" One more push astrid, one more" valka pleaded, as astrid lay on hers and hiccups bed. She had been in labour for 10 hours, give or take, and of course she had to start giving birth as berk was under attack, by drago and his 'allies' he has gained for over five years. Thats how long it had been, since the last drago incident and look at where it go them, astrid giving birth early hours in the morning. It was about 3:15 am and the attack was still going on, the bottom half of berk had already been lost, there was no hope. So why should she try.
" i cant, there is no point, i cant" she cried tears down her sweaty cheeks. She had given up she couldnt do it anymore. But her husband wouldnt stand for that, as he was sitting behind her patting her head with a damp cold cloth, but he placed that down holding both hands in his and placing his mouth near her ear.
" yes you can if not for yourself then for the baby, if you dont push you will die. Our baby will die. Come astrid you cant give up, its not you, you cant give up." she clamped down on his hands and squeezed them tight as she gave one final push and the baby final came out.
The midwife took the squealing babe from valkas arms to go and wash it down, while valka and the other healers including Gothi took care of astrid, cleaning her up making sure there was no bad bleeding.
" you did it baby, you did it" kissing her sweaty hair.
But this happy family greeting was cut short as eret and snotlout barged through the bedroom door, sweating and panting.
" Chief! oh sorry-" they both said as they saw astrid legs still wide open, and they tried their best to cover their eyes and signal hiccup to come out side of the room to talk.
" I'll just be a min" he said kissing the side of her head one more time before getting up and heading towards the door, guiding both snotlout and eret out. " whats going on out there?" but with the delayed reactions he already knew, they had lost.
" its bad hic, really bad. What ever dragon he has this time, berks not standing a chance. It hides in the shadows, taking down any dragon that stands in its way and the people 24 are dead and 15 have been captured." snotlout said holding his helmet in his hands, with a sorrowful look on his face.
" right, right okay i-" he started running a hand through his hair to the back of his head. And that's where eret stepped in.
" chief, they are killing the old and injured and well the ones that are trying to kill them, and taking the ones that are young and healthy. I've seen it while i was a dragon trapper, slave trade. They will sell our people to anyone on the trading market."
" okay, evacuate the island, get as many people on the boats at the back the island. And head towards dagur and heather, they will help." hiccup ordered.
" but what about you?" snotlout asked.
" i have a family now, a baby. Im sorry but i need to get them safe, just do what i said and get as many people out and off the island. ill give further orders when we are on the boats" he ordered again getting ready to head back into his bedroom.
" yes chief!" both said rushing down the stairs to follow their orders.
Hiccup headed back into his room and his eyes quickly landed on his wife sat up right hold their baby in her arms, soothing the babe. Step by step he headed towards his family, slowly climbing onto the bed next to his wife and babe, looking, adoring, the new family member.
" we have a son hiccup, a little baby boy, we have a son." kissing his cheek and stroking her sons small fragile head.
" he's beautiful, he's amazing, but we have to go, we have to get out of here now" he sounded serious, he looked serious. He started to gather up the small child and the sheets that surrounded him into his arms and started to get up and off the bed.
" what? Why? i thought our defences could handle this?" she went to get up but there was a sharp pain from where the midwife had stitched her up, and she started to bleed again. Hiccup looked back as the midwife and healers went to stop astrid from bleeding out.
" how long is it going to take to stitch her up again, berks not going to last long?" he asked his mother.
" i dont know"
" okay stop, just stop the bleeding, mom you take him, and ill just carry astrid out, you can stitch her on the boat when we get there." he said already moving towards his mother to hand her, her grandson.
" no, if you move her now, with no stitches, she will bleed out and be dead before we even reach the boats." the midwife argued.
" then we have no time to lose, hiccup you take my grandson and our heelers out of here head to the boats, i'll stitch up astrid myself" by the time valka had finished she had already taken the kneedle from the midwife and five heelers had headed out of the house.
" but mom-" he argued.
" now shut up hiccup, i know how to stitch up a uterus, i've lived in a cave for twenty years i've learnt a few things. You have a son you need to get off the island, we will only be a few minutes behind you. Now go" she ordered as she tried to stop the bleeding.
" but-"
" Go Hiccup!"
" Wait!" astrid screamed before her husband left. " let me kiss him"
" you will see him on the boat"
" i know, but please let me kiss him." she pleaded. And of course he gave in, walking towards her and placing their sons head where she can kiss him.
" be safe, i love you, both of you, be safe stoick" hiccups eyes looked at astrid as she placed one final kiss on her sons head, and soon her eyes met his. She had named him after his farther, of course she did, his dad would have loved this child so the baby might as well have a strong name, for a strongly loved boy.
" Stoick, you think the name will suit him?" he asked lifting his son back up into his arms. Watching as his wife lay back slowly into the furs as another drop of sweat fell down the side of head.
" he's your son hiccup, he needs a name, and he's your son and i think he deserves the name of your farther. Now go, i will be at the boats in 20 minutes." she said as he started to walk towards the door, but paused at the door to look back.
" i swear if you aren't at the boats in 20 minutes im coming after you."
" i believe you, now go." he left the room and headed down the stairs, astrid could still hear his footsteps until he had left the house completly, and thats when valka decided to speak.
" astrid you do understand that it wont take 20 minutes to stitch you up, and when i do stitch you up, you wont be able to stand up, if you move the stitches will come undone and you will bleed out before you have even reached the front door of your house to leave." she said with a sorrow look on her face.
" i know, i also know that in 20 minutes hiccup wont have time to come back because this part of berk with have been taken over and it will be too late to turn back, so you can go, i wont hold you too it. I just wanted my baby to be safe and i needed him to be with his farther."
" im not going anywhere honey" valka place herright hand on astrid shoulder while haveing the kneedle in the left, ready to do her stitches.
xx
By this time hiccup and stoick were already walking to the other side of berk with a few other civillians and the injured. They were about five minutes from the boats, and stoick was already getting fussy, which wasnt the best time as people every five minutes came up to him what was the plan after they get on the boats.
" what happens then?"
" what about my wife, she was captured, we cant just leave her?"
" chief hiccup, what do we do?"
" our dragons, what about our dragons?"
" there are people dead, my friend is dead"
He couldn't take much of it, his head was spinning but the only thing he could think of was where his wife was. But he couldn't think of that anymore, as two voices shouted behind him and for a second he hoped it was his wife and his mother, but was deeply disappointed to hear two male voices.
" chief!" both of them shouted, he turned around to see eret and snotlout running towards him. Both of them panting and sweating and when they stopped taking deep breaths before speaking.
" chief, we have rounded everyone we could up, and told everyone we saw, there might be a few people behind us but other than that most people that were in the lower area of berk has been captured." eret stated placing his hands on his hips still breathing heavly.
" okay have any of you seen astrid and my mom?" he asked hushing stoich as he started to whimper again.
" err no, did you eret?" snotlout panted.
" no, why are they not here yet?" eret questioned hiccup.
" they had to finish astrids stitches and then they would be coming. But snotlout, do you think you could run back to see if you can find them, they might be a bit slow since astrid has her stitches in."
" err sure chief, i'll see you guys in 10 minutes okay" snot said before jogging in the opposite direction to the other vikings that where heading towards the boats.
xx
At the boats many people were injured and lying down, but those how stood were helping out treating the injured. Hiccups mind was still spinning but for those how stood up he could only make out Gobber, Tuff, Bucket and Gothi. and also eret who was walking beside him. As soon as Gobber saw him, he stopped what he was doing and turn towards hiccup.
" chief, the boats are ready to go, we are just waiting for your order. oh my thor, is that your baby" gobber said as his attention was drawn towards the little babe in hiccups arms.
" wait astrid, my mom and snot are not back yet, we cant leave with out them. And would you mind holding him for a sec." hiccup said placing stoick into gobbers capable hands, or hand.
" no, my sister isnt back yet either, she was down near the dragon training center, but she is smart, and she would have got out. But maybe no one told her about the boats." hiccup looked at gobber who's eyes said it all. Hiccup knew that anyone near the training center didnt stand a chance, if she wasnt dead, she would have been captured.
" look tuff-" he started but tuff butted in before he could even start. " no, she will come, you will see" and he walked off, to go and cool down.
" look chief we have to set sail before the enemy comes, we cant wait for long, we are running out of time." spitelout said running up to his chief.
" no, my wife isnt back yet, neither is my mom, or your son" spitelout was taken back at this comment, but he had is council man face on.
" that's, err that's a shame, but if we dont move these boats now, all these people will be dead. we have to move out now."
" im the chief, im the one who decides when to go, not you. And i say we wait." his voice got more stern and louder as he finished, whiched caused an audience to stop and listen in to the conversation, all thinking it would probably escalate. and that when gobber thought he sound stop this now before it got any further.
" chief, i hate to say this but he is right, we need to leave now."
" no. My wife, my mom, snot-" but he was interrupted by gobbers fake hand on his shoulder, while the other was carrying his son.
" i know, but we cant rescue them if we are trapped as well. So lets go, seek refuge. And when the time comes and once we have healed then, and only then, we get our people back."
" okay" he nodded. " can i have my son back" gobber nobbed handing hiccup his baby back into his arms.
" lets set sail, towards dagur and heather, they are the best allies we have right now."
" you got it chief"
And off they went, leaving berk, leaving their home and all they knew, leaving their love ones behind so that one day, one day they could return and get back that had once been stolen.
xx
(2 Years later)
The day had been quiet, more quiet than usual. Usually the guard would have banged on the cages early morning, but they didn't. They would usual do this since they would have been interrogating them one by one late at night so they would only have a few hours of sleep on a cold hard floor so really it wasn't a sleep at all, but they didn't. Which made them, the berk prisoners, think what the hell was going on.
At the first sign of the door opening, everyone looked. but instead of seeing tons of guards coming in to give them slave work for the day, they saw one guard with a man in chains walk in. But this man looked familiar, through his cuts and bruises, he looks so familiar.
Astrid pulled herself up and looked through the bars of the cage, she knew this man, she knew him indeed.
" Dagur?"