Ascertaining Horizons

Prologue

Author's Note: Hello! I'm back! My fellow readers before, especially those who've read 'The Five', I'm sorry I haven't been writing for a while (years actually), since the stories I've made before for Hiccstrid are a little bit off. But anyway, another's coming, so I hope you'll enjoy!

Before you start reading, let me clarify a few things first. This story is a strange canon, with a little twist of new settings introduced later on.

The Prologue momentarily takes place during Race to the Edge, particularly in Season 4, so their ages are between 17 and 18. Although it's the battle between our heroes and Viggo's, their battle is not closely related to canon, so some scenes are going to be different (for the purposes of this story, it is not going to end the same way it did for the end of the fourth season).

One more thing, Hiccup and Astrid are not a couple here unlike the canon. But don't get sad, they'll come around. :)

(Maybe?) *smirks*

Disclaimer: I don't own any characters in the story How to Train Your Dragon and other characters. Many thanks to the creators for the wonderful movies made.

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Prologue

Blasts here and there.

Smoke everywhere.

Destruction.

It was all Hiccup could see from their dangerous battle to their enemy.

The water dragon, Shellfire Viggo was riding casts a lot of electrifying blue shots from every direction with the help of other dragons causing the edge to fully collapse with no traces of the gang's houses in sight. All the while laughing hysterically when he saw that Hiccup and his gang is going to lose.

Hiccup looked helplessly to the chaos around him, swallowing a lump in his throat as his friends continue to battle Viggo, firing each of their dragons' colourful blasts to their enemies area, and for a matter of seconds, he called out to his team to retreat while patting his Night Fury bat-like best friend on the head, who looked at him with sadness.

Astrid, who knew that they were not solely prepared to fight, looked at him with her brows furrowed, looking frustrated and furious. Hiccup chose to ignore her deadly stares and glares, not wanting to make a scene whilst on a battle.

The gang started to back out, flying so fast, not knowing where their companions were when they seemed to split up while their opponents were chasing them with equal speed, as though they wanted to end their lives so badly.

Somehow, Hiccup and Astrid were flying side by side without knowing each other's presence. But when blasts were thrown on their direction, they almost bumped to each other, trying to dodge skillfully the attacks but continued flying, focusing merely on their capability to survive.

But even their capabilities as a dragon rider seem to decrease as they were eventually caught by Viggo's strange white and big dragon, bigger than the Flightmare, which fires a massively large galaxy-like blast and knocking them down to a snowy ground.

Hiccup's vision blurred as Toothless wrapped him tightly when they fell, and when they did, chunks of snow buried them and he faintly heard Viggo laughing hysterically again while saying, "Never return to us again."

And the world turned black.