Wow. Just wow. The amount of popularity in my stories seems to be escalating. In one chapter I have HALF of my total EVER faves… WTF. :D Ok sorry if it seems that that chapter was rushed… because it was slightly. This one isn't

Anyway, peoples replies (holy shit 13!)


Bookworm2the2ndpower: :D i'm continuing, here it is :)

Guest (A): Glad you think its amazing so far, updated!

Guest (B): Glad to see you like the idea :) And this is lightly inspired by Nexarc's; To start anew

Calamite: OMG ikr! I've read too many stories that have been discontinued. DW tho, only thing thats going to make me discontinue is the goddam apocalypse (Ps glad you like it :))

snoopykid: Interesting is a word I have heard often… updated now!

Shadowda: Yeah this is a story with A LOT of things to cover. I just hope I havent bitten off more than I can chew. will try my best not to leave anything out :D I'll let you read and see if she tries to change stuff. Hope you like my choice.

Childatheart28: Look to the now with what i'm doing with it :D ( I tried to be clever…)

Yuleen: To start anew IS a gr8 fanfic, I check it almost daily to see if its gonna b updated. Nice to see you like this kinda fic. Astrid as the main character seemed right as she'd not directly in the crossfire of the events, its almost like she is an outside source, the only thing she can change is from what she knows and remembers. On the beta reader. I'm wary of getting one because I like to update asap and if a beta reader is but a day late in reading one of my chaps there will most likely be another one piling up this continuing a cycle. If you know someone that can read the chapters daily etc then i'd be happy to oblige :D Till then i'll double triple quadruple check my work.

Foster117: Welcome back :D Next chapter here! Good to see you still like ma work XD

Guest (C?): Updated! hope you like it!

Flowingcrane3: Thanks. :)

Supermees24: I thought it was a good idea two, however i didn't want her to go back as a duplicate because then everyone would recognise her as an older astrid and shiz probs would go down differently. (Actually i'll write that idea down…)

Alicia-Adriana14: Thanks! I do try, nice to see you like it.


After that incredibly long reply chain... I had to segment it!(Tell me in your next reviews if you want me to pm you my replies, continue with in chap replies or not reply at all)

The story


Forging Spare Time


Another wave of panic arose within her and she felt light headed as it all came crashing down again. She was in the past? How? Why? Has something changed? It was all so confusing! She had walked back inside some time ago in complete and utter shock until another upsurge of realization came over her. It was pretty hard to deal with the fact that she went into the past and was the only one that knew about it, she assumed. What if the future never happened? What if she was insane and the whole dragons being innocent was all a folly and dream of a deranged girl? What if dragons weren't really as innocent as she thought? She calmed her nerves as she thought of her next move. She would find out exactly when she was and how long before everything changed. She was going to take this all in her stride. She would be calm and Astrid-like. She had to rebuild her walls and put up the facade of her fourteen year old self which was actually quite hard. She forgot why for a second.

Oh yeah. She's getting married. Or was... Or will? It was quite confusing.

She left the house and a fourteen year old Ruffnut and Tuffnut came running up to her. She almost laughed at how little they'd changed. Physically and mentally.

"Hey Astrid guess what!" Tuffnut yelled.

She would generally around this time, barely give them notice (like everyone else) but figured she could at least see if the two remembered the day. After they said whatever pointless statement they were going to say anyway.

"What?"

Ruffnut was quick to answer in excitement

"They're finally going to let us into dragon training! Tomorrow they are going on another search so we get to be trained!"

She inwardly gulped at her bad luck. Dragon training. Really! At least she knew when she was.

Tuff continued, "I can't wait till I get to kill a dragon, I'm going to have heaps of dragon heads all over my walls!"

Astrid paled at this as she realized how remorseless they really were to dragons. Ruffnut made it worse.

"Yeah and I'll bathe in their blood when I'm victorious!"

Astrid felt like puking but she knew she would have to pretend to want to hurt dragons until she can finally help Hiccup in changing everyone's minds… If it was an identical past. She then remembered this moment in her past. Talking with the twins... She went to the forge next to get her axe sharpened and this was with Hiccup. 'Oh gods Hiccup!' She thought to herself despondently. She could barely imagine him without Toothless and yet here he was, not even knowing his best friend yet. She then thought of his mother, Valka whom she had come to spend more time with in the time leading up to the wedding and his father. Stoick. Still alive! She was feeling light headed again as she walked away from the twins who continued about their day. So many things had changed and a lot had delicate luck. Would she be able to reconstruct that? Or would she fail in everything. Fail Hiccup. She knew she was thinking irrelevant thoughts and when they asked, declined training with them unlike last time in her past as she was going to try and avoid talks about dead dragons. She continued thinking these thoughts as she walked into the shop and then she tried to be indifferent by trying to re-enact what she did last time. But Hiccup was still Hiccup. Awkward and irresistible, she was on red alert.

"Hey! Can I get this sharpened?" she asked, stopping his and Gobber's conversation like last time.

"Astrid! Hi Astrid Hello there! Welcome… What could I-"

He barely said the last word as she wedged her axe into the order table, lightly. Gobber took over and now that Astrid knew Hiccup a lot better, she knew the way he stuttered and by the way Gobber was acting he was talking about her as she knew he had the biggest crush on her then… Maybe it wasn't so bad to be a little lenient on him… She didn't finish that thought as Gobber commented.

"Uhh my, manly 'pprentice 'ere will service all of-yer needs…"

He tried at least and to give them time to themselves he made his 'well executed' exit.

"I 'ave to… go… get… some...I'm- I'm just goin' outside."

Wow how did she not see Gobber having been a blatantly obvious wingman attempt for Hiccup last time?

"Gobber…" Hiccup said as if that was a cover up and a completely reasonable justification as to why he suddenly left like that. She was really struggling now. Here Hiccup was, not her fiancé, not with Toothless and still thinks his mother is dead while Stoick is alive. He also still had his left foot. This is going to be… really, really difficult. However, she realized she hadn't responded to him holding out his hands expectantly for the axe and she gave it to him, watching him promptly fall to the ground as he hadn't developed any muscles yet. She decided she might as well go with the fate she got dealt with. Panicking about it won't help so she decided she would check if dragons were the same and then she would know if she was in the right past. Then she would get to helping. But first, a little fun. She suddenly dropped a bit of her tough girl facade and decided to see how expert Hiccup was in hiding his crush.

"So…" She began a little softer than usual and Hiccup barely seemed to notice as he tried desperately to avoid an awkward silence so was determined to make conversation.

"So I saw you guys on fire patrol last night… looked like a good time"

She couldn't remember the night (before Hiccup claimed he shot down the night fury anyway) Or what she said next so she decided to just continue with her little entertainment to deal with the shock of being in the past.

"Yeah, being close to the action and the flames just makes me feel… hot."

She knew this definitely wasn't what she said last time considering how suggestive it was and the perplexed, confused and almost pained expression on Hiccups face. She had definitely become slightly more romantic over the years. She hoped she would even have a facade after this as keeping it up in front of Hiccup's adorable face right now was proving difficult.

"Aah, yeah! I-I was just here… t-to start with and then I d-downed a night fury." He stuttered while sharpening the axe. Astrid wanted to know if he had searched for it yet so she questioned him

"Really? Where'd it fall again?" she said genuinely interested in his reply. Either way she already knew where Toothless was. He was slightly surprised by her interest and he quickly realized the predicament he was in and covered up.

"Agh-aaah no it… it got away, but it won't be back anytime soon, believe you me." He said stuffing his sentence up in embarrassment and nervousness. He definitely freed him... She fought extremely hard to not smile at his flop in hiding his flustered position. She decided to do another thing she didn't last time and put him out of his misery by waiting outside until he was done.

He was muttering some inaudible things as he worked on her axe, this time not messing it up and having to replace the head. To which he told her about many years later so he wouldn't feel the full extent of her wrath.

When he finished he still looked as flustered as he did to begin with so she took her axe and gave him a smile. Something he was genuinely surprised at. Were they really all that bad that he was surprised at being smiled at? Then again she was also Astrid Hofferson fearless 'dragon slayer' and his major crush so she would let it slide this time.

Astrid would get to the seriousness of her situation later but right now she just wanted to have his company, even if it's not the way she's used to.


Okay another chapter over and I was stumped at how to finish it and I hope it wasn't a too abrupt ending but the word space was really filling out fast.

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