I really should be studying to my midterms and still I find myself updating once again! Yep, you guys are lucky, but you are all so amazing that you deserve it! When it comes to my grade in International private law... well we'll just have to see about that, but I have a week to go so wish me luck!

So this little chap is a breather for what is to come. A cute little breather where our Vikings finally will meet some trolls!

Laidyx: No I don't think they have been hugged a lot, we will simply have to send them some mental ones and maybe the other 10 brothers will behave haha! Also I am happy you liked Hiccup's darker side, just as you say they don't really go away and being reminded of them can cause old wounds to reopen. Haha, so you liked the Astrid/Elsa bonding? That was actually how I bonded with one of my best friends here at uni, we sat next to each other in class and just started spewing over this guy. Now two years later we kind of thank him for he gave us our friendship without even knowing it haha.

Also to your review for my one-shot: Really glad you liked it, Merida and Jack really would make them suffer! ;) And of course I had to throw in a polar bear reference, I am a swede hahaha! As for the front door, it was only Astrid who drew that conclusion, but it certainly was something, perhaps I should turn it into a two-shot?

Guest: Thank you so much! Hope you will like this chapter!

Creeves59: Your review popped up just when I was about to publish this so I had the time to add a response haha! Thank you so much for your review! Hahah oh my, poor Mrs. Tomson and Mr. Karlsson, maybe a ship really will be following Hiccup to Berk just as Astrid said ;) I really hope you will like this chapter as well.

10.

"So he challenged us for glory?" Fishlegs asked, Queen Elsa nodding her head in response.

She had led them away from the castle into the forest and it wasn't until they could no longer see it that she had broken the silence and told the Vikings the most plausible reasoning behind the Prince's action.

"He did, even though Vikings have not been seen in these lands for a few hundred years, we have not forgotten about you. Our ancestors raided the southern kingdoms and until today they, just as us here in Arendelle, still tell stories about the fierce, skilled and ruthless warriors who could attack with the rage of ten men."

"The Berserks." Astrid filled in and Queen Elsa nodded her head, Hiccup noticing that the edge that earlier had been present in Astrid's voice when she spoke to the Queen was now gone.

"Exactly. I don't think anyone really knows what caused your ancestors to leave these lands and mine to stay, but we have not had any interaction with Vikings for a few hundred years. All we had to go on before we began our trade and you three arrived were the old stories kept alive since we knew you still lived far up in the northern seas."

"Stories that are true." Astrid said with a grin as Queen Elsa smiled back at her.

"After today I don't think anyone would dare to doubt them." She replies, her expression turning serious once more. "What you also need to know is that Prince Harold saw his chance to win a great achievement today. I know he has been looking for a wife, and to stand out amongst twelve brothers you need all the glory you can possibly get, meaning that beating simply a Viking was enough. He wanted to defeat a Chief and since he is just an arrogant child who has been spoiled rotten from birth he has never learned that you cannot get everything you want. Like the majority of the noblemen in our culture." Queen Elsa muttered the last part.

"Well, I'm glad to hear I am not the only one who finds them unbearable." Astrid replied, the two women sharing a look before they both started laughing as Hiccup shook his head, how they could go from barely speaking a word to joking with each other was beyond him.

As they kept on walking, he noticed how the forest started to thicken and that the air was slowly becoming lighter and colder.

"Where exactly are you taking us Queen Elsa?" He asked, speaking for the first time since they had left the castle.

"Rapunzel told me that Vikings have a great fascination for trolls, and since they are now technically a part of my own family, I thought that you would like an opportunity to meet them. Also, I think there was a problem with left socks that you wanted to solve?" At the last part, she looked at them all with slight confusion as they smiled back at her.

"That is correct your majesty, it's something that have bothered our people a long time." Fishlegs answered.

"I see." The Queen said, but Hiccup could see that she still found the problem to be an utterly strange one.

"What about the meeting today?" Hiccup asked, Queen Elsa looking at him for the first time since they had left the arena. Somehow, he knew she had known that he had wanted to be left alone with his thoughts and now, when she looked at him closely before her ice blue eyes lit up slightly, he wondered just how much she had seen of his inner turmoil. It actually disturbed him a little that she had gotten so good at reading him in such a short amount of time.

"Well, while you were all surrounded by your newest fans I got a handful of messages that begged me to postpone the meeting one day because of massive headaches. Considering the excitement earlier I took the liberty of accepting the poor men's requests. I hope that was okay with you?" She asked, Hiccup not having the chance to answer as Fishlegs looked at her with huge eyes.

"We have the opportunity to see the most elusive creatures that has ever existed, that have been in almost every tale we have ever heard and ask them questions about all their mysteries and their life, I take it upon me to say that we are not complaining." He answered excitedly.

"I'm happy that I made the right decision then." Queen Elsa replied with an easy smile, though Hiccup knew it could not be the whole truth, for he knew that had the Queen demanded that the meeting would have taken place that day every single man on her council would have shown up. No, somewhere it seemed she had wanted to give them some room to breathe and and he felt a huge amount of gratitude towards her for her thoughtfulness.

Sending her a grateful look, she smiled back at him warmly and knew he had gotten the message across.

"So how far up into the mountains is this place?" Astrid suddenly asked, Queen Elsa turning to her.

"It's not too far up, but it will take some time. Princess Anna, Kristoff and my cousins will join us in a little while with horses, I spoke to them before we left and they insisted on coming along." Queen Elsa replied, the Vikings all looking at each other.

"Well, you can tell them that it is completely unnecessary to bring horses for us." Astrid said.

"It's a bit too far to walk I am afraid." Queen Elsa said, looking a little uncertain if she had understood Astrid correctly.

"We aren't going to walk." Astrid replied with a grin before she each gave a strange cry. At the sound, the Queen and captain shared a look, but they stayed quiet as they looked around, waiting to see what would happen.

"Are we waiting for something?" The captain finally spoke up.

"You'll see." Astrid said, still with a smile on her face as the sound of beating wings could be heard above, Stormfly and Meatlug approaching them before landing on the ground as they skillfully avoided the trees.

"Hi girl." Astrid greeted her dragon as she ran over to Stormfly and threw her arms around her dragon while Fishlegs and Meatlug had a similar greeting, though with a few more words of affection. Queen Elsa watched the reunion with a small smile while her captain looked at the dragons with huge eyes and swallowed nervously.

"I suppose dragons will do instead of horses, you will simply have to keep track of us on the ground." Queen Elsa said.

"Didn't you hear what I said? I said "we". You two are travelling with us." Astrid said a smug, challenging look in her eyes and when he saw it, Hiccup knew she still hadn't fully accepted the Queen just yet, the fact actually making the world seem a bit more normal again.

Queen Elsa on the other hand was looking at them with disbelief, her eyes darting between Hiccup and Astrid as if to see if they were joking.

"I am sorry, what?" She finally said, which caused the Vikings to chuckle a little, having never really seen the Queen speechless before.

"You didn't think dragons could carry only one person did you?" Hiccup asked her and the Queen looked at Toothless, the dragon looking a little smug as he looked back at her.

"I don't know; I mean…" She said, trailing off before her disbelief began to be replaced with excitement. "But I have no way to contact Princess Anna that they will not have to bring the extra horses."

"Queen Elsa, you are not really considering this!" Her captain said, looking at her with slightly panicked eyes.

"We can send Sharpshot with a message if you want to, he will just be happy to have something to." Hiccup suggested and he saw how the Queen thought this over for a second before an excited, but also slightly nervous, smile spread over her face.

"I suppose, I mean, how many chances will one get to fly right?" She asked, her eyes shining as her captain now stared at her with horror.

"Queen Elsa, you cannot… the safety!" He exclaimed as she only looked at him with an amused expression.

"That's why you will be with us the whole time Kai. Also, I trust in Chief Haddock's and his friends' judgment. But if you do not wish to come with us you can always join princess Anna and travel with her when their group arrive, I will not force you." At her words, the poor man only opened and closed his mouth a few times, knowing he had lost this battle before it even began for he could never leave his Queen alone with the Vikings, it was unthinkable.

At his look of defeat, Queen Elsa laughed and gave the man a compassionate pat on the shoulder before she turned to the smiling Vikings.

"So, how do we do this?" She asked excitingly.

"I think it will be best if your captain fly with Fishlug and Meatlug, she is the friendliest of all the dragons and the most… stable flyer." Hiccup answered, thinking about how both Toothless and Stormfly at times could be a little more acrobatic than the much bigger Gronckle.

"As for you, Queen Elsa, I think it will probably be best if you fly with Astrid and… Toothless?"

As he spoke, Toothless had left his place next to Hiccup and walked over to the Queen, sitting down next to her as he pushed his head under her hand so it rested on his neck, sending Hiccup a look that clearly stated that he thought the Queen should ride with them.

"Uhm… well… I guess it's an option to listen to my apparently mental dragon as well." Hiccup added, glaring at Toothless who actually glared back and Hiccup for once actually questioned his dragon's sanity.

Looking at the culture here in Arendelle, Hiccup had not even considered the possibility that Queen Elsa should fly with him. Sure it would have been the most natural decision considering she had hit off so well with Toothless, but they were not on Berk and here in Arendelle the simple suggestion could've easily given the Queen the impression that he had some ulterior motives towards her, when he really hadn't.

And if she started to think that he did, things would probably become extremely awkward, just like the silence that had fallen over the small group since Toothless had somehow managed to suggest what Hiccup had deemed as highly stupid.

Elsa on the hand, ignored the awkward feeling as she looked down at Toothless who was looking up at her with his huge green, kind eyes. To be honest, she knew that there shouldn't even be anything to think about. That she was even considering flying with the Chief instead of a woman was pretty much a scandal in its own, but that didn't change the fact that Elsa didn't fully trust Astrid yet and the Chief… well she had to admit that she had actually begun to trust him.

Also there had never been the slightest inkling that he had wanted anything more than there to be a mutual friendship between them, last night proving that if anything. Also, she had started to fall in love with the cute Night Fury who was so full of character he put some humans to shame. So if Toothless was willing to take her of his own will, she really saw no reason to doubt his decision.

"I think I will have to trust the dragon on this one." She therefore said, Toothless looking very pleased with her decision while Kai started stuttering next to her.

"You know that you really are free to choose, Toothless simply have a tendency of being a bit bossy." Chief Haddock said to her and she could see the honesty in his green eyes, only making her even more sure she had made the right decision.

"I know, although I will of course do what you deem the best, you all are the experts after all." Elsa said, knowing it was not just she who needed to be comfortable with this decision.

"No I mean…" The Chief looked as if he was like he was searching for the right words before he simply shook his head a little. "Looks like you are flying with me and my hopeless dragon then, your majesty." He said with a small smile, Kai turning red in as he looked at the Chief with eyes that were shooting daggers.

"Oh lighten up Kai, it's not an engagement." Elsa said, Kai looking as if the air went out off him, before turning his attention back to the Chief, stalking over to him as he put a finger hard into his chest.

"You try anything; I will personally make sure you can never walk again." He said, enhancing his words by poking his finger into Chief Haddock's chest a few times with an extremely threatening look before he walked over to where Fishlegs and Astrid were standing, the two watching the scene with a mix of humor and disbelief.

Looking after the other man, Chief Haddock looked a little frightened and when he turned towards Elsa he sent her an amused glare when he noticed that she was doing her best to hold back a smile.

"If I have to walk around on two metal legs in the future, it's all your fault." He said gesturing to her and Toothless.

"You heard what my captain said Chief Haddock, as long as you behave, you don't have to worry."

"Are you telling me that you think I will not behave Queen Elsa?" He replied, and even though she knew he said it as a joke, Elsa couldn't help to feel a small rush of excitement when she looked into his shining green eyes that smiled down at her. The feeling surprised her and she quickly pushed it down, thinking it had to do with the fact that she soon would be flying on a dragon, not the fact that something about the way Chief Haddock had said the words forced her push down some very unwelcome thoughts of what could happen if he didn't.

"Well if you and your dragon doesn't, I will not hesitate to give you both frostbite." She said instead, trying to clear her thoughts.

"I promise we will be on our best behavior." Chief Haddock chuckled, picking up a leather rope from one of the small pouches that was attached to his leather armor and tied it around Toothless.

"So we have something to hold on to, we took off their saddles earlier this morning." He explained to her at Elsa's wondering look and she nodded, feeling how she started to become nervous once more.

"So how do we do this?" She asked.

"Well, once we are in the air, it won't be much of a problem for you to hold your balance, it's the take off and the landing that can be a bit tricky. So, since this is your first time flying, you will be sitting behind me so you can… you know… hold on." He answered a little awkwardly, drawing his hand through his hair.

"I see." Elsa simply said, the excitement of flying suddenly mixing with the new feeling of nerves she had just managed to push down. Had she really thought this through? Telling herself that she was being stupid, Elsa took a small breath before asking how she would get up in the best way.

At her words, Toothless simply laid down on the ground, Chief Haddock looking at his dragon with slight disbelief.

"You know I think you have somehow bewitched Toothless." He told her as the tension between them dropped and the normal ease returned.

"Or maybe he is just simply a gentleman who knows how to treat a Queen." She chuckled, gratefully accepting Chief Haddock's hand as he helped her to get up on the dragon, Toothless laying completely still the whole time. When Elsa felt that she sat securely on his back, Toothless rose before Chief Haddock climbed up on him with such ease that she almost wanted to laugh at her own less than graceful performance.

"Everyone ready to go?" He asked the rest of their group, missing the thoughtful and slightly hurt look on Astrid's face from where she watching Hiccup and Queen Elsa, thinking about how at ease they seemed to be around each other and how long it had taken for her and Hiccup to be the same.

But then again, from what she could see there was no attraction between them, so maybe that was the reason. After all, had she thought anything was going on between them, she would never had allowed the Queen to fly with Hiccup and they were soon leaving Arendelle anyway, which meant it would be a long time before they would meet the Queen again at all.

"I think we are, let's go!" Astrid answered as Stormfly lifted from the ground, Fishlegs, Meatlug and Kai following her, a scream of fear coming from Elsa's captain.

"Just remember to hold on as we take off." Chief Haddock reminded her and Elsa put her arms around his waist loosely, only to hold on for dear life as Toothless lifted from the ground and she saw how it quickly became smaller and smaller underneath her.

"Oh my God!" She exclaimed, feeling that she couldn't take in the fact that she was actually in the air… flying… on a dragon. "This is unbelievable." She laughed and she could both hear and feel how Chief Haddock chuckled. Realizing she was still holding on to him tightly, she let go with one arm and held it out into the air, feeling the wind caress it as they soared in a calm pace over the sky.

In that moment, high above the treetops, Elsa had never felt more free or more alive, it was as if she had left all of her duties, all expectations, on the ground and she felt weightless up in the air.

"This is amazing! Why do you ever get down from up here?" She exclaimed in awe, Chief Haddock sending her an amused look over his shoulder just a small wind caused her to lose her balance slightly and she increased her hold on him with both arms once more.

"Maybe you should hold on securely Queen Elsa, I really would like to keep my other leg you know." Chief Haddock chuckled as Toothless gave a roar of agreement.

"I honestly doubt it was your leg Kai was thinking about." Elsa replied without thinking, blushing fiercely as soon as the words left her while the Chief started laughing loudly. Even Toothless made a strange laughing sound.

Despite still feeling a bit embarrassed, Elsa didn't let go off her hold on the Chief though. After all, it would be stupid of her to let go of the one who was making sure she wouldn't fall.

Flying was an experience Elsa soon found out that she loved more than anything she had done in a long time. Thanks to her powers she wasn't even bothered by the cold air, not that she would have been anyway for Chief Haddock himself was radiating such warmth that she was actually warmer than she was normally anyway.

As they were flying closer to the mountains, Chief Haddock told her more about the dragons and a strange sport on Berk that was called Dragon racing. Although the sport itself sounded very exciting to watch, it also sounded very strange. When she had asked him why it was sheep they threw into baskets, he had simply laughed and said that it was one of those weird things that was best to not think about.

At one point as they had climbed up the mountain side, Elsa had seen four little dots riding up the mountainside below them, making her wonder just how much teasing she would have to endure from Rapunzel and Anna after this flight. Perhaps she could persuade the Chief to say that she had been flying with Astrid instead? After all it would most likely benefit them both.

As she looked down at the landscape below, she suddenly recognized the home of the trolls and she pointed to the open space between mountains.

"There, that's where we are going." She said and Chief Haddock nodded, signaling to his friends who nodded and soon they were all descending slowly towards the ground. All the dragons landing safely and softly on the ground.

With ease, Chief Haddock jumped up off of Toothless and landed on the ground with such grace that she felt embarrassed at just the thought of how it would look when she tried to do the same. Thankfully, the Chief turned to her and raised his hands slightly, a silent offer to help her down. At his thoughtfulness, Elsa sent him a grateful smile as she leaned over and put her hands on his shoulders before gliding off as gracefully as she could.

When her feet touched the ground though, her legs gave out a little underneath her, still shaky from the flight, and he had to put his hands on her waist to steady her so wouldn't fall over.

"I feel like I have run a mile." She laughed as he chuckled, both letting go of each other when they heard a cry of relief coming from where Fishlegs, Astrid and Kai had landed, the sound coming from her captain who had thrown himself off of Meatlug and was now kissing the ground quite eagerly, the two Vikings next to him staring at him in a way that made it clear they questioned if he had lost his mind.

"I will have to make it up to him somehow when we get back I think." Queen Elsa said with a sheepish smile as she looked at her captain who was now laying on his back staring up in the sky. But her focus quickly shifted when Toothless nudged her in the side with a face that demanded attention.

"What kind of person am I, forgetting to thank the one who carried us all the way?" She said as she placed a kiss on the dragon's muzzle. At her display of affection, Hiccup saw how Toothless got a look in his eyes that he recognized, and apparently so did the Queen, for her own expression quickly turned stern as she looked at his dragon. "Though if you are thinking about drenching me in saliva I will not hesitate to freeze your tongue off." She added.

At first, it looked as if Toothless was going to defy her warning, but then he seemed to come to the conclusion that it wasn't worth the risk and carefully, as if testing the limits, reached out and only gave her hand a small lick instead. When nothing happened, he looked quite pleased at his way around the Queen's warning as Hiccup stared at his dragon with disbelief.

"Ohh come on! I have been trying to make you stop for years and now you just suddenly listen!" He exclaimed, Toothless sending him an innocent look that caused the Queen to start laughing as she gave the dragon a big hug. Looking at her, Hiccup couldn't help to smile back, for in that moment she was so extremely beautiful.

The thought surprised him a little. It was not that he hadn't always thought that Queen Elsa was a very beautiful woman, but her mask and hard shell had turned it into an untouchable beauty. It had been nothing more than a fact, something to be stated but not something to awoke any emotion.

But now, her mask was nowhere to be seen. There was a huge warm and genuine smile on her face. Her usually pale skin was rosy from the flight and her hair had fallen slightly out of her braid. When she looked at him, her ice blue eyes were glittering like the ice-crystals and he had never seen her more free, more… real.

For the first time, the woman in front of him was completely approachable, showing herself without any restraints. Her regal grace was still there, but it only added to her spell and Hiccup found that he couldn't take his eyes off of her in that moment, there was something mesmerizing about her that drew him in.

At least it did until he felt the imbalance of someone poking on his metal leg and he looked down to see what was causing it. At first sight, it appeared to be a stone with an arm and a tiny hand that was tapping on his leg, but then the stone turned upwards and to his surprise a pair of huge eyes looked up at him. Startled, Hiccup gave up a small shout as he took a step away from the small creature, but it only followed him and kept on inspecting his leg.

"Your leg is strange." It commented as suddenly most of the rocks around them began rolling towards their little group, turning into little stone creatures as well who all peered up at the Vikings and the dragons who, in return, were staring at them in disbelief. When another, bigger and older looking stone walked over to him and grabbed a hold of his metal foot Hiccup sent Queen Elsa a startled look, but she only nodded to him with a reassuring smile and he allowed the little creature to continue its inspection.

"It is strange." The creature, or troll that Hiccup assumed it was, stated and suddenly the whole hoard of little trolls was surrounding him as they stared in awe at the construction and talked amongst each other. Looking at them, Hiccup was at a loss what to do and looked over to his friends for help, but they looked just as lost as he did.

"Hey, this dragon has a strange tailfin too." One troll suddenly said and the attention was drawn to Toothless who lifted his tail high up in the air, looking around at the trolls with an angry scowl that they simply seemed to ignore.

"I think our guests would like some room to breathe." A soft, raspy old voice was heard and all the little trolls took a few steps back when they heard it, though they kept on staring at the newcomers with curios eyes. The one who had spoken was an ancient troll who looked as if he had been on this earth for as long as it had existed. He was standing on a large stone, a real stone, next to the Queen who was looking at him with warmth.

"It's good to see you again Queen Elsa, you only keep growing colder for each time you graze us with your presence." The old troll said to her. The compliment was an extremely strange one, for it sounded more like an insult, but at the affectionate look on the Queen's face it was clear this was something understood only between her and the old troll himself.

"Thank you Grandpabi, I am sorry I don't have the time to visit you more often." She said, the troll looking at her like an old grandparent who was very proud of his grandchild.

"No need to feel sorry, I understand that there is a great burden to rule a kingdom. Now, who are your guests that you have brought with you?" He asked and Queen Elsa presented them all to the old troll who nodded his head in greeting.

"It has been a very long time since dragons and Vikings graced these lands and I am very happy I lived to see the day it happened once more. I welcome you warmly Chief Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, and all your friends, I am Grandpabi." The old troll told them, his clear eyes shining.

"Thank you, it is a great honor to meet you." Hiccup answered, which caused the troll to smile slightly.

"No, no there is no honor, this is simply a happy meeting." He said, though not scolding. "Come closer young Hiccup, I must admit I wish to still my curiosity about how a young man managed to tame a Night Fury, it is unheard of before in these lands before, and perhaps you can introduce the dragons, Astrid and Fishlegs to the rest my family dear Elsa." He said, the Queen giving him a knowing look before she walked over to the more open area, the little trolls dragging his friends with them as they followed her while chatting happily.

Sharing a look with Toothless who had stayed behind, Hiccup nodded his head in the direction of his friends and the Queen, the black dragon walking over to them a little reluctantly but trusting in Hiccup's judgment.

"Please give me your hand, young one." The troll old troll said to Hiccup and while a little on his guard, he walked over to the troll and took his hand. The old troll's hand was warm despite the fact that it felt like soiled stone. Holding onto Hiccup's hand with both of his own, Grandpabi closed his eyes as Hiccup suddenly felt as if his whole being opened up to the troll in front of, in full display for him to view.

The feeling disappeared as soon as the old troll let go of him, but at the compassionate look in his eyes, it was clear that feeling had not been wrong and Hiccup felt extremely exposed under Gradpabi's wise gaze.

"You carry great grief and remorse within Hiccup, and guilt, so much guilt. You are very good at hiding your fears, but they are not going to go away if you do not confront them. They will simply be consuming you from inside, you must learn to move on and accept your past." The old troll said.

"I can't." Hiccup replied, the feelings he had been battling since that morning started to swirl under the surface once more, reminding him that they were always there, suppressed within but never gone. Trying to fight them back down, he looked over at his friends and the Queen, seeing that the latter was getting her hair rebraided by the little trolls who were all running around eagerly trying to find flowers to decorate it with. When one of them offered her a mushroom she kindly declined it, telling the small troll something before it rushed over to Astrid and started begging to do her hair as well.

At the sight, Hiccup felt how he managed to push away the sorrow as he focused on the lighter feelings, but at the look he got from the old troll he knew Grandpabi was well aware that he had just done.

"You are a very intelligent man, Hiccup, but you are torn in different directions." The troll began, apparently choosing not to say anything about the fact that Hiccup had just done the opposite of what he had told him.

"I can feel how your desire for freedom is fighting with the duty you feel towards your people. I can feel how you're connected to them, but also stand on the sidelines as an outsider. Now, I know another who have faced a struggle of your own, and still is facing another, and I think you have noticed this as well, consciously or subconsciously." At this he looked over at the Queen, Hiccup following his glance. "I know you don't know why she feels this way and all I can tell you is this: if you both choose to continue this friendship that have started to grow between you, it will either come to heal you both or bring you both down."

"Well, that's sounds really uplifting." Hiccup replied sarcastically as Grandpabi chuckled at his word. "Does she know?" He then asked.

"That is not for me to tell, just as it was not for her to hear what I had to say. Just know that I see many roads your life can take. Some will make you happy, some will bring you despair, some your destruction and only a few will have the possibility of giving you the best your life can offer." Grandpabi said matter of factly.

"You are not really making this sound any better." Hiccup replied as the troll smiled at him.

"All lives are full of choices. They make our lives turn in mysterious ways, rarely are we chosen for a single fate and even though we make our own choices, the choices of those around us will still always affect the turns our lives take. Life hands us the cards, it up to us to play them the best way we can and accept that some events are beyond our control."

"I guess that explains why Vikings always have a tendency of blaming each other." Hiccup grinned as Grandpabi laughed.

"Yes, I remember your people's stubbornness. You were not easy to deal with, but entertaining nevertheless and you took on quite a few influences from us, meaning we are partly to blame for many of your names. The part that they would protect you from us was something that was added later on I think, to give it all a bit more mystic." He said, a thoughtful expression on his old face.

"It would be very Vikings-like so I wouldn't be surprised."

"No, that is true. Now run along young one, I wish to talk to your friends as well." When the old troll did a small shooing motion at him, Hiccup couldn't help to chuckle as he rose to join Fishlegs and the Queen, Astrid walking over to Grandpabi who had waved her over.

Her expression was cautions, but the old troll smiled happily at her as she sat down, and at the reassuring look Hiccup sent her way she appeared to relax a little.

"So what did he say?" Fishlegs asked Hiccup when he reached his friend, noticing that Kai had finally left the ground and was sitting on a stone next to them.

"Not much, he was mostly curios about life on Berk." Hiccup answered, feeling that the conversation had been far too personal to share with anyone else. "Where is Queen Elsa?" He asked as he looked around and did a double take. "Is that a snowman?!" He asked.

The Queen was currently sitting on a rock, a huge group of trolls around her, and they were all looking at a snowman who was walking around, talking excitedly about something.

Walking around meant that it was alive. Snowmen did not live. At least they shouldn't live.

"Yes that's Olof, Queen Elsa created him." Kai suddenly spoke up from his place on the stone, sounding as if walking snowmen were the most natural thing in the world.

"Is it just me or do you feel like you can't handle any more weird right now?" Fishlegs asked Hiccup who shook his head, adding "creating life" to his list of the Queen's powers, when the little snowman suddenly saw them and gasped loudly before running over on his little… well legs.

"Hi I am Olof and I like warm hugs." The little snowman said with a huge smile, holding out his arms towards them as neither Fishlegs or Hiccup really knew what to say, what did you say to a talking snowman?

"And you are?" Olof finally said, looking at them expectantly as Queen Elsa walked up to him, placing her hand on the back of his neck in almost a motherly fashion.

"Olof, these are my friends, Chief Haddock and Fishlegs." She said as he snowman tilted his head to the side, looking very thoughtful.

"I don't see why you would name anyone a title and neither one has fishlegs. Do fishes even have legs?" He asked the Queen with huge eyes, but before she had the time answer something else caught his attention and he grabbed a hold of her, dragging her past the Vikings as he shouted happily: "Anna is here, come on Elsa", leaving Hiccup and Fishlegs to stare after the pair.

"Anna and Kristoff!" A collective excited shout was heard from all the trolls when they also noticed the new arrivals and as a collective force the trolls all rushed over to where Princess Anna had already been attacked by the hugging snowman.

"At least we now know trolls don't really kidnap children in our sleep." Hiccup said, Fishlegs only nodding his head as they shared a look as they joined their dragons, who had decided to lay down on the ground and wait, rather than joining the horde of talkative trolls, both feeling very content with watching the spectacle from afar.

After a little while Astrid joined them again, Fishlegs leaving with an eager expression at the prospect of finally having the chance to talk to Grandpabi, and she sat down next to Hiccup where he was leaning his back against Toothless. That she chose to sit with him instead of Stormfly surprised him a little, but he didn't comment on it.

"So did the old troll give you any words of wisdom?" She asked as picked up a small stick from the ground.

"You could say that. He was not being very precise though was he?" Hiccup answered as Astrid drew a few lines in the ground.

"No I suppose he wasn't." She said, sounding a little distracted before she sighed and leaned against his shoulder. At her action, Hiccup felt how he tensed up, even more surprised by her behavior, but he put his arm around her as he had done so often in the past nevertheless. Sitting there together it almost felt as it had done before he became Chief, before his dad had died as a result of his actions.

But the feeling was only fleeting and his mind didn't allow him to dwell on the memory, reminding him about the feeling that had grown stronger over the last few days; the feeling that he and Astrid would not get back together. He would always love her, but he could no longer see them going back to being a couple. It just didn't feel right.

"I have to admit she is not what I expected." Astrid suddenly said, relaxed against his side as he wondered what she thought about their future, but not feeling like it was the right time to bring up the subject.

"The Queen?" Hiccup therefore asked, wanting to make sure who they were talking about, even if there really couldn't be anyone else.

"Yeah, she is not a worrier, but she is strong, fair and she is not afraid to stand up for her opinions. She is powerful, not just with her power, but she dares to go her own way. Though she is a real royal and dull as dust most of the time, she is okay." At her words, Hiccup shook his head, of course Astrid had to find something she had didn't fully like.

"Well, this is a place very much dictated by etiquette." He said, watching how all the little trolls was sitting on the ground, listening intensely to Anna and Kristoff who were probably telling them about the wedding. At one point, Rapunzel nudged Queen Elsa in the side as if she wanted her to say something. But the Queen simply sent her a glare and directed the focus back to the newly wedded couple.

"It is." Astrid agreed. "Just imagine what would have happened had you brought Ruff and Tuff." She added with a laugh.

"The whole of Arendelle would have fallen." Hiccup said with a chuckle, feeling slight horror at just the thought of the twins in a ballroom.

"Hey, what is going on?" Astrid asked as the trolls suddenly began running around, grabbing a hold of the royal family, dragging them in different directions as they started moving around rocks and pick out various strange objects as Rapunzel ran over to them with a huge smile.

"The trolls are throwing a party to celebrate Anna's and Kristoff's marriage since they didn't attend the ceremony. Come on!" She said excitedly when she reached them and she grabbed a hold on both of them and dragged them up from the ground.

When they reached the others, the trolls started playing music from strange instruments and the sound that spread around them was of an otherworldly tune that seemed to seep into everything it touched, lighting it up from within and spreading joy across the land. When the music began, Rapunzel grabbed a hold of Hiccup, saying that he owed her a dance from the night before and soon they were all laughing, making up the moves as they let the music overtake them.

After their less than graceful dancing, Hiccup was overrun by three tiny female trolls who wanted him to dance with them while Astrid was currently dancing with Eugene whom she had rescued from a horde of female trolls who had attacked him as well. Anna was dancing with the small snowman and Fishlegs was very slowly being guided by an extremely patient Rapunzel in the basics of some dance which was common at the royal court.

The only one was wasn't dancing, and hadn't done so at all, was Queen Elsa. She had been sitting next to Grandpabi the whole time, the two talking and watching the spectacle with smiles on their faces. On a sudden whim, Hiccup managed to break free from the young trolls and walked up to them, missing how the young trolls gasped and giggled amongst each other when they saw him approach the Queen.

"Queen Elsa, do you not dance?" He asked her, Grandpabi watching them with interest.

"I am afraid I don't, also, I don't seem to know this particular dance actually." She answered a little sheepishly.

"You mean that of inventing the steps as you go?" He asked with a skeptical look.

"I am not the best at improvising, I have never done it really." Queen Elsa admitted and Hiccup wondered anyone could have gone their whole lives without ever just… letting go. Especially when said person had grown up learning how to dance. Well, maybe it was about time to change that.

"Hmm… it's a good thing I happen to be very good at it then." He therefore replied, though it was a slightly exaggerated truth.

"Really?" Queen Elsa smiled at him as he grinned back.

"Of course; I just simply do not like to dance." He replied and at the mirth in her eyes he knew she remembered their conversation from last night as well. Only then, the roles had been reversed.

"Sounds like I only have your word for it though; I will not truly know if you are speaking the truth if you don't prove it to me." Queen Elsa said.

"I think you are right, but I will only do it on one condition, that you start calling me Hiccup, your majesty. I have to admit I am a bit tired of hearing my title." He said reaching his hand out to her.

For a moment, all Elsa could do was stare at the hand he offered her, knowing that accepting his offer it would mean they would no longer only be in partners in trade, they would truly be friends, and she was not the best at keeping those around.

But as she looked up into his glowing green eyes, Elsa placed her cold hand in his, knowing that this stubborn, quirky Viking had somehow already managed to sneak his way underneath her skin and there really wasn't a decision to be made. She already saw him as a friend.

"Only if you start calling me Elsa… Hiccup." She said as his warm hand closed around her own.

"Elsa it is!" Hiccup smiled at her before he dragged her away from the smiling old troll and into the dancing crowd.

Thank you Hiccup! Now I can finally start referring to their names, I was getting tired of their titels as well! So next chap, let's just say that it will be a lot more emotional. After all, I think it's about time we dig a little deeper into Elsa isn't it?

Now the next chapter is actually nearly done and if I get some boosting, I might be able to upload already on Monday, wouldn't that be something? ;) So tell me what you thought about this chap and what you think might happen in the next one! As always I love to hear what you have to say; what you liked, what you maybe didn't like, or you can just say hi if you want to that! ;)

Until next time dear readers!
/Lysistrate