New story! Horrah! :) Story requested by the fabulous Wanli8970. This is the FIRST update on this story, and I hope you guys enjoy it! I'm going to have a lot of fun with this one, and I hope you guys too. :) Anyways, chapter 1!

CHAPTER 1: WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

Astrid waited outside the Great Hall for Hiccup. Strange. He was never late. She recalled earlier that day, training, working on some new training techniques. While the rest of them headed to the Great Hall, Hiccup went to the forge to work on a new idea he told them he thought up.

That was hours ago.

Astrid watched two Terrible Terrors chase each other in circles, growling and snarling at the other and play wrestling. Or...at least she thought they were play wrestling. She honestly couldn't tell.

She watched as a young girl around her own age walked up to her. Dahlia, a fifteen year old girl, made her way towards Astrid. Her Fireworm dragon, Stardust, hissed at her. Why they recruited Dahlia in the academy, they didn't know. Why they allowed her to have a Fireworm, they didn't know either. Her hair was short, about the same length as Hiccup's, and black. Her eyes were electric green, also like Hiccup's.

"Hey, Dahlia," Astrid said. "How's it going?"

"Fine," said Dahlia. She held her sai at her side, swinging it back and forth in a constant sweeping mannar. "That was a cool lesson today," she breathed. "Hiccup's a great teacher."

"He really is," agreed Astrid. "He knows how to explain things well."

"Well, I'll see you later, Astrid," said Dahlia. Stardust hissed at her as Dahlia entered the Great Hall.

The sun was setting. Astrid was a bit frustrated. Where was Hiccup!? He was supposed to have been there by now!

She breathed out a breath of relief when she heard Toothless roar from above. The Night Fury landed in front of her, and Hiccup dismounted.

Astrid crossed her arms and tapped her foot angrily as he approached.

"I'm sorry it took so long," said Hiccup. "But it's finally done!"

"What is?" asked Astrid, forgetting about her anger that was temporarily replaced with curiosity. "What did you make?"

"I'll show you later," said Hiccup. "Right now, I say we head inside and meet up with the other members of the academy."

They left their dragons outside and headed in. Astrid sat down beside Hiccup at one of the tables. Snotlout, Ruffnut, Tuffnut and Dahlia sat across from them, and Fishlegs sat on the same bench as they did.

"What took you so long?" Snotlout questioned.

"Got a little caught up in work," said Hiccup. "But I think I finally finished it."

"Finished what?" we all asked in unison.

"This!" said Hiccup. He took out his notebook and flipped to a page around the middle of it. Doodled on the page was what looked like some sort of whistle.

"Great," said Astrid flatly, "but please tell me you didn't spend all that time doodling."

"No," said Hiccup. "These are the blueprints."

"For a whistle?" said Astrid. She shook her head. "Why a whistle?"

"You guys aren't letting me explain!" said Hiccup. "This isn't just any whistle. It's a Dragon Whistle."

"A Dragon Whistle?" Dahlia breathed. "That's great, Hiccup! What does it do?"

"Come on outside, and I'll show you," said Hiccup.

They all stood up the instant the words left his mouth. The dragon trainers ran excitedly out of the Great Hall, down the steps that lead up to it, and then stood in a circle, looking at Hiccup expectedly.

Hiccup pulled something out of Toothless' saddlebag and then turned to them. It was a silver bar-like object attached to a necklace chain of the same color and material. It looked like a miniature flute, only with one hole, and the part you blew into it was like a whistle.

"Toothless, go long," said Hiccup. "Come back when you hear the whistle."

Toothless nodded and ran towards Raven Point until he was out of sight.

"Okay, I haven't tested it yet, so I don't know if it'll work or not," said Hiccup. He blew into the whistle...but no sound came out. Strange. They thought it would have at least made a sound. Hiccup stopped blowing and turned around. Another second later, Toothless came running from Raven Point.

"Good job, bud!" said Hiccup. "It works!"

"But I didn't hear anything," Tuffnut complained. "I feel cheated."

"No, it's tuned especially so only a dragon's ears can hear it," said Hiccup.

"That's awesome!" said Dahlia. "Do we all get one of those?"

"As soon as I make more, yes," said Hiccup. "It takes a while, you know. Took me hours to complete this one. They're hard to tune."

"Cool," said Fishlegs with enthusiasm. "Now...it's getting late. What time should we meet for training tomorrow morning?"

"Maybe around eightish," said Hiccup, doing a seesaw motion with one of his hands in a more-or-less type fashion.

"If you guys are even here tomorrow," Snotlout mumbled.

"What?" asked Hiccup.

"Oh, you mean...IT," said Tuffnut.

"What's IT!?" Astrid shouted.

"You mean you've never heard the story of the Incliciar?" asked Snotlout in astonishment.

"I've heard about it," said Fishlegs, "but it's just a myth."

"WHAT'S just a myth!?" shouted Hiccup. "Someone tell me!"

"No myth, Fishlegs," said Snotlout, shaking his head.

"WOULD SOMEONE please fill me in!?" asked Hiccup.

"I'm with Hiccup on this one," said Dahlia. "Tell us!"

"If you guys don't start filling us in, I'm getting my axe!" Astrid shouted in frustration.

"Fine," said Snotlout. "The Incliciar is a Ghost Dragon."

Hiccup groaned. "You have got to be kidding," he muttered. "You aren't seriously talking about that, are you?"

"Oh, so you've heard the story before?" said Snotlout.

"A while back," said Hiccup. "But it's just a legend. It's never actually happened."

"What did the legend say?" Astrid asked Hiccup, just because she didn't trust what Snotlout said about it.

"Legend states that the Incliciar was killed by a Berkian," said Hiccup. "So every twenty years, the dragon comes back and haunts Berk, etcetera...something like that, anyway." He shook his head. "But it's just some psycho legend!"

"No, it's not," said Snotlout.

"Oh for the love of..." Hiccup groaned, his voice trailing off.

"It comes every twenty years," said Snotlout, "on Halloween. Which is...tomorrow."

"Foolish to believe," Hiccup mumbled. "I'm done. So done. See you tomorrow."

"Yeah, me too," said Astrid. "So long."

"Remember!" shouted Snotlout as Hiccup and Astrid mounted their dragons. "Ghost Dragon!"

"Yeah, right," said Hiccup. "I'll make a note of that, thank you. Let's go home, Toothless."

The Night Fury grunted in agreement and then took to the sky.

"Incliciar," Hiccup muttered to himself. "Legend or not, it's crazy."