The Legend of Zelda; New Heroes
By: Princess Arwen
Disclaimer: I don't own the original Legend of Zelda characters, but I do own the ones that I made up, like Arwen, Jeff, Thorn, Vala, Nao, Lee, and well you get the point. I hope that you like this chapter!
"But...but... Queen... we don't even know where she has come from... I," The guard started to say.
"Listen, you don't tell me to do anything, and I didn't ask for advice, let her in now." Arwen commanded.
"Yes, Your Majesty." The guard said and then walked away.
"Arwen, are you sure on this, honey?" Jeff said trying to make Arwen be in a better mood.
"What did you call me Jeff? I thought that I told you not to call me that!" Arwen was very swift and there she was pretty much right on top of him in about, ½ a second.
"OW!" Jeff yelled as Arwen hit Jeff in the head so hard that a large lump appeared on his head right away.
"There, now I think that we are even... right... Jeffy?" Arwen said as she sat down in her large armchair again.
"WHAT DID..." Jeff was interrupted.
"What was that Jeffy?" Arwen was behind him... again, before he knew it. But before Arwen hit him he changed his mind and said.
"Um... you say that we are going to have for a... snack?" Jeff then finished, his face going a deep red from being bossed around by a girl. (Arwen appears behind the author)... a very tough and strong girl.
Just then the guard was back, and with a lady that was all wrapped up in a white coat that had a large hood. So, of course you couldn't see her face at all. "Queen, this is the one that you wanted to see."
"Good. Welcome to Hyrule, madam. Now, what are you here for?" Arwen asked.
"All I wanted, as I sent with your guard earlier, was somewhere to have shelter until the storm passes." She said stiffly.
It looked as if she was trying to hide in the anger that she felt inside her because Arwen didn't believe what the guard had said and she herself had to say it. Only Arwen noticed this though.
"Very well, but you will not leave your room without a guard at your side." Arwen then commanded and pointed to one of the guards that were guarding the room that she sat in, and motioned him over.
"You, don't let her out of your sight, unless she is in her room. And when that is, you will guard the door. You know where she will be allowed to go and not to go, is that understood?" She said quietly to him.
"Yes, Your Majesty." The guard replied with a deep and low bow.
"Take her to her room then, but first," She looked back at the lady, "Take down your hood."
The lady slid her hood down, she was tall, and her hair was very beautiful, it started with a deep black and then got lighter and lighter till it reached the end that was stark white. Her dress was also white, and very long and elegant. In her ears were large glittering snowflakes.
"Wow." Thorn said hoarsely, turning pink, and this time it was his turn for a hard hit on the head, by Vala this time.
" I second that..." Lee managed to choke out, his face also red, earning Nao the right to get extremely ticked off, slapping him upside the head.
"Okay, you may leave, before I have to call someone in to such up all this drool." Arwen said with the faintest little smile.
The guard that was said to do this took her up to her room. Finally the room was quite again. "Um... Arwen, I didn't get that at all, you are usually very kind to the guards, why weren't you tonight?" Lee asked, his face still pink, mostly where Nao had slapped him.
"Well Lee, I am feeling something strange coming from that woman, and to be frank, it is a power that isn't very strong but growing, yes, very strange power indeed." Arwen then answered.
"Well, then if that is so, then why not tell her about it?" Thorn then said, massing his head.
"She knows Thorn. I know that she knows."
"Well, then, why did you give her a guard and a room?" Jeff said.
"I don't want her to try and get away with anything that she is planning on doing. Please may you all just not worry about it? The only thing that you should be worrying about is the coronation that is coming soon." Arwen then said and turned her eyes to the fire again, worry settling over her face.
"That's right, it's in three months, isn't it?" Vala asked, and Thorn nodded, rubbing his head.
"Why in the world are you acting all serious and... knowing? You never act like that." Jeff asked.
"Well, if I am going to take my mothers place... which I'll never do... then I had better start to act like that... when I have to... at least." Arwen answered, and then gave a little giggle.
"I am going to get some sleep now, okay? I am really tired." Nao said with a yawn.
"Yeah, me too. Anyone else?" Lee asked, then followed Nao out the door.
"Okay, I think that were all tired." Arwen said and got out of her armchair, and walked out of the door.
The Next Day...
Jeff woke with a yawn. He didn't really sleep much last night. There was something that was bothering him. Though he didn't know what in the world it was. So, he didn't think much about it and started to get dressed just the same. He pulled out his white tunic, blue under suit, brown gloves, and his normal brown boots. Then he walked up to the mirror that stood in his room and started to brush out his bright orange hair. "There is never anything that I can do with this hair!" He said to himself.
He continued to brush it out and put in his same old little horsetail, the top almost immediately becoming frizzy and messy again. Jeff walked downstairs for something to eat and to see Arwen and what she was up to... he was sure that it would be something today. He walked into the dinning hall and looked around, Arwen and Vala sat there talking about something though he didn't hear it. "Good Morning!" He said in his bright and happy voice.
"Hey Jeff... and what do you want from us, you never sound that happy in the morning." Vala said as he took a seat by Arwen.
"Vala, can you cut me some slack. I wanted to know what you two were talking about. So what are you talking about?" He then said.
"Well, we wanted to see what in the world that lady's power is..." Arwen said.
"And what her NAME is." Vala added to her sister's sentence.
"Oh, that is always something that is fun to talk about, but what if she walked in here?" Jeff said as he pointed to the door.
"We would know there would be a guard coming in first to tell us that she is outside the door of the room, and then she would be allowed to enter." Arwen said.
"Where is she anyway Arwen?" Vala asked, looking out the window. It was still snowing, but now it had picked up a bit since the day before, and was snowing like there was no tomorrow.
"A guard informed me that she wanted to go outside. So like I usually do, I said yes. So she went out. I sent her warm clothes first, of course, but the strange thing was is that she refused them. She put on her coat and walked outside in that blizzard. Then a little bit ago I looked out there and I saw her... without a coat on..." Arwen said and then was again interrupted by her sister.
"And you have to admit that that is pretty strange."
"Well, anyway, she has been out there for about 3 hours now. What do you think that I can do about that? She was supposedly out there freezing in that cold, and now she is running around in it without something to protect her besides the little dress that she had on. A pair of dress glove, and her little bow in the back." Arwen seemed kinda mad about it; Jeff wondered what she could be thinking of.
"I know what her power is Arwen, think about it, she goes out in that blizzard as you call it... without a coat on. Where's snowflake earrings, and is in a really white dress. I say that she has the power of snow... or something like that." Jeff said counting off all of the things on his fingers.
"Good, point." Lee said, he had apparently come in the door to hear enough to know what was going on. "I agree Jeff."
"Okay, so we weren't really thinking of that." Vala said to cover for herself and Arwen.
Nao came in with a yawn, "Where's the..." She yawned and then continued, "turkey." Then she fell right over, falling right back to sleep, a light snoring sound coming from her.
"That came outta left field..." Lee said looking down at the girl that lay at his feet.
"I don't know what we are going to do with that one. Any suggestions?" Arwen asked everyone that was standing in the room at the time.
"Well, I say that we throw her outside! Don't you think that would wake her up?" Said Jeff with that baleful look in his eyes.
"Sounds like a good idea. Anyone that objects with that please say so now." There was complete silence from the crowed except for the snoring coming from the sleeping Nao.
Lee looked down at Nao again. "Sounds good to me... though..."
"Oh no, I'm the one that's going to throw her out the door, Lee." Jeff said as he picked up Nao's feet and started to drag her out of the room.
"Okay, but at least wait until everyone gets there to do it... I gotta see this." Lee said and then followed him out of the room.
Jeff almost had the door open when everyone got into the entrance hall. There was a silent moment as Jeff heaved the girl up and threw her out the door! Everyone burst out in laughter as Lee shut the door. All of a sudden there came continuous loud pounding on the door and a voice that said, "LET ME IN! IT'S FREEZING OUT HERE... I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME LEE!" Nao's voice yelled in from outside.
"Hum, I think that we should let her stay there and freeze into a solid block of ice before we let her in. You?" Lee said as he started to walk away.
("LEE!!")
"Well, I say... 2 minutes and then we can let her in... I don't exactly want to kill her before this day is through." Arwen said.
Then there where foot steps coming down the stairs; it was Thorn. "I'll save you Nao!" Were his words as he opened the door and jumped outside.
There was a big 'Agh!' that came from the crowd, and then Lee walked over to the door and slammed it shut. "That takes care of those two bozo's." Lee said, there was a large sweat drop on his forehead.
Five minutes later...
"We should let them in now." Arwen said.
"Keyword there... should." Jeff said.
1 minute later...
"Do you think that they are blue yet?" Lee said.
"No."
30 seconds later...
"Ice cubes are good..." Vala said absentmindedly.
"Huh?"
10 seconds later...
"Okay, I think they've suffered enough." Arwen said and then they were let in.
There were sniggers though the crowd, all because of the fact that Thorn's hair looked more blue more than it was green and Nao's hair really was blue. They were both fine but extremely cold. "That was classic!" Lee yelled over to Nao, whom was sitting so close to the fire that it looked as if her hair was about to burn off.
"Shut-up Lee" Nao said in a 'why-do-you-do-this-to-me-kinda-voice', a mopey look on her face.
"What do you think about it, Thorn?" Lee then asked him.
There was no answer that came from Thorn though; he couldn't talk because his teeth were too busy chattering.
"Okay then, what time is it then Arwen?" Jeff asked.
"How should I know, all that I know is that that lady came in about two minutes ago, pretending to shiver, and stuff." Arwen said.
"Where is she now?" Nao asked.
"In her room."
The rest of the day was spent trying to thaw Thorn and Nao out, and then pretty much doing nothing else but discuss the mysterious woman.
That night...
"Those fools. They're so dumb not to know that there is something different about her." Said the girl that was always hidden in the shadows. Though now she was looking into her little pink hand mirror, this was the way that she saw what all of the gang was up to.
"I knew that they would do no good with that young ruler that they now have." Said her evil partner that was hidden in darkness.
"This will be the end of Arwen and her little game, I know it milord. We got rid of her mother, and now it's time for the daughter." Then there was a sound of evil laughter.
"I think that it's time that I contact our... spy..." Then looked into her little pink hand mirror again.
Meanwhile back at the castle...
"Yes... yes... I see your evilness, yes, I will. How bad do you want it? Yes... okay. I'll give word. Yes." Said the voice that came from the room.
"I can't wait to get rid of her." She said to herself. "All she wants me to do is, 'freeze Hyrule over, freeze Hyrule over.' That's all that she says! I hate her every fiber!"
She started to pace, and pace, and pace. All night she did this. She was starting to get a bit hungry though, so she went to bed hoping that the morning would come soon.
The next morning...
Arwen was up early the next day; today was the day that she was to find out what that lady's name was. She had to know; she felt that she was stupid not to ask when she had the chance the night that she came into the castle. So, she walked up to the room that her guest was to be staying. "Are you here? I am here to talk to you." Arwen called as she entered the room. It was freezing! Why would she let it get this cold? There was no fire burning, and she had the window hanging. The light snow that was coming down outside had already covered the floor. "Are you here?" She called again.
Their came and answer from the bedroom at her right, "Yes, one minute!" It called.
"Okay." Arwen then said as she looked at all the beautiful furniture that was now covered in a light mist of snow. 'I really liked that furniture too.' She thought.
"You are allowed to sit." It then yelled.
"I think that I'll just stand thank you." Arwen then said as she raised her eyebrows in a looked of disgust.
"Here I am." She said as she walked out into the room, all of the color that had been in her face seemed to drain out when she took sight of Arwen. "Oh, um... Your Majesty, I thought that it was the guard, not you and..." She looked at the window and at the fireplace that had no fire in it. "Here let me fix all this, I can't believe that I didn't notice this happened! I guess that the window just blew open and then blew out the fire place..."
Arwen had started to give the lady a look of disbelieving, and Arwen knew that she had noticed it. "Tell me, what is your name. Tell me now."
"Well, um... my name... my name? It's... Frostine..." Then there was a look in her eyes of emptiness. "What do you want from me then?" She then said coming back to herself and speaking in a harsh voice.
"What? Oh, where in the world did you come from?" Arwen then asked.
"I... I came.... I came from... I came from, I just don't know. So why all of the questions Queenie?" She said in a very far of voice at first, and then once she had realized what she was saying her voice became hard and harsh.
All of a sudden she did look very pretty any more. "I think that you should have stopped asking your silly questions Queenie, because now I am going to end them for good!"
Then there was a blast of snow that shot into the window right at Arwen, it hit her, but it wasn't a short blast it was continues.
" STOP IT" She then yelled at Frostine, but she didn't stop.
Arwen was right about her and there was almost nothing that she could do now to stop her. For now Frostine had started to freeze her body solid. Arwen couldn't move her legs now; there was no hope for her. So, she screamed, "VALA, THORN! JEFF, HELP ME!"
By then her mouth was starting to get covered, she couldn't talk at all. Everything around her was going black. 'Why had she thought that there might be something that could be changed about her? Why did she think that she wasn't all that evil to the bone?' Now was the time that she was regretting these thoughts, she had been wrong, all wrong... then that was when Arwen lost consciousness.
Jeff had heard Arwen's screaming and ran up stairs to where Arwen's scream had come from. "ARWEN! WHERE ARE YOU?" He screamed, but there was no answer.
'Where could she be?' He thought frantically. Then he realized that she has to be in that strange lady's room, he knew that that had to be where she was. So he started to run, run as fast as he could, to that room. When he reached there, the door was open, and a cold breeze was blowing out, also the snow that was coming out had frozen the guard almost solid. "Why are you standing here?" He asked him.
"Queen Arwen... told me to stay at this door at all times and that is what I am doing." He said.
"Well, I am commanding you to get out of here." He said pointing down the hall.
The guard went running down the hall and into the nearest fireplace room. Jeff then looked back at the door that the guard had been guarding. He walked over to it and looked in, there he saw a window that was completely ripped off of the hinges, snow about a foot on the floor, and, "ARWEN!"
There was Arwen; she was in a solid block of ice that was lying on the floor. Jeff ran to her and touched the ice that was covering her face. Immediately his hand started to freeze to the solid ice block that covered Arwen. He pulled it away as quick as he could. What was he going to do? He couldn't pick her up by himself when she was covered in ice like that, but then if he Thorn, and Lee, tried all of their hands would be frozen to her. "This is a problem." He said and then got up and ran out of the room.
It didn't take him long to find the others, they were all coming down the hall that led to the room that Arwen was in. He told them what he had seen and then they all ran down the hall to the room. They all went into the room and looked in on the site. Lee said, " Come on lets get her out of here."
"No, our hands will freeze to it and then we will be stuck with her." Jeff said as he stopped him from touching her.
"Well, we have to do something, and quick, otherwise she will die, from no air." Thorn said.
"List to me guys, we are going to have to carry her to a fire someplace. There is no way that we are going to be able here. So, you are going to have to grab her so that you can carry her with your hands attached to the block of ice that she is in." Nao said pointing out the already known.
"Okay, I can work with that, but the thing is that I am not going to let the girls do this, just in case it doesn't melt... but I am pretty sure that it will." Jeff said and then they all started to get them selves positioned around the frozen Arwen, and started to get ready to lift her.
"Now listen before you pick her up you are going to have to let your hands get pretty frozen to her, enough that they won't come out. Okay?" Nao said.
"Alrighty then." Lee said to her as they all grabbed the frozen block that was Arwen and let their hands start freeze to the block. Then they all heaved her up ward. As they carried her down the hall, Nao looked at the boy's hands.
"Um, guys..." She said as she pointed at their hands.
They all looked down, the ice was freezing up their arms getting thicker, and starting to creep it's way up. "Come on, let's hurry." Thorn said his face was going a little pale.
They all hurried as fast as they could down the long hall; finally they reached a room that had a really warm fire going. It apparently had been burning for a really long time, even though there was no one in the room. "Here set her down by the fire... and you sit yourselves down right by her." Vala said as she directed them threw the door.
"OH! I can't feel my hands Nao!" Lee yelled as he tried his hardest to pull them away from the block.
"Um... Lee... duh. Sit by the fire and we'll see if it will melt you and Arwen." Nao said.
They sat and they sat. They had been there for 2 hours when it started to melt, though it didn't take long once it started. Finally it was all thawed, as soon as it happened Arwen was pulled from the little bit of remaining ice, and put into the bed that was in the room. "Arwen, Arwen are you awake?" Vala asked her. She had still not woken up, but at least she was breathing.
Nao stared at the girl, "Um, Vala? I think that... SHE IS NOT AWAKE! I mean look at her!" Nao yelled.
"Is she even conscious?" Thorn asked.
"I think that she is, but not fully." Jeff said, he was sitting by her bedside, waiting for her to wake.
"We are going to just have to wait until she does wake and then we have to ask her what in the world happened." Thorn said. He was sitting at the window looking outside. There was snow falling so hard that you really couldn't see anything out there, and yet he looked.
Two days later...
"You know that this isn't a natural storm guys, yet I have no idea what it is from." Thorn said, the storm had gotten steadily
There came a voice from the bed, "It is from... Frostine, she is the... lady that was here... now she is out trying to freeze Hyrule. For she is the one... who did this to me." It was Arwen though she was barley awake she knew what was going on.
"Arwen!" Jeff said as he looked at her, she was looking a lot better than she was. In fact Jeff thought that she looked normal. "Arwen, you look like you are fine, are you?"
Now Arwen was fully there, "Yes, I know that, remember, I have the power of fire. Well it is the rival of snow and ice, so those things are hard to put me out with. She is harmed easily with them. I had to heal myself with my power, and you know that I am new at this!" Arwen said as she got up and out of bed. She started walking then to the window. I am going to pay her back for what she has done to me. Frozen me solid in a block of ice, I am not going to let that happen again. And plus she is freezing my kingdom. She will pay." Arwen said a look of determination on her face.
"Um... Arwen... you mean that you are going to get rid of her because she froze you into a block of ice?" Jeff said.
"Well, I am at least going to make her... 'Not evil'. Don't you think that that would work?" Arwen asked.
"Uh... That is going to be a little hard... I think that she is as evil as evil can be." Nao said.
"Oh, no, I think not." Arwen said as she got up and pointed her finger in the air. "Now I am going to go and find her! Any one want to came with me?" Arwen then asked.
"I think that I am going to go and help her with this one. And... Hum... let's see... I think that Lee and Nao should go with us. The rest of you have things to do in here, like getting things ready for the coronation." Jeff said as Arwen, Nao, Lee, and he walked over to the door.
"We will be back Vala." Arwen said as a look of worry crossed her sister's face.
"See ya Arwen, now I have to go and take care of things for the coronation." Vala said as she ran out of the room past them.
Then Arwen, Jeff, Lee, and Nao all walked out into the hall and down the stairs. "So now what are we going to do?" Arwen then asked.
"Well, I think that we ought to go outside, but first think that we should get those warmer clothes, that way we don't freeze our gahoochies off!" Jeff then screamed in Arwen's ear.
"That is a good idea, what else are we going to do? I mean, we aren't going to walk out there like this!" Nao then said.
So then the quartet walked down the long winding staircase, then into the weaving room, there they found their clothes, and they were hanging on the hook in the back. All of them grabbed them and went into separate rooms to change. In that room there were many changing rooms. It looked like it was royal or something... oh ya I think that I forgot... it is a royal room. Well back to the point. Once they were changed, they headed to the front door.
"Well, here we go. Oh, and Nao, if I die, you can have my Playstation 2 and my Kingdom Hearts that I got for Christmas last year." Arwen said to her friend as she patted her shoulder, and the boys opened the large front doors.
"Um... Arwen what are you talking about? What in the heck is a Playstation 2... and what in the name of the Goddess' is Kingdom Hearts?" Nao then said in a very confused voice.
"Huh... what in the world did I say again, oh, and Nao, you should know by now to never listen to me." Arwen then said as they walked out of the doors.
They all walked out, and into the blizzard of the century. No one knew what they all were to do. So they all just walked out into the middle of nowhere looking like doofs because they had to hold hands so they wouldn't loose each other. "SO DO YOU THINK THAT SHE IS AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE?" Jeff yelled. He was at the back of the line and Arwen was at the front.
"YEAH!" Arwen yelled from the front of the line.
Then all of a sudden someone appeared in front of them... it was Frostine. "What do you want!" Arwen yelled at the white and floating Frostine.
"Simple Arwen I am here to kill you. I thought that you would have been dead from the freezing spell. You are made of stronger stuff than I thought. I have to remember that it isn't you that is the strong one, it's that power that you posses." Frostine said. When she spoke the wind seemed to die down. The storm looked as if it was staring to stop.
"What are you doing, Frostine?" Arwen said to her, there was no need to yell any more, for the storm had now died down and everyone was able to see.
"Do you really think that I would battle to kill you, with unfair advantages?" Frostine asked Arwen.
Arwen looked at her with disbelief. "I thought that you wanted to kill me, not duel me."
"Well, I DO want to kill you, but the thing is that I wanted to duel the great and powerful 'Arwen' before her death, and then once the duel is over, then... I will kill you." She said in a perfectly cheery voice.
"Fine, I will accept this challenge. I want to defeat all of my foes and not just the ones that seem to think themselves the best." Arwen said and then walked up closer to her.
"There will be no help from your friends, all of them. It will be me and you, and now there is nothing that you can do." Frostine said as she put her hands out to the side and then there was a great blast of energy that pushed all of the snow out of the area that they were to duel.
Then she held up her hand to where Jeff, Lee, and Nao were standing and gave an energy blast to them. They went flying out of the ring that she had made. "All that I will do is let you watch, but the thing is, if Arwen is defeated then you will die. Also you can't leave the area that I have encircled you in, so now there is no turning back." She then said as she took off her beautiful gloves so that she could battle.
"I hope that you know, this battle is going to be your last." Arwen warned as she called her weapons from her back to her hands in a flash of flames.
Then Frostine called her weapon, it was a long frozen glaive. It was huge! Arwen looked at it. She knew that there was a way to win, but she just didn't see it just yet. "Good-bye, you cruel, cruel world." She said quietly as she ran at full speed toward her new foe.
Well, there you have it! That is the next chapter! I know that you all hate cliffhangers, but it won't take me long for the next one. My muse is working over time!
By: Princess Arwen
Disclaimer: I don't own the original Legend of Zelda characters, but I do own the ones that I made up, like Arwen, Jeff, Thorn, Vala, Nao, Lee, and well you get the point. I hope that you like this chapter!
"But...but... Queen... we don't even know where she has come from... I," The guard started to say.
"Listen, you don't tell me to do anything, and I didn't ask for advice, let her in now." Arwen commanded.
"Yes, Your Majesty." The guard said and then walked away.
"Arwen, are you sure on this, honey?" Jeff said trying to make Arwen be in a better mood.
"What did you call me Jeff? I thought that I told you not to call me that!" Arwen was very swift and there she was pretty much right on top of him in about, ½ a second.
"OW!" Jeff yelled as Arwen hit Jeff in the head so hard that a large lump appeared on his head right away.
"There, now I think that we are even... right... Jeffy?" Arwen said as she sat down in her large armchair again.
"WHAT DID..." Jeff was interrupted.
"What was that Jeffy?" Arwen was behind him... again, before he knew it. But before Arwen hit him he changed his mind and said.
"Um... you say that we are going to have for a... snack?" Jeff then finished, his face going a deep red from being bossed around by a girl. (Arwen appears behind the author)... a very tough and strong girl.
Just then the guard was back, and with a lady that was all wrapped up in a white coat that had a large hood. So, of course you couldn't see her face at all. "Queen, this is the one that you wanted to see."
"Good. Welcome to Hyrule, madam. Now, what are you here for?" Arwen asked.
"All I wanted, as I sent with your guard earlier, was somewhere to have shelter until the storm passes." She said stiffly.
It looked as if she was trying to hide in the anger that she felt inside her because Arwen didn't believe what the guard had said and she herself had to say it. Only Arwen noticed this though.
"Very well, but you will not leave your room without a guard at your side." Arwen then commanded and pointed to one of the guards that were guarding the room that she sat in, and motioned him over.
"You, don't let her out of your sight, unless she is in her room. And when that is, you will guard the door. You know where she will be allowed to go and not to go, is that understood?" She said quietly to him.
"Yes, Your Majesty." The guard replied with a deep and low bow.
"Take her to her room then, but first," She looked back at the lady, "Take down your hood."
The lady slid her hood down, she was tall, and her hair was very beautiful, it started with a deep black and then got lighter and lighter till it reached the end that was stark white. Her dress was also white, and very long and elegant. In her ears were large glittering snowflakes.
"Wow." Thorn said hoarsely, turning pink, and this time it was his turn for a hard hit on the head, by Vala this time.
" I second that..." Lee managed to choke out, his face also red, earning Nao the right to get extremely ticked off, slapping him upside the head.
"Okay, you may leave, before I have to call someone in to such up all this drool." Arwen said with the faintest little smile.
The guard that was said to do this took her up to her room. Finally the room was quite again. "Um... Arwen, I didn't get that at all, you are usually very kind to the guards, why weren't you tonight?" Lee asked, his face still pink, mostly where Nao had slapped him.
"Well Lee, I am feeling something strange coming from that woman, and to be frank, it is a power that isn't very strong but growing, yes, very strange power indeed." Arwen then answered.
"Well, then if that is so, then why not tell her about it?" Thorn then said, massing his head.
"She knows Thorn. I know that she knows."
"Well, then, why did you give her a guard and a room?" Jeff said.
"I don't want her to try and get away with anything that she is planning on doing. Please may you all just not worry about it? The only thing that you should be worrying about is the coronation that is coming soon." Arwen then said and turned her eyes to the fire again, worry settling over her face.
"That's right, it's in three months, isn't it?" Vala asked, and Thorn nodded, rubbing his head.
"Why in the world are you acting all serious and... knowing? You never act like that." Jeff asked.
"Well, if I am going to take my mothers place... which I'll never do... then I had better start to act like that... when I have to... at least." Arwen answered, and then gave a little giggle.
"I am going to get some sleep now, okay? I am really tired." Nao said with a yawn.
"Yeah, me too. Anyone else?" Lee asked, then followed Nao out the door.
"Okay, I think that were all tired." Arwen said and got out of her armchair, and walked out of the door.
The Next Day...
Jeff woke with a yawn. He didn't really sleep much last night. There was something that was bothering him. Though he didn't know what in the world it was. So, he didn't think much about it and started to get dressed just the same. He pulled out his white tunic, blue under suit, brown gloves, and his normal brown boots. Then he walked up to the mirror that stood in his room and started to brush out his bright orange hair. "There is never anything that I can do with this hair!" He said to himself.
He continued to brush it out and put in his same old little horsetail, the top almost immediately becoming frizzy and messy again. Jeff walked downstairs for something to eat and to see Arwen and what she was up to... he was sure that it would be something today. He walked into the dinning hall and looked around, Arwen and Vala sat there talking about something though he didn't hear it. "Good Morning!" He said in his bright and happy voice.
"Hey Jeff... and what do you want from us, you never sound that happy in the morning." Vala said as he took a seat by Arwen.
"Vala, can you cut me some slack. I wanted to know what you two were talking about. So what are you talking about?" He then said.
"Well, we wanted to see what in the world that lady's power is..." Arwen said.
"And what her NAME is." Vala added to her sister's sentence.
"Oh, that is always something that is fun to talk about, but what if she walked in here?" Jeff said as he pointed to the door.
"We would know there would be a guard coming in first to tell us that she is outside the door of the room, and then she would be allowed to enter." Arwen said.
"Where is she anyway Arwen?" Vala asked, looking out the window. It was still snowing, but now it had picked up a bit since the day before, and was snowing like there was no tomorrow.
"A guard informed me that she wanted to go outside. So like I usually do, I said yes. So she went out. I sent her warm clothes first, of course, but the strange thing was is that she refused them. She put on her coat and walked outside in that blizzard. Then a little bit ago I looked out there and I saw her... without a coat on..." Arwen said and then was again interrupted by her sister.
"And you have to admit that that is pretty strange."
"Well, anyway, she has been out there for about 3 hours now. What do you think that I can do about that? She was supposedly out there freezing in that cold, and now she is running around in it without something to protect her besides the little dress that she had on. A pair of dress glove, and her little bow in the back." Arwen seemed kinda mad about it; Jeff wondered what she could be thinking of.
"I know what her power is Arwen, think about it, she goes out in that blizzard as you call it... without a coat on. Where's snowflake earrings, and is in a really white dress. I say that she has the power of snow... or something like that." Jeff said counting off all of the things on his fingers.
"Good, point." Lee said, he had apparently come in the door to hear enough to know what was going on. "I agree Jeff."
"Okay, so we weren't really thinking of that." Vala said to cover for herself and Arwen.
Nao came in with a yawn, "Where's the..." She yawned and then continued, "turkey." Then she fell right over, falling right back to sleep, a light snoring sound coming from her.
"That came outta left field..." Lee said looking down at the girl that lay at his feet.
"I don't know what we are going to do with that one. Any suggestions?" Arwen asked everyone that was standing in the room at the time.
"Well, I say that we throw her outside! Don't you think that would wake her up?" Said Jeff with that baleful look in his eyes.
"Sounds like a good idea. Anyone that objects with that please say so now." There was complete silence from the crowed except for the snoring coming from the sleeping Nao.
Lee looked down at Nao again. "Sounds good to me... though..."
"Oh no, I'm the one that's going to throw her out the door, Lee." Jeff said as he picked up Nao's feet and started to drag her out of the room.
"Okay, but at least wait until everyone gets there to do it... I gotta see this." Lee said and then followed him out of the room.
Jeff almost had the door open when everyone got into the entrance hall. There was a silent moment as Jeff heaved the girl up and threw her out the door! Everyone burst out in laughter as Lee shut the door. All of a sudden there came continuous loud pounding on the door and a voice that said, "LET ME IN! IT'S FREEZING OUT HERE... I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME LEE!" Nao's voice yelled in from outside.
"Hum, I think that we should let her stay there and freeze into a solid block of ice before we let her in. You?" Lee said as he started to walk away.
("LEE!!")
"Well, I say... 2 minutes and then we can let her in... I don't exactly want to kill her before this day is through." Arwen said.
Then there where foot steps coming down the stairs; it was Thorn. "I'll save you Nao!" Were his words as he opened the door and jumped outside.
There was a big 'Agh!' that came from the crowd, and then Lee walked over to the door and slammed it shut. "That takes care of those two bozo's." Lee said, there was a large sweat drop on his forehead.
Five minutes later...
"We should let them in now." Arwen said.
"Keyword there... should." Jeff said.
1 minute later...
"Do you think that they are blue yet?" Lee said.
"No."
30 seconds later...
"Ice cubes are good..." Vala said absentmindedly.
"Huh?"
10 seconds later...
"Okay, I think they've suffered enough." Arwen said and then they were let in.
There were sniggers though the crowd, all because of the fact that Thorn's hair looked more blue more than it was green and Nao's hair really was blue. They were both fine but extremely cold. "That was classic!" Lee yelled over to Nao, whom was sitting so close to the fire that it looked as if her hair was about to burn off.
"Shut-up Lee" Nao said in a 'why-do-you-do-this-to-me-kinda-voice', a mopey look on her face.
"What do you think about it, Thorn?" Lee then asked him.
There was no answer that came from Thorn though; he couldn't talk because his teeth were too busy chattering.
"Okay then, what time is it then Arwen?" Jeff asked.
"How should I know, all that I know is that that lady came in about two minutes ago, pretending to shiver, and stuff." Arwen said.
"Where is she now?" Nao asked.
"In her room."
The rest of the day was spent trying to thaw Thorn and Nao out, and then pretty much doing nothing else but discuss the mysterious woman.
That night...
"Those fools. They're so dumb not to know that there is something different about her." Said the girl that was always hidden in the shadows. Though now she was looking into her little pink hand mirror, this was the way that she saw what all of the gang was up to.
"I knew that they would do no good with that young ruler that they now have." Said her evil partner that was hidden in darkness.
"This will be the end of Arwen and her little game, I know it milord. We got rid of her mother, and now it's time for the daughter." Then there was a sound of evil laughter.
"I think that it's time that I contact our... spy..." Then looked into her little pink hand mirror again.
Meanwhile back at the castle...
"Yes... yes... I see your evilness, yes, I will. How bad do you want it? Yes... okay. I'll give word. Yes." Said the voice that came from the room.
"I can't wait to get rid of her." She said to herself. "All she wants me to do is, 'freeze Hyrule over, freeze Hyrule over.' That's all that she says! I hate her every fiber!"
She started to pace, and pace, and pace. All night she did this. She was starting to get a bit hungry though, so she went to bed hoping that the morning would come soon.
The next morning...
Arwen was up early the next day; today was the day that she was to find out what that lady's name was. She had to know; she felt that she was stupid not to ask when she had the chance the night that she came into the castle. So, she walked up to the room that her guest was to be staying. "Are you here? I am here to talk to you." Arwen called as she entered the room. It was freezing! Why would she let it get this cold? There was no fire burning, and she had the window hanging. The light snow that was coming down outside had already covered the floor. "Are you here?" She called again.
Their came and answer from the bedroom at her right, "Yes, one minute!" It called.
"Okay." Arwen then said as she looked at all the beautiful furniture that was now covered in a light mist of snow. 'I really liked that furniture too.' She thought.
"You are allowed to sit." It then yelled.
"I think that I'll just stand thank you." Arwen then said as she raised her eyebrows in a looked of disgust.
"Here I am." She said as she walked out into the room, all of the color that had been in her face seemed to drain out when she took sight of Arwen. "Oh, um... Your Majesty, I thought that it was the guard, not you and..." She looked at the window and at the fireplace that had no fire in it. "Here let me fix all this, I can't believe that I didn't notice this happened! I guess that the window just blew open and then blew out the fire place..."
Arwen had started to give the lady a look of disbelieving, and Arwen knew that she had noticed it. "Tell me, what is your name. Tell me now."
"Well, um... my name... my name? It's... Frostine..." Then there was a look in her eyes of emptiness. "What do you want from me then?" She then said coming back to herself and speaking in a harsh voice.
"What? Oh, where in the world did you come from?" Arwen then asked.
"I... I came.... I came from... I came from, I just don't know. So why all of the questions Queenie?" She said in a very far of voice at first, and then once she had realized what she was saying her voice became hard and harsh.
All of a sudden she did look very pretty any more. "I think that you should have stopped asking your silly questions Queenie, because now I am going to end them for good!"
Then there was a blast of snow that shot into the window right at Arwen, it hit her, but it wasn't a short blast it was continues.
" STOP IT" She then yelled at Frostine, but she didn't stop.
Arwen was right about her and there was almost nothing that she could do now to stop her. For now Frostine had started to freeze her body solid. Arwen couldn't move her legs now; there was no hope for her. So, she screamed, "VALA, THORN! JEFF, HELP ME!"
By then her mouth was starting to get covered, she couldn't talk at all. Everything around her was going black. 'Why had she thought that there might be something that could be changed about her? Why did she think that she wasn't all that evil to the bone?' Now was the time that she was regretting these thoughts, she had been wrong, all wrong... then that was when Arwen lost consciousness.
Jeff had heard Arwen's screaming and ran up stairs to where Arwen's scream had come from. "ARWEN! WHERE ARE YOU?" He screamed, but there was no answer.
'Where could she be?' He thought frantically. Then he realized that she has to be in that strange lady's room, he knew that that had to be where she was. So he started to run, run as fast as he could, to that room. When he reached there, the door was open, and a cold breeze was blowing out, also the snow that was coming out had frozen the guard almost solid. "Why are you standing here?" He asked him.
"Queen Arwen... told me to stay at this door at all times and that is what I am doing." He said.
"Well, I am commanding you to get out of here." He said pointing down the hall.
The guard went running down the hall and into the nearest fireplace room. Jeff then looked back at the door that the guard had been guarding. He walked over to it and looked in, there he saw a window that was completely ripped off of the hinges, snow about a foot on the floor, and, "ARWEN!"
There was Arwen; she was in a solid block of ice that was lying on the floor. Jeff ran to her and touched the ice that was covering her face. Immediately his hand started to freeze to the solid ice block that covered Arwen. He pulled it away as quick as he could. What was he going to do? He couldn't pick her up by himself when she was covered in ice like that, but then if he Thorn, and Lee, tried all of their hands would be frozen to her. "This is a problem." He said and then got up and ran out of the room.
It didn't take him long to find the others, they were all coming down the hall that led to the room that Arwen was in. He told them what he had seen and then they all ran down the hall to the room. They all went into the room and looked in on the site. Lee said, " Come on lets get her out of here."
"No, our hands will freeze to it and then we will be stuck with her." Jeff said as he stopped him from touching her.
"Well, we have to do something, and quick, otherwise she will die, from no air." Thorn said.
"List to me guys, we are going to have to carry her to a fire someplace. There is no way that we are going to be able here. So, you are going to have to grab her so that you can carry her with your hands attached to the block of ice that she is in." Nao said pointing out the already known.
"Okay, I can work with that, but the thing is that I am not going to let the girls do this, just in case it doesn't melt... but I am pretty sure that it will." Jeff said and then they all started to get them selves positioned around the frozen Arwen, and started to get ready to lift her.
"Now listen before you pick her up you are going to have to let your hands get pretty frozen to her, enough that they won't come out. Okay?" Nao said.
"Alrighty then." Lee said to her as they all grabbed the frozen block that was Arwen and let their hands start freeze to the block. Then they all heaved her up ward. As they carried her down the hall, Nao looked at the boy's hands.
"Um, guys..." She said as she pointed at their hands.
They all looked down, the ice was freezing up their arms getting thicker, and starting to creep it's way up. "Come on, let's hurry." Thorn said his face was going a little pale.
They all hurried as fast as they could down the long hall; finally they reached a room that had a really warm fire going. It apparently had been burning for a really long time, even though there was no one in the room. "Here set her down by the fire... and you sit yourselves down right by her." Vala said as she directed them threw the door.
"OH! I can't feel my hands Nao!" Lee yelled as he tried his hardest to pull them away from the block.
"Um... Lee... duh. Sit by the fire and we'll see if it will melt you and Arwen." Nao said.
They sat and they sat. They had been there for 2 hours when it started to melt, though it didn't take long once it started. Finally it was all thawed, as soon as it happened Arwen was pulled from the little bit of remaining ice, and put into the bed that was in the room. "Arwen, Arwen are you awake?" Vala asked her. She had still not woken up, but at least she was breathing.
Nao stared at the girl, "Um, Vala? I think that... SHE IS NOT AWAKE! I mean look at her!" Nao yelled.
"Is she even conscious?" Thorn asked.
"I think that she is, but not fully." Jeff said, he was sitting by her bedside, waiting for her to wake.
"We are going to just have to wait until she does wake and then we have to ask her what in the world happened." Thorn said. He was sitting at the window looking outside. There was snow falling so hard that you really couldn't see anything out there, and yet he looked.
Two days later...
"You know that this isn't a natural storm guys, yet I have no idea what it is from." Thorn said, the storm had gotten steadily
There came a voice from the bed, "It is from... Frostine, she is the... lady that was here... now she is out trying to freeze Hyrule. For she is the one... who did this to me." It was Arwen though she was barley awake she knew what was going on.
"Arwen!" Jeff said as he looked at her, she was looking a lot better than she was. In fact Jeff thought that she looked normal. "Arwen, you look like you are fine, are you?"
Now Arwen was fully there, "Yes, I know that, remember, I have the power of fire. Well it is the rival of snow and ice, so those things are hard to put me out with. She is harmed easily with them. I had to heal myself with my power, and you know that I am new at this!" Arwen said as she got up and out of bed. She started walking then to the window. I am going to pay her back for what she has done to me. Frozen me solid in a block of ice, I am not going to let that happen again. And plus she is freezing my kingdom. She will pay." Arwen said a look of determination on her face.
"Um... Arwen... you mean that you are going to get rid of her because she froze you into a block of ice?" Jeff said.
"Well, I am at least going to make her... 'Not evil'. Don't you think that that would work?" Arwen asked.
"Uh... That is going to be a little hard... I think that she is as evil as evil can be." Nao said.
"Oh, no, I think not." Arwen said as she got up and pointed her finger in the air. "Now I am going to go and find her! Any one want to came with me?" Arwen then asked.
"I think that I am going to go and help her with this one. And... Hum... let's see... I think that Lee and Nao should go with us. The rest of you have things to do in here, like getting things ready for the coronation." Jeff said as Arwen, Nao, Lee, and he walked over to the door.
"We will be back Vala." Arwen said as a look of worry crossed her sister's face.
"See ya Arwen, now I have to go and take care of things for the coronation." Vala said as she ran out of the room past them.
Then Arwen, Jeff, Lee, and Nao all walked out into the hall and down the stairs. "So now what are we going to do?" Arwen then asked.
"Well, I think that we ought to go outside, but first think that we should get those warmer clothes, that way we don't freeze our gahoochies off!" Jeff then screamed in Arwen's ear.
"That is a good idea, what else are we going to do? I mean, we aren't going to walk out there like this!" Nao then said.
So then the quartet walked down the long winding staircase, then into the weaving room, there they found their clothes, and they were hanging on the hook in the back. All of them grabbed them and went into separate rooms to change. In that room there were many changing rooms. It looked like it was royal or something... oh ya I think that I forgot... it is a royal room. Well back to the point. Once they were changed, they headed to the front door.
"Well, here we go. Oh, and Nao, if I die, you can have my Playstation 2 and my Kingdom Hearts that I got for Christmas last year." Arwen said to her friend as she patted her shoulder, and the boys opened the large front doors.
"Um... Arwen what are you talking about? What in the heck is a Playstation 2... and what in the name of the Goddess' is Kingdom Hearts?" Nao then said in a very confused voice.
"Huh... what in the world did I say again, oh, and Nao, you should know by now to never listen to me." Arwen then said as they walked out of the doors.
They all walked out, and into the blizzard of the century. No one knew what they all were to do. So they all just walked out into the middle of nowhere looking like doofs because they had to hold hands so they wouldn't loose each other. "SO DO YOU THINK THAT SHE IS AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE?" Jeff yelled. He was at the back of the line and Arwen was at the front.
"YEAH!" Arwen yelled from the front of the line.
Then all of a sudden someone appeared in front of them... it was Frostine. "What do you want!" Arwen yelled at the white and floating Frostine.
"Simple Arwen I am here to kill you. I thought that you would have been dead from the freezing spell. You are made of stronger stuff than I thought. I have to remember that it isn't you that is the strong one, it's that power that you posses." Frostine said. When she spoke the wind seemed to die down. The storm looked as if it was staring to stop.
"What are you doing, Frostine?" Arwen said to her, there was no need to yell any more, for the storm had now died down and everyone was able to see.
"Do you really think that I would battle to kill you, with unfair advantages?" Frostine asked Arwen.
Arwen looked at her with disbelief. "I thought that you wanted to kill me, not duel me."
"Well, I DO want to kill you, but the thing is that I wanted to duel the great and powerful 'Arwen' before her death, and then once the duel is over, then... I will kill you." She said in a perfectly cheery voice.
"Fine, I will accept this challenge. I want to defeat all of my foes and not just the ones that seem to think themselves the best." Arwen said and then walked up closer to her.
"There will be no help from your friends, all of them. It will be me and you, and now there is nothing that you can do." Frostine said as she put her hands out to the side and then there was a great blast of energy that pushed all of the snow out of the area that they were to duel.
Then she held up her hand to where Jeff, Lee, and Nao were standing and gave an energy blast to them. They went flying out of the ring that she had made. "All that I will do is let you watch, but the thing is, if Arwen is defeated then you will die. Also you can't leave the area that I have encircled you in, so now there is no turning back." She then said as she took off her beautiful gloves so that she could battle.
"I hope that you know, this battle is going to be your last." Arwen warned as she called her weapons from her back to her hands in a flash of flames.
Then Frostine called her weapon, it was a long frozen glaive. It was huge! Arwen looked at it. She knew that there was a way to win, but she just didn't see it just yet. "Good-bye, you cruel, cruel world." She said quietly as she ran at full speed toward her new foe.
Well, there you have it! That is the next chapter! I know that you all hate cliffhangers, but it won't take me long for the next one. My muse is working over time!