Okay, I'm not gonna write any stupid unnecessary sentences or stuff like that. Let's just get this chappie done. ^^


"Sneaky!" Astrid shouted as the aqua green Terrible Terror jumped towards her, she carefully hugged him. "Thank Odin you're here! You can help me get out-" she was interrupted by a loud thunder as lightning struck one of the tall trees outside. Sneaky's magenta colored wings was brought closer to his body as he curled up closer to Astrid.

"Or not." she looked down at him and gently patted his back, "Well, at least I've got some company now, it's been scary- not that I'm afraid but... I can't get out. And I really really need to get out so I can save Berk from Ingemar. Who knows what she's doing right now." she looked at the small gap where Sneaky came in through. "And that is a scary thought. Especially when it comes to my family, friends and... my everything. She's planning on getting married to... Hiccup and then..." she couldn't speak further, just the thought made her cry. Why is life so unfair? Why couldn't this day just be a normal day. She could be at home now talking to Hiccup and the others, and play fetch with Stormfly. She missed her already, she hasn't seen her for almost a day, but it felt like a month. She missed Hiccup too. Gods, she would do ANYTHING to see his grin again! But she won't be able to cause of the heavy boulder and the distance between her and Berk. Plus the thunderstorm. She felt Sneaky's moving body and his claws on her lap, he seemed to be afraid. But he didn't look afraid anymore when he looked up at her with his big eyes. He squawked a little and gave her hand a little nudge trying to lead it to his cheek, when her hand got there and started to scratch him he purred a little like a cat.

"Thank you for following me Sneaky, I don't know what I would do if you weren't here. Probably feeling lonely and hopeless."

If Sneaky could talk he would've told Astrid that he was just taking a nap in Stormfly's saddlebag and woke up when Astrid was going towards Ingemar's cave. He then found a rat and started to chase it which leaded him to the cave, he ran away when he saw the terrifying cave. And after a good night sleep he went back to find Fishlegs and Gustaf looking at the cave. When he got close to them they got afraid and ran away. He tried to follow them but accidentally crashed into a tree and fell to the ground really dizzy. Some minutes later when the dizziness was over he heard Astrid groan in pain from the cave and went back to find her. And now he's here, resting on her lap. And according to the sound of the storm it seems they'll have to wait 'til the storm was over before they could even try to get out, well, to get Astrid out.


"Can you guys explain what's going on? First Hiccup tells us to go out patrolling the island, now he tells us to come back to the village!?" Tuffnut asked and his twin sister agreed, the twins were just enjoying a nice storm in their own way until Snotlout came and told them that Hiccup ordered all the riders to come back to the village.

"You really don't have any idea of what's going on, do you?" Snotlout asked back and raised an eyebrow, "Fishlegs and Gustaf just got back from their investigation, we need to know what they know about the witch!"

"That's it? Why not wait 'til we're done patrolling?" Ruffnut asked looking kind of irritated.

"Well, if you just keep your mouth shut and listen you might wanna know that Stoick has something to tell the whole village too. He seemed pretty happy about it as if it was some sort of good news."

"Why would he be happy now? His ex-girlfriend is haunting dragon island, and as we know it she might attack Berk by using her dark magic to control the dragons. Which is going to be awesome." Tuffnut leaned back a bit thinking about the destruction, it would be like the good old dragon-raids.

"Maybe it's not about her." Ruffnut looked at her brother.

"I bet it's about her!" Tuffnut turned serious, as if that was even possible, and his sister grinned.

"Bet with what?" she asked grinning.

"Cleaning duty in the stable for a month!"

"You're on!"

Snotlout shook his head, "Idiots. They burned down their stable two days ago."

When they landed in the village they saw Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs and Gustaf with their dragons standing at the plaza.

Snotlout was the first one to say something, "Please tell me something good 'cause I'm not in the mood for bad news."

Hiccup chuckled, "Then you're in luck, they don't really have bad news."

Snotlout crossed his arms as he reached the group, "Good!"

"Actually we don't know if it's good news either."

"Then what kind of news is it? Normal news?" Tuffnut asked when he and his sister reached the group.

"Fishlegs and Gustaf didn't saw anything else than the cave blocked and a Terrible Terror guarding it, it even chased them away."

Snotlout laughed hard, "You- you got chased away by a Terrible Terror! What kind of dragon trainers are you!?"

Fishlegs got serious, "Excuse me Snotlout but that Terror was really sneaky and looked at us in a terrifying way! It even followed us when we tried to fly away!"

Hiccup calmed Fishlegs down a bit, "Did you see any sign of the witch?"

"No, but we heard someone scream from the cave, so we were afraid it could be the witch."

Gustaf was pretty much freaked out, but he managed to say something, "She screamed something about fear and... something about Berk."

All the teens got worried, Hiccup mostly, "She's going to attack Berk. I need to tell dad-"

"She also screamed our names." Gustaf added.

Hiccup turned to Gustaf even more worried, "Strange... Gustaf was on the other side of the island when the witch was here. And Fishlegs didn't introduce himself."

The blond beside him thought for a moment, "Which means she maybe knows more than we think."

"Or have allies, she can be working for anybody- she maybe is working with Dagur or some other maniac we've met before."

"Or maybe she's spying on us. Maybe she can talk with the dragons who's been here." Fishlegs said, he seemed nervous.

"Fishlegs, I don't believe she has magic. Everything has an explanation, so the only power she can have is an army."

"That sounds logical but... what if she has magic?"

"We can use Ruffnut as a human-shield- OW!" Tuffnut was interrupted by his sister kicking him on his kneecap, "I still I like it!"

Snotlout rolled his eyes, "Okay, can we just try to focus here 'cause I am wondering what kind of good news Stoick has when Berk is in Trouble."

Hiccup looked at the blond on his side and smiled as he looked back at Snotlout, "Let's go and find out."


It didn't take long til everybody on Berk was in the great hall. The chief was standing in the middle of the great hall and some feet away close to a pillar was his son and future-daughter-in-law and their friends.

"Welcome everybody to this meeting, as you may know we have both good and bad news. I'm gonna start with the bad news." Stoick looked at the gang standing at the pillar, "The brave dragon riders Fishlegs Ingerman and Gustaf Larson has come back from their investigation and didn't found much but enough to tell the cave is probably haunted and according to Gustaf who heard the witch shout something about fear and Berk is in trouble Ingemar might attack Berk."

People started to mumble about what to do, one of the viking men raised a hand, "What's the good news?"

Stoick smiled a bit, "To brighten the situation up a bit I'm going to tell you we're planning a wedding this week!"

People got happier and started to wonder who's getting married, Hiccup though was staring at his father mumbling "This week!? Are you serious!?"

"My son has finally grown into a man and asked the girl of his dreams to marry him, and she said yes! Let me present my future-daughter-in-law, Astrid Hofferson!" Stoick pointed with his whole hand towards the blond standing beside his son, the two walked up and stood beside the chief as the crowd applauded and cheered. Astrid's parents was standing in the crowd eyes filled with happy tears, they're proud of their daughter. (If they only knew...) The moment was happy but tense at the same time, someone is threatening their island and here they are getting ready for the chief's son's wedding. Not the perfect timing but it's better to have it now than later when it may be too late, and they all need something to cheer them up. But Stoick had the darkest thought of them all, honestly he told Hiccup to propose in case if he would never have the chance to see his son's wedding. He was afraid of Ingemar, and he was even more terrified of the thought if all her "dark magic" was true and if she really had allies with armadas. If Berk was getting closer to it's doom... he needed to make sure his son was protected.

The gang though was not cheering like the crowd, the twins looked confused at each other, "This is why we had to come back... to know there's gonna be a wedding."

"Well, it is important, especially when it's our friends who are the ones who're getting married." Fishlegs explained, rather confused how the twins can't understand the moment.

"And ye know that if you want..." Snotlout stepped up beside Ruffnut, "we could be next."

"Snotlout, I'd rather say yes to a yak!" Ruffnut quickly moved past her brother but didn't have so much luck on the other side, Fishlegs smiled. "Bro, can you help me get out of here?" she asked her brother.

"Sure, run out of the great hall and hide in your usual spot." Tuffnut grinned and stepped back so Ruffnut could sprint towards the big door. She ran off and Snotlout came after her, Fishlegs though was smart and stayed to ask Tuffnut something.

"Where is the 'usual spot'."

"I'll tell you if you give me that notebook." he pointed at the small notebook Fishlegs had in a small pocket attached to his belt.

"I thought you said you didn't like reading." Fishlegs said as he gave Tuffnut the book, it was only half-full with notes about an island they've discovered two days ago.

"I don't, I just want to know more about that island. And I need a notebook for more false letters to Snotlout." he whispered the last part a bit but enough so Fishlegs could hear it. "She's usually hiding in the hollow tree up in raven point."


Astrid's POV

The rain was falling, it was a lot of raindrops crashing down on the big boulder and the trees outside and creating mud when most of them reach the ground. And the thunder sounded like a pack of Skrills going berserk. I can understand why Thor is angry. I hate the situation too. Me sitting her, trapped, hungry and tired, but, thank gods, not alone. My well trained little Terrible Terror, Sneaky, was sitting in my lap breathing deeply, and he was probably dreaming about Berk. He was so calm and his tail was waging around a little. I wished I could get to sleep that easy, but how can I even calm down when my home and life is in danger and the only way out is blocked. Who knows what she's doing right now, she's probably sitting in a warm spot, close to a open fire, and with my family. Or close to Hiccup. Maybe both. Who knows? SHE knows, and everybody else on Berk knows. But not me. They don't know I'm sitting here with only my smallest dragon hoping for a way to get out and stop the one they think is me. I tried to find some sort of footstep sound or something like that in the loud storm sound outside, but only the sound of raindrops, far away wild dragons sounds and sometimes thunder.

I sighed as I scratched Sneaky's back, "At least we have shelter."

Suddenly a large thunder was heard- and seen from the small hole -and Sneaky's calmness was gone, he was shaking and whined, the tail wasn't shaking and the once calm beating heart and the deep breaths turned into a stressed and scared rhythm. That poor little dragon is scared of lightning... or maybe the sound from the lightning made his dream into a nightmare. What if when he heard the thunder his calm dreams about a beautiful Berk he started thinking about the what the witch is going to do with the island. Gods! I REALLY hope that dream is not coming true. If it does... I'll lose everything. ...why am I siting here? What made me wanna go here in the first place? Curiosity, that's why! CURSE THE CURIOSITY! It only gives you trouble. Especially when it comes to dangerous things.

Why would I let it win? Why did I follow my curiosity instead of just ignoring it? Was it cause the witch was a threat and as a warrior I had to follow her so I can know if she's still a threat or not? Or was it just 'cause she was talking to Hiccup in that mysterious way?

I sighed, "I'm not really a good warrior. I just failed against curiosity. But if I'm ever gonna get out of here... next time I'll get curious about some mysterious stranger such as a witch I will bring friends with me- or just try to ignore it. Because I don't want my friends to get hurt." I looked down and met Sneaky's wide open eyes, "Do you understand, Sneaky? Curiosity is a pretty tough challenger, am I right?"

He just lowered his head a bit, still had his eyes wide open and gave me a look that probably said 'why ask me? I ended up here too cause of it' or something like that.

"But Sneaky, when the storm has calmed down... can you try to fly to Berk and get help?" I said as my hope raised a level, I knew Sneaky can come through the hole and he knows how to get to Berk from here. He can probably- oh... CURSE IT! He can't talk! And I can't see any paper nor coal around here. I reached for the necklace around my neck, I wished someone on Berk could speak dragon...


Aaaaaand that's it for today! I'm sorry if something is not right in this story, please, if you find any wrongs please tell me! But if you don't you can at least tell me what you think! ^^

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