A/N: I want to personally thank you guys for reading my fanfic! All your follows and favorites mean so much to me! You reviews were so kind aswell! Although some were a bit questioning, but given the topic of this story I think that is understandable... But anyways! To the reviews!

Jelly: Yes, they are married, nine years ago, I was very briefly implied in the first chapter.

Constantinus: I plan to go back into the story to fix all my grammar errors, I think I have gotten all of the big ones out of this chapter. :)

General Reviews: No, I do not hate Hiccup... Writing a sad story is often the most fun with characters you like. Think of it this way, if you don't like a character and you write something in which all kinds of evil take place to that character, then you will just be rewriting thoughts that you have had all along, but if you write it about a charater you like, it would be completely something new to you.

Astrid was beginning to worry about Hiccup. She had woken up the next morning. The day before she had sent her husband away to fly with his dragon. She had told him not to be back until sundown. But now it was the day after. Astrid had gone to bed and expected to wake up next to Hiccup, but when she had woken the next morning she was still alone in the room.

She had gotten up and was now getting ready for the day. When she finished that she left for the Great Hall to see if Hiccup was there. Maybe he want to get an early start on the day, she thought, he might have gone to the Great Hall early sense he had been gone the day before. She walked across the village towards the Great Hall. When she arrived in the cavern, she saw a few people walking about inside but she still didn't see Hiccup anywhere. By this point in the day all of the other clans where moving about the village getting ready for the final day of negotiations. It was today they would either accept dragons or still be blinded by the views of their forefathers.

Astrid began to walk outside to get all the clan leaders together when she heard the cry of the Night fury. Everyone that didn't live on Berk immediately dropped to the ground from instincts of hearing the deathly roar of a Night Fury. Even though Astrid had gotten used to hearing the roar of the Night Fury, what she heard stopped her in her tracks. Toothless's usual call was gone and what had taken its place was a cry of sadness, pain… a cry of loss.

Astrid immediately began to sprint down the path to the city center where she could see Toothless about to land. She broke through the growing crowd and stopped at the edge. Toothless beat his wings hard to slow his descent. Astrid could see that the dragon was having a hard time flying, she could see that he was holding something in his legs but she couldn't make out what it was. When he finally managed to landed, she watched Toothless, as gingerly as he could, lay the form of a man onto the ground. Then Toothless fell to the ground exhausted, as flying with a locked tail fin was not the most efficient way to travel. Astrid ran forward to the form on the ground, praying to the gods that it wasn't who she thought. When she saw the armor the form adorned, she shifted next to the body of the one she loved and fell to her knees. She bent over the body of her husband. Tears fell from her eyes but she didn't make a sound. Valka broke through the crowd and saw her daughter-in-law hunched over the body of her son. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. Valka went forward and knelt next to Astrid. She too had tears falling from her eyes, but audible sobs resonated from Valka.

They stayed there for a long time. Toothless having caught his breath, made his way to his stable. Valka pulling herself together, put an arm around Astrid, "Come now, let's go into the house." Astrid hesitantly got up to go with Valka. She stopped when she was passing Gothi, "Please figure out what happened to my husband." Gothi nodded. Astrid and Valka walked to their home and sat down at the table, Valka went into the small kitchen and began to heat some water. When she finally returned to the table, she handed Astrid a cup of tea. She said to her, "Don't worry Astrid we will figure out what happened to Hiccup. Astrid, who was now not in the eyes of the rest of Berk, broke down and began to cry out. Valka moved to comfort her daughter. She sat down next to her and wrapped an arm around her. Astrid leaned into her. They sat there for an hour crying together.

Astrid and Valka were sitting at the table silently when a loud knock was heard at the door. Valka got up and opened the door and saw that it was Eret. He greeted Valka and looked to Astrid sitting at the table and said, "Gothi wishes to see you." Eret had become recognized citizen of Berk around the time that Hiccup and Astrid had married. He had shown loyalty to the island and grew to be greatly like on the island by all the villagers. He had become a very close friend to Astrid and Hiccup. Astrid looked up at her friend with sadness in her eyes, she nodded after a moment. Eret left without another word. Astrid sat there for awhile longer, she got up when Valka said, "Come, let us see what Gothi has found." They made their way through the town. Astrid could see everyone was grieving, no one could believe the events that had happened. Even the foreign clans looked on with sadness in their eyes. They may have not agreed with Hiccup's thoughts on dragons but they greatly respected Hiccup for his courage in defeating Drago and ceasing most of the dragon raids in their towns.

Astrid and Valka finally reached Gothi's home. Astrid paused, she wasn't sure if she was ready for this, Valka looked at her, "We can do this later if you want to." Astrid put her head up, "No, I need to do this, I need to know what happened to my husband." She opened the door to the small home and entered. It was small and dark. Astrid could hear the snores of the many terrible terrors that Gothi looked after. Astrid then focused her attention to the elder who was now sitting at a small table. "You wanted to see me?" Astrid said. Gothi nodded in reply. She sat there for a few minutes thinking. When Gothi finally looked up she had made up her mind.

Only on very rare occasions did the elder ever speak aloud. The only other time Astrid had heard her voice was at Hiccup and her's wedding, and it was only a murmur of congratulations. Now Gothi spoke with a confidence and authority that you would never expect from a lady of her size and age. "Your husband was a great man and chief, he brought peace to this island through his work with dragons," she pause for a moment, "it is with no joy that I say, your husband was killed by a dragon, a Nadder to be exact, he was hit by a tail spike from the dragon," as she said this she set the spike onto the table. Astrid could see that it was a very unique purple color a color that was not seen often in dragons. Gothi spoke again,"I can be sure that his death was quick." Astrid couldn't believe what she was listening to. She quickly thanked the elder and excused herself, she ran out the door. She ran all the way to her home and when she was inside, she shut the door and broke into another fit of tears.

Astrid woke up and looked to her side hoping that the events if the past day was all some horrible dream, but she saw she found that she was still the only one in the room. A tear fell down her face. She then remembered something that Hiccup had told her. Instructions for if something had ever happened to him. She got up and went over to a small chest that they had she opened it and looked inside. She found what she was looking for.

Toothless had barely gotten any sleep that night. He couldn't help but think that if he had paid more attention, that Hiccup may still be alive. He was lying in his stable remembering all of the times he had with Hiccup. Oh he missed him so much, he was going to miss flying with him in the mornings. His thoughts were broken when he heard footsteps from the walkway to his stable. He could smell Astrid. as well as the the smell of leather and metal. Confused he lifted his head, Astrid walked in and saw Toothless. "Your awake, and by the looks of it you didn't get much sleep either," Toothless grunted in agreement, he then looked to what Astrid was carrying. Much to his surprise, he saw her carrying a tail. He remembered it as the automatic tail. Hiccup had made it for him many years ago, during a winter. "Hiccup told me if anything were to happen to him to give you this, he knew you would never take it if he was still here." Toothless remembered how he didn't want the tail anymore. He enjoyed flying with Hiccup too much. Before he became alpha, Toothless felt that with the automatic tail, he might be caught in the call of a king or queen and never be able to fly with Hiccup again. Now that Toothless was an alpha, he wasn't affected by the call. Hiccup had tried a few years ago to give him the automatic tail, but Toothless refused, He loved putting half the control of flight into Hiccup's hands. It made them one and the same. When they flew, it was like their minds were connected. They trusted each other like brothers.

But now without Hiccup he had no choice but to accept the tail. Astrid began removing the saddle and the tail. She gently laid it all out on the side of the room. She then began to put the new tail on. Toothless felt the familiar weight of the artificial tail. He turned to look at the new tail fin. It was so alien to him that the artificial fin move by his command. He almost expected to have feeling in the fin, but he couldn't. Toothless turned away from his tail and looked to Astrid. He bowed his head in respect. Astrid felt tears flowing in her eyes again, she stepped forward and wrapped her arms around the dragon's neck, "It wasn't your fault Toothless, I do not blame you." She stepped back and looked Toothless in the eyes, "and you are not to blame yourself for this."

Toothless nodded in understanding, then walked out of the stable. He knew what he had to do, Toothless once outside spread his wings and took to the skies.

Astrid watched Toothless fly off, she hoped he wouldn't be gone for too long. Toothless had the dragons to take care of and most importantly she wanted Toothless to be here for Hiccup's funeral. She knew Hiccup loved Toothless like a brother and would have wanted him to be there.

Night was beginning to fall when Astrid heard the wing beats coming over the island. She quickly ran out the door. What she saw she couldn't believe. Hundreds of dragons were circling the island looking for an area to land, the entire landscape of Berk was covered with dragons, they covered the roof tops and the ground. She looked up and saw that there was even more waiting to land. She continued to stare into the sky when she felt wind on her back, from a dragon landing. She turned and saw that it was Toothless. She calmed down now knowing that the dragons weren't wild. "Hey Toothless, where did you find all these guys?" Toothless looked at her with a look that sent chills down her back. It was a look of sadness. Astrid looked back at the dragons and saw that some of them had landed close by. Suddenly Astrid knew where these dragons came from. She saw that some of the dragons wore armor. Armor that she hadn't seen in ten years. Astrid looked back to Toothless, "Did you and Hiccup find these the dragons?" Toothless just kept staring at Astrid for a few moments, then he nodded. Astrid took a moment to think about what she was going to ask next. "Is the Nadder here?" Toothless looked up into the sky and let out a call. Astrid watched as a single dragon adorned in armor flew down and landed next to Toothless. Astrid could see that the Nadder was purple in color much like the spike that had killed her husband. It was unmistakable that this was the dragon that had killed her husband. When Astrid finally was able to speak, she said, "I can hold no ill will against you, you were under the control of the Alpha much like Toothless was when our previous chief was killed. I will leave it up to Toothless, weather or not you stay, if you do stay, you will never have to worry about being known as the dragon that killed our chief." With that Astrid walked into the house.

Toothless looked out onto the water from the shore. Around him dragons and Vikings lined the beach. In front of him, was a small boat with wood piled up to make a platform. Laying on the platform was his rider and best friend, Hiccup. Astrid stood next to him, in her hands she held a bow. Astrid and Toothless looked at each other, both had a somber look in their eyes. Astrid looked at the men by the boat and nodded. They pushed at boat into the water and the wind took the sails. When the boat was about a hundred feet off the shore, Astrid lit an arrow in a small fire at her feet, lifted the bow, and pulled back the string. She took aim and let the arrow fly. The arrow went in a arc and hit the wood pile. She looked at Toothless and nodded. Toothless looked to the boat and built up a plasma ball. He shot it at the boat, it didn't have enough power to explode, but fire spread from the impact. Behind them arrows were fired hitting the boat. After a few moments the boat was ablaze with bright orange fire, it climbed the sail and danced into the air. Astrid began to speak, "Hiccup was a great man, husband and chief. He was an example that man could befriend dragons rather than fight them. He saved countless lives with his actions, he stopped all dragon attacks and worked to make dragons a part of daily life. He made this world a better place. I wish you a swift journey and bid you to take your place in the Great Halls of Valhalla." Toothless then lifted his head and let out a roar. The rest of the dragons took up the call.

Astrid was lying in her bed looking at the ceiling. She was still awake from the funeral that night. It was probably midnight by now, but she couldn't bring herself to sleep, she had way too much on her mind, although one big thing in particular was keeping her awake. Something that only Hiccup, Valka, and herself knew. The timing couldn't be worse, grieving was not the time to tell the clan of this news. However, she knew she was going to have to tell the rest of the clan sooner or later. The news that the family name was to carry on….

That there was to be an heir to the throne.

A/N: So this chapter has been my longest chapter so far! About 2,500 words! I have really enjoyed writing this fanfiction, although making myself depressed wasn't the main goal of this story...

Back to some of the Reviews:

Some of you were talking about Hiccup having a son. Now you know why I wouldn't say anything about that ;)

I do plan on making a sequel to this story, but I have no idea when that would be... I would like to completely write that story before I even start posting, or else I would be writing that story forever... I have the worst motivation when it comes to writing...

Well anyways, until next time! Happy Writing!