Chapter 2

A hooded lady walked through the night-bathed streets of Arendelle, on bare feet. Every time she stepped, she froze the very ground beneath her. Everybody out at the streets (who was very few) glared at her piercingly, as if she was a spy, helping in the planning of an attack to the city. And she, in fact, was.

She stopped by a house, brightly lit by candles and it's furnace. It was in a silent street, visually no one was walking around this part of this city. The woman lied by the door and eavesdropped. She loved doing so. It made her seem so cunning and stealthy to enemy when she did attack. The house was owned by the family of Kay - the woman's pawn.

"Kay's grandmother," a young girl, Gerda, spoke, "do you, in your library, keep of anything about the Snow Queen? No, I meant the Ice Queen."

"How dare talk about her?" the woman hissed. "No it's me… me… yes… me… she is me…"

"Oh, funny enough," the grandmother chuckled, "I was about to tell you about her for she was the first of the characters I learnt."

The woman remove her hood and revealed her reddish hair and pale freckled face. Her hair was tied up with a green bow and so was her collar. She was Princess Anna. The royalty knocked on the door. There were quiet whispers before Anna faced the wrinkled grandmother of Kay. She was surprised seeing the princess on her door in the middle of the night.

"Oh, Lady Anna, what's your request for tonight? I understand that it is at night but I would be hasty enough to mend your…"

"Oh, no. I was just going to give Kay's stories back," Anna said, pointing at Kay, with a warm, friendly smile. "Their probably the best I have read. You should publish them."

Anna knew that he wouldn't be able to publish his stories, especially after she drew two pieces of the Ice Queen's mirror into his eye and into his heart. Nobody would know unless… somebody aids him. After doing a final wave (and seeing Gerda shove Kay), Anna left to walk back to the castle. As she left, Gerda noticed the unusually green bows Anna wore. But, she ignored and looked up to her friend's grandmother, like how Kay did too.

"There is only one thing you must know about the Ice Queen," the old lady said, gently giving the two the leather covered book she read every night. "Mathew Chapter 5, Verses 43 to 48."

As this happened, Anna walked gracefully into the halls, to see her sister awake, drinking a cup of coffee, in her nightgown. Elsa glared at Anna.

"Wait, so the etiquette lessons allowed walking around in nightgowns, while drinking coffee, Elsa?" Anna giggled.

"Just can't sleep…" Elsa yawned.

"Count sheep!" Anna gleed.

Elsa just walked towards the balcony and continued her sewing, ignoring Anna. Anna sighed and walked away. It was almost… genuine yet fake.

"Not until I defeat this Ice Queen."

"She nothing but the figment of your imagination."

"SHE'S WAGING WAR OVER OUR PEOPLE!" It was a long time ever since Elsa scolded Anna. A tear rolled down Anna's cheek.

"She's waging war on you."

Anna walked away in silence, leaving her sister alone. Once Anna left, Elsa fell to the ground crying. Why was she dreaming of such monstrosity? Why was she effecting her sister so much? Her list was so long that she really felt that she was the Ice Queen.

In the meanwhile, the real Ice Queen was pleased with what she was seeing. Using Anna as her puppet, she could weaken Arendelle and its throne, enough for her to claim it as hers. But Anna was unaware that she was under the control of the Ice Queen. She's like a person staying out in the sun from the morning to noon unaware that she's getting burnt, because of the swiftness of the heat. That was how the Ice Queen worked. She would slowly possess Anna, making her unaware of it, and soon she was a pawn on the chessboard.

Not only that - she's got hold of the bait - Kay. Gerda was prophesied to defeat her. In order to do this, the witch had to draw her out. But unknown to her, this just encouraged the prophecy. The Ice Queen couldn't wait to finish her army of one thousand, which would take a decade to finish - enough time for Anna to do her job - to weaken and defeat her sister and Queen, Elsa.

It was dawn and Elsa waited for her sister Anna, who was inside her room. She wanted to say sorry to her. But it was already eight-o-clock - the time Anna needed to wake up. Elsa leaned on the wall beside it and slid down to the ground, crying. The door burst open, with a desperate Anna running out.

"Oh no, oh no… Elsa was just beside me and then she just vanished… what should I do? What should I do?" Anna muttered to herself.

"Anna!" Elsa shouted from Anna's back, trying to catch her attention.

"Elsa!" Anna said, running up to her as if it she was missing and then found.

Anna hugged Elsa tightly.

"Wait… You were crying?" Anna asked, noticing Elsa's face with streams of… ice.

"I just wanted to say sorry for the things I shouted last night," Elsa said sincerely, "for hurting you."

"You didn't shout at me last night and you didn't hurt me," Anna protested. "Let me check… Nope."

"Anna, I was awake all the night and I saw you with my bare eyes, tearing up and running away to your room," Elsa said.

"Well, I forgotten," Anna smiled.

She then skipped off, like how she always did, early in the morning. Elsa sighed in relief that Anna didn't get hurt at all. But she didn't know that the Ice Queen was going to stop it.

She's waging war on you. The words echoed in Elsa's mind like fish swimming in a bowl. She felt that she was… delirious. Was she? Elsa opened her room's door and closed it as she entered. All she needed was a rest from this thought. But she wouldn't - couldn't, especially if it was Anna. Elsa dived into her bed and tried sleeping. She knew it was impossible.