Chapter 41: Charades Night
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'Dragons' - Dragonese
*This takes place in "Frozen 2" movie. This is mostly spoilers if you haven't seen it yet.
The dragon riders had spent almost five months in Arendelle. The main reason why was because Audrey was studying a little bit of medicine from the healers in the kingdom while the gang wanted to get some new clothes. Two different ones in case of different climates they might run into. The winter they had just experienced was a good example. A few more weeks and Audrey would be taking her final test to become a legal healer. The leaves on the trees soon turned to orange red. The castle doors remained opened, Elsa was in full control of her powers, and nobody was afraid of them. The citizens of Arendelle were getting ready for the big feast that was happening later in the evening. Elsa, Anna, Olaf, Kristoff, Sven, the dragons, and their riders also helped out. Once the feast was ready, everyone sat down at the long table and ate delicious food while conversing with one another. Soon enough, the night began to fall and everyone cleaned up everything. The riders and their friends entered the castle as their dragons went back to the stables for the night. Everyone got into their pajamas and meet up in the living room to play a game called "Charades" which proved to be fun. At the moment, Anna was making some sort of growling noises with clawing hand gestures.
"Lion!" Kristoff guessed.
"Grizzly bear!" Merida guessed.
"Monster!" Audrey tried.
"Fat bear!" Olaf yelled.
"Angry face-" Kristoff guessed again.
"Knock bear! Hans!" Olaf tried.
Anna pointed at Olaf.
"Unredeemable monster!" Elsa guessed.
"Greatest mistake of your life!" Kristoff tried.
"We didn't even kiss you!" Olaf exclaimed.
Sven rung the little bell.
"Villain." Anna said.
"Oh!" The others realized.
"Yeah, we all kind of got it." Olaf commented.
"Okay Olaf, you're up." Kristoff said.
"Okay," Olaf said as he got off the couch and stood in front of everyone. Sven walked up to him with a small basket with pieces of paper in it, "So much easier now that I can read." Take a paper from the basket and read what was on the paper. Then crumbled it up and threw it, "Lightning round. Boys against Girls."
Sven rung the little bell and turned the hourglass.
"Okay, I'm ready. I'm ready. Go!" Kristoff said.
Then Olaf rearranged himself into a creature.
"Unicorn." Carlos said.
Olaf changed to an object.
"Ice cream." Kristoff said.
Olaf changed again.
"Castle." Hiccup said.
Olaf changed again into a person.
"Oaken." Kristoff said.
Olaf changed into an object again.
"Tea pot." Carlos said.
Olaf changed again into a creature.
"Mouse." Hiccup said.
Olaf changed again into a familiar person.
"Elsa!" Kristoff said.
The boys laughed while Kristoff leaned back on the couch with his arms resting on the arms as Sven rung the bell.
"I don't think Olaf should get to rearrange," Anna commented with her arms crossed while frowning. Kristoff and the boys stopped laughing and shrugged at that. "Doesn't matter. This is going to be a snitch," Anna cracked her knuckles as Elsa stood in front while Olaf went back to his seat and Sven walked to Elsa with the basket that was hanging on his right antler. "Two sisters, one mind," Then Merida and Audrey coughed. "And two smart friends who are girls."
"Thank you." Elsa thanked Sven when she took a paper from the basket and read the word as Sven walked away.
"Okay, here we go." Anna said as Elsa put the paper down and Sven rung the bell, "You got this, Elsa."
Then Elsa began to try making gestures.
"Nothing." Anna guessed.
"Air." Audrey tried.
"Tree." Merida guessed.
"People. Treple. Wait, that's not a word." Anna said.
"Shovel boy." Merida tried.
"Teeth." Audrey guessed.
"Oh! Doing the dishes." Anna guessed.
"Polar bear!" Olaf exclaimed.
"Hey!" Anna yelled.
"Sorry." Olaf apologized.
"You gotta give us something." Anna advised.
Elsa seemed to be struggling to make another gesture, but then she heard something and turned to the window, nearly blocking out the girls' voices. Anna kept guessing until Sven rung the little bell which meant that the boys had won. Anna grunted angrily and flopped onto the couch.
"We won." Kristoff said.
"Rematch?" Anna asked as she got up and stood by her sister.
"Oh, you know what? I think I'll turn in." Elsa said as she walked towards the doors.
"Are you okay?" Anna asked, worried.
"Just, just tired. Good night." Elsa replied before leaving the room.
"Yeah, I'm tired too and Sven promised me to read me a bedtime story, didn't you, Sven?" Olaf asked as he held Sven's face close to him.
"Did I?" Kristoff asked, pretending to be Sven's voice while Sven shook his head at the idea.
"Oh you do the best voices," Olaf said as he got on Sven's back and laid on his back, "like when you pretend to be Kristoff and you're like I just need to talk to some rocks about my childhood."
Then Sven, Olaf, and the riders left the room. But Kristoff and Anna stayed behind.
"Kristoff?" Carlos asked.
"Um, how about you guys start without me?" Kristoff asked as he stared at Anna who was picking up the papers, basket, and bell.
"Sure." Hiccup agreed and shut the door behind him.
A few seconds later, Anna came out. Curious to know what happened, the riders went back to the living room and saw Kristoff kneeling on the ground with a ring in his hand.
"So how did it go?" Hiccup asked.
Kristoff let out a heavy sigh.
"No luck, huh?" Carlos asked.
Sven and the riders knew that Kristoff was trying to propose to Anna, unfortunately he was having a hard time doing it. Everytime he tried, something always interrupted him. The riders wanted to help him, but he kept saying that he would be able to do it himself.
"So what did she say?" Audrey asked.
"She asked if Elsa had seemed a little weird lately." Kristoff said as he stood up.
"Now that you mentioned it, she kind of has." Merida pointed out.
"What do you mean?" Hiccup asked.
"She seemed a little bit distracted these past few days." Merida said.
"Did she say anything to any of you?" Audrey asked.
"No, she hasn't." Carlos replied.
"Why don't we just head to bed for now? We'll talk more in the morning." Kristoff suggested.
"Good idea." Hiccup agreed.
"Well, good night everyone." Carlos said.
Kristoff put out the fire and then the group went to their bedrooms to get some sleep.
One way to boost our willpower and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us. - Daniel Goleman