Chapter 7 Camping

It wasn't normal for Anna to wake up at the break of dawn or an hour later that is but today she was up even before Elsa and her parents could since today was her camping trip with her family. Anna got ready for the day and walked through the halls wondering who she should wake up first.

'Elsa, she'll probably cover me in snow. Mama and Papa, I don't know. Elsa's first.' Anna figured out who she was going to wake up first, she dashed down to Elsa's room and walked inside. Anna looked at Elsa who was fast asleep, snuggled up under the covers. Usually Anna would jump on her or the bed but today was different, a good different not a bad one.

Anna poked Elsa, "Elsa wake up, it's an emergency."

"Not now, I'm sleeping. Come back when I'm up." Elsa mumbled back.

Anna grabbed a pillow that Elsa wasn't sleeping on and started hitting her with each word she shouted.

"Wake! Up! Elsa! We! Are! Under! Attack!" Elsa jolted awake and got her foot tangled in the bed sheets and fell face first on the floor.

"Wait…wha? Anna…what?" Elsa tried to pull herself together. "Anna what's going on?"

"Nothing." Anna forgot the door was open when she shouted and it echoed through the halls but luckily Agdar and Idun didn't hear it.

"You're sure, right Anna?" Anna nodded, Elsa raised a brow at Anna.

"Yes Elsa, nothing's going on. I just wanted to ask you something."

"Well ask away."

"Do you want to wake Mama and Papa?" Anna gave Elsa her puppy dog eyes.

"Sure what do you have in mind?"

"I was thinking about…scaring them."

"So Anna, you brought me to their room just to finish that sentence when you could've finish it back in my room." Elsa glared at her.

"You have no sense of humor, whatsoever." Anna whispered as she and Elsa tip toed into their parent's room and walked over to the bed. "So who should we scare first?"

"I'll go with Mama and you scare Papa."

"Alright."

Elsa stood next to Idun and Anna stood next to Agdar. Elsa gave Anna a signal which told her that they'll go on five but Anna counted too fast and jumped on the bed, making Agdar and Idun bounce off the bed and onto Elsa and scaring the living daylights out of Snowflake who was at the end of the bed.

"Why is it I'm always the one to be first on the floor?" Elsa muttered, 'Mental note, stay far away as possible in any of Anna's plans.' The three of them got up and was met with Anna bouncing on the bed.

"Anna what are you doing?" Idun asked sleepily. "And why did you wake us up this early?"

"Mama it's seven in the morning. Don't you and Papa used to wake up earlier than this?" Elsa asked as she saw Anna flipped on the bed.

"Yes but we aren't ruling Arendelle, you are, so that means we could wake up as late as Anna. I was planning to until she jumped on the bed, I just don't get it."

"Don't get what?"

"How did she make us bounce off the bed? It was only Anna who jumped on the bed right?" Elsa nodded and Idun continued, "Then how did your father and I bounced off the bed?"

Anna chimed in, "Are you saying I'm fat? Because I'm not fat." Idun shook her head. "You and Papa need a good wake up call. Join me, it'll be fun. You too Elsa."

"No way. I'm not joining." Idun and Agdar joined Anna on the bed. "Have fun." Elsa walked towards the door.

"The promise I was supposed to give you yesterday was this." Anna said as she flipped on the bed.

"Jumping on Mama and Papa's bed?"

"No, have some fun with me. Please join us, sister's promise."

"Fine but only one jump."

Ten minutes later

Elsa gave in and never stop neither did Anna nor her parents. Elsa and Anna landed really hard on the bed in which they bounced up into the air and did three flips before landing. In result of the landing, it broke the bed when everyone was in midair and they all fell on top one another. Agdar was at the bottom, then Elsa, Anna and Idun.

"I'm not first on the floor…nor I am last to fall. Would you two get off of me, especially Anna."

"So you ARE saying I'm fat." Anna huffed and got off of Elsa.

"No I'm not saying that at all."

"Right…" Anna said sarcastically, "About the bed?"

"Don't worry, we get someone to fix it or at least make a new one." Agdar said as he left the room.

"Why are you up so early?" Idun said as she searched through her wardrobe.

"Camping."

"Anna, we aren't leaving until after lunch."

Anna sighed, "Fine, see you all at breakfast." Anna dashed out.

"Bye Mama." Elsa turned to the door.

"You aren't going anywhere, I still have to talk to you."

"About?"

"The bracelet thing."

"Oh."

Idun and Elsa sat on the bench by the window. Elsa stayed silent and started playing with the bracelet.

"Why do you do that?" Idun started.

"No reason."

"You must have a reason because you didn't do it almost the whole day yesterday so why are you doing it now?"

"I do it when I'm bored." Elsa avoided Idun's gaze.

"I don't think that's the truth."

"It is." Elsa lied, 'Why don't you tell her the truth, she won't be mad, right?'

"Elsa, I'm serious, tell me the truth."

Elsa's stomach started to growl, "After breakfast I'll tell you."

"Okay." Elsa left to get ready for the day as well as Idun.

"So I know a great camping spot and guess what, it's only a two hour ride from here." Anna said as she stuffed a pancake in her mouth.

"Make sure you know the way back. I don't want to be lost in the woods." Idun said.

"Forest." Agdar corrected.

"Whatever."

"We won't get lost because…Snowflake and Sunshine are coming along." Anna said.

"Anna, Sunshine is almost four weeks and Snowflake…I don't know…four months? Why are they coming?" Elsa asked.

"To help us just in case we get lost, they could smell their way back to Arendelle."

"What if we get lost?"

"Elsa they're wolves, they got huntin' skills. They both could get our scents and hunt us down." Anna smiled.

"You read about wolves?" Elsa asked, "When did you read it?"

"Never read anything about wolves nor I will now."

"Well how do you know all of this?"

"I asked Papa. Well I'm done, I gotta go feed my wolves." Anna got up from the table.

"How Papa knows all of this?"

"Because he had a wolf once."

"How did I not know this?"

"Because you never asked."

"How did he managed to own a wolf?"

"I don't know and no more questions, if you need answers. Papa is sitting on the other side of the table, ask him instead." Anna left.

"You want to know wolves?" Agdar asked.

"Not really, just want to know how did you managed to own a wolf?"

"I snuck one in."

Elsa didn't believe that, "I don't believe it and even if I did how did you snuck it in."

"This castle has secret passages all over, your mother knows some of it since I showed her but I still have a few I haven't told no one."

"So why are you telling me this?"

"Because it's a warning just in case I'm bored and I suddenly decide that I want to scare one of you."

"Now I'm walking these halls with caution. Well I'm done, got papers to sign. Bye." Elsa dashed out the dining room.

Idun got up from the table, "Well I got to go."

"Where are you going?"

"I need to talk to Elsa about something but it looks like she doesn't want me to know."

"Alright, is Kristoff still coming camping?"

"Yes." Idun ran out after Elsa.

Anna was playing with Snowflake and Sunshine when Elsa ran in. "What's wrong Elsa?"

"I need to hide from Mama."

"So you need to hide from her and the first place you chose was her room." Elsa was going to respond when he heard Idun calling her.

"Don't tell her I'm here." Elsa ran in the wardrobe.

Idun walked in and Sunshine walked up to her, "Hi Sunshine." Idun petted her, "Anna where's Elsa?"

"I don't know." They both heard a noise coming from the wardrobe.

"I'll give you chocolate if you tell me." Idun whispered, Anna tilted her head to the wardrobe and Idun walked to it and opened the door. Elsa toppled out and onto the floor, she got up to run but Idun grabbed her cloak before she could've reached the door.

"You ain't going nowhere unless you tell me the truth."

"The truth about what?" Anna asked.

"Why she plays with the bracelet."

"I know why."

"Can you tell me, I've been trying to know since yesterday morning."

"Sure." Elsa gave Anna a pitiful look but Anna still continued. "Well she only plays with it unless she's lying, scared, nervous or just to calm herself down."

"Does boredom has anything to do with it?" Anna shook her head and Idun glared at Elsa and said in a harsh tone. "Was that so hard to tell?" She let go of the cloak and Elsa looked down at the floor.

"Kind of, well I have a meeting to go to and that's the truth." Idun's glare soften as she watched Elsa walk out of the room.

"Anna?"

"Hmm?" Anna looked up.

"You think I was being a bit harsh on her about this? I mean it's not a big deal right?"

"Well kind of and yes it's a big deal. She told me that if she ever told you or Papa, you'll think that she has problems." Anna looked up at Idun from the floor.

"P-problems…she doesn't have…does she think…why would she think that?" Idun stumbled over her words.

"I don't really know and I'd tried asking her but she just changes the topic when I start. It's like she's hiding something but she just wants to keep it to herself." Anna said as Sunshine jumped up on her stomach. Everyone spent the rest of the morning doing whatever they feel like doing except Elsa since she has meetings and paper to sign. Lunch has arrived and everyone ate and left to get ready for camping.

"So are we all ready to go camping?" Anna asked, cheerfully.

"Yeah." "Sure." "Let's go." Elsa, Agdar and Idun spoke at the same time. Anna got in the sleigh Sunshine and Snowflake jumping in after her.

"So Kristoff, ready for camping?" Anna spoke up.

"Yes and I'm sorry." Kristoff said.

"Sorry? Sorry for what?" Anna wondered why Kristoff was sorry.

"Sorry that I can't come."

"Why?"

"Ice harvesting duties. I'll make it up to you, somehow."

"Okay." Anna mood went from happy and cheerfully to disappointed and gloomy. Kristoff dropped them off and said that he'll pick them up the next morning.

"So what shall we do first?" Elsa asked.

"Well you all should find some food and I'll make a fire." Idun said. Agdar, Elsa and Anna walked further into the forest but nor too far from the campsite. They came across a deer.

"So who's killing it?" Anna whispered, Elsa shook her head along with Agdar. "Well I'm not killing that."

"But we need food." Elsa whispered back. "It's between you and Papa, not me."

"Why you can't kill it, you have ice powers."

"Anna, I'm not hurting anything and I hate to see blood, it gets me upset." Elsa made a face of disgust as she thought about it.

Anna sighed, "Well craft a crossbow out of ice."

"Anna, we have a crossbow with us. Why do you want me to craft on out of ice."

"Never mind, give me the crossbow." Agdar handed Anna the crossbow, Elsa turned around when Anna launched it. "Alright it's dead, now come help me cut it."

"How are you going to cut it?" Agdar asked, he saw Anna gave him a look. A look that says, I- know-you-have-it. Agdar sighed and pulled a knife out of his pocket. "Fine, just don't tell your mother about this." Anna nodded and they both walked over to the deer leaving a terrified Elsa. Elsa looked up and saw the deer, her face turned green as she fell back down behind the shrub. They carried back the deer for dinner but most of the time walking back to the campsite, Elsa stopped them when she ran behind a shrub to puke.

"This is one of Norway's common ani-"Don't want to hear it." Anna interrupted Elsa for the fifth time since they were exploring the forest. "Anna, would you please stop doing that. For the fifth time!"

"Elsa it's a squirrel, big deal. It's just so cute." Anna said as she held a squirrel in her hand. Anna reached her finger out to touch it when it bit her. "Oww!" Anna let the squirrel jumped out of her hand and watched it scurried up a tree. "Elsa it hurts."

"Anna, the squirrel didn't even do you much damage." Idun spoke up.

"Now I hate squirrels." Anna huffed. They were walking when they heard water. "Hey look a waterfall. Let's go for a swim."

"Did you pack extra clothes?"

"Yes, I'm sure everyone else did as well, right Papa?" Anna looked around but Agdar wasn't there. "Where's Papa?"

"I don't know, the last time I checked, he was right here." Elsa said, "I'll look for him, you could go ahead and swim, I'm not coming."

"Why?" Anna questioned.

"I don't know how to swim." Elsa turned around and walked towards river not too far from the waterfall. Anna tip toed behind her and pushed Elsa in the lake. "Ahh! Help me!"

"Elsa!" Anna shouted.

"Help! Yes?"

"You're not even neck deep in the water when you stand nor when you're sitting."

"Oh. So should we forget this never happened?"

"Oh you could forget this but I can't." Anna started to laugh.

"I'm gonna get you! Come here!" Elsa chased Anna around the waterfall when they saw Idun staring at something.

"Mama, what are you looking at?" Anna waved a hand in front of her but no response came. "Hello?" Anna snapped her fingers and Idun came back to her senses.

"What? Anna? What happened?" Idun looked around.

"What were you looking at?"

"That." Idun showed her what she was looking at, a shadow was at the top of the waterfall.

"What is that?" Elsa asked, "It looks more like a person."

"If it is a person, we better go just in case." Anna said. Just before they were about to walk back to the campsite. They saw the shadow jumped off the waterfall and did three flips before landing in the water, soaking Elsa, Anna and Idun.

"I wonder who's that?" Idun and Anna walked closer, Snowflake and Sunshine next to them ready to attack at any moment.

"Whoever it is, we should leave. Just in case, it's someone we don't want to see again, right Anna?" Elsa tried to call them back but it was no use. Idun was at the edge of the lake when something grabbed her foot and pulled her in.

"Mama!" Elsa and Anna shouted in union. They looked around in the lake trying to find any sign of their mother.

"See Anna, told you this was a bad idea! Papa went missing, now Mama's under there. Go in and look for her!" Elsa tried to keep her voice on a low level but failed. Anna was going to say something when she saw her mother.

"Mama! Are you alright?!" Anna asked, worry filled her eyes.

"Yes." Idun said as she passed her hands through the water.

"Why are you doing that?"

"I'm…looking for…your father." Idun pulled Agdar who had a big grin on his face, up from under. "He's the one who pulled me in the water and the one who jumped off the waterfall. Well aren't you coming in?" Anna nodded and dived in, Snowflake joined her as well. Elsa sat on a rock near the lake with Sunshine on her lap while she watched them play in the water.

The sun was setting and they decided to head back to the campsite, they went back to their separate tents to change and after had the deer Anna killed for dinner. They went back into their tents after they all said their goodnights to rest.

During the dark hours of the night, Sunshine woke up to a sound coming outside the tent. She wiggled her way out of Idun's arm and walked outside, looking around she saw a shadow, no, shadows a little way from the campsite. Idun woke up when she realized Sunshine was gone, Idun walked outside and saw Sunshine sitting outside the tent, focused on something, her ears twitching all the time. Idun went to pick her up when she ran into the forest, Idun ran after her.

"Sunshine! Come here girl! Sunshine where are you?!" Idun walked through the forest when she heard growling. Idun froze and looked around and saw wolves not too far in front of her, she turned around and saw more of them behind her. Idun had nothing to protect her when they attacked, she screamed when one lunged at her.

Elsa and Anna woke up at the sound of the scream. "Elsa what was that?" Anna said as she hugged Elsa.

"I don't know, let's just check on Mama and Papa, to make sure they're alright."

Anna nodded, "Okay, let's go."

"Before we go, could you let me go. I can't hardly breathe." Anna released her and they got out of their tent and walked over to Agdar's. They took a peek inside and saw Agdar sleeping with Snowflake who was stretched across his stomach, Elsa left and headed to Idun's. Anna saw Snowflake yawned and got off of Agdar and saw Anna. She walked over to Anna and Anna scratched behind her ear, making Snowflake tap one of her paws against the floor. Anna heard another scream but this time it was really close.

Agdar woke up, "What's going on?"

"I don't know?" Anna shrugged, Elsa came back in the tent with worry and fear etched across her face. "Elsa what's wrong?"

"M-Mama isn't there neither is Sunshine."

"Maybe they went for a nightly walk?" Anna tried to calm Elsa down but it didn't work.

"Let's go look for them just in case." Agdar spoke up and Elsa and Anna nodded. They walked about the campsite with Snowflake trying to find any clue as to where they went. They heard Snowflake bark and found a trail with their footprints and paw prints leading into the darker parts of the forest. Agdar grabbed a lantern he kept in his tent and lit it, they ventured down the pathway with Snowflake along them.

Sunshine walked through the woods when she heard someone groaning, she followed it until she found Idun leaning up against the tree. Sunshine walked a little closer to her and found out that Idun was covered with scrapes, wolf bites and had a gash along her arm. Idun spotted Sunshine and called her, Sunshine walked up in front of her and sat down. Her ears were down and her tail was wrapped around her paws, Idun lifted her up with her hand that didn't have many injuries and rested Sunshine on her lap.

"I know you're sorry but let's get out of here before those wolves come back." Idun stood up carefully and searched for something that'll help her walk more steady or at least put her weight on it. Soon she found a good size branch on the ground and decided to use that. Sunshine kept on a high alert and looked around to make sure those wolves didn't come back.

Sunshine had to stop a few times to let Idun catch up since she's the one who is injured. Sunshine stopped and looked around when she heard leaves rustling, she looked at the bushes and saw a white wolf walked out of it. She soon realized it was Snowflake and recognized the three other shadows trailing behind.

"Mama!" Elsa and Anna ran up to her and slowed down when they saw her injuries.

"We have to get those injuries cleaned up, Papa how far is the waterfall we swam in earlier today or yesterday?" Anna asked.

"Not too far, I know the way from here. Anna carry your mother and stay behind me just in case we meet up with some wolves." Anna nodded and helped Idun. During that walk, no one noticed when Elsa trailed away from them. Elsa walked away from them hearing whimpering coming from behind the bushes. She looked behind and saw a fox pup huddled up against a tree and surrounding it was wolves.

"Why don't you all pick on someone your own size." The wolves stop growling at the fox pup and turned their attention to Elsa. "I'm warning you, back away‼" the wolves paid no mind to her and came closer to her. When Elsa realized that the wolves weren't going away, she made a replica of Marshmallow but slightly smaller to chase them away in which it worked. With a wave of her hand, she made him disappear. Her attention turned to the fox pup who was tugging at her dress. Elsa lifted the pup up and looked in its hazel brown eyes, the pup raised a paw and touched Elsa's nose with it.

"You're so cute. I can't leave you out here, those wolves might come back for you. Maybe I'll take you back home." Elsa heard her family walked by, she slipped out behind one of the trees when no one was looking.

"Hey Elsa." Anna said.

"Hmm?" Elsa hid the fox behind her when Anna turned around to face her.

"It was like you weren't here with us. you could've sneak out and sneak back in without us knowing." Anna laughed.

"Y-yeah, I could've done that." Elsa put in a fake laugh to go along with it. "That's so funny." They got back to the campsite and packed up all of their things.

"It's not even close to morning." Anna observed.

"Well it kind of is, the sky is brighter than the dark blue we saw earlier. It must be somewhere close to the break of dawn." Elsa said as she packed up her things and walked in her tent. Elsa put all of her things on the floor, letting the fox pup walk out of it. "I'm definitely keeping you."

Anna walked in and sat down in front of Elsa, "Elsa are you alright?"

"Yes I'm fine, why?"

"Well you've been acting strange when I talked to you a few moments ago."

"I was just…" Elsa took a glance over Anna's shoulders and saw the fox pup walking over to Anna. Elsa rushed past Anna and sat in front of the fox pup. "…worried about Mama, by the way how is she?"

"I'm not sure, were packing up so we could start hiking our way back down to Arendelle. Well I got to go finish packing up."

"Anna, this is our tent. We shared it, remember." Anna gave a weak laugh.

"Oh yeah, well I got to…oh…Papa's calling me."

"Anna, I heard no one." Anna ignored Elsa's sentence and ran back out. Elsa put the fox pup in an empty basket Anna brought with her which was full of chocolates and packed away all of her stuff and Anna's and took down the tent. Everyone was ready to leave and Snowflake and Sunshine smelled their way back home.

Once they were back in the castle, Agdar sent a servant to fetch the royal physician and carried Idun to bed with Sunshine trailing behind them. Anna went to her room with Snowflake and Elsa went to hers, taking the little pup out of the basket and onto her bed. Elsa changed into her nightgown and got in bed with the pup who was curled up on the sheets fast asleep.

Anna crept inside Elsa's room and saw a ball of red fur on Elsa's bed. 'Elsa's gonna flip when she sees this little baby fox. I better take him or her to my room.' She carefully took the fox pup off of Elsa and walked towards the door. Elsa heard the sound of feet shifting across the floor, she opened one eye and saw Anna holding something in her hands.

"Anna? What are you holding?" Anna turned around and hid the fox pup behind her back.

"N-nothing." The fox pup wiggled out of Anna's grip and walked back over to Elsa's bed. Elsa raised a brow at her, "Okay, I was taking this poor little one out of your room before you see it and decide to throw it out of here. It's mine now so the answer's no."

"It's not yours, someone owns it already."

"Who?" Anna looked at Elsa.

"Me. I found her last night or when we were walking back to the campsite and no I'm not gonna throw this poor little puppy out, I'm keeping her." Elsa scratched the puppy's belly.

"Well if you're gonna keep her then, you'll have to name her. How about Crystal?" Elsa shook her head.

"Jewel."

"Nuh uh."

"Red fur."

"No…wait what kind of name is that?"

"I don't know." They both heard the door opened and saw Agdar walk in.

"Morning Papa." Elsa said.

"Hi Papa." Anna smiled.

"Morning girls, what are you two up to this morning. Sneaking chocolate in your rooms?" Agdar sat on a chair in the corner of the room. The fox pup got up and walked over to Agdar and jumped up on his lap. "Huh? What have Anna brought in this time?"

"Me, I wouldn't bring in a stray." Elsa and Agdar gave her an odd look. "Fine I did, it was for a perfect reason but I didn't bring her in, Elsa did."

Agdar gave a look of disbelief, "Elsa brought this little fox pup here. I though Anna would…you know…brought it here and hid it from you. Eh…you two are full of surprises. Just one question, if it is Elsa's little fox, why is it sleeping on me?"

"I don't know…maybe it's because you're wearing a red shirt and your hair is red. Maybe she's mistaking you for a fox." Anna said as she laughed.

"Last time I checked, I don't have fox ears nor a fox tail. If I did, I would've been born a fox. Have you found a name for her yet?"

"Well Anna was on the suggestion of red fur." Elsa said.

"Red fur? What kind of name is that?"

"That's what I was saying." Elsa said as Anna huffed.

"Well do you have anything better in mind?" Anna questioned.

"Ruby?" Elsa wasn't sure if that name would suit her.

"Ruby doesn't sound bad." Agdar said.

"Well Ruby it is." Elsa smiled.

"How is she going to get a collar?" Anna spoke up. Elsa crafted a collar out of ice and a pendant with her name on it.

"Well the ice collar is there until we could get a real one." Elsa said.

"What's going on?" They looked in the doorway to see Idun and Sunshine.

"We just got a new addition to our family." Anna said as Ruby jumped off of Agdar and walked towards Sunshine with caution, when Sunshine realized that Ruby just want to play, she started playing first.

"Isn't she cute. Who owns this one?"

"Elsa and her name is Ruby." Idun walked over to the bed and sat down next to Anna.

"Ruby, I like that name. So Elsa, where did you find her?" Idun looked at Elsa.

"Well I kind of snuck out when we were walking to the waterfall and saw her huddled up against a tree with wolves surrounding her. I rescued her from them and she convinced me to take her home with those cute little hazel eyes of hers." Elsa glanced at Ruby who was playing with Sunshine and Snowflake? "When did Snowflake come in here?" Elsa thought out loud.

"I don't know but I'm glad they're happy with Ruby staying here." Anna said.

"Well at least we got something or at least someone from this camping trip." Elsa said and everyone agreed and watched the trio play until they were called for breakfast.

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