(Chapter Twenty-Nine)
(Mordas 20th) (With Draco)
"Draco…?"
"Draco…..?"
"Draco!"
Hearing his name Draco's eyes shot open, raising into an upright position looking around the room franticly. His eyes eventually landed on Raven whom was standing right next to his bedside with her arms folded over her chest.
"What?" he asks tiredly.
"You got to wake up, Hiccup's here"
He sits up rubbing his eye "Why is he here?"
"He wanted to talk to you"
"Tell him I'll be out in a minute" she nods, turning away leaving the room, closing the door behind her.
"Wonder what he wants" he has a guess of what the boy could want to talk about but he wouldn't be surprised if it was about something else.
Gathering his things and putting on his clothe, he leaves his room entering the living room to see that Mikazuki, Raven, Sal, Geralt, Triss, Ciri, and Hana were already waiting for him along with Hiccup whom's sitting at the table with everyone else.
"You wanted to speak" Draco asks sitting down at the table.
"Y-Yes, my dad wanted to talk to you about what you said yesterday" Hiccup explains.
"What I- Oh right, the mock battle, right, does he want me to meet him somewhere?"
"The Great Hall, that's all"
Draco nods "Ok, you go on back to the village and tell your dad I'll be there in a little bit" Hiccup nods his head, quickly getting up out of the chair to leave.
Hiccup was close to leaving the house but Draco calls out "Hiccup, I have a question" Hiccup slowly turns around to see that Draco has stood up and was walking over to him.
"Yes?"
"Does anyone else know where we're staying?"
Hiccup shakes his head furiously "N-No, I don't think anyone else knows where this is, at least I don't think"
"Ok, that's all I wanted to know" Hiccup lets out a sigh of relief.
"I-I'll be going now" Hiccup makes his way to the door quickly leaving the house closing the door closely behind him.
"I think you make him nervous" Raven comments.
"I can see that Raven"
"Why don't you try to be less, I don't knw, imtimidating" she suggested.
"Not trying to be, that's just I am"
"When? I don't remember you being this imtimdating"
"Because you don't get imtimidated easily…. I got to get going" he didn't want to continue with this conversation so he quickly left the house without saying anything else to her. She frowned.
"Something's wrong with him"
"I've noticed that" Sal was watching the whole thing.
"Did something happen that he's not telling us?" she asks.
Sal shrugs "If that was the case then we should give him some time, he'll tell us at some point, this is Draco we're talking about"
"I know but still-" Sal places a hand on her shoulder.
"Raevn, relax, it'll be alright, lets drop it for now and get back with the now, we got stuff to do today remember" she looks at Sal nodding her head.
"Yea Raven, we're leaving today so come and hang with us" Ciri jumps in.
"Fine, I'm coming, I'm coming"
(With Astrid, Ruffnut, Philia, Rivia, Maria, and Ally)
The girls were sitting in the Great Hall eating some breakfast, which of course was some bread and some water or mead. Most o the girls took up water but Philia on the other hand took up mead.
"Philia, why are you drinking mead this early?" Rivia asks.
"I-I had a long night, after last night, I-I just couldn't sleep" Philia explains taking a sip of mead.
Ther other girls knows how she feels bu it must have gotten to her more then them, well, except for Ruffnut since… yea, They don't want to talk about that. Astrid's didn't shut off until late last night but with Philia bringing last night back up, it start again, making her cheeks red.
"Can we not talk about that right now?" Astrid asks not in the mood for this today.
"I agree" Ally lowers her head not wanting people to see her face.
"Oh come on ladies, you all know that you liked it" they all turn to Ruffnut.
"It was a mistake to listen to you" Astrid whispers.
"You don't mean that do you?" no one says anything.
Seeing that no one was going to say anything she speaks again "Well damn, harsh crowd" in a joking manner.
"Well hello ladies" the sound of that voice made all the girls stomachs turn.
"Ugh… what do you want Snotlout?" Ruffnut quickly regrets asking him that.
He takes a seat next to Astrid which was the first bad idea. He follows that with another bad idea by placing an arm around her shoulders. She quickly reacts to that with twisting his hand then threatened him.
"Never touch me again" she gritted through her teeth.
"Snotlout, just go away" Ally says.
"C-Come on now, I'm just here to see eberyone's doing" the girls rolled their eyes.
"Snotlout!" Spitelout's voice could be heard from the other side of the hall.
"You better go to your daddy before he gets mad at you" Ruffnut mocked. Snotlout would've said something back but he had to hurry to his dads side, so he left the table with hest.
"Thank Thor (looks at Astrid) it must suck to be the most wanted girl Astrid" the girls felt sorry for their friend.
"It does actually, at first I didn't think to much of it but when he started constantly flirting, that's when it got annoying"
Ruffnut smiles "I bet it isnt annoying when it's Draco flirting" hearing his name made Astrid's heart jump a little.
"I bet that feels good don't it?" Rivia asks leaning forward closer to Astrid.
"It probably does"
"He's not flirting, there's no flirting between us" Astrid tries to defend herself.
"Oh really, then what was yesterday?" all the girls leaned in closer waiting for Astrid's answer. She said nothing. The girls all smiled looking at their now embarrassed friend.
"That's what I thought, I saw what happened yesterday and you saying anything won't save you, to me it looked like a date"
"It wasn't a date, I was just helping him out that's all"
"Yea, you laughing, blushing, giggling, and falling over your own feet, you were totally helping" Astrid was surprised that Ruffnut knew all of that. Astrid turns to her.
"Were you spying on us?"
"Not at all my dear Astrid, I was minding my own business and just happened to see you two out, walking around having fun and decided to watch, you two looked real cute together" she teases.
All of the girls were smiling at Astrid waiting for what she has to say for herself but luckily for her the doors to the hall opened, Stoick walking in. She quickly gets up and heads over to talk to him, leaving her friends to laugh at her for running away.
"Hey chief, how are you doing this morning?" she asks trying to calm down from the embarresment.
"Doin' good lass, I'm 'ere to talk to Draco, is 'e 'ere?" she shakes her head.
"He's not here, do you need to talk to him about something?"
Stoick nods "Yes, 'e was suppose to explain what this 'mock battle' is, 'e brought it up yesterday"
"Oh, so what happened yesterday, that's what it was about?" he nods again.
"Yes, do ya need to talk to 'im?" it was her turn to nod her head.
"Yes, but I want to talk to you first" he gives her a raised eyebrow.
"Ok? What is it ya need to talk about?"
"It's about the duel for my hand, I want to have it today"
"'ave you talked to 'im about it?"
"Not yet but that's why I came to you first"
"Lass, are you sure you really want—" the doors of the hall opens again. This time it was Draco.
"Morning Stoick, Hiccup said that you wanted to talk to me?" he turns to see that Astrid was standing next to Stoick. He gives her a friendly nod.
"Yes, but (looks at Astrid) she needs to talk to you first" Astrid head snaps to Stoick. Stoick looks at her and nods.
She looks at Draco who was waiting for her to start speaking. She began to play with a strand of her hair then spoke "The duel, for my hand, I want it today" she looks away not wanting to see the look he's probably giving her.
He didn't think she would bring it up this early but it couldn't be avoided forever. He looks at Stoick whom was looking at the Hofferson lass, then back at her letting out a sigh.
"Astrid, are you sure you want to go along with this?" he asks.
She nods her head "Fine, after I'm done with Stoick then we can have that duel" his tone made her flinch a little. It sounded, disappointed.
Stoick then speaks "Go on lass, go get ready, we'll be at the arena in a little" she quickly turns away to go back over to her table where her friends were probably telling them what's happening.
"Ya know ya could've gone about this a different way?"
"It's her choice, now can we get on with this" he walks past Stoick to go sit down at a random table. Stoick follows.
Once the two were seated Stoick spoke "Can ya explain what this 'mock battle' to me is?"
Draco nods "Yes, a mock battle is when two or more teams are against one another, not using real weapons, and depending on who called for the mock battle they can make the rules for how the battle works, for example, the rules I would choose would be that there are two teams, there's a leader for both teams but they can't be part of the battle so they have to have a plan of attack made before sending their "troops" out and whoever "kills" the leader first wins" Draco explains which took a lot out of him.
"Interesting, and this is something ya do often?"
"Sometimes but this one would be different, if you allow it that is" Stoick begin to carest his beard thinking it over.
"Hmmm, ya said no real weapons right?" Draco nods.
"How would these "teams" be split up?"
"Berk versus my friends and I" Stoick was taken back.
"Are ya sure that's a good idea?"
"Yes I'm sure"
"Hmmm, if ya sure, I'll have to talk about this with the people to tell them what's going on" Draco shrugs.
"That's fine (stands up) I guess I shoulde make my way to the arena" he looks in the direaction of Astrid's table and saw that they were gone, along with the other people who were here.
"I'll join ya, I've been curious to see how ya would fight one of our own"
"Didn't Snotlout count" Draco questions.
"'e did but Snotlout, 'e doesn't think, 'e acts and doesn't think about the outcome of 'is actions, and to be honest with ya, 'e's not all that good as a fighter" this was the first.
He continues "Also, 'e chose to fight ya when ya was injured, that wasn't fair but ya still won, I'm hoping that this one will make up for that, the lass is strong and one of our strongest, but to ya she may not all be that strong"
"Honestly Stoick, I've never really seen her fight but from what Ciri told me during the last dragon raid, she was actually pretty good and did well during the raid, so I don't doubt that she's strong" Stoick smiled. This is the first time he's talked about the lass like that.
"Speaking of strength, 'ow's my son?"
"He's doing good, he's getting a lot better but he still seems uneasy and he still doesn't have the best stamina but that's what I plan to work on soon" he's actually being truthful.
"That's good, that's good"
Silence fell over the two. It didn't stay silent for long though when a unknown female voice called out to Stoick "Stoick!" the two turned to see a women who wore a hood, weaing a light cladded armor that looked like dragon scales and carried two axes that combined into one weapon.
"That's me, who my I be talking to?"
The female removed her hood revealing a onyx haired women with bright green eyes. She smiled at the two "Names Heather, we met a long time ago"
"Heather, been a long time, what brings you to Berk?"
"Came to tell you a few things about the Outcast and Bersek team up but it seems like you're busy with something so I'll get back with you a little later" she was about to leave but Stoick spoke up.
"Why not come watch the duel with us?"
"Between who?"
"The Hofferson lass and this lad" she looks at Draco.
"Why is Astrid fighting him?" she looked over Draco.
"Long story but I can explain it on our way there (looks at Draco) if that's alright with you"
"That's fine by me" she shrugs her shoulders and take him up on the offer following the two on the way to the arena.
Stoick explained the whole story of what caused this duel between Draco and Astrid to Heather while the trio walked to the arena. Draco did add some things in if Stoick didn't know something about the story. It lasted all the way to the arena so luckily for Draco it wasn't silent all the way there.
When they arrived at the arena they could see that everyone, except for Draco's friends (more likely they'll be there a little later) were there. They were met with Gobber who was probably waiting for Draco to get there.
Stoick and Heather wished Draco lucky before splitting off from him, leaving to go sit in the stands. Gobber walked with Draco to the entrance of the arena "Ya do 'ave a plan right?" Gobber asks.
"What do you mean?"
"Lad, ya do remember that if ya win, ya win her hand, for good this time" this made Draco think for a second. Gobber was right, if he win's, he win's Astrid hand for marriage.
This was going to be a problem, but for some reason it made his heart jump. Not sure why, he's still married but thinking about marrying that woman made his heart jump and that bothered him. Should he loose the duel on porpuse? Would she know if he did loose on porpuse?
His mind was racing of what to do "Are ya ok lad?" Gobbers voice pulled him out of his thoughts.
"W-What, uh, yea, I'm fine, and to answer your question, yes I have a plan, at least I hope so" he whispers the last bit.
"Let's 'ope it works" Drco was hoping the same.
Draco looks on inside of the arena to see Astrid was standing there with here axe in hand also, she was wearing a little bit more armor but not to much. Draco took a few steps forward entering the arena but was stopped when he heard Mikzuki's voice calling him from behind.
"Draco, you forgot something" he turns to see that Mikazuki and friends were all standing there, plus he was holding something.
"Why are you here?" Draco asks.
"You thought you could have all the fun, we felt something was going to happen today so we decided to check it out" Raven explains.
Mikazuki hands over the copyed version of his Katana, which doesn't have any of the enchantments like his actually blade. Draco took the copyed Katana and handed Mikazuki his real one.
"Thanks" Mikazuki noded taking his Kami (the katana) into his care.
"Good luck out there lover boy" Ciri joked. Draco rolled his eyes.
His friends leaves him and heads on up to the stands to get a seat to watch the duel. Gobber watches as Draco places the copyed katana on his side "Why didn't ya uses the one ya had?" he asks.
"It's complicated but lets say, Kami, the katana, she's special and I'd rather not use it if I don't have to" Draco explains not really wanting to get into all the details, plus he's still trying to hide the fact that his has magic.
He enters the arena ready to get this over with but he has a feeling that if he tries to throw the match he'll be found out by Astrid and will have to fight her again but at the same time he shouldn't throw the match and instead fight to win.
"Kick that guys ass for me!" Snotlout yells from the stands. Astrid just rolls her eys.
Just like Draco she has a plan to throw the match and let him win. At first she wanted to win and be free from the idea of marrying him but after being with him just in the amount of time she has, she's realized that maybe, she's fallen for him.
Once he was in the arena, standing a couple of feet away from her, they stare at one another. Stoick, while in the stands, stands up and begins his explanation of the rules.
While he explains the two in the arena just stared at one another both thinking of going with their plans. Stoick was done explaining the rules and looks over to Astrid "You ready!?" she nods.
Looks over to Draco "You ready!?" he nods getting into his fighting stance.
He signals for the fight to start "Begin!"
Astrid speaks up "Don't hold back!" she exclaims. Draco said nothing and began to circle which she followed in suit.
Not long after they started to circle one another, just like Draco thought Astrid attacked first and charged right for him with a war cry. She had her axe high in the air ready to bring it down when she gets closer to him but he quickly moves out of her way and uses his sheathed blade to hit her back.
She quickly regains herself after tripping from his tap and makes for another charge at him. Thinking that she was going to do the same thing again, he moved to the side but to his surprise she stops and takes a swing at him. He dodges it by a hair.
She goes in for another swing but this time he blocks it with his blade. This was th first time anyone's seen his blade and it was quiet surprising on how it looked. At least to those who's never seen a Katana before.
"So you finally bring it out" she was actually surprised.
"Well, yea, I can't defend myself with my bar hands"
Draco pushes her back making some distance. She was pushed back about four feet away which surprised her, a little but she charges for him again swinging at him as she got close. He blocks it again.
"Why don't you fight back?"
"Do I need too?" he asks trying to anger her. It worked.
She pushes forward while glaring at him but she's not able to move him. Seeing that trying to push him to break through his defense isnt working she tries moving back but as she tried to move back he moved forward not letting her make room.
He follows it with a push, knocking her off balance. She was able to catch herself before she fell but he was already back in front of her. This time he swings at her but she dodged it by a hair. He comes back with another swing but she tries and blocks the swing.
With a loud crack the head of the axe falls to the floor. He points his sword to her neck waiting for her to back down but that's when he realized what he just did, he won. He won the match for Astrid's hand.
She was equally shocked, he just won, without even hesitating. He mind began to think if he really wanted to win 'Does that mean?' she didn't know if she should believe it or not but he won.
Everyone around the arena burst into cheers and whistles, well, except for Snotlout, he stomps away from the arena cursing about how it was just luck, or how riged it was. Draco sheaths his blade then lended a hand to Astrid who was still sitting on the ground.
She takes his hand letting him help her back on her feet. Once on her feet she stands there not sure what to say but that's because her mind is racing at 100 miles. She pushes a strand of hair behind her ear before finally speaking.
"Well, you won" she says with a soft tone.
"Yea, I guess I did" he didn't know what to actually say since he's not sure on how she feels about this.
They stand quiet waiting for the other to say something. Nothing was said for a while and it started to get kind of awkward but luckily for them both Mikzuki, Raven, Sal, Geralt, Triss, Ciri, and Hana were entering the arena and Raven being the one to speak.
"Couldn't you have gone a little easy on her, look (geastures to the broken axe) you broke her axe" she tried to act mad but she just found it funny and laughed.
"He was holding back" Geralt comments.
"I know but he could've held back a little bit more"
"I think he held back enough" Ciri didn't actually know that he was holding back.
"What happens now? He won the match" Triss asks.
"Well, it's not like I can fight again, my axe's broken" Astrid says with a light blush.
"And?"
"Raven, you know what it means if I won"
"I know but I wanted to hear it from her"
"Leave her alone" Sal says defending Astrid.
"It was worth a try"
"That was an amazing fight!" everyone turns to see the voice was Stoick's who was walking down into the arena followed by Gobber and Astrid's parents.
"Mom? Dad? What are you doing down here?" Astrid asks walking over to her parents.
"Come with us honey, will explain" Ingrid says calmly. Astrid was a little concern about this but did anyways.
"What do you think that was about?" Raven whispers to Sal.
"If I have to take a guess, it's about what might happen next"
"What are you doing down here Gobber?" Draco asks a little loudly.
"I just came to congratulate ya on the win" he walks over to Draco and whispers into his ear "Was that ya plan?"
"A little, but I don't know if that was the right plan" he doesn't even know if he even had a plan in the first place.
"Well, if it was ya plan, it worked" Gobber moves away from Draco.
"Draco, since you won the duel, as everyone saw (gestures to Berk) you and the lass—" Draco cuts him off not wanting to hear it.
"I know Stoick, I know" Draco begins to leave the arena with friends in tow.
Draco and friends leave the arena in silence, or at least until they weren't around anyone else. Seeing that no one else was around Ciri speaks up "You're not happy about winning?"
"I don't know"
"You didn't have a plan did you?" Triss asks. He shook his head.
"Not surprised—" Ravens stomach growls loudly. She blushes.
"Lets go get something to eat" no one argued since they were just as hungry as the little one.
(At the Hall)
When they arrived at the hall Draco was quickly greeted with a lot of cheers and whistles from the people that was inside. All of them congradulating him on winning the duel with Astrid. This just gave him a headache. It made some of his friends chuckle.
"It seems like everyone was routing for you" Geralt comments patting his friend on the back.
"I'll go get the food" Raven takes off. Sal follows closely behind her.
The others head over to the table they usually sit at which is the table in the corner. Draco sits down with a thud, tired and annoyed. He rubs the bridge of his nose trying to think.
"You going to be alright?" Ciri asks.
"Yea, just tired" that wasn't a full lie.
"Draco!" someone calls out.
He turns to see that it was the twins, Fishlegs and Hiccup walking over to where they're sitting "What are you guys doing here?" he asks.
Ruffnut answers "Came here to grab some food, just like you" the three sat down at their table near the end.
"Hey! We're back and with food!" Raven and Sal have returned with enough plates for everyone sitting at the table.
"Did you know they were coming?" Draco aks.
"No, we saw them come in and decided we might as well grab their food too" Sal explains sitting next to Geralt.
Raven looks around "Hey, where's Astrid?"
"Oh, is Draco missing his girl already?" Ruffnut laughs, Raven joins in on the laughter.
Draco says nothing and goes on about eating. Ciri joins on in the laughing, Geralt couldn't help but smirk "It was rigged!" everyone at the table groaned. It was Snotlout.
"Would you just shut up Snotface!" Ruffnut yells. Snotlout was standing at the end of the table with his goons, Dogsbreath and Lugnut.
"No! it was rigged! He shouldn't have won!"
"To bad! He won and that's it!" Ruffnut and Snotlout were yelling.
While the two yelled everyone else felt the air around them get a little heavy. They looked around the table eventually landing on Hana who had her hands clenched into fists. Tuffnut scooted back.
"Is she ok?" he whispers.
"Um… Hana, are you ok?" Raven asks.
Not being able to hold back she yells louder then the two idiots "WOULD YOU TWO SHUT THE HEL UP!" the hall goes quiet.
"OH MY GODS! I can't take this anymore! Being kind and quiet! I'm surprised I lasted this long!" everyone was surprised to finally see Hana's true colors.
"I can only handle so much of being kind around this dumbass!" she's glaring at Snotlout.
He yells back "Who are you calling—" but he wasn't able to get a full sentence out before she yells again.
"No! you shut the fuck up! I never thought I would meet such a dumbass in my life!" she takes a breath before continuing "How this village have delt with you, I don't fucking know! But someone should put you in your damn place!" she was standing up at this point getting ready to walk over to him.
Snotlout has backed up a little "Do you know who you're talk—" he shuts up when he saw her pull out that whip.
"I don't fucking care who you are! Just get out of here!" Snotlout was going to fight back but his goons grabs him and drags him out of the hall.
After he was gone she took a deep breath placing her whip back where it last was and sat back down with a thud. The hall was still quiet, afraid that if someone said something she would yell at them next.
Hana looks at Ruffnut, Tuffnut, Hiccup, and Fishlegs who still has wide eyes "How have you guys not shipped him off yet?" she asks bluntly.
"W-Well, I don't know how to answer that" Ruffnut looks to her brother hoping he would have a strange answer.
"It's because it's fun to mess with him, sometimes, I guess, I don't know!"
"Hana? Have you always been like that?" Raven asks.
"Yes, I don't know why I wanted to hide it but damn, I'm glad I broke character, it was so annoying, being nice and quiet, not my thing" at this point everyone in the hall has started talking again but kept quiet.
"So, you've been able to speak this whole entire time?" Tuffnut asks.
"Yes, everyone can speak"
"Well duh, I know that, I meant like us"
"Yes, I just chose not to, until now"
"I have to say, you're a pretty cool chick, like damn, you made the whole hall go silent, it was pretty cool" Draco has a bad feeling about these two but he's not going to say anything.
"Thanks, you're pretty cool too" she didn't mean it though.
"Hey, maybe we could hangout someday" Ruffnut suggests.
"Yea, maybe" the table goes silent.
They ate their food in silent, which isnt unusual to them but with what happened a minute ago with Hana it kind of made it awkward. Now that Hana isnt hiding her true self anymore she thought it might be the best time to bring this up.
"Hey, would you guys like to hear a legend?" this caught the tables attention.
"What legend?" Fishlegs asked with curiosity in his voice.
"It's a legend of an empire that came out of no where, had the world in it's palms, an empire that people respected and feared" she can tell that this caught their attentions.
"When has there ever been an empire like that?" Triss asked.
"Years ago, before we were born, but that's besides the point, this empire was powerful, and the people that ran it was just as powerful maybe even more, the people respected their rulers and stood by them all the way to the end"
"What happened to it?" Hiccup asks.
"The world betrayed them" hatred could be heard in her voice.
"Why?"
"Because they couldn't see what the empire saw"
"What did the empire see" Ciri asks.
"That's just it, I'm not a hundred percent sure but some thought it was a way to keep the world under control through one way"
"What's that one way?" Draco asks.
"War"
(With Galaxy and Toothless)
Back at the house, Galaxy was minding his own business just lying down getting some rest but it quickly ends when he heard some wings flapping closer to him as well smelling a familiar scent. He looks up to see that the Night Fury has returned from his hunt.
"Don't you have any better place to be?" Galaxy asks the Night Fury.
The Night Fury places down some fish in front of Galaxy "No, besides, it's quiet here, for the most part"
Galaxy can't argue with the black black dragon so he stays quiet. He looks at the black dragon and it just sat there watching Galaxy waiting for him to take the fish. Seeing that he'll be watching until he does, he took the fish into his mouth and swallowed it whole.
"Can I ask you something?" he should've known.
"What is it?"
"What's with that human that you consider brother?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, why can he understand us?"
"It's a long story" Galaxy lays his head back down hoping that the Night Fury doesn't want to hear it.
"We have time" Galaxy does his own version of a sigh.
"Fine, you bette listen and not interrupt" the Night Fury nods.
"It began five years ago…" he then begins the story of how his human brother gained the strength he has now.
(With Astrid)
Astrid left the house in a hurry, face red like a tomato, and her mind going crazy with thoughts 'Why did she tell me that?'she wondered.
She was now on her way to the Hall to grab some food, she could've grabbed some while she was home but with what she just talked about with her parents she doesn't want to be home right now.
She slowled her pace so that she could get herself under control before making it there. While on her way to the hall she saw Snotlout, Dogsbreath, and Lugnut leaving the hall. Of course Snotlout could be heard because of his loud voice but all she could hear is him talking about how "That woman" or "She needs to learn her place" Astrid could possibly take a guess that it's probably one of Draco's friends that he's mad at.
'That means he's in there' she thought. A smile grew on her face.
She picks up her pace going from a walk to a sprint. Not wanting to waste to much time she passes everyone and avoids talking to them. She sprints up the stone steps all the way to the doors of the hall, pushing them wide open. Everyone in the hall had their eyes on Astrid.
Not paying attention to the people staring she looks around until her eyes landed on the table where her friends were sitting with Draco and his friends, plus Hiccup and she calmly makes her way over there.
"About time you showed up, you missed a good story" Ruffnut scoots over to let Astrid in.
"Who told the story?" this wasn't important but she was curious.
Everyone at the table turned to Hana "What?"
"Wait? You can speak?" this was surprising to her.
"Yea, I can speak your language, blah, blah, blah, I get that it's strange but yea, and yes I told the story and yes it was good" Astrid already doesn't like her additued.
"What was it about?"
"Ugh, I don't want to say it again" Hana whined slamming her head on the table.
"I'll tell you later" Ruffnut whispers to Astrid. Astrid nods.
Draco notices that Triss was whispering to Geralt. Confused he asks "What's going on?" Geralt turns to Draco.
"Ship should be here any time now"
As he said that the doors opened to show that it was Stoick. He looks around the hall for a little bit until he landed on the table where Draco and everyone's sitting. He makes his way over to them.
"A ship has arrived, they're asking for your friends" gestures to Geralt, Triss, and Ciri.
"What! Seriously? Man, we were just starting to have fun" Raven exclaims.
"Sorry but we have to get back" Ciri apologizes.
"I know but still sucks" everyone at the table got up and left, including Astrid and her friends.
They walked all the way to the docks with little to no words said to one another. The only ones that talked was Raven and Ciri. Everyone else were silent with nothing to say, well, that's not totally true, Astrid wanted to talk to Draco for a second but she'll have to wait until they see his friends off.
At the docks they saw the ship that Stoick was talking about. There was also someone standing at the end of the docks.
"Ready to sail off?" the captain asks.
Geralt does a short nod but before they actually bored the ship he turns around to look at Draco "I'll make sure to send a letter if I find any of your friends" Draco nods.
"Bye little sis" Ciri hugs Raven. Raven hugs back but with more force.
"Hope to see you guys in Tameria" Triss wasn't much of a goodbye type of person.
"Yea, same, hopefully we'll be by soon"
The trio left their friends boreding the ship and not long after boreding the ship, it was already leaving Berk. Draco and friends could see the trio on the back of the ship waving them off, except for Geralt.
When the ship was finally out of sight Draco and friends decided that they'll probably just go back home for the day and do whatever they feel like doing. There's still work to do anyways. Astrid on the other hand, still needed to talk to Draco so before he could go anywhere she grabs his arm.
He turns to look at her "Something wrong?" he asks.
"Can I talk to you real quick?" she asks.
"What is it?"
She looks behind him to see his friends were still standing there. He turns to see this too and motioned them to go on ahead without him. They knew what that ment and left the two by themselves. Astrid's friends followed knowing that she wanted to talk to him in private.
Astrid walks over to the edge of the docks and he follows "They're gone, what did you want to talk about?"
"What's going to happen now? You won, so… what's going to happen?" he had a feeling that she was going to bring this up.
"Usually in situations like this, I would remain the people that I don't follow their customs but… (looks at her) for some reason, I feel like if I did that, it would be wrong"
"What does that mean?" she didn't understand.
Without saying anything he grabs her hand, pulls her in planting a kiss on her lips. Her eyes widen at this but she didn't run from it instead she kissed him back. After a few minutes he pulls away.
"Does that answer your question?" he asks with a smirk. She nods slowly.
"I'll see you later Astrid" he says as he walks back towards the village, Astrid shakes herself out of her bliss and sprints after him.
"Wait! Will you be here tomorrow?" she asks.
"Yea, but I'll be training Hiccup in the morning but in the afternoon we can meet up" she smiles.
"Ok, see you tomorrow" she sprints past him going off to look for her friends.
(Back at the house)
Raven, Sal, Hana, and Mikazuki sat around the table waiting for there friend to return. While they waited Sal had brought up a few things that they could add, there own forge for example, like the one back at their old home.
Raven thought about making the hot springs look a little more 'interesting' was her words but the others didn't understand what she ment.
Hana didn't have much in mind on what to do, all she could think of was to update her room and probably make a sparring area for them to train in, not like in the arena, more like where they can let loose.
Mikazuki just stayed quiet not having anything t add since he knows that whatever these guys want to add they have to talk it over with Draco first before being able to do any of that. But he's known the guy for a good while and he knows but Draco will allow it anyways.
"Come on guys, lets get started, I'm getting bored here" whines Raven.
"We should wait to see what Draco—"
"We don't have to do that, you know he'll allow it"
"Allow what?" speaking of the devil.
Draco walks into the house "We were—" Raven cuts off Sal.
"We talked about adding some things to the house and the hot springs but Sal wanted to wait for you to see if you would approve of them" she explains.
"Why? You know I would approve to them"
"See" Mikazuki whispers.
"Oh hush"
"What? I knew that would be his answer"
"Yea, so did I but it's better to ask just in case" Sal explains.
"You don't have to ask, remember this is OUR home, means that you don't have to ask" Draco says taking a seat at the table.
Raven hands him a mug of something. Draco looks down into the mug "What is it?" he asks taking the mug in his hand.
"It's wine, Mikazuki had some on him when he arrived" Raven explains.
Draco takes a quick swig of the mug not even thinking twice if they were lying or not. After chugging it down he seats back into his seat with a thud. Everyone at the table watches as their friend relaxes for the first time in a while.
"Your woman got you stressed" Hana joked but no one laughed.
"Really?" Raven questions.
"What? I was just joking" Hana tries to defend herself.
"You could've waited a little bit"
"Yea, I could've but I didn't"
Raven shakes her head "So, how's the wine?"
"Amazing, it's been a good while since I've had something good" she pulls the bottle out from under her chair, leans over to where he's sitting, pouring him another mug.
"It looks like something got you stressed"
He sighs "That's an understatement" he whispers not wanting to talk about it.
"Told you, it's his new girl" Hana whispers to herself. Raven glares daggers at her, Hana laughs.
"Can we drop it, lets not stress him out anymore then he already is" Sal was right, they were just stressing him out more.
Draco was already on his third mug of wine "Shouldn't you slow down on that?" Hana asks.
"Don't worry, he won't get drunk without effort" Sal explains.
"What does that mean?" Hana asks.
"He won't get drunk from a couple of mugs" Raven simplifies.
Mikazuki stands up and begins to speak "Are we going to do what we have plan or what?"
"Oh yes! I almost forgot" Raven jumps our of her seat (Not really) and runs with Sal in tow. Hana, Mikazuki and Hana were the only ones left.
"I'm going to go get started and the smelter" Mikazuki leaves.
Hana and Draco were now the only ones left inside of the house. Draco was still drinking wine while Hana sat there and watched. Normal people would usually be out of it by now from the amount of alcohol he's consumed but no, he's still going strong.
"How much wine will it take before you get drunk?" she asks.
"A barrel or so but I've never gotten myself drunk"
"That's bullshit" she calls him out.
"Why does it matter?" he asks.
"Just curious" she smiles.
"Aren't you going to help them out?" he takes another drink of wine.
"No, I might just go in my room and take a nap" she stands up taking her leave heading to her room.
He watches Hana walk away making sure that's actually what she's going to do and when she did he went back to drinking his wine, but it was disrupted when Galaxy telepathicly called him.
"Hiccup's here" Draco lets out a sigh pushing his mug away from him.
He stands up and walks away from the table, heads over to the door, flinging it open before Hiccup before he could knock on the door. Hiccup was statled when he saw Draco fling the door open.
"U-Um, hey, c-can I come in?" Hiccup stutters.
Seeing that he startled Hiccup and that something is on the lads mind he lets him in, moving to the side letting him enter. After Hiccup enters the house Draco closes the door behind them and walks back over to the table.
"What did you want to talk about?" Draco asks taking a seat. Hiccup follows behind him taking a seat across from him.
"U-Um… I wanted t-to talk about Astrid" this caught Draco's attention.
"What about her?" he asks.
"W-Well, you won, so, are you guys… you know?"
He rubs the bridge of his nose "I don't know, I guess we're together or something, I still don't fully know" he takes a sip from his mug. Hiccup watches curiously.
"W-Why don't you talk to her" he sounded kind of down. Draco noticed this.
"You liked her, didn't you?" Draco asks. This made Hiccup blush.
"W-What? N-no" Hiccup stutters.
"Hiccup, you know stuttering and blushing isnt making your lie any more believable" Draco points out. Hiccup lowers his head.
"Y-Yea, I like her, I've liked her for a long time, I was hoping that if I was trained by you, I could probably get her attention but—"
"It didn't turn out the way you wanted it?" Hiccup shook his head.
"Instead, she assumes that I'm paying you to train me"
"She's still assuming that?" Hiccup shakes his head again.
"No, ever since that day at the arena, the day you said something to her, she stopped"
"Isn't that a good thing?'
"Yea, but—" Raven enters the house.
"Hey Draco, could you—oh, sorry, am I interrupting something?" she asks.
Hiccup stands up "No, I was just leaving, um… do I need to be in the arena tomorrow?"
"Yes, be there early" Hiccup then nods his head rushing out of the house.
"Ok, what did you want Raven?" he asks after hearing the door close.
"Oh right, I came to ask what the plans are for tomorrow? Besides training Hiccup"
"After that I'm meeting up with Astrid but other than that nothing, did you have something planned?" she shakes her head.
"No, just making sure" without another word she leaves the house. Seeing that he's by himself again he goes back to drinking his wine in peace.
Hours pass, night falls and everyone's returned back to the house to see that Draco wasn't at the table anymore and probably already in his room sleeping. Raven was wanting to go check on him, but Sal stopped her, telling her that 'it would be best wait until tomorrow' all she could do is agree since she's tired too.
They said their goodnights and went on to their rooms to call it in for the night. But one person was still awake and that was Hana.