The four teenagers had been gone for two days and Fishlegs and Val were the only ones that seemed bothered by the thought of their disappearance.
Well, maybe Snotlout sometimes realised that he was flexing his biceps to no one.
"Doesn't it ever bother you that the girl that you are imagining standing in front of you, actually has five kids with some other guy?" Val asked him once, when she caught him, pretending that Astrid was standing in front of him and oohing at his muscles.
"What are you doing here?" Snotlout blushed a bright vermillion colour at the fact that he was caught. "Is this some sick joke that your Hiccup's daughter? Because seriously, how could Astrid say 'no' to this." He touched his face.
Val rolled her eyes and went back. Obviously Snotlout was a lost cause.
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"Hey, are you alright?" Val approached her only present brother.
"Yeah, I'm fine." The turquoise-eyed boy said, from a cliff, hugging his knees and looking off into the ocean. "Just … a bit bored … you know, there's no Aster and/or Stoic to annoy."
Finn was a proud Viking that would rather eat dragon dropping than admit any kind of compassion. Val smiled at him and ruffled the brown-blonde hair. "I'm sure they and mom and dad are alright."
She got up and walked back to their camp.
A Monstrous Nightmare purred under his rider's elbow. "I know, buddy. But what do you want me to do?" The troublemaker asked, scratching his dragon's head. The Monstrous Nightmare let out a small roar and gestured his head towards the ocean. "We're going to get in trouble." Finn said, glaring at his dragon, but at the same time trying to resist the temptation of his own words.
Hellfire just gave him a look that clearly said, that's-it?
"Oh well, I guess we can't delay the inevitable." Finn said, standing up, and stretching. He put the saddle on, with much ease, onto the eager and mischievous Nightmare. He scribbled a note to his sister and left it pinned to a log by a knife. "Come on, buddy. Let's go." He hopped onto the Nightmare and flew off.
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"We're gonna crash land?!" Hiccup yelled, gripping onto his son so hard that if it wasn't for his timid strength, he would have squeezed the life out of him.
The Typhoomarang crashed into the water, after yet another blown up blockade ship.
Hiccup and Aster surfaced, both spitting salty water out. "Are you insane?!" Hiccup yelled as he swam closer to his son.
"Possibly." Aster said, casually and looked around to know where his dragon was. "Firebite! Firebite! Firebite, get your butt over here right now!" Aster yelled with all the oxygen he had in his lungs. The Typhoomarang resurfaced with a fish walloping in its mouth.
"Fire!" Someone yelled. Bolas fired out of the ships and wrapped around the Typhoomarang.
"Firebite!" Aster yelled, reaching for the axe strapped on his back, and swimming to the Berserker ship. Not caring if he could catch pneumonia, that his fingers were too numb to hold a weapon, or that he wouldn't be able to fight off an army of Berserker soldiers.
Bolas fired from the ship and the two boys were pulled up on board the ship.
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"Hellfire, where do you think my dunderhead brothers would do first? Attack the blockade or rescue our parents?" The Monstrous Nightmare snapped his jaws three times. "Well, what was the third option?" Hellfire glared at his rider, jerked his head towards the ships below them, then to the town. "Oh, they split up. Well that's a once in a lifetime thing to see. Ok, think, where would they send each other. Huh, thank Odin those two are so predictable. Aster blows up the blockade, reasons: blowing stuff up is his hobby and he has the fire obsessed dragon. Stoic rescues the village, reasons: sneaky, stealthy toothpick and he has the dragon for stealth. I have the talent to destroy stuff and you literally live for fire. To the blockade, Hellfire!"
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"I'M GONNA KILL HIM!" Val yelled, with the note in her hands.
"Wow, you are definitely Astrid's daughter." Snotlout said, nearly falling off the rock that he was sitting on, the result of Val's outburst of anger.
"What's wrong?" Fishlegs asked, concerned, and looked over the girl's shoulder to read the note.
"I'm going to make sure Finn will wish he was never born!" Val threatened through gritted teeth.
"What happened?" Snotlout asked, out of boredom.
"Finn ran away, to help Aster, Stoic, Hiccup and Astrid." Fishlegs explained.
"That's just great! Now what? Should we go back to Berk?" Snotlout questioned.
"No, we stay here." Val said, in a familiar stubborn voice.
"Uh, why are we following orders from a 10 year old girl?" Tuffnut asked.
Val said nothing, instead she snapped her fingers and the head of an angry Timberjack popped out of nowhere and growled at the specific teenager. "Thank you daddy, for such an awesome birthday present. Most parents give their children weapons or clothes, you … dragons."
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Ok, I'm sorry for not updating in a while. I had work, school, work, other stories, oh and did I mention work?
So Aster and Hiccup have been kidnapped? Finn has gone to help them blow up stuff?! Val is threatening to kill her younger brother?! Tell me what you think of the story, but I beg for you not to leave a two-word-review.
Just to note that if you get confused with what each Haddock Child looks like and what dragon they have, there is an explanation in the author's note of Chapter 6.