Five years ago

Anna's POV

Years since Elsa shut me out, I could barely see her, let alone approach her. However, today, I was told that a foreign guest would arrive. Since our parents were no longer here with us, I suspected that Elsa, the soon-to-be-official queen, would welcome the guest and be on their service for whatever need they had.

However, I woke up late today, and saw no glimpse of the guest nor my sister anywhere in the castle even after roaming around in it for an hour. But then, the thought of the most obvious guess of their whereabouts came to mind literally after seeing the door of the place itself; the office. Where else would they be?

The door of the office was shut, and I heard chatters inside. When I was about to grab the handle, I heard footsteps coming to the door. I quickly hid behind.

Soon, the door opened and my sister waltzed out of it.

"Thank you again, Queen—I mean, Princess Elsa!" A male voice called from inside the room.

Elsa turned around, about to reply but only to spot me in my 'hiding'. "O-Oh, you're welcome!" She replied before quickly making her way away from me. To prevent her from doing so, I jumped right into her track.

"Whoa—"

"So! Where are they from?" I asked, placing my hands behind my back.

"Anna... I have to go," she excused, as if she hadn't used that excuse for the thousandth time.

She walked around me. "Oh come on, Elsa! It's not like I'm asking you to build a snowman with me!" I whined.

Elsa stopped on her track before slowly turning to me. "... They're from an isle called Berk. They've come to form back the alliance father used to have back in the past. Kai told me that we would trade goods back then, until something happened in Berk that made us lose contact with the land for years."

"Berk?" I held my chin, growing curious. "I think I've read that name from the library... What happened in Berk?"

"Uh... dragons attacked them, but they told me they've learned to befriend the beasts..." Elsa said.

The word made my eyes widen. "Dragons exist?"

"Apparently. Now, if you excuse me..." She turned around again, about to walk away.

"Wait, Elsa!" I called. She turned around again to me, her expression screaming impatience this time.

I smiled gratefully. "Thank you."

I never thought that I would see the sight again, but my sister returned my smile with the same thing. "You're welcome."

With that, Elsa resumed her postponed walk to wherever she desired. That was the longest conversation I've ever had with my own sister in years. It saddened me a bit, but at the very least, I did converse with my own sister. I really hoped that it was not going to be the last.

Now, Berk.

I slowly walked my way to the door of the office room and peeked. I saw a really large man with a fur cape and a thick beard and another man who's... pretty much the opposite. He was fairly skinny and had no beard. Or at least, not yet. The two were talking to Kai at the moment, until they noticed my very presence.

"Oh, Princess Anna!" Kai called.

I came out of hiding nervously to enter the room. "H-Hi Kai!"

The Berkians turned around to see me, allowing me to study them even further. "May I introduce you to our fellow old ally, fellow Berkians from the isle of Berk. This is Stoick the Vast, the chief," Kai gestured to the large man. "And his son, Hiccup Haddock."

The two bowed down to me. "Your Majesty," they said in unison. I bowed down in return.

"No need to be formal to me, and Anna would be just fine," I addressed.

Hiccup gave an uncertain look. "Are you sure?"

"Oh yeah, yeah," I waved it off. "I never knew we had an alliance with Vikings before."

"Oh, we did. It was during King Agnarr's reign..." Stoick explained. "To which, I am very sorry to hear. We never knew that..."

The remark brought a slight sorrow into my mind, but I quickly brushed it off. "Thank you. I appreciate it."

My eyes spotted something interesting on the table. Papers and papers of legal documents. "So... what's this all about?"

"Our agreement to trade fur with silver. Berkian sheep are... well, now that dragons are no longer hunting them, we've been able to raise them normally," Stoick explained as he gestured to a certain paper with Elsa's and his signature on it. His signature was in runic, interesting.

"I take it that we used to do the same thing back then? Arendellian silver for Berkian wool?" I asked.

"Correct," Kai replied. "And of course, there's more to it than just this very trade."

I grabbed my chin. "I see. Let's talk about the dragons though..." I emphasized. "They exist?"

"Ha! Let me correct that. How about, let's see the dragons?" Stoick offered. Right away, I was bought.

"You brought a dragon to Arendelle?" I asked, getting more and more impatient. "Take me! I want to see it!"

"We brought some... Son? Why don't you take her to the boat and be her guide?" The father asked, nudging his son by the side.

"What, me?" He asked.

"I don't recall having another son," he replied. "I want to walk around the village, and perhaps into the woods. It's been a while since I last visited this kingdom."

Hiccup and I shared a glance. He looked nervous for a second. "O-okay. Um, Princess Anna, let's go then."

"Yes!"

We walked our way out of the castle towards the village. On our way to the main gate, it's been only me and Stoick who shared a conversation together, with Hiccup pretty much being a third-wheeler. I asked questions regarding their homeland to Stoick until he parted ways with us to somewhere else. Throughout the walk to the dock, Hiccup remained silent. His body language screamed awkwardness. I had a feeling that I had to break some ice to really get him comfortable around me, for whatever reason.

"So, what's your name again?" I deliberately asked despite knowing it's Hiccup, just to break the ice between us.

"Oh, uhm, Hiccup Haddock," he answered. "Nice to meet you—I mean, we've done that," he bit his tongue. "You get the point."

I chuckled at his attitude. "I do, indeed. How many dragons did you bring along the trip?"

"Um... that would be..." he briefly counted with his fingers, and he stopped at four raised ones. "Four dragons. Two are tidal ones that pulled our ships, the Seashockers, one is called a Night Fury, belonging to me, and the other is called a Rumblehorn, belonging to my dad."

"Oooh, cool names. Are they big?" I asked again.

"Well... yeah. There are big dragons, there are small dragons."

"Can't wait to see them."

Once we're by the dock, I spotted right away the Viking-esque boats. There were two of them. Some Vikings were seen unloading crates of goods onto the dock, while the rest were checking on the crates themselves. One Viking waved a hand to us and Hiccup returned the gesture with the same thing.

"Where's Toothless, Spitelout?" Hiccup asked.

"Onboard. Currently having his afternoon nap," Spitelout replied.

"Useless reptile," he commented. I inevitably snorted at the sass.

"Is he?" I asked.

"Is he what?" He asked.

"A useless reptile?" I asked, snorting again.

He smiled sarcastically, gesturing to a plank of wood that bridged the dock and the deck of the boat. "Kinda? Anyway, right this way, Your Maj—"

"It's Anna, Hiccup," I insisted, stepping on foot on the plank.

"Anna. Right."

He followed me from behind before I jumped onboard the deck. Instantly, I heard a loud snoring to my right, and there it was. A dragon. It was large, black, and... was sleeping with his tongue out. Despite the funny state the dragon was in, the sight still sent chill up through my spine. Seeing the dragon behaving as so, Hiccup walked to the dragon with a body language that screamed embarrassment.

"Toothless, wake up," he tapped the floor to wake the dragon up. That's when I realized that he had a prosthetic leg.

The dragon woke up to the tapping, his eyes directed onto my presence right away.

"Wow..." I spoke under my breath.

"Anna, meet Toothless—waitttt, bud—"

The Night Fury walked towards me with eyes full of curiosity. Of course, I took steps backward in fear of the dragon harming me. Fortunately, Hiccup prevented the dragon from taking another step towards me by holding his head.

"Now, now, gently," Hiccup said. "Anna, your hand, please?"

"My hand?" I asked.

"Just... stay where you are, extend your hand, open it, and let him reach you," he instructed with a reassuring smile. Slowly as ever, I did as he instructed. Toothless slowly leaned in, giving my hand a sniff once close enough. However, I was too scared to look, so I bit my bottom lip and looked away.

As if by magic, the fear lifted off once Toothless closed the gap between him and my hand. I turned to the dragon in disbelief. His scales felt incredibly smooth, totally the opposite that I had in mind.

"Oh my words... You are one incredible dragon," I rubbed Toothless, leaning closer to the dragon. He seemed to welcome my rubbings and all.

"And Toothless... meet Anna!" Hiccup introduced me.

"This might very well be one of the best days of my life," I said as I gave the dragon a scratch by the jaw. I proceeded to circle the dragon around to examine him more thoroughly.

"I... dare to say that it can get better," Hiccup said as he hopped on the dragon. He patted the spot behind him.

"Care to join?"

My jaw dropped to the floor. "Are you sure?"

"More than sure," he said as he placed his peg leg onto a certain spot that was specifically designed to hold it.

Without any more bickering, I hopped onto the dragon, consumed with excitement and anticipation.

"Alright, just—"

I wrapped my arms around his waist from behind. "What's that?" I asked.

"Uh... yeah, that was what I was going to say. Brace yourself, Your Majesty."

"It's Anna—" a click sounded as Hiccup shifted his peg leg, and Toothless expanded his wings upwards. With one push, the dragon and us leaped into the sky within a blink of an eye.

"WHOAAAA!" I screamed on top of my lungs. The dragon spun as he climbed more and more altitude before finally stopping at a height that I screamed at. Arendelle looked so small from the clouds!

"OH MY GOD, WE ARE SO UP HIGH!" I exclaimed as I tightened my arms around Hiccup.

"Ufft—is height one of your fears, by any chance?" Hiccup asked.

"I... I think it is now?" I replied.

"Okay, okay. I have the cure for that. Bud, let's fly low first," he instructed the dragon. The Night Fury did as he instructed. Slowly, we glided to the village while lowering altitude altogether. The sight of the princess of Arendelle flying on a dragon with a Viking was something that Arendellians did not see every day, so, of course, we attracted their attention right away.

I waved my hand to those who pointed at us while laughing. "Hello! Hi everybody!"

We continued to fly in circle several times on the village until Hiccup directed Toothless to the fjord. "I hope you don't mind our dragons consuming some of your fish?"

I raised a brow. "What do you mean?"

He pointed forward to the water and I saw right away what he meant. I saw two two-headed dragons swimming together in the open water. Toothless lowered our altitude, low enough for his right wing to cut the water and low enough to be the noticed by the dragons. Toothless roared to the dragons, as if to call them. Responding to the call, the two aquatic dragons suddenly jumped from the water and glided on the air between us.

"Oh my gosh!" I turned and turned to each dragon, not wanting to miss anything.

"Seashockers, you said?" I asked Hiccup, slightly shouting because of the wind.

"Yes! Seashockers! Thanks to them, we managed to shorten the time it took for us to reach Arendelle!" He replied.

"Oh nice!" I replied. The Seashockers abruptly dived into the water again, splashing some to us in the process. To avoid more, Toothless gained a little more altitude.

"Eh heh, sorry for the inconvenience!" Hiccup said as he dried himself off by shaking his arms around.

"Inconvenience? Hiccup, this is refreshing!" I laughed as I extended both my arms out to really feel the wind. I heard a small hint of chuckle from the Viking.

"All right. I need you to look down as we gradually go higher, okay?" He instructed. I was nervous but I nodded to the instruction. I kept my eyes on the view below and Hiccup directed Toothless to gain more and more altitude. Initially, I could only see the fjord, but as we progressed, the view became wider, until the whole Arendelle was in sight as well. It didn't take long as well until I realized we were in the clouds again. This time, I was not scared. Hiccup's 'cure' worked!

"How are you feeling?" He turned to me.

"Well... this is officially the best day of my life, Hiccup. Thank you," I smiled to the Viking.

"My pleasure, Anna," he replied.

An idea popped inside my mind. "Hiccup, do you mind if we show the villagers Toothless? Maybe take some on a flight as well? I just don't want them to feel left out, ya know."

He stuck his bottom lip out. "Sure, but perhaps minus the flight. Not sure if I can take everybody up for a flight."

Saying a 'yes' internally, I punched the air after hearing his response. We slowly landed on the town square where our arrival was warmly greeted by my fellow Arendellians. All of them were drawn into the dragon but they still kept a distance they felt safe in between.

"It's all right!" I said as I hopped off Toothless to approach some villagers. "He's a big sweetheart!"

After some convincing, I managed to pull three people to have a closer look to Toothless. After some more convincing and a cautious supervision from Hiccup himself, they finally touched Toothless right on very spot I did it! The presence of the dragon attracted more and more attention. There was no exception to anyone who was fascinated by and interested in the dragon; adults, elders, kids, teenagers, you name it.

"Hiccup!"

We turned around to the source of the call and spotted Stoick with some of his fellow Vikings along with two Arendellian guards. But what caught our attention the most was the dragon behind them. It was larger than Toothless, had thick scales and looked fiercer. The crowds' attention soon turned to the other dragon's presence.

"Oh hey dad! Going somewhere?" He asked.

"Yeah, we're going to the woods. Do you want to come?" He offered.

"Eh... I think I will stay. Kind of..." he turned to his dragon, who was 'socializing' with the villagers. "Busy here, I guess."

His father smirked. "Very well. I will be back by sunset," he waved a hand and continued his walk into the woods with his pack.

With that, Hiccup turned his attention back to the attraction of the crowd to ensure safety. Two boys were eager to hop onto the dragon. After asking for the permission, Hiccup helped the boys hop on and signaled the dragon to give them a low flight around the village. The boys initially asked why Hiccup was not going with them, but before he could even answer, the Night Fury already leaped onto the sky.

"Hahaha..." Hiccup chuckled lowly, watching the dragon fly off with the boys.

"They will be okay, right?" I asked the Viking.

He smirked. "Fifty-fifty?"

My eyes widened at his mischievous side. "Hiccup!"

"I'm kidding! He's done this in the past."

I kept my eyes on the flying Night Fury. The boys on the dragon seemed to be enjoying their time as they 'whoo'ed in the entire time.

"So how did you guys... befriend a dragon? I suppose 'tame' would not be the correct word since Toothless... I don't know, correct me if I sound like a total smarty-pantsy, but he sees you more like a friend rather than an owner," I explained.

"Well, you would be correct. We're best friends," he smiled.

"I wish I could have a dragon as a bestie," a random girl said. Hiccup knelt down to meet her level.

"Well, you could! Dragons are wonderful! They are intelligent!" Hiccup said.

"Don't they eat men and women?" A random man asked.

"No, they don't. They mostly eat fish, and sometimes sheep. But we've kept them from eating our sheep, so, mostly fish," he explained.

"How do you tame one?" Another random person with another question popped out. Soon, they began to shoot more and more questions, and I could tell that Hiccup was getting overwhelmed by the amount of questions he was getting fired at. I decided to help the guy out.

"Okay, everybody! Time's up! We have some diplomatic mission to attend. Sorry!" I pulled Hiccup by the shoulder away from the crowd. I saw a glimpse of relief on his face right away. Toothless, who had just landed with the two boys, followed his companion along.

"Thanks for that," he sighed in relief.

"No problem," I crossed my arms proudly. We proceeded to walk in the town. With Toothless on our side, many heads still turned to our direction as we walked by, inevitably. But it was better than being swarmed with endless questions.

"So now, you're my tour guide and I am your tourist?" He asked, totally not sounding obvious at all.

"I mean, I can take you around," I offered with a smile.

"Oh please do. Arendelle seems..." He looked around. "Well, so much in order, compared to Berk."

"Ehh, I don't think so. Perhaps it's just your understanding of 'in order' that is different to me. A kingdom doesn't have to look like this to give the impression that it is 'in order'," I argued. "I'm sure Berk is fine as well. I mean, you have dragons!"

He smiled to me. "Right. You're the tour guide, after all."

"Hiccup, if you don't mind... can I ask some more about the dragons, again, if you don't mind?" I asked.

"I don't mind the questions. I'd be happy to answer all of them, but I just need the time to answer them one by one," he shrugged.

"Okay. How did you befriend Toothless, exactly? I'd imagine the dragons were not just friendly from the very beginning like puppies," I crossed my arms.

"Well... that brings us back two years ago. Would you believe me if I said that I was the first Viking to ride a dragon?" He asked with a proud and showing-off tone, though it was done just for the sake of fun.

I smiled challengingly. "I don't know. I will decide on that. Go on."

With that cue, he explained the story of how he found Toothless after shooting him down. While explaining so, Toothless seemed to be annoyed by the remark for whatever reason. The dragon literally slapped the Viking's butt when Hiccup was in the middle of explaining how he made the artificial wing for Toothless' tail wing. Right away, I was drawn interested. Later, he explained how he shared his time between faking his performance in the dragon fighting academy and taking care of Toothless.

"And later, I found out that dragons hate eels. Well, to be fair, I hate them too—oh, where does this lead to?"

He pointed to a path that would take straight shot to the hill where Mother and Father's grave were located. That reminded me, I hadn't changed the flowers of the graves in a while. Perhaps, this was the perfect time, knowing Toothless could just take us straight onto the hill.

"Oh... that would lead to the grave of my parents," I answered. Hiccup's eyes widened immediately at my response.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know—"

"It's okay! In fact, can I ask you a favor? I need to change the flowers on their stones. It's been a while since I last did. Could you take me up there on Toothless? And we'll continue your story afterwards," I requested.

Hiccup seemed hesitant initially, but he nodded eventually. "Okay. I'd be happy to."

"Great, just, let me buy some flowers first," I said as I dashed off to the nearest flower shop. After getting some, I returned to Hiccup, who was already ready to take me on. I made sure I had a good grip on Hiccup before we leaped to the sky again.

From ground, the giant stones of my parents' graves were not visible. But after gaining altitude easily on a dragon, they were visible right away. However, something else was visible, too. A person, wearing a cloak and an Arendellian guard along with his horse.

"I guess there's an Arendellian paying respect to your parents, at the moment?" Hiccup asked, apparently looking at the same thing as I was.

"Yeah... but who could it be?" I asked.

We landed right behind the person in the cloak. Our landing immediately attracted their attention, but even after turning to see me, I still had a hard time figuring out who it really was as he or she kept half of their face covered.

"Princess Anna?" The Arendellian guard asked.

I hopped off Toothless. "Who is this?"

"She is... um..."

"Don't!" The person cut. It was a feminine voice I was most fond of.

"Elsa?" I asked, approaching her.

"N-No! I mean, no?" She tried changing her voice. "I am not E-Elsa!"

"You're not fooling anyone, sis. But it's okay! I see that..." I looked down to the flowers she had placed by herself. "You've come here to do the same thing I want to do! I brought flowers, too, see?" I showed her the flowers I bought for the occasion.

Looking slightly irritated and totally not at the flowers I showed, Elsa revealed her face fully. "It's not that... I mean, yes, I've come here to see them. But I can't be anywhere close to you, Anna."

I approached her closer. "Why not? Come on! When else do we get the chance to see our parents together like this?"

She turned her back on me. "I just... can't," she said, nodding to the guard. The guard hopped on his horse and Elsa after him. My heart ached to see my own sister doing this to me for whatever reason she had.

"Do you not want our parents see us together for once? To feel that the presences of their daughters are near them?" I asked with a rather harsh tone. My sight became blurry with tears afterwards.

She rolled her eyes to me, but only to roll them away after so. "David, go. Hurry."

"Hyah!"

With that, the horse galloped downhill, passing Hiccup and Toothless nonchalantly. That's when I remembered that they were here with me.

"Hiccup... I'm sorry you had to see that..." My voice cracked. "It's just... she's all I have... but yet... she... Harghhhh!" I groaned in annoyance, trying to break free from the need to cry in front of Hiccup. To clear the mess on my face, I forced myself to find the ground an interesting sight to behold. While doing so, Toothless came to my sight, looking concerned over me. He grumbled lowly, as if he was expressing worry.

"What?" I asked with a smile. "I'm fine, Toothless. Geez, dragons can detect sadness?"

"And happiness. And other emotions, really," Hiccup answered. I looked up to him in surprise. This really emphasized more on how intelligent dragons are.

"They really can?" I asked.

"Yeah."

Two years ahead

"Elsa? Elsa!"

"Queen Elsa, where are you?"

"Elsaaa!"

Queen Elsa of Arendelle, missing in the isle of Berk while attending a Viking funeral. It oddly felt like the time she had stormed off to the North Mountain and left a blizzard on Arendelle. But this time, it's minus the blizzard, fortunately.

We, Arendellians, had come to Berk to see the current state of the isle after forming back our alliance two years ago. Since Elsa had revealed her power (though how it happened was against her wishes), I was granted with the very thing that I wished to have in this life; herself. Now that she has nothing to hide, we've been the closest sibling in the world.

Though, ironically, we were so distant to one another at the moment. God knows if she's still in Berk.

It was our final day of three days stay here in Berk. We were supposed to sail back to Arendelle hours ago, but our queen had gone missing while attending a Viking funeral to a fallen Berkian that went by the name of Eivor. The funeral was supposed to be the last activity we would do before departing.

Now that we had swept clear the village, the woods were our next place to sweep. All Arendellians, accompanied by some Berkians and their dragons, set off to search for my sister. But so far, no luck. The sun was setting and the woods could be dangerous.

"See anything, Toothless?" I asked the dragon who had been my partner in the search. The dragon shook his head as in a 'no'. Dragons really are intelligent creatures.

"Huft... I'm tired of walking..." I complained to myself, arching my back forward while stretching my legs. Before I could continue searching, Toothless made me sit on his back while walking.

"Awe, thanks bud," I scratched the dragon by the neck. "Now, let's go again—"

"Everybody, I brought Skullcrusher."

The whole search party, including me, turned around to see Hiccup on the back of Skullcrusher, his father's dragon. I raised a brow, finding his exclamation odd and not useful to the search.

"So?" I asked.

"He's the best tracker on the island. He has picked up her scent. I used the remaining of her magic. Now he's leading us to somewhere solid, I can tell," he explained reassuringly.

"Oh okay. Why didn't you just take him out since the beginning of the search?" I asked.

"He was feeding himself. And I do not have the courage to disturb a Rumblehorn's meal," he said as he and the dragon walked past us. I took it that a Rumblehorn was not the happiest dragon species if they were to have their meal interrupted. Having no lead more solid than the 'scent' Hiccup used, the search party followed Hiccup's lead.

Toothless walked alongside Skullcrusher, who was busy sniffing the air, the vines, the trees, all for the search of a scent similar to my sister. All of us merely watched the dragon in full anticipation. When the dragon sniffed a particular tree bark, he exhaled an air out of the blue; it's something that he hadn't done previously. This time, the dragon circled the bark, sniffing the object more carefully and thoroughly.

"Is he onto something?" I asked Hiccup.

"Definitely," he confidently replied.

"Roar!"

The Rumblehorn suddenly dashed off to a certain direction away from us. This could be it!

"Toothless, go!" I commanded, and he did as so. He ran to follow the tracker dragon deeper into the woods. Soon, I could see a clearing right through the trees. Skullcrusher 'leaped' into the clearing, away from our visual. Once reaching the clearing, that's when I realized that it was a cove. And there she was, sitting on a rock by a pond. My sister.

"Elsa!" I called.

Toothless hopped into the cove to approach the used-to-be-missing Queen of Arendelle. Once realizing my presence, Elsa dashed to my direction and crashed herself on me.

"Goodness, where have you been?" I asked worriedly, caressing her hair in our hug.

She pulled away, frowning. "I'm sorry... the funeral just heavily reminded me of mama and papa. I... snuck away from the funeral. Little did I know, I brought myself into the wilderness while entrapped in my own head."

"Awh, Elsa," I hugged her again. This time, I made sure it was tighter and warmer. When I opened my eyes, that's when I noticed that the boys, Hiccup, Toothless, and Skullcrusher, were merely watching. Hiccup raised his thumb with a smile, probably finding the sight relieving. Even I could see that the dragons were finding the sight of me hugging my sister was heartwarming, judging from their 'expression'.

"There she is!"

"Oh finally, she's here!"

We turned to see Arendellian guards and the Berkians who joined the search joining us in the cove. Soon, we were circled by them all. "Queen Elsa, are you hurt?" Commander Fitzgerald asked.

"I am fine, thank you, Fitzgerald," Elsa replied.

"Where have you been, Your Majesty?" Sergeant John asked.

"I um... I was..." Elsa tried to find the words. "I got lost."

"Lost?" He asked, not seeming to buy her response.

"Yeah. Um, that's all there is to it. I mean," Elsa turned to Hiccup. "By all means, I mean no disrespect to our fallen Berkian whatsoever by leaving the funeral so abruptly. Truly, I don't."

"I understand," Hiccup replied. "What matters is that you're now safe."

Elsa smiled at Hiccup's understanding. He must've heard her true excuse, after all. "Thank you."

"So, I'm pretty sure you're all behind schedule. Best we bid farewell now?"

A year ahead

Blue, the messenger Terrible Terror, arrived this morning with a letter that said that they would arrive today. But night has fallen and there has been no sign of any ship on the far horizon. Usually, when a letter arrived, the Berkians would arrive only hours later, not an entire day later. God knew if they would even arrive tonight.

It's been months since I last saw Hiccup. We would trade goods every once in three months, and the last three shipments, Hiccup had not been present with the delivery, not to mention they've been behind schedule, too. Today's letter didn't mention whether or not Hiccup was a part of the delivery party, sadly. I secretly hoped that he was. I longed to see my good friend.

Once again, I gave the letter another read. Since Vikings wrote in runes, their handwriting skills in writing alphabetical symbols were not the best in the world, but it was still legible.

"Dear Queen Elsa and Princess Anna,

We are writing this as we are sailing our way to your kingdom with the goods. We hope that we are to arrive within the next hours or so.

Thank you."

That was it. I looked up to the view of the fjord that my bedroom's window provided. Still nothing. No ship, no dragon, no nothing.

I yawned loudly. In the process, my eyes became watery simply because how sleepy I was. The clock on the wall read that it was nearing two in the morning. It surprised me to see that I had been waiting for this long.

"All right... I should just call it a day..." I scrunched my eyes to clear my vision. I gave the view ahead of me a final look. Out of the blue, literal blue, a small speck was emerging from the horizon.

"Huh?"

I had nothing to rely on to give the odd object a closer look, so I relied on my very own eyes. I focused on the speck for a good minute or two until I realized that it was a ship.

"That must be them!" I spoke to myself. With that, I rushed out of my bedroom, not caring to the fact that I was still in my sleeping gown. I dashed through the corridors, the stairs, and out to the stable to grab my horse, Molly. She was asleep, so I gently knocked on the door of the stable to wake her up.

"Molly?" I asked.

She didn't wake up. I knocked the door once again, but a tad harder.

"Molly? Psst!"

The horse finally peeled her eyes open. She looked at me with a confused look.

"I'm really sorry to disturb your sleep!" I said as I opened the door to her stable. "But I need you to take me to the dock!"

The horse blew a raspberry.

"Oh come on, I'll give you a good breakfast later on. Promise!" I patted the horse by the neck. Only after some stretching did she finally come out of the stable willingly. Once putting on the harnesses and the saddles, I jumped onto the horse and off we went to the dock. The guards by the main gate, of course, questioned my motivation of leaving so early and so abruptly. Once they heard the name 'Berkian', they let me out of the gate right away.

"Hyah!"

With that cue, and a little bit of a kick, Molly accelerated on the bridge and into the village. It was 2 o'clock in the morning, so nobody was around, obviously. It didn't take that long for me to reach the dock. By the time I hopped off, I realized that the gap the ship had closed was so much, it was already through the watergate.

Stump!

A loud stump sounded from my far right. Luckily, the bright full moon was there to back me up when I was figuring out who it was. To no one's surprise, it was a dragon rider and his dragon. Toothless and Hiccup!

"Hiccup! Toothless!" I called, rushing my way to his spot.

He turned around to me and grew a smile. "Anna?"

"Eh he he!" I giggled along while running until I crashed myself into his open arms. Toothless didn't want to be left out, so he nudged us to join in. I gave the dragon the pets he deserved.

"I miss you..." I spoke softly, pulling away.

"You do?" He raised a brow, smiling challengingly.

"Am I not allowed?" I asked in the same manner.

"Heheh, I miss you, too, Anna," he replied and pulled me into another brief hug. "I'm sorry that the latest shipments have been... off schedule and... I haven't been able to visit as regularly as I would've liked to. Something happened in Berk, and we're not really in the best shape, per se."

I was colored interested right away. "What happened?"

He was about to reply, but a yawn came out of his mouth instead.

"Oh, you need to sleep. It's super late, anyway," I quickly said.

He looked up to me after scrunching his eyes. "Yeah... I think I do... just need to make sure the ship is docked correctly before that," he looked behind to see the ship approaching to dock on an empty spot between two ships, which I recalled belonged to the Therondians.

Hiccup turned to me again. "Here's a hint of the story. A madman with a dragon army. Sounds interesting?"

My eyes widened at every single word of the hint. "Oh wow. This can't be good."

He shook his head. "It is not. Wait, why are you even up this late? Have you been waiting for me?"

I smiled cheekily. "I might have?"

He pointed his index finger at me. "Sleep, princess," he turned around to walk to his ship. "Good night, Anna."

"Good night, Hiccup!"

Present time

"Elsa... Hiccup... What do I do?"

The fire on the blade was finally out. My eyes saw nothing but utter darkness. I could only hear the gentle stream beside me and feel the rocky ground beneath me. I laid my head against the rock to face the ceiling of the cave, tears building up on my eyes.

"I've seen dark before, but this is darker.

This is vicious, this is brute, this isn't fair.

The life I knew is over, the lights are out.

Hello, darkness, take me this instance."

I tightened my grip on Hiccup's prosthetic.

"I follow you around, I always have.

Yet you've gone again beyond my very reach.

This pain, it kills me, please end this now.

This tiny voice, whispering in my mind."

"You are lost, hope is gone

It is time to go on

And do the next right thing—"

I stuttered at the phrase, feeling an immense doubt. I tried to overcome the doubt by grabbing my blade to stand up. Almost like I was an elderly, it took me a moment to really stand on my feet again before replacing the fuel canister of the blade. With the blade lit, I regained my sight of the environment I was in.

"Though is there really... 'a next right thing?'

I don't know anymore, it's all blank.

I can't find my direction, I'm all alone.

The only star that guided me is gone."

I began to walk forward, to whichever direction my feet were taking me to.

"I must rise from the floor,

but to no one I'm rising for.

It just seems impossible.

Take a step," I felt my heart ached to the thought of my very possible loss. "Oh it hurts."

"This even I can barely do,

the next right thing."

Once again, the thought of my loved ones haunted me.

"I cannot keep my chin up,

it's too much for me to take."

My aimless walk brought me to a steep waterfall with steep ledges on either side. The only way down would be sliding along it.

"Even if I break it down to this next step,

this next choice, I still question what for?"

I slid myself along the sledge and landed hard on the other end. Right when I landed, I lost grip of Hiccup's prosthetic as it fell into the stream.

"No!"

I hopelessly watched it being carried by the current, away and away from me. My heart ached even more.

"Do I... walk... through this night,

stumbling blindly toward the light,

And do the next right thing?"

I used my blade to stand up again. Once again, I continued my aimless, and possibly tailless, walk.

"And with the dawn... what comes then?

When it is too clear that not one dawn will ever rise again?!"

Suddenly, I noticed that the fire of the blade was slowly dimming again. I checked the canister inside the handle and discovered that it was only a quarter filled.

"If you two are gone... my precious, precious, world...

Why do... the next... right... thing?"

Once again, the fire was out, and darkness consumed me.

I'm sorry for being a day behind the schedule. Yes! This is my take on Anna's song, "The Next Right Thing." I made it darker so it would fit with the scene. What do you think? Yes, some parts might be awkward, but I made sure the amount of syllables fit with the song.