I Would Understand

Chapter 1

Authors Note: Hello everybody, this is my first fan fiction, so reviews will be greatly appreciated in helping me better develop this and future stories.

I do not own How to Train Your Dragon or any of its characters, the only thing that I do own would be the main characters Chris and Amy, and their possible relatives and/or connections that do not directly relate to How to Train Your Dragon.

"WA WA WA AWAA WA WA."

That's all I heard from my teacher Mr. Burrton, sounded just like the teachers in the Charlie Brown shows. It isn't so much the fact that he had a boring voice or anything, he was actually a pretty interesting to listen too, it was because the school's "Field-trip Rules and Regulations Guidebook" that he had to read, bored me to tears.

You see, I am part of my high schools band, which means that, periodically, we go on field trips to wherever our concerts were. This time we were going out to Las Vegas, which I don't know why they would take a bunch of high school students to the epicenter of gambling, booze, and night shows, but who was I to complain. I mean it was ONLY 5 HOURS in a bus.

The only reason I didn't smash my head into the window next to my seat, was my best friend Amy. She was actually my only friend, ever sense elementary school, but that wasn't important right now. The more important thing is that Amy just sat down right next to me, giving me someone to talk to.

"Hey Chris", Amy spoke as she sat down. Just hearing her voice helps me get through the day sometimes. My life is just so average, so boring, so uneventfully normal that it just makes me…"Hello, Chris, are you there?" she asked whilst waving a hand in front of my face.

"Uh, Y-yeah I'm here." Man this is embarrassing, I didn't know I was staring at her the entire time.

"Aww, you're blushing." She smiled and laughed. I turned my head quickly to save myself from further embarrassment. God, I am so pathetic.

I decided to stare out the window as the bus started to move away from the front of the school. Finally we were going to get on the road, I couldn't wait to get to my hotel room and just relax. Of course, Amy will be in my hotel room as well, which means she'll probably drag me to go shopping with her or something like that. Which, I didn't mind that much, I just didn't like the heat. The heat in Las Vegas is like playing Frogger, except with a giant oven. 'Quickly, let's get over to the next air conditioned hotel so we don't die from heat exhaustion…or moving cars'.

I looked back towards Amy and saw her looking at her iPod with one earbud in. She looked at me and gave me the 'I'm sorry for making you feel bad but I was having too much fun' look and offered me one of her earbuds. I accepted it and stuck my tongue out at her; she then proceeded to punch me in the arm playfully. Man, what a great friendship we have. I guess this contradicts my life being boring. Everything I do with Amy seems to have more meaning to it than if I would do it by myself. I guess she would be the silver lining in my life.

I turned my head back to her than took a peek at what she was choosing on her iPod. She turned her head away from the iPod for a second and spoke.

"Hey don't look; I want it to be a surprise" I turned my head back towards the window and stared out at the scenery. Tree, tree, tree, tree, car, tree, tree…this is getting me nowhere. Let's see what I can do to pass the time. I looked around at the other students to find them messing around with various objects, namely the iPhone, but one kid had a Sudoku book. He must not have been doing too well because he threw to at the back of the seat in front of him. The two kids in front of me are playing tic-tac-toe, I never understood why it was named that.

"Hey, I found a song you would like" I looked over at Amy; she pressed a button on the iPod and put it away. I would be best just to wait for the song than try to take a peak at what she chose. I leaned my head back, closed my eyes and waited for the song to hit my ear. When I heard the song, I became elated by her choice, as it was my favorite song. Looking out the window, I saw that time had flown by as it was late in the afternoon. I yawned and stretched my arms and laid my head back against the chair. Slowly I started to drift away into sleep.

"Make sure you bring all the necessities in your pack before you leave this world."

My eyes shot open immediately, and I started to look around the bus. It was night time, and we were still on the road, good. I looked at my shoulder to see Amy's head resting on it. Craning my head I found out that she's sleeping, with the iPod still connected to both of us. I carefully removed the earbuds from both of our ears and took a look at the iPod in her hand. It had died, but I don't think she would mind much. I laid my head back against the chair again and closed my eyes. Amy and I did everything together. Every time we went somewhere, we shared food, drinks, books, even clothes sometimes, my clothes of course, I don't think I would be able to wear her clothes, anyway that would be weird.

I looked down at the floor where my backpack is. Picking it up, I started to look through the pockets and their contents. Sandwiches, bottles of water, money, hotel reservation paper…I need something to protect my self. A knife, that would be necessity right? The voice did say I should bring only necessary items.

Wait, what the hell am I doing right now?

I put the backpack down in-between my legs. A feeling of dread passed over me and I started to tense up. I scooted next to Amy so that our arms were touching and started to look around at everybody else. Everybody around me is sleeping, but I couldn't tell about the rest of the bus. I could see the teacher looking at the other students before looking at me. Out the front window I could see two bright lights heading for the bus. I quickly put and arm around Amy as I braced my self. Everything felt like it was slowing down.

There was a piercing screech and a jolt, everything blurred and I felt a pain in my shoulder and my head. Another screech, the bus is moving, more pain in my back, then nothing. It became pitch black.

I opened my eyes and got up but, something felt off. I felt another presence near me, but it was still completely dark. Then I saw my reflection, sandy blonde hair that was messy and was in front of my eyes, which were blue, a fairly athletic build and a blue T-shirt with jeans. Yep, that was me alright. My reflection disappeared and another figure took its place.

"Welcome, to the in-between" The man standing in front of me was tall, with weird silvery hair and brown eyes. "This is where you will be judged and passed on." That caught my attention. What is going on?

"Wait, what do you mean by passed on, and the in-between, is that like Purgatory."

"Call it what you wish" a manila folder appeared in his hand and he started to flip through it. Wait, why would he need a manila folder, shouldn't he be like all powerful or something, I mean the folder just APPEARED in his hands, that's kind of weird if you ask me. Damn it focus, I need to focus. "Perfect" he exclaimed, "this is where you will go to." He handed me a picture of some houses on an island. The man started to walk away from me. I looked back up from my picture; thoughts are racing through my mind. What is this? What is going on?

"Hold on you never answered my question." I was about to speak again, but he held his hand up to silence me, it worked.

"You have died, and this place is where you are judged." A desk and chair appeared, he sat down, leaned back, then continued, "I have foreseen your death and reviewed your life up to this point, and determined that you will do great good in that place" he pointed at the picture in my hand, "do you have anymore questions."

Well, that shut me up right quick. There was still one thing that nagged at me though.

"What about Amy?"

He got up, and walked to me. He put his hand on my shoulder and spoke softly.

"She did not die immediately, but will slowly die in the next few days due to injury."

I was crushed; I can't believe this was happening to me. I felt tears welling up, and I closed my eyes and looked down. I am pathetic. "But," I looked back up at him, "you do better as a person while you are with her, so she will go with you." A small glimmer of hope, it made me feel better. He started to walk back to his desk.

"Where are we going" my voice was shaky.

A stamp appeared in his hand and he stamped my folder and another folder which I assumed was Amy's. "Berk" he said. There was a flash, and then I went blank again.