Elsa was running for her life. Anna was by her side. The monster was chasing them, its teeth nashing in its mouth. The long arms were tipped in clawed hands, reaching for them. Indi was in his Indominus form in front of them, charging the monster behind the Royal Sisters.

Indi snapped at the monster, but the black beast gripped Indi's scaly neck with its arms, and wrapped its jaws around his throat.

Elsa and Anna saw the ensuing struggle.

Then, the black monster clamped its jaws down like a vice, attempting to snap Indi's neck as he gave one final defiant roar.

"You know," a dark voice said next to Elsa in the shadows. "It didn't have to be this way." Von Shwicke emerged from the shadows, an evil glint is his eye.

Elsa heard her sister scream, just as Indi's roar was cut off with a crunch. Then, Von Shwicke gently stroked Elsa's cheek.

"Now you will be the mother of the next batch," the cruel man said with a dark chuckle, as Anna was snatched up in the dark monster's jaws.

"NOOOO!" Elsa bolted up in her bed, sweaty, breathing heavily, shivering with fear. Suddenly, her bedroom door opened, and Indi charged into the room, shirtless, his concealed sword on his right arm already drawn, eyes yellow, pupils slitted. Looking around the room, he saw no one but Elsa, wide-eyed, looking like her life had nearly ended.

"Elsa," he said calmly. "Are you alright?"

Elsa just shook her head, whimpering softly, hugging a pillow.

Indi softly walked over to her, cranking the small wheel at the back of his forearm cover that disassembled his sword, and sat on the bed next to Elsa. She immediately put her arms around him, pulling herself up next to him.

Gosh, she was burning up! Indi thought when he felt Elsa's pale skin come into contact with his own. She wasn't just shivering, but shaking from sheer terror.

Looking around the room, Indi saw that there were a few snowflakes hovering in midair, not moving.

"Elsa," Indi said, trying to get free from her terrified grasp, but she just hugged him tighter.

Seeing as he wasn't going anywhere for some time, Indi put a comforting arm around Elsa, easing the queen's shuddering slightly.

"I had a dream," Elsa said softly.

"Hm?" Indi said.

"Me and my sister were running, running for our lives. We were being chased by a black monstrosity of a dinosaur. You appeared in front of us and fought the dark monster, but you quickly started to lose. Then, Von Shwicke appeared beside me, saying that it didn't have to be this way. Then, the black dinosaur snapped your neck. Von Shwicke said that I would be the mother of the next batch. Then, the monster snatched Anna up in its mouth. I woke up that instant, screaming." She started to shiver violently again. "I was so scared, Indi. It was terrifying." She squeezed him for comfort. Indi gently squeezed back.

"You're alright," Indi whispered soothingly. "I promise, I will protect you. Nothing will get to you as long as I'm here."

Elsa released her grip on Indi, at which he started to rise.

"Don't leave!" Elsa seemed to be begging. "Please. I don't want to be alone."

"Fair enough," Indi said, sitting back down on the bed. "I'll stay."

"Thank you," Elsa whispered.

She rest her head on Indi's lap, and curled up like a baby. Indi felt the young woman's forehead; it was cooler before. Talking about what had happened seemed to have helped her nerves.

On the outside, Elsa seemed like someone who rarely was afraid. But Indi knew what fear did to people, so someone had to help them with the fear.

Indi had never helped a young woman with her fear, let alone a queen, but it seemed to be natural for him. Some people need to talk to someone, while others just need someone to be there for them, to comfort them with silence and the knowledge that someone was there for them.

Elsa needed both: she had talked to him about what scared her, but she also needed silence and the knowledge that someone would protect her.

Indi soon laid back, pulling Elsa up to him, and she rest her head on his chest.

For such a strong-willed person, it was amazing she could tremble at a dream, but Indi didn't blame her. He went through day-to-day wondering if he would be taken back to Nublar alive by force, or die protecting his new home. He would have preferred neither, but he couldn't choose.

Eventually, he shut his eyes, dosing off, Elsa curled up next to him, both lying sideways on the bed.

Indi woke to a faint knocking sound coming from the door.

He glanced over and saw Anna peaking her head in. Indi gave a subtle wave with his right hand, as his left was holding Elsa, making her feel safe.

Anna smiled, gently sliding the door open, entering the room, and floating over to the opposite side of the bed where Indi's head was.

"Hey," the princess whispered, kneeling down. "What's going on in here?"

"Elsa," Indi said softly. "She had a nightmare last night, and wanted me to stay with her. There was no good reason for me to refuse."

"Well," Anna said, smirking. "It's good she has such a good boyfriend to look after her."

"You be sure to tell her that at breakfast," Indi said, giving a small laugh.

"Could you wake her soon?" Anna said, standing. "We leave for Nublar at high noon."

"We'll both be down shortly," Indi whispered, nodding.

Anna left the pair, grinning all the way back to her room. Elsa would be in for it this time.

"Elsa," Indi whispered, gently shaking her. "Elllssaaa."

"Anna, go back to sleep," she mumbled.

"Elsa," he said a little louder. "Wake up."

"Huh? Oh, Indi, it's you," she said groggily, looking up at him through tired eyes.

"Elsa, we have to get ready. We leave for Isla Nublar at noon."

"Or, we could stay in bed and enjoy each other's company," she said, sleepily stroking his chest.

Okay Indi thought. The gentle approach isn't working. Time for Plan B. He gently scooped her up in his arms, letting her snuggle up against him, and walked over to the door.

"What are you doing?" Elsa asked suspiciously.

" We're going to be late for breakfast. Since all you want to do is sleep, I figured I'd might as well carry you down there myself."

"Indi!" Elsa said, getting out of his arms.

"What?" Indi said mocking innocence. "I'm hungry, and I'm not going to leave you alone in here against your wishes."

"A queen cannot be seen out of her room wearing her bed clothes. Please leave, so I can get changed into my traveling dress."

Indi gave a quick bow, and went across the hall to get changed as well.

After getting changed, he went to the hall to wait for Elsa. Luckily, he didn't have to wait long, as she came out just as Indi shut his bedroom door.

Indi hooked his arm, and Elsa looped hers around his, as they have done for months now, and escorted her down to the dining hall. There, Elsa saw Anna with a mischievous look on her face.

"Good morning, Anna," Elsa said as Indi and herself sat down.

"Good morning, Elsa," Anna said as the servants brought out breakfast. "How was your night?"

"Fine," Elsa said. "Could have been better, could have been worse."

"What on earth could have made it better?" Anna asked, her voice becoming full of mischief. "After all, you did sleep with your boyfriend."

At hearing this, Elsa started to choke on her eggs, while Indi patted her on the back. He handed her a glass of milk to dislodge it, which she took gratefully.

Once she was able to breathe again, she turned to her sister, who had a smug little smile upon her face.

"Anna," Elsa began calmly. "Indi isn't courting me."

"Really?" Anna asked in mock suprise. "Because what I saw this morning, it looks like the exact opposite of what you insist."

"Wait," Elsa said, shocked. "You saw us?!"

"Yep, I sure did. You were lying on your bed, with your head on Indi's chest, who by the way was shirtless." Kristoff and Brynn, who had been quiet this whole time, chuckled at this.

"Shut it, Kristoff," Elsa threatened, while Indi glared at Brynn.

"You two looked quite cozy together," Anna continued. "What with all the cuddling you'd been doing."

"N-NO!" Elsa said. "Th-that's not it at all! Indi here was simply comforting me after I woke up in the night."

"Sure," Anna said, sarcasm written all over he features. "He was 'comforting' you."

"He was!" Elsa insisted, frustration in her tone. She stole a glance at the boy in question beside her, who was eating quietly. "Besides, I would never be interested in him like that!" Oops.

"Ouch," Anna said, looking at Indi.

Finally, the boy spoke.

"Hey, normally I would be hurt be a comment like that. But, for sake of the argument, let's assume we were in a relationship. What might happen?" He paused waiting for Anna to answer. She didn't. "She would be in great danger. For all her powers, she is not invincible. She bleeds, she hurts, just like the rest of us. Von Shwicke could hurt her to get me to do what he wants.

"And, assuming that didn't happen or was postponed long enough, people would start to press us to get married. Then there's as even greater danger. With me as king, Von Shwicke could go to countries that have something against Arendelle, for one reason or another, and plot to take me out of the picture, which would leave this country without a ruler.

"Now, I'm sure Elsa could rule just as she is doing now once I'm gone, but is she really going to be in any emotional state to do so, when her husband has been killed? No.

"And furthermore, assuming none of that has happened, what about our hypothetical child?"

Wait, WHAT?! Is he really going there?! Elsa thought. "Indi, don't you think that's a little extreme?"

"Absolutely not," he said decisively. "As I understand it, a king and queen should have an hier, correct?"

"Yes," Elsa said. "If there are no other members of the next generation in the castle that are biologically related to the king and queen, then yes."

"Okay then. Princess Anna, since you aren't married yet, you don't have a child. At least, I hope not. So there are no members of the Royal Family of the next generation.

"So, our child," Indi continued. "Would be in great danger. Not just from external threats, but internal as well. For example, would the child be healthy, or even normal? It's possible, but highly unlikely. Elsa has ice powers, while I am genetically enhanced. If we had a child, it would be at a great risk of inheriting some of our traits, which could combine badly. We would essentially be cursing the child with our abilities, and what selfish parents we would be to do so.

"And that child would be in the same kind of danger as Elsa: being a manipulation tool for people to get me, and possibly her, to do as they wish, as well as the other risks for all royal children."

Indi sighed. He hadn't meant to take this explanation this far. "All I'm saying is, it would not be safe for me to be in a romantic relationship with Queen Elsa at this point in time."

"Well, now that this matter has been cleared up," Elsa said awkwardly, rising from her finished breakfast. "I think I need to take my morning walk."

Indi finished the last few bites of his eggs, and trotted after her.

"Lovebirds," Anna said under her breath, causing the three remaining friends to erupt into laughter.

"Mind if I join you on your walk?" Indi asked ask he caught up to the queen in the hallway.

"Not at all," Elsa said.

After a few moments of awkward silence, Indi asked a tentative question.

"Did I take it too far?"

"Not at all," Elsa said. "Well, maybe a little."

"Was it when I brought up children?"

"Yeah," Elsa said, giving a nervous laugh as they entered the courtyard for Elsa's walk around the town.

"I knew it," Indi said, shaking his head.

As they walked out the front gates, they were silent. After another minute of silence, Indi had to ask a question that had been bugging him.

"Elsa, what you said, about quote-unquote 'being interested in me like that', that was true, wasn't it?"

"Yes," she said, sighing. "I'm afraid it was, Indi. But I think of you as a very good friend, perhaps even my best friend, and nothing less."

"Nothing more?" Indi asked, raising an eyebrow.

"No… well… I don't know."

"Shall we both just agree to leave it as a maybe?"

"That sounds good. For now, at least."

By this time, the pair had made it to the town square, where people had bowed at the sight of the queen. There were a few whispers and subtle guestures at Indi, as they all knew his abilities.

"They're talking about me," Indi said quietly.

"What are they saying?" Elsa asked in an equal tone.

"The butcher is saying how me and Brynn will raid his shop at night and eat his entire stock of meat. The group of women to the left aound the table are saying things like how I'm going to murder you in your sleep, or take avantage of you and make you bear my demon spawn."

"Well, can you blame them?" Elsa asked.

"No, not really."

As the pair continued down the streets, Indi caught whiff of a lovely scent coming from a store.

"What is that heavenly aroma?"

"That, my dear friend, is Mr. Alfred's Chocolate Shop." And with that, Elsa led him inside.

"Ah, Queen Elsa," the man behind the counter said cheerily, bowing humbly before going back to the mixing bowl that he was holding. "And you must be Indi," Mr. Alfred said, shaking his hand. "To what do I owe this pleasure, Your Majesty?"

"Oh, I just felt that it would be a crime against the crown for my friend, Indi here, to be in Arendelle and not visit your shop."

"Ah, yes, a crime that would be," Mr. Alfred said. "Please, look around, look around. If you need anything at all, don't hesitate to ask, hm?"

Elsa and Indi went about the shop, browsing the entire selection of chocolates. In the end, Elsa had chosen a box of chocolate-covered cherries, while Indi selected a few bricks of swirled dark chocolate and peanut butter fudge.

"You know," Indi said, glancing up at Elsa. "I think it would be a crime not only against the crown, but also against common sense if we didn't take some chocolate on our voyage."

"You are absolutely right, Indi!" Elsa exclaimed.

At the end of the chocolate-shopping spree, there was so much chocolate that they had to load it into a crate for the voyage. As they were leaving, the clock tower struck, signalling to all that heard it that it was now eleven O'clock.

"We'll never make it back to the castle in time with this huge box," Elsa said.

"Oh, yes we will," Indi said determination in his voice. "Elsa, get on."

"What?" the queen asked. She wasn't sure if she heard him correctly.

"I'm going to morph into the Indominus. You ride on my back and hold these two bags of chocolate. I carry the crate."

"Sounds good," Elsa said. "Let's do it."

Indi quickly transformed into the white dinosaur, earning shocked gasps from the people. The citizens were even more shocked when the saw the queen climb on the beast, sitting behind its neck. Indi rose to his full hieght of twenty feet, and used his clawed hands to gingerly pick up the crate, and bounded away, careful not to let Elsa fall off.

They were at the castle in less the two minutes, a record time. Indi set the crate down, then, lowered his body down so Elsa could slide off.

"Thanks, Indi," she said as the boy changed back to his human form, white-tipped hair and all.

"Not a problem," he said. "Now, let's go get our stuff around for our voyage."

The pair ran up to their rooms, where they gently picked up their clothes and set them in large chests. Indi took his new armor, and put it on, and looked at his old armor.

Should I take it?

He decided to leave it, but he sat down at the small desk in his room and wrote a small note, folded it in thirds, and stuck it on the small stack composed of his old armor on his bed. He then ran down to the smithy, and grabbed the kerosene gel and the miniature grindstone.

On his way back from the smithy, he ran into Elsa who just finished packing her chest.

"Hey, Indi," she said nervously. "I was thinking about something while I was packing, and I figured I should tell you first."

"Okay," he said, looking around the hall. "Do you want to discuss it here or someplace a bit more private?"

In response, she grabbed his wrist, and led him into her room, and shut the door, locking it behind her.

"I was seriously thinking about whether or not I liked you," she began "and I think I have come to the conclusion."

"Okay," Indi said, sitting her down on her bed, before sitting down himself. "So, talk to me."

"Yes," she said. "Yes, I do like you. It's not love, and I want love."

"Don't worry, we'll work our way up to that point.

"Now," Elsa said, looking at him in the eye. "There's just one question: Do you like me?"

"Ah," he chuckled nervously "Well, truth be told, yes. I do. Like you, it's not love, at least, it's not romantic love, I think. I think it's more like a friendly love, but I suppose that's how it all starts out."

"Well, on that note, do you think about marrying me in the future?"

"Wow, you've only known me for a few months, and we're already talking about marriage."

"So, do you?" she persisted.

"Why do you want to know?" Indi countered.

"Because I do," Elsa said with undeniable logic. "Now tell me: Do you think about marrying me?"

"Well," Indi said awkwardly. "Yes. But I also think about all the ways it could go wrong."

"Understandably," Elsa said. "Well, I think we should hurry up to catch our boat."

"Need any help with your chest?" Indi asked.

"Not at all," Elsa said, creating some ice underneath the chest with a wave of her hand.

While Elsa skated her chest down the hallway, Indi carried his.

Kristoff and Anna were just bringing their crates down, while they saw Elsa push hers out on a block of ice.

"Elsa," Anna hollered. "You cheater!"

"It's not cheating," the queen called back. "It's playing to my strengths."

The group of five friends soon met at the bottom of the stairs, when Indi and Brynn transformed, and carried the chests out to the ship, Brynn had one in her mouth, while Indi had one in each hand, and one in his jaws. After they set the chests on the ship, they continued to help load, the sailors being very grateful.

Soon all the cargo was strapped down, ready to go, except the most important cargo: the Royal Family. Indi and Brynn lowered themselves to allow the people to get on; Kristoff and Anna were on Brynn, while Indi was carrying Elsa. The townspeople looked up in wonder and awe, as they saw Queen Elsa riding atop a gigantic, white reptile, while Anna and her boyfriend were riding on a similar, brown animal. Once they reached the gangplank, Anna and Kristoff slid down Brynn's tail, while Indi lowered himself to allow Elsa to climb off him, as sliding down the bumbs on his back would be in no way pleasant.

As they made their way up the gangplank, the people waved to the departing royalty, who waved back. As the ship began to pull away, Indi raised his torso up, and gave of his signature shrieking roar, while Brynn bellowed her deep roar as a goodbye, the crowd cheering.

This was the last thing the people of Arendelle heard of their beloved Royal Family, who were going to a hostile environment to help some mutant children who were in dire need of rescuing.