Chapter 11: "to new friends"
"Whoa, what happened to you?"
Elsa turned away from her mirror, chuckling nervously when she faced her sister. In one hand was a brush, and the other was trying to flatten down her wind blown hair.
Getting a better look, Anna's eyes went large. "Your hair NEVER frizzes. I've always been jealous, but I just figured you were cheating by using your ice to make it stay down."
Elsa shrugged. "Well yeah I do that, but even ice wasn't able to hold my hair down this time." She went back to her mirror and continued brushing, Anna also noticing a weird smile on her sisters face.
Anna stood beside her sister, her eyes narrowed and lips puckered with suspicion as she scanned her sister. She got closer to her face by putting her nose into her cheek.
Elsa chuckled. "Can I help you?"
"What were you doing? Why is your hair messed up? Why do You look like you just went skydiving?"
Anna was startled when Elsa burst with laughter, creating a sheet of ice around her mirror. "Sorry, but I did, sort of. I went flying."
Anna's eyes snapped open. "YOU CAN FLY!?"
Elsa rolled her eyes. "No you doof," she waved her hand to remove the ice from her mirror, "Drake took me flying as a dragon." Anna's jaw dropped to the floor. "What?"
"You went flying with a dragon," her eyes narrowed angrily, "without me?"
Elsa shook her head with a smile. "We didn't plan it, he sort of surprised me with it." Her brushing hand lowered as she stared into the sky through the reflection of her mirror. "I've only felt freedom like that one other time. When I ran away to the north mountain."
Anna watched her sister closely, easily able to see an almost longing expression on her face. "But you do know your home is here? With me? Right?"
Elsa quickly began to correct herself when she saw how upset Anna was about to be. She set her brush down and took her sister by the hands.
"Of course. Anytime I'm with you, I'm home." Anna nodded, accepting her response, but Elsa wasn't finished. "I love you, with everything I am, but you have to understand that you can't possibly know everything I go through. That's just a fact. I have powers and you don't."
"Oh no! Don't worry about that." Anna stated quickly. "That's one aspect I'll never know about you, what it's like to have magic. Just as long as you know that you'll always have me around. No matter what."
Overcome with emotion, Elsa threw her arms around her sister. "Always." The sisters held the embrace for a few more moments before Elsa broke the hug. "Now can you help me with my hair?"
Anna clapped her hands, wiggling her fingers excitedly when Elsa took a seat in front of her mirror. Anna began to process of braiding her sisters hair for a minute or two before there came a series of knocks at the door.
"Elsa, Anna are you in there?" Kristoff asked from the other side of the door.
"Yeah Kristoff come on in!" Anna called.
Kristoff poked his head in, hesitant at first, but seeing that everyone was decent and simply hanging around he stepped in all the way.
"I just came by to let you guys know that Drake and Cynthia are getting ready to leave, but they have a surprise for us before they do."
Both sister shared confused looks. "What is it?"
He shrugged with a grin. "Dunno. That's why it's called a surprise. We're down in the kitchen when you guys are done."
As Kristoff excused himself, The sisters once again exchanged looks. "Well now we have to get this over with, I wanna see what the surprise is."
Elsa's head was forced forward so Anna could finish braiding her hair, and didn't bother being gentle about it either. "Ouch! Anna you can't jerk my hair around." Elsa swatted her hands away. "There's an art to how to do my hair after all."
Anna feigned pouting by stomping her foot. "But I wanna know what the surprise is."
Elsa rolled her eyes and she began maneuvering the locks of her hair to form her signature braid. "Well keep your dress on, as soon as I finish with my hair, we'll find out what they have in store for us." Anna folded her arms and began tapping her foot. "That doesn't help by the way."
After scolding Anna a couple more times, once for annoying pacing and again for tapping her foot, Elsa was finally finished braiding her hair.
"Alright, alright let's go, you wiggle worm." She ushered her sister out of the room, like the child she was behaving like, and made their way to the kitchen with Anna brimming with excitement. Elsa did her best to settle her down while she chattered a mile a minute about what the surprise must be.
Elsa shook her head, simply basking in the glow of her sisters juvenile, yet adorable behavior.
"—OH! Or maybe a puppy! Elsa can we get a puppy?!"
Elsa wrenched her arm from her grip. "Anna we don't need puppy. We have Sven."
She stuck her lower lip out. "Awe, but a puppy would be so cuuuuute." They linked arms, Elsa rolling her eyes with a laugh and Anna continued begging.
"There they are!" Turning the corner to the kitchen hallway, Olaf bounced towards them. At the end of the hall, Kristoff and Sven were standing outside the closed doors that led to the kitchen. Sven started bouncing with just as much excitement as the snowman, forcing Kristoff to calm them both down.
Laughing to herself, Elsa asked, "What's got them all excited?"
Kristoff gestured to the door with his head while his arms held Sven and Olaf. "Go ahead and take a whiff."
With the sisters confused they did as they were told and took a long sniff at the door.
It was a scent they knew very well.
"Is—"
"—that—"
"—chocolate?"
The doors swung open, Cynthia no longer wearing her hat or coat, but in a plain white shirt and dirty blonde hair untied from its ponytail.
"It's about time. Come on in."
The sweet smell wafted over them, making their mouths salivate. Drake was over by the stoves, fiddling with something that they couldn't see with his back turned. He too was dressed down, with no sign of weapons and wearing a chefs hat, coat and apron.
Elsa erupted into giggles making him turn around. "What are you wearing?"
He seemed confused. "Isn't this typical Arendellian attire for working in a kitchen?"
"Absolutely!" Anna chirped, "if you want to look like a complete doofus."
Drake narrowed his eyes at a snickering Cynthia before ripping off the apron, coat and hat and slapping her with them. "Well anyways.' He picked up a tray that was filled with mugs, the very containers the heavenly smell was coming from.
Even though Elsa was curiously looking at the mugs, and the steam coming from the mouths, her eyes drifted to the necklace Drake wore. The magical gem seemed to be glowing a bit brighter ever since he changed a few days ago, and that wasn't the only change. He was walking around with chest out and shoulders back, brimming with a newfound confidence.
It suits him. Slowly her eyes drifted to his arm, exposed by the plain t shirt he was wearing. Along with defined muscle she noticed the endings of what looked like ink on his skin. Is that a tattoo?
She was pulled from her musings when Anna had leaned forward, putting her face into the steam coming from the mugs. She took a deep inhale, mewling happily as she did so.
"The surprise is hot chocolate?" Kristoff snickered. Sven grunted, hitting him in the shoulder. "What? I wasn't being rude. I just thought a surprise from the Knights of Kuarlong would be, I don't know, Knight-Ly-er?"
Both Drake and Cynthia laughed while they handed out mugs. "Well yes it is hot chocolate, with a key difference." Drake smiled. "The milk used has been heated with Dragon fire." Once everyone, including Olaf, had a mug Drake motioned for them to drink.
"Hold on." Elsa held out her hand. "I'd like to make a quick toast."
"I don't think toast goes with hot chocolate, but I'll try anything once."
Anna patted Olaf on the head. "No. A toast. Like we raise our glasses," Anna held up her mug, "and we drink in honor of something."
"Indeed," Elsa held up her own mug, "and in this case I'd like to drink in honor of Drake, and Cynthia Daniels, Knights of Kuarlong who will always be welcome in Arendelle."
The knights raised their glasses. "And we raise ours to you." Cynthia said. "The snow queen of Arendelle, her sister, her boyfriend, reindeer, and snowman."
"And dare we say," Drake continued, "to new friends."
Everyone clinked glasses together. "To new friends." Elsa smiled and they all took a drink. Elsa went rigid when the warm liquid touched her tongue and slid into her stomach, warming every inch of her person. Hot Chocolate never did that to her, and she had never had any that tasted as sweet. She fought as hard as she could, but couldn't stop the moan of pleasure the escaped her throat.
From beside her, Anna vocalized exactly what Elsa had been thinking.
"Oh. My. Gods. This is the best thing I've ever tasted." It wasn't long before the sisters were practically begging for more.
And that's the end of Hungry moon.
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