Elsa took Anna's hand as she reached her other hand out and the mist around them parted, letting them into the forest. Elsa and Anna looked at each other. Elsa was scared and didn't know what to expect, but she knew deep down she had to do this. She had to find out what she was.
The group was walking through the forest when a tribe of people in strange clothes surrounded them. Elsa was getting ready to use her powers when she noticed something odd. Rocks suddenly started floating in mid air. The people around them were moving their arms over their heads and gigantic boulders were floating above their hands. They were controlling the rocks. But how can that be? Elsa wondered. She lowered her hands. "You have magic too?" she asked.
The group of people looked at each other. "We're benders. Why wouldn't we?" one of them asked.
"Benders..." Elsa whispered to herself. "So... Am I a bender too?" she asked the group.
"It depends. What can you bend?" a young man asked.
"I can do this," Elsa said. She reached out her hand and snowflakes floated above her hand on command.
"You're a waterbender," someone said.
"Waterbender? No, I can only bend ice," Elsa said.
The group of earthbenders looked at each other. "Waterbenders can usually bend ice," one of them said. "You must be a waterbender if you can do that."
Elsa looked curiously at her hands. Did she really have a whole other power this whole time that she wasn't even aware of? How was it possible that she only made ice if she could make water too? And how did that explain the strange sensation around the fire, and the moving of plants? Elsa had so many questions that she didn't know how to ask, or who to ask.
"Do you not know what benders are, miss?" an older woman asked, who clearly saw the confused expression on Elsa's face.
"No," Elsa replied, "But I assume they can do magical things, like me. I never knew there were others like me. I lived in isolation of the world around me for a long time. I never heard of others with powers like mine. Are there more?" Elsa had to know if there were others like her out there.
"Yes. There are four different kinds of benders for the four different elements of the forest. There are fire, water, earth, and air. We are earthbenders. We can move rocks, and pick up boulders, and do almost anything that has to do with the Earth." She looked at Anna. "Who's this girl?" She touched a strand of Anna's hair. "You have lovely fire-red hair. You're a firebender, aren't you?" the lady asked Anna.
"No, I'm normal. I don't have any powers," Anna answered.
"Ah, a non-bender," the lady said.
"Non-bender?" Elsa asked.
"Not everyone can bend," the older woman said, "We call them non-benders."
This was a lot of information for Elsa to process. There were tons of other people out there with crazy powers like her? This whole time? And she had no idea. She couldn't believe this information was hidden from her for so long. Were her parents benders? Why didn't they tell her about this?
"So you've only been able to bend ice? I don't think I've ever heard of that before," the young man said.
"Yeah, ever since I could remember, I had the power to create ice and snow," Elsa said.
"Wait," the boy said, then turned to his people and whispered, "Do you guys remember the prophecy?" Everyone nodded.
"Wait, what?" Anna asked.
"There was a prophecy 23 years ago that the next Avatar will be born a female with platinum blonde hair, and the unique power to create ice and snow. And she will learn the other elements with time. And she will have a voice powerful enough to shake the world."
Elsa and Anna looked at each other.
"And she will have a non-bending sister," a girl continued.
Silence fell. Then Olaf broke it. "Well, that's freaky."