Chapter 3- A broken Friendship

As Valka and hiccup were heading back to the nest they had to stop for the night on an Island few miles away from Berk. A little while after they had arrived and got their camp set up they heard a dragon crying out in the pain of loss. Hiccup Hiccup looks at his mother and says "Momma what was that?"

"It was a dragon son I'm not sure what kind it is, stay here ill go look."

"But I want to help. Please, no one at Berk ever let me help with anything please let my help you I'll do everything you say."

Volka looks, at the son she had never really been there for and with a sigh says ".K. son you can come with me but I want you to stay behind me all the time unless I tell you

"O.K. momma I will I Promise."

"Good let's go to sleep and look in the morning."

Berk

As Astrid made her way back to the village she wants to make sure she remember Hiccup as she is walking back she tries to find a way to remember him. As she is walking home she passes Hiccups old house and she remembers that Hiccup always had a journal with him that he would write in all the time. So she turned around and ran to hiccups house and snuck in hoping that the chief would still be at the hall at the party. She feels very bad that they were having a party to celebrate Hiccup leaving the only thing he every did was try help where he could, but no matter how much he tried the village would never let him be. They even seemed to go out of their way to beat or make his life a living hell.

She had seen people cross the street just to push him down then kick him. She still remembers when her parents told her she could no longer be Hiccups friend.


FLASHBACK 2 years ago


As an 8-year-old Astrid woke up she was excited because today she was going to spend all day with her best friend Hiccup and she was planning on telling him that she loved him.

So she got out of bed in a rush and got dressed really fast as she raced down the stairs for breakfast she saw her parents sitting at the table talking.

"She is really good friends with the little runt." her father said.

"I know do you think that he will be a problem for her now that she is about to start her training?" her mother asked her father.

"I don't want to find out. The only choice we have is to make her stay away from the runt."

"I don't think she is going to take that very well but you are right we'll tell her she can't see him anymore."

Astrid Is not sure who they are talking about so she go into the room and says.

"Good morning Mother and Father." she tells them both. "Well look at you. You are in a good mood this morning why is that?" her mother asked her.

"I'm going to spend the day with my best-est friend today!" She excitedly says

She sees her mother and father look at each other. Her mother asks "And just who Is this friend that you are going to see?"

"Momma, don't be silly you know that my best friend in Hiccup." Astrid says smiling.

Her mother looks at her Father as her father looks at her and he says "Now Astrid you know that you are going to start training soon right?"

"Yes, papa I know and I promise I'll do my very best."

"Well for you to do your best you need to make sure you have the right friends that can help you get better." her father says.

Astrid look at her father confused about how friends would make her stronger.

"Papa, what do my friends have to do with making me stronger?"

"Well if your friend as seen to be a week boy then you would seem to be a week worrier as well."

"But if I'm strong does it matter, Maybe if I'm stronger it will make my friends look stronger."

"Now Astrid that's not how it works. Do you want to be strong?"

"Yes, papa I do

"O.K. then you can no longer play with or talk to Hiccup."

Astrid looks at her mother then back to her father with tears in her eyes and says "but Papa I promised him we would always be friends and that we would get married. I can stop being his friend please can I go play with him?"

"No Astrid you can not see him again and you will marry the Jorgensen boy he is stronger and a better Viking than that runt of a boy."

"DON'T CALL HIM THAT HE IS NOT A RUNT." Astrid yells at her father.

"YOU WILL DO AS YOU ARE TOLD AND THAT IS THE END OF IT." her father screams at her.

She turn and runs to her room where she slams the door shut as hard as she can, and then throws herself onto her bed and starts to cry because she can't see her bestest friend anymore

Astrid's mother just looks at the stairs where her daughter went and starts wondering if they just made the right choice.


END FLASHBACK


Astrid runs up the stairs in Hiccup old home to his room when she opens the door she sees that it's still a mess. She starts looking for the journals she finds them in his closet where she remembered he kept them as she was starting to leave she hears the chief with his friend Gobber talking about Hiccup. She knows that if she does not hide she will be in a lot of trouble so she runs back up the stairs she hides under Hiccup bed and listens to what they are saying.

"You know what he was like Gobber he was different. I never could deal with him." Stolck says.

"You know that being different Is not always bad Stoick just look at how you treated Valka." Astrid heard Gobber say but she was not sure who Valka was.

"Don't bring my dead wife into this Gobber. She was different to and It got her killed."

"O.K. Stoick but you know as well as I do that Hiccup did not start that fire we both saw him running to the fire after it started." Gobber said

"So why did you banish your own son when you knew that he did not start the fire?" Gobber asked.

When Astrid heard that she started crying because Hiccups own father threw him away when he did nothing wrong.

Stoick looks at Gobber and says "I don't know what you are talking about the villagers say him there." Stoick answered back

Gobber just looks shocked at his oldest friend.

"Are you really going to tell me that crap Stoick I was standing next to you when you pointed him out to me."

"Fine Gobber I just banished my own son because its what the rest of the village wanted what else could I do."

"How about be a chief of the village." Gobber yelled then he turns around and leaves Stoick alone.

Astrid hears Stoick go into his room so she slips out from under Hiccups old bed and goes downstairs and look to see if stoick is there when she doesn't see him she sneaks out the back door and runs into the forest to hide Hiccups journals.