Astrid Hofferson: A Different Story

Dagur Returns

Astrid was on a ship west of The Reaper. The ship was covered with weapons. Astrid was checking out how sharp they were.

"I might take some of these," she said to herself.
"Okay, I'm defiantly taking that axe, those daggers... those swords over there... this axe and one more thing..."

She started to look around for something else to take home with her.
A jewel encrusted handle was sticking out from a pile of swords. It was an axe.

"This one should do it. I don't even need to use this. I could hang it up for decorated."

Foot steps could be heard coming down into the second deck. Astrid grabbed everything that she wants, put them into an empty sack and hid.
She peeked around and saw men standing at the exit.

"Sir, there's a room full of weapons in here!" one called out.
"Weapons? It's my lucky day," the chief said. His voice seemed familiar to Astrid.

Astrid heard Snotlout shouting help.  She peeked around again and saw Dagur there. One of the men looked over so she quickly put her head back. He whispered something to Dagur and he whispered something back. The men left.
Footsteps started to come closer and closer. They stopped.

"Why did they stop?" Astrid thought.

Something suddenly pulled her hair. She looked up and saw Dagur.

"Hey, Missy," he said.
"Hi. How's it going?"
"Not bad. How's build the armada going?"
"Pretty good so far. Astrid, you know you can get up now."

She stood up. Dagur quickly noticed the sack.

"What's in there?" he asked.
"My weapons."
"What do you mean by your weapons?"
"I picked them out before you got down here."
"Can I see them?"
"Sure."

Dagur started peeking through the sack. He came across the jewel encrusted axe. He took it out.

"Careful, that's for my wall," Astrid said quickly.
"The men I have now would get every last weapon here, so, where can we hide this?"

Astrid and Dagur looked around for a good hiding space for a sack of weapons. Astrid spotted a loose floorboard. She grabbed the sack and put it there.

"Remember when I said that we have to hate each other?" Astrid asked.
"Yeah."
"Now is one of those times."
"Well, I've Snot-hat and Fishface in a cage up there..."
"I'll have to go in."
"Astrid, sweetie, no."
"It has to look convincing."
"I know that part."
"So, that's a yes."
"Fine. Where's the rest of them?"
"Ruff and Tuff are in... that ship there and Hiccup is in The Reaper."
"Which is..."
"That one. I would get the twins first."
"I know. I wanna surprise brother."

Astrid took out her axe and left it with the other weapons. She then put her hands behind her back.

"I know how this works," she said.
"Are you sure about this?"
"Yes, I am."

Dagur got a dagger out. Astrid was a little unsure.

"What are you doing?"
"Trust me."
"Trust you? Dagur, what are you doing?"
"Making this look like we had an axe fight."

He sliced her arm with the dagger. She looked down and saw her arm bleeding.

"I hate you."
"Hey, you said it has to look convincing."

Dagur started walking, with a struggling Astrid, up to the first deck.
Fishlegs and Snotlout were amazed when they saw her.

"Babe, what happened?" Snotlout asked.
"One I am not your babe. And two he happened," she said pointing at Dagur who was now talking to his men.