Chapter 4: The other Dragon Riders

Any names for Hiccup and Asthera's children?

Maybe some spoilers from HTTYD 2 in this chapter, but only global spoilers.

Ashtera was leading us deeper into the ice cove, showing the dragon center.

"This is the dragon center. Here we look at the dragon's injuries." she told, pointing at a few corridors in stone.

"We?" the Chief asked.

"Indeed I'm not the only one living here. We're with 5 people here: me, my husband, my mother-in-law, my husband's adopted brother and his wife." Asthera replied.

I looked at the dragon center.

Out of the corridor came a tall and skinny but muscled man in an armor of light brown leather but the top was black, just as the helmet he had on his head.

Asthera saw him coming too. "And this is my husband, Hiccup." she introduced him.

This Hiccup took off his helmet, revealing a handsome male face with luminous forest green eyes, a little bit of freckles near his nose and his hair was darkend auburn brown.

"Nice to meet all of you. Please follow us to our home, I'm sure my mother will like visitors." Hiccup said. "Everyone is welcome. The only thing you have to watch out for is my dragon Toothless, but he won't harm you if you don't draw your weapons."

"I can guarantee I won't draw my axe. But I'm not sure yet about my fellow Vikings here." I said.

"Staying calm may help." Asthera said. "C'mon Stormfly!"

The ice blue Deathly Nadder appeared and roared.

"I'll tell mom about or visitors so she can prepare." Hiccup said and jumped on Stormfly's back, into the saddle.

"Of course, I'll lead them to the house." Asthera said before Hiccup took off.

I watched the male Dragon Rider take off to a higher place into the cove where I saw more dragons.

"C'mon, follow me." Asthera said and she jumped over rocks to a higher platform, she was really light and quick on her feet and she had done things like that before.

I followed her easily since I inhired the ability of being quick and light on my feet, and that was a real Hofferson ability.

The vast Vikings under us had a bit trouble with Climbing it, even Heather had troubles with it through she isn't so vast at all but completely the opposite.

Allan could climb the rocks also pretty fast, but not as fast as I did.

"I see being light and quick is an adventage here in this cove." I said.

"It is. It's all about being some kind of dragon yourself." Asthera told me. "You can't live here the Viking way, you have to be smart and quick minded, think about everything can help a lot."

Then my eyes fell on the Nadder spine belt she wore.

There was some kind of coin on it, looking like a family crest.

Asthera saw I was looking at it. "That's the family crest of my husband's family, he gave it to me on our wedding. I carry his crest and he carries mine to symbolize our marriage."

"It's amazing! That must have taken a lot of time. It has amazing details, did your husband made it?" I asked.

"He did, he's an amazing blacksmith. He also made my shoulderblades." Asthera replied.

"That guy must really love you." Allan said.

"Don't be rude!" I warned my brother.

"I'm not being rude!" Allan said.

"Can somebody please help us?" Fishlegs asked from beneath us. "We really can't get up."

"Of course, no problem at all." Asthera replied and let out a Gronckle dragon call.

The brown boulder classified dragon came and picked up Fishlegs, putting him down on the platfor before landing.

"Isn't she cute?" I asked Fishlegs.

Fishlegs looked into the Gronckle's yellow eyes with wide black pupils. "Yeah, she is. Why did we never see this before?" he asked.

"That's probably because the dragons who raid your village are under the control of an evil Alpha dragon." Asthera replied. "Dragons are only influenced by their Alpha. The Alpha of this Nest is kind and carrying, he would never let humans get harmed by the dragons in this Sancrutairy."

"So, it's all about the Alpha dragon in a Nest?" Fishlegs asked.

"Yes. If you defeat the Alpha, the dragons will be in their normal state once again and show their gentle and intelligent side." Asthera replied.

"Uhm... could you help us too?" Chief Stoick asked.

"For sure, sir Stoick." Asthera replied and let out another dragon call, but this call was much deeper.

A dark red Rumblehorn appeared, replying Asthera's call.

"Meet Skullcrusher." Asthera said.

My Chief looked at the Rumblehorn before he was picked up by the dragon and put on the platform right next to Fishlegs and Meatlug.

"How did you do that?" my Chief asked.

Asthera chuckled, then she called more dragons who picked up the other Vikings to put them on the next platform.

Then she turned to our Chief. "If you put trust in a dragon, and they trust you back, there's nothing they wouldn't do for you. My husband's bond with his dragon is special and it's way above my bond with him or his bond with his mother, the right dragon for a human ships an unbreakable bond no one and nothing can destroy." Asthera said and walked to the next stairs, which were normal and made of ice. "And here you must mind your steps."

We all followed her to a house made in stone. The dragons all had an apart cage in the stone wall where their given name and species was written right above it.

I read the names: Cloudjumper (Stormcutter), Toothless (Night Fury), Stormfly (Deathly Nadder), Trapcatcher (Rumblehorn) and Marshall (Hubblegrunt).

Then a masked woman in leather came out of the house. The helmet had the form of a dragon's head, large dragon fangs came out of the helmet, making some kind of crown, and it was painted all light blue except for the eyes, they were black. The top the masked dragon lady wore was made of brown leather with some light blue paint stripes on her right shoulder and arm, and the flamy red cape waving behind her made her look like a ghost with all the cuts and holes on the bottom. The woman's pants were all black leather, so were her boots. Her gloves looked like claws and covered most of her hand except for her fingertops.

"Asthera." the woman kindly said from behind the mask, which was a bit strange, the voice sounded much deeper from behind that mask. "You better can go inside."

Then Asthera's husband, Hiccup, ran up on the scene with horror on his face.

"What's going on?" Asthera asked.

"Asthera, it may be the best we're going inside. I will tell you..." Hiccup tried, but Asthera turned to the dragon lady.

"I want to know where this is all about. Where is all this heist about? Did I do something wrong?" Asthera asked.

That woman was really stubborn, I think that's why her husband loves her so much, all men like stubborn ladies.

I looked at the Vikings who were with me, all of them murmered things I couldn't understand.

Then the woman with the horny mask took off her mask, revealing her egg-shaped head with luminous aqua eyes and long auburn brown hair with a few hairs which started to become grey.

Our Chief dropped his axe and the adults all just stared at the woman.

Hiccup whispered something in Asthera's ear, something she shocked of.

"V-V... Valka?" was the Chief's reaction, just staring at the woman.

"Mom, I think it's the best to get Eret and Maeva." Hiccup said.

"Better let Asthera do that, she's really in shock." Valka said.

And with that, Asthera ran into the house, coming back with a man and a woman who were in their ending 20ies.

This man, who had to be Eret, had short black hair, brown eyes, kind of a big nose, some blue tribal tatoo on his chin, his tunics were made of red and white leather used through each other, his pants were dark blue and he wore a vest made of fur, just as his boots. (Same Eret as from HTTYD 2)

The woman, Maeva, had long flamy red hair braided down her back till her waist, her eyes ice blue and her clothes were also made of leather, but dark brown leather, but her gloves were made of Changewingskin and the belt of spikes were clearly spikes of a Whispering Death.

The Chief's jaws hang open pretty far from what I could see. But then he got angry, as always as he didn't aprove with something.

"Probably going to yell." Hiccup whispered, and he was right about that.

Haha, cliffhanger!

What should Stoick say? Should anything special happen?

Let me know if you think so!

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