Hey there! Sorry! Sorry! For such a late chapter. I hope you had a good Christmas! Alright longest chapter here around 2700 words I guess that's not too bad right?

Well please do enjoy!

It was a sunny morning in the village of Berk, surprisingly, it was a rare type of day the sun shone bright and there was not a single cloud in the sky, even thought it was winter, it felt like a summer's day.

A group of five teens entered the kill ring, the one leading, a blonde girl, Astrid, behind her were the twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnut, accompanied by raven haired boy, Snotlout, and at the end of the group a bigger boy with blond hair, Fishlegs, outside the ring, Hiccup watched them.

The kill ring was a large circular structure dug into the ground, there were five cage doors some weapon wracks and shields lying around.

"Welcome to Dragon Training" Gobber shouted .

"No turning back" Astrid said.

"I hope I get some serious burns" Tuffnut wickedly said.

"I'm hoping for some mauling" Ruffnut said stretching her back "like my shoulder or lower back"

"Yeah, it's only fun if you get a scar out of it" Astrid said.

"Hey babe don't worry I'll be here no need to be sca-" Snotlout was saying until a clenched fist collided with his face.

Astrid decided the punch was 'saying' enough in the hopes Snotlout would get the sign to back off.

The five teens aligned themselves in the middle of the arena facing the cage doors as Gobber started talking.

"Well today you start your training, today the competition for the right to kill the Monstrous Nightmare in front of the whole village starts" He said twisting his fake hook-hand "But before you can fight said dragon you will have to deal with some others first" He said walking to the cage doors.

"The Deadly Nadder.."

"Speed eight, armor sixteen.." Fishlegs mumbled to him self

"The Hideous Zippleback.."

"Eleven Stealth…."

Gobber walked past the Nightmare cage and continued to speak.

"The Terrible Terror…"

"Attack eight, venom twelve…"

"WILL YOU STOP THAT!?" Gobber shouted annoyed at the teens endless ranting "And.." he said placing his hand on the lever to the cage "The Gronkle"

"Jaw strength eight" Fishlegs whispered to Astrid who was next to him

"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa aren't you gonna teach us first?" Snotlout asked sounding alarmed

"Yeah good luck with that!" Hiccup shouted from the background, every teen turned to look at him, Snolout glaring daggers

"Moving on.." Gobber said and waited until all the teens were looking at him again "I believe in learning on the job, today's lesson is about survival, you get blasted you're out!"

Gobber pulled the lever and the Gronkle all but gracefully bumped out of his pen, all the teens spread away from each other gripping their weapons.

"Quick what's the first thing you're gonna need?"

"Plus five speed?" Fishlegs asked

"A kiss?" Snotlout flirted with Astrid at which she ignored

"A shield!" she shouted

"Shields go! A shield is the most important piece of equipment if you must choose between a shield or a sword chose the shield!"

Everyone did so they ran for the shields lying on the ring floor Astrid, Snotlout and Fishlegs grabbed the first shields that came to hand while the twins being the twins were fighting over a shield that had fire and a skull on it, as they were fighting they didn't notice the Gronkle, that shot at them knocking the shield out of their hands

"Ruffnut, Tuffnut you're out!" Gobber shouted pointing at them then at the ring door .

"But I'm taking the shield!" Tuffnut shouted back grabbing the shield from the floor, it had a scorch mark on it but it could still protect you

"Those shields are good for something else: noise make lot's and lot's of noise! It's the only thing that will disorient every dragon!"

The remaining teens started to bang on their shields, making noise and disorienting the dragon, which started to slowly spin in mid-air.

"Every dragon has a shot limit, what's the Gronkle's?!" Gobber asked

"I can only count to 5" Tuffnut mumbled to his sister near the gate

"Uh" Snotlout said trying to think quickly "Five?"

"No! Six!" Fishlegs correcting, waving his shield in the air smiling and felling a bit proud he knew the answer.

"Correct that's one for each of you and-" Gobber was interrupted by Fishlegs high-pitched scream from the Gronkle shooting at him and knocking off his shield "-one to spare! Also Fishlegs you're out!"

As the Gronkle was entertained Astrid thought it was a good idea to try and sneak up on the dragon, but as she got close the dragon turned around eyes focusing on her, the dragon opened its mouth to fire at her and Astrid raised her axe to try and strike it first, but as soon as they did a voice was heard.

"Don't worry babe I'll save you!" Snotlout said as he threw his mace, missing horribly and hitting Astrid square in the face knocking her down, she was still conscious but her head her hurt like hell and she could only, barely, sit up, the Gronkle closed his mouth turned to look at Snotlout, and it made a noise in its throat like it was…laughing? Then it turned back to Astrid and re-opened its mouth about to fire.

Meanwhile Fishlegs, the twins and Snotlout were frozen, Gobber, who was with Hiccup in the stands, started to run towards the arena, but Hiccup beat him to it, he was running like he never had ran before, he grabbed the shields out of a very shocked and confused Tuffnut and ran towards the Gronkle, Hiccup thought it was going to take too long to place himself in front of Astrid, so in a leap of faith, quite literally in-fact, he jumped shield pointing forward and hit the Gronkle on its side making it miss the shot it was about to fire and making it go against the nearby wall making it a bit dizzy.

As soon as the Gronkle returned to its senses a hook was place in its mouth and it was dragged back to its cage fighting the whole way.

Hiccup quickly got to his feet and rushed over to Astrid she had her hand still against her head.

"You ok?" He asked

Astrid only nodded and Hiccup helped her to her feet and Astrid leaned on him for support, Gothi was waiting by the front gate, being near the ring in case accidents happened, and she pointed to Hiccup and then to her hut and Hiccup understood she wanted him to take Astrid to her hut but before he left he heard Gobber say.

"Remember a dragon always, always goes for the kill! Class dismissed, ah not so fast Snotlout you stay here I have to talk to you"

After dropping Astrid off in the hut Hiccup thought about what Gobber said 'A dragon always goes for the kill', he looked up to the sky to find that he still had a couple of hours until lunch

He slipped from the village and entered the forest it was green and brown, just like his clothes! Hiccup walked around a bit trying to find the place the Night fury was, when he found it , he grabbed the cut bola ropes that were lying on the ground.

"So why didn't you?" he asked.

"Hiccup look there's a shiny black gem there"

Hiccup looked closely and hidden under a patch of lose grass, probably when it took flight, was a circular, black, scale? Hiccup looked to his right and saw another one he went to get it and saw another, and so he followed the path of black scales.

Said path led him into a small opening on the wall of a cove, he looked around and saw nothing.

"Well this was pointless" he said.

But suddenly a black shape flashed in front of him, and then said shape glided down the cove, Hiccup noticed it was the Night Fury, he watched has the dragon tried to fly upwards, shrieking as it clawed the walls of the deep cove trying to get out only to glide back down, his head facing Hiccup's direction but looking at the ground like it was thinking.

"Why don't you just fly up and away?" Hiccup questioned.

He took his notebook from inside his pocket and started to draw the dragon from an aerial perspective.

"Hmm what do you think?"

"I don't know.." Has Hiccup heard that the dragon turned revealing its tail

"The Tail fin!"

"The Tail fin" They shouted at the same time

At hearing Hiccup's shout the dragon turned towards the source looking directly at Hiccup with curious eyes, its pupils weren't slits, they were rounder and less threatening.

Their eyes locked for a second before Hiccup got up and ran.

"You should have gone down there Hiccup I don't think it wanted to kill you!"

But Hiccup ignored him, running towards the village it was lunch time anyway.

He reached the village but before he went to the Great Hall he decided to go to the healer's hut to check on Astrid, much to his disappoint she wasn't there probably at the Great Hall already. He thought.

Has he entered the Great Hall he noticed Snotlout was sitting alone while the other teens were on the other table. He felt bad, even though his cousin bullied him, not so much for this last year, either because Astrid or because he spent most his time in the clearing, but he felt his cousin shouldn't have to go through the loneliness that he did, so he decided, he sat down in front of Snotlout

"Hey" Snotlout said dryly

"Hey" was Hiccup answer

"You can't use the forge for the next few hours" Snotlout said

"Why?"

"My punishment, I'm going to have to clean the forge everyday after lunch for two weeks"

"Alright but if you don't mind I'd like to use my little room"

"Yeah, sure, I wasn't going to clean there anyway"

They started to east in silence until, surprisingly, Snotlout broke the silence

"That was really brave what you did"

"What?"

"Saving Astrid while we all just froze"

"Thanks"

"Guess I just ruined my chances with Astrid, she must hate me right now"

"Did you try apologizing?"

"A Viking never says sorry!"

"A Viking never throws a mace at a comrades face, for this situation how about we make some exceptions?"

Snotlout looked at his almost empty plate, considering what Hiccup had just said

"Fine, but..-uh.. how do you apologize?"

"It's simple really, you just go to their table and say you're sorry for throwing a mace at her face"

"That rhymed!" Hiccup ignored it

"Alright I'll try..."

Snotlout got up and walked to the other table, as soon has he was close all teens went quiet and looked at him

"Astrid I wanted to say-" He looked back at Hiccup, who gave him a encouraging smile and a small nod "-I'm sorry, for throwing a mace at your face."

All the teens gaped,Astrid looked back at Hiccup who had a grin on his face.

"Apology accepted" Astrid said

"Awesome, I knew you couldn't say mad at me babe" Snotlout answered, earning a death glare from Astrid and a very colorful threat.

Snotlout was allowed to join the other teens in their table, and Astrid was going to invite Hiccup but after Snolout apologized he was no where in the Hall, in fact he was in his room, making schematics for his fancy handle/sword, he had decided to call Endeavour.

Later that afternoon Hiccup was just finished making the schematics and making a list of the materials he was going to need when someone knocked on the door.

"Come in" Hiccup said putting away the sheets of paper

"Hey Hiccup?" Snotlout said has he entered the room

"Yea?"

"Thanks.."

"For what?"

"Helping me out with thw whole 'sorry' stituation"

"Your Welcome" Hiccup smiled, Snotlout gave him a little smile back

"You can use the forge now" Snotlout said has he left

And so Hiccup did, he started gathering the materials for the handle, said handle was big, bigger than a normal sword but still smaller than the handle of a greatsword, without a cross-guard.

He spent the whole afternoon working on it he only finished it at dinner time, it was made of leather it had an ellipse form allowing a blade inside of it, it was brown and had some silver in the midst, from the iron and the leather.

The blade part he'd do later

He entered the Great Hall, Gobber was talking about what their problems during training were, but Hiccup shut him off, trying to figure out the best way to make the blade come out of the handle and still be able to use it it didn't take him that long and he was able to hear the end of the lecture Gobber was currently giving.

"...You need to breathe this stuff-" Gobber said placing, well dropping, a large book on the table"-The Dragon Manual, everything we know about dragons is in here, no attacks tonight, study up"

"Wait you mean like... read?" Tuffnut said dropping the knife he was currently playing with.

"While we're still alive?" His sister added

"Why read words when you can just kill the stuff the words tell you stuff about!?" Snotlout asked angrily punching his plate

"Oh! I've read it like seven times! There's this water dragon that sprays boiling water at your face and there's another dragon that-" Fishlegs said, but was shushed by Tuffnut making the a motion of closing mouth with his hands

"Yeah, great, there was a chance I was going to read that, but..." Tuffnut said

"Not anymore" Ruffnut finished for him

"Hey I was going to say that!" Tuffnut said

"Yeah, but I said it!" Ruffnut retorted back, starting a cat fight between them.

During the twins fight Hiccup decided that he should try and get some sleep, he was planing on going to the Cove the next morning to watch the night fury closer.

His wish didn't come true.

Hiccup couldn't sleep that night, always turning around, adjusting his pillow, pulling the blankets closer of further away, until he had enough of it, he decided to go take a walk.

Has he was walking near the cliff, he saw a blonde figure sitting there, in the cliff, legs dangling back and forth.

Astrid

"Go on sit next to her!"

And so Hiccup did.

"Hey" he said surprising her

"Hi, that was pretty cool what you did with Snotlout"

"Thanks"

"No, thank you"

He felt a pang of pain his left shoulder.

"That's for risking your life"

"You know that's dan-" He started to say but froze as her lips met his cheek.

"That's for.. everything else" she said sheepishly, standing up, and starting to walk towards the village, she seemed to walk slower than normal. Must be from the hit. Hiccup thought.

"Don't just stand there, go kiss her!"

"What?" he hissed has he whispered

"Go. Kiss. Her. NOW!"

Realizing what the voice was saying he got up quickly walked to Astrid, silently so she wouldn't notice him, grabbed her hand and pulled her to him their faces inches apart, blue eyes meeting green, finally Hiccup closed the gap between them joining their lips together in a long kiss.

Maybe Hiccup didn't need sleep after all.

Some Hiccstrid right there for you! Have a great happy new year!