Disclaimer: I don't own any characters except Jacinda and Selena, and I don't own the song Ordinary Day by Vannessa Carlton. I'm jus' trying to have some fun with a dragon story ^_^ Enjoy chapter 2!~

A ripple of excitement went through the crowd. Selena and I made our way to the front. I was still shocked at how fierce my reaction had been to seeing Him again. He looked just as he had in his first life, the one where I found him making out with Tasma. Tasma who was responsible for every time He died, for turning Him into something else right before. His name was Ark at that point.

I was at the front of the group of vikings now, and I cleared my throat. I told them about how I was taken three hundred years ago, the ensuing war, and I explained Selena's powers and how I shared them. I didn't say anything about Him. I wanted to explain it to Him first. Why I was so ticked with the fact that He kept dying and leaving me alone. Once I finished my story, there was a silence.

"If none of you have questions, I'll start explaining the dragons outside of Berk," a hand raised. It was Him. I clenched my teeth. "Yes?" He looked confused, and a bit concerned.

"Um. How the heck could you live for three hundred years?"

"Earth magic. Selena and I will live for a thousand years, then another egg will be found and hatched, and we won't be needed any more," I looked around. "Any other questions?" I slowly unclenched my jaw, knowing that it wasn't this version of Him I was angry with. No one raised their hands.

I started by explaining the dragons that were nearer to home that nobody had seen. The Sicklejaw with it's three foot long teeth. The Bowback with spikes it could fire over a hundred feet. There weren't that many around here that they hadn't met, so I moved on to the other continents. I painted a picture with words of Asia, with vast bamboo forests, and snake-like dragons that were called upon for wisdom and advice. The massive four-legged dragons of Europe that were constantly defending small cities and towns nestled is icy mountains and foothills from bears the size of houses. How North America had dragons that taught remarkable magic to the Indian shamans that lived there. African dragons with their yellow and gold scales hot to the touch, even long after the creature had died and it's pelt was hanging outside a house as a trophy. South American dragons that were masters of hiding and camouflage. That took me full circle, and I fell silent. The vikings were quiet, thoughtful. One boy in the crowd, a scrawny thing with a peg leg, looked extremely excited at the prospect of new dragons.

Selena sat down and started up a mid-range hum that all the dragons nearby leaned towards her. "Oh. Right. Selena is sort of like a non-evil version of that Queen Dragon you killed. She has the ability to call on any dragon, and then that dragon has a choice. Help Selena, or not," Selena stopped her humming, and the dragons relaxed. I hadn't realized it, but my story telling had taken us all the way from mid-morning to dusk, the sun setting in a glorious burst of orange and red. "Is there anywhere we could stay for the night before we head back to our caves?" A female viking raised her hand.

"You can stay with Astrid and I." The blonde girl standing beside the older viking nodded vigorously. I smiled.

"Thank you very much." I'd find a way to repay them.

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Later that night, I awoke to find Him staring in the window. I was sleeping in; a pale green spare room in the blonde girl, Astrid's, house. Unfortunately, it was on the bottom floor. I threw off the covers and strode to the window in my sturdy cotton tank top and shorts. I opened the window so fast it sacked the boy in his forehead.

"Ow! What was that for?" he held his head in his hands, reeling back a bit.

I smirked. "For staring at me while I was sleeping, durr."

He straightened and I got a clearer look at him. He had a strong jaw, and low set eyebrows. His eyes were a shade of light green, and he had unruly black hair. "What's your name?"

"I'm Snotlout," he said, seeming proud of the fact.

"I need to talk to you, Snotty," I said, swinging myself out the window. "Come on. You waiting for Christmas?" I walked around the house to where Selena was sleeping, Snotlout trailing behind, muttering about unnecessary nicknames. As soon as I rounded the corner of the house, Selena was there, rubbing her face against my arm. I cooed at her and rubbed her star. I turned back to Snotlout. The similarities between him and Ark hit me like a knee to the gut again, and I clenched my fists.

I swung myself up into the saddle and glanced at Snotlout. "You coming?" He looked at me strangely.

"Um where am I supposed to sit?" I rolled my eyes.

"Why do you think I'm sitting so far forward in the saddle? Behind me smarty." He gulped, and then swung himself up behind me.
"Uh, one problem, Jacinda. Where am I supposed to hold on?"

I sighed. This was the slightly awkward part. "Try my waist." He tentatively rested his hands on my waist. I clicked my tongue and Selena took off. Behind us, there was a low growl, and a Monstrous Nightmare was right on Selena's tail.

"That yours?" I raised my eyebrow; though I'm sure the effect was lost on him as I was facing away from him. As soon as we had taken off, his hands had tightened on my waist, and I'm not going to lie, it felt nice, like all the other times he had left me didn't matter. I felt him nod, his chin resting on my shoulder.

"Tell him it's okay. I'm not going to hurt you."

"Can't your dragon do that humming thing and stop Fire?" I shook my head.

"He's protecting the human he is bonded too. He'll never listen to her. You have to tell him." I felt him twist towards his dragon, and faintly heard him holler something about it being okay, and that he was fine. Fire backed off a bit, but kept following us. I knew that as Snotlout's dragon, Fire would be bonded to Selena as I was to Snotlout. Selena twisted her head and looked at me from the corner of her eye, trepidation clear in her gaze.

I took us down into a clearing far into the island, and Selena landed by a fallen log. As soon as we landed, Snotlout took his hands off my waist, and I couldn't help but feel a little hurt.

Fire set down next to us and growled a little. I let Snotlout off first, and he went right to his dragon and started trying to calm him. Selena made a higher frequency hum, purple energy gathering above her head. Fire was looking at her strangely.

The moon was full, and it lit up the valley quite nicely. It was then that I saw the horrible dark circles under his eyes. I don't know how I missed then before...

I was snapped out if that particular train of thought by Snotlout.

"What do you want to talk to me about?" I pulled myself up onto the log and patted the empty bark beside me. He sat next to me, and we sat in silence for a few seconds.

"Do you believe in reincarnation?"

"That depends."

"On what?"

"What reincarnation is."

I sighed. Clearly we were going back to the basics. I hoped his suppressed memories would kick in as I started explaining. "When I stopped aging, I was seventeen. At that point, Selena and I were supposed to find soulmates. The one person, or dragon, we're supposed to spend the rest of our lives with. Our protectors, friends. I found Ark," I could see Snotlout's eyes lifting up in recognition. At least we were getting SOMEWHERE. "Somehow, Tasma, a psychic, got her claws into him, and brainwashed him. She killed him in front of me, and Selena barely managed to get me away," I could feel the tears coming. It had been horrible. "I loved him, and when he was gone, I thought I was going to die too. The only thing that kept me from killing myself was Selena. Later, I found Ark again. But he was known as, get this, Hairygut." Snotlout had been looking very concerned, burst out laughing.

"Hairygut? That's ridiculous."

I smirked. "I don't know why you're laughing. You were Hairygut." Snotlout stopped laughing.

"You keep coming back, you look different, have a different name, but it's always you."

His eyes widened. "So I keep dying?"

"Yup," I made a popping sound with the 'p' "but not this time. I won't let you." I really looked at him for the first time, and I could see that he was troubled by the news, but who could blame him. He looked up at me rather shyly, and tentatively reached out to take my hand. I knew it was coming, but it was a shock to him when the small static shock traveled from where our hands connected. In brief flashes, I saw our previous lives together as he saw them. I saw myself through his eyes, and I was surprised. To him, I looked beautiful. I knew he was seeing my time without him, how empty it seemed.

I gently withdrew my hand.

"I know it must seem overwhelming, you should get some sleep." I said softly. He just nodded and slid off the log to the ground. I slipped down beside him. Our dragons hovered nearby, eyeing each other warily. Snotlout lay down, looking up at the stars, thinking, I suppose. "You used to say that my singing helped you sleep. Do you want me to?" He turned and looked at me.

"I'd like that," He did a double take. "I mean, Uh, only if you want to." so he was still playing the tough guy.

I smiled and started humming.

When I reached a certain point in the melody, I started singing.

"Just a day just an ordinary day. Just trying to get by. Just a boy just an ordinary boy, but he was looking to the sky." Selena joined in, humming along. She made piano sounds, while I sang. By the time I got to the chorus a second time, Snotlout was fast asleep. I gently pulled his head onto my lap and smoothed the creases in between his eyes and brushed a few strands of hair off his face. He looked so much more innocent asleep than awake, more kind.

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Snotlout woke up to early morning sunlight shining through his eyelids and the sound of birds chirping to the new born day.
He opened his eyes, and saw Fire and Selena wrapped around each other in the shade of a pine tree. The memories of last night came back to the surface. He had remembered quite a few previous lives, and how much he loved Jacinda in each.
Jacinda! Where was she?

That's when Snotlout realized that his head was resting on something too soft to be ground. He glanced back up towards the log and saw Jacinda, fast asleep with her head resting on the log. His head was in her lap.

"Well this is just great. Peachy even." he muttered darkly. He had slept better last night than he had in the past month. Jacinda shifted her weight slightly and yawned. Snotlout quickly sat up. Jacinda opened her eyes and smiled.

"Sleep well? Those nightmares shouldn't bother you anymore."

"How do you know about the nightmares?" The dragons shifted and untangled themselves and stretched like oversized cats.
Jacinda grinned. "I saw it when you touched my hand. You can't hide anything from someone inside your head babe," even though the 'babe' was casual, it made Snotlout's heart flutter a bit. "We better get back to the village, before we're missed too badly." They climbed onto their respective dragons, and flew back to town with wingtips touching.

They landed in the centre of the town, where Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs, the twins, and their dragons were standing and talking about dragon training. Well, the humans were talking about dragon training, the dragons were eating fish.

Selena landed first, light on her feet, then Fire, making a huge thud. Snotlout and Jacinda hit the ground at the same time, and he introduced her to his friends.

Rufnut grinned. "Where were you two?"

Her brother started singing. "Snotlout and Jacinda sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-" He got cut off by Snotlout tackling him. The dragons at the fish trough looked at the brawl with faintly amused expressions.