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Chapter 5: Snap

(Elsa POV)

I jerk forward my eyes snapping open in a cold sweat.

My breaths are hitched and panicked as I try to inhale through my terror. Breathe, breathe, breathe. Snow is falling around me softly, the room is coated in a few layers of frost and I squeeze my eyes shut. It was just a dream, it wasn't real. Calm down, Elsa.

I sit there for several moments before I turn and slide from the bed starting to pace. My hair is loose and falling past my waist barely. The layers are surprisingly calm for right now despite how they're usually determined to meet the moon.

I let out a long breath through my nose and grab an elastic from off of my desk pulling my hair back into a bun. I bite my lip slightly trying to concentrate and loop the leather around the bun several times before releasing it and shaking my head back and forth, it holds.

I look towards the window on my right, it's dark but at least it's not snowing anymore. The glints of pinkish light are weaved through the light indicating soon the sun will make an entrance. Good, I don't think I'll be able to go back to bed after dreaming about...that.

I shake my head to clear it and turn grabbing the nearest pair of clean clothing and throw it on. I pull the long blue sleeves of the knitted shirt over my gloves and grab my sword strapping it over the shirt and above the black pants.

I tug on my boots and stand there for a moment.

Breathe.

I con control these powers. I can, I will, I have to.

I turn towards the door to my room and pull it open slipping into the hallway. I weave through the small house with ease slipping into the kitchen, it's empty. Not really anything new, Ingrid won't be up for about an hour and Anna is a late sleeper.

I shuffle through the stacks of food for several moments before grabbing an apple. I close the cabinets and quietly as possible and bite into the fruit. After a few minutes I toss the core into a wastebasket and head for the door pulling it open.

My aunt should figure out where I've gone, I'm not going to wake her up and tell her anyway.

I walk into the village, snow is covering almost everything in several feet and the smell of smoke is rising from the fires stoked throughout the village. The sun shove it's way over the mountain side and shines light down on the town.

Yup, I'm late.

According to Gobber last night, we were supposed to be there before the sun peaked over the mountain top. Well, not much I can do to solve that problem. I break into a run and tear across the village heading for the ring as quickly as my feet will carry me.

I reach it about ten minutes later and come to halt in front of the doors. Okay, maybe not as late as I thought. Hiccup is the only one present beyond Gobber. I look inside the arena my eyebrows meeting together in slight confusion.

The entire thing is filled with mountains of snow randomly but strategically placed throughout the space. Does he plan on having us do an intense snowball fight? This is ridiculous.

"Whoa!" A voice yells behind me and I have to physically stomp down to keep myself from jumping in shock. When did they get so stealthy? Usually a herd of elephants going on rampage in a field of ice is quieter.

Tuffnut and Ruffnut move past me into the ring smirking.

"Ah," Gobber says from his position on the top and looks at us, "you're here." He says and grins. He waves us forward and me, SNotlout and Fishlegs step into the arena, Hiccup takes a step back to make room for us and as Snotlout passes him, he rams his shoulder into the Haddocks.

Hiccup tumbles back before landing on his elbows a pained grimace flashing over his face. I send a scowl at Snotlout and move forward grabbing Hiccup's arm and pulling him to his feet, "Was that really necessary Snotlout?" I demand.

Snotlout laughs again, "Yes." He answers.

"Thanks." Hiccup mutters. I look at him for a moment and see I still have my hand wrapped around his elbow. I pull my fingers back and clasp my gloved hands together in front of me staring up at Gobber.

"Now, some of you may be wondering why there's snow everywhere." Gobber says and the twins give eager nods and dark chuckles. "Well it's because of the dragon we captured last night in the blizzard. The Snow Wraith." Gobber introduces before shoving down the handle for the cage doors.

A angered roar rings out and I tense for several moments standing still. Shield, shield...I turn and race towards where they're lying against the wall the other teens quickly following after me.

A pure white dragon with thin strips of light blue edging it's claws and a single set of Monstrous Nightmare bending like wings leaps on top of a large pile of snow roaring at us. All knowledge I know about the dragon vanishes immediately.

It's in the Book of Dragons but I can't remember anything about it other than it's there. Maybe it would have been better to have read the book with Hiccup last night. The Snow Wraith roars at us again and my ears ring before it rears up and blasts a blueish light at us.

I dive out of the way of the blast and take off down the mazish thing looking behind me slightly trying to keep an eye on the Snow Wraith. It's gone.

What?!

I skid to a halt and try to locate the dragon with my ears but it's impossible. Snotlout dives next to me and holds up his mace staring at me almost happily. The ring is mostly silent and all conversation is easily hearable.

"Hey Gobber?" Hiccup calls and I bite my inner lip staring at Snotlout for a moment before waving him forward silently towards a tunnel on the right. Fine, you gonna stick with me you have to follow me. "So I just happened to notice the book had nothing on Night Furies. Is there like another book, maybe a sequel a little Night Fury pamphlet?" Hiccup calls and I want to whack my head against something. That's his biggest concern right now!?

Hiccup lets out a yelp of terror and the Snow Wraith lets out a roar. "Focus Hiccup!" Gobber calls, sounding ridiculously unconcerned. "You aren't even trying."

I toss my bangs from my eyes and move forward through the maze keeping my footsteps as quiet as possible. "Today," Gobber lists and I don't even give the blacksmith a half glance. Where is that dragon, it blends into the snow like it's part of it. "Is about attack. Snow Wraiths are quick, smart and light on their feet. They can also see body heat, as Bork learned the hard way." Gobber lets out a chuckle at that, "Your job is to be hidden, quicker and lighter."

"That's just perfect." Snotlout mutters under his breath sarcastically. Yup, voiced my thoughts.

Fishlegs outs out a long scream and the sound of wood exploding echoes, "I am REALLY beginning to question your teaching methods!" He yells. Yeah, you and me the same. He's a terrible teacher, well not a terrible teacher he just fails on the teacher department.

"Look for it's blind spot, every dragon has one." Gobber says bordley. The twins shout and then Gobber chuckles, "Blind spot yes, Deaf spot? Not so much." That's a classic Ruff and Tuff for you. I give him a half glance my jaw struggling to stay up in surprise. He's picking his teeth.

Picking his teeth.

A sounds steps in front of us and I grab Snotlout's arm pulling him to the ground with my shield arm tightening my hold on my sword with the other. I lean down against the wall waiting for the Snow Wraith to come up close enough for us to strike.

"Hey so how would one sneak up on a Night Fury?" Hiccup's voice calls up again. What is with his sudden obsession on the species!?

Gobber sighs and puts a hand on his forehead, "No one's ever met one and lived to tell the tale now GET IN THERE!" He shouts.

"I know, I know," Hiccup says and I turn my head slightly as his voice gets closer. He's behind me and Snotlout, "but hypothetically." Hiccup argues. Yeah, well whatever.

"Hiccup," I hiss a near mouth from how low my voice is. "Get down."

The Haddock stares at me and Snotlout for a moment before half heartedly leaning down behind the Jorgenson. I bite my lip slightly and tense before letting out a breath and looking over the side of the large snow pile.

The Snow Wraith sits there, it's nose in the air as it searches for us. It's eyes are scanning through the snow but the piles are large enough that it can't spot us through it. I roll forward across the ground onto of my shield and make it to the other side with ease.

Apparently Anna's instant games of warrior when we were younger paid off. Snotlout makes it across the gap as well but Hiccup's shield and his upper body smacks against the wood sounding our position. Oh joy.

Hiccup scrambles to his feet and races towards us as I take off down the tunnel. The Snow Wraith leaps down from the snow in front of me and Snotlout who is suddenly by my side. I lift up my sword my muscles tensing to throw it before Snotlout shoves me to the side.

"Watch out, babe I'll take care of this." Snotlout says and throws his mace forward. The weapon sails through the air heading for the Snow Wraith before taking a slight right and smashing against the ground uselessly.

I give Snotlout and annoyed look at it seems for the moment his smart mouth has failed him. "..The sun was in my eyes Elsa!" I take off down the tunnel it's cloudy! There is no sun! "What do you want me to do? Block out the sun I can do that, I just don't have time right now."

The dragon lands at our feet and I yelp slightly leaping forward towards the top of a smaller snow pile. My fingers scramble for grip and I manage to grab a leverage. I grunt but haul myself onto the snow in a few seconds taking a running leap towards the next pile. The Snow Wraith is hot at my heels and I can feel its icy breath on my back.

Pick up the pace, pick up the pace, pick up the pace! I chant silently to myself and leap onto another snow pile.

"Has-has anyone seen one napping?" Hiccup asks.

My footing is lost and I leap off the side of the snow pile towards the Haddock. "HICCUP!" I yell in warning before I smash into him. We both tumble smacking into the ground and after a moment I shove my hand against the ground pulling away from him.

"Ooh, love on the battlefield." Tuffnut says somewhere nearby. Ha, ha no.

"She could do better." Ruffnut says.

A roar breaks through my whirring thoughts and I look up letting out a gasp as the Snow Wraith runs towards us. I get to my feet and Hiccup stares at me for a moment. My sword is embedded in his shield, my shield is who knows where. I grab the hilt of the weapon and struggle to remove it from the shield.

It's not coming loose!

I shove my foot down on Hiccup's arm and rip the shield from his grasp smacking the wood against the dragons face. The Snow Wraith turns away and scampers off letting out a pained grunt. I take in several deep breaths grouping my thoughts together.

"Well done, Elsa." Gobber calls.

If Hiccup had been focused, this wouldn't have happened, I have to spend every second of every day making sure my powers don't come free, keeping them inside and concealing them trying not to feel. Dragon Training has been a nightmare because it's stressful and Hiccup isn't even trying.

I release a long breath before I turn looking back at him, "If you aren't going to take this seriously," I start staring at him for several long moments. The edgy ice on my voice startles me slightly. I'm usually a more gentle person. Hiccup lifts his head from his crouched position looking up at me, "than leave."

(Hiccup POV)

Elsa spins on her heal, sheathes her sword and storms out of the arena without a glance back at me. My eyes widen and I get to my feet staring around me at the snowflakes spread everywhere. I am taking this seriously!

At least, I'm trying to.

But the Night Fury isn't helping, I don't know if what we're doing is right anymore.

I get to my feet and clench my fists letting out a long breath. I was startled by her helping me earlier, some part of me hoping maybe she was trying to befriend me in a weird way. But I was wrong. She just shut me out, again.

I am an idiot.

I leave the arena without a word and ignore Gobber's pitying glance towards me. I scowl slightly and step into the village looking around myself at the snow piling up in high mountains. Children are running by building snowmen and throwing snowballs.

Innocent and free.

I force my gaze away from them and stare down at my feet for a moment. The Night Fury will starve soon unless it manages to get food from the lake. It's probably frozen over for right now. The dragon will die, and it's my fault.

I shouldn't have fired that bola in the first place. I let out a long breath.

Maybe I could help it, I'm not exactly golden material and "Useless" is a pretty good title as Snotlout has claimed me as. I narrow my eyes with determination. I am going to help that dragon. Now all I need is a fish.

A/N: And that's like the one time Elsa acts like Astrid. :)

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