Frozen: The Dragon Princess
Dragonic Summer III
Hiro's jaw was still on the floor as Anna took the desk next to him. She smiled and waved as Ms. Sanada began her lecture. Anna tried to keep up. English and literature were nowhere near as hard here as they had been during her tutelage, and she loved history and geography but math and science. She had never been good at them back in her time, and now just like Ventia said there had been so much progress, so many advancements that Anna doubted even Elsa could have kept up.
"My brain feels all melty" She told Hiro at his locker at lunch.
"What are you doing here?" He hissed.
"Going to school. You said that I could hang out here if I did" She explained reasonably as Hiro planted his face in the door of his locker.
"You're insane, completely insane" He said.
"Hey!" She huffed.
"Miss Arendelle?" a voice asked. They both turned to see an elegant and mature girl walked toward them. For a moment Anna thought it was her sister. She was blonde haired, blue eyed and tall with a mature elegant air around her. Anna shook her head. The girl's hair was a shade darker than Elsa's her eyes a dark blue closer to her own.
"Yes?" She asked.
"My name is Selena Robins, the class president. On behalf of our class allow me to welcome you" She said smiling.
"Thank you for the welcome" Anna said back smiling. The girl walked away.
"So who was that?" Anna asked as they walked outside.
"Only the most popular girl in our year. She's the class president, which means she has power rivaling that of a teacher. All the girls want to be her, and all the guys drool over her" Hiro said.
"Including you?" Anna asked as she opened the bagged lunch Ventia had made her, taking out a sandwich, apple and a bottle of milk. She unwrapped the sandwich, bit into it and gave a moan of enjoyment as she tasted her first peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
"So, do you think you could help me with math and science?" She mumbled around a mouthful of sandwich as she opened her milk and took a swig.
"If the deer in the headlights look you had during those two subjects was any indication, you need it" He said.
"Hey, I'm trying" She said.
"Only if you help me with English, and language, and history, and geography" He mumbled.
"Sure, if you really think I can help" She said blushing taking another drink.
"Please, you answered every question the teacher asked right, and during European history you sounded like you were actually there" Hiro said, causing Anna to choke on her milk.
"Whoa slow down. You're gonna choke to death one day" Hiro told her patting her on the back. The next class was P.E. where they were playing basket ball with a mixture of boys and girls.
"Teacher" Anna asked raising her hand.
"Yes Miss Arendelle" Mr. Jacobs asked.
"What's basket ball?" She asked, noticing Hiro slap his face with his hand. Mr. Jacobs explained the rules to her, which was easy enough to remember and the game started. As soon as she got the ball, she wove around two other players and shot the ball into the hoop. After that she had a blast as she stole the ball from other players, passed it to her classmates and made her own shots. The game ended with her team winning by twenty points, though they missed the last shot when she passed it to Hiro who tried to shoot, only to have it go completely over the backboard.
"That was awesome" a girl said as her classmates crowded around her after the game.
"I can't believe you never played before" a boy said.
"Hiro" She called trying to push past them only to be swept into the locker room by her female classmates.
"So where did you live before you came here?" A small brunette asked.
"Arrr…a small Northern Country. It's kind of old fashioned, that's why I didn't know how to play basketball" She explained. After P.E. was a free period where she could do whatever she wanted except leave school. Hiro was still in class so she went to the library and studied some of the more recent History, or what would happen in her time.
"Oh Miss Arendelle" a soft voice said. Ann looked up and saw the small brunette girl form the locker room.
"Oh hi…I didn't quite get your name" Anna said blushing embarrassed.
"That's okay. I'm Ashley" She said.
"It's nice to meet you Ashley" Anna said holding out her hand. Smiling shyly the girl took it.
"Do you want to study together?" Anna asked and the girl nodded. It turned out that Ashley was really good at math and had a way of explaining it that even Anna could understand, but she wasn't so good at language, which Anna was able to help her with. The two of them worked until the bell for the end of school rung.
"I've got to meet my friend." She said and grabbed the girls hand to drag her along.
"Hey Hiro!" She called as she saw him walking down the crowded halls. She pulled Ashley along as she caught up with him.
"I'd like you to meet my new friend Ashley" She said introducing the girl.
"Anna, I know who Ashley is, we've been friends forever. I hope Anna hasn't been too much trouble ash" He said.
"No, I mean she really helped me with my language homework" She said.
"I thought we were supposed to do that?" Hiro asked hurt.
"I don't know why the three of us can't do it together" Anna asked smiling.
"I guess" He said. The three of them returned to the library and helped each other finish their homework until the sun was almost down.
"Would you like us to walk you home?" Anna asked.
"I'll be alright" Ashley said smiling and turning walked away.
"She's nice" Anna said.
"Yeah she is" Hiro replied.
"So I'll see you tomorrow" Anna asked.
"Yeah, I guess" Hiro said. Ann turned and walked the other direction. Once she was sure she was alone she turned invisible and flew back to the house.
"I'm home" She called.
"Welcome home. How was your day?" Ventia asked.
"It was amazing. Everyone was so nice and I played that really fun new game called basketball, and I made a new friend" she said all in one breath.
"Good" Ventia said smiling.
"Go wash up for dinner" She said. It was only in the silence of her room when she had time to actually think that she remembered Elsa, and the cold lonely life waiting for her when she got home.
"This is the feeling I'm trying to bring back the feeling of being with people of making friends and learning new things. It is why I began searching for the stones in the first place." She thought, her resolve firming. The next day she woke up early enough to be waiting for Hiro outside the door of the café when he came out.
"I was hoping we could walk to school together" She said smiling.
"Fine" He huffed. Ann was finding she liked school. Not so much the studying part, though that was fine, but having other kids her own age with their different views and opinions, with so many different people to talk too and get to know. Ashley and Hiro were quickly becoming her best friends, the ones she hung out with the most, who helped her with her schoolwork and who she helped in return. That didn't stop her from learning the name of everyone in her class and trying to be their friend. Most were happy be, though some were mean and wanted nothing to do with her. One that surprised her was Selena as Anna learned when she walked to the front of the class during a break where the girl was sitting reading.
"High Selena" She said brightly, and the entire room fell silent.
"Miss Arendelle, do you need something?" She asked quietly, not looking up from her book.
"I just thought you looked lonely over here, and was wondering if you wanted to come talk with Hiro, Ashley and I?" She asked.
"I am perfectly happy reading right here. I have no need or desire to discourse with you or your friends" She said coldly. For a second Anna thought she saw Elsa sitting there, cold and aloof, the pride of all their tutors, to busy learning and being perfect for her annoying little sister.
"Oh, ok. Well if you change your mind, my offer still stands" Anna said keeping her smile up and her fist clenched as she walked back to Hiro and Ashley. She stared out the open window and let out a deep breath.
"Wow, that took guts" Hiro said.
"Selena never opens up to anyone. She's a good class representative, she's smart and pretty and everyone's idol but she's so aloof that everyone has given up on talking to her" Ashley said. Anna looked back over to the girl hunched over her book and a resolve formed in her mind.
Over the following day's Hiro noticed how popular Anna got, just for being so open cherry and bubbly, and irrepressible bottomless wellspring of light and sunshine. He had never met anyone like her, and the more she smiled, laughed and acted crazy, the more he found himself liking her, and from the reaction from their classmates the feeling was mutual. She also turned out to be incredibly bright, though she was so hyper and scatterbrained it was hard to tell sometimes. Though he would never admit it, he would always be grateful for helping him with history. He hated history with a passion. What was the use of learning about things that had already happened and that you couldn't change instead of planning for the future?" Anna however seemed to love it and have a bone deep understanding of it, like their assignment to study the battle between Rome and some Scottish clan.
"Come one Hiro, you can make a fighting doll, but you can't remember simple names and dates?" Anna asked.
"For one thing it's battle bot, and for another, it's not just names and dates. Ms. Sanada wants us to explain why the war happened" Hiro said.
"Hiro, it's right here" Anna said pointing to a line in the book.
"Merida fought of the Romans because they were trying to conquer her people" Anna explained.
"But who cares?" it happened a million years ago. He griped putting his head on the table.
"Ms. Sanada cares. Besides if you don't know where you came from, how do you know where you're going?" Anna asked.
"Really, because I don't think I came from a group of dirty Scots or battle hungry Roman's" He joked, and saw her eyes flash.
"Fine, if you want to fail the history report that's fine with me" Anna said putting the history book away.
"What wait, I was only joking" He said as the girl stood up.
"Anna" Ashley said.
"I'll see you both tomorrow" Anna said and stalked off.
"Did we just have our first fight?" Hiro asked Ashley who just shrugged.
Okay, another short chapter of slice of life goodness. Sorry for the long updates, but I've been really working on my own novel, and decided to write this to help with the writers block from that. Also it's been so long, I'm wondering if the everyone's love affair with frozen is fading, or if Frozen Fever has kept it going a bit.