Chapter 3: The Truth Revealed

3 years later:

(Elsa is 21, Anna is 18, and Julie is 14)

The dress that Julie is wearing for the coronation

The entire kingdom was excited because today was the day that the eldest princess, Elsa, would be crowned queen.

And no one was as excited as Anna.

Julie woke up early after another bad dream that she had that night.

She dreamt of a dark castle that had a dark symbol on it that resembled the one on her hand. Inside the castle was a silhouette of two girls. One was white while the other was black. Their posture looked so queenly.

After a moment, the castle turned black as a dark shadow covered the entire thing and everything went black.

Julie woke up before anything else happened.

Now she was just strolling through the castle. Talking to the maids and servants who were awake at the time of day that she was. She was waiting for the sun to come up so she could get dressed in time for the ceremony.

She was walking back to her room when she found herself in front of Elsa's door.

She didn't want to bother her, so she just tried to walk away until she saw the door crack open a bit.

Julie tried to walk away before Elsa spotted her, but she did.

"Julie?" Elsa said. "What are you doing up at this time?"

Julie turned around to face her sister.

"Uh...I couldn't sleep," she replied, "I had a bad dream."

Elsa hesitated for a moment before opening her door for Julie to go in.

"I couldn't sleep either," she said. "All this pressure about becoming queen is keeping me awake."

Julie chuckled as she hesitantly went inside Elsa's room.

Elsa closed and locked her door as Julie went inside.

Julie gasped as she looked at what Elsa did to her room. Everything was covered in ice.

"Oh dear," she said, "you did this or did it become too cold?"

Elsa scoffed.

"I wish the latter happened," she said as she sat down on her frozen bed.

Julie gasped.

"That's why you hid in your room?" she asked. "Because you have magic?"

Elsa was quiet but nodded.

Julie was silent for a moment before she started laughing. Elsa looked at her confused as she fell on the floor laughing.

"Oh, thank goodness!" she exclaimed, "I thought it was something I did! What did you do? Freeze one of the maids' bottoms?"

Elsa chuckled.

"I wish that was what happened," she said quietly.

Julie stopped laughing and looked at her sister.

"What happened?" she asked.

Elsa took a deep breath and told Julie everything about that night and Julie was quiet during everything she was saying.

When she was done Julie took a deep breath to process everything.

"So...everything happened because of an...accident?" she asked.

Elsa nodded slowly.

"You don't know how to control your powers now?" Julie asked.

"Ever since that day, I've thought I lost control of my magic when I struck her. I felt so scared." Elsa explained.

Julie nodded slowly as she tried to get on the bed beside Elsa. She hesitated for a moment before moving over to let her sit beside her.

"Can I tell you a secret mother and Father told me when I was ten?" she asked.

Elsa looked at her before nodding.

"What is it?" she asked.

Julie sighed.

"Mother and Father told me that the symbol on my hand," she said as she showed her sister the symbol on the back of her hand. "Meant that I inherited dark magic from somewhere and it was gonna become a problem when I got older."

Elsa nodded.

"This troll we went to told us that the night the accident happened. I wanted to see you, but I was scared that I might hurt you as well, so I didn't and just shut you out as well," she explained.

Julie sat quietly as she started fidgeting with her fingers.

"Where do you think I came from?" she asked her sister.

Elsa shrugged.

"I don't know," she said. "I never really thought about that. Why?"

Julie stayed quiet for a moment before telling Elsa about the dream she had hours earlier.

Elsa was quiet during everything Julie was telling her.

"Do you think it was more than just a dream?" Elsa asked.

"I guess so," she said. "I've always been having these bad dreams lately. Don't know what it means."

They were both quiet for a moment before someone knocked on Elsa's door.

"Your Majesty?" It was Kai. "It's time to get ready. The coronation is in three hours."

Elsa and Julie looked at each other.

"Okay! Thank you, Kai," she replied.

Julie sighed as she got up from Elsa's bed.

"I guess it's time for us to get ready?" she said.

Elsa hesitated before pulling Julie in a hug.

"Thanks for not calling me a monster, Juls," Elsa said.

Julie hugged her back.

"Please," she said. "I'm more of a monster than you are if you think about it."

Elsa chuckled as her and Julie pulled away.

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"Princess Anna?" Kai called, "Princess Anna?"

Anna woke up with her hair a mess and a part of it in her mouth.

"Huh, what?" Anna asked.

"Oh, uh, my apologies if I woke you," Kai said.

Anna yawned loudly.

"Oh, no you didn't. I've been up for hours." Anna said as she stretched.

Anna started to doze off again.

"uh...Princess?" Kai said again, startling her awake again.

"Huh, who is it?" Anna said.

Kai smiled.

"It's still me, Princess. It's time to get ready."

"Ready," Anna said, still sleepy. "Ready for what?"

"Um...your sister's Coronation?" Kai informed her.

"My...sister's corn-er-ation?" Anna said.

She then turned her head to the dress she had on a mannequin and finally gasped happily.

"It's Coronation day!" she said as she happily got out of bed to put on her dress.

After a few minutes, she had on her dress and excitedly ran out of her room, spinning around a maid in the process.

After a second, she ran into Julie.

"Julie! It's Coronation day!!" Anna said excitedly.

Julie laughed.

"I know, Anna. You've been talking about this day since forever," she replied.

Anna's smile got bigger.

"I know, but guess what this also means?" she asked her little sister.

Julie shrugged as Anna laughed.

"That means the Gates will finally be open!! I can't wait!!" she said as she ran down the halls.

Julie laughed and she watched her sister.

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Anna's POV

Today's the day!! Elsa's gonna be crowned Queen today, so that means everyone will be here to see it! That also means that the gate will be open all day!!

I can't wait!!

I was outside greeting the people that were going into the castle and just exploring the world outside.

I was in awe of everything that I wasn't seeing where I was going and accidentally bumped into someone and fell into a boat.

The boat was tipping over as I fell in, and I was about to fall into the water until something held it down and I sprung back up.

"Hey?!" I said, removing the seaweed from my face as I got angry at the person who bumped into me.

Until I realized that the person was the most gorgeous man ever.

"Oh, I'm sorry, are you hurt?" He said.

I was stuttering over my words as I took him in.

"Hey!" I said nervously.

I tried to get up from out the boat and he got off of his horse to help me.

When we were finally up, he introduced himself.

"Prince Hans of the Southern Isles," he said, bowing.

I bowed as well.

"Princess Anna of Arendelle," I replied.

When he realized I was a princess, he got down and bowed rather quickly.

His horse did the same and the boat tipped over again and we both fell on each other. The horse realized his mistake and put his hoof back down and causing us both to go back up.

"Oh!" He said, trying to get back up. "I'm sorry about that!"

I smiled awkwardly as he helped me up.

"Oh, no worries! It's perfectly fine." I said, smiling.

After a moment I caught myself staring into his eyes. They were a perfect brown, with a complexion that would make any girl fall for him. I was staring into his eyes for so long that I felt my knees getting weak.

It wasn't until I heard someone calling my name that I finally snapped out of it.

"Anna? Anna!" They shouted, startling me out of my gaze.

I looked behind Hans to see my sister, Julie, standing behind Hans's horse waiting for me.

"Oh!" I said walking to her, picking up my dress in the process.

When I got to her, I then remembered that I hadn't introduced them.

"Oh, Julie, this is Prince Hans, Prince Hans, this is my sister," I said.

Hans and Julie both bowed.

"Princess Julia of Arendelle," she said, introducing herself.

Hans smiled.

"Nice to meet you," he replied.

After a second, Julie grabbed my hand.

"Anna, we have to go! The coronation starts in a few minutes!" she said.

My eyes widened as we heard the bells ring and Julie grabbed my hand to rush us inside the castle.

As we ran, I turned around and quickly waved to Hans, who waved back.

When we got into the castle, Julie let go of my hand as she picked up her dress and went to the right side of Elsa as I went to her left.

This is the first time I've seen Elsa since we were kids, and she honestly looked beautiful in her Coronation dress. So elegant and perfect.

She was talking to the Bishop as the people were coming in, I saw Julie as she brushed off her dress and turned to face the bishop.

As the people were getting seated, the choir started to sing. It really made the ceremony just as magical.

When everyone was seated and ready, the bishop got the crown and placed it on Elsa's head.

Julia's POV:

As the Bishop put the crown on Elsa's head, he turned around, grabbed a pillow with a scepter and orb, and put it in front of Elsa.

As she went to reach it, the Bishop cleared his throat and Elsa looked up at him.

"Um, Your Majesty," he said to her. "The gloves."

I looked at her hands and noticed that the gloves were still on her hands.

Elsa took a deep breath as she pulled the gloves off of her and hesitantly grabbed the orb and scepter.

She turned around and everyone stood up as the bishop began to speak.

"Sem hón heldr inum helgum eignum ok krynd í þessum helga staò ek té fram fyrir yòr...Queen Elsa of Arendelle" he finished.

"Queen Elsa of Arendelle!" The crowd repeated as they started clapping.

When I looked at Elsa, I saw that she quickly put the orb and scepter down and put her gloves back on. I noticed that the orb and scepter was partially covered in ice.

Elsa looked at me from the corner of her eye. I looked back at her and gave her a warm smile. She smiled back at me.

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Behind a curtain, I heard the band playing. I smiled.

I brushed off my dress as I felt someone's hand on my shoulder.

I turned around to see Elsa walking beside me.

"Are you ready?" I asked her.

Elsa shrugged as she looked down smiling.

"I don't know. I'm still a bit nervous," She said. "You did see what I did to that orb and scepter, right?"

I nodded and chuckled.

When she looked back at me, we both noticed that the music had died down. I stepped back a bit to let Elsa go.

We both looked as Kai gestured for Elsa to step forward.

"Queen Elsa of Arendelle," Kai said as Elsa walked forward, taking center stage.

When i looked past Elsa, I noticed that Anna had rushed into the room

"Princess Anna of Arendelle," he said as Anna placed herself further away from Elsa.

I chuckled as Kai had to practically pick her up to place her in the correct spot.

As Kai got back into position, he finally gestured for me to step forward.

"Princess Julia of Arendelle," he said as I walked forward and took my spot on Elsa's left.

As everyone got up and talked to one another, Elsa turned to Anna.

"Hi," she said.

Anna looked confused.

"H-hi me?" she asked as Elsa nodded. "Oh! Um, hi!"

Elsa smiled at me before turning back to Anna.

"You look beautiful." she said.

Anna started to stutter over her words.

"Thank you! Your beautifuller, I mean, not fuller, not look fuller, but more, more beautiful." Anna said, stuttering.

Elsa laughed.

"Thank you!" she said, she then turned to me.

"Did I tell you how gorgeous you look in your dress?" she whispered to me.

I chuckled as I said thank you.

Elsa then looked at the crowd.

"So...This is what a party looks like?" she asked.

I hummed in agreement.

"It's warmer than I thought." Anna commented while Elsa and I nodded.

"What is that amazing smell?" Elsa asked.

We all sniffed around.

"Chocolate!" we all said as we giggled together.

Anna was about to say something, but was interrupted by Kai.

"Your Majesty, I present to you, the duke of Weaseltown-"

"Weaselton! Duke of Weaselton, your Majesty." the man said, stepping forwards. "As your closest trading partner, it's only fitting that I offer you your first dance as queen."

After that, he did a few crazy dance moves before bowing, and when he bowed, the top of his head fell off, revealing a bald spot.

"Woah," I whispered as we all started snickering trying to contain our laughter.

After that, Elsa cleared her throat before speaking to him.

"That is a very generous offer, only I don't dance." she said, she then gestured to me and Anna. "but my sisters do."

"Wait, what?" Anna said.

"Oh, I can't dance either." I said, then whispered, "Mother and Father tried but it didn't end well."

Elsa must've heard me, because she chuckled at me.

Soon enough the duke grabbed Anna's arm and pulled her onto the floor to dance.

"Sorry," I heard Elsa whisper.

As I watched Anna with the duke, a voice appeared in my head.

"What a nice party, isn't it?" the voice said.

I looked around for the voice, confused.

Elsa noticed what I was doing and looked at me worriedly.

"Are you alright, Julie?" she asked. I nodded.

"It's just, I heard this voice in my head that said 'what a nice party'." I replied.

"Weird," Elsa said. "Did it say anything else?"

"No," I said, "not yet."

"It's a shame that it's ending soon." the voice whispered again.

"There it is again,"I said. "It said 'it's a shame that it's ending soon'."

"The party is gonna end soon? When?" Elsa asked me.

I shrugged. "I don't know."

Elsa sighed. "Let's not worry about that for a while, okay? The party is fine right now, let's just worry about that."

I smiled at her and nodded.

"You're right, Els," I said. "Thanks."

She smiled at me just as Anna came back.

"Well, he was sprightly," Elsa said.

"Yeah, especially for a man in heels," Anna groaned.

"Are you okay?" I asked her.

Anna laughed.

"Never been better. This is so nice. I wish we could be like this all the time." she said

I nodded, smiling.

"Me too," Elsa said while smiling, but her smile faded and she turned away from Anna.

"But it can't."

"W-what do you mean? We-"

"It just can't!" Elsa said, interrupting her.

I sighed.

"It's best if we just leave her alone for a moment, Anna." I said.

Anna sighed. "Y-yeah. Excuse us for a minute."

Anna looked at the two of us sadly before walking away from us.

I tried to walk after her, but Elsa grabbed my hand.

"You stay here," she whispered. "Please?"

I looked at Anna, who was too far gone for me to see.

I looked at Elsa and looked at her with a concerned expression.

"Of course, Elsa,"

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Anna's POV:

After that Incident with Julie, Elsa, and I, I tried to get away from them and was caught by Prince Hans. He picked me up and danced with me, and after that we walked around the castle and did everything together.

After about an Hour or so, Hans and I were on a balcony while I was teaching him how to eat a Krumkake.

"That's it." I said, giggling, "The whole thing!"

We both laugh as some of the Krumkake gets on his face.

"Okay, wait, wait. You have how many brothers?" I asked him.

"Twelve older brothers," he tells me. "Three of them pretended I was invisible, Literally, for three years."

"Really?" I asked him. He nodded. "That's horrible."

Hans shrugged.

"It's what brothers do," he said.

I sighed. "And sisters. Elsa, Julie, and I were really close when we were little, well, Elsa and I were, until one day she just shut us out, and we never knew why."

Hans lifted my chin so I faced him.

"I would never shut you out." he said to me.

After that we did everything together, we skated across an empty room with our socks, we danced on the clock tower, and made a heart with our hands as we framed the moon.

I didn't know what it was, but the more I looked at him, the more I fell in love with him. The last few hours felt like days passed when I was with him. He was the perfect man for me.

After a moment Hans looked at me.

"Can I say something crazy?" he asked as he got down on one knee. "Will you marry me?"

I gasped happily.

"Can I say something even crazier?" I asked him. "Yes!"

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Elsa's POV:

"Elsa!" I heard someone call my name as Julie and I were talking to some noblemen.

I turned around to see Anna trying to get through a crowd of people, with someone else in tow.

I looked at Julie as she and I walked towards our sister.

"I-i mean, Queen, me again." she said and I heard Julie beside me silently giggle.

"Umm, may I present to you, Prince Hans of the Southern Isles." she said.

"Your Majesty," he said as he bowed, I bowed my head to him as well.

I then whispered to Julie.

"Do you know him?" I asked her.

Julie whispered back to me. "Yeah, I met him earlier. They must've become friends."

I smiled.

"That's nice."

What I didn't expect was this:

"We would like-" Anna said.

"-your blessing-" Hans Added.

"-for-"

"-our Marriage-" they finally said together.

Julie and I both looked at each other, our eyes widened.

"Excuse me, what?" Julie asked.

I nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm confused." I replied.

"Well, we haven't worked out all the details ourselves. We'll need a few days to plan the ceremony, of course we'll have soup, roast, ice cream, and then-wait would they live here?" she rambled.

"Here?" I asked.

"Wait, who is living here?" I heard Julie ask.

"Absolutely!" Hans said.

"Woah,woah, what?" Julie said, trying to interrupt them.

"Anna-!" I shouted, but got interrupted.

"Oh! We can invite all twelve of your brothers to live with us!" she said.

"Did she say twelve?" Julie asked.

I knew that Jullie wasn't comfortable with having a lot of people around her at a time, just as I was.

"Wait, no,no,no,no!" I said.

But Anna kept going.

"Of course we have the room, some of them must have-"

I was at my last straw with her.

"Anna, stop! No one's brothers are staying here. No one's getting married."

Anna's smile faded as she looked at me.

"Wait what?" she said.

I looked at Julie who smiled and nodded reassuringly.

"Can I talk to you and Julie alone? Please?" I asked her.

Anna shook her head.

"No," she said while taking Hans's arm. "Whatever you have to say, you can say to the three of us, not just Julie and I."

I sighed.

"Fine, you cannot marry a man you just met." I said.

"You can if it's true love," Anna countered back.

"Not if you've known him for what? Half a day, Anna!" Julie said.

"And Anna, what do you know about true love?" I asked.

"More than you," Anna asked, "All you know is how to shut people out!"

My eyes widened when she said that.

I took a deep breath.

"You asked for my blessing, but my answer is no." I said. "Now if you excuse me."

Hans tried to step forward.

"Your Majesty, if I may ease your-" he asked, but I interrupted him.

"No you may not. I-I think you should go." I then whisper to the royal handler as I pass him. "The Party's over, close the gates."

"Yes, Your Majesty," he says as I walk away.

"What, no, Elsa! Wait!" Anna shouts.

I had no time to react when I felt my glove being snatched off my hand.

I turn around to see Anna with my glove in her hand.

"Anna! Give me my glove!"

I try to reach for it, but she holds it away from me.

"Elsa, please, I can't live like this anymore!" she says.

I just look at her.

"Then leave." I whispered to her.

She gasps at my words as I walk away from her.

While I do, I couldn't help but think about what Julie said about the voice earlier.

'it's a shame that it's ending soon'

Is this what Julie was talking about? I shook it out of my head as I continued to walk towards the door.

I heard Anna shouting.

"What did I ever do to you?" she shouted.

I didn't want to face her.

"Enough Anna." I said as I continued to walk away, not letting my fear and anger get to me.

"No, why do you shut me out, why do you shut Julie out? Why do you shut the world out? What are you so afraid of?" she shouted.

That was my final straw with her.

"I said Enough!" I shouted, causing my magic to shoot out, making a ton of sharp ice go all around me.

Everyone around me gasped in shock as they backed away from the ice.

I looked at Julie. She didn't look scared, she looked understanding.

"Please calm down" she mouthed to me.

Anna, on the other hand, she looked completely scared, just like everyone else was,

I saw the duke, hiding behind his men.

"Sorcery. I knew there was something dubious going on here." he said

I looked at Anna again.

"Elsa..." she whispered.

I reached for the door handle before running out of the room.

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Julia's POV:

I tried to look for a way out of the room until I saw an exit far behind me.

The voice came back to me again.

"Use your magic." it said.

"Who are you?" I said.

"That doesn't matter right now. Do it!" it said.

I ignored the voice and looked at the exit.

I took a deep breath before running towards the exit, going through every twist and turn to get out of there.

When I was at the front I saw Elsa looking at the fountain, which was now covered in ice.

Everyone was backing away from her, gasping in fear.

Before I could get to Elsa, I felt someone shove me to the ground.

"There she is! Get her!" they said.

I looked up and saw that it was the Duke and his men.

Elsa put her hands up.

"Please, Just stay away from me! Stay away-!" she said.

When she was finishing, the ice from her uncovered hand shot out and froze the stairs, making the men fall to the ground.

The duke tried to get up, but he kept on slipping.

"Monster. MONSTER!" he shouted.

Elsa started looking around at everyone, the parents were covering while others were just backing away, frightened.

She then took a quick look at me before running the other way towards the fjord.

I quickly got up and ran towards her, Anna and Hans running close behind me.

"ELSA!" Anna called out, running towards the fjord.

"ELSA!" I called, hoping that she'd listen to me.

But she didn't.

When we finally got to the Fjord, we saw that she ran to the other side, her ice making it easy for her.

"What are you waiting for?" the voice said, coming back. "Use your magic! You'd catch up to her faster!"

I just ignore it.

"Wait! Stop!" Anna shouted. She tried to run after her, but slipped on the ice.

"Anna!" I said, catching her and helping her up.

Hans looked up in shock.

"The Fjord..." he whispered.