Ok, so this is gonna be my first How to Train Your Dragon Fanfic. Why did Valka get taken that night? What if there had been a raid a few days earlier and someone else was taken? A baby. The dragons needed someone to take care of the baby. What happens when the baby becomes part dragon? And what is this ancient legend about two souls. An Astrid gets taken fanfic. As usual for me, I promise that the story will be better than the summary. I own nothing and no one.

Chapter 1: Taken and the Birth of a Soul

It was a dark night in the town of Berk. Not a sound could be heard throughout the length of the island. However, that calm was about to be interrupted by…Dragons. It started when a catapult was blasted into pieces. And out ran the Vikings. Dragon attacks were a somewhat normal occurrence. Most people would leave, but not them. They have stubbornness issues. However, something would happen that night that would change the course of Berk, forever.

In a small house in the village, Helga Hofferson lay panting in her bed. Surrounding her were many of the females of the village. "Come on Helga, you need to push. This baby isn't going to come out on its own. Come on, one more. Push." The sound of crying then filled the house. All the women crowded around the bed as Helga held her baby for the first time. She wished her husband was here to see this, he had run out as soon as he had heard the dragon raid.

All the women then left the two alone. Gazing down at her daughter only one word came to mind. "Astrid. Your name is Astrid." She then heard a soft knock on her door accompanied by the sound of it opening. She looked up, hoping to see her husband but was instead greeted by the chief's wife Valka. She had had her baby last week and Helga had been there the entire time. She suspected Valka was here to return the favor. "Hello, and who is this? Have you named her yet?" Valka asked. "I have, this is Astrid. Astrid Hofferson." The two women gazed down at the baby in Helga's arms. However, that calm was soon interrupted as the two women noticed a disturbing fact. The baby's breathing was slowing down. She was no longer crying and her breathing was getting more and more shallow by the second. Her mother was hysterical was screaming for Valka to go get help.

She was on her way back to the house with Gothi and Harvid Hofferson, Helga's husband. They were all running when they saw that the roof to the Hofferson's home had caved in. Out of the house appeared a dragon, one that they all recognized as a Deadly Nadder. Clutched in his claws was a small bundle. Bursting into the house they saw Helga sobbing on the floor. Harvid immediately ran over to his wife. "Helga what's wrong? Where's the baby?" "She's gone. My poor Astrid was barely breathing when suddenly the roof caved in. That dragon broke through the roof and I tried to draw it away from her. But no matter what I did it just kept looking at Astrid. I finally charged it but it knocked me back with its tail. It then grabbed her and just flew away." By the end of the story Helga was sobbing so hard that she couldn't say anything else. Even her husband began to shed a few tears. These were the Hofferson's. They just didn't cry. Yet, here they were, mourning the loss of their only daughter. Seeing that there was nothing that she could do Valka headed back to her house to see her own baby, Hiccup.

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Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away. A Deadly Nadder was flying back to her home, the sanctuary, ruled by the great Bewilderbeast. In her claws she held a tiny baby that she had found in that violent nest. She had burst through the top of the odd structure to see this young hatchling struggling to draw breath. What she did next she had no explanation for. She simply acted on instinct and grabbed her. She didn't know what she would do next but something was telling her to take the hatchling to the Bewilderbeast.

Flying into the sanctuary the Deadly Nadder, Fairbreeze, immediately took the young hatchling to her Alpha.

'Alpha, help. I found this hatchling in that violent two-leg nest. She is barely breathing.' 'Fairbreeze, why have you brought her? She is a two-leg. One day she will grow to hate and kill dragons.'

'I am sorry my lord. I don't know why I brought her. I only know that there was something inside of me saying that she needed to be brought here. Is there anything that you can do?'

'There is only one thing. I could try to merge some of my blood with hers. It is dangerous for the child. If the body accepts it she will never be able to go back to her nest. But if it fails, she will not survive it.'

'I understand my lord. But if you do not she will not survive anyway. Please, look inside yourself. You feel it too. There is something deep down that tells you she is special.'

The Bewilderbeast has no answer for that. After peering down at the young child he seems to come to a decision. 'Very well. Place her in front of me, then leave. What I am about to do, I must do alone.'

And so, placing the young hatchling in front of her Alpha, Fairbreeze left to check on her own hatchlings. They had been born just three sunrises ago. She had two male Nadders and one female Nadder. She then curled around them, protecting them from whatever may come. She did not even realize when she drifted off to sleep.

(Later)

She was awoken to the sound of her Alpha's call. She immediately took off to answer, not noticing that her female hatchling had grabbed onto her. Landing in front of her Alpha she saw the form of the two-leg hatchling. Walking over to it, Fairbreeze saw the hatchling's chest rising and falling. She was immediately caught up with a joy that she could not explain.

'Thank you my lord.'

'I should be thanking you Fairbreeze. She should never have survived that. The fact that she did proved that you were right. She is one special two-leg. In fact, she might be one of the Two.'

'Do you really think so my lord?'

'I do. That means she must be protected. The fact that she survived puts us in another very difficult situation. She needs someone to look after her.'

Fairbreeze glanced down at the young hatchling that was just beginning to stir. Only then did she notice her own hatchling was there. The young Nadder walked over to the child. She carefully gave the small bundle a sniff before leaning her head in even closer. What happened next surprised both the Alpha as well as Fairbreeze. The child reached out one of her paws and placed it on the young Nadder's snout, giggling happily. Then, for the first time, the child opened her eyes. What they saw made the two recoil in shock. Instead of the normal, two-leg eyes, hers were slitted. Just like a dragons.

'Yes, she is indeed special', said the Alpha.

'I shall watch over her my lord. I will treat her as if she were one of my own hatchlings.'

The two then looked down to see Fairbreeze's young hatchling curl around the small two-leg.

'Yes Fairbreeze. She will be your hatchling. However, she must also have another two-leg to watch over and care for her. She needs to feed and only another nursing female two-leg will be able to provide for her. But do not fear, she will still be your hatchling as well. Cloudjumper'

He roared the last part and immediately a large Stormcutter flew down from the ledge where he had been watching. Being the second in command to the Alpha meant that he was privy to much of what the Alpha did.

'I want you to return to the two-leg nest. Find another nursing female and bring her here. We must have someone to look after her. Hurry, we do not have much time.'

Giving a quick nod of his head and a small bow to his Alpha, the Stormcutter flew away, back in the direction of Berk.

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Back on Berk, Valka was doing her best to comfort her distraught friend. However, to attempt to comfort a mother who had just lost her child was an impossible task. She had just left the Hofferson's and was headed back to her own, where one of the midwifes was watching over he own child. However, halfway up the hill to her house a giant dragon with four wings dropped from the sky to land right in front of her. Valka immediately felt her body stiffen. She had spent her entire life believing that dragons were kind gentle creatures. However, after what had happened yesterday, her faith was severely shaken.

The dragon tilted its head and appeared to sniff at Valka. Whatever it was sniffing for it must have found it because it seemed to smile, if dragons could smile. Suddenly a loud battle cry was heard coming from up the hill. When Valka looked she saw her husband, Stoick. The dragons seemed to make a split second decision and grabbed her. She was quickly carried away, screaming for her husband as Stoick was calling for her.

There was nothing left for her to do. The dragon carried her in its claw and there was nothing she could do. Even if she did manage to get free there was nothing waiting for her but a 400 foot drop into the sea. They flew for a long time, Valka had long since lost sight of any kind of land. The dragon carrying her let out a cry as if to alert her of something. Looking out in front of her she saw a giant palace of ice. That appeared to be their destination as the dragon swooped in through one of the holes.

She was then set down in the center of a very large group of dragons. She felt more fear now than she had ever felt in her life. That fear slowly started to fade away as she realized the dragons where not attacking her. In fact they appeared to be admiring her. Then, the dragons cleared a path for her and started to gesture to her to go through it.

Figuring she had nothing else she could she followed the path, dragons surrounding her on both sides. The pathway led her to a small cave whose occupant appeared to be a Deadly Nadder and her young babies. However, when she got closer the mother lifted its head. She immediately stopped, knowing how protective dragons can get. With a gesture of the dragons head she once again began to approach. When she got closer she realized that not everything there was a dragon. Nestled within the embrace of both the mother and one of the babies was a human baby. Bending down to pick her up she noticed how thin and weak the child was.

She then lead the child up and began to breast feed her. She could not shake the feeling that she had seen this child before. Upon closer inspection she could not believe what her eyes where seeing. "Astrid, you're alive. But how, you were almost dead even before that dragon took you." Looking up she saw into the eyes of the Nadder and knew that this was the same dragon that had taken her.

"You saved her didn't you? You're the reason why she still lives."

The dragon however shook her head no. She gestured outside of the cave. When Valka looked her heart almost stopped. Outside of the cave, inside a giant pool stood the biggest dragon she had ever seen. Like the size of a village. After a nudge from the Nadder she began to walk out of the cave and approach the dragon. However, a squawk from behind her made her stop. One of the baby Nadders was running after her, or more likely, the child she held in her arms.

Laughing she bent down to pick up the baby, then with the two of them in her arms proceeded to see the giant dragon. The mother Nadder stopped in front of the king and bowed. Looking around and seeing all the other dragons doing the same Valka figured that she should follow their example. Bending over, the behemoth blew a puff of breath, freezing in her hair. He then straightened back up and roared to all the other dragons. Taking this to be a good sign, she once again looks down at the small bundle in her arms. At some point she must have had enough because she had stopped to breast feed.

This left Valka in a very awkward position. She knew that she should take the baby back to Berk but at the same time she doubted that she would be allowed to. The young dragon hatchling in her arms was snuggled right into Astrid. Also, the mother Nadder that was standing right next to her was looking down at the small bundle in her arms with such obvious affection in her eyes. She then turned to look the other way and saw that next to her was the four winged dragon that had brought her here.

Any internal conflict that she was feeling was quickly erased the second the child opened her eyes. She stared down in astonishment as she looked at the eyes of the dragon that had replaced Astrid's eyes. Looking further down the child's body she noticed a burn mark on her upper right arm. However, this was no ordinary burn mark. It appeared to take shape, almost like a rune. Valka realized that she had no choice. With eyes like that and the story of how the child was carried off on a dragon the village would never accept the child. They would call her a demon and leave her to die.

'I'm so sorry Hiccup. Stoick. I cannot return. I must watch over this child. She has nowhere to go. You would probably be better off without me. He doesn't need to grow up with a mom that thinks what she does about dragons. Especially now. These dragons took a dying baby and saved it. And this baby Nadder seems to think of her almost like a sister. The mother Nadder next to me seems to consider her to be her own baby.'

So, with that final thought she turned and headed back to the cave. However, she was stopped by the mother Nadder and the dragon that had brought her here. Motion for her to climb on the four winged dragon, which she complied to, the two dragons took off. The mother Nadder went to gather up her children and they flew off to a ledge on the outside wall of the nest.

When they landed Valka was amazed by what she saw. The view was incredible. You could see all the way out to the horizon. And in the wall of the Nest was a cave. The cave was very deep and branched out into several more caves. 'These could be used as rooms', she thought to herself. The Nadders had followed her in. The mother Nadder was not letting Valka out of her sights.

"Well girl. It seems like this is your child just as much as mine." The Nadder squawked happily at this. She then felt a nudge from her other side and looked to see the dragon that had brought her here. "Well then, I see someone wants to be a father". She laughs as she says this. Looking around the cave again Valka sighed. "Well Astrid, welcome to your new home."

Valka then sat on the ground. The remaining two baby Nadder's that she did not already have climbed on top of her. Nestling into her arms with their sister and Astrid. Curling protectively around all of them was the mother Nadder and the four winged dragon. Sighing contentedly to herself, Valka slowly drifted off to sleep.

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Back on Berk, the entire village had gathered in the center. Two funeral pyres were burning brightly in the night. Slowly, the crowds faded away until the only ones left were the Hofferson's and Stoick along with the small bundle in his arms. That night the two families who had lost so much, vowed vengeance on every dragon they meet for the deaths of their family members.

And as the years passed, they continued this vengeance. Then, one day, that very same child that was in Stoick's arms that night showed the village what dragons could be. And the town of Berk was changed. Even Stoick the Vast turned over a new leaf and worked alongside those dragons. However the Hofferson's never forgave. And they never forgot.

Ok, so first chapter is done. I hope you guys like it and yes. I did end that chapter with a line from the Hobbit. I thought it was pretty appropriate because they had 'lost' their child to a dragon. So next chapter we pick up after the first movie. After most of the T.V. show as well. All characters will be "Race to the Edge" age. I hope you all enjoyed it. Let me know what you guys think. Till next time.