Like an eagle diving through the air for its pray, Kristoff's sled moved silent through the snowy landscape, only leaving tracks from the sled runners and the hooves from his reindeer, that he named Sven. As trees were passing by, the wind became stronger and more snow were hurling around them, so they had to strap their linen cloth around their mouth and nose and tighten the thick animal skin hood, cause it became really hard for both of them to see past two to three meters ahead of them.
"WE HAVE TO FIND SHELTER BEFORE THIS STORM MAKES IT TO HARD TO DRIVE IN" Kristoff yelled to Anna while trying to guide Sven through the thicker and thicker show storm who began to rage around them.
Anna was sitting trying to warm herself with placing her hands under her armpits for keeping the warmth inside.
Kristoff turned the sled to the left of the old worn road and kept on going because he knew there was a cave close by, he used himself when the winter was too harsh for him to go on.
Luckily his memory hasn't taken damage by all the winters ago, to be honest; he almost missed the cave, cause of the large amount of snow, hiding it away
from any unfortunate souls, unlucky enough to overlook it.
With a quick pull in his leather strap, Sven the reindeer, stopped and he dumped off the sled.
The moment he landed in the thick and deep snow, half of his body disappeared in the snow, and as he fought his way through it, to a big door with a little glass window in the middle top, a lot of snow came pouring in with him, covered in snow and a thumb up for Anna and Sven to see as a green light.
After some pushing, he finally got the big door to shut again and lighted a torch in both sides. Anna was quite surprised by the sheer size of this place and couldn't help but comment on the cave.
"Waauw.. This hideout looks amazing!" She said in surprise but quickly turned around and slapped Kristoff's side.
"Auv, hey what was that for?!" He asked, placing his hands on his shoulder, first looking over at Sven with a raised eyebrow and then looking back at Anna.
"Why haven't you told me about this awesome hideout?!" She demanded to know while walking around looking at everything, while still holding her hands within her own armpits.
"Because you.. uhm.. never asked me before?" He replied with his hand in his hair, clutches at the back on his head, walking over to Anna, which stood still over at a wooden counter, looking down on a beautiful handmade necklace, that had some weird runes which had a weird glow to the small stone runes, and for some reason it pulled her closer to it, totally forgot what they were talking about before.
"Oh yea, I'm totally sorry for not telling you it" apologized Kristoff as he stepped in between Anna and the necklace and snapping it off the counter and in his pocket without Anna noticing it. As Anna snaps out of her trance, she shook her head and looks around and sees Kristoff in front of her.
"Wow.. What just happen?" She asked as if she had forgotten what just had happened.
"I'm sorry Anna, but the necklace is kinda a family piece that are.." He stopped and listens to the biting wind outside of the cave.
He slowly stepped over to the small window and looked outside.
"What is it Kristoff?" Anna asked him, raising an eyebrow.
As she walks over to him, placing a hand on his shoulder, looking outside.
"I thought I heard something in the wind, but was probably nothing," said Kristoff sound more in his usual self, but as soon as he turns around to look at Anna, Anna had a weird look that made him look back again and suddenly, a black figure, standing out in the snow, not affected by the biting cold or the hurricane of snow.
"What the heck is that?" Asked Anna as she squeezed her eyes a little more together, trying to make out what it was, but the only thing they could see was that it had four legs and looked much like a black horse, but for some reason, looked unnatural because of how to shadowing moved.
"I don't know, but I don't like how it's looking direct at us" he admitted as it shrieked and thundering away in the storm leaving a weird shadowing almost black snow-ish as if the shadow, the horse left behind it, hang in the snow for a short time till, it had taken over part of it.
"Hm.. it looks like it's gone, but we better get some rest," he said and pulled out a mattress from a shelf, placing beside some hay where Sven already was sleeping. Anna got a thick blanket to keep her warm while Kristoff used the hay and Sven's body heat to keep him tempered. They didn't get any more interruptions that night and slept rather well through it.
Anna woke up by the shaking of Kristoff's hand on her shoulder.
"Hey, sleepy troll, wake up," he said while kneeling beside her.
"Whaat.. what happen, where am.. oh is it already morning?" She yawned looking around; the snow in the trees was mirroring the sun and made its way through the small window in the door.
"Jup, the sun has just raised from the horizon and Sven is already strapped to the sled and ready to go" He explained as he walked over to the door and opened it up and turned around and looked at Anna.
"Yea yea.. I'm coming I'm coming" she said, still tired from getting up so early.
She wasn't used to getting up so early, she was more a sleepy head in the morning.
Slowly walking her way out of the cave, yawning again as she blinked, momentarily blinded by the sharp sunlight, getting it her eyes.
And without a moment later, was they off for the show queen again, luckily the storm had settled down and the weather was clear to ride through the forest.
"So.. uhm yea, so how exactly do you plan on confronting her?" Kristoff suddenly asked while still holding his eyes on the road.
"Oh.. well, never really thought that far actually, I probably figuring something out along the way" she responded with her usually energetic self as she laid back and put her feets on the front railing. She was quite sure that she could get her sister back and undone this winter.
"Hey, wow wow, I've just polished the front!" He said while removing her feets from the front railing and rubbed it with his fingers.
As they turned around a corner, they got out on a mountain road with a wall of rocks to their right side, where Kristoff sat, and a very steep cliff to their left where Anna sat.
"Uhm.. You do know how to ride your sled in this area, right?" She asked nervous and moved a little closer to the right holding his arm in her hands, like she would fall out anytime soon.
"This path? Yea I've ridden it many times.. I think" He said looking around.
"I'm just kidding Anna, I've definitely been here before" He added reassuring while holding his hands up in defence, cause her face got just a little whiter when he said he wasn't sure.
"Not funny!" She said, dashing his shoulder with her hand.
"We're not far from the mountain" He suddenly said and looked around.
Ice was beginning to show in ice spikes forms and got bigger and bigger the closer they got to the mountain. A smaller forest appeared as they moved deeper into it. Kristoff stopped the sled, much to Anna's surprise and looked like a question mark as Kristoff released Sven from the sled robs.
"We can't go on with the sled," he told her and pointed at some trees, standing extremely close to each other and closed off a large enough path for the sled to come through, but still large enough for people and animals to pass through. As almost new fallen snow got pressed down and made a silent crash sound under their boots as they walked towards the last part of the forest and get to the outset of the mountain.
"Waaaow.." Was the only thing Anna and Kristoff could say when they got to what looked like a big castle?
As both Kristoff and Anna begun to walk, or try, was actually quite hard for them, cause everything was made of ice.
And as Anna, closed followed by Kristoff, got to the last stair and the big ice double door, she turned around to her best friend and made a little grin to him.
"I think it's best if you wait out here, I don't know how she will be when we meet" she explained with a while biting her lower lip slightly.
She didn't like to just leave her best friend alone, but this was something she had to do alone.
At first he complained that ice was his life and that she couldn't just leave him without letting him at least see the inside.
But changed mind, since he didn't get anything out of begging and he kinda could understand we she wanted to do that part alone.