Chapter 4

Manny's Warning

"I wanna go outside.

To talk, to play, to set aside,

All my problems here, all my problems there.

I'll go outside.

Feel the wind and the sun.

See the moon and the stars.

I'll go outside."

Elsa sang in a hushed tone as she look outside her window. Coronation day is just a year and a few months away. Even though it is a long time, to Elsa, it feels like it will be tomorrow.

She sighed, causing her warm breath to blow on the window. It made a steam on the window pane that made Elsa draw various things she had seen outside, using her gloved finger.

"Princess Elsa... you're lunch is served for you," then there was a pause. "Do you wish to eat at the Dining Hall?"

"No thank you," she says automatically and approached her door. Taking a deep breath, she opened her door slightly to see her current personal maid standing and holding a plate of food on a tray. If Elsa didn't tell the servants in the castle to serve her normally, the tray on her personal maid's hands may be full of table napkins, different kinds of silverwares and many more that may be too much for a single person. But then again, Elsa is royal.

"Thank you," Elsa says and slowly takes the tray with her gloved hands. Her personal maid nodded politely and Elsa signaled her to leave as soon as she herself closes the door.

Elsa walked towards her bed and sets her lunch on it. It appears to be the most delicious Norweigan dish Elsa has ever tasted. She made a small smile, as it is served to be fresh and steaming hot that she could smell it, even through the coldness of her room.

Her smile would've reached her eyes if she could just go outside and join her sister Anna.

She kneeled down the floor and grabbed her silverwares. Releasing a breath, she started to dig on her dish. It was depressing to eat alone ever since she was kept inside her room. Today, Anna didn't ask her if she would join her in eating lunch. Anna would always ask her. And Elsa would force herself to respond a 'no' before frowning at her faint and blurry reflection on a fine layer of ice laying on her floor, for Anna's sake. Anna's voice was the only sign that she was still present in Elsa's life. But now, why didn't she?

(-_-)

North was given a silent yet significant message. Manny showed up with a very alerting warning, and North doesn't like this at all. In fact, once he gathered all the Gaurdians in his workshop, everyone was devestated and anxious when North told them that someone will destroy them.

"Who is it?" Tooth wondered.

"Is it the Boogeyman?" Bunny asked with a scowl. "I swear, if that man goes lurking 'round the corners..."

Sandy lays a hand on Bunny's arm, silently saying to stop. It would help if they all stay calm and plan something to stop this new enemy. Bunny rolled his eyes and looked at North.

Sandy also looks at North, and something formed on top of Sandy's head. It was a small yet buff creature with large wings. Norh instantly received Sandy's guess and shook his head. "No Sandy, it's not the Moth man."

"Then who?" Bunny asked.

"Manny sho's that... it vas a dark devotchka."

"A spirit?" Bunny wondered out loud. Sandy formed something on his head, which was a question mark made out of glittering sand.

"Err... a dark voman," North translated with a clear Russian accent.

"Really?" Tooth wondered again. She was silent once she received the warning from North. Her tooth fairies were silent either, and their wings were the only source of sound coming from them. Tooth thought something like this was up. Once Tooth heard Santa's description, something popped up in her mind- a curvy figure with long curly hair. She suspected it was a girl until North confirmed it was a woman.

"A female? Is it the white lady?" Bunny guesses.

"No. It couldn't be," says Tooth. "The white lady's not gruesome enough to destroy us. Think about it."

"Vhat I also do not understand, is that this voman, has never passed Manny's greeting." North says.

"The awakening?" Tooth asked and North nodded.

"That's actually a possible occurance. Manny says she can control things. She seeks for something that should not be truly desired."

"And that is what?" Bunny asks.

"I still do not kno'," North says and walks into his office.

"Are we supposed to be going then? To find who this mystery woman is?" Tooth asked as she stared approaching North's door. North sat down on a chair and watched the elves fix all the scattered cookies on the ground.

"Manny has chosen someone."

(-_-)

Green eyes blinked several times as she recognized the scenario before her.

"Rupunzel!" A man's voice shouted and the helpless girl continuesly heard many crashes of the chaos around her. Her head whipped to her right where a boy was waving his flaming sword on every approaching icycles toward him. "Rupunzel, help!"

"Run! Run! Just go!" She looked to her left, seeing a pale-skinned boy flying towards a girl, her movements clearly panicked and surprised. Instead of running, she accidentally slipped. It was the exact time when the boy's body collided with hers violently, both of them rolling far away. Both of them lost their weaponry.

"You think you can defeat me!?"

She looked right ahead, to see the woman wearing her dark smile. Her eyes fixed a flaming fury, and her arms raised. Soon, more icycles raised from beneath them, seemingly coming from nowhere, endlessly. Then she pushed her arms forward, and the icycles followed her mental command.

"No!"

Rupunzel gasped loudly for air, bolting up from her bed. Her heart thumped loudly in her chest, as the nightmare she just dreamt off replayed furiously in her mind.

She held her chest, her heart beat still not slowing down. She has seen many nightmares about it, but everytime she sees this scene, she gets parlyzed with fear. As if... this will eventually come true.

She shook her head, clearing all absurd and confusing thoughts. She finally settled that it was just a dream. Besides, does she know some of them? Of course not. But that boy... she had seen him many times in her dreams. Most actions he does in her dreams were the majority of petting wild animals- as she have seen in her books. The pale-skinned boy and the red-haired girl... they were just additions, unexpectingly appearing in her dreams once in a blue moon. The woman though... she couldn't describe her. She heard her voice- always doubled. And her image is always blurry and fuzzy at certain times. It was queer and odd to see such familiar faces, yet unknown strangers.

A little later, she calmed down, telling herself to maintain her made-up breathing exercise.

She could see Pascal in the dark, doing many croaking sounds like a frog. She sighed.

"It's okay, Pascal. I'm okay. It's just one of those bad dreams I see," she said. "I know they always happen, especially when mother is out of the tower. But I don't get it."

She looked out of her window, seeing the bright full moon shining. The sight was marvelous, however, something swelled up in her chest.

"I will never get it." It was fear.

(-_-)

Somerled, or Merida, notched up one of her special arrows and aimed them towards the sky. Releasing calmly, she started approaching the cold riverbank.

She was still in Germany, spreading summer around. It wasn't hard, but then there are other countries that will have a new beggining with Summer.

Merida took a deep breath and exhaled, sitting down on the rocky ground and letting her warmth spread. It's one of those days when she'll think about her past life as Merida Dunbroch, the brave lassie who... turned her mother into a bear. It sounded funny once she remembered. With that case, she remembered that they bonded very well with each other.

She sighed and looked up. Working for the passed few hours, the sky had darkened until it was almost the German's curfew. She believed that most forests in the world has a nice view of the sky, where blinking stars would look down at her world.

Oh how she loved these moments... peace to herself.

"Someone's 'joying the view."

Merida jumped with a short gasp, immediately clutching her bow.

But once she saw the stranger, she exhaled with relief. There are only people in this world that she consider to let them see her soft side, where she never covers herself with a mask.

"It's you... I thought you're somebody else," she said, her accent actually missing.

Bunny chuckled and smirked. "Let's get to the point, Red. We need'ya help. Your blood's worth."

"What kind of help are 'ye, talkin' about?" Merida asked. Then she mused jokefully. "'This regards Frosty?"

Bunny chuckled again. "That boy. 'Cunning as a dunny rat. It would be bloody fantastic," he said with humour. But then he spoke with a certain seriousness. "This regards your help for trouble."

"Well then," Merida approached him with an adventurous smile, for she knows what'll happen, "shall we?"

Bunny smirked and tapped the rocky ground. Then they're falling into a hole.