⋘Shadow Rider ⋙

3 Months Later

*Astrids POV*

   It's been 3 months since Hiccup left, since we learned to ride dragons, 1 month since Berk officially made peace with them. Life here on Berk has never been better, no raids, no violence (Towards the dragons that is), and 3 weeks since we made dragon racing a sport.

   (3 weeks ago)

   The gang and I were taking a flight around the island, when it was interrupted by a scream "You pesky sheep! Get back here!" A not so silent Sven yelled while chasing a sheep into the village. The chief yelled for us to land. "You all need to get those sheep back into their pasture. It I have to hear Sven shout one more time, I'm going to put Gobbers hook, through my own head!" He said as Sven shouted again. "We will chief. Come on gang! We've got some sheep to catch!" I yell out before we all take off.

   "There's one girl!" I point to a sheep wandering in the forest. Just as we are about to grab it, Snotlout flies down on Hookfang and grabs it, causing me to be flung from Stormfly's back. "SNOTLOUT! YOU GET BACK HERE!" I scream but he's already long gone. "Ugh, come on girl, lets keep looking."

   We all meet back at the pasture. I got 3, Snotlout had 3, the twins had 3 as well. Fishlegs had just landed with meatlug beside us. "Ha! Get a load of fishlug!" Snotlout yelled, as the duo seemed to have gotten no sheep. "Ahem, show em girl." Meatlug opened her mouth, and out walked 3 sheep. "So I guess its a tie" Snotlout says shrugging. "What's a tie?" I ask. "Uh, the sheep catching competition?" Tuff states. I roll my eyes and open my mouth to speak but was interrupted by Sven. "Oh no! Where's my black sheep!" *Le gasp* "He's still out there! I hope he didn't fall down the well again!" The twins smirked. "Tie breaker" I sighed "Not a competition!" But they were already flying away. "Welp, I guess we should compete girl. Lets win this thing!"

   Stormfly and I found the black sheep and were deemed the winners. "We should make this an actual sport! It's fun and is great practice!" I say happily before running to the chief. "Hey chief? I was wondering if we could make dragon racing a sport. The gang and I found that it's great practice and very fun." He thought for a second. "I don't see why not! We need something new around here!" I smile "Thanks chief!"

(Present day) 

   We just finished up a dragon race, we won as always, and I sat on the cliff by the arena with Stormfly, watching the sunset.  My good mood quickly turned sad as I remembered hiccups promise. 'He said he would return, it's been 3 months he should have been back by now..' Stormfly noticed my mood change and nuzzled against me. "Thanks girl, your right, he'll be back someday.."

*Hiccups POV* 

   Running, that's all I've been doing since I finished training with the king, running away from countless people. I dodged arrow after arrow as I continued running towards the cliff. "Toothless!" I make it to the cliff side and see him flying with his new tail. Since I got my powers, I made him an automatic tail so we can fly together. "No where to run now boy" The man says smugly. "You should learn to never underestimate me" I said while stepping off the cliff and shifting. "I will get you one day boy! You hear me?! I will get you!" 

   "You ok bud?" I ask looking to him as he flies beside me. "Ya I'm just glad we got off that island in one piece. You ok?" I sigh and look down, an arrow had hit my leg as we made our escape. "I'll be fine." He nods then looks to me. "You need a healer, we don't know what they put on their arrows, it could be poisonous" I sigh again, knowing he's right "Ok, you're right, I guess we are going back to Berk"

hehehe cliffhanger but not really cause im gonna post the next chapter in a lil bit  its short  a lil bit under 700 words but ur getting 2 chapters today so ya :) I gotta go eat soooo

k bye

-Nuggetfury