"Hiccup don't you walk away from me" yelled Astrid!

"The rest of the chefs from all around have agreed to figure out how to deal with this Roman problem," she said while trying to catch up to him.

" We are the strongest tribe around and we will contribute many troops to an army if it comes down to it but hiccup that means you'll have to lead us".

Saying this made hiccup shiver he knew the Romans had just taken over Gaul and were about to advance into newer territories.

"Hiccup we cannot let them get a hold of dragons if they don't have any already," she said while finally getting in front of him.

"You think I want them to get a hold of dragons, do you think I want them to abuse the dragons!" He said angrily."No, I don't but I also don't want thousands of my own people and maybe other people from other tribes to go off and die not if we can come to a peaceful solution." It was at this moment toothless came down and hiccuped got on his back and flew off in an immediate hurry.

A few hours had passed and hiccup and toothless had flown to a quiet edge where no one would really disturb them this is where they could ponder their thoughts and think about decisions that had to be made.

"Oh bud I don't know what to do we Berkins swore to defend dragons and are not about to stop but the chief got to put his own people first"

. Toothless looked at him putting his Head on hiccup lap.

Suddenly Astrid flew down on storm fly and hopped off walking over to sit by him. "Do you wanna tell me what's really going on?" asked Astrid?

"Look Astrid I just don't know if I can send all those people in the battle, there's got to be another way." hiccup responded.

Astrid looked at him not as a queen but as a friend and fellow dragon Rider but more importantly as his wife.

" hiccup everyone here swore an oath of loyalty to you and will be damned if we break it, we're not gonna let some foreign army come in and rule us and enslave our dragons for their evil purposes," she said while sitting behind him and braiding small parts of his hair. "And hiccup you don't have to do it alone I will be there with you the entire time, you're right hand and if the Romans decide that they want war then I will lead our armies into battle for you," she said. Hiccup looked at her with fear in his eyes.

"Astrid you are my wife and one day you will be the mother of my children I can't lose you," he said turning to face her. Usually when someone tells her she could not do something because she was a woman her first instinct would be to do that thing but this case was different it was her dear hiccup and he did not mean this in a sexist way, She looked into his eyes and saw not a man who saw a weak woman but a man who feared for his family and his tribe and worried that the oncoming war would make him lose both.

"Oh, hiccup," she said as she pulled him closer until he was in her embrace.

"You won't lose me but I am your general and I do need to lead your armies if you command it."

As they spent a few more moments on the ground cuddling looking at the sun go down he then looked up at Astrid and said

"your my wife but you are also my most trusted advisor and my most skilled general and dragon rider you are irreplaceable." He said well leaning upon his arm looking down at her.

"Hiccup I'm very good at what I do which is all the more reason why I get to lead our armies in the battle," she said while leaning up slightly to kiss him.

He back down one more time to slowly kiss her. "OK, he said we'll figure this out together I'm just really worried that this war that's coming may destroy us".

"As long as we have each other and that we will leave in ourselves and in the tribe we will prevail"

The next day they were both getting the great Hall ready for the Chiefs from the foreign tribes they were all coming to discuss the Roman threat that was lurking to the south.

"Fishlegs" yelled hiccup.

"make sure that all the food is ready for our guests when they arrive."

"You got it hiccup"

"Snotlout and the twins make sure you have an accurate number of our troops and double-check."

"OK." Snotlout said.

"Astrid" yelled hiccup.

"Yeah" she replied.

"make sure my armor and your armor are ready you know how long it takes to get that stuff on."

"I'm busy making the dragons look presentable she said have one of the twins do it or any other person." She said.

"What does that even mean" he replied.

"Never mind Gobber can you please go make sure my armor and Astrid's armor is ready so that way we can slip into it quickly."

"You got it chief," he said

Suddenly A loud horn was heard

"Ships on the horizon!" A man yelled.

Hiccup immediately started barking orders. Everybody get in the position we need to greet our guests warmly

"Gobber is my armor ready."

"Sir, you just need to put it on."

As he walked to the house he could see the massive ships approaching he recognized that of his berserker friends and mala others he had a hard time distinguishing they truly did extend his invitation to really far places. As he walked into the house he saw Astrid taking off her shirt and putting on a small white shirt with long sleeves this was to keep the armor from rubbing against the skin and causing unnecessary rashes it wasn't unusual for people to wear that underneath the armor. As she was taking her old shirt off her undergarments were soon exposed she soon saw a hiccup walked through the door.

"Hey, honey," she said.

Hiccup covered his eyes with his hand and said "sorry I didn't know you were changing" he said, his cheeks were red.

"What are you doing," she said looking at him.

Oh, I just, I don't know you are topless and I just thought I you know what but oh...thing. He said trying not to stutter.

She could not but hold back a little giggle at this and said: " you know we're married right?"

"Yeah I know but"Before getting cut off.

"But what you don't think I'm beautiful," she said raising an eyebrow leaning against a wooden pillar.

"No I think you're beautiful," he said starting to get nervous then what is it she said slowly walking towards him.

At this point he's completely dumbfounded by what's happening he walked in on his wife changing and instead of her being mad that he didn't knock she's mad that He wanted to respect her privacy by covering his eyes.

She slowly walked towards him her shirt off she slowly took off her undergarment hiccup started to walk backward but then was stopped by a wooden pillar behind him, her full top was exposed leaving only her pants on.

"You covered your eyes when you saw me so what's wrong am I not good enough for you," she said in a low voice looking up at him.

" Know you are I just.

"Just what," she said cutting him off.

"spit it out you married me and now you won't even look at me," she said in a sassy voice.

"What no, of course, I married you and of course I want to look at you and of course this is amazing I just thought you didn't want any peeping toms looking at you." He said.

Astrid then looked at him and then took a step back she then put back on her clothes and her undershirt and then started to put on her armor without saying a word. Hiccup thought to himself I am so confused he walked to his room and as he started to take off his day armor. He had a few sets of armor one for running Berk and one when he rode toothless and went on raids. the one he would wear tonight would be the one he would wear on raids. As he started to take all his day armor he started with his shoulder pads then his Arm pads then his wrist pads then he started to take off his chest protector and once he got that off he slowly started to work his way down and he took off his shinguards and his calf protectors he then took off his thigh guards and his butt protectors. It was at this moment he started to take off his shirt and it was over his head when he turned around and saw Astrid standing in the doorway she soon covered her eyes and then walked away in her full set of armor. As he finished putting on The last of his dragon scale armor he said to himself

"peace if possible" and then put on his helmet.

As he walked on the stairs he thought Astrid had left without him but she was sitting on the couch waiting for him sharpening her ax. Her helmet was up and she looked up at him she had similar scale armor but hers was dark blue whereas he had dark black.

"I thought you left". He said

she then got up and started walking towards him and then turned and walked to the door and opened it.

"Here you go, sir, she said in a nice calm voice".

He was a little concerned by the fact that she used sir. As if she anticipated he was going to try to kiss her she put her helmet down over her face and he then in response did the same he got his fiery sword and she got her sharpest and larger ax and they both walked out of the house to the great hall where most of the tribal leaders had already gathered and we're patiently waiting for them to arrive.

As they walked in they heard loud noises and lots of talking of people either catching up or arguing or both many of the Vikings there and were very familiar with each other some had been old enemies turn friends others were enemies forced to work with each other to defeat this new threat and some were just there to help to defeat the Romans and preserve dragon kind. As he walked in hiccup heard someone yell behind him "now welcoming chief hiccup haddock dragon master" he went and found his spot at the Center of the room and Astrid went and sat nearby. As the room dial down they all gathered in to hear what the great dragon master had come to say.

He looked around and saw everyone looking at him he then took a deep breath and Fishlegs brought him a large map that took two people to hold he then rolled it out on the floor.

" The Romans have taken Gaul and we have just received word that Britannia and Germania have received small incursions this threat is big we can no longer ignore it The Romans have taken many villages with their very disciplined troops but they do not have one key thing and that's dragons but if they were to get a hold of them then I fear that the entire world would be lost".

As he said there's people started to talk and argue. A chief nearby soon yelled "this calls for an immediate response we should mobilize our troops and invade with the help of dragons"

more loud chatter corrupted from the crowds behind their Chiefs one man got up and said: "can we even beat these Romans in battle they have at least some of the best well-trained soldiers in the world and they have defeated countless armies".

More people started to erupt in heavy debate one person said that we should just submit to the Romans this idea was dismissed by most of the Vikings. Hiccup eventually raised his voice and said "silence. Our scouts have told us that they are for the most part aware that creatures do exist in the north however they're not sure to what extent which is why they can never know. But if more territory keeps falling then they will get closer and closer to finding out that we have dragons."

After hiccup said this one person arose from their seat and said

"what do you propose."

"I propose we talk to them try to convince him that dragons don't exist here and that we can't be ruled and if that doesn't work we will show them that we do have dragons and that they'll never be able to control us as long as we have them."

More commotion started and people started yelling.

"You can't reason with a Roman people have tried"

hiccup responded

"I know it's a longshot but we have to give it a shot, war will cost us many lives. Lives that cannot be easily replaced."

another person yelled out saying

"you are too soft to lead us"

more commotion started again and hiccup tried to stop them from yelling once more. hiccup then once he had silence walked up and look up at the ceiling and then down at the map which showed all the parts in which Rome had conquered

"My father once said a chief looks after his own, And I don't want to go to war to send thousands of men and women of my own people to die but I will because if they get their hand's dragons they will only use them for evil. I swore to protect my people and I will not stop protecting them call me weak if you must but protecting the dragons is something that I will do. dragons are my own and protecting my people will always be who I are my own and if you fight with me then you will be my own, a piece will be looked for but the war will be fought".

After saying this silence filled the room no one spoke. Astrid got up and walked over to hiccup and bent down on one knee pulled out her ax with the butt end pointing up and the head pointed down she then bowed her head at her chief and said

"I will fight with you"

then a familiar face dagger and Heather walked over and bent down on one knee and said:

"we will fight with you".

After them, mala and the wing maidens walked over and bent down and said

"we will fight with you"

one by one more Chiefs and leaders got up from their seats at the table went over to hook up and bent down and said we will fight with you until there was no one left hiccup then pulled out his sword and ignited it.

"We will defeat these Romans"

The meeting lasted another 4 hours in that time they discussed what pease would look like if the Romans excepted and what they would do if war broke out they discussed leadership and troops and realized that the only dragon trained soldiers were in 4 out of the 20 or so tribes. They all agreed that Berk would lead the united army since they contributed the most soldiers around 5000 with at least 2000 of them being Dragon riders. They also learned that they could field around 50,000 troops with at least 5000 of them being Dragon riders this is not counting the mercenaries that they could hire which could easily bump their numbers up to at least 60,000 they also decided that it would be better to begin training as many troops as possible now instead of later if the Romans decided piece was not an option which would add another 15,000 soldiers across-the-board within at least two years they also decided how many ships they could spare and they came across the number of at least 1000 ships would be enough they would also begin immediate construction of more heavier war vessels. They also sent envoys and messengers to foreign tribes to ask them for assistance in case war was met. they didn't know who was still in fighting condition but they knew that the Romans hadn't claimed all of Germania yet. And Britannia still held small tribes who could send small warriors they weren't sure if Gaul had any tribes who were able to fight left but they sent envoys anyways and they also sent envoys to Rome and spies as well to make sure nothing happened that they didn't know about they all decided that the Chiefs would stay nearby not on the island but nearby as to that way quick mobilization could be achieved as well as strategic thinking there was also the slight problem of who got to lead the army even though it was discussed that Burke would lead it not everyone was happy that there General is a woman although they eventually were persuaded the few chieftains who were nervous putting their armies in the hands of a foreign general and a woman. the dragon master assured them that she was a capable leader and had his complete confidence.

On the way home, they walked in silence and as they got into the house Astrid opened up the door and stood at attention as though she was a soldier and hiccups army.

"What are you doing" he asked.

"holding the door open for you sir". She said while standing Streat saluting him as he walked in shaking his head. As he walked in she closes the door behind her and then walked over and as he was about to sit down she said in a fake military voice

"Good night sir!"

He then took off his helmet and grabbed her arm.

"Astrid what are you doing."

"Nothing sir".

Astrid cut it out seriously. He said this time a little more annoyed.

"Yes, sir," she said this time in a little louder of a military voice.

"Fine"

hiccup put on his helmet and then walked over to her

"general Haddick"

" at the sound of this, she immediately stood at attention.

"I am ordering you to tell me why you are talking in a military voice."

"This is ridiculous. I should not have to tell you what is wrong"

"Astrid, I can't read your mind "

"Fine, I am made because I have been supporting you throw this and helping you throw this and you repay me by coming in here and closing your eyes at the cite of your own wife! Do you know how that makes me feel! "

"Astrid I only shut my eyes because I thought it was the polite thing to do."

As she was about to walk away hiccup grabbed her wrist and before she could register what happened she was thrown call closer to hiccups body and then all a sudden he immediately kissed her. He kissed her as tenderly as he could, he can he kissed her like there was no tomorrow and eventually moving her up against the wall she had no idea what was happening but she was not stopping it, in fact, she was loving it.

eventually she started to undo the straps under his armor and he started to undo the straps under hers he slowly move down towards her legs and undid the straps kissing very gently once her leg guards were off he then moved her back and kissed her again their lips touched each other and they moved back over to the couch hiccup was once again on top of her as he undid her breastplate she was simultaneously I'm doing his they were both giggling at this time do to how long it was taking eventually they got both of there's off and once they were able to get off their arm piece The rest of their armor came off pretty easily with armor scattered everywhere and them on the couch kissing without a care in the world she looked at him and said "now that's more like it"

he slowly made his way down to her belly where he undid a tiny strap that held the undershirt to the pants and he eventually took it off and she started laughing they both got up and this time she pushed him down on the ground and she was on top of him she started to undo his shirt and take it off once both their shirts were off they slowly started to make their way to the bedroom hiccup although having a prosthetic leg was still pretty much able to lift Astrid off her feet once they were in the bedroom he laid her down gently and as he blew out the last candle he slowly shut the door and she sat upright waiting for what was about to come