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When I awoke, I heard and owl hooting in the distance.
I shivered, for the perhaps first time in my life. Not of the cold, or course, but of fear.
Chills raced up my spine as I sat up, squinting until my vision cleared.
The sky was painted with shades of greys and blacks, dabbed with navy spots. Twinkles of the stars shown through.
The heavy, knarled trees hung in, blocking most of the sky, though leaving a tiny opening.
I was sitting in a clearing, wrapped in a blanket.
I realized it was a campsite.
Warm, dancing fire hopped up and down at my feet, and I scooted away cautiously.
"Aeddie?" I murmured.
"Winter!" Her voice echoed through the clearing, resounding like a bell.
"Help!"
"What?!" I shouted back as I scrambled up.
The boys we had seen earlier in the day were leading Aednat into the campsite.
"Let go!" She said, and tried to get the boy holding her off.
"I'm not trying to hurt you!" The boy sighed.
"We just want an answer." The other chimed in.
The way the first boy was holding Aednat's arm didn't seem very threatening either.
"What?" I growled.
"Are you elementals?" The first boy asked.
"What?"
"So you seriously don't know?" The boy shot back, shaking his head.
"What?" I asked again.
"One of the four that have elemental powers; ice, wind, fire, and water." The first boy said.
"I," He continued, "Am the elemental of wind, and my name is Chetwin. People call me Chet."
"I, am the elemental of water. And my name is... Calder."
"Oh!" I realized. I curtisied and gave a warm smile, and Chet blushed.
"I am Winter, Princess Winter of Arendale. I do not know whether I am a n elemental though." I explained.
Aednat glared at me. "I am Princess Aednat of Arendale, and you have no right to have your hands on me!" She growled at Chet and yanked her arm away.
I then actually looked at Calder.
His hair was a ruddy red shade, with brownish, almost black, streaks down the locks.
His eyes were an alluring green, competeing with Aednat's.
His face was perfectly shaped, and He had a muscular build fit for a prince. I don't know whether he read my mind or something, but he spoke up once more.
"You might be wondering how we met, Chet and I," Calder began, "I was back in the Northern Isles, being a prince, like I was supposed to be, concealing my powers of the water, when I received a letter." He gave a dramatic pause.
"It was from Chet, and he wanted to travel with me, to find the other two elementals, because he had found his grandfather's diary, stating that I graet evil threatened the entire world, by using the elementals, and he wanted to stop them."
"Oh, Wow!" I admired, smiling and blushing.
"You must be very brave. " I continued.
"Yes." Calder huffed, puffing his chest out, resulting in a giggle from me.
"So, you need us?" Aednat spoke up.
"You got it!" Chet teased.
"Hmph!" Aednat mumbled.
"But we can't come." I whispered.
"Why?" Chet responded.
"Because of- we need to talk to out late parents." I sighed, and then explained the murder and our situation.
"Oh wow." Calder chuckled.
"You are really brave to do all this." He smiled.
I grinned big, back at him, while Aednat glared at me, but I didn't care.
"Winter and I need to talk!" Aednat stated, and grabbing my arm, dragged me behind the trees in the clearing.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"What?" I shot back, dumb-founded.
"Do you actually trust them?" She stormed on.
"What's a reason not to?" I sighed dreamily. Forget that other prince!
For the first time in forever (LOL), there was a change in the plans of Winter Rose of Arendale.
"What the heck are you walking into?!" Aednat pressed.
"Are you guys done yet?" Chet called.
"Yes!" I called, skidding through the bushes with Aednat scrambling after me.
"Okay, we've come to a decision." Chet announced.
"What?!" I faltered.
"We will come with you." Calder interrupted.
"Really?" I exclaimed, relief and curiuosity flooding my body.
"You got it!" Chet laughed, and I realized it wasn't a one timer comment.
"You seem happy." Calder observed, giving a sly grin.
"For- for protection purposes." I declared.
"Oh." He sighed.
Meanwhile, Aednat, who'd freed herself or the brambles, was glaring at me.
"So, who's doing what?" She grumbled in a throaty voice.
"I'll get the water," I began, but Calder interrupted.
"Water should be my job, don't you think? I don't think water and ice should go together, Miss Ice Queen, or should I say, hot?" Calder flirted.
I giggled. "You do realize I might not be the Ice Queen!"
"I do, but my senses told me so." And with those words, he disappeared into the canopy of trees.
"I'll light the fire." Aednat sighed.
"I'll put it out!" Chet laughed.
I watched as she and Chet went off into the center of the camp.
Aednat lit the flames, only for a wind to blow it back out with a result of howling laughter from Chet.
Smiling to myself, I set off into the woods, to find some berries.
I trekked through the overgrowth, smudged mud all over me.
I sighed, pulling my hair out of my face, when something zipped across my vision.
Holding up my berry fille skirt, I approached.
It flashed, again, and again, and again, me stepping closer every time.
I followed it, then I heard a voice, talking to, it seemed, itself.
"She's the oldest. She'll be queen! Would she care for a boy, a boy, though a prince, has over 100 cousins before him in line to the throne?" It went on.
I peeked through the bushes. It was Calder!
Of course I would!, I thought.
With that, I ran, back to the camp, with a light and dreamy heart.
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