AN: Hello again. I've noticed that the last chapter had significantly less reviews than the one prior to it. I wonder why. If someone has a theory about it Id be very happy to hear.

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LunarCatNinja: Alright then. At the beginning they'll be

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Dew That Is Blue: Soon might be stretching it a bit too much, but he will one day definitely

thearizona: Oh my sweet summer child... don't hate me after this chapter

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Without further ado:

"Elsa?" Hiccup's voice asked within her dream. Said lady turned around, searching for the green-eyed boy as he kept calling for her name, but all she could see was an endless white vast expanse before her.

Suddenly a hand touched her, and Elsa screamed, or tried to. For some reason she found herself unable to make a sound. Even when darkness crept on her vision as she slowly fell to the ground she didn't manage to utter a sound. The last thing she recalled was hearing her name being called once again, but this time the voice seemed to be very close, as if he was right by her.

Elsa slowly opened her eyes, her head feeling a nagging pain as if something had hit her. Her dazzled eyes blinked the drowsiness away, and for a moment she thought that she had awoken from her sleep. But, as her vision cleared Elsa found out that she was lying on a grass field, the birds chirping and flying above her while the sun shined across the clear sky.

"Elsa?" the voice called, and she squealed, going down to the ground right after standing from it. She stiffed a groan as she felt her back hurt, and turned to look at the direction of the voice once again. But, this time she was surprised to meet Hiccup sitting only a foot or two away from her, his eyes looking at her with amusement and concern. "Hiccup?" she asked feeling surprised to find him. "Where..." she slowly sat, mindful of not getting nearer him, "Where are we?"

To her ever increasing surprise he laughed, as if she just told him a good joke. "I think you haven't fully awakened from your sleep," he commented amusedly. Elsa blinked in confusion, recalling that she didn't fall to the ground because she was sleepy. "But, anyway, you brought us to take a stroll through the gardens. You said you wanted to show me something," he explained, increasing her confusion.

'Show him something?' she asked herself mentally. She couldn't fathom what she would show that would require them to come to the gardens. She looked around, but other than the faint sight of her castle, and the occasional birds Elsa noticed that they were alone. 'Weird...' she thought, while also trying to find out what she could possibly show.

One particular thought came to her head, and her eyes widened at it. "No..." she thought, but was unaware that she also spoke it. She couldn't believe that she would have brought him to the gardens, a risk she wasn't sure of why she was taking it, to show him her powers.

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"Yes Elsa..." he spoke, as if he could read her mind, "You brought me here to show your powers," he added, making Elsa's breath quicken as she felt despair creep inside her. She couldn't believe that she had been that reckless, she couldn't believe that she was putting Hiccup at this kind of risk.

She involuntarily recoiled when she felt Hiccup gently grasping both of her hands. "N-no," she stuttered, afraid of his proximity, of hurting him. "Y-you don't understand. I'll hurt you," she explained while her throat felt closed. "P-please get away from me," she asked, almost begging.

"Hey...Elsa," he called while still grasping her hand. Elsa weakly resisted his hold on her hand, but didn't pry them away. She felt an odd feeling of comfort coming from their clasped hands. "Don't you remember why you wanted to show me it?" she shook her head, feeling more lost than ever. Hiccup chuckled, and brought himself closer to her to the point that Elsa could feel his warm breathing tickling her dress. "You wanted to no longer be afraid, to no longer shut out everyone…that's why you wanted to show me your powers," he explained softly

Despite all the oddness of the situation Elsa felt herself slowly calming down with his tender voice and his gentle hold of her hands. "Are..." she swallowed in an attempt to quell her uneasiness, "Are you sure?" she asked, more to be reassured than because she didn't believe on him.

Hiccup nodded, showing an almost childlike joy. He let go of her hands to wave around while saying "Do the magic," in a manner eerily similar to how Anna used to do. Elsa, meanwhile, was confused of why she felt disappointed when he let go of her hands. She looked at his eyes, green eyes sparkling with energy that only a child could have, and the patience, of waiting to see the magic. Elsa raised an eyebrow, feeling conflicted at whether she should go on with this craziness or not.

He nodded again, as if he perfectly understood the unasked question, making Elsa draw in a deep breath. Her shaking hand slowly removed her gloves, and she hesitated for a moment when her hand hovered in the air. She looked at him once again and, once again, he nodded. She closed her eyes, and let her magic do the work. Tiny sparks of snowflakes flowed from her hand to the warm air and, when she opened her eyes, she found Hiccup looking at the little snow with awe and wonder.

"It's beautiful..." he mumbled, surprising further more Elsa. It has been years since anyone, out of the few that knew, saw her magic as something beautiful. "Do more?" he asked, making Elsa chuckle at how childish he sounded like. Feeling more at ease than before, Elsa let out another sparkle of her magic, but this time without closing her eyes.

She didn't know for how long they kept like this, she didn't know when she began feeling tired or panting, and she definitely didn't know when she and Hiccup got just inches apart from each other. "It's beautiful..." Hiccup spoke while clasping their hands, after Elsa stopped using her powers. "The magic... It is as beautiful as its yielder," he added while looking at her eyes. Elsa felt her cheeks heat up with his sudden compliment.

She saw Hiccup's hand slowly letting go of her hand, only to cup her cheek seconds later. She didn't know why she didn't feel uncomfortable with their proximity, she didn't know why she allowed him to cup her face, and she didn't know why she slowly leaned toward him. The last thing she saw was their lips slowly meeting; making her feel a warmth she had never felt before, right before her eyes closed and darkness greeted her once again.

Elsa jumped awake, quickly sitting on her bed. Her breathing was heavy and quick, as if she had run through the entire castle. She felt shivers run through her spine as her muddled mind cleared and vividly remembered her dream. Her cheeks immediately flushed a deep red as she recalled the kiss she and Hiccup shared in her dream. Her hand slithered on her face as she mumbled "What the Hel…" in a way her mother would have flushed in both anger and embarrassment. What was worse to her was that she couldn't understand from where this sudden desire to kiss him came. It has been weeks since she met him and Elsa couldn't remember a single moment that she looked at him in a way other than as a friend.

She lay down in a very un-lady fashion, wondering what was happening to her. "Am I that desperate for company?" she asked herself, recalling what she whispered after noticing Hiccup had fallen asleep. She decided to worry about this once she awoke again, and settled in trying to sleep again.

This time, much to her pleasure, she had a dreamless sleep.

The next few days passed by uneventfully. Other than not meeting Hiccup's eyes there was no change in how she and Hiccup behaved when they met. If Hiccup noticed Elsa's increased shyness over him she didn't know it, as he didn't speak of anything about it. Elsa thought about her dream the next morning, but, as she didn't find a reasonable explanation of why she dreamed that, she decided to brush it aside.

Hiccup, meanwhile, kept doing his little project as a gift to Elsa, while also keeping it hidden. The issue he met, one day, was how he would be able to finish the map. He already had the main area of Arendelle perfectly drawn, but wanted to include the mountains. The issue was that this would take him a day at least, far from the tower, and he couldn't imagine an excuse to suddenly go away for a day or two. He knew that he didn't answer to Elsa, but he felt bad at the idea of leaving her without an explanation.

"What am I going to do Toothless?" he asked his dragon while they were lazily flying above the clouds. Windwalker was near him but was silent, settled on listening to his little one's worries. "It's not like I can just go, 'Hey, so I'll be going out for a couple of days away. See you soon'," he said sarcastically. He saw through the corner of his eye Windwalker gazing at him, with a knowing look, and quickly answered. "I know I technically can, but I'm sure I won't feel good for doing so. She's been a wonderful company, and I don't want to leave her without an explanation, but also I don't want to tell her about the map..."

'Hiccup,' Windwalker's sudden voice startled Hiccup. Had it not been for his safety hook he would have surely fallen from Toothless. He turned to the white dragon, a confused look on his face as to why the dragon decided to speak up after being silent for so long. He noticed Windwalker nudging his face forward as if to point to somewhere. 'Look over there.'

Hiccup looked to where he presumed that Windwalker was pointing at. He noticed a small dot moving and narrowed his eyes in an attempt to see what it was. Just when the dot was about to go behind the mountain the clouds over it cleared and sunlight illuminated the area, and the creature.

Hiccup gasped when his eyes clearly saw what the creature was. He felt shivers on his back and his hold on Toothless's saddle tightening. "W-was t-that a dragon?" he asked, stuttering in anxiety. He turned to look at Windwalker, hoping that the dragon would shake his head or even let out a snarky comment about him going insane.

Unfortunately, the dragon solemnly nodded, indicating that indeed they had seen a dragon flying. "We need to check out on that dragon. It's too dangerous to have a wild dragon flying around," he spoke, feeling both determined and dreadful. Wild dragons were hard to tame, and if these people saw it then it would cause generalized panic, thus hiding Toothless and Windwalker would be nearly impossible.

He realized that he had forgotten one detail while considering what they should do regarding the wild dragon they spotted. "Go to the forest and clean up our camp. We'll be heading out tonight for the mountains. The night will give us cover to move more freely," he directed. "There's something I must do before that though," he added.

'And what would that be?' Windwalker asked in curiosity as he was about to leave them. He agreed with Hiccup about going to look out for the dragon when night arrives, but he was irked at what his hatchling would do, even though he had a good hunch at what that would be.

"I need to warn Elsa."

xxxx

Meanwhile Elsa was studying with Agdar. He had decided to take over the Royal's lesson for the day, thus allowing Idun to spend some time with Anna. However, this was not the main reason he did this. Idun had confided to him that for the last couple of days Elsa seemed a bit off, as if something was troubling her besides the usual. So he had decided to give Elsa her lessons and try to figure out if Elsa was really unsettled by something.

He was sure that Elsa was about to speak. She had stopped her lessons and drawn a deep breath, an attitude she usually had when she wanted to ask or say something more personal. However, they were both startled and shocked when a knock came from the door, and both knew that it was neither Anna nor the Queen by the sound of it. He noticed Elsa's terrified stare and gestured for her to stay put.

Quietly he walked to the door and opened it a bit to see who was outside. To his brief relief it was Kai, his trusted steward. His relief was short lived however because he noticed Kai's worried and serious face, something highly unusual for the man.

He knew at that moment that it would not be this day that he would find out what was troubling Elsa.

"I'll be back, Elsa," he said before slipping out of her room. Something was troubling his steward and he knew that it would not be good to discuss it near Elsa, or her room. He motioned for the two of them to go to his study so Kai could confide to him what the issue was.

"Your Highness, I am sorry for intruding on your...time with your daughter," he said when they arrived to Agdar's study. "But I have disturbing news. Several hunters reported a flying creature near the East Mountain earlier. I've checked with all the witness and most of them were not near one another, yet all their descriptions are similar to an extent," he explained.

Agdar listened carefully, and took the folder Kai had with him, in which there was the written report of the hunters. He quickly flipped through the reports, noticing that some of the hunters he knew of since they hunted in the woods for more than a decade for Arendelle. These were men that he trusted, and knew that they faithfully did their jobs. If even they reported spotting this creature, then it was indeed cause for alarm.

"Does the city know about this creature? Or did anyone aside from the hunters report spotting it?" he asked, his main concern being how they would respond if they knew that there was an unknown creature lurking near Arendelle.

"No, as far as I know, only the hunters that were hunting in the forests have seen this creature, and they have sworn to keep their information concealed, trusting that you would deal with this," he explained, leaving out the fact that he may have had to threaten one or two hunters to keep quiet.

"I see..." Agdar mumbled while tapping his chin. It was a terrifying idea that a monster was lurking near his kingdom, and even more so to him because it could hurt any of the people he had sworn to serve and protect when he became King. "Let me know if this creature is seen again. Keep the guards alert for anything unusual," he commanded. The last thing he needed was widespread panic, so he decided to keep this situation under cover.

xxxx

Elsa had decided to head to her father's study through the hidden passage when she only heard footsteps rather than his voice. She was worried about whatever Kai had that was of such importance to say that it would require him to invade her father's private time with her. Elsa didn't get out of the room anymore, but she knew that when her father was with her it meant he should not be disturbed unless it was something very important.

Suspecting that he went to his office Elsa quietly used the secret passageways to it, only lighting up her lantern so she could see the path, and because light almost didn't leak from the passages hidden doors. She wouldn't be able to open the bookcase door so she already expected to hear the conversation muffed by it. She took longer than she had thought she would to reach her father's office because it had been awhile since the last time she used the passageways to go to somewhere other than to the tower.

But she managed to arrive, and just in time to hear her father commanding Kai to keep the guards on alert and keep the situation, which she didn't know what it was, quiet for the mean time. Fearing that her father had discovered Hiccup Elsa quickly left for the tower, the air around her cold as despair ran inside her and unsettled her barely controlled powers, the lantern's flame flickering as her powers threatened to douse it.

She arrived at the tower panting slightly, and breathed a sigh in relief when she spotted Hiccup and Toothless there, seemingly unharmed. "Hiccup..." she said while feeling her stomach settling down after being worried with him.

"Elsa..." he said, though lacking his usual bright smile. It was only then that Elsa picked up something was wrong as she noticed his worried expression. The previously gone dread returned quickly, and she felt the air grow colder by a few degrees. "There's something I need to tell you," he explained without sitting.

"What is it? Did something happen?" she quickly asked, afraid that whatever he would tell her was linked to her father's orders to Kai. She noticed how his things were stored as if he was ready to leave and how Toothless seemed to be ready to take off. "No…please tell me you're not leaving," she said with a hint of despair lingering on her words.