Third POV

"So how long have you been trapped here?"

"A year or two."

Astrid slowly looked up. Her wrist was in pain. The reason the cuffs cut through her skin was because of the whipping. Every time Viggo had fun, he had Astrid's arms chained over her head, since she had the cuffs he just had to add the chains. As each they went Astrid had more slashes on her back.

It had been three days, and she was hoping for Hiccup to finally wake.

For the meantime she had to know more about the prisoners.

"And how did you end up here?" she asked

Tatiana looked at the gate and then back at Astrid. "Me, my brother and boyfriend were out to buy supplies one day. We found a trapped dragon on a net and decided to help it. A few seconds later there were these Dragon hunters around us. Since they were crossing our borders they couldn't let our chief know about it."

"That's awful." Astrid said, she tried finding a way to cheer Tatiana up. "T- Then what happened?"

"I was forced to learn to heal, and My brother Cull and boyfriend Will. where forced to work as hunters." she sighs looking straight at Astrid. "I haven't seen the sun in so long."

Astrid turned to look at her. Shocked by what Tatiana had told her, as if they were in the same situation yet Astrid was the worst one. Astrid looked down after hearing her friend.

"Please be honest, what is he going to do to me?" Astrid asked, if she was going to wait at least she wanted to know what would happen to her. She turned her head to look at Tatiana. Tatiana didn't want to lie to Astrid.

"A long time ago, I noticed he had an interest in someone. I didn't care to ask or figure out, but when you were brought here the first time. I knew that was you." she said, explaining to Astrid how it all began. "Viggo fell in love with you, but not a love where he takes care of you. That man is crazy." Astrid was already pale, she was panicking a lot. "He's going to beat you until you're weak, he'll force you to forget the people you love. Because in his mind you can only love him." she finished

A tear escaped her eye. "I don't even love him, I love someone else!" she cried, "Viggo has hurt so many people and Dragons, he once tried to poison me. How can he hope I fall for him, How?"

Astrid knew at that moment that she needed an escape plan. Astrid got up and tried walking up to the gate, slowly she looked outside. 'Hiccup, please hurry!'

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Back in Berk, Stoick was helping out a villager when he was surprised by Goober.

"Chief you Gotta come, quick!"

Stoick's attention turned to Goober that very moment. "What is it, Is my son Okay?"

"see for yourself!"

Stoick apologised to the villager and headed straight to his home. Hoping he'll finally see Hiccup awake. He rushed the stairs heading to Hiccup's room. Pausing for a second he heard voices, and one of them belonged to…. Hiccup!

The door went open, revealing Hiccup. He was now sitting on his bed with a smile when he saw his father again. "Dad!"

"Hiccup!" Stoick didn't even stare at his son for a second before he ran straight to hug him. "I'm glad you're finally awake."

For the first time Hiccup didn't mind his father hugging him hard. As he hugged back, he remembered the gang.

"Dad, how's the gang doing?" he asked.

Goober then got up. "They're fine, I helped them to use the Gronckle iron to stop most of the lava flows." He explained, telling Hiccup about what had happened to the volcano.

He slowly looked down, Goober had told him to stay in bed since he still needed to get checked by Gothi. "Any clues on Astrid?"

The whole room went silent, they couldn't lie to him. "We…. haven't found her anywhere. It's like she banished." Goober explained.

Trying to get on his feet, Hiccup was pushed back to the bed by his father. "You're not getting up until Gothi tells us you're completely okay." he ordered

"Dad, Viggo has Astrid locked on his base." he began, still not wanting to tell them about the dreams. "And he's keeping her as his slave."

"How are we even sure Viggo went back to his base, and has Astrid as a slave?" Stoick question, ready to listen to his son.

"Because when Astrid was taken by him, he told me so himself."

Hiccup had his head down, still feeling that Astrid had been taken because of him. Slowly lifting his head he looked at his father straight in the eyes.

"I need to find my Girlfriend."

The room went silent for a second and both Stoick and Gobber looked at Hiccup with shock.

"Okay? Me and Astrid have been dating after she was blind."

"W- Why didn't you two say anything?" Stoick asked his son

"We wanted to keep the secret until Viggo was finally defeated. We did a great job hiding it." laughing at his last sentence, his head rested against the wall.

He was going to wait for Gothi to allow him to stand, and then. No matter what happened. Hiccup was determined to get Astrid back!

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Miles away, Heather had asked Dagur to help the Riders with all the destroyed things from the volcano. At this time, she was hoping to send Fishlegs back to Berk to check on how Hiccup was doing. Goober had gone back to Berk after helping them stop most of the lace holes.

Luckily for them the lava was flowing slowly and the volcano wasn't erupting. Still with their hopes on saving the Edge.

When nightfall had fallen, they were all gathered back in the Clubhouse. "Fishlegs, can you go back and check on Hiccup?" she asked

After hearing the question he was more than happy to do so. Hoping that on his return to Berk, their leader had already awakened.

Snotlout and the twins on the other side had been really helpful. Each with different assignments whether to help in force their huts and stables or to help out with the injured dragons. At nightfall, each of them entered the Clubhouse, exhausted once again. Each was taking turns on cooking too.

"Do you guys think Hiccup's finally awake?" Tuffnut asked.

Heather took a plate and sat down with everyone else. "Let's hope so, if we can't get the volcano to stop erupting. We'll never get enough time to go and find Astrid."

Everyone nodded, they needed to hurry if they wanted their friend back! Once they were finally off to sleep, the twins took to the air for patrol.

"Sis makes a joke, I have lost my appetite for making franks this past few." Tuff exclaimed, he hugged his dragon's head not on fear but of tiredness.

Ruffnut laughed for no reason, she was the expert on getting her brother from being a total bore. "You tell me, I thought you were the great party planner you so called yourself!"

Tuffnut instantly bolted up to face his sister. "Oh, so my dead Ruffnut wants to make a Loki contest?" he lightened with excitement.

"You're on!" Just as she raised her hand to do something a Terror terror crashed on her face. "Really?! Isn't this supposed to happen to Fishlegs?"

The small dragon hopped off her face and flew straight to Tuffnut. He stretched his hand out for the dragon to land. "Look sis, a terror mail."

"you think I don't know that?" she huffed, turning her face with anger. "Well? What does it say?"

"Hmm. It's from Fishlegs!" Tuff said, with excitement.

"What does he want now?" she protested, already bothered with his mumbling when he was healing the injured dragons.

She watched as the eyes of her brother widened as he read the letter. She wondered if good news had finally arrived, for Tuffnut to be shocked at the news.

"Sis! Hiccup's Awake!"

"He is?" she asked, her face lightened with happiness as a smile formed. "Let's go tell everyone."