Chapter 2: A Cold Greeting

Aurion realized he wasn't as stealthy as he'd had hoped and turned around to face the spotter. "Well actually I..." Aurion stopped mid sentence. There in the ball room stood a pale complexion woman around his age, flowing platinum blonde almost silver hair, piercing blue eyes that captivated Aurion. She was wearing a glowing white and silver strapless gown and was incredibly beautiful. "I...uh...I..." stunned by this new goddess that appeared before him.

"You what? Forgot how to speak?" The woman said in a casual tease as she descended the stair case. She started to examine Aurion closer and saw his sword. "Wait, a sword!? Black cloak!? You must be some assassin!" She finished, putting the pieces together in her head. The only problem we're they were pieces from different puzzles.

She held her hands out and Aurion noticed a chill in the air. The pale beauty looked fierce as if no amount of reasoning could help. Aurion could tell the sudden drop in temperature as he exhaled and saw his breath. He observed as shards of ice the size of small daggers formed near the woman and hovered in mid air. She waved her hand down and the barrage of ice daggers launched at Aurion.

"Uh oh." He said quickly as he sensed the ice forming around him and evaded the barrage of ice shards Being thrown his way. After missing with their daggers of ice, she stomped her foot down as the ground began to freeze over. "Look miss, you have the wrong idea here!" Aurion said as he dodged some icicles that were coming out of the ground attempting to trap him. As Aurion dodged the attacks, he wasn't paying attention and he found himself trapped in a cage of ice. He felt like an imbecile being trapped so easily.

"Good luck getting out of that." Said the sassy blonde magic user. She went to approach her new detainee when a small explosion of ice came back her.

Before the cage had enclosed on him, Aurion had grabbed the hilt of Heaven and drew his trusty weapon, swinging at the ice cage as it formed and cleanly and with an incredible, almost inhuman amount of speed made quick work of the ice cage leaving nothing but some ice chips around him and flying back at the beauty.

"You mean like that?" Aurion said to the surprised woman, adding a wink for flavor which seemed to infuriate her.

She raised her hand and the ice disappeared in a flash before it even had a chance to come near her. She focused for a second and created a giant made entirely of snow and ice and instructed it to attack Aurion. It was at least 16 feet tall and holes where it's eyes should be at.

The giant charged towards him, claws made of sharp icicles. The creature slashed at Aurion wildly as if it were toddler throwing a tantrum. The blonde stood back and watched, checking her nails for a second, creating a nail file out of ice to even out one that was too long. All the while the snow creature kept Aurion at bay. Aurion would parry the slashes with his blade until he was backed into a corner.

Aurion twirled Heaven, sheathing it mid spin and held his hands out in front of him, creating two magic spheres in his hands, chanting one of his paladin spells under his breath. The spheres shined bright with a white light that made the woman agitated as she tried to shield her eyes.

"Ugh! You have magic too!?" She was stunned as Aurion combined the spheres and shot it at the ice giant, completely vaporizing it within an instant. The fight became a stand still as Aurion had another sphere of light at the ready while the blonde woman held her hand out and a staff made of ice generated in her hands. She twirled the staff around showing her prowess with the weapon.

Aurion, halfway impressed by this, halfway thinking it was cute, backed down from his magical attack and took a fighting stance, extending his hand out, palm up and waved his fingers up and down almost to say 'come get me' toward his opponent. He was being arrogant and not taking this fight seriously.

The beauty charged at Aurion attempting to sweep his feet. Aurion responded by jumping into the air, avoiding the attack. Realizing this, she quickly reset herself and swung the ice staff upward while Aurion was in the air and landed a blow on his left leg causing him to lose his position in the air and fall to the ground. Before he knew it the ice staff became an ice spear with its sharp tip at his face.

"You treat all the boys you meet this way?" He sarcastically said while she thrusted the tip closer to his throat. Aurion figured it would be best not to talk anymore. Before she could do any real damage, the two were interrupted by a voice.

"Elsa! Is that anyway to treat our guest?" Aurion looked over to where he saw another beautiful woman, this one with flowing red hair tied in a braided tail. She wore a small tierra on her head and was clearly expecting a child by the look of her.

"Our guest? Oh no..." Elsa recalled the ice spear and vanished it into a vapor no longer in existence. Aurion, no longer seeing the point of things, got up from his position on the ground.

"Your majesty, Queen Anna!" Exclaimed Aurion as he knelt down in respect. Embarrassed by the actions he was partaking in, he kept his head down.

"Captain Armstrong please, I ought to apologize, or really my sister should." Anna looked over at Elsa and covered her mouth giggling. Elsa was blushing heavily, her now rose colored cheeks a feature off of her porcelain skin.

"Anna, he was sneaking around the palace, he wasn't in any clothing that would say he was foreign dignitary, I thought he was an assassin." Elsa tried explained to her sister, cringing, placing her face into a palm realizing the level of mistaken identity she had played a part in during the confrontation.

"Yeah well you really have quite the cold greeting don't you." Aurion teased, dusting off his shoulders.

"Want to see what else is cold?" Elsa calmly joked as she smirked and rolled her eyes. Aurion perked up appreciating the witty banter.

Anna laughed some more as she came over to the two and shook Aurion's hand and gave her sister a hug. "My sister can be a little over protective ever since I told her that my husband and I were expecting." The queen explained.

"Hey the future of Arendelle is right there, I have to make sure they are safe. " Elsa smiled and spoke in baby talk while she rubbed her sisters stomach. Elsa was clearly excited at the idea of having a niece or nephew. Anna cleared her throat with a cough and gestured Elsa over to Aurion. Elsa stopped rubbing her sisters stomach, gathered her composure, cleared her throat with a small cough and turned to Aurion.

"Captain Headstrong is it?" Elsa started.

"Armstrong" Anna interjected

"Heard you the first time..." bantered Elsa, "I, ummm, well I..." Elsa said before she was interrupted.

"Your highness, my deepest apologies for my behavior." Aurion said before taking Elsa's hand and kissing it.

Elsa, surprised by the gesture and sudden apology, pulled her hand away. "Oh, well we are all human." And left it at that.