Frozen

The Dragon Princess

How to Train Your Dragon Princess

Part 3

Hiccup and Astrid had searched the entire island and not found anything.

"Uh, this is hopeless. We've searched everywhere, talked to everyone, and no one's seen this girl. I think Gobber sent us on a wild goose chase" Astrid complained.

"You may be right" Hiccup said.

"You guy's" They heard fishlegs shout as they saw the boy on his dragon meatlug buzzing toward them.

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

"There's a stranger on Berk" He said.

"We know we've just spent the whole day looking for her" Astrid said.

"Fishlegs, how do you know about the stranger?" Hiccup asked and the boy got a nervous look

"Well, I might have met her, and might have told her how to get to the howling caverns to find the heart of air" Fishlegs said. Hiccup looked at the large boy for several long seconds before smacking his face with his hand.

"Astrid, get the other riders. Whoever this girl is, we have to find her and see what she wants with the heart of air" Hiccup said mounting toothless.

"Right, we'll meet you there" She said and mounting stormfly flew off.

"Fishlegs you're with me" Hiccup said and toothless launched into the sky.

"Oh joy" He sighed as Meatlug lifted off.

Anna followed Fishlegs directions to Thors rock. She landed in front of the mountain where the heart was hidden and transformed back. She looked at the cave and gathering her courage and a small flame in her hand went inside. The cave was dark, even with her flame to guide her. She war careful as she followed the twisting tunnel. She was nearing a bend when a sudden noise made her freeze.

"Be more careful" A voice growled.

"Sorry Alvin" A second voice said.

"Why are we here Alvin?" a second third voice asked.

"Why do ya think, to find the heart of wind" the first voice growled.

"But why do you want it?" The second voice asked.

"Why not? Think of the power the heart could give us? Or we could sell it for a king's ransom" The first voice gloated.

"Ah yes" the second voice said as Anna saw two giant men and one smaller one emerge from around the bend. She snuffed her flame and turned invisible as they came into sight. She followed the men as they walked down the tunnel.

"Are you sure that maps accurate?" The smaller man asked the largest man who was holding a map.

"It better be, or the trader we took it from going to feel my wrath" The large man growled. Anna continued to follow closely behind them as they traveled through twisty tunnels, until finally they emerged into a gigantic cavern that glowed pale silver. Silver crystals lined the walls, giving of the glow, and a hole at the top let in light, and a whirling breeze. On a pedestal bathed in the light sat a flawless, beautiful diamond.

"Great Odin's ghost" the smaller man gasped. The large man rolled up the map and walked toward the diamond. Without thinking Anna dotted forward, weaving through the men's legs, and leaping snatched the gem off the pedestal.
"What?" the man demanded as he and the other two men drew swords. Anna transformed and leapt to the ceiling but found it was too big for her dragon body. She also didn't realize that even though she was invisible, she still cast a shadow in the light coming down from the hole.

"Up there!" The largest man shouted and began climbing the crystals to reach her as the other two men began throwing rocks at her. Thinking faster than she ever had before, Anna transformed back and grabbed the edges of the hole, and heaved herself up and out, just as the largest man reached the hole and made a grab for her, gripping her leg. Anna shrieked in fear and threw a flame at him, and the man screamed in pain as he fell back to the floor. Anna transformed and flew away as fast as her wings could take her.

"Alvin, are you alright?" Savage asked. Alvin looked at his arm where the little girl had hit him with a fireball.

Anna landed a short distance away and transforming back tried to calm herself down. Eventually her shaking stopped and she was able to calm down and look at the diamond. It looked like a normal gem, though far larger and more beautiful than anything she had ever seen.

"Okay, mission accomplished, time to go home" She said and breathing deeply tried to gather her magic to return home, and found she couldn't. She didn't have the energy. As easy as the trip back is compared to the trip forward, she just hadn't recovered enough magic to make such a long trip back.

"Ok, I'm stuck in the past with a bunch of Vikings looking for me" She reasoned out as she sat down, suddenly tired out from everything she had done. She lay back on the ground to rest, and found herself falling asleep.

"There's Thor's island" Astrid said and the five riders descended to the island.

"Spread out and look for our visitor" Hiccup said and the other riders followed his order.

"Okay girl, sniff her out" Fishlegs said as they hovered over the ground. The large dragon sniffed at the ground as she flew. After about five minutes of this, she perked up and flew to the right at high speeds until she lowered herself to the ground next to the sleeping girl.

"Shhh" Fishlegs said as he got off her and walked toward the girl.

"Anna, Anna!" Fishlegs whispered.

"Um?" Anna grumbled and rolling over went back to sleep. He grunted in annoyance when meatlug looked off toward the trees and growled. Fishlegs looked where his dragon was and saw two outcasts emerge from the trees.

"Alvin, we found her!" One shouted.

"Time to go" Fishlegs said and picking the girl up hopped on meatlug and the two buzzed away as more outcasts emerged from the trees, some carrying crossbows. Meatlug weaved as arrows whizzed past them and turning fired a flaming rock at the outcasts scattering them.

"Good job girl" Fishlegs praised.

"What's going on, what I miss?" Anna asked groggily. Hours later she found herself sitting on a stool in the dragon academy, facing the riders, Stoic and Gobber. Anna had spent the last hour explaining who she was, and how she got to berk and why she was there. Well, except the part about being a princess that really wasn't important.

"So let me get this straight, you're a human, who can turn into a dragon, who can also use magic, and you came back in time to find the heart of air as part of a quest to save your family" Hiccup summed things up.

"Yep" Anna said brightly.

"Wow, either that's the most adorable thing I've ever heard, or your completely crazy" Astrid said.

"Hey!" Anna protested.

"That's stories so crazy it has to be true" Fishlegs said.

"Really, then let's see you transform" Snotlout taunted. Anna transformed and opening her mouth let out a monstrous roar right in the boys face, almost knocking him over. When it was done, Snotlout stood for a second before falling backward with a small squeak. Anna changed back to human giggling brightly.

"What?" She asked the other Vikings staring at her. Stoic put his arm around his son and led him away.

"So what are we going to do about this?" He asked.

"How should I know? It's not like she's a regular dragon!" Hiccup said as they looked back at the girl, who was trying to juggle fireballs, and dropping them, only to have the twins try to catch them, fishlegs write down what he was seeing and Astrid to keep a safe distance.

"All the more reason to keep her under control, at least until we know if her stories true or not" Stoic said.

"What I'd like to know is if you really got the heart of air?" Gobber asked.

"Yeah, it's right here" Anna said and digging into the bag slung over her shoulder brought out the heart of air.

"Wow" The twins, Fishlegs, and Snotlout said.

"That can't be the heart of air. Legend says whoever touches it gets consumed in giant maelstrom created by Thor himself" Gobber said.

"Well if it isn't the heart of air, then it's mine" Snotlout said and snatched the diamond from the little girl.

"Hey!" Anna shouted and tried to leap to get it, only to have Snotlout snort in contempt, until the gem began to glow.

"Uh oh" Anna said as a tornado erupted out of the gem. Snotlout screamed as the tornado lifted him to the top of the arena where he was pressed against the metal.

"Hookfang, Hookfang!" Snotlout cried as his dragon tried to reach him, only to be pushed back.

"Is this the maelstrom you were talking about?" Hiccup shouted at Gobber as they tried to keep their feet.

"That would be it, yes!" Gobber shouted back.

"How do we stop this?!" Astrid demanded.

"The gem didn't react until Snotlout touched it" Hiccup explained.

"Snotlout, drop the diamond!" Hiccup shouted.

"I can't, and even if I could I wouldn't" The boy shouted back as the wind grew stronger.

"We have to get that thing away from him!" Astrid shouted.

"How, we can't get near him!" Fishlegs said.

"I can stop the wind, but only for a second!" Anna shouted.

"Okay!" Hiccup said after looking at the girl.

"Toothless!" Hiccup called, and mounted the dragon. As they crouched down, Anna gathered all her power and creating a pocket of air, threw it into the wind created by the gem. Toothless leapt and hiccup reached out and caught the gem. The wind instantly stopped, and with a yell Snotlout dropped to the floor with a loud thud. Toothless landed gently on the ground, the heart of wind clutched in hiccups hand.

"That was awesome" Anna shouted.

"Yeah!" The twins shouted high fiving each other. Hiccup just sighed when the gem began to glow brightly.

"What's happening now?" Fishlegs asked.

"I don't know?" Hiccup said as the gem shot a beam of light into the sky. The beam stopped, only to be replaced by the sound of thunder. They all raced out of the academy to see the sky was overcast and stormy, lightning and thunder crackling in the sky. Right above the academy a vortex swirled in the sky, and out of it descended a gigantic dragon. It looked like a ghost, or a phantom. They could see through it, and it looked like it was made of mist.

"What is that?" Fishlegs asked.

"Um…I think it's the guardian?" Anna said flipping through her book.

"Guardian?" Hiccup asked.

"Umm…the gem is guarded by the dragon lord Borealis, who controls the four winds of the world. He appears to anyone who disturbs the heart to see if they're worthy" She read.

"And if they aren't?" Astrid asked.

"He steals the breath from their bodies and commands the winds to scour whatever civilization found it from the face of the earth" She recited.

"That is…awesome!" Tuffnut said.

Sorry I haven't updated recently, but I've been busy. I'm also trying to work out exactly how this story will go in my head (and to a smaller extent on paper). Just because it's a fanfiction doesn't mean it doesn't have to have real work putting into it (and I think the more I write here, the better my writing for paying work gets).