A/N: Hey Merry Christmas. Well that's all I have to say at this point so enjoy the story.

Chapter 2

Hiccup was lying in a small bed with Toothless at the foot and two hooded figures on the sides. He groaned and moved his hands to his head, which felt like a Thunderdrum was roaring inside, where he felt gauze and a bandage. He slowly opened his eyes and took a look around. "Where am I" Hiccup groaned.

"You're in the infirmary at our hideout" One of the hooded figures said removing their hood revealing a man in his mid-50's with short dark brown hair and some gray mixed in, blue eyes, and small beard around the mouth also with some gray hairs.

Just Toothless jumped on the bed and started to lick Hiccup. "Uh, stop it Toothless" Hiccup said trying to push Toothless off of himself.

Toothless eventually got off of Hiccup and the other hooded removed their hood showing the same red headed girl from before and now that Hiccup got a better look at her she looked only a year or two older than himself. "How do you feel" the girl asked.

"Fine other than the mother of all headaches" Hiccup replied which caused the girl and man to chuckle.

"What's your name kid" the man asked.

Hiccup opened his mouth to say speak, but he couldn't remember his own name. He thought for a minute trying to remember it, but couldn't and said "I'm sorry I don't remember."

"What do you mean you don't remember" the girl asked.

"I can't remember my name for some reason" Hiccup replied.

"Maybe that blow to the head gave him amnesia" the man said to the girl.

"Ok what do you remember" the girl asked.

"Flying on Toothless to a city. Landing in the woods near the city. Went to get supplies in the city. Where I saw two hooded figures, much like yourselves, fighting some Roman soldiers. Then push a pretty red headed girl out of the way of a Roman soldier with an axe. Then nothing" Hiccup replied. The girl had blushed when Hiccup unknowingly called her pretty.

"What about before that" the man asked.

"Nothing other than the fact that Toothless is my best bud. I'm sorry, but that is all I can remember about my life" Hiccup replied.

"That's ok kid, must people don't survive an axe to the head" the man said putting a comforting hand on Hiccup's shoulder.

"Mind telling me what happened after I blacked out" Hiccup said.

"Sure" The girl said and started to explain what happened next.

FLASHBACK

The girl and the other hooded figure hand finished getting rid of the Roman soldiers and the girl ran over to Hiccup to check if he was still alive. Much to the girl's relief he still was, but was bleeding badly from his head wound. The girl quickly took out some gauze and bandages and started to put them on Hiccup's wound to try and stop the bleeding, or at least slow it down.

"Linda what are you doing we need to go" the hooded figure asked in Latin (A/N: Latin was the spoken language in the Western Roman Empire while Greek was spoken in the East).

"I'm not leaving him here" Linda replied back and picked Hiccup up.

The hooded figure removed his hood in frustration reviling a man in the mid-20's, with short light brown hair, and hazel eyes. "Fine give him here it'll be easier if I carry him" the man said holding out his arms knowing it's pointless argue with Linda in this type of situation.

"Thank you Alex" Linda said putting Hiccup in the man's arms.

"Whatever let's just get out here before more show up" Alex replied and ran off towards the woods with Linda on his heels.

They were running through the woods when all of sudden Toothless jump out in front of them and snarled. That cause Alex and Linda to stop dead in their tracks. They stayed frozen as Toothless gave them the death glare. Alex and Linda has had zero experience with dragons since there were basically none in Rome. Toothless approached Alex and Linda slowly.

"I'm going to give the kid to you and run for the hideout while I keep him distracted" Alex whispered to Linda.

"No I'm not going to leave you here alone" Linda replied.

"I'll be fine I can hold my own" Alex replied and slowly gave the unconscious Hiccup to Linda.

When Alex made the transfer Toothless eyes quickly locked onto Linda and snarled even louder. Linda froze for a second before she noticed that Toothless had a saddle on him.

"Hey Alex I think this kid is that dragon's rider" Linda whispered.

"What that crazy there's never been a tale of anyone riding a dragon" Alex replied back.

"Then how do you explain the saddle" Linda shot back.

Alex looked at Toothless and did in deed see a saddle. "Ok so maybe he his, but that doesn't help out since he his unconscious" Alex said.

"Took him back I have an idea" Linda said and handed Hiccup back to Alex.

Toothless got closer and snarled at Alex. Linda got between them, but was off to the side a little so Toothless could see Hiccup. Linda drew her sword and Toothless got into a defensive position and snarled some more. Linda tossed the sword away and held up both her hands and removed the hidden blades and tossed them away as well. Linda then put her hands out in front of her in a calming gesture and said "Hey there big guy. I'm guessing the person my friend is holding is your rider."

She saw Toothless relax a bit and continued "Look we didn't hurt him some Roman soldiers did that part. In fact your rider saved my life, but got injured and will most likely die if we don't help him."

Toothless relaxed almost completely and got a concern look and cooed in concern as well. "Yeah so we need to get back to our hideout so we can treat him way don't you come with us" Linda said and reach a hand out in a friendly manner. Toothless leaned in and rested his snout in the palm of Linda's hand. That caused Linda to smile and she scratched Toothless a bit before picking up her swords and hidden blades.

"Let's go" Linda said and started to run off towards their hideout followed by Toothless then Alex.

END OF FALSHBACK

"That's what happened" Linda said "and you should have seen the look on everyone face when we brought your dragon with us it was hilarious."

Everyone then heard a knocking sound and looked to see Alex leaning on the door frame. "So how is our dragon rider doing" Alex asked in Latin since he didn't speak Norse like Linda or the older man.

"Other than a killer headache and some amnesia he seems fine" Linda replied back in Latin.

"Ok just thought I would drop by" Alex said before leaving.

"Ok bye" Linda said then turned back to Hiccup.

"Don't worry about him he's all ways in a grumpy mood" Linda said Norse.

"Ok, by the way what's you name" Hiccup asked.

"Linda and that is the Grand Master the head of our organization" Linda said while pointing her thumb at the older man.

"Thanks for helping" Hiccup said.

"Not problem at all and thank you for saving Linda" the Grand Master replied.

"Now since you can't remember your name we'll have to give you one, how about Ryder" Linda said.

Hiccup thought about it and said "What do you think bud" looking at Toothless. Toothless nodded his head in approval and Hiccup said "Ryder it is than" with a smile.

A/N: Hey hope you enjoyed the chapter and next one should be posted next Tuesday. I hope you have a Merry Christmas and as always Favorite, Follow, and Review.