"Elsa" the king whispers to his sleeping /"Elsa wake up." King Agnarr lightly shakes the slumbering 8 year old platinum blonde girl. The young girl groans as she opens her piercing blue eyes groggily.
"What is it Daddy?" She says as she rubs her eyes with her pale hands, balled into fists.
"Remember you're coming with me on a small trip today remember?" Elsa's eyes pop wide open and there was excitement shining in those blue orbs.
"Oh YES YES YES!" She cheers. The king quickly tells her to keep it quiet so she wont wake up the sleeping and slightly drooling Anna in the bed across from hers. Elsa quickly but quietly gets out of bed and changes from her light blue sleeping gown into a white and blue dress reaching a little above her ankles. She puts her hair in a perfect french braid and goes to meet her father near the doors of the castle./p
"Ready to go my princess?" He grins as he extends his hand towards his eldest daughter. Elsa takes his hand gently and they head outside to the carriage that awaits them. King Agnarr is visiting a large village in the woods on the border or Arendelle to work out a deal of trading for lumber from the village. The king brought Elsa with him so she could see what ruling a kingdom can be like, even with the little deals with the kingdom's far reaches. They rode in the carriage for about an hour before they arrived at a large village. It was in the middle of a large forest and many people were working in mills, chopping wood and stacking it all. A guard opened the door of the carriage and the King stepped out and assisted Elsa down. She looked around in awe at the business of the village so early in the morning. Her perfect straight teeth created a huge smile as she looked at the forest around her. It felt safe.
"Your Highness!" Elsa turned to see a large burley man briskly walking up to them. He was a muscular man, probably from all the tree cutting, and he sported pants and a vest that covered a bare, muscular chest.
"Welcome to our Milling Village I hope your trip wasnt too much of a hassle. My name is Jex."
"No not at all, we enjoyed the beautiful scenery." The king replied. "This is my eldest daughter Elsa, I brought her along so she can experience business outside the castle." The Jex bent over and reached his hand palm up towards Elsa with a warm smile on his face. Elsa lightly placed her small hand in his and he placed his other large hand on top of hers.
"You are most welcome here as well your highness and you are welcome to explore anywhere you'd like. My daughter, she's somethin else, I can have her show you around!" The man looked to the king and Agnarr looked down at Elsa with a smile.
"Would you like that Elsa? Its okay if you feel safer with me." He knew Elsa wasnt comfortable with her powers around other people. This was before she had hit Anna so she loved her powers for what they were, but never was around new people for them to see them. Elsa looked down at her hands and then looked back up at her father. She wanted to try.
"Yeah Daddy thats fine id like to explore." She gave him a small smile.
"Fantastic! I'll find her right away." Jex then turned to a similarly large man a few yards away chopping at some wood.
"HEY FRANKLIN! WHERE IS EM? HAVE HER COME HERE WILL YOU?" the man hollered. Elsa flinched slightly at the abrupt loudness of the man. The other man ran off and soon came back, followed by a young girl about the same height as Elsa. She came over and stood next to her father as he looked proudly down at her. She had dirty blonde hair that fell past her shoulders and was tired in a ponytail. She was a bit bigger than Elsa in that her body was a bit wider because of the strong, sporty structure of her body. Her skin was a light tan and her eyes were a blue-ish grey that blended well with her dark blue pants and the matching vest that she wore over a cream colored shirt. She sported a little belt that held her pants up in place and she wore no shoes.
"Emily this is King Agnarr of Arendelle and this is the princess Elsa. Your majesties this is my daughter Emily." The man introduced. Elsa looked at the girl as she directed her eyes onto her and her eyes twinkled with joy. Emily smiled and her perfectly straight teeth shown through.
"Hi! Nice to meet you your majesty. Wanna come see where I like to hang out?" She asked excitedly. She reached out her arm, hand extended for Elsa to take and follow. Elsa hesitantly reached out her small hand and rested it into Emily's. As she did and Emily closed her hand around her own she was startled at how warm Emily's hand was. Emily then gently dragged her away from her father and brought her towards a small opening in the forest that had a small beaten down path leading into it. Elsa started to feel a little worried and lightly pulled back to get her hand free of Emily's. The excited girl sensed Elsa's discomfort and releases Elsa's hand, turning back to face her. She noticed how Elsa brought her hand to her chest and looked at the ground.
"Hey, its alright if ya dont wanna go, but I promise its safe." She walks up to Elsa and lifts her chin up with her hand to look into those piercing blue eyes that she has started to love.
"I wouldn't take a pretty princess into the woods if it wasnt safe." She grins and winks at Elsa and grins even wider when she can see a small blush starting to grow on the princess's pale cheeks. She extends her hand again and Elsa takes it once more, letting herself be led back through the forest. They walk a bit further until they come to a small open area, still surrounded by trees. There's a small hut and Emily lightly tugs Elsa towards it. Elsa again gets worried and looks at the excited girl in front of her.
"Is it safe?" She whispers out. Emily stops abruptly, not because of anything bad, but because she heard Elsa's voice for the first time. She thought it was the most beautiful noise she had ever heard. She turns back around to look into the princesses eyes.
"Yeah its safe. Its my workshop I wanted to show you some stuff I have been working on. Do you wanna see?" She grins again and looks at the blonde girl, hoping she'd agree. She doesnt know why but this platinum blonde haired girl fascinated her and she wanted to show her everything she knew and loved. Why? She didn't know but she liked this princess. Elsa lightly nodded her head and Emily smiled again and grabbed Elsa's hand, leading her towards the hut. Once she opened the door she let Elsa in first and then closed the door behind her. Elsa looked around in awe as she looked at the small shelves that decorated the walls of the hut. On all the shelves were small figures, small soldiers, bears, birds, boats, trees, and people, all made out of wood. All the carvings were amazing and Elsa couldn't believe a girl as young as herself could have carved such beautiful things.
"I really like working with wood. My dad says i have an amazing gift with workin with my hand. Says it'll come in great learning to fight when i get older one day. " Emily states with a big grin on her face. Elsa smiles lightly to this statement, not taking her eyes off of the carvings until her eyes land on one carving in particular. This one is a snowman, with thin arms and a large carrot nose. Emily noticed Elsa pause at the carving and moved up to the shelf and grabbed the carving.
"Do you like this one?" Elsa nodded again, never looking away from the little wooden snowman.
"Its yours if you want it. I think you like it more than anyone else ever will." Elsa looked up in shock and disbelief and when she saw Emily smiling at her she lightly blushed. This girl was being too nice and sweet to her. She reached for the snowman from Emily's hand and brought it to her chest, letting herself smile wider./p
"Thank you Emily." She looked into Emily's eyes and she lightly smiled when she recognized a light blush spreading across the girls cheeks. She looked back down at the snowman and then looked at Emily's hands that were grasped together in front of her. On the girls left wrist was a pink, discolored blotch on her skin and she looked at it curiously, but she knew asking about it would be considered rude. But Emily noticed her looking at it and she stepped closer to Elsa and extended her wrist for Elsa to look at it.
"Its a birthmark. My mom had one just like it so whenever I look at it I remember her." She smiled sadly at her wrist. Elsa felt compelled to do something for this girl who for some reason seemed to trust her. Should she use her magic to make her something? But she didnt want to scare her away. She bit her bottom lip in contemplation and Emily noticed her thinking. Man did she think this princess looked cute when she bit her bottom lip. She then felt two soft hands lightly grab a hold of her wrist and she made eye contact with the princess, memorized by those blue orbs.
"I...I wanna make you something too. To thank you for everything you've done today. But I dont know how you'll like it." The princess admits. Emily smiles sweetly at this innocent action and slips her wrist from the princesses hands and brings her hands into her own.
"If the princess wishes to give me something, I'll love whatever it is." She grins when she notices a light blush once again painting this blondes cheeks. How she loved when this girl would blush. Then Elsa stepped back, releasing Emily's hands and beckoned for her to come outside. They stepped outside of the hut and Elsa walked a bit further from the hut, telling Emily to stay put. Once she turns back around to face the young carver girl she looks down at her clasped hands and then up to those bluish-grey eyes curiously looking back at her. She takes a deep breath and prepares herself to use her magic when all of a sudden they hear yelling and screaming. Elsa looks down the path they had just traveled with worry and then looks back to see Emily's face full of fear. She larger girl then bolts back down the path, grabbing Elsa's arm and pulling her along with her. As they keep running they hear screams and then Elsa can smell something that burns her nose; smoke. She could start to feel hotter and once they came back into the opening of the village they could see what the screaming was about. The village was on fire. Raiders ran into houses, dragging out women and children and carrying them to carts that were tied up to large horses. Elsa feared for her father and looked around for him. Meanwhile, Emily was trying to hold back tears as she saw her whole home in flames. She could see her father fighting with a raider and she knew she couldn't do anything to help. But she had to try. She turned to Elsa and saw the fear in those beautiful blue orbs.
"Run to the right and there is a few large boulders you can hind behind. Ill come find you when its safe." She then pushed the princess to run in the direction she directed. Elsa looked at Emily hesitantly but finally ran off away from the burning village. She could see the boulders a few hundred feet away but she had a feeling something wasn't right. She turned back to see where Emily had gone and saw her running right for her father, who was now limp and unconscious on the ground, with a large raider hovering over his body with a sword stained with red blood.
"DAD! NO!" She could hear Emily's tearful cry and her heart hurt for the carver girl. She had to go help!
"ELSA!" King Agnarr ran up to her and wrapped Elsa up in his arms. Elsa started to cry in her fathers shoulder as he picked her up and rushed to a horse that was tired up near by. He hoisted her onto the horse and once the horse was untied, swung himself on top of the steed. Elsa looked desperately for Emily and to her dismay saw the girl being chased by a large raider. Her grabbed her by her ponytail and threw her to the ground. Elsa watched helplessly as the struggling Emily was slung over the raider's shoulder and was carried to one of the awaiting carts. As Elsa's father spurred the horse to ride back to the castle she made eye contact with Emily and saw her eyes filled with fear and sorrow. Elsa couldn't look anymore and just cried as they rode away from the massacre that had just taken place.
Once they arrived back at the castle Elsa's mother ran out and wrapped Elsa in her arms to comfort her as the king ran off to meet with some of his commanders to see what they could do. Elsa cried into her mothers shoulder as she was carried into the castle and into her room. As she was being carried she looked down at her hands that had been clenched together against her chest and realized she still had the snowman carving Emily had given her. She looked sadly at the snowman and lightly kissed it on the top of its head.
"I'll never forget about you Emily." She thought to herself. And then exhaustion took over, but the only dreams she had for weeks after always ended with her looking into to the fear filled eyes of Emily.

Author' Note:

Hi guys! This is my very first fanfic so apologies if its a bit rough but i hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully will be updating every few days if I can. Thanks for readin!