Rapunzel ended up waking up earlier than her usual time. Whether it was from the muggy smell of the house or because of the hardness of her makeshift bed, she had no idea. But she was up and she knew there was no use trying to go back to sleep.

But she didn't want to wake up Angel, the little girl had been through so much, so she would wait for her. It was probably another 15 minutes though before Angel woke up.

"Mornin' sissy" Angel said with a smile

"Morning Angel" Rapunzel said as she pushed the girl's bedhead out of her face, "How did you sleep?"

"Weally good" The girl said as she stretched her arms over her head, "Your hair's weaaallly soft"

"Thank you"

"I'm hungry sissy"

"So am I" Rapunzel said as she patted her tummy, "Let's go see if we can find some food"

Rapunzel allowed Angel to be the first one to get up so that Pascal had time to climb up Rapunzel's arm and into his hiding place.
When the two girls got downstairs, Gobber or Phil were nowhere to be seen. But the hearth did have a small fire in it and a tray with 2 apples and chicken legs sat on the edge of the hearths edge.

Rapunzel saw beside the food were two gray baggy tunics, sashes and leggings, one set considerably smaller than the other. The blonde felt a smile form on her lips. Even in a new place she already had people looking out for her.

Rapunzel looked at the mess around her, it would probably feel homier if the house was picked up.

"Well" Rapunzel sighed as she tied her hair back using one of the sashes, "Let's see if I can clean this up by 7:15"

Rapunzel did a quick adjustment to the sash that she had tied around her waist to keep the baggy tunic from shifting all over her body, her frying pan tucked into the sash at her side. She then turned to Angel and did the same to her sash so that the two of them matched.

Judging by how high the sun was in the sky, it was well past 7:15, but Rapunzel was still proud how much they had managed to get cleaned.

They had started with the hearth area that seemed to double as a kitchen, where they had scrubbed down the big iron cauldron, cleaned out the old coal and ash, and washed the wooden plates and utensils—she still swore though that one of the lumps of mold that had been on a plate had talked to her.
Next had been the rest of the main room and the bed room, straitening the clutter while trying not to misplace anything, dusting, sweeping, and removing the trash.

They folded the clean clothes and intensely watched the dirty ones, carefully having them hang above the hearth as a small fire was now going in it. Windows were also thrown open to let the early autumn breeze air out the house.

Rapunzel and Pascal had been able to work in perfect unison like they always had been able to do. Rapunzel had to walk Angel through everything they did though, she said that she didn't remember what it was like to clean a house. But Angel was a fast learner and they managed to work quicker the more cleaning they did.

"And that should do it" Rapunzel said as she smoothed out Angel's tunic

"Where we goin' sissy?" Angel asked as she hopped down the porch stairs.

"I thought we could do some exploring." Rapunzel followed after the girl and patted the folded up vest that was under her arm, "And I have something to return back to Hiccup"

"Hictup a weird boy" Angel said

"Yeah" Rapunzel smiled at Angel's pronunciation of Hiccup's name. "He is a little bit odd"

Rapunzel then ran into Angel as the girl had completely frozen to her spot, her wide eyes focused on something. Rapunzel followed the girl's line of direction to see a group of kids all surrounding a tree.

Two kids seemed to be climbing up the tree while the other kids were shouting at him excitedly. Rapunzel guessed the kids were having some sort of climbing competition.

"Oh wow!" Angel exclaimed, her eyes sparkling as she watched the kids. "Tat's so cooool!"

"Sissy!" Angel then said as she grabbed Rapunzel's skirt, "I'm goin to play wit t'ose kids"

"Okay" Rapunzel smiled as she patted the girl's head, "Do you want me to stay with you?"

"No, I be o-ta" Angel said with a smile, "I know where home is!"

Angel didn't even wait for Rapunzel's reply as she ran over the kids, a little bounce in her step.

Even though she said she was fine, Rapunzel couldn't help but watch Angel for a little bit longer. Rapunzel had come to learn that Angel had lost her parents in a fire and that's when she had been taken in by the kids on the street.

But Angel had also told her that since she had Rapunzel as a sister now that she didn't miss the other mean kids and was happy.

Angel seemed to show that as she ran up to the tallest kid there and stuck her hands on her hips. She pointed the tree and made a climbing motion. The other kids seemed to understand her movement and laughed. But Rapunzel didn't need to worry as Angel pushed passed the kids and immediately began climbing the tree at incredible speeds. The kid Angel had challenged saw that Angel had some bite to her and started climbing after her, the other kids cheering once again.

The scene made Rapunzel smile, she had almost had forgotten that Angel had climbed an entire building in order to escape Rapunzel.

She was one tough little girl.

Rapunzel then felt something pulling at her hair.

"What are you-!?" Rapunzel hastily exclaimed as she made a grab for her hair and saw that it had been…braided?
Rapunzel looked over her shoulder to see that a guy with long dreadlocks that was about the same age as her paid no attention to her freak out and continued to keep making her hair into a thick braid.

The blonde looked to see that he wasn't the only one though. A group of teenagers were coming up close to her, yelling in Norse at the teen braiding her hair. One was obviously the dreadlocks guy's twin sister, than there was a chubby boy, a black haired boy, and a pretty blonde girl carrying a huge axe.
After the guy finished, Rapunzel ended up doing a quick twirl, the thick braid following with her body instead of tangling her up. It felt wonderful!

"Thank you" Rapunzel said as she did a quick jump, her braid following with her.

The black haired boy then sauntered and gave her a crooked smile, saying something to her in Norse.

Rapunzel didn't like how close the boy was standing and quickly pulled out her frying hand to hit him slightly on the head as a warning. The boy looked completely distraught as Rapunzel then poised the frying pan in front of her. "I will use this"

The other teens then instantly broke out in laughter. Well, all of them besides the axe girl.

Rapunzel felt instantly self-conscious as she pulled her frying pan back and took a couple steps away from the group. She hated the fact that she was finally around people, and yet she couldn't even talk to them.

She really wanted to see Hiccup right now, but she had no idea where he could be. However, these teens might know where he would be.

"Hiccup" Rapunzel then said to the teens, but they looked at her in confusion. No, that wasn't how Gobber had pronounced Hiccup's name. Rapunzel looked at the teens again and brought out the fur vest as reference and said in Norse, "Hiksti"

They didn't say anything at first, just had a different mix of reactions. The twins and guy with black hair looked in disbelief at her response, the big guy looked at her with fascination. And the girl with the blonde braid simply pointed to a small building that was behind them, black smoke curling out the top of it.

"Thank you" Rapunzel with a nod, the girl nodded in return before hefting an axe over her shoulder and began to leave, the other teens following behind.
Rapunzel then ran over to the building. She could see Hiccup through a window the closer she got.

"Hi Hiccup!" Rapunzel exclaimed as she entered the building. She then saw Gobber there as well and gave him an enthusiastic wave as well. The old blacksmith smiled and returned the gesture.

Hiccup however ended up jumping from her loud entrance, almost dropping the heavy hammer he had been using.

"You sure are hard to miss aren't you?" Hiccup sighed as he continued his work

Rapunzel seemed to mistake his snide remark as a compliment and smiled brightly at Hiccup. "Thank you"

Hiccup smiled, she seemed to be a bit naïve, but it was strangely refreshing to have someone positive like her around. "Nice tunic"

"Thanks" Rapunzel said picking up the ends of the tunic between her forefinger and thumb as she did a quick twirl, "Does it make me look more like a Viking?"

Hiccup smiled, "Maybe keep the spinning down to a minimum"

"Here" Gobber then said as he handed her a white ribbon

"Thank you" Rapunzel said and Hiccup translated back to Gobber

"Sleep…good?" Gobber asked Rapunzel

"Yes" Rapunzel said with a nod, "Probably even better from now on since the house is clean"

Hiccup instantly laughed and said something to Gobber in Norse. Gobber then replied back in surprise tone and exited out of the shop quickly.
Rapunzel stood there confused though, "Was it something I said?"

"More like what you did" Hiccup said with amusement still in his voice, "I've known Gobber my entire life and have never seen his house clean once"

"Oh, I hope it doesn't make him mad" Rapunzel said slightly worried, "I hope he likes the bread I made too"

"You had time to make bread too?"

"Yep" Rapunzel said proudly, "And it's really good too if I may so myself"

Hiccup couldn't help but laugh some more, "Yeah, because there is a serious lack of bread-making Vikings that we need"

Rapunzel puffed out her cheeks in a pout, "Don't be rude!"

Hiccup wanted to laugh some more at the blonde's childish little stamp she then did but he was able to catch himself, "Alright, alright"

"Hmph" Rapunzel said as crossed her arms and turned away from him in doubt

After a minute though, Rapunzel realized how ashamed her mother would be in her for acting like such a little child. And unfolded her arms and held her head up high and turned back to Hiccup. But the teen had turned back to hammering at a sword head with no attention to the blonde what-so-ever.

Feeling slightly embarrassed, Rapunzel turned her attention back to the ribbon she had bunched up in her hand. She ran her thumbs over the material in interest, what was so special about this ribbon?

"It's a maiden band" Hiccup then explained, interrupting Rapunzel's thought, "You'll need it to mark that you're not a married woman"

"Oh wow" Rapunzel said in fascination as she tied it where the top of her braid began

"You seem so interested by the simplest things" Hiccup said bluntly

"Well of course" Rapunzel replied matter-of-factly, "I've kind of had a sheltered life"

"Ah" Hiccup said in realization. He had heard cultural stories from Camicazi and Trader Johan of women of the South being more repressed and treated second to the men in their villages. That was probably the reason she acted to skiddish and crazy, she didn't have a mind of her own.

"And that was the reason I told him you didn't need it though" Hiccup said, "Because of your husband"

Rapunzel giggled, "But I'm not married. You were actually the first boy I've ever talked to"

Hiccup paused from his work and turned to Rapunzel with a look of doubt on his face, "Really?"

"Yes"

"Huh" Hiccup said, so she was just naturally crazy

An awkward silence fell between the two of them as Hiccup just turned back to his work and Rapunzel just twisted her braid in her hair. She then remembered the reason she had wanted to come.

"I brought you back your vest and cleaned it for you" Rapunzel said as she presented the garment, "Thank you for letting me use it"

"Yeah, sure, no problem" Hiccup said as he then pointed to some hanging pegs, "Just go ahead and hang it over there"

The blonde nodded and followed his instructions, though she thought it was a shame she had to give it back. She really did like the smell of it.

After she hung up the vest, she took it upon herself to take a look around at the shop. She knew the basics of the tools that hung up on the wall, and then there were some she had never seen before. Rapunzel couldn't help herself as she dragged her fingertips over every tool she could touch.

She was so caught up in it that it shocked her when her hand suddenly slipped through an unexpected curtained area. Rapunzel immediately recovered from her shock and pulled back the curtains.

"Oh hey you're not actually supposed to go back there-!" Hiccup exclaimed to Rapunzel, but it was too late

"What...is all this?" Rapunzel asked as she came into a little separate room that was filled to the brim with all sorts of things: Sketches of weird looking devices covering every wall surface, a desk littered with charcoal sticks, and shelves fill with half put together parts for the devices.

"Oh...uh...nothing much just some stuff I've been working on" Hiccup said uneasily as he began to hammer more at the sword, "It's really confidential…upper level development"

"Hiccup, you really made all these?"

"Uh…yeah"

"That's incredible!"

Hiccup immediately stopped in the middle of his hammering and turned to Rapunzel. "Wait, what?"

Rapunzel didn't hear Hiccup's disbelief as she began grabbing as many sketches as she could off the wall before running over to Hiccup. She ended up knocking into him slightly so that she was right next to him. Rapunzel didn't even notice that Hiccup shifted away uncomfortably so he wasn't in contact with her as she lined the sketches up on the table in front of them.

"How do you pronounce this one?"

"Jotunns erobreren." Hiccup then did a quick translation, "Jotunn's conqueror"

"What do you use it for?"

"Uh, it's was an early design I had for...catching…trolls" Hiccup said embarrassed as he immediately faced palmed himself, why did he just say that!?

"And this one?" Rapunzel asked pointing to the next sketch, like his answer didn't seem out of the ordinary to her.

"It's a really old sketch of homes I made for fairies" Hiccup said and looked to see that still didn't seem weird to Rapunzel, so he repeated, "Homes…for fairies"

"I heard you" Rapunzel replied as she kept looking over each sketch

"And that doesn't bother you at all?" Hiccup asked, "Talking about trolls or fairies"

"No not really" Rapunzel shrugged, "They kind of sound similar to creatures in stories my mother would tell me about all the time when I was younger" Rapunzel couldn't help but smile, she had never seen her mother so happy and content when she used to tell her these stories as she brushed Rapunzel's hair.

Rapunzel didn't seem to notice Hiccup staring at her in curiosity as she pointed to the last sketch in the line, "And this one"

"Hjertet piercer" Hiccup said, "The Heart Piercer"

"It looks like a type of bow and arrow" Rapunzel noted. She was able to recognize it as it was the only type of weapon that was kept in the tower, but of course she never let her mother go near it.

"That's exactly what it is!" Hiccup said excitedly as he pulled the sketch towards him to point out the parts as he began to explain. "It uses roller-nuts that sit on a metal pin, in which a string can be pulled back and the tension causing the arrow to be shot with an 18% faster velocity"

"Slow down, slow down" Rapunzel said with a smile, "I can't understand you when you talk that fast!"

"Oh, right, sorry"

"It's okay, I would love to see how these things being built anyways"

Even Hiccup could read her implied suggestion. "I guess if you want to stick around you can watch me work"

Rapunzel smiled at his response, but it faltered slightly at took another look at one of the fairy house designs. She pursued her lips before answering, "No"

"No?" Hiccup said slightly offended

"Don't just show me, teach me" Rapunzel said as she grabbed the sketch she had been observing, "Teach me how to build this"

Teach her? No one had asked him to have them teach them how to build, they just expected to have their weapons ready when it was convenient for them.

"Well I don't know" Hiccup said as he rubbed the back of his neck, "I have a pretty fast pace and don't know if you could keep up"

"I can! I'm a fast learner" Rapunzel exclaimed confidently and placed her hands on her hips, "Besides making papier-mâché and building fairy houses are basically the same thing"

"No, not really" Hiccup replied truthfully, but that didn't even seem to faze Rapunzel as she still stood there with a smile plastered on her face

"How about this then, I'll bring you a lunch every day, if teach me how to make this." Rapunzel said as she held up the blueprints for the fairy house. She thought about it and quickly added, "And tell me stories"

"Stories?" Hiccup said confused, "Stories about what?"

"I don't know…about anything and everything I guess, there's so much I want to learn and see that just about anything would do!"

Hiccup let out a sigh of defeat and turned back to Rapunzel, hands still on her hips, confidence…or actually optimism was practically oozing from her. Nothing he said was going to get her to change her mind.

"You're sure that this bread you can make is really that good?" Rapunzel smiled and nodded her head happily

"Alright" Hiccup said as he stuck out his hand, "You've got yourself a deal"

Rapunzel smiled brightly as she clasped her hand with Hiccup's and the deal was struck.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Holy cow! Another chapter up so soon! Is the world ending!?

No, the world is not ending, I've been waiting forever to upload this chapter as this marks the chapter when the story will really get rolling! (Will tell you now that at least two more chapters will happen before we get to the beginning of the HTTYD timeline)

*Jotunn: A mythical troll from Norse Mythology, sometimes referred to as a giant though. The main I was looking for though was some famous troll to insert so I could have a catchy title for the trap :)))