Quick clarification. This fanfiction is going to take place after "A Chief Thirsty for Dragon's Blood". I know the original episode takes place before "Twinsanity" but I'm gonna have it take place after. I hope you're ok with change of plot.

Also, I'd like to thank every one of you for all the support you've been giving me. It really means a LOT! I hope you enjoy this fanfiction.

PEACE!

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"What do you think, Gobber?" asked Hiccup, as she worked on the blueprints for their latest project, "Should we use more supports? Or do you think we're good?"

"Wouldn't hurt to add more supports, Hiccup." replied Gobber, "After all, these perches are being made to hold dragons."

Berk had been having a few incidents of dragons falling through the roofs of houses, due to the fact that the structure of the houses couldn't support such weight.

Hiccup began to sketch more supports.

For the next two weeks, Hiccup and Gobber had been using all their spare metal to make the dragon perches. Gobber seemed more pleased with Hiccup's work. Especially when she'd use her fire to keep the forge hot. Her powers made the constructions a lot quicker.

Once the fifth model of the perches was complete, Stormfly was next to test it.

But Stormfly remembered the last tests that had failed. A few of the dragons had gotten hurt. Astro stroked the side of the dragon's neck, "It's okay, girl. Just go nice and easy." Slowly, Stormfly let her weight press down on the perch. She could barely hear the metal bending under her weight. But after a full minute of different approaches of landing, the perch held firmly.

"Yes!" exclaimed Hiccup, "It worked!"

"Well done Hiccup!" said Gobber, "These perches are going to have a huge impact on our village."

"Wait." said Tuffnut, "You mean we helped build this so it wouldn't fall? Ugh!"

Ruffnut shook her head and threw her hammer on the ground, "I feel so used!"

Hiccup chuckled as the twins walked away. "Don't worry! I'm sure the dragon traps you left in the arena could use a little damage themselves!"

That evening, Hiccup, Stoick and Gobber went to the Haddock's hut to celebrate. Before joining the other humans at the dinner table, Hiccup walked over to Toothless with a large basket of fish, "This better be worth it, Buddy, because these baskets are really heavy!"

"Don't worry!" said Toothless, "As long as you got cod, I'm fine."

"This is salmon."

"Got ya."

"Oh you little-" Hiccup jumped on Toothless and scratched him under the chin, making him fall to the floor.

"Hiccup." said Stoick, "You don't wrestle inside."

"Sorry, Dad." said Hiccup, joining her father at the table.

"About the perches, Hiccup, they may have been one of your best ideas yet." he raised his mug to drink his water, but notices something in it, "Maybe... we should move the one above the well."

"And the perches are just the beginning." added Hiccup, who appeared to have ignored Stoick's last comment as she reached for her mug. Stoick quietly took the mug from the distracted teen as she continued, "Next, we could make landing pads, or stables in the giant cave below the village, or-Oh! We could-"

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves, Hiccup. After all, the village is still for Vikings. And I still see a lot of Viking in you."

"That's right." said Gobber, raising his mug, "Vikings before dragons!"

Toothless overheard this, and stopped eating to look at Gobber.

Gobber stared back, "Yeah. That's right. I said it. Deal with it."

Hiccup's chuckle was interrupted by thunder.

"Huh." said Stoick, "Must be a thunderstorm outside."

Gobber and Stoick turned to face Hiccup when they heard her whimpering. Stoick looked over to Toothless, he was behaving in a similar way, "What?"

Hiccup groaned in frustration, "That thunder is freaking loud."

"What do you mean?" questioned Gobber, "It sounds like regular thunder to me."

"That's because you're full human, Gobber." informed Hiccup, "I'm part dragon. Because of that, I have better senses than humans. Which especially means that anything a human hears is louder to me."

Another crash of thunder made Hiccup yell.

Stoick sighed, "From the way the thunder sounds, I'm guessing it's gonna go on like this all night."

"Perfect!" exclaimed Hiccup, "Less sleep for me! Love it when that happens... I smell smoke."

Hiccup ran to the door and swung it open, only to be greeted by a bright flash of lightning that struck the ground just ten feet away. If it had been any closer, Hiccup would've gone blind. However, she did temporarily go blind, and deaf. She could only hear her heart beating. She barely heard echoed voices, most likely Stoick and Gobber. But where was Toothless?

Finally, she could see and hear again. Stoick was holding her by her shoulders, shaking her and shouting, "Hiccup! Hiccup, answer me!"

Hiccup shook off the headache that was caused by the loud bolt, and desperately scanned the hut, "Where's Toothless? Toothless? Where are you?"

"Hiccup." said Gobber, "Toothless is upstairs. He ran up there when the bolt struck the ground."

"It's not like him to just run off like that! He must be out there!"

"Hiccup." protested Stoick, quickly realising what Hiccup was saying, "I can't let you go out there! You already lost half your consciousness to a bolt of lightning. I'm not letting you take the risk of loosing your life to another. It's obvious that Thor is angry. I can only think of one time he was. Barnstadt."

Hiccup froze, "Who is Barnstadt?"

Gobber stepped forward, "Jurgen Barnstadt, was a travelling thief. Before your father was made chief, Jurgen came to Berk, he stole from the widows and the elderly. He was fixing his mast one day in order to escape, but Thor punished him by striking him on the head with his very own thunder bolt. It's the helmet you always see hanging over Stoick's chair." He pointed to the burnt helmet that was hanging over the chair at the far end of the room. Gobber continued, "Thor's bolt literally lit the entire fleet on fire. He was shipped off the island. Thor hasn't sent us lightning ever since."

Suddenly, another bolt of lightning struck one of the perches, close to the Haddock's house.

Hiccup thought for a moment, Most of the lightning seems to be hitting the area surrounding our house. What's so special about this house anyway?

Lightning began striking the perches above the village houses, setting them on fire. One bolt of lightning struck next to Toothless, nearly making him and Hiccup go deaf and blind. Toothless was severely spooked by the bolt, and ran off.

Hiccup tried to run after him, but lightning hit some tall, dry grass nearby, and blocked her path, and blocking her view of the Night Fury.