How You Doing Insane Gang!

I finally got around to watching HTTYD 3 after binge-watching every beforehand. It was one of the best movies I have ever seen and oh my god did I bawl like a baby at the end. Not only did the franchise end but it resembled the end of my childhood. So prepare for some angsty chapters ahead, I'm just so full of emotions right now.

This is post HTTYD 3 so spoilers

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New Berk was in mourning. They haven't suffered such a terrible loss since Stoick passed away. Hiccup didn't have the heart to make everyone hurry to build the new village, he realized belatedly that it was going to take twice as long now without their scaly companions.

Since they left a day ago, Hiccup stayed rooted in his spot on the cliffside where he said goodbye to his best friend.

He imagined the gang would all be in their own tents, wallowing in their own sadness. After all, it was those original six who had the longest and strongest bonds to their dragons.

"I figured you'd be here." A voice startled him out of his musings.

Hiccup took a breath, "I haven't done much else." He sighed, casting a glance behind him to see Astrid.

She took her place beside him and dangled her legs out towards the sea.

"What am I doing Astrid?"

The sky dimmed with fading yellow and orange to give away to a blood-red of the evening sun. It accentuated Hiccup's red eyes and nose much to her dismay and reminded him of Toothless's favorite time to go flying. She tried and failed to wipe away the tear residue that stained his cheeks.

"You are grieving like the rest of us, obviously this is harder on you than anyone else."

Hiccup bent his head. "I—I..." He huffed trying to find the right words. "I feel like everything I did for the past six years didn't change a thing like it means nothing...like I mean nothing."

"Hiccup, that's far from the truth and deep down you know it."

He shot his head up to look at her with tears gathering in the corners of his eyes. "Do I?" He punched the ground, hesitating his fist over the grass again. "I'm back to where I started, a failure, a runt, a hiccup."

She reached out to unfurl his hand and instead tightly clasped it in her own. "You're right, you're back where you started but Hiccup, everything you did, everything you will continue to do didn't come from Toothless—He flinched at hearing his best friend's name—or other dragons. Every Viking in Berk has changed because of you Hiccup, I changed...all for the better."

"And I was better with him."

This will probably be the hardest thing Hiccup will ever have to endure. Astrid secretly cursed the Gods for having a fun time tormenting the man she loves. In the span of a single year, he had to go through the death of his father and leaving his best friend.

"Did I do the right thing by sending them all away?" He asked her.

She nodded her head, "Yeah, I think so and you said it yourself someday they can come back again."

Hiccup appreciated the small inkling of hope but there will always be bad people in this world. If the dragons do ever return it won't be in his lifetime.

Is Toothless sitting on the edge of the world thinking about him right now?

"I miss him."

Astrid moved to straddle him so she could be tall enough to wrap her arms comfortably around his neck. It allowed Hiccup to bury his head into her sternum and cry. His shoulders shook and his hands moved around to grip the back of her shirt.

"I lost my other half, my brother."

Astrid let herself shed a few tears. "Gods Hiccup I know, Gods I know."

Kind of short but I really needed to write one of these scenes out. I literally died when the left. More angst to come later on.

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