Chapter 40: Questions Answered

"I think you can figure out the rest of the story." Hiccup said with Toothless and a tiny Night Fury snuggled up next to him. That's when Astrid came into the room, holding onto the bump that is her pregnant belly, with Blueberry and four tiny night fury's behind her.

"They wanted to hear the story huh?" Hiccup shrugged and smiled. "I think our son should be out helping with the crops don't you think, after all he has heard the story multiple times over already." Astrid said taking a seat next to Hiccup.

"Mom, I love this story." Little Steinar Haddock said.

"Come on Steinar, listen to your mother." Hiccup then shoved him off gently. "Besides the story is over." Steinar sighed. "Any questions?" Steinar was at the door when a question did come to mind. Astrid knew that Hiccup had asked that just to keep Steinar there but all she could do is shake her head.

"I have a question dad." Steinar said happily.

"Ok but let's let the others go first since this is the first time they have heard this story." Steinar sighed but at least this would allow him to stay longer.

"I have a question. What ever happened to Phobos?" A young boy in the group asked.

"You know, we aren't sure what happened to him, the guardians disappeared and never returned. That is something that I have wondered about myself." Hiccup answered and then called on the next child.

"Didn't Astrid have a dragon before Blueberry?" A young girl asked.

Hiccup was about to answer but Astrid cut him off. "I did have a dragon before Blueberry here. Her name was Stormfly and uh, she died a long time ago. She had gone off by herself for a small flight. I watched as she flew around, stretching out her wings. Soon I had to get back to helping out in the village and so I turned to leave when I heard a screech. I turned around and saw Stormfly fighting back against some Vikings. She destroyed the boat and killed the Vikings. She flew back to the island but ran out of energy and fell. She hit the side of the cliff and tumbled down to the water. When we finally reached her, she was dead. That's why our dragons aren't allowed to just leave without someone anymore except to lay their eggs." Astrid pet Blueberry on the head and smiled.

The room went silent for a small while and there was a knock on the door. Hiccup yelled for the person to come in and in walked five girls. "Will, everyone. You here, what's going on?"

"Hi Hiccup, we decided to come by and pay you a visit and see how our two favorite Vikings are." Will said, arms crossed, a smile across her face.

"We're just fine, we have a son and our dragons have a family of their own as well. Now what happened to you five, you disappeared and never came back; what happened to Phobos?" Hiccup asked curiously.

"Phobos is dead; we ended up on the island that Astrid was on. He had been seriously injured and we offered to take him back to Meridian and get him fixed up but he refused. He tried to fight us but he was too weak. We simply kept dodging everything he threw at us. We talked as he attacked us and we found out some very interesting information from him. He had talked to Brynhild and asked her to get rid of Astrid and then he would be able to take out Hiccup easily enough, once he had recovered. She refused to let him hurt Hiccup but agreed to get rid of Astrid and then Brynhild would help take us out." Cornelia explained.

"Phobos hadn't counted on us tracking him down. How he died wasn't because of anything we did but because of that information. A Viking on the island wasn't happy with what Phobos had said and stuck an axe in his back. We returned but it looked as if everything fell into place for you and we needed to get back to our families. I know five years was a long time but we finally came for a visit." Irma smirked putting her arms around Will and Hay Lyn.

"It doesn't matter and hey, Hay Lyn got a new arm." Astrid pointed out.

"Yep, I've had it for three years now." Hay Lyn smiled slightly. "So anyway, we came to say hi and see how things are going for you."

"Great, things are great." Astrid and Hiccup spent the next three hours catching up. After catching up, the guardians left.

The next day the Viking children came by the house and wanted to hear the story again and Hiccup gladly told the story and everyone listened carefully except for poor Steinar who had to go help out in the village. More questions were asked and answered afterward.

A/N: I know this is a short ending but I hope you enjoyed it anyway. Thanks for reading and for the reviews.