Greetings loyal readers! Have I got some excitement in store for you today! I don't even want to give my normal intro, since I just want you all to get right to the chapter. Enjoy!


Hiccup slipped back inside the house after a few minutes of collecting his thoughts, wanting to go to bed. The door shutting with a soft squeak, he turned, only to yelp in shock as he was met with a large figure in front of him. "Dad, don't do that." Hiccup gasped as he relaxed upon seeing it was only his father.

"Now, normally I'd give ya a quick word about manning up, but after that...ah boy you've put quiet a few worries to rest tonight son." Stoick said as he clasped his hand over his boy's shoulder, chest swelling with pride for his offspring.

Hiccup looked up at his father in confusion, wondering how much mead he had drunk tonight so far. "What are you talking about?" Hiccup asked as he tried to see if he could smell the mead on his father even to see if it was just the alcohol in his system making him ramble.

"That young lass. Ah, I've seen you with Astrid, quiet a shame about her. But Thorunn, boy I thought you'd never learn how to treat a woman proper. Quiet a fine one there too, just have to ask if you plan on actually trying to woo the dear lass." Hiccup felt his face flush with heat upon hearing his fathers words and realizing that he had been watching him talk with Thorunn.

"Wha...Dad...we're just friends!" Hiccup yelled quickly, dashing around his father's larger body to try to retreat to his bedroom.

"Ay, that's how it starts. I remember me and your mother at your age. Ay, we started out not wanting a thing to do with one another. Then before you knew it..." Hiccup yelled at the top of his lungs to try to drown out his father when he realized where this was going, not wanting to hear about how intimate his parents got at his age.

"I'm only seventeen dad! God's help me, I'm just trying to be her friend since she's never had one besides the dragons!" Hiccup whined in despair over what he was stuck in with his father before quickly running up to his bedroom so he could hide from the embarrassing chief.

Fortunately, his father didn't pursue him further, so he just sat down at his desk, burying his face in his hands as he willed his mind to just forget the whole conversation with his father.

Down the street, Thorunn carefully opened the door to her bedroom, frowning when the dragon saw her and turned his back on her, narrowly missing her with his tail as he wrapped it around his side. "Zu, I've got some fresh cod for you." Thorunn advised as she dragged a barrel behind her to present to the dragon.

Zu did nothing but snort and turn his head away from her when she tried to move in front of him.

Thorunn frowned before pushing the barrel closer to her companion, picking up one of the fish and tossing it in front of his snout in hopes that he would at least try it. The dragon just snorted again, ignoring her attempts to try to get him to acknowledge her.

Thorunn backed away from him once the barrel was in front of him, wishing the stubborn dragon would just stop pouting and actually listen to her for once. "Zu, can't you at least listen to me for five minutes?" Thorunn asked as she walked over to her bed on the other side of the room to sit down, surprised when the dragon actually grumbled in response.

He hasn't acknowledged her at all in the days that Dusk had been with them, he even growled at her yesterday when she went to scratch him under the chin. But now he finally acknowledged her, or at least grumbled at her.

"You know I'm not choosing her over you Zu." Thorunn advised the male as she stood up, taking a few steps towards him as she tried to ignore his growling.

Zu huffed before turning his head away, unwilling to believe her since she was so willing to fawn over another dragon that had HURT her before. He was supposed to be her protector, and then she goes and fawns over the beast that left her with scars and in fear for eight years.

"She may have hurt me all that time ago Zu, and I know you want to keep me safe, but now she just wanted to apologize." Thorunn tried to explain to the stubborn male as she walked over to his fish barrel, taking one out and offering it to him in hopes he would take it.

Zu eyed the fish and the girl for a second, split between actually accepting the fish or continuing to ignore her for her actions. His stomach grumbled though as his eyes fell on the fish, and he reluctantly took it.

"That's my boy." Thorunn mused as she pushed the barrel closer to the Boneknapper, smiling when he immediately dug into the fish. "You're still my big buddy, Zu. Just...now I need to help Dusk too. She won't come between us though." Thorunn explained to the male as he ate, occasionally giving a glance in her direction as he ate.

Once done, the Boneknapper laid his eyes upon the girl, examining her to try to see if she was actually telling him the truth.

Thorunn was about to go back out to the other two dragons, when Zu suddenly lunged forward, beginning to lick the trainer as she burst into laughter at how he had finally forgiven her.

Down the street Toothless had been comfortably sleeping in his bed when the human across the room from him actually managed to wake him, looking out the window to see that it wasn't even light out yet. He growled, rolling over to face away from Hiccup before he heard what the teen was saying.

Toothless shot up, ears perked up now as he listened to the teen whine a name in his sleep, looking over to see him buried underneath the furs he had on his bed as he carefully crawled over towards the teens bed to see if he heard right.

On cue, the name left his lips once more, proceeded by a whine as well as Toothless jumped back, realizing that his trainer was having one of his noisy nights. He snorted before quickly leaping over his sleeping form and out the window, deciding he'd be better off having a sleep over with Dusk and Pythius.

Fortunately for the male Night Fury, Thorunn had left a window open before going to sleep, so he crept in through the open window to find both female dragons curled up around the smoldering embers in the center of the living room, carefully laying himself down between the two before returning to sleep.

Thorunn POV

I winced as Hiccup nudged my bandages with his hand, the bruises underneath protesting to his touch. "Sorry, need to get them off though." Hiccup reminded me as I kept my eyes on the ocean in front of us to try to ignore his touch.

"I know, but you don't need to touch the bruises." I reminded as he continued removing the old bandages.

"Well, I wouldn't be doing this if you'd have changed them yourself." Hiccup replied as I turned my head to look at him, seeing the smug smile he held and sticking my tongue out at him in response.

"I've been busy." I reminded him once more as he tossed the old bandages beside me, and I couldn't help but wince again when he began putting medicine on the still healing wounds.

"Well you won't be busy for long if you let these keep getting worse, because then you'll be laid up in Gothi's hut." Hiccup said as I blew raspberries at the idea.

"Such a control freak." I teased, watching as Pythius and Dusk flew in front of us, both racing each other even though Pythius knew that Dusk was the faster, being a Night Fury.

"I am not!" Hiccup protested immediately as I laughed at how he reacted to my words so quickly.

"Are too." I countered, turning to him to stick my tongue out at him once more as he glared at me, motioning for me to turn back around so he could finish.

"Just because I want to help you heal doesn't make me a control freak." Hiccup said once he finished replacing the bandages on my back, letting me pull my tunic and vest back on.

"No, but telling me when I have to do it by and what kinds of medicines I have to use, and where I have to do it might I add, that makes you a control freak." I replied, sticking my tongue out again as he glared at me again before I saw his look change, jumping up since I knew that look by now.

"Get back here!" Hiccup called after me as I took off running down the street, laughing at him as I dodged some of the villagers.

"Hey!"

"Watch it!"

"Get out of here you crazy teens!"

I continued laughing even as the villagers complained, since Hiccup's the heir to this tribe and he just ignored them and continued to chase me.

"I would think you faster by now, Dragon Trainer. I mean, you do have a Night Fury." I continued to tease, yelping when he almost caught me before dashing for the great hall.

"Oh, and tell me do you have a prosthetic on one of your legs?" Hiccup asked as we were running, before I slammed into the doors to the great hall, running in quickly.

I had barely gotten into the hall though when Hiccup slammed into me from behind, sending us both tumbling down onto the floor as I tried to ignore the pain that shot through my back from the fall. "Um...Ow!" I snapped at Hiccup as I felt a weight on top of me as well.

"Well, he hiccuped again."

"Someone's gonna be in trouble if Astrid sees."

"I thought it was already decided that he wasn't allowed to try!"

I looked up to see Hiccup sprawled on my back, letting out a groan before he opened his eyes and saw what he did, jumping off of me quickly as I rolled over onto my back, flipping over to land on my feet. "Well, some hiccup that was." I teased quietly before seeing the red on his face, obviously embarrassed about what had happened.

I glanced to the side to see who it was that had been commenting on the situation, seeing three of his friends. Two of them looked like twins, while the other looked upset until he realized that I had seen him.

"I am so..." Hiccup was cut off when the one boy shoved him aside, stepping up in front of me.

"Well hello there, I don't think we've properly met yet. I'm Snotlout." The boy introduced himself, taking my hand and pressing a chaste kiss to it before I pulled back from him.

"Yeah, I remember seeing you the day I got here." I muttered before looking over to Hiccup to see he looked annoyed by the boy being here.

"Well then, how's about ditching the hiccup here for a while and you and I go grab a drink. On me, of course." Snotlout said, sending me a look that I could only guess was him trying to appear warm and welcoming, but in the end just looked sultry.

"Yeah, you might want to take that offer, cause Hiccup's about to be in trouble. Here comes Astrid." The girl twin spoke up as I knitted my eyebrows together in confusion as to what they meant by he would be in trouble.

I looked over to Hiccup to see he was obviously annoyed by his friends, but then I felt Snotlout take my hand again to try to lead me away.

We didn't get far though, because when I started to struggle he just sat us down at one of the many tables in the great hall. "So...let's talk then." Snotlout said as I tried to keep the annoyance off my features over the situation before the door opened to the hall, in striding a blonde female viking with a Deadly Nadder in tow.

"There you are." I raised an eyebrow when instead of going to Hiccup, she pointed at me, anger etched over her features.

Third Person POV

The great hall fell silent once Astrid entered, only for her to point out the newer trainer in the hall, stomping over towards her and shoving Snotlout aside. "Hey! We were ta..." Astrid picked up the nearest thing, which fortunate for him was an apple, and shoved it roughly in his mouth.

"You, I'd like to have a word with you." Astrid snarled as her eyes fell on the confused heir sitting at the table in front of her.

"Do I even know you?" Thorunn's response certainly did nothing to help the angry blonde's attitude. She had seen the girl sitting down at the harbor with Hiccup. She saw how he was tending to her injuries, then racing through the village with her in a playful chase.

And worse of all, she saw the way Hiccup was on top of her moments before the Great Hall doors slammed shut behind them after their tumble.

"Thorunn Skull Splitter, I challenge you to a Dragon Race." Astrid snapped after moments of silence, not wanting to even speak to her and just get right to it.

Her temper sparked even more when all the brunette did in response was laugh at the idea.

"Astrid whats..." Astrid shoved him back when Hiccup came up and put a hand on her shoulder to try to talk to her.

On the other side of the hall Snotlout, Tuffnut, Ruffnut and Fishlegs were all just stuck watching, wondering what had sparked this temper that Astrid held towards Thorunn before Snotlout and Tuffnut began putting in wagers on who would win.

"My money's on Thorunn." Snotlout chimed confidently, knowing that he would win with his choice.

"With that big Boneknapper of hers? No way, Astrid's gonna win." Tuffnut argued as they both squared off once more, Ruffnut and Fishlegs rolling their eyes at how the two were all the time.

"A dragon race? You're kidding right?" Thorunn asked once she had managed to get her laughter over the idea under control.

"Winner gets a prize too, but we'll discuss that up in the skies." Astrid snarled at the girl as Stormfly flared out her spikes behind her, knowing that one way or another there was going to be a show down today.

"You do realize, I've been riding since I was nine. And you've got what? Three years on your belt? This isn't in your favor, girl. The answer is no." Thorunn advised, rising from her seat with a professional, yet calm look on her face as Hiccup looked between the two, mind racing with ideas on how to stop this.

"Just because you've got years means you're better. You probably wouldn't even make it around the stones with that old beast of yours." Astrid countered, and the heir who had been walking away stopped in her steps at the insult upon her dragon.

"Uh oh." Fishlegs muttered upon feeling the tension in the air thicken over what was said.

"This is gonna be interesting." Ruffnut mused as she rubbed her hands together, ignoring the two bickering men beside them.

"Alright, blonde, you've woken the sleeping dragon. You want a race, fine." Thorunn snarled, turning to Astrid as the blonde gave a small, triumphant smile at how she had gotten under her skin to get her to agree to the race.

"Astrid, Thorunn, you don't need to..." Hiccup stopped short when instead of listening Astrid stormed out of the great hall.

"Money's on Astrid!" Tuffnut's voice broke the silence first, before Ruffnut quickly bashed her brother over the head for his idiocy.

"Thorunn, wait." Hiccup called after Thorunn as she stormed out of the Great Hall next to retrieve one of her dragons, ignoring her friend even as she walked. "You don't need to do this." Hiccup called once more as he got out of the building.

"Yes I do." Thorunn called back in response to Hiccup this time, eyes not straying from her house though as she quickened her pace to get one of the dragons.

"No you don't. Just tell her no. It's not going to end well for either of you, no matter who wins." Hiccup said as he caught up to Thorunn finally.

"No one insults my dragons, Hiccup. I'll race her and win." Thorunn growled, and even as Hiccup stood in front of her to try to stop her, she stepped around him, going inside her house to get her dragons.

All the trainers met down on the docks an hour later, Astrid having already been waiting as Thorunn approached with Zu behind her, both looking annoyed by the challenge. "Are you ready?" Astrid asked, glancing up at the larger dragon behind the girl with a smirk since something so big could never move faster than Stormfly.

"You know, I was going to give you a chance to back down, but I think this will be more fun watching your dragon trail behind mine." Thorunn snarled before Zu lowered his head, blowing smoke out of his nose at the dragon that was challenging him as Thorunn leaped up onto his head.

"Fine then, first around the island and through the stone obstacles wins." Astrid declared as she jumped up onto Stormfly, rising up into the air quickly.

"Alright, not like that's a hard task. What do I get when I win?" Thorunn asked, trying to think of something to use against the blonde for when she wins.

The two rose up into the air on their dragons as the others stood down on the docks, Hiccup looking between his two friends in worry as Toothless whimpered beside him. "I know bud, I'm worried too." Hiccup murmured as he waited to see them shoot off on their race.

"When I win, you stay away from Hiccup." Astrid snapped at the girl standing atop her Boneknapper's head, who only tilted her head to the side in confusion.

"The Dragon Trainer? What do you have against me being around him?" Thorunn questioned as the dragon's beneath both of them waited impatiently for them to give the command to go.

"I don't trust you, that's what. You're doing nothing but distracting him, so when I win you stay away." Astrid snapped before her anger sparked as a small smirk formed on Thorunn's face at her words.

"Ah, you're the Astrid that I've heard about, aren't ya? Now I get it. You're jealous that I'll try to take him from you." Thorunn mused as the people on the docks below them began to wonder if there would even be a race, unable to hear what the two girls were saying.

"I'm not jealous! Stormfly, lets go!" Astrid took off with Stormfly, Thorunn quickly racing after her as she realized that this wasn't going to be a fair race.

"An unfair advantage, how cute. All this because of one boy." Thorunn called to Astrid as they flew, knowing that the girl's weakness was easily her temper.

"One man who you're distracting from using his time for more important things!" Astrid snapped before ordering Stormfly to fire on the Boneknapper.

Thorunn snarled at her before flying beneath the Deadly Nadder, dodging the spikes with ease.

"Is that the best you can do? I've seen a Terrible Terror shoot better than that!" Thorunn taunted before shooting ahead of her challenger, Zu letting smoke seep out of his mouth to try to distract the two.

"Alright Bud, that's it. We're stopping this." Hiccup declared to his dragon as he quickly jumped onto his back.

"What? No fair! We have money down on this race!" Snotlout protested but Hiccup was already off and racing after where the two girls disappeared to before he could even finish his sentence.

Zu snorted at Stormfly as she approached him from the side, unwilling to let the inferior dragon even gain an inch over his companion. He roared at her as she tried to zoom ahead of them, swinging his tail towards the Deadly Nadder as he shot ahead of her to try to clip her in the wing.

"Now who's being unfair!" Astrid yelled after Thorunn after narrowly dodging Zu's spiky tail.

"Not unfair if he does it on his own!" Thorunn called back as they rounded the mountains, shooting up towards the peak as both knew the descent back down would give them a boost in their speed.

Both reached the peak at the same time before dive bombing the forest below, Zu starting to gain distance over Stormfly due to his weight pulling him down faster.

"Stormfly!" Astrid called to her dragon over the roaring of the wind rushing past her ears, smiling when she didn't need to finish her sentence as the Deadly Nadder sent spikes flying down at the Boneknapper and it's rider.

Thorunn looked back in time to see the spikes, eyes widening in shock for a second since they were sent to hit her. "Zu!" Thorunn yelled before leaping from his back, a spike clipping her shoulder as she began to fall, her dragon not noticing until she was shooting past him.

Toothless roared as he saw the two woman racing down the side of the mountain, looking up at his rider as he tried to speed up. What he saw next though made him roar even louder when he saw Stormfly shoot at his companion's friend, the girl going flying from the Boneknapper at the attack.

Zu roared, trying to speed up to catch his rider. He was supposed to protect her, he couldn't let her fall. He didn't even care when he saw the other dragon and her own rider shoot past them, since all he was focused on was rescuing his human.

Hiccup saw Stormfly shoot past Zu, surprised since he would figure Zu would be faster in the downfall. That is, until he noticed something falling faster than even Zu. "Toothless catch her!" Hiccup yelled, preparing to jump himself if he needed to.

Thorunn POV

He's not going to catch me, in the name of Thor he's not going to catch me!

Calm down, calm it's just...water that's going to make me die!

Wait, my riding vest.

I quickly flipped over, grabbing the clasps that hung from my vest's sleeves and forming myself to reach down and try to clip them to my boots. "Come on, reach!" That's one.

Zu's gaze turned panicked now as I met his eyes, reaching down to attack the second clasp quickly and not even caring about the race now.

"Zu, dive bomb!" I called to him as hard as I could before turning back to face the ground, trying to contain my panic when I realized I was going to hit soon. This better work!

I quickly forced my arms open, the hidden flaps that I had attached to each end of the clasps opening wide as I slammed my eyes shut, hoping to Thor that I didn't hit the ground.

Instead, I was met with a sudden weightlessness, opening my eyes to see myself rising slowly. It worked! Yes!

I looked at the two leather wings now opened wide on either side of my body before leaning down, closing my arms more as Zu caught up with me finally, a confused look on his face as I flew, yes flew, beside my companion.

"I'm flying Zu! The idea worked!" I called to him before pulling up, narrowly missing the water as we shot across the surface, dodging a fishing boat before I heard Zu let out a frightened roar, looking up in time to see the Deadly Nadder fire again, spikes shooting right for me though.

"Zu get her!" I snapped at him, trying to dodge but suddenly I felt one wing go limp and a stinging in my leg, looking down to see the spike clipped the leather attached to the clasp and stuck into my calf.

Well, at least it worked for a little while.

I prepared to hit the water, but instead my ears heard a roar, and I felt slick scales beneath me, opening my eyes that I had shut to see Dusk. "Dusk? You were following me?" I asked, confused for a second, but instead of nodding her head she shot a plasma blast ahead of us at the Deadly Nadder, narrowly missing her.

"Let's win this race Dusk!" I yelled, holding on tight as she shot ahead, approaching Astrid rapidly.

Third Person POV

Astrid let a scream loose when a plasma blast shot past her and Stormfly, not having ever thought Hiccup would shoot at her. She was about to land, when instead the Night Fury shot right past her, surprising her since this wasn't Toothless, and that definitely wasn't Hiccup.

"Try to kill me once, shame on you. Try to kill me twice, I'm going to force you to eat my Night Fury's dust!" Thorunn yelled back to Astrid as they began to dodge the stone's that jutted out of the water beneath them.

Astrid growled angrily before ordering Stormfly to speed up.

Each time Stormfly would try to fire spikes at the dragon ahead of her, she would shoot out of the way just in the nick of time. It was finally getting down to the last stone obstacle, a low hanging rock arch. Stormfly shot ahead, ready to dive under it to preserve her rider's safety, when instead the Night Fury shot at the obstacle, causing it to crumble right as they were about to pass under it, shooting over the structure instead as the dragon's rider laughed at the predicament.

"Now, don't tell me you're giving up back there? We still have to get back to the docks!" Thorunn called back to Astrid as they turned towards the docks back near shore.

"This isn't over yet!" Astrid yelled back angrily as the final leg of the race began, Stormfly struggling to catch up to the Night Fury in front of them.

Back on the docks the other riders were waiting in anticipation, unsure who would win since the riders vanished earlier. Finally, the dragon's appeared far off. "I see them!" Fishlegs announced, before a confused look dawned his features.

"What is it? Is Astrid winning, or is Thorunn?" Snotlout demanded as he tried to snatch the scope out of the husky teen's hands.

"Thorunn...she switched dragons." Fishlegs revealed, handing over the scope to Snotlout, and the second he saw what she was riding his jaw dropped.

"A Night Fury?!" Snotlout asked, shoving Tuffnut when he began to protest about her using Hiccup's dragon instead of her own.

Hiccup finally was beginning to catch up with the girls now, having been slowed down when he saw Thorunn somehow manage to glide over the water, and then even more so when Zu fell back and was replaced by Dusk. He could finally see them though, and they were shooting towards the finish line.

His worry only grew in knowing that whoever won and lost, there would still be nothing but a fight.

Neck and neck, Stormfly had finally caught up with Dusk. She glared over at the other dragon, only to roar when she saw the purple orb forming in her mouth, falling back in time to avoid the plasma blast as it shot right through where her head would have been, instead striking the mast of a fishing boat.

The crowd that had now formed on the dock's erupted when Dusk landed, Stormfly landing moments later. "Thorunn wins!" Snotlout announced happily, turning to Tuffnut for his money as the blonde male began to protest about it not being a fair race.

Dusk was left panting as she hit the docks, looking to her side as Stormfly fell forward onto the dock, beyond exhausted herself. Dusk didn't feel bad for her though, since the dragon had shot upon her friend willingly.

Astrid jumped off of Stormfly, beyond angry now as she whirled on the rider who jumped off of Dusk's back, stumbling for a second as she reached down, pulling the spike out of her flesh and throwing it down in front of Astrid's feet, beyond angry herself over the unfair race.

Hiccup landed seconds later with Toothless, both looking between the two before he noticed the bloody spike on the ground between the two woman, looking towards Astrid now as he realized that the race had turned into a fight as well.

"I won, fair and square too I would say since you fired upon me, caused me to almost die twice, and I still hit the finish line first." Thorunn announced, straightening up since even with her disadvantages, she came out victorious.

"Fair? You switched dragons mid-race? How is that fair?" Astrid argued, stepping back though when the female Night Fury began to growl at her for her aggressive tone towards Thorunn.

"I call it fair, since I took a spike to the shoulder and calf from your dragon. This race is over, now step aside." Thorunn demanded, and while normally Astrid would still fight back, the enraged Night Fury standing beside Thorunn made her reluctantly move aside.

Thorunn passed, limping slightly from the injuries she sustained, before Astrid instead rounded on her again. "Don't think this mean's you won him." Astrid snapped, interrupting the congratulations that had begun to spill forth from the villagers towards Thorunn.

Now everyone instead began to mutter to themselves as they wondered who Astrid was talking about. Thorunn glanced back at her before scoffing at the statement.

"I never made that a part of my winning, blonde. My prize, is knowing I won even after you tried to kill me." Thorunn growled before turning and limping off, Dusk following close behind as Zu landed on the shore, eying his companion worriedly before seeing she was relatively okay, and surprisingly thanks to the Night Fury.

The villagers who had been watching looked between the two girls in confusion before the crowd fell into hushed muttering and questions about what had just happened.


I promised excitement, and I delivered now didn't I? I bet I had some of you wondering what she was working on a few chapters back, well this was it. The prototype of the wingsuit. Let me say, those things in real life are actually very fun to use. Anyways, hope you all enjoyed the chapter as much as I did writing it. Now, I'm going to give an idea. I've got chapters already lined up in my doc manager. I've written way ahead of this point actually. So, if yall want me to post them sooner, send me some reviews. I only have one at 8 chapters, after all.

Anyways, thanks again for reading!