A/N: "Greetings, my friendly readers!" I was going to post this as two chapters, but decided to join them as it'd have been to short... and i'm sure thats annoying enough for a lot of you. So... that! Enjoy!
They ended having lunch and were sharing the box of chocolate while drinking coffee when Elsa talked again.
"Sorry if I'm pushing you to remember painful things… I was just thinking that I scarcely know anything about your history, I just know what my parents told me and a little that you have shared, some songs and tales, and that's it… I'm not saying that I don't trust you, I do with my life, but I just want to know you and your people a little more, I know there are Arkarians living here too." Elsa said with a concern but serious face. "Can you tell me more about the prophecy of your Kingdom?" Elsa asked with an eyebrow high.
"Where did you heard that?"Kira said with a harsher tone that she intended, something that make Elsa shrink a little. Kira cleared her throat and looked at Elsa asking again in a softer tone."Who told you about a prophecy?"
Elsa was about to answer when the door was swung open and a cheerful strawberry blonde haired young woman with two pigtails entered. She was wearing a green gown with a black flowered corset and was about 5'6" ft tall, her eyes were of a teal blue and her cheeks and nose had a lot of freckles. /
"Elsa…!" She started joyfully to drop to a halt, teal eyes and mouth wide open when she realized that Elsa and Kira had a box almost full of chocolate in front of her and Kira had her mouth opened with a piece about to be eaten when she looked at her.
"Hi… Anna…" Elsa answered whilst shrinking a little and giving her sister a sheepish smile
"I'll suggest you close your mouth as it wouldn't be nice to get a fly into it…" Kira said between chuckles after eating the piece of chocolate.
"You traitors! Eating chocolate without me?! How dear you?!" Anna said with a dramatic hurt tone in her voice
"She asked for them!" Elsa shouted while pointing to Kira
"Oh sure! Now you want me to be all 'Lady Protector' with you…" Kira retorted with an eyebrow tilt up and an amused tone.
" .Chocolate" Anna said in a "threatening" tone.
"Nope" Kira said while giving a sly look at Elsa
"Oh, thank you! you are too kind… wait, what?" Anna said. Her teal eyes past from joy to sadness and confusion. Kira and Elsa just gave a light chuckle.
"We won't give you chocolate. You can take." Elsa said with a warm smile. Anna jumped in happiness and landed beside Elsa and started eating with them.
"What were you talking about?" Anna asked innocently
"We were talking about the Arkarian Prophecy" Elsa immediately reply, avoiding any of Kira's efforts to change subject.
"Uh! What does it say?" Anna asked, intrigue and enthusiasm written all over her expression
"… Ok… I'll talk about it… it's just an old riddle written in stone "Kira said with an expression of surrendering and a little growl under her breath. "The prophecy said something like this…
"In the darkest hours of a blessed Kingdom
Through silver fire, resistance and doom
A warrior wielding courage and hope
Mind as one with the earth and its folk
Will inter the enemies under unbreakable stone
Winds will dance with the Shifting Blades
Water will drown, and life will raise".
"What does it mean?" Anna said completely confused
"I don't know… the meaning was lost centuries ago…Although a lot of citizens believe that the Princess was the warrior that is mentioned in the prophecy, as she was able to conjure a special kind of fire. A silver one that burned only when she wanted, that could be just warm and harmless or burn by extreme hot or cold temperatures…""Kira knew she was lying to them. She couldn't tell them, anyone, the truth. If Anna and Elsa knew, that will mean that shortly Olaf will know, and if Olaf knew…well… everybody knew. The only ones that knew about her powers were dead or missing. She couldn't risk the same happening to them. Not to the kingdom that had received them with open arms and less the two peoples that had accepted her immediately without arguing or distrusting her. And if that got out to light, it meant that the rest that happened to her will too. That terrified her. The possibility of them knowing about the experiments on her, what they caused, her darkest paths… She couldn't allow it.
"Kira…?" Elsa and Anna said in unison whilst looking to her friend with a frown of concern
"Sorry… I just… went back to dark memories… don't mind me…about the prophecy, it's all that I know." Kira shrug it off while giving them a little glimpse and looking back to the fireplace.
"Alright! Come! You both need a break!" Anna said in her cheerful mood again and grabbed both Elsa's and Kira's hands and race out of the room while Elsa and Kira tried not to fall for the sudden move.
"Wow, Anna! Take it slow! What is it?" Elsa said between giggles with an eyebrow shot up. They have managed to go at the same pace that Anna did, so now they were running through the corridors of the castle as they did when they were younger.
"No time to take it slow! Come on! Let's not waist time!" Anna said looking back over her shoulder. She was taking them to the main stairs of the palace and through the doors to the front courtyard. When they arrived at the middle Anna stop suddenly, released their hands and stared at Elsa with her arms crossed over her chest.
"What?" Elsa said confused. Kira looked between Anna and Elsa not knowing what Anna's intentions were. Anna patted the stone floor with her foot, look at the floor and then back again to Elsa. Elsa stared and then rolled her eyes and smiled back at her sister knowingly. She stomped the floor and ice start to spread widely all over the courtyard and with a little twirls and twist of her hands that glowed with her magic, she was able to turn their front courtyard into an ice skating field. Elsa ended with a twirl of her one, gliding across the ice with easiness and grace, a warm smile plastered in her face.
"What are you doing? Wow!" They heard an unmistakable joyful bubbly voice calling behind them. They turn to see Olaf, Elsa's snowman, that was not much taller than 4'5" ft, branches working as his arms and hands and a carrot for a nose, black eyes as the color of the three stones that looked like buttons and three thin branches as hair in his unproportioned head. He was trying to regain his stance at the sudden shift of floor while giving an innocent and happy two-toothed smile.
"Hey Olaf! Where is Kristoff?" Anna asked
"He's sharing a carrot with Sven" Olaf said bluntly
"He is what?" Kira asked not wanting to let her imagination flow.
"He's sharing a carrot with Sven" Olaf repeated whilst he got closer to Elsa
"Is a habit of his… He got it for growing with a reindeer as a friend and troll as family… I forgot you haven't met him yet!" Anna said cheerfully.
"No… I haven't had the pleasure…" Kira said while giving Elsa a disturbed look. Elsa giggled. "I have been on missions or diplomatic meetings outside every time he was here…" Kira trailed off at hearing unknown footsteps. She quickly turned to see a mountain of a man, around 6'ft tall, blonde haired but not platinum as Elsa's, wearing ice harvester clothing and was been accompanied by a reindeer that gave the impression that was almost acting like a domesticated dog.
"Hey guys! What are you up to?" The blonde tall men waved his hand high and have a shy smile on his face. Kira relaxed when she saw Anna attempting to run to meet him in the icy field. With a twist of her wrist, Elsa crafted ice skates for everyone, (except for her and Olaf for obvious reasons) that allowed them to move easily through the ice.
"Kristoff!" Anna called him joyfully. "We were just talking about you! I've to introduce you to a great friend of ours" She said while grabbing to his arm to avoid falling, hugged him and started skating back with him. "Here. Kristoff, this is Kira Nightingale, she is has being our friend for the last ten years and Grand Marshal and Lady Protector for the last four… Kira, this is Kristoff, my boyfriend, he is the Master Ice Collector and Deliveryman of Arendelle." Anna let go Kristoff's hand to allowed them to say hello while she went to greet Sven.
"Nice to finally meet you, Kristoff, Anna has told me a lot about you." Kira said while shaking hands with Kristoff and giving him a warm smile. Has Anna had said, Kristoff was a little shy around the royals, so he had to be encouraged.
"Really? What kind of things?" Kristoff asked in panic
"Only good things, don't worry" Kira answered, but to herself she was saying "Part of them".
"Oh, good! She had told me a lot of good things of you too. I'm glad I could put a face to the name" Kristoff said while letting her hand go and scratching the back of his neck nervously.
"Ah! This is my friend and loyal partner, Sven! Come to say hi!" Kristoff presented Sven to Kira and signaled Sven to come closer. Sven started to come closer but all of the sudden tried to stop while whining in fear only to end up in the floor. Astonishment went through Kristoff and Anna's faces, while Elsa stared with a confused expression. Fear started creeping through Kira's back and swallow a lump that had formed in her throat. That's why she never got close to animals. Not because she didn't like them but because they could sense and smell her darkest secret. She had to do something, or things would start to go down a painful road for her.
"Sven? What is it pal? What's gone into you?" Kristoff said sliding closer to him and looked back to Kira "I'm sorry, I don't know why he is acting like this". He saw that Kira had gone pale, even for her toasted skin color.
"Hey Sven… She is a friend of ours… there's nothing to be afraid of" Anna said while caressing the back of Sven's neck to calm the reindeer down and keep him in a spot. While in the floor Sven's scared eyes met silver ones. Kira had kneeled to his actual level and was staring at him intently and in her eyes, you could see purple starting to spread and cover silver if you were looking at her in that moment, which no one was as they were looking a clumsy and fearful Sven that all the sudden started calming down.
"It's alright Sven… I'm not going to harm you… I'm a friend" Kira said, her smooth voice sounding deeper and softer but much intense and a smile crossing her lips. She stood up when she saw Sven had settle down and glided towards him. "I suppose I can cause quite an impression…" She said with a light chuckle while looking warmly to Kristoff and Anna, her eyes back to her usual silver. "Humm… Kristoff… you're forgetting someone" Kira said while tilting her head to Elsa's direction.
"Oh! Shoot! Hi, Els… I mean… Your Majesty… I mean…" Kristoff trailed off uncomfortable. Elsa just giggled behind her hand.
"It's Ok, Kristoff. Just Elsa, you're as family to me, you can treat me casually when we are not on a meeting or something diplomatic." Elsa gave him a kind smile and look to Kira with a raised eyebrow and a sly smile "You haven't been the only one I had to remember that…". Kira just shrugged with a sheepish smile.
"So, Sven just got a little nervous, isn't it right Sven?" Olaf said cheerfully to Sven, who grimaced, if that was possible for a reindeer, and snorted.
"Hey, that's not polite" Olaf said to Sven and then "whispered" to Kristoff while covering his mouth by the side with his hand. "I think somebody had a C.R.U.S.H" spelling the last word. Sven was able to hear him a gave an astonish look to Olaf. They suddenly heard a warm lovely laughter that, for their surprise, was from Kira, who was bending bending from it. Anna and Elsa were agape as they have never heard Kira laugh so intensely and freely, Kristoff and Sven were watching in amusement as they have heard that Kira was reserved and warm-hearted but scarcely laugh, and Olaf was watching in amazement as he had never heard the serious Lady Protector laugh, much less in that joyful way. Not much seconds later, all the group was laughing as Kira's laugh was more contagious that they had realized and hearing all the different laughs was more contagious yet.
"Ok…Ok…" Kira said between intakes of breath. "Anna… you took Elsa and me out of the office to the courtyard and asked, sort of demanded, Elsa to freeze the courtyard… now you have an ice field… what are you up to?" Everyone looked to Anna, waiting for her answer.
"Well… isn't it obvious? Let's ice skate!" Anna said blissfully while taking Kristoff and started gliding away with a smirk on her face. Elsa and Kira shrugged and started skating their ways almost dancing in the ice field. For Anna and Kristoff was a little hard still to ice skate, they managed not to fall and to glide from one side to other, but they couldn't twist and twirl, jump and slide has gracefully as Kira did, and less as perfect as Elsa did. So, their competitive side surfaced, and they started to try twirls and jumps, almost always ending clumsily on the ice floor while Olaf was trying to teach Sven to ice skate, which was a really hard task considering he was a reindeer, but that didn't stop Olaf.
A/N: In the chocolate moment, when Anna demands chocolate a put " Give . Me .Chocolate"... don't know why it didn't appear.