Chapter 3

Flashback…

Dragon raids. A common thing in Berk that has become a Berkian way of living. Hiccup as usual was helping out in the forge, sharpening axes and swords in order to pass it to the Vikings that were helping to kill the dragons or rather chase them away since they hardly could kill them. Hiccup sighed. He wanted to part of the action but given his physical demeanour, he was considered too skinny to help.

As he continued sharpening, his eyes caught a purple flare going down from the sky. Hiccup assumed it was a dragon that was shot down and continued sharpening when suddenly he realised that only the Night Fury only shot purple flames. He pondered for a while before deciding he was going to kill that Night Fury and gain the fame for himself. He took his knife with him and he headed towards the jungle where he supposedly saw the Night Fury fall.

"This was it!" he thought. He could finally prove himself to the others that he was indeed a Viking. It was also a chance for him to ask his best friend, Astrid, out. He had a massive crush on Astrid since they knew each other since young. But then he realised Astrid didn't really liked the idea of killing dragons. Still, he continued to search for the Night Fury. It could at least make his father proud of him. It was the best shot he got anyway. Soon, he spotted the Night Fury. It had a tail fin missing and it was badly injured. It could hardly get up. It heard Hiccup approaching with his knife and looked at Hiccup' eyes. Hiccup stopped in his tracks and looked back at the Night Fury. The look in the dragon's eyes reflected of what he was when he saw dragons: that of fear. He saw himself in the dragon's eyes. He wanted to kill it but at the same time he was pitying it. So, he decided to go back to the village and buy some medication from Gothi, the village elder and healer. He then went back to the dragon and tended to its injuries. The dragon was shocked. It couldn't believe its eyes.

After a few days, the dragon was healed but it couldn't fly so Hiccup took care of the dragon. He named the dragon Toothless, quite the irony for a dragon which is known to be the offspring of lightning and death itself. He also made a tailfin for Toothless and he even flew on it. Because of that, he managed to go to Sweden and learned about the modern way of leaving. In everywhere else in the world, dragons are accepted by the people and they keep them as pets. Hiccup was surprised to find that. Because Berk isn't very accepting towards dragons, they are unable to contact with other parts of the world because of that. Apparently, a curse was put upon those who killed dragons by a wizard and the only way to break the curse was to befriend dragons. That's what other countries have been doing and they managed to break the curse. Berk was the only country left that hasn't been able to do that mainly because they were unaware that the curse existed and fought the dragons because of that. The dragons will continue to raid Berk as long as Berk doesn't come to terms with the dragons. Hiccup decided to fake his death during the next raid and he told Toothless exactly what to do and that's how be was supposedly considered dead.

Hiccup found an abandoned castle on an island that hasn't been visited for many years and he did a make over on the castle to make it his own fortress. From the outside, it looked like the castle was haunted so that people will leave it alone. In the inside, it looked like it was owned by a very rich person. Hiccup earned money by being a blacksmith. He would do repairs on Sweden and he earned quite a lot of money because he was very skilled and people seemed to like the things he makes.

End of flashback…

"Wow. That's quite a story" Astrid said.

"Kinda I guess" Hiccup shrugged.

"When you said you wanted to kill the dragon to impress me, does it mean you liked me?" Astrid asked.

Hiccup was taken aback by this question "Yes".

"You idiot" she punched him." You didn't need to impress me. You could have said that you liked me because the truth is, I like you too!"

Hiccup was shocked. His childhood best friend actually liked him. As in like 'like'. Astrid jumped onto him and started kissing him. Before either one of them knew it, they were on the bed, making out without clothes, and things got heated up pretty quick.