Ages: Jack 19, Elsa 19(but younger than Jack), Anna 17, king Daniel 50, Queen Eleanor 47.

8 years later

"now then we will be gone for about three weeks, and Anna will be coming back at the end of the second week" I nodded my head at my father and then gave my mother and Anna a hug goodbye. I then nodded to the servants to open the gates so my family could go to the docks. Just before they left my mother said, "keep an eye on Elsa her… condition is getting worse". I then bid them a final goodbye before they left for good.

I then thought to myself that this was great I had the castle to myself, I didn't have training with Salazar, so I did the one thing I had to do before my father returned, read.

I wasn't the best reader, but I could understand the most part. To be more specific I had to read about the 9 kingdoms and their history so that I could start going out on diplomatic meetings for my parents, but since I couldn't go train with Killian, as he was the captain of the ship my parents were on, I figured I may as well read.

I was about to start when I heard someone else enter the library, I looked around to see the last person I expected. Elsa. She was looking through all the books on the shelf so I quietly came up behind her and then said "I thought you were meant to stay in your room because of your condition", she was startled but calmed down quickly, and then said "please don't scare me like that again, and for your information the library is the only other place I am allowed to go other than my room. Since it would do me no good being stuck in a room doing nothing all day I come here, and I read. Also, I thought you had gone to Corona to celebrate the return of our cousin Rapunzel". I replied by saying, "father was against the idea since I am not blood, also how many of these books have you read, you always seem to be in your room so you must have read a lot", "I have read nearly every book in here, why do you need help" she replied with a slight smirk. "as a matter of fact, I do" I then lead her over to the table I was sitting at, "I don't suppose you could give me a brief history of the 9 kingdoms". She then burst out laughing before looking at my face again and realising I wasn't joking "you don't know the history of the nine kingdoms but I thought all children in Arendelle had to learn the history of the 9 kingdoms", all I could say in reply to that was "I never went to school". Elsa then remembered "you never had parents did you".

I looked in her eyes and all I saw was sympathy for me, I responded by saying "you don't talk to many people do you" Elsa shook her head, "good then follow me I want to show you a secret".

We started to walk through the castle and as we walked Elsa asked me what I knew of the nine kingdoms. I replied by saying "I know the names of the nine kingdoms" Elsa then gestured for me to tell them to her "well there is, Arendelle, of course, then there is Auradon, Agrabah, Corona, Atlantica, the Southern Isle, the Pridelands, DunBroch and Neverland". Elsa then nodded her head, "that is correct but there are also the exiled kingdoms, the ones that the villains ruled. Most of these villains were rounded up and placed on the isle of the lost, but not all of them were captured, there are also the Shadowlands, the dark kingdom, and the ruins of the ancient kingdom. Rumour has it that all the villains that weren't captured still hide in these lands". "why were they exiled" I questioned, "the kingdoms started to want power and land, they started to rebel and try to take over the other kingdoms, they refused to follow the agreement they signed when they joined, what was at the time the eleven kingdoms. The rest of the kingdoms captured all the leaders and exiled them to the isle of the lost". As we continued to walk Elsa kept on explaining the history and how there use to be even more kingdoms but they all just died away and joined together in harmony, but then we reached it the stairway to the dungeon the stairway to my secret…

As we walked down the stairs, we passed some pf the guards I nodded to two of the guards, who would lead us to a cell. "after a while Salazar said I should come down here learn about the prisoners and why they were locked up, that's when I found them", I then gestured over to a cell with two men and one woman in it. Elsa then started to walk towards the cell, but I quickly put my hand in front of her, and whispered "don't let them see your face or it will be added to their list" "what list", "the list of those they would like to kill, she replied by asking the question I was hoping not to hear, "who are they?"

"my family" I replied whilst looking at the cage in disgust.

From The Man with No Name