Hiccup gulped. This couldn't be real, it had to be a dream.
"Answer my question!" the girl hissed, baring her white teeth.
"You are.. in my.. bedroom?" he squeaked out at last. "How is this possible?"
The girl suddenly looked taken aback, noticing her new foreign surroundings for the first time. "Is this not.. Berk?" An alarming look struck her face. "Where am I?"
Hiccup took this opportunity to snatch the axe out of her grip, throwing it on the bed behind him.
"Hey! Give that back to me!"
Hiccup held up his hands in defense. "Not.. until you calm down first," he insisted. "Please."
The girl frantically stepped around the room, clearly panicked. "What is this place!" she exclaimed. "Take me back to Berk! Now!"
"I don't know how you got here," Hiccup retorted. "Or where this 'Berk' is.."
The blonde stopped short, shooting him an incredulous look. "How can you not know where Berk is? It's one of the most notorious Viking islands in the Archipelago! The Hooligan tribe-"
"Hold on... did you say Viking islands?" he interrupted her. "You're a... Viking?"
She looked at him as if he had grown a second head. As if her being a Viking was the most obvious thing in the world. "Aren't you a Viking?"
Hiccup shook his head slowly, "No."
She started pacing again.
Hiccup scratched the back of his head, not sure of how to proceed from the current ongoing debacle. "My name is Hiccup Haddock," he started, taking a hesitant step forward to reach for her.
The girl swatted his hands away but halted her frantic movements. She looked him up and down curiously. "Astrid," she mumbled out her own name.
Hiccup nodded, biting his lip and shifting on one foot awkwardly. "So what is the last thing you remember Astrid?" he asked, trying to make sense of the unusual situation.
"I remember being in the forest and- You were there! I remember seeing you with that.. that dragon!" she scowled. "Where is he?"
Hiccup rolled his eyes. "Is that really so important right now?" he huffed. "I mean, don't you want to know where you are?"
Astrid's eyes widened and she grew fearful again. "Tell me."
Hiccup took a deep breath, sinking down on the bed behind him. "If my suspicions are correct.. I think there has been sort of 'time-glitch' and you happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said, looking wistful. "Which led you to end up here."
Astrid frowned. "I don't get it."
Hiccup sighed. "Okay, so you know about the concept of yesterday and tomorrow, right?" She nodded. "Well this is a.. distant tomorrow, far into the future. A different realm. Yesterday happened many centuries ago."
"Centuries?" she mumbled, knitting her eyebrows. "No, no. This doesn't make any sense to me. You are making this up!"
In a sudden blur she grabbed her axe and then decided to jump out the open bedroom window.
"Hey! Where do you think you are going?" Hiccup rushed to the window-hill to see her sprint across the dark street.
Hiccup quickly grabbed his jacket and ran downstairs to exit out the door. He found his bike by the garage and began following her trail.
Astrid was quick and light on her feet, moving faster than anyone he had ever seen before. But the bike still gave him an advantage and he managed to catch up just as she collapsed down on her knees by one of the street lamps as she realized there was no way out of this neverending labyrinth. "I want to go home," she cried, hugging her axe close to her chest.
Hiccup held out his hand towards her. "I don't know how but we will try everything to get you back, I promise," he tried to reassure. "Just please.. come back inside. It's not safe out here."
Astrid didn't take his hand but stood up and began following him back to his house.
-,-
The young Viking girl looked very much out of place sleeping on the couch in his living room. The look on her face resembled the one of a baby animal brought into a foreign environment.
Hiccup ran his hands through his mop of hair, waiting for Frankie to pick up his phone. It was almost morning but his friend appeared to be completely out of it.
After failing to reach Frankie, Hiccup made it over to his garage to look at the burnt generator. He wondered if it had been the cause of the disturbance or whether this whole thing was nothing more than a mere coincidence.
There was one thought in particular he kept coming back to. If Astrid was real and she was here, then what about Toothless? Was he still back at the cove on 'Berk' or had he somehow followed Astrid here? What else could have escaped through this unexpected 'time portal'?
Feeling overwhelmed by sleep, he decided to head up to his bedroom. Roughly an hour later, he woke up to the sound of his alarm clock and quickly dashed down to see if Astrid was still where he had left her with the giant axe tucked against her chest.
She appeared to be fast asleep and he decided against waking her since he would be back again in a couple of hours.
-,-
Hiccup walked in silence next to Frankie as he chatted with Heather.
It seemed like a never-ending conversation and Hiccup felt his patience starting to wear thin by the time Heather left to catch her ride.
"Is everything alright, Hiccup? You look a little tired," Frankie noted. "The circles underneath your eyes are even darker than usual."
Hiccup huffed, rolling his eyes. "Why didn't you answer my call? I tried calling you three times yesterday."
Frankie looked taken aback by his best friend's unusually angry tone. "I must have accidentally put it on silence?" he responded slowly, narrowing his eyes. "Wait, why are you so ticked off?"
Hiccup sighed, rubbing his eyes. He was letting his lack of sleep get the better of him. "Sorry, I just.. There is something really important that I need to show you Frankie," he told him seriously.
Frankie looked to be musing. "Does it have to do with our.. project?"
"Sort of, yeah." Hiccup cast his eyes down, a smile touching his face for the first time that day.
Frankie's eyes widened. "Alright. I'll come over after choir practice."
-,-
Hiccup rushed back home on his bike, deciding to skip his next two classes as he had more pressing matters to attend to.
He looked frantically around the house for the Viking girl but found her vanished from sight.
Where had she gone?
While he paced around the kitchen, he suddenly noticed the back-door was ajar. He stepped out to his backyard and then saw a rusty axe lying on the earthy floor.
He bent down to pick it up.
"I told you to not to touch my axe."
Hiccup flinched, looking up in bewilderment to see Astrid's legs dangling off a tree branch while she munched on one of his neighbour's apples.
He opened and closed his mouth at the sight of her.
She seemed utterly unconcerned however, throwing the half-eaten apple down on the ground before helping herself with a new one.
Hiccup couldn't decide whether he was amused by the Viking girl's antics or scared of what Mrs. Henderson would think when she realized someone had stolen apples from her tree. She would most likely accuse him of said act and his mother would then ground him for a whole week.
Astrid somersaulted down in front of him and grabbed her axe.
"So when are you taking me back to Berk?"
AN: If you think this story is nonsensical, then that's because it is. xD It's just a 'fun' thing I wrote for myself. Next chapter will be up soon-ish, I just need to edit it.