CHAPTER 5-First Encounter

Arendelle was no more than a speck now, when they were far enough, Lukas ordered the ship to be stopped. Next, taking a chalk out of his traveling pack he begins drawing on the deck, taking care to copy the image exactly like it is in the book.

First was a large diamond, then within its center, something similar to a dragonfly wing but sharper. Starting at the top he made the first pair of wings big, than the ones below gets smaller as he progresses. There was five on one side, and five on the other, perfectly symmetric, making it a total of ten wing parts. To finish the image, he drew a small figure above the wings of a fairy with a humming bird noise. This was the image or symbol of the land for their first destination.

Back when they were having their meeting, Lukas offered to let the others have a chance to look at the book-for reasons of building trust, Rapunzel fell upon the section of these fairies. She encouraged the departing party to visit these Beings first. Suggesting based on the book, that these fairies are kind, motherly, and compassionate, though also fierce. So it may be safer to visit these creatures first, for it doesn't sound as though they will attack without reason, and perhaps they may be willing to give them some advice as well, or offer some suggestion on which Beings to recruit.

Standing up, Lukas took out a small plate of clear glass and reflected the moonlight onto the image. "Oh man of the moon." He starts casting quietly, sounding like he was making a wish. "Your light has always been there to chase the darkness away. Now we need your light to shine our way. Please, guide us to our destination." He continues to chant this spell for a while.

At first it seems as though nothing was happening, and that the ceremony has failed. But then, the ocean water grew ever still, till only a large area of the water completely stops moving. Not even their ship can create ripples as the crew moves around to look over the side of their boat. With the water so still, the moon's image was able to reflect clearly a few feat ahead of their ship. The reflection glowed brightly and was getting brighter as well as bigger, until it swallowed the entire ship in a flash of light.

All around, before Elsa could shut her eyes against the sudden bright light; she herd some of the men gasping in fright, and felt the ship vibrating, causing her to lose balance. Afterword, she herd and saw no more.

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Moments later, she felt cool winds brushing her skin, the smell of sea water gone replaced by clean moist air. Elsa had troubled opening her eyes. The bright moonlight was gone, replaced by new soft colors of light oranges, and soft pink. As her eyes made the adjustment needed to the new lights, the men around her were also struggling with her as they try to stand again.

Elsa was the first to succeed in doing a full recovery. The surrounding was breathtaking. The ship was flowing down a river, surrounded by roughly shaped mountains that almost seem to climb on top of each other in competition to see which peak is the highest. They are so high that Elsa could see some of them being higher than the clouds. And on all the mountains, even the ones that were small patches of islands, had small trees growing over some surfaces areas of the land. They are so eloquently shaped compare to Arendelle's, or to even all the trees on Earth. Elsa had to wonder if the trees here are naturally shaped as so, or did the inhabited Beings do such things to their trees.

The men were just as awed as Elsa, enchanted by this, other world. Even Elsa's soldiers have forgotten their duty, and was straying towards the side of the ship to be close as possible to the mountains. Elsa walks towards Lukas, seeing how dazed he was at the sight.

"If only I had more time," Lukas starts upon noticing Elsa next to him, "I would spend days exploring this world and others, and enjoy it to the fullest as well…"

Before Elsa could respond, a commotion erupted from below deck. Alarm, most of the crew above rushed down to see what has happen, while the others remain to watch the ship and their surroundings, now weary of the possible dangers lurking about. Elsa's soldiers rushed and placed her in their protective circle along with Lukas, but the noise below went silent suddenly. Slowly, the beatings of boots resumed at a much calmer pace as the men, Elsa assumes, were making their way back up.

When the charging crew was sighted, Lukas called to them, "What was the matter?"

None of them answer him; they all looked a bit angry. Instead, the men separated forming a wide path. Walking through the path was, surprise-surprise, Princess Anna. She was wearing a light traveling dress, a mixture of black and three shades of dark green, along with a cloak similar in color to the one she wore during winter.

"Hi…sis." Anna said awkwardly, with a hesitant smile while shyly waving a hand at her sister. When Elsa didn't respond, continuing to look at her in shock, Anna got even more nervous. "It's beautiful here," Anna said, trying to redirect the issue at hand, "So what is this world called? Did anyone spot any Beings yet? When are we going to explore-?"

"Anna!" shouted Elsa, finally able to talk. Elsa's sudden enraged voice caused her soldiers to back away from her, even Lukas. He was well aware of possible ice accidents if Elsa's emotion gets out of hand, though there hasn't been word of such accidents in the last three years.

"What are you doing here-?! Wait, never-mind, I know why. How you ever even got on is what I would like to know. I thought you might try something like this so I had soldiers do routinely checks. There were no signs of you!"

Anna could see that ice was forming just below the trim of Elsa's traveling dress, but ignored it, and smiled sheepishly while looking away from her. "At first I tried having Olaf and Sven distract the soldiers, but that ended rather badly…So I hid in a cargo box and got loaded on board, but I couldn't come out until I was sure that we had crossed over to the other world."

Taking a hand Elsa rubbed her temple, feeling the headache coming back. "Alright, I blame myself for not being thorough enough. But I had every cargo checked before being loaded on the ship. So who did you have helped you get loaded on…? Eugene?"

As hard as Anna tried, she couldn't mask her expression well enough to hide the fact that Elsa's guess was right. "Ok, you're right, Eugene did helped, but-"

"Get down my-lady!" cry the watch men. Anna was pushed down by one of the crew members as a boomerang came spinning over her head. Elsa rush over to Anna as fast as she could to see if she was ok. Lukas, though shock, follow the boomerang with his eyes, knowing it will have to round-about back to its owner. But whoever, or whatever its owner is, the creature moved too fast for Lukas to take a good look at when it caught its weapon. All Lukas saw was that it is big, and quick, jumping into a hole on the side of a mountain before the hole disappeared.

Instantly, a swarm of bird-like animals started attacking all the men on board, causing a large panic to erupt. These birds are smaller compared to even the tiniest bird on Earth, about the size of a hatchling, making them fast and hard to hit. Elsa couldn't hit any of them either, not without running a risk of freezing the people on board. All she could do was shield Anna the best she could.

Then, one by one, the men fell. Not dead for sure, by indication of some of them, snoring. Something gold was bouncing around to each man, the cause of their unconscious after contacted. The swarm disperses suddenly as it had come. Anna and Elsa were the only conscious ones. Elsa's guards were all asleep, pile on top of each other. Lukas was uncomfortably lying face down; his head is to the side, his glasses clutching onto one open ear while the other side dangled, crouch with his rear end pointing to the sky, on knees, and both hands were spread away from the chest.

It was completely silence now, save for the flowing sound of the river they are on. "Elsa…" Anna called to her sister. Elsa looks at Anna, who looks stunned and scared while looking over her shoulder. Elsa turns in the same direction. There was a stubby man that glowed in gold, his robe and hair glistered like he was from a sand painting, and even his skin seems to shine of the texture. He smiles at the two, blew a breath of air, and all went black.

(Getting closer to the first paring, can anyone guess it? But until then, who will Elsa and Anna meet next?)