Frozen Creed: Requiem
Chapter 2
Re-Awaken
Anna found herself standing in a field of white with strange geometric swirls surrounding her.
"Hello?" She called. She heard a yip behind her. Turning she saw a small fox it's red fur shining, its ears up in excitement.
"Hey their cutie" She said kneeling down toward the handsome creature. It yipped at her again and turning raced off.
"Wait" She said racing after it, not wanting to lose sight of the only living thing in this strange place. Somehow she just kept up with the creature until she saw colors and shapes form out of the whiteness. She felt information flow into her mind, as if the colors unlocked something in her brain, or the other way around. The colors formed into a forest and she found herself losing control of her own body as she ran through the forest. She ran up a tree and perched in its branches expanding her senses. She saw the outline of a figure in the distance. She leapt from branch to branch approaching the figure who was stalking through the forest as well. She stopped in the middle of a V-branch and looked down at the figure in robes similar to her before she leapt down at him, knocking him to the ground. She rolled off him and crouched her hand on her sword.
"You got me" The figure said lowering his hood to show a darkly handsome face.
"I've had a lot of practice. I wouldn't have been able to surprise you if you didn't teach me how to move through the trees" She said.
"You are a good student" the man said. The memory flickered and faded back to white with her still dressed in her robes, a patch of memories in her head.
"What's going on? What was that?" Anna asked looking down at herself.
"What am I wearing?" she asked as she moved her wrist the right way to flick her hidden blade. "What's going on?" She asked. The fox stood in front of her before it darted off.
"Wait!" She cried and ran after it through the white. As she ran she felt herself grow shorter as colors once again formed around her, this time greys and browns. More information entered into her brain as she found herself standing in the middle of a street in Arendelle. She walked through the narrow alley emerging into a cul-de-sact where a short brown haired girl dressed in pants and a shirt was waiting.
"You wanted something?" Bernadette asked.
"How would you like to go legitimate?" Anna asked her.
"Excuse me?" Bernadette asked.
"I have come into possession of a large amount of cargo, and I need someone to help me distribute it" Anna said.
"You want me…a thief to help sell cargo you've stolen?" She asked.
"Do you have a problem with that?" Anna asked.
"No" Bernadette replied smiling. The world once again faded to white
"No, this…this isn't me" Anna said as what she knew clashed with what was now swirling around in her head. Anna saw the fox standing in front of her before darting off. Having no choice, as if a string pulled at her with the strength of iron she raced after it, feeling herself become shorter and her robes disappear. Grey and brown colors emerged out of the white and resolved into the inside of her sanctuary. Anna looked around before running up a training wall and leaping off it sailed toward a training dummy, her blades extended. She hit the target, sinking her blades in. she side stepped and sent a throwing knife into another dummy before aiming her gauntlet, her gun extended. The bang of the shot sounded like thunder in the sanctuary but it was so deep in the earth no one would hear. As if a spell was broken she ripped the gauntlet of and threw it to the floor.
"What's happening to me?" She cried out, her voice echoing off the walls.
"You are remembering who you really are" A warm accented voice said from out of the white. Anna turned, to see a man in dark grey robes standing in front of her.
"Who are you?" Anna demanded backing away
"A friend, and a ghost" the man said.
"I don't understand? What's happening to me?" Anna demanded.
"Tell me, how much do you remember?" the man asked.
"This was a bad idea" Shay said hovering over the unconscious girl. It had been hours and the girl hadn't woken up from the spell the apple had put her in.
"It was our only choice" Connor replied.
"And what if she doesn't wake up?" Shay demanded rounding on the younger man.
"She will. Tsitsho is strong. She will return from her vision quest fully restored" Connor said.
"I hope you're right, and you're superstitions don't cost us all" The Shay said.
"I think we should move her back to her bed and retreat for now. If she takes till morning to wake I don't want anyone realizing she's gone, and if she doesn't wake it can be blamed on disease or affliction" Shay explained.
"You can run, but I will remain here as long as it takes until she awakens" Connor replied picking up the feather light girl. He quietly moved her to her room and set her on her bed before returning to the sanctuary.
"Where am I?" Anna asked her mind a jumble. She tried to breathe while clutching her head. She knew from experience that panicking never solved anything.
"You are within your own mind, trying awaken from the dream you were put into" the man said.
"What do you mean?" Anna asked.
"A strange power has altered your mind, not once but twice" Another voice said. Anna turned to see a second man wearing an older looking set of white robes. Names almost emerged from her memories only to sink again into the mist of her mind.
"The apple of Eden is helping you to recover you're rightful mind and set things right, but it will be difficult" the man said.
"I feel like theirs a thunderstorm in my brain" Anna whimpered
"That is your mind struggling to cast off the spell that was placed on it and remember the truth that was stolen from it" the man in white and red robes said.
"What truth?" Anna asked.
"That there is not truth" The man in grey said.
"And that everything is permitted" the man in white finished.
"I don't understand. I just want to find my sister. I need to know she's safe" Anna said.
"To find what you are seeking, you must complete you're journey" the man in white said.
"What if I don't want too?" Anna asked as memories of her killing people emerged and vanished.
"Then here you will remain until your body withers away" The man in grey said.
"Know this child, he who increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow" the man in white said as the world faded to white again.
"But it is the human condition to be curious. To seek, to strive to know, for in wisdom comes strength" the man in grey said and vanished as well. She felt herself shrink as the world came into focus again, more information filling her mind as colors formed into the inside of a shop, an older man working on a clock.
"Master" Anna said, her voice that of a child's
"Yes child" Siegfried asked focused on a pocket watch.
"Why did you leave the order?" Anna asked the man who took a minute to answer, after taking his glasses off and putting his tool down.
"An assassin never really leaves the brotherhood. The training, the belief in the creed is always with us. As to why I settled here in a neutral country, the order was changing in a way I did not like. The order on the continent has grown…arrogant and zealous. Their belief in the creed is slowly reaching the level of religious dogma. Always remember Anna our creed is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. Our brothers on the continent have forgotten that" Siegfried explained. The world turned to white again as the memories of Siegfried, Horgrim, her training, and the years she spent hunting down the members of the Orecalcus flowed through her mind, with nothing solidifying, forming and passing away like pictures in sand. Still with the knowledge came a feeling of warmth, of love and affection once only reserved for her parents and Elsa. Behind the love came a sense of purpose, a resolve that she had never remembered feeling. The fox appeared once again and shot off, Anna following, the new sense of purpose giving her feet wings. Growing back to her proper age and wearing her robes she followed the creature until the fox stopped in front of a familiar blue door with snowflakes. Anna put a hand on the door as the memories swirled through her mind like a blizzard. One phrase emerged from the storm like an indestructible rock, words that felt like the linchpin of her soul.
"Laa shay'a waqi'un mutlaq bale kul'un mumkin"
she whispered as she pushed the door open. Instead of walking into Elsa's room she walked into bluish white light, as if she was bathed in the glow Elsa's magic made when she used it. The glow reached into her and around the words she had spoken, her erased past clicked into place, all of it. She remembered playing with Elsa's magic when they were younger, the fun and friendship. She remembered the accident and Elsa moving into isolation. She remembered finding the writings of Altair and Ezio, and learning how to read them. She remembered training herself before finding Siegfried, of fighting the Orecalcus under his tutelage. She remembered Siegfried and Horgirms death, of soldiering on alone. She remembered the arguments with her father over their involvement with the Orecalcus, of meeting Shay and Conner. It all formed and fell into place around the creed, reforming an island that had been erased. Gone was Anna the scatterbrained princess. Gone was the silly, romantic girl so desperate and lonely she tried to get married in a day. The fire, the love for life was still there, as was the heart that loved without restraint. The damage the trolls had done on her parents command, the immature, flighty, irresponsible girl they had turned her into was gone. In her place was the girl who had dedicated her life to protecting her kingdom and her sister from everyone, even her own parents. The girl she had been and always would be. She was once again standing in the field of white, but she stood straight, her mind and soul whole, her purpose restored. Altair Ibn-La'Ahad and Ezio Auditore Da Firenze stood in front of her.
"Remember, where other men blindly follow the truth" Altair said.
"Nothing is true" Anna replied.
"Remember where other men are limited by morality or law" Ezio said
"Everything is permitted" Anna replied.
"We work in the dark to serve the light. We are Assassin's" All three of them said at the same time as the field of white faded to black. She woke to the sun streaming through her bedroom window, a new dawn that had broken over Arendelle and over her. She quietly exited her room and went to the library, pulling the candlestick and descending into the darkness and emerging back into her sanctuary for the first in years to find Conner waiting.
"Hello Ratonhnhaké:ton" Anna said.
"It is good to see you Tsitshio" Connor said as Anna ran into his arms.
Okay, second chapter of the Re-write. I know I only made small changes but I promise the plot will be completely different from this moment onward with a slower lead up than the first version.