Astrid agrees to help – Astrid's Reluctant Teaching:
Astrid hopped off Toothless's saddle and prepared to get away when Hiccup blocked her path after angrily watching her trying to walk off and putting Cuoo Koo down on the sand, "You nearly killed us," he berated.
"Me? Who was the one who was stupid to think of that Night Fury flying between two ships that were this close to crushing us?" Astrid ranted back as she used her finger tips to show a tiny between them. "I made your dragon spin to make him go faster to save our lives,"
Hiccup just sighed at defeat before asking a desperate question "Now will you help me restore the Heart?"
"I'm not going on a mission with some mortal, a dumb chicken or a Night Fury," Astrid said making Hiccup huff in annoyance as he crossed his arms while Toothless growled from behind. "And you can't restore the heart without me even if you do have Toothless, and I don't work with runts," she shoved past Hiccup and picked a piece of fish and chicken from his supplies before shoving past him again. "I'm goanna build a boat and then go looking for my axe,"
Astrid sat down and started munching her chicken, "End of discussion," she turned her back towards them much to her annoyance. Hiccup could see Mini Astrid on Astrid's back, he saw her showing him a picture of tattoo people cheering for tattoo Astrid. It suddenly gave him a neat idea as he smirked along with Toothless.
"You'd be a hero," he said while Astrid was taking a punch of chicken. She turned her back towards his smirking face.
"Excuse me? I am a hero," she ranted.
"Maybe you were," Hiccup said taking the chicken from her hand much to her annoyance, "But now you're just the demi-goddess who stole the Heart of Draghasha, the women who cursed and unleashed dragon monsters upon the world," he took a bite of her chicken, "You're no one's hero,"
Astrid just huffed in disgust, "No one's?"
Hiccup just gave a no answer with a face that waved right and lef implying 'No' while crossing his arms, Cuoo Koo just stared at her making clucking noises, Toothless shook his head implying he was saying no. Astrid heard three Dragon Spirit's behind her and they shook their heads too before they disappeared.
Astrid face became silent but Hiccup had a solution, "But put this back…," he said opening his locket necklace and showing the Heart to Astrid, "Save the world, you'd be everyone's hero," he finished while closing his locket necklace again.
Mini Astrid appeared on her arms and showed herself bringing placing the Heart back in the spiral and then being cheered by fans chanting, "Astrid, Astrid, Astrid," Astrid smiled at that but then frowned once she realised it was actually Hiccup doing the chanting but in a whispering tone and she walked away in disgust.
"We'd never make it without my axe, not past Dragizer no matter how many times Toothless even tries,"
"Then we get your axe, we find your axe, take out Dragizer, restore the Heart," Hiccup stated putting up her right hand for her to shake, "Unless you don't want to go back to be awesome and powerful,"
Astrid thought for a moment before replying, "We get my axe first,"
"Then to Draghasha, deal?" Hiccup said holding out his hand further to her.
"Deal," Astrid said shaking it much to Hiccup's delight as well as Toothless's that made him give a gummy smile.
But suddenly Astrid threw Hiccup far into the sky but Toothless caught him quickly before he could disappear out of sight, he placed Hiccup down and they glared at Astrid with Toothless snarling her teeth at her.
"Worth a shot," she just simply answered with her arms doing a bending movement to the left and right sides. "Now we go east…." She began holding a high five up to the sky where the colours started going pink and purple and stars started twinkling above them. Hiccup and Astrid observed her curiously as she closed her left eye but used her right eye to spot the star just above her fingertip as she seemly high-fived the sky. "To the lair of Garffiljorg, if anyone has my axe, it's that slimy colourful bottom feeder," She hopped onto Toothless, "Are you coming?"
"No, it's near dark, we have to camp for the night," Hiccup said.
"The longer we stay here, the more closely, your home is to getting destroyed and besides I'm not waiting another day without my axe,"
"Fine!" Hiccup huffed, he had to do it for the sake of his family. "But I'm going on the front of the saddle,"
"No, I'm doing it,"
"My job is to deliver Astrid across the Barbaric Sky, I should be the one steering on the saddle and navigating," Hiccup retorted.
Astrid huffed in annoyance and got off the saddle and corrected him, "It's called Dragon Riding and Exploring, Future Chief, and it's not just dragon roaring and maps, it's knowing where you're going, where you are by knowing where you've been and how to do strategies with your dragons on how to fly faster, more accurately and a lot more skilful,"
"Technically, I'm the son of the chief,"
"Same difference," Astrid continued correcting him, "If you have a sidekick, in this case a chicken, you're wearing a piece of valuable jewellery and you're doing something for your family and clan, you're the future leader of the tribe, you are not a Dragon Rider, you are not a navigator or an expert on exploring either….." Astrid didn't noticed that a Dragon Spirit was appearing just behind her with a glowing tongue ready to poke into her bum, "You will never be…" the Dragon Spirit poked Astrid in the bum and she collapsed to the floor. The Dragon Spirit disappeared behind her before she could notice it. "Really below here on my sensitive spot," she mumbled as her lips pressed against the brown sand.
Hiccup and Toothless laughed with glee, the Dragon Spirit (that poked Astrid) appeared beside Hiccup and gave him a high five before disappearing.
"You are a sneaking little munch bucket," Astrid calmly warned him.
"Right if you can talk, you can teach," Hiccup said, "But we're staying here for the night, in the meantime before I start getting some sleep, you start teaching me, Lesson 1, hit it!"
Mini Astrid appeared on Astrid's right, as she tilted her head towards it to the right as she was laying angrily but weakly on the sand. Mini Astrid gestured her to teach Hiccup but when Astrid said, "No," silently, her eyebrows started frowning and she punched her right hand into her left palm. This made Astrid finally agree.
Meanwhile Hiccup said, "Toothless, you can start getting some sleep, Astrid won't be escaping anytime soon with that poison in her but," he laughed at the last word.
"I heard that," Astrid said annoyed but in a sloppy manner because of her lips pressed against the sand.
"Right let's begin," Hiccup declared while Toothless curled himself up and started to get some sleep.
Astrid did a small huff before saying, "Make a roar that sounds similar to a Night Fury,"
Hiccup cupped his hands around his mouth and did a roar.
"No," Astrid said.
Hiccup did it again, this time much more loudly.
"No,"
Hiccup did it a third time, but still it didn't sound anything like a Night Fury.
"No,"
Hiccup kept doing it repeatedly but still Astrid kept saying "No," Toothless was getting annoyed so he tried covering his head flaps to get to sleep, "Oh, lady will you stop saying that word?"
Meanwhile Mini Astrid just smacked her face while sitting in Astrid's arm.
(Later)
It was completely dark and starry up in the sky and Hiccup was holding his hand up to try and do the same navigating that Astrid was doing, but she kept saying, "You're measuring the stars, not giving the sky a high five,"
Hiccup still couldn't get it.
(Later)
"Feel the ocean and its temperate," Astrid instructed. "You can tell how cold or warm it is by feeling it, but since we're on an island, it'll be both warm and cold,"
Hiccup placed his hand in the sea water as he kneeled on the sand, "It feels cold and warm…" he suddenly felt something slimy, "Wait a minute, it feels slimy," He suddenly gasped when he looked the side and saw Toothless spit into the ocean since he accidently licked some land while sticking his tongue out while sleeping, "Yuck," Hiccup waved his hand around the air getting that disgusting dragon saliva off, "That is disgusting, what is wrong with you, bud?"
Toothless just laughed much to Hiccup's irritation; Hiccup tossed the last bit of dragon saliva at Toothless's face and laughed as well once he saw Toothless glaring right at him and realising how mean it was, he stopped.
Toothless licked his paw and rubbed his face while Hiccup just decided to take a sit down. He looked out towards the sea and saw nothing but shades of dark blue everywhere, he clutched his legs close to him as he started getting cold. Toothless noticed as placed his right wing around Hiccup to warm him up, "Thanks bud," he said.
"You wanna get some sleep?"
"Yes," Hiccup said quietly, "I miss home,"
"You'll be home before you know it and I'll keep you safe, I promise," Toothless said, "I hope Stormfly and the others are alright, I'm worried about them,"
"I'm sure they're alright, bud, hopefully we bump into them soon,"
"Let's get some sleep then,"
They walked over a nice soft patch of sand and as Hiccup laid down after take a small blanket from the supply bags, Toothless laid down beside him and wrapped his right legs around Hiccup to bring him closer to his body and keep him warm while his right wing rested over him as well.
Toothless then circled his head near Hiccup's and fell asleep, Cuoo Koo went over to Toothless's head and nestled near it, he soon fell asleep as well.
Astrid noticing that Toothless had no interest in keeping her warm due to what she did before in the past, closed her eyes too and just slept.
All was quiet and all seemed calm.
Here's the next chapter just as I promised, anyways Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone.
P.S. Would you all like me to do profile stories on all my OC Characters in this Story and Future Stories as well?
