Reborn

10 - Survival

There may be some OOC (out of character) for some people in this chapter. Just a fair warning. No apologies made. There will also be some mentions of other countries surrounding Arendelle whose names I made up because while Arendelle is in Norway, Arendelle is a fictitious place, so why not?

Elsa was in a foul mood.

First, their sled was broken. In smithereens. You get the idea. So, bright idea, she created an ice sleigh.

Worked just fine...for the first few minutes.

Unfortunately, the road was so rocky, that it caused the sleigh to break. Kristoff was still rubbing his sore behind from the sudden fall to the ground. Something was wrong. Whatever she created never broke. It could dissipate if she wanted it to - simply vanish into thin air - but never broke of it's own accord.

The only explanation she had was that Ancient Evil thing that she had encountered - twice. Grand Pabbie had warned that once you encountered it, it gained more and more control each time. She shivered.

"Elsa?"

She looked down at Kristoff. He looked up at her, then up at the sky. Oh. Taking a deep breath, she flicked her wrist and the snow that was starting to fall immediately disappeared. She leaned down and patted Sven's neck. "Thanks buddy for carrying me and Olaf," she whispered. Sven looked back at her and seemed to roll his eyes, probably still holding a grudge for the wrecked sleigh.

And that brought her back to the second cause of her foul mood.

After three hours of walking, Elsa's feet finally had enough and she tripped over, bruising her arms. She had insisted on walking over the rocky road with her ice high heels because she didn't want to have blisters.

Another bright idea.

So, Kristoff put her on Sven along with Olaf while he walked alongside them and they had been going like that for the past eight hours. Now, Kristoff was practically sleep walking, but adamantly refused to swap places with Elsa and adamantly refused to stop and take any breathers, arguing that he didn't want to encounter any more robbers, muggers, or the Evil.

Elsa sighed.

She felt terrible.

She looked up at the sky. It was starting to get dark. "Kristoff, let's stop and make camp." She made her tone firm, leaving no room for argument. She didn't want him to trip and fall in the dark, especially with how worn out he was.

He didn't argue, merely nodded. He led them some way off the road into a small clearing. He stopped and collapsed underneath a tree, immediately falling asleep. Rolling her eyes at all his snoring, she climbed off Sven, taking Olaf with her. Laying Olaf next to Kristoff, she went over to Sven. He gave her an expectant look.

Where's my carrots? she realized he was asking. "Here," she said and pulled a carrot out of the satchel that Kristoff had. It was the only thing of their food supplies that they could find - and it was full of carrots for Sven. He wouldn't share them - they had tried. And there was no food growing anywhere in this part of Arendelle - they had looked carefully.

As Sven munched on his carrot, Elsa nuzzled his nose. We should be crossing the Tastistan border in about a week or so, Elsa thought, quietly going over their route. We lost the money we had brought when I started the hurricane, so we can't buy food. The nearest town should be approximately...two days' journey from here. We can get food there. They'll probably give it to us for free. After all, I'm the Queen.

The last thought wasn't in a smug, I'm-better-than-you, arrogant way, but more in a simple matter-of-fact, that's-just-how-things-are way.

Kissing Sven's nose, she smiled at him, confident now that they had a plan. "Keep watch for us?" Elsa whispered. Sven nodded and she lay down on the other side of Olaf. He let out a sigh in his sleep and turned over, snuggling into her side. Chuckling, she lifted her arm and wrapped it around Olaf.

Then fell asleep.

So, yeah, I know that there is not much happening, but the other two ideas for this chapter would have been rushing the story too much. Plus, I wanted to get into how the characters planned to survive while roughing it in the bush. Hope none of you mind.

Have a great day/night!