King Agnarr was currently in the throne room with Prince Anders and was awaiting his daughters to come in with Pitch bedside him.
"Prince Anders, welcome! We trust you had an enjoyable journey." Agnarr tries to strike a conversation with him when the doors open and they look to see Elsa coming out with Anna right beside her and as they walk down the steps, just as Rapunzel and Olaf came from around the corner.
Elsa and Anna stopped right beside their father on opposite ends with Elsa being on his left and Anna to his right as Olaf tiger stopped beside Elsa.
Elsa wears a teal dress with a sweetheart bodice with bronze trim, and dark teal, maroon and purple rosemaling on the skirt and bodice, a black long-sleeved turtleneck blouse with red and teal crystal-shaped prints on it, a long, magenta cape, a small, gold tiara, dark brown flats with gold outlines and teal tights underneath, and her hair woven in a French braided crown twist bun held together with a blue ribbon.
Anna wears a black sweetheart bodice with dark green off-the-shoulder straps and rose, teal, blue, and purple prints on it, and has greenish-gold trim, a black satin-laced necklace with a bronze pendant of Arendelle's symbol, an olive drab pleated skirt with sashes consisting of the following: asparagus centers with pink, crimson, dark olive green, olive drab, and blueprints on it between cream sides and dark green pleats, both cream petticoat and frilly knee-length pantalettes, white stockings, and a pair of black ballet shoes.
"Prince Anders, may I present, my daughters, Princess Anna and my eldest, Princess Elsa." Agnarr introduced them to him.
"So, why did no one tell me of your beauty?" Anders asks coyly.
"No one mentioned yours, either." Elsa replied sarcastically.
"Oh! Thank you." Anders replied with a giant grin and Elsa could see he didn't notice she was being sarcastic. "They say that in Skånland. Yeah, right?" He asked and turned to his entourage who all laugh alongside him. "It's very amusing."
"Is it?" Anna whispered to Elsa who agreed it wasn't.
"We have the same title, and yet we are never described the same way." Elsa informed Anders who suddenly became silent to that statement.
"Elsa..." Agnarr whispered towards her to stop speaking like that.
"Yeah...oh." Anders agreed when he suddenly spotted the white tiger in the room as it growled softly at the Prince. "What is that? Wait, don't tell me...it's a cat with stripes!"
"He likes you." Iago stated from Pitch's shoulder.
"Yeah, I know. Because in Skånland, cats love me." Anders stated as he started waving his staff in front of Olaf. "Here puss, puss, puss."
Suddenly, Olaf jumped at the Prince causing the room to laugh as he shrieked at the sudden jump.
"My king, our enemies grow stronger every day, yet you allow your daughter to dismiss Prince Anders and a possible military alliance." Pitch stated in annoyance towards the King.
"What enemies?" Agnarr asks Pitch as he was writing a note in condolences for what happened to Anders.
"Shirabad grows stronger and amasses." Pitch stated in anger.
"Shirabad is our ally." Agnarr reminded him.
"Was our ally." Pitch corrected him.
"You would drag us into a war with our oldest..."
"And you would allow your kingdom to sink in ruin for mere sentiment!" Pitch stated.
"Pitch!" Agnarr shouted, causing Pitch to close his mouth. "Remember your place."
Pitch calms down and sees he overstepped. "Forgive me, my king. I went too far." He then smiled and raised his staff that was shaped like a cobra that began to glow red. "But...if you'd only reconsider. I think you will see...invading Shirabad is the right thing to do."
"Invade...Shirabad..." Agnarr started to fall under the spell when Elsa suddenly overheard their conversation.
"Invade Shirabad?" Elsa questioned as she stepped into the room. "Why would we invade Mother's kingdom?"
"We would never invade Shirabad." Agnarr promises her with a smile.
"But an ally in Skånland would improve our situation." Pitch stated.
"Yes, if you would consider just giving Anders a chance." Agnarr tells his daughter.
"To rule? Father, Olaf would be a better ruler than him." Elsa stated as she gestured to her tiger.
"My dear, I'm not getting any younger here, and we need to find you a husband...and we're running out of kingdoms to ask." Agnarr informed his eldest daughter.
"What foreign prince could care for our people better than me?" Elsa asks him. "Father, I could lead if you-"
"My dearest treasure, you cannot be ruler." Agnarr shot his daughter down as this isn't the first time she's brought it up. "Because it has never been done in the 1,000 year history of our kingdom."
"I have been preparing for this day my entire life." Elsa declared, determined to rule her kingdom. "I have read every-"
"Books?" Pitch interrupted her. "But you cannot read experience. Inexperience is dangerous. People left unchecked will revolt. Walls and boarders that are left unguarded will be attacked."
"Pitch is right." Agnarr agreed as he held his daughters hand. "One day you will understand."
Elsa can't believe that her father doesn't believe in her enough and marched out, followed by her tiger.
As she left, Pitch followed and leaned in close. "Life will be much kinder to you, Princess, when you learn that it's better for you to be seen rather to be heard."
Olaf then growled at the man as Elsa pulled herself together and made her way back to her and Anna's bedroom, luckily her sister was out for the moment, allowing her to be alone to collect herself.
"Here comes a wave, meant to wash me away. A tide that is taking me under. Broken again, left with nothing to say. My voice drowned out in thunder. But I can't cry...and I can't start to crumble. Whenever they try to shut me or cut me down." Elsa made it to her balcony and opened the doors. "I can't stay silent! Tough they want to keep me quiet. And I tremble when they try it..." she then sighed and looked down at her hands that started to be covered in frost. "All I know is that I won't go speechless..."
She then drops down onto the bench and wonders what she's supposed to do next.
Meanwhile, at the palace gates, Bruni was causing a distraction by running up the legs of the guards gates as the supplies were being brought in.
Hiccup then sneaked past and managed to sneak past the guards undetected to try and find his Jasmine.
However, he wasn't actually as sneaky as he thought as he was spotted by Iago.
"Mmmmm, what a clever little street rat." Iago took notice and quickly flew off to find Pitch.
"Remember your place." Pitch repeated what the king told him. "What a single minded fool, he sees a city where I see an empire."
"Hey, Pitch!" Iago cried as he flew up and landed. "We've got a problem. We've got a thief in the palace!"
"A thief?" Pitch asked as he walked over to where Iago was looking and watched as Hiccup ran on top of the palace and rolled down to the second story before climbing down. Pitch then looked amazed before looking to his scepter which began to glow. "My diamond? Is it possible?"
"That's him?!" Iago asked in confusion. "That's the clown we've been waiting for?"
"Let's take a closer look." Pitch supposed as the two wanted to see this street rat up close.
Back with Hiccup, he just dropped down into the halls and hid before the guards took notice of him,
Seeing some off duty servants left their uniforms, Hiccup quickly took their clothes and began to blend in with the others.
Pitch and Iago however we're the only two to take notice of him but kept out of his eye.
"Who's a clever boy?" Iago asked Pitch who agreed this boy just might be the one they've been waiting for.
"Rapunzel, there must be something I can do." Elsa sighed as her servant/friend was putting her hair in an French braided crown twist bun.
"A handsome prince wants to marry you. Oh, if only life were easier." Rapunzel mocked as Anna was reading on her bed.
"It's not that I don't want to marry, it's just..." Elsa sighed and didn't know how many times she could have the same conversation in one day.
"You want to rule the kingdom without relying on someone else." Anna repeated what she's said for years. "Honestly, I don't quite get why."
"You remember what mother used to say, Anna: We would only ever be as happy as our least happy subject." Elsa reminded her sister as Rapunzel finished braiding her hair.
"Yeah, I never really quite got what that meant." Anna confessed.
"If she saw what we have today, she would be heartbroken." Elsa stated to the two as she gestured to the outside.
"She would want you both to be safe. And clean." Rapunzel stated as she wandered towards the bathroom. "I'll draw the bath."
"Pitch's guards are on every corner. Soon, he'd just have them risking lives, and for what?" Elsa asked as she sighed and turned to face the two. "I was gifted these powers for more than just to hide them and marry some useless prince."
"If you had to marry, at least you could do worse than this one." Anna guessed. "Tall, handsome."
"And yes, a little dim, but you're just getting married. It's not like you have to talk to him." Rapunzel informed her, causing Elsa to look very confused.
"But you'd prefer that boy from the marketplace. I could tell." Anna stated with a smile as she followed Rapunzel.
Elsa thinks back to Hiccup, wondering if she would prefer someone who grew up in this kingdom with actual street smarts rather than some stupid prince.
Just then, she was broken from her thoughts by a knock on the door and as she went over to it, Iago flew in to get a better feel on this guy.
Elsa opened the door and saw a servant facing the other way of the door. "Can I help you?"
He then turned around, revealing Hiccup to Elsa, causing her to gasp a little in shock. "Tea?" He asked, holding up the tray with tea on it.
"You?" Elsa asked in shock, before realizing this was the same guy who stole her bracelet. "You! What are you doing?!" She then heard other guards approaching. "Get in here!" She dragged him inside her bedroom and closed the door behind them.
"I came back so I could return your bracelet." Hiccup explains as he looked around the bedroom.
"My bracelet? Where is it?" Elsa asked in surprise.
"Back on your wrist." Hiccup answered as Elsa looked down and saw it was back on her wrist. "I gotta say, I love what the princesses did with the place."
Elsa looked up and was happy to see he actually returned it, but then a bigger question rendered around her head. "How did you sneak past the guards?"
"That was a challenge, but I have ways." Hiccup told her with a smile and Elsa returned the smile, blushing as what her sister said running through her head. "While the Princesses are out, do you wanna maybe go for a little stroll?"
"You're unbelievable." Elsa scoffed. "You cannot just break into a palace and walk around like you own the place."
"When you don't own anything, you gotta pretend like you own everything." Hiccup informed her. "So, what do you say? I did find your bracelet."
"You stole it." Elsa corrected him.
"Correction: the salamander stole it." Hiccup corrected her.
"He's your salamander." Elsa retaliated with a playful smile.
"He's still just a salamander. Anything shiny, he claims." Hiccup defended with a shrug of the shoulders.
Elsa laughed a little just as the others seem to have the worst timing in history as both Rapunzel and Anna returned to the room.
"Who ordered the tea?" Anna asked, confused as to what's happening, causing the two to turn towards the two.
Acting fast, Elsa remembers he doesn't know that she's the princess, and decides that Anna and Rapunzel look close enough to pull this off.
"I did." Elsa claimed as she walked behind Hiccup so he couldn't see her face. "For you, Princess Elsa and Anna."
Rapunzel and Anna looked to one another, confused as to what she's talking about, while Hiccup was shocked at hearing they're the princesses and bowed.
"Your majesties." Hiccup said with a bow.
While he did that, Elsa gestured towards her bracelet, the outside, and mouthing words, hoping that they understood what she was trying to say.
"Why are you being so weird?" Anna asked her sister, causing Elsa to scoff and roll her eyes.
Hiccup thought she was referring to him and looked up to Elsa who went back to acting calm, causing the two to finally understand what's happening.
"Oh, I'm the Princess!" Rapunzel finally understood. "Yes. And it is good to be me with all of my palaces...and wagons of gold things...and my sister who is here. And dresses for every hour of the day."
Hiccup was confused, as was Elsa who couldn't believe what she was witnessing as her friend tried to be her.
"Now it is time for my cat to be cleaned. Come sister." Rapunzel said as she dragged Anna along, no idea what they're supposed to do after that.
Hiccup was very confused as he turned to face Elsa. "They don't get out much."
Hiccup hummed in agreement. "Clearly." He then placed the tray down, just as Olaf appeared, scaring Hiccup. "Whoa..." Elsa watched as Olaf actually seemed to like him as he smelled his hand and allowed Hiccup to pet him. "Aren't you supposed to be in the bath?"
"Oh, servant girl, this cat isn't going to clean itself!" Anna cried out for her sister in the other room.
"But don't cats clean themselves?" Hiccup asked her, not understanding that statement.
Elsa then understood what they were saying and needed to get Hiccup out of here. "You need to go!"
"Oh, okay." Hiccup guessed as Elsa began dragging him towards the exit. "But I'm coming back tomorrow night."
"What? No!" Elsa tried to stop him as they reached the doors.
"Meet me in the courtyard beside the fountain when the moon is above the minaret." Hiccup said as he gestured towards where he wants them to meet as she looked and allowed Hiccup to snatch what was keeping her hair in place, allow it to fall. "To return this."
Elsa couldn't believe this guy and how freely he was as he reached up and moved some of her free flowing hair out of her face.
"I promise." Hiccup said as he sneaked off as it seemed Bruni was occupied with a chameleon when he passed.
Elsa didn't even know what to think as the man vanished and she closed the door while Rapunzel and Anna approached from behind.
"Well, he seemed sweet." Anna commented, causing Elsa to laugh.
"That's one way to put it." Elsa guesses.
Hiccup strolled through the halls of the palace, removing the uniform as he makes his way out, with a chip in his step after the talk they had.
"Can you believe it, Bruni? We're standing in the most heavily secure place in all of Arendelle." Hiccup stated with a scoff on how easy it was for him.
But just then, he ran into one of the guards. "Evening."
"Evening." Hiccup squealed our just as two other guards approached from behind. "Guards behind me, right?" The guards nodded as Hiccup turned to face them. "Hey, boys."