“Ow-” Ben Tennyson rubbed his head as the seventeen year old looked around his new surroundings. The young superhero was in one of his Alien forms known as XLR8 which was a dinosaur like alien with a long black and blue banded tail and wheels for feet. One minute he was fighting an alien and the next he was here. Whatever this island was. [For Astrid]
Astrid had been patrolling on an island not far from berk. When suddenly she saw something….appear? It was almost dragon like. But something was off. She’d already. Landed and was watching the creature closely from away.
Snotlout was still technically grounded as his arm hadn’t finished healing from its breaks. He was helping Gothi and Gobber out of Bordem. Hookfang was out there with Ben, “3 more weeks and i’ll be free of this nightmare” he mumbled as he worked with one hand on firing some metal for Gobber. Stormfly however bored she was refused to go anywhere where Astrid wasn’t it seemed. it was interesting.
Astrid was now about 4 months along and trying to keep herself busy. Her baby bump not so small these days. She was working with Valka and the new upcoming group of dragons. She wore a dress similar to Valkas, in her signature dark red, it tied right beneath her breasts to allow the baby not to be constricted with some pants visible in the split of the dress and her boots. She had her arms wrapped in twine like always. “Valka….” she spoke her name as they were playing with Iona and the other baby night furies. cleaning them.
“ Yes Astrid,” Valka was busy cleaning Iona as she gave the baby a bath. The other baby Nightfuries we’re playing with a small ball. Ben returned from the training mission as he knew Snotlout was going stir crazy from not able to do much due to his broken arm. Ben was still haunted knowing he killed Vilgax. Even though many of the Viking’s told him he did what he had to do protect his family. He stopped in by the forge to check on Snotlout. “ Hey babe,” Ben called in to see what he could do to help.
“I’m worried…..about Stormfly. She hasn’t been out flying in weeks. Is there anyway I could ask you to take her to fly?” She asked her mother in-law. She looked up at her from where she sat on a stump tossing the ball for the babies to play with. Though they were much bigger now.
Snotlout looked at him and sighed, “hi…..” He spoke with a seemingly solemn tone. Still stoking and pumping the fire of the forge.
“ Of course Astrid, while her loyalty to you is rather inspiring, she needs to get out flying before she gets stir crazy.” Valka smiled at her daughter in-law before chuckling a bit as she watched the babies chasing after the ball.
Ben frowned a little seeing how solemn his mate looked. “ Hey, you’ll be out of that cast soon. We’ll be back in action together soon.” Ben tried to cheer Snotlout up as he started helping Snotlout and Gobber out by sharpening a sword.
Snotlout rolled his eyes, “it’s already been 8 weeks!” He spoke to Ben. Gobber rolled his eyes, “Okay you two enough chattin more workin!” He said to the two boys.
Astrid smiles in relief. “Yea I couldn’t agree more and I love that she’s so protective. But she can’t stay grounded. My only other concern is I won’t be able to fly after the baby” She spoke and threw the ball for the babies again
“ But think of it this way: 3 more weeks till your out of that cast and you’ll be back to your badass self as usuall!” Ben said cheerfully while he inspected the sword he was working on.
Iona got so excited all of a sudden she got a weird feeling in her throat before she suddenly fired her first plasma blast, thankfully not at Astrid as it went flying right through the forge as Ben ducked when the blast nearly took off his head and out the other wall before hitting the statue of Stoick in the center of town. Iona just sat there shocked, her wide eyes blinking confused. Did she do that?!
Astrid saw a quite familiar twitch in Iona and shifted back where she was out of the way. And watched as a plasma blast went flying towards the forge. She turned to look at Iona, then Valka. “I think we need to get Hiccup” she spoke to her. “You get Hiccup I’m going to check on the guys.” She spoke and stood up before she hurried over to the Forge.
Snotlout was in a state of panic, “Ben?! Are you okay?” He asked and went to help him up gobber and Snotlout took a side and lifted him up. “Astrid?” Snotlout questioned as she showed up, “why did toothless attack us?” He asked.
“That wasn’t toothless. That was Iona…..” she responded and Snotlout looked in surprise then looked at Ben.
“ I’m okay Snotlout!” Ben reassured his boyfriend as he looked up at Astrid in surprise. “Ben soon stepped outside seeing how shaken up Iona was as Ben walked over to the baby Nightfury. “ Hey it’s okay baby,” Ben picked up the baby as she cooed up at her mother. Hiccup soon was walking over towards the small group as he looked at Iona after his mother explained to him what happened.
Astrid and Snotlout went back to Iona with Ben. She looked at Hiccup, “Thank you Valka” she said to her in a soft tone. “I guess we need to start her training….probably be good to start the others too. Toothless and Ben can do it right?” She asked Hiccup. “I’m sure you can too.” She spoke.
Snotlout looked at Iona “you are one dangerous dragon” the Viking teased. And then scratched behind her ears.
Grandpa Max soon approached the small group as he cleared his throat to catch his grandson attention. “ Oh hey Grandpa Max. Everything okay?” Ben asked in concern. “ We need to talk.” Ben had an idea what his grandfather as he gently hands Iona to Snotlout.
Snotlout notices Bens grandfather walk up, the tone of his voice when he spoke rang in Snotlouts ears. He knew what the conversation was going to be. He without question took Iona and he held her close.
Snotlout didn’t worry about much. He didn’t get seriously scared easily. But this talk scared him. He felt Ben could leave whenever and no one would blame him, Snotlout could feel his heart sink. He didn’t want to lose Ben but all at once felt he wasn’t good enough. Hardly did. But he was in love with the man. Not like he’d admit it outright. But he loved him.
Ben had already made up his mind that he was staying. Once at his and Snotlout’s hut he and his grandfather and Gwen sat down with the alien hero. “ Listen Ben, me and Gwen are heading back to our dimension for the rest of our recovery. You need to come back with us. I know you and Snotlout have gotten—close, but you have responsibilities back on your earth.” Ben stood firm while he listened to his grandfather. “ Grandpa the plumbers have dimension hopping tech we can-I am not leaving.” Grandpa looked at his grandson in surprise. “ Ben, try to think rational.” Ben looked at his grandfather defiantly, “ I am staying.” After a couple of hours and some shouting from the hut Max finally understood Ben’s choice. “ Alright you’ve made your choice.” A while later Ben was walking back to where Iona was as he watched Toothless training the baby dragon for a while. She was struggling a bit as she sneezed out purple flame.
Astrid looked at Ben, “Hey…..everything okay?” The pregnant Viking asked. “Snotlout went for a walk…..I think he went through the forest” she spoke to Ben. Fishlegs was giggling in excitement at seeing the babies play and practice their abilities. The twins were laughing at the firey sneeze Iona made.
Snotlout had left for a while leaving Astrid, and the others in charge of the babies. He’d taken off towards the cliff side of Berk. Through the forest. Hiding. He didn’t know what had been going on but his worry had gotten the better of him. He needed to be alone. He looked Dow at his arm and he huffed in frustration. “Why am I so stupid?!” He asked himself.
“ Thank you Astrid, I’ll go look for him and talk to him.” Ben reassured her as he quickly got his regular armor on seeing that it was almost nighttime as he headed through the forest. He was really worried about his boyfriend as he knew the talk with his grandfather would scare him a bit. However when he got near the cliff side of Berk Ben suddenly felt a sharp pain his shoulder between his armor. It was a dart of some kind as dragon hunters loyal to Vilgax were surrounding he alien man. Ben was trying to fight off the effects of the dart as he wildly swung his sword at his attackers as he let out a loud shout of pain that range through the forest as he a blade stick itself into his leg. His movements becoming sloppier as the drug took effect and he felt ropes wrap around one of his legs immobilized him as a hunter pinned him to the ground, before Ben was knocked unconscious from the drug and passed out.
Snotlout had Ben getting himself ready to walk back when he heard the cry. He turned and hurried to stand up before moving towards the source of the noise. “Ben?! BEN! Where are you?” He asked in his touch and gritty voice.
Astrid kissed Hiccup’s head and looked at him, “I’m going to shut Stormfly in for the night. I’ll be back okay?” She spoke. And looked at him holding his hand briefly before she left. Heading down towards the stables Stormfly followed her. As they reached inside she opened the pen that was for her dragon. Stormfly hurried in before giving a last nuzzle to Astrid. Astrid then shut the pen door and locked it. She sighed out.
“ Hold on- get back in the shadows and wait for the warrior’s friend to find him, he won’t be a threat to us and we’ll have two hostages to use against the Chief of Berk to surrender,” the leader of the group of dragon hunters told his men as they backed off into their original positions, so they could capture Snotlout. Even though Ben was close to passing out, he woke up a bit hearing Snotlout but when he tried to call for his boyfriend he felt a stabbing pain in his back,
“Snotlout I’m over here!” Ben cried out as he tried to activate his Omnitrix to fight back but during the ambush one of the hunters had broken his hand.
Snotlout heard Ben yell for him and he started sprinting. “BEN!” He yelled. He hurried to where he heard Ben’s voice, “Ben, where the hell are you?” He asked. He pulled his axe from behind him waiting for someone to come after him. “Give him back! Show yourselves!” He yelled. Then spotted Ben on the ground he hired over and bent down to get him, “Ben….what’s going on?! Wh…who did that to your hand. Are you okay?” He said and kept his hand on his axe. He was gonna fight whoever hurt Ben. He looked around.
Astrid locked Stormfly in and she went to leave the stables. Everything was dark and she was enjoying the quiet. She felt the baby kick suddenly and she stopped in her tracks to look down and caress her baby bump. “Someone’s very excited tonight” she mumbled down. Not paying attention to her surroundings.