So... I messed up last chapter, what I uploaded was not what I wanted, but a draft / alternative chapter... So the reason why this chapter has been delayed by a while is because I've been debating about what the heck to do about it and making some changes to other chapters ive got drafted that extend from my messup.

Also I struggled to do the meeting between the Red Horror and Toothless, so that also added to the delay.

Oh and one last important thing here, I have had to change Astrid's fathers name to Arvid, as what was in the draft i uploaded was actually a girls name... Other than that the current chapter 10 is identical to the one I stupidly uploaded, with the other fixes made being grammar errors.

Anyway less of me!

/.../

Toothless could smell the other dragons approaching before they emerged from through the cloud in their descent. 'It appears our time alone has been cut short.'

The female Fury who had earlier revealed her dragon name to be Mani, or Moon in Norse sniffed the air, she could smell the Deadly Nadder from earlier and three other dragons, two of which smelled similar to Toothless meaning they were probably from his pack, but the third? It was foreign. 'All of them?'

Toothless sniffed the air again, sure enough there was a very faint smell of an unknown dragon, he would have missed it if Mani had not questioned it. 'No.'

Mani huffed in slight annoyance before looking to the sky, after a few seconds Stormfly broke through the cloud, followed by a Zipple-Back, a large Nightmare and then an unknown chalk white dragon, as the dragons came down to land the once chalk white dragon slowly turned a light shade of orange, Toothless still failed to recognise it as the dragon that scared him off earlier. 'Why have they brought it?' Mani gestured to the orange dragon.

Toothless give a confused warble. 'Probably Hiccup's doing, why do you ask?'

Mani groaned. 'You would know if you grew up here, it's a freak, an outcast.'

Toothless looked back to the dragon that was about to land some distance away. 'And that is bad why?' When serving the Red Death Toothless was an outcast as much as Hiccup was on Berk, he was thought to be the last Night Fury and the other dragons usually picked on him for it.

Mani sensing Toothless's dislike of how she talked of the new dragon decided to drop the subject. 'No reason. Now why don't you introduce me to your friends?'

Hiccup jumped down from Stormfly and quickly made his way to Toothless who was slowly approaching with the other dragon. "You two have fun?" When the Chief was within distance of his friend he reached out to scratch him around the ears, much to the dragon's pleasure. 'Up a bit, a bit more... ooh yeah... right there, no down! Down! Down you stupid mammal, no, wait yes, that's the spot..." the other Night Fury watched on half amused at how Toothless and the human acted while also being and amazed at how much trust this other Fury had in the human by exposing his soft spots.

*Cough*

'Harder! Scratch harder! Yes, like that!.' Toothless was in his own world to the point his rear paw was already begging to pat the floor on its own accord.

*Cough!*

This time Mani managed to get the Fury's attention. 'Huh, oh right yeah.'

'That was very... Alpha like.'

Toothless snorted. 'Don't mock till you try it, these humans can scratch like no other.'

Astrid came to stand next to Hiccup as the two furies approached the other dragons. "So, you really did find a one."

The man was beaming, he had always wanted to find his friend a fellow Fury, and eventually he had done it. "Sure did, a perfect specimen too."

Astrid cuckled lightly. "I'm not sure who is happier, you or Toothless."

"Probably me." Admitted Hiccup before giving a powerful sneeze.

Hiccup had just kneeled down to scatch his left leg's stump when he heard a dragon roar, or most importantly a Night Fury roar, looking up he noticed the new dragon and Toothless were baring their teeth at one another 'YOU!' Toothless had finally recognised the new dragon as the same one from earlier. The now bright red dragon remained silent, but continued hissing in response to the Night Fury's aggresion. 'What are you!?' The two dragons begun to circle around one another. 'Answer me!" The other dragon remained silent.

Hiccup was by Toothless's side in no time, putting himself between Toothless and the other dragon. "Bud, its not worth it, this dragons frien... ACHOO! friendly!"

Toothless looked back and forth between Hiccup and the other dragon as he debated about what to do, eventually Mani spoke. 'Toothless, it may be a freak but as far as I know it's not very aggressive."

The male night fury turned for the slightest of moments to look at Mani. 'Is this not the dragon that you claimed death follows?'

Mani huffed. 'What? No! I was talking about the human.'

Toothless turned to face the female Night Fury. 'What human?'

'The large man who has attempted to catch me for the past two weeks.'

'What?' Toothless was confused, he couldn't remember seeing a human on that island. 'What man?'

'Nevermind, just end this now before one of you gets hurt.'

The alpha huffed before turning back to the bright Red dragon. 'Just stay away from me!' The dragon ended the conversation with a loud roar before leaving it alone. The red horror quickly turned to a sky blue once Toothless ended its hostilities, glad that it lived another day and more so happy that the Night fury now thought of it as harmless.

"Well, I for one am glad that is over with." Stated Hiccup. "Now I vote that we camp here for the night and then start our way to this metal... ACHOO... making tribe tomorrow."

/.../

/.../

The next morning.

Hiccup felt freezing, weak and sickly. "You... ACHOO look awful."

The chief looked glumly up to Ruff. "Thank-you for telling me something I didn't know." Hiccups teeth chattered as he talked.

Astrid rolled her eyes and stoked the fire. "Getting back on topic, you can't visit this new tribe as Chief in your current condition."

"Yeah, if they think your weak they will probably try and invade or do something dumb." Agreed Snotlout.

"Is that what you would do?" Asked Sif.

The beefy rider shrugged. "Gotta take opportunities when presented."

"Then that settles that. Hiccup your going home with those two." Astrid pointed towards Ruff and Tuff.

Tuff frowned. "Wait, why are we on sick duty?"

"Cos she's sick too durr." Astrid pointed to Ruff. "Snotlout, your coming with me and Sif to this other tribe."

"Why aren't you on sick duty, he is your luggage." Ruff and Tuff were not going to drop the subject that easily.

Astrid sighed and shook her head. "Because I'm going to have to represent Berk for Sif, unless you want Snotlout to do it?"

"Hey! I can represent Berk!

The twins thought for a whole two seconds. "We accept your proposal."

Snotlout huffed before adding. "Besides, won't they take offence that you show up and not the chief?"

Sif was amazed, Snotlout asked a reasonable question, to which Hiccup replied. "Probably, but better my wife than a sickly chief."

Ruff looked rather confused before asking. "Since when did you two wed?"

Astrid pulled a hand up to her face. "Ruff, if I go in and say I'm the chiefs wife I can make trade for Berk, If I go in as Astrid Hofferson we will get nothing done."

Tuff thought for a second. "So were we not invited to the party or..."

"They aren't married."

"So why say you are?"

Sif could barely believe how this conversation was going. "Ruff, Tuff, just... be quite for a while please?"

/.../

'It's quite nice actually.'

Mani had a hard time believe Berk was a safe place. 'I really don't believe it.'

'Then come with us and see for your self.'

Mani sighed heavily and looked around the small cave that the dragons had slept in. 'I've just lived here my entire life, y'know. Hard to simply leave it behind.'

Stormfly stood as Astrid, Snotlout and Sif approached and stretched her wings out. 'Well, out of Berk or this cave I know which one I would choose.' The Nadder leaned over to allow Astrid to climb onto her back. 'Hopefully I will see you on Berk when I get back, if not, nice meeting.'

As Astrid, Sif and Snotlout took off on their dragons Mani turned to Toothless. 'You can't fly without that human can you?'

Toothless didn't need to think about the question, sure Hiccup could make him a new self flying tailfin, but the Dragon couldn't leave Hiccup and hated the idea of flying without him. 'No.'

Mani thought some more. 'Then I want my own cave.'

Toothless and the twins Zippleback looked at one another before glancing back to the dragons. 'You can get one better, a house.'

/.../

Later that day - 1 hour before sunset.

"johann! Fancy meeting you here."

"Ah, Astrid Hofferson, my favourite shield maiden!" Johann was surprised to see Astrid land her dragon on his ship considering how far he was from Berk, standing up from the chest he was sat on he approached the Vikings dragon as Astrid dismounted. "What can I do for you?"

"Two things..." Astrid looked around the ships deck for some rope. "Do you have any rope?"

"Yes, just wait here." The man returned a short time later with a large length of rope. "Now I doubt you came all the way out here for rope."

Astrid nodded as she tied the rope to the ships mast. "Right. I need you to visit the island you told Sif about."

The trader cocked his head slightly. "Sure, I can be there in three weeks, I need to trade with the Serious Sea-men first."

Astrid shook her head and pulled out her gold pouch. "How much for right now?"

Johann pulled a hand up to his jawline. "5 gold pieces."

Astrid took the gold out of her bag and handed it to the man, the trader trusted Astrid enough to not check the quality of the gold pieces. "Excellent, I can be there in two days."

The shield maiden shook her head and turned to her dragon. "Stormfly." The dragon took the rope and flew infront of the ship, pulling it along at speeds the ship would not have been able to achieve on its own. "All I need you to do is point the way."

"We need to go North." As the man replied the other dragon riders landed their dragons on the mans boat.

/.../

Next day, early morning.

"So why did we have to hide our dragons in the forest again?" Asked Snotlout.

"Because they..." Astrid pointed to the slowly approaching town infront of the boats bow. "...Will probably kill them on sight."

"Ah, right."

"Yes, 'ah right'." replied Astrid. "Now, why don't you go and tell Sif and Johann that we are about to make dock?"

The man did as told and found the God and Trader sat near the ships stern. "... And then he said, it was all Vall!" Johann burst out laughing after telling his obviously hilarious story, but Sif was just confused and regretful of the fact she ever tried to get and know the man, he never stopped talking and his stories were awful.

"Err guys, were near the Dirty Deceivers shore."

Sif jumped on the chance to break free from Johann. "Excellent, I need to... prepare." She made a quick exit.

/.../

Paul the Dastardly felt his heart miss a beat as he watched the galaxy famous Sif Shepard dismount from the traders boat, he was going to have to be very careful to avoid suspicion, who knows how she would act if she ever learned he was actually from Earth and killed every man needed to become chief of the Dirty Decievers after crashing on the damned planet a few months ago. Clearing his throat he prepared his voice. "I, Chief Paul the Dastardly welcome you, our visitors, to our small but gracious village, may you find safe harbour in our town."

Sif frowned but remained silent as Astrid replied, 'Paul' does not sound like a Viking name.

"I, Astrid Haddock, wife of Chief Hiccup Haddock the third from Berk, accept your offer of safe harbour."

Paul clapped his hands together and approached the new comers. "A Chief's wife with no Chief, an odd sight indeed."

"And it shall be even odder when I offer trade."

Paul pulled a hand down his short beard. "Aye, that it will. Now who are your company?"

Snotlout went first. "Snotlout Jorgeson." The man puffed his chest and flexed his muscles.

"And I am Sif Shepard." Sif extended a hand out to the man, the 'Viking' out of reflex took the hand and shook it, this started alarm bells in Sif's head, after spending some time in Berk she learned that Vikings did not do or know of handshakes, so before she let go of his hand she increased her grips strength and spoke. "I must say, Paul is an odd name for a Viking."

"Aye." The Chief nodded. "But if you disrespect my name again I'll have your head."

If Sif was not mistaken she could hear panic in his voice, narrowing her eyes as she let go of the mans hand. "No disrespect intended." This man did not belong here, Sif knew it in her bones.

So, how did I do for the meeting between Toothy and the Red Horror (By the way, I'm still to name the dragon if anyone wants to suggest a name?)

Warden of Lore. Yep, a small reaper Destroyer.

Quintain Your right, those two are tricky, Vorcha are too resilient to get disease and the Quarians live behind a mask. Dam, gotta think of something though.