say. –Elsa did you just… tap my shoulder?"

"Anna I'm literally right in front of you. You. Can. See. Me."

"I-I swear something just tapped my shoulder."

Elsa looked back at her, raising an eyebrow cautiously to see what could be the source of Anna's problem. "Whoever's here show yourself!" She waited, glaring a bit. If this was someone's idea of a joke, it's terrible.

Anna turned around too, waiting for the big reveal that it was all just a big prank and whoever was pulling it would show up and they could all have one good laugh. "Oooookay?" Nobody appeared. "Welp. This is official. The ghost is clearly trying to get us."

"Anna are you sure the tapping wasn't just your imagination…?"

"Pretty sure."

"Alright then." Elsa continued walking, Anna tailing behind.

The thunder roared.

"Oooookay! My brief bravery has officially run out. You lead the way now."

"Elsa you chicken."

"Am not."

"Elsa you're leaving a trail of ice wherever we go."

"Am not."

"You're making me lose blood circulation in my arm."

"Am not."

Anna rolled her eyes with a laugh, leading the way with Elsa clinging onto her arm. She noticed Elsa let go after about a second and resorted to just hugging herself. "Sorry…" Elsa mumbled, realizing she may have hurt her or was about to with her powers connected to her emotions.

Anna sighed, affectionately patting her head, "There, there. I was only joking." She smiled. "So… what are we doing again?" Anna gave a nervous giggle.

"Finding whoever or whatever screamed?"

"Well yeah I know that but… which way do we go?"

"Forward? Like we have been?"

"Oh hey a candle!" Anna found a handheld unlit candle on one of the side tables, picking it up with a grin and holding it. "Quickly Elsa! Light the candle!" She held it out for Elsa to immediately create a fire.

Elsa stared at it, "And… how do you suppose I do that…?"

Anna smiled, "Use your ice powers of c-! oh wait…" She hit her own head a few times, "Sorry. I think I need sleep. –What time is it anyway?" Anna set the candle aside.

Elsa shrugged, "Time for you to go to bed."

"Don't be ridiculous a ghost is out here!"

"Maybe it won't bother us if we don't bother it?"

"True." Anna cupped her hands around her mouth and yelled into the air, "Hey ghost! Don't do anything if we can agree that if you'll leave us alone, we'll leave you alone! –And no screaming in the middle of the night!" She waited a few seconds, listening for any sound or movement. "Alright then. It's a deal. –Okay Elsa let's go back to sleep."

Elsa nodded, looking around a second time to make sure before following Anna back. They reached her room first, "Goodnight Anna." She spoke softly.

"Goodnight Elsa!" Anna smiled back, marching off towards her own room.

Elsa didn't retreat to her bed until she saw Anna turn the hallway out of sight. Waiting for a bit just to make sure Anna was okay, she closed her door and went back to bed. And just lay there. Eyes open trying desperately to fall asleep like she wanted to before.

But now that Anna was gone, the thunder outside seemed louder than ever.

Elsa pulled her covers over her head, doing her best to ignore the flashes of light and rumbling thunder.

"Psst! Elsa!" She heard from outside her door.

Elsa sat up in confusion, "Anna?"

The door opened and Anna peeked in, "Elsa I heard something from downstairs. It sounded like something fell!"

"Think it's the ghost?"

"Definitely. I guess it wasn't a deal. It doesn't like sharing our castle. You know, it's probably trying to steal our chocolate too. It sounds like it came from the kitchen."

Elsa got out of bed, the both of them carefully making their way towards the stairs that led down. Anna led the way. To lighten the mood, Elsa remembered something, "Oh yeah, did you ever figure out the answer to my joke?"

"I'm… working on it…" Anna sweat-dropped, really wanting to know the answer already. Of course, only if she thinks of it herself. "Is it because they're spooky-"

"No. Anna the answers simple… Ghosts are bad liars because-"

"Shhh! Don't spoil it Elsa! Just… give me… um… like another while."

Elsa rolled her eyes and giggled, "Suit yourself. –Whoooa." She stood closer to Anna as they stared down the staircase, the bottom floor seeming to be engulfed by darkness. "It's… dark."

Anna nodded, casually walking down the stairs with Elsa clinging onto her, "Do you… think we can use your magic for this?" She suggested, unable to see so much in the darkness.

Elsa held up the palm of her hand, creating the snowflake and keeping it there as a makeshift light "Good?"

Anna grinned, "Good. –Now let's go! This way to the kitchen! We are going to go find the person who screamed!"

They ran across the halls, not wanting to stop and check their backs knowing all that was there was darkness. Thunder roared again from outside.

"Here. Here. Watch." Anna slowly pushed open one door to the kitchen, adding the effect of an eerie creakiness, "Peek-a-booooo?" She whispered into the kitchen. "See what I did there Elsa? Because it's 'boo' like a ghost and we're dealing with a ghost so I thought that 'boo' would be super appropriate to use but then again it could have been too soon for a joke and so I may have-"

"Why are ghost's bad liars?"

"Shush Elsa I'm still trying to figure that one out!"

They tiptoed their way into the dark kitchen, Elsa's snowflake being their source of light.

"Ooo!" A weird voice sounded.

Anna looked around in alarm, "What was that?"

"Oooo!" The voice sounded again.

Anna turned quickly side to side, trying to find what was causing the noise.

"BOO!" The voice was directly next to her ear, sounding more normal making it easier to guess who it was.

"AH!" Anna jumped, just about ready to catch whatever or whoever that was before realizing that voice sounded oddly familiar like she had just heard it a second ago.

Elsa was covering a grin.

Anna glared daggers at her, "Elsa don't do that! How many times have I told you not to do that?!"

"Once." Elsa snickered. "Just right now actually." She followed as Anna went back to tiptoeing. "Sorry."

Anna laughed, "I admit you got me. I quietly applaud you. –Anyway back to the ghost…"

Elsa observed the kitchen, "What do you think fell?"

"I… I don't know it sounded kind of weird. I can't really remember what it sounded like… Strange." Anna didn't seem to bother looking around, "Ghost! Ghost come out! We demand to claim back our castle so we can sleep!" She called wanting the ghost to make an appearance.

They were in there for a few minutes, trying to find any clues. The rain outside didn't cease to end, nor did the thunder.

"This is… this is getting creepy…" Elsa spoke in a soft murmur, "Let's get out of here."

Anna nodded, whispering back, "Okay."

They slowly tiptoed their way back to the door. Because Elsa held the light, Anna could only let herself be guided. There was the slighted brush of her elbow against what seemed to be a hanging pan.

And just like a domino effect, everything came crashing down.

"AHHHH!" They ran out as fast as they could as pots, pans, and other things littered the kitchen floor while making the loudest racket possible. "OKAY! OKAY YOU CAN HAVE THE CASTLE!"

Stables.

"Olaf? You aren't sleeping yet?" Kristoff lay on a large stack of hay, a small fire that wasn't close enough to burn anything heated up the entire room and kept them warm. Not that Olaf needed to be warm. He saw Olaf by Sven on the side lying on him squeezing his eyes shut.

Thunder rumbled.

Olaf shook his head. "How about you?"

"Nope… I think I'm still awake. –Despite… how late it is…" Kristoff replied with a smile, "You don't have to stay with us you know. You can go into the castle to sleep since that's where you live anyway."

Olaf opened his eyes, "Nah." He waved his stick arms around, "It's just the thunder is really…" Olaf looked both ways and secretively leaned over, "…freaky!" He finished with a whisper like the rain storm outside would have heard him and had gotten its feelings hurt.

Kristoff shook his head with a smile, "Afraid of the thunder? Alright then…" He picked up his lute off to the other side and began playing a few gentle notes, resting his head back and closing his own eyes.

Olaf took it, being soothed by the sound and eventually falling asleep too beside the already sleeping Sven.

Kristoff continued playing for a while longer, getting ready to stop and call it a night-

There was a knock on the stable gates.

Kristoff got up in confusion wondering who was crazy enough in their right mind to be outside in that weather. "What in the world?" He muttered as he got ready to open the doors.

"Heeeeeey! Kristoff…!" Both sisters greeted him once the gates swung open. They nervously laughed.

Kristoff blinked, staring down at them getting soaked in the pouring rain. "What. The." He shook his head fast like it was unbelievable, "Are you two crazy?! What are you doing out in the rain?! What if you two got sick-!"

"Hey. Hey!" Anna cut him off, "Technically! Elsa doesn't get sick that way. It's kinda cool actually because she doesn't-"

"Get inside!" Kristoff pushed them both in, not wanting to wait for Anna to finish if they would continue to stand outside. He closed the gates and leaned against it with his arms crossed, watching as the two rung out their hair. "Alright. What's going on?"

Elsa spoke first, starting from the beginning, "Well. We were both about to fall asleep but then lightning crashed to the ground and there was super loud thunder but a scream followed after it. It sounded like Anna so I rushed out of my room to go see if she was okay-"

Anna stopped her, "Wait wait wait. No the scream sounded like you."

Elsa sighed and continued, "And it turns out she was already right in front of my door and when we asked each other, I heard Anna scream but apparently she heard me scream but that can't be because I didn't scream-"

"Me neither."

"Right. So we assumed it was a ghost that screamed and went to go find it. Anna took a few steps back and a vase behind her broke and then a little while after someone tapped Anna's shoulder but it wasn't me. Then we decided to call a truce with the ghost and went back to bed. But then Anna came back to me claiming something fell downstairs in the kitchen so we went to go check it out but all the pots and pans came crashing so we ran all the way here to sleep here." Elsa finished with a deep breath.

Anna nodded, agreeing with what Elsa had just explained.

Kristoff rubbed his eyes, thinking about it. His eyes glanced over to Olaf and back to the two sisters.

Lightning crashed to the ground outside, bringing in a flash of light.

Kristoff observed as the two squeezed their eyes shut hard and covered their own ears from the thunder that came with it. "Ah! Figured it out." He found the answer just like that and snapped his fingers.

"W-What?" They looked at him with confusion.

"Yep. Number one. You both screamed."

Elsa and Anna made a face that seemed to laugh at his words, "What? That's ridiculous! I heard-"

Kristoff held up a hand, "Yes. You heard the other scream because you both screamed. And apparently you didn't know yourself screamed because you were worried about the other. Simple as that." He smiled as they thought about it. "Number two! The 'ghost' was an excuse to mask your fear of storms from one another while at the same time to stay with each other to comfort from the storm."

Elsa raised an eyebrow, "Then how do you explain things like the tapping of the shoulder and something falling from the kitchen?"

Kristoff looked over to Anna, "Because she made them up."

Anna gasped, "Did not!" She paused. "Kind…a? –No! Did not!" Anna declined.

Elsa stared at her. "Anna…?" She questioned.

Anna pouted "In... a way…" She mumbled. "I… I thought they were true…"

"So… you did make them up…?"

"And believed them too I guess. Wow I really need sleep."

Kristoff nodded to them both, "Welp. That's it. Good night I'm tired now." He walked to his stack of hay and flopped down.

Elsa and Anna stood there, pondering about everything he just explained to them, "But… How did you know?" They asked.

Kristoff gave a slow, casual shrug, "Lucky guess?"

"But…"

Kristoff sighed knowing they wanted a closer answer to how he knew, "It wasn't too hard. I don't know everything of you two but I know enough to figure out the answer. Olaf's afraid of the thunder. He was created by Elsa. You two have bad history with storms. –Yeah. That's kinda the main points. As for the ghost thing it was more of a stretched guess but I think it's still pretty close if you include little details."

They processed that. "Huh. O-Okay then." The two made their way to a haystack opposite of Kristoff's on the other side of the fire. "Well… we're still going to stay here."

"The Queen and the Princess are sleeping in a stable. A sight to see!"

They rolled their eyes at him, plopping down onto the haystack next to each other and attempting to fall asleep. Thunder outside still roared much to their annoyance.

Kristoff opened an eye to them seeing them wince from the rumbling sound. With a sigh and a smile he picked up his lute and began playing again. The light music almost seemed like it drowned out the sound outside which was what he was aiming for.

The rain sounded like a soothing little drizzle.

Certain the two had fallen asleep as well after maybe half an hour, Kristoff stopped playing and got ready to fall asleep himself.

Just a few more seconds and he may have doze off.

Anna gasped and shot up, "Elsa!" She yelled out. "I figured it out! Ghosts are bad at lying because you can see right through them!" Giggling joyously for getting the answer, Anna grinned.

Elsa with her eyes still closed held up her arm and gave a thumbs-up, "Good job." She brought her arm back down and continued off to sleep.

Anna giggled again and lay back down, drifting off to sleep too.

Kristoff lay there.

Just lay there.

Wondering what just happened.

Anna you silly goose. What are you doing trying to sleep in front of Elsa's door? *Cough cough. sobs quietly.*

Before anyone complains that Anna isn't afraid of anything, I could go either way personally so that's what I went with.

Anna broke the vase on accident. Anna thought someone tapped her shoulder but it wasn't real. Anna made up hearing something downstairs. I like to think of it as her way of pretending she isn't afraid of the storm and just wants to be with Elsa. And Elsa followed along for the same reason. As per explained by Kristoff. Just to clarify.

Thank you all once again! I really really really appreciate it!

Evil Miss Moo: Haha! The wicked tyrant that gives away free animals!

Annabeth Chase: Wow I'd love to live in your town then! I saw zero Elsa's but I did see an Anna! As for the animal request, yeah I miss them too. Hmm I'll try coming up with ideas for them then!

In other news... I saw Big Hero 6 and loved it

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