Here's chapter 2! sorry for the long time updating but i had a lot of silly mistakes that my friend caught! otherwise i would have updated yesterday

Disclaimer: I dont own How to Train Your Dragon, but i do have the httyd videogame!

Astrid usually wakes up at the crack of dawn, and today is no different. She is already packed for her trip with Hiccup, the usual: bow-and-arrow, battle axe, a blanket, other necessities.

She's pretty excited for the trip, after being stuck in the house for several days. And she usually jumps at any opportunity to help the village. Really though, she's happy to be spending time with Hiccup. Although she would never admit it, she is Astrid after all.

There is a knocking on the door, waking Hiccup up from his sleep. "Just a second!" he calls, scrambling up from the floor. He swiftly latches on his prosthetic leg and walks to the door.

"Hey," says Hiccup. Astrid's standing at the door, carrying her basket pack on one shoulder. "I'm not quite ready yet, come in."

"So what exactly should I pack?" asks Hiccup.
"Well," responds Astrid, "I'm not expecting it to be that long of a trip, so probably just some food and other basic necessities."

Hiccup turns and runs up the stairs to his room, leaving Astrid at the door. She is becoming visibly irritated, tapping her foot on the floor and crossing her arms. Not that she is surprised, Astrid had been to Hiccups house before, and she knows that he likes to sleep in, and that he is rarely ready in time. Maybe that's why she's irritated, the truth is, even she doesn't know why.

"Ready!" Hiccup calls from his room. He hops down the stairs two steps at a time, huffing and puffing from his fury packing. Hiccup walks over to Toothless and scratches his neck. "We'll be back in a day, alright buddy?" Toothless nods as if he knows what Hiccup was talking about.

Berk, by this time of year, already has two feet of snow on the ground, which is a lot considering that it hasn't been a month since the first snowfall. But the walk to the outskirts of the village is usually easy since the paths are well traveled. After that, you don't necessarily walk though snow, as much as you wade through it.

"So where are we hunting?"
"In the forest," responds Astrid, who still isn't being much for conversation. "All the snow will make it easier to track animals." She looks back at Hiccup, "Are you taking notes! For Thor's sake!"

"What? It sounded important," says Hiccup. Astrid chuckles to herself.

"Ooooo," says Snotlout as they walk past him. "Astrid and Hiccup are going on a little love trip!"

"Shut up, Snotlout," counters Astrid. "You haven't done anything but sit on your ASS instead of helping the village." Snotlout shuts up immediately and Astrid walks away with her head held high.

"Don't you think that was a little much?" asks Hiccup.

"No, he deserved it."

Astrid and Hiccup leave the village. Progress is slow because of the amount of snow on the ground, but they manage. A half hour later, they make it to the forest. However, it started to snow on the way. Not just a light snow or a little dusting, practically a blizzard. Hiccup had a hard time seeing Astrid, who was walking only 5 feet in front of him.

"Ok, in weather like this, it would be nearly impossible to track the animals. So we will have to wait for them to come to us."

"Shouldn't we head back or something?" asks Hiccup. "This weather is kind of bad."

"What? No! We are Vikings! We don't get scared by a little snow!"

"Ugh," shrugs Hiccup. Astrid leads them to an over watch, covering a clearing.

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"Can we stop yet?" asks Hiccup. "We have been sitting here for hours." The weather had not improved, if fact, it snowed so hard that their feet where now covered in a thick layer of it. It's also beginning to get dark out.

"No," responds Astrid

"You're started to get frostbite on your nose, and I can't feel my fingers."

"Fine," says Astrid, unwilling to admit that Hiccup's right.

"So where are we gonna stay?" asks Hiccup. The snow has covered all possible sources of kindling for a fire. But even if they could get their firewood, they wouldn't be able to start it. They forgot to bring fire starters. Hiccup and Astrid begin to realize how bad their situation actually is. This storm is bad even for Berkian standards, which says a lot considering that it snows nine months a year. The temperature is also dropping because it's nighttime.

"We need shelter!" yells Hiccup through the howling wind.

"I know!" Astrid yells back. She and Hiccup struggle through the hip high snow drifts. Astrid looks around desperately for a cave or a hut. The wind nipping at her skin through her jacket suddenly gets more intense. Her fingers are starting to go painfully numb. She can feel the cold sapping away her strength.
Unfortunately, they wander their way out of the more dense part of the forest, and into a more open area with less trees, which also means less cover from the wind.

"There!" yells Hiccup, pointing towards a hill.

"I don't see anything," says Astrid.

"We can dig a cave into snow," explains Hiccup. "It's the only shelter we will get." Hiccup grabs Astrid's arm and pulls her towards the hill. She stumbles, but Hiccup catches her and pulls her arm over his shoulders and holds her up. "Don't worry, I have you," he assures her. They walk start to walk up the hill, but the amount of snow prevents them from getting up. "Right here will have to do." Hiccup drops his basket pack and starts furiously digging a hole into the snow. He ignores the pain in his own hands. After a few minutes, he manages to dig a hole big enough for two people to lay down in, dug all the way to the ground itself. He emerges from the hole and pulls Astrid in.
As they settle into the pitch-black cave, Hiccup lets out a long sigh. He can hear the wind howling outside the cave's entrance. Next to him, Astrid is shivering intensely. Hiccup takes off his jacket and starts to put it on Astrid, but she shrugs it off.

"I don't need help from you," she says defiantly, while still shivering.

"Yes, yes you do," explains Hiccup. "We need to stay warm, or we will die. And the only source of heat we have right now is each other."

"Like body heat?"

"Well... yeah I guess."

"So your saying we should snuggle up for warmth? Do we have to?" asks Astrid, still shivering.

"I don't think we have much of a choice," says Hiccup. Defeated, Astrid rolls and puts her arm around his chest and lightly pull herself to Hiccup. He can still feel her is shivering, without thinking, he pulls her up onto his chest, so that her head is resting on his shoulder.
Hiccup goes wide-eyed for a second, half expecting Astrid to hit him or something. Instead, she settles right in.

At first, he almost winces at her coldness of her body. After a bit, her shivering goes away and she starts to relax. She puts her hands in a loop around his neck, and falls asleep.

It's funny, Hiccup thinks to himself. Never in a million years would I think that I would be in a hole, dug in the snow, in the woods, with Astrid.

Before now, Hiccup hadn't actually thought about the any "mischievous" things about Astrid. He had been in too much of a survival mode. For now, it's going to stay that way. He's just happy to be alive.

He searches for his basket pack, but mentally curses himself when he remembers than he left it outside. However, he does find Astrid's pack. Luckily, she packed a blanket. Hiccup manages to spread the blanket over himself and Astrid without waking her up. Soon after, he falls asleep to, holding Astrid in a tight embrace.

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Hiccup wakes up fairly slowly, blinking the sleep out of his eyes. The first thing he notices is that Astrid is on him. Astrid is on me? Hiccups mind races through all the possible things that could mean. Astrid wakes up, she stretches and hits Hiccup in the face by accident.

"Oh, sorry," she says with a smile. Then she realizes that she is actual laying on Hiccups chest, and awkwardly rolls off. Did I sleep on him all night? Did he save me yesterday? Was I so weak that I needed help? There are all questions running through her mind right now. Well, she kind of liked sleeping on him, she never really had been taken care of before. And certainly wouldn't have let anyone help her.

Hiccup is looking at her with a confused look of "what now?" and "did I do anything wrong?" Or at least he was trying to see her through the dim light of their cave. His mind is making up for lost time last night NOT thinking about doing anything with her. He feels a blow to the gut.

"That's for letting me Freeze," says Astrid, then she leans over and kisses him. "And that's for everything else."

Hiccup is taken by surprise, but this time he is determined to not the moment go to waste. He leans over and kisses Astrid back. She kisses him again. Hiccup hugs Astrid and pulls her in closer. Each kiss getting more and more intense. Hiccup can feel everything, her heartbeat, and her breasts on his chest. Her lips on his lips.

Hiccup is finally getting to touch the curves he has dreamed about for so long, his heartbeat starts to race. His hand starts to wander from her hips up towards her chest, following her slender figure up to her hair. A bulge starts to form in hiccup pants. Astrid, who's straddling his legs, feels this and immediately rolls off Hiccup.

"We should start heading back," says Astrid, breathing hard.

"Yeah that's probably a good idea," replies Hiccup. Both of them trying to analyze everything that just happened

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