Chapter 4

Oscar was in the library walking along with one of his guards at the end of the building, then looked at an area of the library, which had no continuation and both looked at each other.

„Well and what now?" Questioned Oscar making the guard shrug his shoulders. „Couldn't there be something like a secret passage? After all, it's a magic area," Commented the brunette watching the guard look at the books, then looked up to see a flat board lying on the shelf, then he got on his tiptoes to pick it up and see it had the word magic on it.

„Oscar, it says magic here," Mentioned the guard showing his leader the sign making him nod.

„Then this must be the place," Commented Oscar looking at the books, then passed through the titles that were set on the bookshelf. „Help me find something, that could have to do with Princess Anna, her sister, or their kingdom,"

„Sure," Spoke the guard, then searched from down for anything related to it.

„Does Curses bring us anything?" Questioned the guard making Oscar shrug his shoulders.

„Could, but let's keep looking," Commented Oscar pulling a book out, which was about trolls from the valley of the living mountain. Oscar dropped it down on the ground, to continue to search throughout the shelf for more books, and found one about a war between Arendellians and Northruldans people.

„This one could be interesting," Spoke Oscar, then continued to look through the books to find another one, which was focused on the monarchy of Arendelle starting with King Runeard, leading to the last parts of the late King and Queen to pass away during a stormy weather as they left.

„I think this book could help us better," Spoke Oscar showing the guard the book, while he found one about a magical stone based on the elements fire and water,

„This one…..probably doesn't count," Commented the guard, then Oscar gave the guard the book about the war and kept the last one he found.

„Come on, let's take a look at the books and see if we can find something," Announced Oscar making the guard nod.


One afternoon later, Oscar closed the book and dropped it on the table, and watched the guard still reading his book and Oscar knocked with his fist on the table.

„Alright I know according to the book what's up," Stated Oscar earning the attention of the friend. „Apparently her older sister was gifted with magic powers, which once accidentally had almost killed her. To avoid it from happening again, they sought help from magic trolls, which healed her and erased her memories to make sure she wouldn't know anything about the powers besides Elsa and the parents. A few years later her parents went on a trip and died on a shipwreck, which left the girls in the custody of the servants of the castle. In an emergency, the parents had given the servants various tasks to perform in certain cases, but what they didn't see coming, was that Anna accidentally found out about the magic power and was hit again by her magic. One of the emergency letters told the castle inmates to seek help from the trolls, but they couldn't figure out their location, so their only chance was to find a magician. As they found one, none of them expected him to be a bad guy. This guy used the magic to make out of Anna's issue a curse and if she wouldn't fall in love with somebody and be loved back before her 20th birthday, she would freeze for good, "

„Wow, that's harsh," Spoke the guard making Oscar nod.

„Besides that, there was more than just trying to fall in love. It must happen naturally. The villagers of Arendelle fought against the presence of the evil magician, that showed up at the castle offering them help, but the kingdom refused to let them take Anna and that counter caused a few citizens to lose their lives due to the evil intentions of the magician. The kingdom had no choice and decided to take Anna away from Arendelle and lock her up inside an abandoned castle. Now locked up away inside an ice-made Palast, protected by creatures no one knew about them yet. This was said because people that had planned to go on this task had most likely lost their lives there, as none of them has ever returned. According to people that knew about the location of the palace they have never seen anyone return, sometimes they heard screams coming from the inside followed by a strange growl, shrieking the citizens from knowing yet another fighter lost the life against the mysterious creature,"

„Wow, this sounds terrifying," Commented the guard making Oscar nod.

„I'm honestly a little unsure about this task. What's the point, if I don't make it as the others did?"

„Maybe you should take help with you?" Suggested the guard.

„It's an idea, but I am not sure if this is going to help. Or worse, I don't think any of the guards would accompany me. Us three wouldn't be enough as well,"

„To be honest, I wouldn't want to put myself in your shoes there. I've got a wife and two kids. I can't just give up my life like that,"

„I would need to go through the village and ask people about it?" Questioned Oscar. „Maybe the ones, who are alone and have currently nothing to lose,"

„Like the one we saw with that dog?" Questioned the guard making Oscar nod.

„It's an option. How do you know he's alone?"

„I heard this from other farmers. He worked together with his parents alone, but now they're gone,"

„Well, he's a decent candidate. Do you know more, than one?" Questioned Oscar making the guard ponder about it.

„There's Sam and Yanik from the royal guard. Practically, that's everyone. I know,"

„Okay, I will see if I can talk to everyone. I will make them an offer, they won't be able to resist," Said Oscar ribbing his hands together.

„What have you got, they can't resist?" Questioned the guard making Oscar frown.

„Don't worry. I know what I'm up to. Trust me," Spoke Oscar making the guard wonder about the Prince's plan.


Hans rode back home with Donny back to the farm and the young husky sat on the seat beside Hans watching him lead the horse.

„We have sold a few bags of vegetables today, that was good wasn't it?" Questioned Donny watching Hans shrug his shoulders.

„It was fine for today. I still have time the next few weeks and some people know about the location of my farm and if they need something they can pass by,"

„And…..the day is now almost over. No one has shown interest in taking me into their family," Pouted Donny making Hans nod.

„Don't worry, the right owner for you will come. It doesn't have to be today or tomorrow, I can take a few days longer. The most important thing is that you're treated well by them and be fed correctly," Spoke Hans, then looked at Donny's body noticing a few of his chest's bones notably forming around his body. „What do you think of eating a bit of corn? At the moment I don't have anything appropriate for you to eat,"

„Should be fine. I just know from my parents I couldn't eat certain foods and something they call chocolate,"

„Well that I don't have in my house, except for apples, tomatoes, potatoes and that's all I know so far," Commented Hans.

„I think that's not unhealthy for me," Spoke Donny making Hans nod, then the teenaged dog moved his head to the front to see them getting closer to their farm. Donny began to move his nose as he began to scent something and stood up on the seat to look at the farm to see two dark shadows in front of the shrine.

„Are you seeing there something as well?" Questioned Hans making Donny growl quietly. Hans stopped the horse, then got down of the carriage and looked behind the cart to look for a weapon, then took out a sword, afterward he sneaked along the path toward the farm. Hans arrived at the ground near the farm, then whistled to call the attention of the two men, which turned out to be guards from the castle.

„I hope you two have a good reason to be here breaking into my farm," Warned Hans holding the sword up at the two guards, which exchanged looks with one another.

„Are you Gustav?" Questioned the first guard making Hans shake his head.

„No. He was my father. He adopted me along with his wife and took care of me, then passed out their farm to me. Not officially, but as their son, I have the right to own this land,"

„You know, there was no testament of them, so we assumed they were dead and no one else was here," Stated the guard. „I'm following the King's orders and according to him, we have to get rid of furniture and other belongings, to be future sold to someone else,"

„The farm isn't for sale. I'm living there. The king can't just get rid of me without any warning or anything,"

„You know the king assumed the house was empty and ordered us to come and take care of it. If you say the house really is yours, I would offer you to pass by the king tomorrow and confront him with this,"

„And you will leave the house in peace, right?" Questioned Hans watching the guards exchange looks. „Starting from now on!"

„Well, we're supposed to leave only with material from the house," Mentioned the guard making Hans cross his arms.

„Alright if you say so, bring me to your king. I will clear this out with him. You won't take anything from here until I have spoken to your majesty,"

„What do you say?" Asked the guard looking at the second one. „No one had a clue someone lived here. We can't do anything else, than either letting him come or wait for tomorrow"

„If you're okay with that, we will go with you to see the king. I can't promise, that he will have time for you, but we make sure you're able to talk with him about it and solve the issue,"

„That's what I wanted to hear," Spoke Hans, then held out his hand at the guards and the second one accepted the handshake.

„Alright, if you're good with it, go with your own horse," Suggested the guard watching Hans put his sword back into his carriage and climb up at the carriage back to Donny.

„Looks like we gotta go back to the village," Commented Hans watching Donny yawn and lie down on the seat.

„Okay," Answered Donny, then Hans ordered the horses with the leash to move on, followed by the guards, which went to get up on their own horses.