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This chapter is mainly going to be of what the rest of the gang are doing. Next chapter, I'll start adding my PERSONAL twist, if you know what I mean. *cackles and rubs hands together* Now, ONTO THE STORY!

"Hiccup, land there." Astrid pointed down, at a clearing next to a stream. We can follow that river to find Stormfly! She's probably on her way back to the Edge right now.

"Um.. Astrid?" Hiccup asked in an inquisitive tone.

"What?" She snapped, and realized it came out harsher than she meant for it to.

"Uh-um, where exactly is 'there?' I can't exactly see where you're pointing…"

Astrid froze, eyes wide. Did I seriously forget he's blind? She covered her mouth and gasped. "Oh gods, Hiccup- I'm so sorry! Honestly, I completely forgot you're blind."

She peered over his shoulder and caught him rolling his eyes. "I wish I could do the same thing." He muttered. Astrid winced at his tone.

"Sorry." She said again, lamely.

He waved his hand dismissively. "It's fine, don't worry about it. Can you describe where 'there' is?"

"To the left and down about fifty feet." He nodded curtly and changed the position of Toothless' tailfin. The black dragon swerved and dove swiftly, landing softly in the clearing. Astrid released her hold on Hiccup and hopped off of the saddle and onto the ground, dusting herself off. She cupped her hands over her mouth. "Stormfly?" She yelled. "Stormfly, come here girl!" She walked forwards and looked around for her dragon.

Astrid heard Hiccup jump off of Toothless behind her. "What makes you so sure Stormfly is going to be here?" he asked. "Thor, where is here?"

"We're in a clearing near the Edge. It's got a river and a cliff." She answered him, still looking around for her dragon.

"Oh, that clearing. You know, I'd think that if the dragons were scared by that bolt of lightning.." Hiccup paused and shivered, closing his eyes for a second. Astrid knew what he was about to say: that bolt of lighting that blinded me. Astrid herself cringed at the memory. Being stopped by the bolt of lightning, running inside and finding Hiccup lying on the ground, covered in soot… motionless… Astrid was snapped out of her disturbing thoughts when Hiccup cleared his throat. "I think that as jittery as they were, they would have flown as far away from the storm as possible. I bet the other dragons are hiding somewhere in a cave right now."

"Not Stormfly. I know my dragon, she's more worried about me than she is about herself. That means she would be trying to find her way back to the Edge, upstream. That's why I asked you to stop here, so we could follow the river."

"Well, you know your dragon, I suppose." Hiccup shrugged. "The river is this way?" he started walking forwards with his arms held out.

Astrid glanced down and noticed that he was heading directly towards a rock. "Hiccup, look out!" How could he look out? He can't see. Astrid mentally facepalmed. Hiccup tripped over the rock, letting out a small shriek. She leapt forwards and caught his head with her hands, preparing to cushion his fall. They both yelled and landed with a thump. Astrid pushed herself up and looked down.

Her face turned bright red when she realized the position they were in. Hiccup was pinned beneath her with her hands on either side of his head. Oh gods. "Ah-uh-are you o-okay?" she managed to stutter out.

Hiccup's eyes widened as he seemed to realize what position they were in. "Uh, I'm f-fine!" his cheeks flushed pink as he blinked up at her, apparently attempting to make eye contact. "W-we should probably get going."

"Oh, yeah! Yeah, that's what I was going to-um.." Astrid climbed off of Hiccup and grabbed his hands, pulling him up. She smiled nervously at him and tried to get rid of the burning in her cheeks. Stupid, he can't even see if you're blushing or not. She gave up on trying to stop blushing, judging it as a lost cause.

Suddenly, Hiccup twitched and jerked his head to the side, narrowing his eyes. "Did you hear that?"

Astrid furrowed her eyebrows. "Hear what?"

Hiccup held up his hand and listened more. "I think something is stalking us.." Toothless noticed his rider's distress and leapt forward, growling.

Astrid closed her eyes and listened as well. That sounds familiar.. she heard a squawk. Astrid's eyes flew open and she grinned widely. "Hiccup, it's Stormfly!"

Stormfly came into view on a cliff above them, squawking joyfully. She fluttered her wings and looked down at them. "Oh! I knew that sound was familiar!" Hiccup said, who Astrid noticed was also smiling.

Stormfly flew down and nuzzled her rider. Astrid laughed joyfully and hugged her dragon's head. "I knew you'd come, girl!" Stormfly squawked and rubbed her head against Astrid's cheek. Suddenly, Stormfly looked up, pupils contracted into slits. "What's wrong, Stormfly? What is it girl?" Stormfly squawked and fluttered her wings threateningly.

Hiccup gasped and held out his arms. "Astrid, above you! The Triple Stryke-" he was cut off by a loud roar. Astrid glanced up and also gasped. The Triple Stryke was on a cliff high above her, waving its tail. It jumped and flipped off the cliff, landing in front of Astrid and Hiccup.

Astrid grabbed Hiccup's arm and pulled him away from the Triple Stryke. Toothless shot a plasma blast at the Triple Stryke's feet, while Stormfly roared angrily. The Triple Stryke flew up and hovered above the pair of dragons, roaring threateningly.

Astrid noticed Hiccup was standing in the middle of the clearing, looking around wildly. "Astrid..?" He yelled frantically.

"Hiccup! There's a pile of rocks about ten feet to your left. Hide behind it-"

"What? I'm not gonna hide! Toothless!" He ran in the direction of the battle.

Astrid facepalmed. "Of course he wasn't gonna hide! What was I thinking? He's Hiccup." Astrid raced after him, running towards her dragon.

Hiccup reached his dragon and held out his hands, trying to get on the dragon. Toothless spun in a circle, not allowing his rider to climb on. "Toothless, stay still bud! Don't you see I'm trying to-" Toothless picked Hiccup up with his mouth and bounded over to the rock pile Astrid described, dropping the boy there. "Toothless! Get back here, you useless reptile!" The dragon turned and stuck out his tongue, then turned back around and ran back to the Triple Stryke.

Hiccup groaned and got up, walking back towards his dragon. Astrid, who was on Stormfly, shrieked when she saw the Triple Stryke bearing down on him. Really, Hiccup? Stormfly flew over to him and picked him up, placing him back behind the rocks. "Hiccup, stay!" Astrid yelled.

She caught a glimpse of him rolling his eyes. "Astrid, let me help!"

"No way! Stay there, or I'll take your leg!" she directed Stormfly in the direction of the fight, but was knocked off by the incoming Triple Stryke. Astrid landed and groaned, rubbing her head. Stormfly landed behind her, squawking madly.

Hiccup stood and grinned smugly at her. "Admit it, you need my help! Toothless, come here bud."

Toothless growled at Hiccup and sat down resolutely, pointedly ignoring his rider. "He's not coming, he agrees that you need to stay put. You are not fighting in your condition." The dragons growled and turned to the Triple Stryke, who was waving his tail at them. "Besides, I can't fight this guy if all I'm doing is worrying about you!"

Hiccup groaned. "Ugh, fine! You don't want my help? Great. See how well you do without me!" he yelled sarcastically, then sat down against the rock hugging his knees.

Astrid nodded her head in satisfaction, then mounted Stormfly again. She directed her dragon to fly around the Triple Stryke. "Stormfly, spine shot!" Stormfly launched several spines at the Triple Stryke's feet, then flew a couple yards away. "Toothless, plasma blast!" Toothless bounded forward and shot a few plasma blasts at the Triple Stryke. The dragon wailed and cowered, turning to run back into the forest.

Astrid sighed and looked down at Hiccup, who was pulling at his hair angrily. She frowned and landed Stormfly, jumping off and onto the ground. "Okay, let's mount up and head back to the Edge before it comes back."

Hiccup stood and walked past Astrid, bumping into her shoulder angrily. "Yeah, okay. Fine. Let's go." He walked past Toothless and over to Stormfly, standing in front of her.

"Uh, Hiccup? That's Stormfly. Don't you need to fly Toothless?"

"Oh, yeah sure. I think he's made it pretty clear that he doesn't want me riding him!" He shot a glare at his dragon, who shrunk back and flattened his ears, warbling sadly.

Astrid sighed. "Hiccup, he was just protecting you. Obviously he knows that something is wrong with you, and didn't want you to get hurt."

"Yeah, right. Thank you for summing that up." He turned to face her, crossing his arms. "Obviously he knows that something is wrong with me, and thinks I'm incapable of fighting."

Astrid narrowed her eyes, also crossing her arms. "You know what I mean. Of course you're capable of fighting, you just have a slight… disadvantage right now."

He chucked wryly, then walked past Astrid. "I don't think I've ever heard someone describe being blind as a disadvantage before. Having a metal leg? That's a disadvantage."

Astrid grabbed his arm and stopped him, sighing sadly. "Hiccup, obviously I can't imagine what you're going through. You're Hiccup. You're our leader! You're smart and invincible."

He rolled his eyes and smirked, turning to face her. "Do I look invincible to you right now? Do I look like your usual capable, strong leader?" his sarcastic smirk turned into a sad frown. "What if this is it? What if the rest of my life is spent like this? I can't run the village or the Edge blind.."

"Then we'll deal with it. Just because you're blind doesn't mean you're helpless." Hiccup snorted, but didn't reply. "Hiccup, you and I have been through everything together. You don't think we can handle this?" She grabbed both of his hands and squeezed them reassuringly." Hiccup, you have me, no matter what. Okay, whatever that means, whatever you want it to mean. I am with you. There will always be a Hiccup and Astrid. Always." Gods, that was so cheesy. Since when did I get so sappy? She thought.

Hiccup blinked at her, smiling slightly. She thought for a second, then leant forwards to kiss him-for reassurance, nothing else. But before she could do it, Hiccup's head jerked to the side, eyes widened. "Did you hear that?"

Astrid froze and looked in the direction he was looking in. "Hear what? I don't hear anything."

He looked at the ground, eyes narrowed. "There it is again." He froze and widened his eyes. "Behind you!"

The Triple Stryke somersaulted and landed where they were standing less than a second ago. Astrid had grabbed Hiccup and thrown them both to the ground, sliding away from the dragon. "Alright, this guy has to go. Now!"

Stormfly and Toothless shot their fire at the dragon, who roared and flew up. It landed on a cliff, raising its tail. Astrid and Hiccup pushed themselves up, and looked in the direction of the black and yellow dragon. Or, Astrid did. Hiccup just turned his head. Shut up, Astrid. She facepalmed mentally. "Toothless, distress signal!" she yelled.

Toothless looked up and let loose a plasma blast in the sky, making a large boom.

The man looked up when he heard a loud boom. He saw a purple ring spread outwards through the sky. Night fury. He chucked to himself. Where the Night Fury is, the boy is too. He walked towards the blast, which was only a few hundred feet from where he was.

Does that count as a cliffhanger? I'm not really sure. NEXT CHAPTER, there will be a MAJOR cliffhanger. Just a warning! *grins evilly* UNTIL THEN!