Well this is the part that I wanted to fit in last chapter but never got to it so here you go! Also in the spirit of my first chapter this one is in Astrid's point of view.

Again I do not own HTTYD.


I had given up fighting. Yes I know, Miss Warrior Princess Astrid had given up, whoop dee doo, but Hookfang's vice-like grip was impossible to break so I had wised up and stopped struggling, unlike someone else being held captive in Hookfang's claws.

For what seemed like hours Hiccup and I were trapped within Hookfang's grasp. After a while of us dangling from his talons Hiccup spoke up, his voice arching into a roar of anger, "Why the Hel are you back!? You know you were exiled… and know you're coming back to take Astrid from me aren't you!"

Snotlout scoffed, his voice hinting at annoyance, but he gave no answer to Hiccup. As Hiccup fumed in annoyance, muttering all sorts of words which I couldn't understand, I turned my gaze out to the sea and watched and waited for any sign of Stormfly. I had been looking for a while when I heard Snotlout mutter something to Hookfang, who responded with a quiet growl, lowered his head to the base of his wing, where a blue cloth was tied, and dropped the spread of blue cloth slowly into the ocean below.

As the hours leaked by exhaustion started pulling at my mind, blurring it into swirls of black and muffled voices, be it exhaustion from the excitement of our capture or just my body reacting to the loss of sleep from the last few months taking care of my daughter and son I did not care because I needed the sleep.

With an uncharacteristic sigh of defeat, my mind finally grasped the idea that within the talons of Hookfang I could do nothing to help myself, but as my eyes started closing I noticed a distant shape coming our way. My voice squeaked up as I tried to warn Hiccup that something was coming but before I could tell Hiccup I felt my body give out and collapse into sleep.


I started awake when I felt a rough, slightly rocky, texture beneath my exhausted body. Confused I stood up, my legs protesting against the sudden shift of weight, and noticed that I was standing on a sea stack. What in the, I thought as I looked around and noticed Hiccup, with his back turned to me, glaring at something ahead of him.

Face heating as I admired Hiccup's strong back I tried to yell, but my voice was quiet and unused, so it came out a miserably quiet yell. Trying again, this time my voice cooperating, I yelled, "Hey, Hiccup! Get over here!"

Hiccup whirled around as he heard me, his green eyes lighting up with joy, and with a cry of relief he ran at me, smashing into me and curling his long arms around my waist. "It's ok, Astrid. I have you, trust me," Hiccup said, his voice deep with worry and happiness, and as he pulled me into his chest I inhaled his scent which smelled of dragon sweat and leather. His soothing scent relaxed me and I felt my body become calm. I looked into his eyes, which seemed to glow with happiness, and slowly he bent down to kiss me, his face flushing as I too leaned in for the kiss-

"Excuse me? Hello? Hiccup? Do ya remember me?"

Hiccup jumped away from me, his eyes burning with embarrassment as he turned to Snotlout, who was leaning against Hookfang with a slightly disgusted look on his face. "No cousin, I did not forget about you, unfortunately," Hiccup snapped at Snotlout, crossing his arms over his chest in annoyance. Snotlout raised an eyebrow at Hiccup's answer, but seemed to dismiss it with an obvious shrug of his shoulders.

I looked to Hiccup, wondering what kind of reaction Snotlout would spur out of my husband, when Hiccup suddenly turned away from his cousin and said in a disgusted voice, "So traitor why did you come back? Please enlighten Astrid and I in your smattering response. We would appreciate it very much."

Snotlout huffed, and for a second I thought that if he was a dragon steam would have been coming from his nose, but instead he nodded slowly.

"Fine," Snotlout snapped his ice-blue eyes now starting to burn with anger and one other emotion that was too hard for me to figure out. "I came to ask you for permission to return to Berk. I— I miss you guys. Please, Hiccup I'll do anything if you let me return to Berk with you guys." At this point Snotlout's eyes had started burning with enthusiasm and his voice had started to perk up with a hopeful, pleading happiness.

"No," Hiccup said, his voice seeming to curl with malicious hatred, "why would I ever let you return anyway? You nearly killed Astrid! And you think I would let you come back to Berk where you would have the chance to hurt her, or my children, again? You must think I'm stupid."

Snotlout looked at me, his admittedly gorgeous eyes searching my face for any kind of emotion, and finding none he turned away from me. Hookfang nudged him gently, as if trying to comfort him, and then turning his great head to Hiccup he snarled at him angrily. I thought I heard Snotlout say something to Hookfang because he stopped growling and instead he snapped his huge wings open and flew away from the sea stack we were resting on. Shocked, I watched as Hookfang flew away from his rider, wings seeming to propel him as far away as possible from us.

Hiccup's mouth was hanging open, shock playing across his face; confusion wracked his voice as he said "Where's he going?"

I was shocked to hear worry in Hiccup's voice as he asked the question so I turned towards him and whispered, "What do you think he's doing? Is he sending Hookfang out to find someone, possibly?"

Hiccup shook his head at me and mouthed our dragons to me but before he could finish reassuring me, Snotlout spoke up. "I sent him to get your dragons, since you are going to need a way to get off this sea stack right?"

Snotlout's voice was filled with an uncharacteristic sarcasm, as he continued, "Hookfang should be back here in a few minutes, so why don't we talk about our situation, chief," he snapped the word chief like it was poison bubbling in his throat.

Hiccup gasped in shock and with a horrified expression on his face he gasped, "How do you know about that? Stoick died two years after you were gone! You were exiled! How could you come back and know about my father dying and my being chief?"

Snotlout's expression hardened and slowly his eyes shifted downwards as he told us the story of his knowledge and involvement in Stoick's death.


Lightning burned fiery trails through the sky, illuminating the sky to show two dragons, a Monstrous Nightmare and a Skrill, and their riders, a former Berkian and the chief of the Berserk tribe, fighting. The Skrill roared as a bolt of lightning hit her outstretched wings, which she absorbed and then with a cue from her rider shot the huge, super-charged blast of lightning flew at the Nightmare.

"Dive Hookfang! Now!" Snotlout roared in fear as the stream of lightning zoomed ever closer towards the pair. Hookfang responded immediately, wings snapping to his sides, and he fell towards the armada of ships attacking a lone Hooligan ship that held the chief of Berk on it.

Just as Hookfang was going to smash onto the deck of Stoick's ship he snapped open his wings and with a roar, shot a hot blast of flame into the oncoming wave of Berserker ships, catching their sails on fire and even burning the lead ship to a sinking pyre of ash.

"Way to go Hookfang! Ya really showed 'em, pal," Snotlout yelled enthusiastically, leaping off Hookfang as he landed on Stoick's ship. Hookfang snarled at the retreating Berserks, and then scoffed smugly as even Dagur and his Skrill flew away from Stoick's ship.

Snotlout turned around, expecting some form of praise from Stoick but instead he saw him lying on the deck of the ship gasping, clutching desperately at an arrow protruding from his chest. "No,no,no,no!" Snotlout cried, sliding to his knees next to Stoick, horror evident on his face as his oldest role-model breathed for the last time.


I stared at Hiccup in shock as Snotlout finished his story, Hiccup looked back at me and muttered something under his breath and with a relunct groan put his hand on Snotlout's shoulder, attempting to comfort him; but the instant Hiccup touched him Snotlout smacked his hand away and jumped away from Hiccup.

I caught a fleeting glimpse of Hiccup's stunned face before he turned away from his cousin and snapped, "No matter what you say, Snotlout, I still do not trust you even if you are trying to seem like a good person. If you didn't remember you nearly killed Astrid!"

A sudden urge of anger burst in my heart as Hiccup accused Snotlout of something that for some reason I knew to be wrong, again. "Enough, Hiccup. Stop blaming Snotlout for something he didn't do! I remember now what happened that night and it was no one's fault but my own, OK Hiccup?" For some reason I felt a thrill of satisfaction as Hiccup stared at me, shock and embarrassment coloring his face Nightmare red; and at the same time Snotlout smiled at me and winked at me, almost reminiscent of the old days.

Suddenly, I heard a screech and looked up to see my dragon flying down to me, her yellow eyes glowing with happiness, flying behind her was Hookfang who was carrying… Toothless?

Hiccup, who was standing beside me, cried out in happiness when he saw Hookfang drop Toothless onto the sea stack. I smiled as Hiccup hugged Toothless, who cooed soothingly at his rider and then playfully licked at his face till Hiccup protested jokingly. With a shake of my head I turned around, hoping for my dragon when suddenly a large blue nose shoved its way into my face and a sharp squawk made me look up.

"Stormfly!" I cried out, laughing joyfully as Stormfly nuzzled me excitedly. While Stormfly nipped at me happily, I noticed Snotlout watching me but when he noticed me looking his way curiously, he lowered his eyes from my gaze and turned away from me.

I heard a sigh from Snotlout and then he said, "Well, since I see we are not getting anywhere with this conversation, I think I'll leave now. But I will come back, because… I miss everyone… even annoying, little Fishlegs." Snotlout nodded to me and leapt, with admittedly surprising grace, onto Hookfang's neck and into his saddle. "Goodbye Astrid. Say hi for me to Ruffnut, please?"

"Sure Snotlout. Ruffnut really misses you , you know? You should come back someday and say hi to her yourself," I replied, jokingly hitting him in the arm, though I did hear him squeak in pain, and with a last smile to me Hookfang took off, leaving my life for the second time.

Hiccup growled in annoyance as he too leapt up onto his dragon's saddle and with huff, that said much for his annoyance about this whole situation he took off on Toothless. I waited for a bit and then after Stormfly shoved me extremely hard in the back, I got onto her back and took off after Hiccup.


Welp, that chapter is finally done…ugh. This chapter may not seem as up to snuff as some of my other fanfics because my creative juices were an ass while writing the dialogue, and quotes, and pretty much everything for the whole chapter. Review if you want (it is nice to get reviews ya know?).

No real idea when the next chapter will come out but I do know that it is centered around daily life on Berk, so you guys can see what has happened to the gang and their lives after HTTYD2.