How You Doing Insane Gang!
Based off of Season 6 Race to the Edge episode 2.
Upon seeing her tribe members being manhandled by fliers and dragon hunters, Astrid wanted to find Stormfly and take on all of them by herself.
Scanning the area she spotted her loyal dragon captured underneath a net.
"Stormfly!"
The dragon craned her neck and squawked. Astrid ran towards her, coming a foot away from her a huge fireball stopped the warrior in her tracks.
"Look how pathetic you are, trying to save your dragon."
Astrid hurled the axe she borrowed from a hunter. Her aim was true but the skill that Krogan possessed allowed him to catch the handle before it did any damage.
Krogan smiled, "Astrid Hofferson I presume, Johann has special plans for you my dear."
While she was distracted talking to Krogan, two hunters grabbed her arms.
"You'll never take Berk!"
Krogan gazed around taking in the destruction his fliers caused.
"By the looks of it, I already have."
He motioned with his head to bound up Astrid tighter than before. Lowering his titan Singetail the hunters placed the tied and gagged Astrid behind Krogan.
"Keep watch for Stoick and Hiccup while I will personally deliver Miss Hofferson to Johann's ship."
The two men saluted and Krogan took off.
Meanwhile, Stoick and Hiccup realized the setup and rushed back to Berk to see everything up in flames.
"Ugh Krogan..." Hiccup groaned.
"He will pay for what he's done to my island," Stoick growled.
"Here's the plan..."
Stoick was going to go to the arena to save the dragons while Hiccup was tasked with tearing down the Great Hall doors.
He was surprised that he didn't spot Krogan, he figured by now he would have shown his face.
Toothless blasted open the doors and the gang plus Gobber was already waiting. They must have been able to untie themselves.
Hiccup landed and searched each face looking for a particular someone. The blood in his veins ran cold.
"Where's Astrid?"
Fishlegs rubbed his foot in the dirt. "She was with us during the initial ambush but she was the only one to take down her guards and escape before we got locked in here."
"Call your dragons, my dad should have them free." "If anyone funds anything use a distress call, we need to find her now."
The others nodded, Hiccup didn't wait for them instead turned to search the whole island.
What if she's off injured somewhere and couldn't get help or went off to hunt down Krogan without telling anyone? What...what if she's dead?
These thoughts kept swirling in his head as his and Toothless's eyes searched down below.
Stoick intercepted them. "Haha!" "Hiccup we did it and that coward Krogan was nowhere to be found!"
Hiccup continued to ignore him and focus on the task at hand.
Stoick noticed his son's morose mood. "Something wrong son?"
Without looking up he replied, "Astrid's missing."
Just then Snotlout's distress blast could be seen.
Stoick pointed, "There!"
Wasting no time Toothless jetted off towards the call. He landed to see the rest of the gang already there.
"You found something Snotlout?" Hiccup asked as he smoothly dismounted Toothless.
Snotlout did a gesture to Hookfang for him to move aside. Stormfly was lying down moaning, still encased in the netting.
"Stormfly!"
Hiccup unleashed his fire sword to cut her free. Immediately Stormfly went into a panicked frenzy.
"Woah, I've never seen her act this bad before." Tuffnut pointed out on top of Belch.
Hiccup tried to calm her down.
"I know right?" "Maybe she knows what happened to Astrid," Fishlegs added.
Stoick landed just then. "Any luck?
"Wouldn't it be great if we could somehow have something that could be used to track her down?" Ruffnut conversed.
Tuffnut held up a finger. "Good idea sis, but it would be even awesomer if we had a dragon to track said scent to Astrid."
Hiccup was scratching Stormfly's chin. "Ugh Thor, I'm so stupid for not doing this earlier."
He tugged at his lower belt, untangling a very small blue pouch that could be easily concealed behind leather.
"Come on Hiccup!" "We don't have time for one of your stupid inventions, we need to find Astrid." Snotlout moaned.
Hiccup ignored him. "When Astrid and I were discussing battle plans she had this idea in case we get separated from each other. "
He produced a nicely tied lock of blonde hair.
Tuffnut went closer to take a better look at it. "Creepy H"—"but we like it!" Ruffnut finished for him, coming up from behind.
Snotlout crossed his arms, "You want me to believe that Astrid has a lock of your hair somewhere in a pouch on herself?"
Hiccup rose both of his eyebrows and nodded. "Yes."
Fishlegs squealed, "Don't listen to those muttonheads Hiccup"—he closed his two hands around each other—"I think it's romantic."
Hiccup just rolled his eyes as he held up the lock to Stormfly. She huffed and flapped her wigs indicating she wanted to leave.
Stoick pounded his fist into his hand. "I can't wait to blast Krogan to pieces."
"No dad"—Hiccup mounted Toothless—"He's mine, he took Astrid, he's made it personal."
Toothless growled and gnashed his teeth together, sensing his rider's anger and his own. Without waiting for the others to mount up, Hiccup was in the air.
Stormfly lead the rest of the gang and Stoick across the ocean and out of the Archipelago.
"Ugh, how much longer is this going to take, I'm tired of seeing the sea." Snotlout grumbled.
Hiccup shifted in his saddle. "Shut up Snotlout, I don't have time for your whining."
"Yesh, touchy much?"
Hiccup pulled Toothless in a wide arc to cut off Hookfang.
"Oh yeah?" "How would you like it if Krogan and Johann took the person you loved and cared for huh?"
Snotlout was about to retort when Skullcrusher got in the middle of the two.
"That's enough you two." "Hiccup go back up front, nows not a time to fight between us, we have more important matters at hand like rescuing Astrid."
Hiccup let out a string of words under his breath but nonetheless followed orders.
Silence took hold for the remainder of the trip until Stormfly squawked signaling that they were here.
Down below hunter ships in staggard positions headed southward. There were at least 20 or so ships.
"Okay Hiccup what's the plan?" Fishlegs asked.
"Okay I'm guessing Astrid is probably on the ship with Krogan and most likely Johann"—he gestures with his head to the cage containing the titan Singetail—"I want concentration fire on the front and rear so Snotlout take front and the twins take rear, Fishlegs and dad will each take a wing and Stormfly will assist anyone in trouble." "Meanwhile myself and Toothless will get Astrid." "Is that clear?"
"As clear as a yak frozen on ice H." Tuffnut hollered.
"Yeah okay."
Using cloud cover they descended from above. Hiccup went last to try to draw the attention away from himself, the others would draw all the attention to themselves that hopefully Toothless can pass virtually undetected.
Climbing onto the ship proved more difficult than they thought, the deck was crawling with hunters; more so than the others. Hiccup sent Toothless above to act a distraction, his tail was set to glide mode so can ship hop if things got too hectic.
Hiccup; armed with his sword took the time to head down below. It was eerily quiet compared to the mayhem above. He had a feeling they were expecting him.
He figured Astrid would be held in a dragon cell, probably chained or tied up. The sound of footsteps broke Hiccup out of his thoughts, quickly he hid in a small alcove. Krogan walked by, eyes narrow and back taut. He was pissed, most likely from the dragon riders burning down his ships.
His head snapped to the side, Hiccup swore his eyes were meeting his. Holding his breath and tightening his grip on his sword, he thought about just jumping Krogan then and there but the probability of winning was slim. Krogan's head snapped forward again and he continued to walk towards the stairs leading onto the deck.
Hiccup closed his eyes and let out a deep breath. His hand touches something making a jingling sound. He unhooks the small object; keys. The gods were on his side today. Proceeding with the plan he came across the cages. He desperately wanted to rescue all of the dragons held up in here but he forced himself to keep focus.
Finally, as if the gods had answered his prayer he spots Astrid tied and gagged in a cell. She looked focused trying to saw off her restraints with a fishbone.
"That's going to take awhile."
Her head cranks forward to see her boyfriend in shining leather armor. Hiccup fusses with the keys trying to find the right one to unlock it, they both hear and click.
Hiccup wastes no time using his sword to cut her free and removing the gag.
"Oh thank Thor, you're okay." Hiccup breathed out after he enveloped her in a hug.
"I'm fine, I can't believe I let that mangy coward get the best of me."
"It's alright, now come on, I don't know how much time we have."
Grabbing her hand, Hiccup led her up to the deck.
Most of the ships were sunk and now they were battling Krogan in the sky.
Hiccup whistled for Toothless who was just dispatching the remaining hunter. Hearing his best friend's whistle he bounded over giving Astrid a loving purr and rubbing his head against her side.
She chuckled. "I missed you too Toothless."
Now in the air, Toothless roared bringing all the attention to him. "We got what we came for let's go!"
The other riders cheered and doubled back into the cloud cover.
Krogan yelled in disappointment.
With everyone in the safety of cloud cover,. they were able to celebrate their victory.
"Is everyone alright?" "Astrid?" Stoick asked.
The others let out a chorus of yeses. "I'm okay Chief, just a bit disappointed in myself for getting captured like that, I was so close to putting my boot in Krogan's face."
Stoick laughed. "Aye, I think that's how most of us were feeling especially Hiccup." His eyes twinkled in amusement.
Astrid cocked an eyebrow at Hiccup.
Tuffnut joined in. "Yeah Hoff, did you know how scary H can be when he's angry?" "Its the greatest," Ruff added.
"Oh really?"
Hiccup's back went rigid. "I don't want to talk about it, I'm just happy that you're safe."
Astrid eased the tenseness in his back by running her hands down his shoulder blades before resting on his hips again.
The ride back to Berk was in peaceful silence.
I know not a ton of Hiccstrid in this one but I really wanted to do a what if to this episode.
Stay Crazy.