Something hit me in the back, hard. I fell past Hiccup and slid, face down, on the grass. Something heavy was on my back. I could hear Hiccup behind me say "Toothless! What part of that was gentle?"

His question was greeted with a loud purring noise. I tried getting up but the weight on my back was too heavy and it seemed to shift with me if I tried to roll out from under it.

Hiccup sighed "You dumb reptile. Alright ... flip her over."

Almost instantly the weight was lifted from back and a powerful force flipped me onto my back. Before I even registered what happened the weight was now on my shoulders pining my to the ground once again and also trapping my arms. Looking up I saw a huge black dragon towering over me. It's head cocked as it looked at me and it began sniffing my hair. I inhaled deeply as I was getting the breath to scream. Before I could Hiccup knelt down and cupped a hand over my mouth.

"Look" he said "I'm not going to have him get off you until I know you can be trusted"

I wasn't buying it and a whole string of profanities came out of my mouth that were muffled by his hand. Hiccup patiently waited for me to be out of breath and then asked

"Are you finished?"

My eyes moved back to the dragon. Hiccup sensed my fear and said "Oh he won't hurt you." He began to scratch the dragons chin and it closed its eyes obviously enjoying the scratching. My eyes darted between the dragons forelegs that were pinning me to the ground.
Hiccup sensed what I was trying to convey and said "This is hardly worse than having your arm twisted behind your back." A smug smile had crept across his face. I shot him back a glare.

"So are you calm yet?" Hiccup asked.

After several seconds of staring at the dragon apprehensively I nodded and Hiccup removed his hand.

"So first question" Hiccup started "Why were you in my house?"

I was lost in a trance, just starring at the beast holding me down.

"Um, hello. You know it's going to be hard to determine if I can trust you if you can't talk" he said.

I snapped out of my trance and answered "I was dyeing of thirst. I needed to find some water without being seen."

Hiccup weighed my answer and then said "Ok that explains why one of the buckets was half empty. But why was there water all over the floor?"

"I was REALLY thirsty." I said. Hiccup gave a small huff of laughter.

"Second question" Hiccup asked again "Why were you so determined to get off this island."

"Are you kidding me!? To get away from the the weird people who brought me here and now I want to get away from your terrifying dragons as well."

The dragon growled as I said this. Could it hear me?

Hiccup talked to his dragon when he heard this "Toothless! Not helping bud."

The dragon huffed at his master and stopped growling.

"Third question" Hiccup asked "Do you think I can let you up without you hurting anyone or running off?"

I was stunned again by his demeanor but saw an opportunity to get the upper hand. If he was this compassionate I could use that to get free. I started to fake cry "I'm just so scared Hiccup. I just want to go home" I balled.

Hiccup wasn't fooled and the dragon sensed something was amiss too because it turned its head towards Hiccup and gave what could best be described as shaking its head in disapproval.

"Really? After you almost tore my arm off inside you think i'm going to fall for that." Hiccup said.

"Oh come on. Let me up!" I yelled at him discarding my vulnerable attitude.

"Do you promise not to run away or hurt anyone? Yes or no?"

"Fine. I won't hurt anyone and I won't run but i'm not staying on this island!"

"Good enough. Toothless she's a friend now." Hiccup said making a few hand signals while talking. The dragon looked down at me and moved its forelegs that were holding me in position. Before it completely got off of me it licked my face once. The amount of saliva the was now on my clothes was incredible.

"Ugggg ..." I grimaced looked at the state of my clothing.

"It looks like he likes you." stated Hiccup making his way over to me.

"Well that makes one of us" I said as I glared over at the dragon. It glared right back at me.

I muttered to myself as I was shaking off some of the saliva "What did I expect from a bunch of viking savages."

Hiccup obviously heard this and explained "I know what you mean. Most of us aren't all that reasonable." He then extended a hand to help me up. At this point, sitting in the dirt, captured by a scrawny boy, and covered in saliva, my pride was non-existent so I accepted.

"Most of the people in this town are actually becoming quite level headed" he said. Just as I was about to grab his hand a spike flew though the air and caught my sleeve, staking my arm to the ground. I was tugging at the spike with my other hand and realized that I couldn't pull it free from the position I was it. I rolled over to see were the spike came from and I saw a viking girl with blond hair charging at me and screaming with an axe held up in the air. There was a blue and white dragon that she must have rode in on behind her. Hiccup stepped in between me and her and started talking.

"Astrid wait ...don't axe her ... she is not a threat". She ran up to Hiccup and tried to get around him and he blocked her every time she did.

"Hiccup! Get out of my way!" the girl screamed.

"What is going on over here!" boomed a voice from behind me. I saw both the girl and Hiccup freeze. Rolled back over and saw a huge man with a big red beard standing with his hands on his hips. Both Hiccup and the girl addressed the man at the same time but with different title.

The girl called him "Chief" and Hiccup called him "Dad".

The Chief looked down at my pinned arm and sighed saying "Astrid, when I left you in charge of all our new guests I wasn't thinking you would use her as a moving target for your dragon"

The girl looked stunned but she quickly retorted "She escaped out of Gothi's hut and ..."

"You decided to hunt her down with an axe for running away?" the Chief said sternly.

The girl looked ashamed no and was looking at the ground.

"Wait a second ..." said Hiccup confused about something "... since when is Astrid in charge of all new people that come to the island?".

"Since I was the only one who's vision wasn't clouded when Heather was on the island." the girl said quietly to Hiccup. The chief looked down at me and put a hand on the spike and rooted it out of the ground. Extending a hand down to me he asked "You alright lass". I didn't answer and he then noticed the cloth on the ground with bread in it and the bucket of water. "Now who's are those?"

I then stuttered an answer as I was intimidated by the hulking man "Well ... if Hiccup's your son ... then ... I guess ... they would be yours."

The man looked surprised and then burst out laughing "You were right to be worried about this one Astrid. Breaking into the chief's longhouse and stealing nothing but bread and water.". He gave a few more hearty chuckles and then said "Alright no more fighting 'ere. Astrid, Hiccup take 'er back up to Gothi's and 'ave 'er make sure our little water thief is completely all right. If she is bring 'er to the great hall"

The Chief departed still chuckling.

I looked back towards Hiccup and the girl. Hiccup was still looking in the direction of his departed father while the girl wound up and hit Hiccup in the back with the flat part of her axe.

"Don't embarrass me like that again Hiccup!" she screamed.

Hiccup, now on his knees, looked like he was about to say something in his defense but then thought better of it and just wheezed out a "Sorry ...".

Her attention was now turned to me and she said "Are you just going to stand their or are you going to move?"

"I don't know, are you going to put down the axe?" I said.

The girl smirked and then walked over to her dragon and put the axe in her saddle bags. Hiccup now recovering from his beating stood up and said "By the way that's Astrid and Stormfly."

"Which ones the dragon." I asked.

He replied "Stormfly".

"And which ones the gentle looking, winged, reptile?"

Hiccup started laughing at this until Astrid yelled over "I heard that!"

Hiccup then said "Come on we got to get you to Gothi's hut".

I stepped back apprehensively "You don't mean on a dragon do you?"

Astrid yelled over "Well we won't be walking!"

I backed away even more "There is no way i'm getting on the back of one of those things."

Hiccup mounted Toothless and gestured for me to join him.

"Come on it's a short flight and I can even tell Toothless to take it slow." he said.

I still wasn't convinced and kept my distance from the beasts.

Astrid had Stormfly trot over to me and said "It's okay if you don't want to ride on Toothless Stormfly can always carry you in her talons"

That was all it took I raced over to Toothless's side and accepted Hiccups help to get into the saddle.

"You might want to hold on to me." Hiccup said.

I scoffed and said "In your dreams".

Before I could even catch a breath we were speeding though the air. My arms quickly found their place wrapped around Hiccup squeezing him for dear life. I closed my eyes which was a bad idea because when we landed I was completely disoriented and almost fell off Gothi's porch again.

Inside I saw the old woman again. She was unsurprised by the fact that I was back. I sat on the bed where I had arisen from just hour before. Hiccup and Astrid made there way into the shack and I asked them "So how long was I here?".

Hiccup took a minute to think and then said "It took an hour to fly back from where I found you and after that ..." Gothi held up four fingers. Hiccup looked at her and continued "... and it was four hours until you woke up so five hours."

"What! It felt like days laying there." I said in shock.

"Oh ... I almost forgot what's your name." Hiccup said.

"Huh?" I was still lost in the fact that it had only been hours since I was lost at sea

"Unless your name really is 'Don't Care' you still haven't told me your name" Hiccup said

Astrid snickered at this. She seemed to enjoy anything that gave Hiccup a hard time.

"Oh my name is ..." I said. Wait why did I stop? "Sorry my name is ..." Again. Why couldn't I answer?

Astrid commented to Hiccup "Well thats not suspicious or anything."

The old woman had stopped checking me and was now looking at me too. Where was it? I tried to think into my past but all I could see was the crate. The girl in the water. Something about a baby in a crib. That was it!

"I don't know" I muttered. Everyone in the hut looked confused. Now I was scared more scared than when Toothless jumped on me.

"How can I not know?" I muttered as I started to cry.