After about half an hour the flames had died down and the smoke started to clear. Left and right both Astrid and Stoic had been looking for Hiccup in the fog.
"Hiccup!" stoic shouted.
"Hiccup!" Astrid shouted as well. The more she couldn't find Hiccup the more she got worried.
"Son!" Stoic shouted as he looked out into the distance. While Astrid was looking around she saw in the distance of the clearing fog the dark shape of a dragon lying on the floor.
"Chief!" Astrid shouted out alerting Stoic to turn toward where she was looking at. Looking out they saw Toothless' body lying on the floor, seemingly unconscious. Stoic gasped and shouted Hiccup's name one last time as he and Astrid charged toward the downed dragon in hopes of finding Hiccup there safe and sound. When they arrived they looked at Toothless saddle to see if Hiccup was there. Instead they find an empty saddle covered with dark red spots.
Astrid gasped and put her hands on her mouth as she looked at the prosthetic tail of Toothless and found it completely gone with metal sticking out here and there. Tears started to form at her eyes at the thought of Hiccup being gone. She heard a hard pat on the floor and found Chief Stoic the Vast kneeling down in front of Toothless. He shook his head and blamed himself multiple times for his foolishness being the cause of his only son's death.
They both turned toward the sound of Toothless waking up with a tired growl. Stoic looked at Astrid briefly before turning back toward the dragon and stated with much sadness, "I'm... I'm so sorry, Dragon." Toothless looked at him closely for a little bit, but then spreads open his wings to reveal Hiccup's battered and partially burnt form. Stoic quickly grabbed Hiccup's body to check on him. He grew worried when Hiccup did not seem to wake up. He looked toward Astrid with sad eyes as he stared sadly at his son's body. She knew what he was thinking, but she really did not want to believe it.
She shook her head and quickly grabbed Hiccup from Stoic as she pressed her head against his chest. She listened closely to Hiccup and prayed to Odin that Hiccup would hopefully be hanging on by a thread. To her, even the faintest heartbeat will at least give enough hope that Hiccup would make it out of this. She started to let out a few tears when she did not hear anything coming from Hiccup's heart. She couldn't take the pain anymore and let out more tears onto Hiccup's chest.
When she let out tears she couldn't help but let out silent sobs onto Hiccup as she thought back to what Hiccup had said on their way there.
"I knew this Astrid."
She sobbed a little more and hugged Hiccup's body closer to her.
"I knew this when I first got involved in this war. That was my first lesson was to know"
She pulled back to look at his face. She watched each and every feature of Hiccup as she held him in her arms. She caressed his face once as the last part of what Hiccup said echoed in her mind.
"That I may not walk out of this alive. If anything I don't want anymore people to die... especially having everybody, along with my father, relocate to the cemetery"
She hugged Hiccup close to her. She closed her eyes and prayed to Odin that if Hiccup could not come back. Then, maybe he will let Hiccup into Valhalla to rest with all great warriors. She was interrupted by a very faint sound vibrating in her ear.
