Disclaimer: I don't own How To Train Your Dragon, and knowing my luck, I probably never will. All rights go to the author of the books, Cressida Cowell, and the company that made the much-loved films and series, Dreamworks. However, I do own Brenna Bloodsword and Starlight the Night Fury, as they are my OCs. This disclaimer will change over time, as I may add more OCs to this story.

A/N: Here's a code I made up for you so this is easier to read.

Bold: Dragons are talking
Italics: Humans are thinking
Bold italics: Dragons are thinking
Underlined: Any language being spoken that isn't either Norse or Dragonese by bilingual/multilingual characters. It will be written like this for humans:

*Language goes here "Insert speech here."

And like this for dragons:

*Language goes here "Insert speech here."

If there isn't a language in front of the speech, assume that they are speaking Norse if they're human and Dragonese if they're dragons. Sorry about giving such a long A/N, but I felt I had to explain this for you.

Starlight woke up uncharacteristically late the next day to the sound of Brenna cleaning up the house. Confused at the change in schedule and annoyed that she couldn't tease Brenna by playing keep-away with her prosthetic leg, she went downstairs to look for her. Starlight found Brenna, dressed in a dark blue knee-length dress with light grey pants, reading a book about traditional weapons around the world. This was even more confusing.

"Brenna, what's going on?" Starlight asked. "If you're here, what's that noise?"

"Oh, I just got the chores to do themselves," Brenna explained, as if it was the most normal thing in the world. Starlight found broomsticks sweeping up dust, bits of cloth sharpening and polishing Brenna's weapons, dishes being cleaned, and all of it being done by magic. What could only be described as blue ribbons of light were enveloped around the broomstick and the bits of cloth cleaning the swords and dishes and the pumice stone sharpening the weapons were all being controlled by these blue ribbons of light. This was Brenna's magic at work. Starlight rolled her eyes and went back to the living room, where Brenna was still reading and didn't acknowledge her at all.

"I can't believe you did all that just so you didn't have to do any actual work," Starlight huffed.

"But I was doing work! It was my magic doing it, and I control that, so technically I am still doing the chores," Brenna rationalized. Starlight groaned.

"I have never heard anything quite so stupid in all my life, you know that?" Starlight told Brenna. "Neither have I ever seen someone more determined to not get off their lazy, ever-growing butt-"

"Did you just call me fat?" Brenna blurted out.

"Fat? You? No, of course not," Starlight denied. Brenna relaxed until she heard the next thing that came out of Starlight's mouth. "Not yet, anyway. You are getting there, though."

"Starlight!" Brenna yelped, blushing. She was hurt, and Starlight felt guilty. Brenna had felt insecure about her body ever since she lost her leg. Years of bullying from her peers would do that to a person. Starlight was treading on territory that nobody belonged on. And it suddenly hit her like a slap to the face.

"Holy Thor, are you OK? Brenna, I'm so sorry! I'm sorry!" Starlight babbled, full of remorse after such a short time. I should have never have said such things to Brenna! I of all people know how much this hurts her. Why, oh why did I do it?

"It's OK," Brenna smiled, even though she was still a little hurt. But Starlight wasn't to know that. It would crush her to know how much it actually insulted her. But she smiled through it and pretended to be OK. "I'm sure you've said worse things before. Remember that time when we were around ten and a kid was being mean to me and you called her a-"

"OK, I get it!" Starlight interrupted. "Now come on! Hiccup's probably giving a lecture right now and we're missing it!" Brenna jumped on Starlight's back so she could fly to the arena and catch the end of the beginning of the lecture. But when they got there, what they actually caught was chaos.

"For the last time, Hiccup, we get it! You speak a different language and we have no clue what you're saying! Now shut up!" Snotlout yelled. Brenna was confused, until Hiccup opened his mouth.

*Latin "What's wrong, Snotlout? Finding it a little hard to understand?" Hiccup taunted. Hiccup wasn't normally this mean, but he could afford to when nobody could understand him. Besides, how could you reprimand someone when you had no idea what they said or did to deserve it?

"What's going on?" Brenna asked, confused. "Why are you all so angry?"

"It's all Hiccup's fault!" Tuffnut angrily explained. "Whenever it gets too much for him and he finds us too annoying to cope with, he annoys us in a different language for annoying him."

"It's not fair! We can't say anything back because we don't know what he's saying!" Ruffnut complained.

"This is getting old, Hiccup," Astrid groaned. I love this boy, but this is annoying as hell, the blonde thought.

"What's Hiccup saying that's making everyone so mad?" Starlight asked Hookfang Toothless, Stormfly, Meatlug and Barf and Belch.

"It's the fact that nobody knows that's making them so mad," Toothless explained. "Hiccup knows a lot of languages and speaks different ones to mess with people. And it's working well. In fact, it's working so well it's actually pretty embarrassing to watch this."

"Oh, did I just hear Toothless disagree with Hiccup's actions?" Hookfang teased. "If I could read, then I would probably see this in a history book dedicated to things that you rarely see on Berk!"

"Wait, you don't think this is a good idea?" Stormfly stuttered. "Then why don't you tell him?"

"I have told him! He just never listens!" Toothless groaned. "If he'd listened, he wouldn't be doing this now!"

"He has a point," Meatlug muttered.

*Latin "Come on, Toothless. Dragon training lessons have been cancelled," Hiccup told his friend, preparing to get on Toothless' back . . . but Toothless stopped him. *Latin "What are you doing, bud?"

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

Everyone laughed, and Hiccup grew frustrated with Toothless. *Latin "Toothless, work with me! This is getting embarrassing!" Hiccup whined. *Latin "Come on, move!"

JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE MAD DOESN'T MEAN I UNDERSTAND YOU NOW.

*Latin "Toothless, you useless, back-chatting reptile, do something!" Hiccup ordered. Brenna had had enough, and decided to end it.

*Latin "But Hiccup, Toothless is doing something; he's annoying you," Brenna pointed out. Everyone in the arena, dragon and human, stared at Brenna with wide eyes.

*Latin "You understood me the entire time?" Hiccup stammered. This threw a wrench in Hiccup's plans. How was he supposed to annoy people in a language that they didn't understand if someone understood it? They could just translate what he was saying and that wouldn't help him. But then he had an idea; he knew plenty of other languages, so he could just annoy people in another language instead.

*Latin "Yes, I do understand you. And you're getting annoying," Brenna pointed out. Hiccup switched lanes . . . or rather, switched languages.

*French "Hey, Brenna, do you still understand me?" Hiccup taunted. *French "I bet this is all going over your head right now, isn't it?"

*French "Don't worry, Hiccup. I understand you just fine," Brenna reassured. "Absolutely nothing that you just said went over that ginger head of mine." In a panic, Hiccup tried again.

*English "How about now?" Hiccup asked. He wasn't so cocky now. A thin bead of sweat trickled down his forehead. *English "Do you understand me now?"

*English "Of course I do. Why wouldn't I understand you?" Brenna asked. Hiccup was starting to panic now. Dragons and humans alike watched the language fight unfold. Brenna was winning, and they could tell easily.

"I didn't expect the day to go like this," Astrid admitted. "But I guess it could be worse."

"Of course it could be worse! He could still be annoying us!" Snotlout cheered. "Go, Brenna!"

"This is long-overdue revenge," Tuffnut smiled.

"Brenna, we may never be able to thank you enough," Ruffnut whispered, a teardrop in the corner of each of her eyes.

"When do you think they'll stop?" Fishlegs asked.

"Once Hiccup decides to never do this again," Astrid muttered.

"I wish someone had done this to Hiccup earlier," Toothless said to nobody in particular. The other dragons stared at him, aghast.

"Who are you and what have you done with Toothless?" Hookfang asked.

"Hookfang, I have had to put up with multiple languages for a long time. I'm getting rather sick of it," Toothless confided.

"Even you?" Barf and Belch chorused. "This is getting bad if even you have eventually come to disagree."

"Eventually? What do you mean eventually? I disagreed immediately!" Toothless disputed.

"Yeah, sure you did," Stormfly snickered.

But back to Brenna and Hiccup's multilingual argument (which would later be described as the nerdiest way of asserting dominance ever by their respective dragons).

*Dutch "Do you still understand me?" Hiccup asked. *Dutch "Don't tell me you still know what I'm talking to you about."

*Dutch "Fine, I won't," Brenna replied, with the speed of a Night Fury. Hiccup only had two languages in his linguistic arsenal now. He had to make them count.

*Greek "Hey, Brenna, do you know what I'm saying?" Hiccup asked.

*Greek "Of course I do," Brenna smiled. She sounded innocent, but there was a mocking undertone to her voice that everyone could hear. The one-legged brunette had one last language to use against her. If this didn't work, the method he had for annoying everyone around him was over.

*Chinese "There is absolutely no way that you know Chinese. I have to be safe now," Hiccup breathed. Little did he know that Brenna had him cornered. It was game, set and match to her, and the best part about it was that he didn't even know it.

*Chinese "I'm sorry, what did you say, Hiccup?" Brenna taunted. Hiccup turned scarily pale. *Chinese "Would you mind repeating it for me? I didn't quite catch that."

"How are you doing this? I - you - but - how?" Hiccup babbled. "You speak all the same languages as me. All of them!"

"Oh good, you've gone back to speaking Norse," Brenna smiled. "Now you've stopped playing games, we can talk. And don't try speaking any other languages, Hiccup - two can play at that game, as you now know."

"Your human is smart," Toothless complimented to Starlight.

"I know," Starlight smiled. Stormfly rolled her eyes and tail-smacked her round the head. "OW! You have spikes on your tail!"

"For Thor's sake, he just complimented your rider!" Stormfly scolded.

"In Brenna's case, it's not a compliment, it's a fact," Starlight bragged.

"First off, this speaking in multiple languages thing to annoy people has got to stop. It's hopelessly immature," Brenna chided. "A bunch of five-year-olds just called; they want their passive aggressive mind games back before they go troll hunting in the woods today!"

"BURN!" Snotlout and the twins hollered, whooping and cheering. But Brenna wasn't done.

"And another thing, what's with the insults? You asked me if what you were saying was going over my head, and then you called Toothless a 'useless, back-chatting reptile' in a language he doesn't speak when he wouldn't obey you," Brenna pointed out. "He was trying to be the voice of reason, too!"

"Thank you!" Toothless acknowledged, relaxing now he knew he had a human on his side.

"I - you-" Hiccup stammered.

"Never mind. Let me know when you've grown up, OK?" Brenna asked, as she and Starlight left. A black blur was seen in the skies of Berk. Hiccup turned back to find his very angry friends and a smug Night Fury.

"Finally, my efforts are acknowledged," Toothless sighed. "Suck it, Hiccup. You played language roulette and lost the draw." Astrid was more forgiving than Toothless was.

"I'm not looking for an apology, so long as you never do it again," the blonde said. Hiccup nodded. The guilt had suddenly hit him like a ton of bricks. The brunette now felt so stupid for needing someone they barely knew to show him how immature he was being. He also felt bad for ignoring his friends for so long.

"Speak for yourself, Astrid! Hiccup, I want you in front of us all this evening in the Great Hall, begging on your knees for our forgiveness!" Snotlout ordered. Hookfang tail-slapped him. "Hookfang!"

"Sorry about him, you guys. He's an idiot," Hookfang excused sheepishly.

"We noticed, Hookfang," Toothless muttered. "It's actually pretty hard to not notice about your human."

"Look, Toothless, nobody insults my human's intelligence but me," Hookfang snapped. "Insult your own human."

"Nobody insults your human but you . . . and everyone in the village," Barf pointed out. "Jokes about your human being dumb are more common than Terrible Terrors in this village."

"HEY!" Hookfang blurted out. He was about to aim a fireball at the trash-talking Zippleback, but then the boys overheard a conversation the girls were having.

"The boys around here are so dumb sometimes," Stormfly remarked.

"You know, I don't usually say this to you, Stormfly, but you've got a serious point," Meatlug replied. The boys were shocked.

"WHAT?" they blurted out. Stormfly and Meatlug rolled their eyes in unison.

"And oblivious," Stormfly muttered.

"Got it," Meatlug muttered back. "Will someone please let me know when this is all over so we can all go home?"

"You are totally reading my mind right now," Stormfly sighed, as they both settled down to sleep until the argument wore off. The boys huffed and spent the rest of the time in the arena in an awkward silence.

Anyway, that's enough of them, over to Brenna and Starlight.

Brenna and Starlight were sitting in the same cove where Hiccup had bonded with Toothless, thinking. "Hiccup seemed more mature than this," Brenna wondered aloud. "I didn't know that he was petty enough to do this."

"You never know someone unless they're really angry, really sad or really happy," Starlight told her, in a rare moment of sage advice. "And don't be too hard on yourself; you never knew that he was multilingual to begin with and you did the right thing."

"And now I think about it, there are a large amount of similarities about us, that the others might find rather funny," Brenna mused. "We both have Night Furies, other than Dragonese we speak all the same languages, both of us use prosthetic legs, we're both used to working in forges-"

"And you're both a major pair of nerds," Starlight pointed out.

"Hey!"

"What? It's true. You two could be entered into a nerdiness competition and turned away for being professionals!"

"Don't push it, Starlight," Brenna huffed, glaring at Starlight. Starlight raised an eyebrow (well, eye-ridge, since she is a reptile and has no hair).

"I'll push it as much as I Thor-damned want to," Starlight sassed, grinning at the annoyed redhead. "I've done it before, and I'll do it again."

"Fair point," Brenna admitted. Starlight enjoyed messing with her . . . a little too much for Brenna's taste. She chalked it up to being a Night Fury thing, like sleeping upside down like a bat. Maybe Toothless was the same way with Hiccup. Maybe she was the only one with such a mouthy, mischievous Night Fury, or Toothless was just as bad and messed with Hiccup when she couldn't see or hear him. Brenna got out her notebook and started sketching the cove in front of her. Sketching was just something Brenna did to distract herself from the pitfalls of life, and it seemed to be working, until she heard a voice. A familiar, nerdy voice.

"Hey, Brenna," Hiccup muttered. "Didn't know you'd be here." Brenna looked at Hiccup with surprise.

"You come here a lot?" Brenna asked.

"Yeah, it's where I met Toothless, actually," Hiccup confided. "So it's special to us."

"How did you meet, by the way?" Brenna asked, curious. Hiccup sighed.

"Brenna, Berk wasn't always at peace with dragons. Dragons and humans were once at war, one that lasted roughly 300 years. When I first met Toothless, we were still at war and . . . the reason he has a prosthetic tailfin is because during that period, I shot him down." Hiccup looked at the floor shamefully at the memory of hurting his friend. "I snuck out of the village to spend time with him in secret, and I learned to train him. But this was against everything Vikings had ever known, so it was forbidden."

"Hence the sneaking around," Brenna realized.

"Exactly. Of course, once my father found out that I had befriended a dragon, he was furious. He used Toothless to get to the dragon's nest and brought an army with him to kill them all." Brenna listened on, open-mouthed. "The dragons in the nest were all under the control of a huge dragon we called the Red Death."

"When you say, huge, how huge?" Brenna asked.

"Easily as big as a small mountain," Hiccup told her. Brenna gasped.

"You're joking!" she blurted out. Hiccup shook his head.

"No joke. Ask anyone," Hiccup told her. "There was a huge battle, and it died, and its death meant that all the dragons that lived in the nest were free. And that was when I . . . lost my leg. It turns out that dragons have a sort of revenge thing, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, all that stuff. Well, a leg is equal to a fin for dragons, I guess."

"And after that came the dragons and humans living in harmony thing?"

"Yeah. So, how did you meet Starlight?"

"My dad and brothers found a weird-looking rock in the woods when hunting and took it home as a weird looking souvenir just before I was born. On the day that I was born, the weird rock hatched and that was when we were introduced to Starlight and me," Brenna recounted.

"Your dad found a dragon egg in the woods and raised the hatchling alongside a human child?" Hiccup spluttered. "That is so cool!" Then his face changed from a look of fascination to one of confusion. "But where was the mother? And how did you even know that Starlight was a Night Fury? How was it to raise her?"

"Hey, I was a baby at the time; I don't know all the answers," Brenna stammered, flushing a dark shade of red. "I know that my village had never had a dragon living with them before, so I guess the other villagers kept Starlight and figured 'Eh, what's the harm in letting a creature we know nothing about grow up with a human child the same age as it?' Now I think about it, they probably saw Starlight as an exotic, harmless pet and had no clue of a Night Fury's intelligence or abilities until we grew up. Heck, maybe they kept her because she was a baby at the time and was cute and she was beginning to bond with me. Maybe they saw Night Furies as being no more intelligent than dogs. I didn't understand it. Since when did dogs speak Norse?"

"Seriously? They didn't take Starlight seriously even though she learned their language?" Hiccup spluttered. "That makes no sense."

"Good to know that one of the nerds has their head on the right way," Starlight huffed. "The village Brenna and I grew up in was all levels of crazy."

"It doesn't mean Berk is a haven of logic, though," Toothless pointed out. "Everyone here is on some level of crazy. Hiccup gets one all to himself called nerd crazy."

"If everyone on Berk fits into a certain category of crazy, then I'm sure Brenna would fit right in!" Starlight sarcastically remarked. Toothless fought back laughter.

*Dragonese "You know I can hear and understand you, right?" Brenna asked. The two Night Furies jumped, and it was Hiccup's turn to stifle laughter.

"Your faces! It's priceless!" he snickered. Toothless rolled his eyes at his dorky human.

"Not our fault she took us by surprise," Toothless huffed.

*Norse "Yeah, and it's not our fault that Brenna has a habit of eavesdropping," Starlight retorted.

"Hey!" Brenna snapped. "It's not eavesdropping if you're right there!"

*Norse "Yeah, you keep telling yourself that," Starlight muttered.

"What did they say?" Hiccup asked.

"Toothless was saying that everyone living in Berk fit into a certain category of crazy, and you got a category all to yourself called nerd crazy," Brenna reported. "And if everyone fits into a certain category of crazy, then I should fit right in!"

"What?" Hiccup blurted out.

"This is a disadvantage to understanding dragons. You have to translate their insults to those who don't, and it doesn't always end well," Brenna sighed. Toothless began to feel rather guilty. Hiccup may have been a dork, but he was a nice dork.

I'M SORRY, HICCUP.

Hiccup smiled at the apologetic Night Fury. "You are forgiven, you big scaly cat," Hiccup teased.

DON'T CALL ME THAT.

"Why not? It's true," Hiccup teased. Toothless looked at Starlight as if to say "Let's mess with this guy and anyone who agrees with him forever."

"Let's face it, Night Furies have a few things in common with cats. For example, both will chase bright objects and play with yarn," Brenna pointed out. Toothless and Starlight stiffened with embarrassment for the second time, and Hiccup laughed at them for the second time.

"Now this is funny!" Hiccup laughed.

*Norse "Oh, come on! I was three!" Starlight justified.

"More like six, actually," Brenna corrected. Starlight was pissed. Brenna was embarrassing her in front of her crush and his rider! She looked at Toothless to agree with the idea of messing with the nerds forever. Both of them went to the pond in the cove and sucked up a mouthful of water. They went right back to their riders and spat in out in their faces. Then they both licked their riders right in their faces.

"EWWW!" both of the nerds groaned. The Night Furies laughed hysterically.

"Your faces!" Toothless laughed.

"Now this is funny!" Starlight snickered. Now it was the dragon riders who were embarrassed and didn't see the funny side.

"You know that doesn't wash out!" they chorused, before looking at each other in surprise over having spoken in unison. "Wait, what? How are you saying the same things as me?"

"All those in favour of the idea of using humans as free entertainment forever, say aye," Starlight muttered.

"Aye," Toothless muttered back.

"Oh, thanks, you two!" Brenna snapped. "We are not free entertainment, thank you very much!"

"Yeah!" Hiccup agreed.

"OK, you two, time to go home," Starlight muttered, as she and Toothless collected their riders and left the cove for their respective homes.

"Did you have to lick me?" Brenna complained the moment they were inside.

"Depends. Did you have to say that I played with yarn?" Starlight griped. "You know what? This deserves another lick to the face." And with that, Brenna was the unlucky recipient of another slobbery Night Fury lick.

"EWWW!" Brenna groaned.

"Serves you right," Starlight chuckled. "Good night. And as far as getting that off your face goes, good luck." Brenna conjured up a small towel and wiped the drool off her face before going to bed herself. Both Night Fury and witch were out like a candle in the wind.