Hi guys,

If you're wondering who this Alex is, I'm gonna reveal all about him and his history in a few chapters. So don't worry, I got your back. As to the events that happened before this wedding, will all be told to you in a narrative format. I won't be boring you with every last detail that I have in mind, nor is this is a complete remake of the movies.

Again, I'd like to emphasize that these are all events that happen AFTER Frozen 2.

IMPORTANT NOTE : The part that is going to happen in this and next chapter is all about marriage, and as I have no idea of the procedures that take place, I'm gonna try to do my best to resemble it like a marriage. If you find some parts to be missing, I'll leave it to your own imaginations to complete them, and if you find something to be straight out OFFENSIVE, please do not hesitate to write it in the comments along with the proper procedure of that part, and I will try my best to alter or delete it if needed.

Please know that I'm not intending to abuse or hurt anyone or anything with what I write and criticism will be taken into account only if it has a proper explanation to it.

Thankyou for giving your time to read this, and I hope that you stay safe.

Enjoy :)

"Open the gates!" Anna ordered the guards almost jumping in excitement as the distant treeline broke with a few people riding reindeers were seen.

As they got closer, more and more Arendellians went to greet them.

As they arrived at the gates, they were all cheered on by the people. It touched their hearts to see the welcome banners, the decoration, the flags, everything. This wasn't the old Arendelle of Runeard's time; this was the new Arendelle of Anna's reign. It was the best.

Alex and the group went forward to meet them.

Yelena dismounted from her reindeer and went towards them.

Anna and Elsa proceeded toward the approaching older woman.

"Hey Yelena," Anna greeted her intending to shake her hand, but Yelena didn't even see that hand through her teary eyes and embraced the sisters.

Elsa, being the former queen, was quite surprised by the gesture, but smiled anyway.

"You really are her daughters," Yelena said quietly through her tears.

Anna couldn't hold herself back anymore, and she didn't even try to as she burst into tears of joy and hugged her back. Elsa's smile extended from an ear to the other.

The whole kingdom erupted into cheers and claps as their kingdom was again, finally reunited with the people of the sun.

The trio broke after a moment of happy tears.

Yelena then turned towards the people, and addressed them as the kingdom went quiet, "Thank You all for having us. This... it means a lot to me, and all of the Northuldra as well. Yes we've had our differences before, but... not anymore. Whatever happened in the past, is now in the past and it doesn't matter for what the future could be. We hope that all of us can be together again. Be one united people, and be the best of what we are; together. Thank You... everyone."

The whole kingdom was overwhelmed with joy and some even wept at her words. It truly was one of the most magical moments of history.

They all made their way back to the castle, greeting and meeting everyone they saw. The kingdom bustled with happiness and gave the Northuldra gifts.

Finally, when they were inside, they could breathe freely. The cheers slowly died down as the Arendellians got about to their normal businesses.

"Thanks for coming everyone, I'm truly honored and also, extremely happy," Kristoff said, and Anna nodded.

"Well, couldn't miss out on your wedding could I?" Ryder told him playfully.

"He wouldn't have dared to do so under my watch," Honeymaren said, putting on fake graveness.

They smiled warmly.

"The decorations look wonderful," Yelena said as they broke away from the rest of the Northuldra who were led away to get comfortable with navigating around in Arendelle.

"Thanks, but it was all the people who did those, from planning to execution," Kristoff told her.

"They did?"

"Yeah."

"Wow, I uh...I... never expected...such a welcome."

"You'll get used to it," Anna assured her.

She laughed warmly.

"How's things back in the forest?" Elsa asked.

"Well, the people are thriving, but the attacks have increased as well... Nothing... that we can't handle of course, but they are getting stronger and more persistent than ever," Yelena told them.

"Why are they attacking you anyway?" Olaf asked her.

"Those idiots think that we Northuldrans control the spirits, and that if they capture the forest, they will be the ones to control the spirits, and the power will be theirs," Honeymaren said angrily, cracking her knuckles and gnashing her teeth to show her displeasure.

"That is honestly one of the funniest and also quite a dangerous misunderstanding, for them," Alex said matter-of-fact-ly.

"Yeah, why don't you just tell them the truth, and maybe they'll stop bugging you?" Kristoff suggested.

"We did, but they think that we are lying, to stop them from trying to get what they want," Yelena told him.

"What if you take up the offensive side? I mean...I'm pretty sure that you have more than enough power to teach them a thing or two, right?" Anna asked, concern plastered all over her face. She already knew the answer, but thought it best to cross-check.

"We do, but the spirits aren't very supportive of that idea," Ryder said.

"That's right, I've been trying to convince them to do this, but they just won't listen," Elsa told them.

Alex sighed, "I don't like where this is going."

"Me neither... but hey! Tomorrow's a special day for these two and we're getting tense for no reason at all! C'mon, let's make tomorrow a day worth a legend!" Honeymaren exclaimed.

A legend. Alex caught Elsa's eye as she smiled at him. Alex smiled back at her too, but he knew that he wasn't able to hide his nervousness in time. She was the only person in the world who had that effect on him and he had no idea why.

The Northuldra were extremely helpful. They helped the castle staff decorate the courts with what they could, others helped with the foodstuffs.

It was pretty clear that they enjoyed Arendelle's beauty and hospitality and loved the people too. They had let their guard down, enough to be friendly towards all they met, but not enough to be vulnerable to attacks.

It was almost 10 in the night, Alex was in the hidden section of the library that Anna and Olaf had found just a few days prior to the flood six months ago. She had found out that the room belonged to their parents. Only six people in the world knew that this room even existed.

Elsa had allowed him to explore all he wanted to, around the room and in just a few month's time, he'd already devoured half the library. Of course, Kristoff, Sven and Olaf were also allowed by Anna, but the only people who visited often were Alex and Anna.

The library mostly contained spellbooks, magical artifacts, journals and private diaries, histories of magical stuff, elemental magic books etc.

Anna mainly shifted through the journals and diaries while Alex jumped from one book to another. Sometimes, Anna used to laugh loudly at her parent's silliness over chocolate and sometimes she used to cry imagining how much they had endured over the years for them.

Today, he was alone in there trying to figure out a few things he had in mind.

There were hundreds of books in there about elemental magic and the magical history of Arendelle, and yet as he had learned from Anna, there was no mention of them discovering that Elsa was a spirit. Why?

Reading even a single book popped hundreds of questions in his mind. Some of his questions were answered by other books throughout the library while some went completely unanswered.

Over the past few months, he had been successful in decoding some of their secrets, but had wondered why those secrets had been kept from the sisters in the first place. He didn't tell them about this of course, but he wasn't sure what purpose they served for the future. He was able to piece things off the information he got from the Northuldra and history of Arendelle.

But the others remained a mystery.

He sighed as he closed another book saturated with questions. Probably it was time he caught up with his sleep.

He walked through the corridors, greeting a night guard as he went past him. The clock chimed 10:00 in the night as the doors leading in and out of the kingdom closed down, to open again at 4:00 in the morning. He was halfway to his room, when he heard someone addressing him.

"Sir! Wait!"

Alex turned around to face a soldier.

"Stevensen? What is it?" He asked.

He came to a halt and gasped as if he'd ran a hundred mile marathon as he told him.

"Movement... at the east walls...unknown...could be enemy... what do we do?"

"Get a few guards on my tail," He ordered.

"Should I wake their majesties, sir?"

"No, let them be. In fact, this whole operation is to stay secret until two whole days-after the wedding, okay?"

"Yes sir!" He said enthusiastically, his voice resonating through the corridor. He cowered and looked at Alex apologetically.

"Sorry about that sir... It's just that, it's my first time seeing something on my job."

Alex chuckled and took off toward the east walls, "Try and keep up," He called behind him. Probably by tomorrow, he'll be accepting his resignation.

"What is it?" Alex asked the one incharge of the east wall.

"We don't know yet, I've sent the soldiers to investigate, but they haven't returned."

"How much time has passed?"

"An hour... maybe more."

"Why wasn't I alerted before?"

"I...I...thought that maybe I could handle it, but... it spun out of hand. The second wave also hasn't yet returned."

Before Alex could say anything,

"Johannes, Alex."

General Mattias's voice made them both turn to face him.

"What's the situation?" He asked turning to Johannes, who was incharge of the Eastguard forces.

"Two waves of 10 soldiers each haven't returned after being gone for more than an hour."

"Gates?" He asked.

"Gates haven't reported anything strange yet. They have closed, but have already been told to open up if the soldiers decide to come through there."

"I'm going down," Alex said.

"Are you sure?" Mattias asked.

Alex knew he wanted to wait and see if they came back, but Alex didn't want to.

"Yes."

"Ok... alone?" Mattias knew his style apparently.

"Yes."

"Fine." He agreed.

"If I don't come back within 2 hours, wake Elsa. She'll know what to do. In any case, Anna or Kristoff or anyone else is not to know about any of this," He told Johannes. Mattias had already guessed this protocol.

He descended down the walls from a stairway nearby. Let's see where these soldiers had gone to.

He got his first lead after walking for 15 minutes. An Arendellian sword fallen on the path. Soldiers were never supposed to leave their swords behind.

He picked it up and quickened his pace as he searched around the forest for any clues.

He didn't find anything for the next 30 min and was just starting to think if he had gone the wrong way, when he found a clearing where a battle seemed to have taken place.

Blood was splattered on the trees, but there were no people around to indicate anything like that. He took a quick survey of the positions of blood and found them to be leading away to the left side of the clearing. He followed the trail, but it ended abruptly. He was near the one hour mark now. He trailed north of the clearing and went on for 30 minutes straight without any other indication of the source of blood. And then he saw it. Another sword lying down the path, pointing toward Arendelle, with the crest drawn upon the open soil. He was surprised to see that the soldiers were heading toward the kingdom, and even found the need to drop swords as markers which were to be used only in the most extreme cases of emergency.

He ran back towards the walls.

He got to the wall just in time as the clock hit the mark of midnight.

"Oh thank goodness, you're back sir," Johannes appeared relieved to see him.

"Did the soldiers get hurt?" He asked him.

"What? How did you know the soldiers got back?" He asked, surprised.

He showed him the two swords he had found. "Trail Markers."

Johannes frowned, "I'm sorry sir, but all the soldiers had all their weapons on them when they arrived."

He frowned as well. "Did they find anything?"

"No."

"Are you sure that no one is missing or hurt in any possible way?" He asked, looking deep into the man's eyes.

"Y...Yes sir. I...I'm sure," He stammered as that powerful gaze penetrated his soul.

Alex sighed and looked over the wall, "I found blood. Splattered over the trees and these swords near it, just over 30 minutes distance away."

"P...Perhaps it was an animal?" He suggested still extremely uncomfortable around those eyes.

"What animal kills it's prey by splattering blood around without creating a pool under the killed... drags it away for 15 minutes distance... then disappears without a trace of itself... or it's prey?"

Johannes gulped, "Seems like a terrifying creature, sir," He shuddered.

Alex looked at him out of the corner of his eye. He seemed disturbed.

"Something's not right Alex," Mattias said, who had been quietly looking over at the sea, "Someone has planned this," He turned to face them, "The question is... Who... and Why...?"

It was almost dawn when the search parties returned...unsuccessful. They had found nothing except confirming what Alex had seen in that clearing.

"What do you think we should do, sir?" Johannes asked him.

Alex yawned. He was running the third night without sleep now, and though he had trained himself to stay up for upto 5 days at a time, he was exhausted.

"Keep the guards on alert. No one unknown or without identity or purpose is to get inside or outside Arendelle. You get it?"

"Yes Sir."

He smiled, "See you later Johannes."

"You too, sir. Have a great day."

Alex sighed as he found his way back to the castle. He'd never wanted anyone to call him 'sir'. He had corrected the people everytime they did, but to no avail over 2 whole years. Someday, they were probably gonna forget his name.

He wasn't going to sleep now as he still had quite a lot on his hands. Mattias had taken to the night after their last conversation at midnight. Though closing on his sixties, he still had enough grit to actually propose to Halima. She was his lifelong friend before the mist and was simply thrilled as Mattias got down on one knee...to tie his shoelaces. He couldn't keep a straight face as he saw Halima in a completely awkward situation. He had yelled, "Just kidding!" while he pulled out the ring. Halima, literally jumped on top of him that day with joy. It was a great day.

He went down to the kitchens to take a cup of coffee, when he saw Elsa sneaking around the kitchen.

"What are you doing?" He asked, amused.

Elsa almost dropped the bowl she was holding in surprise as she turned to face him.

"Oh! Alex!" She was relieved it was no one else.

He gave her an amused look.

"I was just making Krumkakes for Anna. You know how she loves them," She said excitedly, "But, what're you doing here at this time?" She asked him back.

"I'm here...to get a strong coffee." He said as he went over to the counter. She frowned.

"Another sleepless night?" She asked grimly.

"Yeah. Got an alert at the east walls, had to go."

"Are you sure you're gonna be okay?" She asked uncertainly.

He knew she was asking about the best man job.

"Yeah of course I'm gonna be okay."

"This is the 4th night you know," Elsa was worried.

He turned to her surprised, "How did you…?"

"I saw you when you were up checking stuff and making sure that the North walls were safe on the first night," She admitted.

"But I did get sleep."

"For 2 hours! It doesn't satisfy the night's sleep."

She had a good point.

He sighed in defeat. "You're right. But don't worry, everything will be alright. I promise."

She was about to say something but closed her mouth after hearing his last two words. Promise is something Alex did very rarely, and when he did, he kept it no matter what.

"Okay, just..." Whatever she was gonna say was lost in Gerda's surprise.

"Miss Elsa!! What are you doing!?" She almost shrieked.

"Uh, j-just making krumkakes...f-for... Anna," Elsa stammered, caught off-guard.

Gerda blinked twice and came over, "Do you even know the recipe dear?" She asked gently.

"Of course I know the recipe...I...think," Elsa averted her eyes embarrassed. She had read the recipe, but had never tried to make it by herself.

She chuckled, "Come on then, I'll help you."

Elsa was glad to accept.

Gerda then turned to Alex, "What're you doing here, Alex?"

She was one of the very few in the kingdom who called him by his real name.

"Oh I was just cooking up some coffee."

"Well, go ahead then! And get out when you're done!" She commanded quite harshly.

Alex blinked mildly confused.

"Krumkakes are a secret recipe," She whispered playfully.

Elsa giggled while Alex laughed.

"Sure your highness, whatever you say," He said bowing down to her.

Elsa and Alex laughed while Gerda turned beet red.

He quickly made a strong coffee and took off with their leave.

He looked at the clock tower. 5:00am. Anna wouldn't be up until six.

He still had an hour to prepare his speech. Better make use of it.

It was 6:15am when Anna heard the knocking on the door. Who the hell was waking her up so early!?

She got out of bed still drowsy, walked over to the door and opened it to find the smell of krumkakes and twinkling ocean blue eyes staring at her. And then she remembered...

"Happy birthday!" She heard a few voices yell in unison and a reindeer too.

It touched her heart to see all of them smiling and happy.

"Aww, thanks guys!"

She hugged Elsa, and kissed Kristoff as they all came in.

"You're still not ready?" Elsa asked, raising her eyebrows.

"Oh no! I overslept again, didn't I?"

Elsa giggled. "Yep, 'Again' is the perfect word for it."

Anna quickly got ready. It was one of the shared specialities of the sisters. Each of them could get ready to attend a royal wedding in just a few seconds! But the praise went to Anna as she had to do it all physically, while Elsa could do it all magically.

When she came out of the adjoined dressing room, Kristoff gasped audibly. Understandably too for that matter.

She was dressed to kill. A red velvet flowy dress trailed behind her as she walked, her hair free of anything that might tie it up, her deep black jacket with turquoise coloured thread designs to match her eyes, her red-black themed swords tied to her waist by a sleek, custom made black coloured belt. She looked like the most badass queen there could ever be!

"How do I look?" She asked him.

Kristoff was completely lost for words, his best black suit failing to compare with anywhere even near Anna's beauty.

"Am...Amazing!" He managed through his breathlessness.

She smiled at him while he looked at her as if he'd seen a goddess at her full might.

Elsa had changed her outfit too. Instead of her normal white spirit gown, she was dressed contradictory to Anna, wearing an ocean blue dress matching her eyes and her sword tied behind her back. Her hair also was untied, her platinum locks reaching down to her waist matching once again with her sword's silver-white and ocean-blue theme. She wore a black jacket like Anna, with a snowflake on her back and spirit diamonds arranged randomly around her jacket.

If any idiot ever had any misconceptions about the sisters not having a sense of style, was gonna be crushed so freakin' hard that day...

They celebrated Anna's birthday and proceeded to greet the royals of the other kingdoms as they started arriving.

Anna and Elsa were looking so beautiful that day, that even the top contenders for beauty contests were dazzled.

Alex could almost swear that one of them burst into tears, though she appeared normal from outside.

Of course, Weselton and Southern Isles didn't show up even though Anna and Kristoff were kind enough to invite them.

That wasn't a mood dampener anyway.

The people in and out of the kingdom were ecstatic about this wedding. The people were pouring in from all over, the map and as the number of people increased, so did the pressure on them.

"No, No, No! What if I make a fool of myself?" Poor Kristoff was just terrified of going to the courts for his marriage.

"Relax buddy, you're doing fine," Eugene was trying to comfort him.

"What if something goes wrong?!"

"The only thing I see going wrong is that Anna loves someone else and ditches you mid ceremony," Ryder said exasperated and smirked at him as he high-fived Alex.

That only ended up terrifying him more.

"Stop it! That's not funny!" He said angrily.

Alex shook his head and went over to the chair he was sitting in and came up to him face to face locking his gaze with his.

"Kristoff Bjorgman, I order you to relax right now and listen to me very carefully," He emphasized and paused on each word for maximum effect. It worked. Kristoff gave him his full attention.

"As far as I know, nothing's gonna go wrong in your marriage. If anything even tries to, I will be there to bring it back on track even before you know it. And even if something does go wrong, we will all be there to correct it, okay? So don't worry. We got your back."

It didn't really motivate him much, but it was enough to make him calm down. Alex no way considered himself as a great motivator, but he could partially calm anyone down.

"Okay just... just...thanks man," He changed his sentence midway and hugged his best man.

"Come on now, we don't wanna be late," Eugene said.

They made their way to the courts. Eugene and Ryder broke off and headed to catch their seats, while Kristoff and Alex made their way to the front of the courts.

The horns announced the arrival of the bride a minute later. They were all holding their breaths as the doors opened to reveal them.