five

ALL THE YOUNG BRUNETTE WANTED TO DO WAS RELAX AND INSTEAD, ASTRID HAD HER ON HER FEET SWINGING A SWORD BECAUSE APPARENTLY SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS READY.

Now she was by herself training with a small rusted sword.

"Un-fucking-believeable."

She decided enough was enough. So she marched up towards Astrids hut only to find voices in the clubhouse.

"It has to be someone Viggo wouldn't suspect, because he's never seen them up close" she heard Hiccup say.

"Astrid Hofferson, I demand that—!" she stopped as soon as she saw a man in weird clothing. "Who the fuck is this?"

"Ah!" Hiccup said, covering her mouth. "Sorry Johann!"

Not waiting for him to respond, he dragged her out of the clubhouse.

"What was that?!" he whispered.

"Who's that shady character?!" she whispered back.

"W-What?"

"I don't like him," she told him.

"Y-You've never even met him!" Hiccup's eyes lightened up as soon as he said that. "You've never met him!"

"I think we've established that."

And that's how Alora ended up going on an undercover mission.

"She's the only one who was never captured by Viggo or Ryker!"

"But she was there when we broke you out!" Astrid said.

"But she was hidden! Out of sight! He never even saw her up close!"

And it's true. It'll be confirmed later on in the story.

"And she's smart enough to pull it off," Fishlegs said.

"Now I hate to be the bearer of the most unfortunate news, Master Hiccup," Johann said, "but unless you are hiding a pile of gold in the crevices of your tunic, you won't see the dragons, let alone bid on them."

Everything happened so quickly. Alora found herself on Toothless's back, riding for two days to Berk. She was actually going to meet the King, Hiccup's dad. Of course, she was nervous.

Not only that but Hiccup was presenting his genius idea and Astrid was dressing her up to go under a fake identity.

She heard voices get closer to her in the training arena. If she wasn't so scared, she might've actually enjoyed her field trip to Berk.

"He's going to have to be smart, crafty, quick on his feet, and, most importantly. . ."

Astird told her to walk forward and the brunette walked out wearing a dress and a blue silk cape. She wore a brown braided wig that reached mid-back and had a golden leaf tiara wrapped around her head. For a second, Hiccup swore he was looking at a goddess.

"Who is this?"

Alora laughed nervously.

"Dad, this is Aly. She's one of our newest recruits."

"H-Hi," she stuttered. "Y-You must be Hiccup's dad."

Stoick looked at Hiccup with a bewildered look.

"Okay, before you shoot this down. . ."

Astrid sighed.

"I can do it," Alora told them. "I can play a part. I've done it before."

Hiccup turned around in shock. She shared the same look. Astrid turned her body towards her.

"What's that supposed to mean?" she asked.

"I-I did a play," Alora said. "When I was. . .younger."

Stoick had absolutely no idea why the teens were bewildered but he knew that if this was going to work, he was going to have some conditions.

"I thought of the perfect alias!" she told Hiccup. "It came to me in one of my memories."

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"Hear ye, hear ye. May I present to you, the graceful Princess Leia!" Gobber announced.

Alora walked with pose as she exited the ship.

"Fetch my gold," she told him, in a sharp and soft tone that completely differed from her own.

Gobber walked back on the ship and she didn't hesitate to approach the two men that were at the end. From the drawing Fishlegs gave her, the one she didn't recognize must've been Viggo. The other one, she did recognize. That was Ryker.

"Princess," Viggo said, bowing slightly.

"There's no need for that," she told him, causing the man to straighten up.

"Where do you reside?"

"Tatooine, anything else?" she asked, irritated. She looked back at Gobber who was carrying the treasure box filled with Berk's gold. Hiccup's words rung in her head.

"Just try your best. Keep it safe."

"Are you sure you. . .have the stomach—?" Ryker started.

"Excuse me?" she fired out. "I could just turn back and take my gold with me."

"Our deepest apologies, Princess Leia," Viggo said.

"That's more like it," she told them. "Now, let's go, R2."

Gobber assumed it was him and walked behind her as they infiltrated.

I was nervous. Super nervous. Of course I didn't have the stomach for this! I didn't have the stomach for anything. That rescue mission was a once-in-a-lifetime thing!. . . Or so I thought.

They were waiting elsewhere and Alora was biting her lip out of habit.

"It'll be alright lass," Gobber told her.

Suddenly they heard something shift behind them and Alora saw it was a dragon. Gobber was immediately drawn towards it and Alora shifted her eyes away from the magnificent beast.

"Out of my way, Grump! Fat beast."

"Do you auction off the ugly, fat one as well?" Gobber asked.

Ryker laughed.

"Who would buy him? Besides, he eats all the scrap iron and the only dragon that can bite through a dragon-proof cage."

'This idiot,' she thought, while keeping a straight face.

"I think he'd make a great cape," she told Ryker.

"I'd skin him and eat him."

Now she had him right where she wanted him.

"I'd like a place to count my money," she told him. "Somewhere privately where no one will see me."

Alora pretended to survey the area until pointing towards the lone tent.

"Apologies Princess, but no one goes inside Viggo's tent."

"Well I wasn't really asking," she sharply remarked. "Now don't tell me I have to walk myself to ask your brother for permission."

That certainly strung a chord because then she found herself, along with Gobber, inside Viggo's tent.

"Let's find that Manifest," Alora told him.

"Agreed."

She pushed back her cape and started rummaging through the man's items.

"So Hiccup told me that you found yourself washed up on the island with no memories?"

"That's right," she said. "Nothing but my name and age."

"Have you gotten anything as to who you are? I bet your parents must be worried sick."

"A few things. But I can't miss my parents when I don't even know them. Or remember them for that matter."

When Gobber found it, Ryker arrived and Alora distracted him and the guards as Gobber threw the piece of parchment behind his back so Hiccup could pick it up.

After that, things went downhill. As soon as she entered the arena and they revealed the first dragon she saw Ruffnut and Tuffnut hiding behind the sheet.

"Shit," she whispered.

What she didn't realize was that one of the men beside her heard her and that's how she ended up being thrown into the dungeon with the rest of her friends. But to make matters worse, Viggo had all Berk's gold and everyone's dragons.

Well. . . Not all of the gold.

"Toothless!" Hiccup yelled.

Alora placed a hand on his shoulder and squeezed it lightly. He placed his over hers and the anger that was placed upon his face had softened out.

"We need to get out of here," she said.

"Hey Gobber, what do you think these walls are made out of?" Hiccup asked.

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The escape plan was messy and now Alora was stuck with Astrid on Stormfly. They dived into the water and saved Hiccup who was supposedly holding a chest full of Berks gold. But when Fishlegs looked inside, it was just full of rocks.

"He has it. All of it. All of Berk's gold!"

Alora let out a nervous laugh.

"You see. . .about that."

Everyone looked her way.

She placed a hand inside her dress and pulled out a few coins.

"You're joking!" Astrid said. "You genius!"

"W-What?!" Hiccup said.

"It's not much, but you said to protect it. So I took a handful out and stuffed—"

"Okay, okay, I think I get the point," he said as his cheeks flushed.

"Good one lass! Hopefully it'll help ease the Chief once I tell him the news," Gobber said.

"Thanks Princess!" Hiccup teased.

"It was a one time thing Hiccup!"

"Now who's the royal pain in the ass?"

"Shut up!"