Chapter 9

Prince Hans led a group of Arendale soldiers towards the North Mountain. They rode horses. Once, the search party met the wolves, which by then were so scared of humans that the beasts just ran off at the mere sight of the humans.

"This is strange, the wolves generally would attack humans," thought Hans," Men, prepare for anything, I think that we have a large fight ahead of us. No regular human could spook these vile beasts. It is logical to assume that this Viking who flew to search for Princess Anna has joined the Queen. We will, however, try not to harm them. We need to capture the Queen alive."

"Yes, your Highness," spoke one of the men. The search party continued their search. As people contemplated on what their search would eventually bring, Hans thought about his own actions and what he should do next.

After a long journey, the party finally arrived to the icy bridge. "Take care, the Queen will probably retaliate in fear," spoke Hans as he touched the handle of his sword. As the group approached the bridge, a large snowman emerged from the snow and roared.

Hans immediately took off his sword. Some of the men fired arrows, but the snowman did not care. The arrows just lightly entrenched into the snow body of the creature, and they did not slow it down.

The monster threw his right fist and almost hit a soldier. Hans dropped his sword and jumped; the two barely escaped the hit.

"Thank you, Prince Hans," spoke the soldier as Hans quickly stood up and grabbed his sword.

Hans did not reply as he dodged another attack and then used his sword to stab the monster in the snowman's body. The snowman roared and more ice spikes appeared on its body. Hans quickly retrieved his sword and jumped a few feet away from the snow monster.

The archers continued shooting at the snow golem, but their attacks were futile. The attacks only managed to provoke the snowman, which continued to throw punches on the snow.

The two Duke's men helped the Arendale's soldiers in their fight against the beast. The two thugs looked at the ice castle after they dodged yet another attack. They saw that the main doors of the castle opened. In the doorway stood the Queen.

"That's the Queen! Get her," spoke two thugs as they ran towards the castle. Elsa quickly closed the doors.

The giant snowman acknowledged that two humans seemed to run past his guard, and tried to chase them but then stopped as more arrows hit its snow skin. Some of the soldiers even tried to use their swords to scare of the monster.

As the snowman prepared to hit another soldier, Hans quickly reacted and used his sword to cut the snowman's leg. The creature lost balance and started to fall downwards into the valley.

Hans ran on the ice bridge. When he was at its mid point, the snowman threw his arm, and destroyed a portion of the bridge, before finally falling off into the valley. Hans lost balance, and was about to fall as well, but one of the soldiers helped him.

Hans then led the Arendale's soldiers into the Ice Castle. As they arrived, they saw that a young man and his black dragon were chasing after the Duke's thugs. Hiccup and Toothless then saw Hans and the soldiers; the two switched their focus on them.

Hiccup retrieved his sword and looked at his dragon. The two knew that the people here were innocent, so when the dragon shot at the soldiers, it aimed at the floor or walls, so that the soldiers would only be incapacitated and not killed.

Hans took of his sword. Hiccup saw this, and activated his fire sword. "Sorcery," spoke one of the soldiers.

"This? Oh, common, I just used my knowledge of the dragons," spoke Hiccup as Hans charged and the two men began to sword fight. It was unusual for Hans to fight someone with such a weapon, yet Hans' sword endured the heat.

As Hans and Hiccup clashed, Toothless continued to scare the soldiers, chasing them across the room. In a different situation, the dragon would find this activity amusing, as he liked to play around. But the Night Fury understood that these soldiers were scared of him, and thus thought him.

Toothless could not fly, but the dragon did not need to. He continued to shoot at the ice that surrounded the soldiers, trying to scare them. Toothless knew that Hiccup and him only killed once in their life, and it was a much different situation. While Toothless knew that he could kill in self defense against such a vile creature as Red Death, who kept the Vikings and Dragons fighting for generations, in all other occasions the Night Fury only fought to disarm and knockout his opponents.

"Why are you fighting us? We don't want to harm you?" spoke Hiccup. He realized that the soldiers were acting like he was very recently when he fought Elsa. Hans, however, did not reply.

As the fight continued, Elsa ran towards her main room and saw that Duke's thugs had entered the room and prepared their crossbows. Elsa panicked and sent ice at them. Ice spikes appeared on the wall, and almost hit the men.

The two thugs dodged the attack and one of them shot an arrow at Elsa. The young Queen moved her arms, and a wall of ice appeared in front of her. The arrow pierced through the ice, and ended about a few inches away from Elsa's face.

"Common, lets kill this monster," spoke another thug, as he threw an arrow to his comrade. The two men then prepared to shoot Elsa again.

"Enough!" spoke Elsa as she moved her arms again and released more snow. The two thugs got separated.

Elsa used her magic power to create a wall in front of one thug, and then created ice spikes to hold the other thug. One of the spikes moved very closely to the thug's neck. With her other arm, Elsa manipulated the ice wall, and had it begin to move closer and closer towards the balcony. The man screamed in horror as he realized that he was about to fall from into the abyss.

Hans and Hiccup were still fighting. Eventually, Hans managed to get an upper hand. He dodged the flaming sword, and ran towards the staircase upstairs to find the Queen. The soldiers saw that their current leader ran, and ignored Toothless. One by one they ran after Hans.

"Toothless, come, we need to help Elsa," spoke Hiccup as the pair ran after the men.

When everyone arrived on the scene, they saw that Elsa was about to kill one of the thugs.

"Queen Elsa, don't be the monster they fear you are," spoke Hans as he looked at the Queen who paused and then looked at her hands.

"No, what have I become," spoke Elsa. The thug that was stuck to the wall by the ice spikes managed to free his arm.

"Elsa!" cried Hiccup as he jumped on Toothless. Hans saw this action, and ran quickly towards the thug and redirected his aim to shoot at the chandelier instead. Hiccup saw this, and so did Toothless.

The two flew towards Elsa to save her, but the fallen ice sculpture fell quickly on the floor, and created a small shockwave. Some broken ice shards hit Elsa and knocked her out, while other pieces of ice hit Toothless during his flight and pushed the Dragon and his rider from the window. The tail fin changed its shape, and turned thinner, which caused Hiccup and Toothless to fall in the air into the abyss.

"You two will be tried for this! You tried to execute the Queen!" spoke Hans as he came up to the Queen and lifted her unconscious body.

"Your Highness, I found that there is a cell with metal shackles that were designed specifically for Queen Elsa. My men found that specific cell during the chaos that erupted after the Queen froze Arendale and ran off to here," spoke one of the soldiers.

"Thank You, Captain. While we want to keep the Queen alive, we don't want to create more hazards for the people of Arendale," spoke Hans and he walked downstairs, holding Elsa's body around her wait over his shoulder.

The soldiers freed Duke's two bodyguards, but then made them travel ahead of everyone, so that they would not try to kill the Queen during their journey back. Hans rode behind them, carrying the Queen's unconscious body, with the rest of the soldiers.

Toothless managed to glide downwards, and the pair eventually landed on the snow gently. "We need to get back to Arendale. Hold on, Toothless, let me fix your tail fin," spoke Hiccup as he began doing so.

"No, you wont. I want Elsa to destroy the kingdom, and I cannot have you help her. You can't return to Arendale just yet," spoke Pitch Black as he appeared behind Toothless and sent some black energy at the dragon's head.

"Toothless, what's wrong buddy?" asked Hiccup as the dragon began to shot at various rocks.

"Buddy, calm down, its me," spoke Hiccup as he hugged the dragon's neck. Toothless calmed but still refused to fly.

"My work here is done with this boy. Now, I need to just wait and observe how the events will unfold. My dear Snow Queen, bring the destruction and cause fear, as you always were destined to," smiled Pitch as he disappeared away from the scene.

"And we are stuck here," commented Hiccup as he looked at Toothless, who still refused to fly.

"Well, at least we helped Elsa. Do you think she is safe?" spoke Hiccup as he looked at his dragon.

The pair heard footsteps, and turned around, only to notice that a giant snowman approached them. "You helped Elsa?" asked the snowman.

"Yes, and who are you?" asked Hiccup

"Elsa created me. I guard Elsa. I saw from down here that the men took Elsa back to Arendale," spoke the giant snowman.

"We need to get back to Arendale! Come Toothless, we need to help Elsa," spoke Hiccup as Toothless let Hiccup climb on his back. Even though the Night Fury did not fly, it began to walk.

"You want to rescue Elsa?" spoke the snowman as Toothless stopped. The snowman paused. "You are Elsa's friends. I help you. I come with you to help Elsa," spoke the snowman, as he began walking behind Hiccup. The trio began their journey to return to Arendale and to save Queen Elsa.

A/N: next chapter Anna meets the Trolls, and Hans talks to Elsa.