Disclaimer: I do not own How to Train Your Dragon or Brave nor do own any of the character.

Since it is my first crossover I would love feedback.

This is set after Merida and Hiccup have both experienced their own adventures-movie plots-. Merida is fifteen and Hiccup is sixteen.

Also I am sorry but I am bad at accents so Merida does have an accent that everyone notices and will comment on, but I will not be writing like she does, its just to difficult for me, so I apologize in advance.

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Hiccups point of view:

It was odd how the situation change so much when I'm with Merida. One minute I'm panicking about leaving her with my father, only to come back at find my dad with a sword to his throat. I wasn't scared for my dad, but I was scarred for Merida. It wasn't everyday my dad got a weapon pointed at him, so I wasn't sure how he would deal with Merida. Than were outside and she makes me feel like less of a loser, surprising me with her elocution and the power behind her words, 'It felt like she actually knew what it felt like to have that much pressure on you.' I thought, picking up the empty fish basket and placing it back in the food shed.

Next moment her and Toothless are playing catch me if you can. It was odd to suddenly see Merida happy and having fun. The only face expression I can remember close to that was when she was making fun of me for pour cinnamon over our meal.

"Your going to be faster than that you wee lizard." I hear Merida taunted, I couldn't get over her accent, and it was so different than our own. I watched as Toothless tried to close in on her only to have Merida make a quick turn escaping Toothless jump. It was amazing she could move with clothes that baggy on her. 'Than again she escape where ever it was she escaped from in that thick corset dress.' I thought.

Suddenly there was a loud thump. I watched, as Toothless seemed to skid to a stop as well. I stood up worried that Toothless may have accidentally squished Merida.

"Watch where you're going" I heard someone shout. 'Oh no' I thought running. By the time I got there both girls were already standing. Merida moved closer to Toothless to scratch him, as Astrid seems to glare daggers into her.

"Astrid hey Astrid…uh Astrid" I ranted not really sure what to do in this situation. I had unintentionally ditched training the younger riders, which dumped the job on Astrid. I was not looking forward to facing her seeing as how I have dumped this job on her three times now.

"Hiccup" she said in a low tone a tone that effectively ended my rambling and had a chill run down my spine. 'Nothing good ever happen when she uses that tone' I thought. "Who is this?" She said, giving Merida a pointed glance as she turned her icy stare back towards me.

"Uhhh" how do I even answer that question. "She's a friend" is the best I could come up with, which obviously didn't satisfy Astrid. Astrid turned to look at Merida and I watched, as Merida seemed to glare at Astrid obviously not liking the judging look Astrid was giving her.

"From where…I've never seen her on the island?" Oh I really wish people would stop asking question that I don't have answers to.

"Uhh I'm not sure," I said scratching the back of my head. "I sort of found her…" This time I had Astrid and Merida staring at me. Merida's annoyed expression telling me that I could have worded that better. She placed a hand on her hip, face unamused. I gave a sheepish smile "You know what Astrid it's a long story."

"Is this the reason we didn't go flying yesterday?" She said, causally pointing Merida's way. I didn't like how Astrid was treating Merida, and I could tell from Merida's clenched fist that she didn't like it either.

"Yah you see we didn't get home till late and it was just a mess." I really wanted this conversation to end.

Astrid just looked between me and Merida "Is that why she's wearing your shirt and vest?"

'Of course she would ask me that' I thought, as I felt Merida stiffen beside me. I'm pretty sure she hadn't of thought of who changed her before now. However after a moment she seemed to relax no indication that she was angry or embarrassed. I on the other had was scared to answer this question although I did it to save her life it doesn't make it any less embarrassing to tell. I started to fiddle with the end of the shirt I was wearing. Astrid and I had been together and than broken up together and than apart. Some times she liked me other times she doesn't. All I know is that she is very protective…or rather possessive of me, but I'm never sure if it's me she's possessive of or my title.

"You see I found her in the middle of the ocean close to death so I had to keep her warm" is what I wanted to say, but there was a lot of uhhh and umm, pauses and rambling I wasn't actually sure what came out of my mouth.

Astrid sighed pitching the bridge of her nose. "You know what it doesn't even matter, we have to go train the student riders."

"Actually I need to talk to you about that." I said, hesitation in my voice.

"Oh no no" she says shaking her head taking a step towards me "You are not dumping those rascals on me again."

As her voice got higher I could see that Toothless and Merida were starting to make their escape. I was trying to calm Astrid down, but now it was time for Astrid to go on a rant. I was so preoccupied trying to avoid Astrid's fury that by the time I looked back to Toothless and Merida they were a good ten feet away.

"Astrid Astrid I can't help you with the morning class, but I can take the afternoon class…okay…I need to go and work with Fishlegs and the baby dragons."

"You can't just keep dumping your responsibilities on me Hiccup."

"I'm not trying to" I shouted "I'm sorry I ditched you yesterday, but I was trying to help someone from dying."

Astrid looked at me to look than at Merida who was standing next to Toothless their backs turned away from us. "What happened to her?"

"All I know is I found her in the middle of the ocean she was almost frozen to death. She had cuts and bruises, and was almost dead. Toothless found her outside the borders of Berk." I said facing Astrid. "Other than that I don't really know much about her. We haven't talked much." 'Seeing as how she always pulling blades on people.' I thought, keeping that to myself.

"Can we trust her?" 'Why does everyone keep asking me that?' I thought sighing as Astrid continues. "What if she's a spy?"

"She is not a spy…okay…my dad has me watching her." Astrid laughed

"No offense Hiccup, but if that girl wanted to run away from you I don't think she would have much problem…unless Toothless is there."

"Thanks for the load of confidence" I said, ready to walk away from the conversation.

Astrid grabbed my arm mouth opened as if to say something, but was interrupted by a loud shriek. We both turned towards the noise and found Stormfly Astrid's Deadly Nadder in front of Merida.

"Merida" I shouted as Astrid shouted "Stormfly." However both ignored us, Merida reached out touching Stormfly's nasal horn. Stormfly screeched again tail extended in spikes, but all Merida did was take a step back and give out her own screech. Stormfly turned its head to get a good look at Merida, who reached out and scratched her under her chin. Stormfly instantly cooed, her tail spike retracting, and leaned into Merida's touch.

I watched in amazement at Merida's control over dragons whether it was Toothless or Stormfly. I watched as Astrid ran over to her dragon and I followed suit. Astrid pushed Merida out of the way as she checked over her dragon. Merida stumbled a bit, but Toothless steadied her with his head. I finally reached Merida and Toothless who were just watching as Astrid checked over Stormfly.

"Are you alright?" I asked looking Merida over. She nodded pointing at the dragon smiling.

"That's a Deadly Nadder" I answered "You'll be seeing a lot more dragons later today…but not all of them are as nice as Toothless and Stormfly here. So your gonna have to be careful okay." She nodded a smile still on her face, well that was until Astrid turned to look towards us.

"What did you do to irritate Stormfly?" she shouted, stepping towards Merida.

"Now hold on Astrid you can't really think Merida did anything wrong" I said stepping in between the two.

"Stormfly just doesn't get ready to attack for no reason." Astrid said, petting Stormflys' cheek.

"True, but you can't just blame her without proof we didn't see anything after all maybe they were just playing." I said, trying to figure out why Stormfly would feel threatened.

"Playing that's your excuse." Her eyes were narrowed as she tried to peer over my shoulder at Merida. Although I was still skinny I had grown slightly taller. So I was a good couple of inches taller than Astrid and Merida.

"Everything is fine no ones hurt we all just need to calm down."

Her eyes narrowed and she was about to say something, but closed her mouth and sighed "you know what I don't have time for this I have a class to teach." She said with a slight snarl as she patted Stormfly's cheek again and walked away. Stormfly leaned over to rub Merida's face before following behind her.

As they walked away I turned towards Merida "What did you do to get Stormfly so riled up." Merida and Toothless shared a look. Merida just shrugged her shoulders and Toothless just walked over to me.

"You two aren't gonna tell are you" I asked, sighing

"I didn't do anything wrong" said Merida "Toothless did it."

I looked at Toothless and he tried to give me his I'm innocent look that he gives me when he gets into the food shack or breaks something. "Toothless" however before I could even start ranting. Merida grabbed my sleeve.

"Dragons" she said, her eyes shining bright.

"Yup your gonna see some babies in a little bit and later you'll see the bigger ones. So try not to irritate anyone dragon or human." I said giving her a serious looks.

Merida nodded the smile never leaving her face "dragons" she exclaimed quietly tugging my arm in the direction Astrid and Stormfly went.

"Alright we're going we're going" I said, following after her, Toothless right beside us.