What's Going On Insane Gang!
I can't believe the 3rd movie is almost here! I kind of don't want to watch it because I know after I do its an end of my childhood. I want to try to put out as many one-shots as I can before the 3rd movie is out and maybe some afterword if I have any ideas from the new movie. Ultimately since the 3rd movie is the last of any HTTYD content this collection is coming to an end after the release.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
Astrid was patrolling the small sea stacks surrounding Dragon's Edge. It was getting late and she still needed to go over plans with Hiccup.
"Alright girl, I think that's enough for tonight."
Stormfly squawked with the quills of her tail. She scrunched her nose and whipped out her trusty ax. Stormfly worked on her own accord to shoot spikes at an incoming dragon flyer.
"Come on Stormfly! It's an ambush!"
Dragon flyers descended from the darkened sky above, shielded from the moon. Astrid was able to take another one out, knocking him unconscious from the Singetail's back.
Even with the valiant effort, Astrid was surrounded. She didn't want to be taken, prisoner. Hiccup and the others wouldn't be able to find her if she just disappeared without a trace.
Turning Stormfly, she hoped to flee towards the open ocean. A fireball hit too close and compelled Astrid to roll off her dragon's back.
"Stormfly! Go back! Get Hiccup!"
Her loyal companion hesitated and failed to see a Singetail on her flank. The wide dragon body slammed Stormfly, sending her to the ground.
Coughing, Astrid wiped the fallout debris in the air. Stormfly was moaning pitifully on the dirt. Her tail; her most effective weapon was bent at an odd angle. Without her tail for balance, she could not fly.
Astrid ran scenarios in her head as she took a defensive position to protect her dragon. None of the scenarios play out well but she'll be damned if they took her dragon while she's still alive.
Some of the flyers dismounted to face her on earth while a good portion remained in the sky. Astrid cracked her neck and readied her ax. Three came at her on at a time, which of course, was a grave mistake. She quickly dispatched the first one with the butt of her blade to his temple, accompanied by a smooth arc down to catch the second one clean in the collarbone area. One of the vulnerable spots that aren't protected by their armor.
The third one must have learned from the fatal errors of the first two before him. He parried the swipe up from her attack, she spun to disengage their weapons. A punch knocked her into Stormfly's back. This time the flyer aimed low around her knees, jumping she was able to connect on an unsuspecting kick to the chest. The hit made him stumble but wasn't powerful enough to knock him off balance as she hoped.
He swung his ax in an overhead arc. Flipping her ax, she held it on the side so his ax head was hooked on hers running perpendicular. She was able to dislodge his grip with all of her strength. Astrid was able to finish him off.
No one else came at her from the ground, they've smartened up and realized she was too deadly for hand to hand combat. Instead, they started to blast at her from the sky. Astrid had to abandon her ax in favor of dodging the raining hell storm above.
The attacks were relentless and not long after Astrid grew weary, sloppy footwork placed her in front of an approaching fireball. She was not able to dodge enough of it this time around and went down.
The flyers laughed as they left Astrid to die in the elements or maybe they thought she was dead already. Stormfly herself was able to send a weak SOS fire before she too succumbed to her injuries.
Hiccup paced the deck for an hour now, he was supposed to go over battle plans with Astrid after her patrol but she is being uncharacteristically late.
Fishlegs rubbed his eyes. He just finished updating the Book of Dragons and was heading off to bed. He never liked to stay up this late, which about this time judging by the moon it was nearing midnight.
"Hiccup? What are you still doing up?" He yawned.
"Astrid and I were supposed to go over plans but she never showed."
Fishlegs frowned. "That isn't like her at all."
Hiccup stopped in his tracks and ran a hand through his hair. "I know I—he pointed in the distance—There!"
"That's Stormfly's SOS signal!" Fishlegs gasped.
"Gather the riders, we move now," Hiccup commanded.
He wasted little time mounting Toothless and following the SOS. Hiccup could count on one hand how many times Astrid had to issue a distress call, and trust him it only happens in the direst of circumstances.
The others followed a couple of lengths behind him, eyes peeled for the duo.
Snotlout slowed Hookfang spotting objects on a sea stack.
"Oh, my Thor..."
"What? What is it?" Hiccup sounded alarmed.
Hookfang banked left and the others followed him.
As the objects became to take shape, Hiccup's heart dropped to his stomach.
"Oh no." The twins echoed.
Hiccup didn't wait for Toothless to land, he jumped when he was only hovering. Snotlout directed Hookfang over Stormfly to gently pick her up.
Fishlegs hesitated, "Hiccup...is she...?"
Kneeling down, he placed two fingers at her pulse point. He held his breath before releasing it when he felt the low thrum of her heartbeat.
"No...thank the gods."
Surveying the area, he saw numerous scorch marks on the earth and bodies of dragon fliers littered around the surviving warrior.
"Hey H!"
"What is is Tuff?"
"Uh...I think this flyer, is still alive."
Ruffnut butted in. "Barely."
Hiccup huffed, making a quick decision while cradling Astrid in his arms trying to get situated on Toothless.
"Bring him and lock him in the academy, we need to go to Berk now for Gothi."
The twins shrugged and carelessly threw the incapacitated flyer between the two heads of Barf and Belch.
The sleepy village was woken by five distressed riders and their dragons.
Stoick exited his hut after just putting on his helmet.
"Hiccup what's the meaning of this?"
His son ignored his questioning in favor of disappearing into Gothi's hut with Astrid.
"Sorry Chief, dragon flyers ambush Astrid on patrol," Fishlegs explained.
Stoick's bushy eyebrows furrowed. "Is she okay?"
Fishlegs sighed as he dragged a foot in the dirt, "We don't know."
Hiccup sat inside waiting for Gothi's diagnosis. Gobber and Stoick joined him a little later.
Gothi scribbled something in the sand.
"What's she saying Gobber?" Hiccup asked, scooting towards the edge of his seat.
"Hold on a second...hmm...uh huh...yes..."
Hiccup's fist pounded against his chair. "Gobber!"
His head shot up bewildered. "Right, right...Gothi says only time can heal her up, in the meantime, she will be unresponsive but she apparently can still hear you."
He hung his head in frustration, how can Hiccup defeat Krogan and Johann without the help of Astrid?
Gobber left the hut after reading Gothi's scribbles to inform the rest of the dragon riders on Astrid condition. Stoick stayed by his son's side until dawn broke as it was time for him to begin chiefing.
Snotlout entered the hut around mid-morning to see Hiccup staring unseeingly at Astrid's face, his teeth grinding in thought. "Hiccup, you know we still have that flyer in the academy."
Hiccup acknowledge him for the first time by wordlessly heading out the door to the academy. The rest of the riders were there waiting around anxiously. The twins had taken terms annoying the prisoner with their jokes. The prisoner kept his hands on the bars and smacking his forehead against the cage.
Ruffnut elbowed Tuffnut to cut it out once she spotted Hiccup's no-nonsense face. He, himself nodded towards Fishlegs to pull up the lever to crank open old dragon cage.
The flyer leaned back, hoping that it would go fast enough to sprint out of there. As soon as he took the first step however Hiccup had him swiftly pinned against the farthest back wall.
"How did you know she was out there?"
The grip on the prisoner's tunic tightened and was firmly shoved into the wall again.
"How did you know she was out there alone?"
From his eyes, Hiccup could tell he was smirking.
"I ain't afraid of you Hiccup Haddock."
Growling, the leader removed the guy's helmet, leaving him exposed.
This just gave the flyer the chance to spat in his face.
Hiccup delivered a great left hook, the force caused him to let go of his hold.
While still, down Hiccup kept on delivering blow after blow to the poor man. Fishlegs had to stop watching and was now eyeing the ground. He still flinched after every bone charring connection.
Breathing heavily, he paused in his beating. "Snotlout get my sword."
Snotlout's eyes narrowed. "Hiccup..."
"Now Lout."
He scoffed but followed the order anyway. He didn't feel like getting on Hiccup's bad side especially when he's in this mood.
Snotlout tossed his sword for him to ignite himself.
Bleeding profusely from his wounds, the flyer didn't have time to pull himself together before Hiccup was threatening his sword against his neck.
"I'm going to give you one last chance...how did you know that she was alone?"
"Johann had us tracking your every movement for weeks, waiting on the perfect opportunity to strike." He wheezed, spitting out a frothing mixture of saliva and blood.
Continuing on, chuckling weakling, "We had hoped it would be you that we could catch alone but settling for that bitch turned out better than expected."
Hiccup steeled his jaw and made a motion of swinging his sword above his head with a hand.
"Hiccup!"
The blade stopped just short of the prisoner's neck.
Stoick came rumbling in and grabbing ahold of Hiccup's shoulder pad basically dragging him back to their house. He threw him inside and slammed the door shut.
"What are you thinking!?" "You didn't tell me you had a prisoner?!"
Hiccup crossed his arms. "You don't need to know, he's mine to deal with."
Stoick whacked his son upside the head. "Get it through your skull, we need a plan for Johann and Krogan, they're getting way to close and you're over there playing executioner."
"Me? Executioner, you ruined that when you dragged me over here to pick some fight." He tried to shove past Stoick to get out of the house but his father's massive body blocked the doorway.
"This isn't like you, son, usually you would have about a hundred ideas floating around in that big brain of yours."
Hiccup threw up his arms. "Well sorry to disappoint but I don't okay?!" "I don't have anything!"
"Snap out of whatever is going on, this tribe needs you, Astrid needs you."
Hiccup pushed him away after hearing her name. "That's just it!" "I can't do this without her!"
Stoick sighed deeply. "Hiccup..."
He ignored him and continued ranting. "Astrid was there helping me with all of these big plans and even made ones that I incorporated." "She has had my back for so long now that I don't know what to do without it." He explained rubbing his face.
Placing a big hand on Hiccup's shoulder, Stoick tried to navigate both of them out of these muddied waters. "The chemistry and decision making that the two of you possess together in absolutely unrivaled, that's what makes you two so good for each other but...Astrid doesn't make you and you don't make Astrid." "You guys can be great without each other—Stoick then tried to add some humor in his voice—I mean Astrid took out five or six dragon flyers from what I understand."
For the first time since the ambush, Hiccup let a small smile slip.
"Thanks, dad."
The following days passed on slowly, after clearing his head, Hiccup let the flyer go with a scathing message to Johann, the message was only reaffirmed by the flyers ghastly appearance. He now spent his days strictly by Astrid's side.
Soon she began to stir and let out a quiet moan.
Hiccup sat up straight in his chair. "Astrid? Can you hear me?"
Her head tilted to the sound of his voice.
"Can you open your eyes Milady?"
He held abated breath, until a several seconds later he was greeted by her crystal blue eyes.
"I missed seeing those."
"Shut up..."
He helped her sit up properly in bed.
"How long was I out?"
"Some days." Hiccup told her, scooting closer to her bedside.
"Stormfly suffered a broken tail, it took Gobber and Fishlegs to set it back in place and splint it." "She won't be flying for some weeks."
Astrid let out a frustrated groan. "Ugh...just wait till I get my hands on those dragon flyers..."
Hiccup laughed, hearing her respond and gently connected his forehead with hers, basking in their renewed happiness.
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