AN :

Hey everyone, I was planning on introducing you to the two other crewmembers today, but I'm just going to do one per chapter, so that I can make it extra detailed and add a rich background if I manage to think of that, I will be continuing with the plot.

The weather had been unforgiving the past week, today was yet another day that the skies had broke and unleashed their load onto the people on the planet. Raindrops bombard the street, creating a small rivers in the drainage, behind a window a young man was staring to the outside, he had blue eyes and gold blonde hair. He was a stranger in this place, for he was not from Hopeless. He was here on a mission, to return what was lost 5 years ago. And failure was not in his vocabulary. He was the first in a group of five, all from the same village, all burdened with the same task. He was sitting on a chair in a café, waiting for his tea. He was peering at the skies, those dam musicians ruined the plan, they were too slowly track her down, like hunting a rabbit, if they did something rash, or moved to fast, she would scurry like the wind, and that had just happened. The waitress slowly brought him his tea, which he gladly accepted. "You're not from round here are you boy." The woman said. The boy, who continued to stare out of the window, replied with. "No ma'm I've lost something that I would like to hold dear to me, yet I am in no position to say that."

Their chat was interrupted by the door of the café slamming open, in came a tall man, with a battle worn trench coat, he was about his age. The man had his trench coat open, and the strap and side of a satchel was visible from where he sat. A large leather strap was going from his shoulder toward his side, and behind him the front of a barrel could be seen sticking above his shoulder. His face was covered by a red scarf, which he had wrapped around his neck. The man looked like a veteran, but he was too young for that. He towards the table that was right next to his and sat down. As soon as he did a large man walked over to him. "Get out of here gunner, we don't take well to your kind here." The large man, a mechanic by the looks of it, said. "Go back to your little machines and let them fight for you!" At the table behind him 2 other man laughed, but their laughter quickly stopped when they saw their big friend stumbled backwards and crashed through their table. "Anyone else who has a problem with my presence?" The man asked. Everyone was quiet, and the 2 mechanics quickly helped their friend out of the café. The man sat down again, and everyone returned back to what they were doing.

"What was that about?" The young man asked. The waitress answered. "You can't put gunner with mechanics, the gunners can be quite civil, but mechanics just can't stand them." She pointed at the broken table. "He actually solved it quite peacefully, I've seen way worse fight than that." She gestured to the man who had his back to them. "If you're want to have a better chance at finding what you're looking for, I suggest you ask him, but watch out, I've heard of the lad there, he's very keen on his cause." The waitress left again to clean up the table that was lying shattered in the café.

He thought about it for a second, would this man be able to help him? The rest was currently looking for clues, and knowing them they would turn up empty handed. He decided it was worth a shot. grabbed his tea and walked over towards the table of the mysterious gunner and placed himself on the wooden chair on the other side of the table. The man spared him a quick glance and got back to his book, drawing something in it. "I don't help strangers, so I believe a introduction is an order." He spoke slowly and quietly. The 'stranger' as he was just called decided that it would be best to go with it as he didn't have any choice. "My name is Aster Hofferson, I hail from the isle of Berk, and I believe you can help we with finding something." Aster smiled as he saw the man close his book and place it back into his satchel. "And what kind of service did you think I can deliver lad?" The man spoke. "I am looking for a certain girl, she had brown hair and green eyes, about my age." Aster spoke. The man laughed a little. "This girl wouldn't happen to be the lost heir of Berk now would she?" He responded. "Yes, that would be her." Aster said. "Well I can't help your hunt mate, but I can advice you." Aster's eyes lit up as the man spoke this, maybe he knew where she was. "Give up, you can only find her if she wants you to find her." With this, Aster's heart shattered, maybe he was right, she had been gone for 5 years, she wouldn't be found. Sure they had an airship, but it was no match to what they heard of her.

But he wouldn't give up so easily. "I beg you, do you know anything of her." "Do you not know what 'Give up' means lad?" The asked in a silent but stern tone, which actually almost intimidated Aster. "I'm doing this for my home." He replied. "But I'm sure you know nothing of that." He regretted adding that last part as the man stood up and leaned over the table. "I know more about doing something for my home than you'll ever dare to know boy." With one hand the man lowered his scarf to reveal two long pink scars on his neck in the shape of a V. Aster now knew who she was talking to, this figure was more feared than he was known, stories arose of him 4 and a half years ago, when a battleship that was targeting a village suddenly sank. Tales arose about how it happened, and it seemed that a respected gunner of the ship had sabotaged blew the boilers after he got the order to shell the village. He stories say that when he was to be executed a few night later he was taken by a dragon in a raid. Afterwards he appeared here and there, always accompanied with lightning storms.

Aster forgot his mission for a while, the revealing of the scars took him by surprise. "I'm sorry, for saying that you didn't knew about fighting for your home." He said. "Apology accepted." The two remained quiet for a while, listening to the soft noise of the water hitting the window and the wind howling through the shutters in the town, but Aster decided that he'd have to try again. "So will you help me find her?" He noticed that the man's expression quickly faded from understanding to anger. He stood up and walked towards the door, as he opened it the loud noises of the storm outside reached into the café. "I'm telling you one more time lad, back off!" And then he left. "Shit!" Aster cursed, he had just let one of the best leads in a while get away, he drank the last bit of his tea and decided that he should return to their ship.

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A dark figure walked through the streets of Hopeless, how dare he, how dare he ask about her and then insult him, he might forgive but he won't forget. If that lad would ever give them trouble he'd drive a bullet into that grey mass of his. He saw how he realized who he was talking to, and then the stupid runt still thinks he can just squeeze the information out of him. Can't he realize how he would feel when he thinks about it, it's not something that you just shrug off as 'Not your finest moment'. No, the things he did would haunted him for his life, it cloaked him in a shroud of the past, he knew he wouldn't get much sleep tonight, for he would be visited by his parents, and they would come riding on nightmares. He recalls every single time that he'd woken up, sweating and panting, seeing it all again, ablaze. They would stand at his side, ready to help him, but if this was his burden, and that he would not share with anyone.

The brave story of 'Ray the reckless Roamer', quite a fitting name seeing as he currently roams the skies. Almost everyone knew the story, a farmer's boy joining the military, growing in rank quickly, a pristine soldier. He actually dove in front of his crewmates when a piece of flak exploded near them, gaining his V shaped scars. He joined the army with one cause, to help the people of the archipelago. He remembers latching out to his captain the night of his execution. "I've betrayed no one, the army betrayed those people!" He yelled, gaining a lot of commotion. He also remembers the strange thing that happened next, he was waiting for the executioner, who would perform the blood eagle on him, when he was lifted up into the skies. He was grabbed by a Skrill, of all dragons it had to be the most aggressive and deadly one, he noticed that the small island fort where he was held captive was being attacked by dragons.

After a while of flying the Skrill dropped him off on a sea stack. He scrambled on his feet and tried to run but he quickly noticed that the only way off was by jumping in the water, and from this height it was not advisable for your health. So he turned to the Skrill, who was sitting in front of him. "Nice dragon." He said, holding his tied hands in front of him as some sort of barrier between them. The Skrill walked towards him and opened his mouth. This is it, Ray thought, but when the razor sharp teeth merely cut through the rope. He rubbed his wrist and looked at the Skrill.

"Thanks lad." He said to the dragon, which responded with a loud and threatening hiss. "Lass, I get it, lass." He quickly corrected himself. They looked at each other, this was the beginning of something awesome. The next few months they spend training together, he had dubbed the female Skrill Blitz. They hunted together, flew together and at night, they raided ships of the military. Ray still had his trusted service dagger and gladly used this as a weapon. After some ships they found a officers revolver and a special rifle, equipped with a scope. He also took a small leather bound book, some pencils and a range finder. Together with a stylish trench coat and a leather satchel. He used a red scarf to cover his scars so that he wouldn't be recognized.

He eventually met up with Brynn Bloodbane, a old 'friend', they met each other in a bar, and to say that they had a argument was a understatement. 3 hours, 1 windows and a very 2 very bruised drunks later, They were both picked up and brought back to the airship by dragons, here he learned about Berks lost heir and how they sailed the skies with airship and dragon. So when they asked if he wanted to join, he immediately said yes.

But right now he was flying, and nothing else mattered, he was flying just above the thunderclouds, much to the dislike of his Blitz. They had awoken him early this morning, too early for his liking but duty called, they wanted him to go to Hopeless to learn about the Berkians that were following them. He hated the 'discreet' assignment, he was a soldier, not a spy or informant but of the crew of 4 he was the only one that could do this, Brynn would get too much attention, the captain was wanted and Sithera was uneasy with unknown people, so that just left him.

He had gotten the information that she wanted, they were looking for her in a group of six, he'd talked with everyone, they were nowhere near getting them, and he hoped that he'd scared them off a bit.

He arrived at the airship early in the evening, after dismounting Blitz quickly walked towards the pile of fish where Toothless and Shriek were already eating. Ray looked around and saw that his Halberd was still standing where he left it. He got the blade from the captain with the one year anniversary of their ship 'The SkyWhale'. He grabbed it and headed towards the quarters, where he would find the captain. He opened the door and saw Brynn together with the leader of their little group hung over a sky chart. "Ray, whats the news." Brynn asked. "I think I've scared them off, I don't know about the Hofferson lad, but the Snotface and Fishthing are certainly scared." He replied. "Ray, come look at this." Their captain said. he looked at the location she marked on the map, it was a small island south of Kalt. "What do you think of this? Think we can land there." He wanted to say no, to come up with any excuse to why they shouldn't go there, but he knew he couldn't, for one, he was a bad liar, and second he was confinced that emotional business wasn't at stake when it came to orders. "it's perfect capt'n." he said.

He wasn't too keen on their next stop, he'd do anything to get away from that place, when he left there he swore to never come back, to forget about that place, for it was the stables of his nightmares.

"Right, we wait for Sith' to come back, and we leave. Get some sleep Ray, we have a raid planned for tomorrow." The captain said.

"Aye aye, capt'n."

AN :

So there it is, the third crewmember, Ray Roamer. I hope you like it so far. And your fist bit of Male!Astrid. I really hope you like it, and if you want to help and have ideas than please tell me, I'll definitely consider it.

As you've noticed I've still haven't chosen a name for the female hiccup. The current option that we have are :

Hiccup, I tried writing a bit with this one and I find it really confusing, I keep reading it like he is a boy until I find a she somewhere;

Hicca, haven't tried, I think it's a bit of a giveaway to give a female Hiccup the name Hicca, If all else fails I'll probably go with this one;

Rachel, I really like this one, but it's too different from, I'm really want to make the right decision here because it can't be changed for the remainder of the story. ;