So...after seeing the movie four and 1/2 times (even dragging my friend along and annoying my parents by making them bring me), getting a HTTYD blanket, videogame, and poster from Wal-mart, eating HTTYD gummies, attempting to draw Toothless on paint, reading up on thousands of fanfiction stories, looking up HTTYD pics on deviantart, and sharing an imaginary Toothless (whom is mine this week!) with one of my best friends, will i finally admit that I'm obsessed with this movie?

Yes. Yes i will.

Which is what compelled me to write this :) Hope it's to everyone's liking! Oh, and this will end up being a two, possibly three, shot so stay tuned for more chapters!

So, without further ado! I present...Astrid (and Hiccup and Toothless too!)

Disclaimer: I do not own How to Train your Dragon….though I do admit that I had the hiccups a few days ago (that's got to count for something, right?) :-P

1. Astrid…Meet Toothless

I couldn't believe it. I refused to! That Viking, no, that scrawny little twerp, Hiccup, had actually beaten me in Dragon Training! I saw him put down that Gronkle. He didn't even put a scratch on it, yet it still fell to its knees at the slightest touch from him! Something that's impossible even for someone like Stoick the Vast. There was no way anybody could accomplish that in such a short amount of time. He was up to something, I knew it! He disappeared every afternoon, to somewhere in the forest. Seeing him suspiciously running away into the foliage when he caught me training told me that much.

What was he doing? Was he training? Did he have a tutor? Was he conspiring something? Questions floated around my mind, begging to be answered as I quietly jogged through the forest. I stepped lightly, careful not to make a single sound as I followed Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III away from the village and deep into the surrounding forest. I lost track of where we were going when we passed Raven Point, but watching Hiccup, from a precarious distance, I realized that he knew exactly where he was going. So, he's done this before!

There was about a ten foot distance between Hiccup and myself, just like I wanted it to be. He hadn't seen or heard me as of yet, and I was pretty sure he wouldn't unless I wanted him to. He was carrying a large pack across one of his shoulders, and was wearing….something over his grass-green tunic, which only increased my suspicions that something was up.

I ran a few feet forward and ducked behind a tree, careful to keep myself concealed amongst the dense forest.

I never really spent too much thought on Hiccup before training. Yes, I knew he was the 'Village idiot', the 'Screw-Up', but I never paid much attention to him in everyday life. I didn't taunt him like the others, but decidedly kept my criticism to myself. He knew he was a klutz, why rub it in his face?

Even at the beginning of Dragon Training, I never paid much attention to him. Unless of course he got in the way, which he usually did. But I never talked to him, never brought a hate-filled fist down upon him (which he's lucky for), and never really had to do with anything concerning the chieftain's son.

That all changed the day we first fought the Zippleback. At first, I just thought that that had been a coincidence. Maybe the dragon didn't like the smell of the blacksmith's shop. I mean, what else could've made the colorful, double-headed dragon back down so willingly? But after a few more days of training, I couldn't help but think that something was wrong. He'd gone from being…well, Hiccup to some celebrity among the village! In a matter of days! It wasn't fair! Who was the one who'd trained all her life to be the best? Who actually took training seriously instead of using it as a chance to almost get herself killed? I was the one who had striven to be the best! And Hiccup, the boy who acted like this whole thing was some childish game, had stolen that chance from me! And he was going to pay dearly. That's why I was walking thought this gods-forsaken forest, waiting for a chance to grab his thin neck and strangle him! Well, maybe not to that extent…but I was going to get the message across somehow!

Hiccup stopped, and I stopped as well, keeping myself hidden in the dense undergrowth. He then dropped his pack and dragged it over to a large indenture in the ground. He dropped the pack down a crack in the grey rocks before stepping through and disappearing down himself. Once he was out of sight, I quietly ran to where he went down, and, looking in saw that the fracture led to a large cove. It was actually a pretty place. Secluded and alive, without another person in sight. I kept my eyes on Hiccup, who strolled around to the lake to get a drink of water after his long walk.

I took my chance and leapt down into the island's deep cavity, and I quickly ran and sat myself behind a large, grey rock in the middle of the clearing.

I almost jumped in surprise when Hiccup shouted into the air, "Bud? Where are you? I've got a surprise. We're…leaving. Yup, we're leaving!" Bud? So there was someone down here! "Lets pack up. You and me are taking a little vacation…forever."

I heard him move and set down the large pack on the opposite side of the rock I was hiding behind. I took a small peak at him as he flipped the cover open and fiddled with something.

I leapt up onto the large bolder gently, as silent as a cat. I eyed a smaller grey rock lying next to me and grabbed it . Why not frighten the boy a little? I inwardly smirked at the thought.

I watched Hiccup fiddle with the leather straps around his chest, catching the small, exasperated "Ah man" that came out under his breath. As he stood back up I slowly scrapped the granite stone against the sharp edge of my axe.

"Whoa!" Hiccup started, finally seeing me in the orange light the setting sun cast off. And of course, he panicked. "What th- how? H-How are you, uh, Astrid.."

"I wanna know what's going on," I got straight to the point, cutting off his sentence. I hopped down from the rock and started towards him, twirling my axe threateningly as I went. I was not fooling around. "No one just gets as good as you do. Especially you! So.."

Hiccup backed up as I approached, obviously worried that he'd been caught red-handed. "Um.."

When it appeared he wasn't going to go out and say it, I urged him on. "Are you training with someone?" I asked him coldly.

"T-Training? Well I.." He was making excuses, trying to wiggle out of it. Not on my watch.

I grabbed the leather straps criss-crossing across his chest, and thrust him aside, "It better not have anything to do with this."

"Yes, this looks bad, but you see.."

Snap.

Hiccup let out a small gasp, and I swung my head around. It had gotten quiet all of a sudden, minus the chirping of a few sparrows above us. I looked around for the source of the noise. Noises like that didn't happen on their own, there was something here.

I started walking away from Hiccup, more interested in the unseen creature hiding from us. Hiccup, apparently, either pretended not to hear it or hadn't heard the sound at all. As he caught up to me, I could hear the desperation in his voice increasing.

"Oh, yes! You caught me! I've been making…outfits!" He came around from my side and moved in front of me, blocking my sight.

"Go ahead take me back, tell everyone what I've done.."

He had a small, nervous smile on his face as he kept deliberately blocking my vision, no matter where I moved. And that's when I noticed something. He had grabbed my hand. Sure, I don't mind it now, but the initial shock of him even attempting such a thing irritated me even more at that moment. So I did what any girl would do. I sharply grabbed his arm and twisted it back. Hard.

He gave a small cry and lost his balance, falling softly onto the cove's grass. "Oww! Why would you do that?"

It seemed he didn't really care I had just hurt him. His mind was on a different matter, I could tell. Suddenly, I felt all that rage from the final round of Dragon Training bubble up again. He was acting stupid, and indifferent! He didn't even care about the danger we might be in, say that hidden creature was a dragon! As all of these irritating things piled up, I found myself wanting revenge, bad. As Hiccup tried to get back up I forcefully shoved him back down with my foot. "That's for the lies! And that's..," I slammed the butt of my axe against his stomach, feeling a small sense of pleasure as the painful gasp he emitted, "..for everything else."

A growl came from in front of us, and this time, Hiccup heard it. "Oh no.."

A large black creature was in front of us. It's large toxic-green eyes zeroed in on both of our fragile forms. It gave a screech and ran towards us, pouncing across the cove like a large mountain lion. I immediately grabbed Hiccup-who had gotten off the ground- around the waist and threw him back down, along with myself. "Get down!" I screamed at him. Didn't he see the huge, lethal dragon rushing at us?

Forgetting the fact that Hiccup could take down a dragon with a single touch, I shot up and moved to swing my axe at the dragon's wing, which was coming within range in three….two.. I swung.

"NO ASTRID! DON'T!"

I felt myself being forcefully pushed back onto the soft ground, my weapon ripped from my hands and thrown aside in the chaos. Then Hiccup was there in front of me, holding out his hands towards the black dragon, who was still trying to get to us.

On the contrary, Hiccup was in its line of sight, but its hate-filled gaze still sat unmoving upon my fallen form.

It reared up on its rear legs, roaring and snarling at me as Hiccup spoke to it. I realized that I'd heard that roar before…thousands of times actually. Right before a large ball of blue fire took out one of our watch towers. I looked up at the obsidian dragon, stunned. Good gods…it was a…Night Fury!

"No! No, it's alright! It's ok! She's a friend." Hiccup shouted loudly, but gently at the Night Fury. The dragon immediately stilled upon hearing his words. It dropped back down onto all fours as it nuzzled its nose under Hiccup's elbow, making a sound between a growl and a croon at the same time.

Hiccup then turned towards me, the relief evident on his face as he spoke in a calm voice, "You just scared him."

Wait! He's accusing me now? I looked at the Night Fury who was still glaring at me intently with its slit pupils. If anything, this dragon was not scared. I scoffed in disbelief, my heart still racing from the sudden, almost, attack. "I scared him?" I froze for as second as said dragon snorted. "Who is 'him'?"

Hiccup turned all the way around to face me, and, in a sheepish voice, introduced us. "Uh, Astrid, meet Toothless. Toothless…Astrid."

The dragon, Toothless, hissed at me after Hiccup said my name. A hiss that clearly said 'Unless you want that pretty little head of your's ripped off, stay away, human!'

I was at a total loss of words. Hiccup had not only named, but, judging from the brown pad on the Night Fury's neck (a saddle?), also tamed a dragon! It was…reckless! Not to mention crazy! No Viking in their right mind would get this close to a dragon unless it was about to kill it. Hiccup, in my mind, had apparently chosen which side he was on. I narrowed my eyes, and did the one thing I could do.

I ran.

Not hearing the next thing Hiccup said, if he said anything at all, I raced back up the cove's crevasse, running as fast as I could. I had to get back to Berk, Stoick needed to know about his son. About Hiccup's betrayal. To think, the most worthless Viking in Berk had sided with those horrid flying reptiles! You'd have to be insane to even try it! Which was what I had now labeled Hiccup as: insane!

Something else had occurred to me. Everything Hiccup had done in the arena was fake. He had basically cheated! He had a pet dragon for Odin's sake! Of course he'd be better at taking down the creatures since he spent every freaking afternoon playing around with one! The one though I had was that I had to get back and tell the elders, and then every single person in the whole village!

I was still running at a steady pace, my fur-lined boots thudded softly against the hard ground. A fallen tree blocked my path, but I easily jumped on top and leapt off of it. Or so I thought.

I felt something slightly warm and strong grab my arm as I leapt off the dead log. And before I could even comprehend what was going on, I was lifted up into the air, a hundred feet placed between me and the safe ground within seconds! I gave a terrified shout as I was lifted higher across the tall trees. I gasped and looked up to see the Night Fury dragging me across the treetops effortlessly. "Oh, Great Odin's Ghost!"

There was one thought that crossed my mind: IamdeadIamdeadIamdeadIamDEAD!

I screamed again as the thing brought me back the direction I came from, and I couldn't hold back the small yelp I released as it tossed me onto one of the topmost branches of a pine tree that hung above Hiccup's cove.

I scrambled across the thin limb, holding on for dear life as the dragon perched at the tip, causing the whole tree to lean sideways precariously. I noticed Hiccup sitting on the dragon's back and I glared at him. "Hiccup! Get me down from here!"

He held up his hands in defense, "At least give me a chance to explain."

"I'm not listening to anything you have to say!" I snapped back at the russet-haired boy.

"Then I wont speak. Just let me show you," he leaned towards me, holding a hand out to help me. His gaze found mine easily, his eyes were pleading with me. "Please, Astrid."

I could read him easily, his intentions showing clearly across his face. There was no way he was going to let me down anytime soon. He was willing to stay up here on his stupid dragon until I gave up and listened to him. That is, unless I felt like falling a hundred feet into the lake I hung over, which would hurt.

I sighed, defeated, and hauled the rest of my body onto the branch. I balanced easily and moved towards the Night Fury Hiccup was perched upon. I wasn't one to show weakness, or accept help of any kind. What can I say? It was the way of any strong Viking. My pride caused me to harshly knock away Hiccup's outstretched hand, and I blocked out the obsidian dragon's protesting growls. I helped myself onto the soft saddle, and, reluctantly, sat down on the dragon's back behind Hiccup.

Weary, I glanced longingly down at the forest floor. "Now let me down."

Hiccup nodded fervently, obviously pleased that I chosen to listen. He leaned forward towards the Night Fury's face and patted its neck softly. "Toothless, down. Gently."

The dragon unfolded its leathery wings, easily catching a passing breeze that lifted the weight off the pine tree slightly. Hiccup looked back at me with a reassuring smile. "See, nothing to be afraid of.."

That's when the dragon took off.

I had once jumped off of one of Berk's many steep cliffs and into a deep lake when I was little. I remember my stomach jumping up to my throat and a sense of fear that didn't leave until five minutes after I got out of the water. Being thrown into an extreme vertical incline that reached up to thousands of feet in the air, and in a matter of seconds by an irritated dragon made my little high-dive seem like a walk through the woods on a summer day.

I had never screamed so loudly in my life! I had placed my hands against the dragon's black hide to keep myself from slipping off and falling to my death. Hiccup obviously hadn't expected his 'pet' to do this either because had also shouted in surprise and was trying to get the dragon level again.

In my fear I had reached forwards and wrapped my arms around the only thing I knew would keep me on this monstrosity. I took hold of Hiccup in my arms tightly, one around his neck and one around his waist. I even wrapped one of my legs around his body in a desperate attempt to anchor myself to the dragon. I clung tightly, not caring if I was choking him accidentally. I vaguely heard him say something, whether to me or to his demon I couldn't tell, but I didn't pay attention to his words. All I was thinking about was how to stop myself from falling and hitting the ground of Berk with a hard splat.

We finally straightened somewhat and feeling slightly safer, I loosened my grip on the chief's son. Hiccup's shoulders sagged slightly, losing some of the tension for a second. He gave a nervous laugh, "He's not usually like this," that's when the dragon's wings closed, folding tightly against its sleek body. We started to tilt sideways, "Oh no.."

The flight quickly transformed into a free-fall. We twisted and flipped and turned in the air as the Night Fury decided to do some serious aerial acrobatics. It pulled up right before we hit the freezing water that surrounded the island of Berk, and decided to splash around in the water a few times, getting the both of us wet along the way.

I heard Hiccup's shout as it flew back against the wind, "Toothless, what are you doing? We need her to like us!" Pft, yeah fat chance you horrid lizard! You and your stupid rider can pretty much…..

The Night Fury shot up again, twirling around in a barrel roll, which sent me into another screaming episode. Hiccup muttered exasperatedly, "And now he's spinning…"

Yeah, thank you Captain Obvious.

Hiccup, his annoyance having turned into anger, shouted, "Thank you for nothing, you useless reptile!"

The dragon spun, faster and faster and faster. Until I could barely tell the sky apart from the sea. I was getting dizzy and started to feel a sense of nausea come up. The adrenaline running through me made my heart pound and I was so stiff from holding on to Hiccup that I thought I wouldn't be able to let go afterwards. The fear veiling my mind cut out all sense of pride and sternness that I would put up as my mask on the battle field. I just wanted this torturous ride to end. Closed my eyes as bile arose in my throat a little as we went into another spin, and I leaned my head against the back of the chieftain's son and shouted, "Alright! I'm sorry! I am sorry! Just get me off of this thing."

Just like that, as if someone had flipped a switch, the dragon calmed. He floated along a wind current, steady and careful, as if he was a longboat carrying a glass sculpture across a rough sea. I dared to open my eyes, squinting as the setting sun cast it's last rays across my face. But what a sight. The sky was dipped in various shades of pink, orange, and purple. The large cloud in front of us absorbing the colors and twirling them into its frothy form. The dragon banked smoothly, as if it were born to rule the skies. And, in a way, it was.

I sat up slowly, moving my hands to Hiccup's shoulders as I looked at the sky with awe. The russet-haired boy didn't speak as he lifted his arm so I could pull my leg out of his lap and to the dragon's side again. I felt him relax under my hold, and dimly noticed that he seemed to sit straighter, in a more confident, yet lenient, way. There was no sound except for the wind rushing past my ears and the distinct soft click that came from Hiccup's left stirrup.

The dragon took us up, his form parallel with the large cloud. Perplexed with the giant formation, I lifted a hand to touch it. No one had ever known what clouds were made of. They were always just kind of…there, drifting away lazily across the sapphire sky day after day. Curiously, I ran my hand against the fluffy buildup, expecting it to feel soft like a rabbit's fur or delicate like a bird's feathers. I flinched as little as I felt cool moisture run down my extended arm as droplets of water collected on my fingers. I almost laughed at the strange experience. Water floating in the sky. Who would've though?

I smiled and ran my other hand along the cloud, leaning back to catch every ounce of it as Toothless took us higher. We flew a little ways away from the large floating mountain and went into a loop. This one was slower, not as rushed or jerky as the ones Toothless performed before, but just fast enough to where Hiccup and I didn't slide off. The dragon took us up, through a layer of water vapor until we came above the cloud line. The sunshine was shut out, which left the vast starry sky to cover us in out flight. The air felt cool and crisp as it caressed my cheeks, making them tinge pink. As if on cue, the sky suddenly filled with dancing lights composed of just about every color. The Northern Lights swirled and chased us in a playful fashion, following our every turn and drop.

After a few minutes, the lights faded into the night's sky again, the colorful array being whisked away by the wind.

Still smiling, I took a glance down to see that the clouds had also faded away to reveal something else. Berk, lit only by the fires in the homes and guard towers, sparkled softly along the horizon. I gasped softly, put my hands back on Hiccup's shoulders and leaned forward a little to get a closer look. It was our home! Our village! I almost giggled at the sight of seeing my house from the sky as we flew along the coast.

Toothless looked back at us, and caught my gaze. He seemed to grin softly as if to say 'See? It's not that bad. And I'm not a killer.'

I blinked at the magnificent, obsidian dragon. How could we have killed these creatures for hundreds of years without discovering this? How was it possible that not one Viking thought to ride a dragon instead of destroy one? I stole a glance at Hiccup. He had a large smile on his face, his forest-green eyes sparkled with happiness and exuberance. I'd never seen the boy this happy before, not truthfully at least. Sure he put on a smile and used his dry humor every now and again, but this, this was real. He wasn't pretending or hiding how he truly felt. This was his true contentment and serenity shining through. Feeling a warm, indefinable emotion twirl around in my chest, I found myself wanting to be close to him. I wanted to keep that vividness on his face. Slowly, but surely, I wrapped my arms around his waist again, my chin settling on his shoulder. He had discovered this. He must've been telling the truth that night he said he hit a Night Fury, otherwise I wouldn't be riding on one. Hiccup could've killed Toothless, and, well, become accepted. He wouldn't have been looked down at with disgust or shame anymore. He had caught a Night Fury, but instead of taking the 'Viking way' and killing the giant lizard, he let it go. He befriended it.

I sighed against the warmth his body gave off, and hugged him closer to me. I smiled in content and closed my eyes for a few seconds, relishing this moment. Maybe…there was more to Hiccup than it seemed.

" I've got to admit," Hiccup and Toothless looked back at me when I spoke, "This is pretty cool. It's…amazing."

I looked at Toothless and smiled softly, "He's amazing."

I placed my hand on Toothless' neck, patting the smooth scales gently. Looking at both Hiccup's and Toothless' relieved smiles, I couldn't help but feel a warmth spread throughout my body. Yes, they both were just that. Amazing.

It's actually really really fun to write in her POV! And i felt extremely happy with this chapter as far as the wording goes! My writer's block seems to have given up now that school is almost over :-)

Hopefully i got all the dialogue right...I'm sorta going off of memory so, yeah. But i think i got most of it! :-D

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Hope you liked! ~Oliver