I'm so sorry it's late, we just got some snow... and we needed to shove it away, and I also had school. AND I ran out of ideas. -_- And I feel a bit crazy to just make a Hiccup-and-Eret-talk through the whole chapter, plus a cliffhanger. I hope it's not too bad though.

Anyway, ENJOY! :)

Chapter 4: Day 2

Hiccup was in the great hall talking to Eret, it was in the morning and Hiccup got some time left to talk to Eret about the Love Dare.

"Forty days?" Eret asked.

"Yep." Hiccup sighed.

"Does Astrid know?"

"Nope. And I don't think I need to tell her."

"But what if she still wants a divorce, what would happen then?"

"If she wants divorce she may have it, I'm gonna let her do what she wants to do."

"Well, that's a sign of love. Just like the ring on your finger, 'cause you know what it means. That you made a lifelong covenant, to love your wife as long as you both live."

"And I still love her, but it's hard when it doesn't seem like she's loving me back."

"Well, I guess you just need to continue with that book." Eret gestured to the Love Dare on the table.

Hiccup grabbed the book and opened it, "Well, I'm on day TWO and it's already getting hard."

"Well, what's day two about?"

Hiccup started to read day two, "Day 2: Love is kind. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32. Today's Dare: In addition to saying nothing negative to your spouse again today, do at least one unexpected gesture as an act of kindness."

"What is Ephesians?"

"I think it's from the Bible, it's a book my grandfather told me about some years ago. It guides some kind of people who believes in only one God."

"Okay, just curious. But that book seems to have some good things in it, right?"

"Yea. But I already did this dare yesterday, should I do it again?"

"Of course, 'cause remember, a woman is like a rose. If you treat her right she'll bloom, if you not, she'll wilt."

"Okay, but how?"

"Just do something nice, maybe cook again or give her advice... maybe show her how much you love her by doing something you did before you just were a couple."

Hiccup nodded, "But Eret, now is a good time to talk. Your marriage, why did it end?"

Eret groaned and scratched the back of his head, "Let's just say, I realized that it wasn't my marriage that was broken, I just didn't know how to make it work."

"And what does that mean?"

Eret was thinking a bit, but then he spotted Hiccup's fire-sword, "You're fire-sword isn't broken, but if you don't know how it works it ain't gonna work for ya."

Hiccup looked confused but when he realized he sighed, "Okay. So you were in my situation?"

"Yea, sort of. So that's why I'm telling you to keep your marriage, I know how it feels and my scar feels bigger than the one I got from Drago. And I don't want you to feel such pain. Because I see that you two are perfect and no one can replace either one of you."

"Thank you, Eret." Hiccup smiled.

Later that evening, Hiccup had done the dare and wanted to talk about it. They were at the stables, Hiccup fixed a stable and Eret was fixing some ropes.

"So, how did it go?" asked Eret as he finished a knot at the end of a rope.

"Not so good, I tried to ask for forgiveness but she just ignored me." Hiccup placed a nail and started hammering.

"Okay... so that was your act of kindness?"

"Yea, couldn't think of something else, ran out of ideas, so I thought of trying to apologize but it seems she's still hasn't calmed down." he checked the place he fixed and it seemed to be steadily.

Eret raised an eyebrow, "Really? After two days? ...she's a tough one." Eret tightened a knot.

"Tell me about it. But I just hope it won't be too tough, I still love her." Hiccup sighed.

Eret stopped with his work and stared at Hiccup who also stopped his work and just stared at the floor. Eret sighed, "Can I take a look at the book?"

Hiccup gave him the book without a word, Eret opened it and started to read. Then he chuckled, "I wished I had this book when it was hard for me, it's totally right. It's better not to say anything than something you'll regret... but I think this one will be hard." he turned the book so Hiccup could see it, Hiccup winced when he saw what it was saying and then he looked at Eret. "Well, that ain't gonna happen. I swear, I'm not that kind of guy who does that!" Hiccup shook his head, "Especially when I'm on her bad side." he added.

"That's why I'm glad I got an idea, instead of doing that you could do another act off kindness... or maybe something you used to do."

Hiccup nodded, then he turned to face his work again and he was about to continue with it when Eret asked, "But what did Stoick tell you?"

Hiccup sighed and turned to Eret again, "All he said was that he wanted me to try and do my best, he said that he also had tough times but then the Love Dare happened and his marriage was saved..." he sighed again.

"Do you think forty days are a bit tough? Is there any dare that seems too tough- except the dare that was completely unlike you."

"Maybe, but read day three, what should I do?"

Eret flipped back to day three and read, he thought for a minute and then looked at Hiccup, "Well, that's a bit-"

He got interrupted by the bell ringing (Hiccup's new invention; alarms those who are in the stables that a fire has started, when someone sees it he/she pull a lever, it connects a wheel to a windmill and makes another wheel ring the bell.)

"Hurry Eret! You never know when, where or what these fires can start!" Hiccup mounted Toothless who stood close to the stable ready to lift off. Eret got to Scullcrusher.

When they reached the village they could see what house it was... and it was not good. Not that there's ever a good time, but this was particularly bad.

"Hiccup, that's YOUR house!" Eret shouted when he saw it.

They landed and Hiccup ran to nearest viking, "What happened?"

"All I know is that I saw smoke coming from the house, then I rang the bell when I saw flames."

"Is anyone in there?" Hiccup asked even if he knew only he and Astrid lives in the house, what if Valka went to see if he was in there or something.

"I don't know. But we need to check before letting the Scauldron put it out."

But then Hiccup's thoughts locked on Astrid, was she outside? He turned around seeing everyone... except Astrid. He spotted Valka running to him.

"Mom, where's Astrid?"

"I don't know, I was talking to her lately and then she said she needed to get something!"

A viking ran to Hiccup, "Astrid is in there! I saw her-"

Hiccup didn't even think before he did it, he rushed into the house and found himself in a cloud of smoke and when he could open his eyes he saw flames. He cried his heart out, "ASTRID!"

He tried to listen for a reply but could only hear the flames climbing up the walls, he was running out of time. Soon the house will collapse and there would be a loss of two lives, but not if he finds her. He crawled under the smoke, he reached the other side of the house without any sign of her. He hoped she wasn't upstairs, if she was she would be in the heaviest and most dangerous smoke. Suddenly he heard the hissing sound from water hitting the fire, it was the gang who dumped big cribs of water on the house. This would give him time, but he needed to hurry. He searched again but couldn't find anything, then he climbed up the stairs and into the heaviest smoke in the house. He saw the bed, then a bit away he could see Toothless' spot. He crawled towards the middle of the room, he turned around to look for her, "ASTRID!". No response. He turned to Toothless' spot and could see something laying on it. He waved away some smoke to get a clearer look of what was on Toothless' spot. He could see blonde hair and a fur hood, then he could see the rest.

"Astrid!" he shouted, it was Astrid, she had fainted or something. But why? Wouldn't she notice the smoke and get out through the window? He turned to the window finding it closed and locked, which may explain why she fainted, maybe she was trying to open it and get out but couldn't and then fainted cause of the smoke.

Hiccup grabbed her and pulled trying to get to the stairs, "GOD! GET US OUT OF HERE!"

Outside the house was a really worried Valka, "We have to help them!"

"What do you think we are doing?! Playing?!" Shouted Snotlout who was dumping a big crib of water on the house.

"No, I mean we have to-"

She was interrupted by a explosion from the house, the fire had reached Hiccup's spare cans of Zippleback-gas.

"HICCUP! ASTRID!" Valka shouted, she felt tears coming down from her eyes.

Eret and the gang was terrified, did they survive that?

Toothless growled, then he rushed to the building and in through the door.

"Be careful, Toothless!"

Okay, I just have to admit that I didn't have anything else to think of more than to make this story a bit more exciting. And as you may know... it's really hard for me to separate my OTP. That's why I skipped the part of when he tried to apologize. -_-

Anyway! On to something more happy! I saw that the new season has been named "Race to the Edge" and you know what that means. =)
The gang will go out and explore! Or something. Anyway, it may tell us why Hiccup is exploring so much and also how they found the Rumblehorn (Scullcrusher) and the Hotburple (Grump). So I've decided to work on three things on my spare time, this story, music videos and my renamed FanFiction "Dragons Race to the Edge: Great and Fun Fan-Made Stories"

See ya later! =)