Omg its been forever...dont kill me

we just finished mock exams DX so sorry its been a while.


Chapter 6

Back in the cove, Astrid was standing with Toothless watching Hiccup and his mother argue.

"You took her dragon riding! The same girl who is gonna murder one of our own tomorrow!" Valka shouted.

"I did this so she WOULDN'T kill a dragon tomorrow!" Hiccup responded. Astrid had never heard Hiccup shout before, and she was quite impressed.

"But she is a viking, who all her life has trained to kill dragons!" Valka replied.

"Actually," Astrid cut in.

"I trained to defend myself, to become a warrior. I never wanted to kill," she explained.

Valka calmed a little. Hiccup looked from Astrid to his mother repeatedly, waiting for a response.

"Fine. Hiccup, go take her home and take care of Toothless, I will prepare you father so he won't shout again when you return home…" Valka said turning.

"Actually, I was thinking of not coming home tonight," Hiccup replied before she walked off.

"What, why not?" Valka asked.

"Well, what dad said… I think it's best if I just leave…" Hiccup muttered.

"Wha- No, sweetie! He was just angry, he still loves you and there is no reason he wants you to leave!" Valka exclaimed.

Hiccup looked to the floor and shuffled his feet in the dirt.

Valka was going to say something else but noticed that Astrid was staring awkwardly at her and Hiccup wondering what to do.

"Look, we'll talk about this later. Just take Astrid home, I'll meet you at...well you know where," Valka said as she jumped onto Cloudjumper and took off.

There was an awkward silence after that neither Astrid nor Hiccup exactly knowing what to say or do.

"So..."

"yeah...So..." Hiccup replied.

He gestured for them to start walking back through the forest.

"So, do you wanna talk?" Astrid asked as they slowly walked along, side-by-side.

"Not really, I'm still a little shaky from my house…" Hiccup answered.

"oh, ok," Astrid answered, and for a while they walked in silence.

"You never told me about that scar of yours," Astrid finally said.

"Urgh, you're still on that!" Hiccup replied.

"Yes, I am. And you're not leaving until you tell me!" Astrid raised her voice.

Hiccup sighed. He kept thinking of different excuses he could tell her.

"Fine. Do you remember the first lesson with Gobber when he just let a Gronckle dragon loose on us?" Hiccup said, Astrid nodded in reply.

"Well, believe it or not, those dragons have really sharp claws," Hiccup said smiling half-heartedly.

"Ok then… what about your dragon?" Astrid interrupted the silence again.

"Toothless? Oh, he's a… Night Fury," Hiccup replied, saying the last part in a silent mumble hoping Astrid didn't hear. Keyword: Hoping.

"A Night Fury?!" Astrid exclaimed.

"Yeah.. I, umm… Shot him down about 5 years ago," he said.

"what? Really?" She asked looking surprised.

"Ah yeah I was working on one of my inventions and ...it accidentally went off and hit Toothless one night...when i found him I couldn't kill him," there was silence.

"Why not?"Astrid asked, if it had been anyone else on the island it they would of done it.

"He looked as frightened as I was...I looked at him..and I saw myself….he was small and afraid...he was just about the size of me back then, he was just a kid like me, I just couldn't do it," It made sense to Astrid as she and Hiccup walked through the forest.

After some time the silence was too much and the thought of them kissing made them both blush.

"So...um...we kissed," Hiccup stuttered out.

"Yeah… and…" Astrid replied unsure of what to say.

"Yeah…and." Hiccup mocked back.

"What was that for?"

"Shouldnt we at least talk about it?" Hiccup replied back quietly.

"There is nothing to talk about… Did you… umm… did you like it?" Astrid asked, her cheeks turning pink, then didn't reply for a long time until he finally answered;

"Yes."

Astrid let out a gasp of air she held in, and smiled at him. They quickly looked away again.

"So… yeah, there's my house," Astrid said finally.

They stopped in front of the door, and before Astrid opened it she leant forward for one last kiss.

Hiccup was taken by surprise, and before he could return the kiss she pulled away again, smiling and blushing, then disappearing inside her house.

Hiccup sighed and walked back to the trap door in the forest where his mother had told him she was.

Jumping down, Hiccup felt unsure of the eerie silence.

"Mom?" He called, but there was no reply.

He walked around the various tunnels and rooms, finding no trace of her or Cloudjumper.

Until he entered the arena, and found her. He gasped at what he saw, and turned a ghostly pale.

Drago was standing behind a kneeling and gagged Valka, a knife against her throat and tears on her face.

"MOM!"

"Not any closer boy or else," to make sure Hiccup got the idea he cut along Valka's cheek and blood trickled out.

Hiccup stood still and silent staring at his mom who was begging with her eyes to do what he says.

"Listen boy, you're the best blacksmith, dragon rider and trainer….so you're going to join me"

"Wait what?"

Hiccup had no idea what Drago was going on about but he did not want to join him not one bit.

"You join me or else I'll kill her," at this point Valka had started struggling and managed to remove the gag.

"Don't do it sweetie I would gladly die for you and Berk now please run and tell Gob-" she was cut of as drago started hitting her the hilt of his sword making her fall to the ground in agony.

Hiccup started mortified for his mother life before running up to hold Drago's hand before he landed the final blow.

"Please! Please don't I'll do anything you want!"

"Good." Drago dropped Valka to the ground and got out a small sack before quickly putting it over Hiccup's head and chaining his hands and dragging him kicking and screaming over to a Deadly Nadder.

"Hiccup!" Valka stood up trying to make it to her son but Drago took off.

"No," she whispered as she collapsed to the ground crying in a pool of her own blood.

After that night Valka had to come up with a story of how their son was missing, but a few days after she couldn't bear to see Stoick so sad and told him the truth of what happened to their son, the cult, Drago, everything, he was angry at first but then Berk became a sanctuary for dragons. The cult was destroyed, allowing the 13 remaining members to leave and do as they please as long as they told no one outside of berk about the cult or the training of dragons. And for the time Stoick and Valka never stopped looking for their son and her son the same.