(The Dragon Lord)
(Start of a New Beginning)
"…Leaving, what do you mean you're leaving?" Draco asked confused "I mean I'm leaving Berk and you should to" Hiccup replied rubbing under Toothless's chin "Why? We've been able to hide our dragons for this long and I bet we could do it a little longer"
"It's not just about the dragons, I've been planning to leave for a long time and now that I've got Toothless I can do just that (He looks over at Galaxy and Draco) why not come with me?" Draco shrugs "I'm not sure, I guess it's because we don't have a plan" Draco smirks and Hiccup is confused "What do you mean?"
"I mean you just plan to up and leave, what if they decided to come after us, then we're in trouble if they found us again, so I thought why not come up with a plan to make them have no reason to come after us" Hiccup was rubbing the back of his head "That… that could possibly work in our favor, but what are we going to do to pull that off?"
"Simple, we fake your death" he looked at Draco confused again "What?"
"It's what it sounds like, we fake your death"
"How are we going to do that and what about you?"
"Don't worry about me, I'll just get exiled after killing you" this kind of freaked Hiccup out "How do you plan on doing that?"
"We'll use boar blood, we'll splatter it around on the ground, put some blood on the sword and myself, we'll have to find a place to kill you first"
"How about the edge of a cliff" Hiccup suggested.
"That could work, now we just need to…" we were interrupted with the sound of our dragons growling. Draco pulled out his sword getting into a defense stance "Show yourself!" Draco yelled. No one came out but instead the bushes rustled "I'm going to go after them, you stay here and watch the dragons" Hiccup only nodded. Draco took off after the intruder.
Draco could see the outline of the intruder but it's hard to keep up through all these woods but luckily for him his knows these woods like the back of his hands. He took a left taking another path hoping that the person would take the path in front of him. He was getting closer to the other path and heard someone running as he got closer. He took the risk and dived forward luckily tackling the intruder.
They landed on the ground hard but not hard enough to harm them. He rose into a sitting position and was met with beautiful blue eyes "Astrid?" he questioned as he looked down at the girl "How could you?" she whispered. He didn't hear her "How could you have betrayed your people?" she whispered again but louder this time.
"My people? I was never one of you" he harshly replied, "My so-called people have done nothing but ridiculed me because I'm not as big as them or because I hang out with Hiccup the so-called runt" she looked away but tried to get out from under him. He grabbed his sword that was lying next to them and placed it against her neck "You know I can't let you go until you hear me out first" she goes still but still avoids eye contact.
"Have you ever felt useless before Astrid? Of course, you haven't, if you knew what it felt like to be picked on by everyone for being small and unskilled, that's what Hiccup had deal with but now he's got a chance to get away from it all and you want to ruin that, tell me Astrid why?"
She looks up at him "Because he's weak and a coward and his betrayed his own kind" he puts more pressure on her neck "Then what does that make me?"
"You're different then him, you know how to wield a sword, you know how to fight but now that I saw that you've sided with the dragons my thoughts about you have changed"
"Well, that's all I wanted to know" she closed her eyes as the pressure on her neck got heavier waiting for the worse to come but it didn't, instead her lips were met with his and the blade was now back on the ground. She was stunned by his sudden change of action. After he pulled away he sat up looking down at her.
"I know you think you're doing the right thing and it would consider to be the right thing but would you just look the other way until tonight, he'll be gone by then" she just stared at him stunned.
"You then can tell them whatever you want but promise me you'll wait till tonight" she was still stunned but slowly nodded her head. He gave her a sad smile "Thank you" he got off her before heading back to the cove where Hiccup and the dragons were.
(Couple of hours later)
Astrid did as she promised and waited for tonight to tell everyone that she saw Draco talking to a dragon and she lead them to where she heard Draco and Hiccup were talking about but when they got there they saw Draco on his knees with blood splattered on him and his sword as well as the ground in front of him and the edge.
The chief was shocked but that quickly turned into worry "What happened here?" he asked in a shaky tone but Draco just sat there in silence. The chief looked around and saw what looked like… no it was part of Hiccups tunic "What. Happened. Here." He asked more sternly but still got silence. The Chief then ordered his men to grab the boy and take him to the cells until they decided what to do with him.
Later that night they decided to have him exiled.
The next was the day that Draco Ryder was going to be sent away for murder of the chief's son. The whole village was at the docks watching as Draco was being escorted to a small boat, some of the villagers were yelling slurs while the others were giving him death glares.
Stoick threw Draco onto the small boat staring him down. Draco didn't look him in the eye but that was because his eyes were on Astrid. Her eyes held sadness in them she wanted to say something and stop them but she couldn't find the words. His eyes told her not to worry she knew he was right but her heart couldn't help but ack.
"It's time traitor" the chief spat.
Draco turned his back on Berk but took one more look at Astrid before he sailed off into the horizon. The village slowly went back to normal after a couple of days but some were still broken from the events that happened Astrid being one of them. She took quiet a liking to Draco after getting to know him but now she couldn't tell him how she felt about him.
The second was Fishlegs. He was friends with Hiccup and Draco once but stopped when he got threatened that he'll start getting picked on as well.
The last person that was upset was Gobber, Draco and Hiccup were his apprentices and good ones too but something about this was bothering Gobber though 'They were so close so why would Draco kill him' he thought.
(End of Flashback)
After that a couple of days later, Astrid suddenly vanished without telling a soul. Stoick sent out search parties for weeks but they all came up with nothing. Everyone presumed she was dead and called off the searches.
It was hard enough that Hiccup just died but now one of their greatest warriors has passed. The people of Berk started assuming if it was Draco that brought this misfortune onto Berk now they're paying the price but what they didn't know was that it was just going to get a lot worse from here.