Hiccup opened his eyes, at first he didn't recognise where he was. But the the memories from last day return.
Hiccup had woke up early in the morning as usual. Hiccup went down stairs ready to see his father there, but then the pain hit him. He was never going to see his father again.
It has gone one week from the big battle against Dagur, one week after his father's death. Hiccup gasped for air, the pain was more than he could handle. He knew that he had so much to do, but he can't, he needs to get away from the island, and that's now. Toothless looked at his rider, and gave him a small puff to be happy, he hated to see Hiccup this hurt but at the bottom of his heart he knew that he vas the responsibility of Hiccups pain. ...
"Hiccup are you in there?" Astrid asked calmly but you could hear the worried in here voice. It was afternoon and the sun had started to get down. Hiccup hadn't showed up for any meeting neither the training so Astrid had decided to go check if he was home. When she didn't get an answer, she kicked in the door. With one look she could see that no one had been in here for many hours. It was very cold and very dark. This wasn't alike Hiccup to just drop his responsibility and fly away. But it was nothing she could do about it, when her boyfriend didn't want to be found he could be anywhere. She just hopes he's alright.
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The guilty hit him right in his chest, he had been gone all day yesterday, Astrid must been worried to death, but even if he missed her he couldn't return home, there was all just pain and responsible. He became obsessed with his thoughts.
A softly sound pulled him back to the reality. He looked at his best friend -Toothless- and smiled, but it was a smile who didn't reached his eyes. "You have right bud it's time to get some breakfast".
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It has now gone two days since someone saw Hiccup and both Astrid and Valka was terrified, think if something had happened to him.
Astrid went back and forth in the Great Hall. She was afraid if, if she stopped she would start crying, and Astrid Hofferson never cried. One thought went through her head repeatedly, "why Hiccup? Why did you just don't talk to me?". It was all silent in the Great Hall, nobody dared to say a word, even the twins and Snotlout had for once the respect to behave. Everyone saw how close Astrid was to her tears, and it frightened them all. What could had happened to Hiccup?
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The whole day went to explore the nearest island so when the evening come Hiccup decided to ride home to Berk. He patted Toothless neck, he was nervous. He knew that Astrid was going to be angry -no angry is not the world, she would be furious. He was so deep in his thoughts that he didn't saw the mountain who grew bigger and bigger the closer he came. Too late discover he the mountain and the flew right into it, then all blacked out.
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Toothless saw when Hiccup hit the surface, unconscious but couldn't reach him. Toothless landed in the water a few inches away but he wasn't dry good a swimming so all he could do was to climbed upon the nearest rock, it didn't help Hiccup if he also drowned. He saw the boy sink further and further down, until he was on the bottom.
It was only one thing Toothless could do and it was to send out a dragon call, and he hoped they wasn't too far away for the other dragons to notice it.
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Most of the villages had gone home, everyone was tired after a whole day of searching for their chief. But without success everyone headed home, the only one left in the Great Hall was Astri, the gang, Valka and Gobber. The only one who hasn't given up on him yet.
The sun was on its way down over the horizon. It was about to get both darker and colder, Astrid wasn't sure I'd Hiccup was going to survive the night, it all depended on where he is. Astrid hadn't been eating or sleeping the last two days and when she finally stopped wanking, her knees collapsed under the weight of her body and she dropped to the ground. She was so weak and tired of all the worried so when she dropped everything she had tried to creep under control bubbled up to the surface and she began to cry.
Everyone was shocked, nobody had ever seen Astrid cry before; but then when it comes to the one you love even the strongest can break. Valka was the only one who dared to go to the crying girl, and took her in a tight embrace.
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Toothless had tried for what he guess was a few hours now to get anyone to notice where they were, but no help had come. He had finally found Hiccup and dragged him up on the rocks, but he had a fever and needed help right now, from humans. Toothless was out of himself in worried and let out a loud roar.
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Astrid raised her head as soon as she thought she heard a roar pretty far away, at first she wasn't sure; nobody else had seemed to notice the sound. She locked at the people around her, it was Hiccups closest friend and family. There she heard the sound again and this time she was absolutely sure that it was Toothless. "Didn't you guys hear that?!" she almost screamed out. The other hadn't heard of Astrid for a long time so when she suddenly screamed everyone was took by surprise. "Wait hear what?" asked Valka who was the only one who had snapped up what Astrid had said. "The roar, it was a dragon roar and I´m almost completely sure that it was Toothless, come on!" astrid didn't understand why nobody moved, didn´t they realised that Hiccup was near?! So she just walked out of the Great Hall and whistled to stormfly to come. They didn't wait for the others before they headed out over the sea were Astrid thought the sound came from. She looked over her shoulder and saw the others on their dragons, and secretly smiled, just a little because she knew that they never would have let her go by herself, especially in this condition.
It was hard to spot Toothless in the dark and she would have missed him if it wasn't for his green eyes. She turned Stormfly around and flew over to Toothless. He looked like he wasn't hurt so Astrid took that like a good sign. Her eyes swept back and front until she found what she was looking for. Hiccup laid under a rock that shot a bit but his clothes was soaking wet and his skin flushed. Stormfly had not even landed before Astrid threw herself off the saddle and ran to Hiccup.
She reached Hiccup in just a few second which felt like an eternity. She dragged him up in her knee and begun to inspect the boys body. The skin was burning hot and had a large wound with red edges on his head. Astrid soon realised that he was running a fever. She heard the others call her name and she said to Stormfly to let out a dragon call. In a few moments the other landed and found Astrid with Hiccup in her lap. "How is he?" Valka asked when she drooped down next to Astrid. "He has a wound on his head that look pretty bad and he is running a fever, we need to get him to Berk" was Astrid's respond. With Snotlouts and Fishlegs help they got Hiccup up in the saddle of Stormfly. Through the whole flight back to Berk Astrid tried to calm Hiccup down, she ran her fingers through his wet hair and talked to him but nothing seemed to work. His body shivered and he squealed of pain.
They landed outside Gothi's and Astrid dragged Hiccup of Stormfly and without a knock she opened the door and called for Gothi. The old lady came out of a door in the back of the room and when she saw the young chief in Astrid's arms she pointed to the bed in the corner. Astrid wasn't late to obey. The heard a dragon and soon the gang, Valka and Gobber came rushed in, which made Gothi angry because they were in a sick room. The old lady chased out the gang and she wanted Astrid to leave too but Astrid put her foot down, never that she would leave Hiccup in this condition. So the three of them, plus Toothless who just appeared through the door took a step back so Gothi could do her work.
Gothi wrote something in the dirt and Fobber gave me a look and then said "Gothi need to change his clothes, Astrid you need to leave for a moment". Astrid first thought was to refuse but she knew that if she stayed and saw him naked and he found out everything would change, their whole relationship would be different, so she reluctantly left. "Let me know when you are ready" was the last thing she said before she left. The rest of the gang stood outside and when they saw her, she was buried in questions. "I don't really know how it is with him, I was asked to leave the room so they could change his clothes" was all she could say, but she saw that it didn't still the others worried nor herself. They all looked very concerned, Snotlout was like he always was, tried to hide his worried about his cousin but like always he failed. Fishleg must have seen through her wall, because he said "Everything is going to be alright, it's Hiccup we talking about, he's always fine". All she could do was to nod.
She took her place next to the bed Hiccup laid in, Valka in his other side and Toothless at the foot of the bed. She stroked his hair, he was pale, to pale. "How is he?", Astrid hold her breath while she waited to the answer. "He is lucky, but he has a wound on his head that look pretty ugly and we don't know if it is going to give him some trouble, but otherwise his fine, some broken ribs, sprained wrist". Astrid didn't know who gave her the answer all she could think about was the wound on his head, or already started bleeding through the bandage.