Chapter 18

Fun and Games

A/N: wow I got a lot of reviews on chapter 17 o.o Yay! I have over 100 reviews! :DDD Hicstrid! *Major spoiler for those who haven't seen HTTYD 2!* ( you can see a small clip of this part here: watch?v=yjNmrCcHTWY

It was a total shock for the teens after they had met with Hiccups mother.

After Valka and Hiccup had their little small talk, the kids had to all go home. The moon was starting to set at that time and they didn't want to risk getting caught. So they hopped onto their dragons and flew off. The kids made sure to remember how to get there again. Snotlout was quiet the whole ride back. But then again, who wouldn't be? After finding out that your dead aunt has come back to life, that's something to think about. But also something to keep a secret.

Once the kids made it back to Berk safe, they quickly locked up their dragons. They hated to do this every time. Especially since their so close to their dragons.

Hopefully none of them had to get up too early to do stuff.

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The orange flame of the sun has finally seeped out of the ground and is slowly making it's way up in the sky. Birds have emerged from their nests and is now singing around the sun. A light breeze was felt amongst the leaves and grass.

Icy blue eyes has finally opened to those harsh rays of the sun. She put her right hand on her head as she moved some bangs out of the way and slowly sat up. She only managed to get a couple hours of sleep.

The girl slowly got out of bed and went over to her window. "I doubt there's anything for me to do today…", she mumbled as she rubbed her eyes with one hand.

She didn't bother to grab her ax that was next to her bed and started to walk out of her door to go outside.

The orange rays of the sun glowed off of her icy blue eyes, making it sparkle in the early morning sun. She blinked a few times to get her vision back. When she could see, she saw that mabe one or two vikings were out and doing their early morning chores. Then there was some working in the field milking the yaks or rolling the hay.

Since it was early and barely anyone was up and would need her, she thought she would visit Hiccup.

She walked through the village casually and made her way to the Dragon Arena. Once she got there, she quickly double checked to make sure that no one saw her come in here. She pulled the lever to open up the cage with her dragon.

When the gate opened, the blue Nadder twitched her head and blinked opened her golden eyes. When she saw her rider she started to chirp in delight. Astrid quickly put her finger up to her mouth to shush her. The dragon grew quiet as she listened to her friend.

She jumped on her dragon and they slowly and silently crept out of the cage. They both quickly looked around to make sure that no one from the village would see them, and they took flight.

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The sun barely raised through the sky since Astrid left Berk to go see Hiccup. She didn't care what the others would say. She just hoped that they could cover for her if someone needed her.

Stormfly flapped her wings a couple more times over the stone pillars near the water. After they passed them, they reached the giant ice rock. Astrid is still amazed at how it looks. And she still wonders what type of dragon made such a magnificent thing. Even Stormfly was mesmorized by it's beauty.

They flew threw the hole that they went threw before. Stormfly had to tuck in her wings the whole time and make some sharp turns. But all in all it was pretty fun!

Once they got threw it, they reached a small cave that was empty.

Astrid got off of her dragon and Stormfly ran off into another cave. "Don't get lost!", she called to her. She, too, went off in another direction. Back to the room that seemed like Hiccups room.

Once she entered that room, she saw on the desk was piled with neat papers that had at least had 10 groups piled together.

In the corner near the desk was a big black solid smooth rock that looked it was burned at the top.

She looked around the room but didn't see the brown haired green eyed Dragon Rider.

So she decided to wait for him by walking over to his desk and look at his papers. She remembered last night that Stormfly had scratched up some of his papers and he panicked. She picked one of the papers up and looked at it.

It was some sort of drawing of a weapon. A type of bow where you could hold it side by side instead of up and down. She was still looking at the picture when she heard footsteps coming in her direction.

"Hey Astrid, what are you doing?", asked Hiccup as he came up from behind her. "Just looking.", she mumbles. "What are these?", she asks as she put the sheet back and picks up another one. "Uhhh… Well… T-There just drawings of weapons that I've seen vikings use to attack dragons with and I draw them down and try to make them myself so that I can figure out how to stop them when we get to them again.", Hiccup mumbles.

A black dragon pads up over to the side of the desk over to the black rock. He jumps on it as he breathes fire on to it and goes in a circle. He stops and lays down and lazily looks over to the two. "What do you do exactly?", Astrid asked as she looked at him.

There was a hint of a haunted look in his green eyes. Astrid tilted her head a little as her bangs swooshed down as well. Hiccup started to walk off and gestured to her for her to follow him, "Come.", he says. Astrid narrows her eyes a bit out of curiosity and follows him closely behind.

Hiccup led her out of the room. Toothless made a type of groaning noise and forced himself to get up. He shook his head and then padded after them.

The three started to walk fast through a narrow pathway. Instead of rocks around them, there was shiny silvery stone like structures. Each foot they take it gets narrower where they have to crouch down a bit each time. "Where are we going?", Astrid asks. "Come.", said Hiccup as he gestures for her to follow again. Astrid narrows her eyes in annoyance.

After a few more steps they finally made it to the end. The light from the entrance was so bright that Astrid had to put a hand over her eyes and walked out with Hiccup.

When they got out, Astrid was amazed once again.

In the huge room had several ice pillars connecting the ceiling and floor. Various species of dragons of all kinds were flying around them in a mixed up pattern. On the far end of the wall was a large waterfall that was just as bright blue as the ice surrounding the stone walls.

On the ground was different types of plants as well. But there was also a lot of babies crawling around on top of each other in a play. Their big colored eyes bright with joy and happiness.

Astrids blue eyes matched the ice around the giant cave. She looked around at all the dragons and sides of the cave. "Wow…", was all that she managed to say out loud. Hiccup nodded with a satisfied smile, "Yup. That was my expression as well when I first saw this place.", he said. Astrid finally looked at the boy as he started to walk over to some dragons that were dozing on the side of the wall under some tall plants that would give them shade.

A blue dragon with red dots on its scales tilted sideways a bit as Hiccup went over to it. It's yellow eyes looking at Hiccup playfully. "This Snapplefang lost his leg to a man who is hunting dragons in one of his traps.", he said as he patted it gently on the side of its neck. Then Hiccup turned around to look at some of the dragons who flew up to them. He quickly went over to one of them and Astrid turned around to look.

"This Raincutter,", he started as he pointed at a dragon, "had it's wing sliced by a razor netting.", he said as he lifted up it's wing gently with his two hands. The dragon looked at him with sad eyes. Hiccup smiled back at it and patted it's side and went over to another dragon. At the corner of his eye, he found another dragon. "Oh and this,", he started with a sad tone, as he crouched down to a purple dragon with it's fangs pointed upward. It's eyes were as white as the clouds. "This poor Hubblegrump was blinded by a tree snare.", he said as he put his hand on it's nose gently and his other hand under it's chin. The dragon bobbed it's head up and down a bit as it purred into the touch. "And then left to die alone.", he continued as it snuggled up to him and Hiccup gave it a hug while it changed the color of it's scales to a yellow color. "And scared.", he finished. He brushed the top of the dragons head gently as he padded towards Astrid again.

"So you rescue them?", she asked amazed as her blue eyes widened at the dragons that he showed. He nodded with a sad look in his eyes. He started to walk away a bit and Astrid followed him. She guess that he was going to show her more of the dragons who got hurt in traps. Honestly, she didn't want to know of anymore. It was just too sad.

"But my mom and I aren't the only ones who are taking care of these dragons and helping rescue them.", he said with a smile back on his face. She looked at him confused. Wait… Is there someone else that she doesn't know about? Again?

Hiccup kept walking towards the edge of a cliff next to a waterfall. Astrid gasped in surprise at what she saw.

In front of her was a gigantic dragon. All of it's scales were pure white. Small horns trailed from the top of it's head to the back of its tail. Two giant horns stuck out on both ends of it's mouth as it breathed lightly while resting it's eyes. The tips of its horns were colored in black with a hint of red.

"Every nest has it's Queen, but this is the KING of all dragons! With it's icy breath," he said as he lifted up his hand to gesture around the whole cave, "He made a cavern home for all of us to live safely in.". He pointed his hand at the magnificent dragon,"The Alpha species! Also known as the Bewilderbeast!", he chimed happily. Astrids jaw dropped as it started to move from hearing it's name.

It slowly moved over towards them. The water from down below made ripple noises. It leaned over close enough to where you can see all of it's face.

Hiccup slowly knelt down on one of his legs into a bowing position.

Astrid just stood there in amazement. Her jaw was practically on the floor. The biggest dragon she's ever seen was a Monstrous Nightmare but that doesn't even come close to THIS giant creature! But to hear that it was the King of ALL the dragons was even more so!

The dragons icy blue eyes stared into hers. It opened its mouth a bit and breath out ice cold air. Snow mixed with blonde on Astrids bangs. Hiccup stood back up and chuckled a bit, "He likes ya.", he said as he stared at it as well. "Wow…", she said, speechless yet again.

Hiccup nudged her shoulder to get her attention. She looked at him questioningly.

"Hungry?", he asked with a smile. "Mmm… Ya… I could eat.", she shrugged, still trying to catch her words. Hiccup made a smirk, "Good. It's feeding time!".

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A black Night Fury and a blue Nadder were flying side by side. They flew out of the ice hold and flew not too far from it. Ice glaciers was seen a bit aways as the dragons flapped their wings a bit.

Astrid turned her head around and saw what looked like all the dragons from the cave were following them. She turned her head back around to look at Hiccup. "Hey! I thought you said we were going to eat!", she called to him over the chorus of flapping. "Oh we are!", he called back as he put his hand up in a 'stop' motion. Stormfly and Toothless both stopped. Stormfly tilted her head at Toothless. Toothless black pupils went wide in a puppy dog face type as he looked down at the oceaned water. Stormfly looked down as well as Astrid. Blue and yellows eyes widened in surprise as the white Bewilderbeast jumped up from the water. Trillions of small fish were inside his mouth as he slowly went back into the water. His mouth formed into a small 'o' shape as it spit out all of the fish high above all the dragons.

Astrids jaw dropped once again in surprise as she looked around wildly at the falling fish and zooming of dragons, trying to get as much fish as they can. Hiccup was laughing so hard at her expression, he had to have his arm hold his stomach and the other rest on Toothless head so he doesn't fall off of his dragon. Stormfly looked around wildly in delight as well. She looked up at Astrid and then over at Hiccup. Hiccup saw her movement and looked at her. He nodded at the girl dragon. Stormfly squaked in delight as she dived downward and zoomed to catch all the fish in her mouth. Toothless made a loud cooing noise and dived down as well to catch fish.

Both dragons had their mouths full of fish when they finally met back with each other. Astrids blue eyes sparkled with happiness with seeing all of this as she looked over at Hiccup. He smirked back at her.

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The herd went over to the edge of a rocky cliff.

Toothless jumped off the edge, followed closely by Stormfly. "Woo Hoo!", Astrid shouted. Hiccup just laughed as he felt the wind flowing up. Toothless's and Stormfly's wings were spread out as the wind traveled upward to levitate them in the air. The other dragons on the cliff also joined them.

Astrid was too busy hanging on to Stormflys yellow horns on her head as her own body was flying straight across as if she was laying down. Hiccup started to stand on Toothless. Toothless green eyes looked over to Stormfly's as if he was smirking. Hiccups green eyes looked at Astrids shocked ones. He smiled as he started to walk over on Toothless's left wing.

He quickly walked over onto another Nadders back with his hands upwards like his body is making a 't'.

He swiftly went across that dragons wings and jumped down anto another dragons. He quickly made his way over onto Stormflys wings. Stormfly tilted her head at him with bright yellow eyes. Hiccup stalked around Astrid as he made a quick peck on her cheek. Astrids eyes went wide for a second at his action and raised an eyebrow at him playfully. Hiccup chuckled as he walked across the end of Stormflys wing.

Then he grabbed onto a horn of a brown bumpy dragon that glided upwards a bit with Hiccup holding onto him. Hiccup looked at Astrid as he hung onto the dragon. Once the dragon was over another dragon, Hiccup quickly let go and landed safely onto that other dragon. Then he walked across that dragon to the end of it's wing. Once he got to the edge of its wing, he fell off. Astrid gasped as she looked down quickly.

She sighed in relief as Toothless flew upward with Hiccup on his back. Toothless looked over at Astrid and stuck out his tongue playfully. She put her hand over her mouth and giggled.

Toothless and Stormfly flew upwards to get away from the wind and flew next to each other.

Hiccup sighed, "-sigh- When I'm up here, I don't even feel the cold, I just feel free!", he said as he looked at her with green eyes shining happily. Astrid smiled back at him. Then Hiccup spread out his arms as if he was spreading out wings, "This is what it is to be a dragon Astrid!", he chimed loudly but happily. She looked at him with a smile.

Hiccup looked at her and then looked behind him to see the other dragons starting to follow them again. He turned back around to look at her again. "We better be getting back.", he said. Astrid nodded as she looked behind her as well.

Both their dragons flapped their wings a few times as they took off in a race back to the ice hold. Both teens laughing and cheering away with the flock of dragons following closely behind them.

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The two teens had safely made it back to the ice hold. The other dragons went back to the main room in the caves. They both got off their dragons once they got into Hiccups room again. Stormfly squaked as she started to chase Toothless in a game of tag. Toothless arched his back playfully as is tail wiggled a bit and took off jumping. Both teens giggled and shook their heads at their dragons.

Astrid and Hiccup walked over to his desk. Astrid put her hand on the edge of the desk as she glided it across the desk as she walked to the end of it, close to the wall. "You seem really happy here.", she mumbled with a smile as she looked over at Hiccup. He smiled back at her, "Ya.", he said. "Don't you miss Berk?", she asked him while she tilted her head a bit. Hiccup was silent for a moment as he thought. Then he started to nod, "Mmm… Ya… In a way I mean. Like all the familiar faces and you guys.", he said. "But here…", he started as he looked around his room and at the two dragons playing, "Here I feel more at home then I ever did back on Berk. I mean, the only person I actually had was Gobber. But now I have my mom.", he said.

Astrid slowly looked down a bit sad. Hiccup saw this and slowly walked up to her. He slowly grabbed her hand and held it in his. She looked up as her blue eyes looked into his green ones. "But now I have you and the others.", he said. Astrid made a small smile. She was frozen in his gaze as he started to lean closer to her face. She closed her eyes as their lips met. They both stayed still at the soft contact they were giving each other.

The dragons stopped for a moment as they both looked at their riders. Then Toothless looked at Stormfly and started to chase her around. Stormfly squaked and badded her tail at him playfully. Toothless shook his head and continued the chase.

For what seemed like an eternity, Hiccup finally pulled away from Astrid as he looked back into her blue eyes. Astrid blinked a few times as a blush came across her face. Hiccup started to cough nervously as Astrid quickly moved her bangs out of her eyes. She cleared her throat, "-cough- Well… Um… I-I better get going…", she said as her eyes darted back and forth at Hiccup and back at the ground. "Y-ya…", Hiccup mumbled. Astrid looked at him one more time and whistled to Stormfly.

Her dragon perked her head up at the sound. She trotted over to her rider. Astrid jumped on her and flew out of the room.

Hiccup smiled at Astrids retreating form.

Toothless made his way over to his best friend. His head matching the same level as Hiccups. He, too, looking back at the girls and then looked at his friend with big eyes. Hiccup noticed this and looked at Toothless, "W-what are you looking at?", he said in an annoyed playful tone. Toothless made a purring noise as they both looked at the same direction again.

A/N: OMG I GOT THIS DONE! It only took me one day! ONE DAY! I hoped you guys liked this! If some of you noticed that in the movie, it was Valka and Hiccup that did all of this, but I changed it up and had it be a Hicstrid thing! I wonder what some of your reviews will be! :DD