The Lost Princess

Chapter 23

I woke with a start from a loud alarm blaring into my ears.  The first thought that went through my head was that I was going somewhere today.  As I was not a morning person, I reached over and slapped the alarm clock until I felt the snooze button.  I slammed my hand down on it and felt the button push down.  However, the noise continued on, echoing in the room. 

I let out a moan and sat up, thinking that the snooze wasn’t working, so I’d have to actually look for the off switch.  I rubbed my eyes and brought my focus to the alarm clock.  Instead, I saw Kristoff’s buzzer flashing red and vibrating.  It wasn’t the alarm clock after all!  The buzzer was going off!  That means that Hans had  been trapped!  I stretched and brought myself to get out of bed to get the keys from Hans. 

First, I switched off the buzzer to stop the blaring noise that had become quite annoying. 

“That’s better,” I said after the buzzer stopped, leaving a dead silence. 

I opened my door and made my way down to our “artifact room”, which was really just full of random pots and other stuff I had found lying around the castle.  Really it was just a trap for Hans.  The sword in the stone was a lure to trap him.  Really it was just a plastic rock with a sword stabbed into it.  Hans would pull it out to “rule Arendelle”, but after the sword was pulled, it would trigger a net to fall from above, thus trapping him. 

I had found that the trap had worked, because a very angry Hans laid on the floor, trapped under a net.

“I see you found my little trap for you,” I said, entering the room.

“Lisa, you can’t do this!” Hans plead.

“And you can’t kidnap Anna and Elsa!”

“Lisa, we can reason, just let me free!”

“No we can’t Hans.”

“But I did pull the sword out of the stone.”

“Yeah, so?”

“That makes me ruler!”

“You really believe all that nonsense? The sword in the stone was English.  It really pays to listen is history class.”

“Lisa, you must let me out,” Hans continued to plead.  “You promised me a waltz tomorrow.”

I had to laugh at this one.  For an evil trickster, he was almost as gullible as Anna.

“I may not be a perfect princess, but don’t you ever confuse me for a fool.  Oh, and I’ll take those keys.”

I reached into his shirt pocket, where I saw a glint of golden metal.  It revealed to be a key, which I knew would unlock the cage that Anna and Elsa were in.

I left Hans and walked back to my room to change.  I knew that I needed to get to Anna and Elsa as soon as possible.  They were probably starving. 

I pulled out my dress and slid off my nightgown.  I hastily did my hair (since I had come to the castle I had gotten much better at styling buns), then slid on my shoes.  Sure, I didn’t look perfect, but it was good enough for the time being. 

I walked out of my room.  Now I just needed to wake Kyle.  He slept on the bottom floor, along with the other staff members.  I would need him to drive the boat to the Southern Isles and Anna and Elsa. 

To get to Kyle’s  bedroom, I needed to walk right by the room that Hans was trapped in.  I decided to take a quick peek inside.  Although I don’t know why I looked in, I was glad I did.  Where Hans was trapped, there was no Hans.  All that was left was a fake rock and torn netting.  Maybe it wasn’t so smart to leave my prisoner with a sharp sword and cheap netting.  I ran over to the trap to see if the sword was still there.  Much to my dismay, it was not.  Hans must have taken it with him.  Great, now he was on the loose, with a weapon.  I honestly didn’t know how this could get any worse. 

Suddenly, I heard a noise from the door of the room.  I quickly looked to see what it was.  There was a shadow in the darkness, cast from one of the lights that I had turned on.  I froze up.

“Who’s there?” I asked, walking towards the door.

“Did you really have to ask?” Hans smirked.

I started to run towards the door, ready to stop Hans, but the room was to big.  I couldn’t make it to the door in time.  I saw it closing.

“Have a nice stay little princess,” Hans cooed before closing it. 

The last thing I saw was his leg and the blade of his sword.  Then the door latched and I heard it lock.  I tried to turn the handle, but it wouldn’t move.  Why does this door have to lock from the outside?

I collapsed in defeat, it was all I really could do, I was trapped.