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Chapter 7 - The Time for Truth

Three days have passed since the meeting on the island of Frotz, which had not gone as planned. The atmosphere in Arendelle was rather heavy, and already, the first signs of the nascent winter were being seen. The first snowfall appeared and already the mountains, forests and houses of Arendelle was gradually dyed white. The inhabitants did not need to worry, knowing that it was the natural phenomenon of the seasons and not the powers of their queen. Most of the inhabitants were now busy preparing their houses for the winter, as well as bringing in the last stock of wood, while the children were having fun in snowballs and other innocent games. Despite her stormy relations with the people of Arendelle, Zilla had managed to make himself useful. With his size, he had managed to fold the remaining schools of migrating fish into the area, to bring them to the fishermen's nets to further fill the food supply for the winter. Although most remained suspicious of the young titan, some thanked him. Zilla sometimes even helped to carry the nets too heavy for humans, taking them as delicately as possible in her jaws and being careful not to eat the fish and to not crush everything under his feet.

In the castle, which the towers were also gradually turning white with the snow, Anna watched from the window of her room with a slight smile as she saw Zilla helping the sailors of Arendelle. Sheltered in the warmth of her room, the young princess approached the fireplace where were burning some logs, and gently rocked her daughter to help her fall asleep. Despite the very hard times and the latest events that led to this disorder, Anna, although worried, did not want to give up, it was not her kind. Anna placed Iduna in the cradle, covering her well with the blanket, and sitting down beside her, began to softly humming a tune and to sing a few words to make her sleep.

_"May it be an evening star

Shines down upon you

May it be when darkness falls

Your heart will be true

You walk a lonely road

Oh! How far you are from home...."

Under the gentle voice of her mother, Iduna closed her small eyes, comfortably lying in her cradle, and gradually fell asleep, the little silver pendant that Elsa had fashioned, beside her. Anna stopped singing when she saw her falling asleep, and smiled, looking at her for a few moments. In those dark times, this child, her child, was one of the lights that brought her a smile. Anna left her room and shut the door quietly, and gave instructions that no one enter in the room, except her or Kristoff. By the way, Anna spotted her husband coming to her by the hallway. Anna had told Kristoff everything that had happened on Frotz Island, which had not reassured him at all and had made him, under the spell of fear, preach to Anna for going, but had apologized afterwards. Anna did not blame him, knowing the protective nature of Kristoff. The young princess came and gently hugged her.

_"She sleeps?" Kristoff asked, not speaking too loudly. Anna nodded, but soon, her smiling face turned into a more thoughtful and dark look, which Kristoff noticed right away.

_"What's the matter?"

_ "When I think of all this ....." Anna said with a slight pause between her words ".... I wonder .... will we be able to protect our daughter?"

_ "Of course, yes, why torment yourself about this?" Kristoff answered, trying to reassure her, but Anna could see he was doubting him too.

_ "Stop, Kristoff .... We're talking about things beyond the understanding, things that humanity is nothing about .... What could two humans like us do against that?"

Seeing her thinking like that, she usually always confident about the worst, Kristoff hugged her again. Anna, her head snuggled against her husband's shoulder, listened.

_ "Do not forget that we are not alone ..... And we will never be.... Union is strength, and it will always be so."

Anna thanked him internally for these words, but Kristoff saw that she was still doubtful, but about something else, that he thought he guessed right.

_ "And .... Elsa?" he asked, turning his gaze to the end of the corridor, where was the door of the queen's room, closed.

Meanwhile....

For the last three days, Elsa had not left her room. Sleeping little and barely eating, the young queen spent her time, pensive, looking through the large window of her room, towards the ocean and its horizon .... Why did Godzilla leave this way, without looking back? Maybe to pursue Rodan, but she felt it was not the only reason. And above all, those visions that never ceased to haunt her .... Elsa thought at first that it could only be an illusory spell of this horned witch in order to destabilize her, but Elsa felt it, with a great conviction, that these flashes and these images she saw were very real, and that she was the main concerned. On her desk were the piles of documents she had ignored, and also Ishiro's big book, in which she had tried to find answers, even information about the witch Maleficent, but without success. Elsa felt on the brink, all the weight of these mysteries weighing like metal weights on her thin shoulders.

Reflecting on it, she ends up remembering a rather important detail that dates back to when she was a child. Her heart leapt in her chest ... How could she not remember it before? Several nights, as a child, she often had the same dream ..... She stood, lost in the middle of a devastated place and covered with ashes and dust. Frightened, she was encircled by giant monsters who wanted to hurt her. She was crying, calling for help, but eventually, another giant monster was emerging from the mist, roaring with might, and one by one, killing the other giants to protect her.... This mighty monster was none other than Godzilla .... Seeing these childhood memories come back in her head, Elsa was confused.... How could she have memories of Godzilla, or even have dreamed of him accurately, even before meeting him?

Faced with this inner distress that was gnawing at her, her powers had manifested themselves a few times, covering the walls and floor of her room with a thin layer of frost and flakes sometimes floating around her. Although she had found no answer in Ishiro's book, Elsa had been very thoughtful, and she knew who would be able to provide it. After asking her devoted servant Kai not to tell anyone where she was going to, Elsa was discreetly away from the castle, then from the city, covered with a large cloak and hood to hide her face, on the back of her horse and galloped now, on the dirt road and steep, towards the forest and rocky hills. Twilight was already beginning to fall on the kingdom, the first aurora borealis already appearing in the sky. While walking the road, the wind on her face, Elsa felt guilty to leave Anna in ignorance, but she felt already guilty enough to have made her run such risks on the island of Frotz, and she did not want not to mix her sister with other potential problems.

After more than an hour of galloping through the big snow-capped pine forest, Elsa finally arrived at the rocky hills, and especially the stone trolls sanctuary, as always imbued with this mystical and almost soothing aura. Seeing her arrive, the trolls immediately manifested themselves, leaving their form of inanimate rocks.

_ "This is the queen ...." "Queen Elsa" ...... "What is the queen doing here?" ..... The trolls were beginning to talk to each other, very surprised to see her here. Grand Pabbie arrived in his turn, also particularly surprised to see Elsa, but despite that, greeted her respectfully as a queen.

_ "Your majesty ..... what is this unforeseen visit worth to us? Does this concern Kristoff and Anna again?"

_ "No, Grand Pabbie, I'm here for something that I think, and I think you know it too, concerns me." she said in a somewhat cold, even urgent voice. Pabbie and the trolls felt it and looked confused.

_ "What .... What do you mean, majesty?" Pabbie asked, rubbing her hands a little nervously. Elsa noticed. She approached the wise troll and knelt down to stand up to him and looked him straight in the eyes.

_ "On the island of Frotz, at the meeting, something unexpected happened ... a woman with powers, calling herself Maleficent, appeared ...."

At the mention of this name, she saw that Pabbie's expression changed, although he tried to hide it. This expression was fear. Elsa continued. "She said she knew Godzilla, but also to express, in her way, the pleasure she had to meet someone like me again."

All around, the trolls remained silent, and all showed shamefaced faces. Pabbie too, who sighed deeply, resigned himself.

_ "The truth always ends up in the open, sooner or later, so it is .... I should have known ....."

_"What do you say?" Elsa asked, knowing that she was right. Pabbie looked at her, an expression of great shame in his eyes.

_ "I can not bear anymore the burden of this secret .... My queen.... It's time for me to tell you the whole truth .... come with me...."

Though feeling anxious to know, her limbs almost shaking and her heart pounding, Elsa restrained herself from rushing the things and followed Pabbie, while the other trolls remained at the shrine. For a long walk, Pabbie guided Elsa through a secret path hidden among the trees of the rocky hills. As she walked, Elsa felt more and more the mystical aura that permeated these lands, and it almost made her shudder. At the end of this march, Pabbie finally led her into the middle of a large virgin clearing and encircled by the vast and deep forest. First not understanding what she came to do here, Pabbie, with some hesitation before, then pointed to something with his finger....

In the middle of the clearing were two rocky forms, upright and oval, of medium size, standing side by side in the middle of tall grass. Heart pounding, her hands shaking, Elsa stepped forward, reaching them, followed by Pabbie. Arriving in front of her, Elsa realized that it was tombstones that had been made with rocks of the hill. And on these stones were engraved names: Dagmar and Elfride. Elsa was more than confused and turned to Pabbie, who, when she saw his expression, thought she understood that revealing silence.

_ "This ..... This ...." Elsa stammered, afraid to have guessed. Pabbie nodded nonchalantly.

_ "Dagmar and Elfride .... These are your parents, Elsa ..... your real parents."

Elsa's heart stopped almost and all her thoughts stopped. Unable to speak, or even to think, the young queen remained trembling, turning her gaze again to the tombs half covered by vegetation. She stepped forward again, falling to her knees in front of the graves and placing her trembling hand on one of them, the cold stone impregnating her palm. The tears could not be restrained and ran down the cheeks of the young woman.

_ "No ...... no .... I .... It's ...." Elsa could no longer form sentences, so much was the shock. Pabbie was ashamed and showed it.

_"I could have told you about it earlier, but I was kept secret by order of the king and the queen."

Elsa did not even listen to him, too shocked and crying in front of those two graves that suddenly came to crush the world around her. In an instant, all she had known by then had just gone up in smoke, like a veil of lies finally revealed. Frost began to form on Elsa's hands, and Pabbie saw it.

_"My queen?"

When she turned to him, he could see the sadness and shock on her face, but also the growing anger. With a wave of her hand, Elsa pulled a row of sharp stalagmites from the ground, all heading towards Pabbie like a sharp cage, which made the troll jump out of fear.

_"Majesty!"

_ "All these years, to look who I really was and finally thinking I found it ....." Elsa spoke, her voice trembling from the mixture of sadness and anger "... All my life you 'm You have hidden this truth .... You, my so-called parents .... All that was a lie!"

The stalagmites began to move slowly towards Pabbie, who despite the fear, tried to calm the young queen as he could.

_ "My queen, believe me. Not a single day of my long life has passed without my expressing regret, but if we did so it was because your parents, your true parents, wanted it... To protect you!!"

_ "And why should I believe you from now on?" she asked angrily, her cheeks flushed with tears, and her hand ready to unleash the final stalagmite advance on Pabbie. The troll seemed resigned again, spreading his arms.

_ "In this case, I only have to die with my faults. I will not try to run away. If you think that my word is worthless, that you can no longer trust anyone, then you know what you have to do.... "

The temptation was very great, Elsa felt it for the first time in her bruised heart. The desire for revenge, this invisible viper slowly coming to poison the heart and mind of someone to devour her. It was enough for Elsa to finish, but she saw, in the troll's determined gaze, that he was telling the truth, and that he had not yet revealed everything. Elsa closed her eyes, struggling between pros and cons for long seconds in this battlefield that was her mind, then remembered Maleficent .... Seeing Elsa in this state would surely fill her with pleasure. Elsa understood it now ... Maleficent had not sought to destabilize her by covering her with illusions, but by pushing her to discover the truth. Elsa lowered her hand, sighed heavily and made the stalagmite prison around Pabbie disappear, which was reassured to see her calm down a little. But sadness was still there and Elsa fell to her knees again in the grass, crying again, her face in her hands. Pabbie came to her and patted her shoulder in vain comfort.

_ "Tell me everything ..." Elsa said after few minutes, rubbing her cheeks and regaining a little calm as she could. "...I want to know...."

_ "Are you really sure?" Pabbie asked him one last time "... the truth may be much more damaging than it lets you see ...."

_ "No more lies .... no more waiting ..... This time, I want to know ...." was the order of Elsa, to which the troll obeyed.

_ "Very well .... Take my hand ..." Pabbie told her. Elsa listened and put her hand on his, while with the other hand Pabbie began to create a misty foggy, purple cloud of energy, floating above them and gradually forming various shapes, like images from the past. Elsa gazed at him in silence, while Pabbie finally told her, the truth:

"Dagmar and Elfride were the last rulers of a kingdom of Iceland, one of the oldest peoples in the world: the Iss .... The Iss were very similar to humans, except that they could live up to 200 years old and possessed the power to create and control the ice .... The Iss were very close to the guardian titans, especially the one whom they worshiped as their god: Godzilla ..... For millennia, the Iss ruled unchallenged on Iceland, in a kingdom where prosperity and magic flowed profusely .... But all this magic ended one day by causing their loss...."

Very confused, Elsa listened without losing a single word, while the images and flashes formed by Pabbie's cloud of energy became darker, more violent, and suddenly the threatening shadow of a large three-headed dragon appeared.....

"80 years ago, King Ghidorah, the devourer of worlds, appeared and attacked the kingdom of the Iss, seeing them as a threat to his reign of terror. In spite of their powers and the help of Godzilla to fight him, The whole realm of Iss was destroyed, adults and children, everyone has been killed by the wrath of the three-headed dragon, except for Dagmar and Elfride, who in a last desperate fight, and with the help of Godzilla and other unexpected allies, managed to defeat Ghidorah and seal him somewhere where nobody would find him....

Being the last survivors of their people, Dagmar and Elfride could not bring themselves to stay longer in Iceland and went into exile on an island in the middle of the North Sea, where they lived hidden for many years, despite the sorrow that little faded. And, 23 years ago, Elfride gave birth to you, Elsa .... You were the new light that lit up their lives. But knowing that the island would not be suitable for the education of a child, your parents decided to join Norway by the ship they had taken during the flight from Iceland. But during a storm, their ship was attacked by a destroyer titan, Knifehead, which seriously damaged the ship. Fortunately, Godzilla followed them discreetly and while your parents and you fled in a rowboat, Godzilla faced and killed the titan, thus saving your lifes...."

While listening, Elsa could once again see these images, or rather those buried memories ..... Her original parents, looking at her with love ..... The storm, the rain, the thunder roaring ..... The ship attacked by the titan ..... Dagmar, preparing by his only physical strength the small rowboat where Elfride is, holding their daughter in her arms ..... Dagmar had a square, strong face, long blond hair and a mustache. Elfride was very beautiful, her face very much like Elsa's. After the boat was launched, Dagmar jumped into the water to escape the flames, and was rescued by his wife who helped him board the rowboat.... The couple leaned over to their weeping baby, Elsa, whom Elfride was holding dearly in her arms..... The couple fleeing on the waves, while Godzilla, roaring with fury, throws himself on Knifehead and bites him deeply in the throat, while the ship is swallowed by the unbridled waves .... Elsa's heart leaped more and more. Pabbie continued the explanation again.

"Although, having arrived in Norway, your parents knew the true nature of ordinary humans, and their narrow view about different people like them. Then they chose to live isolated, in the northern mountains, where they could raise you and to help you master your powers when you would be older. For a few months, everything went well, but again, the fate was fierce. One night, your cabin was attacked by an obscure enemy, attracted and eager to take their powers. Your parents defended themselves, but both were mortally wounded in the fight against this unknown and far too powerful enemy for them... "

The vision showed a cabin burning in the mountains, as well as Dagmar and Elfride, both exhausted and wounded, carrying Elsa in their arms and running as fast as they could, while the flames of the cabin, emerges little by little a silhouette draped with a large black cape and horned head ....

"It was during that fateful night that your despairing parents arrived at Arendelle, and sought asylum from the King and the Queen. Seeing them thus, and being good rulers, they agreed to receive them, and Dagmar and Elfride revealed everything. the truth about them, about you, and about what was threatening you .... Then they made the King and Queen of Arendelle promise to raise you as their own child, as well as never to reveal anything to you about them. The king and the queen agreed, and after that, Dagmar and Elfride left Arendelle and came to meet me, seeking refuge. By prayers to their god, they begged Godzilla to keep their daughter safe, while remaining at a distance. Godzilla, feeling himself guilty for the fall of the Iss kingdom, accepted. Despite my healing skills, I could not do anything to save your parents, and before I died, Elfride made me promise to tell you the truth only the day where the moment would come..."

The vision ended with Pabbie, kneeling beside Elfride, who after having make him sworn, closed her eyes and gave her last breath. The cloud of energy dissipated in the air and Pabbie sits down, this effort having required a lot of magic effort, he had to regain some strength. Elsa was also affected and had to take long minutes to analyze all the truth she had just received .... She really wished that all this was a horrible nightmare, but it was not the case .... The origin of her powers, her special bond to Godzilla, this expression of deja vu when she met Maleficent .... Everything was clearer for Elsa now, although as Pabbie said before, the truth is proved most destructive than expected. All her life she thought she was the only one of her kind, but it was not the case. This also explained the fact that no titan was ever seen before, Godzilla having taken care of keeping them away from Arendelle to protect Elsa for all these years, until Leatherback could deceive the vigilance of Godzilla and attack the coast of Arendelle.

This truth had also raised other more alarming points, especially that which shocked Elsa in the highest degree ....... Anna ....... Thinking about her, Elsa could only cry again, understanding what her true origins implied between her and Anna. Pabbie came to her to support her morally, feeling both relieved not to carry anymore that heavy secret on his shoulders, but also guilty of breaking the world in which Elsa thought she was living since all her life.

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