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Chapter 2

•••Astrid POV•••

After about an hour of convincing we finally got the boy and his dragon to come back to camp. As you can probably guess, Snotlout disagreed immediately.

"Astrid that is a Nightfury! The most dangerous dragon in the book of dragons that we know about! And what did you do? Brought it back to camp!" Snotlout yelled.

"We're all going to die and we're only a week into this test." He whispered to himself but loud enough for us to hear.

"If you want me gone, fine. But I can't leave until I fix Toothless' tail." The boy said.

"We found an old forge from years past. It'll need to be relit though." Fishlegs explained and pointed in the direction of the broken down forgery.

"Thanks. I should be gone by early tomorrow if I work through the night." He jumped off of 'Toothless' and started walking in the direction Fishlegs pointed. I noticed now that the Nightfury only had half a tail fin. That explains why he couldn't just fly away.

"Through the night? That's not a very good idea. Your wounds aren't deep but you still need rest." Fishlegs said.

"I'm fine. Like I said, they're just scratches." And he left.

•••Hiccup POV•••

"Light it up Toothless!" I said. Toothless let out a blast lighting the forge. I unbuckled Toothless' burnt tail and got to work on it immediately pounding away at the metal bars.

"Crap. We need cloth. Something strong enough to last until we can get home." I mumbled.

"Will this do?" Said a female voice from behind me. I turned around and found the blonde haired Viking from earlier. She was holding up a white, thick, tent fabric. She held it out for me to take.

"It should." I replied taking the cloth.

"What did you need? I know you didn't just come out here to help me fix Toothless' tail." I asked. She walked up to stand next to me.

"I was actually a bit restless and decided to take a walk when I remembered how you probably haven't eaten in a while." The girl sat down a plate with cooked mutton and a cup of water.

"I know it's not much. But hopefully it can help you gain some energy. And maybe a bit of fat, you're skin and bones." She joked and Toothless laughed with her. I chuckled and took the meat.

"Thanks, um..."

"Astrid. My name is Astrid." She said smiling.

"Hiccup." I replied.

"You know you shouldn't be this trusting to someone you just met a few hours ago on a beach unconscious. How do you know I'm not some mass murderer that just escaped Outcast Island." I joked. Astrid laughed.

"Well, you just have this air about you. I can feel that you aren't bad." Astrid replied. We sat in silence as I finished fixing the tail. Toothless had long since fallen asleep and it was just us two.

"So. Why is it that you were unconscious on our beach?" Astrid asked.

"Dragon hunters. They had gotten a new load of dragons, so of course I went to go save them. But they had new weapons. And one of them was just too fast for Toothless to dodge." I replied. I rubbed Toothless' bandaged leg.

"We fell into the ocean and I lost consciousness. The next thing I knew I was surrounded by weird looking Vikings." I said smiling.