Updated 04/12/2020

CHAPTER 5

With a loud thud the dragon escort landed inside the ice fortress. Elsa quickly dismounted her dragon and gave herself a shake to rid herself of the jitters. The taking off and landing was the scariest part of flying a dragon in Elsa's opinion. But once you were up in the air, the ride was smoother than any small boat or carriage. The flight was so smooth in fact, Elsa didn't have to worry about falling and simply let her dragon do its thing while she cleared her mind and wondered if tonight will be different from the one yesterday.

Turning around Elsa checked the cargo to see if it survived the flight okay. She was happily surprised to see that everything was undamaged.

"Raaargghhhh!" A loud roar that sounded human like echoed throughout the caverns.

"Ruuugghhhh Nahhhhhh," As the roars of voice continued, Elsa remembered her promise to her sister. Elsa you need to promise me you won't give up.

Thinking back on last night, Elsa relented to the fact that she trusted Hiccup way too quickly. Hiccup has done nothing to warrant my trust," Elsa told herself. "No more distractions Elsa, you go in there demand to know who he is and what he is doing here."With new found determination Elsa followed the voice deeper into the tunnels, hoping to uncover the mysteries behind his screaming.

Entering the familiar moonlit room where she first met Hiccup yesterday, Elsa found Hiccup lying on the floor struggling. His hands waved and his voice roared as he tried to get up but to no avail as his black dragon perched himself on his back and kept him pinned on the floor.

"Wraahhh, Toooothlessss," Hiccup yelled as he tried hitting the dragon by swinging his arm backwards.

"Wraaahh Rubb Rawrr," The black dragon mocked with a bored expression on his face.

"Get off me you stupid lazy dragon," Hiccup yelled back as he gave emphasis by whacking his dragon with each word.

Elsa couldn't help but let out of laugh. The sight of the master being dominated by his subject was too amusing for Elsa to keep in. Turning her head, she tried to cover her laugh but her laugh leaked through her fingers. The dragons behind her started to laugh at the two as well. Hearing this new sound, the duo stopped their argument to see Elsa and the dragons watching them. With a small cough to control her laughter, Elsa straightened herself before walking towards them.

"What's happening?" Elsa asked with a bemused look on her face.

"We've been working all day, and Toothless wasn't too happy about it. This is him rebelling against me," Hiccup explained, "But I won't allow this act of defiance to go on any longer!" With one great huff Hiccup slammed his hands onto the icy floor and started push himself up. For a moment Elsa thought that he might be able do it as he managed to lift his body off the floor. Hiccup gave a loud roar as he performed his feat of strength. His arms and legs shook from the strain on his muscles as he managed to get his body a few centimeters off the floor before he completely collapsed back onto the floor, completely dead and breathing heavily on the floor.

Watching him Elsa is amazed by his display of strength. Of course men have tried to use their strength to impress her before but this was completely different. Elsa's amazement came from the fact that Hiccup wasn't huge and did not look all the strong, when clearly he was the exact opposite. The dragon couldn't possibly be light. His strength seemed unnaturally given his body size but that wasn't the only thing Elsa thought was off. For few moments Elsa thought Hiccup's eyes were red, which boggled her mind because she remembered clear as day that they were green. Which was impossible for her to forget given how long they have stared into each other's eyes.

With his breathing finally returning to normal. Hiccup looked up to the Queen, his savior. Having lost all hope of getting Toothless off of him with his own power, he turned to the only person who could help him.

"Elsa help," Hiccup cried looking up at her as he gave her a desperate look.

For a brief moment Elsa toyed with the idea of simply leaving him there, stuck and helpless. But looking down on him with his wide begging green eyes and pout, Elsa couldn't help but pity him in an amused sort of way.

"I would like to but I'm not quite not sure what to do," Elsa said as she held her right elbow in her left hand and her chin resting on her right palm in contemplation. Elsa tried her best to figure out the best course of action as she doubted attacking the dragon with her ice powers is the correct answer.

"Dragons like you Elsa. Try sweet talking Toothless, like a pet," Hiccup answered. Not quite sure I know what he is talking about but I might as well give it my best shot, Elsa thought, if anything it will be good experience on how to deal with dragons, Elsa thought.

Cautiously Elsa walked closer to the dragon, she slowly reached out to the dragon, grabbed his face and started cooing him like you would to a cat or dog.

"There there, everything will be okay, it must have been awful. Your workaholic master making you work all day with no play." Elsa cooed as she marveled at the smoothness of his skin

"Grhmmm," Toothless grumbled in agreement with Elsa as he closed his eyes in pleasure at the Snow Queen's gentle caressing.

"Toothless you traitor." Hiccup mumbled but is quickly silenced by Toothless, putting further pressure onto Hiccup's back that caused Hiccup to let out a yelp of pain.

Laughing, Elsa continued her mission to save Hiccup. Toothless' head darted from left to right in fascination and excitement as Elsa started to use her ice powers to create various ice sculptures of dragons all around them.

"Workaholics are no fun, why would you want to play with slave driver Hiccup when you can come play with the Snow Queen." Elsa said, completely aware of her own hypocrisy as she remembered all the time's Anna called her a workaholic and how she was no fun.

Clearly Toothless agreed with her as he got off Hiccup and started hopping around Elsa and in between the ice sculptures. Completely amazed by her powers, Toothless turned around to face the Snow Queen, opened up his back spikes, and gave her an enthusiastic clap. Elsa was overjoyed by her accomplishment but is short lived when Elsa suddenly finds herself surrounded by her dragon entourage who all had excited looks on their faces as well.

"Oh… you guys all want to play," Elsa said twirling around to take a look at all them. "Umm I am really tired right now, so if you could leave Hiccup and I alone for tonight, I promise all of you I will play with you some time in the future."

Hearing this the dragons became visibly depressed, as their wings and ears are lowered. The energy sucked out of them as one by one they slowly sauntered out of the room. All except Toothless who was giving Elsa a strange but familiar look. Staring at Toothless a bit longer, Elsa remembered why the look he gave seemed so familiar. It was the same face Anna gives her when she leaves Elsa alone with a man expecting something naughty to happen.

"Nothing like that is going to happen you silly dragon," Elsa's said. Her face turned red as she remembered all the things Anna told her to try on a man when they are alone. Imagining herself doing any of the things Anna suggested to Hiccup suddenly got her heart pounding. Toothless remained unconvinced as he slowly turned around and left.

"Thank you," Hiccup said appearing right next to her which caused her to jump up in shock and snapped her out of her imagination. Elsa, non-discreetly, took three very big steps back as she decided that being in such close proximity to Hiccup was extremely unhealthy for her heart at the moment.

Hiccup gave her a confused look, as they were much too far apart to hold a conversation but Elsa refused to look back him with her face still red as a tomato. In an attempt to fix their problem, Hiccup took a step forward closer to Elsa but the queen responded immediately by taking a step back, with her head still facing away from Hiccup. Hiccup's confusion turned into amusement as he took two quick step forward and watched Elsa take two steps back. Turning their situation into a games, Hiccup moved closer to her at various paces. Wordlessly he took two quick steps forward, one slow step forward, three steps forward and without missing a beat Elsa responded. Fear, excitement, nervousness, and anticipation her mind was in a complete hysteria trying to manage these polar opposite emotions.

Sadly, their cute game was fated to end as she bumped the back of the wall. Not letting her to get away, Hiccup pounced on her and slammed his hands to the wall to trap Elsa. With nowhere to run, Elsa slowly opened her eyes and looked up to a smiling Hiccup. Her heart was still beating rapidly and could practically hear her own heart beats in her head but managed to let out a sigh of relief as she did not feel any malevolence from the man who has captured her.

"Hi," he said.

"Hi." she replied her mind went blank once more. heat raised up to her face in a blush as her stomach filled with butterflies. She did her best to regain control by staring down at the floor.

"So how was your day?" Hiccup asked.

"It was fine. A lot of work," the queen answered continuing to stare down at the floor, "nothing I couldn't handle."

"That's good," Hiccup said, noticing a large chest Hiccup peaked the still frozen Elsa "What's that?" Hiccup asked, pointing to the stuff that the dragons left behind as he turned away from her.

"Oh, just some things that we might need. I think the right chest is my personal stuff, the left chest contains food and the middle one I'm not quite sure. Why don't we go take a look?" Elsa replied as she held onto her chest tightly. The overwhelming emotions she was feeling was slowly subsiding to a low dull. "Just a bit longer and then I will ask," Elsa told herself.

With a nod, Hiccup and Elsa walked up to the chests to take a look at them. Hiccup decided to look through the chest with food first while Elsa decided to take a look at her own chest. Kneeling down on the floor she opened the chest with a loud squeak and peered inside to uncover its secrets. For the most part, Anna didn't seem to put anything weird in her chest as she loved to pull weird pranks like that in the most unexpected times. There was some soaps, some makeup and some extra clothes. Elsa noted the clothes put inside were some of her more reserved clothing and none of her summer clothes for those hot nights as she picked up one of her night wear.

"Hiccup I am going to change clothes now, hold on a sec." Elsa said

"Okay," Hiccup replied, too busy looking through the chests of food to even look back at her.

With a small kick of her feet Elsa, surrounds herself with ice to create a small change room. Moments later Elsa came out of the ice in her new night clothes to find Hiccup now done looking through the food and is now looking through the other chest.

"Hungry?" Hiccups asked.

"No, I'm not hungry, you don't have make any food," Elsa replied.

"Well if you ever need me for something, don't hesitate to ask," Hiccup said.

"Thank you." Elsa replied back. As she watched him carefully inspect every single object out of the chest with interest. With Hiccup attention focused somewhere else, Elsa felt like she was back in control with herself. "This is the best chance you are going to get Elsa,"

The nervousness and the butterflies were still there as she looked down at Hiccup but pushed through it. "I don't really need anything right now Hiccup but I do want to ask you some questions. We should get to know each other a little better if we are going to be spending nights together."

"Ask away Elsa, I'm sure you have many questions," Hiccup said as he took out a bunch of plates from the chest and marveled at its pretty design.

"Well, let's start off with how you are using more than three words per sentence now compared to yesterday," Elsa said changing her mind at the last second and picking a different question.

"I sure am! I'm glad you noticed, it was really hard for me to speak yesterday" Hiccup said, "But I think I've managed to handle myself better today. I thought it was because I haven't talked to people in a while that it was my own awkwardness but it wasn't those things. It was entirely different reason" Giving Elsa a knowing look.

Elsa immediately picked up on the what Hiccup was suggesting, "So whatever was effecting me, had happened to Hiccup as well!"

"Why you would think such a thing? How long has it been since you talked to someone else?" Elsa questioned in disbelief that anyone could just forget how to talk regardless of how long it has been.

"Ummm, I think… about a thousand years?" Hiccup guessed, not quite sure himself

"A THOUSAND YEARS?" Elsa yelled out unable to hold in her surprise, clearly not amused by Hiccup's blatant lie and expected him to tell her that he was joking.

"Yup, it certainly has been a while," Hiccup said turning around and letting out a chuckle.

"Well then, what have you been doing for all these years? Alone and without human contact" Elsa asked, not sure if she should play along with his ridiculous lie any longer.

"Sleeping mostly, and also talking to my best friend Toothless. The dragon that you got off my back earlier."

"And before then?" Elsa asked, expecting two possible outcomes. The first being another lie that told her absolutely nothing and the second being answers to what happened to Vikings and where did they mysteriously go. Hiccup turned around and opened his mouth wide, enthusiastically about to answer her question but no voice came out. It was as if he was stuck. After some thought, Hiccup opened his mouth once more to give it another shot.

"I… I'm not sure… My memories are still a little hazy," Hiccup replied.

"And what about here and now? How did you come to be here Hiccup?" Elsa asked with a sinking feeling that she knew the answer already.

"I'm sorry Elsa I don't know the answer to that either. All of a sudden I was awake on top of Toothless in the sky in a land that was foreign to me," Hiccup began to recall. "I didn't know how I got here. I saw the city of Arendelle below and was about to turn the dragons around until I saw you."

"So all of this?," Elsa said waving her around to the mountain they were in to the dragons and Hiccup, "All of this is because of something between us and neither of knows"

"I'm sorry Elsa, I know how things look, big scary dragons showing up out of nowhere. But I can't bring myself to leave."

Elsa should be mad at this, for all the panic Hiccup and his dragons had caused to Arendelle but she wasn't. Something between them that connected them but neither knew the answer.

"Between the two us I am sure we will figure it out,." Elsa giving a reassuring smile to Hiccup.

Having no choice but to let it go for tonight, Elsa walked towards Hiccup and the group of chests. She took out some fresh bed sheets and brought it to their bed. Hiccup followed her and watched her as she spreads out the bed sheets over their bed.

As Elsa got into bed, she could feel the butterflies building up inside her stomach as she wondered if tonight will be the night that it will happen. Having a good feeling about the type of person Hiccup was now, Elsa felt like she could easily ask for separate rooms. But at the same time Elsa couldn't bring herself to dislike it, sleeping with Hiccup.

"Just for one more night," Elsa told herself as she slid into bed, Elsa chose to keep her eyes open this time. Watching him slide into bed next to her, Elsa let out a sigh of her relief, it seemed Hiccup wasn't going to try anything tonight as well. However, looking away from Hiccup proved to be her undoing.

Before Elsa knew what is going on, Hiccup grabbed her by the arm and pulled her up. The next thing she knew when she opened her eyes was that she was lying on top of Hiccup and her head and hands rested on his chest. Caught completely off guard, Elsa's heart started to race once more as she tried to comprehend what is going on.

"What's going on?" Elsa asked, as all her fears came rushing back to her but it slowly dissipates when she sees Hiccup's smiling face.

"Trying something new. Let's just see how it goes" Hiccup said as he pulled the beds sheets over them. With the bed sheets covering them, Hiccup rested his hands on Elsa's waist, holding her into position.

Not sure what to make of his reasoning, Elsa contemplated about her new position. With her head rested on his chest and her own pressed up against Hiccup, Elsa couldn't help her heart beating so fast that it threatened to burst out of her. Elsa wasn't sure if she was going to ever get used to this. But with some deep breaths Elsa managed to calm herself down.

With her body in check now, Elsa returned back to her musings. She had never tried sleeping on her front, mostly in fear that she would wake up with her breasts hurting or distorted. But this feels nice, Elsa thought as she shifted a little which created a friction between their two bodies that felt extremely satisfying. Right when Elsa started to relax, a stab of guilt went right through her heart. "You shouldn't be enjoying this," the Anna from her head said.

Well it's not like I can do anything about it, Elsa mentally grumbled, and I can't help it. His body is just so warm and soft. Elsa's argument doesn't seem to work as she still felt the guilt. It seemed arguing with herself wasn't helping. "I should at least not return home to Anna empty handed."

"Hiccup, if I am going to be spending my nights here, maybe you should give me a tour of the fortress tomorrow in case I get lost. And maybe introduce me to your best friend and the other dragons?" Elsa asked. Opening one eye to look at her, Hiccup answered her question.

"We're not quite ready yet. Still working on some things. When we are done I promise to show you." Well that's not the answer I was hoping for, Elsa thought. Laying on top of Hiccup, Elsa didn't know what to make of tonight, what to make of Hiccup and whether or not she could trust him... He was still a complete mystery to her, was his memories really missing or was that a complete lie? The way he dodged my questions. I'm just not sure, Elsa thought as she tilted her face up to Hiccup, resting her chin on his chest. Was this the real Hiccup, or just a fake?

Despite what Anna wanted and what she said, Elsa couldn't help but like Hiccup, the person she was resting on top of. The way his head fell off to the side when he dozed off and how his scruffy brown hair partially blocked his face, he looked so peaceful. Elsa still did not know why she felt this way about Hiccup or why he was here. But the only thing that she knew for sure was that, here, in this quiet ice fortress as the ice magically twinkled like stars all around them and sleeping under the moonlight with Hiccup, Elsa was happy.

Authors End Notes:

Big thanks to,

Colonel Pepper for helping me with this chapters,

Mistress of the Snow for making me this awesome cover page,

And to all of my reviewers for their nice comments.