CHAPTER 7-Meet the Attackers
To Elsa's frustration, North made good on his resolve to not answer any of her question. All she currently knows is that the ship has been docked in a nearby cave, the crew and her soldiers are all safe and are still asleep, somewhere, and they will remain in a deep sleep until it is time for them to return to Arendelle. Meanwhile, Lukas had awaked not too long before Elsa, and was being kept in place by a friend of North, whom he called Bunny; the being or creature that threw the boomerang around the ship initiating the attack.
Anna woke up with a yawn, her eyes were squinted, twisting and turning to get a good stretch, and by some miracle her breaded-pigtail hair remains intact from the hours of slumber. "Good morning Elsa, and…someone." She greeted drowsily.
"More like good afternoon," replied Elsa angrily. She still hasn't forgiven her sister for sneaking on board, plus she'd been kept waiting for two long hours for Anna to wake up. She and North have tried to wake her several times, but Anna just kept sleeping.
"No more time to be sleepy or mad girls, let us go." North hurries Anna out of bed, than wave the two sisters to the door. "Watch where you go there girls, we can't have you falling off."
"Falling off?" asks Elsa.
"Wait, who are—who is he Elsa?" ask Anna, quickly waking-up now. But it didn't take her long to wake up completely.
Once the door opened, the two were pushed gently out hitting the railing. They were stunned. They truly have no words to describe what they were looking at, they are even unsure as to what they were looking at. Before their very eyes, stood many columns attached to the top of the cavern's rocky ceiling. There was a gaping opening far to their right, which lets in the sun's light illuminating the scene for them. The columns were all refined, lightly resembling something similar to an Indi god headwear, with sharp triangle shape pieces stack upon each other, to end meeting at the peak. However, the columns also reminded Elsa the inside of a honeycomb, for there were flocks of humming birds zooming in and out of the columns doing something but she just can't tell.
"Quickly now, we must go!" said North, hurrying the girls along. Elsa and Anna were both nerves to walk on the bridges that connected one column to the next. The bridges are wide thank-god, but they had no railings, and some of them were steep going up or down. With one slip step, then anyone can easily sly down to their death. North on the other hand was walking with ease, not fearing the steepness of the bridges.
He led them to what Elsa assumes to be the center of the cavern, where the largest column hung, and where the majority of the humming birds swarm. Rounding around the corner, Elsa and Anna hears a female voice speaking very rapidly: naming countries, capitals, towns, villages, some they have herd of and others foreign to their knowledge. Nearing the voice with her back towards them, they see her floating by the quick fluttering of her wings, and she was clothed in feathers with colors consisting of gold, shades of green and blue.
"Tooth!" called North, "Call Bunny and Sandy, we'll start meeting right away."
The Being turns around showing her full self. She seems to be part human and part bird. Her eyes are violet with pink eye-shadows, and it wasn't that she was clothed in feathers, but the feathers are a part of her body. Even in placed of hair, she has feathers that curved beautifully upward; her entire body is imbedded with mini feathers, with long draped ones starting at her waist line ending near her knees, giving the appearance of a train to a dress.
"You herd him girls," Tooth said addressing some of the nearest hummingbirds around her. "Go and call the others."
Upon farther inspection of the tiny hummingbirds, Elsa realized they are not quite birds at all. They hold a small portion of human like qualities, arms, legs, facial expressions, and they resembled Tooth in similarities of feather colors, along with eye color and eye shadow. The only difference between them and Tooth was their nose, taking after their bird half, long, slick, but hard, and looks painful to be poke with. Meanwhile Tooth's noise was petit and quite human.
Still speaking rapidly, Tooth greeted them excitingly, with a big warm smile on her face while fluttering between the two sisters. "Elsa, Anna, it's great to meet you properly, and your teeth!" She startled them when in a flash, she stuck her fingers into each of their mouths, open their jaws, then pulling them back out fast. She gasps when she saw Elsa's. "Still as white was ever Elsa! Anna, be careful now, those snuck chocolates will catch up to you soon if you don't-"
"Tooth," North whispered loudly, "Not now."
"Right, sorry, I couldn't help it, they're maintaining good teeth after so many years. Oh, and sorry for the earlier attack, we needed to get you guys alone along with Lukas."
"So you're the one that attacked us!" Anna said, remembering the event. She made to grab Tooth, but she dodged Anna's attempt.
"We are sorry, even my fairies can't stop feeling guilty. Look at their faces." Anna and Elsa look at the nearby mini fairies, and they rather do look remorseful.
"Still," continued Anna, "there was no reason for the unwarm welcome. If you wanted to talk to us so bad, couldn't you done so more civilized? I-mean, we need to talk to you guys as well, that's the whole reason why we even came here."
"We know Anna. We know why you're here." said North.
"…You do?" ask Anna, taken aback by their knowledge. "How?"
At that moment, the sisters herd Lukas's voice calling for them, and they answered him. He came around from behind the curve, looking anxious and somewhat out of breath. "Are the two of you alright?! They didn't hurt you did…they…?" Lukas had turned an eye at North and Tooth only to be stunned.
"Lukas?" ask Elsa, "are you alright?"
"Incredible…" Lukas said while uttering a quiet laugh. "First I was held against my will by a six to seven foot bunny; now a part-human part—hummingbird-hybrid, and her big companion there is going to interrogate us."
"We won't be interrogating, Lukas." corrected North. "We are going to have meeting."
"I swear mate," said a new voice with a strange accent, getting the attention of Elsa and Anna. "This guy must've hit his head hard coming down. That, or Sandy's been doing something strange to his dream sand." The sisters realize that this must be the bunny Lukas was speaking about. Six to seven feet was correct. His coat of fur was a light shade of grey, with irregular patterns that looks like flower imprints running along the lines of his body. The bunny has bright green eyes, wears leather bracers, with a holster that seems to carry his boomerangs, and there were leather wrappings around his feet. Overall, he was almost as intimidating as North, especially with his unhappy look.
As if on cue, a ball of golden sand struck the ground by the bunny's feet, making him jump and uttering a short shout "Crikey!" The ball immediately returns to its owner after bouncing off the ground. "Bloody mate, I was only joking."
"It's you!" Elsa said in surprise, recognizing the gold man. He was now removing himself off of a swirl of gold sand, floating down like a descending lantern next to Tooth. After reaching the ground, he looks at the sisters, smiles warmly, and waves his fingers at them in greeting.
"Good, everyone's here!" said North with satisfaction. "Shall we introduce ourselves?" He looks over at Elsa, encouraging her to start.
Elsa didn't see the point in doing introduction, but still, she raises herself tall displaying her elegant queen-like quality. "Well I'm not sure if there's a need for introduction, but if you insist. My name is Elsa, Queen of Arendelle."
"And I am her sister Anna, Princess of Arendelle." joined Anna, doing her best to imitate her sister.
"And I am Lukas, the fifth Prince of the Southern Isles," added Lucas, managing to recompose himself from his shock.
North smiled, and began his introduction. "You're Majesty, Princess Anna, and Prince Lukas. My name is Nicholas St. North. But you may call me North. This is Sanderson Mansnoozie, Sandy for short. Toothiana or Tooth, and E. Aster Bunnymund, or, Bunny…" North pauses, and looks at them as though he has something funny to say next. "Before we move on I have to tell you all, we go by many other names; most not so popular, but, perhaps you know some of them? Tell us, have any of you ever heard of Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Sand Man, or the Ester Bunny?"