Hey peoples. This is the first (real) chapter of this story and let me tell you, writers block is a major pain. But here we are with the second chapter! Whoot!

I have to say that this whole thing is a bit of an experiment for me. I've never written something like this and it's proving to be a very different. It's a good different, but different none the less. If parts of it seem shaky, don't worry, I'll improve.

Anyway, let's get to the actual story then huh?

Disclaimer: I do not own Frozen.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Why do we still have these suits of armor? I mean, I like them and they look impressive, but they won't do any good now. They barely stopped arrows back then, what hope can they have against a M7 Carbine? Anna thought as she picked herself off the ground, but fell back on her butt when she stepped on a piece that slid out from under her, her feet going above her head for a moment before falling back down. OW! She groaned and rolled over onto her stomach, then pushed herself back up onto her own two feet.

Anna glanced around, making sure nobody saw what just happened, and let out a relieved breath when she met nobody's eyes. Hurriedly, she tried to put back the pieces of the armor how they were. She's put back the armor on many other suits before when she ran into them, or just for fun. But not this one. So admittedly she was a little confused as to how the chest piece clasped onto the other parts.

"So does this go here, and that go there? Whoops, nope!" She dropped a piece. "Uhh, how about this? No? Okay…" She fiddled with something that suddenly made the entire set of armor crumble like a house of cards and crash back down on the floor again, echoing in the empty hall.

"Argh! No! Dangnabbit! " Anna exclaimed and was about to try again when she heard a soft voice echo from above. "Anna, what happened this time?" Anna looked up the stairs and saw her older sister Elsa, the Queen of Arendelle, of Norway, and the Federate Alliance looking at her with a mix of good-natured humor and a slight bit of exasperation.

"What happened? Nothing happened! I mean, I was just walking around, well, running actually," she added when her sister gave her a pointed look, "when this suit of armor decided it didn't want to attend standing up school anymore." Elsa raised her eyebrow at that last remark. Even though the Internet was supposed to be secure, some people had managed to upload, at least in her opinion, useless junk in the form of videos. The latest trend going around was cat videos, which both sisters watched, albeit one of them more sheepish and secretive to admit it than the other.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the Internet was the only thing that allowed such videos on the net, as the Interweb would look at it and almost automatically reject the "useless" and "non-constructive" video, tagging the uploader and the computer for immediate investigation. The Internet was the only safe place for people to openly show their creativity. There were security systems in the Internet's code that prevented harmful programs and viruses from being uploaded, but that was usually only for infiltrators and malicious hackers. It was a small price to pay for the freedom of action and creativity.

"Is that all?" Elsa asked, somehow knowing there was more to Anna's story.

"Yes. Maybe. No." Anna said, wavering under her sister's icy blue eyes. She sighed, knowing she had been caught. "I was running away from another security meeting."

Elsa rubbed her forehead in exasperation as she came down the stairs. "Anna, you know you need to go to them-"

"But they're soooooo boring!"

"-so that you can be informed of what's going on," Elsa continued over Anna's outburst. "I'm not going to be around forever Anna and contrary to popular belief I can't do everything by my self; you need to be ready to take a leadership role in the future, being next in line."

Anna groaned at this, hearing it several times before from different people. "I know, but all I really want to do is be with Kristoff and spend time with you." Elsa waited for it. "Alright, and shoot some holo-targets at the range, but is that too much to ask for?"

Elsa gave a small chuckle. "If you think one meeting a day is bad, then I would love to see you do my job."

Anna winced, knowing her sister's schedule. Awake at 7 A.M., breakfast at 8, 9 to 11 is a briefing on local problems and conditions, then an hour lunch break that's usually interrupted by other members of the government before going into a three hour long meeting with various Federate Alliance members. Then to top the day off she had another 2 hour-long status update concerning Free Norway before dinner and personal documents that needed to be taken care of. If Anna was lucky, and she caught Elsa on a slow day, they might have an hour at most together, sometimes with Kristoff and Olaf, if he wanders in. It's barely more than what they had before, but it was better than the nothing that predated it.

"Yea… I think I'll let you keep that." Anna said.

Elsa smirked, "Why thank you for your permission. I was worried for a moment that you might actually accept."

Anna frowned. "Why?"

Elsa gave a full on smile and hugged Anna, "Because then, I would know that you had been implanted and not be Anna anymore. You would actually do some hard work for a change." She said teasingly.

Anna returned the hug, squeezing her sister a little more than necessary. "Yea," she said with a nervous laugh, "that would be a scary day for both of us."

They stayed like that for a few moments, letting the silence fall before, on an unspoken agreement, they pulled back from each other. As Anna took a step back, she stepped on a shoulder plate and it slid out from under her. Oh fantastic, Anna thought sarcastically as she could feel herself falling.

Just then, she felt a gust of cold wind come up from behind her and a hand grabbing her arm just as her back hit something cold. Anna looked below and behind her and saw that Elsa had managed to grab her arm and create an ice slab behind her so Anna didn't fall too far.

"Heh heh. Thanks." Anna said sheepishly then started fidgeting. As much as she liked the help she got, it was still ice and cold.

Elsa just gave a smile and a tug, which brought Anna back onto her feet. Then Elsa waved her hands around in a pattern and evaporated the ice wall into little glowing blue specks, which then fizzled out. Anna's eyes widened slightly without her knowledge. Even though her sister's ice powers had now become common knowledge in Arendelle, Anna was still amazed at the magic her sister could do.

"So, do you need help putting this suit of armor back together?" Elsa said, breaking Anna out of her daze.

"Huh? Oh, yea, sure, you can help!" Anna bent down again, carefully this time, and started picking up the pieces again. "I didn't know you could put these things back together."

Elsa looked away for a moment before softly saying, "Actually, I don't." Anna stared at her for a moment.

"Oh, well then, umm…" Anna said out of confusion, not wanting to put Elsa down.

"I was thinking more along the lines of holding the pieces for you so you don't drop them again." Elsa clarified, helping Anna out of her conundrum.

"Oh! Okay!" Elsa immediately regretted her decision as Anna started piling the iron and steel armor plates into her arms. And for those that don't know, armor like that was very very heavy.

"Let's see, the kneecaps go on like this, then you need to hold the thigh plates before you put on the hip cross support." Anna explained to Elsa, who tried to see what Anna was doing, but the combination of the stack of metal in her arms and Anna's quick skillful movements made it so that she became quickly lost, which was an achievement considering who Elsa was.

In a few moments and a considerably lighter pile in Elsa's arms, Anna had almost completed the set of armor on the stand. "Now, this is where I got stuck last time. You see, I know how a breastplate normally goes on, but this one has several strange straps that I don't know where they go, but if I don't do them, then the whole thing comes apart."

"Then how did you make it fall apart last time?" Elsa asked pointedly.

Anna opened her mouth to reply, but then turned red from embarrassment and mumbled, "Well aside from running into it, I really don't know; it's a sturdy piece of work."

Elsa bit back a laugh, then said. "Well, I might not be anywhere close as knowledgeable as you in the construction of these armor sets, but I do know more about their histories and for a fact that this set was made for a woman, if that helps at all."

Judging by the way Anna's eyes lit up, it did. "Oh! So that's it! Okay, now I know how to do this!" A few moments later, Elsa was relieved entirely of her burden and the now complete set of armor stood on the podium. "Wow, okay, that was waaaay more difficult than it needed to be," Anna said.

Elsa smiled, "You put it together quicker than I would have thought possible."

"Yea, putting it on a stand is one thing, but putting it on yourself, well, that's another completely different story. That's why knights had squires."

"Wait, you tried?" Elsa asked, wondering what happened.

"A while back I did. No problems getting it on, but I needed to call Gerda to help me take the thing off." Anna said with a laugh.

Elsa also gave a small laugh at an image that popped into her mind of Anna yelling for help with a giant helmet over her head when she got stuck in the armor. "Since when did you become the armor expert? Did somebody give you lessons on that?"

"Nope!" Anna said with pride, "I learned how to put them together by myself because I was always the one to take them apart, each time was totally not my fault, just saying, but I became the armor expert of the castle."

"When was this?" Elsa asked. At this question, Anna changed.

Elsa was taken aback at Anna's sudden transformation from the question. It was shocking to see her mood change from bubbly and happy, to downright morbid. "Well, since you were shut in your room all the time for all those years, I had nothing better to do." She said softly. "I was lonely so the paintings and the suits of armor were the only friends I had then."

In the past, Elsa would have just stood there awkwardly, shifting around on each foot. But the past was in the past, so she came up behind Anna and gave her a big hug. Anna returned it; grateful for the contact they were getting now, trying to make up for 13 years worth of separation.

After a moment, Anna decided she had enough of the awkward silence and asked, "Sooooo… you said that this suit was made for a woman? Do you know who it was?"

Elsa gave a mischievous smirk and said, "It belonged to somebody very familiar to you, or at least, a suit just like this one did."

Anna furrowed her brow in thought. Someone very familiar to me? I don't know anybody who wears a suit of armor nowadays. Well, aside from the theoretical weapons department when they test something. But that really doesn't count; they're all slightly cracked. So it's a woman, and I know her. Who wears old armor? Anna racked her brain, trying to think and instead looked at the armor in front of her, trying to place it.

After a few moments of thinking, Elsa could practically see the light bulb go off in her head. Anna gasped and held her hands over her mouth in surprise. "This was Joan of Arc's armor?" She said almost reverently.

Elsa smiled and said, "Yes, or more precisely a replica, the original armor obviously lost to time."

Anna just stared at it and mouthed 'wow'. Now as she looked at the armor, she could see in her mind's eye that it was exactly like the armor that Joan was wearing in her favorite painting, the one she always talked to in the gallery for all those years.

"I want to try it on!" Anna exclaimed.

"Woah, slow down there Anna." Elsa said, somewhat amused at her younger sister. "You just put it back together and I can't help you with putting it on, remember?"

"Oh, right." Anna 'hummed' in thought for a moment then said, "Come on!" She grabbed Elsa's wrist and started to drag her through the castle.

Elsa momentarily panicked when Anna started pulling on her arm, still afraid of her powers hurting people by accident, but chastised herself internally, reminding herself that it was only Anna and she couldn't hurt her on purpose. So Elsa let herself be drug through her own home by her highly energetic younger sister. "Anna, where are we going?" She said, somewhat shakily.

"You'll see!" Anna said cryptically, although it came out more cheerful than she intended.

After a minute of walking/dragging through the castle, Anna opened a door and led them inside a room. Elsa smiled at the sight of it, forgetting the last time she was in here.

Anna had led them to the picture gallery. Like almost all notable families, especially nobility, it seemed customary to have such a gallery inside one (or several) of their mansions or wherever they lived. There were many paintings and pictures inside the gallery. There was one with two people lying on a blanket having a picnic. Another was of a girl swinging on a swing set from a tree. Thankfully there weren't any giant portraits of the former King and Queen, Elsa and Anna's parents, there as they weren't that egotistical.

However, that wasn't important and those two paintings weren't the one Elsa and Anna were looking at. They were focused on a painting of a person riding a white horse. The person had a shield and an upraised sword, and was also wearing some very familiar armor.

"Hey Joan," Anna said to the picture, "it's been a while, but you know, stuff happens. Oh, I brought my sister this time. You remember her, don't you?"

Elsa stepped forward and indulged Anna's imagination, "Hello." She said to the painting.

"Anyway, I was wandering the castle and I ran into your armor-"

"Literally." Elsa interrupted.

"Don't worry, I fixed it. So I wanted to see you afterwards to complement you on your armor. It's really nice and I wanted to try it on, but, you probably know how long it takes to get the stuff on and, man it's heavy.

"Anyway, there wasn't much else I wanted to say. Life is good, or as good as it can get with the constant worry about the G.C. or being implanted by some sneak. Elsa is doing fine, if a little overworked. But that's normal, taking care of practically the entire world, or some if it anyway. I'm fine too by the way. Kristoff and I are still going strong. It's been two years and I think I've wizened up a bit after that jerk-face tried something." She growled, talking about Hans, still a bit of a sore subject.

"So all-in-all, things are good. Really don't have much else. Elsa, you have something?"

Elsa shook her head. "Nope, I don't think so."

"Alrighty then, thanks for listening as always Joan." Anna finished and the two just stood there in silence staring at the various pictures. It was a comfortable silence.

"I really enjoy spending time with you Elsa." Anna said.

"I do too. I just wish that we could have more time together." Elsa said a little sadly.

"Hey, don't worry. We're trying now. That's got to count for something." Anna said as she stepped closer to her sister.

"I just feel that we've missed out on so much and we are never going to make it up to each other…" She trailed off.

"What?" Anna said, sensing her sister's discomfort. Please tell me so you don't have to bear it all by yourself, she wanted to say, but the words didn't come out. They didn't need to.

Elsa's voice went down to a whisper. "I fear that we may not have as much time as we would like. Or think."

Anna frowned and turned Elsa's head so that they were staring each other in the eyes. "Elsa, don't think like that."

Elsa shook her head. "I'm sorry, but I can't stop thinking about it. How things are continuing and how they might end up."

"Hey. Things will end up as they will end up. That's fate for ya'." Anna said.

Elsa frowned in thought. She hesitantly reached out and grasped Anna's hands. "Anna, I want us make a promise with each other. If either of us gets implanted- wait let me finish," Elsa said cutting off Anna's protest and grasping her hands tighter. "If either of us gets implanted, and if there's no hope of getting the chip out by then, the other needs to be put out of their misery." Elsa finished gloomily.

"No." Anna said. How can you ask that of me? "I won't go through with this Elsa. We can't. Neither one of could do it."

"Anna please." Elsa pleaded. "You know what the chip does; we won't be ourselves any more. We lose everything: will, actions, everything. We would be effectively dead."

"Elsa, why are you saying this? We're not implanted-"

"But we could be!" Elsa practically shouted. "Any one of us could be implanted in a second. It could happen now, or even years from now. I don't want to lose you Anna. Not again." She sobbed out, verging on the edge of a breakdown.

Anna moved closer and enveloped her sister in a hug. She got a good whiff of Elsa's sent, as her hair was right in her nose. It was cool, like a mint, but with just a slight hint of pleasant mustiness from all the papers of her work.

"Shhh," Anna hushed. "We're here together, right now. Don't think about the 'ifs'. We're fine, you're fine, I'm fine. There's no need for you to be concerned."

Elsa heaved out a rattling breath. "I'm sorry, I just… please promise me." She said.

"Elsa…"

"Promise me." She said, breaking out of their hug and locking eyes.

Anna really didn't know what to think. After a long moment she said, "Alright, I promise, but only if you make this promise with me." Elsa nodded. "Fight it. If we ever do, which I highly doubt, get implanted, fight it. Fight it with everything you have."

Elsa had to laugh a bit at that. "I think you would be the only one to be able to do that. You can't be stopped once you put your mind to something." They both shared a bit of a chuckle at that before they hugged each other.

"I have to ask, what brought that on?" Anna asked.

"It's nothing. I was just writing some stuff down and it got me thinking."

"Well if it did that, maybe you should think less." Anna said. Elsa pulled back and gave Anna a glare. "Well I mean not like that but uhh, you know what I mean… right?"

Elsa gave up on the glare and her face became soft again. "I know what you meant." They hugged again, letting the silence come over them, giving them time to recover.

"Hey Anna?"

"Yea?" She asked.

"Do you want to build a snowman?" Elsa questioned.

Anna's face couldn't get any wider if she tried. "Let's go!"

The two ran off to the main ballroom like they did so many years ago when they were kids. Elsa: queen, the older calmer one, wielder of ice magic, and Anna: the princess, the younger energetic one, with a spirit of fire. Together they have an unbreakable bond, one that has withstood so much already. A bond that would endure for as long as they lived. They were sisters. And nothing could change that.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Sorry if things seemed to be a jerky. It was hard for me to write that last scene and I wanted to get it right. The characters might seem a bit off despite my best efforts, however, it's something that needed to be written and done.

Anyway, please let me know if I'm doing a good job so far (or even an okay one. Or a bad one, let me know!)

So please Read, Review, Favorite, Follow. (R.R.F.F. for short)

Until next time,

-OrangeGalen