(A/N This is the complete re-write of 'The Dragon Lord' this time I'll be taking my time working on it the way it was attended to be. See you guys next time!)
(The Dragon Lord)
(Prologue)
(Rain's Hand, Sundas 11th)
"…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 myself and my sword, 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 ach.
"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.
(Rain's Hand, Middas 14th)
A couple of days have passed since then and lately Snotlout, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, and Fishlegs have all noticed that Astrid's been acting out of character lately. When they try to ask her if she was alright, she would answer 'I'm fine, I'm just tired' but her tones gives off another impression.
Even the chief, Gobber and her parents along with a couple of the other residents of Berk have notice this change in her. She's been avoiding people, she stopped practicing and even going to dragon training. When it's brought up why she stopped doing dragon training she would just shrug her shoulders.
Her parents became worried about her and went to go question her about her recent behavior but when they asked her or pretty much bugged her about it, she got all mad and stormed off. They didn't know what to do after that and decided that it would be best to leave her alone until she cools down.
(Three Hours later, Night)
After a couple have passed Astrid's parents became worried since Astrid hasn't returned home after storming out and it was already becoming dark. They head out into the village and began to ask those that were still out. Some would shrug their shoulders, other would say 'No' or 'I haven't seen her' eventually Astrid's parents ran into her friends and asked them if they know where she's at.
"Have you four seen Astrid lately?" Mrs. Hofferson asked. The four teens look at one another with worried looks on their faces.
Turning back to the worried parents Ruffnut was the one to speak being the closes to Astrid then the rest "Sorry Mr. and Mrs. Hofferson, we haven't seen her, we only saw her storm out of your house and went off into the woods but after that we haven't seen her since"
They wanted to go into the woods and find their daughter, but it was to dark out to look for her. They called it the day and when fist light rolls around they'll go look for their daughter.
(Rain's Hand, Tirdas 15th)
The next morning didn't start out like anyone thought it would. Before the sun rose everyone was awoken by commotion coming from outside. Everyone ran out of their homes to see what was going on and found Stoick and one of Berk's fishermen talking to one another, well Stoick was talking, while the fisherman was yelling.
At first know one understood him until Stoick told him to calm down and speak slower "Calm down Mr. Ingerman and speak slowly, I can't understand you when you speak so fast" Mr. Ingerman took a deep breath and began to speak as slow as he can.
"One of our fishing boats are missing" this shocked Stoick since he knows he hasn't sent anyone out yet.
"Are you sure you didn't just miss count?" Mr. Ingerman looked offended.
"Sir, I've kept count on each and every ship that comes and leaves port and I know one-hundred percent that we're missing a ship" Hearing this made the Hofferson's hearts drop. They went up to talk to Stoick.
"Stoick, our daughter has been missing all night and she hasn't returned home, we're worried about her" Stoick knew how it felt to loose their kid, so it was easy for him to decide on what to do.
"Mr. Ingerman, we'll talk more about the missing ship but right now we need to look for Astrid, I'm afraid to say it could've been her that took the ship" dismissing the missing ship for now Stoick got everyone that was available and went where the Hofferson's told them where they last heard where Astrid went off to.
Two hours have passed, and they've searched all over Berks forest and found no sign of Astrid. Thinking the worse Stoick told her parents that she could've been the one that stole the missing fishing ship and sailed away off to who knows where. Hearing this devastated the two and through the rest of the day, all of Berk was once again in a depressing state.
(Mid-Year, Middas 16th)
Two years have passed, and it seems that everyone except the Hofferson's have accepted that their daughter won't be coming back and could possibly have died out there at sea. The only other ones that still thought of Astrid were the other teens that were her age.
The four teens were meeting at the old abandoned watch tower and have been there for a few hours now sitting in silence, occasionally say a few words but not a lot to be considered a full conversation.
"You know, it's still weird to think that just two years ago Hiccup and Astrid were both alive but now they're both dead" Tuffnut comments.
"How do you know she's dead, she could've made it to another island or one of the neighboring tribes" Fishlegs shook his head.
"That's not likely, the closes neighboring island is outcast isle and if you remember that there was a storm a day later after finding out that she went missing, if the storm didn't get her then the dragons might have" Ruffnut glared at Fishlegs.
"Fishlegs, do you ever have hopeful thoughts?" She asks the heavy teen. He just lowers his head shutting up.
After that small conversation they were back to being quite not knowing what else to talk about but that didn't last long because they all heard the sounds of footsteps with a thud walking up the ramp.
"Aye kiddo's, I see you're still missing your friend" they didn't say anything. Gobber limps over to the other side of Fishlegs sitting down next to him.
"You know she would've wanted us to move on" they still said nothing. Gobber with nothing else to say without making them miss her more he shuts up and sits there with them in silence.
Another twenty-minutes passed until everyone began to leave to go home even though it's still light out, they just didn't want to do anything that day leaving Gobber by himself.
He looks out towards the ocean and began to wonder something 'Why would she leave without telling anyone, she could've at least said something to me, I wouldn't have said anything to anyone' even though he may not know the reason behind her leaving but deep in the back of his mind something is telling him that he does know, and he just doesn't know it yet.