I wake up the next morning and find Astrid and Stormfly missing. As I'm about to go looking for her the WoollyHowl wakes up and decides he wants to come with me. "Ok, lets go look for her". We start calling out and we come across her sitting at the cliff we were sitting at the previous day. As I walk closer I hear her crying. Thats not right, Astrid never crys. "Astrid, are you ok?" She sniffles. "I'm, I'm fine". I look at her face and see its stained with tears. "Come on Astrid, I can tell you're upset". She looks up at me and I sit down next to her. Stormfly looks at me and then to her rider, clearly worried about her. "Astrid, please tell me. I don't like seeing you upset". "I can't tell you, Hiccup-Hiccup needs to know first" she says, looking away. "Astrid, I relie on you. If you-if you arnt 100% then you could hurt yourself and I worry. Astrid, please, just tell me what's wrong". She shakes her head. "Hiccup needs to know first". I look at her as she starts crying then. "Astrid, if it's bad you have to tell me, Hiccup or not". She nods to agree. "I'm-I'm pregnant".
My eyes go wide as I look from Astrid's face to her stomach. "You mind?" "Sorry". There's a moment of silence before I start to get really confused. "Why are you so upset though?" She looks at me, an expression of something far beyond sorrow. "It's coming up to Drvistating Winter and-and I-I don't know...". "You don't know if the baby's going to make it". "Yeah" she says, not able to look me in the eye. Stormfly nudges her rider concerningly. "I'm ok girl". Astrid scratches the Nadder under the chin to re-assurr her. She instantly calms down and starts playing with the Woolly Howl. "But Astrid, if the baby is due sometime soon, why'd you come with us? Isn't that dangerous for the both of you?" She nods. "I needed to get away from everything and well, I wanted to have some time with you. Seeing as I never get to see you". I smile, glad knowing that I mean a lot to her. "Thanks". We turn around to see the Woolly Howl and Stormfly playing. "Looks like they have a liking for each other". "Yeah, they do". The Woolly Howl nudges me and points back to his bandaged wing. "You want me to take the bandages off?" He nods and nudges me again. "Ok, but you have to stop moving". After a minute he calms down enough to let me take the bandages off. He stretches and spreads his wings. "Are you sure?" He nods and nudges me towards his back. "If you insist. Astrid, would you like to join us?" "I'd love to". We both mount and the dragons leap up into the sky. The Woolly Howl stretches his wing, happy to be able to fly again. He begins to dip in and out of the clouds and through the sky. "Wow". I think for a monent before a name pops into my head. "How about Dipper, seeing as you like to dip through the sky". He croons, agreeing to the name. "Dipper it is. Lets show Astrid what you can do". As soon as I say that he immediately starts showing off, doing loolp the loops and making pictures in the clouds. As he finishes off a picture of a Deadly Nadder, Astrid flys up next to us. "Wonder who that is" she smiles. Stormfly says something to Dipper and he says something back making Stormfly laugh. "Ready to go Back, looks like its already oneish". "Lets go".
As we fly back over to the campsite we spot everyone flying. "They're good" Astrid comments, seeing Holly speed around Mia, teasing for her to catch her. "Yeah, they are". Astrid keeps watching Holly as she pulls off more complicated moves. "She's going to make an excellent rider" Astrid says as shewatches Holly loop the loop and barrel role over to us. "Hey, where have yiu been?" Astrid gives me a look. "Nowhere" I say. "Ok, well if you don't mind I'm going to keep practicing with Shadow". "Yeah, that's fine". She flys back over to the others. "Hey, Astrid, want to see what I was working on while I was away?" "Sure, I'd love to". We land and I go over to the saddle bags and get out my satchel. I walk back over to her and pull out the device I was working on. Astrid stares at it, looking very confused. "What is it?" "I don't have a name for it yet, but it will one day change the world". "So, what does it do exactly?" "Well, it can do a few different things. Firstly, it can generate animals and plants, which will stop famine. Secondly, it can create hybrids. So you could cross a Nadder with a Night Fury. Or you could give yourself animal features like a wolf tail or something. And, with a bit of difficulty you could swap between a person and an animal". "No way, that's amazing". "And, last but not least, it can regenerate limbs" I finish, waiting for a reaction. "Wow, that's impressive" she says, staring at the device. "Would you like a test?" "Sure". "Ok, lets generate some corn. Three, two, one, go". I press the generate button and a cob of corn appears in front of us. "Incredible" Astrid whispers, speechless. "Thanks".
We sit around the fire, talking about anything that comes to mind. Shadow lays with Holly, crooning when Holly scratches her. "She really like Holly" Mia says, looking at the pair. "They were working really well today, and the stuff they were pulling off was really cool" Jessie comments, snuggling with Arrow. "You should have seen the barrel role and multiple blasts they managed to pull off. They didn't miss a single target" Claire says, cuddling with Tiamat. Holly blushes, something I never ever see her do. "Thanks". She yawns. "Night". "Night".