A/N: So I'm pretty sure I left some plot holes in my story left unexplained. First, COVID 19 doesn't exist in this fanfic universe to make things more peaceful for the characters, and that's all I can think of at the moment. Other than that, how the spirits found Elsa and Alex will be explained in this chapter. So thanks for continuing to read this fanfic and hope you enjoy this chapter.
PS: I don't own Disney's Frozen. If I did, there would be art contests for fanarts to host and the winner would have a playdate with Idina Menzel and the cast of Frozen to have the best magical experience ever. :)
Chapter 15: Surprise Visit
3 months later…
Alex POV
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"What?" My eyes open slightly from being asleep to the sight of Bruni on my face, licking me awake. The blue lizard smiles at me, which makes me frown at the fact I awoke from a good dream I was having by the fire spirit, which was me dreaming that I was living a life of luxury. "Oh. It's you."
As I get up from the air mattress I'm sleeping on, the little blue lizard jumps off me and scurries away to the kitchen, where I smell something good cooking. Of course, then, I realize I smell something delicious is invading my nose, so I rub my eyes awake and check what time it is on my phone to see that it is 9 in the morning, a Monday morning. Also, I notice that Elsa isn't sleeping in the bed, so it could mean that she's actually up early and is cooking something.
That's something that actually surprises me. Well, not really actually, since lately she's been trying to teach herself how to cook along with the help of the other spirits. After all, it's been about 3 months since they arrived at my apartment, and now they kinda live here. It's a bit surprising how they arrived here in the 1st place, but from what Elsa told me, it took a whole month of traveling around from New York (that's a surprise) to Oregon as they had quite the adventure of escaping trouble whenever it appeared to them.
That is, of course, evading the public sight and trying to use the Atohallan call to find Atohallan only to receive no answer. Plus, they were trying to find Elsa, but they couldn't really sense her a lot due to long distance signals. But, finally, after arriving in the state, they could feel her energy and tracked it here to my place, and now are living here as fellow companions.
If my life was strange before, it's stranger now while living with more beings that were supposedly fictional but now are real.
On a more bright note, they didn't mention any encounter with the evil mysterious group, which seems strange to me on why we haven't heard from them or even seen them. Perhaps they were plotting something or maybe waiting for something to occur. I don't know what they were waiting for, but hopefully it won't be soon.
I make sure to grab some clothes to wear for today and go get a wash up right now while I'm at it. I also make sure to examine my shoulder, seeing that it now has a scar that has healed properly since the day I almost died protecting Elsa from the evil people. Who knows what else they would be capable of doing just to eliminate Elsa and the spirits?
After my shower, I head toward the kitchen dressed in my outfit for the day, seeing Elsa is cooking something while talking with Gale, the wind spirit fluttering around and I guess looking at a cookbook that Elsa had me buy for her when she told me that she wanted to learn how to cook stuff for herself. Bruni is right by her at the counter, the 5th spirit giving the little blue lizard some blueberries to eat that the fire spirit happily accepts from her.
She seems happy and is distracted by the company of her companions, which makes me feel content for her. But I snap out of my trance that I'm falling into, tapping on the wall to get her attention. "Guess you got up earlier than me. What's the occasion?"
Elsa shrugs, going back to cook whatever she is cooking. "Nothing really. I just wanted to make something that I learned from the cookbook, which are omelettes and blueberry pancakes."
I head over, watching her cook as she shows me the food she's making with a smile. "Looks good. Glad to see you're improving other than last time." I compliment her.
Elsa frowns at me, clearly embarrassed. "Well, I didn't know how to operate your stove, so you can't really blame me."
I give a slight chuckle, remembering how she tried to make some french toast, but ended up burning it and then froze it after it was burnt. That was a month ago, but I had a good laugh at it, which earned me a snowball to the face. It was playful of course, but reminded me to not really make fun of Elsa while she lived with me until I could get her home. She didn't jokes too kindly.
"Don't worry I don't. Even the 1st time I tried to cook, I ended up using sugar instead of salt. It was terrible for me."
Elsa giggles playfully at me. "I never knew that. Must have been very funny to mix two things for something else, like mistaking sugar for salt."
I nod in agreement. "Yeah, my family had a good laugh at that."
I decided to go to the fridge to serve myself some orange juice to hydrate my thirst, getting 2 cups for me and Elsa and serving the cold juice in them as I place the orange juice jug on the kitchen table while handing Elsa her cup of orange juice. As the 5th spirit continues to make breakfast while placing her cup on the counter, I drink my cup of orange juice and notice, well I was distracted actually, that Nokk isn't around. I turn towards Elsa with the question in mind. "Elsa, where's Nokk?"
"Oh," Elsa turns to face me with the explanation, "He decided to go to the nearby lake as it's a bigger source of water that he can blend in easier with. Since it's closer and bigger than the pool you got for him, he decided to stay there since it will be safer and not really give off suspicions to your neighbors."
I give a nod, since it would make a lot more sense. I had bought a pool for the horse to sleep in, but it's a bit hard to go with the fact that I would say that I'm using the pool for science experiments, especially since I'm not even good in the field of science. Also it's harder since it's practically a kid's pool (surprisingly Nokk can fit in any source of water Elsa had explained to me) as I didn't really have enough cash for a yard size pool.
As she goes back to finishing the breakfast with Gale and Bruni helping, I feel my phone ring in my pocket, checking it to see that it's my mother that's calling me. I leave the kitchen with Elsa glancing at me before going back to preparing her own breakfast and head into the living room, making sure I'm alone and that Elsa is still preparing the breakfast by herself in the kitchen, before answering the call. "Hello?"
"Alex my darling!" The voice on the other side of my phone greets me, "How are you today?"
I sigh at the cheeriness of my mother. "Fine mom. Just relaxing as I don't have summer classes to worry about. Nothing much to worry about."
Since it was June, I was practically off of college right now, enjoying a summer break to myself before fall classes began. Well actually scratch that, I was now focusing on trying to help Elsa return back home with the other spirits and perhaps return to my normal life after I accomplished the goal of doing so. With this period of summer, I hoped to at least find something that could help me send back the 5th spirit back to her home dimension
I consider the fact that I should tell her about Elsa and the fact I almost died, but I don't want to worry my mother. Besides, she wouldn't believe me in the 1st place. So I just stand there while holding the phone to my ear as she continues to talk to me.
"Well, Alex, I'm glad to hear that you're doing well. After all, if you weren't, I probably skip whatever appointment I have and save my honey bun from whatever mess you were in."
I feel myself grow red from embarrassment. "Mom, I'm not really a child anymore. I can look out for myself now."
I hear her sigh. "I know you think you can, but I don't want anything bad to happen to you while you live by yourself as you go to college in Oregon. It's far from here, and even though your scholarship covers everything for your classes, I really miss you. I don't want anything to happen to you like your brother."
The words make me feel sad for a bit, but I shake it off quickly. "Thanks Mom. I really appreciate your concern for me. It means a lot to me."
"Mhm! That's why I'm going to arrive in 30 minutes!"
"Yeah… wait what?"
I hear her chuckle on the phone. "I didn't want to say anything yet because your father wanted it to be a surprise, but we're here in Oregon to visit you! I wanted to make sure my baby boy was fine and healthy! Your sister Emily is so excited to see you as well, since you're now 22 and we wanted to give you a late birthday gift for doing well in your classes."
She continues to speak over the phone, but I just feel stuck in place. My family was coming over, and I was totally not prepared at all to see them here in Oregon. Of course, I grew up in Florida and my family lived there as well, but I left because I wanted to have new experiences around here. And now, I had to figure out how to deal with the fact my parents and younger sister were coming over by surprise and…
"Alex are you there still?"
I snap back into reality, hearing my mother talk to me. "Um, yeah totally. Well, you said you were close for about 30 minutes right?"
"Of course my dear! We are excited to see you soon Alex! And don't you worry, I will make the special apple pie that you love so much when I get there. As my way of loving my baby boy!"
As I nod, I then tell her goodbye, my mom doing the same while hanging up the phone, putting it back into my pocket. I'm still trying to figure what I'm going to do now that my family is here in Oregon to visit me, but obviously I can't claim Elsa to be my sister cause it won't work clearly. I could try to say she's my roommate, but how can I explain about Bruni, Nokk, and Gale? Means the only option left is that I might have to tell the truth.
Well now I have to inform Elsa that my family is coming so let's see how that goes.
I head to the kitchen to see Elsa is preparing some plates with the omelette and blueberry pancake breakfast on them, the 5th spirit looking at me entering with a brightful expression. "Hey Alex! I finished the breakfast finally and I was hoping that you could try it to see how they came out." She then notices my expression isn't really happy, her expression changing to her being worried. "What's wrong? Did something happen over your phone call?"
I nod, rubbing my head in a stressful manner. "Yeah. I just had a phone call with my mother right now."
"Oh that's nice!" She exclaims happily, "I'm glad to hear that your mother is checking up on you, since they live far away in another state as you told me."
"Yeah, and now my family is coming here in about 30 minutes."
"Oh." She states, looking a bit surprised. "I didn't see that coming."
"Me either."
She then goes back to finishing the dishes and setting them on the table, the wind spirit and fire spirit heading to the table as well. She gestures to me to sit at one of the chairs, which I do as she sits on the other side with a concerned expression. "So what do you plan to do Alex?"
I give a sigh that shows I'm a bit stressed out. "Well, I'm thinking that I might have to tell my family about you. I can't hide you away or go with the sister story, as it won't work on them, so I'm going to reveal you to my family and tell what has happened in the last 4 months since you arrived here."
"But it won't be risky to tell them about me? It could be dangerous and the group might go after your family. I don't want that to happen to anyone because of me."
Her expression saddens, so I decide to comfort her with some reassuring words. "Look Elsa, they'll understand. My family won't tell anyone and they will do their best to help anyone in trouble. I know this as a fact, because of Erick."
"Who's Erick?"
I realized the name slipped out of my mouth. "Not important right now. Just someone I knew a long time ago."
She studies my expression with curiosity before she sighs, giving a nod. "Alright. You can tell your family about me and how I got here. I just hope it doesn't backfire against us or that the bad guys don't go after them."
"Don't worry Elsa. They'll understand." I reassure her, the 5th spirit looking down at the ground as she was thinking about something. Hoping to comfort her in case she's feeling anxious, I decide to taste the omelette, which is a spinach mushroom omelette, that she's made along with the blueberry pancake as well. As soon as I taste it, my mouth is flooded with satisfying flavors that are delicious and appetizing. "The food is really good by the way."
Elsa looks up at me and gives a timid smile, a slight blush on her cheeks. "Thanks. Glad that you enjoyed it. Bruni and Gale helped out."
As she then goes to eat her own breakfast, she shares some of it with Bruni, the little blue fire lizard eating it and making happy chirpy noises as the fire spirit enjoys the food. Gale also gets his portion, the wind spirit eating it in its own unique way that's pretty fascinating to me. I proceed to finish my breakfast along with Elsa, the two of us eating in silence which has suited us well. Makes things less awkward for us.
After we finish the breakfast and clean ourselves, I take the dishes from the both of us and drop the dirty dishes in the sink to wash them up. When I finish washing them, I hear a car approaching and stop in the driveway right outside my apartment, which means that my family is here and that 30 minutes have gone by quicker than I had expected. I dry my hands with a towel and head to the door, Elsa walking behind before I stop her, the 5th spirit looking at me with a confused expression.
"Perhaps you might want to wait at the table before I introduce you to my family," I tell her, the 5th spirit looking at me before giving in. "Just to make things more calmer before the grand reveal."
"Alright. I'll leave it to you." She replies, heading back to the kitchen with Bruni and Gale to wait for me to try to explain to my family first about the situation. As I sigh in relief, I walk to the front door, rub my neck to relieve the tension I'm feeling, and take a deep breath to calm myself as I begin to open the door to my apartment, making sure to tell myself some words to prepare for the grand visit of my family.
"Okay. It's showtime."
A/N: And to be continued in chapter 16. It's pretty shorter than expected, but I'm struggling a bit right now with writer's block. I might write a short Frozen 2 fanfic one shot to shake it off, but with this real world situation, I might not even have the time. Anyways, leave a review if you like this chapter and continue to be safe guys. Remember to wash hands frequently and make sure to stay safe so we can all defeat this pandemic together. Until next time folks! :)
