Hey guys I'm back again. Don't get use to me updating so frequently there are two weeks in a row in July and August that I'm working so, I'm trying to post as much as I can before then. I've also been trying to make a cover photo, I had one all done yesterday because someone asked me for it, but my stupid photoshop only saves as one kind of file so the site can't uplode it. Anyway I'm done rambling, onward with chapter 4!

Hiccup sat in his office thinking about what Gobber had said that night at the bonfire.

'A downed dragon is a dead dragon' his mentors words haunted his mind.

"Think, think, think, think!" Hiccup grumbled to himself frustratingly "Common think, Astrid could get hurt!" He looked down at his garbage bin that was overflowing with crumpled papers of failed ideas of getting his friend up in the air again.

"Maybe I could design some sort of splint that would allow her to stretch out her wing without hurting it, and maybe if its light enough it could help her glide a least half a mile if she's high enough!" He whisper to himself and got to work, building splints out of four different materials, iron, steel, oak planks and birch planks.

The next day right before dragon training

"Hey Astrid! I brought you breakfast! I hope your hungry." He set down the small basket of fish and looked around for the hybrid. "Uh Astrid?" A sudden feeling of dread over came him as Gobber's words rang through his mined again. "ASTRID!" He called frantically. "ASTRID!" Hiccup yelled again.

"Hiccup! What's wrong?" He heard a voice call from behind him and he heaved a sigh of relief.

"Astrid! Thank Thor! Your ok!" Hiccup exclaimed and through his arms up in the air.

"Of course I am, why wouldn't I be?" She asked "Hiccup are you ok? You look really pail."

"I'll tell you later, I have to go to drag- school in a half hour and thought I'd bring you breakfast!" He said as he opened the small basket he had set on the ground "Ok so I brought you salmon, some cod, a few trout, and a whole smoked-"

"EEL!" Astrid shrieked and bolted to the nearest rock and hide behind it.

"No no no Astrid its ok! See!" He shouted and through it to the entrance to the cove.

"Is it gone?" She said, her voice was trembling.

"Yes Astrid its gone." he called back and watched as she crawled out of her hiding place towards her breakfast. "Oh and by the way, I cut all the bigger fish in half so you wouldn't have to rip them up and might make it easier to swallow, I thought it might help. Oh and you don't have to give me any, I've eaten."

"Thanks Hiccup." Astrid said and began swallowing her breakfast whole.

"I've gotta go, see you around lunch!"

"Bye!" He heard her call back as he exited the cove.

After dragon training

"Astrid! I'm back with your lunch!" Hiccup yellec as he entered the cove, the hybrid sat not far from him eagerly awaiting her lunch. "Ok, so I basically brought you the same fish, just not the eel."

Astrid chowed down on her lunch whilst Hiccup readied her new splints.

"What are you doing Hiccup?" Astrid questioned after she was finished her meal.

"Well Astrid, I was up most of last night working on something for your wing." Hiccup replied then held up the splints. "I'm trying to make you a splint that will allow you to at least glide if something happens."

"So, we're going to try them out?"

"Yep." Hiccup answered and picked up the splints. "Follow me."

He lead her through the forest and up onto a small cliff. Underneath the cliff was a large body of water.

"Ok Astrid." He said before picking up the iron splint. "I'm going to put this on your wing, then your going to try to glide safely to the ground, if not, aim for the lake. Understand?" Hiccup looked at the hybrid, she was starting at something on the ground. "Astrid?" No response. "What are you staring at?"

Hiccup set the iron splint down next to him, and Astrid groaned angrily.

"Where did it go!?" She grumbled.

"Where did what go?" Hiccup asked.

"I don't know, the shiny thing!"

"What shiny-oh." Hiccup picked up the piece of metal again, and moved the light around the hybrid. Astrid pounced on it a few times before looking up at Hiccup.

"You're making this aren't you." She said and Hiccup started to chuckle. Astrid lunged at him and they began wrestling, something Hiccup wasn't very good at. He grinned up at her and began tickling her sides and belly. "Hi-ccu-p s-top! Th-at's no-t fa-ir!" She tried to say, but its hard to speak when your laughing uncontrollably.

"But my lack of muscle and you being part dragon is?"

They wrestled for a few more minutes before they stopped so Astrid could breath.

"Ok, we should start working on getting you back in the air."

"Ok, ok, just no more tickling after today, ok?" Astrid said, still trying to catch her breath.

Hiccup put the splints on her, and one at a time, they all failed.

The wooden ones just sent her plummeting towards the water, as did the one made of steel.

"Ok Astrid, last one. Ready?"

"Ready as I'll ever be." She said nervously and looked at the splint.

"Go!"

She jumped off the cliff and once again started falling, away from the lake.

"Astrid!" Hiccup yelled when he heard her hit the ground.

He bolted down the cliff towards his friend, and soon he came to a field of tall weird grass.

"Astrid!" Hiccup called again.

He soon saw something moving in the grass, and he ran towards it. Sure enough there was Astrid rolling around like an idiot.

"Astrid? What are you doing?"

"I found dragon nip."

"Dragon what?"

"Dragon nip, its like cat nip but for dragons."

"Ok then" Hiccup said and helped her up before heading back to the cove.

"Astrid, I'm sorry I couldn't get you to fly again." Hiccup apologized on their was back.

"It's ok, its not like I'm downed forever I mean, once this heals I'll be able to fly again."

"I just wish there was some sort of metal that would be strong enough, and light enough." He sighed and Astrid's ears suddenly perked up.

"There, there is!" She exclaimed happily. "Follow me." Astrid said and grabbed Hiccups hand and she rushed though the woods. "Oh common I'm sure I saw it when I fell. There!"

Right in front of them was a patch of hardened groncule lave, weird groncle lava.

"Are you sure that this is the stuff?"

"One hundred percent sure." she smiled eagerly.

"Ok then, I should start working on this right away so I can finish it for you for tomorrow, can you find your way back?"

"Yep."

"Ok then see you tomorrow Astrid!" He said before picking up the metal and running to the village.

"Bye Hiccup!"