Attack of the Cliche
By Baak
A How to Train Your Dragon fanfic

Full Summary: Hiccup and Astrid find these two orphaned twins in a clearing and bring them back to the Berk. All's going well until the dragon's begin to behave strangely, as if they have got some form of dragon rabies. And on top of this all, the orphaned twins old village suspects they have something to do with the dragon's sudden disease. How are our beloved vikings gonna get out of this?? Tuff/OC Ruff/OC Toothless/OC

I know, super cliched, hence the title. The twins weren't my idea, only the girl was. My friend thought up the other twin, and I said 'What the hey?!' and threw him into the story. I also know that, yes, I know, I know, I am not the first to come up with a Nightfury of this kind. So unique, it's an albino!! Can you tell I was being sarcastic? Well, I really hope I manage to keep the characters IC, warn me if they seem slightly OOC or not. And I really, really hope everyone likes the twins. We really don't need any Marysues clogging up this wonderful fanfiction category. I also took the easiest way into this story. It's told through first person and through my own character's eyes. I really didn't want to attempt any of the other characters for fear I'd make them OOC. It'll switch to third person when something important happens and my character happens to not be there..

Forward, ho!!

I threw yet another fish in my dragon's direction, laughing when she pawed at the fish, playing with her food. I walked over to a pile of rocks that sat in the middle of our little clearing, climbing to the top, settling down on the rocks.

"Snow, stop that! I've told you before, do not terrorize the nature." My dragon, Snow, completely ignore me, continuing to bother the small woodland bird that was hopping across the grass. I sighed, jumping down from my pile of rocks and going over to rescue the little bird from my Nightfury.

Yepp, you heard me right, my Nightfury. Named Snow. The name fits her, you see, because she is completely white. Pure white, just like snow. Her coloring is strange considering she's a Nightfury and all, but I'm strange and different, why shouldn't my dragon be weird too?

Snow is definitely a Nightfury though. She has the build, shape, and powers of a Nightfury. She once took a dive into a pond, came out and started to roll around in a patch of dirt. She came out of it completely dyed black.

And, well, she looked exactly like a Nightfury.

Snow got bored of the bird and dived into the pond by the pile of rocks I had been sitting on earlier. The water rippled outwards from her, creating small waves that crashed against the grass surrounding the pond. Our little clearing was perfect. Just enough exposure to nature, and just enough safety from it. My pile of rocks in the middle along with the pond- which was just the right size for a dragon to swim about in. Cliffs surrounded our clearing, providing caves for us when needed and giving us protection from the outside world. It was probably, most likely, inhabitanted before us, but who cares? We sure as heck didn't. Whoever the past inhabitants were had found somewhere else and hadn't been back here in the past 7 months that we had been here.

I heard a small hissing noise behind me and turned to see a small Terrible Terror skitter into the clearing. He was hissing, like they do right before igniting something. Haha, yeah. The little dragon looked down igniting the grass below him slightly before plopping down on top of it.

"Fox, you are crazy, ya know that?" I said to the small reptile, walking over to him and sitting beside him. I patted his head as I heard a 'Kaplunk!!' as something fell to the ground behind me. I turned to see my twin brother, Samuel, walking towards me. Unlike the dragon who just flew into our clearing, Sam had to climb. He shook his shaggy auburn hair, much like my own, out of his eyes. He walked over to the pond, scooping up some water and splashing his face, before walking over and climbing a tree. That was his tree. 99.99 percent of his life was spent in that tree. Third branch down from the top to be exact.

"So, whatdja and Snow do while we were gone?" Sam asked, pulling an apple out of his shoulder bag and taking a bite.

"Not too much. Snow terrorized a bird, took a swim. That was pretty much all." He nodded in response and tossed his shoulder bag in my direction.

"There's some fish in there for Snow and a few apples in the front pocket if you would like any." My brother was so shy. He stuttered when he talked to most people, and blushed easily. But, at the same time, he was very talkative. If he knew you well, he could carry a three hour conversation with ya. He was weird, but that was normal for us. My brother had shaggy auburn hair that always fell down in his eyes. He had piercing blue eyes, just like mine, and a heart shaped face. We both had an athletic build that we earned from surviving that past year or so on our own.

The old viking town we used to live in had been against any form of pet. They believed animals were here to kill and to eat. My brother and I thought different. We found Snow wandering on the outside skirts of town with a limp. We had no idea where she came from or what she was doing there, all we knew was that she wasn't used to surviving on her own. She had very little meat on her bones at the time and seemed to not know how to fly. I had a tender heart and took her in as my own. We hid her a little farther back into the woods, and visited her frequently, bringing her food and teaching her how to live. One day there had been a rustle in the bushes near the place we kept Snow. We had believed it to be a woodland creature, possibly a fox (We had many foxes around those parts), but it wasn't. It was a small reptile. A bright blue Terrible Terror dragon to be exact. My brother fell in love, and adopted it. That's the story behind Fox's name :)

In our town, when we went to school, we learned about animals. The right way to trap each species or breed, what size to look for for the best meat, how to kill each and every one of them...

It was nauseating.

The most prized animal was the dragon. Their meat was a trophy to many, a delicious treat, and if we were to find a dragon, we were supposed to bring it back to town for it to be slaughtered. Sam and I, you see, were vegetarians. Therefore, when we found Snow and Fox, we couldn't let them be found and eaten. We grew to have a connection with our 'pets' and there was no way in Hades that we would give our dragons up as food. Our parents suddenly became suspicious with our constant disappearances and began to question our motives. "How can you not eat meat?" "Where do you two keep disappearing to?" "What are you hiding?" Sam and I knew our luck was running out, and we had to get away if our dragon's stood a chance. So we packed up some fruits in Sam's shoulder bag, he put Fox on his shoulder, and we jumped on Snow's back (Who, at this time, knew how to fly. Quite well, if I do say so myself.) and off we went. Somehow, we had come to love these dragons more then our own parents.

And, now, here we were. In our clearing, in which we had lived the past 7 months of our life. For about 3 months before that, we had lived elsewhere. Kinda by the water. Then some huge explosions happened off to the east on this huge island. It disturbed the water, destroying our temporary home. And we took refuge here. We knew Vikings lived near, a town just off to the west, but no one seemed to come here. They were happy where they were, and we let them be.

The sad thing was, we had no idea how close they were.

I reached into the bag, pulling our the remaining fish and tossing them towards Snow (Who had finally come out of the water.). She went nuts, grabbing a fish, tossing it into the air, before catching it in her mouth. Then she would repeat the action with another fish. The third one she'd toss between her paws, stomp on a couple times, ignite the fish, before finally eating the thing. I just shook my head at her and got myself an apple. I took a bite at the same time that a *snap* sounded behind me. You know, like that noise that happened when someone steps on a branch or a crunchy leaf. Otherwise known as that noise that tells you someone is walking up behind you.

I jumped to my feet, and turned to greet whoever the visitor may be. Sam was in his tree, Snow by the water, Fox at my side. Who could this be?

It was two teenagers. A blond girl with hair pulled back into a braid, and a boy with reddish-brown hair and a... mechanical foot. And they were both on the back of a Nightfury.

Not some strange white Nightfury, like Snow, but an actual Nightfury. I had only seen pictures in books and in presentations, never ever in person.

It was so cute!!

I turned a glare on it's riders, slinking backwards towards Samuel (who had hopped out of his tree) ready to make a run for it.

"Twenty three trees each with eight apples," I mumbled. Fox and Snow looked at me, tilting their heads to the side. They seemed to understand me and a snarl fixed itself onto their faces. They stepped in front of me and Sam, protecting us from these freaks.

"To eat the fruit from the trees, you must first find a ladder," Samuel continued.

"But not that ladder, for the third step is broken," The dragons prepared to charge, having understood our code, and knowing that these new visitors were danger.

"WAIT! Stop it... whatever you are doing!!" The boy yelled, hopping down from the dragon's back. The girl followed him, stepping up to his side and grabbing his hand. The Nightfury sat back on it's haunches, tilting it's head to the side, staring at Snow. Recognition glinted in it's eyes, and a small smile appeared on it's lips. It made a chuckling noise, something that resembled a laugh, and trotted towards Snow. She smiled too, and trotted towards it. They circled around each other, before collapsing onto the ground together, rolling around like doofehses. They cuddled and licked each other, like life time friends. The teenage boy, I'm assuming the dragon's trainer/owner, stared at his Nightfury with wide eyes. I stared at Snow much the same.

"Um..." Samuel muttered. "I think they know each other."

"No duh, you idiot!" I said, smacking him on the shoulder.

"Ow!! What was that for??"

"For being an idiot." I walked toward the two teenagers standing across from us in the clearing, unnerved by the entire scene. "Who are you?" I asked them, sending another glance at our cuddling dragons.

"Name's Hiccup. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock. The Third," The boy said, stepping forward and holding out his hand. I looked at his hand with a look of disgust. He eventually dropped his hand, catching onto the fact that I wasn't going to shake it.

"I'm Sigrid, Sig for short. And this is my twin brother, Samuel. Sam for short." I motioned to my brother who was attempting to slink into the shadows. "And who's your little girlfriend?" I asked Hiccup, not smiling and sending a bored look at the girl. She snarled back.

"You can address me rather then speak about me as if I'm not here. My name is Astrid, and I can already tell that I'm not going to like you."

"That's nice," I said, not bothering to smile or show any form of kindness. "May I ask what you two are doing here? This is our clearing. Has been for over half a year."

"We came back to visit the place. It holds memories for me and Toothless," Hiccup said, looking around the clearing. Astrid looked around too, a reminiscent glint in her eye.

I glanced over at our dragons. The black Nightfury, Toothless I'm assuming, and Snow were laying on the ground together, chittering, seeming to carry on a conversation. Fox had walked over to join them, and was currently sitting on Toothless' back. Sam was back on his branch and Astrid was still glaring daggers at me.

Ah, *sigh*, the normality is so relaxing.

"You live over in that town to the West?" I asked Hiccup, ignoring the scowling Astrid. Come on, Chick. It was one comment, nothing to glare at me for.

"Yepp. That's Berk for ya."

"And I'm assuming you're allowed to have dragons?"

"Now we are. It wasn't always like this." Ah, yet another town with pet issues. "About seven months ago, there was this war that changed everything. Now, we have dragons as pets."

War? "Was this 'war' you speak of off to the east, over..." I trailed off, turning due east. "There." I pointed in the direction of that huge explosion that destroyed our last home.

"Actually, yeah. Off on an island. Huge fight with this huge dragon. I would've died if it wasn't for Toothless." Hiccup finished, a look of slight pain on his face. he looked over at Toothless, who looked back with an expression that masked his owner's. They had a bond too. Toothless cared for Hiccup just as much as Hiccup cared for the dragon, much like myself and Sam with Snow and Fox. I glanced at Astrid. She was looking down at the ground, hiding her face. Even though she was shielding her face, I knew her expression was one of hurt in remembering the war. Must've been how Hiccup lost his foot. I'll just assume, it's kinda rude to ask, 'Hey, is that how you got the metal foot???' Yeah, rude and insensitive.

"It's how... this happened," Hiccup muttered, wiggling his mechanical foot. Oh, okay, that answered my question. Alrighty then, I started to feel kinda awkward. Astrid took ahold of Hiccup's hand again, rubbing soothing circles into the back of his hand with her thumb. Aw, they're a couple!! How cute!!

And utterly disgusting!! Bleh!

"So, what are you two doing here?" Hiccup finally asked, raising an eyebrow at me.

"Hiding," I stated in a 'matter of fact' tone. "We ran away from our viking village. They were against dragons. They were actually against any form of pet. In their eyes, animals were food and food alone. My brother and I are vegetarians; that was a world we couldn't live in. We lived down by the water for a while, but after you guy's war, we kinda got swamped out. Now we're here."

"You live on your own?" Astrid asked, stepping forward towards me. I took two steps back for her one step forward. She got a defensive look on her face, raised her hands in a 'I mean no harm' fashion and stepped back.

"Sorry," I muttered. "Habit. We're too used to running from people. Friend's are a foreign concept." Samuel stepped up to my side, throwing his arm across my shoulders.

"You pig!" I whined, pushing his arm off of me. He was all sweaty and disgusting. Ick.

He laughed, and attempted to hug me. "Knock it off!!" I whined with a few feeble attempts to hit him. Hiccup and Astrid let out a laugh, shaking their heads at us. Sam and I turned to them in confusion. What was so funny?

"You guys fight just like two of our friends. They're twins too," Astrid told us. By this point, Toothless and Snow had detangled them selves from the ground and had walked over to us. Toothless walked over to Hiccup, nudging Hiccup with his nose. I smiled, dragons were just too cute! You couldn't help but smile at them.

"What's up, bud?" Hiccup asked the dragon. Toothless nudged him again, casting a look over at Snow, who nudged me in response. She nudged me again, pushing me forwards toward Hiccup.

"Snow, you crazy reptile, what are you doing?" She simply chattered and pushed me once more. I now stood about three feet in front of Astrid and Hiccup. Toothless nudged Hiccup's leg again, before walking a little ways away. Snow walked over with Toothless, and both of them squatted as if someone was getting on their backs, before standing up again and flapping their wings slightly. It was like a dragon's game of charades.

"I think their trying to say you two should come with us," Astrid said. "Back to Berk."

"I-i-i d-don't k-know if we should..." Samuel stuttered.

"Sam," I nudged him. "Buck up! Quit the stuttering." I turned back to the other two. "But he makes a point."

"There's nothing wrong with Berk!! It's fine. Dragons are pets, and we're a nice people-" Hiccup started before getting interrupted by Astrid, who had just burst into laughter.

"A nice people?!" She asked, bent over in a fit of laughter. Hiccup nudged her, and she attempted to compose herself, standing up straight again. "It's," A giggle. "A nice place," She finally choked out.

I glanced at Samuel, getting his thoughts on the subject. He shrugged, thought for a moment, and nodded. I turned back to the other two.

"Lead the way."

We landed in the middle of the small town, in a cleared area. I hopped down from Snow's back, as did Sam and Fox. Toothless and his riders had landed before us and were waiting for us in the clearing. I brushed my hands on my pants, looking around the town. Quite a few people had stopped what they were doing and stared at us in awe. Probably had never seen a white dragon, let alone a white Nightfury before. I could see the questions shining in these people's eyes. "Who are these kids?" "What's up with the white dragon?" "Is that a Nightfury?!"

People. I do not like people.

"Hiccup? Can we go somewhere else? A little less population and a little more seclusion?" I asked, really not liking all the attention. Sam didn't seem to be liking the attention either. He was trying to hide. Behind me. That doesn't work considering he's almost 4 inches taller then I.

"Hmm? Oh, um, sure. The barn's over here," Hiccup told us, motioning to the barn. Snow skittered off with Toothless, heading to the barn. Dragons are a lot like dogs. They can tell what kind of a person someone is just by the air they give off. They sense disturbances in the air, like when a storm is on the way. They have extra senses that us humans do not. Snow seemed to be getting good vibes from these people since she wasn't running away in fear. She didn't like people either. Where she came from, people killed. They were never nice. This... Friendlyness was just as foreign to her and it was to us. We made it to the barn and Hiccup pulled the doors open, revealing a large empty space inside. Big enough to house a dragon. Or two.

"This is the only empty barn left. We can try to get you guys a house of some form, but it may take a little while. Can you deal with the barn? We'll get you food and everything, and it should be a big enough space for both of your dragons," Astrid said. "If you ever need anything, my house is three places down, and Hiccups is over by that clump of trees." She pointed off into the distance, a little ways past the clearing we landed in. She seemed to had changed her tone about me. She wasn't glaring and snarling anymore. And she was talking in a nice tone. I smiled at her, deciding 'What the hey! They've helped us this far, might as well attempt to be nice.' She smiled back.

"Thanks. This is really helpful, and the barn's nice," Samuel said, looking around the barn. Huh, no stutter. He must be feeling more comfortable around these two finally.

"We can take you guys on a tour around the town. Meet the people and the dragons if you'd like," Hiccup said, raising an eyebrow in our direction. Our eyes met for a moment, and he sent me a smile. I smiled back, receiving a glare from Astrid. Ooo, it's a jealous viking we have here.

"How about we split up," Astrid suggested. "Sigrid can come with me, and Samuel with you," She told Hiccup, glancing at me with a 'Haha, Imma kill you!' face. Or at least that's what it looked like to me. I did not want to be alone with this girl. I was pretty sure she would kill me.

"Sounds good to me," Sam said, looking at me for approval. He wasn't being shy. He was actually talking and conversing with people. I wasn't going to crush his non-shyness. This is the first time he had spoken to someone without a stutter.

"Sure, sounds nice," I said, looking at Astrid.

My mind screamed, 'I am scared for my life!!!'

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