Never Let Anything Happen To You

It was a quiet morning on Dragons Edge. The gang and their dragons were in the clubhouse relaxing. Hiccup was just about to explain what he planned for the day when a Terrible Terror landed on his arm, with a letter form Berk attached to its left leg. Hiccup gently scratched the small dragon under the chin as Astrid removed the letter and read it to herself. Snotlout and the Twins, who were dreading the fact that they had yet another day of work on the Edge, were now tripping over each other to see whether the letter could contain a reason to leave all their responsibilities. 

Tuffnut, who was the first one to reach Astrid's side, peered over her shoulder to get a glimpse of whatever was on there but was instead beaten by Astrid who turned around and explained it to the group.

"The Chief has asked us to return to Berk for a few days to restock supplies for the Edge and catch up with things back at home," Astrid informed in.

"Yes, finally!" 

"He says its been a while since we've visited them again, your parents are missing you guys and also there are some wild Nadders that need to be dealt with" He added the last bit with less enthusiasm, knowing that was exactly the reason why his dad was calling them back home.

"Okay, okay, great," Snotlout said sarcastically. "So basically we're heading home to do more work."

"Oh come on Snotlout it won't be that bad" Astrid replied.

"Astrid is right Snotlout," Hiccup interjected, "I'm sure my dad hasn't called us back to do a great deal of work, and besides its been a while since you guys have seen your parents." Hiccup continued. "Ok, everyone, go pack what you need then meet back here, we leave in 30 minutes"

They all got ready and head off for Berk.

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When they finally got there, their parents all came rushing to greet them. Fishlegs ran off and hugged his parents, the twins went and hugged their parents and then swapped over, Snotlout proudly went over to his dad and wasted no time in bragging about his lame acts. Astrid slowly went to her parents and greeted them happily, Hiccup did the same but Stoick almost squeezed the life out of him.

"ARGGHHH, dad I can't breathe," Hiccup managed to say.

"HA HA," Stoick boomed, "Its great to see you all again, I suppose you'll be wanting to rest so I'll leave you guys to it."

Stoick started walking back to their house with hiccup following behind him.

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Astrid had a rest back in her room, had some lunch with her family and then decided it would be nice if she went for a walk in the woods with Stormfly. She might even get the chance to do some practice with her axe. As she left the house, she savoured being back on Berk again, back at home again.

When she got to the woods she didn't pay much attention at first but when she looked extra closely at the trees she noticed some tiny gashes higher up on the tree trunks. "Hey Stormfly, look at these, girl," Astrid said. She recognised them to be from her very first axe when she had started training at the age of 6. She figured that they were higher up because it was soo long ago that the trees had grown, meaning that the cuts from her old axe would be higher too.

Then she had a thought 'If I go deeper into the woods, the gashes in the trees should become deeper too'

And sure enough they were, and not just deeper but they were also slowly getting lower and more destructive and powerful. She realised it was because the older she got when she would train in the woods, the farther she would go in and challenge herself, she would push herself to the limits and train herself to be stronger.

Finally, she got to the deepest part of the woods but there were no gashes in the tree trunks. They had all stopped there. But she couldn't figure out why. Maybe because she left to go to the edge? But she soon found that there was a large oak with a heart carved into it with words that read "I'm sorry Hiccup, for everything, I wish I could change it all but I can't, you might never wake up and it's all my fault. I finally realise I love you but it might be too late. I promise that if you wake up, I will never let anything happen to you, ever. I love you hiccup...." as she read the words filled with so much emotion she remembered back to when she waited for hiccup to wake up from the battle.

She was so angry at herself so she came into the wood to train, she decided she would take herself really far in so she could freely release all the guilt and pain she had pent up inside her. But when she got there she couldn't throw her axe at anything, she felt weaker by the second until the collapsed and broke down crying. All she could think about was how cruel they had been to Hiccup and in the end, he saved every single one of them. Tears streamed down her face as she sat up and hugged her knees. She stayed like that until it was almost dark. She had calmed down a bit and looked at the big oak tree in front of her. She decided to mark the same words into the tree that she had taken an oath to, that she would always protect hiccup if he survived.

Astrid shook her head to snap her out of her thoughts. She finally found out why she had stopped training in the woods and why there were no more axe marks past the oak tree.

It was because she had found something better in life than training to be the best fighter or shield maiden, something better than being above others. She has something that is soo precious she can never stop loving it. She has Hiccup.

My first fanfic ever. I'm not proud of it but anyway.......