Hey guys, I'm not dead! I'm really sorry about not uploading for so long, I had a lot of school work to do, and stuff. I will try to keep putting out chapters a often as I can, so uh, here's chapter four!

About three days later, Hiccup's transformation was complete, and thankfully, he was not in pain anymore. He was now a dragon, he was jet black, with large wing, a long tail with fins on the end. Strangely, it looked exactly like a dragon he created in the first grade, called the Night Fury. He also had a strange craving for raw fish, and for some reason he loved when Astrid scratched and pet him like a dog.

One other strange thing about his transformation was that his voice was the last thing to change, so when they got up that morning and had no idea how to communicate.

Astrid woke up wrapped in a blanket leaning up against Hiccup's large scaly neck. She rubbed her eyes , yawned then patted Hiccup's head before changing into her everyday clothing and leaving the cave to catch a few fish for his breakfast.

Hiccup woke up moments later all alone, and because of the events of the past few days, he didn't really like to be alone. He stood up and looked around the room for his best friend, but when he didn't see her he decided to call her.

"Astrid!?" he roared, then took a step back and his eyes widened. Hiccup began to breath heavily. Beginning to panic he burst out of the cave roaring and whining his head off.

Astrid jumped up from her spot at the edge of the lac, and stretched her arms out towards his muzzle. "Hey bud." she whispered "Whoa, whoa Hickory, calm down, just take deep breaths." Astrid placed her hands on his nose, and he pressed his nose against her belly.

Hiccup collapsed on the ground at her feet, she crouched down next to him and gently scratched just under his chin. He cooed and nuzzled up against her belly, his breathing had pretty well gone back to normal after a few moments.

"Do you feel any better?" Astrid muttered and continued to scratch his head. "We both knew your voice would change Hiccup, I know your scared, but you need to stay calm."

Hiccup yawned, then set his head in her lap as she continued to fish for his breakfast, but fishing was difficult without a fishing rod and just trying to stab them with a large pointed stick.

"Hey Hiccup?" Astrid said. "I'm gonna go to my place and get my dad's fishing rod, and I'll get you more breakfast then, okay?"

She then fed him the tree small trout that she already caught, then headed to the Hofferson household to take the fishing rod.

It took her a half hour to get back home, and began to sneak into the back door, but froze when she heard voices. Astrid looked into an open window next to the door and saw her sister and her boyfriend standing in their kitchen.

"Toby?" Storm whispered. "Where do you think they went?"

Toby sighed and kissed her cheek. "I don't know."

"What do you think happened to them? What if their hurt? What if their de-" She was cut off when Toby placed his hand over her mouth.

"No Storm, don't say that, my dad has his best men looking for them."

"But Toby, remember what they heard this morning? There's some sort of monster out there!"

When Astrid heard that her eyes widened, they had heard Hiccup? This was bad, this was very very bad.

"Don't worry Storm, they're all armed, if they find that monster, it's dead. Everyone will be safe, I promise."

Astrid gasped quietly, then quickly and quietly ran into the garage, grabbed the fishing rod and hurried back into the forest.

"Hiccup!" Astrid shouted as she ran into the cove. He looked up from his spot on the shore of the lac, where he was trying to catch his breakfast. "We need to leave, now."

Hiccup cooed and tilted his head, confused, and not completely understanding what she meant. Astrid ran into their cave and packed all of their stuff into her backpack, then wrapped a blanket and rope to his neck.

Hiccup cooed nervously and nudged her side. "Don't worry Hiccup, just trust me." She whispered and scratched his nose.

Once everything was strapped to his back and the make-shift saddle was on his back Astrid decided that it was high time to tell the confused dragon her plan.

Astrid took a deep breath before speaking "Hickory, we are going to run away, or should I say, fly away."

Hiccup's eyes widened, began shacking his head and bolted towards the cave.

"Hickory, what are you doing, we have to go! It's dangerous here! Hiccup, please come out!" Astrid called him and ran after the frightened dragon.

She found him pressed tightly against the back of the cave, and covering his eyes with his front paws. He was shacking and whining as well, but as soon as he felt Astrid's hand press gently against his neck, Hiccup calmed down and pulled away from the wall. Hickory trusted Astrid more then anyone, and he knew she would never put him in danger.

"Your scared of highs, aren't you? I completely forgot, but, Hiccup, we've got to go, it's dangerous here, your dad sent out search parties, they heard you this morning! They're all armed!" Astrid whispered. "Please Hiccup, It's not safe."

Hiccup sighed loudly, but nodded.

"Thank you for trusting me." She said and scratched his nose.

Astrid hopped on to his back and he prepared to take off, but Hiccup looked back a Astrid again, he was still scared.

"Don't worry big guy," she whispered "I'm right here."

Hickory spread his wings, then slowly took off, not flying too quickly and not too far above the ground, he was also extremely tense. Astrid patted his neck, and he relaxed a bit.

They flew low over the forest for a while, Hiccup slowly picked up speed and flew higher after he had relaxed.

But when they could see the beach on the south end of the island, they heard screams.

"MONSTER!"

Astrid gasped and held the rope around his neck tighter. "Hiccup," she mumbled "Fly higher and faster, now."

Only about moment after she had spoken they heard gunfire, Hiccup jumped and flew as fast as he could away from Berk. They flew for a long time in this panicked stat, they just kept flying further and further from Berk.

When the pair finally stopped they were in the middle of the ocean, there was no land as far as the eye could see.

"Hiccup." Astrid whispered. "We're lost."