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Chapter One - A Visitor
It has been six long months since anyone on the small village of Berk has seen Hiccup Haddock, their beloved dragon rider, or his dragon, Toothless. No one knows exactly what happened to them. They just vanished into thin air one snowy day. There wasn't a trace, no tracks to follow, nothing.
Hiccup's blacksmith mentor, Gobber, stood in Stoick's place as chief for him when Stoick fell ill. Stoick was sick for a good three months before he started recovering from the sickness. Stoick is still recovering, and Gobber is still chiefing, though is given things to do, he is just Stoick's eyes and ears for Berk, since Gobber, Astrid(Hiccup's girlfriend), and Gothi are the only one's allowed to see him. Gothi is nursing him back to health to get him well enough to leave his home and begin chiefing again..
Astrid goes looking for him at different islands every week, but she never finds anything. But she won't give up. She seems to be the only one who thinks he's not dead. She just refuses to believe it. She'd know if he was. She'd just know.
Astrid's been sent to greet a boat pulling into the docks. Why it just has to be her, she doesn't know. She walks down the dirt road towards to the docks. Snotlout and Ruffnut are talking, well, it's mostly Snotlout who's talking. He's probably flirting with her, judging by the disgusted look on her face. Well, at least he's moved on from Astrid.
He only did that once when Astrid and Hiccup had started dating. Astrid smiles as she remembers Snotlout's face when Hiccup punched him straight in the jaw. He never bothered Astrid after that. At least, until Hiccup disappeared, but only a few times. What was she supposed to be doing again? Oh, right docks.
Once she gets there, the boat is already there, but not docked. Frowning, she walks up next to the boat. There's a wheezing man on deck, he looks so frightened he just might pass out. "Um, sir, are you alright?"
"He's *wheeze* coming for *wheeze* you! Hide! HIDE HIDE!" He says, then passes out.
"Great. A crazy passed out dude on Berk. What could possibly go wrong?" Astrid says sarcastically, and walks off to find someone to help her move the maniac.
"Hey, Snotlout!" Astrid says, she really, really doesn't want to talk to him, but he's the closest person. "Yes, babe?"
"Could you help me get this crazy maniac off his boat and to Gothi's tent?"
"Anything for you babe." She groans.
They lift the man, luckily with no more flirting from Snotlout, and take him to Gothi's tent.
When they get there they lay him on a cot inside the tent. Gothi sees them and the man. "What happened to him?" Gothi writes in the dirt on the floor with her staff. "I don't know. He just passed out." Astrid says, leaving out the part about how he told her to hide.
Gothi nods and proceeds to look the man over.
Astrid should tell Stoick and Gobber about this. She says goodbye to Gothi and Snotlout, and leaves the tent. She's headed towards the Chief's home, where no doubt Stoick and Gobber are there discussing Chief stuff or whatever they even talk about.
She has to dodge the Terrible Terrors at her feet, almost tripping twice. "Damned dragons." She mutters, stumbling a bit. The small dragons continue tripping her until she kicks one of them, and they all scurry off, scared to get kicked.
She hates those damn Terrors.
She finally gets to the Chief's house and knocks on the door. Gobber opens it, and when he sees her he smiles. "Ah, Astrid! Come on in! Did you greet that boat down at the docks?" Astrid walks in, "About that.. Where's Stoick?"
Gobber shuts the door. "He's in his room, what's the matter?"
"I need to talk to both of you." Gobber nods and goes to Stoick's door and knocks, "Astrid's here. She needs to speak with us."
"One minute Gobber." Stoick grumbles from the other side of the door. There's a loud thud and a very colorful curse. Then Stoick opens the door and steps out. "Let's sit."
They all sit down at the table. "What is it Astrid?" Stoick says.
"It's about the man at the docks." She says. "He gave me a warning. He said 'he's coming for you. Hide.' You don't think its… Him, do you?"
Him is the masked figure that's been attacking, taking over and destroying villages for the past two months. No one knows his name, he comes in so fast you don't see him. He destroys villages and burns them to the ground in minutes. They say he rides a blood thirsty Night Fury, but Astrid doesn't believe that part, there's only one Night Fury anymore and he's about as threatening as a fluffy bunny. They also say he has destroyed so many villages, there are only four left unharmed. And they say he's saving the best for last. Can you guess which village?
"I sure hope not." Gobber says.
"We can't afford any attacks right now." Stoick says. "We're short a dragon rider, and the other riders haven't trained in weeks."
"Maybe he won't destroy Berk. I mean, there's plenty of other villages right?" Gobber says.
"I don't know, Gobber." Astrid says. "I have a really bad feeling about this. I'm gonna get the other riders and train."
"That's a good idea, Astrid. Just in case."
"Let's just hope we won't have to fight." Stoick says.
"What, Tuffnut?" Astrid asks. She's gathered all the dragon riders and their dragons, after long conversations and explanations of why (Mostly to Ruffnut and Tuffnut) they were getting back together as a team. They're all at the training academy.
"Uh, why are we doing this again?" Tuffnut asks.
She groans. "I've explained this to you eleven times already! We're training because we could be attacked by him. Do you really want Berk to be destroyed or taken over?"
"I don't know, I like the idea of destruction." Tuffnut says.
"Me too!" Ruffnut agrees, and they head butt each other.
Astrid facepalms.
"Can you guys focus for, like, an hour?" Astrid asks them, really not wanting to deal with their stupidness today.
"I don't know, what's in it for us?" Tuffnut asks, and Ruffnut nods, agreeing with him again.
"I really hope this isn't hand to claw combat again." Fishlegs says.
Astrid glares at him, "Hey, it wasn't that bad! Anyway, we need to train. If Berk's under threat, we need to be ready. Especially if this guy really does have a Night Fury."
"A Night Fury?" Snotlout scoffs. "I'm not scared of a damn Night Fury."
"You should be." Fishlegs says. "The Night Fury is number one on everything, intelligence, accuracy, speed. And if it's being used to destroy things, it would have gotten even better with all the practice."
"Whatever. Do we get to destroy stuff?" Tuff asks.
Astrid sighs. "Yes, Tuff. You get to destroy stuff. Today we're doing target practice."
"Awesome!"
It was definitely not awesome. The twins and Snotlout got into a heated competition of who could fire the farthest, causing at least ten sheep and one house to catch fire. Then Snotlout pissed off Hookfang and Hookfang left him on dragon island. Astrid was the one who had to bring him back to Berk.
"I think that went well." Snotlout says, climbing off Stormfly.
"Yeah, that went great!" Astrid says, her voice dripping in sarcasm.
"Well, see you tomorrow at training, babe." He winks at her, and she gags.
"You know, Astrid, you could beat him senseless and there'd be a 23 percent chance he'll stop hitting on you." Fishlegs says, noticing her reaction.
"Yeah, if it's that low, I'll pass. Thanks anyway, I'm gonna go for a flight before it gets dark." She says, looking at the setting sun.
"Okay, see you later Astrid." Fishlegs says, walking off with Meatlug.
"Come on Stormfly," Astrid says, patting her dragon's neck. Stormfly takes off into the clouds. Astrid loves flying at sunset, she loves all the colors in the sky. She gets Stormfly high enough, and lets go of the saddle, putting her hand in the air. The clouds slip through her fingers like water, and she smiles, she loves that feeling. It reminds her of the flight she took with Hiccup just a few years ago, back when she has thought that dragons were evil. And look at her now, she's riding a dragon.
She flew for at least an hour more, then she decides it's getting too dark to keep flying. "Come on Stormfly, let's go home." She says, but Stormfly doesn't move from where they're hovering. "Stormfly?" Her dragon's head whips to the right as if following something. "What's wrong?" Astrid looking above them, seeing nothing but pink and purple clouds. "Stormfly, there's nothing there." She says, trying to get her dragon to go back home.
Then she sees something black race by.
"Come on Stormfly!" They fly after the black figure, but it's almost too fast. Almost.
Since she had luckily fed Stormfly chicken earlier, they manage to catch up with the black figure quickly, and she gets just a glimpse of it. It's a person with a mask on, riding on the dragon. Her face pales as she recognizes it. The dragon the person is on, is a Night Fury. But it's not like the Night Fury she'd known and loved. This one has blue eyes and scars all over its black body. It's scales were dull, it looked like dust to Astrid. It growls menacingly at her. She tries her best to keep up with them, but fails. Stormfly's just not fast enough to keep up with a Night Fury.
Yet, she manages to catch a glimpse of the rider's mask. It's him. The mask is exactly how they described it. Small spikes on the top, black and brown with only the eyes showing. Astrid can't see the color, it's gotten too dark to really see anything very clearly anymore.
He suddenly speeds off into the sky, leaving a confused Astrid in his dust.
Astrid stumbles off her dragon, catching herself just before she can fall. She stands up on shaky legs, and starts walking, with Stormfly following her. She's thinking back to when she saw him. Why was he here? Was he watching over Berk? Planning an attack? How long was he there watching Berk? Did he see Astrid and the other riders training? Why does he have such an interest in destroying Berk? So many questions float around in Astrid's mind.
She reaches the chief's house. She can hear booming voices and laughter inside, she knocks on the door.
Stoick answers the door, looking a lot better than last time Astrid saw him. The he sees the pale, terrified look on Astrid's face and lets her in. They walks to the table and Astrid just about collapses into the seat.
"What's a matter, Astrid? You look like you've seen a ghost." Gobber says.
"Worse." She says.
"What could be worse than a ghost? Maybe the Boneknapper, now that was a scary-"
She cuts Gobber's blabbering off. "I saw him."
"What?"
"He really does have a Night Fury." Astrid says, remembering those hateful blue eyes and the many scars.
"Astrid, you're crazy. There's only one Night Fury in existence, and that's Toothless." Stoick says.
"That Night Fury wasn't Toothless at all. It had blue eyes, not green, and scars all over its body." Astrid responds.
"So, what, are you saying there's another Night Fury?"
"Yes."
"I don't know, Astrid. Maybe whatever happened to Hiccup, someone took Toothless-" Stoick's cut off. "I know what I saw. That was definitely not Toothless."
"Well, did you at least see his face?" Gobber asks.
"No," She responds. "It was hidden by a mask."
So, you've probably guessed who "him" is by now. In the next chapter let's see what "him" is doing.
Also, the sequel for "Stay With Me" is being written now.
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