Heyyyyy Awesomenesses!

Chapter 11 is here, and it wants to be read! Sorry for only posting today's but I was about to post it when my device ran out of battery. All of a sudden! Can you believe it. Today's I only had time now so... Yeah.

I tried my best on this one to compensate the fact that I won't be posting every day and less times a week. Sometimes not even for a whole week (on the busy times. Well, busier.)

Enjoy reading and see ya down there! XD


"Hey Astrid…" Snotlout called.

"Humm?" Astrid mumbled in response, completely lost in her thoughts. Hiccup's words had hurt, A LOT.

"Care to explain… I don't know…." He touched his head with a finger repeatedly, an intrigued expression on his face. "… the reason why…. WE'RE DUMPING OUR STUFF IN A FREACKIN' HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FREACKIN' FOREST!" He exploded. There goes the intrigued expression…

"Yeah… you said we were leaving to Berk." Fishlegs commented.

"We are." Astrid answered.

"What's with the riddles?!" Tuffnut cried, falling to his knees.

"We ARE leaving to Berk…. This is, for Hiccup, we're leaving…" She said.

"Which means we're not…" Fishlegs understood.

"Exactly." She answered, giving Stormfly the command 'go get some foliage. Yes, she thaught her dragon that. You never know when Hiccup's going to lose his mind and you'll end up dumping your stuff in the forest to pretend you just left to Berk.

"Can someone…" Ruffnut started, confusion draining out of her eyes like a waterfall.

"Astrid said we were leaving because Hiccup wanted us to but we'll stay here and keep an eye on him." Fishlegs explained.

"So we're basically spying H?" Ruffnut asked.

"No… no no…" Fishlegs laughed, his gaze stopping in the sky, questioning himself if they were or not. "Of course not…. No… Welllllll maybe… I guess so…"

"We are." Astrid translated.

"Wooohoooo! Thorston detectives are back again!" Tuffnut celebrated.

"Maybe the Thorston detectives should make less noise." Snotlout snapped while Hookfang lowered himself so the boy could access the saddlebags with his stuff inside. "Do I really have to put my stuff in this hole?" He complained.

"It's not just ANY hole. It's the STUFF-PIT!" The twins corrected in sync. "So treat him with respect!" Ok… it was moments like this that proved that they were twins.

Snotlout stared at them agape. He couldn't understand how they said the very same things at the very same time! Putting his admiration aside he turned to the hole. "Here sir…" He said with disdain towards the pit, proceeding to throw his saddlebags inside.

Stormfly appeared with the foliage and Astrid scratched her neck. "Good girl." She thanked the dragon who squeaked happily. Grabbing the several branches and leaves, Astrid plugged the hole, camouflaging the things inside.

"There." She said, her hands on her hips.

Why a hole? Hiccup could be… different… but one thing Astrid knew for sure. His keen eyes were still sharp and he would obviously notice the stuff in the forest. They were supposedly flying to Berk now, not hiding on the Edge's forest.

"What now?" Snotlout asked, bored as always. The boy was sitting on Hookfang's saddle, polishing one of the dragon's horns with one finger. Standing on his feet like everyone else was apparently too laborious.

"Now we do what were here for. We watch Hiccup, see what he does in our absence and try to find out why he's like that." The blonde answered.

"I don't know if I ready to see all that!" The Jorgenson despaired.

Both Astrid and Fishlegs face palmed. No they didn't combine it.

"Not that…" Fishlegs mumbled.

"Look do you want to help your cousin or what?" Astrid asked.

"Yeah…" Snotlout answered.

"Well here's your chance of doing that without screwing up like last time." She finished.

Snotlout swallowed. He still couldn't forget Hiccup's scared face that day.

"What are you all waiting then?!" He shouted.

They started walking through the trees, each dragon behind his rider. Flying would be much easier, but it would also ruin it all.

"Oh and this doesn't mean I care about Hiccup. Got it?" Snotlout commented while walking.

"Yeah… we are all aware of that." Astrid answered.


"Hmmpppff… he's just walking around! Doing nothing!" Snotlout complained.

"Just keep quiet." Astrid snapped from where she was laying on the ground, her hands (including the one holding a spyglass) were standing in the edge of the cliff. The other riders laid in the same position next to each other.

She brought the object to one of her blue eyes and pointed it to Hiccup who soon appeared walking inside the circle of expanded image.

For once, Astrid didn't have the slightest clue on what he was doing. For what she was seeing, he seemed a one legged soul wandering around with no certain course, just like the ones in the books Gobber used to read the children of Berk at night. Astrid never understood how that was the right story to read while Nanning kids, but she never really questioned it; Snotlout's frightened look was worth it.

Hiccup kept walking on the Edge's platforms. Toothless cooed worriedly at his rider who noticing this stopped on his tracks and kneeled in front of the black dragon, taking its head in his hands to pet it.

However Toothless cooed again. Hiccup started telling him something and Astrid cursed not being able to hear it. She would need another place but it was too risky to get up and look for it at that moment.

She tried to read his lips but it didn't work. Oh the shock….

"What's he doing now?" Fishlegs asked.

"He's…" Astrid started.

"He's what? You're the one with the spyglass Astrid!" Snoutlout complained.

Astrid forgot how to actually talk as a huge tightness in her heart started to grow.

Hiccup was now leaning his head against Toothless who wrapped his tail around the rider in a comforting, supportive way. From the boy's forest green eyes several tears were constantly escaping, rolling down his cheek until falling off his chin to the ground.

Astrid resisted her own instinct of getting up and just go there, hug him and tell him everything was okay. She couldn't stand… that.

She watched for what felt like hours, the other riders were constantly asking what she was seeing but Astrid just didn't seem to find the words. Snotlout once tried to steal the glassy object from her grip but she was stronger and didn't let him get it. She didn't want the others to see Hiccup like that; especially Snotlout.

Hiccup stared at his hands in disgust. He'd been doing that a lot and Astrid bit her lip with both curiosity and worry. What was wrong with them?

Still sobbing he clenched his fists and got up, leaning on Toothless who helped more than necessary.

They were about to start walking again when the Night Fury perked his ears up after looking to the horizon. Hiccup must've noticed it too because, after squinting his eyes in an attempt to see what was wrong, he reached for his own spyglass and studied the spot where the sea touched the sky.

Astrid too looked there and was surprised by a dot on the horizon. Ships, there were ships approaching, probably one day and a half away but they were approaching. And she had a pretty good idea on who they were; the same men who took the sweet Hiccup from her.

Looks like it's your lucky day fists; you'll have what you want.

A sudden realization assaulted her mind. If the Dragon Hunters were here and she knew it was them… how would Hiccup react?

"Uh oh…" She let out.

"Uh oh? What does that mean uh oh?" Snotlout freaked out in his typical what-troubles-are-we-going-to-face-next face.

"The Dragon Hunters are approaching. They're still pretty far but since it's not that hard to see them I'd say they brought the whole armada."

Fishlegs started crying with his typical oh oh oh's but Snotlout spoke louder.

"Well we gotta do something. Hiccup can't defend the Edge on his own!" He declared.

Astrid noticed the slight different tone when he said "Hiccup can't", as if he'd finally found something Hiccup couldn't do after a long search, but decided to ignore it. She was more worried with the boy down there.

Hiccup's hands was completely shaking and Astrid wondered how in the name of Thor didn't he stick the spyglass inside his left eye.

He lowered the object and held it with such a tight grip that the blonde watching Hiccup feared it to break suddenly. However, Astrid was surprised to see him guarding the spyglass and mounting Toothless.

"Hum… Astrid? Is that Toothless flying towards the dot we want to avoid?" Fishlegs asked.

"Yeah." She answered agape, removing her spyglass from her right eye and looking directly at the silhouette on the sky.

"Nice! This is a whole new level of craziness!" Tuffnut celebrated.

"Hiccup is totally coming to our side!" Ruffnut joined.

"More like, he's going to send himself and Toothless to the OTHER side." Snotlout corrected worriedly.

"I don't understand. I thought he would hide or just have another attack. Not fly off towards the DANGER!" Fishlegs exclaimed, waving his arms helplessly.

"Hiccup always flies to danger." Snotlout deadpanned.

"I though he wouldn't this time.I mean those are the guys who apparently tortured him. So why?" Fishlegs replied.

"I guess there's only one way to find out" Astrid started. "We'll fly above the clouds. Sure we won't be able to hear it but one of us will sometimes peek out of the clouds." She finished pointing to the sky and getting up.


Soon the riders had arrived at the clouds above the armada.

"Can we be the ones peeking please! Pleasepleaseplease!" The twins literally begged.

"Just because we can't hear them doesn't mean they can't hear you. Toothless has a good ear remember?" Fishlegs snapped. "Besides I think it's fair enough if it's Astrid listening."

"Oh…" The twins muttered.

"Thanks Fishlegs." Astrid said. "Now keep quiet, we don't want anyone to know we're here." She finished, giving Stormfly the hand sign to dive and the Nadder did so.

Astrid found herself covered by the clouds' density and she couldn't help but remember the first time she actually felt them: the flight she had with Hiccup on Toothless.

She found herself at the end of the humid density and stopped. Climbing down Stormfly, Astrid held herself to her dragon's talons and told her to fly a little lower.

If seen from the ships it would've been funny to see a blonde head breaking out from the clouds but thankfully no one noticed her.

Hiccup had landed on the deck of the main ship, the one right under Astrid, and listened to Viggo without dismounting Toothless. Unfortunately the blonde couldn't see their expressions but it was enough to make out some words as the wind muffled another.

" Think about it… your potential… hunt…. no one would…" That's what she got from Viggo and it was enough to understand that they were trying to recruit Hiccup.

A big gust didn't let her hear Hiccup's answer but she noticed Viggo laughing and walking forward, towards Berk's heir.

The man placed a hand right where Hiccup had his cut on the arm but the boy didn't even stir. Two options: either he was acting like a tuff man or the Dragon Hunter was being careful. Each one? Well... she couldn't see their expressions, especially Hiccups gods! With those bangs!

Blood was reaching her head and turning it as red as a tomato, resulting on a headache, so Astrid returned to the clouds where she waited a little in a better position.

Soon she was feeling better and hang herself head down, her braid pointing to the ocean. The clouds imidiately got out of her eyes.

"… joining us." She heard Viggo say and laughed mentally, already guessing Hiccup's words.

"Yes." The boy said simply and Astrid forgot how to breath. What did he just say? Y-Yes?

She watched as Hiccup clicked his prosthetic and although it was impossible to see, noticed him giving a grin to Viggo and Ryker. With that he took off towards the Edge and Astrid barely had time to hide again before anyone saw her.

Fishlegs, Snotlout and the twins watched a blue Deadly Nadder breaking out of the cloud level with a VERY pale (even with all the blood that had reached her head) rider mounted on its back.

" Hum… Astrid. Are you ok?" Fishlegs asked.

"Mhnmm" She mumbled, her eyes widened and the grip on the saddle leaving her knuckles completely white.

"Yeah… you look like you just saw a ghost." Snotlout commented.

"Was there a ghost!?" Ruffnut asked.

"I wanna see it!" Tuffnut shouted.

"Mhnmhmm." Astrid mumbled again.

"What?" Snotlout asked.

"Hi-Hiccup. He- he- he's working…. Hiccup's working f-for the Dragon Hunters…" The blonde blurted.

Suddenly, they all seemed to have seen a ghost.


*swallows* I- I don't know what happened up there. I- I swear. I wrote something completely different an- and *swallows* It had butterflies, rainbows and elves throwing up happiness! *swallows again* Ok who's framing me? Huh?

Forgetting the friendly mushroom that just blowed up, up there, I reaallllllyyy hope you enjoyed this chapter.

As you are already warned of I don't know when the next chapter will be posted but I'll give my best to update at least two times next week. Maybe more. I'm sorry again… *cries in a corner again*

Well, see ya next chapter. And don't worry I won't abandon you nor fanfiction. XD