Hey! Sorry for the long wait! Been super busy lately but I wanted to make sure you guys have a chapter!

In case you hadn't noticed, i changed the name to Dragonborn, I thought it sounded better than Shadow. What do you guys think?

I do not own How to Train Your Dragon.

Enjoy!

Hiccup woke up feeling groggy and annoyed. He hated getting up early. He groaned and sat up rubbing his eyes as he tried to wipe away the sleep.

As he slowly came to his senses he realised that he could hear snoring. Specifically Toothless' snoring. He looked at the bed beside him to see the mop of black hair surrounded by the white of the sheets and the pillow.

Hiccup grabbed the pillow he had just been using and tossed it at his brother's head. He heard an annoyed groan and watched as the covers were pulled up so that the black hair was no longer visible.

"Get up!" Hiccup yelled at his brother taking his pillow back, but not before whacking him on the head one last time.

"Leave me alone," Toothless growled in Dragon's Tongue. When he wanted to sound angry, he resorted to growling his words. It usually worked. Just not on Hiccup

"No. You need to get up or you're going to make us late," Hiccup replied sounding just as menacing when he growled. He pulled on some of his new clothes and looked at his Berk clothes as they sat in a neat pile. He was going to miss wearing them.

He opened the door to head downstairs and turned back to look at Toothless. He was still fast asleep. He shook his head and closed the door behind him. The stairs creaked beneath his feet as he descended. He could also hear noise coming from one of the rooms downstairs. The closer he got to the bottom the louder the sounds grew. He could hear people fumbling around, opening and closing cupboards. When he reached the bottom of the stairs he found Fishlegs, Stormfly, Snotlout, Ruffnut and Ruffnut all in the kitchen searching everywhere they could find space.

"What are you doing?" he asked as he stood in the doorway.

"Looking for breakfast," Snotlout said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Can you believe we bought all those clothes yesterday but we forgot to buy food?" Ruffnut asked laughing. At that they all turned back to searching the kitchen.

"You know food won't just magically appear because you're looking for it, right? If we haven't bought any, you won't find any."

"Well have you got a better idea?" Snotlout asked annoyed.

Hiccup rolled his eyes and walked over to the front door of the mill. He slammed the door behind him as he stepped out leaving a room full on confused faces. Everyone inside the kitchen glanced at each other concerned as they heard the scraping of wood followed by a loud splash and a few smaller splashes. Suddenly the door opened and slammed shut again and Hiccup stepped into the kitchen holding a large stick with seven fishes on it.

"Happy now?" he asked. They all nodded quickly and each came and collected a fish and grabbed a plate, sitting around the large wooden table that sat in the middle of the worn down kitchen. They each began cooking their fish with the dragon fire they formed in their hands. The twins almost caused an explosion and Stormfly ended up cooking their fish for them.

Then they heard a loud thump, thump, thump coming from the stairs. Hiccup turned to see Toothless stepping down with an annoyed expression on his face. Hiccup grinned and tossed the last fish at him. It hit Toothless in the face before falling into his hands. He glared at his brother before taking his seat beside him and began roasting his fish with his Night Fury plasma fire.

Once they were all done they grabbed their bags that they had set out the night before and began the journey towards the town. As they walked they reminded each other of their newly picked names so that they wouldn't slip up.

Soon they found their way through the trees and into the town. The weaved in and out of the streets until the school was in their sights. It looked different to how it had been the day before. There were buses pulling up outside unloading students, as well as other students stepping out of cars or walking in.

"Ready, guys?" Hiccup asked.

"Nope," Fishlegs replied quickly.

"Come on, bro," Stormfly said with a smile, elbowing him gently in his side. Fishlegs just huffed.

"Chickens," Snotlout muttered before he started walking forwards towards the door. They all exchanged glances before hurrying after him.

They walked up the steps and through the doors along with all the other kids their age. Fishlegs led them through the halls recalling from his eidetic memory exactly where to go. Soon they found the Principle's office and stepped inside.

"Ah! There you are!" Mrs Johnson exclaimed when she looked up from the papers on her desk. "You've made perfect time." She quickly stood up, shuffling through her papers before pulling out a few pages. She turned to look at Hiccup and Fishlegs. "So it's… Henry and… Frank. Am I right?"

"That's us," Hiccup or Henry smiled at the woman.

"Good. I'm sure I don't need to tell you that you two will be in the highest grade," she smiled as she pulled two papers out of the pile in her hand. She did really but no one was going to let her know that they hadn't been to school before. "These are your schedules. Since there's just the two of you, I've decided to keep you together in all your classes."

The two boys thanked her and began inspecting their schedules. Mrs Johnson smiled and moved over to Toothless, the twins and Snotlout.

"Tyler… Rachel… Theodore and… Steve!" They all nodded and she smiled, happy that she had remembered their names. She handed them the papers. "Obviously, you'll be in the next year down. Since there's four of you, I've separated you off in pairs. I kept the twins together, so Tyler and Steve, you two will have all the same classes." They nodded and she moved on to Stormfly.

"I'm sorry you're going to be all on your own, dear," Mrs Johnson said as she handed the girl her schedule. "But don't worry, Sarah. I'm sure you'll make some nice new friends."

"Sure! I love meeting new people," Stormfly replied with a smile.

"That's the spirit!" Mrs Johnson replied happily. "Now, I have a lot to do today, so I have assigned you each a guide. They will be in your first class and will show you where to go. They will also be able to answer any questions you might have." They all nodded and watched as the head teacher turned to the door. Once open they notice that there were four kids sat on chairs that were lined up outside the door.

"Alex!" she called and a dark haired boy around Stormfly's age approached. "You will be taking care of Sarah today. Make sure to answer any questions she might have." The boy nodded and Stormfly followed him out of the office. Hiccup watched amused as Toothless glared at the boy taking Storm away. He nudged Fishlegs who noticed and smiled.

Toothless and Stormfly had made it blatantly obvious to everyone but each how they felt. Toothless had had a crush on Stormfly since he was little and Stormfly had had a crush on Toothless for just as long. And everyone knew it but themselves.

"Marie!" Mrs Johnson called next. A girl with hair an unnatural red colour stepped into the office. She was Toothless and Snotlout's guide and they were quickly led away. Toothless looked back to his brother who offered him an encouraging smile.

Next came Jake, Ruff and Tuff's guide. He looked terrified as he walk out once the twins started laughing maniacally and rubbing their hands together.

"Astrid!" Mrs Johnson finally called when the only two left standing were Hiccup and Fishlegs. She turned to the two boys with a smile. "Just like the others, Astrid is here to answer any questions you may have. I hope you all have a good day!" And with that they were ushered out of the office and the door was slammed behind them.

"Well, as she said, I'm Astrid. It's nice to meet you!" The two boys turned to look at the girl standing before them. She had blonde hair that was braided and sat neatly on her shoulder. Her big blue eyes shone in the light from the window. She wore a red top with a brown skirt, brown leggings and red sneakers.

"I'm Henry and this is Frank. It's nice to meet you too," Hiccup replied with a smile. She smiled back and started walking down the hall. They followed and soon they were walking side by side down the hall.

"The first class is math with Mr Rickman. He's one of the nicer teachers but he really doesn't like slackers." The two boys nodded at the explanation and soon they stood before the classroom door. They walked in to see a room full of kids at desks and an annoyed man sitting behind a larger desk.

"Mrs Hofferson! Glad you could finally show up!" the man said in a sarcastic voice. Meanwhile, Hiccup was puzzling over where he had heard the name Hofferson before. He was sure it was something important.

"Sorry, Sir. Mrs Johnson asked me to get the new kids," Astrid replied pointing over her shoulder to the two boys standing behind her in the doorway.

"Ah! Well! I do apologise. Please take your seat." Astrid weaved her way around the desks and students until she came to an empty seat at the back where she plonked her bag down on the floor and sighed as she sunk into the chair. "And what might your names be?" Mr Rickman asked turing back towards Hiccup and Fishlegs.

"I'm Frank."

"Henry."

"Well, Frank, why don't you go and sit next to Sam and Henry, you can take the seat beside Astrid." The two boys nodded, Fishlegs heading to the free desk on the right side of the room and Hiccup heading to the back to sit next to Astrid.

Straight after the class started up again. The teacher started rambling on and the students pretended to be paying attention. Hiccup was trying to figure out what was going on and decided that he would go to the library later and study up on some text books so that he didn't look like an idiot.

"There were a lot of news kids today, huh?" Astrid suddenly said quietly from beside him. He smiled and turned to see her watching him thoughtfully. She grew confused at seeing him smile.

"We're all together," he replied. Her face changed into surprise at that.

"So, you're all related, like all from the same family?" she clarified.

"Sort of," he smiled finding the look on her face funny. "We were all adopted." Her jaw dropped. "Some of us are related. Like, did you see a boy with dark hair and green eyes?" Her brow creased in concentration before it softened and she smiled.

"Yeah, I remember him. He looks a bit like you."

"That's because he's my brother." She smiled and nodded. "He's like my best friend. He's a sarcastic idiot but I love him." She laughed. Hiccup smiled at the sound. She had a nice laugh.

They talked backwards and forwards between each other the whole lesson asking each other questions. She learnt about the life that he had created and he learnt about her life.

She was an only child although she had always wished for a brother or sister. She didn't have many friends and tended to spend lunch alone. She didn't usually get along well with people and was surprised at how easy she found talking to Hiccup, or Henry as she knew him. She was pretty good at sports and generally good in academics, though her parents were pushy about her having perfect grades and being good at everything. He also learned that meeting him and Fishlegs was the first time she had ever felt comfortable being around anyone except for her parents.

When the lesson was finally over the two realised that they didn't want to stop talking with each other, so Astrid showed the two boys to their next class talking to Hiccup along the way, Fishlegs joining in on the conversation here and there. Once there she left them and hurried off to her own class.

Hiccup and Fishlegs opened the door and stepped into the class. The teacher quickly had them settled down and the lesson began, this being geology. Fishlegs was actually excited about this one as he was interested in learning about the world. While they were used to a long string of islands where they lived, this world was made up of larger land masses.

Once that was over they went to the next class, then the next, and kept going until lunch. They made their way to the lunchroom and found themselves in a huge hall full of people. It kind of reminded Hiccup of the Great Hall back home, except that it wasn't dark and full of large men in beards drinking mead and arguing over who could fly the fastest. He then felt a pang of homesickness in the pit of his stomach but pushed it away as he focused on finding his brother and then making sure the twins didn't start a food fight.

"Henry!" a voice called over the crowds. Hiccup turned to see Toothless with Snotlout, Ruffnut, Tuffnut and Stormfly sitting at a large table with their food. Hiccup nudged Fishlegs and they approached the group and sat down.

"Hey guys," Fishlegs said as they sat down. "How were your days?"

"Awesome!" Snotlout said from the other end of the table where he sat next to Tuffnut. "We had chemistry. Mixing different colour water to make explosions is so much fun!"

"They were different chemicals, Steve, and we were only supposed to be changing the colour!" Toothless called from where he sat between Ruffnut and Hiccup.

"Do we have chemistry too?" asked Tuffnut with a grin.

"Cause that sounds awesome!" Ruffnut added laughing. The other exchanged worried glances, all hoping that they would at least have a vigilant teacher.

Hiccup looked over to his right and saw Astrid sitting alone at a table. He felt bad for her, not having any friends. He caught Fishlegs attention and motioned towards her. Fishlegs looked over to see her all on her own and nodded at Hiccup understanding his friend. He knew that Hiccup never liked seeing someone sad when he could do something about it.

"Hey Astrid!" Astrid turned to see him beckoning her over. She smiled and walked over to stand beside the table.

"Hi Henry, hi Frank," she said with a smile. "How have your classes been so far?"

"Not bad," Fishlegs replied.

"We were wondering if you wanted to sit with us, since you were all alone," Hiccup added.

"I don't want to intrude," she said quickly holding up one hand, the other adjusting the strap of her bag on her shoulder.

"It's ok!" Toothless said with a wave. "I'm Tyler, by the way. That's Sarah, Steve, Rachel and Theo."

"Thine name ist Theodore, peasant," Tuffnut replied with a mock posh accent.

"Shut up, dumbnutt," Ruffnut called from opposite him.

"Troll face!"

"Butt elf!"

"Knock it off, will you?" Stormfly said annoyed.

"Are they always like that?" Astrid asked as she sat down beside Hiccup.

"Yup," he nodded. "You get used to it." Astrid smiled and soon the conversation started up again.

They all talked together the whole of lunch, each about the different classes and teachers they had, Astrid giving little tips here and there for how to impress certain teachers or how to get them to like you.

Soon the bell rang and they were back to classes. Astrid had the same class as Hiccup and Astrid so they went one way while the others went their own ways towards their separate classes.

Not happy with the ending but oh well. I thought about doing it longer but I wanted to make sure you guys got a chapter!

Astrid finally makes her appearance! Yay! Please let me know what you guys think of this chapter!

AquaJinx: Sort of but at the same time not what I had planned… Does sound good though!

The SkrillRider: So yes to Astrid, no to the others. I honestly did want to include them and I still might, but if I do they'll probably be more like mentors to the others.

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