So, I appologise that this wasn't posted earlier. I've been really busy the past couple of weeks and I kept forgetting to post.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy!

Astrid looked at the smirk on Henry's face as he stood surrounded by the crew of the ship. He was a pirate. They were on a ship with a bunch of pirates. And Henry was one of them.

"Alright you lazy dogs, back to work!" The Captain yelled out. The men immediately dispersed across the deck. Astrid watched as Henry walked over to the grate in the middle of the deck, opening it and dropping down into whatever room sat below deck. Once he was gone she glanced around to see that the rest of the crew had each gone to their own spots across the deck and had started to do their own jobs. The Captain stood before them with his arms crossed as he looked them up and down.

"Right," he said stepping forwards. "My name is Captain Shakespeare. You five will not be travelling on my ship for free. You will pay your way by doing the work I tell you to do. But first, we need to get you some clothes."

"What's wrong with the clothes we already have?" Astrid asked looking at the men around them in slight disgust. She would not be wearing anything other than a skirt.

"Because, love," the Captain continued with an annoyed look on his face. "This is a sky vessel. It's no place for your fancy clothes. And while you're on my ship, you'll take the clothes I give you, and you'll damn like them." She flinched back slightly at his tone and noticed that the others had too. "Now," he carried on, his demeanour shifting to a less frightening look. He was about to continue when a yell interrupted him.

"Cap'ain!" They all turned to see one of the crew stood at the bow of the ship with a spy glass in his hands, pointing to a small black speck in the sky that was slowly growing closer. "Night Fury!" The Captain nodded before turning back to face the rest of the crew who remained scattered in their different spots across the ship.

"All right, lads!" he yelled in a loud, intimidating voice. "Let's get ready to sail!" The crew immediately started rushing around the deck in their hurry to complete their tasks. "Hiccup!" the Captain called.

Henry's head popped up from below deck and soon he was hoisting himself back up onto the main deck and looking up at the black creature that was now circling around the top of the ship. He whistled loudly and the little black blur flew towards him, landing on his shoulder and nuzzling into his neck. Astrid's eyes widened as she realised that it was a small, black dragon.

"I missed you too, bud," came Henry's voice with a laugh. He started walking towards the man who stood at the helm, stroking the little back creature that sat on his shoulder. Once he stood at the helm, he held up his arm and the dragon seemed to know what to do. It nodded it's head in a specific direction and the man at the wheel nodded. As soon as the ship began to move, he directed the vessel in the direction the dragon had pointed and then Henry moved away. He went straight back to the opening in the floor and dropped back down, taking the little black creature with him.

Astrid hadn't even noticed that the Captain had gone until he had returned and was shoving a bundle of clothes into her arms. She looked at them with a disgusted look on her face. She was supposed to wear these? She held a blue men's shirt with men's trousers and boots. They smelt strange and they didn't look particularly clean either.

"Now I'm not completely insensitive," the Captain spoke. She looked up at him with a scowl on her face. "You can change in the brig. Now, off with ya!"

They were shoved from behind by a very big guy and pushed towards a door. Once they were through the door, they were pushed down a set of stairs to their left and then through another door, which was then slammed behind them and they were left in a room surrounded by coils of rope, crates and the odd piece of meat suspended from the ceiling.

"So," Frank started slowly. "Is it just me, or is Henry a pirate?"

Scott snorted crossing his arms. "There's no way that Henry is a pirate." He looked around at the looks the others were giving him and didn't feel so sure. "Right?" he asked.

"That means we're on a pirate ship!" Thomas exclaimed with an awed look on his face.

"This is awesome," his twin added looking equally awed herself.

"This is not a good thing," Astrid said looking at them in disbelief. How could they get excited? "We're stuck on a ship surrounded by pirates, who obviously don't like us. How is this awesome?"

"Because we're stuck on a pirate ship," Rachel replied with an 'are you stupid?' look on her face. Astrid just groaned, unsure of what was worse, pirates or the twins.

"Look, let's just put these damn clothes on," Scott put in, for once acting as the voice of reason. "I don't want to know what the Captain will do if we take too long."

They nodded and each found a corner where they could all look in a different direction to put on their new clothes. Once they were done they all turned back around and couldn't help the sniggers that escaped their lips at the sight of one another. While the clothes actually suited the boys, and Rachel to a certain extent, they weren't used to seeing each other dressed this way. It was completely strange.

"Let's go," Astrid muttered holding her neatly folded dress and shuffling along uncomfortable with the feeling of the material wrapped around her legs. She was a lady and ladies wore skirts, not some horrible, dirty, smelly trousers.

Once they were back on deck they were soon separated and given their different tasks. Scott was given a mop and a bucket and told to clean the deck until it shined, Frank was told to find a man who was simply called 'Cook' and help him with the cooking and the twins were sent to help with general work around the deck. Astrid stood wondering what her task would be when the Captain called out a now familiar name.

"Hiccup!"

Henry once again hoisted himself up onto the deck and was soon standing beside the Captain. He looked her up and down before raising his eyebrow with a look on his face that said he was amused at seeing her discomfort.

"You," the Captain turned to her pointing a finger in her direction. "Will be taking orders from him." He pointed at Henry who was now smirking and she felt dread pool in her stomach. Of course, out of the five of them, it had to be her working with Henry.

So, I hope you guys like how this story is heading so far. I'm not so good with ship lingo but I tried to do some research to get the terms right. And of course I had to include Toothless. His little explanation is in the next chapter.

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