So Here is the Full chapter. I'm sorry it took two weeks to get this out. I will try not to let it happen again. Thank you guys for being understanding. Remember I don't own anything.

6 Not Quite Viking

"No person is to leave or do anything while I'm gone!" Spitelout yelled as he and his on boarded a boat.

"Or there will be consequences," His son added.

The boat had provisions for a weeks travel, oars, weapons and lengths of rope. It also carried several bundle that Snotlout had insisted that he needed for the voyage. As a result the boat was riding rather low in the water. Some of the vikings at the dock noticed this but knew better than trying to correct their chief. They had learned from experience that Spitelout was always right no matter the situation and if you spoke up you got blamed.

The men of the village watched the two push off and start to row, the boat rocking precariously. The chief was after the traitors, or so he called them. No one really thought of them as traitors, they had just left when they had no other choice. Something every viking could relate to. They just hope that Bucket and Mulch would not be found by the chief.

Some of the men turned and left, they had other duties to attend two. Also there was a visitor on the island, he and his brother were their responsibility. The two were very odd, they had come to propose something to the chief. What the vikings of Berk did not know, but most sensible vikings knew that whoever the man and his brother were that they were trouble.

He had just showed up one day, and demanded to see the chief. From then on what he was doing or where he was going, had been a mystery just as big as his identity. They had guessed that man with the stranger was his brother because of their close resemblance. But with that man all bets seem to be off. Whenever people noticed him around the village, he would just be watching them. From what people had seen, he was always observing people, objects or nature. A few of the more observant vikings had noticed him sitting at a table in the darkest far corner of the great hall. He would sit there silent, thinking and watching. Once one viking had thought he saw a map out in front of the man, but he did not know for sure. The man puzzled them all.

Then his brother was also strange, he never spoke unless he absolutely had to. He would get everything for his brother. He had the same face as his brother but he was significantly larger. His size did not, however, make him clumsy. In fact both of them were extremely agile and careful in their step. Some of the better warriors of the village would have guessed them both very able warriors. The other odd thing that plagued the people in the great hall, was that they ate but they never drank mead.

Everything about them was just not quite viking.

Hiccup was in his own slice of heaven. He was slowly guiding his friend over the terrain of Berk. His path was supposed to be to one of the sea stacks near the cove, but he had decided to take a longer route. The land was just beautiful from above. The sun casting cold white shadows and illuminating golden sparks in the snow. Every tree was laden heavy with snow turning them into golden and white spikes shooting up from the landscape. Then the land had stopped and they were out over ocean.

He had noticed that she was no longer pensive and seem to happy even. Then he had felt her arms tighten around his slender waist. It was a feeling entirely new to him, foreign but pleasant.

He asked himself in his mind again, 'why doesn't she hate me like everyone else?' For whatever some reason, that he could not understand, he knew that she did not hate him. It was something he knew, something that made sense, something that felt nice for once. He felt her press against his back and rest her head on his shoulder. He went rigid for a moment, then relaxed. Her face was visible to him in his periphery and she looked happy. And he felt happy.

Her thoughts were slowed by the lucid effect of what she was doing. She wondered why she was holding him. She wondered why his eyes were green. She wondered why she wondered or whether it was worth wondering. His hair blew into her face and she brushed it away.

She adjusted her head letting it rest gently against his. They just stayed like that, gliding through the cold crisp air. She could feel him breath and slowly his breath matched hers or hers matched his, she couldn't really tell. But to be honest she really didn't care. She had never really thought she would ever do something like this with anyone, let alone a stranger. The more she thought about, the less like a stranger he seemed. She felt a mental bond to Hiccup, some mental mechanism had just said he was ok. She thought that this should have been surprising, but it was just something else.

Hiccup was scared, what was happening? He should have been rigid with surprise, fear or something. But the warmth he felt in between them was intoxicating. It kept him from acting out what he felt about entering foreign territory. The way she molded to him was almost impossible to the analytical part of his mind. But then it was hard for him to focus, the weight of her head on his shoulder was just something that he had no words for. It or her, he wasn't sure what he was talking about, was really a quindry to him. He really was used to being able to find an explanation for most things, besides people. Even with people he usually had some good idea what was happening, but with her he had no idea whatsoever. This was something new.

Presently Toothless begin to gain altitude. He good feel the mush that was going on between the two humans. At first it had been ok, then it had become slightly annoying and then extremely annoying. So he had decided to do something about it. He climbed higher and higher and the two on his back seemed lost in their universe. He smiled to himself, Hiccup was usually ready for his dives. Toothless slowed down as much as he could and then tucked his wings in letting them fall.

Astrid laughed, she had never felt completely weightless before. She promptly decided that it was one of the best feeling in the world. The ground and the sky spun past and it was amazing. She didn't even think about the ground rushing up on them. But then the dragon threw its wings into a fling position, slowing them down and giving them positive g's. They landed softly on a sea stack. Astrid looked around amazed, as a little girl she had wanted to climb to the top of one of the many sea stacks around Berk. then she would have build a house and started a garden and would have lived up there. She frowned, it like many of her childhood dreams had been surpassed by time. Like that one about the chiefs boy, she blushed lightly to herself then chastised herself for even doing that. She came back to reality, Hiccup was no longer in her arms but brushing snow out of a fire pit.

"Could I have a little help here?" she asked.

He looked up a little surprised, seemed to catch himself and walked over offering her his hand. "Milady," he said as she took his hand. He helped her down and gave her the crutch. He walked over to Toothless and whispered in his ear. Immediately and to Astrids dismay the dragon took off. She turned and looked questioningly at Hiccup.

"Sent him fishing," he said, leaving her thoroughly puzzled. How did a dragon fish? He walked over to a snow covered pile and brushed the snow off the top to reveal logs. He grabbed couple and carried them over to the pit.

"So why did we come here?" she asked.

"I though some fresh air would be good, plus I want to know more about Berk," he stated.

She nodded. He began arranging the logs in the pit. Once satisfied he he reached into his pocket and pulled out a something small. She moved closer to get a better look at what he had. It was a small metal box with a lever on the side. Hiccup pushed the lever down and a bunch of sparks flew out. She smiled in surprise and looked even closer.

"Did you make that?" she asked.

He looked up at her surprised, "yeah I did."

"That's cool, how does it work?" she asked. And he began to explain to her the mechanism by which it worked. But neither was aware of the major inconvenience that they were about to experience.

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