Location - the island of Berk

Hiccup opened his eyes slowly. He sat upright on his bed for minute, rubbing his eyes, trying stay awake. He slowly tried to get up, but his body was still sore from the previous day. His cousin, Snotlout really didn't seem to like him making a fool out him, in front of Astrid. Still it was worth getting noticed by her, for knowing exactly to maintain an axe.

He chuckled a bit at the thought of Astrid punching Snotlout for trying to spit shine her axe.

"You're in a good mood,... for a guy who just got bashed yesterday." a voice spoke from the rafters above his bed. Looking up Hiccup spotted a girl, laying back against one of the rafters, smiling at him.

"Well you know me; I can take a hit just like any other viking."Hiccup retorted, putting his best fake smile to fool Aliyah. Hiccup moved out of bed and headed downstairs. When he went downstairs he found that his father had already left to do his duties as chief. Hiccup looked around wondering if his dad left any food for him, he eventually found some cooked fish and bread left in the kitchen. He sat down and had his breakfast. While he was eating, the girl appeared in the chair opposite to his.

Most people might have been shocked at the appearance of a teenage girl right in front them, while they were eating fish and bread, but this girl had appeared enough times for Hiccup to get used to it.

"Half of an hour," she stated. He looked at her confused for second then she spoke again, "You have half of an hour to get to the forge." His eyes widened, he overslept. Yak dung, Gobber would kill him if he was late for smiting. He scoffed down the rest of his food and dashed straight out of his house. The girl followed suite disappearing as she left the house.

Hiccup hurried to the forge, ignoring his body's protest. He usually got up earlier to work in the forge, for two reasons; the first being, Gobber ran the forge and if he turned up early he could usually work for extra materials for his inventions and the second being to avoid Snotface. He finally made it into the forge and nearly collapsed from near exhaustion. The one arm, one legged viking looked at him with a slight concerned look on his face. "What's wrong lad? You look like you were being chased by dragon." Hiccup took a moment to catch his breath. "I...over...slept" he panted.

Gobber scratched the back of his head with his hook, "Well lad to be honest, I wasn't going to open today"

"What?" Hiccup responded.

"Aye laddie, I'm going after that wretched dragon, I swear I saw it flying over the island last night." Hiccup sighed, not this again. This was the third time this year, that Gobber was going after the Bone Knapper. Hiccup liked Gobber but sometimes the man was just to much, the Bone Knapper was just a myth. A myth Gobber believed way too much. Gobber claims that he once battled a hammerhead yak while chasing after the Bone Knapper.

"So how long will you be gone for?" Hiccup asked, hoping the answer was a two days but the Blacksmith responded that he will be gone for four days or until he caught the Bone Knapper, whichever came first. Hiccup sighed. Four days. Four days he would be stuck on this island and getting bullied and he wouldn't have Gobber to keep Snotface and the others away. Gobber saw the worried expression on Hiccup's face. Resting his only hand on the boy's shoulders he assured him it wouldn't take long and he would be back before Hiccup knew it.

"If it makes you feel better laddie, you're welcome to come to me forge and work on whatever it is you got up in that head of yours." Gobber spoke." "Thanks Gobber." Hiccup told his adopted uncle. Gobber moved to walk out of the forge, before stopping." Just one thing, don't hurt yuhself and don't let Snotface in."

"Can do Gobber." Hiccup responded.

"And don't let me come back and catch yuh with any lass." At that moment Hiccup's cheek were red as he blushed. "GOBBER!" the half limbed viking laughed as he walked out the forge." Just kidding boy, lighten up will yuh."

Hiccup stayed in the forge the rest of the day, checking all the extra weapons and making sure they were in working condition." So what do you plan on doing today." Aliyah asked appearing out of thin air and walking beside boy merely shrugged, the only plan he had was avoid Snotlout and the twins. He may try and find Astrid later but she's probably busy training to become a shieldmaiden and Fishlegs was probably doing who knows what. "Any new invention ideas?" the girl continued to ask. Hiccup put the dagger, he was sharpening back in its place and walked over to his work bench, Gobber had given him. His emerald eyes scanned the area before he found what he was looking for. A small leather notebook was behind a few small tools he had scattered. He flipped open the notebook and began skimming through the pages. Aliyah peered over his shoulder looking at the contents of the book. The book was full of drawings; there were maps of Berk, his father, some dragon traps and even a young viking girl. Hiccup eventually stopped on the drawings of two spiked shields. "This one." he exclaimed.

Aliyah observed the drawings for a second taking in every detail. One was a standard round shield with eight spikes around it. The other showed the same eight spikes but now extended out of the shield. "You told me a good offense is a good defence right?" Hiccup asked Aliyah. The girl nodded in response to him. "Well here is how this is going to work," Hiccup stated, pointing to the first shield, "this shield would have eight iron rods passing through the centre, reinforcing the wooden shield so it could take more damage." He the motioned to the second drawing," Now the second part is simple, there would be a switcher close to the handle, that when pressed forces the spike to extend a little way will effectively make the shield more lethal to fight with" He finished with a satisfied smirk. His father was going to be so proud of him.

Aliyah looked over the design.

"Seems do-able," she muttered, "but are you sure you're ready to make something like this?" the boy nodded.

The two looked out the window, noticing the setting sun. "It's getting late, and I am pretty sure you skipped lunch." As if on cue the boy's stomach growled. "I will take that as a yes, come on, go and get something to eat." She spoke in soft voice, gently pushing Hiccup outside. When he got out he turned to see she had disappeared again. He locked the forge before heading to the Great hall for some food. The girl appeared on top the Great hall looking at the forest. She heard a dragon roar but surprising as no one else did. She then leapt of the building into woods followed by a cloaked figure close behind.

Author's Notes:

Sorry I have not updated in half a year things were just pretty chaotic with exams and my laptop spoiling and writers block. So now I am typing this down on my phone, so please excuse any mistakes. Like always I do not own Httyd. If I did the lycanwing would have actually been real. I do own Rush, Aliyah and the oc dragons.

If you have any question let me know in a review and I will answer them as best I can as long as they do not spoil the story. I would also like to say constructive criticism is appreciated but any flames will be put out, and hopefully chapter four comes out later