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It was a difficult question, Hiccup knew, to go out there dressed in a suit taking down bad guys, risking your life, lying to the ones closest to you, being a hero, but he had to ask, Astrid would be a major asset in their team.

Astrid seemed to ponder for a moment.

"You don't have to answer now." Hiccup supplied kindly.

"Yea," she smiled, "I'll think about it."

She left to go take a shower, they had managed to somehow turn his living room into a ring, they had taken the tv downstairs into the shop, and the sofas were all against the walls, several carpets on the open space left by them.

Toothless, who had been watching the fight -more like Hiccup getting his butt kicked- rose from the sofa and walked to Hiccup, saying casually.

"So you two are mates, right?"

Hiccup was shocked by the question, his eyes widening and his mouth opening, "What?"

"You know, mates, sexual partners, breeding, continuation of the species-"

"I get it!" Hiccup shouted.

"So?" the raccoon quirked his head.

"So what?" Hiccup asked, hoping Toothless would get the hint but, much to his chagrin, the mammal did not.

"So, are you mates?" Hiccup sighed.

"No, why would you think that?" Hiccup asked, exasperated.

"Well, you two are always laughing and smiling, you can't get your eyes off her, just yesterday I saw you looking at her-"

"Ok, ok, I get it, shut up."

...

"Sir I have spotted five Red Death criminals, I sent the address to your helmet, as well as the camera feed."

Hiccup looked at the camera feed, he was flying, Toothless on his back, gripping his shoulders, there were four men holding the strange shotguns, Hiccup had taken to calling the Red Death thugs who used them Changewings, that was fairly normal, they had been attacking a lot more recently, their groups getting bigger and bigger, the strange thing was the woman.

She had long blonde hair, cascading down her shoulders, she was wearing at sort of latex suit, which hugged her body, it was sleeveless, showing off her well muscled arms, it was painted a light blue with yellow stripes on her sides, but even stranger was her mask, it was blue and had a strange peak-like mouth sprouting out the mouth section the upper jaw slightly bigger than the one bellow, at the edge of the mask beige spikes were sprouting out, towards her back, the only see-able parts of her face were her hair and her eyes, through the eye slits but from the camera's position Hiccup couldn't really look.

They closed in on the street and, out of nowhere, a net came flying towards them, a net Hiccup knew all to well, he dodged it and Toothless jumped from his back onto the roof of the building the shooter was at, dispatching him from the world of consciousness.

Hiccup flew towards the group of thugs and shot a small fire ball, but they leaped back, dodging the explosion and only slightly recoiling from it, they looked at him as he flew a few feet above ground, he glanced at the woman, and could practically see her smirk through her amber eyes.

"Night Fury!" she greeted, "How nice of you to join the party!" she lifted her arms.

"You know my name." Hiccup answered back, "It's only fair for me to know yours."

"Ha, ha!" the woman laughed gleefully, "I'm Deadly Nadder!" she mock bowed, overconfidence, Hiccup thought, "You killed my Brother, Gronckle!"

"Gronckle had a sister, and it definitely isn't you, so I assume your one of the mutated ones." Hiccup answered calmly "Plus I didn't kill him."

"Lies!" She shouted, and Hiccup did not expect what came next, a few white spikes, three one each, grew from her arms, and she swung them forward, releasing the six, they flew towards Hiccup, and he barrel rolled to the side.

The Changewings, behind Nadder were about to shoot at him, when a red blast landed between them, sending the four flying and looking for their assailant, which appeared in a form of a raccoon, knocking one of the four down and proceeding to become enthralled in fighting them, without killing them, to Hiccup's request.

Nadder however had stood her ground and kept looking at Hiccup, a glare on her eyes, a challenge.

Hiccup shot again, still hovering a few feet above ground and away from her, she somersaulted to the side, effectively dodging the shot, she wasted no time and shot a few more spines, Hiccup dodged the again.

Usually Hiccup would 'strike up a conversation' to annoy his opponent, but these people, the mutated ones, were not to mess with, he had lost a leg, he would not lose any other body part.

The game went for a bit when Nadder got tired and started running towards him, he shot several blasts, but she either jumped over them, or sidestepped, she had an impressive balance and agility, Hiccup could say, his shots would usually make people recoil.

One she reached him, she jumped up, grabbing his feet before Hiccup could fly higher, and with a swift move, hauled herself up, and got him in a headlock, her legs around his neck.

Though in a dangerous situation Hiccup's first thought was, wouldn't it be awkward if Astrid found me like this?

Quickly pushing the thought away, he shook himself, trying to get rid of her, when that failed he did something stupid, like he usually did, he flew directly into the road, hoping it would take her off his back- more like neck- but at the last second she released her headlock and jumped.

Hiccup's quick reflexes allowed him to open his palms and dragged them across the road, clumsily somersaulting like Astrid had taught him.

He had not time to take a breather as Nadder was one him in no time, swinging punches and kicks at him, he blocked most, taking a few but giving them back, none of them could use their abilities, Hiccup would be punched before he could charge, and he doubted flying would help that much, and she couldn't focus enough to make her spikes grow.

But he was out skilled, she swept his legs from under him, making him fall, he shot at her, but she ducked, the blast hitting harmlessly on the building behind her, she grabbed a small gun from the back of her waist and shot a beige and pink thing at his uncovered mouth.

Hiccup shot a blast but the slime absorbed it, Hiccup's eyes widened, Nadder smirked.

"Moriarty did this just for you, gross if you ask me. But you can't shoot it." she said, the smirk never leaving her face.

Out of nowhere, Toothless shot a blast from the side, but the agile woman ducked, and shot Toothless with the gun, he rolled away, but she shot as soon as he tried to aim at her, the slime covering the squared barrel of the raccoon laser gun, he tried to shoot, but the slime just absorbed the heat.

He dropped the gun and launched at her, she easily grabbed his small neck, and started punching him to the ground, fracturing it, and even though Toothless' body wasn't affected due to his super heal, he still felt the pain- like Wolverine- and like most living beings, he could only take so much, and with the forceful hits against the hard pavement, it was difficult to stay awake and so he passed out from the pain.

Hiccup wished he could have helped his friend, but while he was being smashed into the ground, he was trying to removed the sticky material from his mouth, to no avail, it seemed to be glued to his mouth, and as soon as he was going to get and fight against her, Toothless was out, and she was looking at him.

"I thought you'd be harder to kill." she said simply.

Out of no where, because it appeared to be the proverb of the day, several shots hit the side of Nadder mask, and both Hiccup and the woman turned to look at who had shot, and Hiccup felt both relieved and scared as he looked at Astrid, she had her face covered with her hoodie, but from Hiccup's vantage point he could see almost her entire face.

"He's mine, bitch."

Nadder grew a spine from her arm, and was about to shoot it when she was tackled by Hiccup, he laid on top of her and ripped her mask from her face, and started to do what he could, head-butting her, she was dazed for a moment, but pushed Hiccup off, only to see Astrid pointing a gun at her, without her mask, her face was vulnerable and a bullet could kill her.

"I'm going to shoot her."

Hiccup shook his head and mumbled incoherently, the slime on his mouth making it impossible to talk properly.

"What? Why n-"

A car came from down the street, interrupting Astrid, and stopped behind Nadder, Hiccup looked inside to find Camicazi, smirking at him.

...

Camicazi had had a horrible day, first Snotlout wouldn't stop hitting on her, until she threatened him, saying she would tell his father about it, but she suspected it wouldn't be that long until he was hitting on her again.

Then she kept thinking about Night Fury and why she had chosen to trust him, but she would still help him.

There were also no leads on her case and she was afraid she might be removed from it.

So to relieve the stress of the day, she went out for a drink- more like three- but it didn't really help, she was asked out several times by drunk and sober men, and even confused as a prostitute once, that guy wouldn't be able to eat solids for a week.

So she decided to head home, as she was though, her radio turned on.

"Units available we have a 145 on..." 145 was the code used for Night Fury sightings, and Cami happened to be close to the street, so she called it in.

"This is Detective Bog, I'm a block away from the 145, engaging."

"Copy that detective, consider suspect armed and dangerous." yea, no shit.

She wondered what Night Fury was doing, and it was actually the first time she might be the first on scene, usually she was home or at the precinct when the sightings happened, and it would take her more time to get there.

As she turned the corner she saw three silhouettes, one of them was sitting on the floor, she didn't know who, Night Fury was standing in front of that person and someone was standing by his side, pointing a gun at the person on the floor.

She stopped behind the person on the floor, recognizing her as a woman, and smirked at Night Fury, he nodded, made a motion to his friend, grabbed the body of the raccoon and took off to the skies, the other person took off running.

She got out of the car and arrested the woman on the ground, wondering what she had done. Most Red Death thugs, although Cami didn't know about the Red Death only about a group, were only arrested by possession of weapons without permit, if they hadn't killed themselves when the police got there, so she wondered what they could do about her.

After putting the woman and the thugs in the precinct's jail, she headed for the scene, they found cameras, but they were all disabled when Night Fury got there, Cami easily assumed it wasn't him, he had never done that, so she could say it had been the thugs.

Besides that there was really nothing else she could use, the ground was fractured in a small area, there were several scorch marks and spikes in a lot of places.

Cami decided to return to the precinct after inspecting the crime scene, she need to talk with this woman, as she got there she saw it was basically deserted, her captain, Spitelout, was waiting in front of the interrogation room.

"What do we got, sir?" Cami asked her boss.

"Well her name his Denise Natalie, she arrived in town a couple of days ago from Denmark, no family relatives, staying at Berk Hotel, paying with her credit card. No priors."

"Anything suspicious on her bank account?"

"No, she get's 1500 dollars a month from her job, accountant." Cami looked at the muscles the other woman carried.

"Doesn't look like an accountant to me."

"Doesn't look like one to me neither, but we need to find out if she did anything wrong." Cami nodded and entered the other room, where the blonde, amber-eyed woman was sitting.

"Why are you keeping me here?"

"You were found in the company of these man," she showed her the pictures of the four Red Death thugs, and placed her phone on the table, playing the video of the security camera, right before it shut down.

"I don't know these guys, they were probably following me." she pointed to where she was in the video, "See, they're behind me."

Cami showed her a picture of the mask she was wearing.

"Nice mask." Cami complemented.

"Thanks." the other woman mock thanked.

"Why were you wearing it?"

"I was coming from a costume party."

"Where was this costume party?"

"Downtown."

"When did you leave?"

"Around mid-night"

"And when did you get there?"

"Around ten."

"Berk's a long way from Denmark, why did you come here?"

"Vacation."

"Why did Night Fury attacked you?"

"I don't know, the guy showed up out of no where and started attacking me, then you come along and arrest me."

"This," Cami showed her the photo of her gun, "Was found in your possession, do you have a permit for this weapon?"

"That's not a weapon, it's a glue gun."

"Why shape a glue gun like a Glock?"

"I like guns."

Cami stood up and left, entering the room where you could see the interrogation area, standing next to the captain.

"We have to let her go."

"What?" Cami asked bewildered, this woman was obviously hoLding something, and they were just gonna let her go.

"Her alibi checks out." He motioned for the pc, playing a video of the woman in the party, talking with some other people, her mask under her arm.

"It's a costume party, your not suppose to take off your mask..." Cami mused, "She wanted us to see it was her." Spitelout nodded.

"She's giving us short answers," Spitelout told her, "So she doesn't slip and say something she doesn't want to."

"But, we can't just let her go!"

"We don't have anything on her, her weapon is like pepper spray, it doesn't count as a weapon, but I agree with you she's hiding something, and, as much as I hate to say it, I don't think Night Fury would attack an innocent person, there's something fishy going on, let's lock her up for 48 hours see what else we can find." Cami nodded.

"I'll go talk to the thugs, see if they can tell me anything."

Her captain nodded and she went off to the precinct's jail, where she had arrested the four criminals, when she entered, she greeted the guard and headed to the cell where they were kept, as soon as she stood in front of the bars, she knew something was wrong, they were all on the floor, eyes open, mouths foaming.

"Guard!" she shouted, "Open this door, now!"

The guard came rushing and opened the door, Cami jumped down and checked their pulses, they were all dead, Cami balled her hands into fists, she felt angry for the first time in weeks, she had been annoyed but not angry, she was angry at that woman, at these thugs and at herself, she should have remembered they had cyanide pills, so she did what she could, she swore.

"Fuck!"

...

"You should have let me kill her, Hiccup!" Astrid growled at him after they removed the slime thing, turns out if you heat it enough it melted.

"There was no need to, she's in jail now." Hiccup reasoned.

"Really? She's going to escape, Hiccup, if it wasn't for me, you both would be dead!" Astrid shouted at him.

"Yes, Astrid, and for that I'm thankful, but no one deserves to die! Plus you don't know if she's going to escape!"

"Doesn't deserve to die? She almost killed you Hiccup!" Astrid's eyes were kind of glassy, when Gustav had rung, saying Hiccup needed help, she had freaked, she had thought he was going to die.

"I know..." he said quietly, he took a step forward and placed a hand on her shoulder, "Let's just forget about this, she's been arrested."

Astrid shook her head, "I don't think jail will hold her for long."

Hiccup sighed, "If she get's out, I'll-" he hesitated, "I'll let you kill her. But Astrid, killing someone is not something you can go back on, I never killed anyone, so I don't know, but it's heavy, you'll have to live with it forever."

Astrid looked solemnly at him, "Is that why you don't kill?"

Hiccup gave a tiny smile, "Yea, I don't think I'd be able to stand the weight."

Astrid reached up and rubbed his arm in a soothing way.

"I think you would" she smiled at him, but spoke before he could, "Are you alright, do you need me to look at anything?"

"Nah, just sore." He looked back at where Toothless was laying on the couch, fast asleep, "Poor guy."

.[48 hours later].

"Motherfucker." Cami mumbled as she walked to the jail cell, telling the guard to release Denise, the guard opened the door, and Cami looked at the blonde woman with the most fake smile, it disgusted her, "You're free to go."

She accompanied the woman to where she could get her belongings, glaring at her the entire times, she collected and signed off her belongings, and Cami walked her to the door, when she was out, she gave a mock goodbye to Cami and went off, it would be an understatement to say Cami was angry.

She had worked her butt off the last two days, searching for something, anything that would let her arrest that woman, she didn't know why, but she just knew this female was trouble, unfortunately, she had found nothing, the other woman's life was too clean, too perfect.

She grabbed her phone, well not her phone, but a phone.

"Yes?" asked the obviously fake voice from the other side.

"Remember the woman you arrested?" Camicazi wasn't sure why she was doing this, but she couldn't let that woman get away.

"Yes..."

"Yeah, I just had to release her."

"What? Why?"

"Well, you know the guys she was with?"

"Yes."

"We usually arrest them for carrying weapons without permit, that is when their alive. You know they tend to kill themselves before the police can get there."

"Yes, she had a gun."

"Yea, a glue gun." she spat the words with disgust, "We can't arrest her for that."

"Shit, thanks for the intel detective."

"Any time." why did she say that?

...

As Nadder walked off, her phone rang, she grabbed it, grinning at the number and accepted the call.

"Did everything go as planned?" The voice, she recognized as Moriarty's, asked from the other side of the line.

"Yes, they did exactly what you said they would."

"And can we proceed?" the question was hesitant and wary, almost as if he wasn't sure the woman was capable of doing the task given to her.

"Yes."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I can find out who Night Fury is!"

Remember Nadder's special skill? hmm?