Everybody's running to get out of the way of the dragons once again attacking Berk, except for the warriors trying to get close enough to attack the dragons - which doesn't always end well, as Gobber can attest to.

Valka, the chief's wife, suddenly sees a nearby home catch fire and a small dragon stare at it like its entranced before going inside. She's just wondering what exactly is happening when she hears a baby's cries coming from inside the now-burning home - wait, what?!

She grabs a sword and runs in, uncaring about the flames and smoke. When she gets in, the dragon - a Terrible Terror of all things - is standing in front of a red-haired baby in the middle of the fire. It nuzzles the child, apparently attempting to calm her cries - and somehow it's working.

Valka takes a step forward, and the floor creaks - oops, they heard her.

The Terrible Terror curls up around the child protectively, hissing at her with most of its body wrapped around the young girl. Valka slowly puts the sword down, which at least makes the small dragon stop hissing - because the last thing she wants it to do is strangle the baby to death while apparently trying to protect her. "Easy, take it easy there. This place is burning, we need to leave. Now." She's fully aware that trying to talk to the dragon is more than likely utterly useless and insanity - what are the chances that it can understand her?

The child, however, calms down and starts laughing, clapping her hands and pointing at her - and the dragon unwraps from around her.

What is going on here? Who is this child?

Valka doesn't have any time to ponder the question though, as the flames suddenly leap higher as the child laughs again. Thankfully, she also starts crawling closer towards Valka.

She takes a step forward, but freezes when the Terror hisses at her and its throat starts glowing - apparently its extremely protective of this girl. The detail that she's wearing an outfit only just now registers with Valka, and the name 'Bloom' is stitched onto the front of it.

Hoping this works, she quietly says "Bloom, come here Bloom." To her amazement and relief, the little girl looks at her immediately. "Yes, come here. That's it, little one, keep crawling."

The Terror is watching the child, eying it like its waiting to - dare she even think it - keep her from falling or hurting herself.

This may well be the proof that I'm right, that dragons and people can coexist!

She's thoroughly interrupted from her thoughts when young Bloom crawls over to her and throws her arms up - she wants to be picked up, and Valka obliges. She immediately curls up to the older woman, and the Terror nods its head at her and slithers away through a small hole in the wall.

Bloom starts crying and reaching for the dragon, and the flames almost seem to react to her distress by leaping higher and burning hotter - they need to leave, and leave right now.

Valka barely makes it out of the building before the entrance collapses, and Stoick nearly runs over to her and starts asking questions - such as 'what was she thinking, going into a burning building, she could have nearly died, he's not losing her to any fire a dragon-'

"Stoick! Stop talking for just a minute! There was a child in there, I went to save her. Look!"

He finally realizes she's holding onto a child, about the same age as their own son from the looks of her, and says "By Odin's beard, you saved her then. Who's her family?"

There's a crowd gathered by now, but nobody recognizes her. "Come on now, she couldn't have just come from nowhere! Did her parents die in the latest attack?"

Gobber walks up and says "No, Stoick, tha' was my house. Just got the roof repaired to. An' I've never had kids. An' I don' know how she got in my house."

Valka looks around, then says "If nobody knows who she is…maybe her parents left her in there so she'd be safe?"

"The place caught fire! They didn' do a very good job o' it. An' I'll have to fix my home again! That's the third time this week!"

Stoick sighs, and asks "Anybody willing to take her? She seems like a nice little girl."

One woman steps forward, and moves to take her out of Valka's arms - as soon as her weight isn't being fully carried by Valka, she starts screaming. Valka starts rocking her to calm her, and once she's quiet everybody takes their hands away from their ears - for such a tiny body, she's got one heck of a pair of lungs.

Gobber starts twisting his finger in his other ear, saying "Alright, its decided. She's yours."

Everybody nods, their ears still ringing very loudly, and then there's the roar of a Monstrous Nightmare. It lands on the nearest roof, and its eyes fix on Bloom - still sniffling and crying slightly - and it growls.

And Valka's deadly sure its growling at everyone but Bloom. Thinking fast, she tickles Bloom and makes her laugh - the Monstrous Nightmare takes off flying away.

Valka's feeling like her whole world is crumbling around her and this child, no dragon has ever behaved like this before and now two in a row have started acting protective of this girl in less than ten minutes.

If anybody else knew…this changes everything.

She hands Bloom over to Stoick, which she seems to realize doesn't mean she'll never see her again after Stoick's first impression on her, and goes to get Hiccup so he can meet his new sister.

She comes back after maybe two minutes with Hiccup in her arms, and Bloom takes right to him - demanding that Valka hold the both of them, via screaming at the top of her lungs when either of them is taken out of her arms. "I'd say its decided then, and I'm fairly certain she'd crawl all the way up to the house if she went to another's home anyway."

Fourteen years later, and Bloom is the least understood person in the whole village.

She doesn't care what everyone else thinks of her - except for Hiccup, he's about the only person in the village that matters to her. Especially since most of the village wants nothing to do with him, the kids their age pick on him to no end, and even their own father only ever seems disappointed in him.

As for her…most don't know what to make of the girl with the fiery hair and piercing blue eyes. The girl who takes hours-long walks in the woods, who refuses to join in any celebration for another dragon raid successfully driven off, who doesn't share their drive to kill the dragons at all.

The girl who would get between her brother and a dragon if that's what it took to protect him.

And who's known to have gone off on Snotlout more than once for picking on Hiccup.

AN: Hey, everyone! Happy Spring Break! Yes, I know, I finally got something new posted! I try to get the story fleshed out to a point where I know I can finish it, and this story is further along than my Winx Club X Young Justice story so this is getting posted first. Just a little pet peeve of mine - you start a story and post it where others can find it, FINISH IT! Or delete it when you run out of inspiration, or get it adopted by someone else! Don't just leave it abandoned and leave everyone who reads it hanging!

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Sorry, I'm just a bit passionate about that. At any rate, for this story, I'm changing a few things. No spoilers though, you'll have to wait for the updates - and, seeing as I'm dropping Organic Chemistry lecture, those can actually happen! One thing I'll say right now...I've read stories about how Hiccup has no particular loyalty to the village - and for obvious reasons, really - and that's how I picture Bloom towards everyone not named Hiccup or Gobber. And for Gobber...she won't trust him with all her secrets, but she'll try to save his life. It sounds terrible, seeing as the people are supposed to be the ones that raised her...but, then again, they treat Hiccup terribly in the movie, so it balances out. They don't like Hiccup in the slightest, and seem to delight in beating him down time and again - case in point, the title I've read he was given - but they can't do that with Bloom because she honestly doesn't care what they think of her. Also, if you've read the preview for this story, you know she's more than willing to give a beating - a feistiness the Vikings would likely approve of...when directed at the dragons. Anyway, enjoy! Please review! I'll try to update as frequently as possible!