Title: A Journey Through Ice and Fire
Sum: [Digimon!Frozen AU] The mind is a fragile thing... how much can a girl go through... before she simply... breaks...
Disclaimer: I don't own Frozen, Tangled, or its associated characters; I'm just borrowing them for a bit of fun.
Rating: T/PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Sven, Hans, Rapunzel, Eugene
Warnings/Triggers: Um… none that I know of!
Notes: So… still not in the Digital World… but we should be by the end of Chapter Four… if I ended this chapter where originally planned… I might never have finished it… and it's already later than I wanted to publish it… so here we go! =D
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:Chapter Three:
-Time to Play-
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-3 Years Later-
The little body beneath the bright blue comforter moves as the sun breaches the horizon, throwing light into her bedroom through the curtains that cover the only window in her bedroom. The light travels across the hardwood of her floor, and slowly up the side of the bed, up the comforter and finally reaching her face. Her eyes peeks open, a little bit at a time until they are adjusted to the new light in the room—it's morning. Realizing that it was morning, and one that she did not have to spend getting ready for school, she sat up. Her blonde braid bounced from where it'd been rested over her shoulder to land against her back between her shoulder blades as she excited moved from the center of her bed to the end. Within moments of reaching the side, she removed the blanket and sheets from her legs and slid down the edge to the floor. Running to the window, she tore open the curtains and noticed that something wonderful had happened while they'd all been asleep.
Her crystal blue eyes danced over the hills of white powder snow that now covered the ground from fence to fence and all of the playground equipment that was set up in the backyard. She couldn't even see her sandbox anymore. And it looked to have all fallen over night. "This is so cool!" She squealed as she bounced in place. With a light squeal, she moved out of the room and moved down the hallway and opened another door, not bothering to knock. Inside was a pink themed room with a toddler bed with a small canopy set up. There were toys and books scattered everywhere; it looked like the occupant of the room hadn't been able to sleep the night before and spent the time after being 'tucked in' playing with toys and 'reading' books. But she managed to navigate the mess with no problems and moved onto the bed. "Anna!" She poked at the lump with a giggle. "Are you awake?" She was answered with another giggle from behind her and she didn't have any time to move before she felt a pillow hit her softly on the back of her head. "Oof!" She said, falling forward, making it seem like the hit had been harder than it actually was.
Falling forward on the bed, she didn't move. She didn't speak, nothing. Well, she listened. She kept her ears open to listen to Anna, her baby sister, as she continued to giggle. Until the giggle died down, and then stopped. She heard her sister's feet flop on the hardwood as she came towards the bed. "Ehw-sa?" She heard the insecurity in her sister's toddler voice when Anna spoke her name. "I… I didn't mean ta hurt you… are you okay, Ehw-sa?" She feels the mattress moving as Anna climbs haphazardly onto the bed to check on her sister. A little hand presses on her shoulder as Anna calls out her name again. "I'm sowry Ehw-sa! Please don' be dead!" When Anna reaches out to push at her shoulder again, Elsa's arm shoots out and she brings Anna into a tight hug. To which the three year old laughs wildly in response to.
"I love you so much Anna! Don't ever change." She says into Anna's orange hair.
"Okay Ehw-sa." She says cheerfully with another bout of giggles. "Can we go outside and pway in the snow?" She asks and Elsa nods with Anna still pulled against her. "We can't do that if you don' let me go!" Anna screeches with another loud laugh. More laughing and giggling is heard echoing against the walls, even as the door opens to reveal their mother standing there with a sleepy smile on her face at the sight of her children laughing and playing.
"Come on you two. Papa's making breakfast." She called out softly. Instantly both girls sat up on the bed and cheered as they moved from the bed to the floor, and the moment their feet hit the hard wood they raced each other out of the bedroom. Their giggling echoed off the walls as they raced down the hallway and around the corner. Their mother followed behind them at a regular pace and upon reaching the kitchen, she helped Anna into her booster seat while Elsa moved into the chair perpendicular to her younger sister.
"Good morning, my angels." Came the cheerful baritone of their father as he moved around the kitchen, that sat just off to the side of their small dining area, wearing a pair of cotton sleep pants with dancing chili-peppers on a field of black and a plain gray tank top. The young blonde's crystal blue eyes followed her father's movements as he finished cooking the delicious smelling breakfast foods before her mother swooped in with her night clothes and bathrobe to load up food on two small plates for the both of them. Anna was still giggling from their playtime moments before and was babbling on.
"Momma?" Anna spoke when her mother set the plate in front of her. "Ehw-sa said we could go pway in the snow lay-trr." Grabbing her plastic toddler spoon in her right hand, she held it awkwardly and haphazardly moved the food from her plate to her mouth as she spoke, talking about everything and nothing while Elsa sat and ate her food slowly as she listened intently, ever the perfect older sister. She would interject with small sounds that answered Anna's 'questions' enough to get her to continue whatever she was talking about. Her mother sat back and listened just as intently to her younger daughter, but also kept on an eye on her older one—happy to see that the two were so close.
"Maybe we can go ice-skating as well. The pond should be frozen enough… we can go after breakfast." Her mother added happily as a plate was set in front of her by her husband, to whom she smiled up at as he leaned down to give her a peek on her cheek before taking the only seat left. There was light conversation as they all ate, while Anna continued her babbling, sometimes with food still in her mouth to which one of her parents would softly remind her to not talk with her mouth full. It was a good twenty to thirty minutes later before Anna was bouncing in her booster seat waiting for Elsa to finish.
"Hurry up Ehw-sa! We gots to go outside and pway!" She stressed, as if going outside to play in the snow were a matter of life or death. And maybe, to Anna, it was. Elsa was happy to move from her seat with her empty plate and place it in the sink for one of her parents to clean it, as was usual.
"Momma, may we go outside now?" She asked as politely as possible from where she stood with her hands behind her back. With a smile, her mother spoke:
"Make sure you both dress to stay warm. And go ahead and take your ice skates outside, me and your father will be along shortly." The young blonde nodded before she took Anna's hand in hers and they left down the hallway. Stopping first into her bedroom, she turned to her younger sister:
"Go ahead to your room Anna, I'll be there in a sec, okay?" The young redhead nodded jubilantly before turning around and skipping down the hallway, humming to herself as she did so. With a smile, Elsa closed her door all of the way with herself inside. She took a moment to find suitable winter clothes—although she still didn't understand what 'cold' was, she humored her parents and put on clothes that would keep her warm anyway. And soon she was standing in her snow pants, a shirt and thick jacket, gloves, and a hat to go over her braid—as well as socked and booted feet. Satisfied that she was covered from head to toe, she grabbed the tied strings of her ice skates and moved out of her bedroom and down the hallway to Anna's for the second time that morning.
Opening the door, she was greeted with a sight of utter chaos. Clothes were strewn everywhere from the wardrobe and chest of drawers as well as pulled down from the hangers in the open closet. "Anna… what are you doing?" Little Elsa laughed out as she caught sight of her sister with socks on her hands, a shirt over her head and left shoulder but her right arm was not in the right sleeve…and the shirt was on backwards. And it looked like she'd attempted to put on her pants, but had given up halfway through as she stood in the legs and the waistband was settled at her knees.
"'m w-eady to go Ehw-sa!" Elsa covered her mouth with both hands as she was overcome with giggles. Straightening back up, she looked at the grin plastered on her sister's face and new that the precocious little three year old had done it on purpose. "Now heh-lp me!" She stressed, flapping her sock covered arms.
"Okay, okay." Stepping up to her sister, she took the socks off her hands and righted her shirt after taking the left arm out of its sleeve. Next, she helped Anna pull her pants up the rest of the way and knelt down to put the redhead's socks on her feet where they belonged. Following that she pulled a thick enough jacket off the floor and held it out to help Anna slip into—taking a moment to find a pair of matching gloves, she put those on her sister's hands as well. And lastly, helped her sister into her snow boots before grabbing her ice skates by their tired shoelaces, as well as situating her own skates over her right shoulder: "Ready?" Anna nodded excitedly and Elsa took her smaller hand in hers before pulling her out of the younger girl's bedroom, down the stairs (carefully) and out the back door.
"Be careful with your sister Elsa!" She heard her father called as she closed the sliding glass door behind them. Anna was bouncing on the snow covered wood in the middle of the deck as she waited for Elsa to join her away from the sliding glass door.
"Hurry up Ehw-sa! I wanna go ice-skating!" The little redhead stomped her foot in impatience as she stood there. Elsa chuckled to herself as she moved away from the door and reached out for Anna's hand as she passed by and led the younger girl down the stairs as carefully as possible without either of them slipping on the ice frozen beneath the blanket of snow.
"We have to wait for Momma and Papa before we go ice skating Anna, they said to wait." Elsa spoke softly once they were on the snow-covered ground.
"But I wanna go now!" Anna exclaimed, pulling on Elsa's hand, not letting go. But Elsa tried her best not to move. "Ehw-sa!"
"Anna, no. We have to wait." Elsa spoke sternly. Realizing that her older sister wasn't going to budge on the matter, her lips began to tremble and the salty liquid began to collect on the corners of her eyes. "No. Don't cry." Elsa pleaded, moving to put her hands on Anna's shoulders. "It's okay. You just have to wait, Anna." She tried to reason with her, but the tear began to fall and little whimpers escaped her trembling lips. "Please stop." She whispered, her eyes showing clear distress at her younger sister's crying. "Alright, alright. We'll go down to the pond. But we have to wait for Momma and Papa before we can skate… is that okay?" Instantly the tear cleared up and Anna grinned, jumping into a hug with Elsa.
"Yay!" She cried out. Elsa chuckled uncertainly as she patted Anna's back in the hug. Hope Momma and Papa don't get mad… Anna then turned and led the charge through the snow with her awkward attempt at running in her winter clothes with Elsa's hand. "Hurry Ehw-sa!" She giggled out as they began to pick up speed. Elsa's feet started out pounding on the ground haphazardly as she lost her balance at the beginning of the run, before she found her rhythm and she was running just far enough back from Anna's feet to prevented herself from tripping the both of them—with their hands still connected. "We're almost there!" She yelled out as they came to the crest of a small hill.
"Anna! Slow down!" Elsa giggled out, during their run up the hill, Anna had let go of her hand and run on ahead—determined to get to the pond and play on the frozen water. As she moved up the hill that would dip down toward the frozen body of water, she lost sight of her younger sister. "Anna?" She called out, not hearing the girl's laughing anymore.
Reaching the crest of the hill, she looked down. From just below where her feet stood, she noticed a parting in the snow—fresh. "Anna?" She called out again. Her eyes followed the trail in the snow and quickly found that her sister had tripped at the top of the hill and had rolled down the small hill. She heard crying and saw her sister had moved onto her trembling hands and knees. "Anna! Are you okay?!" Dropping the set of ice skates in her hand, she maneuvered so that her skates fell from her shoulder and quickly ran down the hill—skidding through the snow a little as she moved to the edge of the ice. "Anna stay still!" She called out as she heard the ice cracking. "I'm coming!"
"Ehw-sa! I'm scared!" Moving to the edge of the frozen water, she stepped carefully onto the mostly solid liquid. "Ehw-sa… I don't wanna ice skate anymore." Anna whimpered as the ice began to shift beneath her. "Can we go back inside?"
"Yea, Anna, we can go back inside… but you need to stay still so I can get to you." The small redhead nodded shallowly as she moved her eyes from her older sister, who was taking slow steps towards her, back to the cracked ice beneath her fingers. "Just a little bi—"
CRACK-SPLASH!
"ANNA NO!"
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Author's Note: So, I haven't had the time to proofread, so please excuse any spelling/grammatical errors, I'll try to go back through it at a later date and correct any problems I find.
And as always, if something has triggered you in this chapter, and it wasn't noted beforehand, let me know in whatever way is convenient for you. I don't like triggering people… so let me know, and I'll make sure to add it to the 'triggers/warning' section at the top.
Hope you enjoyed it! =D