Ch. 2
Hiccup knew what was going to happen before it did. He opened his mouth to scream and try to jerk away from the big rock that stood before the two, but it was no use. Within seconds, toothless's body slammed into the rock. His dragon let out a cry before they started to fall.
The straps and rings that were made to connect to Hiccup's riding vest and the saddle unhitched, throwing him off of toothless. I need to get that fixed… he thought. Then he mentally facepalmed himself, he was falling into freezing waters, and all he's thinking about is fixing a saddle?
Toothless watched him fall, he flipped and turned, panicking, and letting out dragon like screams. He tried to grab Hiccup, but still had blurred vision from all the spinning. Toothless tried to move his prosthetic, with all the might he could muster, but already knew he had failed when the ocean waves washed over his head.
Astrid screamed. She ran down the ramp on the catapult, jumping off the last two steps, trying to get to the village as fast as she could. She was slowed down by her bearskin coat, as it had been meant to be worn by her father. Not caring what her dad's reactions would be, she took it off, throwing it into a nearby bush. She kept running…and running…and running. She finally made it up to Berk, heading straight for the Great Hall.
"Chief! Chief! Mr. Haddock! Stoick!" Astrid barged through the doors, not caring what was going on inside. All the conversations stopped, and everyone turned to look at her. She stuttered a bit, now being in the center of everyone's attention. But she held her head up high and ran to the Chief. "What in Odin's beard Astrid? What's goin' on?" he looked down at her with half angry, half curious eyes.
Astrid sputtered everything out quickly. Thankfully, being Chief and use to this sort of stuff, Stoick understood it all…and started laughing. Even though no one else knew what she had rushed on about, no one dare not laugh along. Soon, the whole great hall was filled with laughter. "What…what's so funny?" she asked. Stoick just laughed even more. He finally looked down at her, smiling an amuzed smile. "Ah, Astrid…we all know my son's alrigh'. He's the best dragon rider in Berk, he'd be able to avoid a rock!" he laugh a few more times before sighing. "Alrigh', you had yer fun. Now please leave, I've gotten' important meetings to attend." He said, pushing her aside.
Hiccup and Toothless were far from fine. Toothless struggled through the dense and cold water, his gear holding him down a bit. He searched for Hiccup's body amongst the waves. He swam forward slowly, his limbs numbing from the cold. He knew he had to find Hiccup soon; otherwise he'd freeze to death. Finally spotting a floating green and brown object among the sea, he swam towards it, picking it up. Feeling Hiccup's ice cold skin and limp body, he knew he had to get him out of the freezing waters as quickly as possible…or it was goodbye to Hiccup.