Hey everyone. So yeah, this is my first fanfic with Red Dead Redemption 2. I have some ideas about what's gonna happen throughout this story. But if you have any suggestions that are helpful, please say so in the review section bellow. And another thing, like I always say in my stories, I DON'T OWN ANYTHING. But I have a feeling that you all know that. So I'll go easy. Alright, hears chapter one. Enjoy.

It was cold. Too cold. Probably the worst of coldness for young chief Hiccup and his trusted companion Toothless. They stood out in the freezing temperatures of the blizzard and had no other choice but to deal with it. They were suppose to be doing a quick discovery expedition to the northern parts of the archipelago. Unfortunately, their curiosity has left them to go far North than they already have.

They left two weeks ago, leaving Astrid and Valka in charge of running the village while they were out. And much to Hiccup's surprise, the divine winds have brought back some old memories. At that point they traveled across endless ocean for weeks. There was nothing but open seas for miles. Eventually they found some islands to rest before pushing on.

It was only a month before they finally stumbled upon something that they both have never seen. It was a beautiful stretch of land. But it was no island, for it continued for miles and miles on. They continued to fly closer to it until they ran into what seemed to be a small town. And unlike a viking village or market, it was different. There were stone-like structured buildings that covered the shorelines of a lake. Giant boat like objects floated in the waters bellow, but it was not like any viking ship they have seen.

Within the town, there was one street that was covered in an peculiar substance that neither Hiccup or Toothless could make out. On this substance were carts and wagons that were pulled by horses. Some they never knew. And yet the people, they looked different too. For they dressed differently and weren't like any viking outfit they saw in their entire lives.

At first, they saw it as a peaceful yet majestic sight. But once they got closer to the ground, it all turned into a living nightmare. First there was nothing. Not one sound that came out from that small town. Then, shots were heard. It was nothing that they have ever seen. But after that first sound, many more followed. When they took a closer look, they saw an army of guys in strange outfits wielding strange types of weapons shooting at another group of guys.

When they decided to get out of there, they started shooting at them. They evaded them as much as possible, but Toothless was struck one of his forepaws with one of those shots. The impact of the shot was enough to put the Night Fury into a traumatic state of shock, which forced them to lose control and crash land into the forest just outside of the town. Only to be attacked once more by that same group of people. They both ran, and eventually lost them in the mountains. Which was probably the worst idea Hiccup had ever had.

Because it was the coldest storms they have ever been through. And there was no point in flying, because the wind was picking up too fast. And Night Furies can't survive out in cold conditions for too long. So they had to find a place fast.

"We really did it this time, bud,"he sighed. "This storm is worst than we thought."

Toothless lets out low warble in response and gives Hiccup a look.

"Hey, don't blame me for this!" Hiccup narrowed. "It's not my fault those men showed up. We didn't even see them coming."

Toothless shoots another look at his companion before looking back at the path they came from. Then he looks back at Hiccup, who came to a moment of moral realization.

"Okay,"he said. "I'll admit, it was my idea to head up into the mountains. But we had no other choice. And you know that. If we didn't loose those men than we'd be dead sooner or later."

Toothless lets out a throaty, dismissive sound before he continued to walk alongside his friend. They both knew that they made the right call to go into the mountains, but if those men don't kill them soon, then the storm would do it first. It was freezing cold from what they both experienced. And it never stopped.

"How's that arm doing , Toothless,"he asked his dragon.

The young alpha lifted his left paw, which was still wrapped up with some cloth. There were blood marks from what Hiccup saw, but that was a sign that he wasn't bleeding again.

"It doesn't look that bad,"he said. "When we find some shelter we'll try to fix that. But don't die on me yet bud. We're not done here."

Toothless snorted before walking once more. He preferred that those people shoot him dead back there. Because there's no other death that was worse than freezing in the coldest of temperatures.

They continued to walk for dozens of miles, seeing nothing but endless snow. But then, Hiccup saw something in the sky. It was smoke that was arising from a very long distance. And at that moment, he knew that there had to be some shelter close by. He turns to his companion next to him, who was almost frozen to death.

"Come on bud,"he said. "Just a few more miles and we'll find a place to stay out of the storm."

The Night Fury lets out a small coon before pressing on with his best friend. It was harder on him then it was on Hiccup. He's been the one who was doing all the shooting and flying, and now he might freeze faster than his human friend. For he wasn't built for this type of weather. Due to reptiles being cold blooded creatures.

They continued to walk towards the area where the smoke was coming from. Half way there, Hiccup questioned if it was the right place to go residents of the camp would probably be alarmed by their mere presence. But it was something that he had to do. Because if he didn't, then the two won't be able to last through the night.

Once they were there, they spotted an old cabin that seemed to be forgotten. Hiccup looked around to see if anyone else was there before advancing towards the door. But before he did so, he turns back to his partner.

"Stay here Toothless," he commanded. "I think they'll be less intimidated if they only saw one of us."

Toothless nodded in agreement before holding his position. From there, Hiccup proceeded to head into the cabin. On his way, he saw a number of corpses in the snow just outside the place. They laid there lifeless with holes in their heads. He cringed just by seeing the bodies. He had never seen such things like this before. Not even back on Berk.

He took one step on the porch before he noticed something. The house was on fire. He takes a few steps back before looking back at Toothless, who was twenty feet away. He gave him a look before the Night Fury shrugged. Guess they had to find somewhere else to get warm. Because this building was gonna come down faster than any wooden building back at home.

But before he could even take another step, the door to the house kicks open. Hiccup turns his head back to the cabin and sees four people coming out. Three of them were male and one was a female. At first sight of him, two of them drew their weapons out.

"Who are you?"one of them asked, who was apparently holding a lantern in his left arm.

"Just kill him Morgan,"said the other man who drew his weapon out. "He's just one of them O'Driscoll boys."

"Wait,wait,wait,"Hiccup stopped. "Don't shoot. I haven't introduced myself."

"We don't have time for this, Arthur,"the other man continued. "Just kill hi-"

Before he could finish, there was a sudden glowing blue just a few feet behind him. And before these strangers knew it, Toothless leaped up into the air and landed right in front of them. Snarling with pure rage and fire glowing from inside of his mouth. He roared at the strangers, who were extremely shocked about the sight of a new creature.

"What the hell is that?!" asked the third man.

"It's a devil is what it is, boss," the second man answered.

Toothless was about to attack when certain hand stopped him from doing so.

"Toothless, stop!" Hiccup demanded.

And just like that, Toothless releases his breath before he could fire and backs up behind Hiccup. Then he turns back to the man and begins to talk things through with these new strangers.

"Listen,"he starts. "We're not here for trouble. We just want to get some place warm for the night. The storm hasn't been friendly to us."

He waited for a response but there was nothing at first. Then, the third man steps forward and hands the woman over to the first man.

"Arthur, take this woman over to my horse," he said. "Micah, you check to see if there's anything else we missed in that barn. I'll talk to this dear gentleman over here."

"Whatever you say, Dutch,"said Arthur. Then Hiccup watches as he leads the woman on the back of one of the horses to their right. He turns back to this Dutch figure, who stepped forward to the pair. Toothless growled at his approach, but was again stopped by Hiccup's hand.

"What's your name boy?" asked Dutch.

"Hiccup,"he answered. "Hiccup Horrendous Haddock. And this is my friend, Toothless."

"Well, Mr. Haddock,"said Dutch. "Before I can allow you to do anything else, let me so kindly ask you exactly is your friend over here?We've never seen anything like him before."

"He's a dragon," Hiccup replied. "A Night Fury to be exact."

"A dragon? You mean like the one in fairy tale?" Dutch questioned.

"Trust me. If it was a fairy tale, I wouldn't believe it neither."

"Fair enough," Dutch said as he pulled out a lantern. "Well, if you're in need of some assistance we're so kind to help you and your friend here. Me and my friends found an abandoned mining town not far from here. You're welcome to tag along with us if that's what you want."

From there, Hiccup was surprised. To think that some stranger that he doesn't even know would invite him to his place, despite what he has alongside him. It was some generosity that the man had there. Something he had never seen before.

"Dutch, what are you doing? We can't trust them,"said the man who went by the name Micah. "We don't know if he ain't one of them O'Driscoll boys or not."

"Micah, they're out in this storm, cold and starving just like the rest of us,"said Dutch. "We don't turn anyone away. Especially in harsh weather like this. Besides, I don't think Colm would ever have a dragon lurking in his ranks."

He growled in anger by Dutch's actions. Normally he wouldn't like new people in the gang. As for Arthur, he didn't really care that much. It just meant more people for the total number of the gang.

"We should go, Dutch," Arthur suggested. "The weather's getting a lot worse."

He gave his senor gun a nod before moving to his horse. Once on its back, he looks at Hiccup, who was still waiting.

"Does your friend have some strength left?"he asked.

"Yeah,"Hiccup answered. "He's a tough one. Or at least enough to that place you mentioned."

"Good,"said Dutch. "In the meantime, take Taima for the trip back. She's a strong one too."

"Thank you Dutch."

"Like I always say. We leave no man behind."

Then, Hiccup hops on the back of the fourth horse and motioned Toothless to follow slowly. They heading back when Dutch starts talking to the woman.

"You have a name miss? he asked. At first, there was no answer. Than he tried again. "Miss?"

"Adler," she spoke softly. "Sadie Adler...Mrs...I..he...he was my husband."

"Miss, it's going to be okay," Dutch reassured. "We'll take care of you. You and the boy."

They traveled away from the burning house for a couple of miles and arrived to what seemed to be the shelter Dutch was talking about. And it was something that Hiccup was probably asking for during his time up here. There were lights all over the place. And there were at least four wooden buildings that were parallel to each other. As for the people, there weren't many. Six to eight from what he's seen. He looked back to see Toothless struggling to keep up, and saw the satisfied look on his face when he saw the view of civilization.

One of the men came out with a long weapon in his hands and pointed it at them.

"Hey, somebody's coming," he said.

He looked ready to fire, but when he took a closer look, he recognized that it was Dutch and the rest of his party and stood down.

"Looks like it's Dutch,"he said to the others. "Hey everybody, Dutch is back."

By then everyone came out of the buildings, and an old but not too old man came straight for the group.

"How'd you get on?" he asked.

Soon enough the five of them were surrounded by other people as the three men hopped off of their horses. Hiccup still stuck to Taima while Toothless stood from behind him. Eventually Hiccup moved up a bit to get a good view of everyone.

"Micah found a homestead," Dutch started. "But we weren't the first. Colm O'Driscoll and his scum beat us to it. But we found some of them there, but there is more about apparently scouting a train."

"That's the last thing we need right now, Dutch,"said the old man.

"Well, it is what it is," Dutch responded. "But we found some supplies, some blankets,a little bit of food, and these poor souls, Mrs. Adler and Mr. Haddock."

Then he brings her off of his horse and comforts her with some blankets. Hiccup climbs off of Taima and joins Dutch and Sadie's side.

"Mrs. Tilly, Mrs. Karen,"he called out. "Would you warm her up and get her something to drink?"

They moved towards the widow and lead her into the cabin. They were all about to head inside before one of the youngest women saw something from the corner of her eye and stopped.

"Dutch,"she said. "What's that?"

He turned back before remembering the dragon that they almost left behind. Luckily, Hiccup didn't forget about his best friend and motioned him to come forth. And with slight caution, Toothless moved towards the group and stopped merely a foot away from his best friend. From there, Dutch spoke.

"That's our dear friend Toothless,"he said. "Don't worry everyone. He means us no harm. I'll explain the details later."

Then the young woman nodded her head and eased herself a bit.

"Mrs. Adler, everything's gonna be okay,"said Arthur.

And before they knew it they were taken into the cabin by these gentle ladies. Leaving the men to their business.

"They turned her into a widow,"Dutch said in disgust. "Animals. I need some rest. I haven't slept in three days."

An older woman walked over to Dutch and said,

"Your cabin is over here, Miss O'Shea will show you the way."

Then she turns to Arthur.

"Arthur, your cabin is over this way."

"Thanks Miss Grimshaw,"he said as he gave her a nod.

After directing Arthur to his cabin, she turns to Micah.

"Mr. Bell, you're with the fellers over here."

Unlike Arthur in the other hand, Micah wasn't really happy with where he was sleeping.

"How come Arthur gets a room and I get a bunk bed with Bill Williamson and a bunch of "darkies?" he complained.

"Just get yourself to bed,"Arthur commented.

She ignored his complaining, she looks at Hiccup and Toothless, who were patient about where they're staying.

"And you must be Mr. Haddock,"she said.

"That's right ma'am,"he replied.

"You'll sleep with Arthur for the night. The dragon can go with the other horses, if that's okay with you."

"Okay," he said. "Normally we would sleep together, but I don't think that would be necessary due to this weather. But please, do take care of him. It's been harder on him than it has on me."

"Alright then," she said. "We'll make sure that he gets the best of care."

"Thank you,"he said politely. "Where I come from, we don't get much of people with this much kindness."

"Well, you're one of us now,"she said. "And we take good care of everyone part of this gang."

After that, she disappeared into one of the cabins, leaving Hiccup with Arthur in his went on to the cabin, in which Toothless followed. He turned back to his companion and spoke.

"Go with Mrs. Grimshaw for now bud,"he said. "She'll lead you to a bigger room than mine. Don't worry about me. It's best that we slept separately for the night. I'll see you in the morning."

Toothless nodded in compliment before following Mrs. Grimshaw into the barn just across from Arthur's cabin. She opened the door and let him in. And then followed suit and shut the door behind her.

With Hiccup, he followed Arthur into his cabin. It was a small place, but warm enough to get some shut eye for the night. He takes the bed just to the right of Arthur, who's be was at the end of the cabin. But before he doze off he wanted to say something to the old gunslinger.

"Arthur," he said as he sat down on one of the mattresses. "Thank you for what you did back there. I didn't know if I was gonna survive this night."

"It's Dutch that you should be thanking too,"Arthur said back. "But I'm glad we were able to help. It ain't easy surviving out here. Now get some shut eye. We have a busy day tomorrow."

Then, he laid down on his separate mattress, and the two drifted into sleep. Completely forgetting about what happened these last few hours.

So, what do you all think? There might be some updates as the chapters go by, but don't stress on it. Stay tuned for Chapter 2. Alright, Gunslinger signing out.