A/N: Hello everyone. A new story and this time a crossover, but I have to say it's my first time writing for both! I will inform you that I'm not planning on making this a long multichapter story, so expect several chapters. So please enjoy and let me know what you thought of it!

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Hiccup wore a wide smile as he glanced back at his friends. They were on their way back from a patrol, which had, for like the first time in months, been one without problems. Even the twins didn't cause any problems; which was rather strange, now that he thought about it.

But it didn't take long before their peace was broken as Fishlegs shouted. 'Hiccup, look!' His head snapped around and he followed the chubby boy's pointed finger. He stared at a red dragon on an island in the distance. A frown spread over his face, had he seen that dragon species before?

He patted Toothless as he shouted. 'Ho, bud.' The black dragon's head turned around and understanding eyes glanced at him. 'Let's get closer.' The night fury gave him a slight nod as he and the others descended to the island shore.

The red dragon seemed to be asleep as a low snoring noise spread over the sand. They had landed at a safe distance from the dragon and Hiccup turned back to Fishlegs. 'Do you know this species?'

'No and I'm certain that I know all of the species found in the book.'

'Wooh, our nerd doesn't know!' Snotlout joked, but all just ignored him.

'Maybe it's a new one?' Astrid suggested.

'He can help us destroy!' Ruffnut shouted as she high fived her brother. 'Hell yeah.' The other twin screamed in response.

Hiccup glared at the twins. 'Be quiet, we don't want to wake him up.' The two just grinned in response. The one legged boy glanced back at the dragon, it's scales were fire red as they darkened around the eyes, but what most impressed him was the size of the creature, the red dragon was almost twice as large as a full grown monstrous Nightmare. He glanced nervously back at the others before they made their way towards the dragon, making sure not to waken him.

The dragons followed soon after, Toothless eying the red dragon with much suspicion, but since his dragon didn't stop him Hiccup figured that it was alright to go on. He trusted the creature's instincts.

He finally stopped at an arms length of the dragon, who was still deep asleep. A deep frown spread over the brunette's face. Up close he could see the differences between this dragon and the ones he was normally around, the scales were formed in a more circular manner and they lay differently over each other.

It was a whisper from behind that brought him out of his thoughts. 'Why don't you try to tame it?' It was Astrid's soft voice and he gave her a nod in response.

He slowly made his way to the head, under the watchful eyes of Toothless and the rest of his friends. Hiccup gulped slightly as he noticed the large fangs on both sides of the head, they could easily tear him apart. The chief's son reached a shivering hand to the top of the snout.

And as his skin touched the soft nose big eyes shot open. Hiccup stood frozen eye to eye with the dragon. Two deep black eyes glanced at him, narrowing themselves as the dragon seemed to take him in before shifting to his friends and back to the boy. Hiccup could feel the soft growl under his fingers before the head was lifted up in the air, breaking contact with the dragon tamer's soft hand.

A loud roar filled the air, causing the others to panic. They grabbed their weapons as the dragons came closer ready to attack the foreign dragon.

'Stop!' A strong deep voice shouted and all snapped around as the sound of an unsheathing sword could be heard. 'Don't you dare hurt him!' A black haired man shouted, his blue eyes piercing them as his blood red sword was pointed at them.

Hiccup gasped and ran forward as he realized that this could quickly turn into a bloodbath, he stood between his friends and this newly appeared man. He didn't fear the dragon as he had seen in the creature's eyes that it wouldn't hurt them. 'Please, stop!' He shouted, arms wide as he stared at the man. 'We don't want to hurt anyone, please lower your weapon!' He glanced back at the other riders. 'The same goes for you!'

They looked at each other, but did what they had been asked. The man in front of them hesitated, but as his blue eyes shot to the red dragon he lowered his sword.

Hiccup let out a sigh of relief before slowly making his way forward as he offered the man his hand. 'I'm Hiccup.'

The black haired man bit his lip as he stared at the outstretched hand, but he eventually grabbed it. 'Murtagh.'

A wide grin spread over the dragon tamer's face as curiosity spread over his face, was this man the same as them, a dragon rider? He introduced the other to him before asking. 'And the dragon, is it yours?'

Murtagh let out a soft laugh. 'Can a dragon ever be truly yours? But if you really want to ask it, then yes.' He glanced lovingly at his dragon. 'His name is Thorn.' He slowly patted the red dragon on his side before glancing at the other dragons, blue eyes narrowed themselves as they shifted between the dragons and the children. The eyes growing wide, as if they had just realized something and he snatched Hiccup's hand towards himself.

Hiccup gasped in shock as his hand was dragged forward and turned around. Murtagh stared intensely at his palm before a soft disappointed breath left the man's lips.

'Uhh... can I help you?'

'No... no, it's nothing.' His hand was released and they fell silent again.

It was Fishlegs that broke the silence by asking. 'Can you tell me what species your dragon is? What does it eat? Is this the full grown size or can it grow bigger? Where does it come from? How di-.'

Murtagh laughed as he interrupted the boy. 'Calm down boy, I will tell you everything you want to know.' He walked around his dragon. 'Let's sit down and have something to eat.'

The children and their dragons followed him and discovered a complete campsite hidden behind the large body of the dragon.

Hiccup's eyes shot over the campsite, eventually resting on a large saddle. He stared at it in amazement, he had never seen such a detailed saddle before. Okay, it was true that Vikings did make rather rough items, but this looked like it was made by the best craftsmen with the most soft and gentle hands. 'It's beautiful.' He whispered more to himself than to someone else.

'You like it?' Murtagh had appeared next to him and he gave the other a quick nod. 'It had been made for me a long time ago.'

'Who made it?'

The man looked off in the distance. 'Someone far away from here.' Hiccup frowned at this answer, if you really could call it one, but before he could ask further the man settled himself down next to the campfire. He eyed the others, showing that he wanted them to sit down beside him. 'So tell me, where do all of you live?'

'Berk, several miles further north of here.' Fishlegs replied.

The rest of the afternoon they just talked. Murtagh was rather interested in Berk and the way Hiccup and the others trained their dragons, but although the stranger gladly listened to their stories he was rather reluctant to speak about himself and where he came from. There was some kind of mystery surrounding the man, but Hiccup didn't feel as if they had to fear him.

It was when the sun began to set that the older man stated. 'It's getting late, you need to return home.'

They mumbled in agreement knowing that they had been gone far too long already, but as Hiccup climbed on Toothless his eyes shifted back to Murtagh. The man smiled at them, but the smile didn't reach his eyes, there was a hint of loneliness in those blue eyes.

'Do you want to come with us?'

The others looked nervously at him as Hiccup spoke those words. It was Astrid that leaned in and whispered. 'Are you sure of it?'

Hiccup gulped as he nodded. 'Yes.' He turned back to Murtagh. 'Only if you want to.'

The raven gave him a small smile. 'I would like that.' He quickly turned around to break his camp up before putting on the saddle. It took him less than ten minutes before he sat ready on Thorn and he nodded to Hiccup. 'Lead the way.'