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 Truephan, Maui Girl 808, Comet Moon, Faye-The-BookWolf, akirisan, Victoria62015 and gejeno 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.

Hiccup slowly turned into his human form. His black scales turned into human flesh. The big creature turned into a smaller one as Astrid watched horrified at the scene.

The dragon had turned into a red-haired boy who she recognized instantly: "YOU!" She shouted pointing at him.

"Hi…Look, It's a very long story, but if you just let me explain…" he tried to explain himself.

However when the girl recovered from the initial shock her eyes noticed that the boy was wearing no clothing. At all. Astrid turned her face and used her hands to block the view of Hiccup. She was blushing furiously "You're naked!" she said out loud.

Suddenly realizing he hadn't brought any clothing with him, Hiccup blushed too as he looked for a bush to hide himself. Fortunately, he found one that covered him to his chest. "S-sorry…"

When Astrid finally looked at him again, she said, still blushing: "I thought that a dragon had eaten you, but…but…YOU'RE THAT FREAKING DRAGON!" she shouted that last part pointing an accusatory finger at him.

"I guess this kinda explains why I can talk, right?" he said trying his best to reason with her. 'One step at a time…One step at a time…' he said in his own mind trying to calm himself down.

She looked at him puzzled and gave a step back. Hiccup noted that. "Look, I know this is very confusing, but you have to listen to me. I can explain everything, Astrid."

"Why should I listen to a word you say. You lied to me. You pretended to be a normal person back there only to get me by surprise!" she said.

"But I never attacked you!" he pledged in his defense.

"Oh, really? How about that time that you almost smashed me? If I hadn't dodged in time I would be a goner by now."

Hiccup flinched by the memory. "It wasn't what it seemed. I thought you would attack me first. I just wanted to get you and take you to a viking village I knew before you struggled too much, but it didn't work as I intended. Sorry if I scared you."

Astrid only scoffed at that. "Yeah right! So, what are you anyway? Don't tell me you're a child of a human and a dragon!"

"Well, I'm some sort of weredragon, I guess. I can turn into a dragon any time I want. And before you freak out even more, both my parents are human. Let's just say this power was given to my family as some kind of punishment and also as some kind of lesson." Hiccup explained mentally cringing as he expected for the dragon priestess to yell at him in his mind, however she became surprisingly quiet.

"Right…" Astrid said skeptically. She wanted to run to her village and warn the others about this weird and potentially dangerous intruder. But when she gave another step back Hiccup tried to get out of the bush to stop her, Astrid immediately said blushing again: "Don't!" she had just said that mostly because she didn't want to see him naked again.

Hiccup stopped noticing that as well and then pleaded her. "Then don't go. I'll not hurt you. Just hear me out."

Astrid, however, had other plans in mind. She knew that she couldn't outrun a dragon, but currently Hiccup was in his human form. She saw that he had to take his time to transform and maybe she could get to the village before he did any harm to her.

The girl turned and ran as fast as she could. Hiccup looked at that in alarm and started to transform into his dragon form desperate to get to her before. It took him a few minutes to transform into a night fury and when he did so, he flew not so high and in direction of the village.

He spotted Astrid running on a open field and he dove in order to catch her. If he let her tell the others about him without at least gaining her trust, it would ruin everything.

Fortunately, Hiccup could blend almost perfectly in the night sky, so Astrid didn't even see what got her, but she had a good idea of what caught her. She screamed and ordered the dragon: "Let go of me!"

He sighed as he looked around then he flew to a huge tree gentle placed her on the top of it. The viking girl held herself on the top of it and saw when the dragon also clung onto the same tree, but lower from where Astrid was.

"Now, will you listen? All you do is run from me! I didn't do anything to you!" Hiccup said. He was getting tired of this. If it was so hard trying to convince one person that he wasn't evil, imagine to convince an entire village.

Astrid didn't believe in him. She found it quite weird for a dragon to be playing with her like that. 'Dragons don't want to be friends of humans! They want to kill us! Why doesn't he just eat me and be done with it?'

But then the tree started to bend not handling the weight of both of them. When the tree started to fall Hiccup jumped from it towards Astrid and she fell over the night fury's back which flew into the sky carrying her along with him. As son as Astrid had noticed where she was she quickly clung against Hiccup's neck to not fall. "Put me down!"

Hiccup didn't obey her immediately. He first decided to gain a little more distance between them and the village in case she decided to run again.

When Astrid noticed the dragon wasn't landing, she was about to crawl to the dragon's head and try compel him into obedience, but then realized another thing. The vision of being in the sky. Sure she wasn't there because she wanted to be, but she sometimes wondered how the eagles should view the world from above. She was, for the moment, enamored with the sight, but she snapped out of it when she remembered what exactly she was riding.

The girl was about to continue with her plans when she felt the dragon landing on a grass field. He lowered his body enough to allow her to get down, which she did after blinking for a moment. She didn't understand why he was being like that. One time he grabbed her and took her to weird places and the other he was gentle to her.

"I'm really sorry for all the trouble." Hiccup started. While he flew he started to wonder if he was really going to be able to convince her. He was quite said because she almost got hurt because of him. He started to wonder if he could really stay near of other humans. "You can go home now. I…won't bother you any longer." He said sadly. He really wished he had managed to go back to his old life. But he thought that he had probably scared Astrid for good after she almost fell and was smashed by a tree.

He turned, glad that at least he could be far away before Astrid got back at the viking village, and was about to fly to the dragon island when he heard her voice.

"So, am I wrong to assume your name isn't Loudburp?" she asked.

Hiccup didn't answer right away. He was quite surprised she asked that. He imaged she spited him to the point she would decapitate him if she had an axe at the moment. He turned to face her once more and wondered what to answer to her. He didn't know how she would react to hear his true name, but he had to at least try, after all he couldn't keep his identity as a secret forever, couldn't he?

That pause was also quite uncomfortable for Astrid. She didn't trust that dragon/boy creature, but for some reason he didn't seem hostile to her. The girl never imagined to meet a dragon like that before. She wondered why a boy could even become a dragon, she found his explanation very vague. 'Maybe it's because of that he isn't a bloodthirsty monster after all…What am I thinking? If I let my guard down, he'll eat me! But, he had plenty of opportunities to do so and yet he didn't…'

"Yeas. My name isn't Loudburp. Sorry for lying…" he started nervously as he decided that it was swim or sink. "You already know me, Astrid. It's me, Hiccup."

End of chapter 25

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