A/N: First thing's first. As you may have noticed, I've changed my Pen Name from my weird old one, to this one. I like it much better. I was catz4eva101 but now I'm BerksWarrior. Still the same old gal though.

Ok, now that that's cleared, I must tell you: there is a 90% chance this will not be updated again. I just wanted to broaden Astrid and Toothless's friendship, because of the fail in the last chapter with Hiccup's interruption. -,- Well, it is what it is...

Hopefully this makes up for the lack of updating I do...school and such...gets in the way...*cough procrastination cough*...

Anyway, thank you for clicking on this two chapter story, you wonderful person. I hope you like what you read!

Sorry in advance for any spelling/grammar/punctuation mistakes.

CRACK!

The sound of a pine tree's bark being split sounded through the air. The girl who had thrown it made her way forward to retrieve it. She grumbled to herself. She had no problem seeing through the night's darkness; she lit her own path. Literally.

"Stupid Skrill..." Astrid muttered to herself, gripping her glowing blue hand around the axe's handle, ripping it out of the tree with a great tug. The Skrill's fire had still not worn off, and she was glowing like a candle. It had t be at least 10 at night, and in the winter, it gets dark fast. She couldn't sleep, the irony of it being she was keeping herself awake unintentionally. Her skin was constantly glowing bright, and to her it was like someone shining a light behind your eye lids. No matter what she did, she never ended up asleep.

So she decided to take her axe and go out to the forest to burn off some energy, hoping that would make the light go away. No fuel, no power. But she'd been out for an hour with no progress. She couldn't help but wonder if she was going to be stuck like this. Astrid growled to herself and sat down on a long, mindlessly picking up a small stone and sharpening her axe.

"So that's it." she mumbled to herself. "No more Dragon Flight Club; we train at night under the cover of darkness. I won't be able to do anything with 'darkness'. Alvin would be able to spot me from ways away, so fighting isn't an option either because I won't be able to hide anywhere. To top it all off, I can't sleep because of it." she sighed. "The Skrill's probably around here somewhere, watching me, waiting for me to die from lack of sleep and exhaustion. Clever dragon; I'd put up a good fight if he tried to kill me any other way." she chuckled to herself at her joke.

She rubbed her eyes, dark circles shining blue underneath them, showing off her exhaustion. Dropping the stone she barely used, she stood up and began to aimlessly wander around the forest. She knew the risks of being out there at night and having no way to hide from predators, but she had her axe and that was confidence enough.

She mumbled to herself on ideas of getting rid of the light glowing from her. 'Maybe Gothi has a solution!' she wondered, her hopes rising. But then she remembered that no one would be up at this hour, and her hope disappeared as quickly as it had come.

She wandered around minutes more, kicking rocks and pebbles, too tired to train with her axe. She yawned every once and a while, her guard going down as the minutes passed.

Suddenly the sound of a twig snapping caught her attention, and she jerked her head to the right, now stiff with fear she hadn't known she had. She clutched her axe firmly in her hands, making her way towards the sound slowly. She knew whatever it was could see her, and she made no effort to hide herself. She looked around before a bright purple light whizzed past her. She shouted in alarm before whatever it was knocked her down on the forest floor, pinning her.

Astrid closed her eyes in panic, but before she could shout anything on the lines of 'Don't kill me!', a huge wet tongue licked her cheek happily. She slowly opened her eyes to find Toothless, still glowing bright purple, staring down at her with a huge gummy smile. She smiled back. "Toothless!" she shouted as the great dragon licked her face again, making her laugh. "Get off!" she said. Toothless gurgled at her before releasing her, letting her sit up. Astrid brushed her now wet bangs away from her face, looking at the dragon with confusion.

Toothless was still glowing as well, and just as bright as she was.

She looked at him a moment more before asking, "What are you doing out here? Can't sleep? Or did Hiccup throw you out for the night?" Toothless gurgled again, unable to answer her question. Astrid sighed, giving up. She crossed her legs, and sat down next to the purple glowing Night Fury. They sat there in a moment of silence.

"So..same idea as me? Spending time in the forest?" she asked at random, putting her axe on the ground next to her. Toothless looked at her and nodded. She stifled a yawn, blinking her eyes tiredly. She looked over at Toothless again, and noticed he didn't seem very tired at all. He put his head against the ground, his bright green and yellow eyes staring at nothing. His tail absentmindedly curled around her, probably out of habit from doing it with Hiccup.

Astrid looked down at his tail as it curled around her protectively, a thought entering her mind. She thought back to the fight with the Skrill, how Toothless had saved her life more than once. 'Why me?' she thought to herself. 'I threatened to tell the village about him, which would've ended up having Hiccup exiled, and Toothless killed. Why save me?' Her eyebrows furrowed at the question.

"Why...?" she ended up muttering out loud.

Toothless's ears perked up at her mumbled, and he turned his head to face her, confusion etched on his face. Astrid looked at him. "Why me? Why save me? What good have I ever done to you?" she questioned. Toothless lifted his head, an now giving an unreadable expression. She thought it looked a lot like shock, but she still wasn't sure. Toothles head-butted her with his nose, as if questioning her question.

This time it was her turn to look confused. Toothless let out an exasperated sigh. He turned his head and stared at his red prosthetic tail fin that Hiccup had forgotten to take off for the night. Astrid looked down at it as well...it had nothing to do with her.

It was made by Hiccup, with his extreme brilliance and talent at blacksmithing. Not to mention he'd do anything for Toothless.

Why would he be pointing to that? Now she was even more confused. Toothless turned to look at her, hope that she would understand filling his eyes. Astrid just tilted her head in confusion. Toothless sighed and stood up, moving his tail away from her. She watched him as he climbed up the bark of the nearest tree, the branches leaning against his weight. She had to suppress her laughter as he almost fell off of some of them, but then snapped back to reality.

He managed to climb just up to the top, scrambling out and settling on the top most branches. Astrid watched as his gaze turned to the moon that shown brightly in the night sky. He stretched out his wings, as if he was getting ready to take flight. But just as he crouched for take off, he turned his head in the direction of the village, his tail curling around him through the branches.

It was only then that Astrid had figured out that he was trying to tell her something through acting. He looked determined about something, his eyes set on the village. He turned his purple glowing head to look down at his prosthetic again, then back at her. Astrid was now even more confused. 'If only there was a language for dragons I could learn. It could be called dragonese or something...' she thought in an act of thought, but she shook the ridiculous idea out of her head.

She looked up at him again as he had turned back to the moon, and she thought of something from the way he was acting about it:

'He would've been flying now, if it wasn't for his prosthetic and his need for Hiccup.' she thought. That thought only boiled up more thoughts in the a line, each a chain reaction from the other.

'It's bad enough he can't fly, but now he can't fly with anyone else due to Hiccup's stirrup for his prosthetic.' which lead to the though of:

'Well, at least it was for the good of the village. If they hadn't defeated the Red Death, dragons would still be attacking.'

'The Read Death...hmmph. Lucky we found it when we did.' Suddenly her eyes widened as the thought carried on, leading to what had even caused them to find it.

"I'm the reason we found the Read Death..." she muttered in shock and disbelief. Toothless looked down at her from the tree top, his eyes wide. He jumped off the edge and glided down, landing in front of her. Astrid looked up at him, her eyes still wide. "If I hadn't followed Hiccup to the Cove, you both would be gone..." she muttered. She finally realized what Toothless had meant by readying to fly on top of the tree. He would be doing just that, if she had never let her curiosity and anger overcome her enough to discover him...

Toothless nudged her, settling down next to her. Astrid took no notice; it was in the middle of the night, she was tired and unable to fall asleep, and now she was just giving information she'd never thought about before. Toothless purred, and she turned to look at him. His pupils dilated until they were big, and from past knowledge, it meant he was happy. Happy that she finally knew. Astrid just stared at him, bewildered at the thought. "That's why you saved me. Both times..." she said with realization. She remembered that one horrifying time when they were battling the Read Death, and she almost died from being eaten.

But of course, Hiccup and Toothless both saved her from her near death experience.

But this time he was willing to do what he did for Hiccup for her. She'd never seen it happen before; his only care is Hiccup. She knew Night Furies - well, Toothless anyway - were very loyal, even more so with their human-like intelligence. Him and Hiccup act like brothers, each willing to give up their lives for the other.

Astrid never thought she was something Toothless thought was worth saving.

She suddenly felt honored. A Night Fury for Thor's sake, a Night Fury thought she was something- someone special. At least enough so that he didn't want her to die. Toothless smiled at her. Not that adorable mouth opened, full fledged, gummy smile; but a more soft and caring smile. A moment of silence passed between them before Astrid lunged forward and flung her arms around his neck. "Thank you so much. I owe my life to you...two times now."

Toothless wrapped his wings around her and just smiled.

A/N: Pinterest addiction + school + procrastination = Rare updates D:

Oh, the amount of confusion in this is overwhelming...to me. I swear that entire middle section is just babbling.

I originally planned for them to both have a conversation (you know, Astrid talking and Toothless making the occasional purr), but that ending came in, and I'm always TERRIBLE at endings so I just said to myself "You can make another chapter if they want it..."

So...do you want another chapter? It would be the conversation, and I'd probably be able to make it entertaining. But that's only if you guys want it.

Who else saw "The Night and the Fury"? Dagur is AWESOME! He certainly lives up to the name Deranged!

One last thing: Who has heard about episode 6, "Fright of Passage"? Apparently Cartoon network is making Halloween episodes for their shows! This episode came with the following description:

"Hiccup must help Astrid face her fear of the terrifying Flightmare, a ghostly dragon that seemingly "froze" her uncle with fear, shaming her family name. With Fishlegs' help, they discover that there's more to the Flightmare than meets the eye."

(Copied from Berk's Grapevine. You can find the link to the website on my Profile. No Copyright intended.)

0.0 I don't know about you, but that sounds amazing!

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I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day viewers, and I hope you like what you read!

-Berk'sWarrior