More time passed and they had a plan on how to escape. Hiccup's idea of course. So they waited for the next meal drop to come by again, which wouldn't come by until noon, but once it did the plan was set in motion.
"Here is your food your Majesty...I mean Queen Elsa, I mean...Elsa…" Said the guard nervously. He slid the bread into the cell then turned to Hiccup and handed him his food. Hiccup approached the cell bars and took the bread, but grabbed the guards arm then to and pulled him into the bars with enough force to knock him out.
"Wow, nice job Hiccup." Elsa said with a bright smile.
"No big deal," He said. "This guard has had several accidents and was rather sensitive to blunt force trauma, so it would have been easier to knock him out." Hiccup said reaching through the bars to grab the keys around the guard's waist. "Got 'em!" Hiccup said happily, holding up the keys to show Elsa. She nodded and took a few steps toward the door.
Hiccup unlocked his door, which opened with a creak, but no one seemed to notice. Hiccup then went over to Elsa's cell and opened it up, then unshackled her hands. Elsa stretched her arms and sent a few bursts of ice and snow into the air.
"Ah, that is MUCH better. Thanks Hiccup."
"No problem, now we need to get out of here and find a way to get back to Berk."
"Agreed." Both of them headed for the opening that let them into the castle in the first place. Once they reached the end of it Hiccup poked his head up to make sure there were no...suspicious people around.
A small girl, clutching a Olaf doll, was looking at Hiccup with a curious look in her eye. Hiccup saw her and pressed a finger to his lips. Hiccup then lifted himself up then helped Elsa up. The girl gasped when she Elsa.
Elsa walked up to her, smiled and whispered something to her. The girl smiled gleefully and nodded. Elsa smiled back and returned to Hiccup.
"So there is like a maze of tunnels underneath Arendelle… That is rather worrisome, if people knew about that they could break into your castle."
"Yes, that is true, I will have to seal the entrance of the one in the castle. Remind me to do that when I regain my throne."
"Of course," Hiccup said and both of them went up to the mountains that they first entered Arendelle through the portal.
"Do you think that the portal will still be here?" Elsa asked.
"Chances are...unlikely, but we don't have a choice do we? We just have to hope that the Gods hear our calls."
And indeed they did.
A portal, a different portal was present when they walked a little further up the mountain. Hiccup was just as surprised as Elsa to find a portal that seemed to be waiting for them. Elsa even mentioned that.
"Will this take us back to Berk?" Elsa asked.
"It has to, the portals have only been going from Arendelle to Berk so it stands to reason that they would only take us to Berk."
Elsa nodded in agreement. "You are right, that makes sense….So who wants to go in first?"
Hiccup smiled. "How about we go in together."
And they did. They both entered the portal simultaneously and were quickly greeted by a white and black Night Fury tackling them both to the ground.
Toothless was licking Hiccup's face furiously, not giving him a chance to stand up or even talk. All Hiccup could sputter out were quick noises of "N-No!" or "S-Stop" in several different orders. Frostica did the same thing too for about five seconds before allowing Elsa to get up and stroke her behind her ear plates. Elsa glanced over to Hiccup, and he was still being licked to death by his dragon.
"Elsa?!" Shouted Anna, lowering towards the ground while flying on Loki. Once he landed Loki curled up into a small ball and dozed off into a small slumber. Anna ran up to Elsa and hugged her tightly. "Where have you been!? We were so worried about you and Hiccup!"
Elsa hugged her back. "We were in Arendelle."
"Arendelle? How did you get back?" Elsa pointed to the portal behind her. "This can take us back to Arendelle? Then let us go back together! You, me, Kristoff, Sven and Olaf!" She ran towards the portal when Elsa grabbed her hand, restraining her.
"Wait Elsa, you...you can't. Not yet."
Anna looked at her sister with apprehension. "Why...not?"
"Well…" Elsa looked to Hiccup, who was now standing up and petting Toothless. "There… There is a new Queen there."
"WHAT!? But we've only been gone for six months! C-Can they do that?"
"Actually they can. The people needed someone to lead them and we weren't there to do that. So they coronated a new Queen. A woman named Ambrosia…. but Anna, she is like me."
"Like you?" Anna asked, there was present anger in her expression. "You mean she can control ice and snow?"
"No, she can control fire."
"Fire, and you said her name was Ambrosia?" Ana asked. Elsa nodded.
"I'm amazed we haven't heard of her."
"Well apparently she is from the Kingdom of Rine. I never heard about it till she told me."
"But...Why were you Arendelle so long. It has almost been a month since we couldn't find you, Berk literally sent out search ships and dragons for you."
"Well," So Elsa explained what happened, how they got imprisoned, more about Ambrosia, and how they escaped. Anna listened intently till Elsa finished her story, Hiccup adding stuff every once in awhile. "And that is what happened."
"Amazing….We should get you back to Berk though," She turned to Hiccup. "Especially you, your father, Astrid, and pretty much everyone on Berk is worried about you. I think Snotlout was worried about you as well."
"Now wouldn't that be something," Hiccup retorted and climbed onto Toothless's saddle. He smiled and moved his fingers on the saddle, giving a sigh of satisfaction. "I sure did miss this." Toothless launched into the sky followed by Hiccup shouting. "But I missed this most of all!"
Elsa shook her head with a smile and climbed up onto Frostica's back and followed Hiccup back to Berk, along with Anna and Loki.
The sight of Toothless brought a loud cheer, and the sound of the Dragon horn, to be heard throughout Berk. Soon people began to crowd around Hiccup, Anna, and Elsa as they landed. They welcomed back Hiccup quickly with more cheers, but the cheers were silenced when Stoick, Gobber, and Astrid approached them.
"Oh my son! You are safe!" Stoick said wrapping his hairy, muscular arms around his son and lifting him off the ground. Hiccup nearly choked, gasping for breath as his father put him down. "We thought you were captured, dead! Where were you!?"
"Ah, well, you see dad," Hiccup was brushing his hand through his hair nervously.
"I was… in Elsa's world, at her Kingdom of Arendelle."
"In Arendelle and you didn't tell us?" Stoick said, he didn't seem mad. More like, curious.
"Yeah, in Arendelle, and I'm sorry dad, I really really wanted to tell you, but we found a portal that lead to where the dragons were disappearing too."
"Well!? Where are they going!" Shouted a Berkian running his hand through his knotted beard.
"In Arendelle."
"So this witch here is responsible for our dragons disappearing!" Spoke another Berkian, a girl this time. Her accusation was followed by several disapproving shouts.
"NO! No… It wasn't Elsa. It was someone else. Someone who took Elsa's throne." Hiccup shook his head, trying to clear his thoughts. "Elsa is not responsible for the disappearing dragons, the new Arendelle Queen is. She captured us and we were prisoners for awhile, but don't worry, we are back now, but dad, we have to help Elsa get her throne back."
"Absolutely not." He said rather harshly.
"But Dad!"
"No but's son! Ever since this," He looked directly at Elsa. "Ice Queen has come to Berk there has been nothing, but trouble."
"It's not her fault dad!" Hiccup said, his tone almost pleading.
"Aye, then whose fault is it?"
"Ambrosia, the girl who took over Arendelle!" Hiccup shouted back. "I don't care what you say. If you banish Elsa then you banish me."
"Hiccup, don't be ridiculous. You are my son and future Chief of the tribe."
"I don't care, if Elsa doesn't get to stay then I'm leaving too."
There was a long silence among dragons and vikings alike. Stoick broke the silence by stabbing his axe into the ground and let out a sigh.
"Very well Hiccup, what can we do to help?"
"Really? You're….not going to yell at me more? Not going to say, 'You are the pride of the village Hiccup, the Chief must focus on protecting their own not others.' Nothing like that?" Hiccup said, impersonating Stoick a little.
Stoick shook his head. "No, we can all see that you are….deeply infatuated with this woman," Stoick looked at Elsa whose pale skin was turning red. "And who am I to get in the middle of love. When I was your age I was the same way with your mother. Ah, she was grand, very different that is for sure." Gobber patted Stoick on the back and smiled.
"Truly one of a kind Stoick." Gobber said with a smile.
"Indeed," Stoick stroked his beard. "So the dragons are disappearing into Arendelle because of the current Queen there?" Stoick asked, making sure he had all the facts.
"Yes, Ambrosia, she can control fire just like I can control ice."
"Is witchcraft a common thing in your kingdom?" Stoick asked.
Elsa shook her head. "No, it is very rare and is usually shunned by others because witchcraft is viewed as evil."
"Aye, I could see that, but Gothi uses her own form of witchery." Stoick kept stroking his beard, thinking.
"Uhh...Dad?"
"Hiccup, is the portal you came through still there?"
"I-I'm not sure, I mean, it could be."
"Alright then," He turned to the villagers. "We are going to attack Arendelle!" Stoick said sharply, raising roars of cheers from his men.
"Attack!?" Hiccup and Elsa said simultaneously.
"Don't worry Hiccup, we aren't going to attack anyone, we are just going to get our dragons back, cause a little damage and cause the Queen to come out, then you and your friends will strike."
"No attacking civilians."
"No attacking civilians," Stoick repeated with a nod and mounted on his dragon. "Lead the way Hiccup!"
"You got it Dad!" Hiccup said proudly and they all left for the portal, hoping it was still open.
The portal was indeed still open, though it seemed just by a thread. It was as if something or someone was keeping it open as long as they possibly could. Hiccup and his group of friends were the first to enter the portal, along with Elsa and Anna, followed by Stoick, Gobber and the other vikings.
Elsa and Anna found it amusing to hear the awes and whispers of the vikings when they appeared in Arendelle. It really was something like they haven't seen before. A castle for one, they've never seen a pristine, and working castle before.
"So this is Arendelle," Astrid started looking directly at the castle. "It's nice." Elsa couldn't tell if that was a compliment, or her mocking her. There was a rustle in the bush nearby and everyone turned to it. Some of them pulling out their weapons. One viking walked up to the bush and looked behind it, only to drop his weapon and gasp.
"Rockfoot!" The viking said running up to the dragon, the Gronckle turned to the man and the eyes quickly rounded and its short, round stubby tail began to wag. "Oh Rockfoot, I missed you! I thought I would never see you again!"
"Gronk!" Responded the dragon. A few more dragons appeared and more vikings ran up to them, hugging them tightly, some even kissing them. The dragons were equally as happy to see them as well. Reef also came by and landed on Elsa's shoulder.
"There you are, I was wondering where you went little one." Elsa said, scratching under the dragon's chin.
After a warm reunion, filled with a few tears, the vikings were ready to strike. Though many of them were still missing their dragons they felt confident that they would find them here.
Now was the time to strike.