Unknown Skies part 11
Sam Hartley, commanding officer of the Boeing 757 Quebec Echo, stood carefully in a street corner as he watched Anna and Elsa take off with Kristoff, Sven and Olaf towards the mountains. Normally he wouldn't take any notice of this but she and Elsa purposefully avoided him at every possible opportunity! This had been the occurrence for a few days. His suspicion grew for the past several days and now, Sam's curiosity had gotten the better of him.
This had led him to follow Elsa and Anna to find out what was going on. It probably wasn't anything important and very likely it wasn't his business. But he knew that no-one just stops seeing another person without a good reason, hence him following Elsa and Anna. Once he was sure that the sisters had left without seeing him, he hired a horse from a nearby stables, using some Arendelle Currency that Elsa had allocated everyone on-board flight 595.
Once his horse was ready, Sam rode off as fast as he could after Elsa and Anna. He quickly found their fresh trail that Kristoff's sled had left behind and followed it, moving stealthily through the trees.
After a while of following stealthily, keeping the sled in sight, Sam finally came across a huge crater like clearing. Whilst still in the forest, Sam got of his horse and tied it to a tree whilst he snuck to the edge of the clearing and hid behind a large boulder.
He watched as Elsa and Anna, followed by Kristoff, Sven and Olaf moved slowly into the clearing.
From where Sam hid, he could only hear snippets of conversation from what the sisters were saying between themselves, Kristoff and Olaf.
"Grand Pabbie, Where are you?" Kristoff called out loudly.
Immediately the ground rumbled and hundreds of little boulders rolled towards the sisters, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven. The rocks stopped just at their feet and all of them transformed into trolls!
Sam had to stop himself exclaiming loudly, he knew about the trolls and pretty much everything from the frozen universe, from endless viewings of the Film Frozen, since he had landed flight 595 in Arendelle. But it was still surprising to see more characters from the film in real life.
Sam strained to hear what Anna and Elsa said to Grand Pabbie not being able to hear much, however, when Anna produced a leather bound book, Sam's interest peaked immediately as he felt a sudden sense of Déjà vu. He got out his smartphone and engaged the camera function which he set to full zoom. Anna had already opened the book to a certain page and Sam took a photograph, as Anna handed the book to Pabbie.
Unfortunately, Sam had left the phone's camera flash on without realising it. Everyone whirled around at the sight of the light and Sam ducked back behind the boulder again.
"Bugger!" Sam exclaimed under his breath.
"Who's there?!" Pabbie called out.
Sam, confident that no-one would find him, didn't make a sound as he opened the photograph on his phone and looked at the image.
The camera on Sam's I-Phone was a 4k device so the clarity was pretty good. Sam had no trouble reading the photo. The page that Anna had opened was a diary entry. Sam read it and his eyes widened and his heart began to race as he read it.
"This can't be!" Sam whispered to himself.
That was when he heard footsteps and a voice.
"Sam?! What are you doing here?"
Sam whirled around to see Anna and Elsa, with Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven all standing right in front of him!
Sam couldn't see any of the trolls anywhere; he guessed that they had gone into rock form to hide themselves.
Sam leapt up in surprise and sank into a martial arts pose that he remembered from his self-defence classes.
Elsa held up her hands to show she wasn't going to hurt Sam and Sam relaxed. Although he was prepared to sprint out of the area if needed.
"I asked; what are you doing here?" Elsa repeated her previous question.
"Gee, I don't know. Maybe that two friends of mine abruptly cut off contact for several days. I got worried; I thought something was wrong, so I followed you guys here to help if I was needed. Now I find out that I am a lost brother to two royal sisters, one of which has magic snow powers!" Sam snapped.
Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and even Sven were taken aback at Sam's outburst.
Once Sam had calmed down, he said,
"Is it true?" in a softer tone.
Everyone was silent for just a moment before Elsa said, in a soft tone,
"All evidence confirms it"
Sam's eyes widened at Elsa's statement.
"It must be a lot to take in…." Anna started but Sam interrupted her.
"It is. I mean, my whole life up to this moment has been a lie! All my life, I had worked hard, carving out a living in the 21st century, only receiving my captain's qualification on the Boeing 757 a month ago. Whereas, I was actually a brother to royalty in a parallel universe"
By now, Pabbie had transformed back into a troll and had moved over to Sam.
Sam noticed this and he asked,
"Why? Why did you send me to another universe?"
Pabbie looked very apologetic as he said,
"I can't tell you. I wish I could, but I can't. You will find out eventually. You should get to know your family. There's nothing more important than family"
"You're right" was Sam's reply.
Pabbie just smiled and as Sam turned around towards his sisters. The elder troll moved away without a word and transformed back into a rock, back in the middle of the clearing.
There was silence between Sam, Anna and Elsa for a long moment as they stared at one another, not quite believing that all three were siblings.
"So, Sam's my brother in law?" Kristoff asked.
"Yes. It looks like it" Was Sam's reply.
"YAY! More family!" Olaf cried out in joy.
At that, Anna and Elsa pulled Sam over and hugged him tight. None of the trio wanting to let each other go.
When they stopped hugging each other, Sam asked,
"So, what do we do now?"
Anna and Kristoff shrugged their shoulders, Sven made a similar gesture as best as a reindeer could and Olaf looked confused.
It was Elsa who spoke,
"I don't think anyone of us knows. For now, let's just head back to Arendelle and see what happens next"
"Sounds like a plan sis" Sam agreed, still not quite believing that he was actually the brother of Elsa and Anna from Frozen!
At this, Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven, with Sam in tow all turned back towards the Sled and where Sam's horse was tied up. Ready to head back to Arendelle and the next phase of their lives.