"Hiccup!" Hiccups father yelled upstairs, "Your going to be late boy!"

"Coming!" Hiccup shouted back while he furiously flung articles of clothing into a small animal skin bag. Today was the first day of the big camping trip for the all the vikings in hiccups age group.

"Now boy!" Stoick's now annoyed voice rumbled throughout the house, "Yer dragons even waiting for ya!" This was true. Toothless had been waiting by the front door for quite a while now. He could sense the excitement in the air.

"I'm here, I'm here" hiccup hurriedly dashed out the door. "C,mon dad! We're gonna be late!"

Stoick the vast simply rolled his eyes at his son and followed him out the door.

Astrid's POV.

"We were supposed to be gone by now." I murmured. I had arrived at the departure zone three hours ago. When we were SUPPOSED to get here. The departure area was just a small shack on the edge of the forest.

"where ARE they?" I asked to no one in particular.

Ruffnut and Tuffnut turned and looked at me like I had just swore in church. I was the only one to speak for the past two hours. The blonde twins were perched upon their Zippleback. Ruffnut was sitting on the left neck and Tuffnut on the right. They had all of their gear strapped to the back of the zippleback, which they had (after days, if not weeks, of fighting) named Ruffnut and Tuffnut's dragon. Rat for short. The two vikings were almost always seen with the dragon.

"Those two were always with the other two" I allowed myself a small chuckle at that one as I put my hands on my head. I went to lay my head back against a rock when I saw Hiccup running towards the meeting area as fast as it appeared he could. The small boy was rather, well, non-vikingy. He ran with a noticeable limp due to his lack of foot. Although he had made improvement in his walking I knew he would never be the same.

"Astrid!" hiccup called to me "sorry im late!"

I punched him in the gut. "you should be! Three hours hiccup! THREE HOURS!" I yelled. I wasn't really mad I just liked that sheepish look he gave when he was yelled at. Even though he wasn't as viking looking as, say, Snotlout, he definitely had the heart of a viking. Maybe thats why I was so attracted to him. My thoughts were interrupted when Hiccup waved his hand in front of my face. I blushed when I realized I had been staring at him.

"you ok Astrid?" he asked. His voice was so caring and kind.

"umm ya. Sorry about that" I replied as I quickly put my pack on my Nadder, Crush, to make me appear busy and break the awkwardness.

"alright listen up young vikings!" The viking chief's voice boomed, "today you will be departing"

I didn't hear past that or rather I didn't listen. My mind was fully centered on Hiccup. I often did this when bored. I would just lay down, stare at the sky, and daydream of Hiccup. My daydreaming today however was cut short by Crush picking me up by the shirt to get my attention. Apparently all the other riders and their dragons had taken off. Only Stoick, toothless, Hiccup and Crush were left. All of which were staring at me expectantly. I blushed and got on Crush. He promptly shot into the air. Toothless and Hiccup did the same. Stoick waved goodbye below.

"Finally!" Snotlout yelled back to all of us, "No adult! No responsibilities! We can do whatever! Isn't that right Ravager?" He patted his Monstrous Nightmare on the neck. It roared happily in response. Snotlout and Ravager had the same attitudes. They both felt like they were the best in every aspect of anything they've ever done. However, Ravager and Snotlout often got into disagreements such as which direction to go or what they thought one another should or shouldn't eat. They had one of the best dragon/rider relationship on the island.

"Agreed!" shouted both Ruffnut and Tuffnut.

"Agreed." I thought nervously to myself. I had a bad feeling about this trip.

Night was falling on Berk. Hiccup was currently putting his tent up. We all had decided on a camp site on top of a bluff that over looked the ocean. I had found it beautiful but of course I made the excuse that it was a "tactical position". Ravager had lit a stump on fire and we were all sitting around it. Hiccup was sitting on he opposite side of the fire from me. I was just about to make my "move" on him when Ravager suddenly set himself on fire and started pacing the bluff. Soon afterwords Crush started hissing and Rat stood protectively over her riders. Toothless started pacing and growling into the treeline. They were trying to intimidate something that was in the forest.

"toothless?" hiccup said inquisitively. "whats wrong?" he started to hobble over to were toothless was located when I saw it. Its red eyes glowing menacingly and I could tell they were targeting Hiccup.

"Hiccup! Don't move!" I screamed but it was muffled out by the monstrous roar that was let out by the monster as it leaped at the boy. Suddenly smoke was everywhere. I couldn't see anything I yelled out to hiccup but he didn't respond. I heard Snotlout let out a yelp and then I felt a thud. Then Ruffnut and Tuffnut screamed. I started screaming their names when I was hit by something hard on the side of my head. Then the world went black. The last thing I could hear was a shout and the beating of wings and a bloodcurdling roar.

So that's my attempt at a 1st chapter to my first story, however feeble an attempt it is. Hopefully it wasn't that bad. Review please! And constructive criticism is always wanted.

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