A.N.: I decided to put this to the HTTYD-Frozen crossovers. It was originally Brave-Frozen, but nobody was reading it there!

OK, first of all, I would like to apologize to everyone who found my Dragon Island trailer appealing, because they will be disappointed. I just lost my inspiration with that story, so sorry, but I can't do it. I know this isn't the first time I promise you a story and give you something else. I promise you, it won't happen again.

This will be an original Big Four fanfic, but Elsa will have an important role too. Though, she will be kind of OOC. Maybe kind of doesn't exactly fit it. I think it would describe it the best if I said this story will be in the community I have created.

Before you begin, some important things you need to know. This story takes place after HTTYD 2, Brave and Tangled. Jack Frost is there too, but I can't say it takes place after ROTG, since that takes place in modern times. As for Frozen: it's a few weeks after Elsa's coronation. Eternal winter didn't happen, Anna doesn't know of her powers.

Alright, let's get started.

Prologue: Storms of the Past

The Kingdom of Dunbroch was a small, but still remarkable country, lying at the northern parts of the British Isles, the Scottish Highlands. Dunbroch has stood for centuries as the mightiest of the Scottish kingdoms. Not because of it's strength, but because of it's endurance. The kingdom has withstood it's enemies and was willing to fight until the last man standing. And that was the reason Dunbroch managed to survive through the centuries and that was what gave it's people the hope of the future.

In the North, there are several threats that can endanger a kingdom. The weather for example was harsh even in the summers. The winters were even worse. The harshest winters often took many lives everywhere. And of course as everywhere, there were raiders, pirates and even a few viking tribes, that were still around, even after almost a thousand years of their golden age. Some of them were actually peaceful, well as peaceful as a viking tribe could get, but most of them were still really fond of the old viking ways of raiding kingdoms, and their methods were still quite effective. Not as much as back in the old times, but a viking army was still fearful in many northern kingdoms.

But the greatest threat a kingdom could face is a war. War is often described as hell on earth and for a good reason. Especially for a kingdom like the ones in the North. Despite the fact that the Nordic kingdoms were mostly peaceful, that wasn't always like that. There were two major kingdoms in the North, Corona and Arendelle. Both of them were ruled by beloved pairs of a king and a queen. Corona was ruled by King Thomas and Queen Primrose, while Arendelle's King and Queen were Agdar and Idunn.

Under their rules, these two kingdoms were blossoming. There were no wars or crime sprees. The people absolutely adored them and they treated every subject fair. For the goods they have done in their lives, they were rewarded with beautiful baby princesses. Corona was throwing one of it's biggest parties in it's history, when Princess Rapunzel was born. Arendelle had two of these, because three years after Princess Elsa was born, Princess Anna followed. Their roles in this story however will only be important later. For now, our main focus is Dunbroch and Arendelle, for these two kingdoms share a troublesome past.

Before the reign of King Agdar and Queen Idunn, Arendelle's rulers included some, who were not as kindhearted or loving as them. Our story begins in 1823. Arendelle was founded four hundred years before that. The first ruler was King Johann, who wished for his kingdom to have status in the North. To achieve this goal, he married Princess Maria of Dunbroch, thus making an alliance between the two kingdoms. However, since their marriage was arranged, it was loveless. Maria hated her husband for taking away her freedom and taking her away from her country, so when the time has come for them to produce an heir, it didn't exactly go smoothly. Maria could only bring herself to give birth to one child from Johann. The child was a boy, he was named Leopold.

Just like his father, the prince was also shunned by his mother, only his father gave him any form of parental affection. So, when King Johann passed away in his life's 51st year, the prince took it really hard. The Queen's hatred of her husband was not a big secret by that time, rumors have started to spread about her killing him, so she could rule alone and lead the kingdom to ruins, before returning to Dunbroch. Even though these were just rumors, Prince Leopold has become so wary of his mother, that they were enough for him.

Princess Maria was soon arrested for murder and treason, which was of course punishable by death, Leopold wanted her to suffer more. So as an attempt to get back at her, he broke the alliance with Dun'broch, and he declared war on his mother's home country, with the sole purpose of annihilating it. Though his kingdom was still small, the military force of Arendelle was slowly beginning to become adequate for such a task.

But he didn't take the incredible battle spirit of the Scotts to account. The army of Dunbroch was smaller than Arendelle's, but they fought fiercely. It took about one month to get a significant force to the Scottish grounds, and they were suffering heavy losses. After three months of bloodshed, the Prince of Arendelle saw that he had started a campaign he cannot hope to win, so he offered his enemy a deal: He will return the former Queen Maria of Arendelle to them as an offer of peace, Dunbroch accepted, thus ending the first war between these two kingdoms.

After that, things started to settle down. Leopold became the new King, found himself a queen and ruled without any more serious affairs. Things have been peaceful in the North for three generations, though the grudge between Arendelle and Dunbroch was still there.

In 1604, King Erik took the throne of Arendelle. He was considered a fair ruler, but he wasn't ashamed to let it be known among his subjects that he had big ambitions. One of them included finally taking Dunbroch. One day an opportunity to do so arose before him, which was simply too good to pass up.

Apparently, local viking tribes have been trying to find a way to annihilate that nation, and pride as vikings may be, even they had to realize they need allies to do so. And Arendelle seemed the perfect choice. Knowing about the tension between the two kingdoms, they realized that it only needed a spark to explode. King Eric was given an offer he couldn't refuse, in exchange of an alliance and military assist in their campaign against Dunbroch, they can have the land.

The people of Arendelle lass then happy about joining forces with such unpredictable allies as the vikings, but they knew how fierce warriors they were and with the combined force of their armies, they would have a much better chance against the Scotts.

But once again, they didn't take something to account. They were not the only ones who made alliances. Once all of the clans in the Highlands knew about their enemy's union, they all joined forces to protect the land. Arendelle may have just wanted Dunbroch, but none of them wanted the vikings to take any advantage in the Highlands.

This time the war lasted a lot longer and it was more bloody than the first one. For almost a year, the bloodshed just kept going on in Scotland, nonstop. With the help of the vikings, the armies of Arendelle were only an inch away from victory, due to the brute strength of the viking warriors and the tactical brilliance of the officers from Arendelle. But they were once again overwhelmed by the spirit and determination of the Scotts and were defeated in a brutal battle, which also cost the life of King Erik.

After the war, Hell broke loose in Arendelle. Not only their king died on a foreign battlefield, but their military was pretty much completely annihilated in Dunbroch. The people were afraid that the kingdoms around them would not miss an opportunity to take a completely defenseless kingdom to annex them into themselves, and getting an ally to call for to help them would be almost impossible, seeing as most of the kingdoms wasn't really fond of them, after they helped the vikings attack Dunbroch. As for the vikings, there were two reasons they were out of the questions, first of all, they weren't exactly the most loyal and reliable allies you can have, secondly, they also suffered

heavy losses in Scotland.

In the chaos, one day however emerged a mysterious man, who claimed to bring order back to the kingdom. He was rather dubious man, a shadowy figure in a cloak, who called himself Richard. He moved into the royal palace in Arendelle, which was now empty. He was happy he managed to claim it before the anarchists did, as they unfortunately started to grow in numbers and were running amok in the kingdom, due to the chaotic state. Richard held public speeches, in which he spoke about his plans on not only rebuilding Arendelle, but also making it stronger, than ever before and gain status, that not only the North, but the whole world will respect.

Most people didn't believe him at first, but he had a certain aura around him that made him really convincing. As he stood on the balcony of the castle, talking to the people, he looked so sure in himself and spoke with such charisma, that he eventually convinced everyone that he meant business. In order to make the kingdom rise from it's ashes, he would need to create order in it first. He recruited members into his group of royal guards and set out to eradicate the rising crime rate and the anarchists who started to become more and more of a problem, due to the chaos in the kingdom. It didn't seem that this small group would be successful in that, but Arrendelians were famous of their intelligence and cunning. Richard was no exception and he organized the group really well. So well, that in merely two months, the last of the opposing force was taken care of.

After that, the people of Arendelle were astonished to see Richard and his Royal Guards achieving such a thing, so quickly, Richard used it to inspire the people and use their help to rebuild the kingdom. Men, women and even some children worked together to clear the streets and rebuild everything. In less then half a year, the kingdom was rebuilt and the people were so impressed with Richard, that they declared him their new king.

Now that the inner order was insured, Arendelle also needed protection as they were still lacking military strength and were completely defenseless against outside forces, they didn't have time to properly establish an army. And Richard once again defied the odds, by managing to convince the King and Queen of Corona in a letter to pay a visit to Arendelle to discuss a possible alliance.

Not only that, he also managed to persuade them to actually agree to an alliance and insure Arendelle's protection. Most people considered it as the result of his charisma, but seeing how quickly royal pair agreed, when it was clear they were reluctant to even come to Arendelle, some people weren't convinced. It was by that time, that rumors have taken wings about Richard. He was a rather secluded man, he spent hours inside the castle dungeons, no one really knew what he was doing down there.

People started whispering about Richard secretly practicing the art of sorcery, and that was the reason of him accomplishing such tasks in so little time. Some more paraniod rumors have started to suggest that he was trying to cast a spell on the kingdom to insure his power.

Shortly after, these rumors were proven to be true – at least the ones implying sorcery – when a plaque hit most of the Nordic kingdoms. People were dying all around the North, and when the plaque hit Arendelle, Richard used a special potion to not only cure the people, but to make them immune to it. Two surrounding kingdoms, Weselton and the Southern Isles were intrigued to know why the arrendelians became immune to it and sent delegates to Arendelle, but Richard didn't let them in. He didn't want to share the secrets with any other kingdoms.

But the delegates couldn't leave without finding a potential cure for the plaque. So one night, they bribed a corrupt member of the royal guards to let them in. They put on disguises and looked for Richard, whom they found in the throne room, using his potion on people who were still infected. Taking advantage of not being recognized by the man, they stole a bottle of the potion and got out of the kingdom, undetected.

Once Richard discovered that he had been robbed of such an important thing, he was enraged, which wasn't really like him, as he was a calm and collected man, so once the royal guards were gathered on the courtyard and saw their ruler so infuriated, they knew something was off. The king angrily demanded who was the one who allowed someone to sneak in and steal something so important to Arendelle. At first, none of them answered. So Richard used a special spell upon them to make the traitor reveal himself. When that happened, he ordered the others to arrest him and to bring him to the town square at noon. He then gathered the people on the square and held a violent public execution to show people how Arendelle dealt with traitors.

A few days after that, soldiers from a few surrounding kingdoms appeared in Arendelle, accompanied by some important ecclesiastical figured who charged Richard with sorcery after they examined his strange, unknown potion and ordered him to surrender to them, or they burn Arendelle down. Even though the kingdom still didn't have a significant military force to resist with, the royal guards who swore loyalty to the king and the citizens who were grateful to him for his services were more then willing to protect him to their death and even the Coronan allies were willing to offer help, Richard gave in to their demands, saying he didn't want his people to perish pointlessly.

King Richard of Arendelle was burnt at the stake for sorcery on October 19th, 1623. Before the flames engulfed him, his final words were spoken to his people, his final words that would later become a legend in Arendelle. A prophecy.

"People of Arendelle, mark my words! Our kingdom will not be at the mercy of others for long! A ruler will come! A ruler blessed with a power from the gods that will make him or her unstoppable! A ruler who will make this kingdom the strongest in the North, and will crush anyone who dares to oppose her!"

And those were his final words. With these words, he foretold the arrival of a ruler who will bring Arendelle glory. Glory it never had before. Most people dismissed it as a delusion of a broken man in his final moments, but then something unthinkable happened. Richard's burned, unrecognizable body started to turn into some white energy, that shot towards the sky. As more and more of this energy started to gather on the sky, it started to take on the form of an enormous snowflake on the sky to everyone's shock, wonder, and terror. As the body completely dissolved into energy, the last of it joined the rest on the sky and the snowflake exploded, bringing a harsh winter to every kingdom in the north that year.

Two hundred years have passed since then, two hundred years and this has become nothing more than an urban legend. The king after Richard ordered everyone in Arendelle to never speak of the "happening to anyone in the younger generations. Talking of it was a crime punishable by death. However there were still some whisperings about "King Richard's prophecy." and even after two hundred years, there were still people who believed in it. Who believed that one day, a ruler would arrive with King Leopold's fierceness, King Erik's ambitiousness and King Richards cunning and intelligence, with powers that would make him or her unstoppable to make Arendelle strong. After two hundred years, this still hasn't happened, but even after two hundred years, the prophecy lived.

In 1820, King Agdar and Queen Idunn of Arendelle passed away in a storm on the sea. With their death their eldest daughter, Princess Elsa would take the throne, but only in three years, when she became old enough to be crowned. In 1823, she became 21. The July of 1823 was the date when Queen Elsa's reign would begin.

A.N.: I don't know what to say guys, I realize this prologue didn't have anything to do with the Big Four fandom, but I promise the next one will. It wasn't easy to make up some fake history for Arendelle and a legend that would speak of a ruler with powers. It kinda felt odd writing this, but I hope you like it.

I have lately realized that the animated movies of Brave and Frozen are getting a lot of hate, that really saddens me. Why do you think it's happening. Anyway, I hope you like this prologue, next chapter will feature Elsa and the royal family from Brave. Read and Review, please. Thank you. This is fanfictionmakermachine, signing out, peace!