Elements

Chapter Four : Bad Dreams and a New Day
Rewritten 08/05/13

Hiccup reached his house very tired and with Toothless he opened the big door, entered his room and took off his prosthetic leg to rest. After that, he prepared Toothless bed and laid down on his big bed, looking at his room, and got ready to sleep, anxious about what is this weird feeling he is having about this mission.

His father always told him that dreams were sometimes a premonition of a early future, but a future he could avoid, so, if something bad was going to happen, it is good if he knows what it is.

But what he saw on that dream, was something that we didn't know if he could avoid, it was something bad, something powerful.

Something dark.

The Dream


Hiccup saw himself in a strange place, something that looked like a village, but more primitive and exotic than he ever saw in his entire short life. There weren't houses, but huts, a lot of huts, something suggesting that a large number of people live there or lived there. But something was wrong on that village.

There was blood on the dark soil, the ground was surrounded by dead bodies, something in them looked like they were recently dead. Hiccup thoughts were confused a lot in that moment, where was he? What happened there? It was an invasion in that village?. There was also fire in some huts, and thnm he started to regain his sense, seeing that there didn't just happened an invasion, it was still happening one.

"Hiccup! Hiccup! Stand up!" A voice said next to him.

He knew that voice, it was Astrid, she was there, with all the group, and they were fighting some strange and exotic people, more strange and exotic that the village itself. The strangers were wearing a robe detailed with scales of an animal, possibly dragons.

Just the thought of people killing dragons reminded him of the old Berk, that used to kill dragons before he discovered that dragons were just trying to feed the queen to survive. And then they became friends. But for that village, looked like that killing dragons is something that they don't simply do for survival, it looked like it was a ritual, something that they enjoyed doing. They wore their carcasses on their bodies, like trophies.

"HICCUP! WE NEED YOU! STAND UP!" Astrid yelled, desperate.

Hiccup then stood up and went running with his steel leg to the aid of his love, he couldn't watch Astrid getting hurt. The exotic people were in great number, but they were horrible at combat compared to the Vikings of Berk. Hiccup was doing pretty well at battle, and he saw that he was fighting side to side with Astrid, the love of his life. The feeling of being close to her was the only thing that made that battle good.

But Hiccup was confused yet. Why was he there? With who they were fighting with? Why? Who were that people? What are they doing there? Where were the dragons?

Then, when he realized that the dragons weren't there, he started to worry. Toothless was the second best thing that ever happened to him, being the first Astrid. And he was Hiccup's best friend. It was those strange people took the dragons away?

And then he saw Fishlegs, Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut fighting with more exotic foes, and saw that Tuffnut got an arrow in his shoulder. Making harder for him to move, slowing him down. But yet still the twins in union could fight pretty well. Fishlegs and Snotlout were just berserking everybody with their heavy weapons.

And then Hiccup saw something, in the top of a hill not far away. It landed a huge dragon, three times bigger than a Monstrous Nightmare. With big red eyes full of anger and a white pale skin, with a head that looked like a Night Fury head mixed with a Monstrous Nightmare, with huge canines that Hiccup thought that they can shred everything. An in top of that dragon, there was a man in a black armor, with a short dark hair and an evil grin on his face full of scars.

The presence of the dragon alone was already evil, but the dragon and the rider presence together was a walking nightmare. Then, the dragon roared loudly, turning the Vikings and the strange people attention to the top of the hill, when the man said "Men! Attack!"

Suddenly, a wave of archers appeared from the woods and started shooting arrows at everybody. Then, in a desperate attempt to live, exotic people and Vikings started running away from the arrows.

"Run! Run!" Astrid yelled.

"What is happening here?" Hiccup asked confused.

"We don't time for this sweetie!" Astrid said desperate.

"I don't know where I am, what I'm doing here!" Hiccup said.

"Hiccup, are you insane? Run for you freaking life!" Astrid said and grabbed his hand and started running.

Hiccup and Astrid were running crazily and dodging the arrows carefully, because if they stumbled or had one mistake, it would cost their lives. Hiccup was getting used to run with his leg in Berk, but the ground in this place was full of small rocks. That made him almost fall, but Astrid held his hand and saved him in the last moment, when an arrow hit the ground in the right spot Hiccup stumbled a second ago.

"Wow! That was close!" Hiccup said.

Astrid looked back to him before she said "We cannot stop running! GO,GO,GO!"

They started to run again when they finally saw Fishlegs, Ruffnut and Snotlout hiding inside a cave. Ruffnut was on the ground crying for some unknown reason, and then Hiccup realized that Tuffnut was laid down on the ground with 7 arrows in his body. Ruffnut was desperate, and Snotlout was at her side, mourning her.

"WHY? WHY GODS? WHY?" Ruffnut was yelling.

"Calm down, Ruff, we don't want the dragon knight to see us right now." Snotlout said.

"Ruff... what happened?" Astrid said worried. She was Ruffnut best friend and she was worried about her.

Hiccup was still very confused, he didn't get it, what was happening there, why was Tuffnut dead? Who where that exotic people and that dragon knight?

Astrid hugged Hiccup strongly, and Hiccup saw that she was crying. He never did see Astrid crying, but he knew that she wasn't that strong girl without emotions she looked like to be in training. Yet he never imagined to see Astrid crying, and frankly, he never did want to see the love of his life crying. Seeing Astrid cry made Hiccup want to cry too. He was sad about Tuffnut, but he was still confused about everything.

Than suddenly a giant dragon head entered the cave and got Fishlegs, in a single bite, the giant dragon shredded half of his body. The Vikings yelled in despair and started to run away with Tuffnut's body.

Hiccup woke up desperate when Astrid entered his room saying "Sweetie, are you alright? You were running on your bed and started calling for my name!"

"I had a… nightmare." Hiccup said, half worried about the dream and half happy that it was everything just a dream. A very bad dream.

"Oh, about what, honey?" Astrid said worried. Hiccup thought "Gods, she is so beautiful."

"I don't know actually, I don't remember it pretty well, but I know that was something very bad." Hiccup said, he couldn't believe he forgot what was the nightmare about!

"Don't worry, honey, nightmares aren't real. Come on, let me help you to get up." She said and grabbed his hand and helped him stand up.

"I love you, Hiccup." She said and gave him a quick, but passionate kiss.

"I love you too, Astrid. And I always will." He said.

They looked to each other and smiled, and Hiccup kissed her back, but now in a longer and more passionate kiss. The feelings of them both made them dizzy after breaking the kiss, making Hiccup forget everything about his nightmare.

"Hiccup, you made me discover what is love, and I have never felt that before in my life. I mean, I used to hear the word "love" and think that was just something silly, nothing important to live, and now, I see how stupid I was of treating you badly, I'm sorry. I love you more than anything in my life." Astrid said and smiled to him.

"Since the first time I saw you, I was attracted to you, but after that first ride with Toothless, I saw that I was really in love with you and wanted to spend the rest of my days with you. I love you too, Astrid, more than anything in my life, and I always will." Hiccup said smiling.

Then, they both kissed again, with even more passion than never, and it was surely the best kiss they have ever shared in those 4 months together, it was like the kiss was saying that they were meant for each other, and nothing ever would tear them apart.

"Okay, so shall we get going, we are going to our search mission today!" Astrid said, excited about that.

Hiccup was not worried about the mission anymore, as long as he was with Astrid, he was happy. But Hiccup was starting to see that Astrid was very excited about the mission, at first, he thought that is just like Astrid is, she likes some action sometimes, but then he realized that she was somewhat hoping to find a clue about where her father was. He didn't want to say anything because he didn't want to destroy Astrid's hopes.

Hiccup got up and took off his shirt to change, and when realized that Astrid was watching, he blushed in embarrassment, but Astrid just smiled to him, while scanning his body, that was starting to gain some lean muscles after the battle with the Green Death. Results to his training with Astrid. "He is very attractive in his own way" Astrid thought and smiled again to him, making him blush even more.

When Hiccup got ready, he went down and had breakfast with Toothless and Astrid. Astrid and Toothless, just like him, loved to eat a lot. He didn't know how Astrid could eat that much and be so fit, but strong at the same time. She was beautiful.

Then, Astrid and Hiccup got Toothless and Valk, and took off from the skies in the direction of the pier, where was the boat and the rest of the Vikings.

When they got there, all of the group, the dragons, Snotlout, Fishlegs, Ruffnut and Tuffnut was already there, and Ruffnut said, "Finally, the love birds arrived, we were leaving without you two!".

"Oh, shut up, Ruffnut." Astrid said and held Hiccup's hand.

There were there some other Vikings, that were from another dragon friendly village, and they were just like Berk's Vikings. Stoick called them to control the boat. They seemed to be very friendly and charismatic, something rare to Vikings.

Also there were Stoick and Gobber, packing up the dragons and the teenagers gear into the boat, Stoick saw that the rest of the group arrived and said hello to his son and to Astrid. And then he started saying, "Today, you are all going on a mission, a rather dangerous mission with your dragons in search of lost boat full of our best fighters, medics and scientists, I hope you do well on that mission. I gathered up a great crew to help in that search.

"That's Chris, he is the best man I know in terms of steering a boat." Chris was a young, not much older than 18 years old man, and he had a body type that looked like Hiccup, he had short blond hair and blue eyes and he was a little mysterious, by the look in his eyes. "That's Argus, he is one of the fiercest warriors of all North." Argus was a tall and strong man, with long black hair and long black beard. He looked like he was very friendly, besides his strong appearance. "And finally, all of you know Gobber, he is a great medic and a man I trust to take care of you all."

Hiccup was not really sure about the Viking definition of a "good medic", but he trusted Gobber enough to be one. After all, he did do a good job with his prosthetic leg.

They packed everything in the boat. Then the teenagers's parents said goodbye and told them to take care in the mission, and to not try anything stupid there.

The teenagers said goodbye to their families, and entered the boat with the crew. Strangely enough, Hiccup was not sensing something bad about the missionanymore, he was sensing that they all would do well on the mission and return home with safety. Maybe things could turn out well.

He looked at Astrid and kissed her, and they both held each other hand as they sailed to the Dragens Mage island.


What's happening? Fishlegs and Tuffnut dying? Is this really going to happen or it was just a dream? We will discover that soon!

I noticed that this weekend there were a lot of new cool fics in HTTYD, I'm glad!

Thank you and please review.

Lima