Losing to life
Hiccup trudged through the fresh snow, most of the village was sick with a fatal illness, no one knew what it was, but it was bad. Him himself had yet to catch it, but right at this very moment his father, Gobber, and Astrid, were very sick. He went into his house, Toothless was waiting on the roof, "Not now bud," He said as he walked inside. He saw the tending doctor woman busily bent over his father. He stood at the side of the side of the bed silently, Stoick was moaning greatly. He mumbled something between the grunts and cries of pain, "Hiccup, I'm sorry, Hiccup, I love you! Hiccup come back! Don't die son! Hiccup!" Stoick said in his sleep. "Dad, I'm here dad! I'm fine! Gobber fixed me dad!" Hiccup said as he dropped to his knees and held his father's hand. Stoick body was heaving for air, the tears were starting to roll down Hiccup's face, The woman who had been helping Stoick was standing there, biting her lip. Stoick's body stopped shaking, a couple gasps were made, then they stopped, Stoick was dead. Hiccup wailed, and hugged his father's body. "Oh Stoick," The woman said, Hiccup stood up and faced the woman angrily, "THIS IS YOUR FALT! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO CURE HIM YOU STUPID STRANGER!" Hiccup yelled fiercely, The woman looked a little scared, "I- I'm sorry, I did everything I could, but I couldn't heal everyone. Oh Stoick, you never did tell him." She said to Hiccup then mumbled to the dead body. Hiccup looked like a frightened child, the terrible thoughts of being an orphan were sweeping his mind, he looked up at the woman, "What do you mean never told me? Who are you and what was between you and my dad?" Hiccup asked with both anger and fear, The woman swallowed and looked at Hiccup as kindly as she could, "Hiccup, I'm Elma, your father and I, He never got to tell you, he asked me to marry him. I was going to be his wife!" Elma cried. Hiccup was shaking and looked dizzy, "YOU WERE GOING TO BE MY MOM?! YOU TWO DIDN'T TELL ME THAT I WAS GETTING ANOTHER MOTHER?! AND NOW HE'S DEAD AND I DON'T HAVE ANY FAMILY!" Hiccup yelled then ran out the door, he ignored Toothless on his way out, he ran to the one place he would be comforted, Astrid's house. His girlfriend would surely comfort him.
He walked in to Astrid's house and to her room. Astrid's mother saw him and walked out of the room with a bowl in her hands. "Astrid! I can't take it!" he wailed as he sat down on her bed, he hugged her tightly, she coughed and rubbed his back gently, "My dad's dead!" He cried and wailed like a toddler. Astrid coughed some more, "Oh Hiccup, I'm so sorry." She said, Hiccup smiled weakly at her, she smiled back, then in a sudden jerk of her body she leaned off the side of her bed and threw up into a bucket. She wiped her mouth and settled back down, Hiccup looked at her pitifully, Astrid put on a brighter smile, "Hey Hiccup, do you want to know something wonderful?" She said to him secretly, Hiccup sniffled, "What?" He said grouchily. Astrid was grinning, "Hiccup, I'm pregnant." She smiled and giggled a little, then went into a small coughing fit. "Really? Astrid, really? I'm, I'm going to be a dad?" Hiccup said excitedly, Astrid gave him a weird look, "Huh?" she said, Hiccup looked panicked for a minute, "I'm joking," Astrid laughed. Hiccup had relief wipe over him. "So, when are you?..." Hiccup asked, Astrid giggled, "I'm due in five months hon," She said, then she put her hand on her stomach. "Wait, you've been pregnant for four months and didn't tell me?" Hiccup asked, Astrid looked down kind of ashamed, Hiccup kissed her forehead and snuggled down next to her, he adjusted her night gown and could see it He looked at her with wide eyes, then slowly placed his hand on her stomach, a teeny tiny kick was felt. Astrid giggled some more. Hiccup stayed with her a while before going to visit Gobber for the day,
At Gobber's place he knocked and went in, only to find that another woman was weeping and two men were moving a cot. Another person dead.
Two days later he was curled up in bed when a knock on the door came, a very sad looking man stood there, Hiccup was about to say something when the man gulped and said, "I am very sorry to bother you, and even more sorry to say, but Astrid Hofferson was found dead a few hours ago." The man then left. Hiccup closed the door, yesterday his father and Gobber had been buried together, now Astrid was dead. Hiccup curled up in his bed and wept. Stoick was dead, Gobber was dead, Astrid was dead, the baby was dead. And everyone else was sick, so he still wasn't officially the village chief. Toothless wound up in the room somehow, "Toothless! They're all gone! What will Fishlegs and the others say? I want them back, I want my dad as chief, I want Gobber hammering in his shop, I want Astrid out there with me beside her, happily enjoying the snow as we dream up names for the baby. Instead I'm here! Crying as I here each of them are dead!" He wept some more, Toothless curled up below him on the ground, hearing the sobs and smelling the tears of his beloved master.