Chapter 1: A Mother and Father's Love and Mother Nature's Wrath
The gorgeous fire-colored sunset sky had seen before the voyage had absolutely not prepared The Dauntless Princess for the swirling, pounding, cacophonous storm that she had been bombarded with. Especially her main passengers. For them what was to be a pleasant voyage had devolved into a nightmare out of a Herman Melville novel.
All the violent bobbing of the ship, the intermittent thunder and lightning, the ocean crashing onto the deck and below and the ship hands racing around and the shouting orders might have made the average woman understandably confused and terrified to the point of not being able to be calm for even a second. But the sole woman aboard this ship was not the average woman. Rather, she was Queen Iduna, ruler of the small but resolute kingdom of Arendelle alongside her husband King Agnarr, who had raced below deck just as the queen crossed the final "T" on a piece of paper which was the very reason why she had been so focused and calm in the first place.
"Iduna, darling what are you doing? The storm is getting worse, we have to abandon ship!" King Agnarr said as he grabbed his wife's hand trying to remain calm for her sake as well as his own. Queen Iduna put her pen down and rolled up the paper and dragged King Agnarr around their cuddy in search of an empty bottle. The moment she found one, she put the piece of paper into the bottle and corked it saying "I know, but this is more important. They'll want to know; they deserve to know." King Agnarr was about to reply when they were interrupted by the soaked and frantic captain "My lord and lady, The Princess is in severe danger of getting broadsided! She's gonna tip over any minute!"
Wide eyed and now getting we from the rain and ocean water that had just burst through the portals and between the slats like a million or more venomous snakes slinking their way through every small and large crack that would permit them. Hand-in-hand the king and queen raced up the stairs to the life boat. True to the captain's words, The Dauntless Princess was now less like the mighty sea vessel of good, strong wood, ropes, sails and rudders and was acting little more than a toy boat in a child's bath: helplessly and violently rocking and unable to do anything except take her thrashings for the passengers. King Agnarr and Queen Iduna made it to the life boat despite the waves intermittently rushing over the now soaked and slippery deck and the uncontrollable bobbling and teetering of The Princess. Once aboard, the queen prepared to throw the bottle into the ocean until her husband grabbed her forearm nervously saying "Wait! Are you sure this is right? What if they think we just ran out on them?" He knew he wasn't the best parent, keeping his two girls separated and his eldest girl terrified of herself was proof to him of that, but he would be damned if he thought his girls thought their parents were so fed up and terrified of the hassles of their eldest's powers and the guilt of keeping their youngest so closed off that they would just walk out on them.
Luckily, the determined and hopeful look in his wife's large blue eyes assuaged him for the time being. She slightly shook the bottle as she answered " Then this will clarify that we didn't. I don't know for certain about you, but I've had it with keeping things from our kingdom and especially them. Anna and Elsa need to know the truth!" The flash of lightning illuminated a small smile (a slightly nervous smile but a smile nonetheless) on the king's face "You're right. We can't keep lying to them like this. It's no good for Arendelle or them." He agreed. And with those words, Queen Iduna pitched the bottle into the ocean and passionately kissed her beloved husband as they embraced for the final time as a wave the size of a Sequoia tree crashed down onto the boat, sinking The Dauntless Princess and all her passengers into a watery grave.
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Hey, guys! I know this intro chapter is quite a downer, but trust me, this story is not going to be all doom and gloom, I promise. Please comment below what you guys think of my first chapter of my first story and I might follow you and thanks for reading. Stay tuned for more Frozen fun!