Fate's Will

Astrid spent the following day rubbing it in everyone's face that she had been right, going as far as to tell Stoic that he had been wrong about Hiccup being dead. The effect was immediate.

"ASTRID...I...sorry. I didn't really have a choice, he was missing and everyone saw him die, falling into the cloud of fire." Stoic sighed, his depression returning, now he knew that his son was alive, but he had no idea where he was.
The auxiliary riders and their dragons had been racing and were first to go after Hiccup after learning that they had missed the raid, they searched through the night only to find that there was no sign of Hiccup anywhere. He seemingly had vanished.

Astrid sat down next to him, "Sorry chief, I didn't mean to say that aloud."

"It's alright, just find him. Please."

Several islands away Hiccup was enjoying basking in the sun, his whole body shimmering with power as he rested, rejuvenating his own energies that he had exhausted in the wind that whipped over the island through the spines, Toothless was cleaning himself, licking his body down like a cat.
Hiccup warbled and Toothless bounded over to him, nuzzling up against his face.

"Hey bud, want to go look for my brother?" He said, playfully bumping the black dragon's nose. Toothless sniffed indignantly and then stared at him. Hiccup sighed.
"Yea, you're right, he's probably just back at the main island."

Hiccup traced circles in the dirt, as he did this Toothless mimicked him and the two let the hours slip away like water through a sieve. Eventually the evening arrived and the two went into a sea cave, Hiccup wrote a short note detailing the events of the previous night, then folded the enchanted paper into a dragon and let it go. The small creature bobbled around and Toothless sniffed it and hissed.

"Oh come on bud. It's just a simple enchantment." The little creature wobbled and then fell, unfolding into a flat sheet of paper again.

Hiccup sighed and tried again, failing a second time too, he felt a bit of frustration, but even more so, an overwhelming desire to succeed. He tried again and again well into the night. Eventually Toothless became bored of watching his friend try and brushed the paper with his nose, his back lighting up like a candle, casting a warm blue glow. The note lifted and began folding itself, turning into a beautifully crafted night fury which immediately flew out of the cave.

Hiccup turned around and hugged Toothless, "You never cease to amaze me bud."

Toothless licked Hiccup's hair and the two rested, enjoying eachothers company with the cool light of the moon peeking in on them.

On the same windy island the gang had gone to sleep. Astrid was drawing in the sand, sad, desperately searching for any signs of Hiccup all day had worn her out. Everyone else was asleep, the dragons were resting as well, Stormfly just like her own rider could not sleep and instead was sniffing around, Astrid called her over and the two spent the night watching the silent cloud of Valhalla, beyond the reach of them all, glimmering among the stars. The reflections of the night glowing. In fact they were glowing so brightly that she almost missed another star fly out of a cave that was nearby, Stormfly squawked warningly as a little paper night fury flew through the air, away from them into the distance. Astrid followed the line of the paper dragon and then, by chance, Hiccup sniffled, his armor clinking together and she lept to her feet. Carefully waking each of the riders and their dragons up.

Ready or not Hiccup, She thought privately, Here we come.

Aggg! I'm so sorry that this chapter took so long to write, I just got a new keyboard so I'm having some growing pains. Anyway I hope you enjoyed the chapter! So glad that you guys enjoyed it! (Sorry that I forgot who reviewed my story this time...)

Anyway, have a good night/day and may the winds always be at your back!