A/N: And the drama keeps on! Confrontation time!. Also short chapter... Sorry... but it had to be like this.
Elsa and Kira started walking toward the main hall that connected to the kitchens has they have skipped yet again another meal as the sun was almost hiding behind the fjords and Elsa was killing for a cup of tea to calm her anger but were distracted by the sound of a dispute outside in what it seemed to be the courtyard. They looked to each other in confusion, anger forgotten, raced toward the main doors and burst them open to see the argument. Anna was behind Kristoff, who had a defensive stance against a man in front of them, that was Lord Huntington himself.
"What is the meaning of this?" Elsa said with a frown.
"Elsa" Anna chirped whilst still behind Kristoff, a trail of blood in her forearms and her dress torn in some places, Kristoff had a purple eye and blood trailing from his nose. "He just came out of the blue screaming things of treachery and witches…or was it bitches… I don't know! The thing is that he came and push me, and Kristoff tried to protect me and..." Anna was cut in her rambling by a laughing Lord Huntington.
"And now the 'Queen' and her bitch come to punish me for my actions. Ah! you are not a queen, you are just a stupid child with power!" Huntington said mockingly
"How dare you!" Elsa and Anna said at the same time. Kristoff remained silent, not knowing what to do, just to protect Anna from the mad bulky man. Elsa raised her hands, ready to charge a blizzard to the man that had hurt her sister, when she felt a gloved hand gripping one of her wrist.
"Please, allow me to challenge him to a duel." Kira said to Elsa. She lowered her hands and stared with a frown to her.
"A duel?" Elsa with confusion in her voice.
"Trust me" Kira said with determination in her silver eyes. Elsa knew the strength and capability of her friend, she had seen her training day and night, warm and cold, summer and winter before she achieved her titles, what she didn't know was Lord Huntington's abilities with the sword and considering what he just did, he certainly was capable of any kind of tricks.
"Alright" Elsa said to Kira with nod. "Lord Huntington! Here by I allow the challenge made by Lady Nightingale to a duel with you. If you win, we will withdraw any accusation against you and we will keep negotiating with you personally. If you lose, you will go away from my kingdom and I will sent a letter with our accusations to your King, so you be treated properly for insult, defame and conspire against me and for attacking without reason to the Princess of Arendelle. Who bleeds first lose. What do you say?" Elsa said sternly and looked to the smuggling face of Huntington.
"Fine" Huntington said with an overdramatic bow. "Let's end this"
He and Kira got closer to the center of the courtyard, which wasn't with ice anymore, while Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven got closer to Elsa. Several other people started appearing and pocking their heads out of balconies and windows of the castle or gather around near the gates to see what the dispute was about.
"Elsa, are you ok with this, isn't this too dangerous?" Anna asked her sister with worry
"I'm not… but Kira insisted… She didn't tell me why, but I imagine it must be something of her past. I have never see her this upset… She normally is serene even in the tensest of situations." Elsa said also worry written in blue eyes.
"Maybe. Maybe she can't tolerate that man passed over you and hurt you both without a payback." Kristoff said while shrugging. If that was Kira's feelings he could perfectly understand her, as he was about to do the same thing for Anna when Elsa and Kira broke through the main doors.
In the meantime, of their conversation Kira and Huntington had gone to the center of the big courtyard, unsheathed their swords and put them close enough for the sword to slid one over the other and for their faces to be inches away. Both were glaring to each other, Huntington with a smug and Kira with serenity.
"Start!" They both heard Elsa command and they separated and started swinging and slashing to the other, trying to make the other bleed. Kira swung her sword from the side and was parry barely inches from Huntington's thorax, then again, she pressed on with a slash from the side of her head to the Huntington's chest who scarcely block it again. So, they continue this way, the smug of Huntington's face vanishing by the minute and being replaced by an angry one whilst Kira kept her serene look. The clashing of the swords reverberated through the courtyard, everyone looking intently at their movements trying to glimpse or know if one of them was going to make a false movement or surrender. Drops of sweat started to spread in all of Huntington's face and body from the exertion., while he could see Kira fresh and unperturbed, which make him even more angrier.
"You little Arkarian bitch! You should have died with the rest of your savage kind!" He said through clenched teeth.
"If my kind are savage, I don't know what your kind is. We don't go attacking people out of nowhere" She said to him with a hint of mocking in her voice
"Shut it and die, filth!" He retorted and started attacking harder. Kira just parry and block his attacks almost effortlessly. He realized that she was playing with him, which made him even madder.
"Oh! and thank you for admitting that your kingdom was the one to send the raiders to mine and slayed the citizens and the royal family. Now I know what moves your present plans." Kira said to him with a cold unsettling glare.
Huntington shouted in anger and raised his sword to hit her, but at last moment changed the direction and hit Kira in the head. She stumbled back, holding the left side of her forehead with a hand and looked up. Things all the sudden seemed to slow down, she could see Elsa with a hand covering her mouth, horror written in her face, Kristoff with his eyes widen and covering a snugging Anna that was trying to avoid looking, Olaf and Sven between Elsa, Anna and Kristoff about to run to aid her, as they all saw Huntington took the blade with both hands and raise his hands over his head to give a final deathly blow. Before Elsa could call it off, Kira, fast as a lightning, switch the grip of her blade, making the hilt go to the front and the point to the back, bended her knees and thrusted to Huntington and ended behind him, still in that position with her sword gripped with her right hand and the left over it without touching it, her serene look straight toward the royal family. A line of blood started to appear in Huntington's neck who was frozen in astonishment, he left his sword fall from his hands and fall to his knees. Kira straightened up, made a fast move downwards with her blade to clean it for the drops of blood that had remained on it and sheathed her sword. Then she turned to Huntington and extended her hand in a peace offer. Huntington hesitated, then grabbed it to be strongly pull upwards, getting again face to face with Kira.
"You know, be thankful that her Majesty said to first blood. If she hadn't put a limit, your head would have rolled to the floor in the same beginning, Incorian pest." Kira said with and ice-cold glare and a soft growl, that make Huntington swallow a lump and his blood to run out of his face. "And, thank you for settling my dudes, I wasn't one hundred percent sure your kingdom had attacked mine, but your reaction told me everything" She ended up with a mocking smirk, let his hand go, turn around to face Elsa and bowed. Everyone that had witness the early encounter and the duel were applauding. Elsa, Anna and Kristoff had a relieved smile in their faces and Olaf and Sven where jumping in happiness. Elsa raised a hand to ask for silence whilst Kira straightened up again.
"As agreed, you have lost. So, you will be sent to your kingdom and we will demand justice for your actions." Elsa waved her hand to make ice handcuffs in Huntington's hands and signaled the guards. "Guards, please take Lord Huntington to his ship and see that he leaves without delay." She commanded. When everyone was gone, and only Elsa, Anna and Kira were left alone, Elsa got closer to Kira with an angry look on her face and…
"Slap!" In a second Kira had her face turn to her left with a glowing red mark of Elsa's hand in her right side. Kira was silent in stupor, Anna had both hands covering her mouth in shock and Elsa had a heartbroken look with teardrops falling through her cheeks.
"Do you know how worried sick we were about you?" Elsa said between sniffles "You could have died! That man wasn't going to stop!" She gripped Kira's forearms and look at her intensely through watery blue eyes.
"I was doing my job as your Protector" Kira said facing Elsa. A trail of blood was arriving to the base of her jaw in her left side.
"Nonsense! What were you thinking?" Elsa said, worry written in blue and teal blue. Elsa raised her left hand to Kira's forehead, who winced a little by the touch.
"I wasn't thinking." Kira said bluntly "Not at the beginning at least. I couldn't stand him insulting and mocking you and then attacking Anna and Kristoff. I had to do something! When you raised your hands gave me the idea. If we attacked if and hurt him without anything official could mean the Incoria Kingdom's declaration of war, but if we did something that both sides agreed…"
"His defeat would be official" Elsa ended the idea.
"And it would be a war declaration to Arendelle! Kira you're a genius!" Anna said hugging Kira fiercely
"It wasn't me… Elsa gave me the idea. She was risking war to protect her beloved ones." Kira said a little out of breath from the hug. "If it were a citizen in the same position that you two were I'd have done the same thing" She look to Anna and then to Elsa "Just as you had done" Kira gave a warm smile to the royal sisters and they reply with a group hug and their own smiles.
"Let's go inside and make the physician look at you both." Elsa said, "Kristoff is already there." With that Anna sprinted inside the castle, letting Elsa and Kira alone, making both chuckle at the enamored young woman. "And sorry for slapping you…" She looked Kira, who shrugged
"I deserved it for not telling you my idea" She gave a sheepish smile back