Chapter XVI: Innocence - Part I

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The Moment they opened the door, Elsa froze and her eyes shot wide as she stared at dozens of people, men and women, who all stopped what they were doing and turned their eyes on her.

"Hey, everyone!" Anna waved, "Meet her highness, Princess Elsa!" She said cheerfully.

A moment of silent overwhelmed the room. Everyone just stared blankly at her, before suddenly, everyone's face lit up in unison and they all started running towards Elsa to greet her.

Elsa saw the crowd whom were rushing to meet her… or kill her. And she quickly cowered behind Anna and Rapunzel.

"WOAH-HO-HO, woah, woah!" Aiden's voice suddenly came out. "Back away from the princess!" He shouted with an intimidating and determined voice. While he stood all puffed up in front of Elsa, Anna and Rapunzel so he could cover them up.

Everyone stared dumbly at Aiden before they backed away a bit.

"Good." Aiden said while he crossed his arms.

"Woah there, guard dog! They just wanna see Elsa here." Anna joked while she tapped his shoulder.

Aiden moved to the side and allowed Elsa whom was hiding behind Anna, to see the others.

Anna turned her head and looked at Elsa from behind her shoulder, "Say Hi, Elsa." Anna encouraged.

Elsa looked at Anna, then at the crowd then back at Anna then at Aiden for some reason then back at the crowd. She gulped nervously before she lifted her hand a bit from behind Anna's shoulder and gave the smallest and shiest wave.

Then suddenly the crowd started shouting and greeting in excitement again and moved forward towards Elsa.

Elsa tensed again, she clutched the stick hard and backed away.

Aiden, Flynn and Kristoff moved to push the crowd away. Aiden held two men at the same time off the ground so he could shove them away. Flynn and Kristoff struggled with the others.

"God! These people are like friendly puppies!" Rapunzel mocked while she laughed in unease.

The room's temperature suddenly dropped immensely. This was too much for Elsa. Too many people. She'd been interacting with only two people for fifteen years, and they were never good to her.

Some stopped their tracks and backed away a bit as they remembered that Elsa could have literally impaled them with icicles or exploded ice everywhere at any minute, but most of them were stubborn and tried to reach Elsa so they could introduce themselves to the royal highness.

Anna felt the cold temperature. Uh-Oh. She turned her head and saw from behind her shoulder how Elsa's eyes were wide with fright, her shoulders reached her ears again as she began to cower in fear and held to the stick as if she will forever. Before Elsa could panic, Anna felt her anger rise at the dumb guild members. "ENOUGH!" She yelled loudly. Her voice was so full with determination and boldness that everyone froze in place but unfortunately, Anna forgot about Elsa's reaction. Anna turned to look at Elsa who already closed her ears and shut her eyes in fear whilst she trembled.

Anna sighed. She knew she shouldn't have shouted like that. But at least she stopped them from freaking Elsa out more. She turned to the friendly, excited female guild members while Aiden placed the men on the ground and glared at the male guild members. Then, both Anna and Aiden started talking turn by turn.

"Alright. Now that you are all quiet, I want to clarify some things for you here." Anna started.

"Princess Elsa, is to be treated with respect." Aiden demanded.

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