Hi Guy's and Gal's! I'm Alive! If only my name was Gordon just to hear Brian Blessed shout "Gordon's alive!". Okay enough with the pleasantry talking bollocks that we Brits are infamous for. Sorry It's taken so long but I was working long hours at work, and being with the other half and family and cleaning and cooking and recovering from a cold...and playing world of warcraft that I never had much time to write, but I still have a plot and eventually we'll be out of Berk soon, thank the Gods if we stay here any longer, I'll be growing moss on my arse :D

So here it is chapter 12 and hopefully might keep you interested or I got no review I'll take it you fell asleep.

Now sit back and enjoy while I drink a lemsip.

Chapter 12 Together we fly

Hiccup POV

Tonight didn't seem to go too bad at all, Astrid bonded with the Nadder, or should I say Stormfly now, and they hit it off very well in my opinion. Fishlegs was excited when we let out the dragons one by one to feed them and interact.

I must say the Gronckle took a fondness to Fishlegs, even more so when I gave him the dragon nip which he gave to it.

They didn't bond, but it's only a matter of time.

But the strangest thing is, all the dragons looked at me with the same expression, but they weren't looking at my body or even my face.

They were looking directly into my eyes.

Why does every dragon I see look into my eyes? What's so fascinating about them?

Something I can figure out at a later date.

For now today's events have taken its toll on me and need a good night's rest.

But as we walk out of the arena and head down the hill to drop the baskets off, a familiar figure steps out with his cronies in tow.

"Well well well, if it isn't useless out for a night time stroll" Snotlout said with a smirk making his gang laugh.

But his expression changed when he saw mine and Astrids hands held together "and what are you doing with my girl?" he said with an angry tone in his voice.

Seriously? He's seen me and Astrid kiss each other multiple time and he still think Astrid his? And this is the guy they want as chief?

I'm trying to figure who's more stupid? Snotlout or the villagers who think he'll be a great chief?

But before I could respond Astrid beat me to it giving Snotlout an intimidating glare.

"Okay first of all Snotface, Hiccups not useless, he's more useful than you" she said before grabbing my arm and pulling me closer to her.

"Second, I'm not your girl. I'm Hiccups, and don't you forget that!" She finished off by kissing me on the lips, making me smile and making Snotlout even more angry.

"That's it useless! You'll pay for th….." was all Snotlout was able to say when an empty cart came zooming down the hill knocking into Snotlout and dragging him along with it all the way down the hill and towards the dock with him screaming a high-pitched squeal.

Me, Astrid and Fishlegs was staring at what just happened before looking at Snotlouts gang go rushing off towards the dock to rescue their now wet leader.

We however fell on the floor laughing our asses off at what just happened.

We were like that for several minutes until Fishlegs broke the laughter.

"Oh gods that was funny" he said wiping the tears from his eyes from laughing too much.

I then followed the conversation holding my ribs "yeah it was, I wonder who did it? I'd like to give them a pat on the back".

"Ooo promises, promises" came a familiar voice.

All three of us looked towards where the voice came from only to see it was Tuffnut who spoke followed by his twin as they casually walk down the hill where the cart came from.

"Aww just a pat on the back?" Ruffnut said pouting and I just looked dumbfounded at what they did.

"Wait that was…." I was going to remark until I was interrupted by Tuff.

"…yep that was us" he said crossing his arms and smirking.

Astrid was the one who spoke up next "how come?" was the only word she got out as she was trying to get her breath back.

"No one threatens our friends" Ruffnut replied looking serious at what she said.

Now I was confused "I didn't think we were friends?" I asked not to sound ungrateful or anything but they never 'friendly' with me in the past.

"Hey anyone who can cause chaos and make whacky inventions that will get on someone's nerves is a friend to ours" Tuffnut replied with a grin leaving me stunned but then I smiled afterwards.

"Thanks guys" I said genuinely looking at Astrid who gave me a 'I told you so' look on her face.

"No problem Hiccup, just do us a favor" Tuffnut said as I looked at him wondering what he wanted as a favor.

"Go on" I said.

"Next time you feed the dragons, let us in on the action" Ruffnut said folding her arms just like her twin.

So they saw then? And yet they want to see the dragons too.

That left me speechless so all I could do was nod making them smile.

"Cool cause that Zippleback has our names written on it" Tuffnut said with a grin.

Oh yeah perfect match, both twin and dragon are just about as destructive.

With that in mind we all walked to the plaza where we all departed to our homes.

Well Fishlegs and the twins went to their homes while I walked Astrid to her home.

Once we got there we just smiled at each other before bidding each other good night with a kiss before she went inside and I decided to head to the forge as ideas popped into my head I needed to draw down.

Only one thing came to mind.

Saddles for the other dragons.

Two Weeks Later At the Cove

"Will you guys relax I'll be fine, Toothless wouldn't let anything happen to me" I said as my four fellow teens looked nervous.

Well two at least, the twins were disappointed they couldn't see it close up in the sky.

Boy what a week it turned out to be, trusting Fishlegs, Ruffnut and Tuffnut with mine and Astrid's secret but I not sure if I was surprised or not when Fishlegs saw Toothless, the second he saw him and told him Toothless is Nightfury he just…..well jump for joy like it was snoggletog, wanting to know every detail of him, from the fins (or should I say fin) on his tail to his scaly snout, writing everything down.

The twins just wanted to see Toothless use a plasma blast to blow things up, which included all my training dummies.

Toothless seemed to enjoy that one.

Me and Astrid just smacked the palm of our hands to our faces at that.

But with this new found dragon information and feeding the dragons at night, which Astrid asked her dad if we could do it.

Tough as that man is, he can't say no to his little shield maiden.

It helped us a lot learning more about our dragons from watching Toothless in the cove to watching the dragons in the arena.

And caused three new bonds in the process.

You see Gobber decided to only allow two students to take on a dragon at a time, as it meant less people to overwhelm the dragons thus meant the two student would have to think more.

No problem to my friends.

First round of this new plan was Fishlegs and Ugthug against the Gronkle.

Fishlegs knew what to do since I saw the dragon nip in his hand.

The Gronkle charged forward towards him but even I could see she was more excited to see him then attack him.

Yeah, we found out the Gronkle was a she from what Fishlegs told us.

For you see before he knew what had happened as the Gronkle, or should I say Meatlug now (not going to question the name since I named a Nightfury Toothless), was on the ground in shear bliss of the dragon nip, Fishlegs bonded with her like me and Astrid.

The next was the twins and the Zippleback, they were up against Samson and Angelica and all I can say is the twin fought less than those two so with everyone's attention focused on them two, the twins sneakily got close to the Zippleback heads and gave each a fish thus resulted in the head to lower their heads down to the twins empty hands and thus a new bond formed.

The names they gave them were a little weird.

The gas head is named Barf by Ruffnut and the spark head Belch by Tuffnut.

Still could be worse I suppose, Fart and Flatulence comes to mind.

So all of us in our little gang had a dragon.

Well I had two, funny enough I kind of bonded with the Terrible Terror in the ring too who I named Sharpshot.

The only dragon in the arena that no one bonded to was the Nightmare but we did earn its respect which was a good thing, maybe one day it'll find someone to bond to.

But back to the test flight, not much to worry about of course, me and Toothless have done so much trial and error testing that nothing could go wrong.

Right? Pushing that last part out of my mind, I turn to the others and gave them a reassuring smile before patting the side of Toothless' head to indicate I was ready.

"Let's go bud" I said before holding on tight to the saddle as he shoots off into the air.

I was just in earshot of Astrid shouting something "remember where to meet up babe!" reminding me that after this to meet her at the beach at the eastern side of Berk.

Hopefully I make it there in one piece.

Up In the Air

"Okay, bud we seem level and secure, tail fin…" I said looking back a Toothless' tail to see both fins, real and artificial, are both spread out correctly and that there seems to be no flaws to the artificial one. After all I only replaced it once.

"Okay bud let's see if this works" I say to him who growls back in agreement.

Looking at my cheat sheet I made so I could operate it, I start changing position of my foot on the pedal.

"Okay, okay position three….no four" I say pulling back the foot pedal to that position making the tail widen causing Toothless to grumble as we slowly start banking to the left.

Looking back nervously I put the next phase into action.

"Okay okay, its go time"

Next thing I know Toothless is flying low towards the water to where the sea stacks are, still grumbling.

"Come on buddy, come on buddy!" I shout as we head under one of the rocky archways scaring a few seagulls along the way.

"Yes it worked!" I shout as I look back at the tail to make sure it's still working.

Not seeing the sea stack in our way as we hit it "sorry my bad" I said, then we hit another.

At this point Toothless whacks me with one of his earflaps as in the say "concentrate!"

"Yeah yeah I'm on it, okay position 4, yeah" I say changing the position of the fin and we start to climb into the sky.

We fly higher and higher feeling the rush of adrenaline I shout out in excitement.

"Yeah! Yeah baby!" I shout feeling the air blow against my face.

"This is the way to go! The wind in my….cheat sheet!" I shout suddenly as the cheat sheet to the tail fin blows out of the holder I made for it.

Trying to grab hold of it I find myself falling out of the saddle as the safety strap to it comes loose.

And to top it off, because I'm nowhere near the pedal, the tail fin doesn't work and that means Toothless is falling too.

"Ahh! Toothless, no no you have to angle yourself bud! No not like that!" I shout as we both fall to our doom.

Still shouting out for him to angle himself so I can get back in the saddle, he accidently whacks me with his tail nearly knocking me out.

Finally after what seemed like forever, he angles his body correctly enough for me to grab hold of the saddle thus me getting my foot into the pedal and getting the tail fin to work.

And just in time too for I see the ground looming up.

Out of panic I pull back on the saddle causing me and Toothless to scream as we barely miss the tops of the trees.

Trying to look at the recovered cheat sheet for positions, something pops in my head, like a feeling, an instinct you could say like it was telling me to screw the cheat sheet and do what you think is natural.

And that's exactly what I did.

Throwing over my head I followed what I felt was right as I leaned into the saddle making my foot move the pedal to change the tail fins position making both me and Toothless move faster and faster through the sea stacks and out to the other side.

I cheer and shout because not only did we have a successful…ish flight and made it out alive, but I did something no other Viking has ever done before.

I rode a dragon!

Looking over at the beach we'd be landing in a few minutes I see Astrid standing there with her arms folded looking annoyed.

Oh I got a feeling what's coming.

But before that, out of pure excitement, Toothless decided to fire of a plasma blast right in front of us and fly right into it.

"Aw come on!" I groaned as we past right through it.

Several Minutes Later at the Beach Astrid POV

"Ow!" Hiccup shouts as I give him a fifth punch to the shoulder for nearly getting himself killed.

"That! Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is for scaring the hell out of me!" I shouted at him giving him a scowl, but then did something he wasn't expecting so soon.

I kissed him smack on the lips and never left them for over five minutes.

When I finally did, it left the owners of those lip daze with that goofy smile of his.

"That" I said softly while smiling "was for doing so stupid and crazy and yet so incredible" I said before leaning next to him as we cooked our fish we caught for us.

And of course Toothless too who decided to regurgitate one up before looking at us.

Oh no way am I eating that!

"Er no thanks bud, we're good" Hiccup said as I sighed in relief as we both hold each other in our arms listening to the waves crashing against the rocks.

After several minutes of silence I finally break it by asking him a question that I wanted to ask him.

"Hiccup" I say to him as I look up at him and he looks down at me.

"Can I ask, what it was like, to you know….fly?" I ask him as he looks into my eyes, smiles then towards the open ocean.

"It was something so, different Astrid, so amazing, so, so wow! I felt so free! Free of worry, free of ridicule, free of rules. I felt like I was in my element milady, like I was meant to fly" he said while making his arms move in different directions while explaining everything.

Another thing I love about him is when he gets well into a conversation, he can't keep his arms still.

I smile as he finishes. Seeing me smile makes him smile too like he knows what I'm thinking.

And Thor dammit he got it right.

"You want to fly too?" he said still giving me a smile, the only thing I could do was nod.

Our thoughts were interrupted by a pack of Terrible Terrors flying towards the beach playing about in the sand.

Suddenly a light blue Terror came up towards us to take one of Toothless' fish.

'Big mistake little Terror' I think to myself as the Toothless spot it's and makes a grab for the fish swallowing it whole followed by his dragon laugh.

The Terror had spunk I'll give it that as it gets ready to fire at its black scaly opponent to no avail as Toothless fires a small blast into the Terrors mouth causing the gas inside to ignite and making the Terror daze and defeated.

"I guess dragons aren't so fireproof on the inside" I hear Hiccup remark.

"He you go, I think you earn this one" I say to the blue Terror as I toss one of my fish to it and it happily eats it before touching my empty hand and then curling up to me and sleeping as I stroke it.

I was amazed. Not only did I bond with a dragon but many others show less aggression than they do in the raids, even the Nightmare in the ring who should be mad about being trapped in a cage.

Hiccup was thinking the same as I see that look on his face, a look of amazement too at all this.

"Astrid this, is amazing, everything we knew about dragons is wrong" he said as he scratched Toothless behind the ears making him purr with delight.

But my smiling face turned to confusion realizing something as I turn to Hiccup who in turn looked at me "but then why do they raid us?" I ask him as he starts to go deep in thought before answering me.

"Good question Astrid, why do they raid us? From what we've seen, they raid our food but don't eat it, except for the fish but saying that, fish can be caught easily without risking their lives, something more to it than anything we know of so far, and I think its time we found out about it" Hiccup finished with a determined look on his face.

He'll not give up till he finds out.

And I'll be there all the way.

Little did we know that Toothless was worried.

Several Hours Later Edge of the Forest Normal POV

After Toothless dropped Hiccup and Astrid off at the cove they decided to head home before anyone worried, him giving Toothless a scratch goodbye and Astrid saying goodbye to Sneaky.

Yeah you heard me right, Astrid bonded with a Terror just like Hiccup did with Sharpshot.

And the name Sneaky? Well it was the way she snuck up on Toothless to take one of his fish.

Fitting name I must say.

But as the young couple get into the Village Hiccup notices something that brought anger into his eyes.

Fishlegs, held in place by Ugthug while Snotlout punched him repeatedly while Samson and Angelica had a tied Ruffnut and Tuffnut on the ground.

"You know what happens when people hang out with useless, they get the same treatment as I give him!" Snotlout said smirking as he raises his fist high to give another beating.

But it never came as Ugthug was knocked out by a rock thrown at him and before Snotlout had a chance to find out who did that, he was tackled to the ground by the auburn hair boy.

Fishlegs opened his eyes to see his attacker glaring at Hiccup who had fire in his eyes.

"H-Hiccup?" Fishlegs weakly said as he looked at his savior who turned and smiled before looking back at his cousin with daggers.

"Astrid" Hiccup said calmly catching her attention who at this point beat the living daylights out of the two holding the twins down before untying them.

She looked at Hiccup who was still staring at Snotlout "get Gobber and Gothi we have a few injured teens here" he said, she nodded as she rushed away to go find them as the Ruffnut went to go comfort Fishlegs followed by Tuffnut keeping him defended with his spear.

"What's the meaning of this Snotlout?!" Hiccup shouted at his cousin, trying to keep himself calm and levelheaded.

Snotlout was just looking at his cousin in disbelief at how this weed managed to knock out Ugthug and Knock him to the ground.

Shaking that thought out of his head he starts to glare back at Hiccup with anger before smirking "reminding them three what happens when they hang out with the useless" he said before gesturing to Hiccup.

Hiccup couldn't believe what Snotlout said, beating them up for hanging out with me?

"Why Snotlout?" Hiccup had to ask "why did you have to make my life miserable at every turn?" glaring at his cousin to find an answer "what did I ever do to you?!" he finally yelled out startling Snotlout.

Recovering, Snotlout looked at Hiccup again and gave a serious frown giving Hiccup only one word "Astrid".

Hiccup started looking confused 'what did Astrid have to do with this?' he thought to himself.

"I tried all sorts to get her to be mine! But ever since we were little, well in your case littler" Snotlout carried on, smirking at his last sentence "she was always your friend and loved to hang out with you! Why you?! Then when 'frozen' Finn Hofferson left the island and Astrid stopped hanging around with you I decided there was my chance to get her to be mine by making you feel useless so no one would want to be near you for too long" he started to glare at Hiccup again in anger gritting his teeth "and then you decided to get her back with that stupid axe! No way was I going let that happen so I took the credit to look good in her eyes, which worked…".

"….until she discovered you lied about it and hit you where it hurt" Hiccup interrupted with a smirk, knowing it'll drive his cousin nuts being reminded.

And by Thor it worked.

"And that was your fault useless! She could be mine right now and she wouldn't have to feel embarrassed that her boyfriend isn't a weak, weedy, useless coward who's too scared to fight a dragon!" Snotlout shouted with all his rage gripping hold of his hammer.

"He not useless Snotface!"

Hiccup turned to see Astrid walking towards them, axe in hand glaring dagger at Snotlout.

Hiccup held her back knowing what she would do with that axe.

"Hiccup let me go! I need to teach him a lesson! No one calls you useless!" she shouts struggling to get out of Hiccups grip 'when did he become so strong?' she thought to herself as she finally gives up still being held into her boyfriend's arms.

"I know milady, I know, but he's just being pathetic" Hiccup said to her to calm her down.

Unfortunately Snotlout heard what he said and didn't like it one bit as his face turned bright red with anger.

"Pathetic?! Pathetic?! How dare you call me pathetic?!" Snotlout shouts as he raises his hammer pointing it at Hiccup.

"I challenge you Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third to a duel for your title as heir and for Astrid's hand!" he shouts catching the attention of the villagers in earshot who come closer at hear the challenge being proposed.

'Great it had to be the day the raid party come back' Hiccup thinks to himself as he sees his dad, the Hofferson's and of course the Jorgenson's come into view looking at both teens in the center of the crowd.

"What is the meaning of this?!" Stoick shouts as he tries to get through the crowd to the front, the last thing he needed as he got back from another failed search for the nest was conflict in his village.

Snotlout looks at him as he explains his actions "I'm challenging Hiccup for his title as heir uncle as well as for Astrid's hand" he said looking confident at what he said.

Stoick pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration "Snotlout this low even for you can't dish out challenges just because you're mad at Hiccup. You know he won't…."

"I accept your challenge Snotlout Jorgenson!" Hiccup said with a serious look on his face.

Everyone, even Astrid gasped at what he said.

"Son, you-you can't accept, you can't even fight!" Stoick said looking at his son.

Hiccup felt hurt that his own father would say that but that made him more determined to show him he can.

Ignoring what his father said he turrns to Snotlout again and stares "Since you offered the challenge you agree to the terms I offer. One week from now, the kill ring, free choice of weapon and winner is the one who knocks the other out or they yield, do you agree Snotlout?" Hiccup said still looking at him.

Snotlout grinned knowing Hiccup stood no chance against him so nods in agreement, knowing these terms will work for him.

"Agreed! See you at the ring useless!" Snotlout shouts before snapping his finger and thumb before walking away followed by his gang.

And with that the crowd disperses realizing that there is no fight tonight leaving the plaza nearly empty.

Leaving only Hiccup, Astrid, their parents, Gobber, a batted up Fishlegs and twin comforting him with Gothi tends to his injuries.

"Hiccup, what in Thor's name were you thinking?! You'll lose to him?" Stoick shouts realizing that Hiccup will never be chief now after this duel.

After his rant everyone in their little group was staring, but they weren't staring as Hiccup.

They were staring at Stoick. 'Did he not have any hope for Hiccup might win?' they all thought, they all saw how Hiccup trained in the ring with them fancy swords of his and the way he moved on the defense against the dragons in the ring.

But Gobber was the one to see more than what was in the ring, but wasn't going to reveal what he knew for a while.

Instead he place his real hand upon Stoick's shoulders guiding him away from the group as he gestured to Astrid's parents to follow to before turning to Hiccup "Hiccup why don' ya go feed the dragons in the ring please" Gobber said before all four adults left out of sight, only leave the teens and Gothi.

Hiccup only smiled as he looked at the ring.

Astrid however was concerned "Hiccup, I hope you have a plan to beat Snotface otherwise I'm jumping off a cliff" she said to him as he kept on smiling.

"Oh I do milady, but it requires me to go into the ring alone" Hiccup replied looking determined at the plan forming in his head.

Astrid however was confused, she knows the dragons won't hurt him but why did he want to go in there by himself?

Hiccup saw her confusion so he took her hands and looked into blue eyes before speaking "I'll explain it later on but for tonight once it's quiet come to the cove, I'll meet you there" he finished by giving her a peck on the lips and running off towards the ring.

'I wonder what plan Hiccup has in mind that involves dragons?' Astrid thinks to herself as she watches her boyfriend run off into the distance.

At the Arena Hiccup POV

Looking around to check to see if I was alone. Like anyone would want to hang around near the arena besides me and the other four teens, and Gobber of course but three were getting treated by Gothi, Astrid keeping a close watch in case Snotlout decided to turn up and finish the job and Gobber was trying to calm my dad down after his outburst, ha! More like lecture him on how good at fighting I really was, like my dad would ever believe that.

Making sure I was truly alone I decide to head into the ring to start my plan.

Hearing the dragon roars in excitement, guessing by smelling who was about to open the cell doors for them, and if it all go's according to plan, the gate.

Yes my plan is to free the dragons out of the ring but make it like they planned to escape all along.

A plan that's been going on since me, Astrid, Fishlegs and the twins started feeding them, I've been slowly weaken the gate hinges so that it makes it look like they escaped by fault of the cell doors.

Well time to see if it worked.

'First let's get them all out' I think to myself as I start to pull the levers to the doors which open up the doors.

But once they were open, all I saw was 3 flying blurs heading my way!

"Oof!" I shout as I get tackled by an over excited Stormfly, Meatlug and Sharpshot who start to nuzzle and lick me as I lay on the ground laughing.

"Hahaha….. guys!... haha.. I..I miss you too but….hahaha we..we got a plan to…haha…do!" I struggle to say but immediately they stop as to help me catch my breath, softly growling understanding what I'm getting at.

Suddenly I'm lifted up onto my feet by one of the Zippleback heads, by the green gas that's coming out I know which one it was.

"Thanks Barf" I say as I pet both heads in appreciation as I turn to see the three other dragons waiting patiently for what I needed to say.

The book was defiantly wrong about them being mindless.

The Nightmare looks at me too and nods as I nod back, we both respected each other which is a good thing, but hope one day we can find him a rider.

"Right guys, tonight is the night I've been planning for a while now" I saying addressing all the dragons in the ring who look a bit confused until I carried on.

"Tonight my friends" I say friends to dragons very easily like I can link to them better than most humans. I start to smile as I address the last part "you'll be free" I say with confidence to which the dragons roar with excitement.

Shushing them so they don't wake up the Vikings they obey and keep quiet while I go over the plan with them on how we pull it off.

I explain that I damaged the doors to the cells so it looks like they planned the escape all along all it needs is the dragons touch to make the escape look convincing, to which they start doing by breaking the hinges to the doors, causing scorch marks everywhere like they blasted their way through to escape.

As I look around after the dragons had their fun at looking at the destroyed doors and scorch marks along the walls of the ring, I turn towards the dragon and give them a thumbs up, which after learning about the gesture for a while now, and they start to look appreciative of this.

"That's good guys, if this doesn't look like an escape plan then I don't know what is. Now before you escape I must ask you for two favors" I say to them as they listen.

"One, on the way out knock me out so it looks like I tried to stop you" I say to them as they look skeptical at hurting me "don't worry guys I can take the hit" I say reassuring them I'll be okay.

"And two, when you escape, head in the direction away from the forest but fly around the Island and head to the center of the forest, there you'll see a place where there's a hidden lake, inside there you'll see Toothless the Nightfury, keep him company and explain what happened, I know he worries about me" after that they look at each other before looking back and nodding in agreement.

"Don't worry I'll explain it to your other halves what happened" I say before gesturing to Stormfly to come to me so I can whisper something to her "…okay Stormfly, relay that message to Toothless and he should understand what I mean by it" after that she nods in acknowledgement before I ready myself for a world of pain, been a while I must admit.

"Okay….ready…set….GO!" I shout as the dragon start to rush towards me hitting and grazing me around the body before Meatlugs tail whacks me right on the head.

This is going to hurt so much in the morning but seeing the dragons escape makes me smile as my world fades to black…

At the Cove Toothless

Huh? Strange? Why do I have this feeling my brother has done something stupid and crazy?

'Of course nothing new there' I think to myself as I lay back down on the grass thinking of mine and Hiccups flight.

I would have never admitted it before, being told humans are mindless murderers all my life, but Hiccup, my bond brother, changed all that, he showed me not all humans are bad.

Sure he was the reason I have no left tail fin anymore but it will grow back in a hundred years or so, but he the chance to kill me, but looking in his eyes, those green eyes they looked so much like mine, it's weird but in a good way, and he even wanted to gain my trust by helping me fly again.

And his mate, the blond one she felt comfortable around even to go as far as wanting her own dragon, a Nadder is what I recall smelling on her.

Speaking of a certain Nadder.

*Sniff, Sniff*

Strange, I thought that she was in that prison called an arena.

But as the smell gets stronger I realize she was coming along with a Gronkle, Zippleback and another Terrible Terror which smelled like the other teens that came here with Hiccup and his mate.

As I see the Nadder land she starts to walk towards me, I got to say she look kind of pretty with the yellow and blue scales, kind of reminds me of Hiccups mate.

"Toothless?" the Nadder squawked to me catching me by surprise that a dragon knows the name Hiccup gave me.

"Yes?" I ask back wondering what's going on.

"Thank gods we found the right place Astrid's mate told us about" the Nadder say as she lets out a sigh of relief.

Astrid's mate? Oh so that's who Hiccup's mates called, I got to remember that.

"Wait? Hiccup sent you here? How come?" I had to ask.

The Nadder gave me a smile before replying "He helped us escape our cells".

I gave a deadpan look realizing why I felt he did something stupid and crazy. I'll blast his ass if I see him again for risking himself but I'll hug him in my wings for his big heart in wanting to free dragons.

But my thought were cut short as the Nadder who introduced herself as Stormfly carried on talking "he also asked me to ask you something as well".

This got my attention straight away as I nod to for her to carry on "he asked if dragons are good with something called melee and if so can you help him".

Remembering what Hiccup told me about melee being physical attacks instead of fire power I understood about attacking once my shot limit was reached but why does Hiccup want to know?

"Yes I know what it is but why does he want to know?" I ask her.

She carries on telling me "he said something about his cousin, er what is his name? Snothat? Snotbutt? No Snotman no…."

"Snotlout!" I snarl startling the other dragons except Stormfly who carries on.

"Yes! That's it! Snotlout challenged him to a fight for Astrid hand, although I'm not sure what that means" she finishes off looking confused.

Of course Hiccup told me a lot about human culture, including the term 'hand in marriage' "It means Stormfly, that his cousin is try to get Astrid to be his mate instead of Hiccup" I say as she finally gets it and starts to growl madly.

"What?! No! I won't allow it! I like Astrid mate, he's kind funny and respects us and we respect him! Including the Nightmare…." she squawks loudly as I attempt to calm her by nuzzling her snout with mine.

I don't know why I did it, but it seemed to work.

"Yeah….okay well we won't let that happen" I say to her as I look around "Speaking of which, where is the Nightmare?" I ask her wondering that if all the dragons escaped then where was he?

"Oh yeah….forgot to mention, he stayed behind, claimed that we all escaped then it'll look suspicious that we all escaped and Hiccup only got hurt so instead he stayed behind and knocked himself out making it look like Hiccup stopped him" she explained as I was stunned to say the least.

I have to say that's put some respect towards him from me.

"So we'll train Hiccup a way a dragon uses physical attacks" I said getting back to the topic at hand as the dragon, who understood what melee meant roared in agreement.

Good.

If Hiccup wants to learn about fighting like a dragon.

Then by all that scaled…..he will fight like one!

A/N: Achoo! lol sometimes I just like to be cheeky :D