A Little bit of light reading (Astrid)

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For the entire morning Hiccup had been swamped with lesson after lesson, and these types of lesson proved certainly different in comparison to the classes taught by Gobber. In fact, these classes were safe! sure thy had big words, numbers among other things and for the most part Hiccup had merely watched and observed.. this place.. was so weird. His cotten jumper itched like crazy, his shirt beneath felt like it was constricting him, even these blue items known as 'jeans' were restricting. The shoes or rather.. shoe he wore did however feel rather comfortable and certainly warm.

In fact.. all his clothes did, this was the first time Hiccup could say that he felt warm and dry.. really dry. At any rate, he was still growing use to the many words used.. some of which he didn't understand, phrases and compliments he didn't get. It was all still so new to him, he had of course only been there a few days. With classes over for the morning, Hiccup managed to find the library.. it was filled with so many books! More books than he could even count! It was truly amazing, unlike most of the Hairy Hooligan tribe.. Hiccup liked to read and write and draw.. (perhaps the only one who could read, write and draw) So this to him.. this was more his type of world.. here he was someone and already he had made a few friends.. there was no annoying cousin called Snotlet to poke jokes at him, oh no and for that he was grateful.

So having spent most of the afternoon in the Library, Hiccup finally decided it was time to return back to his dorm. With his arms piled up with books of all different type (dragons of myths and legends, dungeons and dragons.. and various other mythical and dragon related books) Hiccup finally tore himself away from there. It was amazing how quick time had flown. Yet there was a small part of him that felt bad.. he hadn't thought of Toothless nearly as much as he should have.. there was just so..much going on he had been overwhelmed. Yet, after two whole days of searching, calling and looking there was still no sign of his friend and it certainly put a damper on his spirits.

Many times he would gaze at his book of dragons, his personal book that contained pictures, information even languages! relating to dragons.. the most used one happened to be the one with the night fury carefully drawn. With that book tucked safely under his arm with the many other books, Hiccup made his way out of the library. He needed something to read at night.. he didn't sleep, hadn't slept his dorm felt so foreign, and lonely more so without the comforting breathing of Toothless as he lay snoring. With a sigh, and his brow furrowed he paid little attention to where he walked when.. CRASH! He had collided solidly with someone that it sent his books scattering across the floor...

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Well, the classes were hard to follow. Astrid felt completely lost while she was sitting there listening to the teachers. It didn't help that the clothes that had been provided for her, simple jean shorts and short sleeve t-shirt were rather uncomfortable, at least compared to the clothes that she was used to wearing, and with no where for her to put her mothers axe. All of these things together made Astrid a bit... well, grouchy to say the least.

As she stalked down the hall her blue eyes were faded a bit, lost in her thoughts, her blonde bangs covering her left eye completly. This place was not her home! She didn't see why she had to go through these classes at all! They were taken up a lot of her time, time that she should be using to try and get back home. After all, despite how wonderful Tenebrae seemed to be, in the back of her mind Astrid was still very much aware that she had been kidnapped. Sure, it had only been a couple days since she had arrived here, but already she missed her mother, and her friends, and she missed Stormfly.

The last thing she had done was banish her dragon to that terrible island, and that brought an ache to her heart. Poor Stormfly.... And then she wondered if everyone had noticed her missing, and what they were thinking, hopefully that she hadn't banished herself to be with Stromfly. She loved her dragon, but she had complete faith in Hiccup being able to clear her dragons name. Yet, what else could her sudden dissappearance look like? It was troubling thoughts like that had rendered her unable to sleep at night in that foreign dorm that she was supposed to be calling her new home.

Suddenly there was a slight pain in her arm as someone collided with it, followed by the sound of papers fluttering and books thunking to the ground. Astrid whirled around, braid swinging behind her, suddenly angry. She glared at the boy with her arms on her hips. "Hey! Don't you look at where you're going?" She demanded.

However, suddenly her blue eyes landed on one particular book that had landed close to her right foot. Slowly her arms came down and she crouched to pick it up. There was no mistaken the symbol on the cover for it was the crest of the Hooligan tribe. Astrid's braid fell on her shoulder and she looked at it with her brows raised in shock. She had to see, and so she opened the book to a random page, and there was a picture of a dragon along with Hiccup's scribbled notes and little drawings to update the entry. She flipped to another page, finding the pages that were full of drawings of none other than Toothless, and suddenly there was no more doubt in her mind.

Now Astrid looked up at the boy beside her, her gaze no longer hostile and cold. There was only one person who would have a book like this on their person. Her voice was no longer hostile, but hopeful and anxious. "Hiccup?"

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The books went everywhere only to scatter in several directions. The voice shouted towards him and Hiccup inwardly flinched. Yep.. that was him all round, messing things up, making things worse at times. Sighing Hiccup quickly knelt on the floor to pick them all up, only to mutter hurried apologies. "Sorry, Sorry.. I should of looked where I was going!" He called up to the figure, although refused to meet the person's eyes. The last thing he needed was to make more enemies, and especially one likes Snoutlet. Having gathered a large majority of the books already scatted around the floor, Hiccup saw his most treasured, and most important book of all some few feet away right by the girls feet.

Reaching for it, as quickly as he could he simply wasn't fast enough. The female, whoever she was snatched the book up.. great, just what he needed. Someone else to take fun out of him, or tease him. Standing up Hiccup did his best to straighten his shoulders and appear taller; with the books tucked under his arm, Hiccup pointed at the book firmly, and with conviction and courage stated. "That is my book, and I would like it back..please." He added at the end, his whole demeanor of confidence having shattered as soon as he said please.

Suddenly the female called his name, and Hiccup froze. Who exactly was this girl? how did she even know his name? Suddenly Hiccup snatched the book back with his free hand. This was certainly awkward, "Sorry.. but I don't think I know you." Hiccup commented as he looked to the female, there was something vaguely familiar about her, yet he couldn't place it. The fact that she had looked through her book, invaded his privacy, certainly caused him to stand on edge. "But yes.. I'm Hiccup." He stated, sounding all to proud of his name sake, it was after all the only other thing he held that reminded him of his true home.

For each night, Hiccup would go to bed to read through the book of dragons, lingering each time upon the pages that he had drawn of Toothless. He missed his friend, and he felt guilty for having not thought about him for some time. Where was he? what was he doing? was he alright? There was just so many questions. Without Toothless, Hiccup was nothing; even here, he was nothing but the next victim for the new generation and breed of Snoutlet's that already plagued the school. Here Hiccup was indeed, Hiccup the Useless who spent all of his time reading book, and wallowing in their pages in the library.