It's a whole new world

Part 2

Life was peaceful at the castle. It was a relief for Elsa, Arendelle's crown princess. Leaning on her desk, a new book open before her eyes, she thought that her parents would soon be back from their trip. It reassured her because she was always afraid when they left. Her powers had become much more powerful, she felt it in her. It was like a volcano that could explode at any time. The young woman feared losing control every second of her life. She didn't know if she would prefer that no one was there if it happened, or that her parents were there to reassure her. It was even worse when she thought about Anna. She had already hurt her sister a long time ago and was ready to do anything to make it never happen again.

The princess could no longer read. She scanned her room, as if looking for someone to give her the reason. There was nobody of course. She felt an immense weight on her shoulders. Anna regularly tried to chat with her through the door of her room and her heart tore every time she told her to go. However, to her surprise, she hadn't come to see her for the past few days. For a full week to be exact. Elsa didn't know if she should be delighted, sad or worried.

For the first time since she and her parents had chosen to isolate her, she had to ask someone for news about her sister. In this case: their servant Gerda. She asked her, as she brought her dinner, standing at the other end of the room for safety. The servant told her that Anna, in a curious way, was fine. Curious because she locked herself in her room for several days. She only went out to eat or get some materials, such as paper, ink, thread, scissors and needles.

This attitude had worried Gerda at first, and Elsa understood that, but she also admitted that the young princess seemed in a very good mood. She was a little evasive when asked what she was doing, but she still beamed with joy like the sun. The crown princess was partly reassured by what this report, except when Gerda said she heard Anna speak several times alone in her room. When the servant asked her if she was with someone, the princess simply replied that she was thinking out loud. By respect for the redhead princess, she had not tried to listen more carefully to what she said. Elsa thanked her, without admitting her own disappointment. This attitude seemed a little peculiar for her little sister. However, she had barely seen her in years. She did not feel in the best position to say what was normal or not for her now.

The crown princess no longer knew what to think. She felt guilty for not spending time with Anna, but also for not having managed to control this magic that burned in her. She got up from her desk to try to change her mind while contemplating the landscape through her window. When her eyes fell on the bars of her prison, she froze in amazement. A bird as big as a chicken was on the ledge. She had read all the encyclopedias in the royal library and yet she could have sworn she had never seen this kind of animal. Its feathers were milk white and deep blue lines adorned its wings. Its orange beak was dark on its tip and its plumage, which gave it a shape as round as an egg, had pointed shapes on the top of its head, almost like ears.

Elsa rubbed her eyes. When she opened them again, the animal was gone. She ran to the window and looked in the sky for a sign that she hadn't dreamed of. Then she looked around the castle courtyard but the conclusion worried her. She thought she was tired. It was better than thinking she became crazy. She preferred to return to her book. She then did not see the bird who finished going around the palace before returning to the ocean, shouting.

"Wingull!"

Meanwhile, eevee gazed out at the landscape from Anna's bedroom window. He wiggled neither the tail nor his severed ear. He turned his head with no smile to the young princess who was going around in circles and repeating once again what she was trying to learn.

"The Rock type pokémons are very effective against Fire, Ice, Flying and Insect types. They are not very effective against Ground, Fighting and Steel types. However, they are generally not injured by the Ground type attack ... "

Anna dug into her memory, unsuccessfully, and eventually came out in frustration with a set of scrolls she was hiding behind her back. She glanced quickly at a board to confirm what she had just said, then checked the information that she forgot.

"Sandstorm! Sometimes it even gives them an advantage. Why can't I remember this? "

"Eevee?"

The startled princess turned to her new friend and worried when she saw his sad face. She asked him what was wrong kneeling near him. The pokemon looked to the vast forest that stood beyond the city. Eevee put a paw on the glass. Anna immediately understood what he had in mind. Especially since she had been feeling the same thing for a very long time.

"You want to go out, right?"

"Eevee ..." he confirmed.

Anna had been locked up in this castle for a long time, but it was her home. Eevee was some kind of wild animal. Staying a week in the same room must have been difficult for him. She wanted to get him out so that he could roam the wild at full speed, but she didn't know how to do it. She had thought about telling Gerda or Kai about him, but she feared losing him if she did that. She was unsure of the reaction they would have discovering such a curious beast. Anna knew she could command them to be nice with him. But she didn't feel comfortable imposing like that. She had never shown authority, using her princess status like this. It gave her the feeling of playing with the fear of these nice persons to satisfy a selfish desire.

And even if she resigned herself to do this, there remained the problem of her parents, the king and the queen. If they discovered that she had hidden a strange and potentially dangerous animal, they would be furious, she imagined. She dared not think about their reaction when she learned that she had given orders to keep him with her. And after that? Would they release him outside? It was the most optimistic possibility. The others frightened her. The princess didn't want anything to happen to her only friend.

Anna stroked the little pokemon's head, worried about him. She had cuddled, combed, fed and even washed him secretly in the kitchen, in the middle of the night. He had become her first true friend. She didn't want to lose him, but she also didn't want him to be unhappy. If he had seemed to appreciate all the attention of the princess, eevee had gradually lost his joyful attitude.

"I'm sorry eevee ..." she sighed. "I never had pets, but I should have known that you cannot stay locked up here every day. It's already difficult for me so ... "

Guilt crushed Anna's heart. She had discovered so much in the pokédex that she got a bit lost in the ocean of information it contained. With the pokémons, types, fighting techniques and what she could understand by combining certain bits of information, she had things to occupy her mind from morning to night and fill dozens of sheets of paper. Like she said, she wanted to know everything about pokémons. She had started studying what she found in the device with the diligence and seriousness that her parents dreamed of seeing for years. She understood there was a category of person called Pokemon Trainer and that they sometimes made them fight with each other. Even if the pokédex indicated that they were also fighting in the wild, it troubled the girl. She didn't want to see her friend injured. Fighting was therefore not her intention. But the princess was understanding that she may have loose her mind a bit, forgetting eevee's well-being.

The princess thought about what she could do to give him some energy. She had nothing she could use as a toy. Not even a ball. An image imposed to her mind. Actually, she had one. Anna ran to her wardrobe and searched behind her gala clothes. She never used them, since there was never a party in the castle, so no one needed to pick them, which made them a good hiding spot. She retrieved the yellow and worn bag and rummaged inside. She left the pokédex aside this time. She took out one of the red and white sphere.

The girl called eevee, still contemplating outside, and rolled the ball towards him. The pokemon strained his ears and opened his eyes wide when he saw the object. Curious, he approached it and smelled it. He kicked it and the ball rolled a little further. Intrigued by it, eevee leaps over it. It escaped him and rolled towards Anna. She took the object in hand and asked with a broad smile.

"You want to catch the ball?"

"Eevee!"

The princess, forgetting the risk of being noticed, tossed the ball to the other end of her room. She laughed heartily when the small eevee's legs carried him to the toy. He rolled it with the muzzle under the tender gaze of the young woman before bringing it to her. Anna energetically threw the sphere once again. Eevee ran towards it. He brought the toy back to her again. The girl threw it again. Eevee ran to the ball and kicked him back. Anna was happy. She was having real fun for the first time since her sister's isolation and her friend seemed to have regained all his energy.

Anna threw the red and white ball. Eevee leaps into the air to catch it in mid flight. A small miscalculation and the ball hit his forehead. In a fraction of a second, the sphere opened. Eevee turned into light, went inside the sphere and the sphere closed in a brutal click. The object fell to the ground and stirred under the wide eyes of the princess. A high-pitched sound echoed in the bedroom. The ball stopped moving. There was only silence. Unable to understand what was going on, the girl remained frozen in place.

"Eevee?" she asked.

There was no reaction.

"EEVEE !" screamed the princess, running to the sphere.

She grabbed the object but didn't have time to do anything. Fast steps were approaching. The handle turned. Anna hid the sphere behind her back. The door swung open, revealing the butler Kai with a worried face.

"Princess? Are you alright?"

The princess did not need to think to understand that her scream had not gone unnoticed. She hurried to lie, stuttering.

"Yes Kai, sorry for worrying you. I just ... hit my little toe. That's it."

The servant raised an eyebrow. He had never heard anyone screaming like that, and the princess's forced smile was anything but reassuring, but he had no reason to doubt her. He eventually withdrew, reminding her to call him if there was a problem. The door closed and Anna held back as best she could until the steps disappeared in the distance. As soon as their sound disappear, she looked at the sphere and stammered with concern.

"Eevee, can you hear me ?! Are you okay?"

She remembered how to open the sphere. As soon as her finger pressed the button, the ball opened and a bright flash made his confused friend appear in her arms.

"Eevee?" said the pokemon, blinking.

The princess hugged him tightly and whispered.

"I was so scared. Are you hurt ? What happened?"

The pokemon replied by saying his name, of course. At least he did it in a calm voice full of curiosity. Relieved, the young girl put him down before taking again, with apprehension, the red and white sphere. She pressed the button again out of curiosity. The sphere opened without any effect. She closed it and examined it for the tenth time this week from all angles. Nothing had apparently changed. Yet Anna looked at it with a completely new look, both fascinated and fearful. She turned her eyes to eevee, who watched her operate with the detached curiosity of a little cat.

"How was it inside?" she asked, not expecting a clear answer. "Was it… scary? Or nice?"

Eevee just tilted his head. Either he didn't understand the question, or he didn't know what to answer.

"I mean, if it's painful we should..."

The princess stopped when a ray of light burst from the sphere's button, when she pointed it at the pokémon. It touched eevee which turned back into light and seemed sucked into the ball. Still surprised, but less frightened, the princess hurriedly pressed the button. Like before, eevee sprang from the ball like nothing happened. Anna put down the sphere and this time looked at her little companion like a stuffed animal she wanted to check. She looked at his paws, his mane, his eyes and ears. There was absolutely nothing different. Her friend was perfectly fine. Relieved, she retrieved the sphere and asked eevee.

"Do you mind if I use this magic thing?"

The pokemon waved his ear, thinking before saying his name in a voice that suggested he was didn't care. The princess looked at the ball for a moment, lost in thought, before asking Eevee.

"You know... if it really doesn't bother you, I can use that to transport you discreetly into the castle. I need to check if the pokédex has informations about this thing, but I could take you to other rooms and ... "

She heard new steps, slower than earlier, from the hallway. As if to verify her theory, Anna pointed the object at eevee and made it disappear again in a luminous form. Then she hid the sphere under her bed and hurried to open the door. A guard came to warn her that her parents had returned.

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