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?

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

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Um, I hope you don't mind me asking but, do you have any plans to transfer the Isekai Chloe story to somewhere like AO3? I've read all your chapters so far (except 7 cuz I just found the newest chapter a minute ago) and it's kind of a struggle to read it on mobile.

Yes Isakai Chloe and my other stories are all avaible at Ao3, wattpad, fanfiction.net and DeviantArt. The username is always EmpressOfTheSun or EmpressOfTheSunWriter 😀

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 4

After the first artificial tailfin Hiccup and Leandra start a daily routine with their dragon friends.

In the night they work together to make a better tailfin for Toothless, early mornings they go to the Night Furries, and spend time with them, trying to get Toothless to fly again, then Hiccup goes to dragon training and Leandra to Gothi.

When Hiccup presents Toothless for the first time with a saddle and harness, so he could help Toothless fly, the dragon was not impressed and run away from him.

The boys chased each other through the cove.

Leandra, who leans on Starchaser, snorts, and the female dragon joins her.

Then Starchaser nudges Leandra, looking at her with big puppy eyes, then pointing at the still-running boys.

“You wanna play, catch?”, coos Leandra at her dragon, giving her a head pat.

Excited Starchaser wiggles her tail.

So the two girls play catch with each other, laughing and smiling happily.

Hiccup who finally managed to catch Toothless and put on the saddle on him, can’t help but smile softly at the scene before him.

His best friends seem so carefree chasing and getting chased by Starchaser around. It reminds him of the little girl he meet ten years ago, who became his dearest friend.

Toothless is just happy that his mate has another playmate. He likes the black-haired girl, she gives good pets.

“This is AMAZING!”, shouts Leandra into the heavens.

She is flying for the first time on Starchaser back over the cove.

This feeling of freedom!

It’s unexplainable. You need to experience it yourself.

Starchaser cooes at her.

The dragon is happy that her human girl is so excited.

Toothless and Hiccup are also trying out to fly together. But the tail breaks free sending Hiccup flying.

“Hiccup, Toothless!”, shouts Leandra worried.

Starchaser whines, thankful both boys landed in the pool of the cove.

The girls are flying over to them, stationary in the air.

Toothless seems to let out a sign, while Hiccup decides he needs to build something which doesn’t make him fly off the saddle.

Leandra is sitting with Starchaser beside her in the cove. Tufts of different healing herbs before them.

“Okay, what do you think about this?”, she holds a tuft of Chamomile under Starchaser’s nose.

Her dragon friends sniff it, making a pleased sound.

The black-haired girl nods and writes it down in her journal. She is determined to make her own healing herbs book for dragons with receipts for ointments and salves for them.

Starchaser is a big help.

She gives the Night Furry a kiss on the snout, which Starchaser recuperates with a lick on her cheek.

“Aww, Starchaser, you know this takes awhile to wash away!”, whines the Spanish girl.

The female Night Furry just laughs.

That’s when Toothless and Hiccup come back from their test flight and Toothless…seems high?

Leandra really doesn’t have a better word for it, how Toothless is all wobbly on his legs, tongue lolling out and peaceful expression on his face.

Worried Starchaser walks over to her mate, but he just falls down before her, showing her his belly. The female Night Furries doesn’t seem to know how to handle this situation either.

“Hic, what’s wrong with Toothless?”, ask Leandra standing up. She worries too.

Her best friend just grins and hands her some green grass.

“Toothless landed in dragon nip, you know, just like cat nip.”

Oh, this explains it!

She gets her journal down and writes this down too.

Could be useful in the future too.

Leandra and Hiccup give their respective dragon a good cuddle and scratch session.

Both Toothless and Starchaser are enjoying it greatly.

That’s when both teenagers rub behind their ear plates, causing the dragons to relax and fall over.

The best friends stare at each other and then at the purring dragons on the ground.

They can’t help but laugh.

Finally, Leandra’s grounding is over and she can eat again in the Great Hall with Hiccup.

Like they are used, they take a table for themselves when suddenly they are swarmed by the teens minus Astrid and some adult Vikings.

“Hey Hiccup.”, greets him Fishlegs.

“What was that?”, ask Snotloud excited. “Some kind of trick? What did you do?”

“Hiccup, you're totally going to come in first, there's no question.”, tells him Tuffnut.

Even more, questions get fired in Hiccup’s direction.

Of course, no one takes note of Leandra, she is just like an appendage on Hiccup, even if she sits beside him.

She rolls her brown eyes and catches how angry Astird smashes her cup against her now vacant table.

Well, at least someone else feels worse than her.

Maybe that will take down the Hofferson from her high horse and make her humble.

That’s when she feels how a hand takes hers.

She looks down and sees how Hiccup gives her hand a squeeze.

This makes Leandra smile a bit.

Even if Hiccup is now famous, thanks to the things he learned from Toothless and Starchaser about dragons, he will never forget her.

So Astrid is in a worse situation than her.

Hah!

Leandra can’t help but feel satisfaction in it.

With his hammer, Hiccup has created a little light spot, which Toothless and Starchaser chase around the coven like big kitty cats.

“Dragon nip and now this.”, can’t help Leandra but laugh. “Are we sure our Night Furries aren’t actually big cats?”

“Well, they DO love their fish.”

“Oh my lord you are right!”

Both best friends laugh heartfully.

Leandra spreads her arms to feel the wind around her. She and Starchaser are taking a flight around Berk.

The Spanish girl will never get enough of this feeling of liberation.

Up there, close to the clouds, she feels like she can be her true self.

No parents who want a Viking girl, no Gothi who wants a perfect apprentice, no villagers who see her only as the foreigner.

Here with Starchaser, she can be…just Leandra.

Thankful she pets her dragon.

“I love you.”, she tells her. “Without you, I would never feel this.”

Starchaser purr at her. She loves her little human too.

They return to the cove and see how desperate Hiccup tries to get off Toothless.

“What’s wrong?”, asks Leandra.

“The harness is jacked. I can’t break it off.”

That’s how Leandra finds herself sneaking into the village at night. She told Hiccup to stay put with their Night Furries since it was better she got the thing from the blacksmith stall he needs to free himself from Toothless.

She sneaks up to shadow to shadow. Careful that no one sees her.

Finally, she is at the blacksmith stall and gets the thing Hiccup needs.

Like she is a shadow herself, she makes haste back to the cove.

No one in the village is non the wiser.

“Are you both ready?”, calls Leandra on the back of Starchaser to the boys.

Both Night Furries are flying for the first time in a long while side by side.

Today is the final test.

Today it will show if Hiccup succeeded in making a tailfin for Toothless and if they can fly together.

Billowing clouds rise like mountains. The ground seems miles below them.

“Ready as we will ever be!”, calls back Hiccup to her.

“Okay, me and Star, will stay close if something happens, but the stage is your Hiccup and Toothless.”, tells them Leandra and makes Starchaser fly now behind Toothless.

“Okay there bud, we're gonna take this nice and slow.”, reassure Hiccup Toothless with a side pat. “Here we go. Here we go...position three, no four.”

He presses the pedal, causing the tail to flare. They roll off into an arcing bank, gloriously lit by the late afternoon sun.

Hiccup tucks tight against his neck, thrilled that his new harness and vest are holding. The foot controls make the tail appendage quick and responsive. He watches Toothless' every fluctuation, trying to match it with the prosthetic.

He sizes up a target a towering arch of stone, rising from the sea.

“Get ready for anything, Star.”, whispers Leandra to her dragon. “We are going in and the boys could need our help.”

Starchaser grumbles in agreement.

“All right, it's go time. It's go time.”, calls Hiccup.

They dive toward it, lining up to pass through the arch.

“Come on. Come on buddy. Come on buddy!”, Hiccup encourages Toothless

They zip through the arch. A perfect maneuver.

“Yeah! Yes, it worked!”, he yells happily.

Leandra and Starchaser sign together. Seems all to be okay. The triumph is short-lived. They smack into one of several sea stacks as Hiccup tries to keep up with the turns.

“Sorry.”

They hurtle into another rock pillar. Toothless grumbles. Leandra facepalms and Starchaser deadpans.

“My fault.”

Toothless swats him with his 'ear' plate.

“Yeah, yeah, I'm on it.”, Hiccup promises and checks again his cheat sheet. “Position four, no three.”

They pierce the clouds. For the first time, Hiccup can see the whole of the island below them. Leandra all ready seen it on her flies with Starchaser, but she is still charmed by the view.  

It shrinks with every passing second. He swallows hard and tightens his grip on the handles.

“Yeah! Go, baby! Yes! Oh, this is amazing! The wind in my...CHEAT SHEET! STOP!”

However, Toothless obeys the command and suddenly stops beating his wings. As they slow to a stop, Hiccup goes weightless. The rings of his vest float off of the harness hooks. Hiccup suddenly finds himself detached, free-falling!

“STARCHASER, GO GIRL!”, commands Leandra scarred for the life of her best friend and his dragon.

Like she is a rocket Starchaser dives after Hiccup and Leandra can pull him behind her. He hugs her so tight, that she can’t breathe, but she lets him.

“Toothless!”

“I know, Hic!”

Starchaser dives after her mate, helping him to roll back into the flying position. 

The girls can’t even look that fast as Hiccup bravely jumps from Starchaser back to Toothless.

“DIOS MIO, HIC!”

Hiccup finally grabs hold of the harness and manages to lock in just in time to pull Toothless out of his dive barely shy of the tree tops. Leandra and Starchaser are again behind the boys.

They careen past the wooded cliff and directly into a treacherous slalom course of jutting sea stacks. Hiccup pulls the cheat sheet from his teeth and attempts to check positions. It flaps violently in the turbulence, making it impossible.

With no time to think, Hiccup throws it away and steers Toothless' tail on instinct with perfect intuition. Together, they manage a tight, hair-raising series of split-second turns, making it to the open water, unscathed.

The girls are behind them and let out a relieved sound.         

Hiccup takes a breath and glances back at the death-defying obstacle course, now safely behind them. He beams, relieved.

He sits back and throws his arms up in victory.

“YEEAHHH!”

“WUHU!”, can’t help Leandra joining Hiccup in his celebration.

Toothless and Starchaser concur with happy squeals and a fireball each. Hiccup's and Leandra’s glee turns to dread as they fly directly into it.

“Ah, come on.”, he groans.

Leandra just puts her arms over her face.

Better than nothing.

Later our quartet is on a deserted little island on its beach. With Toothless’s help, Hiccup made a fire and Leandra with Starchaser caught for them enough fish to eat.

Leandra and Hiccup are cooking their fish over the fire while leaning comfortably on their respective dragon, who gleefully enjoy their share.

Suddenly Toothless regurgitates a fish head. Hiccup smirks with forced politeness.

“Uh..no thanks. I'm good.”

Starchaser does the same thing and looks with big eyes at the black-haired girl.

“I’m good, Star, don’t worry.”, she tells her Night Furry and waves around her stick with her cooked fish.

Several Terrible Terrors land like seagulls, hissing and nipping at each other as they approach Toothless' pile of fish. One grabs the regurgitated fish head and drags it away. Another attempt to steal it from him. They face off and last fire balls at each other to settle the fight.

The four watch, amused.

That is until Toothless spots one of his fish leaving the pile. A stealthy Terrible Terror is exposed as the thief. They tug on the fish, and it snaps back into Toothless' mouth.

He swallows it back tauntingly.

Irate, the little dragon paws at the ground and blast Toothless. He opens his mouth, the gas hiss comes, and Toothless fires a tiny flame straight into its mouth, causing the gas to backfire into the little dragon. It coughs up smoke and staggers away, looking ill.

Hiccup, Leandra, and Starchaser laugh.

“Not so fireproof on the inside, are you?”, the brunette says to the little dragon. He throws the helpless Terror his freshly cooked fish. “Here you go.”

The appreciative little dragon gulps down the meal and approaches Hiccup cautiously. He curls up next to him.

Both humans are amazed.

“Everything we know about you guys is wrong.”, Hiccup carefully pets him sending the Terror into an immediate, blissful sleep.

Leandra joins in and signs: “The world is such a cruel place. We judge before we understand something. Look at us being friends with dragons. I wonder if others can do it too.”

“I don’t know Lee, for 300 years my people fought and killed dragons…why did no one take the time to understand them, as we did?”

“I don’t have an answer either.”

Now both teenagers sign loudly.

Their dragons don’t like the mood swing of their riders and they nuzzle their cheeks.

This makes Hiccup smile a bit and Leandra hugs Starchaser.

How the world changed for them.

What should they do now?

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South Park Story

Hi guys, I have fallen into South Park hell again since I'm currently replaying the games and wrote my first chapter for my New Kid story, since it's South Park and really mature I only posted the link to the story to my Wattpad for it rather than posting it here on Tumblr.

I don't want any minors or people who get triggered by it to accidentally read it.

Hope you understand!

Have a nice day/night!

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

Happy Valentine’s day my lovely reader!

I hope you enjoy my Valentine’s gift to you all! :D

MINOR’S DON’T INTERACT!

Chapter 6: Only you, no one else

You are cuddled up to Toothless, the dragon nuzzling your cheek, while you scratch him under his snout.

Together you are waiting for Hiccup. It’s high time he comes from Dragon Training.

You wonder what is making him late.

“I will ask him, Toothless.”, you whisper to him like it’s a secret. “I will ask him to be my Mate and start a family.”

Practically, you want to ask in the mermaid way for Hiccup’s hand in marriage. Some land dwellers would say it’s way too earlier, but for your kind, it was only natural to go the whole way when you found your Life Mate.

It was incredible you found what your parents have.

Even with a human!

Who would have thought?

Toothless seems to like the idea because he gives you a big dragon smooch and purrs.

“You will be the best uncle to our children, I just know, Toothless.”, you tell him and give him a kiss on his snout.

The idea of little you’s and little Hiccup’s made Toothless purr even more. Of course, he would love your guys hatchlings like there were his own. He loved both of you so much.

That’s when you hear two voices discussing with each other.

One is Hiccup’s, and the second one is female.

“AAAAUUGGGHHH! Why would you do that?!”

“That's for the lies.”

It seems like the female hit Hiccup with something. You stand up and Toothless is right beside you. You can feel how your canines become sharper, hearing your mate in distress.

“And THAT'S for everything else.”

Hiccup yelps and both you and Toothless start to growl. You feel how your nails get longer and sharper.

Now you see the intruder.

It’s a young blond Viking woman with an axe.

She sees you two now too, but Toothless is the first to pounce toward her, snarling.

“Oh man.”, whines Hiccup who manages to stand up.

He doesn’t stay long up because the intruder dives onto Hiccup.

“Get down! Run! Run!”, she commandes.

The young woman pulls her axe, ready to take on Toothless.

“No!”. yells Hiccup.

That’s when you step in.

The water answers your command.

With a waterwhip, you hit away the axe out of the girl’s hand and hold then her hand in place, while you stop Toothless in his tracks with a stream that wraps around his body.

You hold your bending form and walk up to Toothless’s side.

You give the girl, who looks at you with fear, a cold glare and show your grown canines.

“What do you want from my mate and my friend, human!”, you hiss acid.

Even Hiccup seems to be taken back.

“You never told me you can do that with water.”, he blinks confused.

“It never came up.”

“What is going on?”, shrieks the intruder and tries to get her hand out of your water hold. It not working. “Who is this water witch?!”

“Mermaid!”, you correct angrily.

“Astrid.”, Hiccup turns so that he is between your and Toothless side and this Astrid sides. “You scared them, it’s okay.”

“I scarred them?! Your water I mean your mermaid is holding me hostage with water!”, she yells shocked.

Hiccup turns to you: “[Y/N], pearl, please let her go.”

You want to melt at the pet name, but you stay in your bending form.

“No, I don’t trust her!”

“She is a friend!”

You and Toothless snort at the same time. Yeah right!

“Please.”, begs Hiccp and gives you puppy dog eyes.

Damn you can’t resist them.

With a sign, you stop your bending, and the water splashes on the ground. Hiccup comes towards you two and puts a calming hand on Toothless’s neck, while he wraps his other arm around your waist.

You snuggle up to your mate and show this Astrid again your canines as she stares at you three in disbelief.

“Who are they?!”, she wants to know from Hiccup.

“Astrid, [Y/N] and Toothless. [Y/N] and Toothless, Astrid.”, he introduces you all to each other.

Toothless growls and you hiss at her.

You are so not charmed to meet her.

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

“We're dead.”, deadpans Hiccup.

Satisfied with Astrid's departure, Toothless and you turn away.

“Where do you think you're going?”, Hiccup wants to know.

You can’t believe Hiccup talked you and Toothless into it. You two are riding and flying with Toothless in search of this stupid Astrid.

You couldn’t care less but your mate insisted that it was important that the blond-haired bimbo didn’t reach his village and blab all about you and Toothless.

You rather would run away with Hiccup and Toothless!

Why did you agree to this again?

Right, because you loved Hiccup and trusted his judgment.

But one stupid move from the bimbo and you would decapitate her with a waterwhip.

No regrets on your side.

Your trio finally found her and Toothless snatched her up by one of her arms.

The blond-haired bimbo screams in fear: “Oh great Odin's ghost, this is it!”

You fly Astrid to the top of a towering pine. It bows and creaks under your combined weight as Astrid dangles a hundred feet in the air.

“Hiccup! Get me down from here!”, demanded Astrid from him.

You growl at her in a warning. She seems to shrink under your piercing glare.

Hiccup pats one of your hands on his side to calm you down. He is pretty damn sure that given the chance you would murder Astrid without regret.

You have told him in the days you passed together how protective mermaids could get for their mates.

He didn’t want you to murder someone for him. It made him just sick thinking about it.

“You have to give me a chance to explain.”, he implores Astrid.

“I'm not listening to ANYTHING you have to say!”

“Watch it, bimbo!”, you warn her hissing, canines poking out from your mouth.

It makes her shrink even more into herself. Someone isn’t used to getting intimidated by someone much more powerful. This gives you a certain glee.

“Pearl, please.”, whisper Hiccup to you, before a turns his words back to Astrid: “Then I won't speak. Just let me show you.”

Hiccup extends a hand.

“Please, Astrid.”

She eyes him, you and the dragon, then the ground far, far below.

After a moment, she swats Hiccup's outstretched hand away and reluctantly climbs over the pedal, lines, and harness. She settles behind Hiccup and you, avoiding as much contact as possible.

Yeah, you don’t really want her hands on you. You can’t guarantee that you wouldn’t bite them off. This woman lets your feral side out.

“Now get me down.”, she says to Hiccup.

“Toothless? Down. Gently.”

You and Toothless share a glance and nod to each other. You would give the bimbo a lesson she wouldn’t forget.

The dragon spreads his wings slowly. With a whop, they fill with the updraft. Toothless releases the tree tucks in his legs, and hovers in place.

“See? Nothing to be afraid of.”

Hiccup spoke to soon, Toothless suddenly launches straight upward. Astrid screams and you grin. The acceleration is tremendous. Every downbeat buck the saddle, heaving you into the sky, doubling your speed like a rocket.

Astrid is thrown backward. She screams more and hugs you for dear life, squeezing the breath out of you.

You fight the instinct to bite her hands off.

“Toothless! What is wrong with you?! Bad dragon!”, scolds Hiccup him. “He's not usually like this. Oh no...!”

Toothless rolls and plummets toward the coastline far below. You laugh happily at Astrid’s screams, Toothless is doing an awesome job. He rockets over the ocean waves, deliberately dipping you all in the froth.

“Toothless, what are you doing?! We need her to like us! [Y/N], say something to him!”, begs you Hiccup for help to get control over the dragon.

“Toothless, do the spin!”, you yell cheerfully.

He does as you tell him.

“Thanks for nothing you two, you are a great help!”, groans Hiccup defeated.

“Okay! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!”, shrieks Astrid regretfully. “Just get me off of this thing.”

Now that’s more you like it.

You give Toothless side a pet and you level off and head up into the clouds.

Astrid opens her eyes again and looks out over a world she'd never dreamed of. She reaches out and touches clouds, pierces columns ablaze in golden hues, and floats over a vast, alien skyscape.

You reach also a hand out, bending the water out of the clouds and letting the waterdrops fly in a beautiful arc over your group.

You hear how Astrid gasps in wonder.

It’s beautiful how the light reflects in rainbow colors in the water drops.

She grins, despite herself.

Toothless rises above a blanket of clouds and levels off under a starry sky. You emerge from a blanket of clouds under the dancing Northern Lights, shimmering in ribbons across the vast sky.

Below you, Berk's torches flicker in the inky darkness. The new perspective is breathtaking.

Toothless climbs past Berk's tallest peaks and heads out over open water, leaving the village lights behind you.

“All right, I admit it.”, breaks Astrid the silence over your group. “This is pretty cool. It's... amazing. He's amazing.”

Carefully she reaches down and pats Toothless' side.

“And you are pretty cool. Never knew mermaids could do such things.”, tells you Astrid fascinated.

Well, maybe she isn’t such a bimbo.

Even just a little bit.

You thank her simply.

“So what now?”, turn Astrid the word to Hiccup.

Yeah, you are wondering this too.

Hiccup groans.

“Hiccup, your final exam is tomorrow.”, she reminds him. “You know you're going to have to kill...a dragon.”

“That’s such a stupid and disgusting rite of age!”, you add angrily.

“Don't remind me, guys.”

A strange, unearthly din approaches. Toothless ear plates suddenly stand on end. Panicked, he abruptly dives, dipping into cloud cover.

“Toothless! What's happening? What is it?”, Hiccup asks him confused.

Meanwhile, you rub one of your ears. Something is making a strange sound and it vibrates in your head. Autsch.

“You all right?”, ask you, Astrid.

You can’t answer her since Toothless actually barks at you all in a way that clearly says to stay quiet.

Suddenly, out of the dense cloud, a Monstrous Nightmare emerges.

“Get down!”, whisper-shouts Hiccup at you girls.

Hiccup, you and Astrid duck.

The Nightmare calls out. A Zippleback appears on the other side of Toothless, boxing him in.

“What's going on?”, wonders Astrid.

“I don't know.”, admins Hiccup.

“You guys don’t hear it? There is a strange sound in the air. I can’t make it out what it is.”, you explain to them.

“Toothless. You've got to get us out of here, bud.”, declares the young man.

Yet the Night Furry just hisses at him.

Other dragons, previously invisible in the thick clouds, appear all around you. Hundreds of them, all carrying fish and game in their talons.

“It looks like they're hauling in their kill.”, whispers Hiccup.

The Zippleback eyes you ravenously.

“What does that make us?”, wants the blond-haired woman to know.

No one has an answer for her.

The dragons bank and dive in formation, plummeting through the thickening fog and weaving between towering, craggy sea stacks. They emerge at the base of a massive volcanic caldera, glowing with rivulets of lava. The flock of dragons fall into rank, funneling through a crack, and zipping through a winding tunnel.

It gives way to a vast, steamy inner chamber, tiered with pocky shelves. Dragons of all breeds lay about, nested in hordes.

The arriving dragons fly in, dropping the fish and game into a central pit, glowing red and shrouded in mist.

“It’s the Dragon Nest!”, you realize shocked.

So here live your dragon friends. There exist nicer places than a volcano. Why would they live here?

“What my dad wouldn't give to find this.”, signs Hiccup.

Toothless peels away from the procession, landing on a small shadowy shelf to keep a low profile. Hiccup, you and Astrid peek around, taking in the busy hive of sorts.

You watch on as the food continues to be dropped into the pit.

“It's satisfying to know that all of our food has been dumped down a hole.”, remarks Hiccup dry.

“They're not eating any of it.”, notes Astrid.

“I have a bad feeling about this. A really, really bad one.”, you share and bite your lips.

Now that you are in the Dragon Nest you can pit-point where the strange sounds come from.

It comes from the pit.

This couldn’t mean anything good.

And you would be right as a Gronkel spits a little fish into the pit and get’s rewarded by getting eaten by the biggest dragon you ever saw!

Your mermaid instincts formally scream to run and never return.

“By the seven seas!”

“What is that?”, adds Astrid terrified.

The monstrous beast sniffs the air, seemingly aware of you. It nears the ledge where Toothless is hiding and roars.

Several dragons take flight in fear.

“Alright buddy, we gotta get out of here. Now!”, commands Hiccup to Toothless.

Toothless listens and takes flight, barely evading the monster's snapping jaws.

The behemoth dragon lunges for you, snatching a Zippleback out of the air instead.

Your group disappears into the winged exodus as thousands of dragons flee the caldera in fear.

You are still reeling from the revelation of this giant ass dragon when you four arrive at the cove.

Astrid is talking yours and Hiccups ears off: “No, no, it totally makes sense. It's like a giant beehive. They're the workers... and that's their queen. It controls them.”

You touch down at the sandy ground and Astrid doesn’t waste time jumping down from Toothless.

“Let's find your dad.”, say Astrid to Hiccup, ready to return to their village.

Hiccup helps you down from Toothless since you wear a long dress and tucks you close to his side. Shaking you embrace him.

That giant dragon would haunt your dreams you were sure.

“No, no! Not yet. They'll kill Toothless.”, reminds Hiccup Astrid. “Astrid, we have to think this through carefully.”

Saying Astrid is astonished is an understatement. She gaps at you two. “Hiccup, we just discovered the dragons' nest the thing we've been after since Vikings first sailed here. And you want to keep it a secret? To protect your pet dragon? Are you serious?”

“Yes.”, Hiccup and you say as one resolute.

Astrid's taken aback.

“Okay. Then what do we do?”

“Just give me until tomorrow. I'll figure something out.”

“Okay.”

Then Astrid punches you and Hiccup in the arm.

“That's for kidnapping me.”, she tells you two.

You raise an eyebrow at her, while Hiccup looks at Toothless who snorts dismissively.

Next Astrid gives you and Hiccup a short hug.

“That's for, everything else.”

With that, she leaves.

“I don’t get this girl.”, you say to Hiccup. “Is that normal for a Viking?”

He wraps his arm around your shoulder and hugs you to himself. His head is put over yours and you hug him back.

“To be true I don’t get it either, pearl.”

You sign together.

Toothless comes over and joins your hug. You pet the Night Furry.

“Love, stay here tonight. We can think about something together to protect Toothless.”, you plea to him.

You can’t bear right now the thought to be away from your mate.

“You know what, this sounds good. I don’t wanna leave either of you right now.”

Toothless purrs, while you smile.

So a while later you and Hiccup lay under the bear fur he gifted you in the little cave you made your sleeping place.

Strangely Toothless didn’t join you guys and decided to sleep upside down like a bat on a tree.

Well, it would give you privacy to talk with Hiccup about other topics than how to save Toothless from the other Vikings.

Hiccup’s plan right now was to show the village that dragons were friendly while he should kill the Monstrous Nightmare in the Kill Ring.

It wasn’t the best plan, but the only plan were Toothless wouldn’t be exposed to the village.

You snuggled up closer to your mate, while Hiccup played with your hair.

It was a comforting and so domestic feeling.

You wanted to experience this for the rest of your life.

No time like the present, before all this with Astrid and the big bad dragon happened you wanted to ask him something important.

“Hiccup?”

“Mmh?”

“Do you want to be my life mate?”

He formerly turned into a statue and stopped playing with your hair.

You put your chin on his chest to look him in the face. He was blushing red and gaping.

“Hiccup, love?”

“D-Did d-did you just asked me in your mermaid way to marry you?!”, he stutters shocked in disbelief.

You nodded.

“Yes, I did.”

“W-Wait you mean also y-you w-want-“

“Your children? Yes, indeed I want that.”

Your mate turned so red you were worried for a second he would faint.

But he said in a tiny fragile voice: “A-Are y-you s-sure you want me? Like forever? W-What if you meet a nice merman and want him instant? Not that I would blame you, I’m just a hiccup.”

This broke your heart. Who made him believe he wasn’t worthy of love?

You would show him.

So you sat up and swung a leg over his waist. His eyes got big like a pufferfish.

He stutters your name.

“I love you, Hiccup.”, you purred softly. You touched your necklace. “I think, I loved you even when we were kids. That’s why I couldn’t decide which merman from my coven I wanted as a mate. I know this now.”

“Huh, what do you mean by that?”

You smiled and took off your necklace to give it to him.

“This was once a bracelet.”, you explained to him. “When I was a little girl I once visited Berk with my parents. It was a big festival. There I meet a shy, sweet, and intelligent land dweller boy who showed me his home, played games with me, and made me laugh till I couldn’t breathe anymore. As a goodbye gift, he gave me a bracelet he had made for me, while I wasn’t looking. I never asked for his name but…you both have the same green eyes. The same crooked smile. The same big heart. You are my first and last love, Hiccup, I’m sure. So….I’m yours too?”

You waited nervously for his answer. After spending so much time together you were pretty sure that Hiccup and your first land dweller friend were one in the same.

You just hoped he felt the same.

Hiccup played with the bracelet, seeming deep in thoughts, till he said: “I…I always thought that day…that I made it up in my mind. That I just dreamed that I found a friend…who liked me for me…but…you look like the little girl…the one I made this bracelet for…”

He looked up at you, tears were twinkling in his eyes.

“You weren’t a dream…you are real.”

You put your hands on his cheek and whipped away the falling tears.

“I’m real Hiccup. I’m not a fairytale. I love you, only you and no one else, I promise, for infinity. We can even get married in your land dweller way, I just want to be at your side and love you and love the children we will have together.”

The young man made a gasping sound, like he couldn’t believe someone could love him this much.

Still, he leaned up and gave you a quick peck.

“I love you too, maybe it’s crazy after a few weeks with each other, but I don’t want I live without you anymore.”, he told you smiling, even if he still cried. “You were the first person to accept me, you came back to me, you gave me your friendship and your heart…Yes, I want to be your life mate.”

“And I want to be your wife.”

You both meet in a passionate kiss which made you both moan out loud.

It was like fire.

Burning you from the inside and outside.

Only getting better, the more you kissed, the more you touched.

But at the same time, it fawned the flames.

You couldn’t take it anymore and stripped down your dress and undergarments.

You helped Hiccup out of his clothes and pants.

Kissing and touching every new part of him.

Worshipping him in the way he deserved.

This was your mate, your heart and soul, no one would take him away from you.

You throw your head back, enjoying Hiccups strong and deep trusts. One of his hands is on your hip the other goes to your cheek caressing it.

He closes his eyes in pleasure and moans. You shiver and kiss his hand, impaling yourself on his thick hard cock. Over and over again.

Soon Hiccup reaches his limit and comes.

He yells your name into the heavens and you feel his seed entering you, warming your womb.

You purr at the feeling.

You are still not ready to orgasm but Hiccup rubs frantically your clit to help you to get over the edge.

He swerves it’s the most beautiful thing in all the world to see you coming apart.

With a loud keen, you come and feel your own liquid splashing down on your joined parts.

It’s messy and sticky, but so damn hot.

Tired you collapse on top of Hiccup and you two share loving kisses in the afterglow.

For merpeople, you are married now and you couldn’t be happier.

Whatever would bring tomorrow…you would face it together.

I can’t believe I finally wrote smut.

Somehow.

Kinda.

I hope you all enjoyed it.

If not I’m sorry, I’m new at this.

Happy Valentinesday again my loves!

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

I’m on a roll these days! Here I give you the first part of the two parts of Episode 3 Journey to the Duelist Kingdom. I made I cover for it.

Here is the base I used: https://www.deviantart.com/yummehcrayons/art/FPD-Bags-n-babes-base-259082967

And here is my finished piece: https://www.deviantart.com/empressofthesun/art/Off-to-Duelist-Kingdom-932075230

You can go to my Tumblr or DeviantArt Account to see them if you can’t. :D

Now happy reading and if I get a lot of comments, I will get the second part out as fast as possible. Comments fill me with the energy to write for this dear story of my so, so the more you comment, the more motivated I become and the faster I produce a new chapter.

So don’t be shy, even just a thumbs-up emoji will fill me with joy.

Chapter 4: Off to Duelist Kingdom! Part I

Redone 29/08/24

Heartbroken Sehrazat looked at her sleeping mother on the hospital bed, holding with both hands one of hers tight.

It was three days after Pegasus had taken the soul of her mama and been out of options, they brought the soulless body to the hospital, where it was treated like she was in a coma.

Only, she, Kihana's family, and Maja know that Amira wouldn’t and couldn’t wake up without her soul.

“I will go to Pegasus Island and get you back, Mama.”, Sehrazat promised, kissing her cheek. “Please just hold on.”

With one last squeeze, Sehrazat leaves the hospital room.

Outside Aunty Rahila with Kihana, Sadiye and Maja are waiting for her. Kihana has their luggage for their trip beside her.

Aunty Rahila opens her arms and Sehrazat lets herself be hugged.

“I wish there was another way to save your mother, but this is a journey you and Kihana, have to make alone, I’m afraid.”, says Rahila, stroking her blue hair.

Sadiye, who stands beside Maja, puts her hands on her little waist and huffs: “Why can’t we all go, mommy?! That’s so unfair. Anybody of us is a good duellist; we would have a higher chance at getting Aunty Amira back!”

“Sadie.”, responds her sister, petting her head. “Without an invitation, it is pointless. Me, Sehrazat, and Afya will manage, believe in us.”

It is clear that the youngest wants to say more, but Maja puts a hand on her shoulder, shaking her head.

“No, Sadie-Chan, Hana-Chan is right. We can’t do anything.”

The little black-haired girl wants to protest when she sees how secretly Maja winks at her. She blinks, till she gets what the older meant.

It’s then that Sehrazat lets go of Rahila and takes her luggage from Kihana.

“Let’s go. We are wasting time.”

“Are you really all right with bringing Sadiye home and waiting for my return from driving Kihana and Sehrazat to the port, Maja?”, asks Rahila.

Besides Sadiye, no one seems to see the mischief glint in Maja’s eyes. She has to control herself not to laugh.

“Don’t worry Schariq-San, Sadie-Chan is in good hands with me.”, promises Maja.

“All right.”

“I don’t wish you good luck, Sehra-Chan and Hana-Chan, just kick Pegasus butt!”

“Big time!”, adds Sadiye.

Kihana and Sehrazat give them a big thumbs-up.

With that, the three, who are going to the port, leave.

Maja and Sadiye wait for a few seconds.

“Are we now going to run to the bus station before boarding the ship illegally, Maja-Nee?”

“Let us wait for a few seconds more, then we run like the wind.”

“Okay!”

*/*

Pegasus really had a lot of money to spend if he could book an entire luxury cruiser to bring all these duellists to the Duelist Kingdom. Or it was his.

Sehrazat admitted she was a bit overwhelmed.

All this because he wanted her Millennium Fragment? And nobody had a clue.

“I’m sorry.”, she heard the voice of her dear partner.

Afya, the spirit of the Millennium Fragment, materialized by her side.

The once queen of all Egypt looked sorrowful with the same orange eyes as Sehrazat and…her mother at her.

Sehrazat was still surprised how both could be twins, only Afya was taller, had longer hair and her face looked more mature and beautiful.

“If only I had beaten Pegasus in his twisted game, then you didn’t need to make this journey to save Amira’s soul.”, said the spirit sadly and ashamed of herself.

“Afya, I don’t give you the fault her.”, Sehrazat reminded her darker half. “Only Pegasus and his freaky eye! We will get Mama back! If we have to beat Pegasus at a children’s card game, then so be it. He won’t use the same trick on us again twice!”

Afya nodded determinedly at her partner and descendant.

“True words you speak child of mine. And if this didn’t work we can always beat Pegasus up. I would prefer this more.”

Now Sehrazat had to laugh, which earned her strange looks from the other duellists in the line for the boarding and a raised eyebrow from Kihana beside her.

She pointed at the air beside her mouthing the name she had given her ancestor. Kihana understood and let them be.

“I love how you are always ready to beat people up, Gran-Gran.”, she told full of affection Afya.

Her “Gran-Gran” puffed her cheeks up.

“I’m a warrior, no damsel in distress. I may not remember my life as queen, but I know I was born to fight not to play children’s card games!”

“And yet you are so good at it Gran-Gran!”

Sehrazat didn’t get a response, because it was now her turn to show Pegasus Lackey her dueling clove to prove she could board the ship.

Afya took this chance retiring back into the Millenium Item.

Probably to go into her soul room and train with her outstanding collection of swords. Yes, Sehrazat knew that it was all mental, but still, holy Ra Afya had a lot of weapons in her soul room and could use anyone masterly.

It does make her feel humble.

After Kihana got the okay to board, the two best friends gripped each other hands and decide to look around the ship.

One of the attendants informed them that as former Europa Champion and second in the rankings, they would have a double bedroom to themselves.

They left their luggage there so that they could move around freely.

They wanted to check on their competitors.

They needed to.

Knowing whom they were going against would help them greatly to win the tournament and get Amira’s soul back from Pegasus.

That’s how the stubble upon an interesting scene.

There was Mai Kujaku, an old acquaintance of the girls, in a conversation with two unknown boys.

One was a tall blond with a green jacket and the other was a short boy with the wildest hair they ever had seen. Tri-coloured and starfish-shaped.

Suddenly Sehrazat heard Afya hiss.

“What’s wrong, Gran-Gran?!”, she asked worried her Yami.

“Look at what the little one is wearing!”

Sehrazat did it and had to control the gasp that left her mouth.

She nudged Kihana to get her attention.

The taller girl let out a silent curse: “What in the name of freaking Isis?!”

Right in front of them was another Millennium Item.

And not any ordinary, not that any of them were ordinary, it was the Millenium Puzzle!

The one who belonged once to the Nameless Pharaoh and Afya’s husband, as Sehrazat’s grandmother, told them in her stories.

No wonder, Afya was freacking out.

Both best friends had turned into statues.

What should they do now?

Afya was no help since she had to calm herself down.

Kihana and Sehrazat looked at each other.

“We need to talk to the boy.”, suggests Kihana. “We need to know if the pharaoh is with him.”

“How are we going to do that?! Just straight up walking over to him and asking him if he has a spirit in his puzzle who possesses him sometimes? We would sound crazy, Hana!”, argued Sehrazat back.

“Do you have a better idea, Sehra?”

“…Not really.”

However, they didn’t need to walk up to the boys, since Mai turned around to walk away from them and saw them.

The older girl blinked for a second, not believing whom she saw before she smirked.

“Well, well, if this isn’t a surprise.”, she said so loud that everybody, including Yugi and Jounouchi, looked in her direction. “If this is not Sehrazat, the Amazon Princess of the Nile, and Kihana, the Lady of the Dragons. What are you girls doing here? I thought your titles as number one and number two in Europa were made invalid since you live now in Japan.”

Under all the looks of the people, Sehrazat got shy and hid a bit behind Kihana, gripping her hand tight, while her best friend deadpanned at Mai.

“Hello to you too Mai, Mistress of the Harpies. Long time no see. How are you?”

Mai couldn’t answer since abruptly a lot of Duelists talked out loud.

“Oh my god, that’s really Sehrazat Faizan, the Amazon Princess of the Nile!”

“The Ex-Europa Champion?”

“The one whom anybody bet that at the world championships would beat Seto Kaiba?”

“Her or Kihana Schariq, the Lady of the Dragons. These girls are already legends!”

“Are they that good at Duel Monsters?”

“They are both incredible! You should have seen their Duel at the Europa Championships! It was brutal!”

Sehrazat got even shyer and looked at the ground, while Kihana rubbed bashful with her free hand her neck.

Of course, after Jounouchi stared at the two pretty girls to see if he was familiar with them, if they were such big names in the Dueling world, he turned to his best pal.

“Are these pretty girls, really such huge numbers, Yug?”, he asked.

Yugi nodded.

“Yes, Sehrazat Faizan and Kihana Schariq were incredible at the Europa Championship. Their duel against each other was even transmitted in Japan. Sehrazat with her all-female monster-themed deck and her amazons only won by a hair against Kihana’s dragons. It was from start to finish nervewracking.”

Jounouchi let out a whistle, damn that sounded badass, while Yuugi looked at the girls.

He remembered how he had watched their duel.

As he had first seen Sehrazat on the TV something deep in him had reacted to her.

The boy still couldn’t figure out what.

She was a beautiful girl, no question, and even a bit shorter than him, but something in him felt like he had known her, which was impossible of course.

Yet, seeing her in blood and flesh now, made the feeling tenfold.

It was then that Sehrazat looked up from the ground and their eyes met.

Violette met Orange.

And both felt like lightning struck them.

Unknown to them even their Yami’s felt it.

Yugi felt a blush forming on his cheeks.

Sehrazat was so beautiful.

And these eyes of hers…so brilliant and unique…he had never seen orange eyes…like topas...nonetheless he felt he had looked into these eyes a thousand times…like he was coming home.

Meanwhile, Sehrazat had similar thoughts crossing her mind.

Yugi was a short guy, but taller than her…and his eyes reminded her of beautiful Amethyst. Eyes that she knew…even if it was impossible…it was like she had found a missing piece of herself.

He was a handsome young man!

Mai’s voice broke the two out of their staring contest.

“What’s up with you Sehrazat, you aren’t normally this shy?”, said the older girl to her and raised an elegant eyebrow. “Not even a hello to an old opponent?”

She could practically feel how Kihana gave her a look too.

Damn it, this was embarrassing!

She licked her lips and smiled a bit wobbly at Mai.

“It’s nice to see you again, Mai. So you are in this tournament too, heh?”

Yugi felt a shiver down his back as he heard her voice in person. She had a pretty melodious voice.

It was like he knew that she would have such a voice.

But how?

He didn’t know that his darker half was freacking out at seeing the young girl too. It was so weird, the spirit knew he didn’t remember things, but he had a feeling he knew this girl and he could sense a familiar presence off her.

How could be this possible?

“You both may have defeated me the last time we saw each other.”, told Mai Kihana and Sehrazat. “But this time I will be victorious. See you at the island, ladies.”

With that Mai walked away and left behind a Kihana, who shook her head at her, and a Sehrazat, who mumbled: “Can’t we be just friends?”

Now, a lot of people didn’t think that Jounouchi was an observant person and it was mostly true, however, he had seen how his best pal Yuugi stared at this Sehrazat girl like she was some kind of goddess, not that he could fault him.

The tiny girl was pretty, he just found her white-haired and taller friend hotter.

Anyway like a good best friend, he needed to help Yuugi.

His pal would never talk to that girl alone, never mind asking her out or something, so he would play wingman for him.

With a grin, he gripped Yugi by his shoulder and nearly pushed him to the girls. Yugi looked wide-eyed at him and mouthed what-are-you-doing.

Jounouchi ignored him.

It was for Yugi’s own sake…and also he really wanted to speak with the white-haired girl.

She was a bomb!

Kihana raised an eyebrow at them and Sehrazat hid behind her again.

She caressed the hand of her best friend to calm her down.

Whatever happened, her Sehra seemed already crushing on the tri-coloured-haired teen, if she acted this way.

Was this some kind of love at first sight?

How adorable!

“Hey, ladies.”, greeted them Jounouchi. “I’m Katsuya Jounouchi, you can call me Joey and that’s my pal Yugi Muto. I heard from him you both are number one and two in duelling from Europe! That’s really cool.”

Not only Kihana and Sehrazat were shocked, even Afya looked at this tiny boy and couldn’t believe it.

“You are the one who bet Seto Kaiba, wow, it’s an honour!”, said Kihana to them.

Sehrazat nodded rapidly.

Afya facepalmed at her descendant.

“O-Oh, thank you.”, mumbled Yugi shyly.

The blue-haired girl took all her courage and stopped hiding behind Kihana.

She wanted and needed to talk to Yugi.

Afya even gave her an encouraging nod.

“You were incredible.”, complimented Sehrazat Yugi, who blushed more at her words. “You were the first one even to summon Exodia! It was a spectacular duel. I don’t think I could have handled Kaiba as you did.”

“I reset that.”, hissed Afya in their minds. “The boy with the Blue Eyes White Dragon fetish would have gone down hard and fast if we duel him!”

Sehrazat ignored her Yami/Ancestor.

“N-No, I saw how you duel at the European Championship. You truly earned your first place. I bet you can defeat Kaiba too, Faizan-San.”, complimented Yugi back to her.

He was burning like a house on fire, yet he needed to say this.

Shy Sehrazat batted her long eyelashes and Yuugi thought he would die. If he did it would be a great death, with one last look at the prettiest girl he had ever seen.

“Please you can call me Sehrazat or Sehra.”

“Then please call me Y-Yugi!”

“Yeah, and Jounouchi or Joey to me.”, said Joey with a huge grin.

Damn, these two were adorable.

Kihana seemed to agree with him since she grinned at him and pointed her head at the two smaller teens.

“And I’m Kihana or just Hana. So Yuugi, you are wearing interesting jewellery. It looks like the one Sehrazat is wearing.”, directed Kihana their conversation to the question they needed the answers to.

However cute Sehrazat and Yugi were with each other, needed to wait for this.

That’s when both Joey and Yugi noticed the teardrop-formed golden amulet with an eye that hung from Sehrazat’s neck.

“It looks really like yours, Yug!”, shouted Joey.

“Another Millennium Item!”, gasped Yugi surprised.

“What? You sure, men?”

It was Sehrazat who answered him: “Yes, my amulet is a Millennium Item. The legends say there are eight of them.”

“Is yours one too, Yuugi?”, asked Kihana.

He nodded, still floored. Never would he have thought to meet after Pegasus eye another Millenium Item.

“Yeah, it’s the Millennium Puzzle.”

Of that answer, Afya had the strongest reaction.

Sehrazat had to keep her face under control, which was hard since her Yami literally screamed in their shared mind.

“I can’t believe it! It is the puzzle! Is there my supposed husband’s soul bond, as your grandmother told us, Sehrazat? I mean I kinda feel something of another presence with little Yugi, but whatever that is doesn’t want to talk and show themselves. How rude!”

Thankful the ship horn sounded, which meant that it was time to retire to their cabin. Sehrazat was thankful. One part of her didn’t want to leave Yugi, no it wanted to talk more to him, but she, Kihana, and Afya needed to talk.

Thank the gods, that Kihana was with her.

She gripped her hand and gave the two boys her best brilliant smile. Joey and Yuugi turned both red under Kihana’s beauty.

“Look at the time. We need to go, but we should totally meet up later guys.”

With a wave, she dragged Sehrazat in the direction of their shared cabin.

*/*

Meanwhile, in a super hidey spot at the ship, three teenagers and one child were discussing with each other what they had seen.

“What's up with that? We're here because we were worried but they were both flirting!”, said Anzu with her nose turned up.

“Shhhh! You're too loud!”, reminded her Honda.

“This is why men suck.”

"Preach it!", agreed their new friends.

Honda sweatdropped at Maja and Sadiye.

Better change the subject before the three girls start to rumble on why men suck.

“Are Sehrazat and Kihana really number 1 and 2 in Dueling from Europa?”, mumbled Honda and sweatdropped under Anzu's fiery look.

Little Sadiye nodded rapidly.

“Sehrazat and my Nee-San are the best. Yugi and Joey should be careful around them.”, she told them proudly.

“Sehrazat is merciless and Kihana is cunning. Dueling against them is quite the challenge.”, added Maja.

Honda nodded and Anzu crossed her arms.

“Well, you haven’t seen Yuugi duel, he beat Kaiba and he was the World Champion.”, she huffed.

The brunette boy gave her a look.

“You seem angry.”

“I bet because she is jealous of Sehrazat.”, answered Maja with a cheeky grin. “Yugi and her seem to like-like each other already!”

At Anzu’s outraged gasp, Honda had to stifle a laugh. Anyone besides Yugi and Anzu themselves knew that both had a crush on each other, yet it seemed Yuugi had totally forgotten it after meeting the Egyptian beauty.

Not that Honda could blame him, Sehrazat was short, but hot and had a really big breast size for someone so small.

And also Kihana was beautiful like an ancient goddess.

He wouldn’t mind getting to know the white-haired beauty.

“I’m not jealous, why should I?!”, hissed Anzu angrily.

“Well you should.”, came it deadpanned from Sadiye. “Sehra is way prettier than you and has bigger breasts, also she is an A-Rank Duelist. What have you to offer?”

Okay, Honda was officially dead!

He and Maja tried really hard to stifle their laughs at Anzu’s flabbergasted face and Sadiye’s winning smirk with twinkling red eyes.

The little ten-year-old was a firecracker, all right!

The boy admitted that when Maja and Sadiye dragged themselves with them into the container to get board on the ship he didn’t know what to think of them.

A teenager with a child trying to get to the Duelist Kingdom illegally?

It seemed fishy, but after knowing why they did this, to help Sehrazat and Kihana, like Anzu and him, Joey and Yugi, and hearing this sick burn, he liked them all right.

He should be on Anzu’s side since they were friends, but if neither of her and Yugi made soon a move on each other no one should wonder when someone else would do it.

*/*

It was good that Sehrazat and Kihana had a double bedroom for themselves, so they could discuss in peace what they should do next, what was even better they had also Room Service!

So they didn’t need to leave the room to find something to eat and interrupt their discussion.

Since both were petty on behalf of Amira and Pegasus would come up for all the food and drink expenses they would have they just order the whole card.

It was the most magnified and delicious sight the girls had ever seen. Also, it tasted even better knowing that Pegasus would pay for all this.

“This carbonara is heavenly!”, mumbled Sehrazat, while eating the pasta dish.

“Try this steak, Sehra!”, said Kihana and put some of it on her plate. “It’s so juicy!”

Afya, who was out of her Millenium Item, just stared at two of her “kids” in disbelief. How they managed to eat nearly all food dishes and still could go on was beyond her.

“Do you have perhaps, black holes as stomaches?”, she wonders.

That would explain a lot.

Sehrazat gulped down the piece of Steak and turned to Afya, while Kihana attacked next a fish dish. Was it lobster?

“Don’t be like that Gran-Gran. The food is gratis and will make a huge hole in Pegasus expanses. You should try some of it too.”

Not even a second later Sehrazat switched with Afya places and the once queen of all Egypt stared confused down at the food dishes around her.

“Your Majesty?”, called Kihana, now eating some Sushi. “Is there something or why did you and Sehra switch places?”

“My Descendants think I should try some of this food.”, she explained to her.

“Oh, all right. You should really try then this Sushi it’s so good.”, informed her Kihana, eating the next roll.

“Isn’t it just uncooked fish?”, asked Afya, frowning a bit.

Uncooked fish didn’t sound tasty to her.

“Yes it is, but trust me, Your Majesty, this is some first-class Sushi!”

Oh well, what did she have to lose?

So Afya used the chopsticks to put a Sushi Roll in her mouth.

Let’s just say Sehrazat had to formally beg her Gran-Gran to give her control again over her body.

She still wanted to eat too!

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