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The day of the coronation arrived. At the docks, large vessels arrived in Arenfjord, there were royal flagships among them. The royal and noble guests were wearing their finest clothes to impress their prospective suit or suitor, many were aware that the Queen was unmarried so they would try their luck to seduce the Queen. The women and men were particularly enamored with the idea of bedding the Queen. The rumors of how the Queen's supposed prowess behind closed doors had reached the distant lands after the conquest. To those who would like to be queen would use their charms and words of seductions to lure the beautiful Queen for their advantage. Meanwhile others wanted to see the former Princess of Arendelle and would declare their love to have her. One particular man, who arrived in one of the royal flagships, would woo the lady and force her if needed be.

"Arendelle." said the man in his late fifties. His dark eyes were on the castle. "A kingdom that should've been mine." he checked his military uniform and made sure it was pristine. "No matter, all I ever wanted was the princess. The Queen can keep the kingdom but I shall keep that beautiful Eldr woman and everything should follow after." he smiled knowingly. "Master Thorston, is the proposal ready?" he asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty. It only requires your signature and the Queen of Arendelle's."

"Marvelous. I just hope she will consider my offer."

At the castle's courtyard, the royal carriage of Northul had arrived. Many were surprised to see the old Queen of Northul had left her castle in the north after decades. She's wearing a grayish dress with black accents, while her granddaughter wore brownish -bordering gold in color- dress. Both got out of the carriage.

Green grayish eyes looked up to the castle. It has been long since she saw the castle personally. She had seen the green long stemmed crocus flower with a small single snowflake on the field of purple and green, the crest of the royal House of Aren. She had also seen the short stemmed golden crocus on the field of red, the Eldr crest. Now she was staring at the proud large single six pointed snowflake on the field of purple and green. Yelena's eyes fixated on the new royal standard.

"Prove your true self to me, Queen of Arendelle."

Inside the castle, the servants were bustling around to make the last minute preparation for the royal banquet, in honor of their Queen.

The Queen in question was still in her private chambers, she was getting ready for the coronation she never expected to happened. As a child they were only expected to observe royal pageantry from the stands as the King and Queen as well as their children would make their way in a red carpet towards their thrones. As a daughter of a Duke, she was expected to marry and have children of her own but she didn't want to because of her physical difference.

Back then she was confused as she being raised and treated like a lady when she knew she was like her brother, a boy. However she should dress up like a girl just like her twin sister and have her hair long, after a long and serious talk from her parents and made her promise that no one must know other than their inner circle. Despite being born a boy she has feminine features, which she discovered in an early age. Her breast started to grow like her cousin's and her hips developed into like the females. It had confused Elsa to no end, though thankfully she has a mother figure who had explained to her and made her understand herself, Queen Ariana of Corona.

The Queen had taught her the royal etiquette that befits a woman of her status, while the King had taught her the essentials for her military training and education that befits a king.

The King had encouraged the hate and blood lust growing inside Elsa's heart, he made these as driving force to accomplish her goal to slay the slayer of her family.

Elsa knew love from her dead family, a love that requires nothing in return. She also did felt love from her relatives but it was different. The King loved her like a daughter and as student that needed to be molded in the way he wanted her to be, no matter hard it was. The Queen had loved her because she thought she was fragile. Her cousin had loved her because she was broken. Nevertheless she was grateful and had loved them in return, they were the only blood family she has.

She looked herself in the mirror and sighed. She was wearing a female version of her father's military uniform, the dark blue coat with jet black trimmings. She was wearing the Vinter snowflake golden pendant around her neck, using a dark blue ribbon. The golden epaulettes on she shoulders were well-polished and the gold threads aiguilette were pinned on the right side of her chest. On her left chest were the ribbon of honors, she had received multiple of these but she only wore two of them. The ribbon with the colors, green and purple, of Arendelle and the gold medal crocus. While the other one was the a purple ribbon that bore the golden sun of Corona. She wore the three symbols of her heritage for the world to see, the snowflake, crocus flower and the blazing sun. She had her hair styled in an intricate bun, just like how her mother had wore it.

A knock reached her ear and had given permission for the person to come in.

It was the Duke of Weselton.

"It is time." he said.

Somewhere in the North Mountain.

"Our Queen had written back to us. And this is her letter." the General had showed the opened letter bearing the short stemmed crocus flower. The Eldr crest.

The content of the letter was.

Greetings General,

I had received your letter and it touched me how loyal you are to my grandfather. You even extended your loyalty to me.

I need help. I need to escape here from the castle. My life is in danger. As your Queen, I command you to set me free using our loyal troops. I admire your courage for reaching out to me and to offer your assistance whenever I need it. Thank you.

I will wait for your reply.

-AE

"Our Queen is in a great distress, I will write back to her to formulate a plan on how we are going to rescue her and then plan for her restoration to the throne." the General declared as his dark brown eyes watched his trusted men.

Three man in front of him shared a look before they shared a knowing smile.

"Yes finally! I've been waiting for this to happen so I could finally taste fine wine. . . and women of course." said Flint.

The men guffawed and had pushed each other playfully.

"Ah, you and your lustiness." Rider snorted before pushing Flint towards the General and laughed.

Flint lost his balance and his body collided with the general and both of them fell on the ground.

"Move it you scum!" the General ordered and his hand immediately took the letters which fell from his clothes and hid them. While the men laughed. "John gather our men and train them."

A pair of eyes had watched him hid the letters.

Anna could hear the clamoring outside her window. She was peered outside and sighed. Since Elsa had taken her to Vinter Castle, they haven't spoke since. She wanted to asked questions but she couldn't and wouldn't, and wouldn't know of she would believe every word. They could be telling lies and coming up with tampered proof. Elsa could be anyone's child. She could be a pretender raised by the King of Corona but then again why would he let a strange woman rule Arendelle when he could do it himself? If Elsa was telling her the truth then do they have any proof that her grandfather had orchestrated Elsa's family's demise?

They all seemed pointing their fingers to her grandfather but she knew her grandfather was not like that. He was a loving and doting father figure to her. He gave everything to her and trained her to be a Queen. Arendelle was prosperous under her grandfather's reign but then they were also accusing him for the massacre of innocent children. They have no proof of that. And it was only natural to accuse a man in power by a disgruntled subordinate so they could just put the blame on him to turn other people against him. Anna was used on how the nobles conspired against each other then betray each other once their plot got uncovered. No matter what they say, she won't believe any of them.

Despite everything, she wanted to know what her grandfather was really like, where could she find people who would be impartial regarding the matter. Perhaps some of the councilmen who still held their position despite the changed of ruling house. Anna could remember Lord Jorgen, Lord Leigh and her distant relative Lord Solskinn.

This day was supposed to be her coronation but instead the people has been cheering for another Queen. The Queen had specifically ordered to have guards guarding her door. If she wasn't mistaken, there were two guards guarding her door and one of them was Eric, two each on both end of the halls, and there were two at the top and two at the bottom of the stairs and five in the atrium. All of those guards where hand picked by the Queen herself.

After their confrontation, the Queen had assigned Eric as her own personal guard, her every move were being watched by them. Since the confrontation, her security was tight and got much tighter as the coronation approaches. Naturally Anna was angry but she couldn't do anything but to abide by the Queen's orders, she was confined in the four corners of the room , only Gerda was allowed to come and go. It felt like she was back in the day when her grandfather was King, there would be a time she would not be allowed to leave the castle and if she did, there would be at least fifteen soldiers with her. The only difference was she knew she was safe in her grandfather's time but now she was in perpetual danger.

Cheers erupted from outside as the Queen made her appearance and got on a black Arendellian stallion. She observed the Queen's attire and it was familiar to her, it resembled the attire of Prince Eleazar. The signature dark blue military regalia. The people cheered at the sight of their Queen, behind her were the Royals of Corona, the Duke of Weselton and an old man she hadn't seen before.

The horses started to trot towards the sacred building built within the castle grounds, but then Queen halted and turned towards the castle. Anna's heart almost jumped out of her chest when she saw the Queen looking at her direction. The Queen's eyes were narrowed and for a moment their eyes met despite the distance. Anna stood firm and stared back before the Queen broke the contact and proceeded to the building.

"She knew I was watching her." Anna mumbled.

In the castle's courtyard.

Elsa turned and saw Anna watching them from the window of her room. Her mind was not on the coronation ceremony, at the moment her mind was filled with possible dangers that they could encounter now they had invited some of Runeard's enemies. She had assigned guards for Anna, the halls and the stairs were all guarded, but unknown to Anna, there were five more guards in each rooms next to her room. Elsa added those as precaution on a possible danger now that everyone were distracted. Also she had taken the Duke's words after he fetched her earlier.

The ride from the castle's foyer to the sacred building was short, she didn't get the idea of riding a horse at the short distance but the council had insisted because of tradition. She shrugged and complied at their request. Elsa unmounted the horse and had entered the building. She was greeted by heavenly voices of the choir and the people turned to see her walk. The minister and the Arendelle's religious officials were standing near the dais, while the guests were seated by precedence.

King Frederic had taken a seat and beside him was his daughter, who still couldn't look Elsa in the eye after their encounter at her study. They were seating beside the other royals namely, Queen Yelena and her granddaughter, Honeymaren. Next to them was King Arkyn of the Valley, Princess Olivia of Tromso, Prince Magnus of the Southern Isles. Meanwhile on the pew opposite them was Duke of Weselton, Count of Isles, Duke of Flam, and Duke of Wester and his son Hans.

Elsa also saw other minor noble familes such as House Oaken, Solskinn, Jorgen, Hofferson, Bjorgen, Bjorgman, Harolds, Inger, Jorgenson, Larsen, Oswald and many other. She looked ahead and stood in front of the minister.

The minster had started the ceremony, however Elsa's mind was not on the ritual itself. She thoughts were clouded by the words of the Duke. He had warned about the intentions of their guests.

She watched the minister take the Queen's crown, a crocus shaped golden crown with a sapphire center piece.

"Will you solemnly promise to the gods and these witnesses before us to rule for the benefit and protection of your people, and follow laws and traditions of the Kingdom of Arendelle founded by King Aren the Great?"

"I will." Elsa answered. She bowed her head to receive her crown. The crown was small and light but it felt so heavy on Elsa's head. She raised her head and was offered the orb and the scepter of power. She took them and turned to the people. Her face was stoic.

The minister had uttered ancient Arendellian words.

". . . I declare you Queen Elsa of Arendelle." he said last.

"Queen Elsa of Arendelle." the people simultaneously said as they stood up from their seats. Applause erupted from the crowd

Elsa had returned the orb and the scepter.

She was officially Queen Elsa, first of her name, protector and ruler of Arendelle.

The celebration begun an hour ago and it was in full swing. There were a lot different foods being brought out, the wine and champagne were overflowing. The Queen was sitting on her throne, bored and got nothing to do but to watch the people dancing. She was not particularly fond of these kinds of events, she preferred the company of the soldiers drinking in the training grounds and having a good conversation. If Elsa would describe the whole thing in one word it would be, suffocating.

She had kindly declined men and women trying to invite her for a dance. She was not in the mood.

Elsa's eyebrows slowly turning into a frown as the night went on. She just drink her wine to ease her grumpiness.

"Your Majesty." someone called.

Elsa turned her attention to the old white haired Queen.

"It is an honor to be invited to the Queen of Arendelle's coronation." said the other Queen.

"The honor is mine to have the wise Queen Yelena of Northul here in Arendelle." Elsa responded with ease.

"You flatter me." said the Queen Yelena. "And please, you can call me Yelena." she smiled.

"Very well, you can call me Elsa." Elsa's eyes drifted from Yelena to the lady beside her. "And you are?" she asked.

"May I present Princess Honeymaren, my granddaughter and heiress of Northul." Yelena presented her granddaughter.

Honeymaren curtsied to Elsa. "A pleasure to meet the fabled Queen Elsa."

Elsa wanted to scoff but she didn't want to be rude. "Pleasure is mine, Princess." she forced a smile. She hoped that both Northulians would leave her alone after that.

"Your Majesty, would you like to dance?" Honeymaren asked.

There were expectant eyes watching them and it annoyed Elsa to no end. She wanted to lash out for being put into such predicament. A small smile graced Honeymaren's lips as she noticed Elsa's flushed face, little did she know it was an indication how annoyed the platinum blonde Queen was.

"I-"

"Queen Elsa!" a rambunctious voice had caught the women's attention. It was King Arkyn.

"King Arkyn," Elsa acknowledged him with a smile. She smiled apologetically to the Northulians.

"What an excellent party. The wine is exquisite. I wish I have wine like this at home." he laughed and drained his glass. "Oh what do we have here? Queen Yelena finally my left her fortress? And who is this gorgeous young lady?" his eyes were raking the body of the Northulian princess.

"King Arkyn, you've never change. Still a drunkard." Queen Yelena wrinkled her nose at the scent of alcohol and sweat.

"My my still snarky, hmm well I wasn't called the Merry King for nothing!" he laughed. "And of course being the Merry King mean two double u's. Wine and Women." He laughed once more after giving the women a wink.

Elsa knew he was clearly drunk.

"Your Majesty, it's a pleasure meeting you, perhaps we can talk when- in an appropriate setting." Queen Yelena eyed King Arkyn in disgust. "Maren, let's go." the she left.

"Perhaps we can dance some other time." Honeymaren said.

Elsa forced a smile once again. "Perhaps."

The Northulian princess curtsied and left but not before giving Elsa a meaningful glance.

"Ha that old hag was hiding a gem." King Arkyn's eyes never left Honeymaren's figure. He turned his gaze back at Elsa. "I would like to have a word with you."

Elsa rose from her throne and nodded. "This way please." Elsa had led them to the balcony and had guards to stand at the doorway for privacy.

Elsa looked down at the people below her, they were all dancing and drinking. She had insisted to let the people of Arendelle joined the festivities, despite the protest of the council.

The King of the Valley took a swig on his new glass of wine before raising it. "A toast to the person who kicked that bastard Runeard off the Arendellian throne." he laughed and emptied his glass.

"Thank you." Elsa stated.

"Man, who would've thought a woman like you, raised beyond the sea after being chased out from your own home, would become Queen." he placed his glass on the railing.

"You knew?" Elsa turned to him.

"Of course I knew." he laughed. "I was a newly crowned King when I first set foot here in Arendelle. I was received by King Olav as his guest, and to my delight I was just in time for his niece's engagement celebration. I've witness it with my own very eyes. Now here I am witnessing their daughter's coronation."

"And you believe my claim?" Elsa asked.

"You are the spitting image of your grandmother. The only difference was your hair, it's lighter than hers." he looked at her in the eye and said. "A trait of a Northulian."

"I see."

"Can you believe that you and that old hag earlier are actually related?"

"If I didn't know Princess Yelena was my great-great grandmother then I wouldn't." Elsa chuckled a bit.

King Arkyn laughed so loud that it took the attention of the people below. "Ah yes, they both share the same name." the King snorted.

Meanwhile, in the other part of the castle, six men had successfully scaled the castle wall and managed to get in one of the luxurious room of the castle, the room was fit to house a Queen or a princess, but to their surprised five Arendellian soldiers were standing guard in it.

"INTRUDER!" shouted the soldier and drew their swords.

Clashing of swords and shouts echoed inside the room, alerting the other from the outside.

The ruckus was heard by Anna and the next thing she knew Eric came in her room with few more other guards.

Anna jumped on her place because of the sudden arrival of the royal guards.

"What's going on?!" she asked.

"There are intruders and we're here to keep you safe." Eric replied as he readied his sword.

Anna refused to cower behind them so she retrieved her father's sword from the chest at the foot of her bed. "I can take care of myself."

Back in the castle balcony

Elsa was indulging the man and his humor but she her patience was wearing thin, she wanted to retire and so she could run the kingdom early. "So what you would like to talk about? I am sure we're here to discuss some things other than my family history?"

"Ah yes," the King paused. "I was looking for a washroom when I got lost in the castle halls, to my surprise there were guards in the castle's atrium and stairs. I was about to climb up when your royal guards halted me."

"It's for security purposes. That part of the castle is a private wing. Only selected people were allowed to go there." Elsa explained but something bothered her, she did her best not to show it.

"That make sense. It's just I was surprised how things had changed."

"Yes." Elsa said. She watched the King critically.

The King laughed. "I thought you are keeping something so precious to have such number of guards to guard it, though I am sure now it's just nothing." the King trailed off. "Right?" the tone of his voice changed drastically.

Elsa's blood ran cold. "Yes." she has to go back and check but she couldn't just ran off. She smiled with ease. "There's no more greater treasure than the people of Arendelle. Even if I ascended to the throne not long ago, I have come to love its people." she diverted their topic.

The King was watching intently if there's a changed in Elsa's demeanor and he saw none of it so he reverted back into his rambunctious self.

"Right right. Being a monarch is hard but you'll get by. That's coming from a veteran here." he gestured to himself.

A knock on the glass panes of the door and interrupted them. Instead repremanding the guard that interrupted then, she mentally thanked him instead.

"I bed your pardon, Your Majesties but Lord Steward Pabbie is looking for you."

"I'll meet him in a moment." she then turned to King Arkyn. "I am sorry to cut our conversation short, perhaps tomorrow if you are not in a hurry to go back to the Valley then we can continue."

The King nodded. "Of course. I'll be here in a couple of days "

"Then, excuse me." Elsa rejoined the festivities inside.

"I'll be here until I can get what I wanted." he smirked.

Back inside the ballroom. Elsa was confused when Pabbie was not in sight, instead her line of sight was caught by another pair of glacial eyes which was hiding behind one of the curtains.

The man signaled Elsa to follow him before disappearing from sight.

Elsa casually walked from the balcony doors to towards the direction of the door. She slipped out of the ballroom discreetly as possible only to see a disheveled Marshall.

"What happened?" Elsa asked with such authority in her voice.

"Come follow me," both had ran towards the main atrium of the castle. "There has been a breach, men had scaled the keep's walls and got in one of the windows and fortunately they went in the wrong room." both of them had ran up the stairs, and took note the absence of the guards stationed there.

"Is there any casualties?"

"Couple of bruises from our side and we killed five of them." they had reached the private wing where the quarters of Anna situated in. "And left one alive to extract information."

"Hide the bodies and have the room clean, don't let our guests notice. And take the captured one in the depths of the dungeon."

Elsa gritted her teeth in anger. Six men got passed security from outside. The royal guards needed more training and discipline.

"Right away," Marshall said.

"And Lady Eldr?" she asked.

"Safe but she heard the ruckus and witnessed everything."

"Good. That would make it easy for me then." Elsa stated before opening Anna's private chambers, only to be greeted by a sword wielding woman. "Marshall, guard the door." she closed and locked the door. "Put that sword down. I came here to check on you." she said, making the former princess raise her eyebrow.

"Why should I do that? The last time I was alone with you without a weapon, you had defiled me and the other time had threatened to kill me." Anna defiantly pointed her father's sword to Elsa.

Anna was right but . . . "You leave me no choice then." Elsa swiftly unsheathed her sword and tried to disarm the latter. But Anna stood firm and her grip on the sword tightened.

"YOUR MAJESTY!" Marshall called after he heard clashing of sword.

"I'm fine Marshall! Don't come in!" Elsa shouted back. Both of them parried against each other while their feet were in perfect sync as if they were dancing in the ballroom, the only difference was they were wielding a sword and would likely to hurt each other.

"I have no time for this!" Elsa was pissed enough to give a hard blow against Anna but it was blocked.

Anna gritted her teeth at the force. "Then leave me alone!" she hit back.

"Perhaps you have no idea argh! What situation you are in!" Elsa was almost hit at the cheek if it weren't for her quick reflexes. "Someone wanted to abduct you!"

"I can take care of myself!" Anna quickly side stepped when Elsa tried to knock her sword off.

Elsa was getting frustrated by each seconds as she tried to talked to this woman in front of her, she was tired and already pissed off by the guests. Elsa gave another hard blow and again it was blocked but this time instead of moving away she moved forward and pushed the latter slowly towards the bed.

Anna wanted to break off their swords but Elsa was on to her. She could feel her boots sliding on the carpeted floor slowly at Elsa's force. She panicked when she felt the bed at the back of her knees. Anna almost lost her balance but held on.

Elsa didn't have time for games so she exerted more force, making the woman sit on the bed and got in between her legs to avoid being hit on the groin.

"Wait what? Argh!" Anna bared her teeth as was slowly being force by Elsa to lie on her back. She raised tried to raise her arms and fight off the pressure coming from Elsa's sword but her hands were getting tired and it seemed Elsa got stronger as their fight dragged on.

Elsa angled her sword to avoid any accidents between them, she angled her word to Anna's less dominant side so she could easily overpower and pin the sword to that side and she did. Anna had no choice but to turn to the left as Elsa pushed the pressure there and her hand wrist started to hurt making her lose her grip on the sword and was pinned down on the bed. Anna winced as she tried to get her sword back but it was tossed at the opposite side of the room.

Elsa tossed her own sword and had pinned Anna's hands above her head.

Anna let out a whimper at Elsa's roughness but her eyes were glaring back to the glacial ones, which were filled with annoyance and anger.

"What do you want?" Anna asked.

"I want you to know that from now on you'll be sleeping in the Queen's quarters." Elsa commanded.

"I refuse." Anna was still defiant. "I refuse to be sullied by you once again."

Elsa further pressed her body against Anna. "You will do as commanded. Unless you wanted an old man sully you instead."

Anna was disgusted by the thought.

"For your own sake, do as commanded then I assure you, no one can harm you." Elsa stated softly. "And for the sake of our child."

Anna thought for a moment before scoffing. "You said it yourself that you will destroy and kill me and now you are concern for MY child's well being after you attacked me?!" the latter's confusing attitude started to get in her nerves.

"You had given me no choice since you didn't lower your weapon!"

"I am not safe from you! Any of you!" Anna growled. "After my grandfather died, I was never safe!"

"And you have to thank him for that!" Elsa growled.

"Whatever you say against my grandfather I will not believe it."

"I don't care what you believe in." Elsa had enough arguing and got off the former princess. "Tonight you will sleep in my quarters. I will take no for an answer. If I have to drag you there I will." Elsa picked up her sword and left the room.

Anna sat up but winced at the pain shooting to her wrists. "Bastard Usurper." Anna muttered.

Elsa returned to the party and she was greeted by the Duke of Weselton.

"Your Majesty, where have you been?" he asked.

"I've gone out for fresh air." she lied.

The Duke studied her for a moment. "Anyway, I believe you've seen the Duke of Wester at the ceremony."

Elsa sat on her throne and was given a glass of wine. "I did."

"He was looking for you earlier. And here he comes." the Duke stated as his gaze where on the father and son who was approaching.

"Your Majesty," both Westers bowed.

"Your Grace." Elsa nodded in acknowledgement. "An honor to have one of the great noble house in my court."

"You flatter me, Your Majesty." Duke of Wester chuckled. "It is I, who is honored to be standing before the Heiress of the two great houses of Arendelle."

Elsa wore her stoic mask. "And you must be Hans." Elsa's gaze landed on the young auburn haired man.

"Your Majesty, thank you for your hospitality and had bothered yourself to arranged our accommodation here in the castle." Hans bowed.

Elsa's narrowed her eyes for split second before going passive again.

"Would Her Majesty like to dance?" Duke Wester offered his hand.

"Thank you, Your Grace but I must decline. " Elsa politely declined.

"I see, perhaps some other time?"

"Perhaps." Elsa forced a small smile.

"Then, we'll take our leave. Good night." both men bowed and left them.

The Duke of Weselton had witnessed the whole thing and was impressed by the exchanged.

"I was hoping for a much aggressive kind of approach." the Duke said.

"Let them be. . . for now."

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