Prologue: Twenty-two years ago

Astrid's POV

Hiccup and I were laying in bed trying to get some sleep in the middle of a snowstorm. It has been hard especially since I am eight and half months pregnant with our first child. Many people predicted that we will have the future chief. I will admit that ever since we got married three years ago just not long after Hiccup had assumed his role as Chief of Berk, we were always constantly asked when will we have children. I didn't want to kids at the time, and Hiccup was never the one to pressure me until I was ready. I'm glad to have a husband like him, who was putting my interests before his own. It was after I babysitted Fishlegs and his wife's four month old son one time that made me finally decided that I was ready.

I have lately been experiencing labor pains in the middle of night and kept reminding myself that it's not time yet. Three times already I have been to a Midwife, because I thought I was giving birth and been told it's false labor. I didn't want to wake Hiccup after he had just spent all day preparing the village for the storm, and not want to risk it all for nothing. But pain just kept getting stronger and was closing in to being 3 minutes apart. I realized that it's the real deal.

"Honey!" I gasped."Astrid" Hiccup said as he woke up. " What is it." "Get a Midwife!" I gasped."Right!" He said as he struggles to get his clothes on manages to get his armor on and a heavy cloak. He tells Toothless and Stormfly to protect until he gets and gives me one last look before he rushes out the door.

Hiccup's POV

When Astrid told me to get a Midwife, I knew that she meant it this time. I made sure that Toothless and Stormfly was watching over her in case something happens to her. I struggle against the wind and snow as they threaten to bring me down, but I manage to reach the first Midwife's house I could get to and that was the home of Eira. Eira was not the first person I wanted to deliver my child, in fact she was the last person I wanted to get because I heard about her husband's sudden death, and her third stillborn last month. I felt that it would hurt her even more to ask her, but I have no choice with the storm raging like this.

I knocked for a few minutes before Eira finally answered and lets me in. She looked terrible with dark circles under her eyes, and being bone pale. Her being around thirty she looked like aged twenty years, I couldn't blame her, for all that's happened recently. Her black eyes stare at me before she says something. "Chief" She quietly asks. " What brings you to my home?" I replied " Eira, I know this is all of a sudden and I don't want to ask because of all that's happened to you. But my wife is in labor and I need a midwife now. It's an emergency. Please? I'll make it up to you."

She blinks at me with her eyes, and finally she quietly said "Okay". She runs upstairs for a few minutes a returns with a bag full of supplies. She quickly puts her black hair in a bun and puts on a black heavy cloak over her nightgown. Both her and I make the struggling journey back up the hill to my house, and I pray to Thor that Astrid is okay.

Astrid POV

The labor has been getting worse, and by the time Hiccup comes back, my water breaks. I hear them rush upstairs and the door bursts open to reveal a snow covered Hiccup and Eira. I know Eira only by her tragic past. I never thought she would be here to deliver my baby. Nevertheless they reached my bedside, and Hiccup holds my hand while Eira gets Stormfly to quickly boil the water. Eira bends my legs covers them with a blanket. I breathed as by her instruction into a pattern as the baby's getting lower.

"Okay" She said and turns to my husband. "Chief put the dragons downstairs. I don't want her to get distracted" She said. Hiccup nods and leads the dragons downstairs. Then she turns to me and say " I want you to start pushing." I start pushing and oh gods it hurts! I'm so tired and I just want to sleep, but I have get my child out. Hiccup comes back only to faint at the sight in front of me. "Hiccup!" I screamed as Eira shouts " Keep Pushing!"

Finally after ten minutes of hard pushing. The baby comes finally out and it's a boy!. Hiccup wakes after our son starts crying and has tears in his green eyes as he sees our beautiful boy. Eira cuts the cord, wraps him in a towel and hands him off to Hiccup. " As a new father" she said happily. " I feel its only right for you to clean him, while I take care of your wife." Hiccup nods his appreciation before leaving the room with our baby. I feel another contraction and Eira comes over to me with a soaked cloth, saying " I going to place the cloth over your mouth, and let you sleep while I take care of placenta okay. If you feel contractions it's nothing but the afterbirth okay. Nothing to worry about." I nod to her as I want nothing more than sleep after all this pain, and pushing. She puts the cloth over my mouth, and as I dream about life with our son, last thing I remember is her pushing on my abdomen.

The rest of night was a blur.