Following Hiccups orders, the rest of us warriors-in-training meet in the arena. Everyone is talking over each other about what Hiccups plans may be, but once Hiccup enters, the room goes silent.
Fishlegs is the first to break the silence. "If your plan is to get killed, I'd definetly go with the Gronkle"
Tuffnut pushes him aside, "It was wise to seek help from the world's most deadly weapon. Me."
Hiccup steps back, confused.
"I love this plan!" Snotlout bursts.
"You're crazy," Ruffnut adds, coyly, "I like that." She leans in closer to Hiccup, and I shove her away. Both to keep things going as efficiently as possible, and, well...
Maybe I was little jealous.
"So," I crossed my arms, but keeping a smile on my face, "What is your plan?"
Hiccup surveys us and grins, "Just watch"
He pulls the lever, opening the doors to the Monstrous Nightmare that had almost killed us this morning. Leading it towards us, I can tell some of the others are nervous. Snotlout goes to pick up a shattered piece if a spear. I smack it away, and Hiccup has the dragon in a trance.
His hand is flat on the snout of the Nightmare now, and he grabs Snotlout's hand to do the same. Snotlout nervously laughs at first, and when he sees Hiccup isn't joking, he seems appalled. Still, he reaches to touch the dragon, and begins to laugh. Not nervously, not mockingly, but actual, happy laughter. Hiccup smiles and walks away.
"Wait, what?" Snotlout cries, "you're just gonna leave me here with it?"
Hiccup grabs some ropes, "Well, you're gonna need something to hold on with!"
We all look at eachother, in both fear and anticipation. We're going to ride dragons?
Hiccup then slowly leads a dragon to each of us. The twins get the Hideous Zippleback, Fishlegs the gronkle, and I the Nadder. Once we're all aquained with and situated on our dragons, Hiccup hops on the Nadder behind me, and teaches us to fly.
Everyone is a little bit shaky at first, but it's suprisingly easy once you get started. The entire time, I wonder about when Hiccup first learned to ride Toothless. It must have been so weird for both of them, something that they had never heard of before. And yet, they did it. It was beautiful.
I look down to the Nadder beneath me. She looks happy to be in the air again. I guess the cages weren't very large. I wonder if I'll be able to ride her again. I hope so.
•••
About 2 hours later, Hiccup decides we're ready to go.
The plan is to fly to the dragon island, and help the other vikings defeat the 'Red Death' as Hiccup likes to call it.
The dragons take us to the dragon island. It looks so different from when I was first there. There was only the one queen dragon and the fleet of viking ships.
"LOOK AT US, WE'RE ON DRAGONS!" Tuffnut yells to the vikings, "WE'RE ON DRAGONS GUYS, LOOK!"
Everyone gasps, and Hiccup starts giving orders. "Fishlegs, break it down!"
Fishlegs supresses a grin, obviously glad to share his love of dragon facts, "Okay! Heavily armored skull and tail made for bashing and crushing! Steer clear of both! Small eyes, large nostrils! Relies on hearing and smell!"
"Great," Hiccup replies, "Snotlout, Fishlegs, stick in its blindspot. Make lots of noise, keep it confused. Ruffnut, Tuffnut, find out its shot limit. Make it mad!"
They fly off to their tasks, Ruffnut and Tuffnut arguing over who's more annoying.
"Astrid, can you help me find Toothless?" Hiccup asks, a softer tone than he used for the others.
I fight back a blush, "Of course!"
We look around the boats.
"There," Hiccup calls, pointing to Toothless, still in chains. I lower down the Nadder- I've decided to call her Stormfly- to the ground, and Hiccup hops off. "Go help the others, okay?"
I nod and fly off towards the others. I turn in my seat, and see Hiccup trying to tear off the chains. A fireball hits the boat he's on. Still trying to take off the chains, it starts sinking. He dives after Toothless.
I count the seconds he's down. 1... 2... 3... 4... 5...
I hold my breath to see if he would still be able to breath.
23... 24...
I see Stoick dive down into the water. He returns to the surface with an unconscious Hiccup in his arms.
My heart stops.
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Astrid's Tale
FanfictionHTTYD 1 was a great movie. But what was it like for Astrid? This is Astrid's POV in HTTYD 1. Disclaimer: I do not own HTTYD or any of the characters in the series.
