Frozen

The Dragon Princess

Chapter 3

Anna had turned seven today, but it had been a subdued affair. Both her parents had attended, but their attention had seemed to be elsware. Anna had thought Elsa would attend as well, but she hadn't shown, and that left Anna sullen and angry, her gut twisted so much that she could hardly eat her piece of the delicious chocolate cake the chef had made. She opened her presents with as much of a smile as she could manage, though neither her mother or father seemed to pay much attention. There was a gold hair band form her father, a new dress from her mother, but it was her sisters present that made her breath catch when she opened the box and saw the round faceted, flawless and utterly beautiful crystal that Elsa had given her. She reached in and grabbed it only to pull her hand back in surprise.

"It's freezing cold, almost like…"

"Is something the matter dear?" Her mother asked looking over her daughters head into the box. Anna caught a spike of fear from her mother, a sour sharp scent she had come to pick up along with other scents as her sense continued to sharpen. Her book had explained her that even as a human she would become stronger, faster, hardier, and have better senses than even most animals.

"Agdar!" She hissed, the spike increasing. Her husband looked into the box and Anna smelled the same sharp scent came from him, though more controlled. He reached in and seized the ball in one hand.

"no, it's mine" Anna said and tried to reach for it.

"No, it's not, we'll find something else" Her father said sternly.

"I don't want something else!" Anna said angrily. Leaping up to try to seize the cold gem from her fathers grasp.

"Enough Anna!" Her father shouted at her angrily, and all Anna could do was stand their stunned. Her father was always kind and soft with his wife and daughters, and Anna had never in her life heard him raise his voice like this. Tears filled her eyes and anger and sadness filled her heart. Not looking at either of her parents she ran from the dining room.

"Anna!" Her mother called, but she ignored her as she ran, blinded by tears. Not watching where she was going and running at full tilt, she coulden't stop as she collided with something. Anna stumbled back a bit wiping the tears from her eyes only to see her older sister lying sprawled on the floor.

"Elsa, I'm so sorry" Anna said as Elsa groaned. Anna rushed and putting her hands under her sister heaved and lifted the older girl to her feet. Elsa shook her head and looked at Anna in the eyes.

"Anna?" Elsa asked still slightly stunned form her impact.

"Are you okay?" Anna asked keeping a grip on her sister. Even if she was covered from head to toe, the fact that Anna was touching her, that she was real, was more than she had felt for the past year.

"What happened?" Elsa asked.

"We kind of ran into each other" Anna said, blushing but happy.

"I felt like I hit a wall" Elsa said and Anna giggled.

"I've been working out" Anna only half joked. She had been finding places to transform and practice being a dragon, as well as her usual full tilt running through the castle. The servants joked she was the healthiest shut in they had ever seen, whatever that meant.

"Are you going to be okay?" Anna asked as Elsa's head finally cleared and she saw how close her little sister was, and jerked away, almost ripping her cloths in Anna's tight grip.

"Elsa what's wrong?" Anna said, moving to touch her sister again only to have her shy away again. Anna's arms fell to her sides and her eyes filled with tears again. Not saying a word she turned and ran again, and this time didn't stop until she was safely in her room, the door locked.

"Elsa isn't the only one who can shut people out" Anna thought viciously as she got her book and read. Her old friend always helped her deal with her problems by focusing on learning magic or filling her head with thoughts of the day she could finally fly away. Right now she was focusing on air magic, particularly the ability to become invisible. Since air was one of her strong magic's she thought it would be easy. She could call the wind and even create gusts and gales much to the confusion of the groundskeepers who had been caught in the first windstorm she had accidentally created. But invisibility was hard, all about taking the air and using it to cloak you using a bunch of big words like refract she didn't understand. The first time she had tried to wrap the wind around her like a cloak it had only created a cyclone that had left her looking so frazzled it had earned a scolding form her mother. Getting off the bed she stood on front of her mirror and tried to grab the wind, only to let it go as a gale began to roar through her room. She beat down he frustration and took a deep breath.

"Anger is the bane of magic. Anger and fear causes all magic to run out of control and turn upon it's user. Never use magic in anger, frustration, or fear." Her book had told her and something deep inside Anna had agreed with it. So she calmed down and focused and standing in front of the mirror looked at herself. Blues eyes, ordinary, somewhat chubby face, stubby limbs. Nothing like Elsa who seemed to grow prettier every time Anna saw her, which was becoming rarer and rarer. Not only that, but Anna had heard that Elsa's tutors were all enchanted with her, how smart, graceful, and poised she was.

"No wonder Elsa can't stand to be touched by me. She probably can't stand the sight of someone so, ordinary" She thought and without knowing what she was doing called the wind and used it to cover her, making it reflective like the glass of the mirror in front of her, and the image in her mirror vanished. Anna gasped as she put a hand to the mirror. She felt the glass under her hand, but couldn't see the hand itself. Keeping the spell wrapped around her like a cloak she slipped out of her room and wandered the castle, even passing right under servant's noses trying not to giggle and give herself away. Then she was struck with a rather miscevious idea. She scurried back to the hall to see her mother and father eating with Elsa. She felt a jab of anger that the three of them were eating together without her. Turning she ran back down the halls and stopped in front of her sisters room. She wiggled the knob and found it open. Anna slipped inside and found herself standing in her sisters room. I was different from Anna's. Where Anna's was bright and warm, Elsa's walls were painted in cool colors. It matched her sister perfectly. It was also covered in her sisters crisp scent. Anna took a deep breath, and got the strange sensation that she was standing in clearing with crisp clean air. She heard footsteps and pressed herself up against the wall next to the door as it opened, almost hitting her.

"But I don't understand, there was nothing dangerous about it" Elsa demanded as she entered with their parents.

"I'm sorry Elsa, but it's just not safe" Her mother tried to console her.

"But Anna seemed so sad" Elsa said wringing her hands.

"We know, but it's for the best" Her father said softly. Anna snuck out and raced back down the hall to her room where she dropped the shroud and sat down heavily.

"Why did they think Elsa's gift was dangerous? What was it, how did Elsa get it. I don't understand anything" She thought desperately as she lay on the floor staring blankly up at the ceiling.

"Anna, are you ready for bed?" Her mother asked opening the door.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"Thinking" Anna said.

"Well you can think in bed" Her mother said getting her on her feet and dressed for bed. Anna lay in bed for a long time, her thoughts swirling round and round until she finally fell asleep.

Third Chapter. So Anna's gotten hints of Elsa's powers and her parents and sister fear. Reviews welcome.