But...The Night Is Young!

Epilogue

THREE MONTHS LATER

She left me.

She fucking left me. 

My mind can't wrap around it. I don't think I can move on to another day and live without her. But surprisingly I did, for the past three months. Of course not a day goes by with me not thinking about her. She's all I can think about. I've been missing her a lot, especially Stormfly. Since Astrid can't take her, she had no choice but to leave her here. She's been spending the time in Toothless' pen at the side of the house which Toothless doesn't use anymore so it became in handy when Stormfly moved in. She's been staying at her pen for the past three months, not bothering to get up and go out to the village. I've been feeding her so she stays healthy and her eating is the only thin she's ever down.

Of course Toothless has been trying to get her out of her misery after a week she stayed but she won't comply to her friend's suggestion. It has been hard for us. Since Astrid left, I can feel my dad's disappointment in me as another marriage contract was torn up. I didn't want it to be torn up. All I want is to have it signed by Astrid and I. But she slipped through my fingers like an eel. My mother told me not to worry about it and that there are more other girls out there. She doesn't get it. Astrid is the one.

The one I have been looking for my whole life. Astrid is the she.

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"Astrid," I mumbled in my sleep as shift around. I'm having the dream again...well more like reliving the past in my sleep. "A-Astrid!" I quickly jolt up to sitting up, my eyes snapping open. I saw Toothless jerk up and look at me, worried in his eyes. I gave him a signal that I'm okay so he went back to sleep. Panting, I ruffled my hair before attaching my left leg before standing up. I looked out the little window and saw the sun has already risen. I quickly put my armour and went downstairs to see my father and mother eating breakfast.

"Well guess who's awake," was the first thing my father announced as he laid his eyes on me. My mother smile softly at me as I made my way to the table. I sat down on my stool and took a wooden bowl. I filled it with the soup that I'm hoping my mother didn't make. I took a wooden spoon and started eating. "Finally my son is already up," my father said. "We have duties today that we have to fulfil. You have to do it if you want to be chief."

My eyes travel up to him as I slurp the soup from the wooden spoon. Before when I was little, I didn't want to be chief. It was too much responsibility and all I wanted to do is go and find trolls and fight dragons. Till today, it has changed but only some. But I can't change my fate and what is going to be done. I am the heir and the only heir to Berk, I need to be the chief when my father steps down. 

But you need a bride. Someone that can produce you an heir when you step down, a thought of my mind appears. In an instant, I thought of Astrid but it was pushed back making me remember that she chose another man. She chose someone else to marry...not me. I look back down at the ground and see my good leg and the peg leg. I remember when I first had the metal leg Gobber made for me. It was the exact day that dragons and Vikings were united because of Toothless and I. We showed them that we don't need to fight them, that we can be their friends and make peace.

What struck me is that how I managed to change a whole island of Vikings to unite with dragons whilst I failed chancing a shield maiden's mind of her trusting me and loving me since I love her so much. How did I fail on doing that? I can change thousands of people about dragons but I couldn't change the mind of the specific girl about love. 

"Hiccup?" my father suddenly snap me out of my daze and I place the spoon on the bowl. I look up at him. "Hiccup, did you hear what I just said?" he asked.