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History. One of the only subjects they had had so far that Hiccup actually liked. Being the chief's son, he had learnt how much value there was in learning from past mistakes.

"And so, while he sent his military towards the invading army, a smaller group came from the opposite direction and destroyed the city." The teacher, Mr Mills finished his explanation of a battle that Hiccup honestly couldn't remember the name of. "Any questions?" Everyone stayed silent. All except for Hiccup.

"Why didn't he send out a small scout group to double check that there wasn't a second army?"

"Well," Mr Mills replied in complete shock of his student's question. "I suppose that was part of the trick, to make him think that there was only one army. He also possibly underestimated the approaching force."

"Ok, but his army was made up of men, right?" Hiccup replied.

"Yes," Mr Mills said trying to follow where the boy was going.

"So the city would have been full of women and boys who were still in training but too young to go into battle. But a small group managed to destroy the city?" Hiccup knew plenty of women who outmatched men in combat. Stormfly was one of them. And his mother struck fear into the hearts of any she fought, especially his father.

"Nowadays maybe they could have held them off but back then women didn't fight and any boys who knew how to fight would have been out matched by amy skilled warriors they tried to face." And with that he moved on, wanting to finish the lesson before the bell rang.

"I've never seen anyone stump Mr Mills before. He's used to no one caring about his lessons," Astrid said amazed.

"I enjoy studying strategy," Hiccup replied with a shrug. "It's interesting."

"You're smarter than you look," Astrid said with a grin.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Hiccup replied trying to look serious but not being able to stop the laugh that escaped his lips.

"Nothing," Astrid replied looking away, her grin still present. Hiccup elbowed her gently and she elbowed him back and they then sat elbowing each other for the rest of the class.

The first day had been ok so far. They had managed to get through all of their lessons without any slip ups. But it wasn't over yet. They still had to get through gym. The class that entailed showing off physical skills. Hiccup and Fishlegs' skills weren't human. Holding back was going to be tough when Hiccup had spent his whole life pushing himself to be just as good as his father.

It all started with the changing rooms. The girls went into their changing room and the boys into another to change into the gym uniform. You wouldn't have thought that this was much of a problem, but as mentioned before, Hiccup and Fishlegs weren't normal. When a Dragonborn was born, the village elder would tell the parents what type of dragon the child would be and a mark was made with ink on their skin. Fishlegs wasn't so bad, his Boulder Class mark was on his ankle, which was hidden by the sock he wouldn't be taking off. Hiccup's Strike Class mark was on the back of his shoulder.

All eyes were on the two new kids as they followed their classmates into the locker room and selected which locker they would use. They put their bags in and took out their uniforms. Fishlegs was the first to take off his shirt and the two heard sniggering behind them. He was a big guy, it was true, but that wasn't all fat. There was quite a bit of muscle under there. But he was Boulder Class, they were normally big. They were big in their dragon form too.

The class were ready to turn away when Hiccup was about to take his shirt off. Then he took it off. And the whispers flooded the room at the sight of the large dragon symbol on his shoulder. He quickly shoved the new shirt on and turned to glare at the people behind him, who quickly acted as if they hadn't been watching all along. Soon enough they were changed and out of the changing room, but the whispering followed them along.

As they walked out of the changing rooms into the gym, the girls came out alongside them, Astrid among them. She took one look at Hiccup's frown and quickly asked what was wrong.

"Nosey yaks," was all he was all he would say in reply and wouldn't speak after that. Astrid frowned but didn't say anything.

"Alright, who's up for a game of dodgeball?" a large man with a face that was clearly set in a permanent frown called across the gym. There were a few cheers but mostly groans. "Tough luck!" he replied and started calling out teams.

"You any good?" Astrid asked Hiccup. He tried to think of the best answer but the look on his face clearly said it all. "You've never played before have you?" He shook his head and she sighed. "Just try not to get hit and if you can catch the ball with both hands straight on, do it."

"Got it," he said before quickly passing it on to Fishlegs. Fortunately, the three of them ended up on the same team.

As the two teams lined up opposite one another the room went silent. Until the teacher blew the whistle, and then yelling erupted followed by the screeching of shoes scraping across the glossy floors. Balls started flying in all directions and the three did their best to avoid them. Until Hiccup's hearing picked up something that should never have been said in the first place.

"Aim for the fat one. He's a big target and no one cares if you hit the new kid," someone whispered from the other team. Hiccup hated people being mean to others without even knowing them. As the ball went rocketing towards Fishlegs, Hiccup was suddenly in front of it ready to catch it. He glared so hard at the person who threw it that they visibly paled. He turned towards Fishlegs and handed him the ball.

"Would you like to do the honours?" he asked, knowing that Fishlegs would have heard everything that he had.

"Don't mind if I do," he smiled. Soon the ball was hurtling towards the thrower at such a pace that they couldn't get out of the way fast enough. The two friends high fived and the rest of the lesson no one said a word.

Now done with the lesson, their team having won with only Hiccup, Fishlegs and Astrid left standing, the two boys changed quickly in a silent changing room and exited as fast as they could. Astrid was there to meet them on the other side. They said their goodbyes and headed outside where they met the others and began the walk back to the mill.

"What is the point of all of this?" Hiccup asked Fishlegs as they sat on the grass in the forest looking through text books and trying to understand how to do trigonometry and to name the different parts of different types of cells.

"I have no idea, but I don't want anyone to think I'm stupid," Fishlegs replied absentmindedly rubbing his hand across the sleeve of his favourite tunic he had quickly changed into to remind him of home.

"Same," Hiccup said flicking over to the next page.

They spent their afternoon reading, as they sometimes did together back on Berk. Toothless and Snotlout decided to have a friendly spar using some wooden training swords Snotlout had managed to sneak past his father. Stormfly was watching, well, watching Toothless and ignoring Snotlout as much as she could. The twins hadn't played with fire for a few days and had decided to sit creating small explosions, with a few buckets of water sitting beside them at the ready.

All in all they had a good afternoon. By the evening, they were all ready to lie down and all quickly headed up to their beds and were happy with the feeling when their heads hit their pillows.

"So we have to do this everyday, five out of seven days a week?" Toothless asked as the two boys turned out the light and snuggled under their blankets.

"Yup," Hiccup replied already half asleep.

All that Toothless replied with was a groan. Not that his brother heard. Nor did he himself remember. For they had both fallen asleep.

So, what do you think? Sorry it's not too long, though it's more pf a filler then anything else. Hopefully it will start to kick off a bit more in the next one.

What do you guys think of the dragon class mark? Thought it was a nice touch but I want to know what you guys think.

Ninuhuju: I love them too! The main ships in this will be HiccupxAstrid and ToothlessxStormfly but I may add others as the story unfolds.

An Amber Pen: Thank you. I think...

The SkrillRider: I'm trying!

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