Okay this is my first HTTYD story and my second story overall as my first is a Star Wars one and I must say I found this slightly harder to do at first but it seemd to get easier towards the end.

Anyway,throughout the chapter there may be a few mistakes i.e Toothless's name not capitalised .If you see any of these I'd be gratefull if you added them in a review so I can change them.

Okay now for the disclaimers:

Disclaimer: I do not own How to Train Your Dragon or any of the characters in it.

Disclaimer 2: I do not own the names Bluebell and Aldis the Quick of Astrid's dragon and mother respectively, they belong solely to Enchantable and I have her permission to use them.

Okay well I hope you enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 1

Astrid walked through the town heading towards the training ring so she could meet up with Hiccup who had surprisingly suggested they do some sparring. As she walked towards the ring, she thought of Hiccup's main disadvantage, his prosthetic leg and suddenly her thoughts were pulled back to just after he had lost his real leg.

The gentle swaying of the boats was mesmerizing.

Astrid stood on the side of the boat looking outwards towards the few rag-taggle boats that had survived unscathed from the Green Death's fire trying to take her mind off of what had happened only a few hours earlier.

Hiccup had been so brave when he was on Toothless fighting the Red Death, they were ants compared to it and yet they managed to outrun it, injure it and then without wavering let it get ready to breathe fire before launching a fire ball into it's mouth, killing it. Then they flew forwards with Toothless's mechanical tail wing on fire into the smoke and disappeared.

We had gone looking for them, Stoic the Vast, Hiccup's father in the lead calling out his name until we found Toothless lying on the ground breathing shallowly but otherwise motionless on the ground. When I finally got to the front of the Vikings, I saw Toothless with Stoic in front of him mourning while Hiccup was nowhere in sight. Suddenly Toothless opened his wings and revealed Hiccup cradled next to him, he'd obviously tried to shield Hiccup from the blast but hadn't been able to do it fast enough. I moved forward and saw Hiccup, but he looked smaller than usual and pale, he looked so pale and I thought he must have been dead. But then Stoic quickly put his head to Hiccup's chest and discovered he was alive, then Gobber arrived by his side and but before I could get a closer look of Hiccup they'd already picked him up and taken him to one of the remaining boats.

She felt tired almost exhausted from all that had happened but most of all she actually felt...worried. She still hadn't seen Hiccup up close since he was moved on to the ship, as after Gobble had done something for Hiccup, Toothless wrapped himself around him while Stoic took up the remaining space and hadn't left his side. Turning away from the ocean, she decided to finally go and see Hiccup up close and moved to the back of the Vikings who were all crowded around the centre of the ship just watching. Using her arms and small size, she pushed through the crowd until she arrived at the front, saw Hiccup and gasped. He was paler than before and his already scrawny body seemed smaller than before, he looked so, so dead, his normal happy expression non-existent leaving a pale, ghostly figure laying in the bed. Looking down she noticed something even more unusual about his body and she saw one of his legs had been replaced with prosthetic one.

Suddenly Astrid was torn from her thoughts by a familiar voice

"Hey Astrid"

Turning to face the voice she found herself at the training ring a few meters away from her not-yet-boyfriend, Hiccup , standing as normally as he could with his prosthetic leg.

"Hi Hiccup, how's your leg?" she replied trying to start a conversation which was surprisingly hard to keep up when talking to Hiccup as it always seemed to get to a, well awkward silence at which point one would have to make an excuse to go.

"Err, It's fine, I think I'm finally used to walking on it now, I can get down hills easily now, and I um, well going up them not so much." Hiccup said in his normal happy tone.

"Well that's good then, are you ready to spar?" Astrid asked while smiling at the thought of a fight.

"Um uh yeah sure thing Astrid" Hiccup replied with a hint of nervousness in his voice as he walked over and grabbed a shield and sword from the weapon rack. As he walked over to the centre of the ring, Astrid strolled over and grabbed her axe from the rack and walked over to the middle of the ring and faced Hiccup.

"Okay,3,2,1 GO " Astrid said quickly before taking a step towards him with her axe held across her body. Waiting to see if Hiccup would attack she slowly circled around him and when it was obvious he wouldn't attack first she swung down with her axe striking Hiccup's shield and quickly pulling it back and swinging again taking out another chunk of wood from the shield. Hiccup then jumped forwards forcing her backwards as she tried to block the attack from his sword with her axe handle causing a slight nick in the wood. But before he could swing again Astrid slammed the top of her axe into his shield knocking him back again before following up with a hard swing smashing the shield into pieces and knocking it out of his hands. Hiccup then tried to attack again but lost his balance as he lunged, so Astrid waited for him to regain his balance before swinging her axe hard against the sword causing a resounding snap as the sword was separated just above the hilt and clattered to the ground.

"Thank you for nothing, you useless sword. Out of all the swords I made, I had to choose the one that breaks." Hiccup said in his 'not amused' tone.

After hearing this Astrid laughed as she looked at him standing in a defeated pose. Then as she looked further down she noticed flashes of red on his arm, but before she could investigate he raised his arm

"Owww, do I always have to get hurt, I mean seriously, come on." Hiccup moaned as he looked at his arm.

Astrid quickly closed the gap between them grabbing his arm and turning it towards her so she could see what had happened. Upon further inspection she saw when the shield had smashed, some of the wood had cut his arm and then when the sword had broken it had apparently also sliced his arm leaving a long but light cut on his arm.

"Hmmm we'll go back to your house and I'll get that cleaned up and bandaged for you." Astrid said knowing the person who would normally do such a thing, Hiccup's mother , was dead.

"What about Toothless though, he'll get so worried that I'm hurt, he won't leave me for hours." Hiccup groaned causing Astrid to shoot him a quick glare that said 'just follow me'.

When they arrived at the hill leading to Hiccup's house Astrid slowed down so that she could make sure Hiccup got up the hill without falling over. When they were about 3/4 of the way up Astrid glanced at Hiccup to see him struggling slightly.

"Hey, is your leg hurting, do you need some help up?" she asked slightly worried.

"No I'm fine Astrid, we're almost there." he relied in his normal tone.

"Okay, I'll change that, your leg's hurting isn't it?" Astrid said as a question but meaning it as a statement.

"Is it that obvious?" Hiccup said with disappointment in his voice.

"No, I can just see it in your eyes, they're not their normal nice selves they look pained." Astrid said before blushing as she realised what she'd just implied.

"Oh um ok-Can you help me up then Astrid?" Hiccup asked trying to keep their conversation going as long as possible.

"Yeah okay, I'll go on your left so you can put your arm over my back and I'll put my arm under your right arm then if you lean your weight on me we'll get up." Astrid replied as she moved onto his other side, trying to hide the blush still visible on her cheeks. When Hiccup had gotten his arm around her shoulder and she had taken some of his weight off him, they continued their progress up the hill and quickly reached the door which Astrid opened with a quick kick of her boot before helping Hiccup to the table and placing him onto a chair.

Disappearing into another room, Astrid found some bandages, wool cloth and got some water after rummaging around in some cupboards and then returned to the main room to find Toothless sitting right in front of Hiccup with all four of his legs straight out in front of him watching his friend.

"Oh hi Toothless, I'm going to help clean and bandage Hiccup up, okay?" Astrid asked slightly nervously while smiling, trying to reassure the dragon that she was going to help. After receiving what appeared to be an attempted smile, that looked surprisingly similar to Hiccup's, she walked over and wet some of the wool before swiping it across the cuts on his arm to make sure they were clean and could be bandaged without a chance of an infection happening.

When she began cleaning the biggest cut she received a hiss of pain from Hiccup and proceeded cleaning but with a gentler touch. After finally finishing she wrapped a bandage around his arm covering the cuts and then made holes along the spare material to so she could tie knots in the bandage to keep it in place.

"Now you're going to go and sleep, so do you want help with getting the mechanical leg off or?" Astrid asked trailing off towards the end.

"Yes um thanks Astrid." Hiccup replied in his normal tone as he pulled his trouser leg up to a point where the straps holding his prosthetic leg onto him could be undone. Astrid then crouched down and began unbuckling all the different straps until the leg came free and revealed the rest of his actual leg which was not a pretty sight as it had become red and swollen.

"Hiccup! You need to put a pad on that or something or your going to do something..." Astrid began to say her voice a mix of worry and annoyance

"Something stupid" Hiccup interrupted.

"No you already did that." Astrid replied motioning to his leg before she used some more of the wool and water to clean his leg earning a cry of pain from Hiccup.

"Astrid that hurts, ahhh, do it just a bit lighter, please"

In response Astrid made shorter strokes which seemed to work as Hiccup remained silent and then after she was happy that his leg was clean enough she wrapped a bandage around it and she stood up and promptly hit him on his uninjured arm.

"That was for complaining when I was helping you" Astrid said before leaning in and giving him a slow chaste kiss on the lips. "That was for everything else" She then quickly moved behind him to hide the blush forming on her cheeks and helped him to his feet and supported him as he walked or rather hopped with one leg to his bed. When they got to the bed Astrid pulled the covers back and helped Hiccup onto the edge of the bed before standing back up and speaking

"Okay now sleep and rest your arm and your leg. That means not getting up just after I'm gone and going to ride on Toothless." Astrid said before turning to Toothless "Okay Toothless you stand guard and make sure Hiccup doesn't get up." earning another clumsy smile from the dragon that resembled Hiccup's.

"Okay now I'm off to ride Bluebell for a bit, so you can get some sleep, the extra two hours will do you good, so night Hiccup." Astrid said as she turned towards the door.

"Astrid, why did you call your dragon Bluebell?" Hiccup asked causing her to turn back around.

"Well she's blue and bell is short for Bella so it works for a blue female dragon. Anyway I like them." And with that Astrid quickly turned around and walked out of the house a blush spreading on her cheeks once more as she went headed in the direction of where Bluebell was likely to be.

"So, what do you think she meant by that" Hiccup, obviously confused, asked toothless who had curled his tail around one of the rafters and was hanging from it.

In response he made a small noise that resembled a 'seriously?' and gave Hiccup a look that said 'You'll work it out...eventually'

"Yeah your probably right buddy, I'll sleep on it and try and work it out in the morning. Night buddy"

Toothless made a soft growl before closing his eyes completely, forgetting he was supposed to be making sure Hiccup slept. Suddenly remembering, his eyes shot open and then to the bed to find Hiccup had already fallen asleep contemplating the rather obvious statement made by Astrid moments before.

Okay so theres the did everyone think:Good? Bad? Alright? Any improvements I can make then please add them in your review or a PM but the review is probably easier.

Any questions you have etc can be added in your review as well and I will either reply to you personally or add a reply in the A/N in the next chapter.

If you have a suggestion for what could happen next I'd be glad to here it as I'm still contemplating where I could go with this story's main plot.(If you have a suggestion please PM me with it don't put it in your review as that would ruin the story for others if I chose it.)

A/N Update 17/4/10 15:45 :

For anyone wondering this story is not a one shot it will be a multi-chapter 2 should be done by the end of Saturday GMT 00 time and then chapter 3 should be done by the end of Sunday unless I re-arrange what I'm doing.I'm going to go see HTTYD again tonight so if I have the second chapter up before I go to watch it,then there is a very high chance that I will finish chapter 3 as well by tonight.

Also as I'm doing this updated A/N I would like to thank everyone that has reviewed so far,that includes (In order of first to last reviewer):

StarUchina

Lightning Flame

paxtofettel

thehuman13

dragonprotector

Also in future chapters there will be a Q&A section in the A/N at the end of each chapter so please put any questions you have into your review and I will reply to them in the next chapter.

Finally every review I get is really inspirational and makes me want to write more chapter so the more reviews I get the quicker I'll update,that includes criticism as that then helps me improve future chapters which is best for anyone reading.