Here are my disclaimers: I do not own Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon.

This is my first story and my brother (JasperWhitlockHale'sMan) is helping me write it. This takes place right after the movie: starting right about where it left off. This will hopefully be a long multi-chaptered story, so please review.


A loud scream pierced the silence of the house. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was having the same dream he'd had every other night this week.

He was falling and he could feel the burning of his foot from where the Green Death had scorched it, as well of the tail of his beloved Night Fury, Toothless, whom he'd trained and bonded with for only a few short weeks. He was still falling. Toothless' prosthetic tail fin was burning away so fast and they were about to hit the ground. Toothless tried as best as he could to shield Hiccup from the impact, but he was only just barely fast enough, so Hiccup still felt the landing. His foot was still burning, and there was nothing he could do.

Toothless jumped on the bed, waking Hiccup from his nightmare. It was early in the morning and he knew he wouldn't make it back to sleep, and so he set out to do what he always did recently when the nightmare woke him; hop on Toothless and head for the skies. The young Viking got up (rather shakily), put on his riding gear and took Toothless for an early morning flight. While on the way back from the grove where he and Toothless had become friends, Hiccup couldn't help but think how useless he felt. He wasn't big or muscular like his father, or most of his friends. He didn't have what it took to kill a dragon, though obviously there was no longer a need to do so. Heck, he could barely even walk these days. They were flying low to the water near the village, and somehow Toothless knew what he was thinking, and so splashed him with water to snap Hiccup back to the present. As they flew over the village, Hiccup spotted Astrid waving to him. He landed and strode (see: ran) to his maybe-girlfriend. Is she my girlfriend? She kissed me, so she must like me, right? I like her a lot, so her being my girlfriend would be awesome! But I'm not even a good Viking. Oh, well, might as well talk to her. Unfortunately, Hiccup still wasn't quite used to his new leg, so he fell halfway to where Astrid was grooming her Deadly Nadder, Buttercup. Astrid ran to him and began attempting to help him up.

"I don't need help", Hiccup said.

"Yes, you do, Hiccup. You fell."

"I'm fine. Yes, I fell, but I can handle this. Ihavetobestrongoryou'renotgoingtolikeme."

"What was that last part, Hiccup? I think you mumbled."

Hiccup finally got to his feet and sighed heavily. "I said that I have to be strong or you're not going to like me."

Astrid punched him on the shoulder. "That's for being so stubborn and for thinking that I don't like you." Next, she gave him a chaste, yet slow kiss that left him breathless. "And that...that was for everything else.


So this was a short chapter but I felt this was where I should stop. I promise the next chapter to be longer. Please review and there will be some adventure and more romance to come so watch for updates.