For those who play the songs cause they don't remember the tune I suggest going to HaileyWailey's channel on YouTube and starting the video at EXACTLY 1:00 at the instrumental before the chorus.

Chapter 4—A Girl Like You:

Flying north, Aric had taken Hiccup to the Northern Markets, not so much to shop, but just to get out somewhere. They hadn't been there since Johann had revealed himself a traitor, but since he and the hunters had been defeated the island had become much safer for them to now visit. Though it was safe, Hiccup still wore a black cloak merely because of the cold. Though it was still only fall it still got very cold, especially up north; even Aric had grabbed a warmer tunic. As they landed and began to walk through the market with their dragons in tow, no one noticed the Whispering Death trailing behind.

Hiccup sighed in bliss as they strolled along. "It feels so good to be off of Berk. I didn't realize how much I missed this."

"We sure had some pretty great adventures out here. Didn't we?" Aric spotted a blue lily, one of Hiccup's favorite flowers, and picked it turning to her all gentleman-like. "For you, m'lady", he said rather dramatically bowing.

"Why, thank you kind sir", Hiccup replied in the same overly formal fashion taking the flower. "A royal blue lily. Indeed my favorite."

They both burst into giggles unable to continue the act any longer. "I really missed this", Hiccup sighed longingly twirling the flower in her fingers. It seemed Aric had decided to stop with his 'I'm just a solider act', and went back to being her friend, and for that she was grateful. She had almost begun to think that maybe it was her fault he was distancing himself from her.

Hiccup then began to sniff the air catching the scent of something wonderful. "Mmm… what is that? It smells delicious."

"If I had to guess, I'd say it's coming from that cart over there", he responded pointing behind her. "I'll go get us some."

He went over, leaving her, and as Hiccup looked around for a moment she noticed a family closing up shop for what it seemed to be for good. Seeing the boards up, signaling a business that couldn't bring in enough, it made her think of home and the dire situation they were in.

"What's wrong?" Toothless crooned.

"Nothing", she crooned back, watching as the family walked off sadly. And then, Hiccup heard the most beautiful singing.

"Like a bird that flies in the morning light, or a butterfly in the spring. When your spirit rides on the wings of hope, you'll find your wings."

"Come on, Toothless. Let's go listen."

"What about Aric?"

"They'll find us. It's not like we're that far anyway."

Walking to a where a well sat, they got a closer listen of the singer who they could see behind the small crowd was wearing a white cloak.

000

"For you're always free to begin again. And you're always free to believe. When you find the place that your heart belongs—"

"Caroling?" Lady Brenna said in Alva's face interrupting her song.

"Lady Brenna!" she exclaimed. Her mistress snatched the cup from Luna's paw, the dragon growling fiercely, and poured every gold coin into her hand. "Wait! I earned that!" Alva demanded reaching for the money she had made only for her mistress to pull it out of reach.

"And you owe me. Did you really think you could make a living as a singer?" Lady Brenna laughed. "Get back to work, girl, or there'll be trouble." Leaving, her mistress just threw the cup to the ground beneath Alva's feet, and downcast, Alva bent to pick it up. Someone then came to put a gold piece into it.

"You have a wonderful voice. It's a shame you had to stop; that was a beautiful song."

"Thanks", she answered, getting up. "My mom…taught it…to me…" she slowed seeing the woman's face. She looked just like her. The girl seemed in wonder as well, and they each peeled off the hoods of their cloaks to reveal their dragon ears.

000

'That explains the white cloak', Hiccup thought.

'That explains the black cloak', Alva thought.

"Whoa…" Alva then voiced.

"Whoa…" Hiccup repeated. "I've… never seen another Halfling before…" Hiccup stated in wonder.

"We could be sisters…" Alva stated still in shock.

"Let me guess", Hiccup said looking at the dragon beside Alva. "You're half… uh… Bright…Fury?" she asked without certainty.

"Light Fury."

"Well, it's no Night Fury, bud, but it looks like we found your…uh, cousin…or…something", Hiccup said looking back to her best friend.

"So I suppose this Night Fury's yours?" Alva asked peaking over to the Night Fury who then came closer to stand beside his sister.

"Yep. Toothless has been with me for five years now."

"Luna's been with me since she was a hatchling. Poor thing couldn't defend herself, so I took her in and she's been with me ever since", Alva said as she bent to pet the small dragon. Hiccup wasn't sure, but if they were part of the same family one would assume they'd be a similar size, so it seemed like this one was a runt.

"Well she's certainly lucky", Hiccup only said grateful the little dragon had found someone who would care for her.

A momentary silence filled the air before they both spoke again, Alva rising again and Hiccup just looking around awkwardly.

" "What's your name?" "

They both laughed.

"You first", Alva said.

"Hiccup."

"Hiccup? That's funny, you have the same name as the heir to Berk."

Hiccup chuckled. "Well…"

"Oh. Alva, your highness", she greeted with a bow.

"Oh no. Please, don't do that. I honestly hate all the formalities; it's just so overbearing."

"I know all about overbearing. My mistress is practically breathing down my neck every day."

"Almost sounds like my dad."

"So, aren't you supposed to be… well, on Berk?" Alva questioned as the two began to walk getting out of people's way and closer to the side where the well sat.

"Technically, yes, but today I'm savoring my last taste of freedom before I get married next week." Hiccup stopped looking down. "To someone I've only ever seen as a brother."

"At least you're not forever an indentured servant to a terrible mistress."

"Forever?" Hiccup asked surprised and perplexed. Alva merely gave her a sad shrug. "…I'm sorry."

"It's alright. I'm used to it", she merely shrugged off.

Another moment of silence came, when the two then sighed. " "Sometimes I wish I could just fly away." "

Hearing that they said the same thing, they both looked at each other in surprise. That is until Alva smiled and begun to sing happily.

"I'm just like you! You're just like me! There's somewhere else we'd rather be. Somewhere that's ours, somewhere that dreams come true, yes, I am a girl like you. You'd never think that it was so, but now I've met you and I know. It's plain as day, sure as the sky is blue, that I am a girl like you!"

It surprised Hiccup; she had only ever heard her friends or herself suddenly burst into song. Some more than others. She hadn't thought this stranger would suddenly do something similar. That is unless…

"So! You're a singer!" Hiccup exclaimed.

"No. I wish to be one, but I work at Lady Brenna's penitentiary. Uh, I mean, dress emporium", Alva said dryly.

"Lady Brenna?" Hiccup muttered. "Oh! I know her! I love her dresses…! Even if I did start wearing them recently", Hiccup added in a mutter.

"I made the one you're wearing", Alva stated proudly at Hiccup's red dress.

"You made this? It's my favorite! The fabric is so soft…and the design…? It looks so complicated."

"Oh, but it isn't really. First I choose a fabric from the rack and I pin the pattern down. Then I stitch it in the front and back and it turns into a gown", Alva finished extravagantly, and Hiccup decided to join in.

"I wear the gown without my crown and dance around the room."

" "And imagine life without the strife of a quite platonic groom" ", they both finished laughing a little after.

"Your… what'd she call it?" Luna asked.

"Halfling?" Toothless guessed.

"Yes, Halfling. She's quite good."

"So is yours", Toothless responded in kind to the smaller dragon.

"I'm just like you!" Hiccup sung.

"I think that's true", Alva joined in.

"You're just like me."

"Yes, I can see."

" "We take responsibility." "

"We carry through!" Alva led.

"We carry through."

" "Do what we need to do. Yes, I am a girl like you." "

"I'm just like you", Alva led again.

"I'm just like you."

"You're just like me."

"You're just like me."

" "It's something anyone can see." "

"A heart that beats!" Hiccup led.

"A heart that beats."

" "A voice that speaks the truth. Yes, I am a girl like you!" "

"It's amazing", Alva said. "Except for our hair", she added directing to her blonde hair that only reached her shoulders.

"And our scales", Hiccup added before the two burst into laughter again. It was just so surreal.

Aric and Shadowstar then came up with two cups in the young man's hands. "Here you are, Hiccup." He then took a double take and dropped the cups in shock.

"What'd we miss?" Shadowstar asked walking over to Toothless and Luna.

"Hiccup finally met another one of her species", Toothless said.

"Something wrong, Aric?" Hiccup asked teasingly.

"It-its… Do you have a twin I don't know about?"

Shouts then began to sound as Killer suddenly came up from the ground, causing a panic in the market, and immediately chased after Toothless, the dragon running away.

"Toothless!" Hiccup exclaimed as Toothless ran off.

"Luna!" Alva also called as Luna went after the other two dragons.

Looking at each other, the two girls nodded, stretched their wings out from their cloaks, and took off after them.

000

"Get back here so I can rip you to shreds!" Killer screeched.

"But what fun would that be?!" Toothless called back as he raced through the market. Eventually, Toothless took a wrong turn into a dead end. He tried to jump the wall, but it was too high, and his wings didn't add enough of a boost. He turned to see Killer hovering there ready to rip him to shreds as he said.

"Well, it looks like you caught me. You ready to lose?" Toothless said crouching.

"Like I would lose to a crippled Night Fury."

"You mean like all those times I beat you before? What about this morning? That was fun."

"Why you—" The Whispering Death began to lunge forward when a rather small Light Fury entered the scene.

"Leave him alone!" Luna called jumping in front of Toothless.

"Aw, you letting your mate fight your battles for you now? The help of a Viking wasn't enough?" Killer mocked. "Move aside pip squeak!" he then said knocking her aside to the ground with his tail making Toothless growl. "Now where were we…?"

"The part where you run like a little hatchling!" Toothless replied before shooting his plasma blasts with full power one after the other. By the fifth, the Whispering Death retreated into the earth. Toothless then went over to Luna who was looking rather ashamed, her head down as she now sat. "Hey, Luna, was it? Thanks for the help."

"But I didn't really do anything?" she replied timidly not looking him in the eye.

"You distracted him long enough for me to power up all my fire into that one attack", Toothless lied to make the small Light Fury feel better. It worked, cause she perked right up, her magenta eyes no longer looking down at the ground. "If you ever want to learn to fight, I'll be on Berk?"

Luna didn't respond. She just had a soft grateful look on her face.

"Toothless." "Luna." their Halflings said in unison landing at the entrance of the dead end before running up to them.

000

"What was that all about?" Alva asked checking on Luna, as Hiccup checked Toothless.

"That was Alvin the Treacherous' dragon, Killer. He and Toothless have this rivalry going on. You okay, bud?" Hiccup asked Toothless placing her hand on his head.

"I'm okay", Toothless said nuzzling into the hand.

"I'm okay, Alva. Really", Luna then complained.

Alva merely sighed. "Girl, you know you're not supposed to run off like that."

"Why not?" Hiccup asked.

"Because she can't defend herself. There isn't exactly a lot of time or room to practice when you're stuck in a work shop all day," she said petting her Light Fury with concern in her eyes.

Hiccup's eyes then traveled down Alva's left leg and noticed it was just a wooden peg. "Did that happen because she couldn't defend herself?" Hiccup asked softly.

"Oh, this? Yes. When I told you that I took Luna in, I didn't mention that she was also cornered by a Changewing. The dragon's acid hit my leg while saving her… And you?" she then asked rising, noticing Hiccup's rather interesting prosthetic.

"Oh, Toothless bit it off while trying to save me from a mountainous dragon." She then turned to Toothless teasingly. "Right? You just couldn't save all of me, could you bud? Nope, you just had to make it even."

"So, I assume that was your doing", Alva surmised looking at Toothless' tail.

"Uh...yeah…" Hiccup responded still not liking the reminder of how she had disabled Toothless.

"Hiccup!" Aric then called from above on his Midnight Nadder bringing her out of her thoughts. "Come on, I just got a Terror mail from Astrid saying your dad's looking for you!"

Hiccup sighed. "Well, duty calls. Even on a day off my dad can't give me a break." Hiccup mounted on Toothless, but before she left she had to say one last thing to Alva. "By the way, you should really sing for us on Berk sometime."

"Really?!" Alva exclaimed with her eyes lighting up and ears perking up.

"Yeah. Maybe at the wedding?"

"I would be honored! Thank you!" Alva exclaimed, her ears perked with excitement.

"I hope to see you soon. Come on, bud." With that, Hiccup and Toothless leaped into the sky following Aric and Shadowstar.

Alva watched them go for a little until she decided she should go back to work before her mistress called for her head, and then decided to use the little dragon hide she had for fabric before tossing her body into the ocean. "Come on, Luna", Alva said to her dragon, walking off, and the Light Fury followed close behind.

That night after meeting Alva, Hiccup was at her desk asleep, the candle at its lowest point about to go out, having fallen asleep while still trying to find if Berk still held any wealth. Toothless was on his rock slab sleeping peacefully as well, until he heard something from outside. His head jumped up to the sound, and seeing Hiccup asleep, he decided to check it out for himself. Slowly, Toothless made it to the window above Hiccup's bed and poked his head out to look outside. He didn't see anything; only the forest and the stillness of the village. He was about to go back to bed, when he heard a banging sound; this time sounding like it came from their roof. He turned back to Hiccup wondering if he should wake her, but seeing her finally getting some well-deserved rest, he decided against it; he could take care of whatever this was himself. Toothless jumped out of the window to take a look at what was making the sound; were they in danger, or was it just some animal or dragon making a ruckus? He received the answer quite quickly when a jar was dropped in front of him like it fell from the sky. The way the jar looked, and the strangeness of how it was just thrown to him…

*'Why does this seem so familiar?' he wondered sniffing it.

The jar's cork popped open just then letting out a purple gas. "Dragon Root!" he shrieked. He wanted to go warn Hiccup, but then the world around him began to spin, and soon, there was nothing but darkness.

000

Bjorn and Bjarte jumped off the Haddock's roof to where the Night Fury laid unconscious, dead to the world around it, Bjorn laughing joyfully.

"We did it", he said. "Let's go."

Bjarte only rolled his eyes at the idiot. "Come here, Bjorn." He did, and when he got close enough Bjarte wacked him upside the head. "Yak for brains. Our job is to capture the Haddock girl. Not her Night Fury!"

"Right. Right. But we still get to keep it?"

"Yes, Bjorn, we keep the Night Fury. Otherwise Stoick'll get suspicious. Now, you have the second jar?"

"Right here", Bjorn replied holding the jar filled with Dragon Root gas up.

"Good." Bjarte began towards the window, when Bjorn spoke up again.

"Just, one question."

Bjarte groaned. "What?"

"Why don't we just nab the girl and go? It's not like she'll be much of a challenge?"

"Because we don't want the whole village and their dragons after us, now do we?" Bjarte explained as if to a child who was getting on his last nerves.

Using the Night Fury's head as a little bit of a boost the two climbed up to the window about to throw the jar in, when Hiccup stirred waking up.

"Hmhm… Toothless?" she asked looking around her room sleepily, and the two immediately went out of sight. "Toothless!" Hiccup then called.

"Follow me", Bjarte whispered to Bjorn going behind the house where the girl wouldn't see them should she find her Night Fury outside the window.

000

When Hiccup woke up, she found her candle out and Toothless nowhere in sight, the latter being very strange. "Toothless!" she called, but no answer came. She decided to take a look out her window to see if she could see anything, when she found Toothless lying unconscious on the ground. "Toothless!" she exclaimed in shock.

Quickly, Hiccup jumped out the window to her dragon finding a jar opened beside where his head laid. She picked it up, and took one sniff grimacing, and shaking the small effect away. "Dragon Root. But who would do this?"

Her question was answered when her ears perked to foot steps behind her. Turning around, she found two Outcasts, and before she could react one threw the jar in his hand to the ground in front of her, smashing it, and allowing a gas to spill out.

Hiccup coughed violently, covering her nose and mouth with her hands, trying to get away, but it was too late; she'd already breathed too much in. She fell to the ground on her hands and knees dizzy trying to stay awake. But, it was to no avail; the last thing she saw were two fuzzy images of the Outcasts looming over her before she listed to the side, darkness claiming her as it did Toothless.

*This is a reference to Something Rotten on Berserker Island when someone throws a jar of Dragon Root gas into the stables.