So far the party was going fine, no problems had come up which was good for Elsa. It was close to 6:30pm now, she could close the gates around at 12. Only 6 hours to go and she can put an end to the nightmare. The two sisters stood there watching people dance and have a good time. As Anna goes in to try and talk Elsa in to keeping the gates open from now on, Kai interrupts.
"Your Majesty. The Duke of Weaseltown." Kai introduces.
"Weselton! The Duke of Weselton." The Duke corrected before turning his attention to Elsa now, "Your Majesty, as your closest partner in trade, it seems only fitting that I offer you your first dance as queen." The Duke does a funny flitter of his feet, a hitch-kick, and a deep bow. "One, two, three. Jump." He whispers to himself as he holds out his hand, head down, his toupee dips forward. Anna giggles. Elsa looks at Anna and stifles a giggle herself.
"Thank you...only I don't dance." Elsa replied calmly.
"Oh...?" The Duke says slightly offended.
"But my sister does." Elsa motions to Anna now, who stared quickly in shock.
"What?" Anna began.
"Lucky you..." The Duke grins happily.
"Oh, I don't think–..." The Duke grabs Anna's arm and yanks her away before she can protest.
"If you swoon, let me know, I'll catch you!" The Duke states as Anna looks back at Elsa, desperately.
"Sorry..." Elsa give a small smile and wave. She wasn't dancing if she could avoid it. On the dance floor the Duke showboats, but he's just awful. Anna tries to make the best of it.
"Like an agile peacock... CLUCK-CLUGGLE-CLUCK!" The Duke lands on her feet.
"Ow. Ow." Anna recovers quickly and continues to move to the beat of the music being played.
"Speaking of, so great to have the gates open. Why did they shut them in the first place? Do you know the reason? Hmm?" He gets in her face, suspicious.
"...No..." Anna replies, it was the truth. She really did but she wanted to know why if she could just get back to Elsa and ask.
"Oh, all right. Hang on. They don't call me the little dipper for nothing. He dips Anna back. Elsa peeks through the crowd, can barely hold in her laughter. Anna shot Elsa afunny, help-me look. "Like a chicken...with the face of a monkey...I fly!" The Duke dances around like a complete idiot. Finally several moment later, Anna limps back to Elsa. "Let me know when you're ready for another round, M'Lady." The Duke calls to her.
"Well, he was sprightly." Elsa said to Anna with a giggle now.
"Especially for a man in heels." Anna said rubbing her sore feet now.
"Are you okay?" Elsa asks curiously.
Loving Elsa's attention, she answers with "I've never been better. This is so nice. I wish it could be like this all the time..." Anna looks hopeful to Elsa now.
"Me too..." Elsa says sincerely but then she catches herself. She stiffens up, and looks away. "But it can't." Elsa adds slowly.
"Why not? If–..." Anna began but Elsa turned completely closing her eyes with her hands up.
"It just can't!" Elsa said firmly.
Anna's smile drops. She tries not to get emotional, "Excuse me for a minute..." She walks away. Elsa watches her go, saddened. Moving through the crowd, Anna gets bumped by a bowing man's butt. She falls but just before she hits the floor, Hans catches her and he smiles perfectly.
"Glad I caught you." Hans says in a calm tone.
"Hans." Anna breathes out relieved. He smoothly sets his drink down on a passing tray. He lifts her up and leads her in a romantic dance. Meanwhile the Vikings of the Hooligan tribe are just watching everything quietly, this wasn't a place they really fit in but it was only one night so they'd stay and watch everything.
"Just me or does it seem like the queen is pretty...cold." Tuffnut asks his friends.
"I noticed too, she just stands there meeting people. She barely smiles and her and her sister seem...very distant." Fishlegs added.
"Its none of our business. We'll go see her when the line dies down." Stoick told them firmly. As the party continued to get later and later, the hands on the clock rested at 8:30, still 3 ½ hours to go. Elsa knew she could make it, at some point though she lost track of her younger sister among the dancers. She sighed and continued to meet the people of the kingdom, and of others.
Anna and Hans drink and chat while wandering around in the gardens together, talking about their lives in the past. "I often had the whole parlor to myself to slide–..." She hits him in the face by mistake with her hand. He laughs. "Oops...sorry." Anna said apologetically.
"Its okay...Hey...What's this?" Hans asks motioning to the white streak in her orange hair.
"O–oh...I was born with it. Although I dreamt I was kissed by a troll." Anna chuckled nervously.
"I like it." Hans smiles, Anna does too. They continued to talk while walking, eventually making their way a small balcony that over looked the gardens perfectly eating krumkakes together. Well, Anna was teaching him how to eat one.
"Yeah, the whole thing! You got it." Anna tells him. They laugh as the krumkake crumbles in his face. "Okay wait, wait. So you have how many brothers?" Anna asks smiling.
"Twelve older brothers. Three of them pretended I was invisible...literally...for two years." Hans informs her.
"That's horrible." Anna frowns.
"It's what brothers do." Hans shrugs a little to her with a half smile.
"...And sisters. Elsa and I were really close when we were little. But then, one day she just shut me out, and I never knew why." Anna sighs looking down. Hans takes her hand. Leans in close.
"I would never shut you out." He says in a calm, serious tone.
"Okay, can I just say something crazy?" Anna asks smiling wide.
"I love crazy." Hans replies.
(Meanwhile: Hiccup & The Royals)
Hiccup was getting extremely fed up with the amount of storms they got stuck in. Checking over his map he could see they had 3 island in hours of one another before Arendelle. He was so close but this storm had lightening and he knew that wasn't smart. If Toothless's tail got wrecked, he had nothing to fix it with and they'd all be stranded on the island in a bad storm. It worked out because they were merely 6 hours at best away from Arendelle. If they could just hold out a little longer, they'd be home. All of them.
Currently they were all eating and resting under the small makeshift shelter that Hiccup had made to keep them dry. It was best for everyone to get their sleep. Tomorrow, no matter what he was getting to the castle. "You should rest, Hiccup. You've done all the work in this rescue..." Agnarr stated calmly.
"I'm alright...I'd rather watch the storm. You rest, Lord Agnarr. We're close to Arendelle, as soon as this storm is over we'll be home again." Hiccup smiled.
"We are immensely in your debt, Prince Hiccup." The captain said to him with a bow of his head.
"Think nothing of it. It's what I do." Hiccup said as he leaned against Toothless gently closing his eyes after finishing his food. He took a sigh of relaxation, the hard part was over. Once this storm was over, they'd be home. He just had to keep telling himself that. He'd soon hold Elsa in his arms again, and he'd propose to her. Everything was going to be fine.
(Arendelle)
It had been the strangest, weirdest thing ever but Anna and Hans just got engaged over a dance number. He'd asked her to marry him, and she of course said yes. The only problem laid with the fact that because Anna was just about 16 years old, and a member of the royal family. They needed Elsa's blessing for the marriage to take place. So the two strode their way to the castle and fought through the crowd to get to Elsa who was just in the middle of meeting the Hooligan tribe.
Anna pushes through the crowd towards Elsa, Hans in tow. "Oops! Pardon. Sorry. Can we just get around you there? Thank you. Oh, there she is. Elsa!" Anna calls out, getting the attention of her sister and the tribe members. Stoick had just been about to introduce himself before the queen's sister made an appearance. Elsa turns to Anna. Anna curtseys awkwardly. "I mean...Queen... Me again. Um. May I present Prince Hans of the Southern Isles." Anna smiles happily.
"Your Majesty." Hans bows respectfully. Elsa gives a polite but reserved curtsey.
"We would like–..." Anna began looking to Hans.
"–your blessing–..." Hans added looking back at Anna smiling.
–of–..." Anna giggled.
"–our marriage!" Hans and Anna said together leaning in to one another. The Hooligans blinked curiously while Elsa's eyes widened a little surprised at her sister's words.
"Marriage...?" Elsa questioned them.
"Yes!" Anna said excitedly.
"I'm sorry, I'm confused." Elsa stated now looking at them.
"Well, we haven't worked out all the details ourselves. We'll need a few days to plan the ceremony. Of course we'll have soup, roast, and ice cream and then–Wait. Would we live here?" Anna trailed off her rant to ask Hans.
"Here?!" Elsa asked in disbelief.
"Absolutely!" Hans added before the queen could protest.
"Anna–..." Elsa tried to get her attention.
"Oh, we can invite all twelve of your brothers to stay with us–..." Anna jumps in with her suggestion.
"What? No, no, no, no, no." Elsa says firmly as she could.
"Of course we have the room. I don't know. Some of them must–..." Anna trails as Elsa has had enough of this nonsense.
"Wait. Slow down. No one's brothers are staying here. No one is getting married." Elsa stated sternly now as Anna and Hans stopped their rambling.
"Wait, what?" Anna said with worry. Why would Elsa allow the marriage? She didn't understand.
"May I talk to you, please. Alone." Elsa asks, Anna sees Hans's worried face and hooks arms with him.
"No. Whatever you have to say, you can say to both of us." Anna said firmly, she wanted to know why she couldn't marry Hans. So she was going to find out.
"Fine. You can't marry a man you just met." Elsa sighed heavily.
"You can if it's true love." Anna retorted to her sister.
"Anna, what do you know about true love?" Elsa asked calmly, she had to keep it together.
"More than you. All you know is how to shut people out..." It was a bold move to say but Anna didn't care, she wanted answers and to marry Hans. The Hooligans watched quietly now wondering what was going on.
"You asked for my blessing, but my answer is no. Now, excuse me." Elsa stated preparing to walk away.
"Your Majesty, if I may ease your–..." Hans started.
Flustered, Elsa stops her steps without looking. "No, you may not. And I-I think you should go." Elsa walks away. As she passes a guard, "The party is over. Close the gates." She ordered firmly.
"Yes your majesty." The guard said walking away.
"What? Elsa, no. No, wait!" Anna grabs Elsa's hand, and accidentally she pulls off Elsa's glove. Elsa gasps, spinning around and reaches for the glove in panic.
"Give me my glove!" Elsa stated with worry. But, Anna holds the glove away from her.
Now desperate for answers, Anna tries to plead with her sister. She wanted to get away from the castle, that's why she wanted to marry Hans and leave with him. She couldn't stand the locked gates anymore. "Elsa, please. Please. I can't live like this anymore!" Anna begs. The room became quiet as people began to watch the scene before them.
Elsa fights tears and weakly says, "...Then leave." Anna's eyes widened with pain at what Elsa had said to her. Elsa sees Anna's hurt face. No, this was over, it's too much. She can't hold it in and had to get away before she lost what little control she had left. She turns and rushes away.
"...What did I ever do to you?!" Anna yells heartbroken now. The party goes silent as everyone watches the sisters.
"Enough, Anna." Elsa pleaded as she held her arms and continued walking away.
"No! Why?! Why do you shut me out?! Why do you shut the world out?! What are you so afraid of?!" Anna yells angrily at her.
Elsa whips around, "I said, enough!" Elsa yells back in a firm tone. Ice shoots from Elsa's palm, spikes across the floor as guests cry out in shock, backing away.
The duke now ducking behind his men, "Sorcery. I knew there was something dubious going on here..."
Anna now looked at Elsa, with worry instead of fear. This is why the gates were closed, wasn't it. Because of these power's Elsa had, the gloves kept her from activating them. This is what Elsa was afraid if, losing control and letting out her magic.
"Elsa...?" Anna asks. Without another word, Elsa afraid from what she'd done quickly backs up until she reaches the door hand of the room and opens it rushing out.
Elsa bursts out of the castle door and the citizens cheer for her, Elsa had to get away. "There she is. Your Majesty! Long live the Queen!" One shouts at her.
"Queen Elsa..." Another bows to her as Elsa cuts her way through them.
"Come drink with us." Says another citizen from the distance. Elsa ducks through the crowd, holding her bare hand.
"Your Majesty? Are you all right?" Asked a woman holding a baby. Elsa backs away from the baby with fear, she knocks into the fountain, grabs its edge. The waters freeze at her touch and then the gasps of shock and fear sweep over the crowd.
"There she is! Stop her!" The Duke yells coming out with his two guards.
"Please, just stay away from me. Stay away!" Elsa pleads to the duke with her hands out. Magic accidentally shoots from her hand and turns the staircase into ice. The guards and the Duke fall.
"Monster... Monster!" The Duke wails pointing at her. The crowd panics and a snowstorm begins while Elsa flees. Anna runs out of the palace doors, carrying the glove.
"Elsa!" Anna calls for her, running after her and Hans follows closely behind her. Elsa runs out of the gates and down to the water's edge. The shoreline freezes under her feet. Anna calls to her from the gates. "Elsa! Wait, please!" Anna begs for her to stop. Elsa glances back at Anna, but turns away. She tentatively steps out onto the fjord. It freezes instantly. She breaks into a run, as the water freezes over with each step. "Elsa, stop!" Anna rushes out onto the fjord ice, slips, falls.
"Anna!" Hans rushes to Anna's side to help her up, Anna looks to see Elsa reaching the far shore and without looking back she scrambles into the mountains.
"No..." Elsa whimpers a little. Hans looks over the Fjord now and gasps shocked at the sight.
"Look... The fjord." He points out as Anna looks. The ice spreads out until the entire fjord is frozen, locking the ships in place. Snow falls while Hans and Anna move through the panicking crowd.
"Snow? It's...snow...in July..." Someone murmured with worry.
"...Are you all right?" Hans asked Anna as she rubbed her arms to keep warm in the now colder temperatures.
Still in shock of what happened, she looks down while walking towards the castle, "No."
"Did you know?..." Hans asked now, Anna looked over at him with worry in her eyes.
"No..." Anna replied slowly, Nearby, the Duke flutters about in fright. While more people were exiting the hall to see what was going on. The Hooligan tribe was outside as well now, it didn't bother them. They came from a place where it snowed constantly.
"Look! It's snowing! It's snowing! The Queen has cursed this land! She must be stopped!" The Duke says then faces his guards, "You have to go after her." He insists but Anna rushes up to him.
"Wait, no!" Anna pleads him. The Duke hides behind his thugs and points out at Anna.
"You! Is there sorcery in you, too? Are you a monster, too?!" The Duke asks quickly in fear.
"No. No. I'm completely ordinary." Anna says innocently.
"That's right she is..." He trailed off realizing how bad that sounded. "...in the best way." He adds quickly.
"...And my sister's not a monster..." Anna states firmly now looking back to the Duke.
"She nearly killed me!" The Duke snapped back.
"You slipped on ice dude..." Snotlout rolled his eyes before Astrid elbowed him in the gut making him wince in pain.
"Shut up, Snotlout...we're merely guests here." Astrid reminded him.
"Her ice!" The Duke countered to the Viking boys response.
"It was an accident. She was scared...She didn't mean it. She didn't mean any of this... Tonight was my fault. I pushed her. So...I'm the one that needs to go after her." Anna says firmly as she moves towards the royal guard.
"Yes. Fine. Do." The Duke stated calmly.
"What?" Hans says quickly as he follows Anna.
"Bring me my horse, please." Anna asks the guard, he bows and goes to get her horse for her as asked.
"Anna, no. It's too dangerous." Hans protests to her.
"Elsa's not dangerous. I'll bring her back, and I'll make this right." Anna says while the royal handler brings Anna her horse and a cloak.
"I'm coming with you." Hans insists holding her hand.
"No, I need you here to take care of Arendelle." Anna smiles gently, Hans sees the desperation in her eyes.
"...On my honor." Hans nods to her as she throws on the cloak and hops right onto the horse, coronation dress and all.
Now facing the crowd of worried citizens to announce, "I leave Prince Hans in charge!"
"Are you sure you can trust her? I don't want you getting hurt..." Hans says with worry before releasing Anna's hand.
"She's my sister; she would never hurt me." Anna says with confidence to him, he steps back nodding again. She snaps the reins and rides out on her horse leaving everyone watching her while the snow picked up around them until Anna was out of sight.
"Now what?" Ruffnut asks.
"We're Vikings, we've withstood these conditions for years. Since our ship is locked in ice on the docks, we will stay and offer our assistance." Stoick says firmly, the rest nod agreeing. "Prince Hans. I am chief of the Hooligan tribe to Berk, our island suffers winter all year round, we offer our help to you." Stoick says to the man who the princess addressed as Prince Hans.
"My thanks to you. First I offer the castle as a place to stay warm...and find some blankets!" Hans orders. The guards around him nod as Stoick and the others start leading the elderly and children inside the castle for warmth.
"You think the princess can fix this?" Snotlout asks Astrid.
"I don't know...I hope so or we're stuck here..." Astrid replies. It was the start of a long night and it was only 9 at night, all anyone could hope was that Anna found the queen and ended this winter. If not people would get sick or die from the sub zero temperatures.
(With Hiccup)
The storm had stopped suddenly, Hiccup noticed it first. The rain seems to be pushed South, Hiccup felt a cold chill whip through. That didn't seem right. These regions were warm this time of year because it was Summer. Hiccup stood up and walked outside, this was Winter like winds. Not as harsh but cold still. It was coming in the direction of Arendelle, he had a bad feeling about this. What could change the weather so drastically? He had a hunch and he hoped he was wrong. He rushed inside the shelter.
"Everyone up. Storm is over, and we're leaving now." Hiccup ordered quickly. The group of 5 awoke slowly looking at him as he was packing things up.
"Hiccup...what's the matter? It's late, you said we'd leave tomorrow morning..." Stated Agnarr.
"The storm was just blown off by a winter cold coming from the North, blowing South. Something isn't right and we need to get back to Arendelle, right now. We got 6 hours to cover, we're getting there tonight." Hiccup said as he dragged the raft out to the beach area. "These winds are getting stronger, I want to get back before it gets worse. It will be too cold for you if we fly through them." Hiccup said quickly.
"The only way the weather could change so suddenly would be..." Iduna began as she looked at her husband worried.
"Elsa...Get us home, Hiccup. Please." Agnarr said to him, he nodded as they loaded on the raft quickly. Hiccup attached the rope to Toothless and they took off, pulling the raft behind them as fast as they could go without making the logs shift. He had to get back, Elsa needed him. If she was hurt at all, someone would pay dearly for it.
