Frozen: The Dragon Princess

Chapter 8

How to Train your Dragon Princess

Part 2

In sky's over berk a black shape darted and weaved among the clouds. On its back was a small, lanky boy with tousled brown hair dressed in a green shirt and fur vest. His leg ended in a metal prosthetic that was hooked into a lever that manipulated the replacement tail.

"Ready bud?" The boy asked and the dragon gurgled. Hiccup unhooked his foot from the stirrup and perching on toothless back, leapt into the open air. He felt the familiar rush as he sped to toward the ground, his best friend diving down with him. Hiccup grinned at him, and toothless grinned back. Before they hit the ground toothless turned and Hiccup mounted and put his leg back into the stirrup. Opening the tail toothless spread his wings and broke their fall, turning it into a dive, then a glide.

"Good run bud" Hiccup said and the dragon gurgled in agreement.

"Hiccup!" A familiar voice shouted as Astrid and her dragon stormfly caught up to them.

"Hey Astrid, what's up?" Hiccup asked.

"We've got trouble" She said and led the two to the Berk dragon academy. They entered and saw Hiccups father the chief and his right hand man Gobber.

"Whoa Gobber what happened to you? Bad day at the dentist?" Hiccup asked referring to the scorch marks on his that man's face and the soot in his long mustache and beard.

"I wish" The man said.

"Hiccup we have a problem" His father Stoic, the chief said.

"Besides Gobbers new look?" He quipped.

"This is no joke son. A stranger has entered Berk" Stoic said.

"A stranger, who?" Hiccup asked.

"If we knew that she wouldn't be a stranger now would she?" Gobber asked.

"Wait, she? A girl did this to you?" Hiccup asked, only to be punched in the arm by Astrid.

"Sorry" He said to the glaring girl.

"Little runt hit me with a fireball before she ran away" Gobber grumbled.

"Whoa, she hit you with a what?" Hiccup asked.

"A fireball, I didn't get this on purpose" Gobber said gesturing at his face.

"Ah, me beautiful face" He groaned.

"Ok, so what do you want me to do about it?" Hiccup asked.

"You and the other riders are responsible for protecting the village. Get your dragons and find our guest" Stoic said and the two men walked off.

"Hey what does this girl look like?" Hiccup shouted after them.

"Red hair, two pig tails, cute as a button" Gobber shouted back.

"Great, that helps" Hiccup said snidely as he and Astrid looked at each other.

After Anna had escaped the one leg, one arm man she hid among a crowd of dragons for a while before changing back. The encounter had shaken her, but she wasn't about to give up. Finding a quiet corner she opened her book and read what information it had about the clue in Berk.

In the howling cavern lies the heart of air. Thou must possess the wit and wisdom of the wind if though is to earn the right to possess it.

"The howling cavern?" Anna asked. She looked around and found the only dragon still around was a long bodied one with horns that was a bright red.

"Hey, do you know where the howling cavern is?" Anna asked the dragon, who ignored her. She huffed in frustration before waltzing up to it and staring it in the face.

"Excuse me, I'm talking to you!" She said.

"Buzz off hatchling" the dragon said in a gruff voice. It was a strange sound, partly in her mind and partly in her ears.

"No, tell me where the howling cavern is!" She demanded.

"Hey, what are you doing to my dragon?" A voice asked. Anna whirled around to see a large boy in a shirt and black vest walking up to her.

"Just talking" Anna said.

"Really, you're talking? To a dragon? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard" He Jeered.

"Come on Hookfang, let's leave this kid to play make believe by herself" He scoffed. The dragon, Hookfang snorted at her and smacked her with his tail as he passed. It didn't hurt, just stung her pride. A sly grin spread across the girls face as she cupped her hands together and generated a small flame. Taking careful aim she shot the flame at the boy's narrow backside. He yelped and jumped high into the air and rounded on the dragon.

"What was that for?" He asked. The dragon turned and glared at Anna but she was already gone, racing away under her invisibility cloak, giggling. After she had gotten far enough away she stopped to catch her breath.

"That was fun, but I'm still stuck" she thought as she wandered around the village.

"I could ask one of the Vikings, but I don't think they would know" She sighed when suddenly she was almost flattened by something large and white landing almost on top of her. She yelped and stumbled back as a large lumpy dragon came up and took the large white thing in its mouth.

"Good girl meatlug" a high voice said. Anna looked, and did a double take as she saw the voice belonged to large boy in a fur shirt.

"Does everyone around here wear fur?" She wondered as the dragon tossed the white thing (a sheep) to the boy who caught it. The dragon then sniffed around and walked right up to Anna and snuffled her.

"Hey, that tickles" She said trying to push the large snout away, only to have it lick her, the large warm slimy tongue making her laugh.

"Hello? Are you a ghost?" The boy asked nervously. Anna looked down to see that she was still invisible.

"No, I'm not a ghost" She said becoming visible.

"Oh, thank Thor, but how were you able to turn invisible like that?" He asked.

"Magic" Anna replied, finding she liked this large boy.

"Oh, magic, hm. Well magic girl what are you doing here, because I don't think you're a Berkian" He asked.

"I'm looking for the howling cavern" She said, and the boys face paled.

"Why would you want to know that?" He asked.

"I'm looking for the heart of air" She said.

"Oh, the heart of air" He said.

"Do you know about it?" Anna asked excited.

"I do, but I don't think a little girl like you should be going there. It's extremely dangerous, and many a brave Viking has been killed trying to find the heart of air" He explained.

"But I'm not a Viking" Anna said and formed a flame in her hand.

"Oh I don't know. You're an outsider. I should really take you to the chief" the boy said, and Anna felt fear go up her spine.

"Please don't do that. Please, Please" She said, tears leaking from her eyes. The dragon looked at the boy who saw her big tear filled eyes, and caved.

"Okay, but if I tell you about the Howling Cavern, you have to promise to leave, alright" He said.

"Promise" Anna said holding out her hand. The boy took it in one meaty palm and they shook.

"Alright, follow me" He said and the three of them walked off.

"Let me get this straight, you had the stranger in front of you and you just walked away?" Astrid demanded of Snotlout.

"Hey, how was I supposed to know there was some mysterious stranger in Berk?" The boy demanded.

"As much as I hate to admit it, he has a point" Hiccup said.

"So what do we do now?" Astrid asked.

"Ok, the heart of wind is located in the howling cavern near Thor rock" Fishlegs explained showing Anna a map. She looked it over carefully.

"I think I can find my way on my own, thank you" Anna said.

"Wait, you're going on your own?" he asked.

"Yeah" Anna said.

"That's a terrible idea. Do you know how dangerous the howling cavern is?" Fishlegs asked.

"I don't care" Anna said and picking up her bag walked out the door.

"Wait" fishlegs said running after her, but she had already transformed and flew away.

Okay, second part of the how to train your dragon story arc. Third part coming.