"Leo…" Both Elsa and Helen speechlessly stood in front of Leo, intense emotions swirling inside of their chest.
Leo didn't respond and waited for their reply.
Glancing at each other, Helen quickly answered, wanting to beat Elsa in it.
However, Elsa seems to be thinking the same thing as they both answered in unison.
"Yes! I'll marry you, Leo!" Answering him full of warmth and love, Leo grinned in happiness.
However, Helen and Elsa started glaring at each other, opposite to what Leo is currently feeling.
"I said Yes first!"
"No! It was me who said it first!"
'They're at it again.' Leo could only stare at the two cats hissing at each other as he shook his head wryly.
"Girls. Girls." Crossing his arms under his chest, Leo called out to them, putting their fight to a halt.
"Look. I appreciate all these fighting for me but I don't think this is something healthy to our relationship." While speaking, Leo saw them looking down on the ground with a downcast expression.
"How about this? We can tell Agnarr to move the marriage in maybe a week or a month and we go on an adventure. An adventure of just the three of us."
"Adventure where?" Perking up at the word Adventure, Leo successfully got her interest.
"To another world." Smirking, Leo saw the shocked expression creeping up to Elsa's face, while Helen, already knowing about this, remained calm and composed.
"A-Another world? The thing that you told me a few days ago?"
"Yes. It's supposed to be Helen who tells you about it to give you both some bonding time. But seeing all these recent fights made me think otherwise."
"This adventure however is not something you should take lightly. It would be quite hard for me to bring you back and forth from here to the other world and vice versa." While explaining, Leo noticed that Elsa was thinking about something.
"Can I suggest something?" Raising her hand, Elsa meekly asked for permission as if she were some kind of elementary student.
"Yes?" Leo tilted his head, interested in knowing what was going on in her mind.
"Instead of going to another world for adventure. What if we just go to the infamous Enchanted Forest? I've been thinking about going to that forest as my mother told me it might contain the truth about my ice powers." She then displayed her ice powers by conjuring a cold steam that shaped into a place full of trees and plants.
"Enchanted Forest?" Helen, who was new to this world, obviously had no knowledge about the world's places and history.
"Its a certain place centered up on the north, right beside the Dark Sea. It is said that whoever goes in the forest, never goes out anymore." Like a daily night story, Elsa proceeded to tell them about the mysteries and myths surrounding the aforementioned forest.
"From what my mom and dad told me, Enchanted Forest used to be opea and safe to anyone, dad even told me that he and grandpa went to the Enchanted Forest to negotiate and establish alliance with the local tribe there. They didn't tell me much except that grandpa was said to be betrayed and killed so the alliance was cut off."
"And right after that, as if the nature itself was angered, the Enchanted Forest was blocked and no one can enter anymore, if ever someone does, they'll never come back." If this was a bedtime spooky story, no doubt Helen and Leo would be asleep right now.
"That's an interesting story. Ever considered becoming a storyteller?" Helen joked.
"I'm being serious here." Elsa monotonously stared at her as she spoke.
"Well, if it is indeed dangerous as you say it is, then I think that itself is enough to tell us not to go there and instead, proceed with the original plan of going to another world. Leo, what do you think?" Asking Leo, the main character of the story felt conflicted in making the decision.
While it is interesting to visit the Enchanted Forest and help Elsa understand more about herself, on the other hand, however, from what he remembers, Elsa needs to be called by the said nature before they can get access to the Enchanted Forest.
"Maybe we should head to another world instead, Elsa. It's not like I want to but my guts tells me that we wouldn't be able to visit this Enchanted Forest, like you said earlier, it is blocked and no one has been able to enter since." Seeing her look disheartened by his words, Leo felt a pang in his heart and couldn't help but comfort her.
"Okay, how about this. We visit the entrance of that Enchanted Forest and if there's a barrier, we proceed with the second plan, okay?" Finally, a smile bore on Elsa's face and she nodded her head profusely.
"Um!"
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The next day, Elsa can be seen waking up early just as the sun is about the shine without having the servants wake her up.
Quickly dressing up in an attire that doesn't fit a regal Queen, Elsa packed a few extra clothes in a bag before sneaking towards Leo's room.
"Leo! Let's go! I already wrote a letter to mom and Dad. They'll take over for a while during my absence. I think they'll accept it." Once inside, Elsa also saw that Leo and Helen were ready.
"Are you sure about that? They won't get mad?" Leo asked for confirmation.
"Of course! I'm sure of it!" Elsa confidently said.
"Yeah. But she won't." Leo smiled wryly and pointed at someone behind Elsa.
"Huh? Who?" Confused, Elsa quickly turned around and her heart skipped a beat when she saw her sister Anna looking at her in excitement.
"Take me with you!" Anna grabbed her shoulders and shook her as she demanded, not taking a no for an answer.
"A-Anna. What are you doing awake!?" Elsa panicked.
"What? Don't tell me you're planning to go somewhere without me?" Crossing her arms, Anna squinted her eyes at Elsa and uttered in suspicion.
"I…" For the first time, Elsa turned speechless for her sister.
"She's just joking with you, Elsa. She's staying and she has a mission." Feeling pity on Elsa, Leo decided to help her and reveal the truth.
"She's staying." Elsa sighed in relief, its not like she doesn't want to have Anna join her, but because the Enchanted Forest is too dangerous for a normal girl like Anna.
"Wait, mission? What mission?" Only now did she process the other thing that Leo mentioned.
"Yup. Show it to her, Anna." Smirking, Leo winked Anna, who smirked back and tinkered with her watch on the left wrist.
"What the? Anna, what's that?" Confused and curious, Elsa couldn't help but take a look at the contraption that Anna is wearing.
"This is a watch. Leo told me it could tell me what time it is and guess what, its already 4:20 in the morning! isn't that wonderful? It's like Grandfather clock but more compact and small!" Like a child getting a new toy, Anna couldn't help herself but flaunt it to her sister.
"That's it?" Elsa's previous curious went downhill.
"Boring? Heh." Grinning, Anna pressed a button on the watch and much to Elsa's surprise, Anna's appearance started to change.
Starting from her hair down to her feet, Anna was no longer the Anna she knows.
Instead, standing in front of her was Elsa herself! A perfect replica of the Queen of Arendelle!
"H-How? How is this possible?" Elsa's eyes went from surprise to immediate fear as her mind went to work in thinking the disadvantages of such an ability to copy her appearance!
"Surprise? Its still me, Anna!" Anna's face turned into a smirk, satisfied at Elsa's reaction.
"Swoosh! Fwoosh! Ice! Ice!" To further play with her, Anna went into copying her gestures and pretended to be Elsa herself, throwing her arms around widely as if she was casting ice blasts.
"That's not…" Elsa blushed heavily as she couldn't believe her eyes that she was seeing herself being so cringed and embarrassed.
"Hate it or not. Its you, Elsa." Even Helen couldn't hold herself back from laughing.
"Its not funny! And that's not how I act! If it was me, it should be more…more elegant or something! And why is she even able to do that?!" Helen's laughter just poured fuel into the burning fire.
"Okay. Stop. Stop it you two. Don't tease her any longer. Elsa, the reason why she has that watch is because her mission to become you. I don't think you're letter is enough to convince them so I prepared this." With Leo's explanation, Elsa thankfully understood.
"But could she replicate everything including my personality?" Elsa worriedly expressed.
"Well. We'll see." Leo smiled and said, that even he didn't know if Anna would be able to fully copy Elsa.
***
With that set, Leo, Helen, and Elsa secretly left the kingdom through his Thunder God Mark outside the Kingdom's territory.
"You girls ready?" Revving up his engine, Leo looked at Helen and Elsa and they both nodded their head.
Both of them sat on each window seat, with someone being in the middle.
"Where are we going, Papa?" It was Luna!
"We're going on an adventure, Luna." Grinning, Leo patted her head and replied.
"Yehey! Adventure with two mamas!"
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