Chapter 2

Hiccups POV

I was awakened by a dull but quite annoying pain in my back. I groaned and rolled over. I had been sleeping on a rock. When the grogginess had worn off and my senses returned I smelled a pleasant odor. Inquisitively I tried to see where it was coming from. The campsite was a mess. The ground was scorched and smelled sulfurous. Our tents were reduced to burnt sticks holding each other up precariously. The only real clue that the area had actually been a campsite was the fire in a middle of a circle of logs. A very feminine figure sat by the fire. I pushed myself up from the blackened earth. I noticed the figure was cooking fish. I walked over.

"Hey Astrid. Sleep well?" I asked. The figure turned around. It was definitely not Astrid. I stumbled back a bit and reached for my knife. It wasn't there. A look of shock cast over my face. The figure saw this and was obviously amused.

"Have a good sleep? I wanted to have breakfast done before any of you woke up." she spoke sweetly. I looked at her. She was gorgeous. Brown hair that flowed a little past her shoulders. She was wearing an outfit consisting of a black shirt with chain-mail over it. She had on a pair blue pants that I found very peculiar. I could tell she had seen combat before. She had a scar on her right arm that stretched from her elbow to her wrist.

"who are you?" I stuttered, "Wheres Astrid? What happened? Wheres is everyone?"

"whoa, whoa, whoa. Calm down kid. My names Bianca and you better be glad I'm here or else you wouldn't be!"

"what do you mean?" I was looking for the vikings. They didn't appear to be anywhere. However I saw toothless still asleep under a tree on the far side of the bluff. I hobbled over to him. He appeared alright just asleep.

"your friends are out hunting for our dinner. We would have woke you but you wouldn't wake. So that short big nosed kid put you down on a rock." she laughed as she recalled the event. "oh! Your dragon wont wake up for awhile. It got quite a lungful of sleeping gas."

"sleeping gas?"

"Ya. From the Destroyer that attacked your little group."

"Destroyer?"

" Dear god child! Lets just ask MORE questions how'bout?" she sarcastically remarked but answered my question, "A destroyer is a dragon that has evolved to hunting other dragons. Instead of breathing fire it spews sleeping gas. Its a deep purple and has a large boney frame. Its got claws that are sharper then my boyfriend's drunk sister's tongue!" She erupted into laughter.

When her fit of laughter ceased she looked around as if sensing somebodies presence.

"they're here." sure enough out of the forest emerged Astrid and the gang. As soon as she saw me she ran up and hugged me.

"I'm so glad your ok! I was worried sick!" she whispered in my ear.

"Ya, my bad." I said. I was just glad I was in contact with Astrid again. It had been four weeks since hiccup had saved the vikings of berk and freed the dragons. It had been four weeks since Astrid, the object of his affection for as long as he could remember, kissed me. Since then there had been minimal lip contact between the two and even when there was it was always accompanied by a brutal punch to my arm. It was the good and the bad. Toothless found their relationship comical or at least that's what it seemed like. He would watch our every move when we were together. Crush couldn't care less. He was usually to busy trying to pick fights usually with Ravager or Rat.

Later that night they were all sitting around the fire. It was sort of awkward with that new girl, Bianca, she was constantly bombarded with questions of her past adventures by either Snotlout or Tuffnut. the latter of which had taken a liking to her. Astrid sensed Bianca becoming annoyed at the constant flow of questions so she decided to help her.

"So Bianca earlier today you said something about a boyfriend?"

"Yes I did!" she was immediately restored to full question answering vigor, "Hes awesome! Actually hes the best fighter I've ever seen. I've only lost a couple of times and they were to him. The other time he was there to save me." she droned on and on about her super boyfriend. Apparently he was the strongest and bravest warrior from where they came from. One particular detail was intriguing.

"He had a dragon?" Ruffnut cut in. "what type of dragon? Was it Powerful?"

"He had the most powerful dragon in the entire dragon rider platoon." she said dreamily. "he was always posted at the bridge just outside my house. But now hes on his way here."

"Why?" asked Snotlout while he lied down and rested his head against the log

"Well he's looking for a new place to live. Im here looking for him!"

"Why is he looking for a new place to live? Why Berk?"

"Well he's wanted now and Berk seems like a dandy place to live! But the destroyers and their leader seem to have followed us."

"They've followed you?" Astrid rose her voice angrily as if she had just found someone to blame for the previous night. Someone she could do harm to.

"Ya. My previous employers sent them after us when i defected from my job."

"What was your old job?" Ruffnut and Tuffnut said at the same time. They proceeded to argue over who asked first. It ended in Tuffnut screaming that he was hurt.

"I was a mercenary." she replied while she raised an eyebrow at the comical twins.

"Sweet! Did you kill a lot of people?" Snotlout practically yelled. Even Astrid seemed impressed. However,She crossed her arms and gave a "humph" trying to not act like the older girl was any better then she was.

Bianca laughed at Snotlout "I killed a few. I was never really cut out to be a merc' although thats all my family really did."

"Ah, so that's why you quit? but that doesn't explain why they sent those dragons after you." Snotlout said

"They're after me because you don't just quit when your a mercenary. Your executed if you want to be free. Otherwise, you take orders all your life."

"That sucks! So why is your boyfriend wanted?" I asked.

"Well hes wanted now."

"For what?"

" The murder of the king and the deaths of 68 citizens." Bianca replied nonchalantly. "oh and he burned the kingdom down." she sighed " I cant wait to see him."

We all looked at her like she was crazy.

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