Acid green orbs staring at me in confusion. That's the first thing I noticed when I woke up. The second thing I noticed was that the orbs belonged to a dragon. I scrambled up to my feet and slowly backed away from the dragon, my hand inching its way up to my dagger… only to realize that it wasn't in its' holster. I quickly patted all over my body, hunting for the small weapon. "Toothless! Where are you bud?" a males voice calls from a distance. Scanning the area to find the source of the voice, my eyes fall on a young teenager. "Ah, there you are Toothless… Oh, uh, hey there," the boy said, giving a small awkward wave. My eyes darted back and forth between the boy and the dragon.

"Y-you, uh… you know this dragon?!" I ask as I continued to walk backwards. The brunette boy nods and says, "This is Toothless… he's my dragon. I trained him." I'm pretty sure that was gloating I heard… Wait… "You, trained this dragon?" I question, noticing how small the boy was. The boy walks over to the dragon he calls 'Toothless.' After scratching behind the dragons' ears, the boy looks at me. "You think an untrained dragon would be this behaved?" He asks, sarcasm leaking into his voice. I shook my head, trying to clear it. "Okay, I believe you. I'm sorry, I'm just a little lost and confused… Can you tell me where I'm at?"

"You have landed on the island of Berk, twelve days north of hopeless, and a few degrees south of freezing to death. It's located solidly on the Meridian of Misery," he says solemnly, and then he holds out his hand, "My name is Hiccup. What's yours?" I smile and take his hand in my own. "My names' Hadyn," I say. Hiccup looks at me strangely. "Hadyn? That's a bit of a weird name," he says with a laugh. I give him a look, as if to say really now? "Oh, and like Hiccup's not?" I ask. Hiccup shrugs and says, "Ah, well here on Berk it's normal for children to have odd names. Legends say that strange names are for frightening of gnomes and trolls. I think the only one with a 'normal' name here is Astrid."

"Yeah, I guess that's a pretty normal name. You see where I'm from; names have a meaning behind them. Mine means 'fire' and my mother's… hers' meant 'fierce'," I said quietly, looking away from Hiccup. Although I didn't see it, I could feel his questioning gaze. Taking a deep breath, I look back up at him and place a smile on my face. "So, anyways… are you gonna just stand there, or are you going to take me to where ever the people of this island live so I can meet them?" I ask sarcastically. Hiccup seems surprised about my sudden mood change, but doesn't question anything. Instead, he looks at his dragon and says, "Well, I would love to, but Toothless here has to trust you before you can ride him."

"Okay, what do I do?" I ask, slowly approaching Toothless.

Hiccup walks in front of Toothless and holds his hand in front of his face. "You have to show that you trust him as well. To do that, hold your hand out in front of him like this. This shows him that you're not afraid," Hiccup says, "and if he presses his nose against your hand, it means he trusts you back."

Following Hiccups' example, I held out my hand. Toothless looks at my hand, then at me and finally at Hiccup. Hiccup gives an encouraging nod to the dragon. Looking back at me, Toothless closes his eyes and presses his nose against my hand. I release a breath that I was unknowingly holding and Toothless re-opens his eyes. I run my hand up his nose and he gives a pleasant purr. "Wow that went a lot easier for you than it did for me on my first try," Hiccup says then turns to Toothless, "since when did you become so trust worthy?" Toothless grumbles at Hiccup in response. As Hiccup mounted Toothless, I noticed his prosthetic. "Um, Hiccup… if you don't mind me asking… What happened to your… uh leg?" I ask. Hiccup glances down towards his prosthetic and scratches the back of his neck. "Ah, well… I lost it while I was battling the Green Death, which was basically the ruler of the dragon… After defeating it, it exploded; I got caught in the explosion and fainted. When I woke up, dragons were friends on Berk, Toothless was in my house and my leg was missing," he says, meeting my eyes once again.

I didn't really know what to say, so an awkward silence fell over us. Hiccup puffed out one of his cheeks and looked away again. "So, I uh, guess we should probably start heading to the uh, village," I say, finally breaking the silence. "Yeah, you're right, we should," Hiccup agrees, "hop on and let's get going." I walk over to Hiccup and Toothless, the former giving me a hand up onto the later. Once I got situated with my arms locked firmly around his waist, Hiccup moved his left leg to adjust Toothless' prosthetic so they could take off. A small nudge from Hiccup is all that the dragon needs to take off.

As soon as Toothless had leveled out, I took in the surroundings. The sun was dipping into the western horizon, turning the clouds from white to orange, pink and red. I remove one of my hands from Hiccups' waist and lift it up to the clouds. My hand grazes the bottom, causing the cloud to swirl around my hand. Soon I have both hands reaching up to the sky, fingers combing through the clouds. Suddenly, Toothless does a spin that causes me to laugh and wrap my arms back around Hiccup. I could feel Hiccup stiffen, but I thought nothing of it. Before I could say anything, a small village appeared. "Here we are my village. Let's go meet the others," Hiccup says as he shifted his foot to change Toothless' direction.

When Toothless lands in the middle of the town, Hiccup and I jump off. A few teenagers approach us. Two of them had long blonde braids and appeared to be twins' one boy and one girl, another one was a boy with dark hair and what seemed to be a permanent scowl on his face, and then there was a chubby blonde kid who was clutching a book to his chest. At the very end of the group there was a blonde girl that was leaner than the others, but not scrawny. She was by far the prettiest of the group. "Hiccup, you're back… Oh, who's this?" the pretty girl asks. "Ah, Astrid, this is Hadyn. Toothless and I found her passed out on the beach not too far from here," Hiccup explains. Astrid looks at me with accusing blue eyes.

"So you just bring a random outsider to the village. Yeah, cause that's really smart Hiccup. Remember Heather, Hiccup? She was just an 'innocent' outsider… that is, until she ran off to Alvin to tell him all our secrets!" Astrid practically explodes on Hiccup while the others just stood there. They appear to be used to her explosions. "Astrid, calm down. She's not like Heather. Toothless trust Hadyn and I trust her too," Hiccup says.

"Didn't Toothless trust Heather as well?" Astrid asks judgingly.

"No, actually, he trusted her about as much you did. Now, would you like to let me finish introducing her to everyone, or are you not done accusing her about something she didn't do?" He asks, glaring at Astrid.

Astrid just stood there. "By all means, introduce her to them. Don't let me get in your way," She says before storming off. Hiccup turns to me with an apologetic look on his face. "Sorry about her. She just…"

"Doesn't trust outsiders?" I offered

"Yeah, that," Hiccup says, "But anyways, time for the introductions…" he wave is hand towards the others. Pointing to the twins, he says, "Those are the twins, Ruffnut is the girl and Tuffnut is the boy," then pointing to the dark haired boy, "That's my cousin Snotlout, he's a big flirt with girls, so I'd be careful around him," as if to prove Hiccups point, Snotlout winks in my direction and I roll my eyes. Hiccup continues with the introductions pointing to the last boy, "and that's Fishlegs. He knows almost everything about dragons there is to know." I wave at them and say, "It's nice to meet you all. My name is Hadyn, as you all know. I hope you all accept me here… I really don't have anywhere else to go…"

Snotlout walks up to me and slings his arm around my shoulder. "You can stay with me anytime you want," he says. I take his wrist and hold in my hand for a moment. "I appreciate the offer, but," I say, and then in one fluid movement, I flipped Snotlout onto his back, "I would much rather stay in a house that doesn't contain a pedophile." I smile sweetly at him before moving so he could pick himself up. Ruffnut elbowed Fishlegs in the ribs and says, "I like her, she's tuff. What do you think?" Fishlegs just nods in agreement. "Well, I would offer you a bed at my place, but my parents aren't too good with newcomers," Fishlegs says apologetically. Ruff and Tuff just start a fistfight about what room I would stay in. Sighing, I look at Hiccup.

"Is there any way that I could stay at your place?" I ask. Hiccup shrugs and looks at Toothless and ask, "What do you say bud? Up for a new house mate?" Toothless moves his head in what seemed like a nod. Hiccup looks back at me smiling. "Well, looks like it's in the clear. I'll lead you to my place," he says and starts walking up a path. Catching up with him, I ask "Wait, what about your parents?" Hiccup heaves a depressing sigh. "My mom… she's dead and my dad, well he's hardly ever here, so it doesn't really matter," he says and looks away. I look down, suddenly finding my hands interesting. "I'm sorry… for asking I mean," I say, my voice barely louder than a whisper. "Hey, don't worry about it, it's fine," he says, "well, here we are!"

The house we were in front of was bigger than the rest and had a sense of power to it. Hiccup walks through the door with me following. "Whoa, this place is big…" I say, looking around the room, noticing the two chairs by the fireplace and the small dinner table. There was a lot of empty space left, enough that a dragon could fit in there. But I guess I can understand that, considering Toothless fit in the room comfortably. "Yeah, well I guess the people thought that the chief and his son ought to have a lot of room," Hiccup says, leading me upstairs. Wait, you're the chiefs' son? But you're so small…

"Well, this is my room. I have a few extra blankets, and you can make a pallet on the floor uhh, over there," he says, pointing to an area to the left of his bed. Taking the blankets from his hand, I walk over to where he pointed and set up a small pallet. "Uh, this is gonna sound awkward, but do you have any clothing that I could wear to sleep in?" I ask. Hiccup looks through his dresser, pulls out a green tee-shirt, a pair of black leggings and tosses them to me. "There's a spare room downstairs. You can change down there."

~~Ten minutes later~~

My thoughts strayed to my old home as I lay on my pallet. They banned me from there, they don't want me cause I'm different. That's why they killed mother. Cause she was different, she didn't want to follow the rules of the Vikings. All she wanted more than anything was to change the way we were, to make an alliance between the clans… and they killed her… I sigh and let silent tears steam down my face. I'm glad I was banned. I thank whatever gods that helped me get through the storm and to this island without dying. This will be my home now. I let my thoughts disperse as sleep took over my mind and I dived into the pleasant and dreamless darkness.