Hiccstrid Daily Book 2

"I- I am?" Part 1

"Why don't we go for a little flight? It'll help clear your head. Believe me, your generation is so lucky to have dragons as your friends. Things weren't so easy in my day" The older woman continued, reaching a hand out, which Astrid took and they both stood up and walked outside to their dragons.

*time skip*

Astrid laid back in the saddle, thinking quietly. She enjoyed the comfortable silence. It had only been 2 years, but her and Valka had grown quite close during that time and were perfectly capable of having silent conversations, much like her and Hiccup could(and would). Suddenly a question popped into the young Vikings mind, and she was genuinely curious to know the answer.

"So... how did you tell Stoick?" She asked, sitting up and turning to face the woman on the back of the giant four-winged dragon that flew beside them. Valka chuckled at the memory.

"Well it's an interesting story..." She began, travelling back to the event that took place almost 23 years ago...

"Stoick had had a tough day on the job and just wanted to go to a place where he could escape from the busy day, so we decided to head down to our special spot- a little cavern hidden within a network of caves and fake entrances which only we could decipher as we had left secret little indications along the way so we knew where we were headed.

This one time though, whilst we were enjoying a picnic inside the little cave, a storm must have hit as water started trickling in from every crack. Shortly afterwards, we decided to pack up and leave before the cave system got flooded, because we could have been in some serious danger. However, the markers must have gotten blown away by the wind and rain from the storm weaving through the caves, because soon, we had hit a dead end. We just shrugged it off and turned around, thinking we just took a wrong turn. Boy, we were wrong" She chuckled, admitting that both her and Stoick the Vast had gotten lost before.

"Soon we were trudging through almost 3 feet of water, and it was rising quickly. Eventually after hitting our 25th dead end, Stoick just turned to me and shrugged. I can recall him saying that we were lost, and if we didn't find an exit quick, we would drown. He acted calm, but I could certainly hear a note of panic in his voice. I began panicking and paced back and forth, the water rising up to just above my waist. He began hitting the rock, seeing if there was anything on the other side, but failing. He turned to me and shook his head, biting his lip in panic. He exclaimed that he couldn't find a way out, and it was too late to go back through the maze of tunnels. By this time, the water was up to just under my arms- around Stoicks waist seeing as he was much taller than me.

I remember pacing back and forth in a panic, muttering 'oh my Thor, we're gonna die' and I then gripped Stoick shoulders and shook him back and forth. I may have been small, but I was surprisingly strong. 'Oh my Thor Stoick! We're going to die! WERE GONNA DIE! We're too young to die! Will they ever find our bodies? Would Spitelout be claimed Chief seeing as our heir is still a couple months away? Will the name die out? Will they ever find out what happened to us?' I half shrieked, the water now up to my neck. Suddenly, I caught something out of the corner of my eye. Was that... sunlight? I showed him where I was looking, now treading water, so it was a little tricky, but he got the message, and began pulling rocks out, me holding onto a ledge to keep afloat. I wasn't a great swimmer at the time.

Then all at once, he pulled a rock out that made the entire wall collapse, and the water came rushing out, pulling us along with it as we came to a stop on a patch of wet grass. We laid there on our backs in shock for a second before bursting into fits of laughter. I started making grass angels as Stoick stood back up and brushed himself off. 'We survived! We... we survived!' I had exclaimed in shock. Suddenly Stoick sent me a confused look. 'What was that earlier about an heir?' He asked, and I rubbed the back of my neck nervously before explaining the entire thing in the way home. He was thrilled at the news! Although I don't suggest you break it to him that way, I'm sure he will be just as supportive" She eventually finished, leaving Astrid with a flabbergasted look on her face and her mouth hanging wide open.

"Wait so... the entrance to the cove back at Berk was there because... you guys got lost!?" She asked, absolutely bewildered. Maybe that's why there was a rope winding through the maze rather than little markers...

"Interesting, huh?" Valka agreed, chuckling visibly. "So, when do you think you'll be ready?" She asked the young Viking, who began playing with her hair.

"Well I think maybe I'll wait a couple more days just to get my head around it and to make sure nothing is wrong, and then I'll tell him" she decided, letting go of her hair again and looking forward. Valka nodded.

"Good plan" She replied.

Hi so this was pretty short and I forgot a line break but I'm busting for the toilet and this is the last time I will be posting for a day or two bc today w are supposed to be driving 11(yup, 11) hours into QLD unless something changes suddenly. I should still be online for a couple hours tho 😁

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10/01/2022