Strange Magic

Frieda

Magic is a strange force. It can be good, but it could also be evil. For that reason it is keep secret by the ones who can use it. Magic, is tricky, but it will always be waiting for when its needed.

It's has been a crazy time in

Berk. The dragons have now been living along side the Vikings for about a year now. The weathers warmed a bit, houses have been untouched by angry fires. Even the live stock are more, well more.

Well not much has changed in a year. Teens still go to dragon training, but not to learn to kill.

They learn about dragons and how to care for them. Stoick has gained a few pounds at the most. But other then that not much has changed.

Maybe one other thing, Toothless has become more affectionate toured Hiccup. Not to say he wasn't before but now with Hiccup about to go on a trip with him.

"Do you have enough food?" Stoick Asked helping Hiccup attach baskets to the side of Toothless' saddle.

"Yes dad" Hiccup said latching his foot into toothless' saddle. "I've packed for five days. And I'm only going two" he said readying for his flight.

"I wish you wouldn't" Stoick said latching the basket to Toothless.

"Dad I kinda promised Toothless I would. I mean it's been a year now, so" he said getting ready for his take off.

"Hiccup before you go" Stoick said reaching into his pocket. He pulled out a ring made from a gold and sliver bands twisted around each other. "take this for good luck. It use to belong to your mother" Stoick said putting the ring into Hiccups palm.

Hiccup looked at the band before slipping it on to his thumb, because it was to big for any of his other fingers. "T-thanks dad. I'll be back soon promise"

"I know" Stoick bent down to look into Toothless' eyes "You take good care of my boy, you hear me" Stoick said with a stern face. Toothless responded with low gurgle and a nod of his head. Stoick steeped back to give the dragon room to take off. And like that they were in the sky heading to a island they found a while back.

LALALALALALALALALA, LATER

As night fell a storm began to roll it's way up to the boy and his dragon. It had shown signs of a storm a little while after they passed the old Dragon's hive. The rain was coming down hard and they had gotten lost.

"Toothless do you see a place to land?" Hiccup said looking a round at the ocean around them. Toothless answered with a jerk of his head as he pointed out a small light from a small island. "Great job bud, lets hope they like dragons" Hiccup said guiding his dragon to the island.

The island was no bigger then the size of his village. Most of the island was covered in trees except the small house and a shed that stood next to it. The billings were in rather good shape they were in a different design compared to the houses in berk.

As he was about to land the door of the house opened and an older lady came out with a lantern. "My gods! Boy hurry and get yours selfs in here bevor you get sick!" she yelled as she came to met them as they landed. She helped Hiccup off his dragon before pushing them into her house.

She was a heaver set woman around 40ish. Her hair was a golden yellow except the roots of her hair about two inches were turning gray. It was pulled back into several braids. She was just a little taller then Hiccup. Then again a lot of people were taller than Hiccup.

As they got into the house Hiccup could see she lived alone. Her house was fairly empty but still well decorated. The hearth was crackling with fresh wood. "Um, thank you miss. But aren't you scared of my dragon?" Hiccup asked as the lady ran to a near by closet. She returned with some blankets.

"Now vhy vould I be?" she asked wrapping a blanket around Hiccup. "His just a dragon. In fact I should be asking you ze same question" she said un-latching a basket from toothless. Who in return gave her a small growl. "Oh calm down, you zittle Night Fury, I'm not going to hurt you"

"Wait you know what he is!?" he said looking at the dragon. Toothless tilted he head to the side with a gurgle. "again I should be asking you the same considering Night Furys don't live in zese parts. By ze vay I never caught your name." she said walking over to Hiccup reaching out her hand.

"Um, oh it's Hiccup, my name is Hiccup" he said grabbing her hand. "Vell, Hiccup it's nice to met you. My name is Frieda. Now why in Thor's beard vould you be flying in this veather?" she asked taking a set next to the hearth.

Hiccup took a set on the other side. Toothless followed and curled up next to the seated boy. Frieda was warming her hands waiting for Hiccups answer. "Well the storm kinda snuck up on us"

"Aww. Vell at lest you found your vay here before-" Frieda's sentence was stopped by a crash of thunder. "That, vell at lest they slept for a zittle bit" she said with a chuckle.

"They?" Hiccup asked giving her a confused look before hearing a clatter coming from the room next to stairs. Out came two terrible terrors. They were jumping on top of each other trying to get to Frieda first. They cuddled up agents her sides.

"These Zittle buggers never stop trying to fight over the zittleits things" she chuckled putting her hands on the now sleeping dragons.

Hiccup chuckled 'That sounds a lot like Ruffnut and Tuffnut' he thought as he looked over at Toothless who was now sound asleep. "Frieda may I ask why you live alone?" he said rubbing Toothless' heads.

"Oh, vell there's two reasons vone is the dragons. And ze second one is vell, it's more of the main reason"

"What is that reason Frieda?"

"In my years I've learned Magic, and in my old village your not allowed to use magic" she said picking up one of the terrors next to her. You could see the sadness in her eyes.

"Frieda I'm sorry to hear that. It's kinda the same where I come from. In my village only the village elder is allowed to use it" he said moving his hand off of toothless. "I mean I would love to be able to talk to Toothless here but I can't. It kinda sound like your magic and your village" Hiccup said with a small smile.

Frieda looked up at Hiccup. Her eyes now sparkily with joy. "Hiccup I could help you there" she said siting the dragon down next to it's sister. Frieda came and set down next to Hiccup "If you vant I could make it so you could talk to your dragon. But in order to do that I vould have to use a spell. And I don't exactly know ze side effects" she said putting her hand on Hiccup's shoulder

"Frieda, that would be nice, but I don't know. I mean I don't know any thing about the whole magic thing" Hiccup said looking at his sleeping dragon. Frieda could hear in hiccups voice that he did want it but didn't know if he really wanted it.

"That's understandable, you know vhat. Hiccup I'll make you ze potion and if you vant to use it you can if not bring it back. That zound good?" Frieda said with a smile as she got up. "Ok, thank you Frieda that would be nice" Hiccup said looking at the two dragons across the room.

"Vell, sense this is your potion vould you like to help me make it? She said looking at the boy. "Um, ok I guess" Hiccup said getting up out of his seat. "Good, first before ve get started I'm going to need vone of Toothless' scales" she said rubbing her hand over the dragons body until a loss scale fell off.

"Wait, how do you know his name?" Hiccup asked.

"It zat his name? I vas just making an observation that he didn't have no teeth. She said bending down and picking up the fallen scale.

She began to walk into a different room as Hiccup followed. The room was dark, with a snap of the woman's fingers a fire started under a pot that was hanging over a small hearth.

"Vell would you mind giving me a lock of you hair?" she said pulling some jars off a shelf.

"Um ok I guess" Hiccup said plucking a hair from his head.

"Ok, vould you put it in to ze pot?" she said as she put some powders into the same pot. As he dropped the hair into the pot a puff of green smoke came from the pot. Frieda put some herbs and a root into the pot before dropping the scale in with a puff of black smoke.

Hiccup was amazed at what was happing before him. He never saw some one make a potion before. As she add one last cup of liquid she began to chant.

"Vone last night, vith a moon of eerie light. To talk vith heart, for vords are an art. Vith a boned that they share, for each other they vill care. I sit this hand upon my breast, for love knows no vest. For man to know a dragons zounds, and for a barrier to make no grounds. For this last verse I say upon you, a new meaning is vhat you'll do." with every line the pot glowed stronger and stronger.

"Hiccup, vould you grab that vile of ze table?" Frieda asked dipping a latle into the the pot. Hiccup handed her a crystal vile, she pored the substance into the beautiful vile. In the vile was two glowing liquids of green and black they swirled around each other. Frieda handed Hiccup the vile. "Hiccup for zhis to work YOU must drink zhis, ok"

"Um, ok thank you. And by the way the was beautiful" Hiccup said putting the vile to his side

"Zank you, some spells zound so beautiful" she said leading Hiccup out of the room. "Vell, you should be getting to bed" she said pointing to the stares.

"Frieda, would you like to come live in Berk, I think you'll like it there" with that Frieda froze. She looked right at Hiccup. "Hiccup, I was banished from Berk" she said looking at the boy in front of her.

"What, but your accent? Its not of Berk" Hiccup said. Frieda walked over the the hearth and set down.

"Hiccup darling, I vas 16 vhen I vas banished. I vas sent to sea on a small boat, after a veek of sailing I vas found by and family that vas fishing. Zey took me in and I lived vith them for twenty years. It's vhere I got my accent and learned magic. After that I set sail to this island because my Terrors loved it here. After that I just stayed here"

Hiccup sat down next to her and put his hand on her shoulder. "But why where you banished?"

"Most likely for ze same veason you vere I loved dragons. They called me a-"

"Frieda, I wasn't banished! People in Berk live with dragons now because of me!" Hiccup said stoping Frieda's sentence.

"Vat? You mean Berk lives along side ze dragons?"

"Yeah they do"

"Hiccup, if that's true that means I could go home!" She chimed as she jumped up waking the two sleeping Terrors. She was beaming full of glee. She ran around putting things in to wicker baskets.

"Frieda, calm down. Do you even have a boat" Hiccup said chasing the woman around her house. She stopped and looked out her window. She flicked her wrist at the ocean. A shot of light flue from her pointer finger.

"I do now" she chimed. Pointing her finger around the room making things fly into baskets and bags. "Hiccup, vill you take me back to Berk vhen you go?" she asked grabbing the boy by his shoulders.

"Yeah, but first, Frieda calm down. It's about a half day flight. That means it's going to take a whole day by boat" he said wiggling his way out of her grip.

"Vell then we need to go to bed so we can wake up before sunrise" she said running to stairs.

"Frieda, Stop I'm not leaving until the day after tomorrow"

Frieda pushed back her flyaway hairs. She let out a big breath before she spoke. "Im sorry, I guess I got a zittle carried avay. I'm just so happy to go back home" she said as she took a seat on the stairs. She looked over at Toothless who was now awake and watching the whole sean. "Hiccup I know you must have come out here to have zome alone time vith your dragon. But if you vant I can teach you some magic tomorrow"

Hiccup looked over at toothless who in return gave a nod and a gurgle. "Um, ok I guess that would be nice" Hiccup said walking over and setting next to toothless. Toothless purred and wrapped his tale around Hiccup.

"Whoa, Toothless!" Hiccup yelled being pulled into his dragon. His dragon nudged him and purred.

"Vell, I guess this means it must be time to go to bed" Frieda said with a chuckle as her Terror jumped up onto her shoulders. "If you need any thing I'll be up stairs" she said dissapering in to the shadows of the second floor.

"Your not going to let me go are you?" Hiccup said looking at his dragon. Toothless just purred louder as his grip tightened. "Ok then, goodnight bud" he said making him self a bed out of his dragon.

LALALALALALALALALA, LATER

It was about noon before Hiccup and Frieda began magic practice. The storm from last night was gone but a new one was bound to hit latter tonight. The waves lapped on the sandy shore of the small island. Birds were flying about trying to find something to eat.

"So Hiccup, are you veady?" Frieda asked as she made her way to the middle of her front lawn. She turned to face Hiccup, her Terrors were fighting over a fish right behind her.

"Well, yeah why not" Hiccup said shrugging his shoulders as he made his way out of the house. Toothless was already outside, he had been sun-bathing almost all day on top of the house.

Frieda jump with joy as she ran back to Hiccup dragging him to the lawn. "Ok I'm going to show you zomething easy" she said stepping back. "Easiest zing to do is make a flower bloom" she waved her hand over a patch of grass below her and it sprang to life with flowers.

She picked one and put it in her hair. She put another one in hiccups hand. "Hiccup, magic is wanting something, and then making it happen. Like I wanted the grass to bloom with flowers. So I pictured the grass full of flowers and I made it happen" she explained on how to "make it happen"

It took almost half an hour before Hiccup made something bloom. It wasn't a flower, it was a clover but he was on the right track. When Frieda first learned magic, she explained how it took her almost all day before she could even make a clover.

The rest of the day was spent learning more magic. Hiccup learned how to make light, make things flout in air, and how to breath fire. Check he only could blow smoke. Most of the time he was just bellowing smoke out of his nostrils.

LALALALALALALALALA, LATER

Morning was creeping it's way over the horizon as Hiccup helped Frieda pack up her boat. The storm had left a beautiful rainbow in the sky. The salty ocean air was still with small breezes once in a while.

"Is that every thing?" Hiccup asked loading the last basket in to the boat.

"Yes, it's going to be so good to go home after all these years" she said pulling the sail down. 'Fianly I can see my brother again'

"Well let's go" Hiccup said climbing into the boat. Toothless was in the middle of the boat with the two terrors cuddled by him. And with a snap of Frieda's fingers the wind picked up and the boat was moving.

It took almost all day to get to Berk. As they came close Hiccup did not want them getting blasted so he had Toothless shoot a shot into the air to say it was them. Almost the whole village was down by the docks as the ship came in. Stoick was the first to run to Hiccup.

"Hiccup is somethig wrong!?" Stoick said pulling the boat in. "Why are you in a boat?"

"Nothing is wrong dad, I brought some one back" Hiccup said as Frieda walked up next to him. "Dad met-"

"Frieda?" said a voice be hind Stoick. Out from be hind him Gobber had walk out.

"Gobber?" Said Frieda as she climbed out of the boat. She wrapped her arms around him giving him a hug. "I never zhought I'd see you again" She cryed

"Hiccup, how did you find her?" Gobber asked still hugging his sister.

"It was by luck it was raining an I needed a place to land I saw a fire and well yeah" Hiccup said

"Stoick," Frieda said letting go of Gobber. "I hear your ze new chef. I vas banished from Berk 29 years ago vor taking care of dragons" she said as her two terrors jumped on her shoulders. "Your boy says you velcome dragons now. I ask if you vould lift my banishment" she said with a stern look.

Stoick looked at the woman before him his face turned a more serious look and his voice became loud. "Frieda, your were banished for caring for dragons 29 years ago. Today I here by welcome you back to Berk with open arms" Stoick announced. The crowd cheered to welcome Frieda back into the village.

"Zank you Stoick, and zank you most of all Hiccup" she said giving Hiccup a hug. Vikings from the crowd helped Frieda bring her things up to a newly built house. The house was going to be bought by a new couple but they willing gave it up to Frieda so she had a place to stay. it was close to the forest, Frieda liked that because that meant it would be easer to look for potion ingredients.

And with that Hiccup returned to his bed room. He put his bag on this table and he pulled the vile out and set it the self next to his bed. And he went to sleep with thoughts of Toothless.

'Could the reason Toothless is being more affectionate is that... No! That's not it at all' were his final thoughts as he feel into a deep sleep.

End chapter 1