This is a series of one shots with different AUs, Big fours, or anything else that involves Merida and Hiccup. If any of you have suggestion or requests your more than welcome to ask me.

I don't know Brave nor do I own How to Train your Dragon or any of the characters in the movie or other character used in this chapter. Although there behaviors may be change for the one shots.

This is a young justice AU with Merida obviously taking Artemis position as the archer while Hiccup is meant to take the spot of Robin. In this AU Merida is upset over multiple things and taking it out in the training room while Hiccup tries to help not realizing that he's part of the problem.

"Celtic Archer training level 10 activating in 5…4…3…2…1" With out any hesitation the simulation started. 3D building blocks began to form covering the field in a different color hue.

'Just what I need' I thought, taking out an arrow and notching it on my bow. Suddenly something caught the corner of my eye. Releasing the arrow at the form of a 3D created robber. 'Bull eyes' I smirked, moving position. 'Stupid rivalries' I thought, scaling one of the blocks to take down two 3D bodies dodging 3D bullets. 'Stupid traditions' I growled jumping onto another block pulling another arrow. 'Its all just so STUPID.' I let a bomb arrow fly satisfied with the small explosion that took places after releasing it.

I dodged another 3D bullet by slipping down the block, not wasting anytime I rushed the attacker. This time the 3D body was blue tall maybe six feet and had a life bar on top of his head. 'Finally something to hit' I thought, using my bow as a close combat weapon. The attacker moved to a punch dodging to the left I swung my bow hitting the 3D body's head the bar lost half its point. Not wasting any time I kept my attacks going. It wasn't long until the 3D body's health bar reached zero and it disappeared. I took a deep breath, sweat dripping down my forehead taking one last deep breath and pushing a red curl out of my face, I began to move again.

An hour late and umpteen arrows later level ten was cleared. "Celtic Archer has cleared level 10. Accuracy 100%, hand to hand combat 98%, speed above average, stealth-" I ignored the rest of the stats because to be honest I didn't do this for the stats.

I walked over to the edge of the training room and grabbed another bushel of arrows. I placed them in my quiver and checked my bow to make sure it was ready for another round of training. Walking back to the computer I began to get another level ready I could feel someone was there, spying on me. Acting as if I didn't notice anything I kept working on the computer. As I heard a small thump of movement I reached behind acting as if I was just readjusting my ponytail retucking the strands that had escaped. Being as discreet as possible I grabbed an arrow and with swiftness that only comes from a number of years of training I grabbed and arrow from my quiver and notched the arrows, pulling back the string of my bow in one swift motion turning.

"Woah, no need for that C.A" came a voice from the shadows of the ceiling I watched as the individual dropped from the ceiling landing on the floor in an overdramatic crouch position. I rolled my eyes 'Should have know Night Fury loves sneaking around.' I thought relaxing my bowstring. Night Fury was a boy of maybe sixteen although I had known him since he was probably thirteen, he was about 6'1, with a lean body type, he has brown hair and green eyes which the only thing I know about his face because of his stupid black leather mask. He walks out, adorned in his costume, mask like he always is. It annoys me to know that after three years of knowing him I have no idea who he is or what he looks like. "What's got your arrows in a twist?" he says strolling over towards me. I couldn't help, but snort at how ridiculous he looked wondering if the outfit Rapunzel made me look just as dumb.

"Oh, it's just you." I say, putting the arrow back in my quiver. If it were Jack the snowman I wouldn't have minded shooting him.

"Hey now," Night Fury says, bringing a dragon-scaled gloved hand to his chest, feigning hurt, "And here I was kind enough to stop my training and come all the way down here and see if you were alright."

I leaned my arm back reaching into my quiver, based on how Night Fury was tensing he was expecting to have enough time to dodge my arrow. I smirk and pull out one of the few knives in my quiver, throwing at his torso. His eyes widen in surprise as he dodges to the right almost falling to the ground before placing his hands on the ground and somersaulting away. "Don't mind me, it looks like you could use all the training you can get." I say trying to seem unimpressed with his gymnastic abilities.

"Well I never thought I'd have to dodge a team mates attack," he says putting one of his hands on his hip.

"Why I attack Frost all the time"

"Yah well you and Frost have a special relationship" He says stressing the world special. "But this" Night Fury gives a noncommittal wave at the disaster around the room. A disaster I had been unaware of. Apparently I had used too much explosive arrows because there were scorch marks all over wall and floor along with different types of arrow debris. "This clearly means your upset."

I glare at him before strapping my bow over my shoulder and walking to the bench at the edge of the wall for my blue water bottle.

"So, what's up, Mer?"

I sigh turning around to tell him to back off only to jump a bit when I noticed that he was hanging behind me upside down like in that Spiderman movie, I knew him designing those bloody retractable cable cuffs would cause me a headache.

"You're normally not this" he tilts his head trying to find the right word for it "Aggressive"

I sighed pinching the bridge of my nose. "Will you get down from there?" I snap really not in the mood to talk to anyone let alone someone that was upside down. 'All I wanted was to let some aggression out in peace, but no of course that wouldn't happen why would it? But it doesn't stop there does it no Night Fury the great detective had to find me.' I thought, letting out an aggravated sigh.

"Yikes that tone is serious," he mutters, and with a swift turn of his body and click from his cuffs the wire retracts and he lands beside me with a soft thud. "Alright so your aggravated. Did Jack piss you off again?" he asks watching my reaction carefully.

"When doesn't he?" I snap pressing my hands on my hip.

"So if it's not ice wielder…" Fury taps his chin, "Than what could it be I mean it has to be something big friends maybe…" he paused for a moment "nope not friends hmm family." My hand tightened around my water bottle a reaction I know dragon boy caught. "Family huh well was it your brothers again…Nope…your mom…Not your mom you got in a fight with your dad" he says bewildered everyone knew about the fights I had with my mum, but a fight with my dad that's unheard of. I must have not reacted right because soon he was shaking his head "Nope that's not it could it be your crazy grandma Boo" Now I was getting annoyed how come he gets to know so much about me, but yet I can't even know his name. "Nope geez Mer what is it?"

"Well right now my problem is you," I growled placing my water bottle back on the bench and walking back to the computer to start the next level.

"I mean normal girls get this upset unless there's a boy involved, but I mean-" he stopped talking and I could practically feel the light bulb flicker on above his head. "It's about a boy isn't it?"

I wasn't sure what it was that gave me away, but I cursed it. "No its not" I growled. Walking a bit faster to computer.

"Do … you wanna talk about this boy?" Night Fury asks, and though he sounded pretty genuine to help, his sudden eagerness mixed with hesitation threw me off.

"Nope," is all I says, afraid that if I start talking that I would ramble more unnecessary details about my life that would give him more leverage over me.

"Oh come on we can talk about this I mean who would have guessed that Mer had boy trouble I mean I know normal girls-"

"Are you saying I'm not a girl," I snapped spinning around to glare at him.

Night Fury waves his hands around, clearly not sure what to do. "That's not what I meant…it just that you…well you aren't…not to say…" He sighed taking a deep breath taking a step closer to me, "It's just I would have never guess that you would have a boy problem."

"I don't have a boy problem," I say finally reaching the computer, pausing for a moment before hitting start.

"Are you sure?" Night Fury urges, taking another step closer to me, "Because really, if it'll ease your mind, we can talk about Hicc - er, him -"

"Fury," I seethe narrowing my eyes at him, "I don't want to talk about it."

"Okay, but if you need help with a boy problems what ever -"

"Finish that sentence, I dare you," I threaten, glaring as hard as I could at Night Fury, if only looks could kill.

Night Fury holds up his hands in the air like some criminal, and had I been in a better mood I would have rolled my eyes at the irony of the action, "Got it! Got it. It's not like it's any of my business anyway…"

"No its not" I finally snapped,

"But I mean it's alright Merida its nothing to be embarrassed about everyone has trouble with the opposite gender." I didn't even think about it I started to rewrite the programming on the computer before slamming my fist on the activate button. The whole floor lit up.

I turned around a smirk on my face as I notice Night Fury looking at the glowing floor underneath him. He looked back at me, but it was to late, I was already taking a swing at him. He backed up dodging "Mer isn't is how you solve your pro-" he was cut off by a kick to the gut.

"I told you before the only problem I'm having right now is you" I say keeping up the pressure. "And this is exactly how to solve my problem."

Using some pretty fancy gymnastic moves he was able to put some distance between us. "I'm not going to fight you."

I grounded my teeth "Than this should be easy." I say reaching for an arrow.

I wasn't sure how long the fight between Night Fury and I lasted, but I do know that I was out of arrows, my body was sore, I was breathing extra hard, and I was sitting on top of Night Fury's chest pinning his arms by his head. I was hovering over him gasping for air, while Night Fury sat perfectly still underneath me.

"Why...why aren't…you fight back?" I asked, knowing full well that he could get out of this pin with ease. Knowing that through out our fight he was only dodging and blocking.

"Because that's not what you needed." He says calming watching me. "You wanted something to hit and seeing as how Jack your favorite punching bag isn't here right now I thought I could help." Again his voice got weird when he mentioned Jack, it seemed to drop and almost become a hiss.

I take one more deep breathe before looking down at the boy underneath me. His eyes just looked at me with concern. I growled 'I can't believe I'm about to do this?' I thought, sighing. "You want to know what's going on?"

"Yes"

"My parents got these pictures of my best friend and I hanging out, but they blow a hissy fit when they noticed it was their rival companies son's so now they don't want me to associate with him, but that wouldn't be a problem because he's been ignoring me for a bitch at school that's just using him and who I am pretty sure is the one to send those photos to my parents, oh and the best part the very best part is when I tried to talk to him he just runs away." I rushed everything out, all my problems, but as the words tumbled out I cringed listening to just how whinny and pathetic I sound. I thought training would have made me feel better, but really it did nothing to settle the rollercoaster of emotions in me. I just wanted to leave and burry myself somewhere.

Night Fury was silent and I really didn't want to look at his masked face. So I let go of his wrist and was moving to stand up when something grabbed my wrist. I moved to look at him, but was distracted by the pull that suddenly brought me back down to the ground, but this time instead of falling back on Night Fury's chest I was now sitting on his lap. Night Fury moved to a sitting position when he reached to grab me, had I not been annoyed I probably would have been blushing the same hue as my hair.

"What are you-"

"Maybe your best friend felt like you didn't need him any more," he says in small voice, I'm pretty sure if we weren't as close as we were I wouldn't have even heard him.

"Whaatt?" I asked, completely confused looking at the cat like green eyes of this mysterious superhero.

"Maybe your best friend feels like you're out growing him so he's trying to distant himself."

"Sure I haven't hung out with him like I used to because of mission, but I would never out grow Hic-him he's my best friend."

Night Fury looked down for a moment his grip on my wrist tightening "Maybe he thought that since you weren't spending time with him that there was another guy."

"Why would he think that?" I asked, truly wondering where Night Fury was getting this. Was this detective work for the teenage life or was this from personal experience.

Night Fury shrugs, but refuses to look at me. "Or maybe he's just a stupid boy."

I growled. "You don't know him," I snapped, my usual overprotective for Hiccup still coming out even though he was being a freakin pain for ignoring me.

"I don't need to if he willing to drop you as a friend than he's one stupid friend." He says sighing.

"He is not stupid," I snapped lunging at Night Fury putting him on his back. I grabbed for his mask both his hands coming to clasp my wrist.

"What are you doing?" he says, voice sounding agitated.

"If you insult him one more time I'm taking off your mask and I'll put your face all over the internet, am I clear." Hiccup has been picked on ever since I meet him and it always hurts him even though he never actually tells anyone, so I decided that if he wouldn't defend himself than I would.

Night Fury looks at me for a moment his eyes widening for a moment. "You really care about him"

I look down for a moment "of course I do, he's my best friend." But to be honest best friend didn't seem to be the right word to describe Hiccup.

"Is he worth all this trouble?"

My eyes widen at the question and a snarl appears on my face, "He's a stupid, scrawny boy who's avoiding me and I have no idea why. He makes me so angry at times for how naive he can be. He's so annoying when he thinks he's not good enough at anything. But even with how crazy he drives me…yah he's worth it."

"Why?" Night Fury's grip was starting to get painful.

"Because I…becua-" I curses inwardly, biting my tongue, realizing that I had already said way too much. I tugged my wrist back trying to get out of here, but he wouldn't let go.

"You should finish what you were about to say" he says his voice sounding desperate.

"Let go," I say, tugging my wrist.

"Not until you tell me-"

"Why should I tell you anything?" I shout. I could feel his grip weaken, but I couldn't stop my words from coming out "Why should I tell you anything else about me. You know about my family, about who I am under my mask, you know about my hobbies, my likes and dislikes, but I don't even know your real name so why should I tell you anything else?" I shouted snatching my wrist back. Night Fury was motion less his hands still in midair where they held my wrist. Not wasting this opportunity I ran out of the training room leaving my bow behind.

I ran into my room the door slamming shut behind me. I ran towards my dresser and picking up the throwing knives on the top I threw them at the target board right above my headboard. 'Why why did I tell him all that? Why couldn't I just keep my mouth shut.' I thought, feeling a stinging in my eyes. 'I am not going to cry. I am not this weak, not over some thing like this' I thought walking over to my bed. I flopped on the bed grabbing the pillow to cuddle with as I wrapped myself into the fetal position.

There was a knock on the door. I didn't bother moving. "Mer" I grounded my teeth of course it would be Night Fury why would it be anyone else. "I know you don't want to talk anymore…and I'm sorry that I pushed you…" he kept pausing as if trying to find the right words. "If you ever want to talk I promise I'm here...If you ever want to talk about Hicc-er-him or about anything else I'll listen I promise" There was a long pause and for a moment I thought he was gone in that silent way that he moves, but than I heard a clearing of a throat. "And I promise that this thing with the guy will get better I promise."

After a moment I was sure that he was gone and I sighed in relief, not wanting to face anyone right now. 'Stupid Night Fury how can he promise such a thing.'

I'm not sure how long I was asleep for, but I woke up to my cell phone ringing which was placed right next to my bed on my nightstand. I groaned picking up my cell, blinking my eyes at the bright light. I looked at the screen and almost gasped as I read the caller ID. Sitting up on my bed and clearing my throat I answered the phone. "Hey Hiccup…"