Hello guys! :) Woah thank you all for the very very cute reviews, and the general support for the first chapter! :D I'm bowled over hahaha ;v; 3
Here's an update for all of you, but unfortunately, it's going to be a rather, sad (?) chapter D: I'M SORRY.
The next chapter will be Jelsa fluff I think, if it can be considered fluff hmm.
Okays, I won't hold you all up any longer! :) Do leave a review (criticism, keyboard smashes, random feels, etc)
Disclaimer (seems I forgot to do this in the first chapter whoops) : All the characters in the story belong to Dreamworks and Disney respectively. I do not own any of them, because if I did, I'll be living in Aerendelle's castle and eating their top-notch chocolate.
"?" Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Jack stared at Anna, making their own nondescript sounds of surprise and are-you-okay.
"Wait, you can see me?" Jack asked, stumbling to his feet.
Anna started to chew at the speed of light, eager to swallow whatever was in her mouth.
"Well, yeah sure. I mean, you're 5'7 with striking white hair and super paler-than-Elsa skin. Plus you have a staff that looks like what Little Bo Peep has and it's really cool, are you some kind of cosplayer, do you have a fetish for sheep cause you even dyed your hair white, that's so hardco-" "Anna, stop stop stop. Who are you talking to?" Elsa asked with a bewildered expression on her face. She thought, "Oh god all these years after I froze part her brain, it's finally starting to fail"
"Him." she said, pointing her finger right at Jack.
"Uh Anna, there's no one there." Kristoff said, placing his hands on Anna's shoulders, getting ready to bring her out to get some fresh air because obviously, something about being in the castle made her go cuckoo.
"Wait wait wait, do you know who I am?" Jack asked with growing anxiety. Anna might be thrown into an asylum if he held her up with questions, but he was simply too curious. How was it that Anna could see him? Last time he checked, children in Aerendelle weren't exposed to stories of Jack Frost.
"Uh… no? Except for the fact that you're in my sister's room under the table, and seeing that she's in such a hurry to chase us out so that she can work, I can safely deduce that you're Elsa's boyfriend!"
Jaws hit the floor as everyone stared at Anna, including Jack because at this point, he was gobsmacked. "W-W-Wait what?!"
"Oh wait, there's a flaw in that theory, since Elsa is denying your very existence, you guys can't possibly be in love. That must hurt more than being friend zoned… You have my condolences, young white-haired-pale-skinned-boy-who-broke-into-the-castle-and-should-really-explain-why." Anna finished, fixing Jack with a look of pity.
"Oh Anna," cried Elsa as she hugged her. "I'm so sorry okay, I'm going to get you fixed. I'll bring you to the best psychologist there is okay, if all that fails, and you still continue to degenerate, I'll continue to take care of you for the rest of your life. I'm so sorry I froze your brain and caused you to become insane 10 years later. I'm so sorry Anna."
"mmmmrghppp" said Anna, in a very muffled voice.
"What did you say?" "mmmhgrrrooff" she replied, more smothered than ever.
"You want chocolate? Oh of course, I'll buy you the best chocolates in the world, I'll have them deliver a fresh batch for you everyday!"
"mmmhghgpppppp… gerrooofff meeeee!" Anna cried, wriggling out of her sister's embrace. *pant pant pant* "Elsa, I'm perfectly sane. Why can't you see him? Kristoff? Olaf? Can't you see him too?"
They fixed Anna with sympathising looks and shook their heads.
Feeling a sudden surge of frustration, she turned on Jack. "You! Why can't they see you! And who are you anyways!"
Jack shrugged his shoulders, "Not my fault they don't believe in me. And I'm Jack Frost, Spirit of Winter, Guardian of Fun."
"Jack Frost? Never heard of you. And what do you mean 'they don't believe in me'? Who believes in someone who broke into their room and hid under their table like woah man. That's just really weird. And you said you're a Spirit? If you're a Spirit, I'm the World's Clumsiest Person!" (a/n: cue eyeroll)
Jack was confused. "Wait, so you don't know who I am AND you don't believe in me? How's that poss-"
"Jack Frost? I know Jack Frost." piped up Kristoff, cutting Jack off mid sentence.
"Kristoff?" said Elsa and Anna in unplanned unison.
"He's the guy that brings snow, or rumoured to be. There used to be songs and stories in the ice business, about how to get Jack Frost to come and bless you with top-quality ice cubes."
"Hey great, that Peeta-look alike knows who I am." said Jack with a triumphant smile. "See? Now you're the World's Clumsiest Person!" he shot back at Anna.
"ShhhHHHHHH" Anna hissed, giving him a pointed look as she waited with abated breath for Kristoff to continue his story.
"There was a legend, a folktale so as to say. During the colonial times, a boy drowned in a lake in Burgess, and he became a winter spirit. From that day onwards, winter came early and left late for Burgess. The people there decided to harness this new climate change, and they became famed for their ice sculptures and Burgess became a well known winter wonderland. The people who were more skilled with ice teamed up and formed a community that dealt specifically with ice, and ice only. They were filled with such passion for the thing, they literally lived and breathed ice. As you can guess, I came from that side of Burgess. But they believed that to maintain the winters, they must sacrifice a young boy in the lake every year, to appease the winter spirit they called Jack Frost"
"What?" hissed Jack, ignored by all except Anna.
"How do you know all of this…?" Anna asked.
"...I should, I'm one of the boys they tried to sacrifice."
"WHAT." came the collective shouts of shock and anger.
"WAIT WHAT? They actually DID that? HOW COULD THEY. The winter was of MY accord, I would have done it anyways even if they didn't give two hoots about who's causing it. THOSE STINKING ELDERS SACRIFICED ALL THOSE BOYS, AND I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT." raged Jack, held back only by sheer willpower.
"It's okay guys, chill. I'm over it anyway." mumbled Kristoff with a smile, as he stretched out to pat Anna's hand, which was shaking with rage and disbelief.
"My parents were influential people in the ice community, and they had a rough year before. Hoping to tie over the Jack Frost, they put me up for sacrifice. They chose a day when the lake hadn't fully frozen over, told me to walk over. And the rest, I leave it up to your imagination."
The temperature in the room dropped a few more degrees, with Jack seething, Anna trembling, Olaf silently tearing up at the side and Elsa twiddling her thumbs, a habit of her's that refused to go away.
"Luckily for me, Sven was walking by looking for some shelter. I owe my life to him. And don't worry, I'm pretty sure that practice has been eradicated, I was the last batch." said Kristoff with a grin.
At this point, Olaf was full out crying and Anna had tears in her eyes. "Oh Kristoff," she mumbled, enveloping him in a hug. "Jack Frost sounds like a monster, eating up little boys in exchange for a longer winter."
"What?" whispered Jack, his voice a dangerous octave lower. "What did you say about me? You think I'm a monster? Did you think I wanted hundreds of little boys with such a bright future sacrificed because of me? Did you think I knowingly let this happen?"
"Well… yeah." murmured Anna, slightly taken aback at Jack's reaction.
"Try to put yourself in my shoes. Try to put yourself in a world where no one knows you exist, try to live in a world where no one believes in what you do, who you are. Try to be me, to be someone who has just recently started feeling better about himself, to get put down by rumours he didn't know existed. To be accused of being a monster." Jack spat, turning around to leave.
"Wait! But you are the Spirit of Winter right? You have powers?"
"Yeah, so what. Don't see you going around calling Elsa a monster, even though she has powers too." Jack unlatched the window, ready to jump out.
"Elsa is NOT a monster!"
"Well yeah, neither am I." as he hopped off the sill, and out of the room.
"WAIT!" cried Elsa as she ran to the window. At some point between the exchange, Elsa managed to catch the back view of a young boy with white hair jumping out of her window. A figment of her and Anna's imagination or not, she would have to check to ensure that he doesn't end up splat on her courtyard.
"Elsa…You saw him too?" Anna asked, worried that Elsa might have been affected by their conversation. "Did you hear what he said..?"
Forehead scrunched up with worry, Elsa nodded. "But only what he said towards the end."
"Let's go and find him." Both sisters nodded in agreement, and ran out in search of the offended Spirit.
Oops sorry ;_; Didn't mean for it to turn out so angsty. Honestly, I was planning for them to have a good first impression, but as I was typing, suddenly this came out because I had a niggling feeling that I needed to give Kristoff a proper background idk sorry haha Burgess isn't even NEAR Aerendelle, how did a supposedly sacrificed boy end up there. ._.?
Guest: Thank you for your review! haha glad you liked that line! (:
Banana the DragonGirl: Haha a cliffhanger to keep you all hooked ;) Nah jkjk, I was just too anxious to post it HAHA so I posted the first one early when it wasn't complete. And yes! I plan to finish this HAHA I like Jelsa too much to abandon it
Poeta Senza Faccia: Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked the descriptions! I had some help with the Elsa descriptions :) My friend Sadia is a crazy Elsa fan haha, I felt that she would be the best person to describe her from a fangirly-pov
Grey-Skye-eyes: Thank you thank you thank you! I'm really glad you like the story so far (: And yes, I felt really bad making Olaf run through Jack ;_; Haha and you know, I couldn't find the correct colour to describe it until I remembered Matilda and her mom's platinum blonde hair dye HAHAHAH
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Sidenote: WHY CAN'T THIS BE UN- ITALICISED