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Suddenly, a loud bang, like an explosion, shattered Hiccup's ears. He jolted at the sound. Toothless shrieked. A buffalo wail followed. There was a click.
**BANG! **
A shotgun. But where was it-
**POW!!**
Hiccup glanced around frantically. The dust settled around him. Stray buffalo clambered past him, but now in the opposite direction. They retreated up the road, chasing the rest of the herd and braying with terror.
"Toothless?" He called, but the stallion was nowhere to be seen. "Toothless!" Hiccup called again. The horse had returned to what he once was, a shadow on the horizon.
Hiccup heard someone shift behind him, and turned.
Leaning on one hip, a woman lowered her shotgun. She stood between him and the town, with an expression he couldn't read. Hiccup recognized the gun- it was one from the ranch. But the woman was not a town resident. Even with her long, blonde locks pulled back in a tight braid, stray hair fell into her striking blue eyes. Her skin, once fair and pale, was now sun-kissed. Her blue skirt billowed in the breeze. She pushed back her beige brimmed hat and widened her eyes at him.
"...Hiccup?"
Hiccup's eyes widened in recognition, and he returned her dumbfounded expression.
"Astrid!"
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A httyd cowboy AU set in the Old West town of Berk. Harold Hickok (AKA Hiccup) befriends a wild black stallion named Toothless.