I present to you my version of How to Train Your Dragon with female Hiccup and male Astrid. All other characters stay their gender.

I do not own How to Train Your Dragon, only Hicca (my female Hiccup) and Asher (my male Astrid)

Chapter 1: Pests

'This is Berk. Its twelve days north of hopeless and a few degrees south of freezing to death. It's located solidly on the meridian of misery. My village. In a word, sturdy. It's been here for seven generations, but every single building is new. We fishing, hunting, and a charming view of the sunsets. The only problems are the pests. You see, most places have mice or mosquitoes. We have…'

"Dragons…" Hicca Horrendous Haddock III says quickly shutting the door as a Monstrous Nightmare blew fire in her direction. Hicca is a 15 year old green eyed girl with long braided auburn hair that reaches her waist with modest sized chest. She wears a sleeveless green shirt with a fur hood, black pants with a tan fur-rimmed cloth secured around her waist by a plain black band and black fur boots. On her right arm she wears a tan cloth bracer that reaches from her elbow to hand that at the end of the cloth has a ring that loops around her middle finger.

The dragons were attacking again, likely to take another shot at their livestock. Hicca walks out of her house and weaves through the villagers fighting the dragons and protecting the livestock

'Most people would leave, not us. We're Vikings. We have stubbornness issues. My names Hicca, not the best name but it's not the worst. Parents believe a hideous name will frighten off gnomes and trolls, like our charming Viking demeanor wouldn't do that.'

Hicca continues to walk through the village while at the same time clutching her head hearing sounds that no one else could her as everyone tells her to get back inside. It wasn't like they were concerned for Hicca. It was really more of her father who was concerned for her. As Hicca walks down a path to her destination while still clutching her head about to cross the road when a Monstrous Nightmare swooped down and lit the path ablaze. Hicca felt someone grab her hood and pull her away from the fire.

"Hicca! What is she doing out again…?" A large muscular man asks the surrounding Vikings while pointing at her. Then he turned to her. "What are you doing out? Get inside!" The man says letting her go as she makes her way to her destination.

'That's Stoick the Vast, chief of the tribe. They say that when he was a baby, he popped a dragon's head clean off its shoulder. Do I believe it? Yes, I do.'

Stoick throws a turned over cart at a Deadly Nadder causing it to release the sheep it had. "What have we got?" He asks Spitelout, his second-in-command.

"Gronckles, Nadders, Zipplebacks, oh and Hoark saw a Monstrous Nightmare." Spitelout says.

"Any Night Furies?" Stoick asks.

"None so far." Spitelout says.

"Good." Stoick replies.

Hicca continues to walk past the main courtyard still clutching her head trying to drown out the sound as the Vikings lit and hoisted the torches to light up the night sky. Hicca the made it to the blacksmiths and walks in over to her apron while taking off her fur hood.

"Nice of you to join the party, I thought you'd been carried off." A large muscular Viking with a long braided mustache missing his right hand and left foot says.

"Who, me? Come on, I'm way too fast for them to catch me." Hicca says lifting one of the man's prosthetics into its slot on the wall.

"Well they need toothpicks, don't they?" The man jokes as he changes his prosthetic hand.

Hicca ran over to the window just as some Vikings came up and deposited their broken weapons. She grabbed the piles and put them over the burning coal.

'The meat-head with attitude and interchangeable hands is Gobber. I've been his apprentice ever since I was little, well littler.'

Just then Hicca clutches her head again and Gobber notices. "Those headaches seem to be getting worse, lass." Gobber says.

"You can say that." Hicca says.

Meanwhile near the ramp walkways. "We move to the lower defenses. We'll catch them in time with the catapults." Stoick says to his group of Vikings as they move down through the village while watching a Monstrous Nightmare set a house ablaze.

'See old village, lots and lots of new houses.'

"Fire!" A Viking shouts.

As Hicca was working she noticed the group of five teenagers wheeling a water barrel past the blacksmith shop up to the burning houses.

'Oh and that's Fishlegs Ingerman…' A husky 14 year old blonde haired girl wearing a large brown fur shirt, tan pants and brown boots.

'Snotlout Jorgenson…' A 15 year old brown haired girl wearing a helmet with spiral sheep horns, her tunic tucked in her pants with open-stitching and a black vest over it, dark gray bracers on her arms, and matching fur boots.

'The twins, Ruffnut Thorston…' A 15 year old blonde haired girl who wears a light brown, animal skin-like vest and a dark blue tunic that goes a little over her hip and end in tatters. She wears a grayish-brown short skirt that also ends in tatters. Around her waist, she wears a metal-leather belt with an unidentified metal crest in the middle of it. Ruffnut wears dark brown leggings and dark blue furry boots. On her arms, she wears a long dark-gray cloth brace that starts at her elbows and stops at the wrist. A bit of the cloth also goes through between her first and second finger. Ruffnut's helmet is studded with four horns: the top two are thinner bull-like horns while the two bottom horns are longer and curved. Without her helmet, her hair is evenly divided in the slightly to the side and short bangs across the left side of her face. She has two small braids near the top of her hair and longer braids that reach to her waist. There's also an additional braid on her back. Around her neck she wears a necklace with the pendant of a tooth or claw that may have came from a Dragon. She's skinny for her age and has tan skin, along with a pair of pale-blue eyes.

'…and Tuffnut Thorston…' A 15 year old blonde haired boy who wears a dark brown long furry animal vest with a very light pale green tunic that goes all the way past his hip. Around his waist, there's a brown sash-like belt that is tied around. He also wears light grey-blue pants and dark brown furry boots. On his arms, he wears a long brown arm cloth arm band that starts at his elbows and ends at his wrists. His helmet is studded with four horns: the top two are bull-like, and the bottom two resemble ox horns. Without his helmet, his long blond hair, that ends with a brownish tint, is unevenly divided in the middle and appears to look like dreadlocks, particularly in the second film his teeth are somewhat uneven. His necklace's pendent is a large claw or tooth that may have come from a dragon. He's relatively skinny and tan skin with dark-blue eyes.

'…and Asher Hofferson.' A 15 year old blonde haired boy who wears a steel-blue shirt, tan cloth bracers on his arms (each bit of cloth goes between his first and second finger), dark blue pants, brown fur boots and also wears a skull emblazoned belt and shoulder pads.

'Asher Hofferson was the coolest, most talented Vikings of her generation. Ever since Hicca was a little girl, she had a huge crush on him. Every time she looked at him, she felt her heart race speed up, her face warm up and her knees go weak.'

Hicca watches as the five teenagers walk past the blacksmith shop.

'Their job is so much cooler.'

Just then Hicca felt somebody grab her collar again. It was Gobber. He easily lifted her away from the window and back into the shop.

"Oh come on, please? I need to make my mark." Hicca argued.

"Oh you've made plenty of marks, all in the wrong places." Gobber says

"Please, two minutes. I'll kill a dragon. My life will get infinitely better. I might even get a date." Hicca says.

"You can't swing a hammer, you can't throw an axe, and you can't even throw one of these." Gobber says holding up a bolas, which was instantly snatched away by another Viking.

"But this can throw it for me." Hicca says setting her hand on her own invention. It instantly opened up and shot one of the Vikings in the window.

"Now, this is what I'm talking about. Look what you've done." Gobber says, getting irritated with her.

"It was just a mild calibration issue." Hicca says.

"Listen Ayden, if you ever want to get out there and fight dragons you need to stop all of…this." Gobber says gesturing to all of her.

"But you just pointed to all of me." Hicca says.

"Yes, that's it! Stop being all of you." Gobber says.

"Oh, you sir are playing a dangerous game, keeping all of this raw Viking-ness contained. There will be consequences!" Hicca says.

"I'll take my chances. Sword. Sharpen. Now." Gobber handed Hicca a sword, a very heavy sword and she took it over to the sharpening wheel.

'One day, I'll get out there, because killing a dragon is everything around. A Deadly Nadder head might get me at least some attention. Gronckles are tough. Taking down one of those would definitely get me way more attention, maybe even a boyfriend. A Hideous Zippleback? Exotic. Two heads, twice the status.'

Meanwhile Stoick and his group of Vikings were on a large catapult. "They found the sheep." Spitelout says.

"Concentrate fire on the lower bank." Stoick orders.

"Hurry up. Fire!" Spitelout shouts as the others fire the catapult and strikes a Deadly Nadder.

'And then there's the Monstrous Nightmare. Only the best Vikings go after those. They have this nasty habit of setting themselves on fire.'

"Reload! I'll take care of this." Stoick says as he swings his hammer at the Monstrous Nightmare, hitting in the face but then stops as if he senses a bigger danger approaching.

'But the ultimate prize is the dragon no one's ever seen before. We call it the…'

"Night Fury!" A male Viking yells.

"Get down!" Another male Viking yells.

The Night Fury's natural sound was heard and one of the catapults exploded.

"Jump!" Stoick shouts as everyone on the catapult jumps for safety as it crumbles.

'This thing never steals food, never shows itself and never misses. No one has ever killed a Night Fury, that's why I'm going to be the first.'

Hicca walked back into the shop to see Gobber putting on his axe prosthetic.

"Man the fort, Hicca. They need me out there." Gobber says walking out the door but turned. "Stay. Put. Here. You know what I mean." He says and lets out a battle cry and raced into battle.

Hicca quickly took this opportunity and pushed her bolas shooter out of the shop.

"Hicca, where are you going?" A Viking asks.

"Come back here!" Another Viking says.

"Yeah I know. Be right back." Hicca says as she pushed her invention through all the chaos of the raid.

Meanwhile three Deadly Nadders for a flock of sheep together and were about to take them until Stoick threw a net over them.

"Let's get them!" The Vikings say as they charge to the Nadders only for one to breath fire.

"Mind yourself. The devils still have some juice in them." Stoick says as he clamps a Nadder's mouth shut.

Hicca was now in a quiet spot in the village where she pushed her invention towards the edge of the cliff and pulled out the shooter and got ready, waiting for her target.

"Come on, Give me something to shoot at. Give me something to shoot at." Hicca says and then heard the dragon's cry in the distance, but she couldn't see anything against the night sky. She squinted her eyes and saw something move across the stars. Hicca could hear the sound of the Night Fury as it blew up the catapult right in front of her. Hicca saw it for a second only and fired the bolas. The force of the shot easily pushed her small body onto the ground. She then heard a snap and roar. I quickly sat up and saw a dragon fall from the sky into the woods. "I hit it! Yes, I hit it! Did anybody see that? Agh!" Hicca then clutches her head again and feels anger and rage near her.

'There's also something you should know about me. At the age of 3, I had an encounter with a dragon during a raid causing it to slice my right arm which left me with a large claw scar that cover up with the bracer. But here's the strange thing, some of that dragon's blood mixed with mine causing me to possess a unique gift; the ability to read the emotions of dragons and feel their presence near me. It makes everyone think I'm crazy as they claim that dragons are just mindless creatures with no emotions at all other than to kill Vikings so everyone just shuns me for it.'

Hicca turns around turned around and saw a Monstrous Nightmare creep up behind me and crush her bolas shooter under its foot.

"Except you." Hicca says.

As the dragon lifted its head, Hicca read its emotion and knew how it felt; angry. She bolted down the road, letting out the loudest scream she could as she ran back into the village. Stoick heard the scream and turned to see Hicca being chased by the Monstrous Nightmare causing him to sigh.

"Do not let them escape!" Stoick order as he ran to Hicca's aid.

Hicca raced through the village dodging the fire of the Monstrous Nightmare and then hid behind a pillar. She felt the rage in the Nightmare's flame and peered to her right only to see it wasn't there anymore and knew why. "Because you're behind me."

The Nightmare open its mouth when all of a sudden, Stoick appeared and tackled the Nightmare. The dragon tried to breathe fire, but nothing came out.

"You're all out." Stoick punched and kicked the Nightmare a few times before causing it to fly away in retreat.

'Oh and there's one more thing you need to know…'

Stoick turned to face the burning pillar as the wood snapped causing the torch to roll down the hill destroying a few things in the process.

"Sorry daddy." Hicca says to her father as they watch the livestock the dragons managed to get. "Okay but I hit a Night Fury." Hicca says but then felt Stoick grab her hood and walk away, forcefully dragging her along with him. "It isn't like the other times, dad! I really hit it! It went down near Raven Point. We can get a search party…"

"Stop!" Stoick shouts at Hicca. He never shouted at her. She flinched at the harshness in his voice. Stoick saw that and softened his tone. "Just stop. Every time you step outside, disaster follows. Can you not see that I have bigger problems? Winter is almost here and I have an entire village to feed." He says to his daughter.

"Well between you and me, he village could do with a little less feeding don't you think?" Hicca says jokingly.

"This isn't a joke, Ayden! Why can't you follow the simplest of orders?" Stoick asks.

"I can't help it. I see a dragon and I just have to…kill it. You know? It's who I am, daddy." Hicca says before clutching her head as she felt a dragon in pain somewhere.

Stoick rubs his temple seeing his daughter getting another one of her 'migraines'.

"You're migraines are getting worse and you are many thing, Hicca. But a dragon killer is not one of them. Get back to the house. Make sure she gets there." Stoick says to Gobber as he walks up and gently smacks the back of her head. "I have her mess to clean." He says.

Hicca walked past the other teenagers with Gobber.

"Quite the performance." Tuffnut says.

"I've never seen anyone mess up that badly. That helped." Snotlout says teasingly.

"Thank you, thank you. I was trying." Hicca replies sarcastically as Gobber pushes Snotlout to the ground.

A few minutes later Hicca and Gobber were marching up the stairs to the chief's house.

"I really did hit one." Hicca says.

"Sure, Hicca." Gobber replies.

"He never listens." Hicca says sadly.

"Well it runs in the family." Gobber replies back.

"And when he does, it's always with this disappointed scowl like someone skimped on the meat in his sandwich. Almost like he wishes I was a boy instead of a girl." Hicca says looking at the ground.

"Oh come now lass, when he found out he was a having a baby girl he was the proudest father there ever was." Gobber says trying to cheer her up.

"Yeah and 15 years later look how that turned out." Hicca mutters.

"Now you're thinking about this all wrong. It's not so much what you look like, it's what's inside that he can't stand." Gobber says causing Hicca to look at him.

"Thank you for summing that up." Hicca says.

"Look, the point it, stop trying so hard to be something you're not." Gobber suggests.

"I just want to be one of you guys." Hicca says opening the door and stepped in, shutting it before Gobber could respond.

Gobber sighs feeling sympathy for Hicca and walks away unknown that she quickly dashed through the house and jumped out the back door to find the Night Fury.

Hope you all liked it. Please review and tell me what you think.