Heeeellloooooo everyone. So, if any of my readers here are diehard Hiccstrid fans, you're going to like this one. If you aren't, well like I said last chapter, maybe it'll be a cure of boredom for you. As for an overview of the story itself, I warn you now that it may be weird, a strange plot or idea, but I came across this inspiration a long time ago after watching the HTTYD 2 Teaser trailer. This also means that it's set after the teaser, meaning in the world of the actual HTTYD 2 Trailer, where we've witnessed each of the characters and seen the movie posters of the characters. Alas, it may be short and slightly weird you out, but I gotta hope it's good enough for some. Cheerio, and enjoy.

Disclaimer: Nope. Don't own it. Have a nice day.

The Wingspan of an Idiot

She hated him for it. She hated that he was so blunt to the dangers in the world, and he simply stuck his head out and let someone fire weapons at him. She hated his recklessness, even though it was foolish to call him reckless, seeing as how she was just as reckless. She hated his viking demeanor, that stubborn good for nothing personality he had gained from his father. It was for these reasons, and even more, that caused her to blatantly refuse Hiccup's request to come down to the docks for a thrilling surprise along with the rest of the teen riders. Hiccup made a pouting face.

"Why won't you come see? It's a good clean Hiccup surprise," Astrid made a sour face.

"Don't you remember last time you tried to show me a 'good clean Hiccup surprise'? That time when you, oh you know, dumped me off a cliff."

"That wasn't my fault you overreacted! I was trying to demonstrate something to you." Hiccup said, slightly annoyed.

"Uh-huh, and does this surprise include a demonstration of falling off of something?" Astrid glared at Hiccup. He made an extremely guilty face and spoke again, with a slight grin on his face.

"So what if it does involve me demonstrating falling off of something? I'll be perfectly safe."

"We weren't exactly perfectly safe last time." Astrid pursed her lips.

"No, but that was your fault." Hiccup said, grinning even wider.

"I'm sorry but I'm afraid I won't be attending this falling demonstration today, with your large audience full of murderous and half insane dragon riders." Astrid shrugged her shoulder and turned on her heel. Making a point of walking away from Hiccup.

"I'm pretty sure you count as a half insane, murderous dragon rider, but okay. You're really missing out." He also shrugged and vacated her front doorstep, slightly jogging down the path and grabbing his dragon's attention, of whom bounded after him. Astrid stopped where she was. The way he had said that. That she was really going to miss out. It was definitely a trap for her to feel guilty, but also his tone behind that voice. It was as if he was proud, and excited for something to show. Like a great accomplishment, or contraption he had conjured up. Probably extremely dangerous too. Astrid breathed heavily and made up her mind on the spot. She stomped out the door, following the invisible trail Hiccup had left behind him.

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By the time Astrid reached the docks, all the other teens had arrived with their respectable dragons and milled around, waiting for a sign of the surprise Hiccup had proclaimed of. Fishlegs, with a stubbly beard and his colorful gronkle, Snotlout with a sly grin as he leaned against his Monstrous Nightmare's side, the Twins, both clapping their hands and looking excited as Hiccup stood on one of the docks, messing with a notorious contraption attached to his leather armor. Hiccup glanced up and grinned as he saw Astrid approach. The others looked at him, and then her, trying to decide who was going to make the first hostile move. Neither did.

After a few seconds of staring, Hiccup clapped his hands together once and shook everyone out of their sudden silence.

"Okay, so, now that the gang's all here, we can begin. So, after days of planning and scrapping blueprints, I finally have a finished product of wonder for you all to see." With a flourish, he brought out from behind his back a small metal thing. 'Thing' was the only way to describe the craft Hiccup had made. It was round, shaped like a sphere with wooden interlaces protruding in and out, weaving across the entire sphere. There were dents all around it, as if something had shot a projectile at it repeatedly. Everyone stared.

"So.. um w-what is it?" said Fishlegs nervously. Hiccup made a sly grin and mounted Toothless, tossing his helmet onto his head.

"Mount up and follow me." he said short and quickly. Every single one of the teens glanced at eachother doubtfully, saying their own silent prayers, and then took off, one by one after Hiccup who made his way straight into the sky above the docks. Astrid hesitated after them, glaring into the clouds that Hiccup had just disappeared into. I'm going to question Toothless later on whether he planned this or Hiccup did. Whatever it is, I don't like it. Patting Stormfly's neck, they took off, following the rest of the colorful parade into the clouds.

Upon reaching what Hiccup deemed a reasonable altitude, he slowed and drifted across the sky at a lazy pace, just as the other riders fell into stride next to him. Astrid looked disdainfully at Hiccup, awaiting his plummet to the surface of the ocean. She knew he was going to fall at some point. The twins looked cheerful and ready to find out what lay in store for them. Snotlout was, strangely, silent, just staring at the ball in Hiccup's hand as if his life depended on it. Fishlegs puttered behind the rest shaking his head woefully as if he knew what was to come. Astrid had a sneaking suspicion he did. Before anyone could say something, Hiccup swung around on Toothless, pushing forward the lever that enabled the dragon's tail to stiffen and allow Toothless to fly freely without Hiccup.

"Alright, here's the plan, you will all follow Toothless wherever he goes and do everything I say.

"Why follow Toothless, not you?" piped up Snotlout. Hiccup made a mischievous smile and continued talking, ignoring his question.

"Now I don't want any of you to panic, at any time. It's all normal, and it's all okay." Astrid snorted nearby.

"But… what is going to happen?" asked a curious Ruffnut from her Zippleback's head. Ignoring this question as well, Hiccup kept speaking.

"Now, everyone, stay calm and follow Toothless exactly where he goes." Hiccup repeated.

"This is gonna be awesome." said Tuffnut with a chuckle. Hiccup swiveled back around in his saddle. Shaking his head and covering one ear with his hand, he shook the metal contraption in his palm. At once, everyone cringed at the noise it made. It sounded like a thousand dragon calls made at once, at a deafening volume. Almost instantly, chaos arose. The noise from the ball ceased, but hundreds more of the same call resounded around them, all authentic. Gazing around themselves, each rider looked up expecting to see something. Just as Snotlout opened his mouth to ask what just happened, a mass of Monstrous Nightmares cascaded from above them, all lit in flame except for one, which happened to have Snotlout on its back. Yelling in terror, Snotlout gripped his arms around Hookfang's neck and held on for dear life as the Nightmare dodged to avoid the sudden mob of fellow kin. Toothless took his time, watching the hostile dragons until recognizing the right moment, and shot off, with the rest of the riders in tow. The Nightmares also followed, roaring like thunder and attempting to spit flame at the terrified Fishlegs who flanked the rest of the teens.

"Great Odin, this is it!" he yelled, over the tumult of roaring. Astrid fell back, waiting for the moment when she and her dragon would have to push Fishlegs in the air in order to make them fly faster than the approaching dragons. Astrid was slightly terrified, and felt an invisible force of anger swell up inside her. Confused at why Hiccup had suddenly put them in a serious situation with loads of hostile dragons suddenly on their tails, she felt her anger boil, remember the day he shoved her off of that cliff. The twins were reacting quite the opposite to Astrid, jeering and laughing, pleased at the exhilaration they were experiencing. Astride would've snapped at them to shut up, but she was afraid to open her mouth for fear of crying out.

As if finally noticing his friens were in spectacular danger and awaiting his demonstration, Hiccup made a roaring yell, causing all eyes turn on him, as Toothless sped upwards once more at a breakneck speed. Everyone followed, gaining altitude every second. Once more, Hiccup yelled, but this time it was an amusing one. A laughing whoop. He positioned himself on the smooth saddle, and rubbed the head of his dragon. Instantaneously, the Night Fury leveled itself in the air, and Hiccup lept off Toothless' back, falling head first towards the ocean below.

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This time, Astrid cried out. She couldn't take it. Slowly her mind was putting together the pieces, one by one, even as fear flared through her veins like fire. Scaring us, surprise, plan, falling, purposely, must know what he's doing, must pay attention, must-

"Follow Hiccup!" came a yell somewhere above the blonde. Astrid connected the few pieces of information she had, and responded with a sharp dive towards the miniscule figure plummeting below. Each rider had faces of horror, staring after Hiccup, but dived just as Astrid did. As Hiccup had dived also, taking the metal contraption with him, the Nightmares had all followed en suite, trailing behind him like a great waterfall of red-hot lava. Every single dragon and rider watched the next events unfold like a horrifying dream full of spectacular events that jarred them to the bones.

Hiccup soared, head down towards the oncoming water, counting down in his head to his set mark. Six.. five… four… three… two… one… now! As he said it in his mind, he pulled the waiting leather cord connected to his boot, and immediately his wingsuit awakened into life, spreading the leathery wings out under his arms as his body was jerked upwards, flying right alongside the angry Monstrous Nightmares. He whooped loudly, just as he had done so the first time, and swung left veering into the Nightmares beside him. Grinning from ear to ear behind his helmet, he pictured all of his friends' reactions. Astrid, probably going to kill me, Snotlout, just staring, the Twins, freaking out, and Fishlegs… fainting. Probably. Laughing out loud, he twisted downwards, where just as he planned, the great rocks of Berk jutted out signifying his landing point. There was a grassy field, swaying in the slight wind from the sea. The field sat just higher than the docks that he soared straight towards, slowly closing his arms so that he landed perfectly in stride with the Monstrous Nightmares who had just ceremoniously lifted upward and soared out of sight above the island, disappearing into the clouds. A good show, thought Hiccup.

The four other dragons landed beside Hiccup, and their riders leapt from their mounts immediately. Fishlegs and the twins reached him first, wild faces but completely overwhelmed at what they had just seen. Jumping up and down and reenacting Hiccup's performance in snippets to eachother, they couldn't contain their excitement. Snotlout pushed them aside, and strode right up to Hiccup.

"Dude, that was AWESOME!" he pumped his fist in the air and then joined in with Fishlegs and the Twins. Everyone went silent however, as they realized Astrid was missing from their smiling and amazed group.

Astrid stood, fuming, a few feet away. She stared her ice cold blue eyes into Hiccup's innocent green ones as they widened into terror. The twins snickered as Astrid took slow, deliberate steps towards the young man. Hiccup, inching backwards, met the side of the meadow cliff and was forced to stop, as the raging blonde approached even closer. When she was inches away from his helmet covered face, she stopped. Hiccup, thinking she meant no harm, relaxed his shoulders, just barely. But it was enough for Astrid to take as surrender for Hiccup had read her face very wrong. Ripping the helmet off of his head, she threw it out into the ocean below them, and gripped a latch in his leather armor, pulling him sideways and onto the ground. Pinning his chest under her knee, and placing her other foot onto his free arm, she pulled her arm up menacingly, curved and ready to strike with her tightened fist. Hiccup only stared wide-eyed, praying to the gods he wouldn't die by his girlfriend's fist. The audience around them held their breath, even the dragons, sensing either danger or injury was ahead, stared at the pair. With one, swift movement, the blonde viking struck Hiccup hard across the face. One of her fingernails had pierced his temple and left a bleeding scratch. Releasing her grip on Hiccup, she stood and stepped backwards, turning her back on Hiccup. The teen raised his head, and propped himself up on his elbows, preparing to lift himself up, when once again she grabbed him faster than he could register.

"Wha-!?" he started to say, but was cut off because of her swift action, pulling him onto his feet and kissing him, full on the mouth. The kiss was cut short, however, for she shoved him back and he went tumbling off the edge of the cliff, into the laughing waters of the freezing cold sea.

Everyone simply stared in awe. Astrid changed her features immediately, resembling that of a peaceful ocean gazer that just noticed she had an audience gazing with wide eyes at her. She smiled ruefully.

"Aren't you going to go fetch him from the sea?"

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So! That's that. Did you like it, dislike it? Was the plot or story idea strange? Did it freak you out at all or did you find that the characters were a bit too OOC? I know one of my reviewers said on an older story, Cliffs, that Astrid was way too rough on Hiccup. But I figured she ought to be when he pulls stupid stunts like these, not those nice kind hearted ones we see on Defenders of Berk that cause her to kiss him, hug him, etc. This is also set 5 years after the movie/show, so don't forget that. Well I hope any Hiccstrid fans out there are okay with this, and think I did a pretty good chalk up job. Please, leave a review with your thoughts, I want to know what I can do to improve!

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