Chapter 3: Voyage to the North

This takes place 2 months later on Berk.

I was working in the forge, sharping my own axe, as my father Erik came in.

"Dad?" I asked. "What are you even doing here?"

"You need to go pack your stuff." my father ordered.

"Why? What's going on?" I asked, not knowing what he was planning now.

"Some of us will go on the dragon hunt Chief Stoick has planned and he somehow picked you to go with him on the expedition. Pack light. When you're done, go to the docks." my father replied and just walked away.

I looked at my axe, seeing it was sharp enough and I went home to pack a 2 sets of clean clothes, the shade for my axe and my notebook and pensil.

With my bag, I walked to the docks just as my dad told me to do.

I saw not many Vikings, only 2 boats could be filled.

So that meant some villagers between the ages of 15 and 65. All of the others would have to stay home.

I knew everyone who would go on the expedition: Chief Stoick the Vast himself, his right hand man Gobber the Belch who was also my teacher in blacksmithing, my uncle Fearless Finn Hofferson, Spitelout Jorgenson, Ack Stefferson, my brother Allan, Fishlegs Ingerman, that bitch of a Heather Jorgenson and of course the Heir of Berk himself: Snotlout Jorgenson.

I was stuck with the teens of my village in that boat, and I had only Fishlegs to talk to.

The rest of the time I killed with drawing and writing in my notebook.

A week after the departure...

It was an early cold but beautiful morning.

I looked towards the direction we were sailing to, seeing an enourmous mountain of ice.

I looked at the water, which was part of frozen, but the ships could sail right through it.

"Uhm..? Where are we?" I asked myself.

"I don't know." Fishlegs replied as he came standing next to me. "But what IS THAT?"

"An enormous ice mountain." Allan replied like it was logical.

I narrowed my eyes and I saw a dragon flying through a hole in the ice.

"Wait a minute! I saw a dragon flying in there! We found the nest!" I cheered.

"That's ridicules!" Heather said. "We never found it before and now we would've found it because we sailed north instead of east?"

"It could be that our Chief was just going in the wrong direction." Fishlegs said. "Making faults is human."

"I agree with Fishlegs." I said, looking back at the mountain.

"Well, I kinda have to agree with Fishlegs too." Snotlout said.

I see the boat with the warriors going on land.

Our boat was the last one to go on land.

When we all were on the 'beach', Ack Stefferson called the Chief.

"Chief! We found an entrance. But it's very small, only smaller Vikings can go in." Ack said.

Everyone looked at me.

I knew that was coming since I'm the smallest Viking within the tribe, even my younger brother is taller than I am.

"Okay, I'll go in. But what do I need to do?" I asked.

"Just tell us what you're seeing in there. When you have discribed it, you come out and the Chief will ram a bigger hole in that ice." my dad replied. Many other Vikings agreed with the idea.

"Okay." I said and I walked through the hole.

It was indeed very tiny, but since I'm small and fast, I didn't need to watch out where I walked.

Then, I found the most beautiful landscape ever.

The grass was amazingly green and all the ice was perfectly shaped.

Dragons flew everywhere, not noticing me.

"It's beautiful!" I breathlessly said, looking down into the cove.

There I saw an enormous white dragon in the lake.

It spotted me and stood up.

I bumped with my back against the ice wall as I tried to step back.

It looked at me with it's blue eyes.

I was filled with fear, but then it let out a small cloud of snow.

The snow landed on my hair and on my shoulders.

"Whoa!" I said and I smiled to the enormous dragon.

"Astrid? Are you there?" that was the Chief.

"There are not many words to describe what I'm seeing, Chief Stoick." I said. "It's in one word beautiful! You really should see this!"

"Dragons?" the Chief asked.

"Uhm... about that... an enormous not dangerous dragon is standing in front of me. And it's NOT trying to kill me at all!" I called out, not trying to scare the big white dragon.

"How can a dragon not go for the kill?" I heard Gobber's voice ask.

"I don't know, but this dragon is extremely gentle although it's so big." I said.

I stepped closer to the enormous white dragon and streched out my right arm to touch it's nose.

But the ice wall behind her broke 'cause it was rammed by the Chief.

And he saw the enormous dragon.

"What the hell is that?!" he asked.

I pulled back my hand in a fast move as my Chief yelled.

"No need to be angry." a soft femine voice said as the other 7 Vikings beside the Chief entered the ice cove too.

"Who is there?" Chief Stoick asked, looking around..

I looked up, seeing the hooded woman again who protected us 9 weeks ago after that raid. But she didn't have her hood on and she sat on the wing of her Deathly Nadder which stood on a large rock. I knew her name was Asthera, but I had to know if she was just another woman named Asthera or my older sister who ran away 15 years ago.

I saw her round face with carring ice blue eyes, a kind smile and long blonde hair that was braided to the left side of her head.

Everyone followed my gaze and they saw Asthera too.

"Who the Hell are you?" the Chief asked.

"You wouldn't believe if I told you." Asthera replied and climbed down the rocks in a flash.

In the sunlight, her hair was even more blonde than it looked in the shadows, and that had already been really blonde.

"Who says I wouldn't believe?" Chief Stoick asked.

"Well, a few people who know you, sir Stoick the Vast." Asthera replied.

"How do you know my name?" the Chief asked.

"I have so my sources." Asthera replied with a kind tone in her voice.

Well, I have got to say, I really like this lady named Asthera, although I've got no idea who she really is.

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