Hi, so first off I would like to say thank you Kilo8 for the review and the follow.

It's Saturday, I was bored so I just typed this one off.

UPDATE: this is a small thing but I changed Anna's birthday so that instead of the 2 weeks it is now a month, there is something that happens there and I needed more time added. That is all, not a big thing but if you read the chapter before I updated it, that is why.

This is much like last chapter, just a lot of introducing the environment in which theses characters live in. Now this is my first jab at Elsa's figure skating and I'm sure some of you will have issues or be confused. Hopefully as time goes on my knowledge will increase in this area and it will be explained in further depth. What will probably happen is that I'll have a scene of her explaining it to Hiccup. Again I own nothing, give me your reviews, I'm really interested to hear your thoughts.

This what she loved, skating alone on the ice. There could be people in the bleachers, but so long as the ice was hers. Hmmm. It was Saturday evening and there was competition. Tonight was a small one, it was between her and all her club mates, but as Dad put it, it was the first step one the road to victory. The top 3 would move to the city level held in a few weeks, then so on and so forth.

Elsa was currently waiting the current competitor to finish her routine, being the oldest of the group she was going last. Elsa was trying to quiet her thoughts about last night, it didn't sit well with her but it was way things were. She could only hope Anna actually meant that she would try to behave. The other girl finished her routine and now it was Elsa's turn.

As she glided to the center, she could feel her anxieties fade away one by one. At the center, she took in the moment that happened before every performance, no matter what level of competition, they all had a moment of silence and anticipation. The music began, it was a soft operatic piece, and she moved with it. Moving forward to start with, she than began a slow left curvature. She heard the build up in the music and set herself up. When the music gave that quick punch Elsa gave a double axel jump, moving on her new course now gliding backwards, she then let off with a single lutz jump, she followed through with the rest of her routine, doing spins and gliding, until it became almost nothingness. It all became effortless, her movements weren't robotic, she just danced.

Her coach once gave her very high praise saying that Elsa didn't just touch the ice, she caressed it. Elsa thought that statement was overdoing it but she treasured the praise, for it almost spoke of how she felt on that ice. Forlornly like any other dance, this one had to end too, so as the music came to a close she glided to the center, a small insignificant movement, but one she had done time and time again and as the music thrummed its last chord, so did Elsa glide to a soft halt at the center of the ring and bow her head.

There weren't many people there, mostly parents of other kids, but they cheered and applauded. Elsa had learned to accept praise no matter how small.

"Very well done Elsa." Congratulated Dad

"Thanks dad."

"Just think, in only a few weeks, it'll be the city, then the state, then the-" Dad started spouting before Mom cut him off.

"Slow down honey, let us enjoy this one, great job Elsa" Mom said, "and technically we still don't know the results."

"Well, I think we already know who was the best out there."

Elsa tuned them out. At least there were some nuggets of gold in there; the best, great job. She took whatever she could get. She spotted Rapunzel and Honey Lemon off to the side, so she went over to talk to them.

"Ooooohhh!" squealed Honey Lemon, "You looked Ahh-Mazing out there today, I swear I told myself I wouldn't cry but that… was… so… BEAUTIFUL" To call Honey Lemon excitable would be like saying sugar is sweet, obvious. She didn't know if Honey Lemon was caffeine addict but- No who was Elsa kidding of course Honey was, nobody could have that much energy naturally. That with her tall skinny body, stringy hair and glasses summed up Honey Lemon on the surface, but she was so sweet and kind. For better or for worse Rapunzel was just as high energy.

"Oh my goodness, the way you were moving on the ice, it was almost as if you were hovering over it!" Punzie added her own shrieks of delight. "You are going places, I can see it now, Elsa the Snow Queen!"

"Hahaha, slow down Punzie." Elsa threw in as the other two had needed to catch a breath, "Thank you, although 'Snow Queen?" A little overkill, don't you think."

"Nonsense" declared Rapunzel, she made a little hero stance, her short brown hair with blonde highlights flopped around. "I Princess Rapunzel, hereby dub thee the Snow Queen, wear it with pride Ms. Aren." Oh jeez! Not that routine! But Elsa couldn't help laughing, When the girls were littler Elsa, Rapunzel and Anna would all play pretend that they were princesses. Honey Lemon would play too, but by her own insistence, she always played the fairy godmother, wise witch, female wizard or anything like that. She hadn't thought about those days in a long time.

She heard the announcer come on with her scores and Elsa's jaw dropped to the floor. Now normally she had very high scores anyway, but her GOE scores which graded the execution of her jumps and spins were all 3's and the presentation scores were just as ridiculous. Elsa had to find Coach, if this is what they gave her at club level maybe, just maybe she could go all the way this time. As she spotted Coach she started to run, or try to run, a little difficult with skates on.

"Is that right Coach?" Elsa asked, "Is that even legitimate?"

"You're damn right, that is legitimate." Tamora Calhoun responded. "I talked to some of the judges, they said you gave one of the best performances they had ever seen." Calhoun was giggling almost as much as Honey Lemon and Rapunzel had been. Eventually Calhoun got her "War Face" on. Calhoun was a retired marine sergeant. They said when she was a private fresh into battle, she ran in and took down 40 insurgents. Did Elsa believe it, yes she did. Calhoun was this tall lanky figure with a mop of blonde hair who looked nothing like a figure skating coach. Now while figure skating was not her thing, execution, precision and drilling were. Elsa could remember the hours of just trying to do a Lutz jump to Calhoun's satisfaction.

"Now it is only club level, there is a huge ladder to climb, I want to see you practicing whenever you can, but for right now enjoy this one" Elsa could have kissed Calhoun for that one.

Even her parents had been a lot more forthcoming in their praise which meant a lot for Elsa. Maybe I can go all the way this time, no, no, focus long ladder yet girl!

Elsa had almost gone to the World Championships last spring, but got beat out of the top 3 at the nationals. She wasn't going to let that happen again.

"I am so proud of you Elsa." Mom shouted

"Awesome job," Dad proclaimed, He took Elsa to the side for a moment "Listen, first of all again super job, second, I was talking to some of the judges and they were blown away."

"Thanks Dad."

"I know we have held you responsible for making sure Anna gets home, but now I would like you to get some practice in every day after school, would that work for you." A chance to do more skating and not worry about Anna, hell yeah."

"Sure thing."

"Ha, ha, you're going all the way this time," Dad started shouting as the two of them rejoined the group.

Daddy dear had finally called, good thing too Hiccup was about to start looking for a potential buyer for the viper. Stan Islander must have thought Hiccup was stupid and that he could get the car back cheap, unfortunately for him Hiccup knew he could unload that car for almost market value, wouldn't be easy, but knew some guys. After much haggling and arguing, they agreed on Hiccup's price of $80,000.

So, Hiccup called Astrid asked her to give him a ride back and the two of them headed over to Corona. It was kind of funny, when they got there, Islander tried to send them off 20 grand short. Maybe he thought they couldn't count, but after a heated discussion and a not so subtle threat from Hiccup (shhhh!) that may or may not involved daddy islander drinking through a straw for the next 6 months, Islander handed the cash over.

Hiccup was very satisfied, he had to admit, he never held an entire 80 grand in cash at one time. Islander had a stash apparently. It almost made him sad that he had to split it up among his team. When Dom found out about the race, he told Hiccup to share the wealth, said it helped inspire loyalty. Hiccup knew what he meant, there were 6 bikers in his team: Astrid, Eret, Fishlegs, Snoutlout and the twins, 7 including him. The other bikers who had shown up at school were friends who would follow his lead but did their own thing. However even with only 7 bikers, it was hard for everyone to get in on a race and make some cash. There were side races held, so that everyone got a chance, but they didn't always pay that much. 80 grand would help with that by quite a bit, at 11.7 thousand dollars a rider, that was bills paid for a month and possible upgrades to the bikes.

Soon, they were at Hiccup's home. As he got off Astrid's bike, he told Astrid to wait, he opened the pack and sorted off her share, grabbed a plastic bag that had come from the grocery store and handed it to Astrid.

"That's your share, I'm going to the others and pay them out as well." Astrid was stunned, she hadn't known about what Dom said to him.

"But Hiccup, you won this money."

"I take care of my team, you know that."

"Yes but-" Astrid tried to argue, Hiccup had to admit Astrid was damn cute and sexy when she got flustered. She was average height but she had a killer personality to go with it. Seeing her standing there speechless with her blonde hair tied in a braid, that red tank top that she wore underneath her jacket and her other assets, Hiccup had to give an inner sigh of envy, Eret was a lucky guy.

"No buts. Take the money, we all could use a pay day." Astrid wanted to fight but like Hiccup said, she could always use extra cash.

"Alright thanks." She got back on her back and drove down the street, the truth was they all lived on the same street. He made his rounds, stopping off at Snoutlout's he found out that Scott was having trouble with math, just as the twins were with English. He ended up spending an hour at each house helping them out. Fishlegs needed some to get some extra NOS, so early birthday for him and Eret was Eret. Not very often did Eret need Hiccup's help. Hiccup headed home, his home was an old wood frame bungalow, like all the others on the street. It was little under 5000 square feet. It had a small yard in the back, it would be somewhat bigger but most of it was taken up by a garage. Hiccup could remember the nights he and his Dad were in there working on- NO! Don't go there. It didn't look all that bad until one started looking at rotten planks here and there and the occasionally leaky pipe. However Hiccup didn't complain it was home and there were worse places to live. That pretty much summed up Berk, lower end houses, warehouses, car maintenance store and the occasionally grocery store/bar.

When he was done he realized he had all afternoon to kill. Hiccup decided to see Jack, he got on his bike and headed East. When he got to edge of DunBroch, he parked his bike in a secure stall and hopped on a bus that he knew would take him right past Overland's. He used to be able to drive all over North Sangelos, but that was before Dagur and he had a falling out 2 years ago. Nowadays, he had to make sure he wasn't spotted in DunBroch by one of his goons. His bike was too noticeable hence the bus. Looking out the window Hiccup could see most of DunBroch, it was mostly inner city and downtown. Hiccup knew that this route alone took him past a drug house, an underground doctor's place and a whore house. Not a pretty part of town.

The bus stopped just a few houses down from Jack's. Hiccup walked the rest of the way up to the door. Knocking on the door, he could hear heavy footsteps. The door opened to a big burly man with a dirty white beard, the guy looked like he fit in right at home in a lumberjack yard.

"Hiccup!" The man suddenly bellowed with a gleaming smile, "I didn't know you were stopping by."

"Hey North, I had an afternoon to kill, so I thought I would stop by and see how Jack was doing"

"Oh he's upstairs, go on up." Christopher North was Jack's uncle, he had been Jack's guardian ever since Jack was 3, when his parents were killed. He had always insisted on being called North, even by Jack. He didn't ever try to get Jack to call him dad, it didn't sit well with him. Living in DunBroch wasn't easy but somehow, much to Hiccup's bafflement North had a good sense of humour and always had high spirits. Their home was a two story apartment, with a living room and small kitchen down below and two rooms and a bath room above. According to both North and Jack that was all they needed.

"Alright, thanks." He walked up and peeked through Jack's open door. He was playing on his Nintendo, that he won in a big raffle the school had a year ago. That kid almost never went anywhere without it. He was a scrawny kid with salt and pepper hair.

"You know if you spent more time at Merida's instead of playing that stupid go-kart game, she probably would be a definitive girlfriend." Hiccup stated calmly, getting a kick out of Jack's panic.

"Oh jeez- don't do that to me man, for a moment I thought you were Dagur," Jack sputtered.

Hiccup's face darkened, "Don't joke about him, has he been anywhere near you," Jack had owed Dagur some money, he fell behind on his payments and was not too far away from being put in the hospital. Hiccup saved Jack from Dagur's goons in an alleyway and eventually paid off Jack's debt, it was around the time Hiccup and Dagur had their falling out, so to Hiccup it was worth sticking another thorn in Dagur's side. Of course from then on Hiccup owned Jack until Jack paid off his debt to Hiccup, but Hiccup had grown to like the kid, he had a spunky attitude and something else Hiccup couldn't put his finger on. Eventually the two became friends.

"No, I'm sorry I didn't mean to be a smartass."

"It's fine, how's school going for you, I hadn't talked to you much this week." Hiccup relented

"It's great, the teachers are way better than the crap we got at north side."

"There are some good ones, but Gobber and Ms. Tooth were still pretty good."

"You only say that because Gobber lives on your street and was the mechanics teacher, and Ms. Tooth was just really nice, her teaching wasn't great." Jack protested

"That is more than what I can say about the others, but I'm glad you're enjoying yourself, I think the mechanics teach had a heart attack when we started messing with the cars."

"Oh shit, that would've been funny, any good cars?"

"Nah, nothing worth nicking, just a couple civics and a Toyota corolla."

"Ah crap, hey, I almost forgot." Jack suddenly proclaimed. "It's Merida's birthday next Friday and she told me to tell you, you're coming to the party. No excuses" Oh shit, I forgot about that too. Merida was another kid who lived in DunBroch, her family was of Scottish descent and she had just as much fire in her as Astrid did, with flaming red hair to match it. Her family lived on the outer edge of DunBroch, outside most of the crap that made DunBroch the hellhole it was.

Hiccup liked Merida, her parents not so much. Her dad Fergus was alright, a little silly and a goofball but that wasn't the worst thing ever. Her mother Elinor however was a bitch, no sense of humour that woman and she called the cops on Hiccup once, not impressed. Ever since then, he made a point of getting Merida to come to fun events with Jack and his team, just to spite Elinor. Eventually, not unlike Jack, she became a friend to Hiccup.

"I have street racing that night. You know I won't miss that" Hiccup threw out quickly, anything with Elinor was like hell.

"It is right after school and she expects you to be there, no excuses."

"But, but, but-" Hiccup stammered, looking for a way out.

"No buts!" Jack finally declared. Ugggggghhh!

"Alright so what are we doing?" Hiccup asked, maybe it would be bowling, a little expensive and it was hard with his leg but still fun, even to watch Fergus would be worth it. Jack's word's did not impress him at all

"Skating." Jack said with a knowing smirking

Oh fuck me!