/Oh wow sorry I don't know what happened in the last chapter, I had paragraphs but they seemed to have gone I have no idea what happened. Apologies o.o this is the same chapter but hopefully with the paragraphs... Anyway as I'm deleting the previous chapter, this is a rewrite of my previous story, I wasn't very happy with it but let's try again shall we...
The Haddocks front door was knocked in the early hours of Saturday morning. It was the weekend, no classes in the academy, a whole two days for the teens to do as they pleased. It was a relief, the past week had been absolutely hectic (let's just say more things got blown up than what should be considered normal, even for Berks standards.)
Stood on the outside of the door was Astrid Hofferson, shivering slightly in the cool morning mist. She pulls her arms closer into herself, trying to preserve what little heat her surroundings had to offer. She knocked again, eager to get out into a source of heat. Nothing. Just as she lifted her hand to knock for a third time, the door was pulled open.
"Hello Astrid, good morning." A familiar, deep, voice greeted. "Good morning Chief." She returned, smiling lightly while batting a piece of her from her eyes. The voice belonged to Stoick The Vast, chief of the tribe... or Hiccups father, either worked. "Come in!" He says, gesturing towards the inside of the home. She smiles gratefully, instantly feeling a flood of warmth come in her direction. She subconsciously let out a small sigh of delight, before glancing over to him.
"Is Hiccup home? Or has he left without me?" She asks, chuckling slightly at the last part. Stoick smiles, shaking his head. "No- he's just upstairs, you can go get him if you want." He returns, nodding his head in the direction of the stairs as he gently pulls the door shut. Astrid nods, beginning to move up the steps. "Thank you Chief." She calls over her shoulder, before disappearing round the corner.
"Hiccup?" She asks, slowly moving the door open. As she pushes it further, the whole room comes into view. She scans it from her spot, quickly spotting the boy sat in his desk.
"Hey- Hiccup!" She says again, this time catching his attention. "Oh-Hey Astrid, hi Astrid, hey." He stutters, jumping round in his seat, slightly taken aback by the small shout. "Uh, Hi Astrid." He says again, earning a subtle head shaking from her. "Morning!" She cheerfully responds, stepping fully inside. From the corner, a black shape sits up, gurgling fondly. "And to you too." She laughs in the direction of Toothless, giving yet another fond smile.
She walks across the room, leaning on the back of Hiccups chair, instantly seeing his journal strewn open on the desk. "Watchya doing...?" She curiously asks, leaning over his shoulder. "Uh, n-nothing. Yep nothing." He says, trying to cover up the image that obviously laid in front of them. "Well there's something there!" She responds, trying to get a better look.
She scrunched her eyebrows, pouting slightly. "Let me see! Please?!" She begs, before simply giving up on asking and pulling at the corner of the book, having it successfully land in her hands.
"Aha!" She grins, flipping it over. "Astrid no!" He groans back, raising his arm in a feeble attempt to get the book back in his possession. Astrid shook her head, and evil grin plastered on her face. She laughs, before taking a proper look.
And laid before her was...something. She found herself staring back at her, in an almost mirror like scenario. Hiccup had drawn her. "Hiccup, this is...amazing..." She murmurs, brushing her fingers over the arrangement of lines.
He had gotten everything, the pattern of her shirt, the way her hair hang over her eyes, even the dull shine of her axe. "N- It's nothing." He sheepishly responds, taking the book back and briskly closing it, placing it in his vest. Astrid blinks slowly, used to Hiccups modestly. "Well I think it was pretty cool." She smirks in response, noticing his faint blush. She shakes her head, shrugging. "Let's move on..." He says, standing up.
As he did so, Astrid noted how much taller he was getting, in fact he was only a centimetre or so off from overtaking her.
"Are we actually gonna go flying now?" He asks, the Haddock sarcasm showing through.
"Oh most definitely."
It took minutes for the two to get in the air, and an even shorter time to begin an unannounced race. "Oh it's on Haddock." She calls edging to start going, already pulling slightly ahead. "Oh is it..." He smirks, instantly pulling forward.
"Hey!" The other shouts, getting further behind every second. "What...?" He innocently calls over his shoulder, letting out a chuckle of laughter. "If you wanna win you should probably hurry up!"
Astrid raised an eyebrow, challenge accepted. "Come on Stormfly!" She grins, the pair instantly speed up, gaining ground (well air.) Hiccup shakes his head, trying to push on faster, Toothless doing the same. They were gaining speed, Astrid and Stormfly left behind in the dust.
"All right then..." She murmurs under her breath. There was no way she was letting him win this thing. "Stormfly! Single spine shot!" She commands, a single spike soaring over her head. It plants itself just in front of the other two, narrowly missing Hiccups head.
"Hey!" He shouts in protest, pulling Toothless away from the tree it wedged itself in. "Well you're the one who went without me!" She laughs, moving ahead.
Hiccup scowled, regaining his posture before moving forward, fast on the others tail. "Toothless, Plasma Blast!" He says, the command quickly followed by a purple orb. It hits a tree to the right of the Nadder, causing her to stop in surprise.
"Bye Astrid..." He grins, easily overtaking her. "Hiccup!"
"What- you shot first!"
"That's not the point!"
"Then what is the point?"
'Wow he's not frustrating,' she silently thought, biting her lip. The pair edge forwards, Stormflys head quickly in line with Toothless' tail. They were so close. They were inline with his saddle, herself and Hiccup neck and neck.
"Come on bud!" Hiccup calls, followed by a- "You can do it Stormfly!" Their destination came into sight, the final sprint about to take place.
"Now or never bud..." There was seconds left- and then...
A pain hit Hiccups leg, coming out of nowhere. And it hurt. He let out a small cry, a spasm starting to form in the stump. It was as if he had hit it on a wall, the multiplied the pain by ten. It had never hurt this much, not that he could remember of.
"Toothless!" He shouted, a tear forming in his eye. No this couldn't be happening- not now! Toothless jerked, Hiccup no longer able to take control of his tail. They were going to crash.
"Hiccup...?" Astrid said, not instantly catching into what was happening, until it was far to late. Hiccup gasped in pain again, trying to regain his balance. The two jolted down further, before they completely went, hurtling towards the forest below.
"Hiccup!" Astrid shouted again, in complete horror. Hiccups eyes batted open, the trees getting closer and closer. They had three seconds, two seconds, one second. He heard one last shout, before everything went black.
/So... I hope the paragraphs show this time, I'm really sorry about yesterday I'm not sure what happened...anyway...