Chapter 11. We meet again.

The group stood before magneficent ice construct in complete and utter awe. It was an amazing sight. Hiccup thought that nothing could surprise him anymore, but he was once again proven wrong. The mountain man said he might cry at the sight, and Hiccup felt like he wasn't much far behind. But in the end, all he could muster up was appreciating whistle. This caused both Kristoff and Anna to turn towards him.

"Really?" Anna asked in disbelief. "That's all you have to say?" Hiccup shrugged.

"Words cannot express how a feel about what I see."

"And a whistle can?" Anna replied. Hiccup rolled his eyes. The group finally got over their shock and started walking up the staircase leading to the ice building. Kristoff couldn't contain his emotions as he tried to savour every moment he spent on the construct.

"Flawless." he muttered still awestruck. Apparently Sven had the same thoughts as him as he tried to walk up the stairs, but ended up slipping on every single step and falling. Kristoff turned back to him. "Sorry, Sven. You have to stay here." he told him much to the reindeer's disappointment. Kristoff went back to give him a comforting hug, before continuing to climb the stairs.

Anna was the first one who made it to the gates of the palace feeling tons of emotions raging in her as she raised her fist to knock on it, but at the last second, she pulled it back. The others stared at her for a few moments. The rest of the group eventually caught up with her, finding her with her fist raised and standing still before the door. They weren't exactly sure what to make of this image.

"Come on, knock." Olaf encouraged her, but she didn't move a muscle. "Why isn't she knocking?" Olaf questioned the others around him. Another few seconds passed with nothing happening and Olaf leaned back to the other two. "Do you guys think she knows how to knock?" he whispered, but Anna heard him all the same. She had to use every ounce of her mental strength to hold back a bitter laugh. Does she know how to knock? That is all she knew how to do ever since she was six. But knocking never did her any good, it never got her anywhere, so why should it now.

She was still hesitant, but eventually she hit the ice door three times and contrary to her expectations, it immediately opened, greatly surprising her. "Wow. It opened." she remarked with a chuckle. "That's a first one."

"Can we just enter at last?" he asked, as he passed the iceman and the princess. He was so eager to finally get this winter fiasco over with. After Toothless' tail, the trolls, Anna, the wolves and every other thing that happened to him this night, he was so close to finally end it. He just had to enter this castle and talk to Elsa. The two of them were going to solve the problem. But apparently, there were someone who thought otherwise.

"I don't think this is a good idea." He heard Anna say as she dragged him back by his wrist. The viking groaned in response.

"What do you mean?" he asked, annoyance clear in his voice. Anna frowned at him.

"Think a little, Mr. Problem-Solver! In case you haven't been keeping up with the current events, the last time Elsa saw a man, she kind of froze..." she paused to think of the appropriate term. "...well, everything!" Hiccup raised his finger at the princess to reply, but he stopped himself, when he thought her words over. She actually had a point. He absolutely hated it when someone had a point against him in an argument. But he was determined to see Elsa again. If only to see for himself whether she is alright. So as quickly as he could, he came up with the following points.

"Well, what is she going to do now? Refreeze everything? Besides, I was the one who actually kept her company back in the palace. I think my presence would actually calm her down. Even more so than yours, because if I remember well, it was you who made her cover the entire floor in ice and run away panicking."

Anna was taken aback by that. Hiccup just hit her where it hurt the most. She would never be able to live with herself if she hurt Elsa, but she did. True she didn't know about the ice powers and their instability, which caused Elsa to shut out everyone, but it didn't make freaking out her sister and causing her to run away hurt any less. She wanted to narrow her eyes and glare at Hiccup with the fires of hell in her gaze for bringing this into their conversation, but she couldn't bring herself to do it for she knew Hiccup was right.

Upon seeing the princess reacting with complete and utter sadness in her gaze instead of a rageful comeback he was anticipating, he knew that he hit a nerve and a wave of guilt washed over him. That was really uncalled for. Hiccup was lost. Here he was on the top of a mountain, right before a magical ice palace with a princess he had very, very mixed feelings for, - and he wasn't ashamed to admit that he took pleasure in her misfortune a few times today - who was on the edge of crying. That alone may not have been so demoralizing, but the fact the he was the one who caused her to almost cry was something he didn't take so well.

"I... " he started, but instead of a decent apology, only rambling came out. He didn't know what to say, so he did the only thing that came to his mind. He put his arms around her and pulled her into a comforting hug. And Anna didn't care that this was the guy that offended her in the first place, she didn't care about that she didn't care about the stares of the others, she didn't care about the bad history she and Hiccup shared, she just wanted someone, anyone to hold her, to comfort her, to be there for her. She hasn't had that luxury in three years. So she returned the gesture and buried her face into the viking's shoulder. Hiccup soothingly caressed her back as he held her.

"I'm sorry." Hiccup told her. "I went too far this time."

"That you did." Anna replied after finally calming down. "But you are kind of right. I couldn't live with myself if I hurt Elsa and I did. That's why this is so important to me. I want to make things right."

"Oh, really?" Hiccup replied teasingly. "That's the only reason? Your kingdom and it's people can be damned into an eternal winter as long as you made things right with your sister?"

"Shut up." Anna replied with a smile, knowing he was only joking. But she felt like these two words are going to have a big role in their future conversations. She then felt like it was her part to strike back. "Maybe we should end this embrace. If Elsa sees us like this, she might get the wrong idea." she suggested, making Hiccup blush and release her.

"You're right. Let's focus on the task at hand." he said.

"If you two are finished can we please go inside?" Kristoff said, startling Hiccup. He's completeley forgotten about him. Before he could say anything, Anna beat him to it.

"Me and Hiccup will go in. You stay here." Anna told him. He didn't seem to take it so well.

"What?" He exclaimed. "Oh, come on! This is a real ice palace! Ice is my life!" He tried to reason with her, but seemingly it did not work.

"Later, Sven!" Olaf said in his usual cheery voice and started heading inside, before Anna stopped him.

"You too, Olaf." Anna told him gently. The snowman seemed very sad and disappointed by this. Hiccup decided to try and cheer him up.

"Hey, little guy, look just give us a minute alone with Elsa before you come in. It would be a tremendous help." Upon hearing this, Olaf's expression immediately brightened up. The idea of helping his friends changed his mood for the better.

"OK!" he exclaimed cheerfully. Hiccup smiled, satisfied with the fact that he could reduce the number of the people whom he made cry tonight. There is only so much guilt e can take.

"Just give us a minute, ok?" Olaf nodded and went to join Kristoff, who was sitting on the stairs of the castle, as he started counting the seconds. "I think we better go." He said as he heard him reaching four. Anna nodded and the two entered the building.


If it was possible, the inside of the magneficent building was even more astonishing then it's outside. Hiccup and Anna walked into what hey thought is supposed to be the hall of the palace. It was tall and spacious, with two ice staircases on either side leading upwards and joining together at a small balcony with a door that lead further into the palace. It also had a fountain in the middle of it with frozen water. That didn't avoid Hiccup's attention. A fountain that had frozen water in it? Sounds counterproductive. He eventually shrugged it off with that it may be more of a statue. Anna on the other hand saw no flaw in the building.

"On a second thought," Hiccup began. "it may be better if we don't let Kristoff in here. He may never want to leave."

"I would understand him." she replied. "This place is gorgeus."

"That it is." Hiccup confirmed, still awestruck. This place beat the entire island of Berk by leagues. "If I would die now, I would die a happy man."

"Just let me know when you're ready. I would do the honors anyday." Anna said, smiling evilly at him. Hiccup looked back at her, his face also in a smirk.

"I think not, princess. Your sister would never forgive you." Anna frowned.

"So now you're blackmailing me with my sister? You're a jerk. Besides, you presume too much. One, Elsa shouldn't like you that much after only half a day, and two, she doesn't have to know it was me."

"Anna?" they heard an all two familiar voice coming from upstairs and Anna froze in her place and this time not because of the cold. The two looked up to see something that their mortal comprehensions were not yet ready to take in. Slowly emerging from the shadows was none other than Elsa herself, but the differences could only be unnoticed by a blind man. Instead of the royal attire she wore when they last saw her, she was now wearing something that only could be described as an 'ice dress'. The gown she was now wearing was shimmering in the same way the entire palace did, making it clear she created it with her powers. Her hair was also completely different: it was now a long french braid instead of the bun she was wearing at the ball. Hiccup would have guessed this had a symbolic meaning to it. Like she was more open or something. But to be honest, he was more struck by the sheer beauty that was radiating from the queen now. If he thought she was beautiful before, he was going to say it out in his head – and maybe even out loud later – she was a straight up goddess. 'Yes, I said it, gods! Throw whatever punishment you want on me, but this is still the truth!' he thought.

Meanwhile Elsa was more surprised than ever. Her sister and Hiccup came up all the way to the mountain to see her? No, this was not right. She went up here to be away from them and everybody else, so no one would be hurt by her powers again. Speaking of which, after they witnessed them, they should want to stay away from her. So why didn't they?

After a few moments of silence, Anna decided to speak up. "Elsa, it is..." she thought for a while, unable to figure out what should she say. "... eh, … great to see you again." she finished with a grin. "And you are... different. Bu...but a good different!" she quickly added. "How long have you been standing there exactly?" she asked in fright.

"Long enough." The queen answered, getting over her shock. She did hear her sister basically telling Hiccup that she would like to kill him, but she also heard how Hiccup told her that she would never forgive her and she felt kind of offended. Just what did he think their relationship was? Not that she would be happy if Anna killed him, but hearing him saying like this sounded like she is as fond of him as she is of Anna.

Anna gulped, Hiccup smiled slightly after he got over the luck that he was the first man to witness this new Elsa and said. "She is such a bully." Anna turned to him, glaring daggers at him.

"You don't want to know how I would be like as a bully." she growled. Hiccup chuckled.

"Yeesh. Just kidding, ginger. Take it easy."

"I told you not to call me that!" Anna said with her voice raised.

"Just proved my point." Hiccup muttered, causing Anna to growl.

Elsa was having a hard time understanding what was going on before her. Her sister and the boy she had gotten close to at her coronation were bickering as if they were old friendly enemies.

She knew it because despite the annoyed tone her sister was speaking in, she could see the slight amusement on her features. Almost as if Hiccup was her brother that she could just never get along with. Frankly, she was surprised at how freely they were interacting. Hiccup didn't seem to be bothered by the fact that he was talking to the princess of Arendelle and Anna didn't seem too upset about Hiccup not speaking to her like she would expect to be talked to as a royal either. The realization caused her to frown. 'Great. Not even half a day, and he is already closer to Anna than I ever was. How do you do it, Hiccup?'

Finally calming down, Anna returned to trying to make amends with her sister. "Anyway, Elsa, this is place is just... wow!" she tried her best to come up with a complient, but that was all she could say.

"Thank you." Elsa replied. " I never knew what I was truly capable of." That quickly reminded the pair of their mission.

"Actually... about that..." Hiccup started, but he was interrupted by an all too familiar voice. The three looked back at the entrance of the castle and they saw Olaf skipping in happily, while reaching 60 seconds and thinking that with the one minute passed, he can follow the others. Hiccup slightly frowned. When he got the chance to finally talk to Elsa, but leave it to Olaf to ruin the moment.

"Hello! I'm Olaf! And I like warm hugs!" he shouted. Anna smiled at him, while Elsa looked confused.

"Olaf?" she asked. Where had she heard this name before? And then it clicked. This little creature was the snowman whom she always built with her sister when they played together as children. But he came to life? How can this be?

"Yeah!" Olaf replied. "You made me! You remember me, right?" he asked on a hoping tone, feeling saddened that his creator would forget him like that.

"And you're alive?" she asked him, still not sure she should believe her eyes or not.

"Yeah, I guess so." Olaf replied, surprised by that question. While the two were still in a state of shock, Anna decided to help things a bit.

"He's like the snowman we built as kids." she said as she knelt down and put her arm around Olaf, making him smile at the affectionate gesture. And despite herself, Elsa allowed the feelings of that pleasant memory to overwhelm her. Yes, she remembered those times well. And when she remembered them, it felt like her powers or the current situation between the two sisters didn't matter. In fact, Elsa felt like that these memories made her raging powers completely calm down for a second. As if these calming toughts calmed them as well. She then mentally frowned at this thought. If only it were that simple.

"Elsa, we were so close." Anna continued. "We could be like that again." she let the desperation get into her voice. She didn't care. And she also didn't care that Hiccup was next to her and wether or not did he hear it, or what did he think. She wanted her sister back in her life and she won't stop until she has her back. No matter how strongly Elsa objects.

Elsa's frown widened. 'Oh, Anna. If only you knew how much I want that too. But...' and at that moment a memory came back to her. A memory that no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't forget. The memory of that night.

"Anna!"

"What have you done?!"

"It was an accident!"

That did it. The pleasant feelings were instantly shooed away by the fear that was quickly returning to her. The fear of hurting her sister, or hurting Hiccup, or anybody else. No, she couldn't bare that.

"No... no, we can't." Elsa replied harshly and firmly, crushing Anna's spirit to pieces. But the worst was yet to come. "And I think you should leave now." Elsa told them. "Goodbye." she then turned her back on them and started retreating into the depth of her palace. But Hiccup and Anna weren't about to give up just yet.

"Elsa, wait!" the redhead princess tried to call after her, but she was turned down.

"No!" Elsa stopped for a moment and turned back to them, trying to make her point more forcefully, which considering the fact that she was almost a nervous wreck wasn't easy. "I'm just trying to protect you. And everybody else."

"You don't have to protect me! I'm not afraid!" Anna replied with determination.

"Yeah, me neithe... WHOA!" Hiccup tried to enforce Anna's statement, but he ended up slipping on the ice stairway when they started to follow Elsa upwards. The fact that his prostethic leg was now no more than an icicle didn't really help his ability to stand on this slippery floor. 'Curse this prosthetic!' Hiccup tought as he held his side in pain. Falling on a stairway was not exactly a pleasant experience.

As soon as Elsa witnessed that, she gasped and all fear of her powers and hurting others were forgotten. Some hidden instinct that Elsa didn't know existed caused her to rush to his side and check on him.

"Hiccup, are you alright?!" she asked in panic. "Oh, this is all my fault. Mine and these damn powers! I'm so sorry!" she begged for his forgiveness as tears started to appear in her eye. Hiccup admitted that he was not feeling really happy or really good at the moment, but she is not going to let Elsa cry. He will not have it in a million years. Her face too beautiful to have tears running down on it. But he couldn't help but feel like this wouldn't be the first time it happened. He didn't want it to happen now and he definitely didn't want to be the cause of it, so he tried to make it look like it hurt less than it actually did.

"I'm fine. I mean, I would have slipped on natural ice as well. What's the difference?" he said with a reassuring smile, trying to lighten the mood as much as he could. Elsa however was not affected.

"Well there wouldn't be any ice here at all in the middle of the summer if it wasn't for me." she stated firmly, burying her face into her palms in despair as she sat down on the stairs and started sobbing. Anna helped Hiccup stand up and started slowly approaching her sister. She had to be careful not to scare her away again. She slowly sat down next to her.

"Elsa..." she tried. Normally, Elsa would be scared out of her mind at her sister being this close to her and she would immediately scurry awayfrom her, this time however, she was too far gone in her desperation to react. "...it's okay." she tried to sound as reassuring as she could. "I am here for you. Now and forever. All you need to do is accept my..."she tried to finish, but was once again interrupted by Hiccup's coughing. "...accept our help." she finished as she glared at Hiccup, who smiled proudly.

"She's right." the viking assured. "I know this is hard for you. Believe me, it was a schock to us as well. But that's what family and friends are for. They are there for you when you need them. Like we are here for you now."

Elsa tried to take in what they were saying. And here it was again. That warm feeling that felt like it was countering her powers but she felt very rarely appeared in her again. She didn't know what caused it, although she wished she did. She remembered what her parents always taught her. To hide her feelings and hide her powers as well. Well, it was a little too late for that. All she could do was restrain them, But with Hiccup and Anna here, the chances and the fear of hurting them were far too big to think straight. She couldn't contain it.

"You... You don't underdtand." she tried to talk through her sobs and her her palms." I hurt Anna once with these powers. Badly. I almost lost her. It cannot happen again." she cried. She looked up at Hiccup with teary eyes. "I can't allow it." Anna listened to this immensely and decided that now was her chance to finally make things right with Elsa.

"Elsa." she started as her sister looked at her. "You always talk about how you want to protect me and you wouldn't be able to see me hurt. But what you are doing hurts me more than your powers ever could. " this caused Elsa to feel even worse than before. No matter what she does, she is doomed to always hurt Anna. "Please, Elsa. Please come back to Arendelle. Come back to me. Be my sister again. I need you. Arendelle needs you." Anna begged with her eyes full of tears. But Elsa stood up and walked away from them.

"Arendelle is better off without me."

"How can you say that?" Hiccup asked as he also stood up. "You are their queen. Their leader. They are lost without you."

"Arendelle needs a proper ruler." Elsa cried with her back turned on them. "Not a monster like me."

"You are not a monster, Elsa!" Hiccup told her. "You are a beautiful, smart, great woman and you need to stop believing otherwise." he went on, not caring that she just called Elsa beautiful. "We are here because we want you back in Arendelle. We climbed this whole damn mountian for you. What other proof do you need to see that we are here for you and we do not care about your powers!"

"For the first time tonight, I wholeheartedly agree with him." Anna stated. "We care about you Elsa!"

Elsa slowly turned back to them slowly. She heard what they were saying, but she couldn't do agree with it. She just couldn't. Olaf who only listened to this conversation so far decided to speak up.

"So do I!" he announced loudly. All three of them turned towards him. Anna smiled.

"You see, Elsa? Even he cares about you."

"Of course!" Olaf shouted as he happily skipped over to Anna and Hiccup. "After all, you are my maker, Anna's sister, and Hiccup's..." Hiccup's eyes widened as he realized what the snowman was about to say. Desperate for a way to silence him, he took his carrot nose and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Hiccup!" Anna scolded him. "That wasn't nice! All Olaf wanted to say was that Elsa is your..." Hiccup put his hand on Anna's mouth to stop him from saying it.

"...friend!" he said, grinning nervously at Elsa. "My dear, dear friend. Right, Anna?" he asked as he glared at her. Anna removed his hand from her mouth.

"Right." she muttered angrily, then turned back to Elsa, and was happy to see that his expression changed to slightly amused at the scene. "Anyway, I brought you something, Elsa. Something that may ease you up a bit." she said as she slowly approached her sister and reached into her pocket. Elsa watched her with interest. Then Anna pulled out something that ruined everything. In the princess' hands was a piece of clothing that was all to familiar to Elsa, but not in a good way. It was her left glove. One of those she was so happy to finally remove from her hands after all those years.

'No... no not that!' Elsa thought in terror. Anna wanted her to wear the gloves again? No. No, she won't pull them on again. She won't go back to isolation! She won't go back to her room. She... she won't go back to Arendelle! The mere sight of the glove caused the fear to return to her. 'No. Go away! Go away!' she thought as she grabbed her head in agony. Hiccup looked at her in concern, but soon he noticed something else. He noticed that snow was slowly beginning to fall inside the hall. Wierd. How come it snows inside tha hall. In fact, how come it snows in... Oh no! That means... Elsa is freaking out again! 'Oh, boy! Things are about to get messy!'

"Uh... Anna..." he tried, but apparently, she didn't notice it. But she did notice Elsa taking her head in her hands.

"Elsa! Are you alright?" she asked in concern. Elsa didn't hear her however. She was lost in her own thoughts and raging emotions. 'No! No! Too much fear! Too much fear!' She tried to keep herself together, but her fear was once again proven to be more powerful. In fact it came to her more powerful than ever before. Her powers were about to get loose again.'No! Keep ii at bay! Conceal, don't feel!' But it never worked before. Why should it now?

Elsa screamed as she let her negative feelings break out of and she also let a huge burst of her powers break out of her in the form of dozens of magical icy shreds which went flying around the room.

'OH, DAMN!' Hiccup cursed in his head. Just before the shreds reached him, he managed to drop himself to the floor just in time to avoid them. He only barely managed to get out of their way. He then got up and saw Elsa pantingin exhaustion and Anna lying on the floor, holding her chest in pain.

"ANNA!" he cried, but then he noticed he wasn't the only one who called her name. Elsa's outburst must have attracted the attention of Kristoff who has been waiting paitently outside. The two of them rushed at her side to check on her. "Are you alright?!"

"Yes..." she moaned weekly as she stood up. Hiccup and Kristoff however noticed there was something not right. As Anna stood up, they noticed that her features were more hard and cold than they have ever seen her. "Yes, I am." Anna said, her voice was firm. The three of them turned to Elsa, who stopped panting and raised her head to look at them, her expression was a mirror of Anna's. Hiccup and Kristoff felt really uncomfortable.

"You will leave. Now!" Elsa pretty much spat.

"No! We will not leave without you Elsa!" Anna replied her voice full of determination, but her expression remained. The two men started stepping back from them. This was not going to end well.

"Then I will make you leave." Elsa said, as she raised her arms and unleashed another wave of her powers. Hiccup was prepared for another outburst coming at him, however, instead of the shreds he was expecting, he felt that e was slowly raising upwards. He looked down and he saw that the he was getting farther away from the ground. The group then saw that there were a small snowstorm raging around them with such a force that it literally blew them away. Elsa made a gesture with one of her hands and the gates of the castle slammed wide open. With another gesture, she pushed the storm she was making out of the hall, throwing them out of her palace.

Hiccup and the others soon found themselves laying in the snow at the end of the staircase leading the the ice castle. As Hiccup looked back, he saw Elsa with a cold stare on her face, before she turned away from them and she used her powers to slam the gates shut.

AN: Well, here it is. Chapter 11. I hope you liked it.

I didn't plan this to turn out like this. I just started writing and the ideas just came. That's how I do it.

I have an idea for this story that I am not sure about. As you noticed, after Anna was shot in the heart with Elsa's powers, she became a little bitter. As I noticed – though I may be wrong - in the hungarian dub of the movie, she does sound like that for a moment after that. When I first saw Frozen, I thought that maybe this means that Elsa freezing her heart will turn Anna bitter and spiteful, it would have made sense after all, though I was wrong at the end, but it would be an interesting idea to have her heart frozen to have a different meaning. And no, Hiccup's heart will not get frozen. I need him at full capacity for what is about to go down.

That's all. And as always, Remember, guys, reviews make me happy. :) This is fanfictionmakermachine, signing off. Peace!