The sky was cloudy and it seemed like rain, but everyone was on the backs of their dragons flying as fast as they could, me and Toothless at the lead. My head was throbbing and fear and anger was rushing through my veins. Berserker island was in sights, and every guard Dagur had was stationed at the shoreline and docks. As we got close enough swords and talons met like magnets. We weren't here to kill, but to rescue Astrid, and the baby. We frantically searched the entire village, only to find Berserker women and children. With no sign of Astrid. But just out of the treeline, I spotted a hill with a staircase built into it leading underground. I skipped steps as a I ran at blazing speeds, and sure enough, jail cells. Dagur has a knife pointed to Astrid's neck.

"family for night fury!"
"He is family!"

Dagur lowered the knife to Astrid's outstretched belly, only for me and Astrid to let out distressed yells. Blood now trickled down the knife's tip, Astrid was weakening. A single tear ran down her cheek.
"take me." I whispered "take me instead."
Astrid's eyes widened as I said that. I rose my hands in the air in surrender, but then Astrid fell to the floor, she screamed and shut her eyes as she kicked Dagur's foot. I ran to help Astrid up, and we shuffled to the wall for her to lean on. Dagur was now getting up from off the ground, and I showed him I meant business. I kicked Dagur down to the ground and he yelped, I sat on top of him delivering multiple punches to his face. His nose was broken, he lacks half of his teeth and his face is drenched in blood. "THAT'S FOR MY FAMILY!" I yelled. Just then a hand touched my shoulder, I looked back to see mom, she glanced over to Astrid . Astrid was paling and sweat covered her face. Just before we were ambushed, Astrid went into labor, two weeks early. And im sure all of the stress isn't helping her one bit.

I abandoned Dagur, and me and mom helped Astrid up. I would of carried her, but she was too heavy for me. As we surfaced half of the village was waiting for us. I hoisted Astrid onto Toothless and everyone took flight.

Astrid's open cut was bleeding pretty badly, and she was in a world of hurt. I tried to comfort her, but we both knew there was nothing that would help. I pushed Toothless to go as fast as he could go, and we were speeding towards Berk, but we were so far still. We both prayed to the gods that berk was closer than we thought, but of course this was wrong. Whenever Astrid hit a contraction, she would grip my waist really, really hard, not only was this uncomfortable in the first place, I felt extremely bad, like as if I was intentionally hurting her every time without warning. Astrid let out small yelps or groans every time, she took pain vary well, and is easily the strongest Viking I know. But when she started letting out screams, I knew it was more than past time for Astrid to be pushing.

"Hiccup, we need to land." Astrid chocked

Berk was in sight, and Toothless was beating many speed records as we flew, He knew the situation was urgent. We landed right in front of the healer's house, and in seconds, me and Toothless helped Astrid to the bed, and she was laying down screaming as I held her close. The healer was as quick as lighting as she set up shop. Now usually, the men wait outside whilst their wife was giving birth, but the healer told me to sit down as I got up to leave. I dint ask questions, and I was happy that I was allowed next to Astrid to comfort her. Astrid was more than ready to get the baby out, and put the only strength she had into her first push, she was already exhausted, so when the healer told her to push again, she barely did anything at all. She clutched my hand with a bone-breaking amount of strength. I was also sweaty, and my hand was about to break- a wailing noise erupted from the household. "it's a boy!" the healer exclaimed whilst cleaning the child. Astrid fell back into the bed, and I kissed her as I was handed my baby boy. Later that day at the great hall, one name echoed through the room! "Rowan Henderson Haddock, my first child, was born that day."

But that was five years ago…