Disclaimer: I do not own How to Train Your Dragon and do not own any of the character. Halla and Ash are based on character from the movie, but have been modified for my story

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I want to warn anyone reading this story that due to school starting I may not be writing as much as I used to, but give me time and I will update I don't plan on ditching this story ever. I will update when I can.

Also I am starting to revise, review, and correct the starting chapters because yes I did reread them and some of them have errors I can't ignore, so I will be updating as I correct chapters.

Halla's point of view

In the morning during dragon training I decided to ask Gobber my questions about the Night Fury…it probably wasn't the best time to ask seeing as how I was asking while during the actual lesson.

"Hey," I shouted from inside the arena "I noticed that the book had nothing on Night Furies. Is there, like, another book? Or a sequel? Maybe even a Night Fury pamphlet?" I asked my axe and shield hanging limply at my side.

Gobber was outside the arena, while the arena had been set up like a maze will high wall and big enough passageway for the unleashed Deadly Nadder to climb and walk through.

"Whoa!" I said as I felt rather than saw a fireball being hurled at me. The fireball missed me, but it burnt the top part of my axe leaving me with only a stick of wood. I decided that the axe was no longer use to me, so I dropped it. I looked behind me and saw the Deadly Nadder was coming straight for me. So I did what any girl in my situation would do…I ran for it.

"Focus Halla! Yer not even trying!" yelled Gobber throwing his hands up in frustration.

"Today, is all about ATTACK! Nadders are quick and light on their feet. Your job is to be quicker and lighter!" 'Because that is such an easy task to do' I thought as I watched the Deadly Nadder easily jumped up on top of the maze, hopping from one wall to the next.

After a few jumps it whipped out its tail, spikes appearing, and launched them at Fishlegs, who blocked them with his shield. "I'm really beginning to question your teaching methods!" he yelled as he ran into the maze walls trying to steady him again. 'Join the club' I thought, trying to stay out of the way.

"Look for its blind spot. Every dragon has one. Find it, hide in it, and strike," Goober continued, obviously not listening to his complaining students. He actually seemed rather bored. 'I guess watching us run around like mice isn't that entertaining for him.'

Ruffnut and Tuffnut turned a corner and were face to face with the Deadly Nadder. Ruffnut in front and Tuffnut behind trying to stand in the middle of the Deadly Nadder. The dragon seemed to be squinting still trying to see the twins. It even lowered its head to try and see them better. They might have been safe from the dragon if they could just stop arguing for a second.

"Yuck! Do you ever bathe?" asked Ruffnut, shoving her brother away to try and get away from his smell.

"If you don't like it then get your own blind spot!" he answered, shoving Ruffnut.

"How about I give you one!" she threatened, until they were both shoving each other that the horns on their helmets became tangled.

The dragon made some type of rumbling noise gaining the arguing twins attention. They both looked at the dragon to see that it was opening its mouth and about to breathe fire at them. Tuffnut pulled his sister with him since they were still connected by the helmets and ran taking cover from the dragon's fire.

'At least it gave them a warning before firing' I thought listening to Gobbers witty little side comments. "Blind spot: yes. Deaf spot… not so much," he said his tone some where between annoyance and amusement.

I got closer to Gobber so that he was just hovering over me and began questioning him again. "So how does one sneak up on a Night Fury?"

"No one's ever met one and lived to tell the tale. Now GET IN THERE!" Gobber replied, pointing into the maze.

"I know, I know. But…hypothetically-"I backed up a bit trying to get a better view of Gobber from down in the arena. While I was talking someone bumped into me. I looked over and see Ash and Snotlout crouched behind the wall. Ash signaled for me to stay hidden. I crouched myself next to the wall trying to figure out how close the dragon was to us.

He poked his head around the corner, but pulled back when he saw the Deadly Nadder was sniffing the ground. Ash peered out one more time taking a deep breath getting ready to attack the dragon head on. He rolled across to the other wall, immediately followed by Snotlout. I watched, as Ash seemed to be waiting for me to follow.

I took a deep breath and tried to copy them, but the shield was too heavy for me to roll to the other side and I landed on my back with a thump. The Deadly Nadder turned to me when it heard my shield hit the ground. I gave a nervous smile and made a run for it, I didn't even notice how heavy the shield was I just ran.

The Deadly Nadder jumped onto the walls again looking for anyone. It didn't take the dragon long to spot Ash and Snotlout ahead. It started leaping getting closer to the pair.

"Watch out, dude, I'll take care of this," Snotlout says knocking Ash out of the way. He rounds the corner and throws his hammer at the Deadly Nadder. He was obviously trying to impress Ash which if he focused more on what he was actually doing than trying to impress the boy he might have actually hit the dragon. The hammer didn't even come close to reaching the Deadly Nadder. 'Are you kidding me that was pathetic even the dragon is laughing at him…wait a minute the dragon is laughing? I wonder can a Night Fury laugh to?' I watched as Ash just glared at him

"The sun was in my eyes, Ash!" Ash rolls his eyes at the excuse and takes off down another hallway. "What do you want me to do, block out the sun? I can do that, I just don't have time." Snotlout kept trying to defend his pathetic actions while trying to keep up with Ash, who ran past me a dragon on his tail. The Deadly Nadder was so focused on catching Ash that it had started to knock over the maze walls to get to him

Everyone was pushing to get out of the collapsing maze including me…well that was until I was standing in front of Gobber. "Has anyone seen one napping?" I asked, not even bothering to pay attention to the commotion or the shoving around me. Maybe if I wasn't asking Gobber questions about Night Furies I would have noticed Ash running by me the Deadly Nadder not far behind.

Ash was starting to run faster trying to make it out of the maze while trying to avoid the Deadly Nadder and falling walls. Eventually he ran to where I was which surprisingly the walls didn't seem to be falling. He tried to leap to safety as another wall nearly crushed him. Maybe if I had been pay attention I could have moved out of his way, but no instead he had to fall on top of me.

The first thing I noticed is that again I am on the ground…I mean really can I not go one day with out something falling on me, or pinning me, is that really to much to ask for. Second that there was a weight that was pinning me down by my hips. Third and probably most important was that something was nestled in my neck. The worst part was that I could only assume that what I was feeling was Ash's lips on the base of my throat. I quickly grew red and started to struggle underneath him.

"Halla!" he growled angrily still close to my neck that I could actually feel the vibration of my name. I could feel his breathe on me and it sent a shiver down my spine, but all I wanted was for him to get off of me. 'And here I was trying to stay out of peoples way' I thought, bitterly.

"Awww, love on the battlefield," Tuffnut teased.

"He could do better," said Ruffnut, crossing her arms.

Ash lifted himself off the ground with his arms that just so happened to be beside my head. He was able to lift himself off the ground, but was still straddling me when he stopped. He hovered over me for a second his glare intensifying as some of his hair that fell out of his braid touched my face. After growling at me from above me he decided to get off of me and try to remove his axe from my shield. "Let me-why don't you?" I was trying to get Ash's attention, if he stopped tugging at my arm I could take off the shield all together instead of him pulling out my arm. I could tell that my face was red and my skin seemed ultra sensitive at the moment.

Ash turned around and saw the Nadder still charging for us. He was still trying to pull his axe out of my shield, but despite how strong he was it was stuck. He couldn't get a good stance to pull the shield out. So with the Deadly Nadder closing in he placed his foot on my chest resting just over my heart, pushing down as he yanked his axe that was still attached to my shield off my arm. He threw the two pieces of equipment at the dragon it smashing into the dragon's head.

The Deadly Nadder was hit full force by the attack that the axe and the shield shattered. The poor dragon started to limp away, clearly hurt from Ash's attack. 'He didn't have to hit the dragon so hard,' I thought watching it try to walk or even stand straight.

Ash was panting beside me still standing while I was still on the ground trying not go into the fetal position because of how bad my chest hurt. "Is this some kind of joke to you? Our parent's war is about to become ours! All you do is get in the god damn way." He shouts hate evident in his eyes.

I wince as he yells at me and try to stand only to wrap one of my arms around my stomach another resting on the area he stepped on. He saw this and is face immediately changes. He actually seems concerned as he reaches out to help me. "Hey, um, sorry about that I-"

I slap his hand away "your not going to take it easy on me remember." I snap finally standing up my arm still wrapped around my stomach. I looked him in the eyes glaring. He seemed genuinely shocked that his apology was rejected. "You may not have to take it easy on me and hell you don't have to help me because this is after all a competition, but out there in our so called parent's war its not, Vikings have each others back…or at least they are suppose to"

The teens were now standing behind Ash, all of their expressions one of shock, probably because I had never really stood up for myself before. Gobber was to busy putting the Deadly Nadder to say anything and when it seemed Ash wouldn't say anything either I humphed and walked out of the arena.

'Ash is right, I don't belong here.'