A/N: I apologize for the extremely late update, but I hope people have enjoyed my unorthodox take on a Frozen fanfic. For a little while there I was a bit self-conscious about my writing skills due to the fact that they're a tad bit unpolished. But, here's the second chapter, please enjoy!
Disclaimer: Still don't own Frozen, but still enjoy messing around with it's universe.
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Three weeks have come and gone since Dracus and Susah carried their young leader Nefrin to Arendelle. The young half-celestial is still unconscious, and as they said, Dracus and Susah have been taking shifts watching over him in case he wakes.
As Dracus was sitting in a chair beside Nefrin's unconscious form and Susah was sleeping in another bed provided by Queen Elsa, Anna came in with a tray of breakfast foods for them. Dracus barely paid her any mind, and being a light sleeper, Susah smiled appreciatively at the young princess as she sat up in bed.
"This looks delicious, thank you, Anna," the Nymph said in a soft tone.
For all the bubbly and positive outlook the fey being has, she isn't immune to fatigue; and right now she's exhausted. Anna smiles softly, sadly at the obviously drained Nymph.
"How is he?" Anna asked, glancing over at the still slumbering young man.
"No different," Dracus answered with a huff, his tail twitching in agitation.
Susah nodded solemnly in agreement, picking up a piece of honeydew melon and taking a bite. The large Minotaur got up from his seat with a light growl and stepped up to the tray of served food, picking up a sausage link and putting the whole thing in his mouth.
"You two should really get some fresh air," Anna began, looking over the two distraught and exhausted creatures, "I mean, you haven't left the room except to bathe every now and again," she added.
Dracus crossed his large, muscular arms over his equally muscled chest, letting out a huff through his nostrils. Susah smiled warmly up at her lover, patting his side affectionately.
"I would like to explore the city a bit, my love," she says to him, "And I'm confident that if Nefrin wakes, either Anna or Queen Elsa will send someone to inform us," she finishes, placing a grape into her mouth.
Dracus sighs, his tail wagging as he seemed to consider his beloved's wishes. He looks back over at his slumbering leader, still lying on his back, shirtless, and covered; but somehow looking peaceful. The Minotaur looks down at his lover and gives a single nod, he would also like to get out of this room...at least for a little while.
"But I expect immediate notice if he wakes," he says, his dark brown eyes boring into the young princess' blue-green ones.
Susah laughs lightly, "You needn't be so abrasive, my love. Anna and Queen Elsa has done much for us. Have some faith in them, my beloved."
Dracus scoffs, "Faith is for the weak minded and soul conflicted, and I am neither. But...I will put my trust in them," he says, gently patting Anna on the head with his large hand.
Anna smiled warmly up at the Minotaur, and Susah finally got off of the bed, stretching as she did. She walks up to the red head and hugs her,
"Please take good care of him. He mumbles at times, but it's almost always intelligable, and he'll twitch and jerk every now and again as well...but other than that, young Nefrin slumbers peacefully. We'll return shortly," she kisses Anna's cheek sweetly before releasing her, and with a glance toward Nefrin, the unorthodox couple leave the room.
Anna watched them go, and then slowly walked over to the available chair beside the bed Nefrin's laid upon. Sitting in the chair, she looks over his still form sadly. Throughout the three weeks since Dracus, Susah and Nefrin arrived, she would talk with Susah; Dracus apparently not the social, talkative type...unless he throws his opinion out there, and it's usually abrasive, condescending, or just plain hateful. Dracus is a mystery to Anna, he's sweet and caring toward Susah and Nefrin...but closed off and prickly toward everyone in the castle; especially Olaf. In fact, Olaf had apparently annoyed Dracus so severely a couple of days ago that Dracus threw Olaf's head several feet down the outside hallway. Anna giggles at the memory of Olaf's headless body wobbling in the direction of his far-away, still talking head...bumping into every wall and piece of furnishing on the way. She has to admit, despite Dracus's bristly ways, he has his charms. He must, after all, since Susah is so madly in love with him.
Anna focuses on Nefrin once more. She learned from Susah and Dracus that he's a very capable swashbuckler. His double long sword wielding capabilities are phenomenal, and though his diplomacy skills are a bit unpolished, where his words fail, his blades more than make up for them. He was apparently raised by a foster father, his father's foster father to be exact. A wood elf by the name of Daeghun. His parents passed away not long after his birth, and all knowledge about them he received from Daeghun. His father's name was Jarlath, a half-celestial fighter who became afflicted by some sort of curse.
While Jarlath traveled far and wide in search of a cure for his ailment, he met and traveled with Safiya, a Red Wizard of formidable power, and Nefrin's mother. According to Daeghun, a cure was found for Jarlath, but at the expense of his life. Safiya had given birth to Nefrin two months prior, and decided to join her one true love to his death. Jarlath asked Daeghun to raise his son as he had raised him.
Daeghun never fully explained to Nefrin what the curse was, who cast it upon his father, or why he had to die in order to be free of it...his foster father only did this to protect Nefrin, but in return the 20 year old became resentful, and barely gave Daeghun a proper goodbye before deciding to leave for adventure himself...just like his father before him.
It's a sad story when Anna thinks about it. He never knew his parents, he never learned the truth behind his parents' fate because of his over protective foster father...and now he's trapped within some Dreamscape that he can't wake from. Anna wonders what sort of dreams or nightmares he's being forced to endure. She can't help but feel sorry for him. He's only a year younger than her sister, and they bare almost similar backgrounds.
It was due to their parents' over protectiveness that Elsa was isolated from both her and the outside world. Though they knew their parents, the late king and queen was taken from them before their time as well.
Although Anna and Elsa are the princess and queen of this land, and as told by Susah, Nefrin was raised in a swamp farming village just off of the waters of the Dead Man's Swamp; a small village called Agron Harbor.
Susah once said that Nefrin would tell her Daeghun often reminded him that he has his father's wanderlust and adventuring soul. Daeghun also apparently told little Nefrin stories about his father's adventures, which only added fuel to Nefrin's kindling flame and desire for adventuring.
Anna wonders what he's like when he's up and about. Susah describes him as cheerful and pleasant, but fierce and merciless when it's most important for him to be. Dracus says he's impressive for a weak human male, but gained his respect due to his iron will and battle prowess.
Her eyes are drawn to Nefrin's lying form as his body begins to jerk and twitch, just like Susah informed her he does. She listens to him groan and grumble, but he's not actually forming any words as far as she can tell.
She leans a little closer to him, though, to see if she can make any sense of his mutterings. Nothing makes any sense to her, just random syllables our jumbled up words, but her eyes widen and she gasps lightly. She could have sworn she heard him say Elsa.
She sits up and scratches a finger in her ear, "I must be hearing things. He doesn't even know her," she says softly to herself.
"Elsa..."
She gasps again, that was much louder and clearer, and definitely her sister's name. She gets up to inform a guard, but stops in place as she listens to his riddled words.
"Elsa...snow white queen...stained with crimson...love...lover...love her...save her...crimson stained snow queen...Elsa...Elsa...ELSA!" As he shouts her name, he jolts up in bed, a cold sweat covering his body.
As he pants quickly, Anna notices his hands are trembling, and as her eyes shift to look at his face, blue-green makes contact with warm honey. She can see golden yellow specks within his light brown eyes.
"I have to save the queen. I have to love the queen. I...have...to..." He trails off, his gaze becoming distant, and then he shakes his head lightly.
He places one of his hands on his head and groans in, Anna guesses, pain.
"Where...where am I? Where are Susah and Dracus...? Oh gods, I'm so hungry..." He lays back down, covering his face with his hands.
Finally he looks at Anna, and she smiles sheepishly at him. He seems to take notice of his missing shirt and that he's in bed, and looks at Anna again.
"Did we sleep together...?" He asks with a raised eyebrow.
Anna's cheeks immediately turn beet red, and she quickly shakes her head no, causing her braided pig tails to whip back and forth.
"No, no! Um, uh, hi, I'm Princess Anna, and you're in Arendelle. Dracus and Susah carried you here, or well, Dracus carried you here, Susah walked beside him. Um...I'll have a guard go get them and they can explain everything much better than I can. Um...do you recall anything you were just saying a few minutes ago?"
Throughout Anna's ramble, Nefrin stared at her with a raised eyebrow and confused expression. But in response to her question he shrugs his shoulders,
"That I'm hungry...?" He says, and then scratches his head, his expression one of deep thought, "And...the name Elsa is running around my mind, but...I don't know any Elsa."
Anna smiles softly at him, "Funny you should say that, the queen of this land, my sister, well her name is Elsa," she watches his reaction.
"Never met her. Maybe I heard her name in passing once," he says with another shrug of his shoulders.
"Right...well, I'll have a guard go for Dracus and Susah, and I'll go get my sister, Queen Elsa," she uses emphasis on her name to see if it'll spark any memories of what he was saying earlier.
"Okay..." He says, eyeing her curiously. 'This girl helps rule a kingdom...?' He thinks.
"Okay, uh...I'll be right back," she says, and then leaves the room.
Nefrin decides to sit up in the bed, his stomach growling loudly. He groans as he rubs his very empty stomach.
"How long was I asleep...I'm starving..." He mumbles to himself.
Looking around the room, he sees his shirt folded neatly on a chair in the corner of the room, with his two long swords leaning against the same chair. He notices Dracus's axes leaning against a wall, Susah's bow and quiver of arrows next to that.
'We must have been here a while...' He thinks to himself, beginning to worry now. 'What the hell happened to me?'
But upon hearing quick hoof steps and rushed bare footed steps, Dracus and Susah rush into the room. Both of them smile happily, and Susah hugs him tight. Dracus places a hand on his shoulder.
"Welcome back to the waking world, little friend," Dracus tells him, patting Nefrin's shoulder.
"We were so worried about you," Susah says, tightening her grip around him and then finally letting him go.
"What happened?" He asks, looking between his two friends.
"Tch, what didn't happen?" Dracus says, but chuckles a bit, "Your sense of justice thrust us into yet another life threatening situation, for one thing," the Minotaur adds.
"Yes, but aside from that you-" Susah stops herself as Elsa walks in with Anna.
The raven black haired swashbuckler and the platinum blonde queen point at one another, "You," they say simultaniously.
"I had a dream about you," Elsa breathes, utterly shocked and staring a Nefrin in disbelief.
"I dreamt of you, too...you're going to die..." Nefrin responds, staring at Elsa with the same look of disbelief.
Dracus, Susah, and Anna stare between the two as well in confusion. What did that Dreamscape foresee, and how did it spread to Elsa's unconscious world? Just what awaits for the kingdom of Arendelle and its Queen...?
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A/N: And so that's chapter 2! It's gonna start getting more exciting from here on out, I promise! Humor, drama, suspense and budding romance are to ensue! I'll update as soon as I can, I hope it won't take forever like this one took, and I again apologize for this one being so late. Thank you for taking time to read the second chapter, and feel free to leave me a review...I'm saddened by the fact I haven't received any yet, either good or bad. :( It's quite the self-esteem crusher. Anyway, 'til next time kiddies!
-FallenWolfHeart