Disclaimer: I do not own How To Train Your Dragon or Frozen

This is an AU Fanfic that was written before HTTYD 3 and Frozen 2 and will make no attempts to be canon compliant.

Updated: 01/08/2020

Prologue

Elsa woke with a quiet grumble, her usual pessimistic self-fired up on all cylinders. The Queen of Arendelle had one thought running through her mind. She had gone insane. Yup, it was the only logical explanation for her actions last night. The stress had gotten to her head. Running a kingdom had finally taken a toll on her poor brain. Because the rational and patient Elsa would have never done this.

"Am I a hypocrite now?" Elsa thought to herself.

Elsa had reprimanded Anna for being too hasty. For thinking that she was in love and trying to rush into marriage with Hans. But now she had done something far worse. The bed shifted as Elsa decided to bring herself upright. The silken sheets slid down her bare body but was quickly pulled up by her hands.

Standing in the room looking through the glass doors to her balcony was the only other occupant in the room. Often times Elsa has had that same look through that exact same window to watch the sunrise in the background of Arendelle. With his unkempt brown hair and soft emerald eyes, the man looked through the window with a gaze that spanned for miles. It would make anyone think that he was harmless. But those people would be horribly wrong. Behind those features was a man with great power, capable of burning everything in his path down to the ground.

Seeing him only reminded her of her mistake. What on earth was she thinking? The future of her kingdom that once shined brightly was now covered in an ominous cloud. She simply wasn't allowed to make mistakes like this.

Chapter 1: A New Arrival

"Pleeeeease"

"No"

"Elsaaahhh"

"No means no Anna. I am far too busy today," Elsa told her beloved sister as she gracefully had her morning tea. In the early lights of morning the two sisters convened and ate their breakfast together in their private dining room. The room was furnished beautifully with various arts and paintings from faraway kingdoms, much like the palace's grand dinner hall. But the room was much smaller for the purpose of intimacy between the royal family and those close to them.

"But you are always too busy," Anna whined as she ate her breakfast. In contrast to her older sister's more refined and purposeful eating, Anna's eating habits were a lot less restrained, treading carefully along the lines of being ladylike and uncultured. With a big huff Anna sat up perfectly straight, her chin slightly raised up to mimic her sister.

"Anna I am too busy running the kingdom to build a thousand snowmen with you. Anna I am too busy meeting some random dignitary from some random place to go shopping with you. Anna I am too busy beating off men with my royal ice stick to dance around naked with trolls with you," Anna said with her most royal and official voice she could muster.

"I sound nothing like that," Elsa defended, abhorred by Anna's mocking voice that was supposed to be her. "And it's not like that Anna. As queen it is my responsibility to care for everyone within the kingdom. I would love to spend more time with you if I could."

"Yaya I heard it all before." Anna huffed clearly exasperated with her sister, "But this isn't about me, this is about you. I am worried for you sis, all you ever do is work, no time for yourself and no time for you to relax. I think you are starting to turn into a workaholic and I am getting really worried."

Seeing Anna's worried face Elsa couldn't help but feel her heart tighten a little. She was right. All of her time was spent being queen and not Elsa. Secretly she loved her job as queen, to serve her people. For her subjects to come to her with their ideas and further build their kingdom gave her immense joy. But her job demanded her complete time. Before she could reply to Anna the door behind her sister opened to reveal one of her guards.

"Your majesty a new group of arrivals have shown up and are waiting for you to greet them."

With a sigh Elsa got up from her chair.

"I am sorry Anna but I have to go. We will continue this conversation later. I hope you enjoy your shopping trip today." Elsa said as she began to head out the door. Suddenly stopping in front of the door Elsa turned around to face Anna with a serious face.

"I am never ever going to dance naked with trolls. Under any circumstances Anna." And with those final parting words the queen left the dining room with her guards. Anna couldn't help but to let out a laugh as she thought back to everything they have gone through together. Through thick and thin Elsa was always going to be with her.

"Same old serious sister Elsa."

OoOoO

Anna loved to go shopping. Every month Anna would string along her bodyguards and Kristoff, down to the pier to visit all the merchants from around the world. To experience a little piece of culture that she never got to see while she was trapped in the castle as a child. Anna was meticulous and methodical with her shopping, making sure she did not miss anything. After two hours of shopping she was finally at her last stop, a small merchant ship at the end of the pier.

"Hi!" Anna greeted the merchant.

"Why hello my dear! Pardon me but could you be her royal highness Anna? The beautiful princess of Arendelle? My name is Johann greatest trader of the seven seas! It is an honor to meet you," The merchant said as he waved his hands in a wide arc before bowing in a grand gesture.

"Nice to meet you too," Anna said as she began looking through his inventory. She noticed that the merchant had traveled around the world to obtain his items but none were particularly unique or interesting. For the most part she could find any of his items anywhere else.

"I wonder why would he come here to try to compete with the already established merchants," Anna thought to herself.

"I have never seen your ship here before. Is it possible that this is your first time in Arendelle?" Anna asked.

"You are correct your highness. It is my first time here. In truth my primary goal is to complete a favor for a friend of mine and it would seem that lady luck is on my side." The merchant replied.

"And favor is that great merchant of the seven seas?" Anna asked. But before she could get her answer the sound of a mountain crashing down onto the ocean was heard.

OoOoO

Elsa was bored out of her mind. Normally Elsa loved her job as queen. Others would have cried at the sheer tedium and amount of paper work and duties she had to do. But Elsa loved her duties because they contributed to her goal of helping her people. It was what she was born to do. Talking to diplomats whose only goal is to take advantage of her inexperience or take her hand? Not so much. With a simple nod at the men that were boasting to her, Elsa tuned them out and started to remember when things started to go all wrong.

There once was a time when she enjoyed meeting these ambitious men. After the "little incident" from when she accidentally brought an eternal winter to her kingdom, bachelors started to flock to Arendelle in droves. At first it was really annoying, she was busy trying to get her kingdom back into order after her parents passed away. Everywhere she was: nobles, princes, knights, were hiding in every dark corner asking for her hand in marriage. Elsa disliked them all, how could any of them think she would fall in love with any of these pretentious and vain men? It seemed like she was doomed to be forever alone. But then he arrived. The man that was simply called 'The First' by Anna.

Riding in a sparkling white horse, the great hero Arbridge had entered her palace. He was a dashing man that made women swoon wherever he went. Charming, kindhearted, courageous and noble, he was perfect in every way. Elsa had thought she had found her true love. But then came mister perfect number two. And then three, four, five and six came along. Suddenly the queen found herself surrounded by cut and paste prince charming from her children's book. They were all the same, what was once special suddenly became ordinary to Elsa. The thrill of talking to any of them got repetitive and boring. At one point Anna suggested she roll a dice and just 'go' with it.

Anna's idea seemed to work. But then a few men went and screwed it up for everyone else. From a reliable source the queen heard that some of those men were insulting her honor behind her back; Calling her a "bitch" and a "whore" for playing around with them and not picking one, talking about what they would do once they were king, what they would make Elsa do.

Elsa was absolutely furious. She wasn't stupid, she was well aware some men would be only be interested in her body, her powers, and her kingdom. But to actually hear about it was a completely different subject. She would not tolerate this kind of talk within her own walls. Not knowing which men were talking like that, the queen decided to kick them all out, at great protests to them all. Anna said that she was being too hasty and emotional but Elsa didn't care. She wasn't emotionally attached to any of her suitors anyways and by this point Elsa decided that she was taking a break from men.

The incident spread like wildfire alienating all the suitors. People started to say that her heart really was made out of ice. None of this bothered Elsa however because for a few blissful weeks, she didn't have deal them. But of course it wouldn't last forever. Like cockroaches, they eventually came out from wherever they were hiding from for another shot at the famed Snow Queen. Two years have gone by and nothing has really changed since then.

Returning back to the present Elsa glanced down at her body. Her body hasn't really helped her cause either. On her day of her coronation, she was already described by many as a beautiful young woman. But apparently her body wasn't quite done yet. In the past two years, Elsa grew taller, curvier. By the time she had finished growing, she had turned into a fully fledged, pure bred women with full hips and lips. Her beauty alone was enough to draw the attention of every man and women in a room. Anna had made no attempts at hiding her jealousy, saying that she was definitely going to look prettier than Elsa one day. At the moment Anna was going through a similar growth spurt and she couldn't wait for that day to arrive so she could hide behind her younger sister under the limelight.

A loud crashing sound caused her to snap out of reverie. Elsa quickly got off her throne and exited onto the open gardens of the upper levels of her palace alongside everyone else inside the throne room. Looking out onto Arendelle made her heart skip a beat. Elsa could hardly believe that she wasn't dreaming. It was impossible to miss the giant white beast the size of her palace looming over the docks.

"Anna is still down there at the docks," Elsa remembered in panicked thoughts.

Calling for her soldiers Elsa stormed out of the palace on her horse with her knights riding out from behind her.

As she got closer, the white beast seemed to grow endlessly in size. The roads was crowded with people running away from the danger. Using her ice powers Elsa created an ice bridge to travel above the crowds and her soldiers followed without fear. In a matter of minutes Elsa had arrived at the pier. Her army immediately went into formation to protect Arendelle and the queen, with swords drawn and crossbows pointed up at the sky. But the white beast was not their only problem. What was once indiscernible before back at the palace was now revealed. Surrounding the giant were hundreds of winged beasts looking menacingly in the sky.

Dragons.

Elsa went into complete panic mode. There was no way her ice powers were strong enough to take on this threat. She could certainly freeze some of them but there were far too many for her. And the dragons had wings which meant they could easily fly away out of her reach and burn down her entire kingdom. There was no way to win.

"Elsa!" a voice called out to her from behind. Turning around Elsa found her sister racing towards her. Running towards her as well, the two sisters met each other halfway. The queen wrapped around her sister in a protective hug before quickly scanning her for any injuries.

"You're not hurt anywhere are you?" Elsa asked as she grabbed Anna's head by her cheeks and thanked the gods for keeping Anna safe.

"I'm fine Elsa," Anna said, brushing Elsa's hands off, heavily embarrassed by her sisterly concern.

"What are you doing? You need to get away quickly it's not safe here. What were you thinking staying here?" Elsa fired out.

"Well I was going to but then I noticed that the dragons haven't moved since they got here. So I decided to wait for you." Anna replied.

"My queen, we are in position and are waiting for further orders"

Closing her eyes, Elsa took a deep breath, inhaling and exhaling. She had no time to ask Anna was she meant but had to act quickly nonetheless. No longer was she the worried older sister, but the Snow Queen of Arendelle.

"Battle Assessment General," The Queen asked.

As there was currently no King, General Grahm was her second in command and her most trusted ally in matters dealing with her kingdom. As a seasoned veteran, the General was the most decorated and renowned soldier serving under her father. But those times were long gone. With graying hair the General traded in his sword for a pen, his body for his mind, destined for a life of luxury and politics in palace. But now it seemed fate had different in mind for the older man.

"Putting aside the mammoth, our soldiers outnumber the dragons. But that's assuming there aren't any other dragons hiding elsewhere. If this is all of them are odds are unfortunately just as bleak. With no way to hold them at bay we would be spread out too thin and we would slowly be picked off. Not to mention any other surprises that could come. Unless my queen has been hiding her true potential... our future does not bode well," the General reported.

"Well, they haven't attacked us yet so an all out war doesn't seem to be what they want," Anna commented, hoping to look at the optimistic and hopeful side of things.

"They did not take advantage of their element of surprise so peace is still on the table. That or they are confident that they would win in a straight up engagement. I'm not crazy about it but surrendering might be our best option. Depending on their terms a quick death would be better than a life of servitude," the General added his fists clenched with anger at the mere thought

"It won't come to that," Elsa said reassuringly even though internally she felt the exact opposite. She felt like her world was about to be set on fire "So long as I breathe I promise everyone that I won't let that happen. It's time to stop waiting around."

Understanding what her queen wanted, the general commanded his troops to open up a path for her. With a quiet thank you, Elsa started to walk out into the open with her General following closely behind for protection even though she was capable of protecting herself. With each step Elsa was closer to the danger. The cold had never bothered her before but she could feel a chill running along her spine that grew stronger with each passing moment. Nervously she looked up into the sky praying to herself that the dragons would simply fly away. Elsa had to walk out to the very edge of the docks before the dragons started to move.

The white beast gave a deafening roar and the smaller dragons reacted by flapping their wings and forming into a ball.

The show proved to be short lived as the dragons returned back to their original positions at the side of the behemoth. But this time the white dragon was in the background giving a sharp contrast to the single black dragon that now stood at the forefront. On top of the dragon seemed to be a lone human. Slowly the black dragon began to descend towards Elsa and landed gracefully before her.

Upon closer inspection the term "small" was the furthest thing she would use to describe the dragon. It was so huge that it could easily tower over the largest of men. Its short front legs clearly showed that the dragon was quadrupedal but chose to stand on his two back legs with his tail for balance. His wings were folded, but hid a massive wingspan. A small growl completed the dragon's first impression.

Unlike the dragon, the rider was much less imposing. Upon turning her attention to the man, Elsa immediately felt like something was wrong.

Her chest tightened and her breathe hitched. It felt like her breathe had been taken away and her body so desperately wanted to move for some unknown reason.

The man was clad in brown leather and was wearing a helmet that covered his entire face. With a lithe build built for agility the man did not particularity look imposing so Elsa did not understand why his appearance was affecting her so.

"What is happening to me?" Elsa thought desperately doing her best to regain control of her body.

Removing his helmet revealed wild hair, with the same shade of brown as the leather he was wearing. His features were somewhere between rugged and soft. With such a young looking face, some would have never taken this person seriously.

But none of that mattered. The man's face revealed proved to be Elsa's undoing as she began to feel light headed and her vision blurred.

"My name is Elsa Queen of Arendelle," she said, barely concealing the shakiness of her own voice.

For a few moments the newcomer stayed silent with his eyes refusing to look at Elsa's, much proffering to stare down at the wooden floors of the dock. His brow slightly furrowed as if he was concentrating very hard on something. The wait felt like an eternity to Elsa.

"Hiccup," he said simply as he raised his hand and started moving his fingers. It was a signal, and the Bewilderbeast behind him turned and swam away.

Everyone silently gasped in awe as he commanded the dragon with such ease, when the beasts could easily step on him. For a brief moment Elsa toyed with the idea of killing the Dragon King where he stood, in the hopes that he was somehow controlling them and they would simply flee at his death.

"No I need to play this out slowly and carefully" Elsa thought. One wrong step would prove to be lethal.

"Why have you come to Arendelle Hic-? Elsa had started to asked but stopped halfway when she had tried saying his name.

With her question the leather clad king furrowed his eyebrows again in concentration. Before she could get her answer however, another loud roar occurred from the distance taking the focus away from the king and onto the behemoth. With another roar the dragon started the spit out ice at the island mountain that suddenly appeared from out of nowhere. Slowly the island mountain became covered with ice and frost, acting as a protective wall.

This completely shocked Elsa. The concept of an ice spitting dragon never occurred to her. Dragons in the books that she read as a child only featured fire breathing beasts. Elsa forced herself to ignore the dragon as he started to build up his ice. She turned her focus back to the king who seemed to be ready to give an answer to her query. With a raised finger he pointed directly at Elsa." This is it" Elsa thought to herself as she mentally prepared herself for the big reveal. "No matters what he wants I will not falter. I am the Queen of Arendelle and I will not show weakness!"

Elsa!" the Dragon King spoke loudly with a smile on his face.

"WHAT?!" A female voice yelled out from behind he staggered lines of the soldiers

"No stay back!" Elsa cried out in her mind, incapable of voicing the words out. Taking a step back Elsa moved into a panic defensive posture.

The man had somehow sense Elsa's fear and stopped himself. The man looked down at the scared Elsa that refused to look back at his gaze. With a small frown the man let out a small sigh before turning around. He quickly mounted his dragon and with a single wing flap the dragon took off leaving behind a gust wind big enough to force the general and the queen to brace themselves against the wind. After giving his short answer the Dragon King flew off towards the island with his dragon army following closely behind.

Pushing the soldiers aside Anna quickly ran up to her sister and grabbed her shoulder. "Please tell me he didn't just say what I think he just said Elsa?" Anna asked desperately. But Elsa didn't reply to her sister. Elsa became unresponsive to everything around her the moment those word came of the Dragon King's mouth. The queen stood completely still unaware of the tears that fell down her face as she watched the man fly away.

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