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AN: Here's hoping that people would still find my fic.

Setting: During Dragon Training

Days Until Wedding: 2 and quarter a month (69 days)

"When Did They Learn That"

"Woah!" Hiccup narrowly avoided the nadder spikes by jumping behind a wooden wall. He poked his head through the side but quickly retracted it because another wave of spikes went his way. He cursed to himself, this was not going well. At this rate he would eventually get hit by the spikes.

Astrid was not doing any better. She kept rolling, jumping, summersaulting and sidestepping just not to get rammed by the raging gronkle. Apparently the gronkle thought that using his head to hit the girl was a good idea. This was not getting Astrid anywhere. She had to think of a plan to subdue this dragon enough to hit it on the head with her shield. The only problem is though is that all her plans involve Hiccup but he was busy at the moment. Astrid looked towards the nadder and to her luck all of its attention was on Hiccup.

Gears started turning in her head. She had a plan that involved distracting the dragons long enough for her and Hiccup to regroup. She just hoped that it would work though.

Astrid glared at the gronkle. "Hey! Big, fat and clumsy! Catch me if you can!" Astrid's taunt worked because the gronkle roared and flew faster towards her, determined to bash her with its skull.

Astrid ran as fast as her feet could take her. She knew that the gronkle was a few feet behind her, she could feel it's breath on her back. Astrid ran straight towards the nadder.

The nadder was fed up with trying to hit Hiccup with spikes so it reared its head and crouched its body to shoot fire at the viking. Astrid saw this as an opportunity and jumped over the nadder's back and ran towards Hiccup.

The nadder, shocked by Astrid's action, squawked and flailed its wings. The gronkle realized too late that it was headed towards the other dragon and bashed his skull on the nadder's side, both throwing them off.

Astrid hid behind the wall with Hiccup and trying to catch her breath.

"Astrid! Thank the gods you're here! We need a plan, asap!" Hiccup said

Astrid smirked "Way ahead of you" she looked behind her and saw that the dragons were sort of having an argument with the nadder looking furious and the gronkle looking apologetic. "Ok, I bought us some time. I already have a plan in mind but I need your input in it."

Hiccup nodded.

The vikings on the stands were astounded by what was happening in the ring. The two teens were doing a remarkable job in fighting. Not to mention they were facing two dragons. Ever since the teens started training, the vikings already knew they were good. What they didn't account for was their teamwork, not only were they good alone but together they looked unstoppable.

The nadder and gronkle finally settled and focused on the two vikings behind the wooden wall. The gronkle charged head-on and destroyed the wall but to its confusion the two teens weren't there anymore. The nadder moved its head left and right to try and find the teens.

"It's working" Hiccup whispered as he stood infront of the nadder's blindside. Astrid climbed up another wooden wall and waited for the gronkle to pass her.

Every viking held their breath. They were waiting. Things were intense.

Just as the gronkle passed below Astrid, she jumped on top of it and startled the gronkle.

The dragon started to fly random patterns and smashing its body on things in trying to get Astrid off. But Astrid was persistent since she held on even though random debris hit her body. When she finally situated herself on top of it, she grab hold of its ears and forced it to turn.

Hiccup saw this as cue to make his move. He jumped and shouted at the nadder, scaring it. The nadder was furious and started shooting spikes at him again. Hiccup avoided all of them and continued to distract it.

"Hiccup! Now!" Astrid shouted behind him and he jumped out of the way as the gronkle dashed past him. Just as the gronkle was about to hit the nadder, Astrid jumped off and ran towards Hiccup.

A huge crash was heard as the gronkle barreled through the debris, nadder included, and hit its head on the stone wall. After the clouds cleared, the gronkle clearly looked unconscious and the nadder was limping away before dropping down and falling unconcious.

Silence once again filled the stadium before everyone stood from their seats and cheered for the two vikings in the ring.

Astrid hugged Hiccup and to her excitement kissed him on the lips which elicited a few cat whistles from the stands and some cries of anguish.

"Wait!" Stoick's voice boomed "The elder has something to say"

Said elder was none other than Acne, the village shaman.

Gobber stepped towards the two hugging teens and forced them apart to be judged.

Gobber raised his hand on top of Astrid's head and the healer shook her head which caused a few murmurs.

Gobber then raised his hand atop Hiccup but the healer did the same thing.

Stoick was confused. It was clear that both teens did remarkable jobs out there. So why did the elder decline both of them? It suddenly clicked in him.

"Wait" Stoick called before an uproar was created "Gobber, gesture to both of them"

Gobber did as Stoick asked and raised both his arms atop the teens heads. As Stoick expected, the healer nodded her head with a smile.

Everyone cheered. It was not every day where two people passed the exam. Both of them could kill the dragon together and if the kiss was any indication, both of them were happy with the elder's decision.

Hiccup and Astrid fought the urge to look at each other. They knew they had to kill the monstrous nightmare but both of them thought that it was not the right thing to do. It was not fair to them. They were used by a giant dragon. They must do something before it's too late.

AN: Hey everyone! Bye everyone!