Chapter 4

Hiccup was pretty unguarded so it was easy for them to sneak in through the roof with the help of Toothless. Once Toothless had burned a whole through the roof, Astrid was the first to drop down into the room. She looked around for any signs of British naval officers before gesturing to the others, who began to drop down into the room.

"Hiccup," Astrid whispered searching the room. Tables were overturned and chairs had been flung everywhere. It looked as if there had been a major struggle which made Astrid more nervous, "Hiccup, where are you?"

"Astrid," someone whispered from a corner.

"Hiccup," she said, "Where are you?"

"In the corner, by the door," he muttered. Astrid jumped over a few tables toward the front door and she saw him and gasped.

"Oh my god," she said as she fell to her knees next to him, "Are you alright?"

"I'll be fine," he said, "Lets get out of here!" Astrid took her axe and started banging on the chains above Hiccup's head as the others started to gather around. Astrid finally broke apart the chains and helped Hiccup to his feet and he winced.

"Is your leg okay," Astrid said as she tried to steady him.

"Not really," he said as he limped toward Toothless. "Doesn't matter. We need to get going." Hiccup reached down and pulled Astrid up behind him. "Do you know if my father's okay?" Astrid squeezed him tight.

"Gobber told us that he's alive," Astrid answered, "But it doesn't look good." Astrid felt his muscles tighten. "I'm sure he'll be fine."

"Lets just focus on getting the British soldiers out of here," Hiccup said. Astrid grabbed his arm before he kicked off.

"Wait Hiccup," she said, "We don't have a plan. We need to think about this. And you need to rest. Gobber should look at your leg too because I think its bleeding." Hiccup looked down to see that she was right.

"Fine," he said and turned to the others, "Lets sneak back to my house. We'll come up with a plan and try it tomorrow." The others nodded as they climbed up on the other dragons and flew out through the ceiling and toward the top hut. The dragons touched down behind the hut and out of sight of the navy. The others climbed off quickly and were greeted by Gobber, who rushed them inside. Astrid jumped off Toothless and helped Hiccup down.

"Can you walk," she asked. Hiccup put his prosthetic leg down on the ground and winced.

"No," he answered. Astrid took his arm and put it around her shoulders and helped him to the house.

"Gobber," Astrid said as they entered the house, "Hiccup's leg is hurt." Gobber took Hiccup from her and helped him upstairs. Astrid sat down with the others around the fire to wait.

"So," Tuffnut said, "we gonna make a plan here?"

"What're we supposed to do," Ruffnut said punching her twin brother in the arm, "The navy has us outnumbered like 5 to 1. We're all gonna die if we try to fight." Astrid saw Toothless outside the window staring up toward Hiccup's room and smiled. She got up and opened the back door to let him in.

"Especially since half the village is on all those ships back to wherever the hell they were sending us," Snotlout said, "I don't see how we're supposed to get them to leave." Toothless came into the living room and curled up by the fire. Astrid scratched him affectionately behind the ears.

"I don't see how we can possibly beat them or get them to give up the land," Fishlegs, "Stoic already tried to negotiate and it got him shot at."

"We could ask for reinforcements from the surrounding villages," Ruffnut said, "I know there have to be more Viking villages somewhere."

"Or we could send for the evacuees to come back," Tuffnut said, "Or both…?"

"How would we do that," Fishlegs said, "We don't know where or even if there are other villages to contact. We couldn't get the boats back here in time to do anything anyway." Astrid eyes suddenly widened and she stood up.

"What about dragons," she said and everyone stared at her.

"We don't have that many dragons in the village," Snotlout said, "We'd still lose because that only doubles our size…if there are really that many dragons here still."

"Toothless and the others can find them," Astrid said and Toothless lifted his head to look at her, "When Hiccup and I discovered the nest Toothless is the one who lead us there. He found the other dragons, so maybe they all can find them again." Astrid then turned to Toothless, "Do you think you can do it buddy," she whispered and pet him between the eyes, "Can you find all those dragons and bring them back here to help us?" Toothless smiled and nodded. "Okay," Astrid said, "Take the others with you. Once you find them, come straight back to warn us and let the others lead them back to the village." Toothless nodded again, licked her cheek before bounding back out the window.

"So what do we do when the dragons get here," Snotlout asked.

"We fight," Astrid said. Gobber came hobbling down the stairs a few moments later and Astrid jumped up. "Is Hiccup's leg alright? Can I go see him," she asked and Gobber laughed.

"Go on up," he said, "We got a plan yet?" Astrid ran up the stairs as she heard the others start to explain the dragon plan.

"Hey," she said as she approached the top of the stairs and Hiccup smiled at her. "Your leg feeling better?"

"Yeah," he said as he swung his legs back over the bed. Astrid saw a bandage around his left leg.

"What happened to it," Astrid said as she sat down next to him.

"Gobber said the prosthetic part had started to disconnect from the rest of my leg." Astrid gasped, "Its fine now," he said and smiled. She smiled back at him and after a few moments of silence, he leaned in and kissed her. When they broke apart he smiled again. "I missed you."

"I missed you more," she said and giggled as she kissed him again. He pulled her closer and rolled backwards and she giggled again through kisses.