A couple minutes later they two spotted the beach. "Wait don't land on the beach. Over there in the woods. I don't want them to see me crying." Fishlegs looked back at Hiccup. He landed on the beach anyway. He needed a shoulder to cry on other than Fishleg's. Astrid ran over to them."Hiccup! We didn't find anything else but- Hiccup?" He wiped away all the tears and hopped off the Gronkle."Are you alright." Hiccup let a couple more tears roll out. "Do I look all right," He yelled louder than he meant to. Astrid stepped back.
He realized he had scared her. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..." His voice cracked abit and he cried more. "I'm sorry. I don't even know why I'm this upset. I never cry." He rarely did cry. Even when his father disowned him he kept calm, but he would have broken down and become utterly miserable, if not for Astrid. She hugged him. The others had kind of crept over silently. Fishlegs explained his theory. Stoick didn't believe it."Even if that's what Dagur thinks, it's not possible. Be side's he's lost Toothless before and he's never cried like this.
He pointed to Hiccup who had stopped sobbing. His head was buried in Astrid fur hood. She layed her head against his chest. She was smiling weakly and a few tears leaked from her eye onto Hiccup's shirt. "Wait." Fishlegs flipped to the same chapter he showed Hiccup. This time he went to the heart-mate page."While losing a part of your soul turns you into no more than a shell of your former person. Losing a piece of your heart makes you a mean and careless pessimist. Your heart-mate, so the book calls it, is suppose to be basically your light. The person that keeps you sane and determines if you are good or evil." Fishlegs was reading out loud.
Stoick rolled his eyes. "What does that have to do with anything?" Stoick looked back at his son who was still in the embrace of Astrid."Sir, like I said before the theory is that you share your heart, mind, and soul with different people. Each is significant in a different way. Toothless and Hiccup are soul mates. They have the same personality and make each other stronger. But Astrid and Hiccup are heart-mates. Basically every time one of them has a loss or is heartbroken the other fixes it. Astrid was always there when Hiccup lost Toothless." Stoick groaned. "I still don't see how this helps us find the night fury."
Fishlegs was about to burst. "Well excuse me but this is all I have. I can tell you this. Hiccup and Astrid being heart-mates does make sense, at least to the book and Dagur will figure it out. True or not he will try to take Astrid just to get to Hiccup. He's deranged. Hello. We need to protect Astrid in case killing her is his plan." The mighty chief of the Hairy Hooligans was actually speechless. Fishlegs never told him off. Maybe the boy had a point."Alright. I'll bite but stop using the term heat-mate. It's a made up word and it's kind of strange." Fishlegs didn't agree on the last part but they had finally reached a compromise. They would continue the search for Toothless and extra protection would be placed on Astrid incase she is Dagurs next target.
Hiccup and Astrid had been hugging for nearly a minute. It was awkward now but neither cared. Hiccup was heartbroken and Astrid was trying to fix it. She had been hurt too seeing him so miserable. They needed each other now and it was easy to see. But Toothless needed Hiccup just as much if not more. Speaking of Toothless.
Toothless had been beaten and burned at least once a day for the last month. Dagur seemed barley human and he was losing his mind, well what was left of it. Dagur had always been crazy but now more than ever. The man couldn't take being so isolated. Soon they weren't that far from the arctic circle. They weren't that far away to begin with but now. Now the temperatures were dropping so rapidly Toothless had frost coating his body and he was in the warmest and most insulated room. He was cold but the frost soothed his wings. They were beginning to grow back but painfully. The ice numbed the pain, just a bit.
Dagur was wearing a large fur coat as he practiced his shooting again. He practiced everyday." Oh, what's that? Hmm. You miss your night fury." He had tacked a surprisingly accurate sketch of Hiccup to the target. "Well boo hoo." He shot the drawing in between the eyes. He was out of arrows."Dang it." He growled. When he turned to grab a new set of arrows. The mad man saw an enormous ice berg.
He jumped off the boat on the ice. He walked around examining the shapes a of the structures naturally formed into the ice. Then he spotted something. It wasn't a Skrill if that's what you were thinking. But it as something. Dagur made his way through a small maze of ice structures sticking straight out the iceberg. He finally found a large wall of ice. It was kind of foggy. Dagur wiped away some moisture. It looked like a rock. No, a boulder. It was twice as tall as Dagur. The former Berserker pulled out two lighting rocks and some grass. That's how Vikings lit fires before they trained dragons. He held up a new torch and he tried melting some of the ice.
Of course the ice was too thick. He needs the night fury. He traveled back to the boat and climbed to the bottom layer. Toothless winced and hid his head under his claws assuming he was getting another beating. Dagur pulled out the poison and shot it into the dragon. He harnessed the lizard and pulled him up to the deck. He grabbed his whip and guided Toothless to the Rock. Dagur didn't know why but he felt the need to own the stone like it was worth something.
When they arrived the Viking showed the dragon the large
through the air. Toothless shot carefully to be sure not to harm the item his goal was to retrieve. After some time his plasma blast became bigger and more powerful. Dagur only gave him enough poison to weaken him but now it was beginning to were off. The dragon spun and shot a plasma blast at the man. Dagur dodged and aimed the whip at Toothless. He missed and the leather cracked the ice. Shards of ice came down in an avalanche. A large hunk of ice hit Toothless on the head and Knocked him out. Dagur pulled the dragon over so he wouldn't be crushed, only so he could still use Toothless against his enemy.
The rock fell and was completely free. Well, almost. Bit's of ice layered some parts of the rock. He crept over and examined the rock. He chuckled dementedly. "a-ha. This is going to be good." Toothless groaned unable to move.
I know this chapter is sad but it has a lot of Hiccstrid. I saw a post a while back where some fans were arguing if Toothless or Astrid were more important to Hiccup. They said that you can recover form a broken heart but not a broken soul. I disagree. You can die of a broken heart. Astrid and Toothless are important in different ways. Toothless is like a brother and Astrid is his lover. You can't make someone choose between your love and your sibling. It isn't fair but that's what this story is about. Bad things happen for no apparent reason. This is going to be a somewhat long story but it's worth it. Also the next chapter will have more Hiccup and Stoick.