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Chapter 7

"Singing"

Heather reached to the castle gate, gesturing Windshear to get closer, the guard on top of the gate shouted, "Who goes there?!"

"Princess… Heather." she shouted weakly from the cold.

Scoffing, "If you're the princess, then I'm the Chief," the guard retorted.

"But I am the princess," Heather protested confused with what is going on.

"Really? Then how come, I just saw the princess eating dinner with the Chief?" the guard questioned.

"What princess?" Heather asked still confused.

"Now move along before I lose my temper," the guard warned.

"You are speaking to Lady Heather! Now let me through-"

"I said move along. Now!" he shouted pointing the spear he was holding at her, making Heather gasped before guiding Alvin away.

Heather went into the village, and stopped right outside of Sir Savage's forge, remembering Astrid saying that she works here. "We'll find help here," She told Windshear and went to knock on the door.

Savage went to open the door laughing from the party he is hosting but stopped seeing Heather, "What are ya doing here?"

"I beg your pardon?" Heather questioned.

A scowl now appearing on Savage's face, "Not anotha word, ya're coming with me," He said before dragging Heather inside the forge with Windshear following, where the other workers were still working. "Not finished yet? If ya'll weren't lazy yaks, those weapons would have been finished by now!" Savage criticized, making the workers upset.

"How dare you speak to them that way?!" Heather said to him, angry with how the workers are being treated in the forge.

"How dare I- How I- How dare I? Just who do ya think ya are?" Savage questioned, his scowl getting deeper.

Pushing off the blanket she had covering her, "Lady Heather."

Savage began laughing, "That's a hoot! Ya got to change more than ya hair to be the princess. Ya know the princess and I are close buddies." As he walked past her and headed towards the door.

"Oh really?" she questioned with narrowed eyes.

"Now shut up!" Savage shouted, "and get back ta work." he growled.

"I'm warning you, if you are going to be treating your blacksmiths this way. We will take our royal businesses elsewhere," Heather stated.

"YA'RE warning me? We'll see ya're attitude changed by morning, ya're not leaving until every weapons is finished, Astrid!" Savage roared losing his temper, before closing the door and locking it.

"Astrid?" Heather questioned before running to the door finding it locked and she couldn't help but groaned annoyed.

"Locked in again."

"Astrid?" A voice behind her said, causing her to glance back and see a blonde female twin, and the other two males, one of them looking like her, behind her, questioning, "It is you, isn't it?"

Heather turned around facing them smiling.

Later in the night, Heather found a tag showing the title of the forge on one of the weapons, "If Stormfly can come in and out, then your gorgeous Windshear can do it too," the male twin, Tuffnut said. His twin sister, Ruffnut and the other short dark hair male, Snotlout agreeing with their pets of their own, two snakes and Komodo dragon as well.

As Heather put the wrapper inside her horn that she always carried after her father died and connecting it to Windshear, "It's up to you now, Windshear. Take this to the castle, when someone reads the label, it will lead them to here." Windshear went to the window and started walking, a bit startled from the height then what she was used to.

She walked through the village, before she getting startled with all the noise happening around and hid. "This is going to be a long night." She stated before continuing to look around.

The next morning, Astrid woke up with her wig on, "I thought I was dreaming, but I guess not."

On the cat sized bed beside her, Stormfly also woke up, stretching before she started squawking when a knock was heard at the door.

"Shh, Stormfly, we got to act like you know, we live here, we can't give ourselves away," she told her before composing herself. "Be a princess, be a princess." She clears throat before replying, "Come in," in a deep voice.

The door opened revealing a maid coming in. "Did I just heard a wild bird, my lady?" she asked as she put down the tray on the bed, "Should I call the royal bird catcher?"

"Bird? No ha-ha, everything is fine," Astrid replied still doing a deep voice before looking at Stormfly, who sat on the bed looking innocent.

"Your breakfast my lady," the maid announced.

"Really? In bed?" Using her normal voice again.

"As always," the maid replied not sure why the princess was acting strange this morning.

"Oh uh, yes, of course, thank you," Astrid replied before she looked at the meal before her. "Look at all this food! What some?"

"Oh... uh, I couldn't," the maid said uncertain.

"But there is enough to feed an army, here take some," Astrid said, giving her some bread.

"Why, thank you, um, my lady," the confused maid said, "I'll set your bath, would you like bubbles, mineral salts, or lavender oil?"

Still laughing about how much food she has, "Everything," As the maid walked away to the bathroom.

"Ya're going to just tell her?" Ambassador Gobber exclaimed to Chief Hiccup at an empty hall, "That ya disguise yarself as a page? Uh, are ya sure that's wise, Chief Hiccup?"

"No, I'm not sure," he responded taking off his hat covering his face showing his auburn hair with two small braids in the back and bright forest green eyes, "but I have to be honest. I think she'll understand, I don't want to marry a stranger any more than she does." He commented as he gave his hat to Gobber, heading to Lady Heather's room.

In the bath, Astrid is relaxing with her wig off and her hair in a bun enjoying the bath, "Ahh, I may never come out." At the side, Stormfly was making weird noises. "Me-"

"What's wrong Stormfly, are you sick? Something in your throat?" Astrid asked as Stormfly continue to make the noises. "Me-"

"Wait a minute," Astrid said figuring out what she was trying to do, "are you trying to meow?" Making Stormfly nod, "Me- Squawk!" After that failure, she lowered her head upset for being different from other cats.

"Ohh Stormfly," Astrid said sweetly.

"I can see it when you're feeling low,

you can't hide that from me.

You're no status quo, calico,

so why keep trying to be?

Cause you're more than that,

you're a birds-cat

I wish you could see the you I see."

She singed as Stormfly got down from the tub, trying to meow again. "Me-."

"Hmm no, I say if you squawk celebrate it."

Astrid sang as she made bubbles fly around the room with Stormfly popping a few.

"Make your mark, serenade it.

Noah's ark, should have had a cat like you.

And if what you are is a strange you,

doesn't mean you should change you.

Only means you should change your point of view."

There was a knock on Heather's door with Chief Hiccup calling out, "Lady Heather?" going unheard by Astrid as she continued singing.

"Hey feline, you fetch just fine,

to thine own self be true.

You squawks and crows,

the cat's meow is how I know you're you."

Astrid singed in her robe now as Hiccup stayed at the door listening.

"You don't need the bows or tiaras,

bid your woes, sayonara,

trust your nose cause it knows all the way to go.

When you jump the hills, you're enchanting,

spirit sails when you're panting

when you wail, you're a charming Juliet."

She singed to Stormfly, kneeling down to her level.

"There is not one hair of you that I would rearrange.

I love you the way you are and that will never change."

When hearing enough from 'Heather', Hiccup left the room smiling with a plan in his head.

"That will never change."

She finished with Stormfly squawking, "That's my girl."

At the forge, "There this one's finished," Heather said with pride lifting up her weapon she was working on, only to see it's uneven. "Uh, sort of." She then went to the fire to fix it.

"Please my lady, you don't have to do this," Snotlout assured her form his works place.

"I can't let you do this, all by yourselves," Heather said, turning to fix her problem, with the other workers smiling at her as they also got to work.

I'm again updating late, I'm getting annoyed with myself because I'm piling everything up. Sorry for the late review.

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