Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up. School, NANO, and the ever so lovely computer problem that required it to be with Geek Squad for a week.

They Figure Out What to Do With Me

These guys had definitely been eating their wheaties. They were huge! I mean, yeah they were shown as huge in the film, but the majority of them had to be around seven feet tall! There were even some women in here that were as large as some of the men. Guess Halla was one of the few thinner women around. But when you fought dragons for a living, I guess you did have to be buff. But still, good lord. There were probably sumo wrestlers back home smaller then these guys.

I felt a hand on my shoulder and suddenly found myself stumbling forward, Halla having pushed me gently to move, though it had caught me off guard obviously. Oh yes, stumbling probably really helped with making a good impression. I glared back at her as I caught myself, though her eyes were not on be, but across the hall on Stoick. I straightened up and looked back towards Stoick, Hiccups father. Sure, he made some stupid mistakes in the movie, but he had his people's best interests at heart. And he did love his son, he just did not understand him. He did not understand that Hiccup being different was not necessarily a bad thing. Yet.

"What's your name, lass?" Stoick asked after a moment, breaking the awkward silence that had filled the hall.

Yup, still sounded like Gerard Butler. I swallowed. "Kendra. Kendra Burr. And who are you?" I asked, feinting interest.

Of course I already knew who he was, but they did not know that. They could not know that. How would I even explain that I came from a world where they were all characters in a piece of fiction? That and they would think me a creeper. Or a spy.

He straightened up a bit. "I am Stoick the Vast, Chief of the Hairy Hooligan's," he replied. The man that had come from me at Halla's shifted on his left, seeming almost anxious. Stoick's eyes flickered in the man's direction before returning to me. "How did you-"

"Get here?" I finished for him. He looked at me for a moment before nodding. I shrugged. "I wish I knew. The last thing I remember was being chased by a man that," I paused and looked down. I was pretty sure what he had intended to do to me, but actually saying it allowed just seemed to make what I had nearly gone through all the more real. And horrifying. "I'm pretty sure that he was going to take advantage of me."

That got a response out of the crowd. They shifted and began mutter amongst themselves. Loudly. "It wasn't anyone here," I added quickly, holding up my hand in surrender, not wanting anyone to get suspicious of someone in the village. I sighed and dropped my hands. "But anyway, after that I fell. Guess I hit a rock or something and then next thing I knew, I was waking up in Halla's."

Stoick simply looked at me with an expression I could not read. "Where are you from?"

I bit my lip as I thought. How the heck was I going to explain this? "I come from the small village of Arrowhead, which I think is quite a long ways from here."

Hmm. That worked. And a 'long ways from here' was putting it mildly. Very mildly. My home was another world. Though I could not exactly say that. They would think I was nuts. I began to fiddle with the edge of the right sleeve of the shirt Halla had given me to wear as more mutterings broke out.

Gobber looked at me curiously and the room once again went silent. "How old are ye, lass?"

"Eighteen," I replied. "My birthday was two weeks ago."

Getting dropped into another world, surrounded by animated characters. Yes, lovely belated birthday gift. A few mutterings broke out in the crowd once again.

"I say we ship her off!" shouted someone in the crowd.

"Yeah!" I heard someone else yell in agreement. "She could be a spy! Who knows if this 'Arrowhead' even exists?"

I felt a hand on my shoulder and looked over to see that Halla had come up beside me. "She'll not be going anywhere. She is injured and in my care."

Stoick opened his mouth to say something, probably to tell everyone in the hall to be quiet, but stopped as if he had heard something. I frowned slightly for a moment before the sound reached my ears as well. The sound of a stick hitting the stone floor of the room. The sound slowly seemed to be noticed by everyone else and the room went silent. The crowd to the left of Stoick parted like the red sea to let someone I could not see through. It was a few minutes before I saw who had caused them to part like that. The elder walked into view to stand before the fire pit, her stick having made the sound that had sounded throughout the room.

She stopped before the fire pit and looked toward me. "Come closer, child."

Her voice showed her age, but it was anything but frail. It kind of reminded me of the voice of the woman that played McGonagall in Harry Potter. I had no idea how I had expected her to sound, seeing as she never spoke in the movie and was only seen once or twice, but this voice was not what I had expected to come from her mouth. It held this sort of quiet strength. It was easy to see why she was so respected within this village.

I stepped forward without Halla pushing me this time and walked over to where the elder stood before the fire pit. People moved back as I walked over to her. My stomach was in knots. Who knew that having your fate be decided by a bunch of fictional characters could be so nerve wracking. I stopped before the elder and looked down at her. Now, I was not the tallest person in the world, but this woman was short!

She looked up at me then lifted the hand that was not holding her staff and gestured for me to kneel, which I did seconds later. I could feel the cold stone floor through the leggings Halla had given me to wear. She then slowly walked around me, her pale blue eyes scanning me. Her eyes actually reminded me of Astrid. Perhaps they were related. Hmm. She stopped before me once more and gestured for me to stand.

"This child is no spy," she said as I pushed myself back to my feet. The woman continued to look at me curiously. "Though, I believe she has much to learn, and she shall learn it here."

People in the crowd shifted, but said nothing. Then Stoick asked, "Are you sure, Gothi?"

She turned to look at Stoick and I caught sight of a small smile on her features as she turned. Just what did this woman know about me? And what did she mean that I would learn something here? I knew of so many things that they did not, so they could probably learn something from me.

"Positive," she responded, before slowly turning back toward me. "Powerful magic brought this girl here. Perhaps the gods are behind this, I do not know. But one thing I am certain of; we all have something to learn from this."

I could not help but raise my eyebrows. Magic? Gods? Seriously? She thought that was how I had gotten here? Then again, it was the only theory I had heard so far. It was technically impossible to be where I was at that moment, so perhaps it was not so impossible that magic had brought me here.

The hall erupted in noise as those in the hall began to protest what the woman had said. Stoick stood after a few seconds of noise and pounded his fist against the side of the fire pit. "SILENCE!" he roared, his voice echoing through the large hall. It took a few seconds, but the hall fell silent once more. "The Elder has spoken, and we will honor her decision."

"Where will she stay?" asked someone in the crowd to my right.

"I had thought it was obvious," I heard Halla say from behind me and glanced back to see her walking up to come stand on my left. She set a hand on my shoulder. "She'll stay with me. She is already in my care and she fits in my old things."

I could not help but smile at the woman. She had taken care of me before I had regained consciousness and now she was offering me a permanent place to stay while I was here, however long that would be. She was giving me a home away from home and I felt a deep sense of gratitude for the woman. She did not have to take me in, but she was. "Thank you."

Halla smiled and squeezed my shoulder gently.

"Now that that is decided, we have other things to talk about," Stoick said, causing my head to turn back toward him. "Halla, you two may go. I will fill you in later."

I glanced over at Halla to see her nod in acknowledgement. The hand moved from my shoulder and down to my shoulder blade as Halla directed me to turn around and head for the doors of the hall. The hall remained silent as Halla and I walked to the doors and I could feel the eyes of everyone in the room upon me as we walked past them. Halla moved in front of me and pushed open the right door. I winced slightly at the bright sunlight as I stepped outside. As Halla let the door close behind us, I could hear the room break out into noise.

Gulls cried in the distance and whispering that had been coming from my left stopped as soon as we stepped outside. I glanced over to see the teens still gathered outside. The twins had stopped mid fight and the position they were currently in was quite comical. Ruffnut looked like she was trying to climb on top of her brother. The looks on their faces reminded me of the scene in the movie where Hiccup got the dragon back into the cage with the eel under his vest. Hiccup was there as well, slightly behind the others.

"Kendra," Halla called and I glanced over to see that she was already a few steps down the stairs. I glanced toward the teens and flashed them a grin before hurrying after Halla down the steps. She continued down the stairs once I reached her side. She said nothing until we entered the village, where she began to point out where things were to me as we walked through its many levels until we reached the level she lived on.

She stopped talked outside the front of her house. "Now, I am telling you this because I'm going to need you to run some errands around the village for me. Pick up ingredients, drop off orders, stuff like that. I don't know what it is like where you are from, but here you are of age. And as such, you will have to work."

I nodded as she spoke. It made sense and was only fair that I did my part since I was an adult. Though part of me wondered how long it would take me before I stopped getting lost here. Shoot, my senior year of high school and there were still times that I got lost on that campus and it was not that big of a school.

"Were you trained in anything where you came from?" she asked.

I nodded, wondering how I was going to word this since I was sure they did not know the word veterinarian here. "I was studying medicine back home, though it was specifically for animals."

Halla looked slightly surprised for a moment before smiling. "Well, I am sure that will be needed here, what with the sheep getting hurt so often. Though in mean time, you will be working with me."

I returned the smile. "Sounds good."

"Right," she said before putting her hands on my shoulders and steering me inside. "Now to check on that head of yours."