I apologize for as long as it took me to get the second chapter to the story up, it just wasn't going together the way I wanted and I had to redo it a few times.
HTTYD Story Chapter Two
Astrid woke feeling sick to her stomach and disoriented, while she was trying to get herself straight something nagging in the back of her mind. A constant rocking, back and forth, then it clicked. She jumped to her feet and looked around, then she knew for sure she was on a boat. Against the wall behind her she noticed Hiccup sitting there, "Hiccup, what's going on?",,"Don't you remember? We were kidnapped." a brief memory flashed through her head, "It's mostly a blur to me." Hiccup heard footsteps slowly making their way down the stairs, he pulled Astrid down and looked back at the floor. "Hey, wha-",,"Just sit and don't talk." Snotlout appeared from a small staircase near the very bow of the ship, he slowly made his way over to the cell that Hiccup and Astrid were in, "Nice to see you're awake now Astrid." he grabbed at Astrid through the bars, "Come on Hiccup, you know you want to yell at me, hit me, be mean, do something!" Hiccup just sat there, staring down. Snotlout looked from Hiccup to Astrid continuously, he stopped on Astrid at one point. He noticed she was trembling, "What are you crying now?" a burning urge to lunge at him and scream in his face was building inside of her, she was about to do so, but then a large figure came thumping down the stairs and spoke, "Captain, we've spotted land of the port side.",,"But it's too soon into the journey to have reached our destination.",,"What should we do?",,"Dock, we're in need of food anyway." the figure nodded and thumped his way back to the upper deck, "I'll deal with you two later." Snotlout walked off to the upper deck as well. After they docked Hiccup went to work planning an escape, "Astrid do you have a needle? I should be able to pick this lock." Astrid checked her pockets, "Not unless." she pulled a needle out of her hair and handed it to Hiccup. He reached around the bars and stared working on picking the lock, a pair of footsteps descending the stairs interrupted him working, he quickly went back to sitting against the wall, "See I told you they haven't moved, now pay up." The larger of the two men grumbled as he handed a few pieces of gold to the other, they turned and walked off to the room at the stern of the ship. The slight sound of the door closing let Hiccup know he could continue working on the lock, after a long while in silence a soft click rung out, "I got it." he slowly removed the lock and set it beside him on the ground. Hiccup heard the sound of the door open and close again so he quickly sat down against the bars, when the men were walking by the paused, "Something isn't right here.",,"Yeah, but what is it?" sweat was pouring down Hiccup's forehead, "Hmmm, I got it! The boy moved!" they walked away laughing. Hiccup let out a sigh of relief and stood up, "Now, shall we make our escape?" Astrid was already making her way out of the cell. Hiccup ran down to the room at the stern of the ship, "Hiccup, where are you going?! The exit is this way!",,"I'm looking for my stuff!" Astrid sat down under the stairs and waited for Hiccup to return, then the sound of footsteps and voices. "Zender, are you sure you left your helmet down here?",,"We've looked everywhere else haven't we?",,"I suppose but shouldn't w-" they both stopped at the cell, "Yorgel did you forget to lock the cell again?",,"No, I locked it.",,"If you locked it, where are the prisoners?" Yorgel shrugged and started looking around the ship, Zender headed straight for the little room. Astrid couldn't sit by and watch Hiccup get caught again, she stepped out from under the stairs and let out a whistle. Zender and Yorgel turned around to see who it was, Astrid ran off up the stairs. They both started after her, Hiccup looked out to see Astrid being chased up the stairs. After finding the last of his things, Hiccup took off to help Astrid, as quickly and quietly as he could move. When he reached the top of the stairs he looked around slowly, he didn't see them anywhere. He began to search the rest of the ship, the only thing he found was a small piece of paper with a half finished note on it, which read:
"Hiccup went into town to hide. Please hurry and-" -And? And what?- was the only thing going through his head at the time. After grabbing a few days rations of food and water, he set off into the torn to look for Astrid. On his way through the town he stopped off and bought a sheep skin cloak that was slightly too big on him. And he would soon be thankful he did so, walking through the town center he came across Snotlout and his goons. He overheard them talking; "I can't believe you idiots let her get away, if Hiccup has gotten away too you guys are in for it." Hiccup couldn't wait around and be lazy, he needed to find Astrid, and fast. He set off again as quickly as he could without bringing suspicion upon him, once he was out of the town center he broke into a full run to look for a good hiding spot to think in. He found a dark back alleyway he could relax a little in and think about the situation he's in. -Okay so, if I were running from Snotlout, and were Astrid, where would I hide?- Hiccup gave up and started looking through the supplies he had with him from Snotlout's ship, he had more than enough food to last two people a week and a half. Just as he was finishing up he heard footsteps from behind him, he whipped around to see who it was and saw Astrid walking up to him. "Astrid! How did you find me?",,"It umm, wasn't that hard Hiccup." He chuckled softly and hugged Astrid, "Well now that we're together, we can make a plan on how to get back to Berk." Astrid was pacing nervously, "Actually Hiccup... I umm, kinda made a deal with Snotlout..." Hiccup then noticed the two goons walking up the alleyway, "Astrid...What did you do?",,"Hiccup I had to..." She whispered in his ear as she walked by him, "I'll find you again, I promise." The two goons then grabbed Hiccup by the arms and started dragging him away, tears started rolling down Astrid's face as Hiccup disappeared from view. Just then Snotlout walked up to her, "Well, since he's out of the picture, maybe you and I can become a thing?",,"Snotlout, just give me the trip back to Berk as you promised." Snotlout noticed Astrid's hands curled into fists, "Alright, alright, we leave in an hour." Astrid turned and sat down facing the wall of the building, "Just let me know when you're ready to leave." Snotlout grumbled to himself as he walked away to prepare the trip back to Berk.
-Back on Berk-
The island has been in an uproar since Hiccup and Astrid had been kidnapped by one of their own, Hiccup's mom had taken charge as best she could and had been trying to keep the island of Berk going.
The sun was just beginning to set on the island of Berk, and most of the villagers were gathered at the great hall for the meeting. Shouts were coming from all over the great hall, small arguments, some almost to the point of a fight. "QUIET! Good, now. We're here to discuss a way to find and rescue Hiccup and Astrid, not to fight amongst ourselves. Does anybody have any ideas to share on the topic?" A viking on the smaller side of size stepped up, "I have a few ideas, first off: Why not forget the girl?What good is she to Berk? She's the whole reason this happened in the first place anyway." A few shouts of agreement were heard from the back of the great hall, "Okay, let me stop you there and just say a few things. We will not forget Astrid for three reasons, reason one is because she is Hiccup's yet to be wife, reason two is she'll be giving birth to the possible future chief of Berk-",,"That is not so!",,"It is so! She told me herself, now the third reason is because she could be more help to Berk than you seem to think." This time shouts of disagreement rang out in the great hall, "ENOUGH! WE WILL RESCUE THEM BOTH! AND THAT'S FINAL!" Just then one of the sentries came running into the great hall, "Small boat! Spotted off shore!",,"Which shore?!",,"South shore!" About half the great hall was up and running towards the south shore, by the time they got there the small boat was on the beach although it seemed like no one was in the boat. Just as they were about to decide it was nothing and leave it there one of them noticed something moving underneath a cloth, the man slowly pulled back the cloth to see what was under it. What was under it turned out to be Astrid, she was shivering and struggling just to stay awake. "It's Astrid! She's not in too good a shape though." Hiccup's mom was one of the first few to take action to help Astrid, first thing they did was carry her to Hiccup's house. When Astrid came to she seemed overly upset about something, "Astrid, is something wrong?",,"I uhhh, I- I- I-",,"Astrid whatever it is I'm sure it's not too bad, and that it can be fixed.",,"I made a deal with Snotlout, so he'd set me free. Only because he threatened to kill me.",,"Astrid, what was the deal?",,"My freedom, for Hiccup..." Valka's eyes went wide, "You- you what? How could you do something like that?" The only thing Astrid could do was shake her head as tears started rolling down her cheeks, she had no answer for why she did what she did. But she knew she simply made the wrong decision, and was gonna regret it for quite awhile.
When Astrid finally stop crying long enough to talk what she said gave Valka hope, "I promised him I'd find him, so I refuse to stop till I do."
-To be continued.-
Sorry if it's a little short, how I ended it worked best since I planned for three chapters and don't feel like changing that. Chapter three is begun already, it shouldn't take too long I hope.