(A/N I noticed in chapter 26 that some of the chapters are shorter then others and I do plan to go back to them at some point and add more just right now I wanted to fix the actual chapters um… names, I guess you could call them since they were out of order, I also know that I have grammar issues and I plan to fix those too!)

(Chapter Twenty-Seven)

(Loredus 18th) (With Hiccup)

The sun has reason over Berk and everyone has begun their day. Hiccup was just now arriving to the arena to begin his day of training with Draco and possibly the others but not really sure.

On his way their his father stopped him for a little bit and told him that he would come and watch this training to see how he was doing since its been a while. That made Hiccup feel nervous but he has to show his father that his doing well.

The two walked in a awkward silence not knowing what to say one another but when they both reached the arena they both let out a sigh of relief knowing that someone else was going to be there.

Looking down in the arena they saw Astrid, Draco, Geralt, Ciri, Triss, Sal, Raven, and Fishlegs all there talking to one another. Seeing Astrid there made Hiccup more nervous but deep down he knew why she was really there. For Draco.

The group notices the two when Raven spoke out saying to everyone that they're here. Everyone but Draco leaves the arena and head up to the stand while Hiccup enters into the arena while Stoick heads on to seat with the others.

Hiccup walks into the arena weapon in hand but held his head high trying to make himself not so scared. That all changed though when he notices that Draco wasn't wearing his normal battle robes and saw that he had a blunt sword and some under armor.

"We're going to be sparing today if you can't tell" yep, Hiccup's screwed.

"O-Ok" he gets into a battle stance.

The stance wasn't bad but it wasn't good either but it'll have to do for now. Draco then gets into a stance. Draco counts down to the start of the match while back in the stands everyone was watching with close eyes.

"I heard my son was doing alright, is that true?"Stoick asks out of no where.

"As for someone who doesn't know how to fight, yes, he's doing alright, I guess" Raven whispers the last part.

Stoick glances at her not really believing in what she says but he'll take her word for it for now. He turns his attention back to the two that are in the arena to see that Hiccup is somewhat holding his own against Draco. This was interesting.

At first he didn't think that his son would actually learn how to fight but after seeing how he's improving he cracks a small smile. His smile did fade when he heard Astrid ask Raven something.

"Who actually trained him?"

Raven looks at Astrid "He was trained under an imperial soilder back home, but over time he pushed that training to his limit and when he met us he put us through his own training"

"Would he train anyone?"

"Back then, yes, but now, I don't know, I wouldn't think so"

"How come?" Fishlegs asks.

Raven had to think about it a little bit "Hmm, I guess because not a lot of people could handle it I guess" she clearly didn't know.

"It's because of his style" Geralt adds.

"That's a big part"

"Did something happen?"

Raven shakes her head "No—" a loud clang gained everyone's attention.

Everyone stared at the two in the arena and saw that Hiccup was blocking Draco's attack. It looked like he was struggling holding it but did it. Draco cracked a small smile realesing the pressure and moving back away from Hiccup.

"Well done, now we'll—" the sound of the horn goes off.

"Really? It's not even the after noon yet" Draco says to himself. He looks up to the stands at Stoick and saw tha he was already leaving.

"What's going on!?" Draco calls to the others.

"Um, you might want to come take a look at this" Draco didn't like the sound of Sal's voice.

Draco and Hiccup run out of the arena and up to where they were all standing. Looking out to the ocean they saw about four dozen ships heading straight for Berk. Looking at the sails on the ships Draco could see that it was two clans instead of one.

He looks over to Astrid "Know those sails?" she nods.

"Berserkers and Outcasts"

Draco nods understanding the situation "I need everyone to listen up" everyone there turns to him.

"Raven and Ciri, you will go and protect the hall, Fishlegs and Astrid, go help with getting those who can't fight to safety" the four that were given orders nods and runs off towards the village.

"Sal and Geralt, you'll be with me"

"What about me?" Triss asks.

Draco looks behind her and saw Hiccup waiting for orders. He turns to Triss "Be ready" she knew what that meant and nods.

"A-And me?" Hiccup stutters.

"You'll go to the hall with Raven and Ciri and told them I told you that" he nods then runs off.

Looking at the other three he then takes the lead with them following close behind him.

Once in the village Triss splits off from them and runs off to who knows where while the other three ran to the where ever they might need to be.

"Draco!" he could hear his name being called from behind. Turning around to see that it was Stoick.

Turns to look at Geralt and Sal "Go to the docks" they nod doing just that.

Turns to look at Stoick "What's going on?"

"I don't know but I can say they're not hear for a visit" he was right. A loud crash was heard from behind them. Turning to see what happened, a house crashed by a boulder that just came from one of the ships.

"Do your catipults work?"

"Yes"

"Then get some men up there and use them" Draco says making it sound like an order.

Stoick looks around until he saw three men running past them "You three, gather some men and get on the catipults and get ready for my signal" the three men runs off to do as their chief says.

More loud crashes could be heard all over Berk. Stoick turns to Draco "Wheres my son?"

"He's with Ciri and Raven at the hall, he'll be fine"

"I 'ope you're right"

"Stoick!" a random viking yells from up top one of the toweres. He continues when he sees Stoick looking up at him "They're making land towards the beach, they'll be out of range soon"

"Then begin firing!" the catipults began firing once they heard the orders to do so.

"Stoick, we need to move those who can fight towards that side and get ready for a counter attack" Stoick nods in agreement.

"I agree" the two ran off around the village getting people to move positions.

Draco ran all the way down to the docks to tell those who were down there but it seemed like they knew that they were moving since everyone including Sal and Geralt have ran past him. Draco follows closely behind them.

With Ciri, Raven and Hiccup they watched all of the commotion from the top of the steps "It sucks that we have to be stuck here" Ciri complains.

"Yea but Draco told us to go here, we can' really do anything about that"

"We could always go anyways" Ciri suggests.

"Yea, we could but I'd rather not make him mad"

"What do you mean? He won't get mad at you"

"Not so sure about that" she sounded sad.

"Why do you say that?"

"Well—" the sounds of metal clashing catches their attention.

In the distance hundreds of men and women clashed letting out their war crys. This was probably the second biggest battle that Raven has ever seen next to the civil war back home. She wanted to join in to help but Draco gave her orders to stay here.

She lowers her head "Don't worry they'll be fine"

(Back with Draco, Geralt, and Sal)

Even though the battle has just begun Draco has already taken out at least six people right now (Cuts down one more) make that seven. He was use to battles like this but having to hold back is making this a little bit difficult for him. Lucky for him he has friends watching his back.

Two men came charging at him with axes and a shield. He quickly turns to look at them but thankfully Geralt cut them down before they reached him. He nods to Geralt mentally thanking him for the save.

"Where's Sal?" he asks Geralt whom has moved closer to him.

He looked over in the direction where Sal was and Draco followed. Sal was handling three men at once "Go over and help out" Geralt nods running over to help Sal.

Running through the battlefield Geralt cut men down one by one as he makes his way over towards Sal's location. Once at Sal's side the two started to pick up on cutting people down. Draco on the other hand will have to—

Draco looks passed a couple of men and noticed that Snotlout has ran into the woods in the direction of the house. He needs to stop him.

Draco cuts his way through, Geralt and Sal saw this to and decided to follow him. Running through the woods the trio began to hear someone speak. They reconiside the voice, it was Snotlout's.

"You look pathetic like that" who was he talking to.

"You guys were so stupid to pick on us Berkians, especially me, you ran into the strongest person on Berk" The trio hid behind some bushes watching what was happening.

"I should hurry and kill you off now, I have to hurry back and save the village before those outsiders take all of the glory" Draco couldn't handle this anymore, it was getting on his nerves.

Draco walks out from behind the bushes and up behind Snotlout. He uses the back of his hilt and hits him in the back of the neck knocking the idiot out.

"Does he ever shut up?" Geralt asks coming out of the woods followed by Sal.

Draco looks over to the person that Snotlout was talking to. It was a man who had a clock hiding his face. He had little bits of armor that only hid a couple of parts of his body. He was also carrying two swords that was covered by a sheet, at least that's what he thinks. Also, he had an arrow sticking out of his shoulder

'Hold on a second' he looks over the fallen man and lowered himself to get a better look at him. After a closer look he was able to reconigze who this man was.

"Well, I'll be damned, if it isnt—" Raven's voice cut him off.

"Is that Mikazuki?" Draco, Geralt, and Sal turns to see Raven and Ciri standing behind them.

"What are you doing out here?" Draco asks.

"The enemy began a retreat, we don't know why though" that didn't sound good to Draco or any of them.

"That's not good" Geralt says quietly.

"Draco?" Mikazuki's voice pulls Draco's attention.

"I'm surprised you remember"

"I-It hasn't been that long"

"What happened here?" Ciri asks looking over the knocked out Snotlout.

"He was getting annoying" Draco simply states.

"Who's this?" Geralt asks gesturing to Mikazuki.

"One of us, but the question is, why were you with the raiders?"

"I-I heard that a-a couple—" Raven speaks up.

"Ok, we can ask questions later, right now he needs to have his wound treated" she was right.

"Fine, take him back to the house and bandage him up" Raven nods getting Ciri to help her take Mikazuki to the house while the others go back to the village.

"What should we do about him?" Sal asks.

"Leave him, he'll wake up" the other two didn't argue.

On the way back to the village they ran into Triss whom was waiting for them at the edge of the forest. She seemed cautious "Something wrong?"

"The raiders retreated quiet early, something doesn't seem right about that"

"I agree, normally raiders wouldn't give up so easily no matter the cost as long as the coin is good"

Draco thought it over for a second before speaking "I think they actually planned to take over Berk but since they lost a lot of men within the short amount of time they—"

"Or it could've been Hana" Sal adds.

"What do you mean?"

"She wasn't with us but I recall as we ran that I heard the sounds of whip snaps in the distance, I'm surprised you didn't hear it"

"Right, I recall seeing her join in after you ran into the woods, she slaughter a lot of men" Triss says.

"Where is she now?"

"Don't know"

"Draco!" Astrid's voice grabs his attention.

He turns to his left to see Astrid, Fishlegs, and Hiccup running in their direction "What's going on?" he asks.

"Is everyone alright?"

"We're fine, how about everyone else?"

"Some causulties, a lot of destruction but other then that everyone's fine"

"That's good" Draco couldn't shake the feeling that what just happened here was just a test.

"Oh, Stoick asked us that if we saw you to ask for some help with the clean up" Draco looks at his friends. They did/ said nothing to object.

He turns back to Astrid "Where do we begin?"

With a quick gesture Astrid leads the group to where they're needed. Astrid had split them up into teams of two. The teams were Astrid and Draco, Sal and Fishlegs, Triss and Geralt, Hiccup on the other hand was sent to look for his dad.

The destruction was not as bad as the time Odahviing attacked but it was still bad. When they're done with this clean up Mikazuki has a lot of explaining to do.

"So much for a normal day" Draco whispers to himself.

The clean up on Berk took a quiet a while to do since there were a lot of injurs which lengthened the time on the clean up. There were even some injurys during the clean up do to falling structures.

The sun was already beginning to set and Draco hasn't eaten or done anything else. He was really annoyed by this but he wouldn't hear the end of this if Raven knew that he ran off from helping.

"Hey, Draco?" Astrids voice grabbed his attention.

"What is it?" he asked.

"I wanted to talk to you… in private"

"Is it that important?" she nods.

"Fine" he didn't want to stop the cleaning but because it seems like Astrid really needed to get this off of her chest.

The two stopped what they're doing and went off behind one of the houses nearby. Turning the corner Draco leans up on the house waiting for her to speak. She looks around for a second making sure that no one was around.

When seeing that it was clear she spoke "I wanted to talk to you about the duel, to get my hand back"

"What about it? I already know about it"

"When can we have it?"

"The duel?"

"Yes, the duel" something then came into her mind "Also, if I when you train me too"

This took Draco aback "Why would you want me to train you?"

"I would feel like it would benefit Berk if I got stronger" so that's the reason.

"So, you think that if I trained you that you would be able to defend Berk all on your own?"

"Yes" she says confidently.

He lowers his head "Astrid, that's not going—"

"Why not?" she raises her voice "Why won't you train me?"

"Because I can't train you in something that doesn't fit you"

"What does that mean?"

"I mean that using a sword is different then using an axe"

"That means nothing, I can learn"

"Astrid—"

"No, and if I have to prove it I will during our duel!" she's clearly not backing down.

"Fine, two days from now, we'll have that duel"

She smiles seeing that she's won "Great, I'll be ready and you better not hold back"

'Sorry, I'll have to hold back' he thought as he watches her leave.

"Draco" Draco turns to see where the voice was coming from and saw that it was Sal.

"What?"

"Stoick said that we'll be finishing up the rest of the cleaning tomorrow, he also said that they're throwing a celebration for winning the battle against the raiders followed by a meeting afterwards" Draco shakes his head.

"I don't feel like it, I'll be heading home to get something to eat and then heading to bed, this day didn't go as plan as I hoped"

"Not all plans do, you know that"

"Yea, I'm aware, can you go to the meeting for me and tell me all about it first thing tomorrow?" Sal nods.

"Sure"

"Thank you" Draco began walking towards the forest to head on home.

On his way home he couldn't help but think up some questions to ask Mikazuki when he gets back home. After all of this time he thought that he would've been one of the few who fell during that fight back home but now seeing him here it made him wonder.

'Does he know where the others are or if they're even alive?'

He shook his head 'No, no time to worry about that, at least not yet'

"I should just ask him how he knew we were here"

"Anata wa nani ni tsuite hanashite imasu ka?" The familiar voice of Hana catches his attention.

"Nothing, just thinking out loud"

"Anata wa itsumo sore o shimasu ka, ōgoe de kangaete kudasai?"

"You ask a lot of questions, but yes I do" something just sparked inside his head "Hana, do you truly only understand Japanese or are you hiding something?"

"Well damn, it looks like the jigs up, what gave it away?" her tone has changed completely. Once was sweet and innocent then the next deadly and poisonous.

"Just the personality, it didn't fit"

"I thought I was doing well" Hana's demenor even changed.

"At first yes, you were doing well but just from how I've seen you fight, it kind of gave it away" he hears her let out a sigh.

"At least now I don't have to act all sweet, yuck! at least around you" why is she hiding it though?

"Why are you hiding your true nature?"

"Why are you trying to hide yours?" she whispers but he heard it.

"What do you—"

"Don't worry about it, we're home" he turns to look and she was right. They were home.

The two enter the house to be greeted with Raven, Ciri, Mikazuki and Triss "About time you came home" Raven says teasingly.

"They asked if we could help clean up some of the mess, Geralt and Sal will stay back and finish up there" Draco feels Hana walk pass him without a word heading into what seems to be the room she has chosen to stay in.

"So, how's Mikazuki?"

"I'm fine, just hurts"

"Well of course it's going to hurt" Draco takes a seat at the dining table.

"I guess I have some explaining to do huh?" Draco nods. Everyone there sat at the table and listened to what Mikazuki had to say. Well after they got something to eat.

Mikazuki explained everything that he knew uo until now which took him about a couple of hours leading into the night. Once the explaining was done Draco couldn't help but think but seeing it being night he decided that everyone should get some sleep.

Nobody argued and did just that. Later when Sal and Geralt came home they did the same seeing that no one else was awake, well except for Galaxy who was having a hard time getting to sleep.

Galaxy laid outside looking out in the distance 'What is she doing?' he wonders.