New Family (a Httyd/Rtte Fanfic)

Painful Discovery and Wishes

Astrid was suspicious. She had not seen Hiccup at all that day. He wasn't in the club house, and when it was noon she checked his hut, and he wasn't there either.

At first she was worried but there were no signs of a struggle or scent of dragon root fumes. Annoyance resulted throughout the rest of the day. Where was Hiccup?

Finally she decided that it was time for a search party.

"Mount up." she told the gang. "And if you find, see, or hear anything, sound a distress call."

Not waiting for the rest of the riders to answer, she took off. Her job was the woods, the twins where the sea stacks, fishlegs' was the caves which left snotlout with the rocks and beaches.

Worry clawed at Astrid's insides. Stormfly seemed to sense her tension. She crooned softly to comfort her rider.

"Don't worry about me girl," Astrid rubbed her dragon, "I'm just worried about-"

A large flame of a monstrous nightmare flared in the sky.

"Hiccup!"

Astrid urged Stormfly to go faster and reached Hookfang and Snotlout before anybody else did. The annoying dragon rider looked a little scared. Astrid rolled her eyes.

"Let me guess, Hookfang got angry at you."

She twirled her axe for emphasis.

"N-no!" Snotlout stuttered. "Well yes, but we, we did find something."

At this, Astrid looked surprised, and a little hopeful. By that time, all the other riders were there so Snotlout led them to a dry leafless tree. Astrid tapped her foot impatiently.

"Snotlout, you said you found something. Where is it?" she asked, crossing her arms.

Snotlout looked worried.

"Relax," he began, "It's not down here but up there. Plus, you should seriously calm down." he added under his breath.

The young teen sighed.

She glanced up and what she saw caught her attention immediately. True, the large limbs were not suspicions or anything but the smaller twigs and branches were all missing.

"Fishlegs fly me up there, we need Meatlug's hovering qualities."

As the gronckle flew Astrid up into the tree, she saw cracked branches and shredded bark.

"Stop!" she yelled at fishlegs.

"Gee Astrid. No need to shout my head," his eyes found the reason. "Off" he finished. Bile rose in Astrid's throat. That piece of red fabric was from Hiccup's shirt. And it didn't look like a very happy tear either.

Slowly the two dragon riders landed on the ground and were immediately bombarded by questions. The female rider looked sick so fishlegs held the gang back.

"Oh ya," Snotlout began without looking at Astrid. "There's one more thing. Hookfang and I found this a few dragon lengths away." He held up a bola. Taking the weapon from Snotlout Astrid examined it. Her hands curled into fists. The dragon riders took a step back. They have never seen Astrid this angry before.

"Lets go, we're getting back up." she ordered, shaking with fury. Throwing the bolas down the riders left. Astrid knew where she was going because the bolas held the dragon hunters' crest.

"Hina come here."

Hina had, unfortunately, arrived home later than she expected. Her father was staring at the fire when she came in, but Hina knew that he had already sensed her enter. So when her father spoke to her, she took a deep breath and walked towards him.

She gazed at her feet.

She knew what was coming.

"I see you escaped again. Maybe you know or maybe you don't, a dangerous criminal also got out." Viggo finally looked up from the flames. "Do you know anything about it?"

Hina was a terrific liar on the spot, but in the long run she always blurted out the truth. Hopefully this wouldn't be one of those cases.

She looked her father in the eyes.

As usual, they were nothing but deep dark pools of nothingness.

She shook her head.

"I-I didn't even know we had another prisoner."

At this, the man laughed.

"What do you mean by another?" he asked her.

"Well placing me in a cell does kind of ruin the effect."

Her father chuckled.

"Keep this in mind, from now on, say goodbye to those cells."

Hina looked at him confused.

"Why?" she finally asked.

Viggo smiled.

"Because it is time for you to start training."

"Uhhh- okay, you have a heat stroke or you took one too many to the head. I. Can't. Capture. Dragons."

Her father did not look pleased.

"I'll make sure you will." he handed her a sword from a nearby rack.

Which was too heavy mind you.

"Now go to bed."

He turned back to the fire.

Hina who was struggling with the sword, gave up her attempts to lift it and trudged up her stairs.

Okay, torture starts tomorrow.