Sorry for taking so long, homework is a bitch and so are deadlines [which I didn't even meet ;) oopsie ]

Hope you enjoy this one and the next update will be in the next 2 days to make up for this one taking so long,
Enjoy!


"Explain?" Astrid demands putting her hands on her hips. Control yourself Astrid

Basically she is learning to ride her." Hiccup explains warily.

"Hiccup is going to teach me to ride my little Nanna." She interjects, grinning at Astrid.

"Oh you are, are you?" Astrid says sounding slightly angry, turning to a scared looking Hiccup. Don't punch her.

"See the thing you have to know about Astrid is that she is an angry girl, she also gets jealous easily." Ruffnut says comfortingly to Helena, obviously having an adverse affect when Astrid begins to look even angrier.

"Oh, right... erm..." Helena says, struggling for words.

"Astrid I am teaching her, but not in a way you won't like. I have thought this out trust me. I knew you would get mad at me, I-I'm sorry I should have said sooner." Hiccup apologizes rambling slightly.

There is a period of silence for a while as Hiccup and Helena are waiting for forgiveness and Ruffnut is nearly busting with laughter at how awkward the situation is.

The silence is broken when Nanna squawks as she is no longer getting the attention she wants.

"So, Hiccup, when is the first lesson?" Ruffnut asks breaking the humans' silence, resulting in all eyes on him.

"Erm... well, probably this afternoon, if Astrid's okay with that?" Hiccup replies, turning his answer into a question leading all eyes to jump along to Astrid, who is standing with her arms crossed in a huff.

"Whatever," She huffs, "I'll just hang with Ruff and Tuff or something."

"Yay, I get to ride my beautiful Nadder!" Helena squeaks excitedly, clapping her hands and jumping closer to her purple dragon.

Hiccup looks at Astrid with an apologetic gaze and sees her glaring straight at him, so he hints that they should leave Ruffnut and Helena to look after Nanna so he can talk to her alone.


The two walk in silence for some time, walking in the direction of an unknown forest, the sunlight leaving shadows of tree shapes on the ground around them.

"If she steps out of line she is meeting my axe." Astrid announces still sounding pretty pissed off.

"Astrid she will be fineee, plus you know I'd never let that happen. And I'd never do anything to endanger what we have." He says smiling at her and reaching for her hand.

"What do we have? We have fun and act like a couple sometimes but are we a couple?" She asks sounding nervous and unsure, not very 'Astrid like' at all.

"Well I hope you also think you are my girlfriend because I have wanted to say that since I first saw you. What we have is so amazing... Well for me it is, anyway. I wouldn't risk that." He replies pulling a shy smile that makes Astrid almost die with an overdose of Hiccup-cuteness.

"Oh come here you stupid soppy boy, you are really just exaggerating, but I apologise for getting angry at you for this-BUT! I will execute her if she touches you." She says while her eyes go from showing happiness to evil and anger in seconds.

"No deaths. Please. I'd rather not have to deal with a war, as you are my responsibility. But I'm sorry too for not saying earlier, but then again earlier all I could think of was last night."

"Oh youuuu shut up, lets go find the guys and eat. Im sooo hungry." Astrid says holding her stomach as it growls at her.


"Heeey Hiccup! We heard you got yourself deep in dragon doo earlier." Snotlout shouts as they walk over to the group of teens, some new faces and old ones sitting in a circle around a mat on the floor.

"Ah maybe, but its fine now." Hiccup replies warily.

"Oh guys! These are mine and Tuffs new friends," Snotlout says pointing to the two girls sitting between the guys, "This is Heidi and this is Atrocia."

"Her name is so cool, its like the girl version of her dads!" Ruffnut shouts excitedly looking at the girl.

"Whats her dads name?" Astrid asks looking confused.

"Atrocious."

"Really? Well I guess they took the 'terrible names' literally and chose a word that means terrible." Astrid shrugs.

"Is it true you are teaching Helena how to tame and ride Nanna?" Heidi asks looking intently at Hiccup. The stare is then mimicked by Atrocia.

"Errrm, yes. Why?" He responds with a confused tone in his voice.

"Can you teach me to ride my dragon?" Heidi asks using her hand to prop up her chin.

"What dragon is it?" Hiccup asks, getting a bit more into the conversation.

"Its the black and purple Nightmare that you probably saw when helping Helena out with Nanna." She answers suddenly showing a great interest in their conversation.

"Are all the Meathead girls' dragons purple?" Ruffnut asks interrupting slightly curious, but sounding bored.

"No I have a Nadder that is the yellow and green one next to Nanna." Atrocia adds shaking her heard at Ruffnut sounding a matter of fact about it.

"Heidi, what is your dragons name?" Hiccup asks aiming the question specifically at her.

"Inferna." She replies.

"Nice name babe." Snotlout says putting his arm around her shoulders in a really cocky way.

"And yours, Atrocia?"

"Lund, cos he is green... and it means grove... It's so original..." She answers shyly covering her face with her hand in embaressment.

"Lund, hm I like it. Okay so Lund and Inferna can be tamed tomorrow, if thats okay?" He asks getting a nod in reply from both girls.

Astrid looks over at the girls having an in depth dragon conversation with Hiccup and she sighs knowing she will barely see him when they are here.

"Lets go for a walk Ruff." She says getting up from the matt on the hard packed dirt ground.

"Yeah cool, I need to check out the guys around here anyway for future reference." Ruffnut answers, getting up and walking to where Astrid stands. They walk away without saying bye and go on a walk.

Hiccup finishes his conversation with the girls when he realises the guys are looking a bit pissed off. He looks around to find Astrid but having not realised she went on a walk he gets up and goes to their room taking some bread with him, to prepare for an afternoon of the high maintenance of a vain Nadder.


"Yay," Helena shouts excitedly, "I get to ride my baby!"

"Indeed you do Hel-" Hiccup starts to say, but gets cut off by her.

"Call me 'Lena, its less effort." She interjects, smiling with excitement at her teacher.

"O-oh, alright then, Lena, we need to start simple..."

Hiccup teaches her all the basics of how to fit a saddle for the dragon and how to treat her. He goes though everything she will need to know about flying without doing any real flying so it will make everything easier. It would have been nice for someone to help me learn to ride Toothless. Hiccup thinks and then begins to miss his best friend.

All through this Helena's eyes aren't exactly connected with her ears as she looks at him admiringly the entire time.


After finishing up the first lesson Lena is looking overwhelmed with advice and Hiccup is looking pretty exhausted from having to get a saddle on a fussy Nadder for about an hour. They walk back to the main part of the village together as they would go separate ways from there.

"Thanks Hiccup, you are so nice to me. And it is so nice how you are helping my friends too. Wow you are just so amazing." She sighs looking at him stupidly, making him feel uncomfortable.

"Erm, gee thanks? I just don't want anyone or any dragon to miss out on such a good experience really." He replies in a modestly awkward way.

They walk in silence for a bit until she breaks it with an unusual question.

"Are you and that Hofferson girl together?"

"Yeah, why?" He asks speciously.

"I've heard a rumour you are only pretending to be together so you don't get married off to a Meathead." She says accusingly looking up at him with raised eyebrows.

"Nooo, no no no. We are together, trust me." He says feeling himself sweating at her sudden accusations.

"But I thought relationships like this or 'courting' was frowned upon in Berk? Why are you even with her?" She questions sounding more and more curious.

"It is a little but my dad is fairly okay with it considering she is the best axe fighter of my generation." He replies sounding proud of her, smiling slightly at the thought of her but trying to ignore her second question.

"Atrocia told me you are sharing a room here, surely that isn't aloud."

"Look I get you just want to know stuff but can you calm down with the questions. They are a little irritating after a long day." He admits, regretting saying that when he looks at her annoyed expression. Girls. He thinks, huffing out a breath in exasperation.

"Fine. But I really don't think it is 'legal' or whatever." She huffs.

"It's not like anything happens, I sleep on the floor." He says in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Yeah, right." She scoffs, stopping the conversation abruptly.

"I guess I'll see you tomorrow when I train your friends?" Hiccup asks relieved to have reached where they part ways.

"Yeah, whatever. Bye. Thanks for today Hiccup." She says still managing to smile stupidly like a pre-teen girl.


"Gods that girl is hard work." He mutters to himself walking in the direction of the guest barn.

"Who is?" Astrid asks popping out from behind a house making Hiccup scream a little.

"Godddsss?! Why would you do that?" He asks holding his heart making sure it hasn't jumped out of his ribcage.

"It's so fun to see you get scared like a little woodland creature." She taunts in a baby talk voice. He is so cute when he is scared. Astrid thinks to herself chuckling a little.

"It's soo not funny to have a mini heart attack." He says mimicking her voice, wrapping his arms around her waist.

"Ah I missed you today, how was it?" Astrid asks, hugging him back. She tries her best to not sound pushy with questions about his day with the Meathead girl with a reputation

" They are both so high maintenance..." He sighs shaking his head and adds "her Nadder is vainer than Stormfly..."

"Wow, aw poor thing, I'll help make mister dragon man, feel better." She says while reaching up to kiss his forehead, going up on tip toes to get there.

"Thank you miss axe lady." He mocks, catching her lips as they go past his so he can kiss them.

They walk holding hands for a bit and they get closer to the barn when Hiccup remembers his and Lena's conversation.

"So... earlier 'Lena told me something interesting..." He starts, cautiously.

"'Lena'?" She questions.

"Oh yeah, you wasn't there when she said about that, its Helena's nick name."

"Oh okay then. So what was it 'Lena' told you that was so interesting?" Astrid says sounding slightly pissed at the nicknames. When she says Lena she uses her hands to make the quotation marks, accidentally showing she was pissed about this.

"Oh Astrid come on, it's just a nickname, are you really mad?" He asks, walking in front of her and stopping to face her.

"Yeah, you spent the whole day with a Meathead girl that has a reputation," She huffs "and she's making you use a nickname." She pushes past him and starts to stomp off in the direction of the huge guest barn.

"Astrid?" Hiccup calls after her. "Oh come on, come back here—wait she has a reputation?" He shouts and finishes with a slightly rhetorical question a bit confused.

Astrid stops and spins round with an angry look on her face and half shouts "Yes she does. It's for stealing peoples boyfriends and sleeping around. It's good her father believes it's all rumours or she would be locked in her room. For life."

"She isn't that bad is she?" Hiccup asks warily.

"Yes. She is. And she will try hard to steal you." Astrid says sounding sad rather than angry now.

"Astrid," He says walking towards her and holding her by her small but muscular shoulders, "I wouldn't let her do that. But can I finish what I was saying. It links to this."

"Fine. What is it that was so interesting?" She says sighing feeling calmer at his touch.

"She was asking me why we are together and that it is just a rumour so I won't get married off to a Meathead." He begins to explain.

"Really? What the Hel is she on? What did you say?" Astrid asks, beginning to look pissed off again.

"Calm. Okay? I didn't get a chance to say anything because she bombarded me with questions and she started going on about relationships being frowned upon and how her friend told her we are sharing a room and how she thought it was illegal. It's all just so petty." Hiccup huffs, feeling almost worn out for explaining that.

"What did you say about the room bit?" She asks, looking smugly at her freckly companion.

"Well I said nothing happens because I sleep on the floor." He says pulling her closer and moving his hands from her shoulders to her hips.

"But of course you were lying?" She replies with raised eyebrows, pushing her arms through his to circle his back.

"Would you call it lying?" He asks with a cheeky grin, swiftly pulling her in for a quick kiss that lasts a bit longer than he planned.

They are deep in the moment and thinking to themselves they need to control themselves when they hear;

"HEY, LOVE BUCKETS, GET YOUR ASSES HERE. FOOD." Ruffnut shouts from the barn entrance with Tuffnut and Snotlout whistling as she shouts.

" WE'RE COMING." Hiccup shouts back, looking over Astrid's head at the people in the doorway.

"You wish we were..." Astrid whispers before turning around and running to the place of promised food.


Okay, so Hiccup is coming... But will he be coming in the next chapter?

Oh my, I apologize for that joke, hope you enjoyed that poor joke and this chapter

Thanks reading!