Astrid held herself her and smiled shamelessly triumphantly to herself as she pushed her way through the thicket before the small group. They had only been on the island for about 20 minutes and had used that time not getting too far from the shore because of the hard to manoeuvre Forrest before them.
She turned her head to look back at Hiccup, she gave him a knowing smirk and span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanto which he responded with a playful roll of his eyes whilst giving her a grin. Her plan had finally come together, she had the evidence that Eret Son Of Eret was indeed showing interest in the Thorsten girl, and Astrid knew that Ruffnut still had eyes for the former dragon trapper and this mission Hiccup had proposed was a perfect way to get her plan into action.
On the long flight to the island, Astrid had been sure to encourage StormFly to keep up the front with Hiccup and Toothless, just out of ears reach of the others (especially Ruffnuts borderline stalkers) which would of caused a scene. It was then she lay out her plan to Hiccup, which was,
A. Put Ruffnut and Eret in the same group to search the island together.
B. Place the one Viking Eret couldn't stand in the same group, Snotlout.
C. Eret grows some balls and confesses his love for the female twin.
Well that was the ideal outcome of the plan. Hiccup had been surprised at her suggestion to put the loud mouthed and as some would say irritable Snotlout in the same group if the whole plan was for Eret and Ruffnut to connect on a more romantic basis, Astrid was quick to remind him though of when Eret became more vocal and prone to start conversations with Ruffnut.
Astrid has noticed that while Eret would make awkward little comments here and there to Ruffnut and simply watch her when he didn't think anyone was looking, that this would all change when either Snotlout or Fishlegs was involved (Snotlout more so for his boisterous personality).
Eret would suddenly become a lot more interested in talking to Ruffnut, he would interrupt any contact between Ruffnut and her two followers and would end up having a conversation with her. Of course the conversation would be brief when Eret would get flustered and he would quickly excuse himself.
That is why her plan was so perfect. Snotlout mindlessly would flirt with Ruffnut, Eret would interrupt start a conversation with Ruffnut and since they were in a group search Eret couldn't simply just excuse himself when he got flustered.
Astrid grinned to herself and let out a small laugh at the thought, to think a man who wrestled with dragons and captured them for most of his life became nervous around a girl. She could feel eyes looking at her and looked behind her once's more at Hiccup who grinned at her.
"Something funny M'lady" he quipped as he continued his way through their dense surroundings. Astrid shrugged her shoulders as she pushed a branch aside, holding it so that Hiccup and then the larger, meatier man Fishlegs could get past. *That was the only fault in her plan* she thought to herself with a grimace as Fishlegs slowly pushed past her. They should of left Fishlegs to babysit the dragons, then maybe they'd be making better time.
Astrid snapped back to reality and smirked at Hiccup, "Nothing funny at all Chief" Letting the branch she had held fly back before taking a few quick steps to catch up with Hiccup before beginning to whisper once again to her betrothed, just out of earshot from a certain Viking.
Fishlegs glanced towards the Viking warrior as she whispered in Hiccups ear. Her whisper made the chief laugh as the three trudged through the forest. Those two were definitely planning something.
Whilst Fishlegs had been making his best attempts at getting more attention then Snotlout did on the fly out to this island he did happen to notice that Hiccup and Astrid had chose to fly further ahead then the others. Fishlegs had figured that strange but had forgotten about it as soon as he remembered his competition Snotlout.
It was when they reached the island that he had begun seeing the different looks that Hiccup and Astrid were giving each other. Fishlegs just couldn't figure out what the looks were about tho. None of it made sense and frankly at this moment it wasn't the first thing on his mind.
The first thing on his mind was that Snotlout was getting quality time to spend with Ruffnut and Fishlegs knew Snotlout would be pulling out all the stops to get some brownie points.
As Fishlegs shuffled his way up a sudden incline in the forest his conscious was reassured by the fact Eret was with Snotlout and Ruffnut.
Eret would interrupt Snotlout's flirtation and to make matters better Eret didn't even like Ruffnut! Fishlegs would even say that the man could even be disgusted by the girl. There was no way Eret was going to get in the way of the prize.
