A/N: Ok this is a first for me but seeing as this site has a lot of good alternative universes on any sort of fiction imaginable I'd thought I'd give it a try myself. In my opinion an alternative universe can happen if evening the most smallest of detail is changed. For example as I've seen in a lot the HTTYD a/u where if Valka was never taken by cloudjumper and was there for hiccup childhood or if Astrid managed to get to the village to tell them what she saw at the cove. So here is my alternative universe to the storyline (as some already had a go): What if Astrid and hiccup were a couple before the start of the first film, how would change their fate. So here goes, this is set at the time when hiccup was 13 and Astrid is about to turn 13. So wish me luck and please be patient with me as I also work and might not get all the time in the world to do this. Thanks

Chapter 1

Normal POV

This is Burk, Its twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death. It's located solidly on the Meridian of Misery. But enough about that, I bet you heard many Vikings talk about the island in same way adding how our food is like the residence, tough and tasteless, but in a harsh land like this you have to be to deal with the kind of pest we have.

You see, where most villages have to deal with pests like rat's and insects we have to deal with...

"DRAGONS!"

Dragons will come in the dead of night and steal food and livestock, and as a Viking our only intention has been the same for generations...to kill them

But turning our attention away from the Gronkle that just crash through a nearby barn, we turn our attention to the village forge where our story really begins.

Inside the forge we see a large shadow of a person looking like he's holding a mighty hammer, maybe he has a strong Viking name for you see parents believe a name will bring fear to your enemies so for a big Viking it must be a big na...

"Hiccup, what you doing with that hammer? Put it down and help me with these weapons"

...oh never mind. Turning to where the shadow came from, we see it was cast by a...boy? A boy with a small build for his age I might add. Anyway back to the plot.

"Aww come on Gobber, I'm tough, let me kill a dragon, I'm useful I can take out a draaaaa...!" Holding the hammer he was holding high in the air, being a bit too heavy for him making him lose balance and falling to the floor with a crash.

The man with a long braided mustache, one arm and one leg stood over the boy and looked down "only as a toothpick lad, now come on we need to get these weapons sharp and ready for the real Vikings"

"Ok but I warn you Gobber, you don't want to keep all this pure Viking rage locked up for too long" Hippup implied, trying to looks a hug as he could to no success.

"I'll take my chances lad" replied Gobber as he was pounding away at a sword with a hammer that was attach to where his left hand should have been.

Yep another fun dragon raid in the village of Berk.

Hiccup's POV

"I wish I was given a chance to prove to everyone I wasn't a screw up" I thought to myself. But who was I kidding myself, the only thing I seem to be able to do is screw up, well.. except blacksmithing...sort of, since i've been an apprentice for the last ten years, yeah Gobbers been teaching me since i was three winters old and i'm still a fishbone, maybe the god's hate me.

"well it seems them beasts are leaving now, and it looks like the chief isn't too happy either, must of lost more in this raid than last time" Gobber said while looking at the chief who was busy putting out the last fire of the raid. A big strong man with a red bushy beard, horned helmet and a stern look on his face, he was like the poster child of what a Viking should look like but not only is he the chief of the island he was also...

"Hiccup what you doing on the floor?" the chief asked

"Sorry dad I kind of...fell" yes the chief was also happens to be my father. A disappointed one at that the way he looked.

"A true Viking never falls! Son, remember that" he strictly says to me

"Are you sure because I saw loads fall down out there, including you..." I implied

I didn't fall I was...knocked, there's a difference!"

"Ok dad sorry for thinking it was the same" I said with my eyes rolled up.

"Watch it son, I maybe your father but I'm also your chief too. Gobber make sure he gets home tonight. I don't want him running about doing something with all this" pointing at me.

"You just gestured to all of me" I said looking slightly insulted

"Exactly, now I need to go count our stock rations before the meeting" after that he walked off towards mead hall.

I got this feeling he doesn't like me sometimes Gobber"

"Ah it's not that lad it's not you he can't stand it's just all...this" Gobber implied pointing at me.

"Again gesturing all of me" looking at Gobber with a stern (ish) look.

Normal POV

The rest of the night was uneventful really. All the broken houses were either patched back up or knocked down, not the first time that's happened, and everything returned to a normal routine. When you live in a village where dragon raids happen once a week, you have to be quick at fixing things.

As Gobber walked Hiccup home, Hiccup noticed a group of teens helping out with the repair work. There was Snotlout, a buff teen with black greasy hair underneath a horned helmet wearing a black bear furred jacket, brown leather trousers and kind of a showoff who happens to be his cousin. The twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut who were identical in many ways including *CLANK* hitting each other over the heads at the same time, both wearing identical four horned (and I might add dented) helmets on top of long light blond hair, Ruff wearing a light brown furred jacket while Tuff's is black furred, these two love to cause destruction (although hiccup's inventions usually out beats them hands down). There was a big lad of the group with a small helmet on named Fishlegs, again blond hair except his was shorter and covered with a tiny short horned helmet (must be a viking fashion statement with helmets) wearing a long brown furred coat, he's quite shy about confrontations but his large size made up for that, not to mention like hiccup he's a kid for knowledge. And there in the centre of the group stood Astrid, the only one that Hiccup smiled at when he saw her, she was everything any guy could ask for, except...

*WHACK* I swear snotlout if you touch my arm again, I will take your's and shove it up your..." yeah she has a bit of a temper, but she has to be in order to be a warrior, thats what she thinks of course. Unlike the other teens, she doesn't wear a helmet, instead she wears a leather headband around her forehead all the way round her long blond hair which she braids at the back of her head showing off her ocean blue eye's which her left bang covers one of them, she wears a spiked red skirt held up with a skull covered belt, blue/grey tunic topped off with iron shoulder pads (again skulls on that too, she really likes skulls), to Hiccup she looks like a valkyrie which would suit her name.

Hiccup would have wanted to do anything for her just to notice him, anything at all. But like all the other teens, she ignored him which was not as bad as the others who'd remind him why he was called 'Hiccup' by calling him weak and scrawny and causing him physical and mental abuse. Well except Fishlegs of course who didn't want to but never defended him in case the others started on him too.

But Hiccups chance to get Astrid to notice him may have come, for walking up to Him and Gobber was Astrid's father Alfsted.

"Well good evening Alfsted, what can I do for you?" Gobber said greeting the blond haired Viking.

"hello Gobber, I wonder if you do me a favor, it's Astrid thirteenth birthday next week and all she saying is she wants a new axe, I can't afford much but whatever I got, can you make one?" he says holding out six gold coins.

Gobber looked at them and gave a smile "not a lot there but seeing as you are Stoick's right-hand man, I'll give it a shot"

"Thank you Gobber, it would make her happy" Alfsted smiled handing the coins to Gobber and walking away.

Hiccup looked up at Gobber and the coins and said "did I hear right Gobber, was Astrid looking for a new axe?"

"Aye lad, won't be nothing special but it'll be something"

Hiccup had an idea, that sounded crazy in his head but thought it be a good to make Astrid have a great birthday present "err Gobber, can I make the axe for Astrid instead, please?" looking at Gobber with wide green eyes.

"hmm I'm not sure why, but as long as you don't screw it up, then yeah, but make sure you get it done on time" Gobber replied back, I might have my suspicions on why but I'll not let the boy know" he thought with a smile on his face.

"Really? Thanks Gobber, I'll started right away" but before he could run back to the forge Gobber grabs him by his shirt "whoa there laddy, your father said for you to go straight home after here. Start it tomorrow, then at least that way you can have a fresh start"

Hiccup really didn't want to but thought better of it when he started yawning "ok, ok I'll start it in the morning" with that he ran home shouting out "good night Gobber" before closing his door.

"This is it" Hiccup told himself "give Astrid something she wanted and she'll be happy" he was at his desk in his room drawing plans for Astrid's axe. Spending quite a bit of time making sure it was perfect. Satisfied with what he had drawn, he carefully laid the drawing back in his scrapbook before turning in for the night. With the thought of what he was doing the next day buzzing around his head. He gently started to fall asleep with his last words being "tomorrow, for Astrid"