Chapter four Getting word

Astrid paced the floor of the clubhouse. It had felt like weeks since Hiccup had left but it was only a day since he had left the edge. Astrid stopped and starred out over the ocean as if expecting to see him there, alas it wasn't so. She had a bad feeling, a feeling of dreed as if Hiccup had done something he would have never done before.

"Astrid?" A voice asked softly. Astrid turned around to see Ruffnut. "How are you doing?" She asked as she took up a place to Astrid's right.

Astrid looked back out to sea. "I- miss him. I'm scared for him." Ruffnut nodded. "Its defiantly not the Edge without Hiccup and Toothless, Stoick seemed very upset when he left."

"If my son were to turn agents everything he loved then I would be upset to." Astrid said in a serious tone. Ruffnut sighed nodding once more. "Look Astrid, they have Hiccup and we can't afford to lose any more riders, we look to you for orders. Tuff and I will follow them without hesitation."

"I may be leader but I can not replace Hiccup, I will not be able to live up to his leadership, I am an underling compared to Hiccup. He is a master strategist and can tame some of the feistiest dragons. To lose him is to lose a warrior in battle. He may not think about it Ruff, but he is a splitting image of his father and I can't help but feel broken without him to be here leading us." Astrid replied as she whipped away tears. Ruffnut frowned sadly. "I know what you mean Astrid, but there's nothing that we can do for him right now, not until the antidote blooms in a week's time."

Just then a terror landed on Ruffnut's head. It had a paper on it's leg. Astrid took the parchment off of the terror's leg.

Astrid read it over and looked horrified. "Clubhouse, meeting, NOW!" Ruffnut nodded and ran off to gather the other riders.

Once all the riders had arrived Astrid cleared her throat.

"It's from Heather, and it's not good news." Astrid stated.

"Get on with it, what does it say?" Snoutlout said inpasontly.

Astrid read it aloud:

Dear Astrid

I'm sorry that I couldn't deliver this letter in person but with Hiccup knowing my secret he is blackmailing me, if I leave he'll rat me out to Dagur and Ryker, but that's not the worst part of it. Ryker has been allowing Hiccup to run wild, he is able to defeat Dagur and I without braking a sweat, he has secssussfully trained the Skrill for my brother to ride! But worst of all he beheaded one of Ryker's men right in front of me! They also shot Toothless with the same arrow they shot Hiccup with. They have only used it on dragons Hiccup is the first human to be given the liquid. If he excepts this life not even the antidote will cure him. I'll update you as I get more information.

-Heather

Astrid looked up at the riders. Fishlegs looked apsalutly horrified, Snoutlout looked nervous and the twins were mixed between being amazed and shocked and she herself was scared.

"Hiccup, k-killed someone?!" Fishlegs asked.

"I guess so, but r-remember Fishlegs…that isn't Hiccup, it's the Black crystal making him act like that." Astrid said.

"But if he accepts it then it will be him." Snoutlout said standing up straight. "So, what's the plan?"

Astrid looked at each rider in turn. "Finish the armor, get the antidote, and save Hiccup. Nobody leaves the island, not without a group, and you will tell me where and why you're going. WE should also preper the edge in case Ryker or Dagur decide to attack, however knowing Hiccup he wouldn't dare try to attack us this early into joining them, he might want some sort of clarity before following through. Fishlegs and Meatlug will make gronkle iron, Snoutlout will shape it Hiccup's taught us all how to make armor, Ruffnut Tuffnut you'll fortify the edge, just like last time. I will try and get inside Hiccup's mind and see what he would be thinking."

"Understood." All the riders said before leaving.

Astrid sighed before walking towards Hiccup's hut. He had taken the Dragon eye with him before he left which raised concern to the riders. Astrid stopped in front of Hiccup's hut, opened the door and headed inside. She walked upstairs and over to his desk. She ran her hand over the drawings of inventions and of Toothless. It felt wrong to be here, to stand where he could no longer be.

She sat down at his desk and pulled out her own notebook and charcoal pencil that she had brought in her sutural. She stopped and closed her eyes. She visualised Hiccup with his black and green eyes holding a sword in his hand one of Ryker's men standing before him. She forced herself to watch as he swung the sword downwards severing the man's head from his body which fell to the ground heavy. Astrid put her hands over her mouth to keep herself from screaming bloody murder. Tears filled her eyes as she watched him make a sick and twisted smile. The smile of a killer.

Astrid's eyes flung open and she gasped for air as if she had forgotten how to breath. Her body trembled. She was afraid, was that really him in there? Or was the Hiccup she new gone forever?

Meanwhile

"Hiccup?" A man said.

Hiccup rolled his eyes and put down a drumstick and looked at the man who had called his name. "What do you want!" Hiccup growled narrowing his eyes as he reached for the hilt of his sword. He was inching for some entertainment while he ate. Sadly, this wouldn't come to pass as Dagur touched his hand.

"Don't." He whispered. Hiccup looked at the boy in shock, Dagur of all people, telling him no? What was this world coming to? "What is it?" Hiccup hissed.

"I-It's your N-Night F-Fury." The guard said. Hiccup emptily stilled his black leaving his eyes returning them to normal. "What about Toothless?"

"He's out of control!" The guard said. Hiccup jumped from his seat and raced past the guard. His legs burned but not anything like his wound on his arm. Hiccup stopped when he found destruction! Fires burned in place and blood spattered everywhere, not to mention burned corpses. Hiccup's eyes widened. "Oh gods what have I done? Why did I let them go anywhere near Toothless?" His eyes started to turn black once more but Hiccup forced it away. "Follow the path, find Toothless calm him down and try not to die in the prossece, great idea Hiccup."

Dagur and Heather joined him by his side. Heather looked away. Dagur just starred. "Did Toothless do this?"

Hiccup nodded grimly and looked at Dagur. Who noticed that he had normal eyes.

"So your you." Dagur said. Hiccup nodded. "Yeah and I advice you to not get involved, a pissed off Night Fury is not a friendly Night Fury."

"I'm going to agree with Hiccup their Brother." Heather said not looking at either of them. Dagur nodded. "Okay but don't die on me." He said jabbing his finger into Hiccup's chest. "I'm not planning on it." With that Hiccup ran off.

Hiccup slowed his pace. When he found who he was looking for. Toothless was cover in blood and wounds. "Hey bud, you're not looking to hot." Hiccup said in a soft voice. Toothless looked at Hiccup with harsh eyes but didn't move. Toothless cooed. Hiccup smiled softly. "I'm sorry bud, I didn't mean for this to happen, and I wish I could take it all back, we've both killed people and we didn't mean to do it, good people and dragons under the control of bad people do bad things."

Toothless slowly approached Hiccup and looked up at him with sad eyes. Hiccup ran his hand on Toothless' blood covered face. "Let's get you cleaned up." Hiccup said as he walked back towards the camp with Toothless in tow.

Above the edge

Astrid flew on Stormfly in the sky over the edge. She needed some time to clear her head, trying to think like Hiccup was hard enough but to think about how he was thinking now was imposable to do. All the sanarios to match up with how smart Hiccup is was very difficult to do, but she did know if they where to attack they would use Hiccup agents them, she didn't now how but they would use him. Stormfly dove suddenly shocking Astrid out of her thoughts. "Stormfly what are you doing!"

Stormfly skidded to a halt. To Astrid's shock she found a baby deadly natter who had a large gash on it's leg and torn wings. "You poor thing." Astrid said hopping off of Stormfly. The natter snarled at Astrid as threateningly as it could. Astrid opened her pouch and pulled out a bit of dragon nip and held it out to the baby and it relaxed and purred. Astrid put the dragon nip away and picked up the baby and got back on Stormfly. "She's alone, her mother or father would have protected her, how she got her is beyond me. Let's get her back to the edge."

Astrid landed Stormfly at Fishlegs house, and hoped off of Stormfly's back. Fishlegs looked up from his meditation and looked at the dragon in Astrid's arms before getting up to help. "What happened!" He asked as he looked at the small dragon.

"I'll tell you inside." Astrid said. Fishlegs nodded not waiting around to argue.

Astrid laid the sleeping dragon on the table. Fishlegs gathered different supplies. He looked at the natter with a frown. "Did you find her like this?" Fishlegs asked. Astrid nodded. "Yes and she was alone, if there was she wouldn't be in this concision. So the question is, how did she get her?" Astrid asked.

"She's old enough to fly, if I were to guess, she was attacked and flew with damaged wings, in my opinion I don't think she'll be able to fly ever again, not unless by some miracle that her wing could repair itself and if it's not broken beyond repair." Fishlegs said sadly. "So she was basically left for dead." Astrid said sadly looking at the natter. Fishlegs nodded grimly. "She won't last long out in the wild. She'll have to stay here and have extra care because she can't fly and catch food for herself."

"I'll look after Scarlet." Astrid said. "Scarlet?" Fishlegs asked.

"Her name, Scarlet." Astrid said looking at the red scaled natter. Fishlegs nodded. "Okay, I'll fix her up as best I can. I'll talk to you once I'm finished."

"Okay. Take care Scarlet." Astrid said before leaving.

Meanwhile

Hiccup used a rag as he washed the blood off of Toothless and around the wounds, Toothless whimpered every time the rag went over a sore spot. Hiccup aponagizing every time. Hiccup once the wounds where clean he put healing slave on the wounds before bandaging them with white gauze.

Hiccup stopped when he heard heavy footsteps stop behind him.

"I should kill your beast for killing my men, you now that don't you Hiccup." Ryker said holding his sword out towards them. Hiccup's eyes snapped to their black form. He laughed darkly. "I could kill you faster then you could even think about killing him. But you now better then that don't you Ryker, you now I could over power you, like Viggo you fear me. I remind you of him don't I?" He turned to look at Ryker with a devilish smile crossing his lips. Hiccup laughed psychotically. "And you know what? If I kill you I'd take over your entire fleet and I'd watch this pathetic little world burn, now we wouldn't want that now would we Ryky? Mumhahah. No, No we wouldn't. hehehaha. Now why did you come here?"

Ryker swung his sword out of anger but in the blink of an eye he found himself being chocked and have a sword stinking in his shoulder.

"Tisk, I thought you would head my warning Ryky oh well this is more fun any how. Now then, When I let go you'll tell me what I want to now if not, well hum ha-ha, we'll be here for a while." Hiccup said as he slowly removed his hand from Ryker's throat. "To tell you that you're lucky that you're nessacary and that you have a pass but the next time either of you kill my men out of turn their will be punishment."

Hiccup laughed again. "We do as we please, get in our way, and suffer the conaquncies."

Ryker winced as Hiccup yanked his sword out of his shoulder. He held it in his hand. With one last look Ryker stoked off. Hiccup smiled sourly. "You can come out now you two. I now you've watched this whole thing play out." Dagur and Heather hoped down from the trees they had hidden in. Hiccup looked at them.

"You, you-" Dagur was so existed that he couldn't even speak. Hiccup chuckled and flicked Dagur. "Stop fan-grilling Dagur, your better than that." Dagur couldn't stop smiling. Hiccup took a step back. "Okay now that's creepy."

"Um…excuse my brother, he's not used to having you like this, like him." Heather said. "Understandable, after all he is Deranged and I, well hahaha I'm more along the lines of psychotic." Hiccup said putting his hands on his hips.

Dagur hugged Hiccup tightly. "Agh! Release me or suffer, pick one." Hiccup growled as he gasped for air. Dagur realesed Hiccup. "You did something so gutsy I can't even-how did you move that fast!?" Dagur asked exitatly.

"Easy." Hiccup said flipping Dagur over with ease. He and Heather looked down at Dagur on the ground. "You my dear brother…are amazing." Dagur said.

Hiccup sighed and walked away. "Come one Toothless, time for dinner."

Toothless followed in behind Hiccup, leaving Heather alone with her brother.

"Dagur, what's with you and Hiccup? You know if you don't mind me asking." Heather asked.

"Three years I thought about him, three years in Alvin's dungeon. I became obsessed with him. Never did I dream that he could be just like me, and it's wonderful." Dagur said in reply.

Then Dagur ran after Hiccup. Heather stood there in silence. Finally, she shook her head at the thought. Dagur and Hiccup? A couple? Now that was a creepy thought.

A/N: Lol um, I didn't originally plan on that last part happening but it happened, I went there, now I'm going to curl up in a dark corner and question what little sanity I have. Thanks as always for reading, if you liked this chapter review.