Saving Astrid

Chapter Four- Hiccup

A dull light flickered from the upstairs bedroom at Stoick the Vast's home on the island of Berk. The moon was now falling from its high point in the sky. Hiccup sat at his table in his room glaring down at a black in covered map.

"Gahh!" Hiccup threw his head back in frustration. Pulling at his hair, he sighed and looked back down at the map with softer eyes. He pushed the map aside and laid his head down on his arms. He turned his head to look at his sleeping dragon. He was that Toothless was getting a good night's rest, that was the only reason Hiccup even came home, so Toothless could sleep and eat.

'It's almost been 4 days,' Hiccup thought, then continued, 'Astrid… Where are you? I have been all over Berk, to Dragon Island… Hiccup sighed as he thought back to the past few days that had ended with a ink covered map.

(Remembering)

After finding Stormfly and taking her back to Gobber Hiccup and Toothless had gone back to they had found her. They had searched the scene for what felt like days that only turned out to be hours. After they had moving branches, pulling up trees, moving mountains of dirt and more there was still no sign of the missing Berk.

Nothing at all. Not a foot print, not a piece of fabric or a strand of hair. Hiccup would stop his digging and searching to sigh in aspiration and scratch at his head. Toothless would drop his head and nudge his rider to comfort him.

After all but ripping the forest apart Hiccup and Toothless returned to home. The sky was turning dark with the moon slowly rising.

They went to the town hall where he asked Gobber who was sitting with his dad how Stormfly was doing.

Gobber reported that she was no longer bleeding but would not be flying or a few days. Hiccup thanked him before he turned to his dad and saying a soft good night.

Once Hiccup got to his home he feed Toothless and went up to his room. He sat at his desk and got out his ink and paper to start to draw a map of Berk.

Hiccup's map had all of the major landscapes and bodies of water. After that he drew the dragon laying ground, the nest and then Outcast Island on the corners as big circles.

Hiccup had not realized that Toothless had come up and gone to sleep because now the sun was coming up and was sitting shaking his leg waiting for Toothless to wake up. After Toothless woke up they were off to search all of Berk.

Hiccup remembered flying over Berk with Toothless at the end of that second day with still no trace of Astrid. They had been to Mildew's and back to town. North, south, east, and west it didn't matter. Hiccup remembered the feeling of that second day. He thought back to the words he had said to his dad about how he would save Astrid but… When?

He thought about the about the nightmare he had that second night.

That horrible vision of Astrid de….

Hiccup sat up and shook the thoughts from his mind.

That nightmare would haunt him until he found Astrid… Alive.

The third day he and Toothless had flown to the old dragon nest, also known as Dragon Island. It was mre like a waste land .

After searching the ash and dirt for hours Hiccup knew that Astrid wasn;t there. He sat down on the ash covered earth and looked around as Toothless curled around him.

He thought back to the fight with Red Death and he looked down at his legs and sighing. He then looked at Toothless and breathed "Thanks again Bud." As he patted the Night Fury on the head. "Okay… well let's go home."