Hey guys! I know, maybe it was not a good idea to start writing a new story but I couldn't focus on my previous stories when I had this stucked in my head. And when I already written it I don't see a point why I shouldn't publish it and found out your opinions. So I hope you will like new story and I can't wait for your opinions. So enjoy the new story and see you all until next chapter!

Dark clouds were gathering above King Palace of the Viking Kingdom of Berk. King invited every lord to his castle because of the threat that emerged on their borders. King, his royal advisors and most powerful lords were standing above the map placed on the table. King was a big man in middle age, with grey eyes and blonde hair braided into a short knot. He had a muscular figure and a big beard. He had large black fur cloak wrapped over his shoulders, a silver like a chain mail tunic with stripe pants and fur boots with two swords on either side of his waist. He had a golden crown on his head with several emeralds placed in it.

"Army of the Empress is growing exponentially." Said a tall strong man in his late twenties with short black hair and brown eyes and with a blue tattoo on his chin, with a fur across his chest in some sort of yellowish color. Under fur, he had a greenish shirt with wristbands. He had brown pants and fur boots with one sword on his waist while a short sword on the back of his waist. "It is said that her generals are crazy. They managed to build army more quickly than anyone else."

"It is outrageous!" Said a lord with black hairs, with a large fur coat and several golden rings and necklaces. "Woman shouldn't be sitting on their throne."

Then a sound of lighting could be heard and doors blast open. A limping messenger from the Kingdom of Outcast came towards them and guards stopped him.

"Let him pass." Said the king and gestured with his hand to come closer. "What happened to you?" King asked and everyone looked at the messenger.

"Vaxoston Empire conquered the Outcasts kingdom. " He rasped out and everyone paled.

"As it seems one of our allies is gone." Said a man with green eyes and red hair, like almost all Viking men he had a muscular figure that intimidates those who cross his path and his red hair is braided at the back. He had the front of his beard portion tied to one knot in front of the rest of it.

"It seems like that General Stoick." Said a king and then he turned to the messenger. "Give us details."

"The empress was leading the attack. She offered Alvin a truce. That he should stand down to avoid bloodshed. Alvin and his lords laugh at her. They believed that she was not strong enough to conquer their castle. They couldn't be more wrong." Messanger hissed from pain as he clutched his side. "Her army attacked with a ruthless force. And the empress was leading the attack. She was able to kill four men, who tried to disarm her." Lords and generals started to murmur at that. "Then her generals roared and dragons of a different kind attacked. They helped them conquer the castle." With that murmurs were even stronger. "When she reached the throne room, Alvin's soldiers stand down without a fight. She then broke his arm when he tried to run. I was lucky to escape."

"We will be her next target." Said a man with red hair.

"I know Stoick. And because of that, we must try for peace talks." King said as he scratched his chin.

"Peace talks?" One lord shouted.

"That stupid!" Another one shouted and after him another and another.

"I say let that bitch come!"

"Yeah, we will show her how we are treating feisty women!"

"We should let them come and destroy them."

"Silence!" Stoick shouted and the throne room fell silent. "We can't fight them! Not yet!"

"Stoick is right," King continued. "Alvin's army was as big as ours. We can't risk it. We will convince them to sign the truce and we can rebuild our army. And then we can take them out. They will not know what hit them. And then we will see if her dragons or crazy generals can do something about it."

Meanwhile in a stable was a lanky boy with an auburn mess of a hair and green eyes, cleaning them up.

"Oh look, if it is not a 'useless'." Said a boy with brown hair and grey eyes to his two friends. The boy groaned and turned to them.

"You honour me, prince, by coming here." The lanky boy said and the prince came closer to him and punched him in a stomach.

"I know, Hiccup because you are a failure. A big failure," Prince said as he smirked.

"I heard that often." Hiccup said as he glared at the prince. "Don't you have anything else?" He said and with that, prince punched him in his jaw. Hiccup fell to the ground and small streams of blood were coming from his nose and lips. With that, they started to kick him and beating him while he curled and tried to protect himself. They stopped after a while and prince picked him up. "How big disappointment you must be for your father. If I were him I would already disavow you. You are nothing than a living filth, worthy of nothing."

"Good that is something new. Anything else?" Hiccup rasped and prince punched him again in his jaw. Hiccup fell back to the ground only to be picked up again.

"You should learn your place, Useless. Or you will find yourself under an axemen's axe." He then throws him straight to the horse dung and Hiccup fell with his face in it. The boys laughed and started to walk away. When they were near the door the prince shouted. "See you soon, Useless."

Hiccup hardly sit up with his hands thrashing. He tried to clean his face with his sleeve but he was not able to do much. One of the horses bent down and fumed on Hiccup. He smiled and patted him when he tried to stand up. But he fell down with a yelp. Suddenly the door opened up and Hiccup was terrified that, the prince, came back. But to his surprise, he saw how his cousin Snotlout slowly walked inside and closed the door behind him. When he turned around and saw Hiccup he gasped.

"Hiccup!" He said as he ran to him. "What happened to you?"

"Asger happened." Hiccup rasped as Snotlout was looking for a clean water. When he found the bucket with the water he took it and brought it to Hiccup.

"Here," he said and Hiccup started to clean his hands and his face.

"What are you doing here Snotlout?" Hiccup asked when he was done. "I will get you into problems. Your father would kill you if he saw you with me."

"I know but I can't let you just like this," Snotlout said as he helped Hiccup to stand up. Hiccup let out a hiss and they heard a sound of thunder outside. "Come on I will take you to a Gobber." Snotlout said as he helped Hiccup to the door. He slowly opened it and when he saw that no one was on the street they went straight to the Gobber's forge. Gobber was a local blacksmith and Hiccup was his student. Gobber even raised the two boys more than their fathers because they spent more time near the king then with their sons.

Snotlout hide them into a shadow when several guards passed by them and then they continued through the dark street towards the forge. When the got to the forge Snotlout quickly opened door walked inside with Hiccup and closed the door.

"Gobber!" He shouted as he let Hiccup to sit down to a chair. Inside the forge was warm from the fire and soon a big Viking came from the back of the forge. He had blonde moustaches and he was missing hand and leg.

He frowned when he saw them and took several medical supplies towards Hiccup.

"What happened now?" Gobber asked and Snotlout almost shouted. "That prick Asger happened. I think that he has broken a few ribs."

Gobber frowned even more as he was checking Hiccup and he was hissing more and more. "He has broken several ribs. He will not be able to work for a few days."

"Dad will kill me." Hiccup groaned.

"No, if I can help it. I will say everyone that I gave you a work in a forge while you will be resting." Gobber said as he started to mix several remedies. "Snotlout get him out of that tunic and threw it into the barrel of water."

Snotlout nodded and he carefully took Hiccup's tunic and went to throw it into a barrel of water. He then looked back at Hiccup and frowned. His cousin was no longer a lanky boy as he was a few years back. Yes, he was still slim but he had strong and shaped muscles all over his body mostly from the hard work in the forge. He definitely could put up a fight.

"Why you never fight back, cuz?" Snotlout asked as he came closer. "You are no longer helpless. Why don't you fight back?"

"Because the king would have killed me." Hiccup said and he could saw the sadness in his eyes. "No one will ever appreciate me here. They will always see me as a runt, a mistake, a hiccup. If I would fight back they wouldn't appreciate me, no. They got used to having me around so they can kick and punch me anytime they want. If I would fight back I would be dead."

As Snotlout thought about it, he found out that he was right. He would get into worse problems than he is.

"Go, Snoutlout before your father will look for you," Gobber said as he was cleaning Hiccup's wounds. "I will take care of him. You can come to see him tomorrow."

Snotlout nodded and made his way to the door. "Thank you Snotlout." Hiccup said before he opened the door. "For... For everything."

"You are welcome. Anyone would do that." Snotlout said with a smile. "No. Not everyone." Hiccup said as he winced.

"Good night guys, see you tomorrow." Snotlout said opened the door and left.

"You gave up. Am I right?" Gobber said as he bandaged Hiccup's torso. "Did I have any other choice? My life will not change even when I would try as hard as I can. This city hates me, despise me and some even try to kill me. Why I shouldn't give up."

Gobber sighed but he didn't say anything back. He knew that Hiccup was right. There was no point in denying it. He then went to get a Hiccup new tunic. When he got back he found out that Hiccup fell asleep. He was looking at him for a while and then he frowned. If Hiccup will stay here, they will kill him sooner or later.

Several days passed and Hiccup stayed in the forge. When someone was looking for him Gobber told them that he gave him so much work that he can't even move from the forge.

Meanwhile, the king sends a messenger to the Vaxoston Empire inviting the empress to his court for peace talks. A messenger came back with her answer and she agreed to come. When Hiccup felt a little better he started working in a forge again. Snotlout came to talk to him sometimes because Hiccup knew that he has no one else.

"The royals from the Vaxoston Empire should come today." Snotlout said while Hiccup was working on the sword. "Even empress should come. It is said that they live together with dragons." Hiccup frowned at that. Every kingdom was killing dragons for trophies, yet the Vaxoston Empire was taking them as allies. His thoughts were suddenly interrupted when another man entered the forge. It was Eret. One of the King's general, who didn't hate Hiccup and knew that Hiccup and Snoutlout are meeting each other even when Spitelout forbid it.

"The guards saw royal convoy. They are coming with dragons. Your father wants you to be there." Eret said to Snotlout and Hiccup looked at him. Eret could saw in Hiccup's eyes that he was hoping that maybe his father, Stoick would want him there too, but Eret only shook his head. Hiccup looked back to the sword and tried to ventilate his anger through the hammering. Snotlout and Eret bid a farewell to him and soon Hiccup finished that sword. He cleaned himself and he secretly went to look at the royal convoy.

Meanwhile on the road in the carriage was sitting the Empress looking out to the country. She had long, blonde hair wrapped in a braid down her back and ocean blue eyes. Her dress was deep blue and she had a crown with two deadly nadders at her head.

"It is pity that these people are poor while their 'lords' are swimming in wealth." Said a man across her. He has a long silver like hair tied up in the ponytail, grey eyes and three silver scars starting on the forehead which continued through the right eye and ends up on the right cheek. He was wearing basic dark blue tunic and leggings, black fur boots and everything was covered by a leather armor plating along with shoulders pads, also with arm bracelets and leather pants and whole armour was covered with silver dragon scales.

"You are right Taramis. These kingdoms don't care about people of their land." Empress said. Her carriage was escorted by dozens of a soldier and her generals. To that they were escorted by a Deadly Nadder, Monstrous Nightmare, Zippleback, Gronckle and to everyone surprise even a Night fury. He mostly didn't leave the city and because of that, they were surprised that he wanted to go with them. Soon they passed the gate and they stopped in front of King's castle. Taramis went out first and then helped her to get out of the carriage. She was welcomed by King, his son, lords and generals.

"Welcome in Berk, Empress," King said as he bowed down a little. "This is my son Asger. My best general Stoick Haddock, his brother Spitelout Jorgenson and his son Snoutlout Jorgenson." Then he started introducing too many lords, including Eret, and Astrid yawned to everyone surprise.

"You should think about reducing your court, King Agnar. It will do good for your visitors." Empress said and her generals and dragons chuckled at that.

"Anyway. My name is Astrid Hofferson. Empress on the throne of Vaxoston Empire and protector of Outcast kingdom. This is Taramis. My most trusted general and advisor." Empress said as she gestured to the man. "Then my others generals are Heather." She said as she gestured to a woman which had green eyes and long black hair that frames her face with her bangs parted on the right side and a braid placed over her left shoulder. She had a black, short sleeved hooded shirt with a brown leather vest, dark grey pants, and brown boots.

"And last but not least, Ruffnut and Tuffnut," she gestured to the duo and everyone knew straight away that they were twins because of their blonde hair and faces.

"Your dragons and horses will be escorted to the stables. Let's head inside, shall we?" King said after pleasantries and they all went into a throne room.

Hiccup was not quick enough to see the royal convoy but then he was grabbed by guards. "You have work in the stables, runt." One guard said and the other one chuckled.

"Yeah, now you can clear a dragon dunk too." They both laughed at that and Hiccup's face fell down as they dragged him towards the stables.

Soon they showed him inside and when dragons looked at him he gulped. He recognised every dragon but when he saw night fury he gasped. Then the night fury started to advance to him and his eyes widened. He closed his eyes and thought that he was a dead man but then he felt how that dragon licked him. He snapped his eyes open and night fury continued to lick him. He laughed as he fell to the ground with night fury still licking him. Other dragons had a smirk on their faces because they found it amusing. They never saw this side of night fury.

When Night fury stopped Hiccup was surprised that he had no teeth "Toothless? Who would thought that you don't have..." Hiccup tried to say but then Night fury showed his teeth.

"Teeth." Hiccup finished with gulp. Night fury then started jumping around and Hiccup tried to calm him down. "Hey, Toothless! Get down." He tried and dragons found this even more amusing.

Meanwhile, in the throne room, the Empress and her people were disgusted by how the nobility here behave to the staff. She leans to Taramis and whispered to him. "It seems that this peace talks will not end as they are hoping." They were seated at the table in the throne room and staffs were surprised when every member of Empress convoy thanked them even for a glass of water. Astrid tried to not fall asleep while the king was talking about him, his kingdom and his lords and how much they can offer. But then several words made her blood boil.

"Also you are a young Empress and my son would do you a great husband," King suggested and the hall fell into a silence.

"It would be my honour babe," Asger said as he blown her a kiss. Astrid tried not to vomit.

"You will take that insult back," Taramis said as he stood up with his hand on his sword. Astrid calmed him down stood up and walked to the King's son. When she was behind him she flung her dagger into a table in front of him.

"If you tell that one more time I will kill you myself because of that insult." She said. "Now if you excuse me I must clear my head so I will go outside a little." Taramis stood up but she said. "Don't worry I will be fine. Besides I have my daggers." And with that, she left the hall where the Berkians were quite stunned.

She walked to the stable where she assumed her dragons would be. She was ready to open a door when she heard a voice from inside. She pressed her ear to the door and listened.

"I don't know what I should do Toothless. No one wants me here. Not even common people. They think that if they would talk to my, they would anger their 'lords'. I just don't know what to do. I would leave, but I have nowhere to go."

With that, she walked inside like if she didn't hear it. She was surprised to find a boy sitting in the hay with his back to deadly nadder and night fury's head on his lap as he was petting him.

"Oh, milady." He quickly stood up when he saw her and dusted himself. "Can I do something for you, milady?" He asked but she was still in the shock from what she saw. She quickly recoiled and answered. "Oh, no nothing, good sir. I just come to check the dragons." She smiled at him.

"You are part of Emprese's convoy?" Hiccup asked and she nodded. "Yes. You can call me Astrid."

Hiccup smiled and bowed. "Pleasure, milady. My name is Hiccup Haddock."

"Are you related to general Stoick Haddock?" She asked as she raised an eyebrow at him.

"Yes, he is my father." He said as he scratches back of his neck. That surprised her and she asked. "Then why weren't you with your father in welcoming committee?"

"Because he hates me. Actually, everybody here hates me, but that surely doesn't interest you, milady. I am sorry."

"On the contrary, it interests me," Astrid said as she came closer. "Everyone who can get close to this grumpy night fury has my attention. But not only that you managed to earn the trust of other dragons too."

"Well, Toothless here tried to cheer me up and then we somehow got along." Hiccup said as Toothless put his head under his hand.

"Toothless?" Astrid asked with a chuckle. "A good name. A weird by the fact that he is the deadliest dragon around, but good."

"I saw that he lost his tailfin." Hiccup said as he looked at her. She was stunned by his emerald green eyes. "How he lost it?"

"He can thank the brothers Grimborn from the Hunters kingdom. They would kill him if my general didn't find him sooner."

"If I had time I could build him an artificial tail and maybe he could fly again." Hiccup said and that surprised Astrid even more. But before she could tell something she was interrupted when the doors opened.

Then guards walked inside. "Are you troubling the lady, Useless!" They shouted and Astrid could saw fear in Hiccup's eyes. Toothless loudly growled and Astrid turned to them.

"No, we were just talking. And if you know what is good for you, you will not try to anger my dragons." Astrid said with fire in her eyes. The guards looked at each other and then they walked away with a huff.

"I am sorry, milady. I already took enough of your time." Hiccup said but Astrid was deep in thoughts. She heard what he said before she walked in and she saw fear in his eyes when the guards walked in, she could only guess how terrible everyone here was to him. She then gets an idea. She smirked and grabbed him by his arm.

"Come with me." She said as she dragged him out. She saw in corner of her eye that Toothless tilted his head on her and she nodded. When he saw that, he started jumping around.

Astrid dragged Hiccup towards the castle and soon they were stopped by a man named Eret. "Empress, I was sent to get you back."

"Empress?" Hiccup made a surprised yelp and then Eret looked at him. "Hiccup what are you doing with Empress?"

"Thank you for your message, sir." Astrid smiled and dragged Hiccup to the throne room. When everyone saw how Hiccup was dragged by his arm by empress they started to murmur. When Stoick saw that he quickly stood up.

"Hiccup what have you done?!" Stoick shouted.

"I... Dad... I... did... nothing..." Hiccup stammered and Astrid could feel that he was terrified. Not only that but she felt he tightened his grip on her arm. Before Stoick could say anything else Astrid glared at him. "Stand aside general Stoick." She said with a strong voice and Stoick gapped at her. He stands aside and she walked to the table.

"Now, my dear king. You can forget about the truce. I will not ally myself with someone who doesn't care for his own people." Every Berkian now gaped at her. Her convoy stood up and walked to her because they knew what she was doing even when they didn't know who was that man with her.

"Now I found this outcast in the stables and I want to offer him a deal in front of the witnesses." She stated and murmurs could be heard again.

"Hiccup Haddock, you are the only person who was able to befriend the night fury, besides me and my generals," Astrid said and now her convoy was eyeing the man. "I want to offer you a place in my castle. I am giving you the option to leave this damn place."

Hiccup was looking at her and his head was spinning. He knew what he wants but he just couldn't force himself to say anything. But then he looked into her blue eyes. And that look gave him the courage he needed.

"I accept your offer." Hiccup said and everyone in the hall gasped and glared at him.

"I won't allow it!" Stoick shouted as he went to them. "I am his father."

"He is an adult young man and he can decide for himself." Astrid snapped back at Stoick. "And from what I heard you hate him."

"Hiccup if you will leave with this witch, you are not my son," Stoick said and Astrid looked at Hiccup. She knew that this could change his mind but then she saw fire in his emerald eyes and she clutched his hand.

"When I was your son?!" Hiccup shouted what surprised everyone in the hall. They never saw angry Hiccup. "You never behaved like my father. In fact, I was never your son. I was never part of this town either. No one wants me here so be it. I am leaving with them."

With that Astrid gestured to her convoy and they all made their way out.

"Can I grab few my things? I don't have much." Hiccup asked and Astrid smiled at him. "Of course. Meanwhile, we will ready the carriage and dragons." She placed a peck on his cheek and he went red.

"I will go with him. Just in case. I don't like those glances." Taramis said as he smiled on the Empress.

"Yeah, I don't like them either," Heather said.

"Too angry," Ruffnut pointed

"Too mystery," her brother continued.

"I want to leave from here as soon as we can," Astrid said and everyone nodded. Taramis and Hiccup went to the city. While twins, Heather and Astrid readied the carriage. Their guard were keeping a good eye on them.

"I never saw you smiling like this Astrid," Heather commented and Astrid blushed a little. "Well, he is a special and nice man."

"Yeah, we totally get you, Astrid. We knew that you will catch someone someday."

But they were interrupted from their conversation as the shouts came towards them. "Catch them! Catch them all!"

Hiccup and Taramis came into a forge where Hiccup told everything to Gobber as he packed his blueprints and few things he had. Soon Snoutlout ran into the forge.

"Hiccup they want to catch you and whole convoy." Snotlout quickly said and soon they heard shouts.

"Hiccup I don't know if you have everything but we must go," Taramis said and Hiccup nodded. He turned to Snotlout and Gobber and they both nodded to him with a smile. Then Taramis pushed Hiccup back and moments later at the place where Hiccup stood was an arrow.

"We must go now!" Taramis said and he grabbed Hiccup and ran out. Guards and even several villagers start to chase after them and more and more were coming.

Meanwhile, by the gates, Astrid and others were fighting with the guards. Dragons were hovering in the air while Toothless stood at the carriage roof and shot at everyone. Astrid dodge the blow from the guard and she brought her axe to his back. She quickly yanks it away and hit another to his stomach. Heather was ducking and parrying the blows while Ruffnut and Tuffnut fought like devils with their spears. Their guards were not as lucky as they were and soon Berkians killed them.

"Jump on the carriage!" Taramis shouted as they ran to them. Ruffnut and Tuffnut killed two guards and throw their spears at others, which slow them down. They jumped on the carriage.

"Run guys run!" Tuffnut shouted to the horses and they started galloping. Taramis grabbed Hiccup's bag and throw it inside. He jumped on the one side of the carriage while Heather jumped on the other side. Astrid jumped on the back of the carriage and she extended her hand for Hiccup. He almost caught her hand when he fell to the ground. Arrow sticking out of his left leg.

"Hiccup!" Astrid shouted as she jumped down and ran to him. She picked him up and helped him to walk.

"Go Astrid. Before they catch you." Hiccup said and he slowly ran out of breath.

"I am not leaving you behind." She said and then a plasma blast landed behind them throwing away Berkians soldiers. Toothless jumped in front of them and duck down. Astrid quickly placed Hiccup on his back and then she positioned herself behind him.

"Now Toothless!" She shouted as she wrapped her hands around Hiccup's waist and he started running after the carriage. Soon they catch up with them and they left that damn place behind them.

Meanwhile in the Castle was everyone silent. "I think that we brought doom upon ourselves when we attacked them," Eret said and no one answered him and he could feel that this is only the beginning of something big.

The group stopped in the near forest where Astrid went into the carriage. She tried to stop bleeding from Hiccup's leg as best as she could but the arrow went through his leg and it was not looking good. Soon they continued on their journey and Astrid placed Hiccup's head on her lap.

"Thank you for saving me, milady." Hiccup said as he cracked open his eyes.

"No need. I would do that again." Astrid said as she went through his hair with her hand.

"You are too kind milady. Too kind." Hiccup muttered as he doses off.

"Hold on Hiccup." She said as she grabbed his hand. "Don't die on me." She said and she placed a light kiss on his pale cheek. "Don't die on me." She whispered.