Hello everyone this is my first Fanfic. I can't guarantee that it will be good but i hope you like it.

i have recently posted a different document where i asked a question if anyone knows the answer please let me know because i mention it in this story.

anyway here is chapter one

Chapter 1- "Know thy enemy"

Up on one of the remaining catapults we: Me, Gobber, Astrid, Snoutlout, Fishlegs and the twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut were listening to Snotlout boast about being able to chop a dragon's legs off with his face. I knew that that was impossible, but wasn't going to tell him that because he would do worse to me then chop off my legs with his face. I wasn't really paying much attention to everyone ranting and boasting about slaying dragons and tattoos. But when Gobber mentioned a dragon that can't fly is vulnerable that's when I perked up.

"A down dragon is a dead dragon." he quoted

After that I quickly ran down the spiral staircase around the catapult tower leaving the others behind.

I quickly made my way to the forge without incident. As the village screw up nobody paid me much attention other than trying to keep me out of trouble. Admittedly they weren't doing a very good job seeing as what I was doing. The only people who even cared what I was doing was Gobber who just cared whether I was at work ontime or not, the other teens who just wanted me out of the competition so they wouldn't have to work around me. And my father who only wanted to keep me alive because I was my mother's son.

I was in the forge making plans to give the dragon a new tail when Gobber showed up as it was really late, He was surprised to see me here.

"What ye doin' up so late?" he asked with a tired voice as he doused the hot coals of the forge with water

"I was just...um...putting in time for all the times i'm late to work." I say hoping its a convincing lie

"Ah well come off te bed and ye can work as much as ye want tomorrow." He says poking me in the back with his hook arm

"Ok" I say as I quickly hide the drawings of the dragon and the tail in my back room.

I come out and close the hatch for orders and walk out. Gobber is waiting.

"I want ye to get a good night's sleep because tomorrow you will be fighting a sneaky dragon in the ring and ye can't be sleeping on the job." he says while poking me in the stomach when he says you.

I listen to Gobber and go up to my house and go to bed.

Tomorrow comes and wouldn't you know I'm up before everyone else carrying a huge basket of fish to the cove where the dragon is. Before I went to bed last night I decided to name the dragon "Toothless" since he has those weird retractable teeth. I dump the contents of the basket on the ground and walk away to sit on a nearby rock and continue planning how to give him his tail back. As I'm jotting down notes about how the mechanism would need to work I hear a strange growl combined with a screech, I look over at toothless he is on his hind legs rearing up over the pile of fish and starts to back away while growling and screeching. I run over and learn the cause of the problem is an eel in the pile, I quickly grab it and throw it away from the pile and wipe my hand on my bear skin vest. I then spread out the fish to show there aren't any other offending eels in the pile, after spending a bit more time with Toothless I head down to dragon training.

I walk into the ring ignoring all the insults from the others. And Gobber hands each of us a pale of water. Gobber once again simply opens the gate before telling us anything other than.

"Today is all 'bout teamwork."

The arena immediately fills with smoke as Gobber says

"Now a wet dragon head can't light its fire, the Hideous Zippleback is Extra Tricky, one head breathes gas the other head lights it." he follows up with.

"Your job is to know which is which."

The gas ended up splitting us each into 3 groups of 2. Me and Fishlegs were on the left Snotlout and Tuffnut in the middle and Ruffnut and Astrid on the right. Fishlegs was muttering loudly about crushing and ambush and venom and digestion which made it very hard to concentrate so I snapped at him. Then I heard Snotlout and Tuffnut saying something about butts and dragons and I heard two splashes of water. I didn't have the time or the care to try and figure out what they were saying. Then I heard two people being knocked to the ground, a bucket being thrown and then I heard a helmet bounce on the ground and Tuffnut screaming. Then I heard two more people falling and the quick scream from Ruffnut and Astrid and another splash of water then Tuffnut shouting about being hurt and rushing out of the fog trampling his sister and running past us, then the fog cleared enough for me and Fishlegs to see that Snotlout Ruffnut and Astrid were all on the ground with the buckets empty. Then a green head and very long neck came out of the fog like a snake growling and sniffing towards Fishlegs as he jumped back in fear a few times, about half his bucket was emptied onto the arena floor before he even threw the water at it. It then doused him in gas as Gobber shouted

"FISHLEGS!"

I was too busy watching the gas head that I forgot about the igniting head as it growled from right next to me making me jump back, I was now the only person with a bucket of water. And had to make sure I doused the correct head it sparked a few times but not close enough to the gas to ignite it then Gobber said

"Now hiccup!"

Then I threw the water at it but didn't even come close to wetting it let alone drenching it.

The gas had pretty much dissipated by this point but it lunged forward with its wings out as a threatening motion as I jump back and fall on my back as Gobber runs forward yelling

"HICCUP!"

Then Astrid Snotlout and Gobber ran forward Astrid and Snotlout grabbed one head and pinned it to the ground while Gobber grabbed the other. They got it back inside with the help of Fishlegs who closed the gate

Snotlout walks up to me as I'm getting up off the ground and shoves me back down.

"YOU nearly got all of us KILLED Useless."

"No I didn't. I say firmly. "We all failed, you and Tuffnut threw your water at the girls Ruffnut threw her water at you and none of you were paying attention Fishlegs threw it at the wrong head and I couldn't throw high enough." I say.

Astrid glares at me when I say she wasn't paying attention. I then walk out of the arena.

As you can tell it deviates from the movie fairly early on later on it will deviate a lot more.