Hello everyone! Long time no see. I don't know how many of you are even reading anymore, but I've got a couple of announcements to make if you are.
I'm mainly updating because all of the Frozen 2 teasers and trailers made me remember how in love with Frozen I am and I honestly missed doing this series. That being said, I believe Childish will be marked complete upon release of Frozen 2. This is because there will be a wave of new information/characters that it doesn't really make much sense for Childish to continue. But! If I decide to continue writing drabbles/oneshots, Childish will just be re-branded as a new series to accommodate both Frozen 2 and my change in writing/headcanons and maybe the few of you still here will follow me there.
This oneshot was actually written nearing the beginning of Childish, but I never posted it because I thought it was dumb. And I was right! It is! But I laughed reading it again so I wanted to share. I haven't altered anything despite the writing being really cringe and sometimes hard to understand, but that's because I believe if I were to rewrite it, it would lose my dumb child-like charm that I find endearing for this series. 'Childish' is childish because I wrote it as a child. So you're just gonna have to Bear With Me.
^to add onto that: Childish re-branded (whatever it will be called if it's made) will probably be more mature, probably not in humor, but mainly because my style of writing will be different from age. So! If I'm going to update Original!Childish until the release of Frozen 2 (if i keep at it), its mainly going to be me trying to work on all of my old unpublished stories I wrote when I was younger to post them (which yea obviously it will have integrations of my better writing because almost all of them are unfinished) or maybe I will just write new ones from scratch and see how well it meshes in who knows.
I will make no promises of making a Childish 2.0. It all depends on how Frozen 2 plays out, if i even have ideas, and how busy I am in my life (uni is a scam)
Anyway, onto the story
~Story Title: "Coldilocks"~
"Anna! Give it back!"
"No way!" Anna regretted saying anything at that moment, having lost some of her much needed breath. Elsa was sure to catch up and get her if she wasn't careful enough. Running with all her might, Anna followed the mental map of the castle she had taken extra time to plan out and make sure was 'Elsa-proof' before she put everything into action.
Clinging onto the blue ribbon in her hand hard enough to make sure she didn't accidentally drop it, Anna skid and turned corners, jumping out window to window and around obstacles so it'd be harder for Elsa to catch up. All she needed to do was make it out into the rest of the kingdom and then she'd have the upper-hand. Elsa didn't know the rest of the kingdom as well as she did.
"Come on Anna! That's my favorite ribbon and you know it!"
That's the point. Anna thought. She needed to go faster. Elsa didn't seem to appreciate having her hair down, now using her magic in attempt for Anna to give back the special hair ribbon. Piles of snow formed in her path, many of which caused her to duck and jump much more than she wanted to. But luckily Anna had thought ahead of that too. "Just a little further!" Anna exited the castle, seeing the open gates that led out the castle walls and into the kingdom.
A giant wall of snow formed in front of her path.
Giving a gasp, Anna fumbled around to try to drift with her speed and get around the wall. Just a second too slow, she surely would have rammed into the snow and her plans would be ruined. Putting two fingers in her mouth, Anna gave a loud whistle.
Her horse came galloping from behind, Anna mounting as it ran.
"Anna!" Elsa yelled at her as their distance increased.
"You can't catch me!" Anna stuck her tongue out with a laugh as she rode away.
Elsa furrowed her eyebrows, using her powers to assist in her speed as she still caught up despite Anna being on horse.
Anna knew it wasn't a good idea to tease her when she was already annoyed. But it was fun anyway. Getting her horse to go faster, Anna entered the kingdom, using all the shortcuts and passages she knew to get to her destination. She made sure Elsa still had sight of her though; Elsa giving up and going back to the castle was the last thing she wanted.
Elsa came to a stop as a simple cottage came into view. They were just barely outside the kingdom borders by then, now in the forest instead. Noticing the cottage's front door close shut, Elsa cautiously walked up, Anna's horse passing the opposite way as it trotted its way back to the royal stables on its own. "Anna?" Elsa knocked on the door.
It opened on its own.
"Okay…?" Elsa didn't enter at first, not wanting to barge into someone's home without permission. If anyone even lived there... "Anna?" She waited for an answer of anybody really before walking in.
"Hello Elsa." Anna's voice was heard but Anna nowhere to be seen. "Great! You found the place now we can begin!"
"W-What?" Elsa looked around what seemed to be an empty house. It was well-furnished and unlikely to be abandoned, yet nobody was in sight. "Begin what? Anna's whose house is this?"
"Yours!"
"Uh…"
"It's time we put your acting skills to use!"
"Anna just give me my ribbon back already… I don't really want to put my 'acting skills' to any use."
"Nope! We're going to act out a story and you're the main character! You get your ribbon back once the story is over! That's the deal."
Elsa sighed, putting her hands on her hips as she tried to find Anna's location. "So… Where are you?" She looked around, finding nothing that gave away Anna's location.
Anna seemed to giggle from wherever she was, "You can't find me because I'm the narrator! I'll be narrating your story!"
"Great…" Elsa crossed her arms.
Anna cleared her throat, "Ready? Ready? Okay. -Once upon a time… There lived a girl named Goldilocks."
"Figures." Elsa listened.
"Goldilocks? More like… Coldilocks!" That was Kristoff's voice. He laughed at his own joke, earning a sigh from both girls. It seems Kristoff was also where Anna was, Elsa unable to figure out his location either.
Anna continued, "Goldilocks' mother had very important rules and instructions to give for a short journey."
Elsa looked around the empty house for her so-called-mother to appear, expecting Anna to be the one playing the part. She slapped her own forehead rather hard seeing the furry being with an apron tied around his neck appear from the shadows. "Annnnd… Sven is my mother... Which may possibly be the weirdest thing I have and will ever say in my life. –Anna what the heck?!"
Sven batted his eyelashes, chin high to show his pretty apron tied onto him.
Elsa watched him with a carried-out groan as Sven made all sorts of poses to show off how pretty he looked. "Anna you couldn't have been the mother… why?"
"Because I'm already the narrator." Anna answered her like it was the most obvious answer. "Now come on Goldilocks."
Elsa sighed, giving Sven her attention. Only it didn't last long before she said, "I may be wrong but I think I'm adopted…"
"Sass is not welcome here missy." Anna warned.
"Fantastic." Elsa answered back.
Sven began making noises as if he were talking, seeming to tell Elsa to do something.
Elsa listened with confusion trying to make out what his grunts and snorts meant, "Uh… Yes mother… I… think." She replied uneasily, agreeing to whatever Sven had told her despite not being fluent in Reindeer.
"He said to go pick some flowers but warned you to stay away from the dangerous path with signs telling you not to go there." Kristoff translated.
Anna shushed him, "Kristoff I'm the narrator!"
"Well it's boring not getting to do anything!" He reasoned.
"Wait until your scene comes on then! –Stop stop! Kristoff stop I'm narrator!"
"Just let me narrate for a few!"
"No!"
Elsa rolled her eyes, listening to them argue and waiting until they got on with the story so she could get her hair ribbon back and go home to work. They seemed to be pushing and shoving each other from the noises they made as if there was only one position to be the 'narrator.'
"Hi Elsa!" Olaf called to her, also in the hidden narration spot Anna and Kristoff were at and seemingly taking over as the narrator as the other two bickered.
"Hi Olaf." Elsa answered to the ceiling, figuring that was a more logical place to answer to if they're narrators.
Anna seemed to take her place back as the main narrator, clearing her throat a few times and catching her breath. "Okay! Anyway. So yeah Goldilocks' mother just told her what to do and what not to do and now Goldilocks is on her way to pick flowers!"
Elsa watched as an opposite door leading outside automatically opened as if it were saying she had to go that way for the story to progress. With a shrug, Elsa waved to her reindeer mom goodbye and left the cottage house. "Okay 'mom'… I'll remember to stay away."
Elsa observed the scenery as she followed the path, interested and admiring how it fit the actual setting of Goldilocks and the Three Bears as she walked through the forest. The two split paths came, one leading deeper into the forest and the other going straight. The one that led deeper held a multiple of signs pitched in the ground saying 'do not enter' or 'stay back' or 'beware,' clearly what her reindeer mother just warned her of a few minutes ago.
Anna the Narrator spoke again as she neared her checkpoint, "But Goldilocks was a bad girl, not remembering her mother's warning as- Hey. Hey! Hey! Elsa where are you going?!"
Elsa walked away from the signs and blocked path without stopping, "The signs say 'do not enter'… I'm gonna listen to my reindeer mom and go this way instead."
"Coldilocks that's not part of the script get back here!" Anna yelled.
Elsa ignored her, continuing on the path that isn't part of the story as Anna's voice faded away. She kept walking, raising an eyebrow as it eventually grew quiet, "Anna?" She called out, wondering where her narrator had left to. Stopping her walk after no reply, Elsa waited for an answer. With a moment of panic that she was alone in the woods, Elsa spun around to find anybody there.
"Hi there!"
A cheery voice called to her.
Elsa turned around, groaning as she immediately spotted the red-cloak-hood worn none other than by Anna. "Anna I thought you were the narrator..."
Anna smiled like she didn't understand what Elsa had just said, "I'm Red Riding Hood!" She giggled, swinging her basket around and fixing her hood.
Elsa sighed, "Yeah I kind of got that from your cloak. But Anna I thought-"
Anna cut her off, "I'm Red Riding Hood!" She repeated.
Elsa glared at her for a couple of seconds, "Okay... but Ann-"
"I'm Red Riding Hood!" Anna repeated for the third time already.
"What do you want from me?" Elsa rolled her eyes knowing Anna was trying to get her to call her the name of the character instead.
"Your story is that way Goldilocks!" Anna pointed back the way Elsa had come. "Right now I'm gonna go see my grandma!"
"Spoiler alert: the wolf replaced your grandma and is going to try to trick you to eat you."
"Your story is that way." Anna's eyes spoke 'stop being such a bummer' as she repeated the line in a more normal form.
Elsa sighed again, following Anna's still pointing finger that just pointed the same dirt path back, "So I just have to go back?"
Anna nodded, smiling again as if she ignored the spoiler Elsa gave her. "Yup!"
Elsa looked down into Anna's basket, surprised it was filled with all the necessary props for the role of Red Riding Hood. But most importantly, there were already flowers in it too. Elsa looked back up and shrugged, "Alright, I'll go back." She turned her heel and walked.
"Hey look Goldilocks is back!" Anna's narrator voice was able to be heard again, Elsa back at the two pathways.
Elsa held a bundle of flowers in her hand, nodding, "And I got the flowers!" She held it up.
"And she's got the flow-! wait…" Anna gasped from where she was. "You robbed Red Riding Hood?! How could you Goldilocks?!"
Kristoff laughed in the background.
Elsa stared down at the flowers in her hand, "I also took the honey jar but I ate that on the way back."
There was a pause and the sound of shuffling, Anna gasping again having discovered this to be true, "You ate the honey jar?! Now what is Red Riding Hood supposed to give to her grandma?!"
"There was like an egg. I think it's raw but she can eat it if she wants to."
Kristoff was still laughing.
Elsa went along the path, going back to her 'home', "I'm gonna go give this to my reindeer mom now."
Anna sighed, clearing her throat as she calmed down, "No you aren't."
The flowers were snatched out of her hands from who knows where, Elsa stuck her tongue out and put her hands on her hips, "Okay okay. So I've just got to go the 'wrong' way?" She asked sincerely that time noticing knots were forming in her let-down hair and just really wanted her hair ribbon back.
"Yup." Anna answered her.
Elsa stopped to re-braid her hair, planning on freezing the end of it together as a makeshift hair ribbon.
"No no no no!" Anna stopped her. "You won't get your ribbon back if you do that!"
Undoing her hair with an eyeroll, Elsa made a turn down the path of 'do not enter' and walked. "Fine." The deeper into the forest she went, the darker it became. There were multiple other pathways along the way but Elsa continued heading straight until someone would tell her to turn. "Anna is this even the right way?" She knew eventually she had to use her powers as a light source to even see.
The rustle of papers sounded from Anna's location, "Uhhh... No." She apologetically giggled. "You missed the other turn back a while ago."
Elsa glared up, "And you didn't tell me this earlier… why?"
"Nobody was watching you. We went to go set up the props. Whoops." Anna laughed again, "Sorry!"
Elsa turned around, going back the way she came to find the next pathway. Once spotting one, she stopped and asked, "Is this the right way?"
"Yup!"
Elsa followed it.
"Well whattaya know? There is another cottage out here. Anna whose houses are these anyway?"
"That ones the bears house!"
"No I meant… like… really whose houses are these?"
"Sorry Goldilocks, we can't tell you anything out of your story."
"I'm already talking to the narrator as the character so…"
Anna ignored her, going back to her actual narration, "Goldilocks spots the strange house up ahead where she smells some amazing food and goes to go check it out."
Elsa followed with her hands on her hips, looking around the house like Anna had said and then knocking on the wooden front doo-
"Elsa!" Anna yelled to stop her.
Elsa jumped from the sudden yell, "Ah you scared me! What?"
"You aren't supposed to knock! Just walk in!"
Elsa shook her head, "That's rude."
Anna sighed, "It's how the character is though!"
Elsa groaned, "Fine fine." She awkwardly turned the knob of the door and walked in, not liking the feeling of trespassing despite it seeming nobody actually lived in that house. Sniffing the air, Elsa smiled that the porridge smelled so good. "Ooooo!" She waited for more directions.
Anna laughed from where she was and continued the narration, "Hungry, Goldilocks finds the porridge and wants a bite of it. But the first bowl is too hot!"
Elsa nodded, finding three bowls of porridge on a table near the kitchen. "Yay." She takes the spoon of the first bowl, noticing that it was intentionally heated to be too hot to eat. But she blew on her spoonful and cooled it down, smiling as she took a bite.
"Elsa…" Anna sighed at her.
Elsa smugly grinned and continued eating, "Yes Anna?"
"You aren't supposed to eat that one it's too hot to eat."
"Not if I cool it down. Yum."
"Elsa."
"Fine." Elsa dropped the spoon and dully yelled, "Ahh…! Too hot for me to eat because I don't know how to cool it down…! Oh no!" She took a step over to the next bowl of porridge, finding no steam coming out of it but rather drastically cooled down to be nearly frozen.
Anna narrated, "Goldilocks tried the next bowl of porridge but it was too cold!"
Elsa picked up the spoon and took a bite, uninterested as she continued eating it without following the narration again.
"…but it was too cold…!" Anna repeated.
Elsa ate another bite.
"Too cold…!" Anna said again. She sighed when Elsa didn't do anything. "Elsa it's too cold."
Elsa shrugged, "To me it's not. I mean, it's not as good when it's not heated but it doesn't really bother me."
"I have your hair ribbon."
Elsa dropped the spoon, "Ahh… Too cold! This porridge is too cold!" She played along and took a step to the next bowl and immediately took the spoon and took a bite before Anna could say anything. Elsa spat it out once it entered her mouth. "AH! Eww what the-?!" She finally took a look at what was in the bowl, it being seemingly normal water. But she could taste that it wasn't. "Anna what is this?!"
Anna gave a nervous giggle, "Uh… It's… water from the fjord… We ran out of porridge and couldn't get any more because you were already here so we improvised!"
Elsa blew a raspberry, feeling dizzy and sick as she stared at the dirty water, "Isn't this bowl supposed to be the good bowl?!"
"Yeah but we needed porridge in the other bowls…!"
"That's disgusting. I'm not going to eat it." Elsa took the 'hot' bowl of porridge and continued eating that one as Anna went on to the next scene.
Anna let her, not really caring too much by then, "Running around the forest all day, Goldilocks realized that her feet were sore! So she went to go sit down. But the first big chair she sat in was too hard!"
Elsa found three perfectly aligned chairs in one of the rooms, going to the first one and sitting down. "Ah yes. I was really tired anyway." She continued sitting while eating her porridge.
Anna waited for her to say something.
Elsa blinked, wondering why the narration had stopped, "Oh. –Ahh…! Chair is too hard." She lazily got back up.
Anna continued, "She tried the next medium-sized chair but it was too soft!"
Elsa sat down on the cushiony one, "Do people really complain about squishy chairs? These are comfy. You sink into them." She said her line too though, "Ahh…! This chair is too amazingly comfortable." And got back up.
Anna laughed that time, "I know right? We couldn't find a worse squishy chair so we got that one. –Well anyway- Then Goldilocks tried the last tiny rocking chair and it was perfect!"
Elsa sat on the rocking chair and rocked back and forth, finishing her porridge, "Wait a second isn't this one supposed to bre-WHOA!" The chair broke into pieces, Elsa falling flat onto the ground. "Ow." She sighed, not bothering to move and get up.
"Are you okay?" Anna asked sincerely, "We didn't think falling from that height might have hurt but that looked like it hurt."
Elsa nodded as she continued to lie there, "I'm fine."
"Continue?"
"Sure why not."
Anna cleared her throat, "Goldilocks was still tired though, going to the bedroom to sleep instead."
Elsa crawled back up to her feet, walking into the bedroom and finding three beds like she expected.
"But the first bed was too hard!"
Elsa lay down on the first one. "Ow." She spoke. "This bed feels like a rock."
Anna laughed, "That's because it is one."
Elsa took off the covers to see that it actually was a rock, climbing off as she walked over to the next bed.
Anna went on, "But the next bed was too soft!"
Elsa trusted her instinct and flopped down that time, sinking into the cushiony bed, "What's this?" She asked.
"A bunch of pillows." Anna told her. "It's not an actual bed."
"Yeah I didn't think the rock was an actual bed either…" Elsa got out of the mass of pillows and walked over to the next bed.
"The last bed was just right! And she fell asleep on it! –Elsa you can just lie there and wait for your next cue."
Elsa nodded, climbing into the last bed and laying there, "Good enough for me. I just want my ribbon back."
Anna giggled as she bounced around, wearing a bear costume and waiting outside of the cottage door. "Okay guys! You ready?" She asked her team.
Kristoff and Olaf were also dressed in bear costumes, "Yup." They agreed, standing next to her with a smile.
Anna played Mama Bear, Kristoff played Papa Bear, and Olaf played none other than Baby Bear.
Anna grinned, "Alright let's go! Elsa's waiting for us!" They walked into the house and started.
First came the bowls of porridge. Kristoff acted out, "Who's been eating my-" He paused. "Uh… Actually Elsa ate all of my porridge."
Anna remembered Elsa taking it, "Uhh…" She thought, taking the bowl of fjord water and placing it where Papa Bear's bowl should have been. "There."
"Who's been eating my porridge?" Kristoff announced.
"Who's been eating my porridge?" Anna said the same line.
Olaf gave a bubbly giggle, "I don't have porridge!" He said, his bowl now missing.
Anna laughed, "Olaf that's not your line!"
"But I don't!"
"Here." Anna moved Mama Bear's bowl of porridge over to Baby Bear's side.
Olaf smiled, "Yay! –Oh uh- Who's been eating my porridge and eaten it all up?"
The three of them went over to the chairs.
"Who's been sitting in my chair… despite… it being really hard to tell if someone sat there?" Kristoff said, staring at the normal chair of his.
Anna shrugged, "Who's been sitting in my chair?" She said too.
"My chair is broken." Olaf stared at the tiny, broken rocking chair.
The three of them continued, going to the bedroom where Elsa would be waiting for them.
Kristoff started first as usual, "Who's been sleeping on my rock?" He joked.
Anna giggled, "Who's been sleeping on my pillows?"
Olaf excitedly yelled his own line, "Who's been sleeping in my bed and is still here?!"
The three of them waited, staring at Elsa in the bed and waiting for her to 'wake up' for the story. She was supposed to scream and run out the door upon seeing bears. But she didn't. Anna whispered to her, "Psst. Elsa that's your cue." She reminded. But Elsa still didn't move. "Elsa?"
Anna curiously walked toward the bed and gasped, "You actually fell asleep?!" She yelled, Elsa breathing softly having really fallen asleep. Whether it was on accident or on purpose, Elsa was asleep.
Kristoff laughed, "So what now?"
"I don't know I didn't think she'd actually fall asleep!" Anna lightly shook her, "Hey. Elsa. Elsaaaa. Wake uppp!"
Elsa groaned and swatted her away, "Just… just five more minutes…"
"Elsa."
Elsa opened her eyes with a sigh, "What?"
"The story?" Anna reminded.
Elsa stared blankly at the three of them and burst into laughter at their ridiculous costumes. "I don't want to." She closed her eyes with her smile and snuggled into bed.
Anna shook her again, "I have your hair ribbon."
Elsa's eyes snapped back open, "If you give it back I'll continue the story."
Anna shook her head, "You don't get it back until you finish the story."
Elsa pouted, sitting up from the bed and getting one good look at all three of them again, "Ahh bears…!" She casually got out of bed and rubbed her eye, stumbling forward for a second as she 'ran' to the nearest exit, "Ahhh!" Elsa exited the cottage, thus finishing her story. She waited out there for Anna to give back her ribbon.
But Anna, Kristoff, or Olaf didn't exit the cottage at all, seeming to have disappeared.
"Goldilocks! Goldilocks come quick!" A distant voice yelled.
Elsa turned to the forest, watching as a red-cloaked person came rushing over to her. "Anna how did you change so fast?"
Anna stopped in front of her, exaggerating her heavy breathing as she put her hands on her knees, "Goldilocks help!" She yelled with distraught. "I think there's something weird going on with my grandma you have to come quick!"
Elsa looked back unamused with her hand on her hip, "Where's my ribbon?"
Anna ignored her question, "Come on! We've got to go!"
Elsa stared at her for a few seconds, rolled her eyes, and smiled, "If Sven is the grandmother I swear…"
Anna had that brief moment of an uneasy smile, "Uh… -Let's go!"
Elsa laughed as Anna took her hand and dragged her to the next cottage. "After this you better give me back my ribbon!"
Anna grinned, "I will make no promises!"
You know i hope however Frozen 2 ends even lets me make a new oneshot series lol...