Hello again, folks.

Back again with a new chapter. Sorry, late. I got hooked with the game School of Dragons. Did you guys play it? It's online and really, really good. Though there's much improvement and update still ongoing.

The idea for this was from Astrid's display of kitchen skill in the Gift Of The Night Fury. ..So..on to the story.

Chapter 7: Food of love

She was in a good mood today and she was totally free. So Astrid thought that this was the best time for her to practice on her cooking skill. After all, she will be a wife to the Berk chief's son in the future, which was what she dreamed for. She need to make sure that her cooking can make her husband stay at home most of the time. There are thousands of Berk girls and women out there that could be possibly planning to take her soul mate away.

The sun was still fresh early and even her Stormfly was very energetic. This showed Astrid a very good sign to go hunting with Stormfly for ingredients for her new recipe. "What do you say girl? Wanna help me out for some food?" asked Astrid to her dragon. First she lists out all the ingredients that she needed. After she finished, she double checked to see if she missed out anything. "Good, I bet Hiccup will love this," she said confidently. Meanwhile, Hiccup felt a sudden goose bumps as if something sinister awaits him at the end of the day.


It took Astrid a whole lot of material, time and for some reason, space, to finish the new recipe. She brainstormed everything about the food taste, quality, and 'charming-look' of the food, all for Hiccup. Yes, it's all for him. When she finally finished it, she went to look for Hiccup. She was smiling wide and walked merrily-like-dancing towards the direction of her boyfriend's house. Anyone who'd seen her today must knew it very well not to interrupt her mood as it can surely turn to a big explosion in the blink of an eye. Like a woman having her period or something like that. However the advantage that all the Berk people have, except for Hiccup, was that her 'victim' today was only one and it was surely not them.

"Hiccup!" Astrid called. Hiccup could hear her voice from his room and respond quickly going downstairs. He really likes to listen to his name being called out by Astrid. It sounds sweet to his ear. He always believed that the day will be fun as long as he spends it with Astrid. Or so the poor boy thought. He went outside to greet her.

"Oh, hi Astrid. What is it?"

"Hey, I've made something for you. Come to my house." Astrid invited. "I promised that you will love it"

"For me? Really?" Hiccup was now in a good mood too.

"Yeah, unless you want your big-appetite father to finish it"

Big-appetite? Finish it? "Okay. Let's go" Although Hiccup felt a slight uneasy, he denied it immediately.

They walked together happily, holding hands towards Astrid's house. Both were smiling and occasionally took a peek at each other's look. They really love each other too much that it can annoy anyone who is still single. Reaching her home, Astrid leads the way towards the dining room. The sight of a big fabric closing over the very large and wide bucket on the table had caught Hiccup's attention. "Are you ready?" asked Astrid eagerly. "Tadaa!" and she open the fabric.

! What is this?!

Hiccup had trouble trying to figure out the display in front of him. Inside the large bucket was what looked like a mini ISLAND to Hiccup. It really does.

"I made a new recipe for you today."

WHAT!? Th..This is.. "A..Astrid? F..Food?"he stammered. It still doesn't make sense to him. There's nothing in his life before that food could end up like this. On top of that, it was so large to be a food. Even the food menu in the Great Hall had nothing as big as this.

"Yeah. I made it especially for you."

My stomach is too small for this. I should have brought Toothless with me.

"It's really hard to make all of this." I could tell. "Stormfly and me had to go all around the island to find the ingredient as well as inspiration."

"I..Inspiration?"

"Yeah, in case you haven't noticed, this is our Berk" explained Astrid proudly.

SO NOW YOU WANT ME TO EAT THIS ISLAND?! WHAT AM I? A GIANT? Hiccup was deep in thought imagining him having to eat this gigantic food. It was then that, at the corner of his eye that he saw what looked like..VOLCANO? Am I looking at a VOLCANO?

Astrid noticed his looked and explain, "Oh. This is amazing. I made this volcano with Stormfly's help. Take a look" She pinch the base of the 'volcano' and Hiccup could see that it vibrates and the tips let out what look like a lava juice. "It can also ERUPT like the REAL one."

"EEEEEK!" he yelped. NO FOOD SHOULD HAVE A VOLCANIC ERUPTION!

Astrid face brightened up at the eruption. She then point for Hiccup towards the direction of another 'land platform'. "I know you will like that one" Hiccup looked curious at the object on the 'land' that she mentioned. It shaped like some kind of animal, it seems. "It's your friend."

"F..Friend? You mean.."

"Yup, It's Toothless. I make it with a burned charcoal."

YOU DON'T PUT BURNED CHARCOAL IN THE FOOD! Hiccup looked carefully at the 'Toothless'. This is supposed to be Toothless?! Looks more like a burned rabbit to me..

"I even put some food for him." Astrid continued. It gets to eat? Who are you feeding now? " You see those Dragon Nip growing on the land in front of him?" DON'T MIX HUMAN FOOD WITH THE DRAGON NIP!

"Err.. Astrid? Am I supposed to eat all this?"

"No, your food is over there." she point at another direction, something which looked like a cave with something inside. "It's the crab's eggs"

THOSE SMALL EGGS ARE MY FOOD? FOR SUCH A HUGE 'ISLAND' I ONLY GET TO EAT THOSE TINY EGGS?! I'M SERIOUSLY GONNA STARVE!

It wasn't just the eggs that he saw, Hiccup could see a REAL crab outside the 'cave'. It..It's still ALIVE! How the Hel could you put a living creature in my food? Am I supposed to eat it raw?! For some reason, he felt that the crab was staring at him. Its pincers looked ready to attack at any moment. Is..Is this some kind of FOOD GUARDIAN?

"Astrid. ..That living crab is the mother to those eggs isn't it?"

"Correct. Isn't it exciting? You need to pass the challenge or the obstacle to get the food."

TROUBLESOME IS WHAT IT IS! CAN'T I JUST GET MY FOOD PEACEFULLY?! WHAT KIND OF FOOD THAT TESTS YOU ANYWAY?

"But out of all of this, this is your main food." she explained, again pointing to another direction of the 'island'. For some reason, this time it was more normal. It was a cooked fish on another 'piece of land'. He could see the fish was mixed with some kind of sauce that could gives a very delicious aroma. For the first time, Hiccup could feel his mouth watering from looking at Astrid-made food. "It's my 'sweet fish' for you," she introduced.

"Wow. It really looks delicious."

"Just make sure not to eat those fishes around it."

.Wait, ..What? Now he realized that there's another several LIVING fishes swimming around the 'sweet fish'. What are those fishes for? ..Those fishes must feel weird to swim around its dead fellow species? What kind of sadistic situation is this?

He was sweating a lot now trying to take all of this nonsense. Spending his meal on this GIGANTIC serving is going to feel a lot of waste, not because it will be too much on his small stomach, just.. waste. That volcano eruption, especially, was going to take him a long time to get used to it. Then he remembered that he hadn't asked her about the name of this food yet. Even though the food was prepared for him, she was the one who made it so it was logical to let her give it a name. "Astrid, what do you call this food anyway?"

"Oh right." she remembered, "it's 'Romantic Island', pretty good name, right?"

NO. IT'S A 'FREAKING VOLCANIC DIORAMA'.

End. Haha.

Not to worry. There's more chapter coming up, okay?

Oh and btw, have you seen my fiction cover art? You can find the big size on this link too: art/Yandere-Astrid-396188113

Yup, it's my deviantart.

'Till next time everyone.