Chapter XV
Once back in the sanctuary the sunset light bathed the place and the young women decided to continue quickly so as not to lose the inertia they carried, as they had already rested during the last scenario.
Shortly after Honeymaren re-activated the training room, the young women could feel the water coming up under their feet.
"Give me your hand, the water can be dangerous if we don't know where we're going to appear!" Shouted Honeymaren, Elsa intertwined her hands with the young sorcerer's and after a big flash they both found themselves in the middle of a violent storm on a dark night.
"It's a ship!" Elsa shouted, releasing a hand of Honeymaren to hold on to one of the ropes secured around the mast of the ship on which they had appeared, hoping not to fall and be swept away by the slippery deck that appeared to be constantly bathed by the waves.
"I've never been in one!" Honeymaren shouted, holding Elsa's hand heavily, and the ropes of the main mast with her free hand.
Suddenly a large wave hit the ship's port sharply, throwing the young women against the opposite overboard.
"Are you all right?" Elsa asked, caressing the side with which she hit against the solid wood of the ship and making sure to keep her partner close.
"Yes, don't worry." Honeymaren said, doing the same thing.
Both girls were now soaked and slightly sore, they had to take control of the ship quickly or they would be in trouble.
Elsa turned her gaze to the stern and was able to distinguish the helm by turning erratically as the wind and the movement of the water carried her.
"We must control the ship!" Elsa said, determined to take action as soon as possible, and taking advantage of a small lapse in which the deck remained balanced she ran towards the stairs of the quarter deck.
"Elsa watch out!" Honeymaren shouted as Elsa was about to climb the stairs and a large wave abruptly rocked the ship again, luckily her partner's warning worked and the young Queen held tightly from the railing of the stairs.
Honeymaren rose difficultly and then conjured a spell to improve the grip she had with her limbs, surrounding hands and feet with a strong orange glow that gradually disappeared, and thus, step by step, to prevent the force of the wobble from making her lose her balance and fall, she advanced to where her partner was, still held to the stairs as the ship's dangerously erratic movement had not given a truce.
"Come on, I have no idea how to do this." Honeymaren said, smiling, even in the middle of chaos, as she stood on the stairs next to her beloved.
The pair hold hands and both slowly climbed the stairs as the ship seemed to be going to sink at any time, the sails that were unfolded filled with air at times to stop abruptly at others, worsening the vessel's sudden movement.
"There! Let's go to the helm! Elsa said pulling her partner through the quarter deck when the floor seemed to remain stable for a moment and before giving time to another surprise she reached the helm and took it firmly, keeping it stable.
"It's working!" Honeymaren said behind her girlfriend's back, watching the ship's direction stabilize.
"That's right!" Elsa said happily, enjoying her momentary victory, though the sea threatened not to allow her to enjoy it for long.
Shortly after Elsa took the helm, large waves began to crash into the ship again, while those she traversed lifted it up and down in a rapid swaying movement that began to make the young Northuldra seasick.
"I don't feel very well." Honeymaren said, dropping on her knees and holding on tightly from Elsa's leg, while she kept firmly maneuvering the helm.
"Don't worry sweetheart, you've never boarded a ship before, sea sickness is normal even in relatively stable waters, just resist, I'll try to find calmer waters." Elsa said, handing off the wheel with one hand to caress Honeymaren's face a little and then returning it to the task in front of her.
She's so sweet to care about me even in the middle of all this Honeymaren thought held up to her girlfriend as she watched her battle the sea with eyes full of tenderness. I can't let her do everything alone, I must help, the young sorceress thought, feeling a lively urge to take back control of herself.
Honeymaren rose firmly and then conjured on herself some spells to try to counteract dizziness and nausea, which left her feeling a little heavier and numb, but definitely better.
"Honey! you don't have to." Elsa began to say, worried that her girlfriend would push herself too hard.
"Don't worry Snowflake, I need to do this." Honeymaren interrupted, and then took the helm alongside her girlfriend, projecting magic onto it and slowly making her magic spread across the ship as they tried to keep it stable.
"Is working!" Elsa shouted excitedly.
"It is!" Honeymaren replied with a smile on her face.
For a few minutes the girls held their position, concentrating only on colliding head-on with the next big wave, trying to avoid as much as possible an impact that would destabilize them. The couple managed to pass several waves of great force without problems until a new challenge appeared unexpectedly.
"What is that?!" Honeymaren asked.
"Did you feel it too?" Elsa asked, and as they took time to react the ship began to lean to the left, drawn by a force they couldn't perceive.
"It's useless, we can't resist!" Elsa said through the roar of the storm as both girls tried hard to turn the ship around.
"Give me a moment, I will go up to see if I can find out what is causing this!" Honeymaren said, releasing the helm and preparing to fly off the ship.
"No wait!" Said Elsa, taking her by the wrist. "The air is too rough; it can be dangerous." Added Elsa, looking at the face of her girlfriend with a clearly worried look.
"You don't have to worry, the cloak and I have great strength together!" Honeymaren said showing the biceps of her free arm while the cloak simulated two arms arched with its ends and lightning and thunder were present around her.
"Okay." Elsa said, after letting out a small laugh with a hint of concern that both caused her.
The pair exchanged a look of confidence and security and then Honeymaren took off quickly, then headed towards where the storm seemed to be taking them.
After a few seconds the young woman realized the undoubted cause of their problem, a huge maelstrom that powerfully drew huge amounts of water to the abyss that was its center.
"There is no way our ship will survive that." Honeymaren said to herself.
Hearing those words, the cloak made a gesture of denial with one of its ends, supporting what the young sorcerer mentioned.
"We must get back to Elsa as soon as possible, find a way to get rid of its attraction and get away."
The cloak nodded and they both made an effort to fly as fast as possible back to their ship.
"Maelstrom! There's a big maelstrom ahead!" Honeymaren shouted as she descended again into the ship, next to her partner.
"Oh no, this will be more difficult than I thought." Elsa said worriedly, still trying to make the ship resist the pull of the maelstrom.
"There must be something we can do, if you have any ideas I'll do my best to support you." Honeymaren said.
"Take the helm, keep it in steady, I'll be back in no time!" Elsa said quickly, with a look that her girlfriend easily interpreted when she saw that it was the gesture she made when some great idea had suddenly come to her.
"Alright!" Answered the young woman, taking command firmly and at that moment Elsa headed for the stairs to descend to the deck.
The Snow Queen didn't have extensive experience on ships, but she had multiple memories of the trips she had made on her parent's when she was a girl and among those memories were some clues about how some things worked on the boat.
Once at the bow castle Elsa she found what she was looking for, the anchors, remembered the way the sailors used to release them, and hastened to release them in the most synchronized way possible, waiting for them to fall and took hold to the bottom relatively evenly.
A few seconds later both anchors were attached to the bottom and the ship saw a sudden decrease in speed that almost caused the young Queen to lose her balance, avoiding falling holding onto one of the ropes attached to the bowsprit.
"Elsa, are you okay?!" Honeymaren asked, regaining her posture after the boat rocked.
"Yes!" Elsa said standing up. "And you ?!"
"I'm fine!... Is it normal that this happened ?!"
"Yes, the anchors will keep the ship from going any further. By holding on they stopped us abruptly." Elsa said as she walked across the deck back to Honeymaren.
"The maelstrom... do you think we can freeze it?" The young Northuldra asked once the Arendellian girl was at her side again.
"I don't know... I have never been able to freeze much of the ocean, its movement prevents the ice from advancing before breaking... a maelstrom has great movement force... it would be very difficult." Elsa said thoughtfully.
"What if it froze so fast that movement wasn't a problem?" Honeymaren asked, releasing the helm and concentrating on the problem at hand when she saw that the ship was in position.
"That could work!... you have an idea in mind, don't you?
"More than one... " said Honeymaren, putting her hand on the Eye of Agamotto, it was then when Elsa thought she understood what her girlfriend had in mind.
"Wow! What are you up to?" Elsa asked surprised when Honeymaren took her in her arms and quickly carried her through the air.
"I'll explain to you along the way." The young sorceress said resolutely.
"That's the maelstrom... seems bigger than last time." Honeymaren said, levitating with her girlfriend in her arms over the powerful natural phenomenon.
"Its own strength must be generating momentum. this won't be easy," Elsa said, after that the young sorcerer conjured a magic circle under them that she would use as a platform, descending on it and lowering her partner at her side.
"I think I can improve our chances." Honeymaren said, opening The Eye Agamotto and closing the magic rings of time and white magic on her forearms.
The young sorceresr was sure of what she would do and proceeded to extend her hand over the huge maelstrom quickly transmitting the power of the Eye to it and in a matter of seconds stopping it completely, just like everything around it.
"This is unbelievable! Elsa said, excited to see that even the raindrops had been paralyzed in position, as Honeymaren lowered her hands with a gesture of satisfaction.
The young Snow Queen soon created a large staircase to the surface of the water and once ready she took the young sorcerer's hand, taking her along to the static sea.
"It's amazing." Elsa said, right outside the water, which until recently was powerfully stirring.
"Thank you, I just hope it was the right decision and not some kind of cheat on my part." Honeymaren said.
"I don't think it is, you're strengthening your powers and that's the goal of our training." Elsa said, caressing the young woman's hand in a comforting way, causing in her a smile that she returned fondly.
Feeling ready the young Snow Queen turned her gaze to the water and took a cautious step towards it, when the tip of her toes delicately touched the surface it froze almost immediately several meters around, giving her a solid, thick surface on which to stand.
"Come on!" Elsa said pulling Honeymaren when she felt that the ice was safe, and so a great ice path emerged to make way for the girls that advanced without delay towards the center of that huge maelstrom that would have been the nightmare of any sailor who had found it and that was to be easily tamed by the powers and determination of the young couple working together.
It didn't take long for the young women to find themselves on the edge of the great maelstrom, Elsa was excited about what they were both managing to do together, Honeymaren, on the other hand, was a little more distracted.
"It's unbelievable, isn't it? We did, we came this far as if it had been another walk through the forest." Elsa said, leaning slightly to see beyond the edge of the abyss that the maelstrom formed, yet her words did not receive an answer. "Honey?" Elsa said more seriously turning over to see her girlfriend who was still holding her hand and who seemed to have her gaze fixed on her.
"I'm sorry." Honeymaren said, suddenly, like breaking the trance she was in. "I've seen you do many things as this, and yet you keep impressing me." She added.
"Honey." Elsa said affectionately removing some locks of hair from her girlfriend's forehead. "It's you who surprised me, all this is thanks to you, even standing here now it's thanks to your magic." Elsa added, and then she gave her partner a quick kiss on the cheek. Now let's go, just as we did in Crete." The young Queen added, releasing Honeymaren's hand and then directing her to the deep abyss that the maelstrom formed.
Honeymaren tried to hide her blush and agreed vigorously.
"Of course!" The young sorceress said adjusting her hands and conjuring a large magic circle over the maelstrom's center, once she finished Elsa quickly proceeded to project a great deal of her power through the magic circle that would amplify it, freezing the maelstrom to its lowest point.
"We did it!" Elsa said excitedly.
"Yes, that should be enough! Let's go back to the ship to dissolve the power of the Eye and return time to normal." Honeymaren said.
"The last one there owes the other a massage!" Elsa laughing and starting to run without giving Honeymaren time to react.
"You're the worst!" Honeymaren said, starting to run fast behind her.
Minutes later Elsa was the first to set foot on the ship, after practice she had become an expert moving on the ice and creating her own paths with it. The truth is that Honeymaren and the cloak could have won, but the young sorceress didn't want it that way.
"We have to follow her closely, but let her believe that we can't reach her." Honeymaren said to The Cloak of Levitation while running.
The ancient relic with personality made some gestures, as if she was complaining or asking her something.
"Yes, I want to lose, okay?!" The slightly exasperated young woman replied. "That bet will be a perfect excuse someday." She added.
In the face of Honeymaren's words the cloak only gesticulated more.
"Don't make fun of me, focus![
And so the two worked as a team to make Elsa believe that she won by a slight difference, the young women laughed at the result once on the ship and together they lifted anchors and then dissolved the spell of the Eye of Agamotto.
"Here we go." Honeymaren said as she closed the ancient relic, and as soon as the influence of its power faded, the ship began to move quickly.
"The storm is still going on, but I don't feel like anything's attracting us anymore!" Elsa said while at the helm.
"The sea seems a little calmer." Honeymaren said as she peeked overboard and saw that the waves were less aggressive than before.
"The maelstrom influenced its surroundings, stopping it so drastically must have influenced the waters by stopping them a little too." Elsa said as Honeymaren got up the ladder of the quarter deck next to her.
"Let's hope the calm lasts." Honeymaren said, standing next to her girlfriend and creating a magical shield above them, preventing more water from soaking them, just after that Elsa used her powers to remove the water they already had on top of them, drying their clothes and hair.
"Thank you." The young Northuldra said, hugging her partner, who maneuvered the helm, from behind.
"Thanks to you." Elsa said, rubbing her cheek against her girlfriend's who was now resting her chin on her right shoulder.
As time passed the storm calmed down a little more, the lighting disappeared and it ended up being only heavy rain in form. The young women, not having a clue to where they were to go, only continued to sail on the same course that the ship had when they appeared on it, hoping that some sign of what they should do now would emerge.
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