Thanks to everyone who favorited, followed or read this so far. I would appreciate some reviews, even constructive criticism letting me know what I could do better, so I know what you all think of this story. I've made storyboards/outlines for the next couple chapters, and I know that at Chapter 6 my story will probably not be close to done.
I made some slight edits to the first chapter. I just realized in chapter 1 I wrote "seven isles" instead of "southern isles" (the place Hans came from). I fixed that, and also changed my description of Peri and Tink being born, since I accidentally made them split from one thing, which would make them identical when they are actually fraternal in the movie. I added a tiny detail to the end of chapter 1, making Elsa try to put out the fire to save Anna's fairy.
Disclaimer: Both Frozen and Disney Fairies belong to Disney. I own nothing from either universe, except a drawing I made of Tinker Bell once. Also some lines/scenes from the Frozen section of this chapter are from the beginning of the movie, so Disney owns all rights to those too.
We now join Elsa and Anna
Dawn had begun in Arendelle, and early morning light peeped through the windows of the castle and the of houses in the village. It was just light enough to see everything indoors and any child awake would no longer worry about monsters or other scary things. However, it was still dark enough for people to sleep, although only one of the two occupants of the castle's nursery was currently doing that.
Five year old Anna had been awake for some time, and had occupied herself by playing with her dolls. Anna's favorites were the red haired with two braided pigtails that looked remarkably like herself, and the one with white hair and a blue dress that resembled her older sister, Elsa. The little girl flew both dolls around in the air, pretending they were fairies. The dolls had originally worn crowns, as Anna and Elsa were princesses, but the royal headgear had immediately been removed by the girls.
Being a princess was a common dream for girls, but the real princesses of Arendelle wished that they were normal subjects of a King and Queen that were not their parents. Elsa and Anna had realized early on that being a princess was rather annoying. They were constantly expected to be on their best behavior; they could never actually act like children when in the company of adults. All the funny, obnoxious things they wanted to do, like purposely burping at the table or sharing potty humor jokes, had to wait until they were alone. However, alone time was becoming increasingly rare as their days were filled up with boring lessons to prepare them for the far away day when Elsa would rule as Queen and Anna would be her adviser.
Anna glanced across the room and sighed when she saw that the platinum-blonde 8 year old was still asleep. Some great playtime with her sister was slipping between her fingers like sand. When her parents were sleeping, she and Elsa could be as uncivilized as they wanted and no one would know. They could maybe even get away with Elsa making snow, as it was a couple hours before most people got up.
Deciding that she would not let Elsa sleep through this precious time where they didn't have to act like perfect princesses, Anna tossed down her dolls and climbed out of bed. She crossed the room, stood on her toes and nudged the sleeping Elsa. "Psst! Elsa!" she whispered. Getting no response, she pulled herself onto Elsa's bed and made her presence obvious by bouncing on top of her sister and chanting "Wake up! Wake up!"
Anna grinned as her sister started to stir. Finally, Elsa would wake and they could play together. However, Elsa just muttered "Go back to sleep." without opening her eyes. Anna decided to use a tactic that had worked on previous occasions when Elsa was being a sleepyhead. Rolling onto her back and lying on top of her sister as if she were a mattress, Anna exclaimed "The sky is awake, so I'm awake, so we have to play!" as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Elsa was having none of it, however. "Go play by yourself" she told Anna as she pointedly rolled over, knocking her younger sister off the bed.
Anna fell to the floor and winced as her bottom made contact with the hard wood. Clearly, she would have to try harder to get Elsa up this morning. She sat there for a moment, surprised that her sister had shoved her off the bed. Fortunately, it wasn't much of a fall, so she wasn't hurt. She promptly forgot about the pain all together as she got up. Elsa wasn't going back to sleep that easily. She crawled back on the bed and lay on Elsa again, this time on her stomach, hands grabbing the blankets so she couldn't be shoved off again.
Elsa snored, which was a dead giveaway to Anna that she was only pretending to be asleep, since she never snored when she was actually sleeping. Knowing this, Anna snuggled closer to her sister, shook her and made the killing blow in the fight to get Elsa awake. Putting her mouth next to Elsa's ear, Anna whispered "Do you wanna build a snowman?"
Elsa's eyes shot open. She could feign sleep no longer, as building a snowman was one of her favorite things to do in the world. There was no way she would knowingly let the opportunity pass by. Anna smiled triumphantly as her sister scrambled out of bed, almost as eager as Anna to play. They crept to the door and gently pulled it open, not liking the creak it made. Waiting until they heard a snore from the room next door, the two girls hurried out.
They tiptoed past their parents' room, and were extra quiet as they neared the guest room where the weird old man from Weasel-Town (the girls' name for Weselton) and his two towering, terrifying, silent bodyguards slept. The King had some sort of business deal with the Duke, though Anna and Elsa had no idea what it was, nor did they care. The Duke and his guards had eaten dinner with the royal family on their first night in Arendelle, but had eaten in their room since then, which Anna and Elsa were grateful for. The princesses had been so terrified by his guards, who had spent most of the meal watching the girls with glares plastered on their faces. Elsa thought that they looked like they enjoyed murdering people in their spare time. Vilhelm, the taller guard with a mustache, actually scared Elsa and Anna less than the smaller, clean shaven one named Thomas. For some reason, Thomas looked a lot meaner despite his smaller size. The girls were not as scared of the Duke, but they thought he was odd. His actions, such as dancing "like a peacock", would have been funny if performed by some other people, but when the Duke did them, it was just weird.
Elsa's heart jumped to her throat as she saw two figures by the guest room door. The Duke's bodyguards were dozing against the wall, still in uniform and clutching crossbows. Anna peeked around her sister as one the bodyguard let out an odd cross between a snore and a snort. Elsa was about to turn back around and head to the nursery, but Anna was already pulling her past the apparently sleeping guards.
Elsa was not the only one who had pretended to sleep that night. Once the girls passed, the guards' eyes opened and tracked their progress down the stairs. Once they were out of hearing distance, Vilhelm gave another phony snore while the Thomas let out an unconvincing cough, which was the signal to his employer that the girls were sneaking out again.
The Duke and his guards had heard the guards sneaking out on previous nights, and the Duke was very curious about Elsa. There was some secret hidden in the 8 year old, and the Duke wanted to find out what it was. Not to mention, if the girls got hurt and the Duke's guards saved them, the reward would be a very handsome price.
The guards waited until the Duke acknowledged that he'd heard them and knew what was going on by giving his own signal, which ended up as the worst sounding fake sneeze either of the thugs had ever heard. Getting up, they set off in the direction the princesses had gone, hoping to gain some information of the secret the family was hiding before their employer met up with them later. Although it appeared otherwise, both of the Duke's bodyguards were could be very stealthy if needed, a fact the Duke liked to keep secret so people would not expect to be followed or watched by them.
Downstairs, Anna and Elsa giggled quietly as they imagined the fun they would have in just a couple minutes. Anna had started toward the great hall, which was where they had played on other nights. Elsa stopped her however, since the last time they had played there her snow had left a huge puddle that spanned the whole hall and there had still been a couple chunks of snow when their parents had gone downstairs. Her parents had not been angry, but they had been very disappointed, which Elsa thought wasn't much better. The King and Queen had reluctantly realized that Elsa's magic could not be bottled up, though they still didn't like her using it.
Anna looked worried that they may not be able to play, but Elsa led her towards a closet and pulled out both of their coats, boots, mittens and hats. Elsa didn't actually need them, as her magic made her immune to cold temperatures, but her parents insisted she wear them so as to not draw attention and suspicion. Neither of the girls noticed the two men watching them from the shadows of the staircase (there were no windows nearby, so the dim morning light did not reach them) as they happily donned their winter gear. Elsa had to help Anna with her mittens, and after doing so, they went out one of the castle's back doors and stepped out into the dawn air.
Unaware that they were being pursued by the Duke's thugs, the two girls ran gleefully through the castle's grounds to the gate. Anna and Elsa longingly stared at the pretty village on the other side, where not a light was seen (besides the rather large fireflies flying around) as Elsa and Anna were the only ones up this early- as well as Vilhelm, Thomas and the Duke, though the girls didn't know they were up too. The princesses had only left the castle grounds a handful of times, and both of them longed to explore the outside world more. Struck by an idea, Elsa cupped her hands together and focused her magic toward her goal.
Elsa had gotten better at getting her magic to do what she wanted, though she still had no control over it when she released some accidentally. Nowadays, her magic only released itself if she was scared or angry, and she still couldn't stop it or control what her powers made when it happened. Elsa had control at the moment, and she made a snow bank appear on both sides of the wall. The sisters climbed over the snow bank, and gleefully ran through the sleeping village.
The thugs followed them as they neared the edge of the village, staying out of sight and not making a sound. Grateful that their uniforms kept them warm, they watched with open mouths as Elsa shot a huge snowflake in the air, and turned the ground into an ice rink. They had thought the secret the Duke was so curious about would end up being something stupid and unimportant, but clearly that was not the case. Hopefully the Duke would give them a raise once they reported this. Vilhelm, the bodyguard with the mustache, smiled as he watched the girls at play building a snowman, thinking of his own daughter back in Wesleton.
Once they were done with their snowman, Elsa talked in a goofy voice as the snowman, saying "Hi! I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!" She manipulated Olaf's stick arms as she said it, and Anna rushed forward to hug the snowman. Reminded even more of his daughter, Vilhelm chuckled at this before he could stop himself, and the girls looked in the direction the thugs were hiding suspiciously. Thomas sent a death glare his way, letting him know that if this mission failed, it would be very unpleasant for him. Luckily for Vilhelm, the girls were distracted by a mouse.
Neither girl was scared of mice, and they normally wouldn't have paid it any attention, except this one had a tiny chariot hooked up to it. "Elsa, look! It's like a horse for a fairy! Wow! Fairies must be really small!" Vilhelm had to pinch himself to avoid laughing at what he thought was an overactive imagination (he was too far away to see the mouse). Elsa got down and gazed at it too.
Both girls were enthralled with the idea of fairies like the ones in their bedtime stories. They were both firm believers in fairies and other magical creatures. Their parents had confirmed the existence of trolls, though neither Elsa or Anna had seen one. They were sure fairies existed though, since Elsa was living proof that magic was real. The girls would have been ecstatic if they looked up, for they would have seen a real fairy flying over them, though it would have looked like a glowing light.
The mouse did see it however. The fairy- Fawn, an animal-talent- signaled to Cheese (the mouse) to go back to the fairy camp. Cheese darted toward the wooded mountains, slipping and sliding on Elsa's ice and being pursued by Elsa and Anna, who were desperately trying to keep the mouse in their sight. The chased the mouse through the woods, laughing and not paying attention to where they were going, until Cheese finally shook lost them. Anna spun around, filled with glee at seeing something related to fairies.
Elsa noticed a major problem. They were surrounded by woods, and neither girl had any idea how to find their way back home.
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"My, my! This is lovely." Said a voice from behind the bodyguards. The turned and saw the Duke. Saluting, Thomas started to inform his boss of Elsa's magic, only to be rudely cut off. "Yes, yes I know she can do magic!" The Duke snapped. "A door to wonderful opportunity has just opened, boys." Vilhelm looked at him suspiciously and asked "Sir?". Thomas, on the other hand, seemed to know what the Duke was going to say, and had his 'money grin' on.
"You two will follow the girls, while I tell King and his army that they went that way." The Duke explained with a twisted smile on his face, pointing in the direction he knew would lead them in the opposite direction of the girls. "When you two find the girls, make sure they don't know who you are. Then bring them to me. We'll take the younger one back, and get a huge reward." Vilhelm liked the part about the reward- he did have a family to feed after all- though the rest of the plan shot twinges of guilt through him, especially the fact the the Duke had only mentioned bringing the younger princess home.
"What about the older princess?" Vilhelm asked warily, not sure he wanted to know the answer. "I have plans for the little witch." The Duke now had the most twisted grin Vilhelm had ever seen. He glanced at Thomas, hoping his fellow guard was troubled by this also, only to see an equally ugly look on Thomas' face. Vilhelm didn't feel at all okay with this plan, but he wasn't going to speak out against his boss.
He couldn't afford to lose his job, as he needed a payment soon. He was desperate for money, because he did not get many job opportunities because most people seemed to be scared of him. He had tried running a store once, which had been a colossal disaster because he had scared his customers away when he had started raging about how everybody had been buying so little that he was losing money instead of profiting from the store. Needless to say, that career had gone out the window soon after that incident.
Besides, whatever plan the Duke had for the princesses was none of his concern, whereas getting his wife and daughter food, clothes, and toys and things for his daughter, was his topmost priority.
He followed Thomas into the woods, determined to finish this mission, collect his money and return home to his family as soon as possible.
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Periwinkle stared at her hands in dismay. It was happening again; she couldn't shoot any more than a few flakes of snow out of her hand. This happened depressingly often. Her talent just stopped working, as if somebody had borrowed it and hadn't returned it yet. Then, she would be able to shoot snow again as if nothing had happened.
A couple days after she was born, Periwinkle asked her friends if they ever experienced this. They had given her such strange looks that she'd never brought up the topic again. Fortunately for Periwinkle, nobody had seen this happen to her, so her friends had forgotten about it, and she was alone with her secret.
Periwinkle emerged from her fairy sized tent and wandered aimlessly around the winter section of the fairy camp, too upset to fly. The winter fairies had frosted a small patch of ground right after their arrival, and had to re-frost every couple hours. Although she was normally bubbly, Periwinkle always felt down when her talent didn't work. She often wondered if she was an incomplete, or if there was something uniquely wrong with her.
Periwinkle needed someone to talk to, and the obvious answer flashed in her head- Tinker Bell! The fairy twins were now so close that they felt as if they'd grown up together and known each other all their lives, despite the fact that the first time they met each other was 7 years after their birth. Periwinkle set off for the other side of the fairy camp, where the warm fairies resided.
She ran into Vidia- actually Vidia had swooped down on her and flew around her so fast that Periwinkle's hair stood up even more, before landing in front of the glum frost fairy. "Looking for the Tinker Thinker, darling?" Vidia asked her in a sugary voice. If she'd been feeling better, Peri would have laughed at the fast-flying fairy referring to Tink as the 'tinker thinker'. Noticing the uncharacteristically sad face Periwinkle had, Vidia asked in a kinder voice "Hey. What's wrong?"
"Have you seen Tink?" Peri asked her. However, a horn blared and Queen Clarion cautioned all fairies to be extra careful, because two little girls might know of their existence. Peri didn't see why was deemed important enough for an announcement. Hadn't Tink revealed herself to a girl once, and to her father. Tinker Bell had told Periwinkle about her adventures with Lizzy. Maybe they were warning them because Lizzy's dad had captured Vidia and almost exposed their entire race? Periwinkle did notice that Vidia looked very displeased with this news.
Peri asked Vidia again if she knew where Tink was, and Vidia nodded mutely and beckoned her to follow. It appeared that Periwinkle wasn't the only one whose spirits had sunk during the day. She followed Vidia, and when she saw her twin releasing Cheese from his chariot with Fawn, rushed forward and embraced Tink, muttering that they needed to talk privately.
Tinker Bell gave Fawn and Cheese a quick goodbye and led Peri just outside the fairy camp where they could be alone. Sensing her sister's distress, she asked "What's wrong?"
"I think something's wrong with me." Periwinkle rushed out. "Sometimes I can't do my talent. I'll try to shoot snow and nothing comes out, and then suddenly I can do it again. I haven't heard of this happening to anyone else. I asked my friends about it once, but they looked at me like I was crazy- the even suggested I visit the healing-talents!" Periwinkle broke down at this point, and Tinker Bell hugged her and rubbed her back until she had stopped crying. "Do you think I'm incomplete?" Peri asked, her voice a hoarse whisper, as if she was afraid she'd start crying again if she spoke any louder. Incomplete fairies were often regarded with way too much pity than Periwinkle ever wanted sent her way. Although Tink's friend Rani was technically not incomplete, she still attracted a lot of pity or, even worse, muttered rumors.
It pained Tinker Bell to no end to see her sister so heartbroken. She looked at her sister sadly and said "It's impossible to be incomplete only part of the time, so you don't have to worry about being pitied." Tink gave her sister a sad smile, which Peri returned. Tink then added "If you were incomplete, I'd fill up whatever was missing with love, and I would never pity you. There's absolutely nothing wrong with you, just your talent" Tink cringed when she realized how awkward that sounded, but Peri looked as if that statement held all the secrets of the universe. She grinned so broadly that her face seemed like it would split in two, and she hugged Tink a bit too tightly. Tink didn't even care that her breath had been knocked out of her; she was just glad that Peri was herself again.
Tinker Bell reluctantly admitted that she had no idea what caused Peri's mysterious problem, though she said she knew someone who would. "Who?" Peri asked, surprised. "You're going to kick yourself for not thinking of this." Tink informed her. Peri just looked at her curiously. Tink let the suspense build for a moment, and then said in the most matter-of-fact voice she'd ever used "Lord Milori!"
They headed off towards the large tent Queen Clarion and Lord Milori shared (seeing as they were a couple). In reality, the tent was the size of a baby cradle, but it was large for fairies. Periwinkle was astonished that she hadn't thought of talking to the ruler of her home. He had ruled the Winter Woods for as long as anyone could remember, and he and Queen Clarion were leaders for a reason- they were the wisest fairies/sparrow-men in all of Pixie Hollow. Besides, Lord Milori seemed know of everything that ever happened in Pixie Hollow, so he would know if anyone else had talent troubles.
Once they reached the rulers' tent, Periwinkle hesitated, and Tink gave her an encouraging smile. Periwinkle nodded. There was no reason to be nervous of Lord Milori, after all. The ruling sparrow-man frequently counseled the winter fairies, and he made it known to them that they could always talk to him if something was bothering them. Queen Clarion did the same for the warm fairies, and both rulers had a somewhat parental relationship with their subjects.
Lord Milori and Queen Clarion appeared at the entrance, and Tink and Peri gave their rulers a brief bow. Lord Milori invited Periwinkle in, and Tink gave her twin a quick thumbs up as the sparrow-man guided his subject inside. Queen Clarion was politely shooed away by her boyfriend, and she gave Tink a nod and a small smile before flying off to check on her subjects.
Tink settled outside the rulers' tent and waited for her sister to reemerge.
Well, this is the longest chapter I've ever written for a fanfic- it's over 4,000 words. I'm surprised at how long these chapters are becoming. I'm now kind of worried I'm going to totally screw up Periwinkle's talk with Lord Milori in the next chapter.
Okay time for a fun fact. I wasn't sure what to name the the Duke's bodyguards at first (I think that every character in a movie should actually have a name, but apparently Disney doesn't), so I looked up The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson on Wikipedia. I was going to name them after characters in the story, but then I saw the illustrations for it by Thomas Vilhelm Pederson, who also illustrated other Hans Christian Anderson stories, so I decided to name them after him.
I decided that since I'm making the Duke more villainous, I could make Vilhelm have a better personality, and I thought I'd make the bigger, stronger, scarier guard be the one without a scary personality, since I'm making the Duke look harmless but have an evil mind.
Hope you all enjoyed! Please Review and let me know what you think of this so far.