Love in the Time of Dragon Riders 3 (HTTYD FanFic)

Chapter 18: Foul Herbs!

Hiccup’s P.O.V

By the time Berk had settled down, it was the early hours of the morning. Astrid decided to go home and get some rest, which was lucky for me, because the letter that I found at home was something that I would prefer she didn't see.

On my desk when I reached my house was a Treacherous Terror, tied to his leg was a rolled up letter from my father.

Dear Hiccup,

I am delighted to say that I will be coming home early, only a week now!

I hope chiefing has been going well, I know it’s hard, but you’re a strong boy you can make it through. There is something that I would like to talk to you about when I get home. As you know, you could take over as chief at any time. But before you do, I think it would be nice if you had someone to help you. I was glad to hear in you previous letter that you and Astrid are getting along again.

Have you ever thought of moving things along a bit? Marriage perhaps?

Just think about it.

Hope to see you soon,

Your loving father

Stoick

And that’s why I was rather happy that Astrid hadn’t come home with me. I practically toppled out of my chair when I read the part about marriage! I groaned slightly pulling out a piece of paper to reply to the letter. I wrote back a quick letter explaining that we were too young.

I felt kind of bad that my dad didn’t know about what was happening here on Berk. But it was better he was kept out of it.

Jem’s P.O.V

Tempest still hadn’t woken up. With Gothi’s help, the wounds were healed as much as the could. After Tempest had fallen, several Timberjacks had looped their tails around him and carried him back across the ocean to the beach, were I had directed them to Gothi. At the start of the attack Gothi has been in charge of gathering all the children under the age of 14 and taken them to caves by the beach to hide. Once they had been alerted about the false alarm they had made their way back up to the village.

Now me Tempest, Glenn and Gothi were in her house.

“Why isn’t he waking up?” I asked Gothi whom could surprising understand a bit of Dragonese. She looked thoughtful and walked over to her table were there were all different kinds of herbs laid out. She picked up a brown dead like branch that had a disgusting smell that I could practically taste. She then light it in the fire and walked back over to Tempest. I tried not to gag at the smell and watched as Gothi waved it in front of Tempest’s nose. When he didn’t react she pried open his mouth and put the burning herb on his tongue.

Tempest gave a gasp and a choke as his eyes snapped open. He spat the herb out. Seeing me he made the mistake of trying to get up, he growled in pain, slumping back onto the ground. I went and nuzzled him slightly careful not to hurt him.

“You ok?” I asked. He nodded mutely.

“You stay here.” Gothi said sternly in Dragonese pointing to where he was lying. “We give you some time.” She said before gesturing for a human Glenn to follow her into another room. I was glad for the privacy.

“Why?” I sighed lying next to him.

“Why what?” He asked weakly sucking in his breath as he talked. It seemed his ribs hadn’t healed.

“You through yourself in front of my dad, you saved him.” He nodded but it seemed even this was painful.

“Look, we can talk about this more when your better, are you thirsty?” He nodded slightly trying to limit the amount of head movement. I fetched him a shallow basin of water, which he lapped slightly. He began to say something but I cut him off with a stern look. “Sleep.”

I lay back down and snuggled up to him careful to be gentle. He licked my head before laying his head next to me.

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