It was a warm, sunny morning on dragons edge. Not too hot, not too cold. The sky was clear, a slight breeze in the air and no dragon hunter ships in sight. Yep, today was perfect. Well perfect to do work, in Hiccup's mind, but he decided that the riders could have the day off. They had done some solid work in the past week and they could really do with a break.

He walked to the clubhouse with Toothless trailing closely behind him. He entered to find all of them gathered around the table already eating breakfast.

'Hey Hiccup,' Tuff greeted, 'Heather made breakfast today and it. is. DE-LIC-IOUS!' He said licking his lips.

Hiccup went to a basket, got some fish for Toothless, then walked back to the table.

'Yeah, smells good' He answered as he took a seat next to Astrid.

He filled his plate with food and began eating.

'So Hiccup, what are we doing today?' Astrid questioned.

He swallowed his mouthful then answered, 'Uh nothing…'

'Wait WHAT?!' They all shouted, genuinely surprised.

'Yeah you heard me, you can all have the day off and relax.'

'Oh Yeah!'

'YES, we can use the boar pit today!'

'Meatlug and I are going to do some relaxing in our rock garden.'

'You losers do whatever you want, my beautiful face needs beauty sleep.'

Hiccup smiled, happy to see them like this. Usually they are arguing about one thing or another but it was a pleasure to see them have a normal conversation sometimes.

He turned to astrid, 'What are you going to do today?'

She thought for a minute, but nothing came to her mind, 'I don't really know…' She replied honestly.

'Well if you like, you could come with me and Toothless to this new island we just discovered.'

She smiled. A whole day with Hiccup is more than she could ever ask for.

'I'd love to Hiccup.' Just as she finished talking, a green Terrible Terror landed on her shoulder, squawking loudly in her ear.

'Oooh, Terror Mail!' Fishlegs said excitedly.

She let the dragon perch on her arm as she removed the letter tied to its left leg.

On the front of the letter it had Stoick's name on it so she handed it to Hiccup without reading it.

'It's from your dad,' She said as he gently took it from her.

He read the letter with a look of disappointment on his face.

"Hiccup, as you should know, next week is our annual dance festival. I want you and all your friends back on Berk for it. Also you are all old enough to dance so you will be participating whether you like it or not. Find a partner and learn to dance.

Hiccup you will be leading the dances so I want you back on Berk at least three days before so I can get you some proper clothes.

And that is an order.

Signed, Chief of Berk.

As he finished reading it out to them, they had already began fighting.

'Puh-lease Fishface, you are never going to find a partner.' Snotlout mocked.

'Yeah neither are you Snotty.' Tuff quipped

'Guys, guys, break it up,' Hiccup said, standing between them all. 'You can spend today finding a dance partner, then tomorrow we'll all leave for Berk.'

They all head off in their different directions but Astrid remained with him in the clubhouse.

'So I guess we'll have to leave that new island trip for another day…' Hiccup stated.

'Yeah, it'll be easier that way and that island isn't going anywhere, we can go another time.' She said. 'I'm gonna go start packing… you should start too' She smiled and walked out, heading for her hut.

Hiccup did the same but thinking about how to ask Astrid for the dance the whole way.

He spent the whole afternoon trying to muster up the courage to ask her to be his partner.

Finally he decided that he should ask before Snotlout or someone else asked.

He slowly walked up the pathway to her hut. Thinking about what he was going to say when she opened the door. So far he had nothing at all. He started panicking when he realised he was standing right in front of her hut.

Taking a deep breath, Hiccup nervously knocked on her door and waited patiently. He flinched when she opened it but tried to put on a normal face.

'Uhh, Astrid!' He blurted out. 'H-hi Astrid, hi Astrid, H-hi.'

Why is Thor's name was he stuttering?

She raised an eyebrow 'Are you okay Hiccup?'

'Y-yes I-i'm… f-f-fine!'

'You're stuttering' She started slowly, 'You haven't done that in years.'

She eyed him carefully noticing how he stepped back in fear when she came forward.

'You're acting like I'm going to kill you, though I must say it is quite amusing.' She said with a grin.

'Y-yeah' He laughed awkwardly 'I just came to ask…' He paused, unsure how to ask her without having his head chopped off.

'Hiccup, just say it, I'm not going to kill you' She joked, but he took it quite seriously and didn't believe her.

'You're h-holding an a-axe…'

She looked at the weapon and then threw it far out of her reach.

He seemed a tiny bit reassured at that.

'Seriously Hiccup, what is it that you are soo afraid to ask me?'

'If I ask, you are going to kill me.'

'No, I promise I won't, now you can tell me.' She said hoping he would trust her. Why in Thor's name does he think that she would kill him anyway?

He took a deep breath, determined to actually ask this time.

'Ok….. willyoubemydancingpartner?' He immediately recoiled away from her, covering his face with his arms, shielding himself from any axes or punches that might be coming his way.

He slowly peered through his fingers when he realised she wasn't about to kill him. Instead he saw her amusedly smiling at him.

Astrid honestly had no idea why he was soo scared to ask her, but in all honesty she was glad that she wasn't the one who had to ask him. Now that would have been terrifying.

But here he was, asking her to be his partner for the dance and she couldn't be happier.

'Sure Hiccup' She said, laughing at how surprised he looked at that.

'Wait, really?!'

'Yes.'

'Ok, uh, wow, umm, yeah I've got to go now, so uhh bye?'

She laughed, he was still stunned by her response and didn't know what else to say.

'Haha, yeah ok bye Hiccup' She smiled, he really is a dork.

Wow, that could have gone way worse, he thought.

He hurriedly walked down the path back to his hut. Smiling every step of the way.

Hiccup was still unable to believe what just happened. He felt like the luckiest guy Midgard to have Astrid Hofferson as his partner for the dance.

He was about to take the path leading up to his hut when he heard Astrid call him.

'Hiccup, wait up!'

Oh Thor, its only been two minutes, did she change her mind already?

'Hey Astrid, whats up?' He asked.

'Oh nothing, just wondering if you wanted to go for a walk, I mean we have the day off don't we?'

'Yeah why not' He smiled.

The began walking with no real destination, just savouring their time together.

'So…' Astrid said, breaking the silence, 'has everyone else picked a partner yet?'

'I'm pretty sure Heather is going with Fishlegs and Tuffnut is still content on going with chicken' He said laughing.

She laughed as well.

'Yeah I'm not sure if Snotlout has convinced Ruff yet.' She said with a grin.

'Haha, I doubt he ever will, but it surprises me that he didn't ask you.' Hiccup stated in a sort of relieved tone.

'Oh believe me he did, but only when I pounded him into the ground did he get the message.' She said laughing.

Silence fell upon them once again. Both of them were smiling as they began walking back towards the huts.

Ok so thats the first chapter done! I swear, writing is soo hard!

Anyway Thanks for reading!