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Previously on Chasing You,

Gerard watched in horror through his rear view mirror as the GT40 disappeared from it.

"Valka!" Gerard slammed the brake, crashing into the mysterious vehicle during the process. "Ye three go on ahead. I'll handle Valka!" the monstrous Ram turned around and made a beeline for the slick GT40 that crashed into a tree.

Chapter 22

"Vehicle Dodge Ram 3500 arriving at fourteenth place is eliminated," stated the PDA. Hiccup, Astrid and Toothless were waiting near the finishing line, waiting for Gerard and Valka. The brothers were very worried about their mothers. Once they heard the PDAs spoke up, they rushed to the vehicle.

"Dad!" Hiccup cried as he rushed to his father's vehicle. "Where's mom?" he demanded.

"I'm okay, lad," Val spoke up as her husband helped her getting out from the Ram. She was holding her head and her shoulders were quite bloody. Overall she was fine and well.

"She needs to go to the hospital to get that wounds treated," Astrid said and Gerard nodded. The monstrous Ram disappeared around the corner, heading straight for the hospital. Hiccup was still standing there, staring at where his parents just disappeared.

"She'll be fine, Hiccup," Astrid came to his side and hugged him by the shoulders. He gratefully embraced her back, burying his face at her shoulder. "She's going to be fine and well, I assure you," she crooned into his ear.

"Thanks, Astrid," he said as he tightened his embrace and she responded equally. Toothless came up and gripped his shoulder firmly, gaining his attention.

"Don't worry, Lil Bro, you still have us here, racing beside you," he said with a warn smile on his face. Hiccup looked both at Toothless and Astrid. He may have lost his parents in this race but he still got his brother and his… Uh… best girl – space… – friend?

"Thanks, guy. That means a lot to me," Astrid released him as Toothless patted his shoulder.

"All right, let's get some rest, shall we?" Toothless suggested and the other two wholeheartedly agreed.

It doesn't take long for the three to find a motel and took only one room to save cash. Most of their money was actually with Gerard but he was at the hospital with Val.

The room consisted only two beds so one of them had to sleep on the floor. Hiccup volunteered to sleep on the floor, after having a full evening of teases coming from Toothless. He suggested that Hiccup should sleep on the bed with Astrid on the same bed.

Toothless managed to say out loud that tonight will be a very noisy and moaning night before he got a fist to the spleen from Astrid.

"That must be RJ," Hiccup commented when his phone rang. He grabbed the phone from the table and put it on loud speaker.

"Meow!" they did not expect that coming.

"Um…" Toothless trailed off, not knowing what to do.

"Meow"

"Y-Yuki?"

"Meow"

"What are you doing with RJ's phone? And how did you manage to call us?" Hiccup very slowly asked and then feeling dumb since he asked a cat. Though, he felt like the cat consciously understood him.

"Yuki, princess, have you seen my phone?" the trio heard RJ's voice but a distant away from the phone.

"Meow"

"I need to call the Haddocks. You know, to check on them"

"Meow"

"Oh, she will be," Astrid couldn't comprehend on why she felt that statement was relating with her.

"Meow"

"What? I thought you knew"

"Meow"

"When did you last see it?"

"Meow"

"Where did you say?"

"Meow?"

"No, it's not on the shelf"

"Meow?"

"No, it's not in your dinner bowl. And it- Yuki, you little feline trickster!" the trio heard some scuffling and crashing coming from the phone, making them sat in awkward silence. "This is not the time to call Georg, Yuki; I know you love the bassist! Give me back the phone!"

"Meow!"

"Who are you calling anyway?"

"Meow!"

"I'll be treating you dinner twice as much if you give me the phone," instant scuffles were heard after that. The trio guessed that Yuki gave the phone back to RJ. "Oh, you called them? Thank you, princess. Now, I'll treat you trice as much"

"Meow!"

"RJ?" Toothless called out.

"Yeah, I'm here. How you all been doing?"

"Not really that good," Toothless sighed as he scratched the back of his jet black hair.

"What? What happened?"

"Gerard and Val are out from The Run"

"What?"

"Back at the Forest of the Night, we got attacked by some mysterious vehicles," Hiccup explained seriously. "I barely made it out if it weren't for my dad. Unfortunately they managed to take down my dad"

"Can you tell me about these mysterious vehicles?"

"Well," Hiccup thought really hard. "They were full black, literally full black; the rims, the windshields, the windows and even the headlights. Though, I'm not sure since it was dark that time"

"Full black?"

"Yes"

"Hold on; back at Dragon Island, I want you to remember how many black vehicles were there beside the Stingray and the Skyline?"

Hiccup, Astrid and Toothless thought for a moment, remembering back the time at Dragon Island hangout.

"I saw two," Hiccup stated out.

"No, I saw four," Astrid corrected him.

"Actually I saw five," Toothless stated out.

The trio looked at each other, confused. Then, they heard a hum coming from the phone.

"How many racers are now left?"

"Thirteen racers"

"Okay, then that- THIRTEEN!?"

"Yeah, even us are surprised at how the number dropped significantly," Astrid stated out. Grumbling – and meowing – was heard coming from the phone.

"I guess, I don't know if my opinion is correct but in my guess, the mysterious drivers you faced back at the Forest of the Night are the Midnight Raiders"

"Midnight Raiders, what's that?"

"Midnight Raiders are a group of racers that will use everything to win. As you can see from the name, these racers use the disguise of the night as their advantage. Their main way to win is to take out other racers from the race, permanently," that made the trio gasped.

"That's horrible!"

"I know. They permanently take out their opponents is to erase evidence of their causing. In my guess, it was the Midnight Raiders that made the significant difference in number of racers. Also, in my guess again, there's only one Midnight Raider left"

"Why is that?"

"Remember your encounter with them back in at the Forest of the Night?" the trio thought for a moment before they snapped their fingers once they thought about it. "That's right; they took your car with their own car. The reason only one Midnight Raider is still in the race is because the others are too wreck to be in the race"

"So the Midnight Raiders take out the opponents which cost their own vehicles in order one of them can win the race?"

"Correct"

"That's… I don't have a word for it," Hiccup spoke, causing RJ to chuckle.

"Neither do I"

"Meow!"

"Okay, okay, princess. Just be patient. I have to go, guys. By the way, when's the next stage start?"

"It's tomorrow morning"

"Okay, I'll call you next time. Good luck," the trio sat silently as the line went off.

"Well, it's time for bed, actually," Toothless suggested.

Toothless and Astrid slept peacefully on their beds but Hiccup couldn't sleep even the slightest, not because of how uncomfortable it was on the floor. He stared at the ceiling of the motel as he lost in his thought.

His hope for winning this tournament decreased drastically when his parents were out of the tournament. Sooner or later either Astrid or Toothless will eliminate from the tournament.

He sat up, still lost in thought.

His family – and Astrid – was the one who made him to move forward. If he was left alone in the race, he was surely to lose.

"Hiccup?" he looked up and saw Astrid stood up from her bed and sat beside him on the floor. "Couldn't sleep?"

"Yeah," Hiccup sighed.

"Want to talk about it?" Astrid asked. He sighed yet again before he replied.

"I'm just worried that we're not going to win this thing"

"Don't be so negative, Hiccup"

"But it's a possibility, Astrid. We might or might not win," Hiccup looked away, only Astrid grabbed his face to turn toward her.

"Hiccup, we'll win this tournament. We've made it this far so it's not the time to give up now," she affectionately ran a hand through his hair. She smiled when he sighed and closed his eyes. She noticed how soft his hair was.

"But mom and dad…"

"I'm pretty sure that they don't want you to give up. They trusted you to win this race," she started to play with the hair behind his right ear. "And RJ Ralph, he keep checking to see if your progress," she started to braid his hair. "And also…"

"Hmm?" Hiccup hummed as Astrid braided his hair, somehow making him relaxed.

"White Charger could be waiting for you at the end of the line," she whispered into his ear as she finished braiding his hair. She kissed his cheek and cuddled into his shoulder, making him blushed. "Let's get back to sleep shall we?"

"Y-yeah, sure," he stuttered and he lay back down on his bed, Astrid still cuddling his side.

Very hesitantly, Hiccup wrapped his arms around Astrid, making her sighed as they closed their eyes. They both had content smiles on their face, completely oblivious to the muffled mirth as a phone was recording the scenery.

"This is going to be good," Toothless whispered as he recorded the moment where the couple shared a passionate kiss before going to sleep.

Try not to sleep in the same room with a person who suggest you sleeping with your partner