Author's note: This is written for my little sister who I've slowly turned into a massive fangirl. Chapters will be written and posted sporadically. Reviews are welcome but flames are not. Disclaimer: I do not own any aspect nor am affiliated with dreamworks studios in any way. Enjoy!

There was very little Lexie recalled about her mother, but she took comfort in the fact that it was more than her twin brother. (Hiccup barely still knew the warmth of her touch.) But Lexie… she still remembered the sweet smile that always calmed her father. She still remembered the smell of her mother's cloak after a long day of hunting. She still remembered the taste of her gods-awful cooking (that they pretended to love to spare mom's feelings).

But mostly, she remembered her voice.

"You'll do great things one day, Lexie. This village needs you."

"Do you really think I'm so special?"

"I know you are."

Lexie sighed, turning her head into her pillow and trying to stay in her dream world- the only place she saw her mother nowadays. The waking world had other ideas.

"DRAGON!"

The warning cry caused Lexie to bolt awake. Like any good viking, she was armed and on her feet in seconds. She bolted out the front door and ran to join the other teens, knowing the drill. Dragon attacks were as common as they were dangerous, giving the village plenty of opportunities to get a system going.

"Where's Hiccup?" Snotlout asked. "I thought he would be on fire by now." Lexie hit him on the head with her water bucket.

"He's with gober, idiot." Lexie retorted.

"Lexie, focus!" Astrid scolded, filling her own bucket. "Right now, we need to focus on putting out the flames. You can beat up Snotlout later."
"Promise?" Lexie teased. Despite their banter, the two girls made for a good team. Only two houses had managed to burn to the ground in the past three attacks. If none burned down this time, they would make a new record.

The attack lasted into the night, and the morning sun was rising by the time the beasts departed. Lexie took a good look at the village, and sighed as she realized all her hard work had been in vain. Her fool of a brother had decided to leave the blacksmith shop and managed to set fire to no less than five buildings. So much for a new record.

"Why can't you just stay with gober?" Lexie scolded him as the two were escorted back to their house by gober.

"Yeah, why can't you just stay with me?" Gober agreed.

"Guys, this isn't like the last few times!" Hiccup tried to reason with them. "I really did hit a night fury."

"Sure, and I rode a zippleback home." Lexie mocked him. Hiccup bickered with Gober and her until they reached their hut. Then Gober left to go help Stoick fix Hiccup's handiwork.

"C'mon, Lexie." Hiccup tried again once they were alone in the house, going on about the night fury. "It fell down just past raven's point. Don't you want to come find it with me?"

Lexie hesitated. To be honest, she did love her brother and secretly thought he was very smart. But the many previous incidents of their childhood made her doubt him. She couldn't count how many times his dragon tracking and trapping ideas had gotten them in trouble. Not to mention, the best the traps ever did was harm fellow vikings. If their father, the great Stoick the Vast, wasn't able to take down a night fury, how could a weakling like Hiccup succeed?

"Not this time." Lexie turned him down. She didn't look him in the eye. "I'm sorry, Hiccup." Hiccup stared at her, looking disappointed.

"You don't believe me." Hiccup said quietly.

"Well, what would you think if you were me?" Lexie argued.

"I'd think that I should trust my twin more than anyone else in the world." Hiccup retorted. "If you said you hit a Night Fury I'd believe you."

"Yes, but I'm me." Lexie chose her words cautiously. "We're different people, Hiccup. And you're…" She struggled to find a way to put it.

"I'm not a real viking." Hiccup finished her sentence.

"That's not what I was going to say." Lexie scolded.

"No, but you thought it." Hiccup glared at her. "You and everyone else. Just because i'm not as strong or loud or brash. But you know what? I'll prove it to you. I'm going to go find that dragon. I'll cut out its heart and bring it back to show all of you that I am just as brave as anyone here."

Lexie sighed sadly, not wanting to crush his spirit. "I really hope you do, Hiccup." Without another word, Hiccup left- slamming the door.