Hi lads and lasses supersandman back again, thank you for you patience and thank you too for not bombarding my review section asking if I've abandoned the story, with the way my mind goes and trying to have a social life, it can be a bitch. But here we are and hopefully this one does me justice.
I'm Batman!
Wade I said justice! Not Justice League! Honestly ever since your sequel, you've been more annoying than usual.
But it was gooooood!
You killed your x-force team
Nah ah! I brought Peter back to life!
And the rest?
Collateral damage
Sigh whatever, let's just get on and give the readers what they want.
Oh no sandman, too young for that.
I meant the chapters you perverted walking sex toy!
Language!
English!
... touche
Anyway lets get with it.
Chapter 15-Trust in me
It had been over two years since Hiccup went on his crusade to stop the war between the Vikings and dragons without there being bloodshed on either side and by now Hiccup was getting frustrated as he stands at the top of the hill overlooking yet another raid along with his NightFury friend.
"She's getting very desperate now bud" he sighs patting Toothless on the head earning a purr. In a way this small gesture seems to calm them down as Hiccup pulls his face mask over, ready to begin another assault.
"I'm too old for this shit" Hiccup sighs as he jumps on the back of Toothless to whom started laughing at the boy for his saying as he takes off into the night sky, all too aware that someone below them is watching their every move.
Ever since Astrid discovered Hiccups big secret, she has been watching them every raid, amazed and worried at the same time.
Amazed at the way they synced their movements in the sky even at fast speeds they travelled and even while tackling dragons in the sky and Vikings on the ground, harming neither.
But that too also worried her, one slight mistake and Hiccup could fall to his death if his dragon doesn't get there on time and the other thing was that both sides seem to always attack him when he tries to stop them.
The worst was when he encountered his father.
When she watched the conflict between father and son, most of them, including herself, but was shocked when Hiccups strange looking sword actually sliced through Stoicks axe with ease, taking advantage of the frozen state, Hiccup got away and the chief being in a mood for over a week until his axe was fixed by Hiccup.
'Oh the irony' Astrid thought at the time.
Since that night in the cove, she come to admire the boy even more than usual, she saw more than what others did.
And it wasn't the last time she saw him in the cove since that night, she usually went out on a 'midnight training session' whereby she would watch the interaction between Hiccup and his pet dragon, how he seemed oblivious to her presence even as he trained with that same sword that took down his father axe, she noticed that it looked shiny, like polished silver, and even if Hiccup has gotten stronger since being exiled to the forest he still couldn't match decades of pure strength that gave a meaning to Stoicks title 'the vast' meaning that the blade was lighter than it should be, thus should be little more than an ornament.
And yet despite all that, it wasn't.
All this time she wondered what metal could do that not only her, but the whole of Berk knew about but Hiccup did.
For the boy in question, that answer came about six months ago by accident.
Flashback
Hiccup was doing his regular night time feeding in the arena.
It had been over a year since doing this and each time gained the trust of all the dragons in there, including the Nightmare, much to Gobbers surprise seeing this all the time and yet noticing a change during the raids.
They still didn't trust anyone else, just Hiccup, he seems to have a way with the beasts as Gobber usually put it.
They even chirp to him like he can understand them, which Gobber knew was impossible.
Unbeknownst to him Hiccup actually can.
It took quite a while, but with the help of his mother, Toothless and even the Bewilderbeast himself, he was able to understand what they were saying to a degree but over time, learnt on his own to increase his dialect.
After feeding the Nadder and moved onto the Gronkle, he decided to treat her to some rocks he found on one of the nearby beaches. Mainly limestone, sandstone and some iron ore Hiccup found on the way.
He thought to give her a verity as she might be getting bored with just eating granite all the time and since ore is a mineral, why not? 'learn on the job' as Gobber always say.
At first all seemed fine, she took all of them with delight, mixing from one to another, until she stopped eating and started making gurgling noises.
Hiccup rushed to her as she fell and laid on her side as the gurgling continued, all the while, Gobber was watching with curiosity.
"Come on girl, what's wrong? Are you in pain?" Hiccup said in a panic only realising a second later how stupid that sounded when of course she was in pain.
"Reminds me of when a yak eats too much lad" Hiccup nearly jumped at seeing Gobber stood behind him and wondered how in Midgard did he get down here so fast and so quiet.
Gobber meanwhile was watching closely at the Gronkle as the gurgling continued before he went into his pocket and produced a feather, to which he handed to a confused Hiccup.
"Yer might want te give that wee beast a tickle on the tummy with that and stand well back"
Hiccup, still confused from all this, complied to Gobbers orders as he started tickling the Gronkles stomach before backing away just in time as she started to spew lava everywhere.
In quite a huge amount actually and a very weird shade of colour from regular lava, something neither failed to noticed as Gobber took a closer look before shrugging and heading out the gates only emerge back a few minutes later carrying several stone buckets causing Hiccup to look at him in confusion.
"Well why waste an opportunity fer a bit of smithing fun aye laddie?" it took a few seconds for Hiccup to realise what Gobber was going on about until he remembered about his ways, particularly to something molten.
Pound it while it's hot.
So while Gobber took several buckets back to the forge, Hiccup carried on with the nightly feeds.
For the rest of the night nothing new particularly happened in the arena after that, it was only until Hiccup finished up and left that he'd check up on what Gobber got from the strange coloured Gronkle lava.
Usually it just cooled back into solid rock but for some reason Hiccup thought this time might not be the case.
And boy was he right as he entered the forge to see an excited Gobber jumping up and down holding what looks like a very shiny sword as he finally notices his young apprentice enter looking dumbfounded.
"Hiccup! Do ye know what this is?!"
"Hmm, well my blacksmithing is still being tested but I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say a sword?" he replied sarcastically.
"Yer yer ya smartarse, but it's not just any sword, I made it out of that strange gronkle lava, here" he fished by tossing the sword to Hiccup, who actually caught it with ease, despite years of clumsiness. But what amazed him more was weight of it, it was very light, very shiny too.
"Hmm, looks nice Gobber, but being this light, would do well in battle"
Gobber knew he would say that as next thing Hiccup knew, the old blacksmith was holding a broadsword in his hands as he gestured for Hiccup to take a swing at it.
Shrugging, Hiccup took up a stance as he read in the book his mother gave him and swung the new sword at the one Gobber was holding.
At first the young teen didn't think anything would happen until he was left slack-jawed at the sword in Gobbers hand.
Or what was left of it as all was left was a clean cut through the blade where he sliced and the hilt.
"Wh-what? You made this out of Gronkle lava?"
"I thought of calling it Gronkle iron myself, sounds catchy" Gobber suggested as he put what was left of the sword back onto the workbench making Hiccup wonder something else.
"Err Gobber, who's sword was that?"
"Snotlouts" he simply put as both stood there for a few seconds before bursting out laughing.
It took quite a few minutes to calm down and wipe the tears from their eyes before Hiccup soberly looked at Gobber as he spoke.
"Gobber, we need to keep this between you and me"
Gobber meanwhile looked confused at what Hiccup suggested but was stopped from replying as Hiccup carried on.
"Hear me out if this gets into the wrong hands and we know which ones I mean" Gobber nodded understanding who Hiccup meant "then they could do far worse with these weapons than just defence, they could sell them to traders that might use them to sell to our enemies or worse, use them against us. So until we can know who to trust, let us be the ones to know about this"
Gobber thought long and hard about this, could he keep the secret from Berk and his best friend slash chief or betray Hiccup. It was a no-brainer for him, after what his tribe did to a young boy throughout his life and even neglected by his own father, he didn't want to lose Hiccups trust, so sighed in agreement.
"Okay lad, we'll play it yer way, but someday we have te tell them"
Hiccup smiled as he picked up the last bucket of molten Gronkle iron to take back with him to the cove.
"When they can learn to change for the better" he looked back at his father figure while holding the bucket in both his gloved hands "You mind if I take this? I want to experiment with something"
Gobber raised an eyebrow before shrugging.
"Sure lad bu' what ye got in mind?"
Hiccup simply smiled again before walk through the entranceway of the forge.
"Something I've been working on for a long time"
End flashback
With a little work and a lot of fire power from Toothless, Hiccup made what he want using an alternate material.
A jian made of Gronkle iron instead of bronze.
Now that he had his weapon of choice, he spent ages practising with it, getting his balance right for both offence and defence as stated in the book.
Testing it out by cutting his dads axe in half felt like a big achievement but it also meant people will start to get suspicious that he's absent most of the raids, so once in a while stayed out of battle but told Toothless what to do as they always did every raid and every time they had to separate during raids, the Night fury always said the same thing.
"Are you sure about brother?"
Hiccup always smiled knowing he can finally understand his scaly companion and even more that he calls him 'brother'.
"I'm sure bud, the less they know that it's me, the less chance we have to run away and I don't fancy having to rebuild all over again"
Toothless rolled his eyes and mumble about humans and their trinkets but he didn't mean it, in truth he enjoyed watching his human make some weird and wonderful inventions and a good laugh when they blew up.
So once every four or so raids, Hiccup would remain in the village as Toothless took up the raid, freeing most of the dragons and distraction the Vikings. Never killing but never missing his mark.
It was on one particular raid that would turn out differently to the others.
(AN: now we've come to the start of the first movie)
Panning out to the island of Berk as see what has to offer.
For this is Berk. It's twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death. It's located solidly on the Meridian of Misery. The village. In a word, sturdy. It's been here for seven generations, but every single building is new. They've got hunting, fishing, and a charming view of the sunsets. The only problems are the pests. Most places have mice or mosquitoes. They have...
"Dragon" Hiccup stated with a dull tone as he ducked from a Monstrous Nightmare blast, time spent in the arena with the other Nightmare helped with his timing as he walked along on his way to the forge, dodging dragon attacks and running Vikings with their 'charming' way of greeting someone a good morning by yelling it at you.
He was about halfway to the forge when he was grabbed by none other than Stoick.
"What are ye doing out here?! What's he doing out here?!" Hiccup simply rolled his eyes at his father bluntness.
"Seriously?! I'm on my way to the forge, will you put me down this is embarrassing!"
Stoick sighed heavily, tension between the two was still high since that day in the hall, neither side willing to make amends.
"Get there and stay there!" as he put Hiccup down before resuming barking orders and checking the sky as he asked the nearest Viking on what they had.
"Gronkles, Nadders, Zipplebacks and Nightmares" the replied back stating just the regular ones as Stoick nodded.
"Any sign of that infernal Night Fury or it's demon spawned rider?" he asked, still ticked off at what the masked rider did to his axe. Sure it was fixed by Gobber, well that's what he thinks, but he was still pissed about it.
"Not yet chief"
"Good let's hope they don't show up this time"
They ran to face another battle down near the docks as Hiccup simply rolled his eyes at how oblivious his father was while he finally got to the forge to see Gobber hard at work with repairs already.
"Ah so nice of ye to join the party, thought ye be carried off?"
"Who me? Nah come on Gobber, I'm too muscular for their taste" Hiccup flexed his arm mockingly "They wouldn't know what to do with all this"
"They need toothpicks don't they?" he said jokingly as Hiccup rolled his eyes and smiled as he starts work on repairs.
Every time a raid happens and Hiccups in the forge, they always tease each other, Hiccup can feel himself around the old blacksmith.
But still Hiccup thinks of a way to stop the war entirely as he looks out the window after dealing with the pile of broken weapons.
What the village see is entirely different to what he sees.
A Nadder to the village would get you recognised, to him a beautiful coloured dragon who takes great pride in vanity and loves chicken.
A Gronkle would guarantee his a girlfriend, to him however he sees a dragon, hard on the outside but soft and big hearted on the inside.
Zippleback two heads, exotic and instant respect for taking one of those down. Hiccup however, finds the mystery of the two heads controlling one body fascinating and found they love to play.
Nightmares are the ones the top warriors go for and if recalled by Gobber is the final test in dragon training, to become one of them. Hiccup only scoffed at that, become one of the murderers? Nightmares only want respect, show them that and you have no problem.
And then of course there's the dragon that no one has seen or even got near to, one that makes Hiccup smile as one of the catapults is taken out, with no casualties thank the gods.
"Night fury!"
"Get down!"
Yes the Night fury, never seen, never takes and never misses.
'Good work bud' Hiccup thinks as he watches Toothless take on a few Nadders and shooing them in the direction of his mothers sanctuary.
A nearby explosion takes his eyes off the sky as one of the houses catches fire and watches as the fire fighters, consisting of his fellow teens, attempt to put it out.
Although in truth, he was watching more of Astrid than the others.
At a young age her beauty always shone, but as she reached her teen years, she started to get even more beautiful than before.
He was so transfixed on her he didn't notice Gobber grab him by his vest and directed him back to his growing pile.
"Come on lad, no time fer day dreaming, I know ye want te leave your mark" Hiccup only rolled his eyes in frustration as he carried on with his work.
"Trust me Gobber I've left plenty, and you know it" frustration lacing his voice as he picked up a hammer "I can't lift a hammer!" he tosses it behind him as he picks up a battleaxe "I can't swing an axe!" he throws it into a nearby post before picking up a set of bolas "I can't even fucking throw one of these!" he shouts as he throws it out the nearby window knocking out a passer-by.
Gobber just watch in surprise as he watches who he always thought as his son just get angry, he should have known the 'leaving your mark' saying would trigger bad memories.
"I've heard that from all the adult here throughout my life! But I don't give a flying Gronkles arse! The day I chose to prove myself will be upon my own strengths and not what others expect of me!" and with that carried on working with repairs.
Gobber was about to say something when several shouts caught his attention, looking out of the window he sees the attacks getting worse and requires all hands to help as he dis-attaches his smithing hammer and attaches his war axe appendage to his stumped arm.
"Look like they need me out there Hiccup, so I want ye to stay put, ah stay"
Hiccup gave Gobber a dead-panned look as to say 'really?' but shrugged it off as he didn't fancy going out there anyway, he just wanted to get the weapons done, wait for the raid to finish and head home.
It was never as simple as that as he started hear the sound of what appear to be a kid.
"Excuse me, excuse me out of the way!"
Hiccup stops what he's doing as he looks outside the window to see who it was.
It was Gustav Larson, one of the young kids who for some reason has taken Snotlout as a role-model if he recalled correctly, but what he was surprised the most was what he was pushing towards one of the cliff edges.
To others it looked like a normal cart, but to Hiccup, it was...
"The mangler!" Hiccup whispered to himself, one of his inventions he created back in his younger days before learning about dragons.
"But how? I destroyed all those things, unless..." but he had no time to contemplate his theory as Gustav was already at the cliff edge and had the mangler already set up.
Hiccup rushed out of the forge, avoiding everyone in his way as he saw what the young Larson was aiming for.
"Toothless!" he knew that thing could cause damage if positioned correctly.
He was close enough to see Toothless in the sight of the mangler so did the only thing he knew so well.
He roared with all he had, catching the Night furys attention, just enough to position himself out of danger.
Gustav fired the bola, hoping to hit its mark, unfortunately for him, it didn't as Toothless thought it be a good idea to lay low just in case of another launch.
Gustav however was none too happy that he didn't hit his target, swearing and cursing the mangler.
"Urgh! I hope no one saw that"
Unbeknownst to him that he was watched, by a monstrous Nightmare as it destroyed the mangler with one foot before chasing Gustav.
Hiccup saw this happen and sighed as he had to go and help as he sped along grabbing the attention of the Nightmare, dodging blast after blast and several swipes with the claws.
To Hiccup he got this under control, but to others, one being his father, saw this Hiccup getting himself into trouble as he runs up the hill to intercept the dragon.
Hiccup was doing his best to wear the Nightmare out, which would have gone well if Gustav hadn't decided to piss the dragon off even more by throwing a rock at it before hiding behind one of the main torches, to which the stoker class reptile started to set fire to in order to get to him.
Hiccup rushed towards the nightmare, grabbing it's horns and making it face him instead.
He was about to subdue it until his father jumped in, hammer and shield at the ready, knocking into the dragon as it tried to breathe fire once again but forgot about its limit.
"Yer all out dragon!" as he dropped his weapons and started to fight it with his fists. The dragon got a lucky shot flinging Stoick into a nearby bush and would have gone one the attack if Hiccup hadn't intervened hand out at the ready, no weapon in sight.
"Hey there big guy, I what's wrong, you don't have to do this" he said calmly as the dragon got curious and it's flame died down as Hiccup put his palm on the dragons snout and smiled.
"Listen big guy, head south, your king awaits you" the Nightmare seemed to understand as it roared a 'thank you' before flying off just as Stoick got himself out of the bush and was oblivious to what just happened, but the look of disappointment on his face spoke volumes, especially when the tower fell and rolled down the hill, freeing several captured dragons and losing a vast amount of stored food.
Hiccup knew it wasn't his fault but knew everyone used him as an escape goat so played along with it.
"Sorry dad"
As the dragons fly away, the whole village come towards them to see their chief scowling at his son, they can't help but watch for the entertainment of someone else's humiliation.
"Look dad I don't know what happened but I can expl..."
"Enough Hiccup!" Stoick shouted cutting off his son as he started to talk "no need for explanations as this happens every time you're outside during a raid!" Hiccup found this to be unfair as it's been over four years since he was out like this but he couldn't protest as his father carried on "every time you step out the house, disaster follows! Winter is almost upon us and I have a whole village to feed!"
Hiccup looked around in disbelief "your kidding me right? To be fair the village could do with less feeding"
This earned mumbles from most of the tribe, some even trying to hide in their guts and, to what Hiccup caught in amusement, Astrid trying stifle her laughter.
Stoick however as not amused as he carried on.
"This isn't funny Hiccup! Why can't you follow the simplest of rules?!"
Now it was Hiccups turn to be unamused.
"Well what's the point when no matter what I do, you'll never be happy with it!" this caught his father off guard for a few second before sighing, he was about to tell Gobber to take him back to the forest when Hiccup beat him to it.
"I'm out of here! No point in arguing with a rock!" sighing as he walked past the teens the twins and Snotlout decided to tease him about the whole thing.
"I've never messed up that badly"
"That helped out a lot"
Hiccup decided to stop right in front of his cousin before suddenly grabbing him by the scruff of his jacket, pulling him towards him only raising his voice so the young Jorgenson could hear.
"Listen here you shit turd! If you ever steal one of my inventions ever again, I will personally make sure you're the last of your family blood line, you got it?!"
"D-don't make against me usel..."
"Do I make myself clear?!"
Snotlout saw his cousins eyes, he swore his pupils turned to fire and felt scared as he quickly nodded as Hiccup let go of him before walking away towards the forest.
Stoick however was irate, out of all the people in the tribe, no one ever dismissed themselves without declaring it by him. He was about to tell Hiccup to stop when Gobber stopped him with his hook appendage shaking his head.
"Demanding him te come back after you berated him will not earn ye his trust Stoick"
"Gobber but he..." Stoick was cut off from his rant as Gobber carried on.
"...acted how you would have reacted if someone publicly humiliated you"
The vast chief didn't know what to say to that, yes he would act exactly like that if he was humiliated.
But as the Haddock stubbornness prevents him from accepting his wrong he simply grunted orders for clean up to the village followed by a meeting in the great hall after.
Gobber meanwhile sighed as he hobbled after Hiccup who had taken to grunting and yelling after all that.
'runs in the family' was all that came to Gobbers mind.
Hiccup stopped in his tracks but didn't turn around, instead opted to lowering his head and sighed.
"I'm not going back to apologise Gobber, I'd rather chop off my own foot"
"Ehh I'll make ye a good wooden one te replace it" Gobber replied jokingly knowing even if Hiccup was pissed off he couldn't resist a cheesy comeback.
And judging from the small smile upon the boys face, it seemed to have worked for the most part but he was still pissed.
"He never listens"
"Runs in the family"
"He's always got that disappointed look upon his face like someone skimped out on his lunch" Hiccup then proceeded to puff out his chest as he did the best impression of his father.
"Excuse me bar keep, I'm afraid ye brought me the wrong offspring, I ordered one with beefy arms, guts and glory on the side, this here is a talking fishbone" Hiccup sighed sadly as he carried on "You'd have thought that after all these years of fending for myself he would give me a little respect" he didn't move from his spot, even after Gobber put his hand upon his shoulder.
"Look Hiccup, ye dad does love ye, but he has problems expressing it. It was always ye mom that brought out his emotional side"
Hiccup nodded as he understood, Valka told many stories upon how his father was different around others but not around her and it made him wonder if since he looked like her mostly that it reminded him of his loss.
"I understand Gobber, but mom wouldn't want him to neglect me over the loss of her"
'That and she threaten to kick his teeth in if he didn't change' he thought to himself as he smiled at the only active father figure he had.
"Thanks Gobber for checking to see if I was alright" he gave the old blacksmith a hug before running off into the forest as Gobber sighed before heading off to the hall for the meeting.
In a nearby bush however, Astrid heard and saw the whole thing, she felt for Hiccup, he seemed to never get a break no matter what.
She always wonder what would have happened if Hiccup was never kicked out of the village in the first place, would she have seen this side of him? She couldn't think of an answer for that but as she usually did she followed him into the forest, always sneaking behind as not to get caught.
She kept following on as he entered a clearing when he met up with the ebony dragon once again as she laid low in a nearby bush as she watched the interaction as usual.
"Hey there bud, nice flying out there hope that bola didn't cause to much damage" he said as he inspected the dragon all over while Toothless, to what Astrid could hear, roaring, yipping and barking in different tones line he was communicating, which had to be impossible for Hiccup to understand.
"Yeah, I know bud, it looks like something I invented, technically it is , but I was sure I destroyed all my dragon killing plans, still no damage done so there's a plus"
Astrid watch closely as the dragon seemed to roll its eyes before doing it's strange noises once again.
"Yeah bud, my dad pissed me off once again, all I did was try to save that kid from himself but noo, he had to piss that Nightmare off even more and I get the blame! I dn't know why they title me 'useless' should be more like Hiccup the Blamed"
This earned a throaty laugh from the dragon and a deadpan look from Hiccup.
"I'm glad I can amuse you, you useless reptile"
As Toothless finally calmed down, he started to pick up a second scent, one that was familiar as he started to bark and roar once again.
"Oh really?" unbeknownst to Astrid that Toothless spotted her easily as well as her scent gave her away.
Hiccup however had an idea as he picked up a large branch and tossed it toward Toothless as he seemed to be going into a nearby bush.
"Well you have fun drawing for a few minutes bud while I go to relieve myself" and with that it was only her and the Night Fury, whom at this point of time had the branch in it's mouth making marks in the ground.
If she didn't know any better, she could swear the dragon was drawing.
"That's impossible right? Dragons can't draw or interaction socially?"
"You'd be very surprised what there is to know about dragons" came a voice from behind her.
"Yeah but still..." she stopped mid sentence as she spun around only to see Hiccup standing right in front of her, arms folded with a very amused look on his face.
"Hi-hiccup! What in the nine realms you think you're doing sneaking up on a warrior like that?!"
Hiccup said nothing as she carried on.
"I-I mean I was minding my own business err..." she looked around and saw some flowers on the ground "picking flower! For err... err... my mom! Who...err...err was feeling down so I might cheer her up!"
Hiccup looked down at flowers Astrid was picking at and only laughed, irritating Astrid as she put her hand on her hips.
"And what's so funny Haddock!" Hiccup picked up the flower Astrid had indicated and shook his head.
"For one thing milady, I know that your mothers favourite plant is yellow and red tulips and they were the flowers your father gave to her when they first courted, not white daisies" he gestured to the flower in question and he swore heard her mutter 'crap' as he carried on.
"And second, we both know you're a bad liar Astrid" he stood and looked at her in the eyes which was all he needed as proof as he carried on.
"But I do know that you've been watching me for a long while" she was about to ask how before he interrupted her "Toothless told me the first time"
Astrids eyes widened that he knew she was watching him all this time and didn't say a word.
"Wh-why didn't you say anything then?!" Hiccup shrugged at her questioning but replied anyway.
"I was hoping that you'd ask me yourself about my interaction with the dragons, it was obvious you didn't rat me out where most would have, so now it's my turn to question you, why didn't you?"
She was taken aback but he was right.
Why didn't she? She could have told Stoick but then she realised that maybe Hiccup was doing something no one had ever done, they had been fight an ongoing war for over three centuries with either side winning and along comes Hiccup with his plan to lessen the raids on top of his Night Fury and suddenly a chance at the war ending seemed possible.
But was that her real reason?
She didn't know, all she knew was that she had been fighting over her thoughts for a good few years.
"I-I don't know Hiccup. I really don't, I guessed it felt like the right thing to do" Hiccup watched her struggle as she thought for the right words and can hear the sincerity in her voice.
He smiled as he gently reached for her hand and walked her forward towards the clearing where Toothless was admiring his latest masterpiece until he saw Hiccup bring along the female human he had been smelling quite a few times.
"Astrid saw where Hiccup was taking her and she wanted to run, she was scared, that this was unnatural.
And yet with Hiccup guiding her she didn't want to run but let him do all the work.
Somehow she trusted him.
"Astrid, this is Toothless, Toothless, this Astrid" both looked at each other for a while, curious as to what the other was thinking, only Hiccup was watching both of them, smiling.
"Astrid, do you trust me?" without even looking at him, she nodded as he carried on "okay follow what I say, I want you to turn your head away and hold you arm out with your palm facing forward"
She looked at him as to know what he had planned but he simply nodded as she took a deep breath, looked away and held her arm out waiting for some sort of pain to happen.
What she didn't expect was something warm on her palm, and a bit scaly. She opened her eyes in surprise to see Toothless' snout pressed against the palm of her hand.
It was something entirely different, not bad different, but just different.
But she should be hating being close to a dragon like this, in truth she should have been ripped to shreds, including since this is a Night Fury.
But she wasn't, she was touching the unholy offspring of lightening and death itself, right on the snout, no hint of violence, in fact she can feel the vibrations of him purring.
Suddenly it was all too much for her to take in as she faints right there on the spot, lucky enough Hiccup was there to grab her before she fell as both rider and dragon looked at each other.
"Well I wasn't expecting that"