Look I got another chapter! I'm adding part 3 to this story but it won't come out for a bit because I'm neglecting Wattpad.
This was a critical moment for Astrid and Heather. Hiccup had stopped breathing and laid still upon Stormfly's neck.
He wasn't supposed to go, Hiccup couldn't leave. He couldn't leave Astrid or Toothless and Stoick.
Astrid had been pushing on his chest, trying to get the boy to breathe again, yet he wasn't responding to her compressions.
"Come on you idiot, breathe, just breathe." Astrid cried. Heather had flown WindShear towards Stormfly and watched sadly as her friend began to use mouth to mouth.
Astrid lifted up her head, the tears in her eyes falling rapidly and landing onto Hiccup's cheeks. She glanced at his face, it seemed peaceful, it was anything but.
He was dying, if his heart stopped, he crossed the line and Astrid wasn't even going to think about the word that could easily snatch the boy.
Astrid began to press her palms into his chest, she wasn't trying to break some of his ribs but if it meant he'd come back to her, then she would have to do it.
The warrior was about to give Hiccup up to his mother and Valhalla, she had done four rounds of CPR including mouth to mouth, and she got no where.
Her eyes landed on the still boy in front of her, he seemed relaxed as now, nothing could hurt him, nothing could get to him. Her tears became a constant thing. She picked the limp, motionless form of Hiccup and pressed him to her body. She rested her cheek onto the soft auburn hair of Hiccup and took in the scent. The boy always smelt like the forest and that was Astrid's favorite place.
Heather couldn't stand to see Astrid's body convulsing as her tears drenched Hiccup's hair.
The Razor Whip moved to Stormfly's side with Heather holding out her hands.
"Hand me him, I can get him back." Astrid looked at her best friend. Astrid wanted to get him back alive, but she wanted to hold onto him forever, possibly join him above.
Finally Astrid made up her mind and gently moved Hiccup to Heather as they found a big sea stack that was a few miles away from Berk.
Once the dragons landed on the grassy rock structure, Heather hopped off with Hiccup in her arms. She laid the heir on the soft grass and looked at his chest. Astrid wasn't hard enough.
"Sorry Ast, but if we want him to breathe, I have to break his ribs. He's at the part where the pressure has to be forceful."
Astrid wanted to smile at the nickname, Hiccup called her it all the time when she needed cheering up or, he was being a goof ball.
The Deadly Nadder rider wiped her tears, her cheeks were soaked so when her hand rubbed against the mini waterfalls rest on her cheeks, her hand became wet too.
"Do it." Astrid responded her eyes moved away from the scene, she tried to her best to ignore the sounds of Heather's fists and palms banging on Hiccup's chest.
The sea stack wasn't as large as Astrid hoped, to Heather, the size didn't matter but Astrid wanted to walk away from the two but the towering rock formation above the sea didn't give much room to even build a house.
A crack echoed to Astrid, making her wince, but the crack was now a wonderful sound because after the terrible sound was the coughing and sputtering of someone taking all the air in they could get.
"HICCUP!" The warrior earns more tears but instead they were happy ones. She engulfed the boy in a hug, keeping him safe in her arms.
"Wh-what…..hap-happened?" Hiccup said breathless. He was ready to collapse into darkness any minute from the exhaustion, but for some reason he was fighting his heavy eyelids.
"You're hurt, Hiccup just go to sleep." Astrid wanted to talk to him, but the tiredness was really getting to him. Hiccup would wake up after he fell asleep, only if Astrid and Heather kept him breathing all the way to Berk. Besides, Astrid doesn't want to hear his hoarse voice.
"I-I…agh!" The pain in his chest was burning, he felt like a dragon sat on him so every time he inhales, it becomes too agonizing for the boy. His moans breaking Astrid from the inside to the out.
"A few of your ribs are cracked, not major but we'll get you to Gothi real soon."
Hiccup nodded as his eyes closed shut from the pain, but once his eyes closed, his body became limp once again. She couldn't help it, her lips pressed against the now sleeping Hiccup's forehead.
"Thank you Heather." Astrid said as she tried to keep Hiccup resting in her arms, he was starting to get heavy.
"No problem, seeing you cry was pretty uncomfortable. I'll help you load up Hiccup."
Astrid smiled. It felt great that she had Heather with her, she knew that the Beserker heir knew that Hiccup and Astrid were nothing without eachother. If one was gone, the other would leave with them and it was sweet. They were like Romeo and Juliet but Viking style.
When Hiccup was laying in Astrid strong arms, they took off quickly, making sure the dragon's were going fast enough because Berk was in sight and it was growing from the horizon really quickly.
Berk knew the heir was taken, they waited outside for any return. When they spotted Astrid and Heather with Hiccup trapped next to Astrid, they began to question the two.
"What happened?"
"Where are the rest of the riders?"
"Where's our chief?"
Heather looked at Astrid who was trying to get to Gothi's, Hiccup's life was depending on the old healer but Berkians wanted their answers.
"Let Astrid get through!" Heather called out. Astrid would have flied to Gothi's but the groups of Dragons would have made it hard to weave through without losing grip on Hiccup, also sometimes you had to fly around the mountain as Gothi's home was placed on a steep, tall hill that made it hard to go up too fast without falling back if you didn't hold on tight enough.
The Berkians followed the command of Heather and created a pathway, an easy way to get to Gothi's without the trouble of flight.
Finally Astrid made it to the platform, she commanded Stormfly calmly to hold her wing out like a bridge. The platform wasn't big enough to the hold a dragon and two people. Sometimes the dragon would rest on the roof or chill in the air, but it wasn't big enough to fit a Deadly Nadder.
"Thanks Stormfly." Astrid said quietly, earning a soft squawk from her dragon before Stormfly left in search for chicken.
Gothi always kept her door closed, but today they left it open so Astrid could see Fishlegs standing next to the bed with Gothi and Gobber waiting for her return. They had every medical supply next to the bed. Herbs had been mixed into a cup filled with lukewarm water and gauze and some thread for stitching was placed beside it. A container of water had sat on top of a cloth to clean the wound.
Thank Thor they were prepared.
Astrid carried Hiccup into the room of the healers. She gently place him on his stomach so Gothi can access the wound.
When the makeshift bandages were off and thrown to the floor, Gothi began to work. She first inspected the sleeping Hiccup, then the wound.
It was deep but not big enough. Stitching was required but, it wasn't going to be long.
Gothi scribbled in the dirt and glanced at Gobber.
"She says that he will be okay, he has cracked ribs so he will have to be in bed rest. He will also need to take turds… every morning- OW! HERBS HE NEEDS HERBS!"
Gothi frowned and shook her head. She ordered Fishlegs to clean the wound, every dirt and dried blood had to be gone before she can stitch it. Then she ordered Gobber to make sure the tread and needle was ready. She gave a glance at Astrid and then to Hiccup.
"What should I do?"
"She is saying hold him down, the stitching will hurt and he can't move otherwise he could mess up the stitching and or hurt himself farther." Gobber responded as he pulled out some bandages to keep the bones from moving in his ribs. Gobber had also pulled out some ice blocks and extra cloth for the fractured ribs.
Astrid gripped onto Hiccup, her eyes were locked on Fishlegs who finally finished cleaning the wound fully out. The wound had an angry bruise surrounding the opening, and it didn't look any better before. The dried blood had at least made the punctured skin seem a little more calm, but it was still an ugly sight.
The risk for infections weren't on the bad side, but it still scared the two riders.
As Astrid's hands dug into Hiccup's upper back, she noticed how Hiccup didn't shift at all with her strong hands keeping him down. Either this was nothing to him, or he was really out of it.
Gothi handed the needle to Fishlegs, her finger pointed to the wound and then to the Gronkle rider.
"You want me to do it?" Gothi nodded and gave a smile. That smile however, was short lived after Gobber made a comment.
"She's too old that she can't stop shaking." Gothi frowned and swatted Gobber with her staff. His hand and hook flew up to protect him, but Gothi kept swinging. Astrid couldn't help but chuckle.
It didn't take long for Gothi to stop abusing her translator, when she finished, she watched Fishlegs concentrate on stitching.
Gothi and Gobber were right. If Astrid wasn't holding the somewhat thrashing Hiccup, he could have made something worse. His moans and cried weren't music to anyone's ears, but it was helping him.
Astrid calmly ran her fingers through his silky hair. Her fingers trailed down his hair and to his neck. It made her choke on her own breath. The slight feeling of a indent on the back of his neck, made things worse. Her fingertips circled his neck. The front of his neck felt worse. You could feel every detail.
It felt like chains were used around his neck. What happened on that island? By the depth of it, the chains were tight and were pulled, they seemed on for awhile too. Astrid had to ask about it when he woke up. Of course there was nothing to be done about a bruise, but if something was around the poor boy's neck, Astrid was furious.
Since she was solely focus on his neck, she didn't realize that Fishlegs was done. When she noticed Hiccup was now still and resting, she looked at her comrade and let go of Hiccup's body. Finally the bandages were wrapped around Hiccup's waist, Gobber watched Gothi draw in the dirt.
"We have to turn him on his back she says. The wound will be okay, we need him to drink the herbs and make sure he lays flat otherwize the ribs won't heal as properly. We got a bucket of ice blocks just incase." Gobber quoted.
It took everyone (except Gothi) to flip Hiccup gently on his back. Gothi had pulled up his shirt to inspect anything on his chest, but found a bruise as black as the night. That must have been from Ryker. Which made Astrid more mad then she had been earlier.
"They haven't treated 'im well." Gobber said lightly as he grabbed more cloth and another ice block. As the ice rested on Hiccup's chest and now known bruise, Astrid and Fishlegs had forced Hiccup to swallow the herb water.
Eventually, the procedure was finished. Everyone had left Astrid and Hiccup alone, even Gothi. The grin on her face when she left the building had made Astrid's stomach twist more, and her face turn red. After Astrid gathered herself, she collected Hiccup' hands in hers and kissed his palm.
"Come back to me Hiccup." She mumbled as she looked at his closed eyes and his relaxed features. He was definitely too precious for the archipelago.
One more chapter after this YAY! Trust me my people I will add Hiccstrid just like season 4 WHOO! Who's ready for season 5!
Also Astrid got way more protective of Hiccup when they became a couple. So CUTE!