(Chapter Twenty-Six)

(Fridas 17th) (With Draco)

The night was hard on Draco. One from being so sore and tired from the battle with the queen and the other was when Astrid kissed him. He couldn't get it out of his head but at some point he was able to fall asleep.

The next morning though wasn't pleasant for him. Someone knocked on the door frame of his soon to be room once it's all finished waking up to see that Geratl was leaning on his door frame "Someone's here to see you" Draco groans.

After getting off of the floor he leaves the room entering into the dining room as well seeing that Sal was up and carving out something. Draco looks and sees a couple of chairs and what seems to be a table.

Sal notices Draco standing there and says "How do they look?" he asks. He gives him an approving nod.

"They look great" Sal smiles getting back to work.

Draco looks around to see that the girls weren't around "Where are the girls?" he asks. Sal looks away form his work again and says "Raven and Ciri went to the springs Triss, I think went into town for some reason and Hana, she's out front with Galaxy"

Geralt calls out to Draco "Draco" Draco follows the sound walking to the front door.

At the door Geralt was holding it open to show that Hiccup was standing there with his weapon in hand. Hiccup noticed Draco and slightly looked down at the ground. Draco stops a foot in front of Hiccup before speaking.

"Don't stare at the ground"

"Sorry" Hiccup apologizes looking up at him. Draco sighs.

"Apologizing a lot makes you sound weak"

"S-Sorry" Draco just shakes his head before speaking again.

"What are you doing here?"

"I was wondering when youre going to come back to train me?" Draco metally slapped his forehead.

"Sorry, I forgot, we'll start it up again tomorrow morning, ok" Hiccup nods his head.

The two stood there in silence but when nothing was said Draco spoke "Is that all?" Hiccup jumped a little "Oh yes, sorry, I'll get going"

Hiccup then bolts back to the village. Draco closes the door behind him still a little annoyed that he forgot about his training. When he looks up he notices that Geralt was still neaby leaning up against the wall.

"What?" Draco asks.

"You forgot his training, that's no good Ryder"

"Don't lecture me, with everything that's been happening it's hard to keep up with the small things like training" he walks passed Geralt.

"Wrong" Draco turns to Geralt.

"What's wrong?"

"Saying that training is a small thing"

"Geralt, it's not the time" he had a feeling that Geralt was going to say something but a girlish scream caught their ears. Draco could only guess that it was Hiccup.

"Get ready" Geralt nods. Sal heard and stopped what he was doing to go grab his things.

Draco quickly went back into the room grabbing his swords and battle rob along with a few other things before he leaves the room again to see that Sal and Geralt were waiting for him. The trio leave the house in a hast but sees that Hana and Galaxy were looking at them.

Draco looks at the two and asks "Where did the scream come from?" he asks. Hana point in the direction of where the scream came from.

Draco nods his head thanking her before taking off. The other two follow closely behind him. Galaxy took this time to sniff the air. Hana watches "What is it?" she asks seeing that he flinched.

"Hi frin wah kos kidding zey…" he does his own groan. He gets up and carefully goes after the trio but had to still take his ramp.

Hana just shrugs her shoulders not knowing what was going on or at least that's how she's making it look. Instead she gets up and goes on inside of the house to make something for her to eat.

The trio were running through the woods following the screams and now the roars of whatever was attacking Hiccup. They followed the sounds until they came out to a small clearing and within that clearing they saw Hiccup but as well as the thing that was attacking him.

The creature was small for the sound that it makes. It was pitch black, and was on all fours growling at Hiccup but that changed when it heard Sal step on a stick which snapped. The dragon turned around now looking at the trio that have just showed up.

Draco looks at Sal slightly but kept his full focus on the dragon in front of them. The dragon flung its wings out trying to make itself intimdating but it wasn't going to work. Draco gestures to both Sal and Geralt to surround it. They nodded.

The two slowly began to surround the dragon with their weapons drawn while Draco stayed where he stood drawing his silver sword that Geralt brought for him. The dragon felt threatened and stood on its hind legs getting ready to fire at him.

Just as the dragon was going to fire another roar caught their attention but Draco knew this roar. It was Galaxy. The small black dragon turns to look at the bigger dragon and backed down but still held its ground.

Galaxy looked down at the dragon before speaking "Fos los dreh het vul gein?" Draco could understand what the dragon said.

"Zu'u came wah koraav gein tol kuz tir jud"

"Druv?"

Draco could sense that Sal, Geralt and Hiccup were all confused at seeing the two dragons speak to one another. He could explain to them what they were talking about but with Hiccup here.

"Oh screw it" he says softly before taking a step forward gaining the attention of the two dragons.

Draco was going to speak but Sal calls him out. Draco turns to look at Sal and saw Sal shake his head slowly. Draco looks at him confused but listen anyways. He turns to look at the two dragons which still seemed to be watching him.

"Galaxy?" Galaxy knew what he was wanting to ask.

"Hi hon fos ved gein saag"

"I know what it said by why?"

Galaxy looks at the black dragon "Druv?"

The black dragon seemed confused but still spoke "Voth jud nusaan mu don't praag wah kuzol jul nidzos ahrk Zu'u laan wah nox gein wo viik ek"

"It didn't need to come here to thank us, it could've just stopped raiding this village"

"Tolro mein nuz…" Draco looks at the black dragon with a raised eyebrow.

"Osos lorot do making leret het" Draco let out a deep sigh then rubbed the bridge of his nose.

"You got to be kidding me" he whispers.

"Tolro druv Zu'u los ahk het" Draco couldn't believe what he was hearing.

The dragons are planning to make a nest on Berk. An island that hates and kills dragons. Even Galaxy couldn't believe what he was hearing but everyone else that was there was confused at why Draco seems annoyed.

"Hiccup" said lad jumps at hearing his name.

"Yes?"

"Go on back to the village" Hiccup didn't hesitate and ran for the village.

Geralt takes a step forward "Are you going to tell us what's happening?"

"When we all return home, later but for now (turns to Galaxy and the black dragon) you two go on home, Galaxy lead him back while we go on to the village and pick up a few things" the two dragons nod leaving the trio.

"For us we're…" he gets interrupted when he hears Ravens voice but when her turns to look he quickly looks away.

"Raven… Ciri… why are you naked?" he asks annoyed.

The two girls seemed to have just left the springs but didn't grab their clothes "Oh come on, it's not like you've seen it before" Raven gestures.

"She's right you know" Ciri adds smirks.

Draco still looking away repeats "Go get your clothes and meet us at the edge of the forest.

The two girls didn't listen to him at first but when he didn't turn to see if they were gone they left to go grab their clothes but laughed as they walked away. Draco could only shake his head.

"Why does that bother you?" Geralt asks.

"It doesn't" he simply states clearly not wanting to talk. Geralt looks at Sal and Sal shrugs his shoulders.

(With Astrid, the Twins, and Fishlegs)

Astrid leads her small gang to the hall to grab some morning grub but deep down she feels a little less hungry but that's possibly due to her nerves still bothering her. At first when she first woke up she told herself that it was nothing and that Draco wasn't going to say anything to her since he just doesn't seem to be that kind of person to be bothered by such things.

But on the other hand she was kind of worried that he WOULD say something but she didn't try to think of it to much since it was just going to mess with her head.

The whole time she was in her thoughts she didn't notice that Ruffnut was calling to her. She was only pulled out from her thoughts when she heard Snotlout's voice that was coming right in front of her.

"What do you want Snotface?" she asks glaring at the idiot in front of her. He wasn't alone though.

"You're a lying bitch" she was taken back from this.

"What the hell Snotlout?" Ruffnut asks.

"Shut up, you didn't see what I saw last night"

"You were watching?" Astrid realize what he was talking about.

"Damn right I was, I should've trusted my gut" Astrid was seriously mad.

"I can't believe she's going around with other men" Dogsbreath says sounding surprised.

"Wait, she's going with other men, who?" Tuffnut asks clearly confused. Ruffnut slaps her.

"That damn Draco guy" Snotlout answers.

"What?!" Tuffnut was shocked. Ruffnut slaps him again.

"Would you shut it"

"When I see him, I'm—"

"See who?" Draco asks. Everyone turns to see that Draco along with his friends. Geralt and Sal stood on each side of him while the girls stood behind them. Snotlout stomps towards Draco and says.

"You, me, I challenge you—" Gobber cuts in.

"That's not goin' ta happen"

"Oh yes it is he—"

"Would ya shut ya trap, we just finished defeating the nest and that beast" Gobber argues shutting Snotlout up.

"But—he, ugh" he storms off with Dogsbreath following quickly behind him.

After Snotlout was out of ear shot Gobber turns to Draco "Sorry about the lad's stupidity"

"It's fine (looks at Astrid) can I talk to you?" she flinches a little.

Draco then turns to his friends and says "Go on ahead without me, We'll catch up with you in a little bit" they nodded their heads. Astrid did the same to her friends and told them to go on without her. They did as she says.

The two stood there watching as their friends walk to the halls doors. Once they went inside Draco looks at Astrid and gestures her to follow him. She did.

The two began to walk in the direction of the arena and they did in silence. Astrid was nervous on why he needed to talk to her. A lot of things came to her mind but the biggest one was the kiss from yesterday.

The two eventually came to a stop at the bridge that leads to the arena. She stood there waiting for what he has to say. He turns to look at her but he didn't look angry just… confused.

"What was that about yesterday?" he simply asks. He didn't sound angry either.

She knew this was coming "What do you mean?" trying to make it sound like she doesn't know what he's talking about.

"You know what I'm talking about, the kiss?"

She flinches "I-I didn't know- it- it was the heat of the moment" she stuttered. But when she looked at Draco his exspression didn't change.

"Astrid, calm down, I'm not not I was just wondering"

She grabbed a little bit of her hair and twisted it a little "W-Well, if you're aren't mad, does that mean it meant something?"

"I'm not sure" she deflated a little hoping for a different answer that changed when he walked up to her and whispered.

"But, I didn't mind it though, so we'll see" he smiles before walking on back towards the hall. She couldn't help but smile at that.

She quickly sprints off to catch up with him. The two began to make small talk while they walked to the hall and speaking of the hall.

(With everyone at the hall)

Draco's friends along with Astrid's friends and Gobber all sat in the hall talking to one another. At first they sat in silence not sure to say to one another but that was until Raven got bored and yelled saying that she was getting tired of the silence.

After her screaming they began to talk. At least Gobber started the conversation since he kind of agreed with how the silence was getting to him.

During these conversations they talked about some things that they wanted to know about one another but mostly what have they met Draco and or how long have they known one another. Raven on the other hand wanted to know how they've delt with Snotlout for so long.

"The lad wasn't like that back then, but ever since 'e found out 'e was goin' to be chief somethin' 'appened" Gobber explains.

"This is why you shouldn't give kids power, it'll just go to their heads" Raven joked which they found funny.

"I just realized somethin' that other girl isnt with ya"

"Oh Hana, she's back at camp"

"Did she not wanna come?"

"I don't think that's the case but she does what she likes to do" Sal explained.

"Yea, she's a strange one" Raven adds.

"Isnt most of your friends strange?" Geralt asks.

"And you aren't?" Geralt chuckles.

The same chats went on until they heard the doors of the hall open as well as the sounds of both voices of Draco and Astrid. What really caught their ears was Astrid laughing. When they entered the hall they were quickly called over to the table where everyone was sitting at.

The two went over to the table and sat down Draco sitting next to Geralt while Astrid next to Ruffnut. Ruffnut leaned over to Astrid and whispered "After this you're going to tell me everything" Astrid rolls her eyes.

"Now that everyone, exclueding Hana, is here I guess we should eat up" everyone couldn't agree more and began to dig in.

They ate and talked for a whole good hour before they finished up with eating. Once they were done Gobber asked Draco to do something for him "Lad, can you come by the forge in a little bit, I need ya help me with somethin'"

"Sure, what is it I'm going to be helping with?"

"A couple of unfinished weapons" Draco nods his head.

Gobber thanks him and leaves the table to head over to the forge. After Gobber left they went back to speaking "So, how long how you known Draco?" Ruffnut quickly asks.

"Didn't you already ask something like that?" Sal asks.

"Yes but you didn't really say how long to be exact"

"We've known him for seven, almost eight years, but that's us, the others on the other hand have probably only have known him for a couple of years" Raven answers.

"Was he always this badass?" Astrid turns to Ruffnut.

"Why is this all about him?" Astrid asks.

"Because, we actually get to ask him some things"

"You could've always asked me anything but it's my choice to not say anything" Draco says.

"Yea, that's why I'm asking now since you're buddies are here"

"She's got a point" Raven says smiling and that worried Draco. Let the questioning begin.

The questions came pouring down on him but like he said he would only answer some of them but of course with Raven here she answered pretty much all of them for him since he wasn't going to say anything.

A lot of the questions and the answers they got were quite interesting to Astrid but some even upsetted her but that was the one that reminded her that he had a wife but he did say that he didn't mind her kissing him. That thought made her blush a little and Ruffnut caught it when it happened.

"Whats wrong Astrid?" she asks with a smile.

"N-Nothing" Ruffnut nods her head slowly smiling at her friend.

"Sure, we'll stick to that for now (turns back to Draco and friends) so who was Frey to him, you said something about her" Ruffnut asks looking at her friend.

"Frey, well, she always had a thing for him but he keeps turning her down, even while being married she still persued him"

Sal then adds "But even though all of that she's was probably the second to strongest then the rest, she fights so much differently then anyone I've known"

"How so?' Astrid asks interested.

"Well, how do we explain this, well she— wait, where's Dracp?" Sal asks.

"He left not to long ago" Triss answers.

"How, we would've seen him leave?" Fishlegs asks confused.

"We still can't figure it out, but it's something that he just does" Raven explains.

"That's cool, just disappearing out of thin air, man I wish I could do that" Tuffnut whines.

The group went back to having their conversations while Astrid on the other began to think of what's going to happen between her and Draco now he said that he didn't of what happened 'Is that saying that he wouldn't mind…' her mind wondered off to a place where she didn't think she would ever think about.

At the forge on the other hand Gobber was beginning his work with the weapons that he needed to finish before the day ended. He usually wouldn't ask for much help since his apprentice Hiccup would be here helping but he's getting old and only having one person help isnt going to be enough.

Gobber had Hiccup grinding the weapons while he fixed them up. Lucky for them though Draco showed up "I'm here Gobber" Draco says entering the forge.

"Thank ya again lad for comin' ta 'elp"

"No problem" Draco removes some layers of armor/clothing and places everything that he won't need on a nearby table.

Draco grabs a couple of weapon in his arms and began to work on the weapons. The trio worked in sync and helped out one another if one needed help. Every so often people would come by and ask for repairs or special orders. Gobber would give the special orders to Draco since he would be a better choice.

Also throughout the time Draco's friends along with Astrid and her friends came by to either get their weapons worked on or needed to ask him a question or just talk to him/them. This went on for a couple of hours and when they were just finishing up with the last bit of weapons Gobber calls out to Draco.

Draco raises his head up from his work seeing that Astrid was standing outside of the forge "You and Hiccup coming to grab dinner?" he just now remembered that they all skipped lunch. Their stomachs growled.

What he really realized was that she actually mentioned Hiccup's name, so did Gobber. He looks over to Hiccup whom was still busy with working on his last weapon. Draco calls out to Hiccup getting his attention.

"Once you're done with that, come by the Great Hall" Hiccup only nods.

Draco then looks at Gobber, he nods too "Go on lad, we'll catch up in a we minute "Draco nods this time putting down his hammer grabbing his gear then leaves the forge to see that Astrid was still waiting for him.

"Are they coming?" Draco nods.

"Yes, but they're just finishing up the last bit of weapons we have left"

"Ok, oh, you're friends are already at the hall and the guy named Geralt says he needs to speak with you once we get there"

"Did he say what about?" She shakes her head.

Throughout the day Draco noticed that everyone doesn't seem all tense and scared anymore. It felt peaceful and it was all due to taking out that queen of dragons. But the main issue is that peace never lasts and that's what worried Draco.

(Hours before at Outcast island)

For days The Outcast and Berserkers have been gathering their forces together to take over Berk and tomorrow is the day that their attack commences. Alvin the Treacherous stood at the docks giving out the orders for each group of soldiers and mercenaries they've gained while Dagur on the other hand was being just Dagur, trying to scare people and all.

Near one of the houses a man covered with a cloak hiding his face with the hood keeping his head down armed with a massive sword and a couple of daggers stood there waiting until everyone was on the ships before he got on. He was a hired mercenary.

While he waited, he noticed that Dagur was walking over but thought he was just going to walk by but when he did Dagur stopped and turned to look at the hidden figure. He stands in front of the man and looked him up and down "You're a creepy one, I hope paying you will get me what I want"

The guy stood there silent "Not a talker, good, I would've probably thrown you over bored if you talked" he began to laugh insane like.

Still stood there in silence "You know, I might not kill you after this"

"Dagur!" Alvin yells.

"What!? Can't you see I'm busy!?"

"I need ta speak with ya!" Dagur lets out an annoyed groan and stomps over to Alvin yelling at him about interrupting him.

The hooded man felt relieved about him leaving but just as he thought he was going to be left alone another hooded person stands by his side for a quick second "He's quite annoying right?" it was a female.

She was covered in a shiny metallic armor that looked like scales and the weapons were two small war axes "Don't worry, He won't be around much longer" the hooded man slightly looks over next to him but saw that she just left boarding the ship.

"Who was she?" he wondered now doing the same thing boarding the ship.

Once all of the ships were bored they sailed off towards Berk with a fleet of thirty ships strong and about a couple of hundreds of men. Berk was going to have another fight on there hands.