Frozen: The Dragon Princess
Rise of the Guardian Dragon II
North's sled rose into the air and when they were high enough the old man took a snow globe out of his pocket and shaking it threw it. A glowing portal appeared in the air and the sleigh flew through it. The air temperature dropped like a stone on the other end and Anna found herself generating her own small heat field to keep warm.
"Cold bothering you poppet?" Bunny asked.
"Well she is a fire drake after all" Tooth said.
"I notice you two are sitting pretty close" Jack said grinning at how both the bunny and the fairy had scooted close to the girl that was radiating heat like a small stove. The sleight pulled into a hanger where dozens of little creatures rushed forward to tend to the sleigh and deer.
"Come" North said leaping out of the sleigh everyone following him. They ascended an elevator which opened into noise and chaos.
"Wow!" Anna shouted in surprised and wonder as she raced out of the elevator. She whirled around trying to take everything in. Toys and other objects flew through the air of the tiered wooden room along with banners, ribbons, glitter and other colorful materials. She raced to the railing and looked down to see large brown creatures walking and working on every floor. She heard a grunting sound behind her and felt herself being lifted by the collar. She was turned to look into a pair of warm brown eyes surrounded by fur.
"High" She said and the tall hairy creature put her down and uttered a few more guttering syllables at her.
"He says to watch the rail" North said putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Oh, thank you" Anna said waving, the creature waving back.
"Ah there it is" North said looking at her.
"There's what?" Anna asked walking to keep up as he kept up his stride.
"That warm smile that can melt the coldest heart" North said. Anna blinked and found that she did have a large smile plastered on her face, bigger than she could remember.
"In a place like this you can't help but smile" Anna said as she watched a toy wiz past her nose.
"Oh, your smile is so pretty, definitely one of the best I've ever seen" The tooth fairy said grabbing both the girls cheeks and staring at her teeth.
"Thang you berry mush" Anna mumbled as north led them into a warm and cozy living room with a cheery fire. More of the creatures were there with hot chocolate and a number of sweets.
"Umm…chocolate" Anna breathed as she took a cup and a cookie.
"Now let us discuss the hearts" North said taking a gigantic book off the shelf. Anna munched her cookie and took another two as the man laid down the book and opened it.
"What do you know about the hearts child?" North asked. Anna swallowed her cookie and wiped her mouth on her sleeve before answering.
"Only what my book has told me" She said summoning her own manual. North took it and flipped through it to the section on the hearts.
"Hmm, this is mostly lies and half truths" North said.
"Wait, what?" Anna asked.
"Sweety, all dragon born without exception first transform into dragons when they hit puberty" Tooth said.
"She right sprog. You another four or five years before you should have come into your powers" Bunny said.
"Then why did I transform so early? Was it because Elsa hit me?" Anna asked gripping her white braid. She looked at it, a storm of emotions surging through her at her newly regained memories.
"No, as powerful as your sister is a shot of her magic couldn't kick start you like this" a voice echoed through the chamber.
"What was that?" Tooth asked.
"That was me, thank you very much guardian" The voice said again. Anna un sheathed Ask and set him on the table.
"That was you wasn't it?" She asked.
"Aye child, did you think you were the only would I could talk with?" The sword asked snidely, making the girl blush and scowl at it.
"The child is special, the first one of her kind to hatch when she is but a babe" He said.
"And why does that make me so special?" Anna asked. Despite her powers she had never felt herself unique or special in any way, especially compared to her elegant, poised, intelligent sister who was everything anyone could ever asked for.
"She even has magic of her own, powerful enough to mark me for life" Anna thought gripping her braid again.
"To begin with, the tale about the search for the hearts being a long standing quest was a lie. Though information about them has survived in every era, very few have ever thought to look for them, most of them humans on fruitless quests" Ask said, making Anna remember Alvin.
"And one was put into my aunts care" Anna said.
"Indeed" Ask said.
"So what is the real story? Can the stones still grant my wish?" Anna asked.
"Yes, because each of the hearts is but a part of the whole" Ask said.
"The eye of infinity" North said showing a picture of a shining stone radiating light.
"I thought it was called the queens heart?" Anna asked.
"That is a common name for it, along with the light of oroboros, the heart of magic, and the halcyon generator" Ask said.
"Wow" Anna whispered.
"But how did it get separated?" Anna asked.
"For a thousand years, the realm of Orboros stood alongside Asgard, Olympus and other celestial realms, with the Dragonborn the most ancient of races ruled over wisely by the dragon empress" Ask said as North turned a page to show a shining city in the clouds with dragons flying all around it.
"But the peace was not to last. A corrupt dragon born, Agrophage the black rose up and sought to seize the heart of infinity for himself, so that he may reshape all the realms in his image" Ask said. The page turned and showed a monstrous demonic looking black dragon.
"Agrophage believed in the supremacy of the dragon born as the most ancient of beings and saw the other realms who interacted so freely with humans as debased and barbaric as the humans who worshipped them" Ask said.
"Wait, are dragon born….gods?" Anna asked.
"No more or less than any other being that has been called "god" through the ages" Ask explained.
"That's not an answer" Anna said.
"Continuing the story" Ask said.
"The empress Thedonia being on the edge of defeat used the eye to end the conflict, buy wiping Agrophage from existence, or at least she tried." Ask said.
"What happened?" Anna asked.
"Even the eye of infinity has its limits as all magic does, and a price. Agrophage had caused so much damage, lied so heavily on the web of fate that banishing him entirely was too much for the stone, and the Empress life force that fueled its power. At the cost of her life she put the black dragon into a deep death like slumber" explained.
"In the end only two dragon born survived having fled to the earthly realm, having been stripped of their magic, while the empress four guardians the quartet knights bonded their life force into the four stones as the eye was divided and scattered through time" Ask finished.
"Who were they?" Anna asked expecting she knew the answer.
"The two empresses daughters, the two princesses, Idunn and Primrose" Ask said. Anna forced away the questions she wanted to ask.
"So I'm a dragon born because my mother was" Anna said.
"Even though she lost her magic her blood is still orboran, and thus has a chance of passing down her nature to all her children, but considering she mated with a human the child has just as much of a chance of being normal" Ask said.
"So Elsa and I hit the jackpot" Anna said wryly.
"But I don't understand what this has to do with anything" Anna said.
"There are actually six pieces to the stone, the four elements, one stone of light, and one of darkness. Agrophage claimed the stone of darkness as he fell into slumber and the stone of light vanished out of all known memory" Ask said and Anna felt a crushing weight settle over her.
"If I can't find the stone of light and Agrophage has the stone of darkness, then what can I do" Anna said sinking to her knees.
"On your feet!" Ask shouted and Anna shot up without thinking.
"You are a fully trained dragon knight, you have spent your life in pursuit of the stones, and I will be damned if I let you give up, do you understand me?" He asked.
"Yes sir" Anna said clicking her heels together and brining her fist to her chest in salute.
"We will find the stone of light, and reclaim the stone of darkness, but first you must pass the test of the stone of water" Ask said.
"Which is?" Anna asked.
"The stone is said to reveal a reflection of the darkest part of your heart, and in order to claim it, you must overcome your reflection" North added in turning the page to a picture of a stone hovering over a pond of water.
"That is where the stone was hidden originally" North said.
"And where is it hidden now?" Anna asked.
"Anna, are you sure you want to do this?" Tooth asked.
"Ask is right, I've spent my life hunting the gems, I'm not going to stop now" She said firmly.
"To the sleigh" North shouted.
"Oh crikey" Bunny sighed as they walked back through the workshop and pile into the sleigh. North whipped the reindeer into motion and they flew back out into the cold. They didn't fly far before they set down in a barren frozen area of ice peaks.
"Well, this is charming" Bunny said as they got out. Anna's breathe misted in the cold air as they walked up a roughly carved path into an ice cave.
"Ages ago, man in moon had me hide stone here to better protect it from any who would seek it's power before chosen one come to claim it" North said.
"You think I'm the chosen one?" Anna asked.
"We shall see" North said. The continued walking for some time until they entered into a large chamber like a cathedral. Ice pillars ran down the chamber from the floor with symbols of waves and shells on it up to the vaulted ceiling that glowed with a shimmering prismatic light.
"It's so beautiful" Anna said.
"Yes, I am very proud of it" North said.
"There is heart" He said as they approached a dais carved with the pictures of three mermaids made of ice, the heart of water held in their cupped hands. Anna made to approach it only to be stopped by tooth's hand on her arm.
"Anna, remember that this stone will plumb the depths of your heart and bring forth the one thing you fear the most" Tooth said.
"Well, considering I don't know what I'm really afraid of, it should be interesting" Anna said smiling.
"Girls a bit off her nut" Bunny whispered, sandman nodding. The girl walked up the stairs of the dais, and taking a deep breath reached out and gripped the stone. She couldn't even gasp as she felt an arctic cold pierce her very soul as if all the winds of the world were blowing through her, scouring up every fear, every uncertainty, every dark thought she had and picking them up sucking them out of her. She stumbled back as she saw white wind and snow swirl around the stone in a cyclone. The winds began to subside, and the snow vanished, and where the stone was, standing a step above her was her sister Elsa.