#Роллан и Герда

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Lady Frost and the Fire King - A familiar partnership - Chap 39

Chapter 39

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31330631/chapters/84485965

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13886468/39/Lady-Frost-and-the-Fire-King-A-familiar-partnership

In the evening several students had arrived at the Françoise Dupont school to attend the prom night organized by the school.

In the meantime, other students, which were invited for the prom were arriving as well at the moment, under them, Rollan was present along with Wayhem and Michael. Wayhem wore a black shirt and pants, which were from Gabriel, and a red tie, which belonged to the same brand. Michael wore dark-brown pants and a green vest with a bow tie.

„You paid 140 euros for that all?“ Asked Rollan shocked as he looked at the dark colors the boy wore.

„I like it. I‘m also planning to use it in the future on other occasions. No one says it‘s a one-time deal,“ Said Wayhem making Rollan nod.

„Unless it‘s a wedding. I hear many people do buy clothes for every different wedding. At least women,“ Commented Michael. „And the dress prices for women compared to our are huge,“

„Have you seen the prices for elegant suits of other brands? Or better for the ones specially used in weddings? They‘re more expensive than you think,“

„Okay, I believe so,“ Admitted Michael and the trio stopped in the middle of the court to see a few students standing around talking, two duos dancing and a few ones at the bankett table eating.

„Are you guys going to eat something?“ Asked Rollan making Wayhem nod and Michael shake his head.

„I‘ll be waiting here for Sofia,“ Responded Michael making the two boys nod.

„I‘m actually interested in trying out those snacks,“ Commented Wayhem, then Rollan nodded.

„I‘m actually a little hungry. I‘m coming as well,“ Mentioned Rollan, which followed Wayhem at the table to check out the various plates with different snacks, which had already a few missing.

„Lots of healthy snacks,“ Commented Rollan picking up a small toothpick with two cherry tomatoes and a mozzarella ball in it and shove a tomato into his mouth. Wayhem had picked up in the meanwhile from an etagere a triangle-cut sandwich with ham and salad and looked at Rollan taking the last two balls from his toothpick.

„Hey over there you got sweet stuff if you‘re interested,“ Commented Wayhem pointing at the end of the table, where Rollan just walked to encounter a plate with macarons only, then looked at the other ones and decided to pick up a half banana, which was covered in dry chocolate cream, which Rollan looked at it with a warily look.

„This looks interesting?“ Asked Rollan taking the stick, where the banana was attached to and took a bite from it, and smiled. „Mmh,“

„While you‘re on that I‘m gonna take this large Linzer cookie,“ Mentioned Wayhem picking up a large cookie, which had a smiley face on it, where you could see the jam filling of it. „Is this strawberry?“

Rollan finished the banana, then looked at Wayhem which was tasting the cookie and Rollan looked at the entrance to see more students enter, but there was no spurt of Gerda yet.

„Did you come on your own or have you a date?“ Asked Rollan making Wayhem shake his head.

„Nope, I‘m all on my own,“ Mumbled the brunette. „I‘m fine for now,“

„Okay,“ Replied Rollan walking around the table to look at the available snacks, then approached a table across the one with the salty snacks and looked at all the glass, that had been filled in with various drinks and Rollan picked up one, which was grape juice then he took a sip of it and frowned a little disappointed at the taste. Rollan watched the baker of the bakery across the school appear with a plate with hot ham croissants and added them into a plate, which had been empty.

„Want to give my croissants a try?“ Asked Mr. Dupain. „They‘re filled with smoked ham and cream cheese Trust me, you‘re going to love it,“

Rollan smiled, then picked up one to try it and blew at it due to its temperature.

„Gracias,“ Answered Rollan, then Tom pondered for a little while and questioned the boy.

„You‘re alone here?“ Asked the adult making Rollan shake his head.

„Wayhem and Michael came with me,“ Answered Rollan. „There‘s also a girl, I‘m waiting for, but she hasn‘t arrived yet,“

„Really?“ Asked Tom making Rollan nod, then Tom approached the raven-haired Spaniard and led him to his side, where three piles of plates were and took one for the boy. „Why don‘t you collect this girl a few little snacks for her to when she arrives?“ Asked Tom watching Rollan look at the plate and shrug his shoulders.

„I guess it‘s a good idea,“ Commented Rollan and looked at the large variation, wondering what he should pick. „Epa, how should I know, what she‘s interested in?“

„You don‘t have to, just take a few things you think she should try. A few salty things, sweet things or healthy things,“ Suggested Tom. „There must be something, that would make her curious to try,“

„Yeah, I think there are a few things she could try,“ Admitted Rollan, then approached the table to look for diversity.

At the entrance, stood Kim together with Max and Nino talking with an African student, which wore headphones and carried under his arm a laptop.

„You‘re telling me, that Yuki and Urioto broke up because of an empty balloon someone left in his dorm?“ Questioned Kim shocked making the boy nod.

„It‘s hella stupid man. Werner only was in his room to ask Urioto‘s roommate for his party box and he had dropped it and eventually left it there. He wasn‘t expecting that there would happen such a big drama,“

„That‘s nuts,“ Commented Kim while Nino nodded.

„I don‘t know how people could mistake that for a contraceptive product, but yeah that really is crazy, that the two boys there fought because of this,“

„It‘s kind of weird this even happened that way,“ Commented Max making Kim nod.

„Hey before you go up at the stage, are you interested in meeting Rollan? The guy I told you about the basketball skills?“ Asked Kim making the older boy shrug his shoulders.

„I‘ve got to see, what exactly I have to plug in and out at the device, maybe I‘ll pass by before I start or after my part is over,“ Answered the dark-skinned boy making Kim nod, which then heard a familiar, squeaky voice and looked down to spot Luka coming along with his sister, the younger girl Rose and the new girl he knows from his class Gerda.

„Hey is that Gerda?“ Asked Kim surprised at seeing Gerda in a short, sleeveless dress with a woven surface over her front and small, white pearls on it. The skirt of the dress reached to her knees and had her shoes replaced with black ballerinas. Her hair she had let it open, passing over her shoulders down at her back. Nino looked along with Max and the DJ at the Quartett, that came upstairs.

„Hey guys!“ Greeted Rose, while Juleka waved at the group and Luka nodded with a smirk.

„Hey,“ Greeted Kim along with the others, while the unfamiliar boy approached Luka to high five.

„Is that your girl?“ Asked the boy curious making Luka shake his head.

„No, this is Gerda. She‘s in my sister‘s class,“ Answered Luka. „She has been invited to the prom by someone else if you‘re wondering,“

„Oh okay. Well, I‘d be surprised if someone like her wouldn‘t have someone. She‘s a natural beauty,“ Commented the boy with a smirk making Gerda feel embarrassed.

„Thanks,“ Answered Gerda, then looked up at the boys. „Has Rollan arrived yet?“ Asked Gerda making Kim shrug his shoulders.

„I know Wayhem did. Maybe he is in there as well and I haven‘t noticed,“ Answered the Vietnamese boy, then Gerda looked at Rose, which smiled and the group followed into the court, looking around at the decorations made for the evening, which were holiday-themed.

„The images up there of the things you see at the beach look realistic,“ Commented Gerda making Rose nod.

„That made our crafting club,“ Mentioned Rose proud. „A big chunk of the things we see all here now at the prom were done by the various after school activity groups,“ „Cool,“ Commented Gerda, then she spotted near the buffet tables Rollan looking around the table for more food for the plate on his hand, then Gerda chuckled and nudged Rose to show her his crush. „He‘s up there,“

„Aww, he‘s just like Nathaniel. Passionate about eating,“ Commented Rose holding her hands together against her chin.

Gerda approached the Spaniard, which was looking at the macarons, then she stepped beside him to look at his plate.

„That looks yummy,“ Commented Gerda, then Rollan looked at the girl and widened his eyes as he saw her now differently as usual.

„Gerda?…..Is that you?“ Asked Rollan surprised making Gerda nod. „I have never seen your hair open…...“

„Is it good?“ Asked Gerda while Rollan admired her hair dazzled, then Gerda moved her hand in front of his face to obtain his attention. „What do you think of it?“

„Your hair?“ Asked Rollan making Gerda nod. „It‘s great. Did your hair always look like this, when you had it open?“

„More or less,“ Commented Gerda. „Juleka cut the edges of my hair, cause it was a little sprouted,“

„You gotta keep your hair like that more often, it makes you look even more beautiful…..You know, you already are but like this you‘re…..uh better,“ Explained Rollan making Gerda laugh.

„That‘s sweet and you look stunning as well,“ Commented Gerda looking at his clothing. „White actually suits you well,“

„Gracias….I actually was going to take a red one, but then Arthur came along with a few of his old ones and I picked up this one here. It‘s slightly a little large, but it works well for me,“

„It really does,“ Admitted Gerda, then Rose gave Gerda a thumb up, which pulled Juleka away leaving the Norwegian back with the taller boy. Gerda watched her friends leave, heading to the other side of the court, then she smiled that the two girls have let her alone with Rollan without any other tries of helping them out.

„Gerda?“ Spoke Rollan getting the girl‘s attention, then he showed her the plate with the various snacks. „I picked up some variations for you….to try it out?“ Offered the Hispanic boy making Gerda smile and pick up a crystalized ginger slice to eat it. „If you want you can take them all. I had specifically picked up them for you,“

„I‘m probably not gonna eat all of this. You can have one or two as well,“ Said Gerda making Rollan nod, then she picked up one macaron and held it in front of Rollan‘s mouth, making him furrow his eyebrows, then he smiled and allowed Gerda to lead it into his mouth for him to eat. Rollan warped his face in disgust making Gerda shut her eyes up in shock.

„You‘re alright?“

„I‘m not very fond of pistachio,“ Commented Rollan making Gerda chuckle.

„Oh alright I‘m sorry,“

„It‘s fine,“ Commented Rollan watching Gerda take a small canapé with salmon on it and Rollan observed her eating with a smile.

At the small stage, which was placed under the stairs appeared the organized DJ, which had fixed his laptop to play on it and picked the microphone up to greet the students.

„Good evening students of the Françoise Dupont!“ Greeted the boy calling the attention of half of the students. „The name‘s Cristiano and I‘m one of the DJs for this prom. For the next 90 minutes you‘ll be listening to my mix, afterward, Principal Damocles will have for us a few words, before we continue with our next DJ, which most of you know, Nino Lahiffe. In the end, there will be a voting for our prom King and prom Queen and we will know who our winners are. So I suggest you all show your best side and show what you‘re worth for the prize!“

The students applauded watching the DJ give them a thumb up, then turn on the first song, which was a house-electronica song meant for partying.

„Oh yeah, our first song coming from the US-Rapper Okla-Homa. Always good for a wild night,“ Commented Cristiano loud watching students beginning to gather together in the middle to dance.

Gerda watched the students begin to dance with each other, then chuckled at the way some were dancing which was unfamiliar to Gerda. Gerda moved her fingers to pick up the last snack, which was a vanilla cookie and at the same time Rollan placed his finger as well meeting Gerda‘s and shrieked, then rolled his eyes at the girl, which beamed at the boy.

„You can take it,“ Offered Rollan shoving it with his index finger at the girl, which accepted it to eat. Rollan placed the plate aside afterward watched Gerda finish the cookie and looked up at Rollan, which smiled and looked at the students, that were dancing, additionally more students were arriving to join the others.

„Can you dance?“ Asked Gerda making Rollan shrug his shoulders.

„I can waltzer and others in company, but this style the others are doing I have never done before,“

„Neither have I,“ Stated Gerda. „Shouldn‘t we at least give it a try together?“

„Hmm I don‘t think it looks that hard….just in my imagination me doing that would be ridiculous,“

„If you want me to be honest I think everyone kind of dances awkwardly. Maybe this is the point of it,“ Commented Gerda making Rollan shrug his shoulders. „What do you think? Are you able to give it a try?“ Questioned the Norwegian girl, then Rollan watched the others dance and returned his eyes at Gerda.

„Let‘s go for it,“ Answered Rollan, then walked along with Gerda at the field, then both stood there waiting for one of the two to start, then Gerda watched Rollan observe the others, then looked back at her grinning a little sheepishly and Gerda began to dance as the others with Rollan watching her, then she approached the Spaniard placing her hands on his arms pushing him nearer to her and moved her shoulders and arms. Rollan grinned at Gerda‘s moves, then tried to copy the girl and looked at the others, which were all dancing on their own or with another person. Rollan looked back at Gerda, which continued dancing as the others were dancing, then Rollan slowly began to copy her moves and watched her nod and do a full spin, making Rollan smile, which stopped and did a quick spin while going on a tip toe and earned a small applause of Gerda.

„Hey that spin was good,“ Commented Gerda making Rollan chuckle, then he began to move his arms and dance, making Gerda glow at his confidence at copying the random movements, therefore she went along with the boy with their odd dance moves while the song was almost over.

„This is kind of funny,“ Commented Gerda making Rollan nod, then looked at the others, which began to jump up in the air, while holding their hands up and the duo did the same, then Gerda laughed excited about it.

„Eso es genial!“ Commented Rollan making Gerda grin, then the song was over and they stopped along with a few duos.

Marinette sat in her bedroom doing her homework and had on the computer a live stream of the prom night, which showed the DJ playing the music and it switched slowly to the dancing students. Marinette sighed, then picked up her smartphone to use the calculator, then shrieked as on her display appeared a phone number calling, which she attended it.

„Hello?“ Greeted Marinette.

„We‘re here,“ Said the voice making Marinette nod and turn the call off. Marinette went upstairs to get to the balcony, then encountered on the roof Su-Han along with a mysterious monk she had never seen before.

„Good evening,“ Greeted Marinette, then Su-Han held out his hand at Marinette to show her the fixed Ladybug miraculous making her smile and embrace the senior, which widened his eyes in shock. „Thank you so much for healing the miraculous for me,“

„There‘s no need to thank me for it. Now please put on your earrings to make sure she‘s good,“ Commented Su-Han watching Marinette put on the miraculous, then they got activated and Tikki showed up in front of Marinette.

„Welcome back, Tikki,“ Greeted Marinette holding out her hands at the kwami, which smiled and hugged them. „I‘m so sorry I have let an akuma take over me and…...you were now gone for a while,“ „What matters is, that we‘re both okay and the akuma was defeated,“ Stated Tikki making Marinette smile and look along with the kwami at the master guardian.

„This is the son of the former guardian of the Scandinavian miraculous box. He was going to step into his feet as the next heir until one faithful night the Snow Queen cursed the entire peninsula with her curse freezing almost every citizen including his father,“

„Oh and what happened next?“ Questioned Marinette looking at the monk.

„I never got the chance to work with that miraculous box, so after the Snow Queen was defeated I studied other legends, under them was the one of the wishing stone and this is where my topic is going to. You have these two new heroes in your group. The fire-themed one and the ice-themed one,“ „Yeah, Cat Noir said he found it in Gabriel Agreste‘s mansion. He has brought them from Norway I think according to his son Adrien Agreste, which we tried to send him undercover into figuring out details,“ Explained Marinette. „I already mentioned you that the other day, Master Su-Han,“

„I know that. This is now a way different topic now. Let him tell you, what he has to,“

„Okay, sorry, go on, Mister,“ Asked Marinette looking at the monk, which nodded.

„Those miraculouses your friends there were, you know the one with the fire and the ice powers. They‘re in potential danger to lose their control and be overtaken by the spirits of the Snow Queen and the Fire Demon. You have to get these miraculouses back, before they get turned into their slaves and lose their control for good,“

„Oh…...uh and how much time do I have to take them back?“

„I‘m not sure. I‘m the one, who experimented with their powers believing nothing would occur, but I have seen in one of the recordings made by surveillance cameras or any other ones, that recorded one of their fights. The fire boy‘s mind was nearly changing before something had interrupted him and prevent him to lose its tempter,“

„Does this mean…..if Fire King loses his tempter in a way he loses his control or….I don‘t understand,“

„I can‘t tell to 100% when exactly this could happen, but you really need to get them back before it happens. The spirits of the Fire Demon and the Snow Queen shouldn‘t be freed. They should return back into the wishing stone and I‘m at the moment the only one, who knows how to do that. I just need your help,“

„Okay, I just will need to know, where they are exactly. I don‘t know their identities to have it easier to find them,“

„Is there a way to gain their attention and get to them? Like a real-life issue? A faked akumatization?“ Questioned the monk making Marinette shrug.

„I haven‘t thought of anything yet, but I can come up quick with a plan,“

„We better leave it to you then and beware, if one or both of them end up losing their souls to these spirits, I‘ll tell you, it will be the hell to be able to defeat them all over again,“ Commented the monk making Marinette drop her mouth in shock at his comment.

„Don‘t break your head about it. I have my full trust in you, you‘re going to get them without a problem,“ Mentioned Su-Han making Marinette nod, then he jumped down off the roof along with the monk and Marinette dropped her back on the deck chair in shock.

„Did you hear that Tikki? What if we fail again?“ Asked Marinette making Tikki shake her head.

„We‘re not gonna fail, Marinette. All we need to do is to find out, who Fire King and Lady Frost are, then tell them what‘s up. Figuring out, who Fire King is won‘t be hard, Cat Noir already knows and we have proof, that something is wrong with Fire King. He will for sure understand and give the miraculous back,“ Stated Tikki making Marinette nod, then look around and back at Tikki.

„Let‘s get charged, we will look for Cat Noir,“ Warned Marinette making the kwami nod.

Later into the evening, Rollan stood at a corner watching a young couple take a picture in front of a wallpaper, which illustrated at the wall a picture of a beach and the ground had actual sand on it with a deck chair, a handmade sandcastle with a lying, red bucket and a shovel next to it. Rollan watched the couple being pictured by the photographer in a few poses at their choice making Rollan smile and cross his arms enjoying the sight.

The photographer gave the couple a thumb up, then looked at Rollan, which was watching the photo session, then approached the Spaniard.

„Hey! I haven‘t seen you here,“ Commented the photographer, then grabbed Rollan on his cheeks. „You‘re not from here aren‘t you?“

„I‘m from Spain,“ Mumbled Rollan, then watched the photographer take his hands down.

„I assumed you were Italian for some reason, but by looking at your built you‘re far too sporty in my opinion,“ Commented the Italian photographer making Rollan furrow his eyebrows confused.

„My friend Wayhem is sporty and Italian,“ Commented Rollan making the photographer grin.

„You‘re probably right, I was referring to the ones I know,“ Commented Vincent. „At least around here…...what do you think? Would you like to participate in a little photo session? I can see inside you hides a boy, that has potential to become a super model“ Complimented Vincent making Rollan shake his head.

„No, I‘m not interested in that kind of thing. I‘m more interested in being able to do something like helping people,“

„Alright and is it okay, if I take a normal picture of you?“ Questioned Vincent.

„Hmm I‘m not really fond of taking pictures,“ Commented Rollan making the photographer nod, then Rollan made his way along the side of the court to get closer to the restrooms, then watched a cook pass by with a plate filled with various cheese sorts shove into one single pike and Rollan took one giving the cook a smile, then took a bite of the first cube, then watched out of the restroom Gerda come out to his direction.

„Did you want a stick?“ Questioned Rollan moving his head at the cook, which was offering one piece at Myléne Hapréle from Gerda‘s class.

„It‘s fine,“ Responded Gerda, followed by Rollan shoving the last cubes into his mouth and looked around for a trash bin, then placed it on a plate, which contained more used sticks near the buffet table.

„What are you planning to do now?“ Questioned Rollan. „Shall we go to the dance floor again?“

„Are they going to play softer songs and not only the energetic ones?“ Questioned Gerda watching Rollan shrug his shoulders,

„Maybe they will play some,“ Answered Rollan. „We probably have to wait a little longer. They exchanged the musician over there, he might give us something else,“

„You‘re right,“ Agreed Gerda looking at the corner to see Juleka and Rose take pictures together, then she nudged Rollan on the shoulder and pointed there. „They‘re taking pictures,“

„That guy there asked me before if I wanted to take pictures,“

„And you didn‘t want?“

„I‘m not very comfortable with taking photos,“ Admitted Rollan, then she grabbed him by the hand and led him to the corner.

„Come, let‘s just take one picture together. As a memory of this night,“ Suggested the blonde. „Come you won‘t look bad I promise,“

„Alright, I‘ll do it,“ Announced Rollan, then the two stopped by the photographer, which took the last picture of the same-gender couple.

„Fantastic!“ Exclaimed Vicent, then looked at Rollan and Gerda that had alined for the photo session.

„I changed my mind,“ Said Rollan making Vincent smile and see Rose and Juleka pass by the man, then Rose picked the man by his arms as the older duo entered into the corner, so she could whisper something into the ear of the Italian.

„Okay, I‘ll do it,“ Said Vincent, then picked up his remote on his pocket to exchange the image behind the two into an image of a Balinese beach showing a beautifully light-blue water, and near the ground was the sand of the beach, which was compatible with the floor of the set. Vincent looked at the two, which stood beside each other normally, then he moved his hands to sign the two to get closer.

Rollan stepped to Gerda closer with an embarrassed face, while Gerda had rolled her eyes down heating up on the face at the boy‘s approach, then they smiled at the camera, which took a snapshot.

„Have something more in mind for this picture?“ Questioned Vincent seeing Rollan and Gerda look at each other, then Rollan grabbed Gerda‘s hand giving Gerda an unsure look. Gerda had a different idea, then shove the arm, which Rollan had grabbed into the gap between his arm and body, then held her other hand up over his upper arm. Rollan got surprised at her touch, then smiled a little seeing the girl look up at him with a smile, then Rollan‘s grew slightly more and together they faced the photographer, which gave them a thumb up to take a picture. At his third try, Gerda leaned her chin on Rollan‘s shoulder making Rollan exchange his facial expression seconds after the picture was taken and he looked down at the girl.

„Perfecto!“ Commented Vincent, then Rollan looked back at the picture and got bewildered about it.

„Didn‘t we had another picture before?“ Asked Rollan making Gerda shrug her shoulders, then they walked out of the corner to the middle of the court. Rollan stopped, followed by Gerda bumping into him and she giggled as she did that, afterward Rollan pointed out at the DJ, which had picked up his microphone to speak into it.

„Ladies and Gentle-dudes! We‘ve been through a wild ride together, but now it‘s time for us to slow it down a little with some light music and easy listening. I tried to search for something, that‘s a little known under some of you, maybe you‘ve heard it in your childhood, who knows. Our first song comes from a known country singer under the girls here,“ Nino said, then he pressed the play button to start the song, which had at the begin of the music a guitar solo.

The court now remained with couples and duos only beginning to dance slowly to the music.

Gerda looked at the pairs dancing, then noticed how close Juleka and Rose were to each other during the dance with the little blonde having her head lied against the chest of the girl friend. Rollan looked around to see the other couples dance together, then he looked at Gerda seeing her smile enchanted at seeing her two best friends happy together, then Rollan pondered about the circumstances and turned around at the girl.

„Gerda?“ Spoke Rollan earning the girl‘s attention, then he bowed down holding out his hand at the girl. „Puedo solicitor este baile?“

„You're asking me what?“ Asked Gerda looking down at his hand, then studied his sentence. „You‘re asking me to dance?“ Questioned Gerda making Rollan nod. „Oh…..so baile means dance?“

„El baile. Si,“

„Si,“ Responded Gerda. „Quiero bailar,“ Answered Gerda taking Rollan‘s hand, then he guided her into the middle to be distanced from all the other couples, then he received the hands of the blonde and he moved one hand after the other, placing one on his shoulder and the right one on his hand. The free arm, Rollan placed behind Gerda‘s back, then both gazed at each other‘s face, Rollan having a dumbfounded expression while Gerda had an enchanting smile, which had begin to bewitch the Spaniard.

Gerda signaled with her eyes the friend to move further, then Rollan shook his head returning to reality, and began to waltz with the girl to the country song.

The singer began to sing, then Gerda focused on the friend during their act with Rollan leading her on the dancefloor keeping her and himself steady on the floor to avoid making a mistake. Rollan made a stop, then allowed Gerda to roll out, while he held his hand up to hold her and she returned back to the Spaniard, that reversed back with her on his arms. A few steps later Rollan let Gerda spin again, then she returned back into his arms slowly locking her eyes up with the ones of the Spaniard, making her wide them from seeing his maroon-colored eyes.

„But you came along and you‘ve changed everything…..“

The two teens waltzed together away from their standing point around the floor along with the other duos, which were focused on themselves leaving the two lovebirds go with the flow in a very identical manner without a failure as if they had been practicing together for a while.

Alya, which had been filming from the side the people dancing had Juleka and Rose pass near her, then noticed Rose point at the side, then Alya saw Rollan along with Gerda have wonderful act together making the alter ego of Rena Rouge smile and aim the camera at the duo, which was slowing down a little to go along with the song.

During the dance, Gerda had twirled around Rollan‘s arms, then he felt the long, blonde hair pass in front of his nose, making him chuckle and he grabbed the edge of Gerda‘s streak to sense it between his thumb and index finger.

„Has your hair always felt so smooth?“ Questioned Rollan making Gerda chuckle and shake her head.

„Juleka borrowed me her hair conditioner. Oh and have you smelt the scent of the shampoo I got from her?“

„Uh no?“ Responded Rollan, then Gerda moved her head down at Rollan‘s hand, then he reached his nose to her hairstreak to pick up the scent. Rollan cackled, thereafter he leaned his face nearer to her head to get the full scent into his nose and took his head back. „It‘s very good. What smell is that?“

„Honey and Almond,“ Responded Gerda. „It‘s a mixture. You like it?“

„To be honest I like that smell on you. It fits you perfectly,“ Admitted the Spaniard, making Gerda beam at his compliment. Rollan smiled glad at seeing his date was having a blast tonight, then adjusted the girl‘s hand back on him to lead the girl along the dancefloor, making her drop her head back smiling brightly as the song returned to the refrain.

„You lift my feet off the ground, spin me around…..“

„Hmm…..Hmm…..“ Gerda hummed to the song, making Rollan smile enamored at the sweet tune of her voice. She took her head up to look at the Spaniard, which had his eyes deeply focused on her, then she went along his lead on the floor and made a rotation, while being assisted by Rollan afterward she returned onto his arms.

„I don‘t want to hide it anymore…..“ Rollan leaned his forehead on Gerda‘s making her smile lovely, enjoying the tender moment between the two, then gazed up at the brown eyes of the Spaniard, which from a happy smile changed to a charmed one and Gerda placed her hands up under Rollan‘s chin to plant her lips on his making him wide his eyes at her move, then he shut them down, wrapping his arms around her slowly, followed by taking the lead and have Gerda move her arms down up on his shoulders, crossing her wrists on the other behind Rollan‘s neck with a slight mumbling noise of delight.

Adrien sat on his chair in front of the desk reading a book as Plagg sat on the desk looking at the live stream of the prom watching the crowd dance slow, which made Plagg yawn.

„Your father did well to not allow you to this. It looks so boring,“ Commented Plagg, then Adrien looked at the stream to see half of the duos, which were mostly lovers to the other have their heads leaned to each other to the calm style of the music.

„If I had the chance there to be with Ladybug or even with Kagami, it would have been pretty,“ Commented Adrien, then looked at the side to see images on the side mostly from Ladybug and two of them were from Kagami.

„You had great chances with Kagami, but you fucked it up by yourself because you couldn‘t leave alone your other crush,“

„I tried to forget her, but I couldn‘t,“ Commented Adrien. „Kagami was my chance to get through it, but I couldn‘t from seeing Ladybug every day,“

„You know the difference here Adrien is, you didn‘t always see Ladybug because it was a superhero case, you saw her because you wanted to. You missed moments, you could work on your relationship with Kagami or even something different, but you didn‘t,“

„Alright, alright, Plagg. Enough. I know I did terrible back there. I would have taken it all back, but I can‘t,“

„Yeah. Fire King probably will learn it from your mistakes or at least I hope he‘s going different,“ Commented Plagg looking at the screen, making Adrien raise his left eyebrow up then noticed on the live stream Fire King‘s alter ego sharing a kiss with Gerda.

„Well at least he seems pretty relaxed for a first kiss,“ Stated Adrien, then he got up and made his way to the windows to look at the schoolhouse, which was lightened by lights. „I think our class is the only class, where a few students didn‘t go to attend the prom. I, Nathaniel, Lila, and Marinette I think too,“ „Weird, why wouldn‘t Lila come?“ Questioned Plagg making Adrien shrug his shoulders.

„I assume her mom didn‘t sign her declaration. The same thing happened when we went to New York and Toronto. Marinette probably stayed back because of the bakery tasks for tonight. Nathaniel must have been because of his grandmother,“ Recounted Adrien then saw in front of his eyes the superheroine Ladybug pass by running above the roofs, heading to the Trocadero.

„Oh look Ladybug is back,“ Stated Adrien with a smile.

„Great to know Tikki is alright,“ Added Plagg, then Adrien looked down at her.

„Shall we do her a little visit? Just to see how she‘s doing?“ Questioned Adrien making Plagg shrug his shoulders.

„I don‘t care to be honest, but it‘s better than watching this boring live stream there,“ Responded Plagg, then Adrien opened the window and announced his transformation phrase.

„Plagg, Claws out!“ Shouted Adrien transforming into Cat Noir, then jumped out of the window to follow the superheroine and whistled loud to call Ladybug‘s attention, which stopped on top of a building before crossing the Seine.

„Cat Noir?“ Asked Ladybug watching Cat Noir arrive by the roof. „Oh great to see you right now,“

„How are you doing? What‘s with Tikki?“ Asked Cat Noir making Ladybug nod.

„She‘s fine now. Thanks for asking. Great that you showed up right now. I need your help, remember what happened last time with Fire King?“

„You mean his transformation issue?“ Questioned the blonde making the heroine nod. „What‘s up with it?“

„Su-Han introduced me to a monk and he told me about a relict they call the wishing stone. Fire King and Lady Frost‘s powers in the miraculous were taken from there….we have to take their miraculouses away or they both will lose their minds to the Snow Queen and the Fire Demon, which will cause destruction to our city. This apparently already happened 100 years or more ago and they were hardly manageable to defeat.“ „Really?“ Asked Cat Noir in shock. „And how are we gonna do that?“ Asked Cat Noir.

„You know, who Fire King is, right?“ Asked the blue-haired heroine making Cat Noir nod. „You‘ll talk to him, what‘s up and retrieve his miraculous, and I will see if I can find Lady Frost anywhere. If you spot there anyone with a wreath, that resembles Lady Frost try to speak to her. Or we‘ll have to wait for her to show up,“

„You could ask Rena Rouge to fake a situation and call her attention?“ Suggested Cat Noir, making Ladybug wide her eyes.

„Hey, that could work. Make your way up to Fire King, if you know where he is. I‘ll see if I can contact Rena Rouge,“ Ordered Ladybug watching Cat Noir salute at her and jump down at the road to head to the school.

At the prom after a couple of songs, Gerda and Rollan had gotten nearer with the other during the evening. Rollan was leading the girl during the current song, which had more pep than the previous one, then smiled as Gerda lied her head next to his face to lean on the shoulder.

„How are you feeling?“ Asked Rollan quiet, then heard the girl sighed enamored and the Spaniard understood, that she had been feeling well. „This is….“Began Rollan, then chuckled softly to watch Gerda move up her head to look at the raven-haired boy. „I have never thought about how both of us would have come this closer. I assumed we would be just friends and now…….this all happened,“

Gerda nodded, then leaned her arms around Rollan‘s head to nudge him with her nose gently.

„Me neither,“ Commented Gerda. „But when I got to know you a little I began to want more than just this,“

Rollan chuckled, then held his arms down aside Gerda‘s waist, allowing her to lean her forehead on his, then he rolled his eyes down to look into her crystal-blue eyes, which kept her focus on the brown iris.

„Remember, when I spoke about that one girl I liked?“ Asked Rollan making Gerda mumble.

„Uh hum,“ „You know I believe….I really never loved that girl. It‘s…..I don‘t know. I saw her every day and thought Damn, she‘s so beautiful, I never understood what was up there if I just found her pretty and was glad, when I was around her. With you….it‘s…..different. I‘m glad to see you and have you as a friend….. We…..we understand each other's lives and could be with each other when no one else could,“

„I have never been in love with someone before. You‘re the first guy I do perceive something and the need to get closer to you just grew more, instantly, that…..now that we‘re here together I‘m…...I couldn‘t be happier now,“

„I‘m sorry I didn‘t realize before how you felt about me,“ Apologized Rollan making Gerda chuckle, then get her head away from the boy to gaze at him.

„It‘s alright. You…..you spoke once about her right?“ Questioned Gerda making Rollan shrug his shoulders.

„I believe so. Her personality from the short time I saw her reminded me of you,“ Commented Rollan.

„Where did you see her in those short moments?“ Questioned Gerda curious, then Rollan pondered about what he should answer.

„Uhm basketball, after school,“ Lied Rollan making Gerda chuckle.

„This took you long to answer?“ Commented Gerda a little bewildered making Rollan nod.

„I had forgotten the word,“ Commented Rollan. „I‘m sorry,“

„It‘s alright,“

„I haven‘t seen that girl in her…...true form you know,“ Stated Rollan. „She wears a…..a long coat and has more makeup on her face, but I‘m not complaining about it. It‘s made well on her, it‘s not overly exaggerated as you‘ve seen on that blonde girl, that you saw bickering with Aurore from my class,“ Commented Rollan making Gerda chuckle.

„That‘s Chloé. Yeah, she‘s a little overdressed and overpainted. There I have to agree. This is why I begged Juleka and Rose to keep my face decent. I wanted you to like me for my real me, not an overly-changed Gerda,“ Stated Gerda watching Rollan cup her cheek, passing his thumb under her eye to uncover a bit of make-up, which had covered the freckles.

„I can‘t believe they covered up your skin points,“ Mentioned Rollan making Gerda a little confused, then figure out what he meant.

„Ah freckles you mean,“ Commented Gerda making Rollan nod, then Gerda took her hands down to grab Rollan‘s to question him something. „Just curious, what do you like about me? Do you have anything specific?“

„Personality-wise or something else?“

„Up to you.“

„Your kindness and confidence you‘ve shown, have caught my eye a lot,“ Commented Rollan, then both shrieked as the DJ had picked up the microphone making it shrill.

„Ops sorry dudes,“ Commented Nino, then showed up a paper on his hands. „Before our last song, I‘d like to announce to you the winners of the voting. As said before, The most voted girl and boy become the King and the Queen of the prom and in second place we get the Prince and the Princess. So open up your ears and listen up,“ Said Nino watching Principal Damocles come up at the stage along with Mrs. Mendeleiev, which were bringing the crowns and the tiaras for the winners. „Those aren‘t real ones, by the way, those were created by the crafting club together with the design club of Mr. Ross and Mr. Nickel,“ Explained Nino watching half of the students applaud.

„Okay dudes, we‘ll start with the second place“ Announced Nino. „Princess of the prom night tonight will be with 21 votes Aurore Boreal from class 12B!“ Announced Nino looking at the light, which searched for the girl, that was near the stage jumping excitedly in front of Wayhem and Luka, which observed the girl get up on the stage to receive the tiara, then the Principal ordered the girl to step forward at the stage to look at the crown, still excited about her win. „Our Prince Charming has gotten silver with 32 votes. Funnily equally voted by both genders. The award goes to Rollan from class 12B as well!“

„What?“ Asked Rollan confused looking at Gerda, which gave him a thumb up. „Why did I win?“ Asked Rollan confused, then Kim Chien Le showed up to clap the friend on his back.

„I voted for you man,“ Commented Kim, then pointed up the stage for Rollan to walk up in which he did and he received a silver-colored crown.

„Actually boys get the crown. Our DJ misunderstood me,“ Said Principal Damocles after setting the crown over Rollan‘s head, then he walked at Aurore, which waved at the Spaniard, which nodded and saw at everyone clapping at him, then swallowed hard tensed about the amount of attention.

Down came Vincent with his camera to take a picture of the two teens, then up the stage appeared the janitor to bring the two a simple rose with a ribbon on it with the number two written on it to hand it out to the silver-winners. After the prize, Rollan returned to Gerda, which stood there with Kim and Max, which were happy about Rollan‘s prize, then Kim held up his hand to have Rollan high-five him.

„What was the prize for?“ Asked Rollan, then watched Max adjust his glasses before explaining him.

„About 145 students had the chance to vote for any girl and anyboy here to become Prom King or Prince. You were elected by 32 students and got second place,“ Explained Max. „According to calculations sportsboys, Chads and anyone good-looking has greater chance to become the most votes, which happened to you,“

„Really?“ Questioned Rollan making Kim nod.

„You‘ve earned our votes. Sadly you didn‘t make it to King thought,“ Mentioned Kim making Max nod.

„I‘m fine with Prince. I would also be fine, if I didn‘t win,“ Mentioned Rollan looking at Gerda, which was looking at the ribbon and the quartett heard the next announcement, afterward Kim began to laugh as he heard Chloé had won the first prize.

„Who voted for her?“ Asked Kim making Rollan shrug his shoulders.

„I had no idea, where to vote,“ Said Rollan, then Gerda pointed at the box under the stage, which had large written Vote on it. „Oh,“

„I would have voted for you, if I knew that,“ Mentioned Rollan making Gerda grin at the comment.

„It‘s fine. I‘m also fine without the prize,“ Commented Gerda, then Kim began to yell as he saw Luka Couffaine get up on stage as he was elected Prom King.

„Almost all my classmates won,“ Commented Rollan making Gerda nod watching Luka and Chloé smile at the camera to get a picture taken, then they moved away and Nino played the next song, which was a pop song, which a soul-like topic.

Rollan placed his hands around Gerda‘s waist again, then watched her place her hands over his shoulders to go on for another dance session together, then she embraced the boy leaning her head by his head and noticed his shirt‘s collar have a notable, failed wrinkle on it, then passed her finger on it.

„Did you iron your shirt?“ Asked Gerda making Rollan nod.

„Yeah, did I miss something?“ Asked the Spaniard making Gerda shake her head.

„No I had noticed one wrinkle on it, which was made by the iron,“

„I was a little trebling with my hands,“ Commented Rollan. „I think I have two more, but under my arms somewhere,“

„Funny I haven‘t noticed anyone yet,“

„You know ironing isn‘t something I do every day, just once a week. Sometimes I do well, sometimes not so well. This one was okay thought,“

„It looks here like you have ironed from your back,“ Commented Gerda. „You know the textile part,“

„I do the arms first, then the body and the collar is the last thing I do,“ Explained Rollan watching Gerda move her head back to listen to his conversation with a charming smile while tapping him on his neck with her index finger. „Maybe the way I learned could help you better,“ Suggested Gerda moving her hand up at the collar lifting it up. „The best thing is to start at the collar and iron it from the inside, afterwards you move it around and go down here at the shoulder part,“ Guided Gerda moving her hand down under his neck, while going up slowly on her tiptoes to peck him on his lips, rousing up the boy, which had lost his attention when following the girl‘s words.

„I will give it a try tomorrow,“ Promised Rollan smiling courteously at the blonde, which replied back with a amused one and placed her head aside his, continuing their last dance under the open skyline over the school ground.

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Lady Frost and the Fire King - A familiar partnership - Chap 31

Chapter 31 - Nostalgica

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31330631/chapters/83381065

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13886468/31/Lady-Frost-and-the-Fire-King-A-familiar-partnership

Ladybug and Cat Noir pursued the supervillain, which was escaping from the heroes and while on it, she used her wand to shot magic against the heroes, but they dodged it. During the run, the villain looked at the next crossroad to see a bus cross the road turning towards their direction and the villain used her wand to hit it with magic, turning it into a large carriage with four horses and a few passengers, which had been sitting in the bus before.

„Miss Baba Yaga, stop putting everyone back in the old times!“ Shouted Cat Noir making Ladybug confused.

„Who is that?“ Questioned Ladybug making Cat Noir shrug his shoulders.

„Wasn‘t she a witch or something?“

„Where should I know that,“ Answered Ladybug, then jumped above the carriage along with her partner to pursue the supervillain. „Has Rena Rouge been able to contact Fire King and Lady Frost?“

„I think she had,“ Answered Cat Noir, then pointed forward to see the villain aim all the light poles to turn them into lanterns with candle lights. „I almost got the witch,“ Commented Cat Noir making a cat jump to catch her, but she dodges him and uses her wand on Cat Noir‘s staff to turn it into a wooden staff. „Oh great!“ Complained Cat Noir getting up, then the villain grabbed his stuff trying to take it off Cat Noir.

„I‘m Nostalgica and you shouldn‘t be out here at this time you ruffians,“ Commented the woman, then took the staff away and slapped with its end on Cat Noir‘s butt making him yowl, followed by Ladybug stop in shock.

„Me-ouch!“

The villain dropped the stick and ran off, then Cat Noir picked up his staff while scratching his butt.

„That Lady is mean,“ Complained Cat Noir, then Ladybug placed her hand on his shoulder.

„Don‘t worry, we will catch her,“ Commented Ladybug, then ran further along with the cat-themed superhero reaching the next crossroad and the two stopped to see the woman had turned left and turned back in the next crossroad. „Want to split or prefer to go together?“

„For now on I‘m good in going with you,“ Answered Cat Noir a little anxious making Ladybug chuckle.

„Don‘t worry, it won‘t happen again,“ Promised Ladybug.

„I know it will again. I can feel it tingling throughout my entire nervous system,“

„I didn‘t expect you to have a neurotic side,“ Commented Ladybug departing along with her partner.

„This reminded me of a movie about slaves I watched a while ago,“ Commented Cat Noir. „The pain really is incredible,“

„I believe you…...hey in case you have to protect me, you…..uh…..,“

„Will have to protect you from that lady?“ Questioned Cat Noir, then nodded at the girl. „Don‘t worry, I‘ll do it anyway,“

„When Fire King and Co. arrive you won‘t be alone there,“ Stated Ladybug, then spotted a woman and a teenager watching the villain disappear in the next corner, which was noticed by the superhero duo. Ladybug whistled to call the family‘s attention and stopped along with Cat Noir.

„Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I have to ask you two to hide inside the house until we take care of this situation,“ Warned Ladybug, then the man grabbed Ladybug on her arms, surprising her.

„Ladybug, this akuma villain there is my mother,“ Commented the woman. „The retirement home called and explained, what was up,“

„Why was she akumatized?“ Questioned the superheroine.

„They don‘t know it. They just saw something was wrong when she already was akumatized and turned several devices into something else,“

„Maman, last time I was with grandma at the home, she complained about how I was using my tablet to do my homework,“ Commented the redheaded boy, which Ladybug had recognized as Nathaniel Kurtzberg. „I didn‘t know she would get akumatized today,“

„Don‘t worry Mrs. And Mr. Kurtzberg. We‘ve got this, we will bring her back safe and sound,“ Stated Ladybug. „I promise,“ Ladybug added looking at Nathaniel, which nodded with shiny eyes and Cat Noir moved his head signaling Ladybug to move further.

During the run, Cat Noir looked back at the Jewish family and back at the superheroine.

„What is Nathaniel‘s grandma doing in a retirement home?“ Questioned the blonde.

„I think because of health problems she was moved into the retirement home. I‘m not sure of her age though,“

„Good question,“ Commented Cat Noir, then they spotted at the next corner a horse running out of control against the two superheroes and Ladybug used her yo-yo to grab Cat Noir and swung up at the roof to dodge the horse.

„That was a wild ride,“ Commented Cat Noir making Ladybug nod.

„More like a close call,“ Corrected Ladybug, then she heard one honking noise and moved further to the end of the roof to look around. „Cat, you‘ve gotta see this,“ Ladybug ordered, therefore the blonde ran to the girl to look above the roof and spotted an ice-made locomotive coming towards their way. Ladybug squinted her eyes and smiled as she recognized Lady Frost and Fire King in it.

„Lady Frost is starting to grow out of her miraculous. That‘s amazing,“ Ladybug said, then Cat Noir jumped down and waited for the ride. Ladybug shook her head as the blonde held up his thumb, seeing the train slow down, after that the blue-haired heroine jumped down as well to see the locomotive stop in front of the black-dressed hero.

„Lady Frost, did you build that all on your own?“ Questioned Cat Noir seeing the heroine nod. „That‘s amazing,“ Complimented Cat Noir making Fire King frown.

„I already told her that first,“ Commented Fire King annoyed making the two heroines giggle.

„Don‘t worry, compliments are meant to be platonic,“ Joked Ladybug, then Fire King moved to the exit to look at the experienced duo.

„Are you coming with us or….?“ Questioned the redhead watching Cat Noir hop at the nose of the locomotive, then got up on the head and Ladybug climbed on the stairs beside the vehicle holding herself.

„Alright, Lady Frost move on,“ Commanded Ladybug knocking on the ice-cold column of the locomotive and Lady Frost drove it slow to make a curve around to get at the bridge, then she accelerated the vehicle to cross fast the bridge getting closer to Nostalgica, which was passing by the Notre Dame again, then shrieked as she saw the train head towards her.

„Your silly locomotive can‘t stop me,“ Commented Nostalgica throwing a beam of magic against the train, then it got deflected and hit another light pole, which turned it into candlelight.

„Impossible!“ Hissed the woman, then disappeared right on the road beside the Notre Dame and Lady Frost flinched her teeth while turning the wheel of her train making it pass over the sidewalk and crash with the front into a building, then scratch the side of it on the house.

„Okay the sudden steering on the curves like this isn‘t meant for this locomotive,“ Commented Lady Frost looking at Fire King, which was scratching his head after hitting his head.

„Is everyone okay?“ Asked Ladybug getting up from the inside of the locomotive, then earned a nod from the duo. „I‘ll be going from up top.“ Mentioned Ladybug getting on top of the roof and Cat Noir got into the locomotive.

„Thank god, I jumped down before the impact,“ Commented Cat Noir. „I‘m surprised, it didn‘t break,“

„Me too, but what surprised me most was that it deflected the attack of the villain,“ Pointed Lady Frost out, then watched Fire King try to reverse the train back.

„That‘s enough King, now move forward,“ Ordered the blonde, moving the steering wheel while Fire King moved the lever back to forward and the locomotive began to drive further again.

„Thanks, will you continue to navigate me behind Nostalgica?“ Asked the silver-blonde heroine earning a nod from the friend, which focused on the villain, which turned around at the next crossroad.

„Slow down!“ Ordered Fire King.

„Make the curve from the outside,“ Ordered Cat Noir.

„What do you mean?“ Asked Lady Frost, then Fire King placed his hands on the wheel to pull it aside, afterward guided it smoothly into the next road and gave it back to Lady Frost.

„That was what I meant,“ Stated Cat Noir making the girl nod.

„Thanks, Fire King,“

„At your service,“ Responded Fire King, then shrieked along with Gerda's alter ego as they saw the villain turn left and the front was a wall, which blocked the road from the Seine. Lady Frost pulled the brake, followed by Fire King pull a full spin with the steering wheel making the front of the vehicle crash at the last building before the road and stop vertically aside the road.

Cat Noir looked behind the vehicle, then back at the fire-themed superhero.

„We‘re lucky the rear didn‘t get stuck there,“ Mentioned Cat Noir, then Lady Frost moved the train up at the road again, then went further and along with the redhead, she looked for the location of the supervillain.

„She‘s there on the Pont de Saint Louis!“ Warned Cat Noir making Lady Frost nod, which slowly steered the vehicle near the building, then across the next short curve both shrieked to encounter a few parked cars on the side of the road and a few empty horse carriages, then she closed her eyes, therefore the locomotive pushed the vehicles in front of it with its cowcatcher aside.

„Move back to the middle. This is slowing us down,“ Commented Fire King spinning the steering wheel, along with Lady Frost following the free road in the middle to the large crossroad, which was linked to the bridge leading to the next island.

„Good,“ Responded Lady Frost, then at the next buildings they saw Nostalgica aim at various chairs outside of a bistro, which turned into Mahagoni-made chairs with dark-red textile pillows. People began to run in various directions, few getting aimed by the supervillain, which changed their clothing into retro ones.

„I don‘t think we‘re going make it through the crowd,“ Mentioned Fire King, then Lady Frost pulled the honk several times warning the crowd, which got more panic and disastrous crashed against each other making it harder for the superheroes, then Lady Frost pulled the brake again to slow it down.

„Don‘t worry guys, Ladybug is still following the villain from above. Stay here, I will try to escort the people away from the road,“ Mentioned Cat Noir leaving the train to run towards the crowd.

„Come you can now slowly move on, Cat Noir is leading the crowd back into the place,“ Mentioned Fire King making the superheroine nod, which pushed the lever to drive it over the bridge closer to Cat Noir, which jumped from the sidewalk up at the nose of the locomotive.

„Oh no out there are more people sitting outside of coffee shops,“ Commented Lady Frost, then Fire King began to use the honk to warn the citizens. Cat Noir covered his ears from the noise, then observed at the street people sitting on the outside of the coffee and Cat Noir yelled to call their attention.

„Get into the shop!“ Shouted Cat Noir. „Get in! Get in!“

Fire King continued to use the honk, then took his hand off as the people had paid attention to them and ran back into the place to hide.

„Thank goodness,“ Stated Lady Frost, then watched the villain turn at the next corner and Lady Frost turned the steering wheel, crashing the front on the next building, then slowly returned to the road.

„I hate it, when she does that,“ Complained Fire King grabbing himself on the dashboard of the cabin.

„I‘m trying my best, King,“

„I meant Nostalgica,“ Pointed Fire King out. „I‘m sure she‘s trying to screw us up,“ Guessed Fire King, then pointed with his hand to see the villain take another curve into a slinker alley, making him groan. „See?“

„Take the other road, I will run behind her,“ Ordered Cat Noir feeling the train brake again, then Cat Noir got down of the locomotive to pursue the supervillain throughout the alley. He shoves his wooden stick into the hold behind his back and ran like a cat behind the villain, getting faster than her, then glanced up quickly at the roof to see Ladybug follow them as well.

A loud noise appeared above the sky and four fighter jets turned down heading towards Cat Noir and Nostalgica. Cat Noir widened his eyes in shock and jumped aside watching them pass, following the supervillain, which began to be attacked by its weapons.

„Oh my gosh!“ Cried Cat Noir surprised at the deed of the military.

Ladybug got down to Cat Noir to see him shocked, then placed her hand on his shoulder and whispered into his ear.

„That‘s just Rena Rouge,“ Stated Ladybug making Cat Noir smile. "They're not even in the size of the real ones,"

„Wow, it‘s pretty realistic,“ Commented the blonde hero, making Ladybug smile and the superheroine returned to follow the heroine. Cat Noir looked back to see the superheroes in the ice-train come along and he jumped into it.

„Good news, Rena Rouge is following her with an illusion. Maybe we will get lucky this time,“

„Hopefully,“ Answered Fire King, then Lady Frost drove the train further.

Moments later Nostalgica ran towards the Place des Vosges then jumped at the fence, crashing against it and fell down on her back and watched the jets fly towards her, then she moved her wand up watching one of the engines of the jets pass through her hand, causing a blinking at the illusion making the woman widen her eyes noticing it wasn‘t real.

„Those are illusions!“ Shouted the woman getting up, then look around for the superheroes and only saw Ladybug coming from the rooftops. The woman shot a magic beam against the superhero, which dodged it by swinging beside it with her yo-yo and tried to hit the woman with her feet but missed.

„Nostalgica, listen to me. Your daughter and your grandson are worried sick about you. Please don‘t let Hawk Moth take over you,“ Ladybug started, then the villain threw a magic beam against the superheroine, which jumped aside to miss the hit. „I‘m serious, I saw your grandson Nathaniel before. He was nearly about to cry. Don‘t let Hawk Moth use you against everyone here. None of us has anything against you,“

„I‘m at that age, where I wish I could do everything again like I used to. That time is over now and anything from this new generation is terrible. The new TV screens are too large and causes intense pain in my eyes, the technical progress is taking jobs and other tasks away from good people, that needed the job to make it through their life. How many times have I seen at the highway machines replacing workers to collect money to pass? The new shopping centers as well. Certain train stations you have now to buy tickets on the machines as well and how do you know exactly, that you‘re doing it right? It‘s the third time already I get fined for getting it wrong,“

„You‘re right, some really are sad to exist. But you see, life now isn‘t as easy as it was before. People now have less time for their friends and family because of work. More adults and immigrants live here in Paris and fill in stores, which should be left quickly for the next group. Some jobs were also facilitated for certain groups like car builders. The factory now has machines, that make the hardest parts while the builders then focus on the minor, but important parts. Or traffic lights are also a good invention. This is probably the best invention at this moment, cause many people would be going crazy during traffic jams if they had to follow the street guides,“

„This may be true, but there are far more bad things behind this technological progress. Students have it easier to learn and cheat on it. Others have it difficult to learn with it and get distracted. They even have modern calculators, while we back in our time we had a slide rule or a wooden one and couldn‘t even use it during exams while here you can. No wonder half of the kids from today barely know any mental arithmetic,“

„Nostalgica!“ Called Cat Noir appearing. „Remember the good ol‘ locomotives from the past?“ Questioned Cat Noir pointing at the ice-made locomotive, which was coming to their direction and Fire King climbed out of the window followed by the train stopping in the middle of the road in front of the entrance of the park.

Nostalgica shot a beam of magic against Ladybug, then Cat Noir jumped against her to avoid her getting hit and Fire King threw a small fireball at the villain, then ran towards her and made a roll on the ground as the villain threw a magic beam at the boy and he grabbed her on both arms trying to hold her tight preventing to use the wand.

„Quick! Take her wand!“ Ordered Fire King watching Ladybug throw her yo-yo catching the arm of the villain instead which smirked and took the distraction to head bump into Fire King‘s nose, making him whine.

„En serio?!“ Complained Fire King, then Ladybug pulled the boy away with her yo-yo narrowly having let the villain hit the boy with a magic spell.

„We need a plan,“ Stated Ladybug watching Fire King ran against Nostalgica to try to take her wand away, while she packed him on his chest to prevent him to take the wand.

„You‘re a badly educated boy. You deserve to be punished,“ Commented the villain and under her breast a red light shined at the boy and gave him an electronic shock, making him tingle and fall down on his back.

„Whoa, what was that?“ Asked Cat Noir watching Ladybug fish Fire King away from the situation, then helped him up.

„You‘re okay?“ Asked Ladybug watching Fire King shake his head from the shock, then ran with his hands on fire against the supervillain. „Fire King!“ Shouted Ladybug, then Lady Frost threw an ice blast against his friend causing him to slip and crash against the villain, which threw a magic beam against the road hitting a police car, that had just passed by and now it remained a horse along with a carriage and Roger Raincomprix sitting on it.

„Hey!“ Shouted Roger getting down of the carriage to enter the park, then looked up at the vehicle of Lady Frost. „Where are the papers of this vehicle?“ Asked the police stern.

„Uh I don‘t know,“ Responded Lady Frost looking at the heroes.

„Lady Frost! Why did you hit me?!“ Asked Fire King loud, then tripped over the ice followed by Nostalgica, which hit him on his stomach and got up, followed by stomping on him.

„You can‘t stop me,“ Commented the supervillain, then Roger noticed the supervillain and aimed his gun at her.

„Put your hands up, Nostalgica. You‘re standing on my area,“ Demanded the policeman, then Nostalgica used her magic to turn Roger‘s gun into a refilling gun, making him groan. Roger picked his walkie-talkie to call reinforces, but it was turned into a brick-like cellphone making Roger drop his chin.

„You gotta be kidding me,“ Complained Roger.

Nostalgica pointed her wand at Ladybug again, then Fire King up again, then embraced the woman from behind holding her right.

„Quick! Remove the wand!“ Ordered Fire King trying to hold her, then he was kicked between his legs and he stepped back holding his hands down. „No!“ Groaned the boy, then created with his one hand fire and defended himself from getting hit by the wand‘s magic. Fire King moved his hands to push her, but she stepped aside and Fire King moved further stepping over the villain‘s foot she had put out for him. Fire King growled, then shoot a fireball at her foot making her jump in the air, losing the wand.

Fire King smiled, then jumped up to grab the wand and showed it to the group.

„Break it!“ Ordered Cat Noir watching the villain turn around to attack Fire King, but she got pulled away by Ladybug and Fire King before using his fire, he fell down on his knees crying in pain, followed by his lava markings on his suit blink.

„What‘s going on?“ Asked Lady Frost standing on the outside of the locomotive. Ladybug observed the fire-themed superhero shorty, then shrieked as Nostalgica freed herself from the yo-yo and ran towards the Spaniard.

Cat Noir used his wooden staff to push the woman down, then picked Fire King up and ran away from the danger zone, afterward looked back to see Lady Frost make under Nostalgica‘s feet an ice ground to make her slip.

Cat Noir disappeared with Fire King behind a car, then Fire King destransformed himself back into his civilian self, then Cat Noir recognized Rollan‘s face.

„This is the third time I felt like this,“ Commented Rollan scratching his head, while Coal walked up at the owner. „Something is wrong with us, but I don‘t know what,“

„You had this issue more times before?“ Questioned Cat Noir curious. „Why are you still using this miraculous? Can‘t you talk with Ladybug about its issues?“

„I don‘t want to leave the team, just because I can‘t use my miraculous anymore,“

„You can tell her how you feel about it. She may borrow you another miraculous. Sure you or Lady Frost weren‘t planned to be in our team, but at the moment it is good, that we have more heroes working with us,“

„You think this will work?“ Questioned Rollan getting up, then heard Lady Frost cry as she flew against the locomotive. „Lady Frost!“

„Don‘t worry, Rena Rouge is around. She‘s gonna help us as well,“ Commented Cat Noir. „Just stay here and wait until we‘re done, okay?“ Asked Cat Noir placing his hand on Rollan‘s shoulder, which sighed and nodded. „And don‘t worry, your secret is save with me,“ Cat Noir said returning to the match, then Rollan glimpsed over a car to see Lady Frost create under Ladybug and Nostalgica‘s feet a small ice-path, then Ladybug pushed the villain against the locomotive and she lost her wand.

„Cataclysm!“ Shouted Cat Noir jumping against the wand to break it, then the akuma flew out of it.

„Good job!“ Complimented Ladybug heading to the akuma to catch it.

„Watch it!“ Shouted Lady Frost creating an ice wall to deflect the ray attacks coming from the chest of the woman.

„She must have an amok as well,“ Commented Cat Noir, then Ladybug threw up her yo-yo to reveal her mysterious object which was a car tire.

„A car tire?“ Asked Ladybug, then Cat Noir quickly pulled the tire over Ladybug to protect her from getting hit by one of Nostalgica‘s electronic shocks. „Oh!“ Ladybug commented, then she grabbed the tire and held it in front of her to deflect the next attacks.

„Lady Frost, Rena Rouge, take her from the sides,“ Warned Ladybug, then Lady Frost threw one ice-ray against the supervillain, which deflected it with her ray and someone whistled and it was Ladybug holding her tire on the ground and Cat Noir kicked with his feet on the tire to put her down.

„Well done,“ Complimented Rena Rouge running along with Lady Frost to the villain, then Lady Frost held her hand down against the woman while the fox-themed heroine pulled out of the woman‘s neck the necklace, then dropped it on the ground to break it with her feet to reveal the blue feather.

„Fist Bump, lady,“ Asked Rena Rouge holding out her fist at Lady Frost, which smiled, then both looked at Ladybug restoring everything back to normal, followed by the villain transforming back into an elderly lady, which was confused and startled.

„Mrs. Kurtzberg, are you alright?“ Asked Ladybug getting down to the woman to take a look at her.

„Where am I? What happened?“ Questioned the senior holding her hand in front of her.

„We will take you back home. Your daughter and your grandson were worried sick about you, as they were informed about your akumatization,“

„I was akumatized?“ Asked the woman in shock, then Ladybug moved her hands to calm the woman down.

„Everything went back to normal. You‘re now here with us,“ Said Ladybug, then several citizens appeared along with one journalist to witness the finished action by the superheroes.

„No interviews with me. This fox‘s gotta go home,“ Warned Rena Rouge getting out of the place leaving Cat Noir back with Ladybug and Lady Frost.

„Did you leave this locomotive here?“ Asked one citizen looking at Lady Frost while pointing at the train.

„Sure,“ Responded Lady Frost, then he took out his camera. „Can I take a picture of you and me in front of this? I want to send it to my grandfather. He loves locomotives,“

„Okay, why not?“ Asked Lady Frost taking the spot in front of the train along with the teenage boy.

Around Ladybug and the senior appeared the crowd and the journalist to interview here.

„Ladybug, Ladybug tell us! Was it really hard to defeat this villain or just like the same?“ Questioned the journalist.

„Sorry, I have to carry this woman back to her family,“ Stated Ladybug, then the woman looked at the journalist, which had eye contact with her.

„Madame, what have you done during the time as a villain? Could you remember anything? What exactly made you do that?“ Asked the journalist scaring the woman, which tried to get up, but fell down on her knees.

Ladybug got sad, then helped the woman up slowly and moved her further while the other citizens kept bothering.

„Come on, we have to go home,“ Warned Ladybug walking the woman along the Parc des Vosges to the end, where Roger Raincomprix stood checking his vehicle and saw the superheroine carrying the woman.

„Ladybug, shall I take her home?“ Questioned the agent watching the woman, which seemed to have a white face. „Is she alright?“

„I‘m not sure,“ Responded Ladybug looking at the face of the woman, which seemed to have no reaction and the senior stopped placing her hand in front of her chest, then dropped down on the ground shrieking Ladybug.

„Mrs. Kurtzberg!“ Shouted Ladybug, then Roger got down on his knees grabbing his walkie-talkie to make a call.

„Lieutnant Roger Raincomprix. I need immediately an ambulance. Senior around the 80s got unconscious…...I can‘t feel a heartbeat at the moment…….first aid will be performed…..roger, that,“ Ended Roger, then moved the woman's head uo, while Ladybug stood there in shock looking at the man about to perform CPR. „Just don‘t stand there, help!“ Shouted the policeman making Ladybug gulp, then Lady Frost appeared along with Cat Noir, which saw what was up. The viewers appeared as well, then the journalist ordered the cameraman to turn the camera off and observed the police at the work.

„I need someone to close the space around us and someone to do the chest compression,“ Ordered Roger, then Cat Noir got down to help him and Ladybug remained in shock, while Lady Frost looked around to see, what the agent meant and moved at the road to stay aside, followed by two teens to form a barrier to prevent people to drive into their line.

Rollan got out slowly from the car to see, what was going on and got closer to the scene. One of the citizens waved at Rollan, then ran towards the boy.

„Are you able to perform CPR?“ Questioned the man making Rollan shake his head. „Please go home or block the road along with the others,“

„Okay,“ Commented Rollan racing at the end of the road to stay three persons away from Lady Frost, which was looking at Ladybug, which had frozen at looking the two males trying to bring the senior back to life.

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The Curse of the frozen heart - Chap 1-3

Summary: Hans escaped years ago from his family and landed on a farm in Sweden by the door of a childless couple, which raised the boy as their own son. Due to a missing document, Hans is unable to keep his adopted parent's farm and his first opportunity to get it back is to accept a deal of a Swedish prince in exchange for the farm. Along with an enchanted dog he saved from mistreats both make their way to find a certain person named Anna. In the meanwhile, in a Norwegian kingdom, a queen is worried about her missing sister and has as well to deal with suitors from other kingdoms, which were here for her hand. Despite her low interest, she befriends the young, unprepared Spaniard due to a few common interests. Upon figuring out Anna's disappearance from her own castle Elsa has set up a wanted call hoping to obtain information about her hoping to find her and hope to look for a better plan to end the curse....

Rated: Teen and Up

Pairings: HansxAnna, GerdaxRollan

Notes: AU, Crossover,

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Y'ALL, how can people not lose their minds by seeing the way they look at each other? 😭

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Lady Frost and the Fire King - A familiar partnership - Chap 11

Chapter 11

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31330631/chapters/77469461

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13886468/11/Lady-Frost-and-the-Fire-King-A-familiar-partnership

https://www.wattpad.com/1081907828-lady-frost-and-the-fire-king-a-familiar

(Chapter is about 5000 words long. I recommend to read inside the previous fanfic links)

Kai and Alfida stood together in front of a library and looked at the description at the entrance about the opening time.

„Okay, this must be it,“ Alfida commented. „Shall we go in?“

Kai nodded, then opened the door to enter along with the girl into the library and looked around the place. Alfida showed Kai the reception, where a woman sat using the computer and the two went to encounter the woman.

„Good morning. We‘d like to know if it‘s possible for someone here to help us look for flight tickets to Paris,“ Kai spoke. „Our grandfather told us this was the only way he knew how to obtain and get information about,“ Kai asked earning a nod from the librarian.

„For your grandfather or for you two?“ Asked the librarian.

„Us two,“ Responded Kai.

„Age?“

„I‘m 15 and she‘s 16,“ Responded Kai.

„17,“ Corrected Alfida making Kai grin embarrassed.

„Okay and does it have to be a non-stop flight or a connecting flight?“

„If possible, the cheapest one,“ Added Alfida. „We gotta pay this on our own, eventually,“

„Alright I‘m looking for you two on Brian Airlines, a low-cost airline if you‘re okay with it,“ Stated the woman making the teens nod.

„There are no available low-cost flights to Paris. You would need to choose another destination and see from there, how you could go there to Paris,“ Responded the librarian.

„Well what more can you want, we‘re at the moment out of money and need to go there to get my sister back,“ Explained Kai earning a nod from the librarian.

„How did you get here, if I may ask?“

„It‘s a long story. We‘re really thankful for your help ma‘am,“

„We really are and I don‘t want to be rude or anything, but what are the prices of the available destinations? Are there close to Paris a bit?“ Asked the raven-haired girl the woman, which used her mouse to open the offers.

„60 Norwegian Kroner is if you fly to Vienna, in Austria. Wroclaw in Poland costs 50 Kroner and to Basle in Switzerland 60,“ Mentioned the librarian looking at the two teens.

„For two persons it‘s actually cheap,“ Kai mentioned glad making his crush nod.

„Oh, that‘s for each person,“ Corrected the librarian. „Each of you pays 50 or 60 bucks. So 100 or 120,“

„Oh…..okay, so looks like we have to stay here for a while and find a way to make some money for our flight,“ Kai mentioned making Alfida nod.

„Yeah, we better start to look for a way to obtain money. Maybe Hendrick has an idea and helps us out,“ Commented Alfida.

„I know I can make money with art, I just need to get myself a painting easel and colors. The issue is I will need money for that as well,“

„I‘m thinking about going to Orm and Hendrick and tell what‘s up. Hendrick mostly, he knows this world at the moment better than us,“

„I think you‘ve got a point,“ Kai agreed, then Alfida thanked the woman and walked along with the boy to the outside of the library. „Hey, should we head back to the troll kingdom and see, if we can unfreeze the others?“ Questioned Kai making Alfida shrug her shoulders.

„We could go and try, yeah,“ Replied the raven-haired. „Let‘s get out of here,“ Called Alfida walking the street up with the short boy.

As the school had ended Rollan was alone in the locker room looking at a small book he has as his agenda to see the homework he had noticed down for the week and stored the books we wouldn‘t need for now inside his locker.

„Ay, it‘s been a long time since I‘ve ever done homework. That looks like a lot than usual,“ Spoke Rollan, then stored his agenda inside his bag and got up to close his locker, then noticed his belt he encountered a few days ago. Rollan took the belt out to look at his initial letter and unlocked the aperture under it and tried to adjust it around his waist. „I…..almost got it,“ Commented Rollan trying to squeeze the thick textile through the bands of his pants. Rollan made it and closed his belt, then noticed the old-goldish tune of his symbol get lighter, making him furrow his left eyebrow and in front of him appeared a stone-creature in the air, then it dropped on the ground and it got split into two and both got up scratching their heads.

„Whoa,“ Rollan commented surprised as seeing the two creatures, then got down at the two. „What kind of creatures are you?“ Asked Rollan about to pat the slink creature, then yelped as he burnt his finger on it.

„Hey, hey, hey. Didn‘t you notice the magma on my head?“ Asked the slink stone creature watching Rollan shove his finger in his mouth. „It‘s hotter, than a day at the beach,“

„I‘m sorry,“ Apologized Rollan. „I was kinda astonished by seeing you two,“

„I‘m glad you‘re thinking that way,“ Commented the round creature. „Hey haven‘t we seen each other once? You‘re pretty familiar to me,“

„Not that I know,“ Responded Rollan. „Why?“

„I felt like I‘ve known you somehow,“ Responded the large stone-creature. „I‘m Coal by the way. You‘ve got a name as well?“

„Of course he does, Coal,“ Commented the slink stone creature, making Coal frown and punch him on his face making him fall down on the ground to split into two, now the third creature was much smaller than the slinker one.

„I‘m Rollan,“ Responded Rollan looking at the third creature, which got up along with the slinky one.

„If we‘re going to be together for the next amount of time. I would really love if I could walk on the ground on my own or be carried by you. Anytime I‘m hit or fall down, I split in two and if they fall as well, you‘ll have it worse than in a rabbit burrow,“ Coal commented seeing Rollan sit down on the bench looking at the trio,

„Can I at least know, why I am here talking to you three? What were you doing in my belt?“

„That‘s an excellent question, for some reason a foreign man mixed my powers into this belt, so I assume this would be a way to have the wielder be able to use the powers,“

„Powers?“ Asked Rollan curious. „What kind of powers?“ Asked Rollan, then he heard a loud noise on the outside of the building and ran at the window to look out and see the feet of a large robot stand there blocking the way to the buildings behind it. „Coal?!?“

„The power of fire“ Responded Coal. „You‘re able to create fire and use it,“

„Really? How can I do so?“ Asked the raven-haired boy. „Do I have to say anything?“

„You‘ll get the hand of it. You just have to transform and you‘ll be able to use the powers,“ Responded Coal watching Rollan look out of the window and hear someone scream, then the robot moved back and Rollan dropped his mouth knowing someone might be in trouble right now.

„Does this make me one of the good people if I use the firepower?“ Asked Rollan making the stone-creature shrug his shoulders.

„I‘m just here to follow your orders. Whatever path you chose, is up to you,“ Responded Coal watching Rollan look out of the window and frown.

„They need a hero? They will get one!“ Announced Rollan earning applause from the three stone-creatures.

„Then all you need to do is say, Coal, I‘m fired up,“ Stated the stone-creature.

„Coal, I‘m fired up! Ah ha, ha!“ Shouted Rollan opening up his arms and have his clothing get replaced by brown boots, pants, that were marked with fire-themed symbols resembling an engravure. On his body he wore a dark-brown pullover with small streaks, forming lava running down the clothing. Above the pullover, he wore a gray vest with similar patterns to the ones from the pants, and his belt, which now works as a miraculous was dark-red and the cover with Rollan‘s initial got brighter. His skin got darker along with his eyes and his hairstyle became fixed up resembling a fire flame with its colorings as well starting on the ground with dark brown, leading to red up to the end, which was orange and yellow.

„Wow!“ Commented Rollan astonished looking at his appearance, then ran at the exit and shrieked as the door got smacked back to encounter students from the fencing class run into the locker room accompanied by their class teacher.

„There‘s fire!“ Shouted a girl pointing at Rollan‘s superhero form, which looked around to spot the empty room.

„Where?“ Asked Rollan watching the disappear behind the locker while the rest of the team looked at the superhero. „Why is everyone looking at me as if my head was on fire?“ Asked Rollan and Mr. D‘Argencourt took out his smartphone to show Rollan his looks as a superhero and he got surprised as he saw himself as a superhero and his hair was burning at that exact moment. „Oh that‘s what you meant,“

„Get in here!“ Shouted a red-dressed fencing student, which stood at the entrance waiting for other students to leave the court and Rollan ran out heading to the field passing by a few students encountering Kim Chien Le, who he met on his first school day.

„Hey, Kim! Where‘s the danger?“ Asked Rollan watching Kim point at the outside, making Rollan nod and ran at the outside of the court to spot, a large, dark-blue car robot with two white stripes on its legs and arms holding with its left hand a police car with an agent in it. Rollan spotted on the ground Sabrina Raincomprix, which watched in shock the Roboter threatening her father.

„Papa!“ Shouted the redhead, making Rollan swallow hard.

At another part of the schoolhouse, Gerda was in the restroom washing her hands and moved to the side seeing there was no handpaper available, but a strange, electronic device, which had an etiquette with instruction on how to dry her hands in there. Gerda looked at her hands and slowly put them inside the device, which began to blow wind at Gerda‘s hands to dry them and the side of the device had a small display counting from ten down until it would stop drying. As it stopped Gerda took out her hands, then smiled at seeing it made its job good. Gerda picked up from the floor her bag, then walked out of the restroom out a the library opening up the bag to check her material, she had in it and noticed the wreath Rollan told to have found. Therefore the blonde removed the wreath from her bag, then looked at the reflection of a large metal cart and observed herself inserting the wreath on top of her head. As she‘s done that, a blue spirit appeared beside Gerda floating over the lavatory, shrieking at the girl at the sudden appearance of the small creature.

„Hello. I‘m Snowflake,“ Greeted the spirit. „I‘m coming in peace, don‘t worry. I‘m able to grant you powers...the power of ice,“ Explained Snowflake watching Gerda, which had gotten calmer. „With me, you‘ll be able to use ice. You‘ll be able to freeze things, create things, destroy things. A lot is possible if you learn to figure it out,“ „Like the….Snow Queen?“ Asked Gerda curious making the spirit nod, then she spotted someone and hid inside Gerda‘s backpack. „Hey!“ Shouted Gerda opening the backpack. „Get out of here, I need to talk to you,“ Gerda ordered, then she noticed at the end of the library a student, which was wearing a red hoodie and black pants staring at her confused. „I…..can‘t find my phone in there, but I‘m able to talk like this on it. That‘s pretty cool, isn‘t it?“ Asked Gerda faking a grin at the student.

„Uh…..we gotta hide, there‘s another akuma out there terrorizing the city,“ Stated the student making Gerda nod.

„I will come, don‘t worry,“ Responded Gerda watching the boy move on, then from Gerda‘s pocket came out the spirit, making her frown. „Why didn‘t you show up?“

„You‘re my new holder, right?“ Asked the spirit making Gerda shrug her shoulders.

„I don‘t know. You just appeared at the time I‘ve set this on my head,“ Commented Gerda making Snowflake nod.

„Then I assume you are if the wreath is supposed to go to you,“

„Maybe,“ Commented Gerda, then Snowflake floated forward and Gerda followed the spirit to see above the top of the room two TV screens hanging with the news of the akuma alert.

„Shadow Moth akumatized another citizen, which turned into an Autobot and is causing trouble in Paris,“ Explained the purple-haired moderator on TV.

„Oh oh, that‘s right here at our school,“ Commented Gerda earning a nod from the spirit.

„So what do you think? Do you want to give it a chance and use your powers to take down that monster over there?“ Questioned Snowflake. „I think the superheroes would love to have another helping hand. What do you think?“

„I‘ve never done this before. I don‘t know if I can even pull this off,“

„You can do that. You‘ve got me and my powers. You don‘t have to get worried about being hurt or killed. You're sheltered pretty well as long as you have me activated,“

„Okay I could give it a try,“ Gerda answered. „I‘ve defeated the Snow Queen once when I was younger. This will be easier…..I hope at least,“ Gerda commented, then Snowflake patted Gerda on her shoulder.

„Don‘t worry Gerda. You will do just fine. Say, Snowflake freeze and you‘ll transform,“ Added the creature making Gerda nod.

„Snowflake, Freeze!“ Shouted Gerda having her entire look exchanged. Her clothings had vanished and her entire body was covered in a long, blue winter coat with big snowflake patterns spread around the outfit. The wreath got the similar colors of the outfit, the hair had gotten lighter along with the skin, and around her eyes, up to the side of her ears, she wore a mix of ice-white and blue make-up powder with smaller dots and snowflake spread over it along a part of her cheek.

„Woah I look like a….a mini Snow Queen,“ Gerda commented. „Or no this looks like a regular winter cloak,“ Spoke Gerda, then heard the door of the library get kicked back by Kim Chien Le and Ethan, the student he played basketball with holding up the doors, so a few students ran in for safety. Gerda looked from the second floor at the two, then she had an idea and looked at the stairs beside her and looked at her hands, then held them open wide and shoot ice from her hands and she approached the stairs, so she would freeze them. Gerda smiled, then jumped on it sliding down at the first floor, then Gerda shrieked and pushed down a redheaded student and flenched her teeth in shock.

„I‘m sorry Nathaniel,“ Commented Gerda looking at the redhead scratch his head and look up at the girl bewildered from knowing his name. Gerda saw him not caring about what happened, then she ran out of the library and a few students got at the door to see the mysterious person, that had just run out of the library.

„I feel like I‘ve seen her before,“ Commented Kim making the blonde student shrug his shoulders watching the superheroine freeze the long stairs, to slide down on her back.

Rollan stood at the exit looking at the robot, which held the police car in his hands, then he whistled to catch the robot‘s attention.

„Hey! You have to pick someone who‘s worth your level!“ Shouted Rollan‘s alter ego, then he heard a whooshing sound and turned his head back to see the ice-themed superheroine come along. She had made herself a path to the exit with ice, where she was trying to slide on, but she ended up falling down on her front. Rollan got down on the ground to offer her his hand. She took his hand to get up, then tripped over the ice and hit her forehead on his nose, causing him to shake his head surprised at the mishap.

„Are you okay?“ Asked Rollan raising up the girl carefully, then looked into her blue eyes and got lost in them. „Que Hermosísimo...“ Commented Rollan making Gerda grin embarrassed at her slipping, then both turned around as they heard Sabrina cry about her father in danger.

„Have you got any idea?“ Asked Rollan. „I don‘t know, how I can get up there,“

„Maybe we should attack him from here,“ Suggested Gerda, then Rollan nodded and ran towards the supervillain, making Gerda drop her mouth. „What are you going to do?“ Asked Gerda watching the superhero move his arms back causing two fireballs on the hands, then jumped up and hit with them the feet of the supervillain, causing the metal of the feet to melt a little. Rollan looked up at the robot, which moved his feet hard yeeting Rollan across the air, so he would crash with his back against the wall of the school. Gerda ran at the superhero to check for him, then helped him sat up.

„Are you okay?“ Asked Gerda making him nod.

„Yah,“ Replied the brunette. „My fire isn‘t powerful enough to harm him,“

„I saw,“ Responded Gerda and looked at the supervillain, which used his other hand to open the door of the police car, then stopped as the policeman began to shot with his gun at him.

„I think I have an idea,“ Gerda said running at the robot then used her ice power to build around the feet of the robot ice and Rollan sat up observing her doing that. Rollan looked up at the robot, then at the schoolhouse, and had an idea, then run into the school building leaving Gerda alone trying to stop the villain with her ice power.

For a long while, Gerda continued using her ice power seeing she made it to froze the feet of the robot in it, then smiled as he didn‘t move his feet in it. Gerda raised her hand in victory, then the robot tried to pull out his right leg, making pressure on the ice, which began to decay, making Gerda wide her eyes as her plan didn‘t quite work well.

From above the schoolhouse, Gerda spotted Rena Rouge fly against the car, then catapult herself away from it, while pushing Roger Raincomprix out of the vehicle and she landed on the ground, followed by catching the heavy man almost bringing the heroine down on the ground.

„Gosh! Are you heavy!“ Complained Rena Rouge, then the supervillain broke out off the ice and Gerda ran in Rena‘s direction throwing ice at the supervillain to stop him, unsuccessfully.

„Sorry, we‘re new here,“ Gerda commented watching Rena Rouge drop the policeman on the ground, which ran to his daughter and shrieked as the robot dropped the police car over the two.

„Watch out!“ Shouted Rena Rouge then Gerda used her ice power causing a long bridge to appear over the Raincomprix‘s and it hit the bridge, causing it to break, making Gerda scream and before it fell on top of the family Ladybug showed up, coming from the school and used her yo-yo to pull them away, before getting hurt.

„Well done, Ladybug!“ Chanted Rena Rouge, then Ladybug pointed at the school court, where the two members ran into and Ladybug noticed the foreign girl and figured out, that she was wearing the ice miraculous.

„Where did you find that miraculous?“ Asked Ladybug pointing at the wreath.

„It‘s actually mine,“ Gerda responded. „Or it‘s very identical to the wreath I lost,“

„Look….“Ladybug commented, then she heard the shatter of a window, then looked up along with Gerda to see the fire-themed superhero jump out off the window against the supervillain, landing on the middle of his leg, then he used both hands to create a fireball and grabbed the iron of his leg to melt it.

Ladybug facepalmed, then watched Gerda use her ice power to freeze the leg of the villain, then she stopped as she saw the robot push Rollan off his leg into his doom, then Gerda quickly used her ice to freeze the villain‘s foot and Rollan landed on the ice, slipping against Gerda's arms, which caught him. The boy grinned abashedly, then got dropped to the ground as Ladybug approached the duo.

„I see both of you are new. Per coincidence, I already defeated this villain once. The main goal is getting into the head of the villain and destroy the car keys,“ Stated Ladybug, then she heard Cat Noir‘s staff and looked from above the houses behind the bakery to see the cat-themed superhero come along and land on the head of the supervillain, then he knocked on the head of the supervillain.

„Cou cou!“ Greeted Cat Noir gazing upside down into the cabin of the car to see the human, that was akumatized and used his staff to break the windshield, then the robot moved with his upper body hastily causing Cat Noir to fall off, then grab himself on the waist of the robot.

„How shall we get up without any help?“ Asked Gerda looking at Ladybug, then Rena Rouge had an idea and grabbed the girl on her shoulder.

„Follow me you two,“ Asked Rena Rouge switching from Gerda to Rollan, then both followed the fox-themed superheroine and Ladybug looked at her yo-yo, then threw it up to activate her lucky charm.

„Lucky charm!“ Shouted the heroine, then received a large ladder and chuckled about it. „Wow this is actually useful….in a way,“ Commented the spotted heroine, then looked around the place and noticed the car of the police agent lie broken in front of the stairs, then she had an idea and ran at the car to place the ladder over the car. Ladybug watched Cat Noir jump off the Autobot, landing on the ground, and observed the Autobot hit himself on the leg, making Cat Noir grin.

„You‘ve got a plan, bugaboo?“ Asked Cat Noir, then Ladybug pointed at the ladder.

„I had expected you to remain up on Apace there for a little longer and jump down at the ladder, but now I think you‘ve gotta do it in another way,“

„From above the school?“ Suggested Cat Noir, then heard the window of the school getting broken, then both looked up to see Rollan‘s superhero form fly towards the supervillain, getting closer to his head, beginning to distract him. „I wasn‘t aware he could do that,“ Cat Noir commented surprised making Ladybug chuckle.

„Rena is quite imaginative, isn‘t she?“ Asked Ladybug looking at Cat Noir, which then understood, Ladybug had already figured out it was an illusion. Rollan‘s alter ego jumped out off the window and Cat Noir jumped at the middle of the ladder and got on the top of it, making the ladder swank down and Rollan‘s landing on the other side catapulted Cat Noir up at the driver cabin, thereafter Cat Noir broke with his staff the side of the window, then blocked with it the driver and activated his cataclysm to destroy his car keys to reveal the akuma.

„Bingo!“ Cat Noir chanted, then the villain packed Cat Noir on his head, trying to hold him down, and moved his hand close to Cat Noir‘s hand.

„Why is it taking so long?“ Asked Rollan looking at Ladybug, which noticed Cat Noir‘s odd movements from down, then she looked up at the roof to see Rena Rouge and Gerda‘s alter ego.

„Hey, snowgirl! Jump down and help the fire guy up at the robot head to help Cat Noir out!“ Ordered Ladybug, then Gerda looked down at Rollan‘s alter ego, which waited for her to jump down. „Don‘t worry,“

„Come on, you‘ll do just fine. I trust you,“ Rollan said loud, then Gerda jumped down landing with her feet on the end of the ladder catapulting Rollan up on the robot, then he landed on top of Cat Noir and grabbed the hands of the villain to prevent him to remove the ring off Cat Noir‘s hands.

„What‘s the next plan?“ Asked Rollan, then Cat Noir moved his head to look at the villain trying to find another place, where an amok could be located eventually.

„Do you see here anything loose?“ Asked Cat Noir, then Rollan looked around noticing on the rearview mirror a religious necklace hanging on it. He then kept looking around the vehicle and glanced back at the mirror.

„What about the necklace on the mirror?“ Asked Rollan making the superhero nod.

„That must it be, destroy it,“ Ordered Cat Noir, then Rollan picked the necklace and pressed it tight together causing fire with his hands, so it would get pulverized by him, then a blue feather flew out off the broken windshield making Cat Noir smile. „Well done,“ Complimented Cat Noir and Rollan watched the feather fly out, then they heard Ladybug activate her healing light to restore everything back to normal and around the robot passed by her light and removed the robot, dropping the two superheroes on the ground. Rollan got confused, afterward looked around himself to see, what had happened and looked at Cat Noir.

"Is your hair really burning?" Asked Cat Noir looking at the rookie, which was checking the surroundings wondering, where the robot had gone.

„Where did the robot go?“ Asked Rollan. Cat Noir spotted the citizen, that had been de-akumatized appear on the ground and beside him stood a blue, American muscle car. Cat Noir got up and went down on his knees to check on the man.

„Did you get caught on another illegal race, Anthony?“ Asked Cat Noir making the man shake his head.

„Not really, but I broke the speed limit and got my license taken away. I actually deserved it anyway, but I have let the anger take over me,“ Explained the driver, then Rollan looked into the car to see the necklace on the mirror, then got down to the man as well.

„That necklace in there, I used to have one from my mother, but I‘ve lost it,“ Commented Rollan.

„I‘ve got it there as a lucky charm,“ Stated the driver. „But I should really keep the velocity down. Not because of my life, I could bring someone else in danger or even erase someone‘s life, who‘s most likely to be innocent,“

„We never know,“ Commented Cat Noir, then Rollan got up to approach Ladybug, Rena Rouge and Gerda‘s alter ego, then smiled at the girls.

„We‘re not quite the skilled heroes here,“ Commented Rollan. „I‘m not sure, how we got to be them or if we deserve it,“

„Actually I‘ve lost your two‘s miraculouses during my last fight and I needed to retrieve it, but you two were fighting without any hesitation and trying to help. I think I‘ll let you keep them. Now that Shadow Moth is stronger than before it would be really good to have more team members. This was your first time, you two will gain skills with the time,“

„Yes,“ Agreed Gerda looking at Rollan‘s alter ego, which smiled at her and bowed down at the girl.

„Have you two actually a name?“ Asked Rena. „You know a superhero one?“

„Exactly, no one has to know who our identity is. No one. This is most important, cause if Hawk Moth knows about our other identity, we and our family and friends will be in danger,“

„Sure,“ Responded Rollan.

„I promise,“ Gerda added.

„So, what‘s your hero name?“ Asked Ladybug. „Paris needs to know, who these two newbies are,“

„Well I would need to think about how I should call myself...something feminine,“ Stated Gerda while Rollan pondered about it.

„Fire King, I‘m Fire King,“ Stated Rollan making Ladybug smile.

„It does‘t have to be complicated. Something very simple like uhm….Ice Queen“ Suggested Ladybug making Rena chuckle.

„Or Frosty, Frosty-girl, Queen Frost…….Ice Frost….“ Suggested the Fire King making Gerda chuckle, then she figured out a name she could use.

„Hey, I think I‘ve got one…...What about, Lady Frost?“

„It‘s up to you, if you like it,“ Mentioned Ladybug earning a nod from Rena Rouge.

„I like it,“ Rena commented making Gerda smile.

„I find it suits you,“ Added Fire King earning a nod from the light blonde girl, then Ladybug lifted her fist up in the middle, then watched Cat Noir and Rena Rouge get beside the two and look at the two newbies. Rena Rouge moved her eyes calling the attention of the two rookies, which smiled and placed their one hand in the middle to do a group fist bump.

„Pound it!“ Said the group together, seconds later Fire King and Lady Frost repeated their sentence, then saw Cat Noir‘s ring beep.

„Oh excuse me, I gotta go, see you another time,“ Cat Noir said waving at the group.

„How long have you been superheroes if I may ask?“ Questioned Lady Frost watching Ladybug think about it.

„I think about two years, almost,“ Replied the blue-haired girl. „I‘ve got a lot of experience on my back. You two are new, inexperienced, and are probably new to us all. Eventually to each other as well. The more we work together in the future, the better you two get,“

„Thank you for your confidence, Ladybug,“ Commented Lady Frost giving the heroine her hand to shake, then saw Ladybug‘s earring beep.

„Oh I gotta go as well, before I transform back,“ Warned Ladybug earning a nod from Rena Rouge, which saluted at the duo and ran away. Ladybug used her yo-yo and swung away, disappearing behind the building and Fire King and Lady Frost looked at each other.

„Do we know each other?“ Asked Fire King making the ice-themed heroine shake her head.

„Probably not. I don‘t seem to recognize you,“ Responded Lady Frost making the brunette nod.

„I felt like I‘ve seen you before,“ Commented Fire King. „I don‘t know, maybe your eyes made me feel like I‘ve seen them before,“

Lady Frost chuckled, then patted the superhero on the shoulder.

„Probably just a coincidence. There are more people with blue eyes. Might just be a coincidence,“ Explained Lady Frost. „I have to go. We will see each other next time,“ Mentioned the blonde making the fire-themed superhero nod and watch the heroine ran into the school court. Fire King smiled enchanted as the heroine went upstairs and leaned his back against the railing of the school sighing.

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Oh gosh, I'm not normal. I writing another crossover again 😂 BUT hey the cover didn't come out as trashy as expected or someone who has 0 skill.

Summary: Gerda and Rollan wake up with no memory of what happened to them and figured out, they're in the 21st century. With the help of a senior they learn to adapt themselves to the modern world they're in now and its culture. Gabriel Agreste finds a way to obtain the powers of the wishing stone to use it against Ladybug and Cat Noir, but soon as the powers were attached to work as miraculouses, someone got the hands on them, soon that Paris would meet the two new superheroes Lady Frost and Fire King!

Pairings: GerdaxRollan, more ships to be added.

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¡Vamos a España! - Chap 30

Chapter 30

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29442912/chapters/75755441

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13819897/30/Vamos-a-Espa%C3%B1a

https://www.wattpad.com/1056069132-%C2%A1vamos-a-espa%C3%B1a-chapter-30

At the docks near the fishing bait store, Enrico‘s father stood along with another man in front of a carriage waiting together for Enrico and Ernesto to show up by them.

„Where are they?“ Asked the man looking at the father of Enrico.

„They should be at the docks coming down here,“ The father of Enrico responded walking behind the house to look at the road to see on the road the two boys run in his direction. „There they are,“ The father commented, then the friend stood beside him to see them.

„It passed midnight, they‘re almost half an hour delayed,“ The man pointed out watching the father move forward to come closer to the boys, then in the middle, the boys arrived and stopped in front of the father.

„Dad, you can‘t believe, what we saw!“ Enrico shouted. „We saw three strange-looking animals and something like a dragon hybrid!“

„What?!?“ Asked the father shocked. „Ernesto, is he serious?“

„The dragon flew behind Enrico into Rollan‘s house and I think it hunted him,“

„What has he done to you?“ The father asked looking at his son.

„She threw me around the bedroom snarling at me, while she protected those three strange cubs. They had long ears, a thick nose and I don‘t know how to explain it….they look like rabbits, but weirder,“ Enrico explained. „They‘re about the size of the Tomato red fox we found the other day,“

„Alright, did you two notice anything about the dragon?“ The father asked earning a nod from the two boys.

„I didn‘t see quite much. It flew fast into the house,“ Ernesto commented.

„It was about a head taller than me and the wings seemed to be really wide too. I couldn‘t see them fully open,“

„Wow, I really hope you two are talking real about this,“ The friend of the father said shrieking Ernesto.

„We‘re saying the truth. That dragon-thing could have killed us, I have no idea how Enrico made it out of there,“

„I didn‘t know it either. The dragon was about to claw me with her hand, but she purposely missed me,“ Enrico commented earning a nod from the father.

„And whose house is that again you broke in?“ The father asked, then Enrico showed the father the book.

„You know about Rollan, that guy that got one of your members arrested the other week,“ Enrico asked earning a nod from the man. „We found out he had a dark moment in his past, which he never told anyone about it and it‘s inside this book here. If we hand this out to Lieutenant Roberto and point him this out Rollan is most likely to get arrested and we have a nose less out of your business,“ Enrico explained opening the book to his father, then he took it to look through.

„Ernesto, how again did those brown cubs look like, which you encountered in Rollan‘s room?“ The father asked.

„They could stay on their hind legs, they have a long, round nose and their ears are slim but long. I think it passes over their neck,“

„I think those creatures are more worth than anything else we‘ve caught over the months,“ The father said turning the book to show an illustration with three similar cubs and three grown trolls standing around a burning building. „I need you two to go back to his house in the upcoming days to catch those cubs and bring them into our hideout,“

„But…..what about the dragon?“ Enrico asked making the father snort.

„Don‘t you worry about it. Take the net launcher and when she appears again take her down,“ The father suggested. „If you think you need a third person, Alejandro can come with you,“ The father offered earning a nod from Enrico.

„Alright, father. As soon as possible?“

„Of course,“ The father commented. „Just warn Alejandro when you plan to go and we‘re good,“ Explained the man earning a nod from the son.

„Have you already got a plan?“ Ernesto asked his friend, which saw Enrico show him the book.

„We can already use this tomorrow against Rollan. If he gets arrested, we can take the chance of his absence and take the cubs to us,“ Explained Enrico making Ernesto shrug his shoulder. „What‘s up?

„Nothing. I‘m just feeling like we‘re ruining his life for no specific reason,“

„If we get rid of him, no one will make sure we and my dad land behind the grid. Come on, you‘re acting like we‘re planning to kill him. Be happy he at least stays alive,“ „Enrico commented earning a nod from Ernesto.

„Sure, I think you‘re right there,“

„You better not think about that boy. Come and get up on the carriage. We got work to do,“ The man announced watching the boys get up on the carriage, so the rest of the team got up and made their way out of there heading into the town.

The friends of Rollan were at the beach sitting on the sand together. Rollan wore his shorts only along with Kai, which wore a similar pair to his, but they were tightened on his waist with a belt due to having a smaller taille than the older boy. Alfida wore her red-white colored underclothing and Gerda wore on as well, but in white color only.

„I assumed you all had actual swimsuits,“ Rollan commented making the girls shake their heads.

„I obviously have never needed one in my life,“ Alfida mentioned. „When I learned to swim I had clothes on like everyone else,“

„We‘re supposed to wear clothes. Are you thinking it would be nice to see everyone walk around here naked?“ Kai asked making his girlfriend shake her head.

„Down here we wear swimsuits. Women mostly. Men usually have like me and Kai any sort of shorts on,“ Rollan explained. „You girls are still covered in the swimsuits, besides your legs and arms. Like most of the girls and women, you see here around us,“

„Maybe on our next trip we gather some money for them,“ Alfida pointed out. „I still got a bit, but I saved it up for food,“

„Same here,“ Kai added. „Mostly for the way back home.“

„About the way home, will you go directly or will you do stops as well?“ Questioned the Spaniard.

„Gerda and I have a job back there. If we got there and still have it it‘s a big luck for us to have such a comprehensive boss,“ Alfida pointed out earning a nod from the raven-haired boy.

„That‘s kind of cool if your boss is really like that,“ Rollan commented. „But what if you both lose it?“

„Then we look for a new one,“ Alfida commented. „I don‘t think I lose my job that easy. Gerda, I have no idea. So far I know not many people are interested to work in a library as she does,“

„I can always help my parents at the store until I find something else if it happens,“ Gerda explained. „I came with you, cause I wanted to make sure we could bring the cubs back home safely and I would as well be able to see Rollan for a bit,“ Gerda commented placing her hand on his arm, making him smile.

„Is anyone going to swim actually?“ Kai asked looking at the trio, then Alfida shrugged and looked at Rollan and Gerda.

„I thought that was the point of our date unless you want to build sandcastles or bury yourself inside the sand,“ Rollan suggested. „Or we can ask to join the group up there at the other side of the beach to play beach volleyball,“

„I‘m not sure, what you will pick but I‘m going to take a swim,“ Gerda announced getting up on the sand to walk into the water and looked back at her friends. „Anyone else joining?“

„I stay here and build a sandcastle,“ Kai responded watching Alfida begin to dig with her hands in the sand to collect it.

„Rollan?“ Gerda asked watching Rollan ran into the water and jump into it to pass beside her and swim further. Gerda followed him from the side watching him holding his pace well without getting tired fast. Gerda tried to hold up with him paddling with her feet faster and Rollan rolled his eyes back to see his girlfriend trying to get closer to him, then he smiled and stopped floating on the surface. Gerda got closer to him, then stopped in front of him holding herself up with her hands above the water.

„You swim fast,“ Gerda mentioned. „Is it because of the practice?“

„I think so,“ Rollan responded. „I haven‘t noticed this before. We‘re all at the academy about the same speed. Important was it to be able to swim well when we joined the academy,“ Rollan explained and lied himself up on the water of the surface closing his eyes while floating with his entire body on the shallow.

„What are you doing?“ Gerda asked making the boyfriend chuckle.

„Floating over the surface. It‘s quite easy. You just have to remain calm and let your lungs do the work,“ Rollan said slowly sinking with his legs into the water and he kept his body above the shoulders out of the water. „Take a bit of breath and lie yourself up above the water,“ Rollan taught the girl, which slowly lied herself up on the surface and tried to remain on the surface, then slowly her arms got down under the water and Gerda got up again on the surface.

„Wait, I have to try it again,“ Gerda said repeating the deed, then Rollan held one of his hands under her back to assist her in holding her equilibrium over water.

„I‘m holding you, stay relaxed,“ Rollan commanded, then Gerda closed her eyes and stretched her arms and legs, holding her breath a little. Rollan removed his hand slowly watching the girl breathe out while being on top of the shallow. Rollan smiled, then Gerda opened her eyes to see she was floating, then she began to sink again, afterward, she disappeared with her body underwater leaving her head out.

„It was better than the first time,“ Rollan pointed out earning a nod from the blonde.

„I‘m surely better in sinking down than staying above the water…..hey wait a moment, what about we two challenge each other on who holds the air the longest?“ Gerda asked making her boyfriend shrug his shoulders.

„Hmm….good,“ Rollan responded.

„Three, two, one, dive!“ Gerda counted covering her nose along with Rollan to dive under the water. Rollan came out first to gasp after breath, then seconds later Gerda came up raising her first in victory. „1 to 0!“

„Uno, dos, tres!“ Rollan shouted diving down along with his girlfriend to see, who would win this time and both came out at the same time out of the water. „Wow, didn‘t expect this,“

„ Uno, dos, tres!“ Gerda counted making Rollan grin at her try, then he dived down along with the girlfriend. Several seconds later Rollan came out and wished his bangs aside and looked down to see Gerda was still inside the water making him drop his chin in surprise, then Gerda came out to gasp for breath.

„Wow that was long,“ Gerda said earning a nod from her boyfriend, then he took a look at her hair noticing that she had her hair ties on, while she was swimming.

„You know you don‘t need to wear your ties on your hair during swimming,“ Rollan pointed it out, then Gerda looked at them.

„Oh, I forgot to take them off. I rarely take them off you know,“

„You will look without them just as beautiful as you are with them,“ Rollan complimented making Gerda smile enamored with the Spaniard.

„Well with the time I‘m in the water I could as well lose them by mistake,“ Gerda mentioned taking the ties off her hair and adjusted her hair, while Rollan observed her showing her straight hair. „And? What do you say?“

„Muy bonita,“ Complimented the raven-haired boy watching Gerda‘s hair points lie over the surface earning Rollan‘s attention, which swum beside her to look at their length. „You should more often have your hair open,“ Suggested Rollan watching Gerda smile at him amorously, seeing him get flirty with her, then she had an idea and pushed him into the water and swam away laughing amused. Rollan got out with his head and smirked at her invitation to play, then Rollan began to swim behind her and dived down underwater to pursue the girlfriend from under there and he returned to the surface and grabbed her by the feet to stop her, then she splashed with her hands against Rollan to free herself from him and made her way back towards the beach, followed by Rollan which got over the deed.

„Come and get me, if you can!“ Gerda chanted making Rollan laugh, which followed her to the beach, then made it to be near her almost arriving at land, where Kai and Alfida had made a simple castle out of the sand.

„I‘m getting you, Gerda,“ Rollan warned making Gerda chuckle, then she stopped as she felt the ground under her feet and Rollan passed beside her pointing to the sand advising her the race wasn‘t over making Gerda shake her head amused, then she hopped at Rollan to push him down landing with him in the water and she laughed at their fall, then looked at Rollan, which had his back out of the water and he rolled around to face Gerda, which was sitting over him gazing at his eyes.

„I‘m the winner, right?“ Gerda asked noticing Rollan gaze into her eyes distracted, then she shook her head knowing he was paralyzed by her deed, then she moved aside and sat down on the ground afterward Rollan copied her and looked at her.

„You won a lot today,“ Rollan responded watching Gerda smile and lean her cheek on his shoulder. „Most importantly, my full attention to you,“

„With you now, I am having the best time of my life,“

„That‘s good to know. You deserve so much more, mi amor. Much, much more,“ Admitted Rollan grabbing her hand to hold it tight on his chest.

„I want this time here with you to last forever,“ Gerda gushed leaning her forehead on her boyfriend‘s. „I‘m enjoying every single second with you,“

„Ah so romantic!“ A voice said interrupting the couple in the water, then Rollan frowned as he recognized the voice and saw behind himself and Gerda the boy Enrico come along with two guards and Gerda dropped her mouth as the police were accompanying the boy.

Rollan looked at Gerda worried, then Gerda grabbed his hand and shook her head so he would understand he should not worry.

„It really is,“ Gerda commented making Enrico roll his eyes and throw from his backpack out the Snow Queen book, which he stole from Rollan‘s bedroom.

„I‘ve shown the guards here your book, Rollan,“ Enrico spoke. „You have two choices. You admit it or you lie to everyone as you did before,“

„What are you talking about?“ Gerda started. „It‘s just a book,“

„Yes and this book here describes a certain man with the exact name and looks as your novio perfecto attempting to commit murder on an entire species and a few humans in order to rule the kingdom there. The funny thing, this happened during the time you were absent from Spain,“ Enrico commented making Gerda shake her head.

„It could be a coincidence,“ Gerda lied, then Enrico opened the book to show her a page, where Rollan looked like himself, then swiped to another page, where he transformed into a fire-themed character and moved to the last pages to show him trapping Gerda in the tombs. „Oh, you look just like this girl here in the illustration,“ Enrico commented. „Guards, she‘s also lying you see,“ Enrico warned watching both guards take out their swords to aim at the two, shrieking the couple at the water.

„Hey, hey, hey! Hold the horses. This happened a long time ago. He was pardoned by the king,“ Alfida commented getting up from the ground, then took out from the ground her chevrons to show it to the guards, so they would know she‘s a member of King Harald‘s palace‘s guards. „King Harald cleaned his reputation after he risked his life to save…..his son‘s life,“ Alfida made up earning a nod from Gerda and Rollan, which played along.

„Guards, I‘m Gerda, the girl, that defeated the Snow Queen seven years ago. On this day here Rollan and I were possessed by the demons of the Snow Queen and the Fire Demon, the only difference was, that Rollan couldn‘t manage in time to free himself from the demon and was used as a slave to fight people. The real Rollan wasn‘t even aware of what was going on,“

„Rollan assumed his responsibility for what happened, his penalty just didn‘t get fulfilled to 100% because this situation occurred with the king and he got reunited with Gerda to solve this situation,“ Alfida made up.

„And that‘s why he‘s free, cause he saved someone and…...he was forgiven and all,“ Kai added earning a nod from the girlfriend.

„They‘re friends. They‘re lying!“ Enrico warned watching the guards ponder.

„Alright, look as long as I haven‘t heard it personally from the king or in any way, but I received a complaint from Enrico and an anonymous person and I need to at least take him with me and keep him locked out as long as we manage to obtain any information from your king,“ The first guard explained. „If I find out you‘re all lying to save your friend, you‘re going into the same location as your friend here,“

„If you need his address, look it up behind the chevrons I've got,“ Alfida mentioned showing him the backside of the textile earning a nod from the guard.

„But King Harald doesn‘t know anything about that,“ Rollan whispered to Gerda.

„Don‘t worry, we find a way out to help you, I promise,“ Gerda said getting up along with Rollan, then Rollan walked towards the guard, which grabbed Rollan‘s arms and placed them behind his back, then placed around his hands handcuffs and looked at his friends.

„You three can visit your friend one hour each day. As long as he doesn‘t come into ideas,“ The guard said earning a nod from the trio.

„Will you tell my mom about it?“ Rollan asked Gerda, which nodded. „Will you also make sure that the boys are safe?“

„Orm is there, don‘t worry,“ Gerda assured earning a nod from Rollan, then the guard placed his hand behind Rollan‘s neck and moved forward along with the other guard, then Enrico closed the book and threw it on the sand.

„I won‘t need this anymore,“ Enrico said walking away behind the guards, making Gerda frown and look at her friends.

„Rollan just got taken. We need to figure out how to get him out of there,“ Gerda mentioned earning a nod from her brother.

„Why didn‘t they just buy our lie or more important. Why do they believe in a silly book?“ Kai asked making Gerda shrug her shoulders.

„My issue here is on how they just arrest Rollan when the crime happened on the outside of Spain. Usually, he‘s supposed to get punished back in the troll kingdom,“

„Yeah, I think so. Look I don‘t know if you‘re going to stay here, but I‘m going to look for Rollan‘s mother and tell her what happened,“ Gerda said picking up a towel Rollan borrowed her, so she could dry herself.

„Gerda wait up, we‘re coming with you, „Kai mentioned earning a nod from his sister, and began to put on his shirt to get ready to leave with the girls.

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¡Vamos a España! - Chap 26

Chapter 26

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29442912/chapters/75312552

https://www.wattpad.com/1052093676-%C2%A1vamos-a-espa%C3%B1a-chapter-26

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13819897/26/Vamos-a-Espa%C3%B1a

At the airship of Alfida sat next to Orm looking into the book with the map of the Iberian Peninsula.

„Your cousins are well. Rollan and his mother took care of them without any problem,“ The pirate girl mentioned. „They have eaten and drank enough to be alright,“

„This is good. I couldn‘t live with the guilt of being unattentive toward the triplets and then something happens to them,“ Orm admitted.

„Yeah mostly they‘re Arrog‘s kids and worse….they‘re heirs,“

„I‘m glad they were with Rollan. Despite not being fond of him, I‘m glad to know he was willing to keep them until we come to get them,“

„When you see him tomorrow or so you can thank him for that,“ Alfida suggested.

„Yeah, I owe it to him after all,“ Orm said making the girl nod. „Or will he also pass by here with Gerda?“

„I don‘t know. I just heard Gerda and Rollan went on a walk together,“ Mentioned the girl. „I didn‘t hear anything else,“

„I don‘t think there‘s anything to worry about for now,“ Kai said coming from the cabin of the ship to meet the duo. „I don‘t know how long you two want to stay here, but I think being here two or three days won‘t hurt…..Hey, we could as well go out together on the road and have some fun together,“ Kai offered. „What do you think about this?“

„And what have you got in mind?“ Alfida asked with a smirk, then Kai pondered about Alfida‘s comment, then shrugged.

„Well…..we haven‘t agreed on what time we go, so…...I‘ll have enough time to find something for us to, what do you say?“

„Okay sounds like a good start,“ Alfida responded, then Kai went down on his knees to look ath the card on the book.

„I think I could look for a location map or anything here to find easy something for us. If I‘m not around in the morning, I‘m out there,“ Kai advised earning a nod from the troll.

Rollan and Gerda were walking together along the beach holding each other‘s hands. Gerda, during the walk, gazed at the ocean as her boyfriend guided her gently.

„It still feels a little warm here on the beach,“ Gerda mentioned rolling her eyes up at the raven-haired boy.

„During the summer it is like that on the beaches. You could as well lie here the entire night for a sleep. Sometimes people do that once in a while,“

„Have you ever done it?“ Questioned the blonde making Rollan shake his head.

„You know my mama never went out on this time with me alone. At least when I was younger. But during the day we‘ve got and she taught me how to swim. Therefore I already had some lessons with my father, before he departed,“

„You…..never spoke about your dad,“ Gerda pointed out stopping to look at Rollan. „You only spoke about your mother,“

„You know I particularly grew up without an actual father figure. He passed away, when I was around 10 years old,“ Responded the Spaniard. „He died out there at the sea along with other men as they went fishing,“

„They drown?“

„A tempest had come over Alicante and we have never heard of them since that day,“ Rollan explained making Gerda sad. „We never got to see the shipwreck after all these years,“

„I‘m sorry you had to go through that,“ Gerda apologized squeezing his hand.

„It‘s alright. I made it through my growth with only my mama. Sure at some aspects having papa around would have been better, but I can‘t pick how my life moves on….Well I do, but I can‘t always choose, who will be around me for long,“

„A few things for ourselves we are allowed to pick for us,“

„What do you mean?“ Rollan questioned, then the blonde moved his arm up to her giving him a simper smile, so the boyfriend would understand it. „Oh……….You‘re one of the best things life has offered me yet. You gave me the chance to show you the real me….the better side of me I mean,“

„Deep inside everyone‘s heart, no one is bad. Neither are you, Rollan,“

You‘re right. I just was really naive in wanting to gain superpowers, not noticing, what this would do to us,“

„What matters now, is that everyone is okay and you‘re here with me,“ Gerda commented leaning her head under his chin making him smile enchanted with the girl‘s affection.

„I know when I took you out here I didn‘t want to talk about it, but I need a second opinion on what I should do about this with the book and my unawareness of what I‘ve done in the past,“ Rollan mentioned. „I‘m afraid if Enrico tricked me and has already shown the book to Roberto,“

„Don‘t worry, tomorrow I and Luta will take care of the situation. While each of you is busy training Luta will look for the book and when she finds it she will bring it back to you,“

„And that will work?“ Rollan asked.

„She can always rip off pages from it if there is no quicker way to get rid of it,“ Suggested Gerda. „Isn‘t probably the smartest idea, but it‘s what I could come up with for now,“

„Okay, but hey if it leads her or you into danger, don‘t do it and leave it to me instead. Could even be a worse idea,“

„It will go fine, I promise“

„I worry about you, Gerda,“

„I know you do,“ Replied the blonde caressing her boyfriend‘s cheek with the back of her hand. „Estàs…..dulce,“

„Eres dulce is the correct one, but muchas gracias mi Amor,“ Rollan responded grabbing the girl‘s hand, then leaned in to kiss her on the lips. Afterward, Rollan embraced the girl, leaning his chin over her head making her sigh enamored, then open her eyes to look at the boy.

„Want to move on with our walk?“ Questioned the Spaniard earning a nod from the girl, then she went off Rollan‘s arms and stepped on the water making Rollan chuckle.

„Whops,“

„You did that on purpose did you?“ Gerda asked jokingly making Rollan shake his head.

„I wouldn‘t do that while you‘re wearing your clothes,“ Rollan mentioned, then Gerda pulled him on the arm at the water causing him to trip over her leg and fall into the water on his knees. „Hey!“

„I would,“ Gerda commented with a snicker as she saw her boyfriend at the water, then he held up his hand for her to help him up, but instead Rollan pulled her down at the water and laughed at her incident.

„Ops I pushed too hard,“ Rollan commented, then Gerda glared at him and splashed water toward his face. „Hey! That was my payment,“

„And this was mine,“ Gerda stated crossing her arms, then Rollan got up and held out his hands to help his girlfriend up, then he smiled at the girl as both had eye contact again, afterward Gerda closed her eyes pursing her lips and Rollan mirrored her move, then the girl opened her eyes and she pushed him into the water again.

„Gerda! Really?“ Rollan asked annoyed watching Gerda ran away, then he stood up to pursue the girl along the beach which chuckled at their tag match. Rollan was catching up with the girl, then before he reached his arm to grab her arm, she turned into her dragon form and flew up on the air. „En serio?“

Gerda looked down at Rollan, which stood back surprised, then she returned and flew above his head passing with her tail above Rollan‘s shoulders, then he began to run behind her making her chuckle at their arranged entertainment.

„Don‘t worry, amor. I practiced well enough to catch you,“ Rollan warned earning a silly grin from the blonde.

„Oh really? I don‘t think so,“ Gerda commented moving around her tail to distract Rollan, but Rollan didn‘t let it go through him and he jumped up to grab Gerda by the tail, shrieking the girl, which looked behind her seeing Rollan slide with his feet over the sand.

„This is actually funny,“ Rollan commented making Gerda smile, then she had an idea and flew up in the air carrying the boy behind her.

„How much do you weigh?“ Gerda asked feeling Rollan getting heavy for her tail.

„I haven‘t eaten anything fat lately,“ Rollan pointed out, then Gerda moved her arms down to pick up Rollan by his shoulders and beat with her wings to fly higher, so both could have a different perspective from above. „Wow so this is how you see when you‘re flying on your own,“

„You like it?“ Gerda asked seeing Rollan nod, then Rollan‘s shirt slowly slipped off his shoulders, shrieking Gerda, which dropped him and fell on her back to catch the boy and landed inside the water. „I‘m sorry, your shirt was slipping off my hands,“ Gerda explained watching Rollan sit up on the water, then Gerda noticed Rollan‘s clothes were wet and she recognized on the red textile of his shirt his well-formed front. „Wo….woah,“ Gerda commented looking astonished at seeing Rollan like that.

„Looks like they won‘t dry until tomorrow,“ Rollan mentioned getting up, then helped Gerda up, which turned a little red at Rollan‘s sight. „You‘re okay?“

„You‘re…...You look amazing,“ Gerda commented making Rollan smile.

„Thanks,“ Rollan responded, then he spotted in the far two guards stroll together then he grabbed her hand and pulled her with him. „Turn back into yourself before someone sees you,“ Asked the Spaniard, afterward the girl turned into her civilian self to see the guards continue their way normally and she gazed back at Rollan.

„Where shall we go now?“ Gerda asked stopping along with Rollan, which shrugged his shoulders.

„I would say we should get back home and dry ourselves,“ Suggested Rollan. „I borrow you one of our towels back at the house,“

„Thanks,“ Gerda replied, then Rollan held out his hand and walked along her across the beach, heading back to town.

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¡Vamos a España! - Chap 25

Chapter 25

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29442912/chapters/75192966

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13819897/25/Vamos-a-Espa%C3%B1a

https://www.wattpad.com/1050996479-%C2%A1vamos-a-espa%C3%B1a-untitled-part-25

In the evening, Rollan sat in the dining room with an uninspired look on his face eating salad. Along at the table, the cubs had finished the dinner and had their eyes set on the boy noticing he wasn‘t in a good mood, then exchanged looks with the other. Leticia, which was almost done looked toward her son, which was distracted with his food.

„Hijo. Que pasa?“ Leticia asked. „You haven‘t eaten anything,“

„I‘m thinking about something. Someone……..gave me two choices to pick and no matter what I choose, none of them are…..good,“ Rollan commented.

„Is it about whether you work around Madrid at the kingdom or outside on any town?“ Questioned the mother making Rollan shrug his shoulders.

„No, it‘s…...I never told you or anyone else here about what happened back in the troll-kingdom, when I went to look for the wishing stone. I also never did, because I was afraid and now someone began to blackmail me with this issue my forcing me to quit the academy,“

„Who wants you to leave the academy?“ Questioned Leticia. „Is it Enrico and Ernesto, the ones you talked about to be mean towards you when you were younger?“

„Mainly Enrico, but I‘m afraid, that if I still quit he‘ll find other ways to use me,“

„How is he going to tell anyone, what you did without proofs?“ Questioned the mother.

„There‘s a book explaining, what happened on that day. My name is described there, my looks are quite similar and it happened during the time I was absent. I don‘t know, who wrote that but it exists and if Enrico shows this to Roberto or any other guard I may just lose the position there at the academy and eventually get arrested,“ Rollan commented. „I‘ve lost my memory about what happened there. Gerda and her friends are the only ones, which witnessed my deeds and it‘s the exact same thing as written in the book. I know for sure I will have to pay for what I did as well as soon as someone else figures it out,“

„Ay hijo, que hicicste?“ The mother asked placing her hand in front of her forehead. „You shouldn‘t have gone on this trip all by your own,“

„But I did and this is all my fault. If I didn‘t lie to Gerda in order to follow me to the tomb, nothing of this would have happened,“ Rollan commented getting up and lean on the arc at the corridor. „She forgave me for all my mistakes, but I could have been a better person back there when I arrived,“

Leticia looked at the troll cubs, then Luta, which was lying under the table got up on the lap of Ivan and got down on the ground, and jumped up on the arms of Rollan to gaze at him.

„I need to think very well about this. If I don‘t, they‘ll reveal it on the other hand, they may keep it for them, but eventually reveal it another time,“ Rollan counted making the mother nod.

„Have you thought about speaking to the Lieutenant about it?“ Leticia asked making Rollan shrug his shoulders.

„No, but I‘ll think about it,“ Rollan said walking stairs up to enter into his room and glanced out of the window to look at the buildings in front of him and Luta got off his arms to sit on the ledge to look at the surroundings. Rollan got up on the ledge, then Luta watched him climb up shutters, then hold himself on the engraved wall decorations, then pushed the shutter back with his leg, placing his foot on the edge of the wall, and came with his other leg on top of the small platform. Afterward, he placed his hands on the diagonally built roof and got on top of it and crawled on it up to the top, and gazed at the ocean to see the large ocean in front of him. Luta showed up, then got on top of Rollan‘s lap to watch him observe the ocean. Luta lied her head on Rollan‘s leg, then he began to pet her on the back making her smile, while he gazed neutrally at the water.

Along the road beside the harbor, Gerda walked along with Alfida and Kai looking at the houses beside the road. Above them in the air flew their Swift Branch which was showing the teens their way to Rollan‘s home address.

„Is it just me or are we passing by the same harbor again?“ Kai asked making Alfida shake her head.

„It just looks similar because of the many boats. If this was our harbor we would have seen our ship again,“ Explained Alfida.

„Leaf will find Rollan without any problem. We just need to follow him,“ Gerda pointed out earning a nod from her brother.

„Have you any idea, where he lives actually?“ Kai asked looking at his sister. „Like do you know how his house could look like and all?“

„I remember he said once his room was in the attic and the house was next to a road like this,“ Gerda commented. „I think it‘s smaller than ours,“

„Okay,“ Kai commented following along with the girls the common swift, which at a road junction stopped, then Alfida and Gerda turned around to look at the road leading through the quarter of the town, then the trio looked around to see if they could find the house.

„Okay and now?“ Alfida asked looking at the bird, which flew up at the window, and got into the bedroom to look for Rollan.

„I feel like this isn‘t his house,“ Kai commented, then Gerda walked toward the house next to the one they have found and looked up at the roof see Rollan sitting on top of the building patting the weasel Luta on the back.

„Shall we knock?“ Alfida asked taking a step on the stairs looking back at the boyfriend which shrugged his shoulders.

„Gerda, what do you say?“ Kai asked watching Gerda disappear behind the edge of the neighboring house making him tilt his head in confusion, then she flew above the other house in her dragon form to get onto the roof of Rollan‘s house. Kai shrugged his shoulders and leaned his back on the wall to wait for the sister.

Gerda landed on a cylindrical-formed rooftop and held herself on the point of the roof looking at her boyfriend, which was looking distracted at the ocean. Gerda smiled and leaped at the roof to land behind his back, then wrapped her arms around the boy, leaning her chin over his shoulder making him widen his eyes in surprise.

„Buenas Tardes, ca…...riño,“ Gerda greeted the raven-haired boy, then Rollan turned his head around surprised to see her on the roof.

„You‘re already here,“ Rollan asked earning a nod from Gerda, then Luta climbed on Rollan‘s arm to get to Gerda.

„Luta, how are you doing?“ Gerda asked letting the weasel sniff her on the face, then get licked by the pet. „What are you two doing on the roof?“ Questioned the girl looking at Rollan, which frowned sad giving Gerda a worried look. Gerda left her hands off the boyfriend, then sat down next to him. „You‘re not happy to see me?“ Gerda asked making Rollan wide his eyes at her comment, then he shook his head.

„No, no, no. I‘m happy to see you, it‘s just…..today it got kind of bad for me and I don‘t know, what to do,“ Rollan commented, then Gerda got on the leg of him and placed her hands over Rollan‘s shoulders.

„Did your training go wrong?“ Gerda asked making Rollan shake his head.

„No, it‘s something else. This one guy, who keeps messing with me found out, what I did to you and the others back in the troll kingdom when I was under the control of the fire demon,“ Rollan stated. „Someone wrote that legend down as a book and I found it, worse part…..he threatened me to spill the information of that book out to our teacher and there is no way I can get out of this issue,“

„Why does he want to do that to you?“ Gerda questioned. „Just because you can‘t stand each other?“

„He has family issues and he acts towards me like a douche. Even his best friends gets treated like trash sometimes when he tries to help him,“

„And what are you going to do about that?“ Questioned the girlfriend making Rollan shrug his shoulders.

„That‘s the problem. I don‘t know what to do,“ Responded the Spaniard. „He said I should quit the academy or he would share this book with any of the guards at the academy to make sure I‘m screwed. But as long as he‘s got that book he could reveal this any time to anyone. I won‘t have many chances to get out of this situation,“

„What if you said this was something like a….play, where you played the villain and it got written as a book?“

„Not going to work. I confessed it by accident and no matter if I mention the loss of my memory or not, he‘s not going to give this up,“

„Now this is messed up,“ Gerda commented earning a nod from the boy.

„I know. I messed it up all on my own. If I had picked up a normal job like the others I wouldn‘t have had this problem,“

„We‘re going to solve this together, don‘t worry,“ Gerda commented making Rollan nod, then she pecked him on the forehead and moved his bangs aside to gaze into his eyes.

„How?“

„Leave it to me. I‘ll figure out a plan,“ Gerda commented, then someone whistled calling Gerda and Rollan‘s attention, then Gerda moved along the roof to see Alfida look up at the roof.

„Have you found Rollan up there?“ Alfida asked earning a nod from the blonde. „Then get him down here and let us in,“ Ordered Alfida making Gerda chuckle and Rollan went to the edge of the roof, to try to get down onto the shutter of his window and Gerda floated behind him and helped him climb back into the room. „Transform back and knock on the door. I‘ll be down,“ Rollan announced leaving Gerda back, which flew down landing on the ground and transform back into a civilian, then she got up to the door and knocked on it waiting along with Kai and Alfida for the door to get opened.

The door was opened up and Rollan stood there with Luta on his shoulder, which jumped at Kai‘s arms to lick his face.

„Kai, Alfida, how are you doing?“ Rollan asked reaching his hand out for the raven-haired teens to shake it.

„We‘re good, actually,“ Kai responded, then from the kitchen, the troll cubs looked up at the entrance to encounter all four teenagers, then all trolls got excited and ran toward Gerda to hug her.

„Gerda!“ The cubs shouted happily, then Gerda got down to embrace the boy tight.

„Why did you three follow Rollan?“ Gerda asked. „Orm and your parents are worried sick about you?“ Gerda warned, then the cubs sank their head down. „What if Rollan wasn‘t there for you and you were all alone by yourself? Anyone could harm you and do something bad to you,“

„They were this entire time save with me and my mama. That‘s a good aspect for now,“ Rollan told getting down on his knees to pat Ivan‘s head. „There were days I really enjoyed having them around. They helped me process stress….most of the time,“ Rollan commented making Gerda chuckle.

Leticia walked out of the kitchen to spot the friends of Rollan, then recognized Gerda‘s face and smiled.

„Buenas tardes…..you‘re Gerda, right?“ The woman asked making Gerda nod.

„Si…..I‘m Rollan‘s girlfriend,“ Gerda introduced herself getting closer to the woman.

„I‘m Leticia,“ Rollan‘s mother introduced herself to the blonde. „Mi Niño told me a lot about you,“ The mother commented making Rollan grin embarrassed and Gerda smile simper at the comment. „She really looks in nature prettier than I thought,“ Leticia said looking at Rollan, which scratched the back of his neck.

„Así,“ Rollan agreed. „You‘ll get the time to get to know her better and I can assure you, you‘ll love her,“ Rollan announced giving Gerda his arm, which she took. „Oh…..uh this is Gerda‘s brother Kai and that‘s Alfida, Gerda‘s best friend and Kai‘s girlfriend,“

„Nice to meet you,“ Kai said.

„Sup,“ Alfida added at the same moment Kai spoke.

„When exactly did you all land here in Alicante?“Rollan asked making Alfida shrug her shoulders.

„I‘d say around 10 to 15 minutes after the 5,“ Alfida responded. „We stood back for brunch,“

„You all must be hungry now, right?“ Leticia asked. „We just finished a while ago dinner, but I can arrange you some soft white cookies and either give you coffee or tea,“

„We don‘t want to bother you, Miss,“ Kai mentioned, then Rollan placed his arm behind his girlfriend‘s brother to pat him.

„Come stay with us for a while. I‘d be happy to have you all here,“ Rollan asked, then Kai shrugged his shoulders.

„Okay we stay then,“ Kai responded, then Leticia walked the group into the living room and Rollan took on his arms Leonid, while Gerda took the red-brownish cub on her arms and looked down at Ivan.

„I take Ivan if you want,“ Rollan offered getting down to pick the last cub up and Gerda helped Rollan to lift the cub up.

„You remember their names,“ Gerda commented making Rollan shrug.

„More or less. I tried to guess their names with an alphabet book and only found out Leonid and Ivan are two of them…..if they‘re right,“

„Yep, Leonid is the light one. Ivan the dark-brown one and the one with the reddish fur is Igor,“ Gerda explained watching Rollan facepalm.

„Such an easy name and I‘m so stupid,“ Rollan commented, then Igor slapped him with his hand on the forehead and began to giggle. „I‘m sorry boy,“

„You made it to find out their names without understanding troll language or them have the capacity to talk. That‘s a good thing for you,“

„There I have to give you right,“ Agreed the Spaniard. „Come, follow me in the living room. I will bring you something to eat,“ Rollan pointed out, then accompanied his girlfriend into the living room and sat down on the couch along with the troll cubs.

„When will we take the cubs to the ship?“ Asked Kai, then Alfida shook her head.

„We‘ll talk later about it. We could do it tomorrow or the next day,“ Suggested Alfida.

„Rollan told me about an issue before and I also want to be able to help him out, before we leave in the next few days. I just need to talk with him, on what we should do,“

„Take your time, we also want to take a look around here together, before leaving. We got plenty of time,“

„What is your plan? We don‘t know, where the book is,“ Rollan questioned.

„Are you going to the academy tomorrow?“ Gerda asked making Rollan nod, „If this is possible, I‘ll ask Luta to look for the book around everyone‘s bags and if she finds it, she takes it away. If not, we‘ll look for a plan B,“

„It‘s worth a try,“ Rollan answered. „I‘ll be right back, I‘m going to take the cookies here to us all,“ Rollan warned earning a nod from Gerda, then he pecked the girl on the cheek and walked into the kitchen to prepare snacks along with his mother for the friends.

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¡Vamos a España! - Chap 21

Chapter 21

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29442912/chapters/74750541

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13819897/21/Vamos-a-Espa%C3%B1a

https://www.wattpad.com/1046967153-%C2%A1vamos-a-espa%C3%B1a-chapter-21

At the outside of the restaurant, Kai sat on the dinner table alone with Alfida, which were waiting for their order.

„Look at us, finally after a long time having a real date together on a restaurant and we‘re not in Scandinavia, we‘re now outside of our home,“ Kai mentioned. „It‘s been a while since we were on a date….I mean only us two. I‘m sorry I took Gerda the other night out with us. I just felt bad for leaving her alone,“

„It‘s okay, she‘s my friend too. I‘m happy if I could help her out back there,“ Said Alfida. „For now on, she‘s together with Orm figuring a way to get him under the citizens without calling much attention,“

„Good, it wouldn‘t be great, if Orm had to stay back all the time while we were out seeing the place. He agreed to tagalong to Portugal after all,“ „I know,“ Alfida commented taking her glass of water to drink.

„Alfida…..erm I know this is not the right moment for those sort of question and I hope I don‘t make you feel uncomfortable about it,“

„Obviously not, unless you‘re gonna ask me the question in Portuguese,“ Alfida commented.

„Why should I?“

„We‘re surrounded by people speaking in another language. We speak another language. Whatever you‘re going to say, they won‘t understand it,“

„Well you‘re actually right, erm…..have you ever thought about us two in the future?“ Kai asked making Alfida look curious at the boy.

„What exactly do you mean?“

„You know…..we‘re soon turning into adults in a few years and I‘m curious….what could the two of us do?“

„Well….“ Alfida chuckled surprised about the question of her boyfriend. „I‘m really surprised at your question. If you want me to be honest, I haven‘t thought about it either. One of the things I‘m certain about wanting to keep in the future is you,“ Alfida announced reaching her hands over the table close to the boy to grab them. Kai smiled at the girlfriend, then a waitress showed up bringing the two a plate with a large grilled corncob with small baked potatoes on it.

„There you go,“ The middle-aged waitress said. „Bom Apetite,“

„Thank you, I mean….Obrigada,“ Alfida commented along with Kai, which said it in another language.

„Gracias….oh wait a second,“ Kai mentioned looking at Alfida, which looked at him neutrally, then both began to laugh at Kai‘s mistake. „Okay I was thinking for a split second we were in Spain again,“

„We‘ll get used to it,“ Assured Alfida earning a nod from Kai. „So shall we start dinner?“ Questioned Alfida watching Kai lift her hand and move his face to peck her on the hand making her giggle softly. „Aww, you‘re never done this in public,“

„I know, but It‘s not bad to take some new steps,“ Commented the raven-haired boy.

„It‘s always good to try something new,“ Mentioned the girl earning a nod from the boyfriend, then they heard someone scream and the two looked across the road to see a woman, which had fainted and Gerda stay there with an disguised Orm hiding his face tight behind a hand fan.

„Is that Orm?“ Kai asked while Alfida widened her eyes as she saw what Orm was using as a disguise and did a face palm.

„This was a terrible idea,“ Alfida commented, then the friends arrived at the table and Gerda smiled a little bashfully.

„Hey you two,“ Gerda greeted then took a free chair from another table to set it beside Alfida, then took another one so she could sit down along with Orm. „I‘m sorry Alfida, my cousin had to borrow your clothing because hers got wet“

„What are you babbling around, lass?“ Alfida asked at Gerda‘s comment, then she rolled her eyes at Orm. „I know, that Orm is behind that disguise,“

„I‘m trying to hide him, can‘t you talk a little…..quiet?“

„If you‘re thinking like Kai, everyone around her understands us, you‘re wrong. It‘s sufficient enough to know he looks like a girl, until we‘re back at our ship,“ Alfida mentioned.

„Okay that‘s good then,“ Gerda said, then looked at Orm, which was leaning his face closer to Kai, which was eating a cut piece from the potato, and glanced at Orm a little intimidated.

„What are you doing?“ Kai mumbled.

„Orm‘s hungry you know,“ Gerda mentioned making Orm nod.

„May I have one of your potatoes?“ Orm asked with a fake feminine voice, making Kai grunt amused by the troll‘s try to play the role of a woman.

„Oh uh of course,“ Kai responded, then picked up one potato and held it up with the fork behind the fan, so Orm could snap it with his mouth, then he widened his eyes and swallowed the potato at once burning himself on it.

„Ouch!“ Orm complained making his friends shriek.

„Hold yourself together,“ Kai flinched at Orm‘s reaction. „Why didn‘t you blew at the potato?“

„I thought it wasn‘t that hot!“ Orm complained making Gerda roll her eyes while Alfida growled.

„Guys, you‘re not helping. Try to remain normal,“ Gerda whispered, then a waiter appeared shrieking the quartet.

„Is there a problem?“ Asked the waiter, then Kai faked a smile and looked at Alfida and Gerda hoping for a save from the situation.

„Oh, my two cousins just arrived, and…..Gretel just hit her ankle as she sat here with us. Nothing to worry about, she‘s feeling better now,“ Alfida lied earning a nod from the waiter.

„Would the two like to order something to eat and drink?“ The man asked holding his eyes at Orm, which had his face hidden behind the fan.

„A simple salad,“ Orm spoke with a high voice. „I‘m not very hungry,“

„Okay and a glass of water I may ask or what about wine?“ Questioned the waiter watching Orm look at Gerda, which shrugged her shoulders.

„You know I think one glass would not be bad,“ Orm answered making Gerda smile, then the waiter looked at Gerda.

„What about the blonde miss?“

„The potatoes with the corncob would be great as well for me,“ Gerda responded. „And to drink I‘ll stick for now with water,“

„Sure, thank you,“ The man said moving away from the quartet, then Orm looked with his eyes above the fan, then back at the girls.

„How strong are the wines here?“ Orm asked making Alfida shrug her shoulders.

„I‘m not sure what sort of volumes the wines here have got,“

„Orm you better be careful with the drink before you‘ll go all awkwardly around or worse...you show everyone what is under that clothing,“ Gerda warned.

„I‘ll hand out a bit to you all, I swear,“ Orm said slipping out of his feminine voice.

„Alright,“

„I hope you have a good nose for wines,“ The pirate girl mentioned watching Orm give her a thumb up, then Gerda pulled the sleeve down to cover his hand.

„Haven‘t you found a way to disguise his furry hands?“ Kai asked making Gerda shake her head.

„No one will ask as long as he keeps them hidden,“ Mentioned the older sister.

„That‘s good to know,“ The brother mentioned a little unsure about the idea of hiding the troll.

On Thursday the groups had split up in two groups and Rollan, Pastor, Marina sat in a carriage with several other students riding on a road back to the next town. Behind the followed part two of their group, where Ernesto and Enrico sat minding their own business.

„Nicholas, Thiago, and Diego already quit, that‘s sad,“ Pastor mentioned.

„This seemed too much pressure on them, so the best thing for them was to quit now. I heard from Thiago already, that he didn‘t have many chances so he preferred to just leave,“ Marina commented. „So far everyone else from our group seems to do well at those tasks,“

„I‘m glad this is going well for me…..I mean us. If we keep up the good work we will make it to the end,“ Said Rollan. „Some of us could possibily work at the king‘s castle,“

„Will there be a difference if we work for the king or down around the towns?“ Pastor questioned making Rollan shrug his shoulders.

„Perhaps a higher salary?“ Mentioned Rollan. „As long as I can help my mom out of her debts it doesn‘t matter if I work at the castle or have to work around the town,“

„And how long do you think you will need to help out your mother?“ Marina asked making Rollan shrug his shoulders.

„For now on, I‘m not sure, but I assume until the end of this year. Our formation is going to take how long again?“

„Three months for now. Then we‘ll be partnered with an experienced guard for the next two, three months,“ Explained Marina.

„Yeah,“ Rollan replied. „I wonder how long I‘ll be distanced from Gerda,“

„Oh you miss her a lot do you?�� Pastor asked making Rollan smile a little embarassed.

„It‘s not the same to exchange mails with her when we‘re both far away from each other,“

„Or when you‘re not personally with her here or there,“ Pastor added making Rollan nod.

„One good thing about this all now is, that Gerda is coming to Alicante along with an old friend of hers, because of the puppies you saw at my mama‘s house, “Rollan mentioned. „On our last letter she wrote she would take a few more days, because they had come to the conclusion, since they were in this trip they could take a look at Madrid and go out to the Porto, Lisbon and so on, before turning towards Alicante. So they could get to know more about where they passed by,“

„They‘ve been going all the way up from the Scandinavian peninsula just to get back the puppies. That‘s quite a long way up here,“ Marina commented.

„Yeah, mostly for….well I don‘t want to sound rude…..house pets,“ Pastor mentioned.

„Well….they‘re very special and important to that one friend of him. They‘re…..like his children,“ Rollan said, then watched a few students get up and his friends noticed it too, then saw their carriage had stopped in front of a library.

„Hey I‘ve heard of this library“ Rollan mentioned looking at the two-leveled building. „This is the one library has listed most legends from all over the world,“

„Really?“ Pastor asked. „How do you know?“

„The very first book my mama borrowed me was from San Martín. The one soldier, that had cut his cape in half to give it a poor man on a rainy night,“ Rollan mentioned. „I even got one cape inspired by the one in the book,“

„Sounds cool,“

Later on, all sat inside the library in small groups and Pastor already had picked a book to look at it. Rollan stood on top of a ladder looking throught a bookshelf and Marina was down on the ground reading the summary of a book she had pulled out.

„That seems interesting,“ Marina said pulling out a thick book, then opened it on the first page.

„What book?“

„Tomoe Gozen,“ Marina responded. „She was one of the fewer women back in Japan to participate along with Samurais at the war,“

„I think I haven‘t read that yet. But I read one called Mulan. It also was about a woman, which was the only female warrior in a area with only men, „ Rollan explained earning a nod from Marina. „There are more young women, that appear in legends. They‘re just not a lot at the moment,“ Rollan counted, while pulling out each book back and forth to see their title.

„With that movement, you‘re not going to find yourself a book to read,“ Marina commented observing Rollan looking at the books, then Rollan pulled out a book and smiled, then slided down the ladder.

„It exists here,“ Rollan announced watching Marina look neutral at the boy, which showed her the cover of the book.

„The Snow Queen?“ Marina read. „Isn‘t that the villain your girlfriend defeated?“

„Yes and that girl here somewhere on one of those pages is her as a child,“ Rollan stated searching throught the book for the illustration of his girlfriend, when she was younger. „There she is,“

„Okay….,“ Marina commented a little unconvinced about Rollan.

„I know what you‘re thinking. I‘m crazy, aren‘t you?“ Questioned the Spaniard.

„Well it‘s weird for me to assume that this here is the truth,“

„Okay…...Makes sense…..wait a minute,“ Rollan asked giving the girl the book, then he got up on the letter to search for another book. „There must be a book about the Mirrorlands,“

„I think you would need to look for that on another letter,“ Mentioned Marina and Rollan jumped down grabbing the book of the Snow Queen.

„You‘re right, I‘m going back to the other side,“ Rollan mentioned walking along with the brunette to Pastor, which was focused on the book, then Marina sat down while Rollan passed behind the friend and noticed Marina sit down next to Pastor. „You‘re not coming?“

„I already got my book, if you find it you can still show it to me, don‘t need to worry about it,“ Marina offered making Rollan nod and walk away to search for the other book.

„Uh did I miss something?“ Pastor asked making Marina shrug.

„Well I still have a hard time believing that his girlfriend is a legend from a book,“ Marina told the boy, which was listening to the brunette.

„I don‘t know why he would lie to us about having a girlfriend or why exactly one of the books. It may sound silly as you say, but he‘s speaking more about this and he showed us a letter she sent him, so I don‘t think there‘s a need to feel weird about him. It could be the case, that this Gerda is another Gerda, which is similar to the book Gerda,“

„That makes no sense, there is only one Gerda in a legend,“ Marina mentioned.

„I‘m not sure, but I prefer to let things be like they are now. If for some reason this here isn‘t true, well we just question him about it and the issue is solved,“ Suggested the boy.

„Alright. Is it weird, that I‘m suspicious of Rollan about that aspect, or is it my impression only?“

„To be honest, since we began to get to know him and he told you about having a girlfriend, you got to see him different,“

„Honestly I think it began already on the day I saw him with the puppies from his friend,“

„What do the puppies have to do with all that?“

„Can‘t you recall that day? The way he talked. He talked as if he was trying to come up with an excuse. It‘s like he‘s hiding something from us. We‘re his friends, isn‘t that a little weird?“

„Well, we just meet him about two weeks ago. Not everyone trusts someone that fast. Would you trust me enough after those days with I don‘t know…..the color of your underwear?“ Pastor asked making Marina shut her eyes dumbfounded at the question. „I‘m sorry, I couldn‘t come up with a better example,“ „He doesn‘t need to tell us his deepest secrets, but I find it odd, that he lies….or seems to lie about such things, that are not even needed to lie about,“

„He doesn‘t know us for very long. He could be afraid to tell it to us in fear we would laugh at him or give up our friendship with him,“

„Look if you want confront him with that, do it…. or do what I would do in your place, give him a chance to open up more. Maybe he‘s got a reasonable way he‘s doing all that, maybe he doesn‘t even know why he‘s doing that,“

„I‘ll think about that,“ Marina said, then Pastor patted the girl on the shoulder making her smile.

Rollan in the meanwhile found a book with the title he was looking for, then he placed it back sadly as he found out it wasn‘t that what he was looking for.

„Guess like I‘m going to read this again,“ Rollan said looking at the cover to see a girl standing in the snow looking at a palace made of ice. Rollan placed the book under his arm and walked along the corridor with the bookshelves passing behind another student, then he noticed a cart filled with books and he looked down at them getting curious at what books those were. Rollan looked at the title and found one under the title Fire and Ice, then took it out to see on the cover the wishing stone and two hands lying flat over the stone, then Rollan widened his eyes in shock as he recognized the stone.

„No…..,“ Rollan whispered, then flicked through the book to find anything that would lead this to the adventure he and Gerda were together on their first time and spotted a drawing of Gerda sitting on the floor looking toward a guy in lava-themed clothing looking down at her. Rollan read the page carefully slowly beginning to get tensed with it and behind him appeared Ernesto walking with a book in his hands, then he noticed Rollan shivering a little and tapped him on the shoulder shrieking him.

„Woah!“ Rollan cried letting the book fall down, while Ernesto flinched his teeth in surprise, then watched Rollan pick up the book and hold it tight to him.

„Is the book interesting?“ Ernesto asked watching Rollan hide behind his back.

„Ye…..yeah it is,“ Rollan responded. „I don‘t…..really want to share this with anyone here,“ Rollan commented, then someone behind him took the book shrieking Rollan to see one of the group look at the book.

„What a weird image for this title,“ The boy commented, then Rollan grabbed the book faking a smile at the student.

„Sorry I already borrowed this book,“ Rollan said, then Ernesto took the other book from Rollan‘s hand, which was about the Snow Queen, and opened it.

„Didn‘t you talk the other day about the Snow Queen book?“ Ernesto asked watching Rollan look at him and nod.

„Yes,“ Rollan said watching Ernesto place the book on the cart.

„Calm down, I‘m not going to do you anything,“ Ernesto mentioned. „What‘s wrong?“

„Nothing, I just was shocked about what was happening in one of those sites,“

„Oh okay. Could you handle it?“

„I‘m not through it. I‘m….not even sure if I should do it,“

„Shall I do it for you?“

„No, no, it‘s fine. I‘ll do it myself…..it‘s for the best,“ Rollan said walking further, leaving Ernesto back and Rollan got his nose back into the book to continue reading it.

Rollan skipped further to the next pages passing his finger over the text quick to follow the plot of what happened afterward in the story and leafed throught more pages stopping on a sketch that showed the entire troll kingdom on fire and how the stone-monster was threatening a trio of citizens and behind him stood Gerda‘s illustration watching in shock, what was happening. Rollan threw the book away at the ground and passed his hands through his hair in shock at what he had been reading.

„How could I let this happen to me?“ Rollan asked himself, then he walked away and crashed at the corner against a student, then gazed at him in shock, while the student looked at him surprised and Rollan moved along, making the student shrug his shoulders and get into the corridor. Enrico came along with a book into the same corridor, then spotted on the ground the book Rollan had left back and he bent down to pick it up to look at it, then squinted his eyes to read the resume.

„Two teenagers got into the forbidden cave and got in contact with the wishing stone hoping it would grant them a wish……...Due to the release of those forces, catastrophic events began to occur around the kingdom and…...ble, ble, ble……not really interesting,“ Enrico said placing the book on the cart, then saw Ernesto show up with a book then saw the book which Rollan had in his hands before on the cart.

„Didn‘t Rollan want that book?“ Ernesto asked watching Enrico roll his eyes down at the book and pick it up.

„This one?“ Enrico asked earning a nod from the friend. „What‘s so special about it?“

„Rollan seemed pretty shocked about something in it,“ Ernesto mentioned watching Enrico grab the book to open it, then chuckled.

„Notice how the first page talks about a Spaniard named Rollan and a Scandinavian girl named Gerda,“ Enrico pointed out. „You know….I really think he was right that one time he mentioned having a girlfriend with that name,“

„If that‘s so, why is he acting this weird? Did something happen?“ Ernesto asked making the friend shrug his shoulders.

„I think I‘m going to analyze this,“ Enrico mentioned closing the book and taking it under his arm. „Maybe it has something to do with those strange creatures we saw back at the beach or we get to know anything that could help us to get Rollan out of here,“

„Why should we get rid of him?“ Ernesto asked. „He didn‘t interfere with any of our jobs with your dad?“

„I know, but I know when something‘s suspicious and no one else does anything he will be the one doing that and when he finds out what‘s up, we‘re all screwed,“ Enrico told his friend quietly. „If you excuse me, I‘m going to take a look at this,“ Enrico announced leaving his friend back, which looked along the corridor to only spot Pastor and Marina reading their books together.https://archiveofourown.org/works/29442912/chapters/74750541

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Chapter 1 out of 2

Rollan sat on top of his horse strolling along the village through the road spotting a couple of older villagers moving around from places to obtain needed things for their daily lives. On the way, two men passed by the guard and waved at the raven-haired man. “Good day, gentleman" Greeted the Spaniard, followed by his horse puffing making the rider chuckle.

“Your sad they didn't have any apples with them, am I right?” Asked Rollan making the horse neigh. “Next time you might get something, if not I take us a few for our break, what do you say?”

The stallion nodded followed by a puffing, then came along the way over a child, which was being escorted by an adult woman and Rollan stopped curious to see what's going on.

“Good morning, Miss Langö” Greeted Rollan. “Is everything alright?”

“I'm bringing Lyudmila home. He wasn't feeling good at the school,” Commented the woman, then watched the girl place his hand on the horse's face to caress it. “She got very nauseous after the break and now she's coming home,”

“That's the best thing to do then,” Responded Rollan looking at the girl, that was patting the service horse. “Do you like Valiente?” Asked Rollan making the girl nod. “He's a very brave horse,”

“You've got him from the Danish farmer behind the castle, right?”

“No, actually he was a gift from King Esteban of Spain. According to him, Valiente's parents were good breeding choices between two horses from another kingdom. I don't remember the ones, but I remember the one King to be Danish and the horses chosen to mate were called Sitrone and Keke”

“I think I've heard from the Queen. She was supposed to meet King Harald, but after those two disasters with the Mirrorlands it didn't happen for a long time,”

“Exactly,” Commented Rollan, then saw the girl beginning to cough hard making Rollan feel worried about the girl. “Shall I offer you two a ride to a healer? She doesn't seem quite well,”

“It's alright. My sister is in the near and she's got the carriage to carry us three. You've got your own duty to perform,” Rejected Miss Langö kindly. “Thanks for the offer,"

“Bye Valiente,” Said the girl making Rollan smile and pat his stallion as well. “Hey, que tal? Shall we go visit the food store or head to the next checkpoint?” Questioned Rollan, then heard loud ringing bells and widened his eyes.

“A robbery,” Commented Rollan looking at his horse, then pushed on the leash and Valiente ran off with the man on his back, so they would go around the village to look for the noise of the bells and saw four masked thieves charging a carriage with bags filled with money and a fifth person stood down aiming at the entrance of the bank to prevent anyone to follow them.

“Stop in the name of King Harald!” Ordered Rollan, then the man aimed at Rollan, then took a shot and Valiente jumped aside to both would miss the shoot. The thief jumped at the cart, then ordered the rider of the vehicle to drive off and Rollan began to follow the carriage, short while later another rider appeared who wore the same uniform as Rollan but had a shorter rank.

“I'm right here!” Announced the second guard following the carriage across the village.

On the other side of the village inside a coffee shop stood Gerda emptying hot water from a pan into four cups and brought it on a tableau out of the shop to a group of adults, which were there sitting and listening to one guest of another table telling a story.

“There you go, guys. Have you decided what sort of cake you want?” Asked the blonde woman, making them nod.

“I'll list it down. Only three of us are interested right now. Norbert would love to have lemon cake, I'd like apple pie and Hans would like to have Cheesecake if there is,”

“Our baker Adrian’ is working on one. It might just take 10-15 minutes longer,” ‘

“I still take it. It's our day off though,” Commented Hans making Gerda nod.

“Yeah, I hope you four enjoy our time here at the shop,” Commented Gerda making the group nod, then she walked to the next table to pick up a few cups that were left back by the last visitors, then Gerda heard a gunshot and shrieked about it.

One of the guests that sat there was a guard as well and got up from the chair and dropped several coins on the table while on the ground a shepherd mixed breed got up, waiting for the guard to pick up the leash and before leaving the shop the guard noticed from the end a carriage coming, where the gang was and he ordered all to get down.

“Heads down!” Shouted the man seeing all guests hide along with Gerda, which watched all guests look at the exit waiting for the thieves to pass by.

The carriage just passed by and the guard released the dog, which began to race behind the vehicle and the man jumped at the next carriage, that belonged to the guards of the kingdom.

Gerda climbed above the terrace of the coffee shop to transform herself into her dragon form and took up in the air to pursue the thieves from above, then recognized coming from the second road from behind the coffee her husband Rollan come along with his horse and another member of the guard.

“Oh Rollan is at the work” Commented Gerda, then sank down to stay closer to the carriage, that was pursuing the bandits. “Bullet, watch out!” Yelled Gerda, then watched the dog slow down and move from the sides, so the thief wouldn't injure the dog.

“Bullet, bite,” Ordered one of the guards and the dog ran fast to the carriage of the thieves and switched the side again to avoid another bullet, then jumped at the leashes that were attached to the horses to cause chaos between the riders and the animals.

Bullet barked strictly at the two riders, which lied on the ground, then from behind arrived the carriage with two other guards, which took out their guns to aim at the two men in the back of the cart.

Bullet bites one of the men on the arm, afterward, the second thief hit the dog with the edge of his gun on the head causing it to yelp, then the second thief got up and ran in the direction of the forest, where Rollan showed up with his horse aiming his gun at the criminal.

” Hands up!” Ordered Rollan, then the thief gazed back spotting Gerda's wizard form on top of the cart glaring at the thief that remained back on the car, fearing the heroine.

Rollan slowly made his way to the man, then packed him on his arms, moving his hand to the thief's gun to remove the weapon he held. Rollan made it, then pointed it at the villain, which slowly took his arms up.

In the meantime, Gerda got down of bag pile and led the criminal back to the cart of the guards and observed from a few meters behind two guards watching the criminals enter one by one, after being handcuffed with a pair of cuffs. Rollan and his colleague were taking a look at the horses of the outlaws, then walked past the back of the police carriage to one of the guards.

“That went pretty fast. Thank you, Red Dragon,” Thanked a guard giving the dragon his hand to shake.

“One of the horse's legs seems to be sprained,” Commented Rollan. “One of us has to accompany it to the vet afterward,”

“You can go if you're okay with it. I'll take the group,” Mentioned the guard, that accompanied Rollan during the pursuit. Rollan looked at Gerda and smiled glad about her help, then gave out his hand, which she took and held. “Gracias Amor” Thanked the Spaniard quiet.

The last thief threw himself against the guard with the handcuffs, then removed the gun from the belt and is embraced the thief to take the gun away from the man. Rollan placed his hand on Gerda's shoulder to guide her aside from the zone and took out his gun approaching the trio.

“Take it down!” Ordered the husband of the wizard and the other guard returned to interrupt. Someone triggered the gun's mechanism to let out a bullet, which targeted Rollan on the side of his body, causing him to groan in pain.

“Rollan!” Shouted Gerda approaching the husband and the fourth guard had taken over the criminal to remove his weapon, then watched him getting handcuffed before getting thrown into the cart.

“Arthur, Merlin, one officer down,” Warned the redhead, then watched Red Dragon embrace the injured Spaniard to analyze the injury.

“You're bleeding! Hold on, we're going to get you out of here,” Warned Gerda, then the guard, that accompanied Rollan tapped the heroine on the shoulder to get her attention.

“If you're alright with this, could you bring Rollan into a hospital and see if they can take care of him? You're much faster than us,”

“I will without any doubt,” Commented Gerda, then took Rollan up on her arms and blew at his face to pull the hair bangs away. “If you can please talk to me. Anything, just try to stay awake” Begged the heroine seeing Rollan jerking with his shoulders feeling intense pain and Gerda gently clawed with her one hand behind Rollan's back. “Tell me something about the kids”

“Roscoe loves snail houses a lot,” Commented Rolllan making Gerda smile seeing he was able to talk. "He collects them often at our walks..."

“Yes! He's crazy about them,” Confessed the brunette woman beginning to flap with her wings up to take a look at the surroundings.

“Helena is very smart and creative. She made you once a small bookshelf out of wood with your dad, remember?” Questioned Rollan making his wife nod.

“Si, my love,” Responded Gerda gazing into the eyes of the husband, which was awake and Gerda tapped on Rollan’s cheek with one claw perking him up more. “Tell me about what they've done yesterday,” Gerda added, then made her way above the village carrying Rollan to a healer.

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Next Step - RollanxGerda oneshot

I don't know what to do, so I decided to write this as a one-shot :3 As most of you on Instagram see, I have the ultimate obsession with Rollan and Gerda, it nearly kills me at some point :D Nah literally, that one last time I had to spend time watching AMV's I literally had heart issues just from seeing their romance scenes. Even writing this AN here is making me crazy. Okay, here we go.

Additional note: Both characters are 20+

Fic inspired by this image (Actually the colored version, but I can't find the link to it -_- ) and my obsessed brain.

In a restaurant in the inner part of King Harald's kingdom, several couples and some small families sat in there to have dinner served. Major parts of the guests had already received their main menu, including our main characters Gerda and Rollan. Gerda was dressed in her usual clothing which consisted of a light beige skirt, a blouse with emerald-green buttons, and a dark brown sleeveless vest. Rollan came dressed up differently than he usually would, by wearing a fully white shirt and black pants. Both love interests had as their main dish beef stroganoff, mostly it was recognized on Gerda's dish since Rollan seemed to have a higher appetite due to his plate being nearly finished fast.

„It's been almost five months since we've gone out for dinner together," Gerda mentioned. „I've been really enjoying the evening here with you,"

„I'm glad you're liking it so far," Rollan responded, then looked along with his girlfriend at the end of the restaurant, where a woman stood singing and a few other adults were playing on instruments, ensuring a good atmosphere. „I like how the atmosphere here is so calm and sweet. Mostly with their music,"

„That's so far the only restaurant I've seen so far with music accompanying us guests. That's probably another thing why this is a little expensive than the others we know," Commented Gerda. „I almost feel bad to be here," Admitted the blonde, then Rollan placed his hand on Gerda's hand and shook his head. „You don't have to. I made sure we could afford it,"

„Okay, that sounds relieving," Gerda confirmed using her fork to roll up a bit of pasta and take it into her mouth. „How was your week?"

„It was fine," Responded Rollan. „I had to accompany classes on Wednesday and Thursday over the half of the day as they were seeing the palace from the inside and outside. Two of those classes had some class clowns, which wanted to cause a mess and I had to stay on watch for them as well when the teacher wasn't aware of it. On Tuesday I've spent half of the morning taking care of the royal horses so that in the evening we could go out with them for a check-up and be able to continue our task with them the next days. There wasn't anything dangerous or bad, where I and others would have the need to interfere…..and I saw you yesterday on the morning during the ride out, remember?"

„Oh yes, if Freya didn't have mentioned it, I would have missed you," Gerda commented making Rollan chuckle.

„I would have at least greeted you or something. You know that,"

„I do and I enjoy your little visits," The girl admitted taking another bite of her plate slowly finishing her dish. „Talking about visits, my dad's birthday will be in a few weeks and I've been thinking along with Kai to make him a surprise party at Alfida's ship. Kai had some funny ideas for games all could play along to pass the time. Do you think you can come with us to the party?"

„At what time is it?" Questioned Rollan. „I've got a few days, I've been longer at work because of special occasions,"

„7 pm " Replied Gerda. „But if you're not able to come it's alright. My parents haven't seen you quite often and it would be good you three would be able to get to know each other better,"

„I think so far our relationship is fine I believe. Your parents don't treat me bad as Kai used to do once in a while after…...you know…...this with the wishing stone," Rollan whispered making Gerda nod.

„I know, but I'm referring to them knowing you in person more. They only know you through my eyes, not through their own I mean,"

„Okay, I will take a look at my plan and if there's a possibility to exchange a shift I'll do it, so we can go together to your parents,"

„Thank you, I know I could count on you," Gerda said making Rollan smile, then the waiter appeared to take their plates.

„Have you enjoyed your meal so far?" Questioned the waiter earning a nod from the couple.

„It was delicious," Gerda commented.

„The spice of the sauce was excellente. I enjoyed every bite of it,"

„May I offer you two a dessert. On Today's card, we've got Morozhenoe and we've got a variety of toppings for it, which you can choose. Nuts, chocolate, and berries," The waiter explained. „Does any of this please you?"

„The one with the berries sound appealing to me," Commented Gerda making Rollan nod.

„If possible I'd like the one with nuts," Rollan added earning a nod from the waiter and he picked up the used plates and cutlery to move away. Gerda and Rollan glanced together at the band singing, then Gerda sighed at how harmonic the singer was in sync with one cello player, which stood behind her playing the instrument.

„Their voices do really match well with the other," Commented the Spaniard, then moved his hands above the table to reach to Gerda and grabbed it to earn her attention. „Are you looking forward to pass by the stable and take a ride around the kingdom?" Rollan offered making Gerda shrug her shoulders.

„Are you sure you don't need Valiente tomorrow fully rested?" Questioned Gerda.

„Tomorrow I'll be at the castle the entire day again. I may pass in the afternoon again to feed him or to let him walk," Rollan mentioned. „I think Eriksson will be there as well, because of the cleaning duty he has tomorrow and could as well take care of him and the others. I don't know it yet,"

„Okay I'd love to go with you out if it's possible," Gerda responded making Rollan smile. „Where have you planned to walk us?"

„I haven't planned anything. I thought we could decide it during the ride or just let Valiente go on his own,"

„We'll see about that," Gerda replied, then Rollan lied Gerda's hand back down on the table and looked around the restaurant to observe the surroundings, then he pulled his collar a little nervous.

„Dónde está?" Rollan mumbled, then Gerda glimpsed at the man's comment.

„What are you asking?"

„I….uh was wondering where my…...medal of honor went, but it's actually here," Rollan made up making Gerda snicker.

„Why did you even stick your medal on your shirt for our date?" Questioned Gerda. „You don't need to do that, just because of me,"

„It's a habit of me," Rollan confessed. „I like to have them with me,"

„That's fine, I just had the impression you seemed nervous about something,"

„It will get solved, don't worry," Rollan stated earning a nod from the girlfriend. „Hopefully," He said quieter, then Gerda who still heard the rest of Rollan's phrase gazed back at her boyfriend to see him stare at the door, then Gerda moved her chair a little further and grabbed Rollan's hand, then gazed at his face a little worried.

„Rollan, are you hiding something, you don't want to tell me?" Questioned Gerda making Rollan shrug his shoulders.

„Uh just give me five more minutes," Rollan commented with an embarrassed grin, then heard the door getting opened up from the entrance, where a young boy showed up, making Rollan sigh in relief and Gerda smiled at seeing the young boy.

„Who is that boy?" Asked Gerda looking at Rollan, which shrugged his shoulders, then the boy approached their table and took from the inside of his jacket a small book and opened it up to take out a pen with a silver ring attached on the hold.

„Hello…..You're G….Gerda, right?" Questioned the boy making the woman nod.

„Yes," Responded Gerda exchanging looks with her boyfriend, which smiled at the woman warmly. „Who are you?"

„I'm Lars," Responded the boy. „I'm a big fan of you and your brother Kai…...Rollan promised me he would find a way to make me meet you," Explained the kid.

„Oh and that now?" Questioned Gerda looking at Rollan, which rolled his eyes at the kid and back at the blonde and Gerda kept her eyes on the boy, which showed her the book with the pen.

„I just want your autograph, that's all I need," Lars said looking at Rollan, which nodded, then Gerda looked at Rollan, which noticed Gerda's eyes and faked a smile at the girlfriend.

„Uh was it a bad idea to bring him here?" Asked Rollan making Gerda shake her head and grab the pencil to sign her name on it.

„It was fine. I was just surprised," Gerda commented, then placed the pencil back on the book. „There you go, little boy,"

„Thank you very much, Gerda," The boy thanked, then gave Gerda a hug making her and Rollan smile, then the boy dropped the book on the ground in front of Rollan's feet, then the boy took his arms off Gerda and grabbed the book.

„I'm glad I was able to help you out, Lars," Rollan said with a wink, then the boy waved at Rollan and ran away to the exit and Gerda spotted the pen of the boy on the ground, then shrieked along with Rollan.

„Hey Lars, you forgot your pen!" Gerda warned picking the pen up, then saw the boy had left the restaurant, afterward, Gerda sat back on the chair with the pen in her hand. „He may come back to get it,"

„Maybe," Rollan responded a little relieved, then moved his hand at the pen. „Or I will bring it back to him. I know, where he is from," Rollan commented watching Gerda show him the pen, then Rollan reached his hand at the pen and Gerda squinted her eyes and took the pen down to see the ring on the pen.

„Hey for what is this ring on here?" Gerda asked watching Rollan grab the pen.

„You know those are new variants," Rollan commented holding the pen under the table, then tried to remove the ring from it. „You know…..they have a unique way of use," Rollan commented. „Want to know how it works?" Questioned Rollan making Gerda nod.

„Why not?" Responded Gerda, then Rollan got up and stood in front of the blonde and with his left hand closed into a fist and he bends down on his right knee and positions his left leg behind, then placed his hands together and used his right hand to take out the ring from his other fist and held the ring up at the blonde woman.

„Gerda I…..I've been thinking this entire year for the moment I would ask you this question. I didn't know how I should do it or where I should do it and this option occurred to me a few days ago and I thought that's the moment Rollan. You're just chickening it out the entire time out of fear. Just do it, it will go fine. Lars there, he's actually Hansel's son from the theatre. I offered him a bit of money, so he would play as a fanboy and ask you for an autograph, but in reality, we made this up, so I would obtain the ring in a way you wouldn't notice…..or you weren't supposed to notice it," Rollan explained making Gerda smile enchanted at Rollan's explanation, then Rollan smiled a little and noticed Gerda chuckle a little.

„What's your question?"

„Gerda…..after we got together and we began to see each other, I felt like my life finally began to have a meaning for me. You made me feel like the happiest man in this kingdom. I'm certain that our love will hold on for eternity and that we complete each other. I…..you mean the world to me, Gerda. I may not be able to make a lot of money with the job I have to provide us a better life than we have now, but I'm able to do anything to make you happy…...Will you take me as your l...life partner?" Proposed the raven-haired man looking up at Gerda, which had gotten emotional at Rollan's question, and held her hands in front of her face to clean her face. Rollan smiled at Gerda's reaction, then he moved his free hand to Gerda's face to clean tears coming down from her eyes and waited for her to be ready to answer his question. Gerda passed her hand under her eyes again, then she leaped onto Rollan's arms to hug her boyfriend tight, leaning her head beside his neck making him beam and place his arms around her.

„Yes Rollan, yes I do," Gerda responded, then she got off Rollan's arms and held out her hand, so the man would take her hand and place the engagement ring on her ring finger, which consisted of a light-blue stone on the middle of the silver-colored ring. Rollan held Gerda's hand to look at her engagement ring, then rolled his eyes up at her seeing the woman biting her lip, still excited about what had happened, then he opened up his arms at the woman and she got into Rollan's arms again, therefore the duo earned the applause of the guests inside the restaurant which made Rollan feel embarrassed. Gerda felt as well abashed at the people's reaction towards their step and she gazed back at Rollan, which smiled charmed at the woman after that she wrapped her arms up around his neck, locking up her lips with his sealing together their agreement on taking a further step in their relationship.

The End.

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Vamos a Espana - Chap 35+36

(Link leads to Chapter 35)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29442912/chapters/76370609

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13819897/35/Vamos-a-Espa%C3%B1a

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¡Vamos a España! - Chap 34

Chapter 34

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29442912/chapters/76253810

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13819897/34/Vamos-a-Espa%C3%B1a

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In the evening Gerda sat next to her brother, which was drawing on a sheet of paper, then glanced at the deck to see Alfida fencing against Rollan, which was walking backward as the girl was ruling the match.

„Is that all you got?“ Questioned Alfida leading the raven-haired boy towards the wall of the ship, then Alfida smacked Rollan‘s sword against the wood of her boat. „When you said you were the best at the academy I thought you would fight well, but I only see you backing off,“

„It‘s not easy to fight someone who has been raised by pirates,“ Rollan commented. „You have years of experience. I have like two and only last month I could practice with different people,“

„But in the real world, you must be stronger, than our kind. Play to save your own butt or better…...to save our lady in distress,“ Alfida commented rolling her eyes at Gerda, which stuck out her tongue.

„I saved all you three in the past five years at least once or twice in my life,“ Gerda commented crossing her arms amused, making her best friend nod.

„I know, I‘m trying to motivate Rollan in some ways,“ Alfida mentioned. „I‘m not a motivational teacher,“

„Let‘s just keep fencing and see if I get anywhere with it,“ Rollan asked walking at the middle of the ship along with the raven-haired girl, then both began to battle each other.

„About the scene with Orm and the others. Will we need any weapons?“ Questioned Kai looking at his sister, which shrugged her shoulders.

„Why would we need any weapon?“

„You know…..in case we are trapped by any of the bad guys,“

„I‘m not sure if this is needed. We just have to free everyone there. We just have to know, when Ernesto says the right moment,“ Responded the blonde, then heard Rollan yelp and see Alfida fly beside him down at the ground.

„Now that‘s more I like it!“ Alfida announced getting up from the ground to race towards the man to smack her saber on his, making him try to deflect his attacks quickly.

„Uh…...when we know the time we will go there we think about it. For now, the best thing for us is to keep them out of the game,“ Gerda explained. „Alfida may take her gun with her in case…..just in case we could need it,“

„The world is dangerous, lady. You gotta be armed“ Alfida noticed earning a nod from Rollan, then she smacked down his sword as he was distracted by the siblings. „Alright, Rollan. We better go out of here to train. Gerda is distracting you unnecessarily,“

„No, she‘s not. I‘m…..not used to fence you,“ Rollan defended watching Alfida cross her arms and smirk at his lie.

„You know what, let‘s do a break,“ Ordered the girl earning a nod from Rollan, which placed the sword down on the ground. „Are you feeling awkward around Gerda, cause she‘s seeing you fight?“

„I‘m…. not used to fight people I know,“

„The others at the academy you know as well. You‘re not telling the right thing,“

„I‘m feeling embarrassed at being terrible right now in front of her. I don‘t know why. I want to show her, what I‘m capable of, but somehow this is going wrong,“

„Alright, just make a pause and we see later about that,“ Alfida said leaving Rollan, which leaned his back against the table blocking the sight of Kai.

„You‘re blocking the light pole,“ Kai complained watching Rollan step aside and sit down on the ground in front of Gerda‘s legs, then she placed his hands on his shoulder.

„You‘re alright?“ Gerda asked making Rollan shrug his shoulders.

„I wanted to show you all, what I learned but I still failed at scoring at least one point for me,“

„Don‘t worry, you‘ll improve. Alfida grew her entire life with pirates and had to manage guns and swords from a young age. You‘re not bad for the time you have been practicing in the academy. Just be more focused during the fights and observe her footwork, “ Gerda suggested Rollan. „You‘re good at it. You just need to focus,“

„Correct,“ Rollan puffed and Gerda got down on the ground to sit beside the boyfriend. „I‘ve been just thinking in showing off, what I‘m capable to do,“

„You don‘t need to do that. The most important part is if it takes part in a real fight. There you have to win or at least make it out alive,“

„Just more or less like Alfida said,“ Rollan said while Gerda shove her hand into his hair to frizzle it.

„You have more days in front of you to improve. You got that,“ Added Gerda placing her hand on Rollan‘s cheek.

„Good evening!“ Greeted a voice coming from down the ladder and up at the ship climbed up Ernesto, then looked around the harbor and walked towards the trio by the table. „Can I come in?“

„Well….you‘re already in,“ Kai asserted earning a nod from the Spaniard.

„Yes well….I someway I would be in any way,“ Ernesto confessed. „But I need you to listen to me. Monday night will be the night Enrico‘s dad planned in moving the animals out to the harbor,“

„Monday night, that‘s…...tomorrow!“ Rollan commented jumping up. „This means…..we need to pass by in the next 18 hours to before they‘re gone,“

„Exactly,“ Ernesto answered. „Issue number two. Around this time Enrico‘s dad is still around the hideout and is most likely to stay there until 11 or 12 pm. Up 1 am would be the best moment for us to get in and free everyone in there,“

„If no one‘s around there I think we won‘t need to fight, right?“Gerda asked looking at Rollan, which shrugged his shoulders.

„We don‘t know it,“ Alfida commented joining the four teens. „Have you got the keys to the cages or can you open them?“

„Only Enrico‘s father has the key. We would need to use a sword or something else to open them. Worse is it if it takes longer to do it one by one,“

„I only got three swords. One for me, one for Rollan and Gerda or Kai will have to decide, who picks the last one,“

„Kai does,“ Gerda commented. „I stay in watch, if necessary,“

„She can have the sword instead. I and Kai could follow the plan he made,“ Suggested Ernesto. „At least point out the ways, we could escape faster, when necessary,“

„Can you show us the plan you made for analysis?“ Questioned Alfida watching Kai search his pockets for the sheet and took out three sheets and unfolded two and handed one out to the girlfriend, while Rollan glimpsed at the other sheet making Rollan furrow his eyebrows.

„Why did you draw Alfida as a mermaid?“ Rollan asked making Kai blush and hide his sheet.

„Hey! I don‘t call you out, every time your pants get huge when you‘re around my sister!“ Kai countered making Rollan frown.

„Guys, listen! Here‘s the main entrance. You go here to this corridor and you get into the hall, where you will find the cages, where the animals are locked in. The front here is a separate room with a table and up here is another one, which Enrico‘s dad usually uses for planning. On the end, there‘s a stairway, which leads to the roof, which has another room, but that will be irrelevant,“ Ernesto explained looking at the team. „Without anyone around there, we can simply enter through the front entrance,“

„Great and if no one‘s around one of us has to stay out and watch. I don‘t know, but you would be the best choice right now, Ernesto,“ Mentioned Alfida. „You know how the teammates look like and you can warn us in case they show up,“

„Sure,“ Ernesto commented. „I think about the best way to do it, without making it look suspicious,“

„I‘m fast. I could fly into the room and warn you,“ Gerda mentioned.

„Is an idea,“ Kai added. „Oh and what about Pastor and Marina? Weren‘t they supposed to come with us?“

„Yes. I need to go look for them and call them up here. Or at least explain the plan,“ Rollan responded.

„Okay and this is it so far. We just need to get Pastor and Marina,“

„Then we just need to tell this the two and we can move out,“ Alfida added. „And Rollan, if possible ask them to bring something pointy like a sword, so they can help us open the cage,“

„I‘ll see, what they can get,“ Rollan responded walking to the ladder and looked back at the trio. „Can someone of you come along, so I don‘t need long to collect both in two different places?“ Rollan asked, then Gerda moved further raising her hand.

„I‘m going with you,“ Gerda announced watching Rollan go down the ladder and followed the boyfriend.

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Vamos a Espana - Chap 33

Chapter 33

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29442912/chapters/76204271

https://www.wattpad.com/1060306297-%C2%A1vamos-a-espa%C3%B1a-chapter-33

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Orm opened up his eyes, then he sat up passing his hand over his head, and shrieked as he found himself inside a cage surrounded by other cages with various sorts of animals, he hadn‘t any knowledge about it.

„Where the heck am I?“ Orm asked, then he heard crying from the troll cubs and he looked around to see at the cage next to them the triplets held their hands on the grid to look at their older cousin, which got closer to them to check them out. „What happened? How did we get here?“

The oldest cub moved his hand up in the air, then swung his hand against Igor‘s head and threw himself on the ground pretending to be dead. Igor nodded, then pointed at Orm and Ivan, then grabbed Ivan by his fur to pull him up and carry along the cage, then pointed at all trolls and at their cage.

„Someone kidnapped us and locked us up here?“ Questioned Orm earning a nod from the cubs. „Who were those guys?“ Questioned the adult making the cubs shrug their shoulders. Orm nodded, then leaned his head between the grids and tried to look around himself if he could see anyone else besides the animals inside the cage. „None of those animals here can talk right?“ Orm asked making the triplets shrug their arms. Orm sighed and leaned his back on the grid next to the cubs, which also sighed and sat back against the adult. „Don‘t worry, when Gerda is back she will help us out of here. She always found a way to get us out of here, don‘t worry, „ Orm cheered the cubs up, which looked at the cage in front of them, which had a wild dog sleeping on the ground, which was a crossbred between an Asian wild dog and an African wild dog. Igor got curious and walked up towards the cage to observe the wild animal, then the animal looked at the troll, then began to growl at Igor startling the troll, which ran back to his siblings and the wild dog ran against the cage and hit his head on the grids, causing the trolls to laugh.

„Boys you better leave that dog in peace or it will hurt you badly,“ Orm warned, then the cubs looked back at the wild dog, which had the three in sight. „They won‘t get close to you as long as you‘re in this cage,“ Orm assured the cubs, which looked up a little worried at Orm.

A door got opened and was closed fast, calling the attention of Orm, which moved toward the cage door to stuck his nose out and look down at the corridor to see two men walk up the corridor chatting.

„They will arrive on Monday night. The best we can do is to go exactly on this night there to the port and load the ship with the cages, so they can move on,“ A man said and Orm took his nose away, then leaned his head on the cage to continue listening to the conversation.

„Sure, so tomorrow you will inform the boys to come with us to help us load the ship?“ Questioned the second man.

„Yes Samuel. I‘m going to inform Enrico tomorrow, so he can also tell it, Ernesto. Franco will also come to help us,“

„Okay. Shall we feed the animals tomorrow before they leave?“ Questioned Samuel making the leader shake his head.

„No, you can do it on Monday or if you don‘t mind, just give a half ration and the rest you can give it on Monday,“ The leader explained, then he stopped in front of the cage from Orm and looked into the cage shrieking Orm, which crawled back glaring at the man. „Hehe, look at this creature‘s long nose. What do you think? How many boots could be made with the skin of it?“ Questioned the leader, then Orm growled and ran towards the cage to threaten the man.

„Keep making jokes about my nose. You will see, when my friends first see we‘re gone they will look for us and kick your butt,“ Orm exclaimed shrieking Samuel, while the leader dropped his mouth surprised at the speaking troll.

„Trolls really do talk,“ The leader said, then got down on his knee. „Don‘t worry, there are a lot of animals you could become friends with. If I were you I would take this time you‘re in here to do that,“ The man said getting up, then walked along with Samuel leaving Orm back, which sighed and lied down on the ground, rolling his eyes up at the cubs. „Don‘t worry, boys. Gerda and the others will come for us. It‘s just a matter of time,“

The next morning Rollan lied in his bed with a plush bear in his arms still sleeping. At the window ledge lied Luta, which was also sleeping and she opened her eyes, then stretched herself while yawning. She moved her head at Rollan to see him sleeping, then she jumped at the commode to make her way to the bed, climbing on his legs to get closer to his head, then tickled him with her nose on his neck making him chuckle. Luta got in front of his face to tickle him with her tail, causing him to sneeze and the weasel jumped at the night table and watched Rollan lie back again to continue his nap, making Luta puff unpleased about Rollan. Luta moved one ear as she heard someone speak and looked back at the door, hearing footsteps on the wooden floor, then the door opened up and Luta saw Gerda glance into the bedroom and spot Luta at the night table and Rollan on the mattress. Luta got on the ground to meet up with her owner, which smiled and picked her up.

„Hey my girl,“ Gerda greeted the weasel patting her on the neck, then Luta pointed at Rollan, which was sleeping with the plush bear, which made Gerda smile enamored with the scene, then she sat down on the bed and pecked him on his cheek, then moved her face up to his ear to whisper.

„Good morning,“ Gerda spoke, then she moved her head up to look at her boyfriend, which opened his eyes and looked up at Gerda, which sat in front of him and he smiled glad at seeing her.

„You‘re already here?“ Asked Rollan with a yawn and sat up on the bed noticing he had the bear plush on his hands, then panicked and threw it behind his bed grinning embarrassed at Gerda, which chuckled at his reaction.

„Don‘t worry about it. I found that adorable,“ Gerda commented making Rollan smile a little, then he got up and looked at the blonde.

„I will just get dressed, how was your night by the way?“ Rollan asked picking up his folded clothes he had lied over his chair's back and took down his pajama shirt, so he could put his other one.

„I slept fine,“ Responded Gerda. „I‘m just worried about the trolls,“

„I feel the same as you,“ Rollan admitted sitting down on the bed while trying to put on his pants. „I began to feel like I was their older brother when I played with them or tried to teach them anything,“

„You and your mother did a good job with the trolls. According to Orm, the trolls really enjoyed the days they were with you. They never had so much fun, since Orm became Arrog‘s second-in-command and had less time to play with them,“

„I‘m glad they had a good time,“ Rollan said and got up from the bed, then held his hand out for the girl to get up. „You haven‘t got any news about the trolls, right?“

„No, but I had thought about flying above Alicante to look for any suspicious building or any else that looks abandoned,“ Gerda commented. „What do you think about it?“

„I think this would be a little dangerous for you. Ernesto mentioned they had on the day they kidnapped the trolls planned to take the dragon-you too, in case you showed up,“ Rollan warned. „You better don‘t go alone,“

„I thought you would say that. On the other hand, it would be a little odd to be carrying you or someone else the entire time above the sky while looking for something,“ Gerda commented earning a nod from her boyfriend.

„What if you went by night?“ Rollan asked. „Spotting you in the night would be harder,“

„That‘s not such a bad idea. I don‘t think you already know that, but I‘m also able to see in the darkness when I‘m in my dragon form,“ Gerda mentioned.

„Really? That‘s awesome,“ Rollan admitted. „So you technically could see the other night, when Enrico broke into my room?“

„Not really, your window was open and the moonlight illuminated your room a little,“

„It‘s funny. If I had closed the shutters of my bedroom the other day, Enrico would have never gotten into my room in the first place and discover the triplets. They would be here if I had closed it,“

„That‘s silly Rollan, You had bad luck and who knows, they could as well just have entered into your room anyway from above or from the first floor,“

„You‘re right. I‘m just exaggerating for no reason,“

„A little,“ Gerda commented. „Oh, and your mother told me to call you for breakfast. She was making toast and asked me to stay for breakfast with you two as well if you don‘t mind it,“

„I‘d be happy to have breakfast with you. How long ago is it, that we had breakfast together?“ Rollan asked getting up to walk to the corridor along with the blonde.

„Good question. I think it was a month ago. When Alfida came back from her treasure hunt and you from a job I think,“ Gerda mentioned. „A little while already,“

„It is,“ Agreed the boyfriend entering into the kitchen walking toward the stove, where his mother stood and Rollan stopped beside her to give her a peck on her forehead. „Let me continue this for you,“ Rollan asked making his mother shake her head.

„You don‘t need to. I‘m almost done anyway,“ Leticia responded. „If you want you can pour in the coffee,“

„You want coffee?“ Rollan asked Gerda which nodded, then Rollan picked up two cups and grabbed the small coffee jug his mother was cooking on the stove and filled the cups, and handed one of them to Gerda. Afterward, he sat down beside the girl, which raised her cup to clink it with the boyfriend‘s and both took a sip from the hot caffeine-containing liquid.

Ernesto was at a horse stable filling a pushcart with hay using a pitchfork, then he lied the fork aside on the few hay cubes that stood there on the field. Ernesto guided the pushcart along the field into the stable, then got into a cabin where a dark gray horse stood. Ernesto turned the cart up to empty it and took the cart back, then returned to the horse and placed his hand on the horse‘s face.

„Mira Eddie, I‘ve brought you some hay,“ Ernesto warned the horse, then guided him to the pile he dropped on the ground, then watched the horse begin to eat from there. Ernesto took the cart and pulled it leaving the stable heading to the field to scoop up onto the pushcart more hay.

On the field appeared Enrico watching his friend load the cart with hay and stopped to observe him and got noticed by him.

„I was expecting you to come earlier,“ Ernesto commented earning a nod from Enrico, which used his hands to grab hay to help the brunette boy out.

„That was the plan, but I‘ve encountered Samuel on my way here and I had to come to see dad, which already received Infos about the night we have to make the delivery,“ Enrico mentioned earning a curious look from the friend.

„Already? When is it if I may ask?“

„Monday night,“ Replied Enrico. „Around 11 pm we get together at the warehouse and load the carriage with the cages. Like last time, we cover the entire load with a towel to not attract any possible attention from minors on the road,“

„Okay and after we load the ship, they will leave immediately?“ Questioned Ernesto making the friend nod.

„That‘s the plan so far. The soon we handle that the faster we can disappear from everyone‘s sight,“ The raven-haired said.

„I uh….. hope we will have a good night like the other time,“ Ernesto commented. „You know, that no one will catch us,“

„We cannot let us get caught. We‘re doomed if this happens to us or worse, if my dad ends up being caught as well it will be the end of our lives,“

„I know, I know…..Gees. I know you and your dad‘s relationship isn‘t quite the best, but it‘s not like he‘s going to kill you for doing a mistake,“

„Remember the night we lost that red raccoon?“ Questioned Enrico lifting up his shirt to show a large, cicatrix on the side of his belly. „This is how angry my father got on that night.“ „Yes I remember, but that was about five months ago. He wouldn‘t do that a second time. You‘re his son,“

„That‘s what you have been saying most of the times, but he treats me as if I was one of his work pals,“ Enrico complained making Ernesto nod and he remained silent, unsure about what he should comment. „Monday will be a good day for us…..I bet all of my allowance on it,“

„Pray for us, Ernesto. Pray for us,“ Enrico asked making the friend nod, which looked at the few houses that were far away from their plot.

„I….uhm will bring the hay to Nico,“ Ernesto mentioned grabbing the pushcart by the handle and moved along the field heading to the stable. Enrico sat down on the ground watching his friend with a neutral face bringing the nutrition to one of the horses in the building.