It has been 2 weeks since the costly death of Stoick The Vast and deafet of Drago Bludvist. Hiccup is now the chief of Berk and his mother, Valka, is helping him learn what it is to be a dragon rider.
'Whoosh'! Astrid rolled over in bed. A loud banging woke her with a fright. Hiccup let himself in then waited in the living room for Astrid to get up. Soon Astrid walked in and yawned. "You know you don't have to get up so early", she said, "some of us like to sleep in every now and again". "Sorry", Hiccup muttered. "Don't worry", Astrid replied, "I feel like going for a fly anyway. Stormfly"? Stormfly grunted then slowly got up, stretched and walked over to give Astrid a good morning nuzzle. Astrid and Hiccup laughed. "Oh Stormfly, Toothless is waiting outside for you", Hiccup said. Stormfly quickly raced outside. "I'll give you a chance to get ready", said Hiccup. "Great", Astrid replied, "I'll meet you in the village market in ten minutes". Hiccup smiled then walked out as Stormfly came in.
Ten minutes later Astrid and Hiccup met in the village market both dressed in their usual exploring outfits. They smiled at each other before racing up into the clouds. A couple hours later they both lay on their backs in the grass on one of the abandoned islands surrounding Berk. "I think I won that last race", Astrid said. "Maybe", Hiccup replied," but I still won the first two". "Fine", Astrid laughed. Soon they where both laughing. "So, how did you ever get time off your chief duties to go for an all day fly?" Astrid questioned. "Well my mother said she would fill in for me today so I could spend some time with you and Toothless", Hiccup replied. They both looked over to where Stormfly and Toothless where playing and laughed at their carefree way of playing. "We should probably get going", Hiccup said. "Yeah" Astrid agreed. They both got up and went over to their dragons who stopped playing immediately. They where both soon flying back to Berk when they saw a huge storm coming. "Come on", Hiccup yelled,"we have to warn the others". Astrid nodded and they both sped back to Berk.
"Hiccup!, Valka yelled, "oh thank Odin your alright. There's a huge storm coming. You had me so worried". "I'm okay mum", he reassured her," but your right about the storm, Astrid and I saw it on the way back". Astrid nodded in agreement. "Hmm", Valka pondered, "perhaps we should give the warning and tell everybody to stay inside until it passes". "Yeah", Hiccup said, "we'll tell everybody to meet in the hall". Soon Astrid and Hiccup where both flying around the village telling everybody. It wasn't long before everybody was gathered in the hall around the fire, singing, dancing, helping cook food or complaining to Hiccup about the storm.
The storm lasted for almost a week and with everybody and their dragons stuck together they started to get on to each others bad sides. Snotlout and Fishlegs were always fighting over Ruffnut who was, as always, trying to get the attention of Eret, who was still grossed out by her. Soon everybody was complaining to Hiccup, Astrid, Valka and anybody who would listen really. When the storm finally ended everybody rushed to go and tend to their broken down houses and sheep. As Hiccup was chief, his duty was to go around and help everybody rebuild their houses. As he and toothless where helping out there was a loud scream. He immediately flew over to where it came from and found Astrid and a another villager huddled over a girl, around his and Astrid's age. She had long black hair with purple streaks tied up in a very high pony tail. She was wearing a simple purple shirt with black pants and no shoes. A little to her side was a strange looking animal. "Is she alright?" Hiccup asked Astrid. "I don't know", Astrid said," we just found her here not long ago. Oh I hope she is alright". The villager looked concerned, "is that beast a dragon"? It asked.