Hello! Sorry it took a while but it is here! I apologise that this chapter is mostly conversation, but it's important conversation and it's all worth it for the ending.

I do not own How to Train Your Dragon.

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Astrid stared down at her hands in shock. Her hands that had just held a warm, crackling, bright light. Her hands that had managed to fire that light at the angry Viking looking man that had attacked her. The man that was now standing up.

"You're one of them!" he yelled in anger, his sword pointed in her direction. She tried to answer but no sound escaped her mouth. She stood frozen with her back pressed against the tree and her hands in front of her feeling utterly confused and completely terrified.

The man had almost reached her when they both heard rustling in the leaves of the trees around them. The man stopped his advance to look around, his eyes narrowed and his grip on his sword tightened. Then something fell down from the tree above them, landing just in front of Astrid. As it stood up, Astrid could make out a figure. Then she recognised the clothes and the hair and realised that it was Henry! She wanted to warn him, to tell him to run, that the mad man had a sword but before she could, he spoke.

"Hey, I remember you! We met at that raid about a month ago where I kicked your ass!" Astrid was completely shocked. Why wasn't he afraid? The man had a sword! Why wasn't he running?

The man clearly didn't like his words, because he charged forwards, sword raised. Astrid watched as Henry shifted one leg back and raised his hands in front of him just in time to catch the sword. She was expecting it to cut clean though and had opened her mouth to scream, but the only noise that escaped was a surprised gasp when she saw the purple blue glow that emanated from his hands that was somehow holding off the sword. She could see the man pushing down with all his might and Henry holding him off with all his strength, until he suddenly let go and side stepped so fast that the man didn't realise what had happened until Henry's boot hit his chest and he was flying through the air and then across the ground before smacking loudly into a tree and slumping down unconscious.

Astrid stared at the man with so many thoughts running through her head she didn't know which one to think about first. Then she felt someone grab her by the shoulders and she looked up to see Henry's concerned face.

"Astrid, are you ok?" She stared at his worried eyes for a few seconds before looking away and blinking a few times.

"Y-yeah. I-I think so. But, but what was that?! What just happened?! Who was that?! What is going on?!" She looked up at Henry again only to notice that he wasn't looking at her. He was looking down clearly in thought and his lips were moving as if he was speaking. She quieted so that she could hear him. She was confused to hear him repeating her surname.

"Hofferson… Hofferson… Hofferson… Hofferson!" he finally finished looking up into her eyes. "Astrid. I really need to talk to your parents. I promise I'll explain everything that just happened but I really need to talk to them."

Astrid was so confused as to what was going on that she just nodded slowly and let him lead her away, barely noticing that the man who had been unconscious by the tree was now gone. Her mind was reeling, thoughts were whirling around like a tornado in her mind as she tried to order them. As she walked alongside Henry, who she realised she now knew nothing of and could she really believe anything that he had told her?, her hands moved up to rub her arms in the cool air. She then felt warm fabric around her shoulders and turned to see that Henry had given her his jacket. Now she was even more confused.

"Why did you give me your jacket?" Good guys gave girls their jackets. Not liars!

"Because you're cold," he answered simply. She really didn't know what to say.

"B-but… Who are you?! You just fought a guy with a sword and you're acting like it was nothing!"

"Look, Astrid. I'll explain everything once I've spoken to your parents." Astrid glared at him only to see that he wasn't looking at her but at where they were going. She looked down at her feet as they crushed fallen leaves. She felt bad for yelling at him but he wasn't telling her anything!

"Thanks for lending me your jacket," she said quietly. He looked at her and smiled and it twisted her stomach. After all that had happened she had forgotten why she was in the forest in the first place. She had come to apologise for scaring him off. Why had she tried to kiss him? That had been a stupid idea. But hadn't he leaned in too? Why had he run away? She was so confused. And all the questions about what had just happened were not helping.

Soon enough they reached the edge of the forest and Henry led her back to her house. Once there she stepped up with the keys and they walked down the hall to the kitchen where her parents were.

"Oh, hello Henry. I though that you had to leave to get back to your family," Mrs Hofferson said as they walked in. Henry nodded.

"I just came to apologise," he replied. Astrid looked at him confused. So did her parents. What did he need to apologise for? I never properly introduced myself. My full name is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third." Now Astrid was extremely confused. She glanced at her parents and was surprised to see that they weren't. Her mother seemed nervous and her father had tensed up.

"You're Stoic's boy," he said. Henry, or Hiccup, nodded. "Astrid, do you mind stepping out for a moment." Now she was even more confused, if that was even possible.

"No! I want to know what's going on!" She was not going to back down.

"Honey, we'll explain everything after, just please. Give us a minute." Her mother was so softly spoken and her voice trembled slightly. It scared her a little and she found herself nodding and stepping out of the room.

Inside the room, Mr Hofferson looked at the boy in front of him and sighed. "How did you find us?"

"It wasn't on purpose. My dad sent us here after my brother got hurt in the last raid hoping we'd be safer. I've been trying to figure out why the name Hofferson was so familiar ever since I met Astrid."

"Well I want to know why my daughter is demanding we explain. What happened? I thought you were just doing homework!" Mrs Hofferson exclaimed. Hiccup nodded and sat down on one of the stools that sat around the kitchen island. Mr and Mrs Hofferson did the same.

"I had to leave and didn't realise Astrid was following me. Me and the others have been staying in a house in the forest. I was on my way there when I heard something. I followed the sound and found a scout. The humans must have seen Gobber bring us here and sent someone after us. Anyway, I was leading him in the wrong direction when I heard him start yelling. He'd seen Astrid and was holding up against a tree. I was about to intervene when she fired a shot at him."

"No wonder she's asking for answers," Mr Hofferson said shaking his head.

"What have you told her?" Mrs Hofferson asked quietly.

"Nothing," Hiccup admitted. "That's your job. She deserves to hear it from you." The two parents nodded. "I just have one question." They nodded again. "Why did you leave?" The looked at each other before Mrs Hofferson answered.

"Just after you were born, I went to see your mother. She was so happy and I was so excited that soon I would have Astrid. While I was there, a raid started. Me being pregnant and Val having just had you, we stayed there in her room waiting it out. I looked at your mother as she sat holding you as close as possible and I realised, I didn't want to go through that kind of fear with my own baby. I talked it over with Sigurd that night. We both decided that we would stay here until Astrid was old enough that we wouldn't worry. But that day never came. Now I just don't think that they'd accept us back after we've been such cowards."

"Of course they would!" Hiccup exclaimed surprising them both. "My dad and all the other parents agreed to send us all here to be safe. That's exactly what you did!"

Sigurd looked at his wife and they both nodded. Maybe they could finally go back. Now that they had to tell Astrid. Maybe she would want to visit their home. Maybe they could just stay.

"You say all the other parents," Mrs Hofferson began the conversation again. "Who else had kids?"

"Well, from our particular age group there's me and my brother, the Jorgenson's son, the Ingerman kids and the Thorston twins."

"The Thorston's had twins!" Sigurd exclaimed with a laugh. Mrs Hofferson elbowed her husband and he quieted. "Sorry Ingrid, but I can't imagine the Thorston's with twins. Zippleback?" he asked Hiccup.

"Zippleback," he nodded. "The most mischievous Zippleback there ever was."

"What are you?" Sigurd asked grinning at the thought of the Thorston's dealing with a mischievous Zippleback.

"Night Fury," Hiccup answered earning wide eyes from the couple in front of him. "So is my brother."

The room fell into silence before Sigurd and Ingrid looked at each other and nodded.

"I think it's time we talk to Astrid," Sigurd said looking towards the door. Hiccup nodded.

"I'll go and tell her to come in. I'll let myself out."

"No," Ingrid said causing Hiccup to turn around with confused eyes. "Please, stay for dinner. We'd love to hear about how Berk is doing. We left a long time ago. I'm sure some things have changed."

"Ok," Hiccup said with a nod. "I'll tell her to come in and then I'll wait in the sitting room."

He walked out of the kitchen and found Astrid in the sitting room scowling as she sat in an armchair with her arms crossed. She looked up as Hiccup entered the room.

"Do you want to know what's going on?" he asked. Her eyes widened slightly and her arms lowered to her sides.

"Of course I do. Light erupted from my hands and hit a Viking who you then fought," she said angrily.

"It wasn't light, it was fire, though your parents are waiting in the kitchen to explain everything. It'll all make sense soon. Just try to keep an open mind."

Astrid looked at him with narrowed eyes trying to figure out if he was being serious or not. In the end she just got up and stormed into the kitchen where her parents sat looking nervous.

"What is happening? Because I am so confused right now, I feel like I know nothing."

"That's because you don't," Sigurd said with a sigh. "And that's our fault. We should have told you from the start instead of waiting."

"Honey, this might sound a little strange," Ingrid began. Astrid remembered what Hiccup said about keeping an open mind. "But we're not human." Astrid just stared blankly, not sure of what to say.

"Our kin are called Dragonborn," Sigurd continued. We're not from here. We come from another world, from a village called Berk." The parents remained silent letting their daughter think things over.

"You expect me to believe I'm from another world. That I'm not human." Hiccup's words to keep an open mind rolled around her head but she pushed them aside unable to comprehend what was happening. "That's the kind of thing you read about in stories."

Sigurd and Ingrid looked at each other and sighed. Sigurd held out his hand and it was ignited with fire. Astrid's eyes widened as she stared at the flames that sat in her father's palm.

"How did you…" She found herself without words.

"There are different types of Dragonborn and each one has a different type of fire. When in human form we can use our fire through our hands." Sigurd then shrunk the flame in his hand and began to pass it between his fingers.

"Wait," Astrid said holding up her hand. "You said 'when in human form'. Meaning there's another form?" She felt even more confused than she had when they hadn't told her anything. Ingrid looked a little hurt, as if she had hoped that Astrid would be more open. But how could she when they were talking utter nonsense?

"We're Dragonborn. We're technically half human, half dragon. We can switch between the two."

Astrid stood staring at the kitchen worktop with wide eyes. Dragon… Dragon… Dragon! The word rolled around in her mind as she tried to understand what her parents were thinking.

"Dragon? Seriously? You expect me to believe I'm something that doesn't exist?!" At the sight of the blank expressions on her parents' faces, Astrid stormed out. She couldn't take all the nonsense any more. She needed air.

As she passed the sitting room, Hiccup looked up to see her annoyed and confused expression. He got up just in time to see her disappear out of the door. He turned to look at the kitchen and saw Sigurd and Ingrid in the door looking upset. He quickly raced after her, following her as she headed into the forest, and caught up to her not too far away from the treeline.

"Astrid," he said softly. She turned around with an angry expression.

"Why? Why me? Why do I have the weird parents trying to convince me that I'm something that doesn't exist?"

"Astrid," he said again slowly. "I know you don't want to hear this, but everything that they're telling you is the truth."

"Right," she replied sarcastically. "A person turning into a dragon is the truth."

Hiccup looked at her with a calculated gaze. She was a little worried. The look sent shivers down her spine. Then he looked down and sighed. He closed his eyes in what looked like concentration, and then she wasn't really sure what happened next. All she knew was that there was suddenly a black dragon sitting before her where Hiccup had once been. Then it hit her that it was Hiccup, and suddenly she didn't know what to say.

"Please don't freak out," he said in growls and warbles that she was somehow able to understand.

"Oh wow. Oh wow. I… I…" She began pacing beck and forth confused as to the whole situation.

"I said not to freak out," Hiccup said rolling his eyes. He changed back into his human form, the way that she knew him and stepped towards her.

"How was I able to understand you?"

"You're a Dragonborn. It's a natural instinct to understand dragons. You are one."

"How do I know you're not lying to me?" Astrid asked shaking her head.

"I would never lie to my own kind," Hiccup replied, his voice soft and calming. She felt her nerves calm in a way she knew that her parents would never be able to achieve.

"That never stopped you before," she replied looking up into his forest green eyes.

"I'm sorry about that," he said looking down as if ashamed. "At the time, I thought that you were human and if I had known I would have told you the truth about me from the start."

"Well tell me the truth now," she said as she took a step closer towards him so that they were so close to each other that they were almost touching. "Why did you run?"

"Because I knew that eventually, I had to leave." He knew exactly what she was referring to. The kiss they had almost shared that he had run away from. "I didn't want to hurt you when you woke up one day and found that I was gone without a trace because I had to go back to my home world. Our home world."

"So if you had known all along then you would have kissed me?"

"You have no idea how much I wanted to," he replied looking down into her sky blue eyes.

"Good," was all she said before she leant forwards planting her lips on his and sending him into daze of ecstasy.

So… What do you think? Conversation is a lot harder to write than you'd think, especially when you want it to end a certain way and there's a few different people. It can get a little difficult but I think I succeeded. But I don't know! I want to know what you think!

DinoBoy13: Because it was the best way I could think of to reveal her…

acw28: Good guess. But no. Sorry!

Retrokill: Of course not! What would this story be if Astrid was normal!?

Nightfurylov3r: They will go back soon, don't worry. You don't like Astrid?

Sara lovelymusic: It would be so much easier if they could! It also would make the story kinda boring at this point though.

Eragonfan33: Thanks!

An Amber Pen: This answer your question?

night fury kid65: Ya….

Anonymous Noob the 2nd: Tada!

Anonymous: While that would be funny and I have laughed at the scenario that appeared in my head, I'm afraid that I already have a plan. Sorry! But thanks for the idea! Let me know of any more you have!

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