To Belong

To Belong

She was the weird foreign girl, he was the most useless Viking in the history of Berk. Together they were just Leandra and Hiccup. Two best friends who searched for their place in the world. Would their search for it unite or separate them?

I counted the votes on fanfiction.net and Quotev and we have a clear winner. Sides that allow pictures can already see Leandra’s dragon beside Toothless, the other one, well read the story. :D

Chapter 3

Leandra was glad that Gothi stepped out to watch the progress of the Dragon Training. She had stayed up late to make various ointments for the Night Furry and got so little sleep.

The black-haired girl was taking a cat nap on the mat where normal Gothi’s patients lay.

Was it wise?

Absolute not.

But the Spanish girl swore she would die if she didn’t catch some snooze. The whole morning had been hard on her and Gothi even more.

It was like the old Viking woman knew she hadn’t slept much and was making her work and learn more.

Her brain was not there today.

She really, really hoped that one of the ointments for the Night Furry would help him.

A sign left her mouth and she rolled herself to the side.

Leandra was asking herself how Hiccup was doing in Dragon Training. Being together with teens who didn’t like him and with his weird crush, was hard, she imagined. Well, besides the murders dragons who wanted to kill you.

Yeah, Leandra found Hiccup’s crush on Astrid freacking weird. The girl didn’t give him the time of day, never talked or interacted with him, and yet Hiccup crushed on her hard.

Just because she was the perfect Viking girl?

It was a weak reason.

On the other hand, the only other girl was Ruffnut and she was crazy.

No wonder Hiccup liked Astrid.

It’s not like he had many choices.

What about you?, whisper a voice in her head, that Leandra always ignored.

No, she wouldn’t think about this possibility.

She and Hiccup were fine the way they were.

Best friends forerver.

However, it still stung a bit that Hiccup didn’t seem to see her like a girl.

No one of their age rages did.

Not that Leandra wanted any of the Viking boys.

It just…would be nice to feel wanted sometime. Astrid didn’t need to do anything and anybody was armored with her.

Leandra was not vain, but she knew she was a pretty girl.

Her hair was strong, wavy, and black like the night, and she had big, pretty brown eyes and a healthy tan. She had a curvy body and probably the biggest breast size, for her age.

Her papi always told her she comes after her late mother, who had been the village beauty, with suitors left and right.

On the other hand here in Berk, they were other beauty standards.

And Astrid was all of them and she was the exact opposite of it.

Maybe that’s why no one found her attractive.

Again, not that she wanted any of the Viking boys, it just got on her nerves that even Hiccup, who know her like the back of his hand, never seemed to see her as a girl.

And no, that didn’t mean she wanted something from him.

No, no, no!

She didn’t want to lose his friendship, just for the tiny possibility of being more.

Friendship was more important than love.

Besides if she ever got the chance Leandra would return to Spain to her Abuela. Her dad could stay here on this miserable rock with his new Viking family, and she would get back home, where it was warm, colorful, and full of life.

She only would miss Hiccup and be in a relationship with him would be even worse if she would go back to Spain.

He could come with us, it’s not like he would be missed here, again this voice in her head whispered.

Angry she opened her eyes and sat up.

Leandra could never take a nap like this.

What was wrong with her brain today?

That’s what she gets if she doesn’t sleep her eight hours. This should be a lesson for her.

Grumbling she decides to make some more ointments.

This would keep her thoughts in check.

Today Gothi let her go home earlier.

This was good.

So she could join Hiccup and the Night Furry in the cove and her parents would think she was still with Gothi.

As she enters the cove, Leandra has to put a hand on her mouth to not let out the gasp she was about to make.

The scene before her.

She feels she can’t interrupt it.

It’s between Hiccup and the Night Furry.

They're face to face and Hiccup slowly extends his hand. The dragon growls at the hand, he isn’t ready to let Hiccup touch him.

That’s when her best friend turns his head away with closed eyes and again holds out his hand to the Night Furry.

Leandra’s heart beat fast in her chest.

Hiccup is showing the Night Furry a lot of trust. What had happened between the two that he risk getting his hand eaten by the dragon?

Yet, nothing like this happens.

The dragon bridges the gap and presses his muzzle against Hiccup's hand.

They stay for two heartbeats like this.

The black-haired girl has the feeling that the whole world turned upside down.

A dragon and a Human….touching each other in a nonviolent way.

Showing each other trust and understanding.

Leandra feels tears in her eyes.

It touches her heart in a yearning way. She wishes she would find a connection like this.

Then the Night Furry stops gives a little snort and flies to the other side of the cove, leaving an amazed Hiccup behind.

“Hiccup.”, she calls out softly to him. The moment is over, but she would feel bad talking louder. It wouldn’t fit now.

Thank god, Hiccup hears her.

“Leandra.”

“So you made friends with the Night Furry?”

Hiccup turns a moment in the direction of the dragon.

“Yeah, I made friends with Toothless.”

Toothless why Toothless?

She asks him this and he waves her over to him. Hiccup tells her what he experienced today with Toothless and wow, Leandra is just speechless.

Who would have thought that a dragon could be this sensitive and intelligent?

How she wished she could have seen it, but something in her tells her that it was good that it was only between Hiccup and Toothless.

They seem to share a connection with each other.

The two best friends sit on a log together and watch how the sun slowly goes down.

“I need to be home.”, signs Leandra sad.

“I need to meet up with the Gobber and the other recruits. We are eating together.”, he signs too.

The girl opens her pouch and shows Hiccup the ointments she made.

“Do you think you could get to Toothless and we can try out one of these for his wound?”, she wonders.

“We could try but I don’t know-“

The boy gets interrupted by a familiar screech.

But it can be!

The only Night Furry here is Toothless!

Who is suddenly staring at the sky and jumping up and down happily.

Hiccup and Leandra look in the direction where Toothless looks. Both want to pinch themselves when they see what got the dragon so excited.

It’s another Night Furry!

A Night Furry, who is fast closing in on the cove and lands gracefully before Toothless.

Both dragons cooed, snuggled their muzzles together, and lick each other.

Leandra and Hiccup’s chins meet the floor.

The Spanish girl grips Hiccup’s shoulder and shakes him.

“Hiccup! Hiccup! There is another Night Fury! Oh my lord, what?!”

“That Night Furry is a bit smaller than Toothless.”, analyzes the boy fascinated. “But the wings and the tailfin are bigger. I think it has brownish-golden eyes. It’s also a lot darker than Toothless, wow.”

Seeing how the two dragons do practically the equivalent of kisses for humans Leandra adds: “I think, that’s Toothless mate. He or she must have been worried sick for him. I’m glad they found each other.”

“He or she?”

“We don’t judge, Hiccup. Love is Love. End of story.”

It’s then that the other Night Furry sees the two human teenagers and stands protectively before Toothless. It growls at them threatening, but before anything happens Toothless purrs at his mate and it seems to calm it down.

Now it looks with big brownish-golden eyes curious at Leandra and Hiccup.

“Okay, I totally believe that these two are mates.”, agrees Hiccup.

They do act like a couple. That’s something new to learn about Night Furries too.

Meanwhile, Leandra’s eyes are transfixed, at the beautiful eyes of Toothless mate. They are like molted gold.

She never saw eyes like this.

The Night Furry stares at her in the same intense way.

Something deep and profound is exchanged.

Leandra can’t explain it.

It’s like she found a missing part of her soul.

A soul who reflects her own.

Like bewitched she walks closer to the Night Furries.

“Lee?”, calls Hiccup confused to her, but is ignored.

Toothless also grumbles questions to his mate, who is walking up to the human female and gets ignored too.

The girl and the dragon stop a meter from each other. Still looking into the other eyes. Leandra titles her head and the Night Furry copies her. Then she smiles and the dragon tries to mimic her.

“Hello.”, Leandra whispers to the dragon. “You are the most beautiful dragon I ever saw.”

It’s like the dragon understood her because it lets out a pleased purr.

For a moment Leandra checks the gender of the dragon.

Ah, it’s a she.

Of course, only a girl could be so beautiful!

Like Hiccup had done with Toothless, Leandra turns away and holds her hand out.

She waits for three heartbeats when she feels something scaly and warm touch her palm. Leandra opens an eye and sees that the female Night Furry closed the gap between them.

They stay like this for another two heartbeats before the girl Night Furry gives her hand a lick and returns to Toothless’s side.

Her hand is wet with dragon saliva, yet Leandra couldn’t care less, this was the most amazing thing she ever experienced.

“Lee?”

“Starchaser.”, she just says to her best friend. “I will call her Starchaser because her eyes are bright as stars.”

It’s night and Leandra can’t sleep.

In the end, they couldn’t try the ointments on Toothless since the sun was nearly down and she needed to be home, and Hiccup needed to meet Gobber and the others.

She stares in the darkness at the hand that Starchaser had licked. Somehow she manages to bond with the most beautiful creature on earth and for the first time in her life Leandra feels the hole in her heart dimmer.

The girl feels like she meet her soulmate. Who would have thought that it would be a dragon?

How she wishes to be in the cove and learn more about Starchaser.

They only had one big important moment together, but she knows nothing about her.

Leandra wants to know anything about her Night Furry friend.

Well, it’s not like she is alone.

Determined she stands up from her bed. Sleep is for the weak. In the darkness, she dresses in her dress and kirtle and, like always, uses her window to escape from home.

First, she checked if Hiccup was in his house, but not finding him there, she goes to the blacksmith stall.

Her best friend is really there and seems to work on something.

She makes the special knock they both agreed on she uses when he works so Hiccup knows it’s Leandra.

You don’t want to spook a blacksmith while working.

Could end in a bad accident.

“Come in.”, tells her Hiccup.

Couriers she watches him working on…something.

“What’s that going to be?”, she wants to know.

“Gobber told us a dragon who loses his wings and tail is a downed dragon. A death one.”, explain Hiccup. “So I’m making a tailfin for Toothless so he can fly again.”

“That’s awesome, Hiccup. I’m sure it will make him happy and Starchaser too.”

“Do you want to help me?”

“Just tell me what do to, partner.”

And so the best friends work together on the tailfin for Toothless. They get done with it before the sun rises. Both agree to meet up before Dragon Training and when Leandra needs to go to Gothi to visit the two Night Furries.

After they slept a bit, it was time again to wake up, but Leandra feels this time different. She is more excited than tired, even if she probably only slept two hours tops.

Hiccup and her meet up and take a chest full of fish for each Night Furry with them. Of course, he also has the tailfin for Toothless and Leandra her ointments.

They arrive at the cove where Toothless and Starchaser seem already to be waiting for them.

“Hello, Toothless.”

“Hi, Starchaser.”

“We brought breakfast for your guys.”, explains Hiccup to the two curious Night Furries.

The teenagers kick open their chests so that the fish spills out of the ground.

“Okay, that's disgusting.”, says Hiccup matter of fact.

“Yuck!”, adds Leandra with a wrinkled nose.

Toothless and Starchaser approach, settling in to devour the feast.

“Uh..we've got some salmon, some nice Icelandic cod, and a whole smoked eel.”

Hiccup could say he wanted to poison them since both Night Furries reacted with horrific screeches as they see the smoked eel.

“Throw it away, throw it away!”, yells Leandra to her best friend.

“No, no, no! It's okay. Yeah, I don't like eel much either.”, reassures Hiccup the dragons, and the eel gets thrown in a random direction away from them.

Satisfied the two dragons begin again to eat.

Both best friends nod at each other.

They planned that Leandra should have the attention of the dragons on herself, while Hiccup tries to put the tailfin on Toothless.

“Eat up, you big cuties. Yes, that’s good. We only want the good stuff, right, right?”, Leandra cooes at them. “Yummy, yummy, fish for the two most beautiful dragons in the world. Yes, who is the best girl and best boy? It’s you two!”

Hiccup straps the prosthetic fin in place. The dragon tenses, slowly spreading his wings. The boy cinches the straps.

“There. Not too bad. It works.”, mumbles Hiccup pleased.

That’s when Toothless bolts!

Not only Hiccup is surprised and scarred a second later since he hangs for dear life on Toothless’s tail, but also Starchaser and Leandra watch the boys flying around the cave with big eyes.

“What the heck?”, shrieks Leandra.

This was so not the plan.

Starchaser grumbles, she seems to agree with her.

The little fly of the due stops as fast as it started and they land in the water.

While the females winces, Hiccup celebrates happily. Toothless shakes himself dry and wonders what had happen.

“Okay how about this one?”, asks Leandra and holding another ointment under Toothless and Starchaser’s nose.

It is a while later, still too earlier for Dragon Training and Leandra’s job. Hiccup is trying to dry himself in the morning sun, in the meantime, Leandra is trying with the Night Furries’ help to see which ointment could work for Toothless.

Till now, they reacted with disgust, growls, and hiccups at her ointments.

She hoped this one is a winner.

It isn’t since both let out big dragon sneezes.

Leandra signs sadly.

Only one ointment is left.

Starchaser sensing the distress from the girl she took a liking purrs at her and nuzzles her cheek. Even Toothless joins in.

“Aww, thank you two. You both are precious, you know that?”

Both Night Furries purr happily.

Hiccup can’t help but smile softly at the scene. It’s really adorable seeing Leandra interact with their dragon friends.

Also, her tanned skin and black hair seem to formally glow in the morning sun.

The boy frowns at his thoughts and shakes his head.

Why is he thinking about such things? That’s his best friend, it’s weird.

Besides, he likes Astrid. He always had.

“All right, last one.”, say’s Leandra and holds it out. “How about this?”

Again the dragons sniff at the ointment and this time…they only purr. They like the smell. It is really comforting and clean.

Leandra smiles.

“Then we have a winner! Okay, Toothless let’s try this out.”

And so Leandra smears the ointment on Toothless missing tail.

After waiting for a bit it seems to have no negativ effects on him.

Grinning Leandra turns to Hiccup and he gives her a thump up.

Together they are a step closer in helping Toothless to fly again.

The Night Furry won!

Give a warm welcome to our golden-eyed girl Starchaser, Toothless mate!

You know what that means ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Can you guess it? :D

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To Belong

She was the weird foreign girl, he was the most useless Viking in the history of Berk. Together they were just Leandra and Hiccup. Two best friends who searched for their place in the world. Would their search for it unite or separate them?

Chapter 1

Transfixed a young maiden with long wavy black hair stared out the window. She was in her room and could hear with clarity the battle cries of her neighbors and the screams of the dragons.

Just a normal night on Berk.

Was it absurd that she envies the dragons? Most people saw them as nuisances, but she wanted to fly like them.

Just away from Berk.

Away from a life she didn’t choose but had to live it. She sighed and put a bit of hair behind her ear.

Wallow in her misery wouldn’t help anyone, she needed to get out and do her job.

Gothi was counting on her.

It just was one of these nights where anything seemed too much.

She wonders sometimes if her best friend felt this hole in his chest too. He may be a born Viking, yet it was clear that in the eyes of the people of Berk and his own father, he was no Viking material.

They put him in the same spot as her the “weird foreign girl”.

A knock is heard on her room door and her stepmother, Sigrùn Jonnson, enters her sanctuary from the world.

Under her big belly with her future half-sibling in it, even the proud Viking woman has to gasp for air.

“You should rest.”, she says to her stepmother, before she can talk.

“And you should be out helping Gothi with the wounded, Leandra.”, reminds her Sigrùn.

“I was on my way.”

Not believing it the red-haired woman raises one eyebrow.

“Really? It looks more like you are daydreaming. I swerve to Odin Stoick’s boy has you infected with it.”

Angry Leandra stands up from her windowsill and grips her pouch, with her ointments and healing herbs in it, slinging it over her shoulder.

“We don’t talk about Hiccup! We only seem always to fight when he comes up and frankly it’s my free right to be friends with whom I want to be, comprender.”, she hisses.

Sigrùr raises her hands in a way to pacify her stepdaughter.

“All right, all right. I won’t say a thing. I will go back to bed, your brother is confusing my stomach for a ball. Don’t forget to greet your father.”

With that Sigrùr waddles away.

“It could be a girl.”, Leandra grumbles after her.

She doesn’t know if she was heard, but it was important to her to say this. Leandra knows how much her parents want a perfect Viking boy and not another little Spanish senorita like her from her father’s first marriage.

It all just sucks.

The black-haired girl goes down the stairs and sees her father stirring the fire in their fireplace.

“Papi.”, she calls over to him, already reaching for the door. “I’m off to help Gothi.”

“Hasta luego mi amor! And be careful out there.”

“Si!”

With that, she steps out and has to dodge already a Gronkel.

Ah yes, nothing better to start her work day!

“I’m sorry, really!”, Leandra whines at the old Viking woman and can barely dodge her walking stick.

Gothi shakes her head, scribbling down on the ground.

“That’s a bit mean, I know I should be here earlier, I was just distracted.”

More scribbles.

“No, Hiccup, hasn’t anything to do with it. It’s just one of these days.”

The old woman gives her a pitiful look and writes down.

“Yeah, you are right. It’s tough for me to find my place here.”, the black-haired girl signs. “But I like helping you, Gothi.”

She gets just a nod as answers and Gothi points out at the fighting Vikings.

“Yes, I will see if someone needs healing.”

With that Leandra runs into the fry, careful not to crash into a dragon, looking for Vikings who need healing and ones she needs to send to Gothi.

She may be "the weird foreigner", but her dear neighbors respect and trust in the healing wisdom she learned from Gothi.

The black-haired girl is handing out burn ointment to a few of the men when she sees Mister Svenson holding his right arm tight to his chest.

A quick check on it’s clear that it is broken.

“Mister Svenson, please wait here for me. I will stabilize the arm before you can go to Gothi.”, she asks him.

“All right, lass.”

With that, she runs to the blacksmith stall and calls out: “Gobber, Hiccup, I need some iron poles!”

It’s Gobber who greets her, hammering away on an anvil.

“Evening lass, full out on helping the men I see.”

She grins and waves at him. Leandra always liked Gobber. Since she can remember he had treated her just like a normal child, never making her feel like an outcast on Berk.

Speaking of outcasted, there was the second one of Berk and her dearest and best friend.

Hiccup has the poles she asked for in his hands, handing them to her.

“Here you are, Lee.”

“Thanks, Hic!”

The girl with black wavy hair and tan is my only and best friend Leandra. She is a year older than me and comes originally from a place called Spain. But since her father and she stranded on Berk 10 years ago and her dad fell in love with one of the village women they live here. She is like me on outcast since she isn’t a Viking, but she manages to become our village elder apprentice. Once I asked her if she wanted to be a healer in the future and she just told me she is doing this job so she doesn’t die of boredom. Yeah, Lee, isn’t the biggest fan of Berk. I hear her often mumbling about how she wants to go back to Spain to her grandmother.  

“All good with you?”, Leandra asks her best friend.

She knows how much he wants to be out there like the other teenagers and help out the grown-ups, but since he is so accident-prone he was basically banished into the blacksmith stall.

“Yeah, all good.”, he answers her.

“And about your little, you know.”, she pointedly looks in the direction of his new invention.

He gives her a small grin.

“Seems to be ready.”

Leandra nods.

“All right, if I get the chance I will join you in your plan, but to be on the save side, good luck, Hic.”

“Thanks, Lee!”

With a last wave, Leandra makes her way to Mister Svenson.

It’s really dumb luck that Leandra is near the blacksmith stall when she sees Hiccup racing out of it with his invention.

She was currently handing out again burnt ointment and nearly throws it in the face of Mrs. Ingerson.

“Here you go. Gotta go to Gothi, I’m all out!”, she lies and ignores the calls for her.

Her best friend needs her moral support!

She finds him on a cliff overlooking the smoking catapult, thanks to the dragon Hiccup so much wants to kill.

“Hiccup, I’m here!”

He turns happily smiling at her.

“Perfect, timing, Lee. Help me set it up?”

“You need to ask?”

Together the two teenagers crank several levers, unfolding and then cocking the bowed arms of his contraption. He drops a bola onto a chamber and then pivots the weapon on a gimbal head toward the dark sky.

Leandra steps back and listens, just like Hiccup for the familiar screech of the Night Furry, while she has her hands in a prayer position.

She hopes the Lord has mercy on Hiccp and gives him this change.         

Hiccup’s eye is pressed to the scope, hand poised on the trigger.

They hear the Night Fury approaching and Hiccup turns his aim to the defense tower.

It closes in for the final strike, completely camouflaged in the night.

“Come on. Give me something to shoot at, give me something to shoot at.”, mutters Hiccup to himself.

Leandra, still praying, mutters too: “Please my Lord, he needs it, please let him shoot it down!”

Boom! The tower topples. The blast of fire illuminates the dragon for a split second.

Hiccup pulls the trigger.

The flexed arms snap forward, springing the weapon off the ground. The bola disappears into the sky, followed by a whack and a screech.

Even if she prayed for it, Leandra can’t help it and her chin meets the floor.

Hiccup did it!

“Hic! You did it!”, she yells happily and hugs him from behind.

He is like a statue, till he realizes what he did.

“Oh I hit it! Yes, I hit it!”, he celebrates.

The boy turns around to hug his best friend better and the two jump around like two crazy kangaroos.

“Wuhu!”, shouts Leandra, so happy for Hiccup.

At least one of them would finally fit in!

“Did anybody see that?”, ask Hiccup exited.

It’s short-lived since when they turn around again the teenagers see a huge Monstrous Nightmare slithering up over the lip of the cliff.

“Except for you.”, Hiccup can’t help himself and deadpans at the dragon.

The black-haired girl grips his hands and drags him with her.

“Less talking, more running!”

“I know, I was just-“

“Hic, shut it and move these legs of yours!”

Both teens scream like children running through the Plaza, with the Nightmare fast on their heels.

Vikings scatter as Hiccup and Leandra dodge a near-fatal blast. The Nightmare's sticky, Napalm-like fire splashes up onto buildings, setting them alight.

“I swerve to Holy Mary, Hiccup, if we survive this, I’m going to kick your ass!”, shrieks Leandra.

“What did I do?! I didn’t tell the dragon to follow us!”

The boy makes them duck behind the last standing brazier, the only shelter available.

The Nightmare blasts it, spraying fire all around him.

The two best friends hug each other tight and Hiccup can hear how Leandra is praying to her god, eyes closed and shaking. He never wanted to risk his best friend’s life only to get the respect of his father and clan.

This so was not the plan!

But now it seemed that they both are toast.

With a gulp, Hiccup peers around the smoldering post. No sign of the Nightmare.

He turns back to find it leering at him, blocking their escape.

It takes a deep breath.

The boy turns himself and Leandra so around that his back is to the Nightmare and her to the brazier.

It was highly unlikely that they would survive the blast of the dragon, but if his maneuver could protect Lee even just a little bit, he would die happier.

Suddenly, Stoick leaps between them, tackling the Nightmare to the ground. They tumble and wrestle, resuming their earlier fight. The Nightmare tries to toast him, but only coughs up smoke.

“You're all out.”, informs Stoick the dragon.

He smashes the Nightmare repeatedly in the face, driving it away. It takes to the air and disappears.

Winded, Stoick turns to Hiccup and Leandra.

The girl has tear streaks going down her tan face, gripping the tunic of his son tight, while Hiccup hugs her too and pets her head to calm her down.

“Gracias a Dios!”, mumbles the girl relieved.

Stoick saved them from an early death!

That’s when the burnt brazier pole collapses, sending the massive iron basket crashing. It bounces down the hill, destroying as it goes and scattering the Vikings who were holding down the netted Nadders. The freed dragons escape with several sheep in tow.

Both Leandra and Hiccup made faces during the whole scene. It was kind of their fault.

“Sorry, dad.”

“I’m sorry, Mister Stoick.”

The escaped Nadders fly past with sheep in their clutches.

The raid is over.

The dragons have clearly won.

The murmuring crowd eyes Stoick, awaiting his response.

“Okay, but I hit a Night Fury.”, says Hiccup sheepish.

For a moment Stoick ignores his son to look at the young maiden beside him. The girl is still shaking and didn’t stop crying.

He gives her a little head pat and calls out to her father: “Gustavo, get your daughter.”

Leandra can’t even look that fast, as her papi takes her in his arms and Stoick grips Hiccup by the back scruff of his collar and hauls him away, fuming with embarrassment.

The girl knows what is going to happen and wants to step out of the embrace of her father, but he hugs her tighter.

“No mi amor you stay put, I nearly lost you, let your papi hold you.”

“B-But-“

“No, but!”

Meanwhile, Hiccup tries to talk to his father: “It's not like the last few times, Dad. I mean I really actually hit it. You guys were busy and I had a very clear shot. It went down, just off Raven Point. Let's get a search party out there, before it—“

“STOP! Just....stop.”, say’s Stoick.

He releases Hiccup. Everyone goes silent, staring expectantly. Leandra bites her lips. This will not end well for her best friend.

“Every time you step outside, disaster follows.”, Stoick nearly growls to his son. “Can you not see that I have bigger problems? Winter's almost here and I have an entire village to feed!”

Hiccup looks around. All eyes are upon him. Only Leandra’s eyes are friendly and worried for him. She is still crying.

Damn, he hates to make her cry.

Maybe that’s why he jokingly says: “Between you and me, the village could do with a little less feeding, don't ya think?”

A few rotund Vikings stir self-consciously. The black-haired girl can’t help to crack a smile.

“This isn't a joke, Hiccup! Why can't you follow the simplest orders?”

“Mister Stoick.”, calls Leandra out and sniffs her last tears away. “Please, Hiccup didn’t lie. I was with him when he shout down the Night Furry.”

“You are a good lass, Leandra, but this is between me and my son.”, reprimand her the chief.

Before she can say more her father commands practically: “Suficiente Leandra!”

So she shuts up and looks at the ground frowning.

“I can't stop myself.”, speaks Hiccup up and hopes so to get the nasty looks away from Leandra. She didn’t deserve them. She just helped him and was now probably scarred for life. “I see a dragon and I have to just... kill it, you know? It's who I am, Dad.”

“You are many things, Hiccup. But a dragon killer is not one of them.”

Autsch, this hurts!

Leandra looks at her best friend sad, while the other Vikings agree with Stoick.

“Get back to the house.”, wants Stoick from his son.

Gobber comes up and gives Hiccup a little slap on the back of his head.

“Make sure he gets there.”, Stoick tells Gobber. “I have his mess to clean up.”

Leandra wants to follow them, but her papi takes hold of her hand and leads them to their house.

“That was enough excitement for a night, young lady. We are going home!”

The black-haired maiden signs.

Oh, she will hear on earful when Sigrùr hears about all this.

Yeah!

Dictionary:

Comprender…. Understand

Papi….Dad

Hasta luego mi amor…. See you later my love

Gracias a Dios….Thank god

Suficiente Leandra….Enough Leandra

I don’t speak Spanish, so I used old google translator for it I hope it’s right!

Next

To Belong

She was the weird foreign girl, he was the most useless Viking in the history of Berk. Together they were just Leandra and Hiccup. Two best friends who searched for their place in the world. Would their search for it unite or separate them?

Chapter 5

“Well, we would have thought that the final test to decide who gets to kill the Monstrous Nightmare is between the Hofferson lass and Stoick’s boy.”, musses Sigrùn. “Aren’t you proud of your best friend, Leandra?”

The black-haired girl is with her thoughts else were. She is thinking about Starchaser, Toothless, and worrying about Hiccup.

Like her stepmother said today would decide who would kill the Monstrous Nightmare and since Hiccup and Astrid have been the best recruits it would be decided between them. Since this was Gothi duty, to choose the winner, she gave Leandra today free so she could watch with her parents the final test.

She did so not have a good feeling about this.

She hopes with all her heart that Astrid wins so Hiccup doesn’t have to find a way to not kill the Nightmare and at the same time, she doesn’t want that Astrid wins, because she would kill the Nightmare without hesitation.

Hiccup and her learnend what wonderful creatures the dragons actually were and non of them deserved to be killed just for sports.

What should they do?

What could they do?

After her father calls her name for the fifth time, she hears him.

The black-haired girl turns blinking to her parents.

Sigrùn holds with a hand her father’s arm, while Leandra walks beside them to the Kill Ring.

“What papi?”

“Sigrùn asked you if you are proud of Hiccup.”

The familiar anger comes up.

“I was always proud of him.”, she nearly growls. “Even before he became a prodigy in Dragon Training. Not my fault no one of you could see or wanted to see it.”

Sigrùn gasps and her father says her name in warning.

“Don’t make a scene young lady! You know how things are on Berk, accept it.”

“I really thought being Gothi’s apprentice would help her.”, mumbles Sigrùn to her father. “But she still seems to think in your old Spanish way.”

“She is a teenager, dear, she just wants to rebel.”

Leandra bits her tongue and can taste the cobber of the blood flowing in her mouth.

Oh she wishes she could make a scene, her father and stepmother deserve some cold hard facts, but they are now on the Kill Ring and she also doesn’t want to stress out Sigrùn, she is still pregnant.

You don’t mess with a pregnant lady.

The little family of three finds a good spot to watch the final test, while Leandra prays under her breath.

She still doesn’t know for what exactly, just the best way that no one, human or dragon gets hurt.

Her prayers kinda get answers.

Astrid was ready to kill the Gronkel to prove that she can kill the Nightmare, but Hiccup used before her his scratching technique to calm down the Gronkel.

That Astrid is not amused is an understatement.

Leandra wrinkles her nose at the insults Astrid screams at Hiccup. How can he crush on someone who clearly doesn’t think positively in any way of him?

Is he a masochist or what?

But this all gets forgotten when Gothi decides that Hiccup gets to kill the Monstrous Nightmare.

The Spanish girl feels like she is underwater.

She hears the cheers of the crowd muffled.

She sees how Hiccup gets hoisted up in the air misty.

Oh no…

Oh no…

Oh no, no, no, no!

This bad, this is so bad!

Without a word, she runs to Hiccup and embraces him tight before the whole village.

Should they think whatever they wanted, they needed to find a solution and fast.

“Hic.”, she hisses in his ear. “What are we going do to? What about Starchaser and Toothless?”

He hugs her back and whispers: “I’m…I’m leaving, that’s the only way! I can’t kill the dragon.”

“I will come with you.”, she doesn’t hesitate, if he is gone nothing holds her more on Berk. “We can go to my Abuela, she will give us shelter.”

She doesn’t wait for his response and runs to her home with all her might.

She needs to pack fast.

Leandra enters the secret cove with her fully packed basket. She got in and out of the house without her parents seeing her.

This was good.

“Hic, you here?”, she calls out.

She sees a hand behind a rock waving her over.

“I’m here, Lee.”

When she reaches him, she sees the annoying look on his face. He also has a fully packed basket and his harness on.

“You don’t have to come with me.”, he tells her. “I’m the one who has to leave. You should stay here with your family. You are going to be a big sister in a few weeks.”

She snorts.

“Hiccup, I don’t know if you noted it, but no one cares for me on this miserable rock. Father and Sigrùn are going to have their perfect little Viking family and the village doesn’t take note of me. You are the only one who cares for me. Without you here…I will die inside, I swear.”

His eyes are wide, with disbelief, like he can’t comprehend that he is so important to her.

That’s why she hugs him tight and tries to pour any once of love she has for this boy into it.

“Hic, you are my best and dearest friend, without you on my side, I would feel I lost an arm or a leg.”, she whispers to him. “Also I don’t think Starchaser would like to be separated from Toothless and Toothless neither from her.”

Here she feels how he lets out a little laugh. She can feel how he wants to hug her back, but a voice stops them both in their tracks: “Aren’t you two just cute?”

They spring apart and see…

“Astrid?!”

The girl in question is sitting on the rock right in front of them, sharpening her axe.

“Aggh! What the—“

“What are you doing here, Hofferson?!”, growls Leandra angrily.

Miss perfect Viking girl doesn’t belong in their cove!

...

Where there Night Furries are!

Oh no!

She needs to leave before she sees them!

Astrid hops off the rock and backs them down, spinning her axe threateningly.

“I’m just here to ask your boyfriend some questions, Alvarez.”

“I’m not her boyfriend/He is not my boyfriend.”

“Whatever.”, the blond rolls her eyes. “I want to know what's going on. No one just gets as good as you do. Especially you. Start talking! Are you training with someone? With Alvarez?”

“Hofferson, why don’t you just accept that someone is better than you? Or do you think you are some kind of Valkyrie who can’t be bested? Grow up!”, shoots Leandra back.

“Lee!”

“Don’t Lee-me, Hic!”

“Your lover quarrel is getting annoying.”, tells them Astrid and grabs Hiccup by his odd-looking harness. “And what the heck is this?”

“I know this looks really bad, but you see...this is, uh...”, tries Hiccup to find the words.

They hear a rustle coming from the other side of the cove. Astrid drops Hiccup to the ground and sets off to investigate.

Leandra steps before Astrid to stop her in her tracks.

“What’s wrong Hofferson, can’t accept the truth?”

Astrid just pushes her to the ground like she weighs nothing. Leandra hisses at the stones that trill itself in her back.

“Out of my way, Alvarez.”

“You're right! You're right.”, now Hiccup tries his luck to stop the blond Viking girl. “I'm through with the lies. I've been making... outfits. So you got me. It's time everyone knew. Drag me back. Go ahead. Here we go.”

He puts her hand back on his harness, getting her to 'drag him back.' Astrid bends Hiccup’s hand backward, driving him down, beside Leandra.

“AAAAUUGGGHHH! Why would you do that?!”

“That's for the lies.”

Astrid pounces the hilt of her axe off of Hiccup's and Leandra’s laid-out bodies.

“And THAT'S for everything else.”

Hiccup's yelp and Leandra’s cry are answered with two growls, coming from the other side of the cove. Astrid looks up to see two Night Furries!

Toothless and Starchaser pounces toward them, snarling.

Hiccup and Leandra can stand up, only to get tackled back into the ground by Astrid.

“Get down! Run! Run!”, she commands them.

The Viking girl pulls her axe, ready to take on Toothless and Starchaser.

“NO!”, scream Hiccup and Leandra together.

While Leandra runs up to the Night Furries, to calm them down, Hiccup knocks Astrid's cocked axe to the ground, out of reach, then he helps Leandra to stop Toothless and Starchaser short of crushing Astrid.

“No. It's okay! It's okay...”, reassure Hiccup Toothless.

“Anything is all right. See I don’t have a scratch.”, tells Leandra Starchaser.

“She's a friend.”, say’s Hiccup to both Night Furries.

Leandra can’t help herself and snorts with the dragons.

“Yeah, right..”

“Lee…”

The boy turns to Astrid and explains: “You scared them.”

“I scared them!?”

Hiccup makes a “be quiet” motion.

“Who are they?”

“Astrid, Toothless, and Starchaser. Toothless and Starchaser, Astrid.”

“They are so not charmed to meet you!”, adds Leandra dry and pets her growling dragon.

Astrid backs away, eyeing Hiccup, Leandra, Toothless, and Starchaser together with pure disgust. She turns and runs for the village.

“We're dead.”, deadpans Hiccup.

Satisfied with Astrid's departure, Toothless and Starchaser turn away. Leandra flicks her long black hair and turns to their baskets.

“Where do you think you're going?”, asked Hiccup the Night Furries and then turns to Leandra who picked up her basket. “And what are you doing?”

“If I remember right, we wanted to leave stupid Berk. Just getting my stuff.”

“Lee, you can’t be serious. Astrid is going to tell everybody about Toothless and Starchaser!”

“And? It’s not like we stay here. Let her blab about it all she wants. No one is seeing us again.”

From Hiccup comes only silence.

Frowning Leandra turns to her best friend and sees the fight in him.

“Hic, Hiccup, please no! Let us just go! What has Berk ever done to us besides making us feel miserable? We will be much happier in Spain with my Abuela or we can even see the whole world! Think about it, we will be free finally!”

The boy looks at the ground and makes a fist. He needs to make a decision now.

“I can’t believe he wants to change Astrid mind!”, shouts Leandra to Starchaser.

Both females stayed behind, while Hiccup would try his crazy plan.

Leandra doesn’t get it.

They were so close to true freedom.

To find a place where they both and their dragons could be accepted.

But no, Hiccup’s stupid crush got in the way and makes him actually think he can change the mind of Miss perfect Viking-Girl!

Frustrated Leandra kicks a stone into the pool and then cuddles up to Starchaser.

Her dragon coos and nuzzles her softly, trying to ease the pain in her heart.

The black-haired girl sniffles, tears streaming down her face.

How could she ever think that Hiccup would choose her over Astrid?

No one would choose her over Astrid.

Not here on Berk.

But…but she had hoped her best friend would be different. That if it really would be one day her or Astrid, he would choose their bond.

Their bond of outcastes, of people who understood each other, who shared anything with each other, who accepted the other with all their being.

Hah, figures, he wouldn’t think with his heart but with something else.

“Stupid Astrid, stupid Berk, stupid Hiccup!”, she cries into Starchaser’s shoulder.

Her Night Furry crooned at her, hugging her with one of her wings. How the dragon wished she could take the pain away from her human heart. Sadly she couldn’t, she could only hold her, and be there for her.

The sun had already sunk, when Toothless and Hiccup with Astrid returned to the cove.

Leandra feels kind of void after she cried so much. All seems so senseless, yet she registers that Hiccup did somehow convince Astrid not to blab about Starchaser and Toothless if she rides with him Toothless.

Seeing them so close together makes the black-haired girl feel so sick. She never experienced this before. What’s up with that?

It’s like they talked about it, Leandra and Starchaser stay cuddled up and watch what is going to happen before them.

Toothless lands in the cove and they can finally hear what Astrid is talking about: “No, no, it totally makes sense. It's like a giant beehive. They're the workers... and that's their queen. It controls them.”

She leaps off of Toothless and runs toward the village.

The Viking girl wants to go straight to Stoick, but Hiccup halts her. Saying they have to think this through because Toothless and Starchaser could get killed. Astrid is just shocked telling him they found the Nest, the Dragon Nest, what the Viking searched for since for sailed there and he wants to be still about it because of his pet dragon.

Hiccup’s firm yes amazes Astrid.

She gives in and asks him what they should do, Hiccup wants time till tomorrow.

Then Astrid punches Hiccup in the arm.

“That's for kidnapping me.”

Hiccup looks to Toothless for support. Toothless, who is drinking some water from the pool, snorts, dismissive.

Astrid grabs him. He braces for another hit.

She kisses Hiccup on the cheek.

It likes in slow motion for Leandra. She sits up from her cuddle position with Starchaser. A lonely tear falls down her cheek, her heart feels like someone pierced it with a rusty iron pole.

Why is she feeling like this?

“That's for, everything else.”

In the awkward wake of the moment, Astrid hurries off leaving Hiccup rubbing his cheek, stunned. Toothless hobbles up, eyeing him.

“What are you looking at?”, Hiccup grumbles to his dragon and turns away.

That’s when he sees Starchaser and Leandra.

Starchaser…she is actually looking at him like she wants to bite his head off. Her eyes are slits and she is showing him his teeth.

Leandra…are eyes are red and puffy. Tear streaks are clearly on her cheeks. His best friend seems defeated.

A bad feeling creeps up on the Viking boy. What happened to make his friend and her dragon look like this?

He wants to ask, yet Leandra is faster.

She walks over to him, now her red teary eyes are full of anger, her trusted Night Furry behind her, giving her silhouette wings like she is some kind of avenging angel.

Beautiful and deathly.

Toothless croons confused at his mate and Starchaser barks at him! Hiccup is shocked, normal the two Night Furries are a heart and a soul, they never seemed to fight, yet Starchaser barked at Toothless.

The male dragon croons confused back and looks between the two humans. Starchaser nods and then growls at Hiccup.

The boy is reminded of the day he and Leandra set Toothless free, only Starchaser looks like she is ready to plasma blast him.

But why?

He can’t think more, since Leandra stands now before him: “Well, well, look who is back? Romeo here seemed to have changed the mind of Viking-Juliette and even got a kiss. You must feel so great right now!”

“Lee what-“

“I wonder what you did.”, musses Leandra crossing her arms and cocking a hip out. “One magical dragon ride and suddenly she likes you! Wow, Hiccup, how great! And here I thought she thought you were a cheater, for taking her glory in dragon training and a Son of Halftroll rat eating something and other things the likes she yelled at you at the Kill Ring today. But I guess she must have liked you always because no one changes their mind that fast just because you flew with them on a dragon!”

“Lee why are you saying these things?!”, wonders Hiccup.

Leandra never was like this to him!

He sees how new tears spring in her eyes and the urge to hug her and to ask her what is really wrong is so strong.

“Oh just thinking at loud Hiccup. I’m so happy for you! You will have your perfect Viking bride and have with her two wonderful children, a girl, and a boy.”, she snaps her fingers. “I think Zephyr and Nuffink have a nice ring!”

“Leandra, stop!”, he shouts at her and grips her by her arms. “What’s up with you? This isn’t you! Why do you care so much that Astrid k-kissed me? You know I like her. You should be happy for me!”

“You choose HER over ME!”, she screams loud, no she wails it with tears that flow down her cheeks.

Hiccup is speechless and the grip on Leandra’s arms lose. She steps back from him to Starchaser, who is purring in comfort.

She hugs the neck of her dragon and repeats it: “You choose Astrid over me. Me, your best friend in the world. Me, who was always by your side. Me, who always liked you the way you were. Me, who didn’t need to change her mind about you, because there is nothing about you that’s wrong.”

The brunette stares at his best friend with wide eyes. Is he hearing right?

“I thought you were different from them.”, she hisses. “That you would choose me over them as I would, but you didn’t. You ARE a Viking. I always saw you, but you didn’t see me.”

For a moment it was completely still between them. In Hiccup brain and heart is chaos, and he doesn’t know how to handle the situation.

“Lee I-“

“Save your words, they mean nothing anymore. You took your choice, I will take me.”

With that, she swings herself on Starchaser’s back. The dragon seems to coo apologetically to her mate, who coos back at her.

Then the girls are off into the sky, flying towards the full moon.

Hiccup and Toothless just look helpless as they fly away.

Well, Toothless nudges Hiccup in a way that says let’s go get them, yet Hiccup can’t move.

His hands turn into fists.

A single tear falls down his cheek.

Did…did he make the wrong choice?

No…no Astrid saw reason, he doesn’t get where this hatred for his crush comes from Leandra, she never had liked her, yes, but this was new.

“They will be back Toothless.”, he says to his dragon friend, petting his snout. “Let’s give them time to cool down.”

With a last pat, Hiccup makes his way home.

Never seeing how Toothless looks in the direction of the two baskets.

One is missing.

The dragon looks sad up into the sky, but he can’t blame his mate.

Leandra was like her hatchling.

They had tried having babies, but it just never worked out.

So no wonder Starchaser was so affectionate with Leandra.

And would follow her where ever she would go.

Toothless croons sad and defeated.

He wonders if he will see Starchaser and Leandra ever again.

I’m not crying you are crying T.T

This hurt to write, but it needed to be written.

For all of you, who like me, always thought Hiccup should just leave Berk with Toothless, I made a brand new fanfiction with it.

Of course, Leandra and Starchaser are with them.

It’s called: Together, we map the world.

Our quartet will journey the world, meet new people, see new places, find new dragons and fight against new bad guys.

It will also crossover with different franchisees, so be prepared.

It’s going to be a wild ride. :D

Next

Making Waves

You are a young mermaid, not ready for your adult responsibility when you find a secret underwater tunnel that leads to a secret cove. You couldn’t imagine how your life was going to change because of it. HiccupXMermaid!Reader

Chapter 4: Growing closer

Tight your little hand was held by your mother. She was making sure you didn’t get lost.

With your free hand, you scratched the collar of your dress. You weren’t used to clothes.

It was so itchy!

Your father laughs and pats your head.

You grin up at him.

Your little family is one of many in this ocean of land-dwellers. No one would suspect anything.

With big eyes you let your parents lead you through the festive land dweller home.

There was food, music, and games!

Things you have never seen. It was so different than when your people celebrate important dates.

Children run around laughing. Men cheery drunk many cups of ale. Women talked, and gossiped with each other.

Young men asked young women to dance with them at the plaza in an enchanting circle, where they switched partners, twirling around and finding each other again.

Laughing you pointed at it and your father got the hit.

He took you in his arms, twirling you around.

You giggled happily and heard how your mother was clapping in tune with the music for you both.

You could see that some land dweller, mostly older women, watched you and your father dancing away, cooing at you two.

You did blush a bit, but you wouldn’t stop.

Your father picked you up and throw you high up. You heard the worried gasp of the land dwellers, but you were used to and had faith in your father.

He caught you, putting you down on the floor.

The music got more energetic.

You gripped one of each hand of your parents so that you three could dance together.

It was so much fun to get twirled around by your mother and your father.

It was heartwarming seeing how they danced with each other, emotions you didn’t understand in their eyes, yet you wanted that someone looked one day at you this way.

This look was so amazing.

With a last big twirl the song ended, you laughed gleefully and your parents took you in their embrace.

That’s when you saw him.

He was all alone in a corner of the plaza, like a lost little lamb.

He looked at you with big green eyes, as if you were something otherwordly. You didn’t know why you blushed.

You saw how he seemed to give himself a pep talk and walked slowly up to you…

Abruptly you awoke from your dream or more from the memory and looked confused around.

Last night you decide to sleep underwater, even if Toothless was an amazing cuddle partner, you had missed the lull of the water, so you slept on the ground of the pool in the hidden cove.

You were enjoying your dream, remembering your old land dweller friend, as two big splashes woke you up.

Finally, you saw that Hiccup and Toothless seemed to have taken a dive.

But why was Hiccup cheering like a maniac?

Determined to get the answer you swim up and break the surface beside Hiccup.

“Good morning, Hiccup. You seem really enthusiastic, what’s up?”

Grinning he turns to you and shakes his wet brown locks from his forehead.

“Hey [Y/N]! Good morning to you too I was wondering where you were.”, he greets you, his grin really bordering on maniac.

“Mermaid, did you forget? I’m more used to sleeping underwater.”, you raise an eyebrow at him and turn to Toothless.

The dragon is on land and is shaking himself dry like a big dog.

Wait for a second, what was that?!

“Hiccup, what is this on Toothless tail?”, you ask shocked.

It looks like a tailfin, but it’s impossible. It can’t just grow back!

“That my dear friend is my newest invention.”, he tells you proudly. “I understood that without his tailfin intact Toothless can never fly again, so I made him an artificial one.”

Here Toothless snorts really loud and seems to shake his head at Hiccup.

“Yeah I know, Toothless, it wasn’t that good. But I will work on it till I get it right! You will fly again I promise.”

You get all mushy inside.

How sweet of Hiccup to want to help Toothless.

“You are a good man.”, you tell him proudly.

Here he grins sheepishly and rubs his neck.

“Well, it is actually my fault that he is like that…”

…What?!

With an ice-cold voice you demand to know what he means by that and he tells you that he was the one who shoot down Toothless with one of his inventions!

You know what do to!

With your fishtail, you send a huge wave in his face, which nearly drowns him and makes Toothless laugh a dragon laugh.

“Come on [Y/N], I said sorry a 100 times, even Toothless isn’t angry at me anymore.”. Hiccup whines at you.

You just scoff and cuddle closer to Toothless, who has one of his wings wrapped around your form.

Maybe you are been petty, Hiccup is doing anything to right his wrong, just your anger is still bigger. You still remember with clarity how Toothless has suffered under his wound till you healed him up.

“All right.”, signs Hiccup. “I brought something for you too, I will just leave it here.”

This perks you up.

“You have something for me?”, you repeated and even Toothless grumbled interested.

Hiccup grins a little and hands you a big parcel.

You look at it confused.

“The big fur is a blanket, so you don’t freeze if you sleep above ground.”, he tells you, while you unpack it.

A pretty dress in your favorite color, undergarments, and shoes come out.

You blink a few times.

Then you give him a grin.

“It bothers you so much that I’m naked that you got me clothes, I’m right?”

He splutters an excuse, but his red cheeks are a dead giveaway.

“All right, all right. I will wear it. There is just a problem.”, you tell him gleefully, excited to see how he reacts.

“W-What?”

“I don’t know how to dress in it. You need to help me.”

Hiccup turns formally into a statue. Just his gapping mouth and his red cheeks are any indications that he is still in the realm of the living.

You and Toothless break out in laughter. For that Hiccup gives you both a death stare.

But it seems his discomfort with seeing you all the time naked is higher than helping you dress because he tells you to stand up.

Grinning cheekily you do it.

“And now?”, you ask with a wink.

 The young man huffs at you and picks up the undergarments.

“First this!”

Oho, seems like someone wants to be all tough. You just can’t and giggle even more. He looks at you annoyed.

Putting the undergarments on is an experience.

Feeling his callous hands on your skin gives you goosebumps and lets your mind thrift to places where you probably shouldn’t go.

Like how they would feel in your most sensitive place.

You fight off your lust, while Hiccup helps you put on the dress.

Okay, now you feel like a toddler.

After the shoes are in their place, you playfully pick up the skirt of your dress and twirl around.

You admit you feel beautiful wearing it.

Nonetheless, you ask: “So how do I look?”

The way Hiccup stares at you and gulps, make the butterflies in your stomach fly wild. This look…you have seen it before, you can’t just put your finger on it.

“You look amazing.”, Hiccup coughs shyly. His eyes look at the ground and a cute blush is on his cheeks. “The color suits you well.”

“You have seen me butt naked, but me dressed get’s you all bothered. You are a cutie pie, you know?”, you can’t help but tease him a bit.

For that, you get again an annoyed look.

You just giggle.

The next day you watch amused at how Hiccup chases Toothless around the coven.

He had made a saddle and harness so he could help Toothless fly. To say the dragon wasn’t impressed with his idea was an understatement.

“[Y/N], please help me!”, Hiccup formally whines at you.

 With a laugh, you help him to catch the running dragon.

“That a good boy.”, you coo at Toothless, giving him pats, while Hiccup puts the saddle on him. “Who is the most handsome boy? Yes, it’s you!”

Toothless gives you for this a big dragon smooch.

You give his snout a kiss back.

You miss how heartful Hiccup looks at you.

Toothless and Hiccup are trying out to fly together. You are in your mermaid form in the water watching them.

The tail breaks free sending Hiccup flying.

“Hiccup!”, you shout worried. “Toothless!”

Thank god for the two land in the water.

You swim up to them to check if they are okay.

“Okay, I need something that doesn’t make me fly off this easily.”, Hiccup mumbles to himself, while you look for injuries.

“I have something for you.”

You are petting Toothless and grin up to him.

“Another gift? You spoil me, Hiccup!”

He turns red, handing you a book.

You look at it fascinated.

“If you are ever bored, you can read the book. It’s one of my favorites.”, he explains to you.

“That’s very sweet of you.”, you tell him touched. “There is just one problem.”

“Huh?”

“I can’t read your language.”

Hiccup is still for a second, blinking with wide eyes, till he announces: “Well then I have to teach you how to read and write.”

Thus your first lesson starts.

You laugh out loud seeing how blissful Toothless is rolling around in the tall grass. The dragon writhes on his back, tongue wagging, in complete bliss.

Hiccup picks up a bit of the dragon nip and gets a mischief idea.

Later, before he has to go to Dragon Training, you both sit together leaning on Toothless in the cove, reading together.

Well, Hiccup reads and tries to teach you.

You follow his finger moving over the writing word, reading out loud with him.

Slowly you get a grasp on the language of the Vikings.

Like Hiccup has taught you, you write your own name on the ground of the cove.

Meanwhile, Hiccup rubs Toothless behind the ear, causing him to relax and fall over.

You both stare at each other and then at the purring dragon.

You laugh together.

You feel your heart hammering in your chest.

These days with Hiccup and Toothless have been so far the best days of your life.

You didn’t know, but Hiccup thought the same about you and Toothless.

“You are so mean.”, you tell Hiccup giggling.

With his hammer, he has created a little light spot which Toothless chases around the coven like a big kitty cat.

He just winks at you, which makes you turn shy and he blushes red after he realized what he has done.

You both look down at the ground, small smiles on your faces.

Hiccup straps a newly designed harness onto Toothless. With Toothless tied to a nearby post with a rope. Hiccup rides him in the air while stationary. Toothless looks like a giant kite tied to a tree stump.

This harness seems to work.

You look up from your book and smile at them.

They are slowly getting there.

The rope breaks and the pair crashes into a tree.

Worried you call out to them and look for injuries.

That’s when Hiccup sees that the harness has become jacked.

“Oh, great.”, he groans.

“Oh dear, what now?”, you ask him.

Hiccup looks from you to Toothless.

“Well, you both ever visited a Viking village?”

Toothless and you stare at him.

“This is crazy!”, you mumbled as you search in the Blacksmith's stall for the tool Hiccup asked you.

Toothless is with you in there, while Hiccup is out, playing guard.

Suddenly you hear a feminine voice calling out to Hiccup.

Both talk really awkward to each other or better this Astrid is accusing Hiccup of being weirder than usual.

You turn angry hearing that.

Who is this girl and who the hell does she think she is?

You find the tool the same moment Toothless sees the sheep.

“Toothless, no!”, you hiss at him.

Too late then Hiccup gets pulled through the shutters.

You sit behind Hiccup holding on tight as you three make it like a tree and escape from this Astrid.

At least you got the tool and can separate Hiccup and Toothless in the safety of the cove.

What crazy days you have lived with them!

Next

The Queens Gambit: The Story

The most powerful piece in chess is the queen.

When this piece joins the game of Duel Monsters anything will change.

With two dragon sisters, a magician and her descendant, the queen will take her rightful place.

As it should have been.

8th Millenniums Items

Reborn!Kisara

Reborn!Mana

Queen!OC

QueenReborn!Oc

RedEyesBlackDragon!OC

Pairings:

Atem/Yami YuugiXOC

Yuugi MutoXOC

Seto KaibaXReborn!Kisara

Anzu MazakiXReborn!Mana

Shout out to my dear friend Light guardian35 once again for helping me tackle the writers block I had. Please read her stuff, you find her on Quotev and AO3. Also, I want to recommend you fanfic that I finished reading. It’s just part one of six stories but I rather enjoyed it, so give it a go. It’s The Coming of Shadows from DemonSessama.

Here is the link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41161380/chapters/103182777

Now I wish you all a good read with chapter 6! :D

Chapter 6: Welcome to Duelist Kingdom!

I used again a mix of the Japanese and English dub hope it's okay ^^

Redone: 30/08/24

The next morning we find Yuugi and his friends and Sehrazat and her friends all together sitting at the grand dining table Sehrazat and Kihana have in their doppel bedroom cabin.

After a good night’s sleep, our heroes are ready to tackle whatever Pegasus would throw at them in the Duelist Kingdom.

But first, breakfast!

Like yesterday evening, the girls just ordered the whole card again, only this time with breakfast food.

The clattering of tableware and laughter is heard.

Jounouchi and Honda had the fullest plates. It seemed they had a contest about who could eat the most and the fastest.

Anzu could only shake her head at them and turned back to Maja. The two girls had discovered that both of them liked to dance. Maja even took a course on belly dancing! Even if Anzu wanted to make a career out of that, it was nice to talk about it with someone who understood the subject.

Little Sadiye enjoyed her tower of chocolate chip pancakes and would encourage Jounouchi and Honda to eat more since she found it funny how the boys ate like pigs.

Sehrazat and Kihana were still full from the amount of food they ate yesterday evening, so they ate just a bowl of cornflakes each.

Yugi was the only one who apparently had finished eating.

He had taken out his five Exodia cards and was frowning at them.

On his left side sat Sehrazat, who saw this. She finished drinking her glass of orange juice.

“Something wrong, Yugi-Kun?”, she asked him worried.

“Even if you and Joey saved my Exodia cards, the ocean’s salty water seems to have damaged them pretty well.”, he told her with a sign and put the cards away. “I don’t know if the card reader will even register them.”

“So you mean, you can’t probably play them?”

“Seems like it. And trying them out during a duel is way too risky.”

Sad for him Sehrazat put a hand on his shoulder.

“I’m sorry, Yugi-Kun.”

“No need to be Sehrazat-Chan. It’s not your fault or Joey’s. Only Haga’s.”

He turned to face her to give her a reassuring smile. Both got lost in the beautiful eyes of the other and anything else seemed to vanish.

Kihana, who was drinking coffee, hid her smile in her cup. Damn, if these two weren’t adorable. They could give someone diabetes.

The two short duellists looked away from each other, with a bashful expression, but with a little smile on their lips. This connection they felt with each other… seemed to get stronger each time they interacted.

Not that one of them is complaining.

This feeling…they didn’t want it to stop.

It was new and exciting, yet so familiar and comforting.

“You will have to battle then without Exodia for your grandpa’s soul.”, said Sehrazat. “But I know you will manage Yugi-Kun, you are an extraordinary Duelist.”

Yugi felt his heart beat faster than it ever did. She had complimented him before on his duelling skills, yet it still made him want to sign dreamily that such a beautiful and sweet girl, who was such a brilliant duellist, thought this of him.

He never had experienced that.

She was Europe Champion which put her in a different league altogether.

And still, she made him sound like he was equal to her.

He wanted to tell her, how incredible she was, but his shyness prevented him from forming the necessary words.

It was then that he felt this strong voice in his head, the voice that normally comes out to help him in duels, encouraging him to take the leap.

His hand trembled so badly, yet he managed to reach out and put a bit of Sehrazat’s pretty and smooth blue hair behind her ear. Surprised she turned to him with wide sparkling orange eyes.

“You are the one who is extraordinary.”, he told her softly.

Yugi self did not know for sure if he was only referring to her duelling skills or if there was more…it just felt right to say it.

He felt it deep in his heart.

Sehrazat eyes seemed to fill with tears and got a soft edge around them.

Our two lovebirds didn’t note how currently anyone else was looking at them, stopping what they were doing.

Kihana and Sadiye seemed to have a quiet fangirl moment, Joey and Honda were nodding in approval, and Maja was softly cooing at them.

And Anzu?

Well, she was surprised for one. She had never seen Yugi interact with a girl like this. The second was that jealousy was raising its ugly head.

It… wasn’t fair…she liked Yugi too, but he had never looked at her like he looked at Sehrazat right now.

Like she was a goddess and he was her devoted follower.

Strangely, Sehrazat looked at him the same way.

It just…no it wasn’t supposed to be like this…!

The brunette opened her mouth. She needed to say something, anything, stopping this whatever that was!

There she felt how a warm hand touched her cheek and turned her head back to Maja.

The other brunette had a raised eyebrow and formally purred: “Now, now, Anzu-Chan, we were talking so nicely together. Let them be and concentrate on me, my beautiful ballerina.”

Anzu formally felt how the red rose in her cheeks and how she quite burned.

What?!

“Is Maja flirting with Anzu?”, said Joey to Honda loud enough so she could hear it too.

She had a similar thought running through her head.

“Seems like it, bro.”, answered Honda fascinated like an explorer who had found a lost civilization.

“That’s because she did.”, answered Sadiye in her deadpan tone. “She is pan.”

“Pancake?”, wonders Joey.

“Pansexual, you ignorant slu-“

“Sadiye Kisara Schariq, don’t you dare to end this sentence!”

“But he is being one, big sister!”

“I don’t care!”

This started a discussion between the sisters about when someone should curse like that, and at what age it was okay, while Joey and Honda watched on like they saw an interesting Ping-Pong match.

Maja took the chance to roll a lock of Anzu’s hair around her finger and wink at her, which made Anzu only blush worse.

The loud discussion brought Yuugi and Sehrazat out of their own zone. Both were more than confused seeing how the Schariq sisters nearly screamed at each other, Maja clearly making a move on a blushing Anzu, and Joey and Honda seemed like to enjoy a good TV show.

They looked at each other and laughed a bit embarrassed for their friends.

/*/

After they finished their breakfast and refreshed themselves our group of friends decided to get out of the cabin and wait on the main deck for their arrival at Duelist Kingdom.

It was a warm and sunny day, which was nice.

They enjoyed the fresh sea salt air and the warm rays of the sun on their skin.

Then after a while, it became visible.

The island is known as Duelist Kingdom.

Our group of eight all looked at it.

“Man, this Duelist Kingdom looks like a pretty big place, Yugi and Sehra.”, said Joey to them. “Finding your grandpa's and ma’s soul is not going to be easy.”

“Well, we gotta start somewhere.”, answered Yuugi simply.

“If I have to turn every rock around, I will do it. I’m not going without my mama.”, added Sehrazat.

“That’s the spirit, child of mine.”, told her Afya proudly.

While she was following the others to go to the gangplank which would make them step on the soil of the Duelist Kingdom, she talked with her Yami.

“Morning, Gran-Gran. Finally woke up?”

“Mmh, I see you all full of energy.”, noted Afya. “We will need all our powers to defeat Pegasus.”

“How hard do you think this is going to be?”

“I bet all my swords that Pegasus will do anything in his power to make this trip for us a living hell.”

“Even if he wants my and Yugi’s Millennium Items?”

“Men like Pegasus like to play with their prey before they kill it.”

Sehrazat made a face at the words of her ancestor.

Meanwhile, she followed Kihana down the gangplank.

Oh finally back on land! It was awesome.

Our group of eight huddled together and Sehrazat noted that Honda seemed out of breath. What did she miss while she talked with Afya?

“My heart almost stopped.”, panted the brunette boy.

“Way to play it cool, Honda.”, complimented Anzu sarcastically. “That wasn't suspicious at all.”

“Yeah, we totally didn’t look like we were trespassing.”, agreed Sadiye in her deadpan tone.

Ah, so the non-duellists had been worried they would be found out!

“All right! We all made it ashore- Ah-choo!”, sneezed Joey in their direction.

All shouted eww and Anzu and Maja could barely dodge the sneeze attack.

“Someone should give the boy a tissue.”, advised Afya.

It’s like Kihana heard her and calmly gave Joey one, which he took with a thank you.

“You would never have caught that cold if it wasn't for Haga.”, said Yuugi to his best friend.

“Speaking of our wormy friend, looks like he just slithered his way off the boat and is already looking to start some trouble.”, noted Joey. Our friend group turned in Haga’s direction. He was standing there, just grinning creepily. “That slimeball. I'd love to wipe that smirk off his face.”

“If you need help.”, volunteered Sehrazat encouraged by Afya.

“Attention all duelists, let's gather at the castle gate!”, called one of Pegasus’s lackeys with really pointy hair.  

Yuugi rightfully said that the castle had to belong to Pegasus, while Jounouchi motivated anyone to climb them up.

“This are a lot of stairs.”, heard Sehrazat Kihana mumble as they made their way up.

“Elevators are much sexier.”, found Maja.

This made anyone who heard it giggle lightly.

Suddenly Anzu stopped and said that she saw again someone named Bakura. Her friends and Sehrazat group looked all into the forest but there was nothing. Anzu admitted that maybe it was all in her head.

“Can we just climb up these stupid stairs.”, whined Sadiye.

As the youngest and shorted she was already tired of the stairs. Kihana decided to give her little sister a piggyback ride and our heroes made their way up again.

Unknown to them a certain white-haired boy watched them do that from the security of the woods.

“So my Millennium Ring was right.”, he thought nearly amused. “The damned queen followed her pharaoh into the next life. Well, better for me to get my hands on the Fragment too.”

An evil chuckle left his mouth.

Finally, our group of eight reached with the other duellists the castle.

“Whoa! Look who's here! The Japan champion Insector Haga and the runner-up Dinosaur Ryuzaki”, they heard one of the duellists talk.

Another responded to him: ”And that's Ryota Kajiki. He took third place.”,

“Since Kaiba isn't here one of those three is likely to win.”

“But I heard that Yugi, the guy who beat Kaiba, is here too.”

“Are you serious? I thought Kaiba was the best.”

“He was, but not anymore. Do you see the boy who stands beside the Europa Champion, the Amazon Princess of the Nile, Sehrazat Faizan? That’s Yugi Muto he is to be the kid to beat now.”

“Oh wow, even the Amazon Princess of the Nile and the Lady of the Dragons Kihana Schariq are here. This is going to be the most exciting duellist tournament ever.”

Yugi and Sehrazat got all shy, while Joey nudged Yugi and Kihana patted her head proudly.

The lackey of Pegasus with the pointy hair called out to them all from a balcony to gather around. It was time for Pegasus to explain the rules of the tournament.

“Boy, would I like to get just five minutes alone with that guy.”, grumbled Joey.

“Make it ten, so I can get a piece of him too.”, growled Sehrazat with Afya in her ear.

Pegasus finally arrived on the balcony and looked down at them as if he was some kind of king and they were his humble servants.

Both Yuugi and Sehrazat gave him looks that would have killed him in one instant if this was possible, but it seemed that Pegasus was just laughing at them.

“Welcome to Duelist Kingdom. I will now explain the rules. Duel Monsters cards must be used in all duels. You begin with 2000 life points, and direct attacks are forbidden. Battle using your strongest card decks. Everyone should have received a Dueling Glove and two Star Chips."

“So seeing all the security guards make it out to window just storming this castle and get mama back from Pegasus.”, told Sehrazat her Yami.

Afya was still for a second.

“Well, if we found a secret entrance, we totally could. But I don’t think we have this much time and a chance to do this with all these guards around us. And I’m not risking your life just for a hunch.”

Sehrazat put her duelling clove on, like Yuugi and Kihana at the moment.

Pegasus continued: "The wristband has ten holes where you can insert Star Chips. Insert your Star Chips into them. These Star Chips are proof that you are a true duelist. You will wager these Chips in your duels. The entire island is your duelling battleground. In this battle royal, only duelists who have ten Star Chips will be allowed to enter this gate. The duels will begin in just one hour. There is a 48-hour time limit. At that time, all duelists with less than ten Star Chips will lose and be forced off this island. Duelists, good luck!"

"So ten starchips it is, Gran-Gran.”

“So it seems like it, child of mine. How frustrating, I rather fight someone physically than with fucking children’s card games.”

Under the cheers of the other duellist, Pegasus turned back into his castle.

“The duellists have arrived. Yugi and Sehrazat have taken the bait, and the games are about to begin! Everything goes according to plan.”, he thinks gleefully to himself.

/*/

Our group of eight waited for the beginning of the tournament in a nice meadow.

They split up for a second into their original groups since they had to discuss a few things with their original friend group.

Not that they had any secrets from the other, just they needed to decide a few things.

Mainly Sehrazat group.

So while Yugi assured Jounouchi that he could keep his one-star chip, Sehrazat frowned at what Kihana said.

“I don’t like it but you are right.”, she said to her.

Kihana nodded and Sadiye and Maja agreed with a sign too.

Sadiye found the guys funny and was sad.

Maja really liked to flirt with Anzu and was disappointed that she couldn’t do it anymore.

The girls walked back up to their new friends.

“Hey guys, we think it’s the best that we split up for now for the start of the tournament.”, told Kihana, what they had decided.

Yugi and his friends were shocked to hear that.

“But why? Aren’t we a team?”, asked Anzu sad.

“Think about it, guys.”, said Sehrazat equally sad and looking longing at Yugi. “We would like to stay but we are four duellists. You know how long these duels can take, if we wait for everyone to have a turn we never will get all 10 starchips in time to participate in the final. And we four all in will give us a higher chance at getting the souls of my mama and Yugi grandpa back and the price money Jounouchi-Kun needs for his sister.”

Yugi looked longing back at her, but he got her point. He wanted to spend more time getting to know Sehrazat, yet he had to think first and foremost of his grandpa.

“I hate to say this, but they are right.”

His friends gasped, besides Jounouchi.

“No, Yug, is right if we are a smaller group we will get faster starchips.”, he agreed.

“Don’t worry you guys we will find each other again.”, promised Maja. She took from her backpack two Walkie-Talkies out. “I brought them with me so I and Sadiye could stay in contact with Kihana and Sehrazat, but this is perfect so we can meet up again with each other and check on each other.”

She handed one to Anzu.

“That’s smart Maja-Chan, so we really will be finding each other again!”, praised Anzu.

Maja winked and purred: “And whenever you just wanna talk Anzu-Chan, give me a call. It must be hard being the only girl in a boy group.”

The short-haired brunette blushes red at Maja’s flirty behaviour. Her friends tried their best not to laugh, but it was just too cute.

Anzu was spared to give an answer to that as the fireworks lit up the sky.

“This is it guys.”, says Sehrazat to them all. “No turning back.”

“Wouldn’t dream of it.”, tells her Kihana.

“Let’s get this show on a roll!”, yells Maja and raises her fist.

The others follow suit with a loud yeah.

“Good luck girls!”, wishes them Joey, while Yuugi nods.

Sehrazat smiles at them and Kihana gives them a thumbs-up.

“Good luck to you too, boys!”

“We will see you later!”, yells Sadiye already running in a random direction to find someone Sehra or her sister can duel.

“Sadiye! Wait!”, screams Kihana and runs after her.

Maja just laughs and follows them.

Sehrazat gives one last smile at the group.

Her eyes find Yugi ones and again it’s like it’s only them.

“I will see you on the other side, Yugi-Kun.”, she says softly.

“I wouldn’t want it any other way, Sehrazat-Chan.”, he answered her just as softly.

The blue-haired girl nods and with one last soft look, she chases after her friends.

It was time to get these starchips!

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