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I realized that I left a few questions in one of my previous entries. I talked about how I 'froze' an infiltrator during my coronation incident. Well I meant it literally. I was born with the powers over ice and snow, which has been labeled as cryokinesis by certain rings of scientists. Personally, I like to call it magic. I don't know how, but I've now accepted the fact that I have them (my powers). For the longest time, I was forced to hide them after I accidentally hurt Anna one night playing in the grand hall. My parents took us to the mountains immediately and, as strange as it sounds, found a{Word Erased}a clan of trolls (as Kristoff told me what they're called) to heal Anna. Yes, trolls. They are strange creatures, and no, they're not the monster kind of trolls from the Lord of the Rings novels. I'm glad that the library has several copies.

What they did was use their own brand of magic and remove Anna's memories of my powers, replacing them with memories of us playing outside in the winter.

But then came the first mistake. The eldest troll, Grand Pabbie, told me that my powers would only grow with time, and that fear would be my enemy. He didn't exactly explain what that meant.

And that led to the next mistake. My parents misinterpreted his vague advice that it would be other people's fear would be my enemy, not my own fear. For that, they let most of the staff go and closed the palace gates for ten years. They thought that they needed to protect me from the rest of the world, but in doing so they shut the rest of the world off when it needed them.

I spent most of that time in my room, letting my own fears get the better of me. And as I did that, my powers grew more and more out of control, making me fear them more and more, causing an endless downward spiral of depression.

And that was the third mistake. Instead of realizing that my powers were bound inside me, my parents treated it like it could be cured by simply not using them, or at least controlled. They could have let me practice controlling them instead of {Next Word Reconstructed} concealing it. I hate that word now.

They were partially right about the 'don't feel' part: emotions {Word Erased} are the root of my power. When I'm sad or depressed, it starts snowing, either over my head or over Arendelle depending on how sad I am. If I'm angry or frustrated, my powers act more like bursts of energy, not really intentional, but just enough that I need to reign myself in sometimes. Only really happens when ministers or other politicians are being idiots, resulting in a half frozen table or the such. I've learned these past two years that my powers reacted like a shook up bottle of Champaign. If not released, it will burst, as it did during the night of my coronation. But nobody knew that back then, least of all me. I could have helped a lot to know what I do now.

Such as love was what I needed to thaw my powers. The reason that I feared them (my powers) so much was that for some reason I forgot how to thaw the ice after that night. I forgot that love was the one emotion that I never felt back then. I'm ashamed to admit that I was more afraid of {Words Erased}hurting my parents than loving them back. But Anna reminded me when she sacrificed herself for me; an act of true love will thaw a frozen heart.

For the longest time, I thought my heart was frozen. But I was wrong; it was only fearful {Unable to reconstruct words}. I shudder to think of how I might have been if it was frozen.

I much prefer the title 'Snow Queen' over 'Ice Queen', as it sounds softer and kinder.

Both though are definitely better than "Monster".

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{Excerpt taken from the journal of former Queen Elsa of the Free Alliance and Free Norway. Entry dated October 26, 2018. For more information about the former Queen, click [HERE]}

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After spending an hour playing in the magically created snow, Elsa was unfortunately called back to real life when her next meeting came along. She gave Anna an apologetic smile before slipping on her "queen mask" and following Kai out the door, but not before she made the snow and ice disappear. Anna was left standing in a now empty room staring after her sister with an almost as empty heart.

It almost feels as if she's gone away again, Anna thought. I hardly ever see her anymore even though she's come out of her door. Though I guess I have to settle for the amount I'm seeing her. At least she can see me now. Unlike before.

She started walking aimlessly through the castle floors. She passed a few servants and gave a slight nod in their direction, which they returned a little concernedly, with good reason. Anna is usually the one that is bouncing all over the place, full of energy. When she is thinking hard or distracted like this it usually means that she just got kicked in the face with a dose of reality. When this happened, it's usually best to let Anna recover on her own, or at least get Kristoff to help her out. Especially when she starts throwing things. That's never a good sign.

Anna had made her way to her room, which the door too was decorated in pink flowers with added on blue snowflakes. The snowflakes were added on after Elsa's coronation and the events afterwards. It was one of the first things that they did together after reuniting again. Elsa's door now sported it's own pink flowers along with the snowflakes.

But just seeing the door made Anna cringe as she opened it and went inside. Her room was a soft pink, nothing too much, not like neon or hot pink. It worked, and that's what made it so simple and so Anna. No unnecessary complexity, just Anna.

Of course, it seems that life just likes to add problems to mine. Why couldn't it do that to somebody else? It's not fair. Why can't life be unfair in my favor? I want to see Elsa and I know she does too, but things keep getting in the way, and by things I mean life. Why does it have to be so complicated? Stupid life. Well, not entirely stupid, I mean, I like living, but it can be stupid sometimes. And maybe the people in it.

Anna flopped down on her bed and growled into her pillow, entirely uninterested for the rest of the day. And Kristoff isn't even here, he's out patrolling the mountains with his duty as Captain, that Elsa gave him, so he's going to be gone for days in addition to the days he's already been gone. So once again I'm alone. Stupid life. Stupid war. Stupid G.C. Anna ranted in her mind.

How can people be so stupid anyway? I'm not talking, or thinking in this case, about nuclear science smart, or bio-engineer smart, I'm talking about common sense smart. Who in their right frame of mind would willingly put a computer chip in their brain that controls their emotions? That in itself should 'of been enough to stop the violence 23 years ago, just the idea of the darn thing. It's like turning yourself into a robot, or in this case a cyborg, which is what they are. What they actually did. What they're still doing. Ugh, Anna made a mental sound of disgust.

And now Elsa of all people is the highest-ranked person in the Federate Alliance. I still don't know how the heck that happened. You would think that somebody from the other Alliance countries would have more-slash-longer experience than Elsa, but nooooooo, I just had to be Elsa, the one who's been locked inside her room for most of her life, the one with ice magic of all things. What happened to all the other leade- oh wait… that's right. They were all implanted and/or killed during the first year, if my history is correct.

Gah! I wonder how papa managed to run Arendelle and everything else with the war and managing Elsa's powers at the same time. It must have been super difficult for him. Anna rolled over on her bed. And now Elsa has to deal with it now. Thankfully the G.C doesn't seem to be overly aggressive right now, unlike at the beginning of the war, so that's a bit of relief. But her powers made up for that with the coronation she had. Of course, that's not right to say, but it's sorta' balancing the scales you know? Not that they needed to be balanced in the first place, well, actually they do, because the G.C. has taken over most of the world. And that once again goes to show the unfairness of the world.

Anna sat up and stretched, having spent a good while contemplating. "I need to get out and do something." Anna said out loud. "I can't stay inside here much longer. I need something to keep my mind off things." She pushed herself off of her bed and went out of her room, once again wandering around the halls in her not-so favorite pastime. A few people greeted her, but they were mostly people hired to maintain the castle and provide security.

Anna slid down the bannister to the ground floor and stopped by the suit of armor that was a replica of Joan of Arc. Now that she actually knew what, or rather whom, the armor belonged too, Anna had a new appreciation for it.

I wonder if Joan could ever imagine the world we live in right now, Anna thought. Massive ships, technology that can reach around the globe, planes, cars, airships. The list goes on and on. Life back then must have been simpler-… actually, no, wait, rather different. Compared to today it was, but back then it was not simple at all. And nothing has really changed, or at least, not that much. Many things are still the same, some good and some bad.

Maybe that's why the G.C. tried to change things, to break history. But it didn't, or wasn't. It bent, and got dented, but started up right back on track afterwards. Is it destiny or fate or whatever it's called for history to repeat itself? Over and over again. Well, at least with this evil empire, it'll eventually fall, right? That's what all the others have done. Well, they weren't exactly evil evil, well maybe except Hitler's. And the G.C. hasn't conquered the entire planet yet, nor will they if I have anything to say about it.

Of course, I'm not the one in charge, Anna finished.

She stared at the armor for a little bit more before deciding on going out. I want to shoot some targets. She made her way out of the grand hall and was almost instantly joined by two royal guards. The royal guards were the 'best of the best' that Arendelle had to offer and they were the ones that protected the castle and the Queen and Princess, Elsa and Anna, whenever and wherever they go. Only inside the private parts of the castle were the two royal girls allowed to roam freely, but that was due to incredible security measures. No one sneezes without them knowing it. Anna knows that from experience. Many times she's tried to 'escape' the castle for a while, but it only lasted ten seconds max before she was found out.

Acknowledging the guards Anna made her way down to the Arendelle Weapons Center. While there were railcars that could take her there a lot faster than walking obviously, there was something about taking a nice stroll through the city, or at least a part of it. While the landscape of Arendelle hasn't changed much in the past hundred years, it had grown. The small city in an isolated fjord had expanded into the surrounding land, and in some cases, into it. The main castle still rested on a little peninsula and outwardly hasn't changed in appearance, but all the old stonework had been torn down and redone with steel braces and concrete, then the stones placed back where they were before strengthening the walls. While they wouldn't stand long against tank fire, a couple of RPG rounds wouldn't damage them.

All the windows had been bulletproofed, able to withstand low to medium rounds, and lessen the impact of higher caliber shots. An underground royal bunker had been added in in case of a siege, where the two prime targets, Elsa and Anna, could retreat too in such an instance. Once sealed, only a select sequence of correctly inputted codes could open it up, codes that only Elsa, Anna, and the Grand Marshal Wilkstrom had.

Arendelle was also defended almost as well as the castle. Guard towers on each of the mountains (except the North Mountain) were set up to watch the surrounding lands and were set up with every scanner available; thermal, infrared, etc. Laser fences deterred everything from crossing the boundaries and the few heavily guarded entrances to the city were closely monitored for Implanted persons.

The harbor was also protected as well. Aside from the fleet of battleships that stayed in the surrounding waters, the protective wall at the inlet had also been upgraded, now out fitted with AA guns and 'Ship Sinkers' that could punch a hole through an unshielded aircraft carrier's armor with relative ease.

Barracks, airstrips, bunkers for citizens, and missile silos littered the city guaranteeing quick response times to an invasion. Thankfully they hadn't been used yet except for drills and the occasional deterrent against the G.C World Union. While nuclear missiles were still a terrifying threat, none had been used yet during the war, and the effectiveness of anti-missile tech had risen to the point where such weapons could be destroyed without any harmful impact. Anna knew that 'ray shields' were still in development, but they were going to be implemented soon as the eggheads worked out all the technical problems.

Aside from all the military aspects of the city, Arendelle was well into the 21st century. While there were very few skyscrapers inside the fjord, the conditions of living had improved with the technology, granting easy lives to 'normal' citizens. The city was thriving and brimming with free life.

Anna allowed herself a smile as she walked. She went through a small section of the city till she reached the beginning of one of the fjord walls. There was a concrete building that went into the rock face, which led to an underground live-fire testing range. This range is where all the new weapons that are given to infantry are tested and where firearm safety talks were given to the citizens. It also was Anna's second or third favorite place to go.

As she was cleared through the security zone she made her way to the actual range. There were four ranges, one for handheld pistols and short-range weapons, one for automatic 'spray and pray' firearms, and the third for high impact, long distance weapons.

The last and fourth one was a simulation room. Holographic projectors displayed life-like figures that acted like enemy soldiers and shot at you with fake guns that left a mark where they hit you. It was a realistic battle scenario that could be programed however one chooses.

This was the range that Anna most frequented.

Anna went into the locker room and started to change. The skirt that Anna was wearing was gone in favor of combat pants. She donned a Kevlar vest that was the secondary standard of ground infantry, just behind the Kevlar laced with Titanium. The helmet was next, followed by several holsters. Anna then went to the pad next to her locker and put in her own code, which opened up her weapons locker. Inside that were several guns and rifles.

Anna picked up two pistols, both Tanfoglio T(A)100s, and placed them in her leg holsters, then grabbed her favorite rifle, the M7 Carbine. Several magazines and a combat knife heavier, Anna trekked out onto the holo-range.

Surprising many who knew her, Anna was, in addition to an armor expert, a weapon specialist. She definitely did not fit into the standard princess type as she kept up with her exercises and combat skills. While maybe not up to par with martial arts experts, Anna had a good grasp of combat skills as was able to match any in the Arendelle military despite being a woman. Not to mention her shooting skills would put many to shame. Just not with a full automatic however, or any 'big guns' like rocket launchers or the sort. She avoided those.

Stepping onto the range, she went over to a control panel. Hello, how may I help you today? The machine said.

"Hello there, I want to have two squads in standard combat patrol armed and armored with the usual." Anna said.

Any preference on difficulty?

"Random skills for every holo-person. All at least basic boot camp and realistic conditions."

Understood. Terrain?

"Light forest with medium brush. Early fall. Midday."

Processing… completed. The session will end with either the holo-soldiers eliminated or you are marked as incapacitated.

Anna didn't respond as she walked a little away from the machine and unslung her Carbine. She took a deep breath and said, "Ready."

Session will begin in 3… 2… 1… Initiating.

All around her, the white panels shifted into greens and browns, with blue above. Quickly trees and bushes materialized and Anna was moving, going behind a tree and crouching. She waited for the humming of the projectors to stop before she activated her helmet's HUD. A directional compass, ammo count in her guns, extra magazine count, and motion radar all popped up on the screen. She turned off the targeting reticule as she found that it was only designed really for automatics, another reason she avoided them.

She closed her eyes and took a breath and exhaled slowly, letting her senses extend past her body. She quieted and listened for the sound of movement.

There! 23 meters behind her and to her right, the sound of a bush being pushed aside. Anna opened her eyes and saw that there were ten dots on her motion radar in that direction. A quick check showed another 15 farther behind more to her left. 25 hostiles total, she counted.

Anna risked a slow peak around her tree and saw the holo-troopers with weapons at stand-by. That'll change soon.

She lifted up her Carbine and looked down the sights on the weapon, lining up a shot on the rear most soldier. She stilled her breathing and thumbed the safety off before teasing the trigger. A single shot rang out and less than a second later the holo-trooper's head had a neat hole in it. Before the trooper even started to fall backwards Anna lined up her shot at the foremost one and squeezed off another round. This one impacted the man's jaw and started to spin him clockwise.

Moving onto her next target the bullet hit the soldier's neck, causing him to jerk backwards from the force. The fourth person caught the shot in his collarbone, barely missing the armor he wore, but enough to kill him.

By this time the first person had hit the ground.

The holo-soldiers lifted up their weapons and were identifying a target. They saw a patch of red in the forest green and browns and brought their weapons to bear. A fifth bulled hit a soldier in the chest this time, not killing him, but putting him out of the fight. Now the soldiers had a target and opened fire. A hail of bullets impacted where Anna's head used to be and the tree next to it, but she was gone, rolling away to her left before going into a crouch and taking another shot, this time hitting one in the helmet, causing his head to snap back and making him fall to the ground, not dead. Yet.

Anna rolled again then leaped behind another tree. Four dead, two incapacitated and won't be getting up within the next minute or two, she thought. The shots have probably alerted the second squad to hostiles in the area and are circling around, most likely from the East in a flanking maneuver. Her tactical mind was going into overdrive at this point.

She poked her gun around the tree and squeezed off two more shots, downing another man before she retreated, crouching in the bushes. Never let the enemy get behind you, face them on one front instead of two. Another three shots came from her gun getting another one. Two left of this group, then another fifteen. She hit the dirt as another hail of bullets raised the hair on the back of her head before she rolled on her stomach, bringing out her two pistols before sending off her own hail of bullets. The last two fell after taking four bullets each.

Anna holstered the two pistols before picking up her Carbine and running back through the forest to put some space between her and the incoming second squad. She dumped the magazine of the Carbine and reloaded, getting a fresh one in before cocking it and getting into position.

Her HUD wasn't showing any movement, but that doesn't mean that there isn't any. One of the fatal flaws of the motion sensor is that it only catches gunfire or faster movements. Soldiers can be snuck up on if the other soldiers are moving slow enough or wearing materials that disrupt the sensor. Of course, that messes up their sensors as well, but it's the price they pay.

Quietly, Anna started moving off to the left, looking for any sign or sound of movement. She waited, then took aim as one of the soldiers stepped out from behind a tree. She squeezed off a shot but it barely missed her mark and skimmed the soldier's helmet, causing him to drop to the ground in a panic. Multiple red dots showed up for a brief second as the rest of the squad followed suit.

Whelp, that just made things ten times harder. At least I know where they are relatively. Anna crouched down again and started duck walking slowly. I wish I had a grenade or two… she mentally slapped herself, why didn't I get a grenade or two? It would have been a simple matter to grab one from the general locker, but nooooo, I just had to go for my favorites. What's it that Marshal Wilkstrom keeps telling me? Be open to new ideas? Or was it Elsa that says that? And the holo-guys are sure to have grenades as well because they are programed to have them and could probably use them so I should move pretty soon-

Wait, what? Anna's line of thought stopped as something caught up to her. The holo-guys have grenades. And there's that first squad I just took out. They should have some grenades! Now with an idea, the tricky part for her was to execute it without getting shot.

Anna made a dash to a tree and hid behind it. Her motion sensor started to light up again as the enemy soldiers moved again. She poked her gun around the tree and fired off a few shots to get them to stop before rushing to another tree. The bark splintered on the previous tree as a few bullets impacted the trunk of it. Just a few more trees to go.

Anna jumped and rolled past a few more trees, and then made a mad dash towards the fallen holo-soldiers. Thankfully there were bushes covering her position so she had a few moments to search. Wincing slightly at the morbidity of it, she rolled a body over and looked at the soldier's belt. She breathed a sigh of relief as she saw a pair of familiar grenade shapes. Anna grabbed both of them and double-checked her motion sensor. They were still coming at her. Perfect.

She pulled the pin on one and started cooking it. Then, at the right moment, chucked it, then hit the dirt. A few cries of 'grenade' were heard, but since Anna held the grenade long enough, the grenade went off in the middle of the group. A couple red dots disappeared but Anna didn't pay attention to that as she primed another grenade and started cooking it as well.

Suddenly her whole world got turned upside down and she felt herself fall to the ground, the air coming out of her as her chest hit the dirt with her Carbine on top of her. There was a sharp pain in the back of her head and it made her unfocused, but she saw enough to see the grenade she was holding roll in front of her. Uh-oh.

Then her world went white.

Simulation over. The computer voice sounded as Anna's vision came back. In reality it had been only a few seconds, but it felt longer for her.

Anna groaned and rolled over on the now white floor. "What happened?" She asked groggily.

Would you like a verbal review or a holographic playback?

Anna took a moment to think and then said, "Holographic." She gathered herself up and stood up, swaying slightly but steadying herself quickly. "Play back the last minute."

Acknowledged. The room shimmered again and Anna saw a holographic replica of herself taking cover behind a tree. Anna saw that she was looking over at where the first group of soldiers were.

"Begin." Anna watched as her holo-self fired off a few shots, then rushed to another tree, then a few more before finally reaching the soldiers. She saw herself take the two grenades off and scuttle over a bit. Then Anna saw something new: one of the fallen soldiers was moving and awake, albeit slowly. Anna saw her holo-self chuck a grenade and the subsequent explosion, but then watched where it went wrong.

The soldier had taken out his pistol and fired off a shot at the back of the holo-Anna, the real Anna wincing as she, or rather the other she, holo-she, went down like a sack of spuds. The bullet impacted on the back of her helmet, the helmet protecting her from getting killed, but that was enough to cause the grenade to explode right in front of her, ending the simulation.

"Well that happened." Anna said to herself as the recreation ended. That soldier was the one I shot in the helmet and didn't kill. That bit me in the butt later, or rather, hit me in the head. He was downed, but not out. But should I have killed him? He was unable to defend himself for a while after I shot him, but he came back. Not to life mind you, but he wasn't dead in the first place. I should have checked to make sure they were all incapacitated. Taken the time to secure him. But that would 'of taken too long and I could have died later and the other soldiers could have rescued him before then. So I should have…

Anna sighed. While she was a good soldier, she knew she didn't have the callousness to kill an undefended opponent, even if they were a risk to surviving herself. It felt too much like pre-meditated murder for her.

"Well, that's that then," she said out loud. She went over to the computer panel and put the simulation of sleep mode for the next person, then exited the holo-room. She made sure everything was put away before locking up her gear and exiting the firing range.

However she entered another one when she found several officers glaring at her as she left.

"Uhh… hello there?" Anna said nervously.

"Princess Anna," one of the gruffer ones said, one with a bunch of medals on his coat, "While I know that you enjoy spending time here, we really do need you to come to the security meetings we hold." He said, narrowing his eyes at her.

Anna sighed and said, "Fine, let's go." She noticed that two guards discreetly moved behind her, so there was no escape that way.

War sucks, she thought.

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I briefly thought about making the computer a recurring character, but thought better of it.

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