Updated 01/12/2020

Chapter 3: A Night With Hiccup

It took Elsa nearly half an hour to reach the base of the fortress. By the time the queen reached the base of the fortress she was silently cursing the dragon king for making her walk all this way. With the palm of her hand the snow queen glided her hand across the ice wall of the ice fortress. Comparing the ice created by the snow dragon to the ice creations of her own Elsa hoped to learn more about of her own ice powers and any possible strategic information that might prove useful one day.

"The ice is coarse, rugged and wild," Elsa examined, "The color of the ice is an opaque white compared to my own sparkling semi transparent blue ice." Looking up she saw the thousands of jagged ice and spikes and noted how her own ice always came out symmetrical and smooth. Elsa spent a few minutes trying to recreate the ice in front of her but failed miserably with each attempt. Giving up Elsa went back to her analysis. The final thing she noticed was how the ice itself is built, "My ice is made out of one single uniform piece making it easy for things like cannons to break through but the wall in front of me is made up of layers and layers of ice. Only an overly inordinate amount of cannons shots would be needed to penetrate through this fortress, Seeing the difference between the two ice and its creators, Elsa theorized that the ice created was a reflection upon the creator of the ice itself.

Finished with her research Elsa searched for the entrance to the fortress and spied an opening high up above the fortress. The Snow Queen used her ice powers to raise herself to the entrance. Upon entering the fortress Elsa was met with dragons. The dragons were hanging from the ceiling and from the sides. Fire exited from their nose and mouths lighting the dark tunnels. This eerie sight did not faze Elsa at all. Energy was required to be scared, and Elsa was absolutely exhausted.

Slowly a baby Gronkle floated towards her. "Oh hello," Elsa greet quietly as she followed the baby dragon with her eyes. The baby Gronkle let out a happy growl as it slowly flapped its way forward and slowly circled around Elsa before flying deeper into the caverns. "I guess it wants me to follow it," Elsa told herself and followed behind the baby dragon.

The baby Gronkle led the queen to an exit of the tunnel and into a lighted opening. Looking up she could tell that she was at the very top of the fortress as the ice was thin enough so that the moon and starry night sky lit up the room. All around her the ice sparkled from the moonlight. At the very center of the room Elsa found the Dragon King talking to his dragon subjects but stopped when he noticed her presence.

"This is it now Elsa, don't break down crying again," Elsa told herself and vowing to get answers tonight.

Elsa took a step away from the dark tunnel and into the light of the cavern. The Dragon king noticed Elsa's presence and waved his hand causing all the dragons that surrounded the king to leave the room. With dragons gone the two remaining occupants started to approach each other.

"There it is again!" Elsa thought to herself. This feeling of her stomach being turned upside down and the tightening of her chest to the point where she could feel her heart beat. Elsa did not understand why she was feeling this way at the mere sight of this man. However, Elsa did not have the same violent emotional response like the first time she had saw, giving her some strength to continue forward. "At least I haven't fallen into tears like the first time."

Once again the image of the man that Elsa had in her head matched up perfectly to what she was seeing. The little scar by his chin, the button nose, and scruffy hair, it all seemed so clear to Elsa. Finally standing in front of him Elsa could see that he had removed his brown leather armor and shoulder pads, replaced with a light brown tunic.

Slowly with his bare hand Hiccup reached out towards Elsa's face. Instinctively Elsa flinched away causing Hiccup to retract his hand. The pair stared back at each other in surprise an a feeling of awkwardness was created between the two. Elsa could see the hesitation and confusion in Hiccup's eyes telling her that Hiccup did not know what was happening either between the two of them.

Unsure of his own actions Hiccup reached out once more and touched Elsa's cheek with the palm of his hand. His fingers buried itself in the tresses of her platinum blond hair. With his finger and with the smallest amount of strength Hiccup gently tilted her face slightly up to his own.

Elsa felt extremely uncomfortable under his scrutiny. The skin on skin contact, the atmosphere as the moonlight shined down upon them the ice sparkled all around them. Romance was in the air and neither Elsa or Hiccup knew why. Despite not knowing Elsa couldn't seem to bring herself to hate their intimacy. Looking into his lambent emerald eyes, she was reminded of the same unfocused stare that he gave her yesterday at the docks. It was as if he was looking at something more than just what is in front of him. Looking for some sort of reason, for something deeper.

"You're tired," Hiccup commented.

Elsa's inside gave a quick jump upon realization, apparently no amount of makeup was going to hide the heavy bags under her eyes. "Is he mad that I showed up so late or that I presented myself in such a sorry state?" Elsa asked herself.

Gently Elsa turned her head away to remove Hiccup's hand from her cheek and took a step back in the hopes that the small increase in distance would better hide her tired features. With both hand behind her back, Elsa stood up as straight as she could hoping to summon out every last bit of strength she had left to hide her exhaustion.

"I'm fine, ...ummm..., Hiccup. You don't have worry about me," Elsa lied and Hiccup did not look convinced either. Elsa gave an inward sigh of relief as Hiccup did not seem to be mad at her either.

"Come," Hiccup's hand reached out and took Elsa's hand without a second though. Their hands connected Hiccup lead Elsa to a much smaller room with makeshift bed at the end of the wall.

"lie down," Hiccup said.

"He certainly short with his words, "Elsa noted,"Well, time to get this over with. Maybe it won't be so bad."

Lying down on the bed Elsa wondered what would happen next. She hadn't even kissed a man and yet she had an unending desire to do so now. She had so many questions running through her head. A mysterious force of emotions had taken control over Elsa's body. The desire to grab onto Hiccup and the threat of tears was ever present.

Elsa watched Hiccup as he sat beside her on the bed. The distance between their faces grew closer and closer. Closing her eyes Elsa puckered her lips waiting for the kiss. She could feel his presence grow stronger and stronger, her heart raced in nervousness as he drew closer, his arms wrapped around her body. Before she could comprehend what was going on Elsa felt her body being pulled and then something hot and heavy pressed up against her face. Opening her eyes to see what was going on, Elsa found her head resting on Hiccup's arm and her face pressed against Hiccup's chest. With his other arm he wrapped it underneath her own arm. His legs had forced their way between Elsa's and intertwining their legs together.

"What's going on?" Elsa asked.

"Rest Elsa." Hiccup said simply.

Looking up Elsa saw that Hiccup had his eyes closed. His breathing brushed against the top of her hair. Watching carefully Elsa waited for any surprises. But after a while she could feel the arm pressing against her back loosen and his breathing became softer as he fell asleep. If Hiccup was going to give her what she wanted the most since this morning, she wasn't going to argue with him. Elsa shifted her body slightly to get used to her new position. Feeling the exhausting return to her in a massive wave, the queen closed her heavy eyelids and fell into a deep slumber.

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The next day Elsa woke up to find the warmth, the sound of a roaring fire crackling and an aroma she could not identify. Opening her eyes the queen stretched her body in an undignified manner. For the first time in what felt like forever, Elsa felt like she had a good night's sleep. Sitting up, she followed her senses to find Hiccup by the window next to the fire. The aroma she smelt moments ago turned out to be fish cooking on a stick.

Noticing that she was awake, Hiccup gave her a warm smile and motioned her to come sit in the chair next to him. Getting herself seated, Hiccup handed a cup of water and a roasted fish on a stick.

Elsa took a quick drink of water before curiously looking at the fish she was handed. She did not recognize the fish but took a bite of it nonetheless. To her excitement found the taste to be quite pleasant. It was surprisingly light but tasteful at the same time. Bits of salts sprinkled on top of the fish as a quick wake me up to one's tongue.

Elsa found Hiccup's cooking skills to be quite pleasant. Elsa was enjoying her breakfast when she noticed a small window that she did not see previously last night. looked out through the window. Elsa could see her kingdom and her palace in the distance. Elsa upon seeing this immediately panicked. Elsa wanted to see Anna and to let know her know that she was okay.

"Hiccup I know we had an agreement, but I'm the Queen of Arendelle and my people need me," Elsa said, as she looked to Hiccup hoping that he would understand.

"Eat first." Hiccup replied.

"Great, another short ambiguous response," Elsa thought, frustrated with Hiccup speech pattern. With no other choice Elsa did as she was instructed. When she finished her meal, Hiccup took her hand once more and lead her through the caverns.

After a short walk Elsa found herself in a room full of dragons. Clearly this was their nest. Watching the dragons in their natural habitat and with baby dragons flying around made them look less menacing compared to yesterday. Turning back she found Hiccup gone but with a quick look Elsa found him again next to an opening that lead to the open sky with a blue dragon. Smiling, Elsa hoped that this was what she thought this was. "Hiccup is going to take me back to Arendelle," Elsa smiled as she walked towards him and taking a good look at the dragon. This dragon was different compared to the black dragon that she saw Hiccup riding yesterday. This dragon was mostly blue and was covered in colored spikes. It looks quite beautiful in its sitting position.

Hiccup's hands reached out to Elsa's face. Being the quick learner that she was, Elsa knew that Hiccup was about to do something weird again and tried to step away from the clutches of his hand. But Hiccup was too fast for her and grabbed her cheeks with two hands and pulled her towards his face. Opening her eyes, Elsa found their foreheads touching together. His forehead was separating the bangs of her hair and their faces was in such close proximity to each other that a small twitch could connect their lips, Elsa couldn't help but turn as red as a tomato.

Elsa could feel an unending warmth that started from her heart and spread across her body. Closing her eyes Elsa allowed herself to enjoy this pleasant moment. And after a short pause the two separated and Hiccup helped Elsa onto the Nadder.

"Remember. Legs firms. Hands firm." Hiccup said and showing her where to hold, "Wind strong. Keep low," and with those final flying instruction Hiccup took a step back. Elsa was curious as to where Hiccup's black dragon was but he was nowhere to be found. Upon looking at Hiccup she noticed that he made no moves to mount his own dragon.

"Wait! You're not just going to send me out flying on a dragon by myself are you?" Elsa panicked,

"Busy. Trust dragon. Elsa safe," Hiccup replied and waved a goodbye to Elsa. The Nadder stood up, shaking its spikes and opening its wings. and before Elsa could argue back the Nadder took off

"Hiiccupp!" Elsa cried out as she hung on for dear life but her cries was only heard by the open blue skies.

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From high up above, Anna stared out across the kingdom towards the ice fortress hoping for the return of her sister. Last night she prayed all night for the safety and return of her sister. At first light Anna ran out to the stables to grab a horse and wait for her sister at the pier but was stopped by General Grahm. If people saw the princess waiting around by the pier, people would start to wonder why and it wouldn't be long before people started to assume the worst.

Anna felt like she had been waiting for an eternity with each passing minute being longer and longer. After waiting for two hours Anna wanted to cry. Completely crestfallen Anna was about to go back inside when she heard a high pitch caw.

Looking up Anna saw a blue dragon and riding on top was Elsa.

"ELSAAAAA!" Anna yelled out to grab her sister's attention. Tears of joy escaped her eyes.

With a loud thump, the Nadder landed onto the upper gardens of the palace. Carefully Elsa slid off the blue dragon and thanked the dragon for returning her safely back home. The Queen was then tackled to the floor by the princess.

"I am so happy that you are back home safe Elsa!" Anna said, crying into her chest and clinging onto her for dear life.

"I'm glad to be home too Anna," Elsa said.

Removing her face from her chest, Anna took a good look at her sister's face

"What happened in that ice fortress last night Elsa?" Anna asked. Seeing her older sister frown and turn her face away from her questions, Anna immediately assumed the worst and went back to hugging her sister and wrapped her arms around her sister's neck.

"It's okay Elsa, no matter what happened last night I promise to be there for you. Just let it all out," Anna cried. Anna waited patiently for Elsa prepared to embrace each other for however it long it took for Elsa to talk to her. Feeling Elsa's hand rub against her back, Anna knew that she was ready.

"Hh- he used me." Elsa let out.

"Oh no!" Anna thought as the pits of her stomach turned upside down. "Why did it have to happen to Elsa? Why couldn't it have been me? No! Now is not the time to be weak Anna! Your sister needs you now!"

"Go on Elsa I know you can do it. Just let it all out!" Anna cried out.

"HE USED ME AS A BODY PILLOW!"

Cover page by Mistress of the Snow

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