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Guest: What if Astrid was captured by dragon hunters and they tortured her and she hit her head really hard and was knocked out cold. Then hiccup rescued her but when she woke up and she had lost her memory of the last 10 years and all she remembered was her life before the red death. She didn't remember betrothing hiccup or befriending dragons.

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Nothing in this story is scientifically or medically accurate. Can't you just have fun for once, and not take things so literal? Enjoy!

Chapter 21: Remember

Astrid's P.O.V

I struggled to balance on my knees. They screamed in pain from pressing against the cobbled ground. I adjusted trying to give my achy knees some relief, but the chain rattled through the cell, their short links keeping me from any other positions. The only sound was the drip drip of water droplets leaking through the cracks of the poorly made cell.

I squinted, looking past the bars that held me in this hell, trying to make out shadows from the dying fire light of a torch. Men. They were there. Right outside, their voices hushed to whispers, but their axes glowing from the faint torch. It took everything inside me not to spit the blood that pooled in my mouth on them as they passed.

One of them - I didn't know names, but I knew the fat, greedy faces. Each and everyone of them - Came into my confinement. He brushed the keys across the bars and chortled. He was taunting me. I held my head up high and grinned.

I don't know if it was from the loss of blood or purely for my enjoyment of seeing his expression, but I suddenly felt unbreakable. Like he was the one chained and not me. He looked at me up and down confused. I couldn't help but grin even more.

"What do you think you're doing?" He snarled with a raspy voice, and blackened teeth.

"I don't know what you're talking about." I spoke smugly. He growled and threw open the cell door, stomping over to me. I puffed out my chest and flashed him a mocking smirk. He grunted and with a swift blow, kicked me in the stomach. I doubled over biting my lip, doing my best to keep from yelling. I felt spit drip on my chin, before a lurching feeling in the bottomless pit that was my stomach. I jerked back as I vomited. It added to the already disgusting floor. Not much came out however. I hadn't eaten in a while. Couldn't count when I did last. My stomach now resulted in a constant, nagging pain, that I could just add to the list of ways they were trying to break me.

"That'll teach you." I lifted my chin and laughed. It was rough and sore, something that stuck in the back of my throat like a cough.

"You really are dumber than you look." I sneered. I furrowed my eyebrows. I was not going out without a fight.

"Why you-" a plasma plant cut his speech off, as the sound echoed through the halls. Screams and roars rang like a chorus. The man stumbled back at the sudden commotion. That's when a Night Fury appeared. Toothless.

Toothless opened his mouth, revealing a deep purple as he snarled, his nose scrunched and his eyes narrow. Suddenly, the man grabbed my hair pullin my head back voilently. I grunted. He chuckled and held a mace at my head.

"Toothless no!" A panicked voice shrieked. Hiccup.

"Hiccup!" I'm okay!" I shouted. He stopped dead and gasped at the sight of me. I must've been pretty roughed up.

"Let her go. Please." Hiccup pleaded, his hand outstretched. His chest quickened and sadness was hidden behind the rage in this eyes. He was not afraid to kill this man. And that scared me.

The man chortled. "I'd rather die working for Johann, than give in to you" he growled. He raised the mace in the air.

Hiccup gasped.

I gasped.

Toothless snarled and reeled his head back to fire.

Bang!

Darkness.

...

Hiccup's P.O.V

I grasped her frail hand hopping for her finally wake. Astrid was pale and bruised up. Her head was wrapped in bandages, the bleeding long stopped. Now I waited. My metal leg tapped impatiently as Stormfly paced the room. Her whines hopeless. Toothless watched from the corner of my hut, his green eyes vivid with sadness. He had killed a man. Straight up shot him in the heart, to save mine.

I don't think Toothless felt as bad about killing him, as he did about not saving Astrid. I didn't blame him for anything. He did what he could. If anything, I blamed myself.

I watched his little shifts in positions, trying to get comfortable. I wonder if he understood the relationship between Astrid and I. Of course I talked on and on about her to him. He was incredibly smart, so he must have had a basic understanding that we were... what would dragons call it? Mates?

I was jerked from my thoughts as Astrid groaned in confusion. She put a hand to her head with an achy grunt. Her eyes were dark from the heavy bags underneath them. Slowly she opened her eyes.

"Stoick?" She muttered softly, her vision blurred. She squinted, getting used to the light and perhaps confusion?

"Ast? It's okay. It just me." I squeezed her hand lightly, to let her know I was with her. She opened her eyes wider and screamed.

Astrid bolted upright and threw her pillow at me.

"You do you think you are? You talking fishbone!" She screeched. I jumped back in such surprise, my eyes widened.

"Astrid? It's me, Hiccup?" She snorted.

"Yeah I know! Why where you holding my hand you Perv!" I held my hands up. She gasped and frantically looked about the room. She pulled her knees to her chest, her norstrails flared.

"Wh-what are you talking about!? We hold hands all the time!" I trailed off. I felt a sharp pinch in the chest. She couldn't remember us holding hands? My eyes widened in realization. The mace to the head caused her to lose her memory...

"What's all this? Is Astrid awake?" Snotlout asked. Walking in with the twins on his heels.

"What in the name of Thor?" She asked glancing around.

"Where the hell am I?!" She demanded. Astrid kicked off the blankets and lifted herself out of bed. I grabbed her arm and turned her towards me.

"Easy Ast." She ripped her arm away and glared at me. She opened her mouth to speak, but it came out as a blood curdling scream.

"Night Fury! Get down!" Everyone jumped in surprise, including Snotlout, who had never been so confused in his life. She shoved me down and grabbed a dagger from her boot. Toothless bounced forward with a cheerful gurgle.

"Astrid! No" I jumped up and threw my self in front of her, blocking Toothless from her sharpened dagger.

"Hiccup! Get out of the way! You are going to get yourself kill-..." she trailed off looking at Toothless, than at me. She backed away, her eyes widened with fear. She gulped, turned, and ran.

She ran out my hut, but stopped in her tracks. She peered over the edge of the ramp. She stumbled back, hyperventilating. This was not Berk.

"Where am I?" She shouted, scaring Fishlegs.

"Astrid... you are on the edge. Home." Fishlegs whispered. The twins gazed at her, mortified. Snotlout attempted to approach, but she pushed him back with a glare.

"What's happening?" She was breathing heavy. She asked nervously like a pleading whisper. It reminded me of when she was blinded, by a storm. I had hoped never to feel that fear from Astrid, but here I was, feeling it radiate of her like heat from the sun.

We all said nothing, just watched in horror. I felt my mouth go dry. This was not Astrid. This was not her.

"Astrid... I- There is a lot to explain,You have to give me a chance to explain.

"I am not listening to ANYTHING you have to say!

"Then I won't speak. Just let me show you. Please, Astrid." She bit her lip, glancing to the ocean far below.

A sudden flash back hit me hard. We had exchanged those exact same words when I put her that tree. I ran a hand through my knotted hair, frustratedly.

"I'm dead. I knew it." She huffed. I shook my head and reach a hand out, before pulling it away again. I wanted to reach out. But I couldn't.

"You're not. Please Ast. Let me explain." She glanced at me nervously, but didn't look me in the cautiously stepped forward and spoke.

"Maybe we can get past events to jog her memory." He shrugged.

"I-it could work." I felt a panic arise in me. What if I couldn't get my Astrid back?

She turned again and clenched her hands into fists.

"Memory?!" I nodded.

"We're going to help you get it back." She looked like she was going to shoot back a nasty response, but held it in. It was her most logical explanation at the moment.

"Fine. But if this doesn't work, I will personally tie you to a tree." I nodded, completely believing it.

"What should we start with?" Snotlout asked, he grinned coming up with some prank to get Astrid to like him.

"We could start with the hair! No, no, outfit choices! We cannot have her walking around in something that hides her eye color! I will not allow it!" Tuffnut shouted, snapping his fingers.

"How about a fur cape?"

"A great idea sister Nut! The fur made from a polar bear!" Tuff growled like a bear and ran off to form his plans.

"Oh gods..." I mumbled.

"Ugh. Those muttonheads." I couldn't help but smile as she crossed her arms and leaned on one foot.

"At least one thing hasn't changed."

...

"Okay Ast. Let's start with dragons." She grunted.

"Please. I know how to kill a dragon." She rolled her eyes. I stood up in shook.

"No. We don't kill dragons anymore. You have a deadly Nadder. Her name is Stormfly!"

"You must have hit yourself in the head with a mace." She glared. The irony.

"No Ast. I can prove it." I whistled for Stormfly who flew into the clubhouse gracefully and landed. She tucked her wings in and chirped at her rider. She gasped and stood. She looked like could kill me. Or Stormfly. Maybe both.

"What the? Oh Gods! I-I, What?" She sputtered, trying to find the words. She scanned the room for a weapon, but seemed mostly surprised by the Nadder calm, happy behavior.

"Anything coming back?"

"No! This dragon was in the killing arena just a week ago!" I groaned. "It almost killed you, but not without... taking your leg first?"

"No! That was the Red Death! This is Stormfly, your dragon! You love her! You ride her!" She crossed her arms and looked at me like I was crazy. I pinched the bridge of my nose. I had to think. Something to jog her memory. She cocked her head trying to figure me out.

"Dragon Hunters? Dagur! Toothless? Virgo Grimborn? Garf!?" By now I was shouting, spewing every possible key words from our past adventures.

"Alivn and the outcasts?! Heather, your best friend? The edge? The dragon eye?! The red death? Our first flight!?" Tears formed in my eyes, staring into her expressionless face. It was completely blank.

"Our first kiss?!" I shouted. She bit her lip and shook her head. I pounded my fist on the table. Where was Astrid when I needed her? My voice of reason was gone.

This girl in front of me, was not Astrid. Astrid was as stubborn as a mountain, yet more caring than the summer breeze. She was meaner than a storm, yet as smart as the sun. I bit back the tears that threatened to spill. I tried to swallow, the sob stuck in my throat as is I had swallowed a rock.

This Astrid, was still Astrid... in a way, right? I had had the biggest crush on her as a kid. I mean what wasn't there to like. She was pretty, tough, and smart. But that was a different Astrid. I liked that Astrid, but I loved this Astrid.

"Hiccup... I-" she paused, unsure of what to say.

"I'm sorry. I don't- these words. They don't have any meaning." A tear fell down my cheek.

Astrid was my world. I first showed it to her four years ago, that night on Toothless. I had to resort to putting her in a tree, to make her listen to me... Wait.

Astrid didn't listen to me. She was too stubborn. I stood, there was only one thing left to try.

"Okay... Then let me show you."

...

Toothless bounced in excitement. He was going for a ride! Astrid looked at him nervously.

"Its okay Ast. He won't hurt you." She huffed a heavy breath and slowly climbed on. I nudged Toothless.

"Easy now bud." He gurgled and lifted his wings. Slowly he flew, close to the ocean as I directed him. He grunted in annoyance as this was not what he had in mind.

"Anything?" I called back to an emotionless Astrid. She gripped my shoulders.

"Am I supposed to feel something other than you are a traitor of our people." She snapped. Toothless exhaled. He slowed to barely a glide. He rolled his eyes.

"Toothless... what are you doing?" He slowed almost to a complete stop. With a sudden burst of power Toothless shot upwards, giving me no choice but to fly with him. The both of us started to scream, as I felt Astrid almost leave the seat. Toothless climbed I to the clouds where the air was thin.

"Toothless!" He roared and shot a plasma blast into the distance, before turning... and diving... with several barrel rolls.

I felt my stomach lurch and Astrid shriek as we fell from the sky. Toothless let out a roar of shear joy before dumping us in the water. He shot upwards again. Astrid screamed finally getting her flailing arms in control enough to hug my waist. Well... it was more like a death grip.

"Toothless!" I sputtered, trying to control my stupid dragon. In the back of my mind, Toothless knew what to do more than I did.

"Oh Odins ghost!" Astrid screamed as Toothless weaved through sea stacks, and turned voilently.

"Okay. Okay. Get him to settle down! I rather ride Stormfly!" My eyes widened.

"Stormfly?!"

"Uh, Yeah. She's my dragon." Toothless suddenly jerked to a stop, spreading his wings, he glided with the breeze.

"Astrid! You're remembering!" I glanced back at her confused face. She still didn't remember everything. Toothless glided up through the thick clouds. Astrid say to the edge of the saddle, brushing her fingers through the wispy clouds.

Then she laughed! Toothless flew into the setting sun. A vibrant painting of orange and deep purple, as fainted stars made their way through in the incoming darkness. Toothless flapped his wings, speeding up slightly.

Slowly I felt Astrid's hands wrap around my waist, gently. Her chin rested on my shoulder. I tried my best to not grin. I had to subdue the urge to turn around and kiss her. She let out a light chuckle.

"Your shoulder is still bony." I chuckled. I shook my head and whipped around.

"Astrid. You-"

"Remember? I think so..."

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