A/N: Whoo! :)

Disclaimer: I own nothing!

Chapter 10: This Time, This Time For Sure

(Hiccup POV)

The next day in the Arena, I dive behind a wall thats been set up. It's the final fight before the champion is chosen. Ninety percent of Berk bets it will be me, I'm hoping not but chances of that happening are slim. I groan inwardly and my oversized helmet tips on my head slightly blocking my vision on my right, I shove the helmet up and look up as Elsa pushes her back into the wall I'm hiding behind.

She sends me a scowl and looks near growling her eyes are hard, empty and cold.

"Stay out my way. I'm winning this thing." She hisses. I shake my head softly staring at her and give a small smile.

"Please, be my guest." I say. She leaps away from the wall I'm hiding behind and I quickly lose sight of her. The twins, Fishlegs and Snotlout are already out and hanging towards the side lines pouting.

I poke my head over the wall spotting the Gronckle up ahead. I really, really don't want to win this but I don't really think Elsa does either.

I pull away from the wall and get to my feet lifting the helmet up so I can see. I start to move forward towards the rock eating dragon. My feet make little sound against the ground and I break into a run reaching the Gronckle in less than a minute. I reach forward and scratch along its neck. Before it really has any idea what I'm doing, I move my hand under its chin and it falls asleep at my feet.

I look up watching as Elsa stops her run to it and looks at me disbelief written clearly on her face. Then, she closes her gaping jaw and starts to swing her sword around. "NO! Son of half troll mutton eating-" I tune herrant out and look at Gobber.

"So later!" I say and start to walk off. He grabs the back of my shirt and drags me back.

"Not so fast." Gobber commands.

I disagree.

I release a breath through my nose glancing up in the direction of Raven Point

Toothless is waiting for me, if I don't hurry, he'll burst out of the cove and rip the village apart blasting anyone who came within two hundred feet of me. "I'm kind of late for-" Elsa shoves the tip of her sword into my throat and the sentence dies.

"What! Late for what exactly." She demands. Frost is spread across the metal and I stare down at it in confusion.

"Quiet down."Dad commands. Elsa pulls her sword away and stands a few feet away from me, sending me a murderous scowl.

"The elder has decided." Dad says. Gobber lifts his hook above Elsa's head and I eye the elder hopefully. Come on! Please-Gothi shakes her head. Gobber lifts his hand above my head and Gothi nods pointing her finger at me.

I kick the ground with my foot as Elsa sends me a glare that could make the sun hide. When people like her, that are usually reserved, nice and calm turn berserk, best idea is to run for your life.

Gobber gives a shout of celebration. "Oh! You've done it, Hiccup you get to kill the dragon!" He yells Fishlegs picks me up and sets me on his shoulder. I wave a hand in mock celebration.

"Oh! Yes! I am so-"

"-Leaving! We're leaving! Lets pack up looks like you and I are taking a little vacation. Forever." I call as I walk into the cove later that day. I sigh and toss my pack onto the ground, I have packed only essentials, clothing, food, and a few other things. I back up and fiddle with my flight vest. What dumb luck.

"Ah man," I mutter.

Shing.

The sound cuts through the air and I jerk my head up stumbling backwards in surprise. Elsa sits cross legged on the rock looking more calm than before, her sword is in one hand a rock in the other.

"What the-" I shriek. I stop and take in a breath. "Elsa! W-What are you doing here?" I demand and look behind her. If Toothless decides to interfere this is going to end terribly.

Elsa fingers the end of the blade before she drops the small rock she was using to sharpen it. She leaps down from the boulder and her feet hit the ground with a soft thud.

"I want to know what's going on." She says and tosses the sword to his right hand. I watch it spin through the air, my heart sinking. "No one just gets as good as you do." She says putting heavy emphasis on "get."

I back up, "I-I" I start and she stares at me shaking her head before letting out a long calming breath.

"I'm not going to hurt you Hiccup." She says.

Are you?

I'm not so sure.

"I-I.." I trail off.

"Are you training with someone?" She asks

"Training?" I repeat and she grabs the front of my shirt lifting me off the ground with ease, note to self: Do not get on the bad side of Elsa.

A branch snaps nearby and Elsa shoves me to the ground, I hit it with a soft grunt and my eyes widen.

Toothless.

I leap to my feet and race over to Elsa. Toothless will only wait so long…"Um, you're right! You're right! I'm through with the lies!" I say and reach her she turns to look at me but her attention is still partly on the other side of the cove. "I've been making….Outfits!" I say and Elsa raises and eyebrow.

"You got me! Drag me back." I demand and grab her hand and try desperately to get her attention back on me. "It's time everyone knew- OW!" I yell as she twists my arm back. "Why would you do that!" I demand.

Elsa glares down at me, "That's for the lies." She says angrily.

A low growl echoes through the cove, "Oh, no." I moan. I jump to my feet ignoring the stab if my new injuries watching as Toothless breaks through the trees.

Elsa gasps and the temperature drops suddenly. "Get down!" She yells and pulls me to the ground with her. She grabs her sword ,"Run! RUN!" She yells.

Toothless comes racing at us and I watch as Elsa prepares to swing her weapon. I leap to my feet and dive forward grabbing Elsa's forearm stopping the weapon from moving any further I wrestle the sword from her grip and throw it to the side.

I look at Toothless, all teeth are showing and he's growling lowly. He glances at me and I hold out my hands in between the Viking and the dragon, trying to prevent them from killing each other.

"She's a friend." I say and Toothless clearly disagrees. He wraps his tail around my feet and I look at Elsa. She seems frozen in place by shock, surprise and anger. Snow is starting to fall and her eyes are wide.

I glare at Elsa, "You scared him." I say, even though both Toothless and I know that Toothless is not scared but furious. Murdering furious.

Elsa snaps out of her shock,"I scared him! Who is him?"

I cringe, "Elsa, Toothless, Toothless Elsa." I say. Toothless growls and Elsa backs up, ice spreading under her feet. My eyes widen and I stare at her for several moments everything suddenly making a click in my head.

Ice.

Snow.

The weird weather.

How she always hides.

Shutting people out.

Early winter.

Dragon training.

The gloves.

The icicles from her hair.

How her clothing frosted.

Elsa has ice powers.

Elsa follows my gaze down towards her feet and she backs up more in horror, more ice spreading. "Elsa," I murmur looking at her. She stares at me lifting up her hands.

"Just stay away!" She commands before whipping around and running towards the cove edge. She climbs it like it's her sole purpose in life and I watch her before turning to Toothless.

She's cursed, and I'm about to be dead once she tells.

"Duh, duh, duh we're dead." I groan. Toothless shakes his head back and in a good riddance way. He turns around and I whip around, "Whoa, whoa, wait! Where do you think you're going!" I demand. I run over to the dragon and he lets out a breath through his nose before leaning down so I can mount him.

Ice powers.

I just...it's…

Toothless jumps into the air and I click the tail fin not checking to see if I had done the right position. I know it is.

Toothless flies up over the trees before gliding the forest for about a minute before I see a trail of ice then Elsa sprinting through the woods. Looking to her sides and behind her. Why she doesn't look up was beyond me. She's being chased by a dragon.

Toothless dives down and grabs Elsa's arm, ripping her into the air. "AHH! Oh great Odin's ghost! THIS IS IT!" Elsa screams. The snow picks up speed at her terrified yelps. Toothless drops her on a tree branch before taking the top of the tree and pulling it over so Elsa's hanging above seventy feet off of the ground. Elsa looks up at me eyes wide and terrified.

"Stay away from me!" She shouts.

"No way, Elsa! You tell about Toothless and I spill your secret!" I return.

"Not like it matters anyway! I lost dragon training and my aunts going to tell!" Elsa yells towards me her grip on the tree branch tight. Oh, that would explain her sudden change of, yay! You're doing so good to I'm going to murder you.

"Elsa, calm down!" I command lifting my hands out towards her.

"I'm a monster! I can't control the curse!" Elsa vents her voice rising several pitches. Her grip slides slightly and she jumps forward wrapping her upper body around the tree, "Just leave me here! I...don't want to hurt you." In the last part her voice is quiet silent and broken, nearing tears.

"You're not a monster." I say after a moment of silence and rest my right hand against Toothless's neck. Elsa looks up at me, "Just let me show you, please, Elsa." I say quietly. I hold out my hand towards her and she stares at me for a moment, looks down at the ground before slowly pulling herself up and over the branch with a grunt. She balances on the tree branch for a moment and her hands linger on my hand for a moment.

"Don't touch me." She orders before sliding onto Toothless's back staying as far away as humanly possibly from me."Okay, now get me down." She commands her voice still shaky. I take a glance back at her before turning my attention towards my other half.

"Okay, Toothless, down, gently." I say and look back at Elsa giving a tight smile as she clenches her fists the thick blue gloves frosting over. "See? Nothing to worry abo-" Toothless shoots off into the air like a explosion cutting of my sentence as I yell something untranslatable.

Elsa lets out a long scream before she wraps her arms around my waist and buries her head into my back. "Toothless!" I shout. "What is wrong with you! Bad dragon!" I yell. Toothless ignores me and proceeds to do several spins in the air, I look back at Elsa, "Sorry he's not usually like this!" I say.

Toothless drops and smashes into the ocean, giving me and Elsa the bath neither of us requested. Water clings to me and Elsa and freezes on the younger girl imminently. Toothless flies upwards. I bite my lip in annoyance. "Thank you for nothing, you useless reptile."

"Okay! I am sorry! I am sorry!" Elsa yells. "Please just get me off of this thing." She begs. This seems to be the source for Toothless's sudden flight of death. He snaps his wings open and glides upwards towards the setting sun. We fly up and I can see the colors splashing across the sky.

Elsa releases me, and I glance back at her, watching as her eyes widen with amazement, her hair coming loose revealing long bangs that fall in front of her face a braid falling down her back gently. She lifts up her hands pulling the bangs back and lifts her hand towards the sky slightly. She runs her gloved hands through the clouds her face breaking into a delighted soft smile.

Sparkles of snow trail after her fingers and she rests her hands on my shoulders, I smile slightly as we fly up above the clouds to where the aurora borealis feels the air. I watch the lights dance for a little and the sun finally setting in the distance, Elsa wraps her arms around me and rests her head on my shoulder.

I tense slightly before letting my smile widen. Pitch blackness finally takes air and we fly towards Berk the glittering lights of the town look tiny from where we are.

"Alright, I admit it, this is pretty cool." Elsa says, "It's amazing." She releases me and pats Toothless's side,"He's amazing." Elsa adds she releases a long breath and I look back at her.

"You're...not afraid of me." She says, it's a statement but the way she said it makes it seem like more of a question. No...I'm not. I realize, after dealing with Toothless and discovering dragons are completely different than we thought her powers don't seem as horrifying as they would have a few weeks ago. They fit her.

"No. I'm not." I answer anyway.

Elsa looks down at her fingers, "But I'm cursed, I'm a monster why-"

"Because it's who you are." I interrupt with a shrug, "You accepted Toothless, he's part of me I accept you for who you are. Even your gift." I say putting heavy emphasis on the last word. It's not a curse, I don't think so.

Elsa nods softly and rests her hands in her lap looking at me, "So what now?" She asks. I inwardly groan. I was planning to forget everything and run Elsa knows this. She's asking what I plan on doing now. What do I plan on doing now?

I offer no answer.

"Hiccup, your final exam is tomorrow!" She exclaims. I bite my lip. Right. "You know you're going to have to kill a dragon. " She reminds me and says 'kill a dragon' in a barley a hiss. Toothless ears perk up and I look back at Elsa.

"Don't remind me." I say softly. She snaps her mouth shut. Toothless hisses and I can feel the panic radiating off of him. My eyes widen and I look up realizing that our joyful flight has come to an end. Elsa looks at me and seems to sense the change in both of our demours.

"What is it?" Elsa asks.

Toothless takes a hard right suddenly and my eyes widen with surprise,"Toothless what's happening?" I ask. He doesn't even seem to notice my voice as he flies forward. Towards a valley of dragons in the sky.

"Get down!" I hiss to Elsa and lean down as far as I can on the saddle. Elsa leans down over me and I watch as a Zippleback and a Monstrous Nightmare fly in close to us.

Every dragon is carrying some sort of animal in it's claws, or mouth. "What's going on?" Elsa her voice a low whisper. She wraps her arms around my chest tightly trying as Toothless dodges several other dragons.

I shake my head and look back at her,"I don't know." I whisper. I stare at the dragons for several moments, some sort of animal is in their claws. Fresh kill. A recent raid by the looks of it. "It looks like their hauling in their kill." I note.

Elsa tenses, "Uh, what does that make us?" She asks.

I don't know!

"Toothless you got to get us out of here, bud." I whisper, putting a hand on his head. Toothless shakes my hand off and I look up around me in fear. I felt terror falling through the air yesterday, but compared to this, that was a big ball of bright cheery happiness.

My heart beats quicker and I force myself to remain calm. I know Toothless wouldn't let anything happen to us. I trust him with my life as I have many times before. It will be fine.

I hope.

A Zippleback gives me and Elsa a long hard, cold stare. Toothless dives suddenly and I let out a cry of surprise, Elsa echoing me. I duck my head into Toothless's neck and look at the handles to his saddle they're covered in ice. I close my eyes tightly and don't move until Elsa shakes my shoulder softly. "Hic," she murmurs the rest of my name choking in her throat.

I pull my head up, my breath hitching. In front of us is a huge volcano. Its hissing, and smoking but Toothless dives into a narrow opening similar to a cave tunnel. When he reaches the end there's thousands of dragons lined along the walls of a large cavern surrounded by red mist. "What my dad would give to find this." I breathe. Elsa's grip around me tightens vastly. Toothless glides over the red mist before diving to the side.

He lands on an overhang and I look at the red mist, my eyes wide,"Well it's satisfying to know all our food has got dumped down a hole." I sarcastically note without looking back at the Arendelle. Elsa takes in a sharp breath as a dragon flies past us dropping a sheep into the mist.

"They're not eating any of it." Elsa says quietly. We both watch as a single Gronckle flies over the hole. It drops a small fish out of it's mouth and hovers there for a second scratching the side of it's head.

A huge head snaps up and it's jaw slams around the Gronckle. My eyes widen and my heart skips a beat as I lean away from the end. Elsa's arms tighten around me in fear. "What. Is. That?" Elsa breathes.

I have no idea.

And I don't want to know.

All of the other dragons back up into their hideouts as the head descends slowly before all three eyes on the side of the head snap to us. "Toothless, we need to leave." I say. Toothless nods his head and takes off into the air, wings flapping powerfully.

The huge dragon head snaps up at us and Toothless soars upwards and a Zippleback leaps in it's path and is grabbed from the air and dragged down into the dragon's mouth. Toothless flies up to the top of the volcano and then out of it.

I'm breathless and Elsa grips my shoulders tighter and her hands are shaking with fear. Toothless flies faster than I have ever seen.

When we land, Elsa jumps of off Toothless and looks at me, "It totally makes sense." She says and stares at me, "It's like a giant beehive their the workers and that's their queen." She says and turns, "Let's find your dad." She says and starts to rush off.

I jump off of Toothless and rush up to her and grab her shoulder, she turns around, "No! Elsa we have to think this through." I say and look back at Toothless, "They'll kill Toothless." I add.

Elsa looks at me and I walk back to Toothless as she speaks, "Hiccup, we just found the Dragon's Nest. The thing we've been searching for since Vikings first sailed here and you want to keep it a secret?" She demands. I don't answer and she adds,"To protect your pet dragon are you serious!" I turn back towards her.

"Yes."

I look at the ground as she makes no comment. I sigh and then look up to see as her face softens, "Okay, so what do we do?" She asks. I fiddle with the straps on my flight vest keeping eye contact with Elsa. Her blue eyes are focused on me, waiting for an answer.

"Just give me until tomorrow, I'll think of something." I mumble.

"Okay." She agrees, she pulls her loose hair away from her face and pulls her hair over her left shoulder staring at me for a moment. Okay? That's all she has to say not 'hey you almost got us killed'! Elgh! Elsa punches me.

I grab my upper arm and wince. Staring back at Toothless. He looks up at me from where he's drinking water, rolls his emerald green eyes and continues drinking water.

"That's for kidnapping me." Elsa says.

give her a disbelieving look. Elsa turns and starts to walk off I look at her retreating back.

"You know, I wouldn't have had to kidnap you if you had just minded your own business." I say and she pauses looking back at me,"Thanks though," I say and grab her gloved hand.

"For what?" She asks looking me in the eyes.

I lean forward and give her a soft kiss on the cheek,"For letting me kidnap you." I say and she blushes madly. I release her hand and back up. She purses her lips and turns nodding. She grabs her sword and races from the cove

I watch her retreating back and my face breaks off into a smile.

Toothless comes up behind me and purrs. I jump and look at him, he gives me a lopsided grin, his eyes twinkling he looks me in the eye. I snap out of my blissful daze and look at him, "I-uh, What are you looking at?"

A/N: I think this turned out pretty good. Like Elsa I actually really like their reactions to each other. :)

Please review!