Chapter 1

A fair few months passed by Pyra like leaves dancing in wind, always flowing, always churning, and not many sessions of 'playing with the princess' had happened in those past few months.

Now, the young knight played with the little girl whenever she could, but that wasn't enough as Pyra was a busy woman. She had trainees to train, paperwork to do and guards to organise, so she only really got to play with the young princess about twice a week, for an hour and a half combined. So, despite the really slight improvement, Princess Anna was still lonely, and saddened, and so incredibly bored.

And the loneliness consumed her so much, Pyra's worst fear became a reality: Anna receiving her heritage.

It happened one evening when Lady Pyra intended to check up on the young little princess, walking down the hall briskly to the young Noble's room. It had been two weeks since she last saw the rambunctious five year old, as she took the trainees on a two week long journey for a training exercise.

However, little did she prepare for the sight before her.

It was like when she first saw Anna a few months ago: she was curled up beside her sister's door, her head in her knees and her body shaking. However, Pyra's attention was soon drawn to Anna's shadow on the wall.

It was growing and connecting to the shadows above her head and around her, the shadows growing towards her as more time passed.

'N-No!' Pyra thought frantically to herself as she saw this power, 'W-Why?! Why did she have to be my ... successor?! And now she'll … just … why?!'

Anna stopped shaking and looked up at Pyra with reddened eyes, before she sniffed and whimpered "I-It hurts." She sniffed again and repeated "I-It hurts! W-Why?! Why am I so lonely? What did I do wrong?! The shadows now comfort me … and they … whisper things." She swallowed and looked down before gasping in some air and asked "Pyra?" She looked back up at her again and asked shakily "What's happening to me?"

Pyra's eyes were wide and fearful, and with a despairing look of sorrow in them as well. She softened her face and eyes to just plain sorrow and replied "I'll tell you and your parents now at dinner tonight. I'll tell you about your 'heritage'."

She held her hand out to the frightened and lonely girl, who shakily took it and walked hand-in-hand to the dining room, now scared to death at what her family would think of her now.

As the duo reached the doors of the dining room, Pyra could easily feel Anna's shaking through her leather glove and she just said warmly "Don't worry, your family won't think lowly of you. They'll be surprised, yes, but I'll be there to explain everything, and you are not alone. Just trust me."

Anna nodded and briefly hugged her young friend, before holding her hand again and walked through the twin doors.

Her mother and father were there, sitting regally at the table, as well as, Anna was shocked to see, her sister Elsa, for she hadn't eaten with the family for nearly two months. Her father smiled warmly at her as she relinquished her hold of Pyra's hand as she walked to the table and said "Hello darling! Are you ready for dinner?"

Anna faked a wide smile and replied in a matching, convincing voice "Yes Papa, I am."

Anna sat down quietly at the table and looked down at its surface, her smile faltering a fair bit and lost the slight fake sparkle in her eyes. This struck the newly seated family as rather odd, but didn't say anything as the food began to be served. Pyra sighed slightly from the shadows of the room, knowing that dinner was now going to be an awkward affair tonight from here on out, and Anna's near hysterical nervousness was definitely not helping.

She was twitching in her seat, kept her gaze down on her plate of food, which she barely touched, kept swinging her legs under the table, and kept tightly wringing her hands nervously. The King and Queen were concerned by her silence and twitchiness, and even Elsa looked fairly worried. If anyone was looking at her properly, they'd see Anna's shadow reacting to her nervousness and fear. Eventually, The King's concern and curiousity was too much and he slightly startled Anna as he began to speak.

"My dear Anna!" he exclaimed, "Whatever on earth is wrong with you this fine evening? You've been fidgeting like a rabbit all dinner and have barely touched your food. Why are you so grave?"

Anna sighed heavily and turned to look at Pyra, her eyes sad and pleading. Pyra sighed slightly as well and stepped forward, saying as she did so "I can explain everything, Your Majesty, and there is a lot of explaining to do."

The King sat upright and commanded "Very well, speak quickly."

Lady Pyra then explained "It's more like show then speak Your Majesty, but however, please watch and listen carefully."

Pyra took off her leather gloves and shoved them into her belt, before she opened her left hand and a flame appeared, burning brightly upon her calloused palm. Anna stared in wonder at the flame while The Queen and Elsa paled, but The King remained indifferent to the show of magic, knowing of her abilities when she was assigned her knighthood. Pyra then said "This power is something I wasn't cursed with, but born with, and will pass to my child if I do give birth to one, and when I die, the power will go into my successor. I shall tell you how this is linked to Anna in a minute, but first, however, before I tell you more about that, I must re-tell a story from Arendelle's history."

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The figure sighed and yawned slightly, tapping the fingers of the figure's right hand on the desk in a drumming fashion. The figure then sighed and said aloud unenthusiastically "Well, one chapter full of history coming right up. Man, this is going to be long."