Unknown Skies part 6
Elsa and Anna, followed by Kristoff and a few guards moved towards the flying machine, which had just landed with caution.
From all that they had seen and heard when this machine flew at low level around Arendelle, they thought that their end was coming. But it didn't and now they were about to have a closer look.
A few guards held flaming torches and some others had kerosene lamps which they held up to bathe the machine in light.
From where Elsa was standing, she couldn't see the whole of the machine very well but she could tell that the machine was huge, longer and wider than any ship and the fin on the back easily towered over every building in Arendelle except the castle.
The machine was painted in an icy blue, the same colour as her ice dress and all over the machine, were silver snowflake designs. Strange text, some large and some small was present here and there and all in a language that wasn't very common around Arendelle.
Stretching out from the sides of the machine were a pair of massive wings, or that was what Elsa and the others guessed they were. Underneath those, one on each side were a pair of massive pod like contraptions that had a massive set of spinning blades in their front.
On the side of the pods were a stylised double R and underneath those was the words Rolls Royce.
"Rolls Royce?" what could that mean? Elsa thought to herself.
She moved back to the machine's front, reading the words she could see,
"Winter Airways? Boeing 757-200? What do those actually mean?" Elsa thought aloud.
Just as Elsa said this, a door opened on the front left corner of the machine and a bright yellow slide unfurled itself from within the machine, with a loud hiss!
When the hissing sound stopped, a figure appeared at the door opening and gestured inside the machine at someone. As soon as he did so, one by one, people began to slide down the slide and onto the ground!
Several guards took a step back in surprise but quickly regained their formation.
Elsa and Anna gasped at the sight of the people, all of them seemed to be dressed in fashions so exotic, they would get one a dirty look from people in Arendelle and other kingdoms.
Slowly, a large crowd of people gathered from inside the machine outside the left pod. Elsa and Anna both did the math, 208 people in total. All of them dressed weirdly, six women were all dressed in the same style and colours of clothes, Anna pointed out that the women were wearing some kind of uniform.
But it was the two men in black suits that caught Elsa's eye. One of them had a black hat on so Elsa couldn't see him clearly but the other one, she could.
He looked to be around Elsa's age, not much taller than she. But what shocked Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and all of the guards was how closely he resembled Elsa herself!
His hair was the same platinum blonde colour, his skin had the same icy tone and his eyes were the same glacier blue.
The man turned and looked at Elsa with deep suspicion, he slowly walked forwards, with the other man dressed identically to him obviously protesting.
But the platinum blonde haired man said something which Elsa couldn't quite hear but she thought he said,
"Dan, I'll be fine"
The white haired man strode confidently forwards, the guards all drew their weapons but Elsa stopped them with a quick motion of her hand.
The man finally stopped only a few paces away from Elsa and said, in a clear, calm and confident tone,
"My apologies for any disturbance. My name is Sam Hartley; I am the commanding officer of Winter Airways flight 595, a civil passenger flight, en-route from Boston Logan Airport to Leeds Bradford Airport"
Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and the guards just stared at him in astonishment. Didn't he know that his arrival had just mucked up the peace and tranquillity of Anna and Kristoff's wedding?
Elsa was finding it difficult to get any words out, she was that surprised at Sam's statement.
"Mr Hartley, my name is Elsa; I am the Queen of Arendelle. I don't know what you are saying, to be honest it sounds ridiculous. What I do know is that you and your flying machine disrupted my sister's wedding!" Elsa replied to Sam, in a similar tone that he used.
Sam's eyes widened as Elsa mentioned her name, but he kept any remark in check as he said,
"My apologies, but my aircraft was running out of fuel and without it, you have to land. And by the way, please call me Sam"
"Fuel? Look, Sam. I don't know who or what you, your machine, or your companions are. But your arrival is quite concerning. For all I know, you could be a secret army waiting to invade!" Elsa replied.
Sam turned around and gestured at the people huddled under the machine's left wing.
"Do they look like soldiers to you?" He asked, his voice showing the stress he was feeling.
Elsa looked and none of the gathered people didn't look like combatants but that didn't mean she could let her guard down.
"They don't look like soldiers, true. But I still have to be suspicious. There is no record of a machine such as yours" Elsa said to Sam.
Sam turned back to Elsa and said in a friendly tone,
"Look, I understand where you are coming from. But really we are just civilians on an ordinary trans-oceanic flight. We came here because all of our intended airports were destroyed by war. We then flew through a storm and a bright blue light, and then we ended up here. If you don't believe me, I can get evidence to prove it"
Elsa considered this for a moment, Anna whispered to her,
"Are you sure about this? For all we know, Sam could be another Hans!"
"We don't know that Anna. Sam could be telling the truth." Elsa replied, also in a whisper.
She then turned around and said to Sam,
"If you indeed have evidence. I will see it tomorrow morning, I will have guards bring you to the council chamber and your evidence can be presented. We will decide what happens after that. Until then, you and your companions are confined to your 'Aircraft'"
Sam nodded at this,
"Understandable your majesty, if I could make one request. Do you have any ladders that the passengers, the crew and I can get on and off the aircraft?" he asked.
Elsa nodded and with a flick of her wrist, a set of Ice stairs, leading up to the Aircraft's open door appeared, completely enveloping the yellow slide underneath.
Sam looked to be shocked at what Elsa had done; in fact, Elsa could see the open mouthed expressions on all of the Aircraft's other Crew and passengers.
"Tomorrow morning, 9 o clock. We will meet then." Elsa told Sam before she, Anna, Kristoff and most of the guards turned around and headed back to the castle, whilst a few took up positions near the aircraft to prevent the crew and passengers from leaving the vicinity.
As she and the others left, Elsa couldn't help but feel like something was going to happen and it was linked to the people on the aircraft.