“Your sister is dead
….because of you.”
Elsa
fell to the ground. Hans was right. She was a witch, she had turned
her beloved home into a frozen hellscape. She had shut Anna out for
all of those years, for her sister’s own good. And after they had
been only reunited for a brief time, she had killed her. She
deserved nothing less than to burn, as the tales said the witches of
old did. She thought she heard Anna's voice, then a sound of metal
shattering. Looking up, she gasped. “Anna!” Her happy, joyful
sister was now made of ice. Her last act had been to save Elsa’s
life. “Oh, Anna.. no… no… please, no.” She held her
sister’s icy form, sobbing. In a flash, she knew. She knew why the
talk of marriage and heirs discomfited her. She knew why, when she
thought of the future, she only saw herself and Anna, getting old and
gray. And it was a knowledge colder than her powers, for she knew it
was useless, now. She was in love with her brave, immature, sweet,
wonderful sister. Sobbing,
she kissed Anna, for the first and last time.
The
ice and the snow rose high into the air. The ships melted and set
themselves aright. The snow all formed into a giant snowflake, and
vanished in a bright flash of golden light. The sudden flash made
Elsa pull her lips away, as it filled her vision. After what felt
like an eternity, it began to dim. The first thing she saw was
Anna, unfrozen! The blonde gasped. “Anna! You.. you sacrificed
yourself for me?” “I love you.”, the redhead returned. “Love
thaws…” “A frozen heart”, Elsa finished.
Kristoff
blinked his eyes as the glow receded. There was no more snow, it was
a summer day, again! Was that a summer thunderstorm, this quickly?
It almost sounded like….. words? As he turned, his jaw hit the
ground as he beheld a huge foot! A foot that was as tall as he was!
Gulping, he looked up. And fell to the ground in shock, as the saw
the nude forms of Anna and Elsa, towering almost endlessly into the
sky! ‘It’s not fair!’, a part of his mind shouted. ‘I was
supposed to have my first sight of her like this to myself!’ “I
LOVE YOU”, Anna’s voice, deeper due to her colossal size, boomed.
“She’s supposed to say that to me.”, he whispered.
Hans
slowly got up from where he had fallen. Anna had turned into a
statue! Looking around, he saw that the snow was gone, and summer
had returned. A titanic voice roared, “LOVE THAWS…” An
equally immense voice replied, “….A FROZEN HEART” He stared up
in terror at the source. The red haired bitch was alive! But, the
two sisters were gargantuan! The youngest, and weakest, of the
Southern Isles’ princes had lost. “No.”, he muttered. “No.
No. NO!” He shouted as loud as he could. “This proves she is a
witch! No, not a witch, but, a monster! And her powers have twisted
Anna into an equally huge, hideous form!” He was so lost in his
rage, that the bellow of “WE’RE NAKED!” hurled him to the
ground.
The
two sisters smiled at each other. Anna was alive and the winter
Elsa’s fears had caused were over. Suddenly, the redheaded
noticed a draft on her backside. Looking around, she was that both
of them were as nude as the day they were born! “We’re naked!”,
she gasped. Blushing, Elsa looked down. “And… where… where
are we? It’s like Arendelle, but, much smaller! Are we in some
kind of diorama? Did my magic do this?” Anna looked down, as well.
There seemed to be tiny people on the ground! One that looked like
Hans was throwing its body around in a rage. “Clockworks?”, she
wondered.
The
people stared up in awe at the giant royal siblings. Wives covered
their husbands’ and childrens’
eyes against the sight
of their unclothed bodies. Arendellian soldiers gazes were torn
between relief that their sovereigns were safe, and confusion about
their new size. The tension snapped with the deafening “CLOCKWORKS?”
that flowed from Anna’s lips. Hans raised his broken sword.
“They mean to kill us! Attack!” Running forward, he stabbed the
broken edge into the big toe of Anna’s foot. The ear drum
shattering scream that resulted caused the citizens to run, and Hans’
remaining force to help him in his attack.
“Ouch!”,
Anna shouted, as the tiny Hans figure stabbed her with his sword.
“It stabbed me!” Elsa hurled out a small icicle at the figure on
pure instinct. Nothing happened. More of the tiny figures
attacked Elsa’s feet, as well. They felt like pinpricks. Among
the miniature throng, they saw tiny versions of Kristoff, Olaf, and
Sven! Anna’s eyes widened. “..Elsa? Maybe...maybe your magic
made us giants? It used up all of its’ power, so it’s gone?”
A thoughtful look settled on the elder’s face for a second, before
the pinpricks started to hurt more. “Let’s run. If that’s
true, I don’t want to hurt any of them, unless I have to.” The
duo ran towards the North Mountain as carefully as they could.
The
earthquake of the sisters’ retreat made buildings shake and
anything on foot, fall to the ground. As the giants’ forms faded
into the distance, people regained their footing. Seeing Hans stand
up again, Kristoff sped towards him. “You asshole!”, he seethed.
“They may be bigger, but they are still the queen and princess!
You-” Before he could continue, the other man let fly with a punch
that knocked him out. Looking at his men, Hans said “The demons
must be stopped!” Following the royals’ course with rage filled
eyes, he shouted, “To the North Mountain!”
In
what seemed like only a few seconds, the sisters were at the
mountain. A violent shiver ran through their bodies, and the scene
around them shrank. Anna gasped, her eyes widening at the miniature
Ice Palace that was now at eye level. She turned to Elsa, tears in
her eyes. “We… we were just standing there, trying to figure out
what was happening. And they attacked us! Like we were some kind of
giant beasts!” A familiar voice, smaller than usual, echoed in
their ears. “Humans fear what they cannot understand. You have a
sad understanding of this, Your Majesty.”
Both
titans turned around, to see a tiny Grand Pabbie standing next to
Anna’s big toe. Rather than crouch down to see him, the giant
redhead slowly
bent down, and gently picked him up. Soon, he was at their eye
level. “Do….do you
know how this happened? Can it be undone?”, Elsa
asked, fearfully. The small troll shook his head. “Prophecies do
not always come true. This is one I had expected to be such. That
the Fifth Spirit was not just one being, but two. The bridge between
the Spirits and humanity echoing in the connection between the two.
The love of these two would take them beyond what they had been, to
show humanity a new way. Of love, not hatred. “
Anna’s
eyes teared up. “So, we’re going to be giants forever? Having
our subjects fear us, like we’re monsters?” She choked back a
sob. Elsa looked at her, determinedly. “No. You are… WE are…
not monsters, Anna. From
what he said, we may no longer be human, but, we are NOT monsters.
It sounds like this was just part of our destinies. How could
anyone who thinks of everyone but themselves first be evil? How
could such a kind and gentle heart hold any hate in it? How….?”.
The older sister swallowed. “How could my amazing sister be a
monster? The… the woman I love…” Her breath ghosted across the
younger’s cheek. Anna’s eyes changed from fear to confusion to
love. “I.. never though that you’d…”, the redhead
whispered, before she pressed her lips to Elsa’s A
warm glow flowed through the two royals. It was far weaker however,
than the feeling of completion. Elsa and Anna had never felt such a
strong feeling of rightness in their lives. As their eyes were
closed, it was every other eye in a several hundred mile radius that
saw a light, brighter than a sunrise, cascade across the giant
women’s bodies.
As
the glow faded, Pabbie’s voice caught their attention. “I must
beg your pardons. I had let the face that you both had been human
cloud my judgment. Humans would see a relationship between two
sisters as wrong. I let that be my paramount concern, when your
parents came to me, those years ago, and
discarded this prophecy.”
Elsa smiled at the
troll in her sister’s hand. “Worry not. If you had spoken true,
then there still would have been fear. It would have been the
kingdom’s fear of my sister and myself, rather than just my own
fear. As hard as the years have been, I am glad it was so. Recent
events have shown what
the alternative would have been.” Pabbie nodded. “Thank you.”
Hans
and his army had been just
starting their march,
when another seeming earthquake shook. He was more prepared this
time, for the sight of the two giants walking towards them. Two
things were different, though. One was that they were twice they
size they had been before, and the second was their right and left
hands clasped together. The
side burned prince grabbed the sword of the solider next to him, and
hurled it at the big toe of Elsa’s left foot, as the women stopped.
It bounced off as it the skin were steel. Anna looked down,
glaring. “How dare you attack my sister, tiny worm?” “Monsters
are to be killed, that is their purpose!”, Hans shouted. Inborn
superiority in every tone, Elsa said, “And if insects become pests,
their purpose is to be crushed!” The titanic shadow of her left
foot covered Hans. Anna’s
eyes widened. “Elsa, stop!” Hans smirked. “You still have
feelings for me, you….creature?” A cold, teal gaze washed over
him. “Hardly.” She looked at her sister. “You said we aren’t
monsters. But, we don’t want people to fear us, though, right?
Yes, he deserves to be squashed. But, with the physical power we now
have, it would be too
easy to be feared.”
Elsa
nodded. Glaring down, she said, “Hans of the Southern Isles. For
the attempted regicide of myself and my sister.” She glanced at
the redhead. “My sister and betrothed.”
Anna gasped. “you are hereby banished from my queendom. Any
attempt to enter by yourself, or by any other member of the royal
family, will be met with execution.” Her gaze narrowed. “It will
be in the same manner that just now nearly occurred.
But, slower. BEGONE!”
To punctuate Elsa’s decree, Anna slammed her right foot down,
sending the tiny man and his army to the ground.
“Betrothed?
BETROTHED?”,
Hans gibbered. “You’re sisters!! You can’t…”. Anna
rolled her eyes. “Either we are humans, and incest is a sin, or we
are ‘monsters’, and are above human morals and laws. You can’t
have it both ways.” Waving a hand across their bodies with a
smirk, she continued, “And humans don’t tend
to be this big.”
The
duo looked down at him.
A second later, a gold glow surrounded the prince and his army, and
they vanished.
Tiny gasps of shock echoed. “It’s okay, everyone.”, Elsa
said. “We merely transported them back to the Southern Isles in a
much quicker fashion.” Anna
nodded. “There have been a few changes.” Both sisters blushed.
“We may no longer be human, but we are still the same Anna and
Elsa. We love our kingdom. We will serve it, and your, our
subjects, with all that we are, as it always has been.”
Three
months later, the sisters stood in a valley, facing each other. The
week following had been one of laughter and games and dancing for
Arendelle’s people. What better way to celebrate a wedding? One
month after the victory over the Southern Isles, Elsa had talked to
the church’s Bishop. As she had thought would happen, he would
not marry them, for in the church’s eyes, it would still be incest.
Anna and Elsa had
taken great care to show their subjects that they had only changed
physically. There had been fears of them proclaiming themselves
goddesses, but, they had made it very clear they did not see
themselves as such.
And
so. “I, Queen Elsa I of Arendelle, take thee, Princess Anna of
Arendelle to be my wife. In sickness and in health, for all the days
of our lives, beyond death.” Tears glittered in their eyes. “I,
Princess Anna of Arendelle, take thee, Queen Elsa I of Arendelle, to
be my wife. In sickness and in health, for all the days of our
lives, beyond death.” Their lips met, and a rainbow soared
across the sky, almost
as if their marriage
was being blessed by a higher authority than the Bishop’s. Small
voices shouting praise and congratulations floated to their ears, and
the new couple began their long walk north to an uninhabited area for
their honeymoon.
They
would live, and guide Arendelle, for centuries to come. The world
could not truly hope to understand what the monarchs had become, so
theirs was not a storybook tale. But, as always, as long as Anna and
Elsa had each other, they did not need a storybook tale ending.