All characters are mine except for the oc Fern, who is my irl friend's oc. I wrote this for her^^

Contains high levels of cringiness

Enjoy!

  "Well this is cheery," Elsa commented drily, trying not to let her shivering show.

"Actually, this isn't too cheery," Fern, Elsa's companion, replied with an annoyed voice.

"I know, I was being sarcastic," Elsa informed, which was stupid. Fern was probably just being snappy because she was cold.

Elsa wondered how she had gotten into this situation, and you must be curious too.

So, Elsa had heard from someone that there was a really cool immortal ice cave in a forest, not too far from the Wizard's mansion. Fancy, yes? She thought it'd be neat to take Fern, find that cave, and bring back an immortal icicle to boast about. She'd convinced Fern to come, although at first Fern was skeptical and informed her that she literally LIVED in a cave and was bored of them, thank you very much.

But who could say no to a magical immortal ice cave?

This is going to take a few hours, but we're going to be back at home in time for dinner, Elsa had thought prior to leaving for the cave. How she wished it were true.

Maybe the person had lied, or maybe the cave had legs and was playing hide-and-seek with Elsa and Fern, but one way or another the cave wouldn't be found.

Now both adventurers were cold, wet, and annoyed. Annoyed enough to be Ko-level sarcastic at each other, even when they knew it would never work out because both of them had no patience for high-level witticisms.

And they were both pretty darn stubborn. Elsa wasn't about to give up and admit defeat. Whatever she was, Elsa wasn't, and never would be, a coward.

Ko had said she was an idiot often enough though.

"Look, maybe we missed a spot. Why don't we go back and check?" Elsa suggested after a moment of silence. She gestured to the tall black cliffs lining the edge of the snowy forest. Both she and Fern had guessed that a cave would most likely be where the ground wasn't completely flat, like the rest of the forest they were now in.

"My mom is going to kill me," Fern muttered in repy, but started her way back towards the cliffs anyway.

It took another half hour for them to scour the cliffs front to back once again. Elsa had turned into a dragon and swooped back and forth, while Fern used some kind of speedy magic she had proudly claimed to have learned by herself at the age of two and a half. "Some people are born geniuses, you know," she said cheekily.

The sun was setting fast by the time the two met back at the starting point, with both more disappointed and annoyed than they had been before. Fern took to sitting grumpily in the snow, refusing to stand up even when a tree dumped its load of snow right on top of her. Elsa walked around, muttering irritated insults at the maybe-nonexistent cave, wanting to smack her head against the cliff wall but knowing she would cleave her head open if she did.

"This is your fault, you wanted to come here in the first place." Fern's reproachful voice whined from where Fern was sinking deeper and deeper into the snow.

"Hey, I didn't make the cave disappear! It's not my fault." Elsa paused in her pacing to frown. "We were just unlucky, that's all."

"Maybe next time you should bring a MAP, with actual DIRECTIONS to where we need to go," Fern continued. "You could do some RESEARCH you know."

"How do you think a map would help us anyway?" Elsa snapped. "We both suck at reading maps."

"Not true, I'm great at reading maps."

"You almost got us lost that time in the jungle because you were holding the map upside down."

"It helps bring a new perspective to the brain."

"We almost got eaten by a plant."

Silence.

"Ko always does research before going on a new quest."

"Oh KO." Elsa cried. "Why do we have to mention him whenever we get into trouble? It's almost like you like him better than me!"

"He's much more responsible." Fern's narrowed eyes shone atop her snow pile.

"Ooyrbtvpwtuwrbytvowr!!" complained Elsa, and she accidentally smacked the cliff wall with her hand.

Momentarily blinded by pain, Elsa shrieked and fell to the ground, feeling very hurt and very dramatic. It was as if the cliff had personally smacked her, and in doing so, had betrayed her in all the ways a cliff could. Elsa lamented at her bad luck, questioning her purpose in life and asking God why she must suffer so.

It was all done in one breath, and Elsa was too winded to continue.

As Elsa quieted down, she was startled to realize the cliff had betrayed her in more ways than one. It had actually deserted her, curse it's blackened and shriveled hypothetical heart. Honestly, nothing could be trusted these days-

Wait what?

Fern had shot out of her snow pile, wide-eyed and too shocked to realize she had an icy mustache. Elsa gasped.

The cliff wall had truly disappeared.

Well actually, a portion of the cliff wall had disappeared, and after everything ended Fern had said the stone had slid down into the earth while Elsa was yelling, which was why Elsa hadn't been aware of this.

Where the cliff wall had been, a cool, icy blue opening emerged. It went pretty deep too, because Elsa couldn't see the back wall from her vantage point from the ground. The afternoon sun shone sparkling against the shiny ice that made up the walls, the ice stalagmites, and the stalactites. It was breathtakingly beautiful.

And pretty intimidating too, with its endless depths and incredibly sharp looking icicles.

"Looks like we found our cave," Fern commented.

Fern had been allowed to stay for a very late dinner (it was 10 o'clock) with Elsa at the Wizard's, seeing as she'd almost caught hypothermia. And also Ko had wanted to hear the story in full.

"Tell me what happened again," Ko said through tears of laughter, which Elsa found unnecessary. He had already heard the story three times.

With great pleasure, Fern told the story again, while Ko, Rekhyt, Beth, and Jasmine listened, barely containing their laughter at Elsa's unamused face. Ko was treating Elsa's hand (because she didn't want her sister to. It'd be so humiliating) that had taken quite a bruising from her smacking the cliff. Apparently she had applied more force to it than she'd thought. Two large, glittering, icicles stood near the fireplace, sparkling and looking sharp as ever despite the flames right next to them.

"You two really are something, huh?" Rekhyt snickered, after Fern had finished. "Equally strong headed, I see."

"Yeah well you'd be the same in our situation," Elsa argued.

"Actually I'd bring a map."

Ko smiled fondly at Elsa's cry of protest. "You're an idiot."

"Thanks."

"I actually knew about that cave. You should have told me about it before you charged off on your adventure."

"Whoop-de-doo."

The cave was actually a tunnel, according to Ko, and it originally hadn't been made of ice.

Some time ago, there had been a group of refugees from a war no one remembered, running away in hopes of staying alive and protecting their young ones. The entire group had had to cross the black cliffs Elsa and Fern had so easily criss-crossed in their searching. But for the refugees, crossing the cliffs couldn't be harder. None of them had had magic.

It was a miracle in itself that there was a tunnel leading through the cliff.

The refugees had fled through that narrow tunnel, stumbling around the rock formations that had been deadly even before they'd been turned to ice.

Right before they'd all gone through to safety, An enemy general had discovered the group, and had led his legion of warriors to flush the refugees out. He had been the first to go through the tunnel.

Upon discovering the refugees however, the General pitied the poor refugees. It had reminded him of his own family, hiding away in some underground cave to avoid the war. The General on his dragon stead made sure the refugees had all escaped safely, and when they reached the end of the tunnel, General and dragon turned around and blasted the entire tunnel into ice. The enemy soldiers slipped and fell on the ice, most likely impaling themselves on the icicles that adorned themselves on the walls and floor. The refugees were safe.

No one really knows why the cave is immortal, but many say that the fair spirit of the General immortalizes the cave, and the protective nature of his dragon keeps the cave hidden from prying eyes.

It was a moving story, if you just ignored all the flaws in it, Fern claimed. Wouldn't the General be betraying his men by letting them impale themselves on his icicles? Why would he help the refugees anyway? What happened to the refugees after they escaped across the cliffs? Why didn't the enemy soldiers cross the cliffs on their dragons?

Ko told Fern to stop criticizing the story, especially since it was half myth.

"You really must have hit that cliff hard, if you could beat the strength of that old ice dragon," Rekhyt observed, still grinning slightly (but that might just be his default expression). "If only you had the brains to match your strength."

"Oh be quiet, you have neither brains NOR strength." Elsa stuck her tongue out at him, who only laughed in reply.

Elsa escorted Fern through the portal after the very late dinner, wishing her luck with her most-likely-furious mother.

At which Fern replied with: "just get yourself a map."

Mmm ok 

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