How To Train Your Dragon: Broken

Three Years to Grow

Astrid shot through the air, her hair wiping wildly in the wind. "Whooooooohooooo!" she cheered loudly above the wind. Her Deadly Nadder Stormy zigzagged through numerous sea stacks. Stormy had grown rather quick the past three years. He was already the best at Dragon Racing...next to Striker the Skrill.

"Comin' through!" A dark shadow flashed by them. They nearly knocked Astrid and Stormy out of the sky.

"Hiccup!" Astrid chuckled, "Chase after them boy!"

'With pleasure!' Stormy laughed.

"Astrid...honey...Astrid."

Astrid snapped back to reality,"Huh? Oh...uh..what?" She was at the table with her parents.

"I asked where you were all day," Astrids mother, Edna, repeated.

"Oh. I was out flying," Astrid took a few bites of food.

"With Hiccup?" Edna asked that question as if it was an annoyance.

"Why is that such a problem?"

"Because you've spend all  hours of the day with him for nearly two months," Edna pointed out, "You have a life here on Berk. Now start living it."

Astrid sighed, "I'm helping him. He said that he wasn't use to being around vikings so I thought that I'd spend time with him to help him get use to it again."

"Are you just saying that as an excuse?" Astrids father, Erlingr, chimed in.

"Dad!? It's not, "Astrid couldn't believe that her parents were against her right now, "I really am. Besides, he's the heir. Stoick isn't going to be around forever. The more help he gets the better."

"And he appreciates it," Edna picked up the finished plates, "But your father and I think that there is another reason."

"What?" But then Astrid understood what her parents meant. She shot up from her chair, "I do not...like him in that way. We're just friends!"

"He's better than any other boy around her age," Erlingr said to Edna.

"Dad!"

"There's more to life than just that boy," Edna said to her daughter.

"I'm going to bed," Astrid refused to continue the conversation, "Good night."

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When the sun rose with the next day Astrid was out of her parents house in a second, last nights conversation still rag fresh in her head. "You know that I'm just trying to help him. Right Stormy?" she asked her dragon.

'I'd rather stay out of this,' Stormy admitted. 

Thanks," Astrid sighed. She scanned the perfectly blue sky, not a cloud in sight. Astrid loved flying on days like this. No clouds meant no worries.

'We flying to Hiccup?' Stormy asked.

"Mmmm...no. Remember, he said that he was spending time with Valka today," Astrid laid back on her dragon,"She was going to teach him some really cool dragon stuff."

'And your not joining?'

"I just want to be away from everybody right now," Astrid admitted, "Just keep flying around until you get tired, k?" Stormy flew until mid-afternoon. When he landed his wings dropped to his sides, the muscles in them were really sore. Astrid slipped off her dragon and headed straight for her home. "Go chat with the other dragons Stormy," Astrid yawned, "I'm gonna go take a nap." She slipped into her house, hoping to just go straight to bed. But instead she was greeted by her parents.