Dearest Sister,
I understand you are independent. I know you can handle all that life throws at you. Samuel and Kathryn have made tentative friendships with the Isle kids at the school in Auradon. It is apparent now you have been omitting things in your letters over the years. The Isle sounds much worse than you have been telling me. You should have told me how scarce food and medicine on the Isle was.
I am worried for you and my nephew. Merida, Christoph and I are giving you a year. If you do not get yourself off that forsaken Isle in the next year I am declaring war, and will have Gillian sign the declaration along with my order. It will be good enough for the council. We will go to war to avenge you, sister. I am not doing this because I believe you are incapable, but because I fear for your safety.
I love you, and I am worried for you.
Your Sister,
Princess Anna
Acting Queen of Arendelle.
Margaret and Topher were tired of the lies the Auradon Prep history professor continued to spread. The Professor, a proud Auradonian, believed nothing wrong had ever happened in their country. It was run by the proclaimed heroes. They were the good guys, they could do no wrong. Royalty was not corrupt.
The Professor started with Arendelle on this specific day. Two months after the arrival of the Isle kids, to be exact. They happened to be in their history class with all of the exchange students.
"The last King and Queen of the great nation of Arendelle died in a sailing accident. Their deaths left the kingdom without a ruler for six years. In the midst of it all, Princess Elsa became sick and she vanished from the face of the kingdom, and her whereabouts and whether or not she is dead or alive is still a mystery. Queen Anna took over after the disappearance of her sister."
"Excuse me, Professor?" Topher said raising his hand. Margaret smacked him. He waved her off. He had enough of this.
"Yes, Topher?" The Professor scowled at Topher. Questions were not often allowed in his class. No room for discussion when it came to Auradon and its short history.
"Princess Anna," he said to the professor.
"Pardon?"
"Acting Queen Princess Anna of Arendelle," Topher proudly said. "I am from Arendelle. I know the difference between my Queen and the wonderful woman who is standing in her place."
"I am not sure who gave you this information, Topher, but a Princess cannot act as a Queen," the professor stated with the haughty air about him. Topher glared. His mother was the Acting Queen, this was his family that the professor was slandering,
"Acting as in temporary," Margaret answered. She threw caution to the wind. "Queen Elsa will return to Arendelle."
"I'm sorry, Topher and Margaret, but I believe you are mistaken. Princess Elsa was never a Queen, and she died many years ago," The Professor angry responded.
"Yes, she was. Queen Elsa was the queen of Arendelle for six years, and is still considered the rightful queen of Arendelle by her people. She is still very much alive, but well is only a descriptor" Topher took over. He barely remembered his Aunt and he would not allow her name to be tainted. "She was taken from her people, from us in war!"
The professor and the young Auradonian royals were confused and shocked at the boy's words.
"War? What war?" Ben asked. "We never hear of a war?"
"It is funny how Auradon tries to hide their wrongdoings," James laughed. "DunBroch teaches about the war because they defended Arendelle and oversaw the treaties."
"And Eugenia says that it is a day of mourning is Corona the same as it is in Arendelle on the day when the Queen was taken," Kathryn continued.
The professor spluttered for words.
"You must be mistaken," Ben angrily spit out. Topher found it very amusing how the young Prince tried to defend his nation. "Auradon would never kidnap a Queen."
Jay snorted. "It isn't all that surprising. Your kings and queens let villains have kids and then force them to raise their children in poverty. Kidnapping a Queen is not a very large jump."
Hell broke loose after Jay's admission. Agreements and disagreements from the kids who were angry that their country would do something as terrible as this, and those who refused to believe it. Even the Isle kids were divided. Mal sided with her boyfriend, Prince Ben, while the other three were buying the whole truth. It wasn't hard to believe the country who feed the spoiled and rotten food would kidnap a queen.
By that evening, the controversy had spread everywhere. The story from the exchange of students had spread like wildfire to the kings and queens. They were denying everything to the media. It was turning into a massive cover up, and trying to keep the international backlash from getting out.
Three months later, it had almost left the minds of the people, sadly. If an investigation had gone further, something may have come from it. Maybe the Isle would have been deemed inhumane and shut down. Maybe Elsa could have reclaimed her rightful throne. But nothing. The nation was run by ignorant fools, and it looked like it would be staying that way. It enraged the Prince and Princess of Arendelle, but in Auradon, their words meant nothing, and would clearly stay that way for the duration of their stay.
Cotillion was coming up on them very quickly, and every member of the school was preparing. It was the event where Prince Ben was proclaiming his love to Mal.
The triplets feared for Mal. She was close to breaking down in the very least, or lashing out and hurting someone at the most. The young fae was overwhelmed with going to the event with her boyfriend. She was overwhelmed by high society, like Eugenia and Topher had predicted. James had half a mind to send her to Eugenia to get some help. Eugenia had more than enough experience with panic attacks caused by high society expectations because of her parents to be able to help Mal through it all. Her parents still struggled with it even twenty years after they had been introduced to it. It is why they were abdicating the throne to Eugenia when her grandparents retired.
And the triplets' fears were not unwarranted. Evie had run straight to Eugenia in tears when Mal took off.
"What are we going to do? What do we tell Ben?" Evie herself wanted to go after Mal. It would give her an excuse to go see her daughter, but she couldn't tell that to Eugenia, or Ben. Mal was her only girlfriend that she had, and she needed to make sure Mal was safe. Eugenia had been the biggest advocate, though, for Evie to take her studies seriously, and to pursue science in some way. Eugenia was the only other person that Evie felt she could truly trust with the exception of Maverick and Gillian. She hadn't even realized that she hadn't hesitated to run to the older girl for help and advice.
"Calm down. Mal cannot have gone far," Kathryn tried. Eugenia pulled Evie into her arms to stop her from pacing.
"You do not know that, Eugenia. How could you possibly know that?" Evie snapped.
"My sister used to take off all the time, according to my older brothers. Mom was insistent on Merida getting married, and Merida would just leave. Once they came to an agreement, she stopped leaving after every argument."
"And my parents still can't handle royal life. The pressure is overwhelming for them. We often find them at the seediest bar in the entire kingdom to avoid noble company," Eugenia finished.
"Really?"
"I believe you were cruelly thrown into high society. They had no right to believe you all to act like nobility after being raised to become villains," Eugenia sincerely told Evie.
Evie thought for a moment. It was something to consider.
"I need to talk to Ben. Mal went back to the Isle," Evie said.
"Evie, if you go after Mal, take Margaret with you," Kathryn said. "She was raised a warrior. She can help protect Ben."
"It's too dangerous for an outsider," Evie sternly put her foot down. "Both Ben and Margaret are staying." Evie would not let some outsider be killed because of her.
"Okay."
They immediately went to find the others. Kathryn told Margaret what was happening. The Princess of Arendelle vanished, with a sword and all the second the words left her mouth.