Hiccup burst out from the library and began searching everywhere to find the dining room for breakfast, opening all the doors of the palace.
'Oh Thor what should I do I don't know where are Anna and Elsa and this castle is huge' He thought worried 'What should I do, what should I do.' He didn't know what to do.
"Can I help you young man?" a woman who was behind him asked kindly, Hiccup turned around to see her and realized that she is one of the servants and then he realized that he can ask where his aunts were.
"Yeah, I am looking for my aunts Anna and Elsa but I don't know where they are." Hiccup said a shyly.
"You are the nephew of the queen and the princess." She said.
"Apparently, yes I am" Hiccup said "But please no bowings I am not used to them."
"Very well" she said. "You said that you are looking for your aunts, right"
"Yes I am, but I don't know where they are." Hiccup said.
"Don't worry follow me." The woman said and began to walk, with Hiccup following her.
"Thank you for help me, my name is Hiccup by the way." He said.
"Well Hiccup I am glad to meet you, my name is Gerda, I am one of the castle servants." Gerda said while walking.
"Nice to meet you Gerda" Hiccup said before asking.
"How does it feel to be working for the royal family?"
"For me it is a great pleasure to work for them and stay near them, the only difficult thing is when they are visited by other royal families, dukes, princes and dignitaries, because everything must be in perfect order in the time for the visit. But in rest everything is very good." Gerda explained.
"Oh and sorry if I ask but how are the princess and the queen in private? I didn't know anything about them before my father had told me."
"Well, princess Anna is very good at heart and likes many things, beign happy, like children and she loves her sister, the queen, very much." Gerda said and continued.
"Queen Elsa is very graceful, good at heart as well and they both like to help people."
After five minutes they have reached the dining room of the castle and in that time Hiccup asked questions about his aunts and about what they are doing and what they like and Gerda answered him with pleasure.
Now they are in front of the two big doors of the dining room. Gerda noticed that Hiccup was nervous about what will happen next.
"Is everything ok, Hiccup?" Gerda asked.
"Yes, it is just that I don't know what I will do now, I mean I never ate with two members of a royal family before."
"You don't need to worry, I know that you are a Viking but I didn't expect that a Viking can be so nervous about this, but the one thing you should do when you are eating with them is not to eat with your bare hands, use the spoons and forks to eat, and eat slowly, do you understand?" Gerda said and Hiccup leaned his head to say yes and when he approached the door he took a deep breath before opening it and entered the dining room.
The dining room was half the size of the grand hall back on Berk island, but it was more impressive because the tables were very well made with white table cloths, big windows, some pictures and the red walls had some shapes on them.
But then Hiccup noticed that his aunts were waiting for him at one of the tables. Hiccup had a heavy heart, thinking that he was late and maybe they were going to say something to him, but he decided to wait and see.
He approached the table and sat near Elsa who was at one end of the table while Anna was at the other side of the table and now in front of Hiccup.
Elsa was a little nervous being so close to her nephew, mostly because she didn't want to show him her Ice powers, scare him or hurt him.
But thankfully her sister Anna was near her and that was keeping her calm, but as a precaution she was wearing the same pair of blue gloves she wore when Hiccup arrived the other night.
After a moment of silence Hiccup spoke with a shameful tone.
"I am sorry for being late." Hiccup said.
"Hiccup you weren't late at all you entered exactly…."Anna paused and looked at the clock in the room and continued "in the last second."
That made Hiccup calm himself down and smiled, but he also noticed Elsa who was wearing gloves and seemed that she was a little nervous. He didn't know why.
"Um, aunt Elsa why are you wearing gloves?" Hiccup asked making Elsa more nervous.
"Well, I am always wearing gloves when I am eating, Hiccup" Elsa said.
After a short moment three servants entered with three plates full of food together with some water and lemon tea.
The servants put the food plates on the table and the tea in three cups for each one of them.
The menu contained fried fish with puree, some bred and vegetable soup, the first dish was the soup.
Hiccup remembered to say 'thank you' after he received the soup, but he was also nervous about how to eat it and decided to watch his aunts and to imitate them.
He took the spoon and began eating his soup slowly in the same way his aunts were eating theirs.
Then it was the fried fish with puree. He took a piece of bread, his fork and knife and as well Hiccup watched his aunts and began to eat like them.
But both Elsa and Anna noticed what their nephew is doing, and realized he wanted to make a good impression and tried to be civilized but in those attempts they noticed he is rather more stressed then calm, and Anna spoke:
"Hiccup we know you are trying to make a good impression but you don't need to stress so much."
"Sorry...it`s just…..being related to a royal family of a kingdom is very new for me." Hiccup said.
"We know, but you don't need to stress too much about this, not when you are in the family, only on important occasions you need to give an example." Anna said smiling.
After this encouragement Hiccup continued to eat but this time he was more calm and more confident.
When they finished Hiccup said "Can I go visit the city? I am very interested to see how it is, comparing to Berk."
"Certainly you can go visit the city, Hiccup" Elsa said quickly.
"But first you need better clothes and something to hide the fake leg, because people might began asking questions about this." Anna said.
"Better clothes?" Hiccup said before Anna took him by the hand to look for some clothes.
In the meantime, Elsa went to her office for another day of royal duties hopping that Hiccup will not get suspicious about her wearing gloves or think that there is something wrong with her, in spite of her attempts to hide her powers from him.
Later, Anna and Hiccup went to a room to change his Viking clothes with something more fit for Arendelle.
It took an hour for Anna to find and change her nephew's Viking clothes with more elegant ones.
"And, finished." Anna said with a large smile, being proud of her work and putting Hiccup in front of a mirror to see himself now.
"You look so cute." Anna said excited.
Hiccup on the other hand, was felling very awkward seeing himself with elegant green silk clothes with buttons. Thinking of the looks of his father, Gobber``s, Snotloud`s, the twins`, Astrid`s and of all the Viking villagers back on Berk, that they would laugh at him seeing him dressed like this. But he knew that this is the style in Arendelle and so noting will be that bad here.
"Everything is all right Hiccup." Anna said a little worried.
"Yes auntie everything is fine." Hiccup said making Anna smile and giving him a hug.
Then he remembered about Toothless, and decided that he should find him, but just before he went out of the room he met Kai who was looking for him.
"Ah, there you are" Kai began "I was looking for you."
And Hiccup knew that something happened.
"Look if Toothless did something to you Kai, I am sorry, and… " Hiccup began before Kai interrupted him.
"You don't need to worry, everything is fine." Kai began.
"Except that after I gave him a code he jumped on me and began to lick me continuously, I barely managed to escape but now I need to wash my clothes." Kai said.
"Sorry about what he did, Kai" Hiccup said.
"You don't need to worry he didn't hurt me but please, can you convince him to stop doing that when me or anyone else feeds him?" Kai asked.
"I will do that" Hiccup said before asking. "Where is Toothless now?"
"He is outside, he is waiting for you." Kai said.
Hearing that, Hiccup went outside in the garden to find Toothless standing there waiting for him.
"Well bud, it seems that we will go to fly around to see the city and the rest of the kingdom today." He said to his dragon. Toothless got very excited and Hiccup got on the saddle and flew to the sky.
They had flown around the city and its surrounding areas on a safe distance, in order to be seen as a black bird by the people on the ground, and while he was flying he was taking many notes in his notebook about the city. Then he remembered that he wanted to visit the city on the ground as well.
"Ok Toothless I think that we can return to the castle now." Hiccup said.
When he returned to the castle he saw Anna talking to a man with a reindeer.
Anna noticed her nephew and his dragon returning from their trip and said:
"Oh, Hiccup you are back, just in time."
"In time for what aunt Anna?" Hiccup asked.
"I want you to meet Kristoff." Anna said and the man turned around to see him, he was a little impressed.
"Oh, you are Anna's Viking nephew?" Kristoff asked.
"Yes that's me. And I am Hiccup by the way." Hiccup said.
"Nice to meet you Hiccup" Kristoff said before he began to giggle a little.
"What is so funny?" Hiccup asked.
"Sorry, it`s just having a name like hiccup is really weird." Krystoff answered.
"Yeah, Vikings believe this will scare off gnomes and trolls." Hiccup said.
"Well, I am sorry to disappoint you but trolls are not scared off by this name, maybe only the gnomes." Kristoff said, and also notice the black dragon behind him making a step back and Hiccup noticed.
"Is that a…" Kristoff said began impressed.
"Dragon, yes but you don't need to worry about him, he will not do anything to you." Hiccup said and Krystoff calmed down but th reindeer not so much.
"Don't worry about the dragon, Sven he said he will not do anything." Kristoff said.
"I don't know Kristoff, I mean he is only a little kid, how will he manage to keep that fire breathing dragon at a distance." Kristoff talked near Sven to appear he was talking.
"What are you doing?" Hiccup asked a little irritated.
"This is how Krystoff is doing time by time with Sven." Anna said.
"Really? and Vikings call me weird." Hiccup said.
"Sorry about that, but Sven is sometimes doing this." Kristoff said.
"Oh, I see." Hiccup said.
"And your auntie was telling me things about you just before you arrived." Kristoff said and continued.
"So how is it for you, a Viking boy to be related to the royal family of Arendelle? It must be great."
"Yeah, actually I found out about them only three days ago, before I arrived." Hiccup said before continuing.
"And yeah for me it is very weird that I am related to a royal family, it is very unusual."
"Unusual? You want to know something more unusual, I am selling ice for a living." Kristoff said.
"Selling ice for a living? And how is that?" Hiccup asked.
"Well, in summer and spring time I have to go with Sven in the highest mountains of Arendelle with only my sledge, to the glaciers frozen lakes, rivers or springs, cut the ice with a chainsaw, put the ice blocks in my sledge return to the city and try to sell it." Kristoff explained to Hiccup.
"Now, that is truly unusual." Hiccup said before questioning.
"And do you manage in this job?"
"Sometimes yes, sometime no, it depends if the people need ice" Kristoff answered before asking.
"But how it is to you, I mean you are working with dragons how is that for you?" Kristoff asked.
"Well in my case, I have to make sure that dragons are not destroying things or have things they don't suppose to have, or scaring the animals, together with other riders must make sure that wild dragons are not attacking the island or burn the houses and other things." Hiccup explained making Kristoff more impressed.
"Well, in that case I am happy with my job." Kristoff said and anyone began laughing a little, but after a minute Hiccup remembered what Fishlegs told him before he left.
"Ah, Kristoff I have a question." Hiccup said
"Sure what is your question Hiccup?" Kristoff said.
"In your travels to get ice from the mountaims do you ever see the Snow Queen or an ice palace?" Hiccup asked with an interested tone.
But the question made Anna and Kristoff look at each other, Anna knew that Elsa is worried about not showing Hiccup her ice powers and she told Kristoff about that before he arrived.
"Why are you asking that Hiccup?" Kristoff questioned.
"One of my friends back on Berk, Fishlegs told me to be aware of the Snow Queen but I don't think she is real, but I want to be sure." Hiccup told to Kristoff.
"But what did he tell you about the Snow Queen?" Anna asked.
"That she is leaving in a palace made only of ice in the highest mountains of Arendelle, that she is of a divine beauty and anyone who provokes her is turned into an ice statue." Hiccup said.
"Well to be honest….no, I didn't see any strange woman or an ice palace." Kristoff said with a little nervous tone.
"So the Snow Queen is not real?" Hiccup asked.
"Of course she is not real" Kristoff and Anna said in unison.
"So in that case she is not real, right?" Hiccup asked.
"No she is not real." Kristoff said.
"I knew it, and Kristoff how would it be if for you would see a palace made only of ice?" Hiccup asked.
Of course he saw the ice palace when he meet Anna and helped her get Elsa back, for him it was like an amazing dream come true, but if Anna and Elsa don't want Hiccup to know about Elsa's powers he should not tell him.
"Well if I would see an ice palace it would be like a dream come true for me, because if I am working with ice it would be a chance in a life time." Kristoff said. "Any other question?"
"Yes, when did you meet my aunts?" Hiccup asked but that made Kristoff and Anna a little worried about how to explain this.
Well…..I met them when it was….." Kristoff didn't know how to explain this, but Anna intervened.
"It was a year ago," Anna began "We had a little crises in Arendelle that we had to solve and we needed help and when I was searching for a person that might help I met Krystoff who at first didn't want but eventually he accepted." Anna explained. "Isn't it Kristoff?" Anna asked a little nervous.
"Yeah, that is true it was a crisis that we had to solve." Kristoff said with a little nervous smile.
"Well if that is true can I ask what kind of crisis it was?" Hiccup asked.
"Well it was…..oh look at the time I have to go to get the ice ready for selling" Kristoff said while getting on his sledge.
"Oh all right then, see you soon." Anna said.
"Thanks as well and nice to meet you too Hiccup." Kristoff said. "Come on Sven let's go." Sven heard him and quickly began to run.
"OH, easy boy." But the reindeer didn't want to listen to him, he only wanted to go as far as he could from that black giant lizard.
"Well that was weird." Hiccup said.
"He is a nice guy isn't he, Hiccup?" Anna said, putting her hands on her nephew's shoulders.
"Yeah, he is." Hiccup said a little suspicious about something and Anna noticed.
"So, how was the flying above the kingdom?" Anna asked.
"It was great aunt Anna." Hiccup said but still he was a little suspicious. On seeing this Anna thought of giving him an idea.
"Ah, Hiccup do you remember that last night I said that you can visit the city today, but on foot?" Anna asked.
"A, yeah you told me that, why?" Hiccup asked.
"Oh, maybe you can go and maybe take some notes about it and then return to Berk and some of them you can put in practice."
"I already took some notes when I was flying." Hiccup said.
"I know but you can go to walk on foot and take some notes and see the city closer from the ground." Anna said.
"Oh, now I understand." Hiccup said and asked.
"Don't be too late for dinner." Anna said.
"I will not be late I promise." Hiccup said.
But before he could go outside Toothless came to him, wishing to join him Hiccup knew it will be too dangerous because he could cause panic in the city.
"I am sorry Toothless, but I can't take you with me because the people will get scared of you." Hiccup said making Toothless to be a little disappointed but he understood that he can't go in the city because the people in Arendelle don't have dragons.
And Hiccup went outside the palace once again, but this time on the main doors.
On a window of the palace Elsa was watching him while leaving the castle and while he was speaking to Anna and Kristoff. She was feeling very bad about having to avoid him, for not showing him her powers, but this was for his own safety even if she wanted with all her heart to spend time with him and Anna. Despite the fact that he was a Viking and was a distant relative Hiccup was still a member of the family.
After several hours Hiccup returned to the castle with his notebook full of notes about the city of Arendelle. He was really impressed by the city and its surroundings. Everything for him was new, the docks full of ships different from the ones of the Vikings, the church and the houses made of stone, the market with every thing from around the world, the paved streets, the shops, etc.
In his mind he could do some of this on Berk as well but he also knew that this will cost a lot of money, but he realized that those money could be gathered from trade or from plundering, but plundering will not be necessary.
He was now having dinner in the dining room with his aunts, Anna explained to Hiccup how to use the forks, knives and the spoons at the table.
In that evening when Hiccup was in his room Anna was there near the bed and hugged him before he leaned on the bed.
"Goodnight Hiccup." Anna said before giving him a kiss on his face.
"Goodnight aunt Anna." Hiccup said before asking.
"Aunt Anna, why Elsa didn't go outside as well."
"Hiccup, Elsa is the queen of Arendelle, she has many more duties to do for a kingdom then a Viking chief in a village and she doesn't have too much time now, but once in awhile she is trying to spend time with me as well, but she also has several problems of her own to solve." Anna explained.
"Now I understand." Hiccup said, he didn't know what duties she has or what problems but he wants to find out.
"Maybe tomorrow you can stay at the castle and you will manage to spend time with her as well." Anna said.
"All right, see you in the morning aunt Anna." Hiccup said.
"See you in the morning, Hiccup." Anna said while she went outside the room and closed the door.
Hiccup turned at the left side of his bed and saw Toothless there sleeping as well. Hiccup slowly closed his eyes thinking about what are Elsa's duties and a little about her personal problems.