Well I said I would be back and here I am. It took me a while because school. But, I have slaved away enough to bring you this chapter. Enjoy. Also in this chapter I have a decent amount of 4th wall breaks. Let me know if you like them or not. Also I would just like to apologize to you all for the start of some pov or situation changes in the story the first couple sentences are a little bad, but im still learning so stay with me.

Not Far From Home

Chapter 10: Dealin' with the baddies.

No Pov

The young shield maiden stalked through the rocky tunnels of the ice fortress in search of her 'lost love'. Now, Astrid wasn't one for lovey dovely stuff, but in this case she had to make an exception. She loved, Hiccup that was pretty clear for her, and she was positive he loved her too. I mean who wouldn't, she was the Astrid Hofferson, and you would have to be crazy not to like her. But, I guess in hindsight she doesn't know, Hiccup that well. Although she has to register with him on some emotional level, and if he didn't love her then she could build on those feelings. So she ran through the caves with new restored vigor, anxious to find Hiccup. Her foot caught on a small rock and she fell on her face, but, with the steep decline she just rolled down a small cliff. Only about fifteen feet. When she landed she felt something warm and soft. Astrid groaned as the pain finally came flooding in, her body ached but mostly it was her left shoulder. Cursing quietly she manage to prop herself up on the warm object enough to the look at it clearly. It had auburn hair and green ey… Oh, my god it's Hiccup.

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Hiccup ran through the small, intricate series of tunnels in hopes of reaching his friends before the Berkians find him. If they did he would be in trouble, normally in a situation such as this he would just go kill the people fallowing him, but, he could kill them no matter how bad they treated him. He didn't know why, they treated him like crap his entire life and only were nice to him for a short time when his existence was relevant. Except Fishlegs, no matter how bad the situation he all ways stayed by, Hiccup's side. There were a few times he left him to hang out with the 'cool kids', but it didn't normally last for long. They liked to talk about killing things and were mostly barbaric in their actions. While, Hiccup and Fishlegs preferred brains of brawn, they liked to think things through. Find out how other things worked, take it apart and put it back together, basically anything that involved using their brains. Which on Berk, a land of brawn not brains, was a lot, saying almost nothing has been documented because everybody was too busy killing dragons. Now back to reality. While Hiccup ran at full speed, Toothless being the fastest dragon in the air and on land just jogged lightly behind him, which annoyed hiccup slightly. He knew Toothless was taunting him, but, it didn't bother him that much, more so today mostly because of the Berkians on the island. They couldn't just leave him alone and let him no they had to come and find him, and just as he life was finally looking up. Hiccup gradually slowed his pace until he was just at a slow jog, Toothless following right beside him.

"Hey, bud. Can you go scout out where they are while I go get, Rona?" Hiccup asked, not taking his eyes away from his friends.

Toothless let out a warble of agreement before nuzzling his companion lightly. He was worried. Now most people would be shocked at this, a Night Fury scared about something, it wasn't natural. Well, then again, riding dragons isn't natural either. But, Hiccup knew different. He knew the dangers of the Berkians being here. They had to get rid of them. Carefully, but the still needed to go, and Toothless didn't want to lose his best friend in the process.

With a reassuring scratch behind the ear, Hiccup set the tail fin to solo mode and said his goodbyes. Reluctantly, Toothless left his best friend alone at the mercy of anyone that would come for him. With anyone else, Hiccup would kill them, but he can't kill the Berkians, no matter how bad they treated him. But, that doesn't mean they would do the same for him.

With Toothless scouting out their positions he turned around with haste in his step. If he could find his friends before they found him, Rona and the guys could chase them out and the Berkians wouldn't even know he was there. He chuckled aloud, he had this in the bag. Well, almost…

"Oooff" He groaned out as his body his the cold hard ground, the air knocked out of his lungs he tried to regain his bearings, but it almost felt as someone was sitting on his chest rendering him unable to breath normally. His ears rang loudly when his unprotected head his the hard rock that the island was formed on. Hiccup's vision also blurred immensely, only allowing him to see mushed colors and shapes. With almost all of his senses temporarily useless his was at the mercy of whatever hit him. He prayed to the gods in his mind that the person or thing didn't try to kill him, and if they did it would make his death swift. He was surprised however that when his vision returned to its normal capacity he was met with the almost angelic face of, Astrid.

Of for fucks sake! Out of everything in the known world, Astrid had to land on him. It couldn't have been a dragon, or a cougar, hell at this point a bear would be better than her! Coming back to reality he looked at her in shock and she returned the gestor. Quickly, his shock turned to anger as his green eyes bored in to the shield maiden's very soul, shaking her to the core.

Almost as fast as she landed on him he pushed her off. Hiccup, stood up quickly his demonic gaze not breaking her form. Slowly and sluggishly, Astrid pulled herself from and looked back at him in shock.

"What did you do that for!?" She exclaimed her anger fueled by the pain inflicted by the throw.

Hiccup's eyes widened at her comment. Just who does she think she is! 'Why did I do it? Well goldilocks maybe for all those years you treated me like crap!?' He said in a 'matter of fact' tone voice.

"Do you want the long list or the short?" Hiccup asked in a snide tone of voice, now composed and calm.

Astrid continued to look at him in shock. What did she ever do to him? Nothing. Which is exactly the point here. Also she's blonde. Yeah, I said it. Ya'll happy? No? Good.

Hiccup merely shook his head and walked away, leaving Astrid a stuttering hot mess. Yeah she's hot. A bitch, but, hot. So… that makes up for her personality right? Ehh. What do I know? Never had a girlfriend. Which is probably why I am sitting on my ass and typing this chapter instead of getting out of my house and doing something with my life. Am I really that unlikeable? *Note I am fishing for compliments right now*

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"Ugh… I'm bored!" Groaned a well, bored Rona.

And who can blame her? Hiccup always came up with fun things to do and he was god knows where. Currently the group was just chilling in a small cave with seats and a view to the coast. *The one in Httyd2 where Stoick and Valka sing together.* It was a beautiful view, but, not very interesting. Well at least Finn and Adgi had something to do. Normally I would explain what they were doing but, sense this is a T rated story, the most PG or PG-13 way I can put it is this. They wanted some 'alone time'. Something, Rona wanted with Hiccup very badly. But, alas he was no were too seen.

Audibly sighing Rona got up from her seat and walked over to the small ice pier that stuck out from the cave. It all seemed normal, except one thing. She saw slight movement to the left. Rona squinted her eyes, but still couldn't make out what is was. Her brows furred in confusion as she thought about the possibilities of what it could be. From what she could see it was three small objects with one larger, object. Too small to be a dragon, and there weren't any other animals on the island. So through the method of deduction she knew they were human. But, who were they, and why were they here? She knew the Berkians were coming, but she thought they were still at least twelve hours away. Just in case though, Hiccup had instructed her to stay here with the dragons until further notice, reluctantly she agreed.

Confused she reached down and grabbed a small telescope off her belt, it was something Hiccup had mad for her and proved very useful. She looked through the small glass tube and pointed it at the people on the shore. Rona's eyes widened and she reflexively clenched her fists around the telescope as she brought it down from her eye. The Berkians were early.

She wasted no time in turning around and rushing out of the small cave grabbing her weapons on the way out. "Hiccup!" She shouted in hopes of finding him before they do. Rona didn't like disobeying orders it made, Hiccup mad and when he's mad he's not someone you want to be around.

Because she was so deep in thought she hadn't notice, Hiccup running towards here. So when he went to hug her she reflexively grabbed one of her swords and put it to his throat, pushing him to the wall in the process.

After a second, Rona took the time to look at his face and she gasped in surprise, quickly pulling her sword away and sheathing it. Hiccups, expression softened from fear to and loving stare as he hugged her, without a sword to his throat.

"Sorry, babe. I was just thinking and you caught me off guard." Rona mumbled sheepishly into his collarbone.

He pulled away and looked her in the eyes and said. "Its fine I should've known better than to surprise you. You are a bit jumpy."

A small smile came to his face as he finally remembered why he came back so quickly. "Um… Rona, that reminds me. The Berkians are here."

Rona just smiled deviously at him, she was up to something as always. But, he just hoped it didn't involve killing any of them. He wasn't really up for it right now. She didn't say anything she just grabbed his arm and pulled him to closer to her. Her smile not fading she whispered something malicious in his ear. The thought of what they were going to do to them brought a wicked smile to his face.

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"Guys? Where are you?"

Fishlegs suddenly felt and large fist punch him the arm followed by an annoyed huff of air. "Were right next to you Fishlegs."

Fishlegs just chuckled nervously and tried to calm himself so he didn't piss himself in front of his friends. This wasn't an odd this for Fishlegs, but the fact that even Snotlout was a little creeped out says something. The group after waiting for a couple hours on the beach for Astrid decided it would be best to investigate and tell her the results when she got here. Normally, Astrid was the one heading their escapades, but she said that she needed to take care of something and flew away before anyone could say anything. So with her gone it was up to Snotlout and or Fishlegs to lead the group through the complicated labyrinth of tunnels, mostly because the twins were too incompetent to do anything themselves that didn't involve someone dyeing or something blowing up. So with the two 'leaders' fighting constantly they made a few wrong turn and suddenly found themselves secluded from all light. With their weapons raised the cautiously creeped through the dark cave incase anything tried to kill them. In the light they could kill almost anything that attack them, but in the darkness there could be a hostile dragon sleeping right next to them and they wouldn't know until they woke it. Basically they had to creep through an almost endless dark cavern without making a sound or else some may attack them. Key word: may. There is a good chance they're all alone in the cave but without their best fighter, Astrid, they couldn't take the chance.

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"Alright. You guys get the plan?" Hiccup said standing in front of his friends.

Toki and Adgi nodded, followed closely by Finn and Rona. With all of them in agreement, Hiccup nodded in approval and they all set off to get their marks. Their plan way pretty simple each one of them was assigned to one of the Berkians, they were to get their targets and meet back here to put them in a holding area until they could figure out what to do with them. Finn being the strongest was to get Fishlegs, Toki and Adgi being the faster ones were to take out Ruffnut and Tuffnut respectively. Hiccup was to take out Snotlout and because he wanted to let Rona take her anger out, she was to get Astrid. And boy was she going to make sure she would never take her man!

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"Just who does he think he is? I am Astrid Hofferson! No one rejects me!"

The shield maiden was fuming, there way denying that. The others should be glad she didn't go with them because she's so on edge she may kill them. Hiccup thinks he's so great. *scoff* Yeah right. He was going to be hers, but only because Astrid Hofferson always gets what she wants. No matter what the cost.

Suddenly a sharp snap caught her attention as she saw something move in her peripheral vision. Astrid swiftly turned to face where the sound came from only to see nothing. Just a small broken stick in a large clearing. Not letting her guard down she creeped into the center of the clearing in hopes of drawing her attacker out into level playing field. Astrid scanned the rough thicket, nothing. She suddenly felt someone behind her! She gasped in surprise but before she could make a sound a small white cloth covered her mouth. In futile attempts to breathe through the cloth she inhaled a sweet, tangy like aroma. Almost intimately the Shield maiden's eyes began to droop and then closed. Astrid lot consciousness quickly as she succumbed to the smell. The dark figure let, Astrid fall to the ground, landing with a small thud before dragging her off through the thicket. Just as quickly as it started it was over, as the figure disappeared through the thicket.