One year ago

Hiccup, Fishlegs, Gobber and two females were all sitting on a couch watching an old re-run of a football match. Fishlegs and Hiccup were cheering for their team, while Gobber and the two were stood behind the couch watching.

"There we go. There we go." Fishlegs and Hiccup began to say, getting excited.

"Here comes, the momentum change." Gobber announced.

"Defence. The defence is there." One of the women said standing behind Fishlegs. She had black hair and green eyes.

"Serve it up." The other women said, standing behind Hiccup. She had long amber hair and green eyes.

"Yeah! Oh!" Hiccup and the woman behind him yelled.

"No!" Fishlegs and the other women yelled.

"Right here, son." The woman behind Hiccup said to him. Hiccup turned around and high-fives the woman. Fishlegs and the woman behind him sighed in defeat.

"They're unbeatable." The women red hair woman said pointing to the screen.

"Prepare for crushing defeat." Hiccup told Fishlegs.

"It's not over yet." Fishlegs told him.

"Actually, it was over 147 years ago." Hiccup pointed out.

"A technicality." The women behind Fishlegs said.

"Give it up." The red hair woman said to the woman behind Fishlegs. "You're going down." It was then Stoick walked into the room. He looked around the room.

"What'd I miss?" He asked. Gobber pointed to Hiccup and the woman behind him.

"Your wife and son being obnoxious." Gobber told him.

"Better play nice." Stoick told them as he placed his bag down at a desk. He then walked over to his wife and wrapped his arms round her waist. "Hey."

"Hi." She said as they shared a kiss. The woman be hide Fishlegs gave Hiccup's mother a quick tap on the arm.

"Valka, can I talk to you for a second?" Valka nodded and followed the woman across the room.

"Yes, Phlegma, what is it?" She asked.

"I ran into Sven when I was leaving the herb room and he has that systems analysis that you asked for." Valka look at her watch before nodded to Phlegma.

"Okay." She told her. She then walked over to the door. Stoick saw this.

"Everything okay?" He asked. Valka nodded.

"Oh, yeah." She told him. "You know this old boat. It's always something." And with that she left to room. Phlegma then walked back over to the couch and stood behind Fishlegs. He looked up to her.

"What was that all about?" He asked. Phlegma placed her hands on his shoulders.

"Nothing you need to worry about, son." She told him.

xXx

Astrid sat beside Fishlegs, holding his wrist in one hand to check is pulse, and holding Hiccup's wrist in the other looking at his watch, his mothers watch.

"His pulse is thready." She told him. He began to moan again in pain, load.

"Go back to sleep! Quiet!" The other prisoners yelled from the bottom of the drop ship. Fishlegs, Hiccup and Astrid were at the top landing of the drop ship, away from the other prisoners.

"Don't listen to them." Hiccup told him. "You're gonna make it through this, okay? Promise."

"Can he just die already?" A male prisoner yelled. This caused Hiccup to tighten his jaw.

"I'm gonna get clean water." Hiccup told Astrid. She then placed her hand on his arm.

"No, I'll go. You keep an eye on him." She told him. Hiccup looked like he wanted to argue but nodded. Astrid then stood up and made her way down the ladder. Once on the ground floor she was greeted with some of the prisoners in the drop ship, lying down trying to sleep.

"Can we just kill him now?" A male prisoner asked in a tired voice. Astrid looked down at him before walking away. "Hey, cutie, why not just throw him some poison?" This caused Astrid to stop in her tracks. She turned her heels round and walked back over to him. She looked at him once again before kicking him in the ribs. He groaned in pain.

"Be glad I didn't break one." She told him before marching out of the drop ship to get some water.

xXx

It was the next morning. Snotlout, Dagur and another prisoner, Savage were throwing knives for target practice. Snotlout threw a knife at the tree but it missed. Snotlout growled in frustration from the painful moans coming from the drop ship.

"That damn Fish-face, always messing with my head." Snotlout groaned.

"He's not gonna last much longer." Dagur told him. "Better think of a new excuse." He then threw his knife at the tree, embedding it into the trunk. "That's how it's done." Just then Atom appeared, coming through the long grass.

"Dagur people are starting to get scared and hungry," Atom told him as he walked over to him, "and that dying kid, he's not helping the morale around here."

"Morale will go up when I find them more food." Dagur told him. "We need to go hunting."

"Let's go kill something." Snotlout said as he, Dagur and Atom began to walk away from the camp, only to be stopped by Dagur.

"You're not going." He told Snotlout. He then looked at Savage. "I need you both to stay here. If the grounders are circling, we can't leave this place unprotected." Snotlout sighed.

"Fine. Somebody better tell Fish-face to keep it shut." Dagur and Atom then walked off. Snotlout took his knife and threw it at the tree again, missing again. He looked over at the drop ship and back at the tree in frustration.

xXx

Astrid was cleaning and mending Fishlegs' wounds back at the drop ship. Hiccup hadn't left his side since they brought him back. Fishlegs carried on moaning in pain, more when something comes in contact with the wound.

"The grounders cauterised the wound." Astrid said as she observed the wound. "Saved his life."

"Saved his life so they could string him up for live bait." Hiccup pointed out. Astrid carried on trying to clean the wound when she realised something. Something not good.

"This is infected." Astrid said. Hiccup sighed as he placed his head in his hands. "He could be septic." The suddenly the ground door opened. Hiccup turned around to see who it was while Astrid carried on trying to clean the wound.

"How's he doing?" Tuffnut asked as he and Ruffnut climbed up the ladder.

"How does it look like he's doing?" Astrid snapped.

"Hey, just trying to help." Ruffnut said as she placed her hands in the air.

"Right." Astrid whispered. She then looked at his wound and at the cloth in her hand. She knew what she needed to do. "You want to help? Hold him down." Astrid told the twins and Hiccup. Tuffnut and Ruffnut took hold of his legs while Hiccup held his arms above his head. Astrid took a knife and placed it in the small fire next to her.

"I'm not gonna like this, am I?" Hiccup asked Astrid. Astrid looked at him with a serious, yet uneasy look. Hiccup sighed before looking down at Fishlegs. Astrid took the knife away from the fire and held it over his wound. She let out a sigh before placing the knife on his wound and cutting him. He let out a piecing scream.

"Hold him still." Astrid ordered as he began to move about. "I need to cut away the infected flesh." It was then he screams died down before he passed out. Astrid quickly placed her hand on his throat to check for a pulse. They then heard someone climb up the ladder. It was Heather. She ran over to them before kneeling down.

"Stop it! You're killing him." She said to Astrid.

"She's trying to save his life." Hiccup told her.

"She can't." Dagur said as he walked up the ladder. Hiccup then stood up.

"Back off." He told him.

"We didn't drag him through miles of woods just to let him die." Astrid told him.

"The kid's a goner." Dagur told her. "If you can't see that, you're deluded. He's making people crazy."

"Sorry if Fishlegs' an inconvenience to you, but this isn't the Ark." Astrid pointed out. "Down here, every life matters."

"Take a look at him." Dagur told her. Astrid did. He was sweating and growing a fever, or would be if Heather wasn't patting him with a wet cloth. "He's a lost cause." Dagur said. Astrid then looked over to Heather who was sitting by Fishlegs' head, damping the cloth on his forehead.

"Heather, I've spent my whole life watching my mother heal people." Astrid told her. "If I say there's hope, there's hope."

"This isn't about hope, it's about guts." Dagur said. "You don't have the guts to make the hard choices. I do. He's been like this for 3 days. If he's not better by tomorrow, I'll kill him myself." Dagur told them. He then made his way over to the ladder. "Heather, let's go."

"I'm staying here." Heather told him, not looking over to him. Dagur didn't argue, knowing he wouldn't win, and climbed back down the ladder.

"Power-hungry, self-serving half-troll." Hiccup swore. "He doesn't care about anyone but himself. No offence." Hiccup said as he turned to Heather. Heather shrugged.

"Yeah." Tuffnut said, "Dagur is all that. But he also happens to be right."

xXx

Stoick was looking out of his window in his cabin. He the heard the sound of the door opening. He turned around to see him wife walk into the room. She walked over to her husbands desk and fell onto the chair. Stoick walked over to his wife and placed his hands on her shoulders.

"Where did you go?" He asked her.

"The systems analysis I asked Sven for came back." She told him.

"And?" He asked. Valka sighed before turning to her husband.

"What I am about to tell you, you can not go and tell this to the council." Valka told him.

"Val, you know that if its something major the council will need to know." Stoick told her. Valka sighed, knowing he was right.

"The Ark's got a year of oxygen left, maybe two." Valka told him.

"You'll fix it." Stoick encouraged her. She shook her head.

"Not this time." She told him. "I've tried, Stoick. This isn't a glitch. It's a system failure. People need to know."

"No." Stoick told his wife with a serious voice. "They'll panic." Valka shook her head before standing up and walking away from Stoick a couple of steps.

"We can't avoid the truth." She told him as she turned around to face him. "We have to let everyone on the Ark put their minds to a solution."

"What, and risk anarchy?" He said. "No. It's too dangerous." He told her. Valka shook her hand as he placed his hands on her shoulders again.

"Promise me that you'll obey the council's orders, that you'll keep it quiet." She didn't answer. "Promise me."

"I can't." She told him as she pulled his arms of her shoulders with her hands.

"For Hiccup. Do it for Hiccup." He told her.

"I am doing this for Hiccup." She told him.

"They'll float you, Val." He told her. "I may be Chief but the council with vote to float you. If you do this, I won't be able to stop it."

In the other room Hiccup leaned against the wall, listening to his parents conversation. Hearing the secret that could cost all the lives of the Ark.

xXx

Astrid sat down on the floor outside of the drop ship. She had one of the makeshift bandages the grounders used on Fishlegs. It was some sort of large leaf with a purple sore of substance used to keep it in place. She heard a pair of feet walking over to her. She looked up to see Hiccup's face looking down at her.

"You're mad?" He asked.

"I'm not mad." She told him. "At least not at you."

"There's a first." Hiccup said. Astrid didn't laugh or smile, and neither did Hiccup.

"They want to think Fishlegs is a lost cause, go ahead." She said as she looked back down at the leaf. "They're wrong."

"I know they are." He muttered.

"What are you doing out here anyway?" She asked him.

"Heather and Ruffnut kicked me out, literately." He told her. He then knelt down next to her.

"Whatever this stuff is, it has to have had antibiotic properties." She told him as she carried on looking at the leaf.

"Let me take a look." He said. She gave him a confusing look. "Engineering isn't my only talent." He told her. The corner of Astrid's lip turned up very slightly as she handed him the leaf. He began to observe the leaf like Astrid did.

"The grounders used it as a poultice." She explained to him. "I'm thinking a tea might be even more effective if we can figure out what it is."

"I know what it is." He told her. "Seaweed. Look, no root structure." He said as he showed her the leaf in a different way she had been looking at it.

"Then there must be a water source nearby." She pointed out.

"It would have to have a slow current, lots of rocks." He told her.

"The water would probably be more red than green." She said.

"I know where to fine some." He said.

"All right. Let's go." She said as she and Hiccup stood up.

xXx

Hiccup and Astrid soon came to a shallow river with rocks covering the ground around them. "So what does seaweed look like?" Astrid asked Hiccup as they stood by the edge of the water. Hiccup walked up to the edge of the river and pointed.

"Like that." He said. Astrid looked over and saw vine-line red stuff floating in the river. Astrid walked into the river, along with Hiccup and both grabbed a big handful of seaweed. As they walked back to shore they head the sound of birds crying out. They looked up to where the forest was across the river to see a big flock of birds emerge from the forest and head straight towards them. They both quickly ducked down to dodge them. They quickly disappeared in the opposite direction. Hiccup and Astrid looked at each other.

"Let's get out of here." Hiccup said. Astrid nodded agreeing. Hiccup took off the backpack and opened it. They both quickly shoved the seaweed into the bag. Suddenly the sound of a horn echoed through the area.

"Grounders?" Astrid guessed.

"It could be a war cry." Hiccup said.

"Or a warning." Just at that second a giant wave of yellow-orange like smoke appeared and headed towards them. "What in Thor's name is that?!" Astrid yelled. Hiccup didn't answer but instead grabbed hold of her arm.

"Run!" He yelled.

xXx

Hiccup and Fishlegs sat in the game room together at a table playing chest. Hiccup however wasn't paying attention, after hearing the news from his mother.

"Hiccup." Fishlegs said to him. "You're up." Hiccup still didn't reply. Fishlegs then leaned over and tapped Hiccup on the arm. He then shook his head slightly, realising what had just happened.

"Sorry." He apologised as he moved another piece.

"Well, if your strategy is to lose really fast," Fishlegs said as he moved one of his pieces to take Hiccup's piece, "that was a great move. What's going on?"

"Nothing." Hiccup shook his head.

"I know you too well, Hiccup." Fishlegs told him. Hiccup sighed and looked around the room, making sure no one could hear them.

"My mom found a problem with the oxygen system." He told him. "I'm not supposed to know."

"They've had other malfunctions." Fishlegs told him. "They always figure out a way to deal with it." Hiccup shook his head.

"No. This one might not be fixable. The council doesn't want anyone to know." Hiccup told him.

"The council meaning your dad and my mom, along with your uncle?" Fishlegs asked.

"Yeah." Hiccup answered. "I think she's gonna go public anyway."

"Hiccup, she can't. She'll get floated." Fishlegs told him.

"I know. But what if she's right?" Hiccup asked. "Don't people deserve to know the truth? You can't tell anyone I told you." Fishlegs nodded.

"Your secret's safe with me." He told him. "I promise. And I will prove it." Hiccup gave him a confused look.

"What do you mean?"

xXx

"Astrid, run!" Hiccup yelled to Astrid who was behind him. The smoke way not far behind them, and getting close.

"Hiccup, where do we go?!" Astrid yelled. Hiccup didn't answer as even he didn't know how they could escape the smoke. But then a answer came to him when he tripped. He fell on something, something metal. He quickly moved the dirt and found it to be a door.

"Astrid, help me with this!" Hiccup yelled as he tried to open the door. Astrid, who was standing back watching, quickly ran over to him and helped him pull the door open. Once open Hiccup recognised what it was. "A automobile." He then began to push Astrid into the car, he quickly followed behind her before slamming the door shut.

xXx

Back at the camp everyone began running into the drop ship. Heather and Ruffnut, who where looking after Fishlegs, heard footsteps running into the drop ship, along with the doors closing. They looked over to the ladder to see Tuffnut climbing up it.

"What's going on?" Ruffnut asked his brother.

"Air got thick, everybody's skin started burning." He explained as he rubbed his skin slightly.

"Ruffnut, my brother's out there." Heather said with panic in her voice.

"He'll be fine." Ruffnut assured her. "We'll all be fine."

xXx

"It's still out there." Hiccup said as he looked out the window of the automobile.

"Look, we should just make a run for it." Astrid said. "We can't wait much longer."

"Look, I want to get to Fishlegs too but us dying in a cloud of acid fog isn't gonna help him." Hiccup told her as he began to open small compartments to see what they could find to help them. He then took out a bottle of alcohol. Astrid saw this.

"Is that-"

"Booze." He answered as he walked back over to Astrid and sat next to her. He found it difficult to open the bottle. Astrid rolled her eyes before taking to bottle from his hands and opening it without any problems. "And here I thought I was stronger than you."

"In your dreams." She told him. Hiccup let out a small laugh as he took the bottle from her hands and brought it to his lips. Astrid looked at him like he was crazy.

"Hiccup,"

"I think its Whiskey." Astrid laughed.

"I can only imagine the amount of prisoners who would kill for some of that stuff." Astrid told him.

xXx

Back at the camp everyone was in the drop ship, asleep. Or trying to sleep as the painful moans from Fishlegs from the top floor was keeping them awake.

"That kid's driving me nuts." A female prisoner said as she turned onto her right side.

"Can't take this much longer." A male prisoner said with his arm over his head. Savage was laying in a hammock he made from some of the parachute.

"Right, that's it." He said as he sat up from his bed. "I'm ending this."

"I heard Dagur gave him till tomorrow." A female prisoner said who was leaning against the wall with a cover over her.

"Yeah, well, Dagur isn't here, is he?" Savage pointed out. "Fish-face is dying anyway. I'm just getting it over with." He said as he stood up. What he didn't see was Ruffnut run from her sitting spot and up the ladder.

"Savage's going to kill Fishlegs!" She yelled to Heather and her brother, who was sitting with Fishlegs. They both quickly ran over to the door the began to close it, but was stopped by Savage who was trying to keep the door open. Heather began to kick him, hoping he would let got, which he did. They were able to slam the door shut, but couldn't keep it closed.

"The lock's on the other side." Tuffnut told them as he and his sister held the door down. Heather then ran over to the wall and grabbed hold of a lose rod.

"Don't let him in!" She yelled as she tried to pull the poll of the wall.

"I'm gonna kill him, okay? Let me in! Let me in!" Savage yelled from the other side of the door as he tried to push the door open. Tuffnut and Ruffnut then sat on the door to keep it shut as Heather carried on trying to get the rode.

"Uhh! No rush." Ruffnut told Heather.

"We're fine here." Tuffnut followed. Heather with all her strength gave the poll a final pull before it came off the wall.

"I got it!" She yelled as she ran back over to the twins. "Move it!" She then moved the rod so it laid under the handle of the door and the ladder. There was no way it was going to open now.

"Both of you better open up this hatch right now!" Savage yelled.

xXx

"It's been hours." Hiccup told her. "Fishlegs-"

"Is in good hands." Astrid told him. "Heather and the twins will take care of him."

"Doesn't stop me worrying." Hiccup told her. Astrid sighed and leaned her head back.

"Hey, I have a question." Astrid told him. He looked over to her. "I thought it was against the law on the Ark to have more than one child. But your father has a brother, the twins are-"

"Twins?" Hiccup finished. Astrid nodded.

"So how come neither of them were floated or put into prison for it?" Astrid asked. "Not that I'm complaining."

"My father and his brother are half brothers." Hiccup explained. "My father was born first. His mother died in child birth. Then his father met another woman and then they had a child together. There was no law then saying that you couldn't re-marry and have a child with another woman."

"And the twins?" Astrid asked.

"They're twins. Its not like it was planned." Hiccup told her. "Because they were both born together my father knew that the parents had no say in what happened, there for they were aloud to have both children and not be floated." Astrid nodded, understand now.

"Can I ask you a question?" Hiccup asked. Astrid nodded. "Its about you're uncle." Astrd sighed and looked down. "I understand if you don't want to talk about him-"

"No, its okay." Astrid told him. "What is it?"

"How was he your uncle? Were your mother and him half siblings or-" He asked her. Astrid shook her head.

"They weren't related." She told him. "They were just two friends who happened to become close friends, to one point: family." Hiccup nodded. They both grew in silence again for a couple of minutes.

"Can I ask you something again?" Astrid asked. Hiccup smiled.

"Are we playing 20 questions now?" Hiccup asked. Astrid smiled and shook her head.

"Do you think me wanting to keep Fishlegs from not dying is a bad thing? Like I'm such a downer." She asked. Hiccup shook her head.

"No of course not." He told her. "But I've got to ask, why are you so sure about keeping him alive?"

"It's what my mum does best, apart from fighting of course." She told him. "I guess I just look up to her.

"I wish I felt the same with my father." He commented. Astrid looked over to him.

"When was the last time you talked to him?" Astrid asked.

"Apart from the day we got sent to the ground, that last time I saw him was when he closed my cell door." He told her. Astrid shook her head.

"I don't know how a parent could do that to their own child." Astrid commented.

"Simply. Sacificing one life can save many." He said. "We were their sacrifice."

xXx

On the Ark Valka sat in her chambers recording the message that will be sent out around the Ark for the people to see.

"In this time of uncertainty, we will come together as a people." She said into the camera. "I'm telling you this because you must know the truth and because I want a future for my child and yours. Be strong."

"You're gonna disobey the council?" Valka turned around to see Hiccup and Fishlegs walk over to her. She turned of the recording turned to her son. "Mum, I know. We know." Hiccup said as he pointed to himself and Fishlegs. "I heard you and dad."

"Ok, you both know." She sighed. No one said anything. "I've been thinking about this a long time. The people have a right to know. Your father doesn't understand."

"What's the plan?" Hiccup asked.

"You don't need to know the plan." Valka told them

"You're making a video, so, what?" Hiccup asked. "You're gonna break into the communications mainframe? Making you either suicidal or incredibly dumb."

"Wow." She said. "You are picking a fine moment to start behaving like a typical teenager."

"I'm gonna help you." He told her.

"No." She said with a serious voice. "No, Hiccup, you're not."

"But I can-"

"Absolutely not." She told him as she stood up from her chair and walked over to the pair. She then placed her hands on her sons shoulders. "You get that stubborn streak from your father, you know. One of many things I love about both of you."

"Mum, we've both going to help." He told her. "You may be good with engins but your not good at hacking into computers."

"But I am." Fishlegs told her as he stepped forward. "I can break into the communications mainframe and send out the video."

"No way, Fishlegs." Valka told him. "You're mother will kill me."

"I don't care." He told her. "Its for doing the right thing." Hiccup quickly walked past his mother and took the memory card from the camera.

"Hiccup, what are you-"

"Is it just you talking on this?" He asked as he held up the card.

"Hiccup, listen to me." She said as she grabbed hold of his shoulder. "Both you and Fishlegs will get floated for this. Don't do it."

"Mom we know how to hack into the mainframe, you don't." He told her. "Its the only way to send of the message."

"Hiccup-"

"You need to get out of here." He told her. "They will float you. Dad has possibly already told the coucil and is sending guards here as we speak."

"Hiccup, its okay if that happens." She told him.

"No its not. Please." He begged. "There is an pod already on stand-by on Deck E."

"How?" She asked.

"After hearing that talk you had with dad I went and got a pod activated and ready for launch." He told her. "It will take you to earth. I would feel better knowing you have a chance to live on the ground than knowing you will die without a doubt up here."

"Hiccup, we got to go now before the guards come." Fishlegs told him. Hiccup turned to him and nodded before turning back to his mother. He looked at her with begging eyes. She sighed before placing her hand on her wrist and taking of her watch. She took Hiccup's hand and placed the watch in his palm.

"You keep it." She told him. Hiccup let out a shaky breath before hugging his mother.

"I'll warn them, I promise." He whispered to her.

"I love you." She told him.

"I love you too." He said. They soon let go of each other. Hiccup walked over to the door with Fishlegs. He looked at his mother one last time. She nodded to him. She nodded back. He then opened the door and they walked out of the room, leaving his mother alone.

xXx

The door of the car opened. Hiccup popped his head up from the car and took a look around. The orange fog was clear and gone. "The fogs clear." Hiccup said as he looked down at Astrid. He climbed out of the car and helped Astrid out.

"Let's go. Fishlegs is waiting." Astrid told him. Hiccup closed the car door, and they both began to walk back to the camp. As they carried on walking threw the forest they began to hear a bunch of footsteps. They stopped and looked around. The footsteps where getting closer. Hiccup knelt down and picked up a large rock and placed himself in front of Astrid. She too also picked up a rock and got herself into a attack posision. Just as the footstep got closer Hiccup got ready to throw the rock when the group of men suddenly appeared.

It was some of the prisoner. It was Dagur. He was ready to throw a knife.

"Wow! Dagur!" Hiccup yelled. Dagur sighed, along with Hiccup.

"What are you doing out here?" Dagur asked.

"Hiding from the fog." He told him. "And you guys?"

"Hunting for food, then hiding from the fog." Dagur told him. "You guys seen Atom?" Before they could answer a loud female scream was heard. The group of them looked at each other before running towards the scream.

They soon saw a young girl, possible 14, standing on the edge of a small hill looking down. Astrid got to her first and knelt down to look at her.

"Hey, what's wrong?" She asked in a smoothing voice. The girl didn't answer but instead pointed to in front of her. Astrid looked over to see Atom lying on the floor, his skin all read with lumps in his arms and face.

Everyone else soon made it to where Astrid was and saw the sight.

"Son of a half troll." Dagur whispeared. "Atom?" He called as he, Hiccup and the other men ran down the hill to the male prisoner. Astrid stayed with the young girl, now turning her away so she wasn't facing the scene.

Hiccup and Dagur knelt down next to him. His eyes no longer looked normale but instead like he was now blind. He was breathing shallow. He then began to say something, but it was coming out like whispears. They couldn't understand him antill the third try.

"Kill me." He kept on repeating it over and over, begging for them to end his life.

"Go back to camp." Dagur ordered. The men with Dagur obayed and left the scene. Astrid however stayed with the young girl.

"Astrid you too." Hiccup said as he looked over to her. Astrid whispeared something to the young girl before walking over to Hiccup.

"No, you go." She told him. "I'll see what I can do." Hiccup looked at Atom and Dagur on last time before nodding to her and walking over to the young girl. He took her hand and lead her away from the scene.

Astrid knelt down next to Atom and began to observe his inguries, seeing how serious they were. She looked over at Dagur and shook her head. Dagur nodded his head, understanding her and looked down. Astrid looked away from his and took a deap breath. She then looked down at Atom and placed her hand on his head.

"I'm going to help you, okay?" She told him. He didn't respond, only kept on trying to get air into his lungs. Astrid then took the knife Dagur held in his hand and held it in her own. She then slowly turned Atom's head away from her and placed the knife at his neck before pushing it into the side of his neck. He breathing became even slower, before he no longer too air into his body and closed his eyes.

xXx

Dagur and Astrid soon arrived back at the camp. Hiccup walked over to her to see her and Dagur carrying a body back to the camp. "Atom?" He asked. She didn't answer his question.

"We've gotta get to Fishlegs." She told him as she walked over to the drop ship with Hiccup. "I'll need boiled water to make the medicine." Hiccup nodded and quickly walked off to get the water. Heather then walked over to her, out of the drop ship.

"It's about time." She told her. "They're gonna kill Fishlegs. Did you get the medicine?" Astrid nodded.

"Yeah. I got it." She told her. Heather sighed in relief. Astrid then placed her hand on Heathers arm. "Come on. Let's go talk." But Heather didn't want to talk when she saw her brother, and instead push Astrid to the side and walked over to him. It was then she saw a body covered up.

"Heather, just stay there." Dagur told her, however she wasn't have it and tried to push past him. "Please, stay back."

"Stop." She told him as she got past him and knelt down next to the body. She took the coat away from the persons face and he was revlieled. "Atom." Her breather became shaky slight at the sight of him.

"There's nothing I could do." Dagur told her.

"Don't." She said as she held her hand up to him. She placed the jacket back over his face and stood up while whiping her nose.

"Heather, Heather, please." He begged but she just walked past him.

"Don't." She said one last time. Savage then walked over to him.

"Loose anyone here?" He asked.

"No." He answered.

"Fishlegs?"

"Still breathing. Barely. I tried to take him out, but your psycho little sister-" Savage was then suddenly punched and grabbed hold of by Dagur.

"My what?! My What?!" He yelled in Savage's face.

"Your little sister." He answered

"Yeah, that's right." Dagur told him. "My little sister. Got anything else you want to say about her?"

"Nothing." Savage answered. "Sorry." Dagur then let go of him and looked down at Atom.

"Get him out of here." He said to the group, not caring who it is that buries him. Savage looked down at the knife in his hands. With all his anger he threw the knife at the tree. The blade embedded itself in the trunk.

xXx

"We're nearly through the firewall." Fishlegs said as he typed in the keyboard as he looked at the screen. Hiccup stood behind him, his right hand on the back of Fishlegs' chair while the other rested on top of the table. They were both sat in a small tech room that only high-level people could access, they were not one of those people.

"And then once through the firewall you can access into the communication mainframe." Hiccup said as he also looked at the computer.

"And then we can send of you mothers message through the Ark." Fishlegs said. Hiccup sighed.

"I hope this works." Hiccup told him. Fishlegs didn't say anything as he carried on typing into the computer.

"We're in." Fishlegs said. Hiccup smiled as he patted Fishlegs' shoulder.

"Good, job." Hiccup told him. "Now, get into that communication mainframe."

"All ready ahead of you." Fishlegs told him. "Just need to put in the video and then we send it off." Hiccup placed his left hand in his trouser pocket and took out the small memory card that had his mothers message on. He took one look at it before passing it to Fishlegs.

Suddenly the door behind then slammed open. Hiccup and Fishlegs turned around to see 4 guard walk into the room.

"Hiccup Haddock, Fishlegs Ingerman, you are both under arrest for treason." One of the guards said as they took hold of the two teens and placed cuffs on their wrist. Hiccup and Fishlegs tried to fight them off but they were out numbered. They were quickly dragged out of the room and down a hallway towards the Skybox prison.

"Hold it." They were both suddenly stopped as Stoick, Gobber and Phlegma appeared behind them. The three adults walked up to them. Phlegma hugged her son while Stoick stood in front of his with a confused, yet angry, face.

"What were you think, Hiccup?" Stoick asked his son.

"I was think about the good of the Ark and the people on it." Hiccup told him. Stoick shook his head.

"Where's your mother?"

"Why? So you can float her?" Hiccup asked.

"This isn't my choice-" Stoick began to say but was cut off.

"Of cource there's a choice!" Hiccup yelled. "Did your coucil vote? Did you vote to tell the Ark?" Hiccup asked. Stoick stayed silent. "Of cource. You would vote to have mum floated."

"Hiccup, if she, or you, send that message across the Arc we would have a panic!" Stoick yelled. "As their chief I can not allow that to happen!"

"As their chief its your duty to be honest and give them hope!" Hiccup yelled.

"Hope isn't going to work, Hiccup!" Stoick told him.

"And what, lying to everyone, keeping this a secret from them, will?" Hiccup asked. Before Stoick could reply a voice cut him off.

"Stoick!" Everyone looked behind Stoick to see Sven running over to him.

"What is it, Sven?" Stoick asked, not having the time to deal with what ever it was.

"An escape pod was activated. Its about to be launched." Stoick looked at him with wide eyes. Before anything could be said Sven placed his hand on his ear. "Its your wife."

Everyone, including Hiccup and Fishlegs with the guards behind them, ran to a tech room. Stoick walked over to one of the tech members. "Is she speaking?"

"She is yes." He answered.

"Get me a microphone and place her on all speakers in this room." Stoick ordered. The man nodded and quickly went to get a microphone. Gobber walked over to one of the touch-screen tables and began to put the sound on.

"We're on." He said.

"Val?! Val?!" He yelled. "Can you hear me?!" The sound was cutting out around them.

"I'm here." She answered. Her voice could barley be heard due to the crackling sound, but she was there.

"What were you thinking?" Stoick asked.

"I was doing what was right." She answered.

"Mum?!" He yelled through the room. "Where are you heading?"

"I don't know." She answered. He voice started to break out more.

"Val, what's going on?" He asked.

"It's not slowing down!" She yelled. Hiccup began to panic. "The parachute hasn't deployed!"

"Mum?!" Val?!" Hiccup and Stoick yelled.

"I'm not going to make it!" The voice cracked out more.

"Mum, please!" Hiccup begged, now having tears in his eyes.

"I love-" Suddenly the sound of crashing was heard and the crackling sound took over.

"Mum?!" Hiccup yelled, waiting for an answer. There wasn't one. "Mum?!"

"Sir, we've lost signal of the pod. It seems to of disappeared." A man said. Stoick shook his head.

"I didn't disappear. Its gone." He answered. Hiccup suddenly broke down into tears and began shake. Gobber tool hold of the broken boy and held him in his arms.

"I'm so sorry." He cried. Gobber shook his head.

"It's not your fault." Hiccup then turned his head to his father. He hadn't spilled one tear. Hiccup quickly went to attack his father, only to be stopped by the guards.

"You did this!" He screamed. "Its all your fault!"

xXx

Inside the drop ship Astrid and Hiccup were mixing the medicine for Fishlegs. Astrid took a cup and placed it inside the bowl the medicine was in. She then took it and placed the cup at Fishlegs' lips. Heather, who was sitting behind Fishlegs, held his head up slightly so the medicine would go down his throat. After the cup was half empty Astrid took the cup away from his lips and set it down. She then looked at Heather, who was looking down at Fishlegs.

"I'm really sorry about Atom." Astrid told her. Heather looked up at her.

"I guess we're gonna have to get used to people dying down here, aren't we?" Heather told her. She then looked down at Fishlegs. "But not you. You hear me? You're not allowed to die."

Hiccup, Heather, Ruffnut and Tuffnut all sat in the drop ship near Fishlegs drinking the alcohol Hiccup and Astrid brought back. Tuffnut took a mouthful of it.

"Smooth." He commented as he passed it to his sister. She then took a mouthful.

"Disgusting." She said looking at it. "Love it." She then passed it to Heather. Heather took the bottle and placed it to her lips taking a mouthful.

"Yuck!" She said with a grime look on her face. She then passed it to Hiccup. Before the bottle could pass his lips and voice stopped him.

"Can I, uh, get a hit of that?" Everyone looked over to see Fishlegs with his face lifted up slightly looking at the group. Everyone quickly ran over to him.

"Fishlegs!" Hiccup said as he stood next to his best friend. He then took a cup that had water in it and placed it at Fishlegs' lips. "Let's start with the soft stuff." Fishlegs gladly took the water into his mouth as he took a couple of mouthfuls. Hiccup then took the cup away from his lips and placed it down. "Welcome back, buddy."

"Was that a dream or did I get speared?" Fishlegs asked.

"You'll have a very impressive scar to prove it." Fishlegs looked to his left to see Astrid walk over to him from the ladder.

"My saviour." Fishlegs joked. Astrid laughed slightly.

"Thank you for not dying." Astrid told him. "I don't think I could've taken that today."

"I'll try not to die tomorrow, too, if that's cool." Fishlegs told her. Everyone laughed. Heather then placed her hand on his leg. Fishlegs looked over to see her and smiled. "Oh, hello." He said in a high voice. She laughed. Fishlegs smiled before slowly falling back to sleep with everyone by his sighed.