Tales of a Legacy

This one is a pairing that should be written about more often. Come on, it's practically cannon. >.>

Random Disclaimer: I don't own Tales of Legendia or anything affiliated with it. Please, no sue?

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Title: Prince Charming

Characters/Pairings: ElsaxChloe, with a guest appearance by Arnold.

Warnings: Shoujo-ai, OOC-ness (But when haven't they been OOC?)

Elsa sighed dreamily and looked out of the lone window of her tower. For years she had been trapped in a tall dreary tower, locked up by a powerful and evil sorcerer for reasons she did not know. Knights came and tried to rescue her, but all met their doom from the ferocious dragon that roamed near her tower, probably placed there by the aforementioned evil sorcerer.

But today was a good day. It felt like the kind of day that one would get rescued by a handsome and very cool prince. So when Elsa finally heard the whiny of a horse from outside, she leapt up, knocking her chair over, and rushed to the window. Waiting outside was a gallant knight on a noble white steed.

"Maiden! I've come to rescue you! Let down your hair, so that I may climb up and rescue you!" The voice was somewhat distorted by the helmet covering the knight's face, but Elsa could tell it wasn't very deep. Maybe it was a very young knight?

"Oh, my hair's not long enough," Elsa answered. She pulled the longest bit of hair out, to show the knight. It barely reached past her chin. "And you couldn't do anything from up here, there're no doors anyway."

The knight paused, this problem obviously having complicated the matter. "Okay, then. We'll do this the old fashioned way. Jump and I'll catch you." The knight stepped down from the horse and removed his helmet, but Elsa couldn't see his face very clearly from the distance. The knight held out his arms to show Elsa where to aim when she jumped. Although something like this didn't seem practical, a tower with no doors or staircases didn't make much sense either, so Elsa decided to take a chance. The window was just big enough for her to crouch on the sill and hop off.

While in mid air, Elsa wondered what would happen if this mysterious knight didn't catch her. Before she could even begin to regret jumping, she plummeted straight into the knight's armor encased arms. Which were hard and hurt, but the point was that she was now safe and out of the tower.

"Oh, brave knight! Thank you so much! May I ask your name?"

"It's Chloe, fair maiden…er…"

"Elsa." It was now that Elsa noticed her savior was actually a woman. "Hey, weren't you menaced by the dragon?"

Chloe looked confused for a moment. "Dragon? Oh, that thing. Yeah, I took care of it already." She gestured over to the side, where the dragon lay unconscious. Its eyes were comical swirls and little yellow birds chirped as they flew rings around it head.

Elsa couldn't contain herself any longer. "Wow! You're so COOL!" Her eyes sparkled with admiration. "Do you want to get married?"

Chloe thought about it for a moment. "Sure. I guess that's what knights and fair maidens do." She helped Elsa onto the back of her snowy white horse before pulling herself up. Chloe urged the horse into a gallop.

They were almost out of sight from the dreary tower when a strong gust of wind picked up. It surrounded them, obscuring their vision with flying dirt and leaves. When the wind died down, a familiar cloaked figure was standing in front of them.

"Father!" Elsa screeched, her eyes wide in surprise.

"Alcott! I should have known!"

Arnold looked at the both of them in annoyance. "Elsa, what do you think you're doing? I put you up there for a good reason. You're too sick and frail to wander around by yourself."

Elsa braced herself and decided for once to stand up to the evil sorcerer, who apparently was just an overprotective parent. "Father, I'm not alone! I have Chloe right here with me. We're going to get married and live in a house with a rose garden and somehow we'll have lots of kids!" Her eyes were becoming shiny as she thought about the happy future waiting for her. "I'm tired of being cooped up in the tower. As long as Chloe is with me, I'll be fine!"

Arnold had stood there patiently, listening to his daughter's speech. He contemplated her words for a second, before looking at Chloe.

"Are you really competent enough to protect my daughter?" he asked as he raised one hand. The wind swirled and twisted violently and formed a large dog-like creature, which leapt at the horse with its jaws wide open. Chloe drew her sword in the blink of an eye and brought it down on the wind monster's head before it could touch her. It disappeared as though it had never been there.

Chloe hadn't taken her eyes off of Arnold during all that. She simply said, "I believe myself quite capable of protecting Elsa from anything that comes out way."

Arnold's eyes softened as he smirked. "Your girlfriend's very cool, Elsa."

"Isn't she!" Elsa squealed and held onto Chloe tighter. Arnold stepped off to the side of the road.

"If that's how you really feel about it, then you have my blessings. If you ever need to, you can come back home, Elsa," he said with a serious tone.

Elsa's eyes were welling up with unshed tears. This was better than any of the fairytale books she had read while stuck at the top of that stupid tower. She nodded to her father and waved fervently as Chloe kicked the horse into a gallop. She kept waving until he was out of sight.

"Elsa? Wake up. Hey, stop moving your arm around like that."

Elsa opened her eyes, but instead of seeing a long sunset-lit road and feeling the wind whipping through her hair, she saw the ceiling of her room in the hospital and Chloe leaning over her. When Chloe saw that she was awake, she moved away and pulled open the curtains on the window.

"Hurry and get dressed, or we'll be late for the picnic… why are you looking at me like that?"

Elsa sprang up from the bed with a strength that an allegedly frail girl shouldn't have and bowled Chloe over in a hug.

"Chloe, you're so cool!"

Chloe sighed. Elsa had been having one of those dreams again.

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Chloe received the title of Prince Charming!

Elsa dreams like I do; random, and with things happening for pretty much no reason. Okay, on to the next one!