Chapter 4: Race Day & Reality
It was race day and Anna was getting annoyed with her lover's pacing about the room; she'd been doing it for the past hour.
"Elsa baby, come on it won't be a hard race." Anna says with a sigh, "I mean I showed him the most confusing, not to mention most dangerous, route we have."
"No Anna, that's not it." The blond replies frustrated, "I have a feeling Hans is going to try and pull something during the race."
"You are not the only one…" Anna mutters under her breath, she looks out the window to see the horses being readied, "It's almost time, do you want me to follow behind to make sure nothing happens?"
Elsa walks up behind the redhead and wraps her arms around the woman's shoulders and kisses her neck.
"No, if I need help Aren and Delle will come to you."
Anna nods with a small smile as the two named birds flew by their window, "Alright, I'll still have my horse ready, if I feel uneasy I'm coming after you."
"Deal, alright let's head down there."
Both women walk out into the hall and towards the exit closest to the stable that is until they heard footsteps behind them and turned.
Following them in gaudy riding attire was Hans, his outfit was black and green with frills on the collar and sleeves of the jacket.
"Morning your highness', ready to race Princess?" he asks, eyes pinned to the dark blue riding outfit Elsa was wearing.
It hugged her figure, showing her curves and enhancing them.
'Is she sparkling?' he asks himself seeing the shimmer in her outfit.
"Yes I am…" Elsa begins to reply when she feels Anna wrap an arm around her waist protectively.
The redhead's face was neutral but her body language was screaming that the interloper better watch himself; Hans didn't miss it either.
"Good, I look forward to seeing who wins." He walks up extending an elbow to Elsa, who instead wraps her arm around Anna's shoulders and begins to walk again.
"Oh I have no doubt of the outcome Prince Hans, I'm a very good rider." The blond states as they exit the castle, walking into the stable area.
Three horses were waiting, Han's horse as well as Elsa's and Anna's.
"Is Princess Anna riding as well?" he asks patting his horse's nose.
"No, however she will be ready for any emergencies. She knows exactly how much time it takes to run the course, so if we do not show up she will come looking for us."
There was a hidden warning in her words, which she hopes the prince hears.
"Ahh are you sure she can handle trouble if it comes up?" the prince mounts and moves to the starting/finish line.
Elsa raises a brow but doesn't answer as she turns to Anna and whispers, "If anything happens…"
"Elsa nothing is going to." Cold lips capture warm ones, silencing any debate as Elsa pulls her love close; then pulls her head back just enough to talk.
"If anything happens, I know you will do what is right. I love you Anna."
Anna nods staying quiet, when Elsa turns to mount her horse the redhead pulls her back for another kiss; they only pull away when Hans clears his throat.
"Be safe, and bet your sexy ass I will find you if you don't come back."
Elsa nods, turning she mounts her horse and moves to the finish/starting line.
Anna moves off to the side, "Alright the rules. One don't hurt the other rider, be courteous. This may be a race but no need for poor sportsmanship. Two don't try anything to the other rider, just race and come back to the finish line, preferably in one piece. Three have fun…any questions?"
Both riders shake their heads.
"Alright on my count of three it begins." Anna waits a moment which earned her a playful glare from Elsa. "One…two…three!"
Both riders take off into the forest, Elsa decided to slow down just a tad allowing the prince to take the lead; if she can make him think he is winning she can drop back and go the correct route without being seen.
So far it seemed to be working, as Hans looks back at her with a smirk taking off even faster; she makes a play at looking a bit annoyed and about to run after him till he turns left at the corner.
Grinning the blond goes right where Hans went left and knew that he would get lost for a good long while, but she wanted to get back as fast as possible so she spurred her horse on.
Anna watched as the two rode off and then smiled as she saw their birds follow; all she had to do was wait since her horse was saddled she decided to just walk around the stable yard a bit.
Mounting her horse she begins walk around a bit.
In the forest Hans looks back and notices Elsa was nowhere in sight, 'Did I give her the slip?' he wonders as he turns around and stops.
The path he is on looks like the one Anna took him through yesterday, he doubles back and notices hooves going the opposite direction of where he went.
"Oh you sneaky lil…" He spurs his horse on and gallops down the other path.
Elsa was a good fifteen minutes ahead of Hans, she was easily weaving the path and came to a small opening where she slows down for a moment; there was a small pond so she allowed her horse to take a drink.
She didn't realize how long she was there, that is until she heard hooves running into the opening she was currently in and an angry Hans spots her.
'Oh shit!' she thinks as she picks up her horses reigns.
Hans barrels towards her and she just narrowly gets out of the way as he rides past; he wasn't slowing down just turning and trying to ram into her again.
"Hans what are you doing?!" Elsa yells as she makes circles around him, her horse getting antsy at what was going on around it.
Hans snarls, "You and your…I don't know what to call her but you set me up!"
Inwardly smirking, but outwardly having a straight face Elsa shakes her head "Anna showed you A route Hans, we never said it was THE route that we would take."
"That's enough! I'm sick of your games, you two all over each other, it's wrong and I'm going to show you what's right!"
Angrily Hans somehow got right up to Elsa's horse and yanks her out of her saddle and drops her to the ground.
The blonde jumps up and puts space between her and the prince, while her horse seemed to move away from all of them.
"I wouldn't try anything Prince, it's a bad idea." Her voice was low and threatening.
Hans dismounts and throws off his gloves, "All you need is a man…and I'm going to be that man…"
Before he could speak anymore two birds shrilled in the air, a loud piercing noise that would reach all the way back to the castle.
Shaking his head, Hans begins stalking the blond princess; ignoring the sudden gusts of wind that where whipping around him.
Now at the edge of the forest, Anna was riding back and forth along the edge looking in; it had been almost an hour and a half since her girlfriendr rode off and she was getting worried.
So worried that she created sparks at the hooves of her horse without meaning too, making him more jumpy than usual.
Then she heard it, the loud shrill from their birds and she urged her horse quickly into the forest at a fast gallop.
Weaving in and out of trees, but not seeing a thin limb that smacked her face and cut a gash in her cheek; shrugging it off she kept moving listening and sensing where she needed to go.
As Anna made her way through the woods, Elsa was backing up trying not to use her powers on the prince but the man was making it difficult.
"This sick relationship with your sister has to end!" He shouts at her as he wipes something off his face.
"She's not my sister, we have never been sisters!" Elsa yells back at him before creating a large ice/snow ball and hurling it at him.
For a split second Hans looks stunned seeing the woman conjure something out of thin air; but quickly regained himself and dodged watching as the ball flew past him and hit a tree.
The snow fell but the ice was buried in the tree like daggers.
His eyes widen, this woman could have killed him; he gets up even angrier than before "trying to kill me now!?"
He shouts as he makes a run at her, only to be met with a wall of ice, smashing his face against it; je falls back holding his nose.
"No, just trying to keep you away from me! I don't want you nor will I ever want you!" Elsa states putting a barrier all around her of ice. "My parents sent you here without even asking me or seeing how I was, why would I want you when I have Anna?"
Hans by now had stood and drawn his sword trying to break through the ice barrier the blond had put up between them; but then he heard a voice in the distance.
A large horse appears in the clearing and then he spots the red hair of the princess; he looks around and sees a rock picking it up he takes aim.
Anna was scanning the clearing, seeing the wall of ice she guessed Elsa was behind it but where was the prince; she saw his horse that was until something hit her in the head.
For a second she felt pain and then everything went black as she fell from her horse.
Elsa who had turned to see Anna fall feels her chest seize up and now she was plain angry as clouds darkened and a blizzard started forming around them.
She locks eyes with a smug prince who was almost through her wall after knocking her girlfriend out; what he didn't know was how dangerous she could be.
She aimed and sent spikes of ice towards Hans from the ground around him, but made sure he only got hurt if he moved toward them.
"NO ONE, NO ONE HURTS ANNA!" Elsa screams as she shoots more spikes surrounding him.
At first the prince was side stepping to dodge the sharp pieces of ice, but being surrounded he went to breaking them down with his sword.
He was finding out how difficult it was to keep up with the blond princess, he also didn't expect her to have powers; but he thought they could be put to good use later.
As he broke through the wall, he charges the princess only to find her deflect him and conjure a long ice sword.
"Don't try it" Elsa states, ready to fight both with sword and anything else she could think of.
"Oh dear Elsa, this just makes me want you more and I will have you even if I have to beat you to get you!" He growls out, and their swords clash together.
Each strike he makes the blonde seemed to easily block, he also noticed she was staying on the defensive and not attacking back, 'All I have to do is wear her out' he thinks as he keeps attacking.
The fight goes on for another twenty minutes, all the while the redhead lay motionless on the ground for about eighteen of those minutes.
Her eyes open and she cringes as a hand moves to her head and feels something warm and sticky' looking at her fingers she sees blood.
"Wait…what?" she asks herself, but a noise distracts her; looking across the way she sees Hans and Elsa fighting, "Wait no no no, thi sis not happening!"
She unsteadily gets to her feet, trying to balance but failing she falls forward on her hands and knees; her head throbbing from whatever struck her.
She thinks a moment, then raises her right hand aiming directly between her girlfriend and the prince; letting out a stream of fire that effectively cuts Hans away from Elsa.
Elsa was about to deflect another blow when the prince jumps back at the fire that now separates him from his target.
"What the hell?" He follow where the fire is coming from and eyes widen, "She has powers too!?"
Elsa felt relieved that her girlfriend was awake, and used this distraction against the prince; she summoned a gust of wind that threw him about twenty feet back causing him to drop his sword as he screams.
She then makes a thick barred ice cage around him so he couldn't get out or away before running over to Anna's side.
"Anna are you alright?" She asks pulling the woman into her arms and inspecting her head.
"Have a headache, but fine." The redhead replies leaning against the blond.
"You bitches, I'm going to get what I want you'll see!" Hans yells from his cage, trying to break the bars but failing too.
"Ugh can he shut up, what happened anyway?" Anna asks as she gets her balance back in her head.
"I suppose he figured out the different path's, I had stopped here for a moment and he caught up." Elsa answered, "He wasn't happy and claims he's for me and so on…"
"Pffft he's for you over my dead princess ass." Anna states as she sits up on her own now, "Can I roast him, he's too noisy?"
Elsa giggles looking over at the prince who kept kicking at the bars and screaming "I would say yes, but we need him alive sadly."
"So you are considering it?" the younger woman asks with a small smile.
"Yes, yes I am," chuckling the blond helps Anna up on her feet, "Will you be able to ride?"
"Yeah, but what about him?" Anna motions to the still yelling prince.
"Got it covered." Elsa states as she moves her hands, wheels appear on the cage and lift the prince up off the ground, she moves over and grabs rope from a side bag on her saddle and hitches the prince up to his own horse.
"Nice, and I know the perfect room for him when we get back." Anna grins mounting her horse and taking the reign of the prince's horse, steadying herself as she did so.
"Let's just put him in the dungeon where we put all the trash, okay?" Elsa more states than asks.
"Fine….take my fun babe why don't you." The redhead teases as they begin their trek back to the stables.
~Later that night~
"Ugh that took way too long!" Anna sighs out relieved that updating all the delegates was done, it had taken them about six hours to notify everyone of what happened; and get a message out to Elsa's birth parents.
Both princesses were sitting at a table in the kitchen as Lucy brought them some much needed food.
"Thank you, Lucy." Elsa says as she picks up a spoon, "At least it is done and we don't have to worry until my birth parents arrive."
"We have a bit more time before they come, are you sure I can't go down there and heat his cell up?" Ann really wanted to get a few smacks in, after all the only thing she felt she did was give Elsa time to cage him.
"Sweetie, you did great given that you were knocked out for most of it." Elsa sets down her spoon, "Besides, we don't want to kill him."
Pouting Anna continues to eat, "Can I give him a sunburn?" she really wanted to get him in some way.
Elsa couldn't help but laugh at how Anna wanted to do something to Hans, "I am sure that he in a dark cell with just bread and water is torture enough for him."
"Okay, okay" Anna takes a sip from her glass, "I'm just happy you are okay love."
"Me, honey you were the one that got hurt…"Elsa's eyes sadden knowing it was because of her the redhead got hurt.
"And you having to block a sword from getting at you is nothing?" Anna gets up moving to grab some bread, "I don't care if I got hurt baby, I was more worried about you."
She sits back down and begins to eat again.
"I think we will have to agree to disagree, because we both are happy the other one is fine and we rather each other be safe no matter what happens personally, am I right?"
"Pwetty mush" Anna swallows blushing at her girlfriends arched brow, "Sorry, and yes you are right."
As both women finish eating, they make their way through their home "What do you think your parents will do when they find out…about us?"
"I'm not sure, but no matter what nothing will change between us." Elsa replies opening their bedroom door for Anna.
Anna enters and goes to make a fire, "If they try to separate us, I'm going to fight…no one is taking you away from me."
She had the wood stacked, she snaps her fingers and sparks fall onto eth dry wood and light the fire.
Elsa smiles watching her girlfriend, then waves her hand over her own body; her outfit changing into a nightgown as she moves to sit on their couch in front of the fire.
"Elsa, are we ever going to have just a normal day again?" Anna asks changing into her own nightgown, she is still hesitant to use fire to make clothing.
"I'm sure we will, may take some time." Elsa raises an arm as Anna comes to snuggle under her arm, and wraps in around her, "Perhaps after my birthday it will calm down a bit.
"I hope so" Both women stare into the fire, completely content to just be close.
TBC
Okay, I know what ya'll are thinking. Why is it so short? Lol this is a 3,000+ word chapter so not too short but compared to the others yeah short lol. Just a short update may have another one for you tomorrow or in a few days. Hope you enjoyed and I love LOVE reviews!