Hello! Welcome to my new story! I am sooooo excited to start this! This story is going to be a little different then my usual HTTYD fanfics. I will be some what making it up as I go for once, and I will love it if people will give me ideas to add in to future chapters! Anyway, review and as always, enjoy!
Chapter 1: Doing This With You
Astrid's P.O.V
"Looks like I won!" I chuckled at Hiccup as he fake boasted with pride. We were flying through a thick snow storm. Stormfly squawked at Toothless who cooed in response. I laughed. It was almost like they were having a conversation.
"By the gods it's cold."
"Yeah. It's been a long time since I've seen this much snow!"
"And so soon!" I nodded in agreement. I took a deep breath inhaling the crisp winter air. Stormfly twirled in the air and met up along side Toothless. Hiccup smirked and suddenly took off speeding higher and higher, before he dived down again and stopped just before he hit me.
"Smoothe moves, dragon boy!" He laughed as Toothless twisted upside down and flew just ever so slight above Stormfly and me. Hiccup looked down at me with a wide grin. I stood on Stormfly and held both of my hands on his cheeks, and kissed him.
The kiss broke quickly, but was nice. It was the only warmth in all the cold.
"Your hands are cold. You know that?" He said, with his usual lopsided smile. I gave him a playful glare.
"Its because you dragged my butt out here!" He laughed and ran a hand through his frozen hair. We knew that was not the case, but the two of us laughed anyway.
We continued our long ride in silence. Every now and again he'd check up on me, or I'd ask him if he saw anything, but most of the time, it was just peaceful silence. After a while, my hands started to numb and my body started to become attacked by chills. I shook away the feelings trying to keep searching for people that might have been trapped out in the storm.
"Hey Ast? Want to race?" I grinned. He was trying to get rid of the problems back on the ground. At least for a little while.
"Sure. Why not." Without wasting another second he yelled "Go!"
"Hiccup!" I pushed Stormfly onward to reach Toothless who was already speeding off. The wind was grueling and the snow even worse.
"Hiccup!" Toothless's wings extended and pulled against the wind, making him slow down for Stormfly to catch up.
"Is everything okay?" Not really. I sighed, my nose and mouth had lost feeling long ago. So had my hands. The tips of them had turned blue and now hurt so bad, I was worried I couldn't grip Stormfly's saddle. I tried to catch my breath, but the wind seemed to whip it right out of me. Snow covered my hood in thick, icy clumps and my hair now a dark brown color, from being so soaked. It was worse than being on Icestorm Island.
The snow storm had hit Berk two nights ago. It was all very suddenly and it caused a rush of panic. People had all shoved into the great hall with the supplies they could carry. Berk Guard had to go out and rescue the fishermen who were hit by the storm so unexpectedly. Even Bucket, who could always tell when a storm was headed our way, didn't see it coming. And so far, this storm seemed to prove to be worse than any storm in Berk's history.
I tried to flex my fingers to get them to thaw, but moving them was so excruciatingly painful, that I winced. Hiccup looked st me worriedly.
"Astrid?" I gave him a delayed response.
"Y-Yeah. I'm okay. Let's just keep going."
Hiccup tugged Toothless to a full stop. "Astrid you don't look so well. I think we should get you home." I shook my head. This was far to important.
"No, it's fine. Berk comes first and there is a whole island full of people who are suffering. A little chill won't hurt me." Hiccup gave a frustrated sigh. Along with everyone being stuck inside, sickness started to spread like wildfire. Eel pow had come two months early, this year proved to be a harsh one. Without much of the cure on stock, we were sitting ducks until the blizzard passed.
"Astrid. Your fingers." I glanced down at my hands. I had tried to ignore it, but now it was beginning to be harder to.
"There's a small cave down there. We'll stop and rest for an hour." I nodded not feeling the need to protest.
Toothless guided us through the never ending white out swerving and rocking with the wind gusts. I followed close behind. Toothless suddenly shot backwards and fired a plasma blast at a rock formation that appeared out of nowhere. Stormfly also moved back defensively, and fired. I felt the whole earth tremble.
"Hiccup! Look out!" I screamed. The mountain started to shake and within seconds the snow came down at full speed.
"Stormfly!" The dragons had no direction to fly other than down. Toothless and Stormfly dived, dodging rocks and ice. The mountain came crashing down at what sounded like a hurricane.
I gripped the saddle as tightly as possible, without screaming out in pain from my frozen fingers.
"Astrid!" Hiccup shouted from somewhere to the side of me. I barely had a few seconds to look back, before sheets of ice pummeled Stormfly and I. I screamed as Stormfly got sweeper out from underneath me. I watched her fall through the air, frantically trying to balance out. I screamed as I plummeted towards the ground.
"Astrid! Hiccup screamed, holding his hand inches from my own, desperately trying to reach me. Toothless suddenly shrieked as ice hit me from him from the tail fin, breaking his prosthetic. Hiccup grabbed my hand but slid out of the saddle in the process, Toothless spinning out of control.
I held his hands and reached out for Toothless. I could hear Stormfly's desperate squawks somewhere in the distance. I got to Toothless's saddle and pulled him upward, trying to grab Hiccup. My hands.
They weren't working like I needed them too. I couldn't keep Hiccup's grip.
"Hold on!" I said struggling to keep my focus. It was then could I feel the warm trickle of blood from the back of my head. I had been hit with a rock, when I was knocked off Stormfly.
"Astrid! You can't save us both!" Tears formed in my eyes. Toothless shrieked as we came closer and closer to the ground.
"I love you Ast-"
"Hiccup!" I screamed as another sheet of ice hit Hiccup, carrying him away into ocean of snow. I screamed for him. No reply.
Toothless suddenly twisted backwards, roaring in fear as wind knocked him off balance once again. I screamed as I fell off him and came within feet of landing.
Suddenly, in the sea of white, came a flash of black, a feeling of warmth... then darkness.
That's the chapter! I hope you all enjoyed the start of this! Whoot whoot! Leave me ideas, because I'm generally making this up as I go! Review and request please, and thank you! Have an awesome day! Until next time,
-Daisy
