Chapter 4

Back at camp the gang was preparing to go out and search for Astrid. It had been four hours since Hiccup was woken up by Bianca screaming to someone named Tori. He had ran out of the lean-to to find her still asleep. She must have been having a nightmare about her past adventures. Hiccup had woken her and the others soon started crawling out of their shelters. After they realized that Astrid wasn't there they decided that she could hold her own and they shouldn't worry. The first thing they did was get some breakfast (somehow Ravager had flamed a couple of rabbits). Next Toothless, Ravager, and Rat needed some food too. They all went down to the beach and fished for awhile. After they accumulated a decent amount of different types of fish, with minimal mishaps (Bianca had tried to give an eel to Rat.) they returned to camp. When they got there and saw that neither Crush nor Astrid had returned they started to get uneasy. Hiccup especially became very nervous.

As they saddled up their dragons Snotlout looked over at Tuffnut. He saw him trying to flirt with Bianca for the fifty-billionth time. Not one to be out-done, he walked over to her and pushed Tuffnut out of the way.

"Would you like to ride with Ravager and me?" He did a bow and gestured towards the Monstrous Nightmare. Bianca giggled and said that that would be just fine. As Snotlout walked her over to the dragon he shot a look at Tuffnut, taunting him. Tuffnut's face grew bright red and he stomped on over to Rat. His side of the dragon picked him up and put him on its back. Ruffnut had saw the event unfold and the second the dragon dropped Tuffnut down she started pestering him.

"Wow, did Snotlout just take your girl? That's pathetic. She seemed like she'd do anything to get away from you too. Its probably because you smell so bad." she continued hounding him until he forcefully pushed her off the dragon. She immediately jumped to her feet and started yelling at him.

"OH Your going to get it now!" she yelled as she took out her axe. Tuffnut jumped down and they started to wrestle. When Ruffnut and Tuffnut start to fight their dragon starts to fight its other half.

"Knock it off! Both of you! We have to go find Astrid. She could be in trouble." Hiccup started to trail off at the end. The twins noticed that his voice was filled with emotion and they stopped. They climbed on the squabbling dragon and they each tried to calm their head down. After they got in control the group took off. They had mapped out an area to search earlier and they flew off towards their first area to search, a small chain of islands off the coast of Berk.

Back with Astrid and Crush. Astrid was going to kill this new kid. He was loud and rude. Astrid was sizing him up the entire time. She could take him. The only problem was his menacing dragon. It was a large, red dragon that had enormous wings. The strangest part was the tail. It had a large spike at the end and two curved spikes on either side of it. Almost like her viking helmet. It occasionally clicked the tips of the spikes together, forming a circle around the central spike. Astrid inferred that that was probably used to slice small prey in half. She knew Crush wouldn't be able to fight that thing. Her only chance was to attack the man when the dragon wasn't looking and then before it could react escape on Crush. When Garrett walked past her Astrid saw her chance. She jumped up and went to trip the older boy. However it backfired. Before she knew what had happened she was on her back. The pain from her broken ribs came back in full force. She winced as the man stood over her and smirked.

"Is that how you treat all of your saviors?" he asked with slight amusement in his voice.

"Only the rude ones. Now let me GO!" Astrid yelled.

"No. you cant ride your dragon with those injuries! You'd be in so much pain you'd fall off. Besides, you got somewhere to go?" he asked. Astrid looked at him like he was the stupidest thing she'd ever seen. Before she could speak however there was a large rustling from behind them. Astrid backed away from the edge of the forest and went behind the fire. Garrett took out his sword. It looked like a decoration more then a weapon. It was slim and had a silver dragon's head for a hand guard. At the end of the grip there was an opal. As the sounds came closer and closer the four sitting at the clearing became more tense. Crush started to paw the ground and Traptor glared intently at the direction of the sound.

When Toothless burst forth from the forest he quickly tackled Garrett, knocking the blade from his hand. As the black-blue glow formed at the back of Toothless' mouth Traptor roared in anger. Astrid dashed forward to get to Crush, on the way there she grabbed her favorite axe that Garrett took from her. She jumped on Crush and just as she did so she heard Hiccup yell at Toothless to stop. From out of the bushes Hiccup, Snotlout,Ruffnut, Tuffnut, Bianca, Ravager and Rat emerged. Astrid was taken back at ow they had all been hidden. Ravager took one look at the new dragon and lit himself on fire. He snorted and tried to look intimidating. Traptor immediately started to click his tail. He pawed the ground and took a step forward.

"Knock it off!" Garrett yelled at his dragon. He kicked the black dragon off of him and confronted the vikings. "Who the hell are you guys!?" he looked at every one of them before his eyes rested on Bianca.

"Hey Garrett, how you doing? Like my new friends?" she said to him jokingly.

"Did you do this?!" Garrett yelled at her. Bianca giggled and looked towards Traptor.

"Hey boy!" she went over and scratched him behind the ears. The red dragon let his guard down for the first time since meeting Astrid.

Hiccup ran quickly over to Astrid when he saw he was hurt.

"Are you ok, Astrid? What happened?" he asked her worriedly.

"I'm fine Hiccup, its nothing." she answered him in an annoyed tone."There is nothing wrong with me, stop worrying about me!" she jumped off Crush and stormed off. Hiccup started after her but Garrett stopped him.

"I wouldn't go after her if I were you." He said to him.

"You don't even know her!" Hiccup said as he glared at Garrett. He removed Garrett's hand from his shoulder.

"True, but ive been with her long enough to know she like my sister in almost every way. With girls like her worrying about them is the worst thing to do" He looked sternly at Hiccup. Bianca knew that Hiccup and Astrid had some odd relationship. They weren't quite boyfriend and girlfriend but they were getting there. Garrett wasn't a relationship counselor but he knew Astrids type. The best thing Hiccup could do was follow his advice.

"I would follow Garrett's advice Hiccup." Bianca told Hiccup. She walked over to were Ravager was. She had taken quite a liking to the Nightmare. He was always trying to show off to everyone. She found it cute.

A little while later when everyone was sitting by the fire Astrid came back. She took a seat between Ruffnut and Bianca. She crossed her legs and looked at Garrett and Hiccup. They were sitting side by side. Since she had been gone Garrett had acclimated well with the new vikings. The vikings found Garrett's stories intriguing. They listened to him tell of his homeland were bandit raids were commonplace and people had to fight to survive in the constant rain. It was not unlike Berk. When Astrid sat down she asked:

"So why did you kill all those people?" she was intent on hearing his answer. He looked her straight in the eyes.

"They killed my friend. A few of them deserved it."

"and the others?" she asked

"Ya! what about them?" Snotlout asked, he was afraid. This new guy had killed apparently killed more people then he had even seen.

"Look, have you ever felt the urge from deep within to get revenge?" Snotlout looked at Astrid and Bianca before puffing out his chest and saying that he had. Garrett rose an eyebrow at him.

"well it was like that for me. besides they were all messed up in the brain. Did Bianca tell you they were bandits? or did she just say people?" Garrett asked the group as he looked at Bianca.

"Oops" she said "must have forgotten that part." she started to laugh when a large boom was heard in the distance.

Theres chappy 4. i know i cut it short but im tired and ive got infinite text messages to answer. By the way, my other story is like a super prologue to what Garrett and Bianca are doing in Berk. so go read that! it's more violent then this one tho. so ya. Please review and i hope you liked this chapter!!