11
Fire and Ice was finally here. Elsa had heard Yzma talk about it nonstop for the last few months, and she couldn't wait to experience it for the first time. Aurora seemed to have been right—her roommate had softened within the last weeks, almost been tolerable even. Elsa loved her like this, but she didn't love the way she was pulling at her hair.. "Not so tight!"
Yzma smiled down at her, her eyes narrowed. "Elsa. You are going into this dance with me. And people who walk into dances with me do not look like… well like they have no style. And I'm sorry, but you are seriously lacking style. The dress is pretty, but your usual braid is not going to cut it. Not for fire and ice. Oh and when we come home you have to freeze your side of this room! You promised you would remember?"
Elsa smiled. "Okay. When we come in." She heard a knock at the door and sighed in relief as Yzma went to open it, peering around her to get a better look and smiling as her friend returned. "What was that about?"
Yzma smiled. "Maleficent gave me a potion she mentioned a few weeks ago… it's going to make my dress look like it's on fire. And I can't wait!" She finished dressing Elsa and smiled as she put her in front of a mirror. "Why, Miss Elsa. Look at you." She gasped dramatically, delighted. "You're beautiful!"
Elsa stared at herself in the light-blue dress she had brought from Arendell, her hair pulled upp in a style Yzma had swore would make her look like a true ice queen. And she was right. When Elsaa looked at herself, she could believe she was the ice queen and not just because she had the powers to prove it.
She backed up as Yzma came to the mirror several minutes later in a bright red dress that, at least in Elsa's opinion, did nothing for her. She understood that she was trying to go for the fire aspect of the dance, but she hoped Maleficent's potion really would make Yzma's dress look like it was on fire. That was the only way to save her reputation at this moment. "So how about that fire?"
Yzma shrieked with delight and grabbed the vial from where at sat on her bed, taking the potion without a moment's hesitation but falling back almost instantly with a cry of pain, letting Elsa catch her and help her onto thee bed though her beauty was fading quickly and it was all she could do to gasp for breatth, settling into a more peaceful state soon after with her eyes closed.
Elsa frowned, not wanting to say a word about what had just happened. "I'll find Rapunzel. You just lay right there. And don't touch anything." She ran from the room, knocking frantically on Rapunzel's door and frowning as Mim opens it. "I need to speak to your roommate. Now."
Mim nodded and swept past Elsa, only having stayed behind so long to see how long it would be before Yzma took the potion and going to the dance to get a look at her, unable to keep from shrieking in laughter as she does so but realizing she wasn't there.
Elsa sighed as Rapunzel came out, grabbing her hand and pulling her to her dorm. "I hope you really do have healing powers. We need them. So if you don't, find some."