It took a better part of a week but after deciphering Hiccups Haddock the firsts journal and charts Hiccup and his father along with the rest of the crew (Bucket and Mulch) found themselves crawling along the coast of their ancestral homeland. Everyone present was surprised to no end when Stoick had announced the true purpose of their voyage, no one really knew what to expect.

"What do you suppose has happened to the village lead by Berk dad?"Hiccup asked his father while he stood near the helm that Stoick was operating while watching Toothless lazily fly among the clouds without him

"I wish I knew son, for all we know the village could have been abandoned and rebuilt in a better spot, if we find ruins we might have to sail up and down the coast and see what we find for villages. If only to know of their fate.

"Well there is no shortage of fishing vessels, they had to come from somewhere right?" Hiccup asked, since they left the final cloud bank that marked the archipelago two days ago they had seen at least four vessels.

"True, but if the legacy of Berk the Bold has crumbled into ruin with no successor, I may be able to get some rest at night knowing that no family will try to claim themselves our lord.

"You are really worried things might be all that bad?"

"If we find a village where everyone could be trader Johanns sibling or cousin I swear by Thor, rightful claim or not I shall not put up with it."

"Happy thoughts dad, happy thoughts...That should be the bay over there!" Hiccup said as he analyzed the chart one last time and found familiar landmarks that suggested the fjord they were looking at was their probable destination. If Stoick was hoping for desolate ruins he was sorely mistaken as a lively town with many ships with multiple masts and sails were docked in her harbor. A ship was looking to exit the harbor and Stoick kept a steady course to keep his right of way.

"Wow, have you ever seen a ship that big?" Stoick looked over to the ship passing them, she had the masts and just under a dozen sails, her hull was almost ridiculous and he guessed it had multiple levels, probably a trader of some kind.

"No son, but i tell you what, she probably handles like a turtle, and with the amount of deck hands it would take to manage the rigging, it wouldn't surprise me if a crew of that size would polish of the stock of food in a hurry, just seems a little obnoxious to me.

"Cant you at least see the possibility?" His son asked, he could already see thee gears moving inside his son's skull as he no doubt was making plans on tearing this ship apart and putting it back together in such a way he might well have to have his son teach him how to manage it properly.

"Keep your head in the game boy," he said as he got a closer look at the townsfolk going about their day, a few taking note of the Berkians themselves, Stoick couldn't see a horned helm to save his life, he felt a sinking feeling in his gut "We probably have our work cut out for us."

Stoick noticed an open dock and made for it, Hiccup closed the sail and Bucket and Mulch took out a pair of oars each and paddled the last few yards until they were close enough to the docks to toss a line to the dock hands who quickly pulled them in.

Stoick gave Bucket a tongue of silver and ordered him to pay the harbormaster for several days. Hiccup and his father quickly cleaned up their respective armors and Stoick shook out his bear cloak and buckled a sheathed sword to his hip. Hiccup also buckled a sheathed sword as well as a seax to his hip and slung his shield onto his back and the duo made to the village square,

For the first time in his life Hiccup was really uncomfortable, everyone was giving them weird looks, not a single piece of armor could be seen. Many of the people seemed to be wearing their everyday clothes, but such clothes would have been saved for much more formal occasions. But at least they were nowhere near as frilly as trader Johann, so maybe it wouldn't be so bad.

A squad of soldiers made their way to the docks and the pair a vikings and soldiers exchanged odd looks, they seemed to all be armed with a strange pike with a club on the opposite end, only the commander carried a sword, he motioned them to head to the docks and put himself in front of their path.

"You fine...gentlemen lost?" the commander asked, Hiccup had to admit it was strange to see that this kingdom's warriors wore no armor, but some frilly costume. What was this place?

"We are here to speak with whoever is in charge, care to point the way?" The commander seemed to have a slightly panicked look on his face, perhaps they considered each other equally as odd, but neither had any plans on backing down.

"King Agnarr and Queen Iduna have plans to sail for Corona for several weeks, but perhaps they might hear you out if it is an emergency?" He asked, probably hoping it wasn't.

"It is not an emergency, but I come bearing news that could shake up both our communities, if not handled correctly." Stoick said, giving him his patented 'chief glare' that could chill the souls of most warriors.

The commander looked hesitant "Please follow me then" and began to fast walk to the castle gate, one look from the commander to the sentry on top of the wall soon opened the gate up, and Hiccup followed his father and the frilly warrior inside the the gates. Hiccup couldn't help but look back and noticed many of the townsfolk had stopped whatever they were doing to see the fresh new faces to enter their castle for the first time in years.

King Agnarr was looking over his home one final time, he was hesitant to leave his daughters for any amount of time, though surely nothing would go spectacular wrong in their abstinence. A two week trip to see his brother and sister in-law and meet their long lost child as well as partake in the tail end of the celebrations before returning. He was hopeful however, it seems that his niece may have had some knowledge of healing magic and it was his wish to see her and his daughter interact, it surely couldn't hurt given everything that they had tried up until this point.

Kai choose at this time to hurry to his side

"Your majesty, you seem to have some...visitors"

"Who? if it is Weaslton again I do declare..."

"No my King, it would seem we have...Viking visitors."

Agnarr was surprised "Did you say Vikings? like actual Vikings?"

"No mistake sir, The leader claims to be Chief Stoick the Vast of Berk. Does this ring any bells?"

Agnarr frowned and searched his memory banks "The name Berk has a familiar ring but I cannot place where exactly for the life of me, what do they want?"

"It would seem they have news for you, they claim it is important and you really shouldn't wait."

Agnarr thought quickly "Bring them into the throne room and get them seated, I must find Iduna." the two men fast walked away as Agnarr located his wife in their bedroom making final preparations while talking to Anna.

"Anna, could you please return to your studies? your mother and I have important visitors"

Anna pouted but reluctantly left the room, no doubt she already had plans to get herself into trouble.

"Iduna, come, we have vikings in our throne room" his wife raised an eyebrow and put down her book

"I have never heard that metaphor before"

"It isn't a metaphor dear, we have actual living vikings in this castle." Iduna quickly stood up and they made their way to the throne room.

"What is going on dear?" she asked as they walked

"Apparently Chief Stoick the Vast of Berk has important information we cannot ignore"

His wife frowned "Do we know them?"

He shook his head "The name Berk sounds familiar but I cannot place where without doing some digging, truthfully I kind of hope this is all a joke"

Fate seemed to have no mercy today as they entered the grand room to find a man who truly earned the name 'Vast' when he stood upright he was well over six and a half feet tall and had a huge red beard that effectively hid his chin. and wore chain-mail armor as well a a bear cloak and what looked like Yak horns on a very small helm. next to him stood a young man dressed in leather armor with a wild look to him as well as a shield on his back, he hat to try hard not to openly stare at his odd prosthetic leg on his left foot. A guard stood near the opposite entrance with two swords cradled in his hands.

King Agnarr held out his right hand and introduced himself

"King Agnarr, welcome to our kingdom gentlemen, I am sorry but I do not believe we have met"

The large viking shrugged and took his hand (nearly crushing it in the shake) "Chief Stoick the Vast, Chief of Berk and patriarch of the Haddock clan"

Now the Haddock clan also rang a bell, just who where these people?

"This is my son" he then nudged the lad forward to introduce himself

"Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third" he said as he shook Agnarrs hand, Again another faint bell.

"And who is this maiden? I have sailed many seas but I rarely do see a lady this fair" Stoick said, no doubt trying to boost their ego

"Iduna, a pleasure to meet you Stoick of Berk" she held out her hand, if Agnarr was expecting the viking to kiss it he was sorely mistaken as the large mans hand completely swallowed up his wife's petite hand and shook it, his son repeated the gesture, both completely oblivious to their surprised faces.

"Well Chief Stoick, I was told you had urgent news?"

"Yes, about that. Are you per chance at all related to Berk the Bold, our understanding is he occupied this area some time ago."

now all the pieces began falling back together. Berk the Bold was an ancestor of his that ruled the area nigh three centuries ago, he was of viking culture but soon abandoned it almost a century later.

"Yes, I am his successor." the king said, somewhat more weary of what news this viking had

"Your ancestor funded my ancestor, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the first, for a expedition the the archipelago north and west of here, with instructions to report back when we had successfully settled. So here we are passing you on the news"

Agnarr opened and closed his jaw several times trying to make words for almost half a minute before finding them.

"I see, and how are things?" he said, feeling a little dumb

"A few foul tempered beasts, some problems with the Beserkers, Nothing we Hooligans cannot handle"

Now he managed to gather his thoughts "You mean you just settled down now?!"

the viking shrugged "Been at war last few centuries, the dust had finally settled thanks to my boy here" he said patting him on the back hard enough to almost make the young man face plant into the floor "We where doing some cleaning house when we stumbled upon this little tidbit of information. We loaded up a ship and sailed out here to find out what is what, and here we are now. So its your move now"

Agnarr couldn't help but notice it wasn't "Your call now"

"I admit I am a loss at words, so much has changed here but it seems most of our original culture seems to have been preserved at your home I really don't know where to begin"

"How about we start off small" Hiccup said, pulling out a parchment and handing it off to them "Here is a list of some surplus goods we have this year. Perhaps opening up trade routes would do?" he asked looking to his father who nodded

"The archipelago is tricky to sail without winding up into trouble, I have some ideas where to set up a point for our traders to meet up and exchange goods"

Agnarr nodded and studied the parchment, it was written all in runes and he could only make out a word or two, he passed it onto hos wife who took a glance but shook her head.

"I am sorry but he traded runes for Latin many years ago, it makes dealing with the clergy much easier."

Stoick nodded "No worries, I am sure we can work it out. I just wanted to be clear on where we stood"

Agnarr held out his hands in defense "No worries Stoick, we do not desire to rule a place we have never been to, nor disturb any fragile peace you all have seemed to have worked so hrad for" The Vast man nodded in gratitude

"Glad we are all on the same page then."

Iduna then grabbed her husband and pulled his ear close to her mouth as she whispered an idea that had been brewing into her head, the way Agnarrs face lit up weirded out the vikings a little.

"Please help yourselves to some hot food and drink, my wife and I have something to discuss, Kai will show you the way" he waved to his servant as his wife dragged him off to someplace private to brainstorm. The two viking looked at each other before shrugging and walked off.

When Stoick and Hiccup had eaten their fill they began lounging next to a window where the watched the roaring thunderstorm roll into the bay while nursing tankards of mead. Hiccup had sorely hopped Toothless had found a safe shelter for the night. As the light began to fade and day turned to night Agnarr and Iduna found the watching the storm.

"Its a good thing we stopped by when we did, if you where planning on sailing out in those tubs you call ships you might have found yourselves going for a lovely swim." Stoick said

Agnarr grimaced "You might be more right than I care to admit. We took the time to decipher your list, we made a list with all our assets we are willing to trade, while the iron is the only thing we really want, we have a request and we are willing to pay any amount on that list you think is fair to carry out this job"

Hiccup and Stoick furrowed their eyebrows, this seemed weird.

"What kind of job?"

Agnarr and Iduna traded looks Iduna said:

"You said you have dealing with beasts? what kind of beasts?"

Stoick shrugged "Dragons mostly, if you leave them alone they leave you alone, with a few exceptions, my son here takes all the hard to handle cases with the dragons. Moves the more territorial ones to places not inhabited by vikings"

Iduna looked to her husband and he shrugged

"They didn't have to come here, but they did, let's give them a shot, the worst she can say is no."

"Who will say no? what is going on?" Stoick asked

Agnarr made a signal for peace and Stoick sat back down in his seat

"Our daughter has a question to ask you, you can answer no but it would mean the world to us if you could help us out. Please Stoick, I am asking as a father.

Stoick's grimaced as he felt his heartstrings being pulled by the couple without his consent but looked to his son who shrugged

"Eh, why not dad?" the young viking put down his tankard and followed the King and Queen deeper into the castle.

Elsa was nervous as she sat in a conference room with a desk with an empty chair across from her. Her mother came to her room not ten minutes ago telling her of a opportunity that just fell into their lap and they decided to cancel their trip to Corona for this. As the years went by she became less optimistic about her parents ideas for her to learn control over her powers but it had been years since she had seen her mother this excited. She informed her that a peg legged viking in leather armor would enter the room and she would make the offer, she would have to wing it from there using her best judgment.

Before long the door opened and sure enough a viking did enter. but she had to admit it wasn't quite what she was expecting

the man in front of her had an almost distracting peg leg that seemed a complex contraption, but that was only the start. He was dressed in a strange leather armor that covered his entire upper torso and arms. He had a shield strapped to his back, but perhaps the most distracting thing was he was undeniably handsome. She had many books filled with pictures of noble princes and there where a handful of young officers she may have fancied, but the young man in front of her made it hard to breathe because of the sheer ruggedness of him as well as his piercing green eyes. he moved toward her with confidence and she had no doubt in her mind this strapping young man was the son of a viking chief.

"Hello Elsa, I am Hiccup" He said in a voice that was soft and kind. He took the seat across from her.

"So what is your question?"

She had to remember what she needed to talk about "You said you have beasts at your home?"

He smiled, apparently he didn't seem to notice her nervousness "Dragons, but yes. Through no small amount of hard work I have proven vikings and dragons can be miserable on the same rock together" she smiled at his humor, she was guessing conditions at his home where worst than Arendelles winter weather.

"I see. Hiccup? have you ever had any experience in magic?" the viking across from her gave her a puzzled look

"No, but I am a quick learner" Elsa sighed in disappointment and took a moment to gather her courage

"Hiccup, I can use magic."

He nodded his head slowly, completely oblivious to the steadily decreasing temperatures over the last few minutes

"Ok I believe you"

"Specifically winter magic Hiccup, and i have no real control"

Hiccups head cocked itself into an odd angle as he digested this information, and for the first time he began to notice the snowflakes floating stagnant all across the room. He rose up and took one into his hand and began to study it carefully like it would unlock all the secrets he desired.

"Keep talking"

She swallowed and nodded "There is no place where I can practice safely here in Arendelle without putting other people at risk, and since you come from an archipelago I was wondering if there where any uninhabited spots where I could practice without harming anyone, as well as someone to protect me from the dragons"

Hiccup sat back down into his seat and rested his prosthetic across his better leg. he chewed on his finger and his eyes darted every witch way as if he was trying to memorize every knot in the wooden table. She could almost see the gears turning in his brain

"You can say no, I understand..."

Her words probably never registered in his brain as he tipped back the legs of his chair and began to study the cieling with zeal while chewing on his lip for a solid five minutes which where perhaps the longest in Elsa's life.

All four legs once again where on the floor as Hiccup faced Elsa and she couldn't help but feel butterflies in her stomach as a sly grin lit up his face as he looked her in the eyes.

"I think I have a few ideas"

A/N: do tell me what you think!

A quick note: Agnarr and Iduna will not die a terrible death from the big storm, also this takes place some time before Dagur escapes imprisonment so I have set it up so both Elsa and Hiccup will be around the same age-18years old.