Chapter 3 Hans
Hans came back from the stables since his punishment was cleaning up after the horses. Changing his clothes, he went to town. Since the Southern Isles closest trade partner was Winterville, they got all the news about what's going on in the royal family. He entered the chocolate shop, he saw three of his brothers but none of them noticed him since he made himself look like one of the villagers. He took a seat behind his brothers and listened to what they were saying.
"Hey Alexander, look at this, Princess Marie is planning revenge on the royal family of Arendelle. If she succeeds, she'll put Hans to shame, know what I'm saying?" Albert said.
"I get what you're saying, Albert. If Hans ever hears about this, I don't know how he'll react to this." Alexander said, "But I for one think no one should tell him nor let him find out about it."
"I agree, how about this, double his punishment." Victor spoke up.
"Sure." Alexander said.
"Great idea." Albert agreed.
After Hans was finished eating his chocolate and hearing what his brothers have to say, he left. He went back to the castle and entered his old room for some things. Collecting the things he need, he heard his brothers in the castle so he had no choice but to jump out the window before he could've been caught.
Running back to the stables, he emptied the satchel which was ink, quills and papers. He started writing to his friend who lives in Winterville, asking him to let him stay there for five months. He hoped that his friend answered soon because he doesn't know when the Princess is going to do her revenge. All he needed to do was coax her into letting him help her plan the revenge and at last, he will rule the throne while Elsa and her family will be tortured under his hands. He sent the letter and all he had to do was wait.
*Winterville.*
Jackson was sleeping in his cabin when he heard pounding on the door. "I'm coming!" He got up and walked over to the door, opening it, he saw David with a letter in his hand.
"Hey David, what's with the pounding on the door?"
"I've been knocking on your door for the last ten minutes." David said. "Anyways, this letter came for you."
"Who is it from?"
"Someone name Hans, I think. Wait isn't he the Prince who tried to kill the Queen and the Princess a few months ago?"
"Yeah so?" he opened the letter and started reading it.
"Nothing, what's in that letter anyway?"
"He wants to stay here and before you ask why, is to get revenge on the royal family once and for all." Jackson said.
"Would you let him?" David asked.
"Just to let Princess Marie off our backs a little, sure why not." He walked over to his desk, "All I have to write back is that he can stay and she would love for him to come over and help out with the plans."
"Isn't that wrong?"
"Yes but would you want a sword to take you head away?"
"No."
"See; now let's send this back to him." Jackson said.
*The Southern Isles.*
Hans was feeding his horse when one of his brothers walked in.
"Hey Hans!" James said.
"What do you want?!" Hans sounded annoyed.
"You don't speak that tone with me, I'm the King after all." Hans rolled his eyes, "This letter came for you."
"Who is it from?"
"I had no time to read one of your stupid letters." He handed Hans the letter and left. Hans opened the letter and saw that Jackson agreed for him to stay there. He decided it's best to tell them in a few days that he chose to leave here and go Winterville for some other reason, so that he could leave without having his brothers become suspicious.
Two weeks have passed and Hans decided it was a good time to tell them that he wanted to leave. Hans saw his two brothers James and Victor in the royal garden, talking. He walked over to them.
"Um…James." Hans said.
James sighed, "What do you want now, you little brat."
"I want to leave." Hans said.
"Leave and go where?"
"I have a friend in Winterville who works with the soldiers or more likely the captain. He wants me to join them." James grew suspicious.
"Why do you want to go?" James asked.
"Didn't you want me to leave a few weeks ago?"
"Yeah." James said.
"Well what changed your mind, I told him I was really good with a sword and he wrote back stating that Queen Clarice would love for me to be part of the guardsmen group just to protect the kingdom from any harms." Hans explained.
"You're telling the truth right?"
"Yes I am, now can I leave or not because he needs and answer for the Queen."
"Fine you can leave but if this is a lie, you're going in the dungeons as soon as you come back, got it?" James questioned.
"Yes." Hans said. Since the boat will be coming tomorrow morning, that same night, Hans started packing but what did he have to pack? He didn't really had much clothes to pack and not much food either, knowing that the food on the boat isn't going to taste any better that what had anyways.
The next morning, he saw the boat and got ready to leave this kingdom he once called home. He had no regrets of leaving the kingdom because in a matter of months, he's going to be King of Arendelle. He boarded the boat and since Winterville wasn't that far from the Southern Isles, the trip was only for one day. The very next day, he heard a knock on the door.
"What do you want?" Hans asked.
"Nothing sir, I'm here just to inform you that we have reached Winterville." The servant said.
"Thank you, that will be all." He imagined the servant bowing and walking away. Hans got his stuff and walked out of the boat and onto the docks, meeting Jackson.
"Hey Hans." Jackson said.
"Hi Jackson, I'm guessing that I have to start training now?"
"No, tell me the real reason as to why you have come."
"I want to help Princess Marie get revenge on the royal family once and for all." Hans said.
"I knew I was right, Princess Marie is in the training area." Jackson said.
"What is she doing there?"
"She knows how to use a sword, Hans. Make her really upset or extremely angry, she's gonna use it on you."
"I'm not going to upset her at all, now let's go see her." The two of them walked to the guards training area and saw Princess Marie fighting with one of the guards. As Princess Marie did her final blow, disarming the guard, she saw Jackson with someone standing next to him. Princess Marie walked over to them.
"Aren't you supposed to be training, Jackson? And who is this person?" Marie asked.
"This is Hans, he wants to help you with your plan of destroying the royal family and yes, I'll be getting back to that." Jackson said before he left.
"Hans, Hans, sounds familiar to me. Wait, aren't you Prince Hans of the Southern Isles who tried to kill the Queen and the Princess but failed?" Marie asked.
"Yes I am." Hans said.
"And you want to help me with the plan of destroying the royal family of Arendelle once and for all?"
"That's right."
"Follow me; I can't really talk about this here because my sister always sends a guard to check up on me." He nodded and followed her until they reached her sister's study. "My sister just left to go a meeting and she wouldn't be back for the next two hours. We have to know their every movements, so where you suggest they would be?"
"Well the kingdom of Icelandia is having a royal ball and they invited everyone, so I'm guessing they would be going to Icelandia for the ball which is in the next eight days." Hans said.
"Great, so how are we going to take them down?" Marie asked.
"Before I answer, I just want to know what's in it for me."
"You can either become the King and I'll be your Queen or I adopt you to become the heir to the throne. You have two options, choose wisely." Marie said.
"I'll have to think about that, anyways back to the plan. We could kidnap them and hold them hostage." Hans said.
"Yeah but where's the action and the adventure in this. I want to get at least one person they care about in this."
"I give a plan and you make it in a way that they could suffer."
"I guess I could do that but I can't tell you yet, I want to make it a surprise." Marie said.
"Okay so that's done, do I have to get to training now or…"
"Not really but just do it to cover up the real reason why you are here from my sister…I mean sisters sorry."
"How many sister do you have?" Hans asked.
"Why you ask?" Marie asked.
"Just to know who they are and what they look like. In case the plan succeeds we have to escape right?"
"Oh now I get why. I have three sisters, my sister Clarice who's the Queen. Clarice is very sweet but my other sister Isabelle isn't. Anyone new that comes here, she always have a way of asking them questions until she barges the truth out of you, so I think it would be best to stay away from her as far as possible unless you're with me." Marie said.
"Who's the last one?" Hans asked.
"I don't want to talk about her. A matter of fact, I don't want bring up any topic that includes her. Unless you want me to talk about her, I don't mind."
"No, no you don't have to if you don't want to. I'm not forcing you to, when you feel like talking about her, you can go ahead." They both sat in awkward silence and Marie glanced at the clock.
"Well I guess you should be going training now because my sister should be coming back from her meeting anytime now." Marie said.
"Will you be coming training too?"
"Yes, I always come just to see if those guards can fight especially Jackson. He really good with a sword but I'm thinking he can do better. I'll be coming late because I have to tell Clarice that you're really good with a sword and ask her if you can be my personal guard."
"Why?" Hans asked.
"So we have more opportunities of discussing the plan." Hans nodded.
"Well I'll be going to training now." Marie watched him leave. Just then Clarice walked in.
"Who was that?" Clarice asked.
"A new recruit, I want him to be my personal guard." Marie said.
"Why?"
"He's really good with a sword and before you ask, I already got the truth out of him."
"What's the truth then?"
"Well he's Prince Hans of the Southern Isles and yes he was the same Prince who tried to kill the Queen and Princess of Arendelle but he came here to change, honest." Marie said.
"Okay then but I'll give him about one week to prove himself of being your personal guard. Is that alright with you?" Clarice said and Marie nodded.
"Well I'm going to train with the guards." Marie walked towards the door.
"When will you stop using a sword? You're going to get injured with that one of these days." Clarice said.
"Never, I'll only get injured if I want to protect or I am protecting the kingdom." She left.
*Arendelle*
Elsa and Anna were walking down the halls until they stopped in front of their parent's room, remembering what they heard two days ago.
"Elsa, who is Crystal?" Anna asked.
"I don't know, they read the invite from Icelandia and all of a sudden Mama said that they found Crystal after all these years." Elsa said.
"Could Crystal be Mama's sister?"
"I don't know."
"Papa's sister?"
"I don't know."
"There could be something in their room to help us to know who Crystal is." Anna said as they entered the room.
"What makes you so sure about that?" Elsa sat on the bed.
"I'm not saying I'm sure about it but there should be at least one clue." Anna leaned on the wall next to the wardrobe and heard a click. Suddenly the wardrobe moved to the right revealing a door.
"What's in there?" Elsa asked.
"I don't know, maybe you should go first." Anna said.
"Why me, you found it so you should go first."
"Wait, we should both go first. How's that?" Anna asked.
"Sure." Elsa opened the door and they both stepped inside. The looked around and realized what the room looked like.
"Elsa, this room looks like the gallery but it only has pictures of a little girl who looks slightly like Mama for some sort." Anna said.
"I know but who is this?" They watched all the pictures until they came by one with something written at the bottom of it.
"Princess Crystal Winters of Arendelle." Elsa muttered.
"What did you say Elsa?" Anna asked.
"She's Crystal. That girl holding the pink stuffed rabbit is Crystal. That means…"
"That means the stuffed pink rabbit was hers."
"What? No Anna. That means we have a sister but we don't know that for sure."
"Oh yeah that too, why don't we ask someone like Kai about her. Maybe Kai will know a little bit about her." Anna said. They exited the room, finding the block that made the click, moving back the wardrobe in place. They walked out of their parents' room, turning the corner they saw Kai.
"Hello your majesties." Kai greeted.
"Hi Kai, we just want to know something." Anna said.
"What may be the something you want to know?"
"Do you know who Princess Crystal is?" Elsa said and Kai froze at the sudden question, no one never spoken about her in years.
"No, I don't know who Princess Crystal is. Have you tried asking any of the guards or other servants to know?"
"No but we'll try, thanks Kai." Elsa said and they both walked away.
"What was that all about?" Gerda walked out of the room.
"They wanted to know who Princess Crystal was." Kai said.
"Princess Crystal, no one never spoken about her when the King and Queen gave up looking for her five years ago. Why do they want to know who she is?"
"I don't know but for now I think we should stay out of this." Kai said.
"Yeah I think we should."
"Well what do we do now?" Anna asked.
"Maybe we can ask Mama and Papa at dinner." Elsa said.
"It's worth a shot." Elsa and Anna walked down to the dining room for dinner.
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