So this is a test chapter based on a story I am thinking about working on. It takes place after HTTYD2 and goes on towards HTTYD3. The story will be called Rescue Riders (based on the new Dreamworks series they are releasing soon that's not based on HTTYD.) I would greatly appreaiate any reviews to see if people would like this as a story. Note that this will be the first chapter and that in the story there will be a villain, but I am not saying who, you'll have to wait and see.

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First Day As Chief

Its Hiccup's first day running the village as chief but he seems to be finding it a lot harder than he expected. And without Toothless there to always help him he starts to see why his father was always coming home tired.

'This is Berk. Well... the ice isn't meant to be part of it, but the rest is. Battling against a humongous ice spitting dragon would do that to a island. Sure the village might of been destroyed, but our spirit sure hasn't.'

"Ahh, help!" Snotlout yelled in a not so manly way as he was being dragged by a Thunderclaw.

'Its been 24 hours since the battle against Drago Bludvist and since Toothless and I were made the new leaders of our kind.'

"I've got you Snotlout." Astrid called over to him as she fly over to help.

'Of course I have already had to deal with another tribe and Foreverwings. Along with a not so smart king, and a weird dragon wannabe man that kidnapped us.'

"Ahh my hero."

'But for my first chief mission, I think we did okay.'

"AHHH!"

'I certainly have a good team to have my back.'

"Hey Hiccup." Tuffnut said as he and his twin sister made their way over to Hiccup and Toothless. "Or is it Chief Hiccup? Or Leader Hiccup? Or King?"

"King? Should we kneel before thee?" Ruffnut asked as she and her brother began to slowly kneel on to the floor.

"Ur no, no kneeling guys." Hiccup quickly said putting his hands out in front of himself. "Hiccup's fine guys. Just cause I'm chief now doesn't mean you have to act differently around me."

"Act different? Phft, do you know us Hiccup?" Tuffnut asked as he gestured himself and Ruffnut.

"Just cause your chief doesn't mean we're gonna stop blowing thing up." Ruffnut pointed out. Hiccup sighed.

"Well it would be nice if you guys did stop blowing things up. That way we don't have to keep on rebuilding everything." Hiccup told the pair.

"Where's the fun in that?" Tuffnut asked.

"Yeah, not blowing this up would be boring." Ruffnut said with a slight disappointing tone.

"Okay, how about this: why don't the pair of you go get Barf and Belch and blow up the ice around the village?" Hiccup suggested.

"Oh yeah!" "Whoo!"

"Now you're speaking our language!" Tuffnut yelled as he quickly began to run of to find his dragon.

"That's a order I don't mind obeying." Ruffnut said as she followed after her twin.

"Just make sure to get the pieces away from the buildings!" Hiccup yelled over to the 2 dragon riders, though he was sure neither of them heard him. Hiccup sighed before looking over to Toothless. "What do you say bud? Wanna stretch those wings and check out the village from the sky?"

Toothless gave his friend a gummy smile as he jump a little on the spot. Hiccup laughed giving the dragon a scratch on the head. Just as he went to climb onto the dragons back a voice called over to him.

"Chief!" Hiccup climbed back down and turned around to see a male villager running over to him, looking a little panicked.

"Armod? What seems to be the problem?" Hiccup asked.

"Dane, Garet and Harold are fight that newcomer! And they just broke my new table!" Armod yelled. Hiccup sighed. Those were the same guys fighting Eret yesterday.

"I'll deal with them and made sure to have your table fixed for you." Hiccup told him. He then went to climb onto Toothless to fly over to the fight when another set of voices stopped him.

Or roars more like.

A Thunderclaw and Monstrous Nightmare were roaring at each other, looking ready to fire. Hiccup looked down at Toothless. "You get those 2 under control, I'll get my people under control." The human and dragon shared a nod before racing of in different directions.

When Hiccup arrived Eret was being held by one of the vikings while the other went in for the punch. Eret however kicked the pair away from him and headbutted the other guy with the back of his head. Once free Eret spun round and punched the guy in the face before punching the two behind him.

"Whoa, whoa!" Hiccup yelled as he rushed over.

"Hey chief!" Eret greeted.

"What's going on here?" Hiccup asked as he looked between the 4 men.

"Nothing you need to worry about, chief." Eret told him.

"Well when I see my people fighting against one another then I do worry about it." Hiccup told him.

"That outsider is crazy!" A blond haired braided beard man, Garet yelled as he stood up pointing to Eret.

"We have our backs turned and next thing we know he punches me!" A brown hair, non braided beard man, Dane also yelled as he threw his hands in the air.

"Maybe if you hadn't been insulting the chief behind his back maybe I wouldn't of had to punch you." Eret bawled out. Hiccup sighed as he pinched his nose. He knew some people weren't going to like the thought of him being chief but never expected that there would be fights about it.

"Eret, I said yesterday that-" Hiccup began to say but go interrupted by the beardless blond, Harold.

"Having our homes destroyed and losing our chief was bad enough. Letting this outsider into our ranks is a ridiculous start to this new way of life, chief." Harold almost spat. Hiccup took a deep breath before looking at the 3 vikings.

"I never asked to become chief so early. And I do not expect people to agree with my decisions. But if I see any one of you once more picking a fight with this man, there will be consequences." Hiccup told them in a serious stone. "If any of you have a problem, you come and say it to me face to face, not behind my back where fight are formed." Hiccup then turned to Eret. "And Eret, if you see or hear something that makes you upset or angry again come and tell me, not punching the person and having to fight people of again. Is everyone understood?"

"Yes chief." The 4 men said in a quiet tone. Just as Hiccup thought his job was done a loud explosion sound along with crashing was heard not far from him.

"My house!"

Hiccup groaned. 'I guess the twins didn't hear me after all.'

XxxxX

Hiccup soon found himself in the back or the forge making a list of the houses that needed to be rebuilt and the furniture that was inside. Some people also needed to new saddles so that was on his 'to do' list to redesign the saddles. Normaly he would get Gobber to help him out but he was busy remake all the weapons that got destroyed because of the ice.

It was already midday and Hiccup has had barley any time to himself at all. He knew his father would be busy most of the day but he never realised just how busy and hard working being a chief could be. Another reason why he wished now he didn't play hooky so often.

To bad he can't just asked his father for advise. There would be a lot he would want to ask him right now.

Hiccup was so concentrated in his work that he failed to hear a woman's voice calling his name. When he felt the hand on his shoulder Hiccup almost jumped out of his skin.

"Whoa, easier there Chief." Astrid said with a smile. Hiccup let out a breath.

"Sorry, I didn't hear you come in." He said as he turned back round to carry on with his list.

"I can see that. Though I kind of figured that out after you failed to hear my third call." Astrid explained as she walked round the young chief to sit on the table.

"Ur-huh." Was all that came out of Hiccup's mouth. Astrid frowned at him before looking down at his work.

"What's all this?" She asked.

"Houses that need to be rebuild, furniture, dragon saddles." He listed.

"Why not ask someone else to do this?" Astrid asked.

"Cause everyone else it pretty busy at the moment. And it my job to make sure I have everyone down that needs to be taken care of first." Hiccup explained.

A small dragon growling suddenly came from outside the forge. Hiccup and Astrid turned to the entrance to see Toothless slowly walking into the room, looking exhausted. Once he was in his corner he fell straight to the floor with a 'huff'. Hiccup and Astrid looked at the Night Fury with pity.

It was only a few seconds later a loud roar was heard outside. Toothless lifted his head up and let out a lout 'screeching' sound before standing up and walking back outside. Hiccup looked at the entrance before letting his forehead meet the table. Astrid chuckled in amusement.

"Well, you both look like you're having a fun day." Astrid teased. Hiccup groaned.

"I don't think I even have the energy to argue with you right now." Hiccup said, his face facing the floor.

"Well you better find a way to get that energy back cause I have a bit of a situation." Hiccup lifted his head up facing Astrid ready to talk when she quickly interrupted. "Not a big one, I just need to know what to do with Snotlout. He's refusing to take the armour of the Thunderclaw's since 2 have tried to kill him. His words not mine. Me, I found it quite an amusing sight."

"Of course you did." Hiccup sighed with a smile. "Just get him and Hookfang to felt down the armour that got of and see if Gobber might want it melted into weapons. We could use some since most are frozen in ice."

"You got it. Is there anything I can do to help you?" She asked.

"Just keep moving as much of the ice as you can so we can get rebuilding." Hiccup answered as he began to gather up his paper. "Don't want to have to see the entire village sleeping in the Great Hall again." Giving her a peck on the cheek Hiccup soon left the forge, leaving a slight concerned Astrid.

XxxxX

Astrid made her way back to the centre of village, looking around at everyone's hard work. Some houses that ended up getting destroyed were on their way to being rebuilt, most of the ice in the village has also vanished. Those who were wounded seemed to be up and looking better, viking and dragon. Good thing they have Valka's 20 year experience in healing dragons. Fishlegs is good and all but is no where near as experienced as Valka is.

Astrid had yet to meet the mother of her betrothed. The pair had shared a couple of glances every now and again but have not yet made their acquaintances to each other. Maybe once she had moved the rest of the ice that was laying round the village she could go and find her. Would be nice to meet her now before Snotlout or the twins ruin it with their own talk about her.

"Astrid!" Looking over to her left she saw Snotlout marching over with Hookfang trailing behind him, the viking did not look happy. "You found Hiccup right? Cause if you haven't you tell him I refuse to step near another Thunderclaw. 2 of those dragons have tried to kill me, twice! And this traitor here just watched with that smug ugly look on his face." Snotlout ranted as he pointed to his dragon, who was now letting out steam from his nose.

"Snotlout I talked to Hiccup. He wants you to get all the Thunderclaws amour and met it down from Gobber. Talk to Gobber and he will tell you what weapons he needs." Astrid explained.

"Fine, guess that's better than having to deal with those things head on. Come one Hooktraitor. You have some metal to melt." Snotlout said as he climbed onto his dragon.

Astrid sighed. 'At least that's one less problem Hiccup has to deal with.'

Stormfly, who was standing behind her, began to chip like the bird sounds she likes to sometimes make. Astrid turned around and gave her dragon a scratch under her chin. "Yeah, I know girl. He can be a bit much sometimes, right?" Stormfly let out a couple more chips. "But at least he's getting his work done. Speaking of which, you ready to do some more lifting?"

XxxxX

"Okay, Sigfrid your house is close to being done. Borg, under works and should be done by this evening. Thora, your furniture is being moved in as we speak. And Armond, yes your table is on the list but you have to wait. I'm sure you can survive without a table for just one night." Hiccup said to the crowed of people around him. He was helping with repairs of some of the houses that were a bit damaged, but not destroyed, when more and more people started to come up to him asking about their homes and furniture.

"And Chief, any news on my dragon? How is he doing?" A male viking asked.

"Any dragon related question or problems go to the academy and ask Fishlegs and his team there. They're the once healing the dragons that were injured." Hiccup answered looking at not just the viking but everyone else, making sure everyone knew.

Soon everyone began to clear away from him, knowing the answers to the questions they had currently had. Knowing he had a few moments Hiccup took a seat on one of the chairs that had recently been built, letting out a long sigh. It had been non stop so far. And worse part he had barley seen Toothless. With all the new dragons now living on Berk he could only imagine all the dragons Toothless will now have to deal with, now with him being the Alpha.

Maybe if this was to carry on he might need to build Toothless his old auto tail fin. But he should properly check with Toothless first and make sure this one won't end up broken into pieces like the last one did. No point in wasting materials if Toothless won't use it. Even though it did warm Hiccup's heart to know that Toothless refused to fly without him, he still felt a little guilty knowing its properly going to be a bit harder for Toothless to get around to do his alpha duties. And Hiccup can't be certain that he's gonna be able to get up each morning to go on early morning flights like they would each day.

Things are going to be a lot different now.

"Rawwoo." Hiccup looked over to his left to see a very tired Night Fury walking over to him. Once Toothless was close enough to his rider the dragon fell straight to the floor. Hiccup let out a small laugh as he gave his friend a scratch on the head.

"Yeah I know how you feel, bud. But hey, look at it this way, we've only got a couple more hours till sun down and then everyone will be heading to bed and we can head back home." Hiccup pointed out. Toothless only decided to let out a small growl. "Hey, at least we get a small break, right?"

"Chief!"

"Rawww!"

The chief and the alpha both let out a growl of annoyance. Will they ever get a break?

XxxxX

It had been a long hard working day but Astrid was just happy it was over. More than half of the houses that had got either destroyed or damaged had been rebuilt and fixed. Still some of the villagers had to stay in the Great Hall, but at least it wasn't as many as the night before. Astrid was just happy her house was one of the lucky once to escape getting blasted by the ice, so she didn't need to worry about her parents not having a place to live.

She decided to have a walk round the village before heading home, hoping to find Hiccup and check up on him, make sure he was doing okay after his first day, but he was nowhere to be found. Astrid found it a bit odd. He had to surely be somewhere round the village, but he wasn't. Maybe he had gone back to the forge?

As she began to make her way over there she quickly bumped into Gobber. "Gobber!"

"Hey lass. What's up?" Gobber asked as he dropped the handles of the wagon that was being pulled behind him.

"Have you see Hiccup anywhere?" Astrid asked.

"Last I saw he was heading back home. He looked exhausted, poor lass." Gobber sighed. Astrid nodded. Maybe she should wait an till tomorrow to see him if he was that tired, not that she could blame him.

"All right, thank you." She said before turning around and heading back into the village. It wasn't far from the forge that her home was located so she didn't mind walking. Poor Stormfly had been fly all day carrying those large blocks of ice, she deserves a break.

She was close to her home when she heard flapping of wings. Looking up she saw a familiar Stormcutter landing not far from her. It was Hiccup's mum's dragon. And sure enough there was Valka climbing down from the dragon. Once she was on the ground Valka's eyes found her own.

Astrid suddenly began to get nervous. What should she do? Should she introduce herself? Should she just wave? Should she make a run for it and avoid the awkwardness?

"Hello." Well there goes running off. "You're Astrid, right?" Valka asked as she stopped in front of the young shield maiden.

"Yes ma'am." Astrid answered.

"I'm Valka." Valka introduced.

"I know, you're Hiccup's mother." Astrid said. Valka nodded.

"And you're Hiccup's friend. Well I'd say you're both more than friends from those kisses I keep on seeing." Valka pointed out. Astrid quickly felt her cheeks go red with embarrassment.

"Yeah, look I had been meaning to introduce myself-" Astrid began to say but Valka stopped her with a smile.

"It's quite alright, dear. It has been a busy last 2 days. I don't blame you for not introducing yourself. We've all had very little time on our hands." Valka said. Astrid nodded, happy knowing Hiccup's mother wasn't mad at her for not introducing herself. "So do you know where Hiccup is?"

"Gobber said he was heading home. My guess is that he's past out there." Astrid answered. Valka nodded, looking up at her old house on the hill. Did she even have the right to call it her home after what she did? Would she even be welcome there? "Everything alright?"

Valka quickly looked back at the young woman. "Y-yes, just in deep thoughts I guess you could say."

Astrid nodded. "Well, I better get home before my leg decide to collapse. If Hiccup is awake when you see him just tell him I'll see him tomorrow." Astrid said as she began to walk towards her house. Before Valka could say anything else Astrid had already entered her home.

Valka sighed. If Hiccup chooses not to let her stay there she could easily sleep at the Great Hall with everyone else. She wouldn't mind. Maybe she might just stay there anyway, saves her from putting Hiccup on the spot like that.

Once she had reached the door she slowly pushed it open, the door creaking with every moment it made. Once Valka was inside the sight before her made her heart melt. Toothless was asleep on the floor near the fire, Hiccup curled up next to him using the dragon's paw as a pillow.

Being as quiet as she could Valka slowly crept into the house and took a blanket that was over one of the chairs. Slowly she made her way over to her son, being careful not to spook either of them. Once she was next to him she knelt down and slowly covered her son in the blanket, making sure he was completely covered. She then leaned down and placed a kiss on her son's head, something she had wished to do for all those 20 years.

Just as she went to stand back up she felt something grab her hand. Looking down she saw Hiccup's eyes slightly open. "Mum?" He groaned.

"Go back to sleep Hiccup." She told him as she ran her fingers through his hair.

"Can you stay?" He asked. It took almost everything Valka had not to start crying there and then.

"Of course son." She told him. Hiccup let out a sigh before closing his eyes once again. Valka quickly took of chest plate and large hood, rolling it up into a pillow form for her. Once she was laying down she took some of the blanket and dropped it over herself, thankful it was big enough for 2 people to share.

She watched as Hiccup took in deep breaths, his breathing even. She may have missed 20 years of his life, but she was going to be there for the rest.