Author notes:

1)English is my second language. Forgive me for any mistake.

2)I don't own How to Train your dragon, obviously. I only own the plot for this story and the eventual OCs

3)Dragon language is going to be written "like this"

4)Thanks Toothless-the-nightfury, Darkdagers, akirisan, Victoria62015, Comet Moon and Maui Girl 808 for your reviews. I hope you'll like this chapter as well.

5)Just remembering: This is a T rated story and it'll have blood, violence and some foul language in some parts of it.

6)I'm really sorry for the delay. I've been really busy with college and also with my country's elections.

Hiccup was unaware that Astrid was looking at him from the tree. The viking girl knew that if she wanted to get him, she should strike on his blind spot, which, by looking at his anatomy was his back.

She wished she still had her axe. But then she remembered that she kept a small dagger inside of her left boot for emergencies. She picked up the weapon and wondered if it would be able to pierce that unknown dragon's scales.

Astrid couldn't give it much thought because that was the time to attack. She doubted she would have another chance like that. She leaped from the tree and landed hard on Hiccup's back which made him gasp in both pain and surprise.

The night fury tried shake the body to knock the girl off him, but was futile. She had already grabbed firmly his neck with her right arm while holding the dagger with her left one.

Hiccup managed to turn his neck enough to see what she was holding. His eyes went wide and without thinking he told her: "Please don't do this! I just want to take you back to your village!"

Astrid's jaw dropped as the grip on both dagger and neck loosened. 'Did this thing just speak? No. I must be hearing things.'

'What are you waiting for boy? Use this opportunity before it's too late!' Ormhildr shouted in his head.

Not wasting any more time Hiccup rolled his body strongly taking the girl off him. The dagger she was holding also fell on the ground. The dragon quickly stood on his feet as he looked at the girl. All he wanted was to help her, not fight.

'That's what you get for helping humans, Hiccup. You must get rid of her. She heard you talking. It would be too dangerous to let her live!' the dragoness explained.

'No! There must be another way…' Hiccup replied.

'This isn't time for you silly childish behavior. She's trying to kill you! Did you forget the last time when someone tried to do so? You fought back because you didn't want to die. Kill her now!' ordered the priestess.

The boy's memory of his uncle was still livid in his mind. But he didn't want to kill her like he didn't want to hurt his uncle. The boy was convinced he could do something this time. He wasn't going to accept the choice of kill of being killed. He was going to create a third choice himself. Help her and stay alive.

Astrid looked at the dragon worried that he was going to use a breath of fire on her, but he didn't. The dragon wasn't even paying attention to her anymore. She quickly looked around and spotted her dagger over the grass. She wanted to grab it and use it again. She just told herself she must have heard things and that she should focus on killing the dragon and get out of that island as far as possible.

When she was about to leap towards the dagger, Hiccup's attention went back to her as he jumped in front of her to block her path. It was futile to try hide he could speak, so he said: "Please, don't be afraid. I'm not here to hurt you."

Astrid's face was of utter shock. Once again the dragon spoke. "What? How can you…What are you?" she demanded.

'Smooth, Hiccup. Really smooth.' Ormhildr said sarcastically.

The boy ignored the priestess as he said: "It's complicated. But, please, you don't need to be afraid. I know this is all weird, but…"

However the boy couldn't finish his sentence. Astrid, not wanting to hear anything else, just dashed towards Hiccup and gave him a roundhouse kick on his muzzle.

"Shut up! Just shut up!" she demanded. She thought she was going crazy. No dragon could talk. She was even more determinate to get rid of the dragon because her sanity depended on that.

"Ouch! Could you please just listen?" the boy said once again only to be jabbed on his face.

The boy flinched in pain and Astrid used that opportunity to go around of the night fury and get hold of her dagger. When she did so, Hiccup used his tail to hit her hand making her lose her weapon once again. There was no way he could talk to her if she wanted to stab him.

"What can I do for you to trust me?" Hiccup pleaded, while turning to face her, wanting for that conflict to end.

"To begin with you can drop dead!" she growled charging against him.

Hiccup sighed hopelessly. He wondered if it would be better to just take her back to that viking village he had visited once hoping for it to be her home.

When she approached him to punch once again, Hiccup raised his wings and with a strong impulse he flew breaking some tree branches in the process. Astrid, moved by her instincts, blocked her wyes from the gust of wind and, before she got ready to fight once again the boy quickly flew back and grabbed the girl with his front paws ad lifted her along side with him.

She gave a surprised cry and before she realized she was being taken from that island. "Let go off me, you stupid reptile!" Astrid said trying to get rid of the night fury's grip on her shoulders.

"Please, stop moving so much. Do you want to fall?" Hiccup countered.

"It would be better than being eaten by you!" she growled at him.

"I'm not…"Hiccup begun only to sigh at the end. That conversation was going nowhere because the viking girl wasn't willing to listen and reason with him for a bit. He knew that it was going to be a rough flight.

Hiccup flew for quite long distance while carrying the still struggling Astrid over the sea in search of the viking island he knew. That part of the sea was already calm, meaning it could be safely used by boats of large ships. Also, Hiccup was a quite agile dragon which helped a little.

However, the night fury was so distracted by Astrid's constant complains while he tried to remember where that island was exactly, that he didn't even realize that some viking ship were approaching on the sea.

End of chapter 21

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