Chapter 3
Astrid was normally a simple woman, she doesn't require many things. However, she does in fact like to not wake up from what feels like the ground crumbling beneath her. The creaking floorboards as the bed scratched against them, the objects on shelves flipping over.
"Its happening again." Hiccup said to himself, and she groaned in response, she heard his footsteps sliding across the floor. Astrid sat up, grabbing the bed frame tightly while she tried to open her eyes.
When they finally opened she saw the room in shambles. The dresser fallen over with clothes spilling out of it and the dragons saddles were flipped over. Finally, she stood up and leaned against the wall.
Thats when the horrible noise started. Astrid cried out and hed hands went straight up to her ears. If it weren't for her quick reaction time she would currently be on the floor. She continued walking, slowly and carefully, leaning closely against the wall.
Once she got to the stairs it all stopped. It was sudden, and the viking didn't release her hands until moments later. She didn't even notice her heavy breaths or how her ears were ringing before Hiccup tried talking to her.
"---quick!"
The blonde shook her head slightly, the ringing faltered. "Wh-what did you say?"
"You gotta come quick!" He repeated as fast as he could, jumping over the mess of the downstairs room and to the door that was wide open. Astrid ran after him, carefully twisting and turning over the books and tools to get outside to see what he was talking about.
There was no way in the gods names that she could have prepared herself for what she would see.
"What is that?"
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"I feel like a peasant." Ozai said, leaning his head up against the wooden walls of the boat. Azula looked to the side, and lit her hand up so she could feel the warmth of her flame.
The glow illuminated some of the area around them. There wasn't much, and they didn't expect much. They did sneak on here last minute.
"You'll be back on the throne soon enough, father." Ozai grinned at that and looked at his daughter "Thank you Azula, where would I be without you?"
The prodigy averted her eye contact and the flame in her hand seized.
"He used you for his own gain, Azula!"
"You're just saying that because he never loved you, Zuzu."
"The only thing he loves is power! I thought you'd at least be smart enough to see that."
She quickly shook her head. No, she will not let Zukos words creep into her head. He was wrong, father appreciated her. Even if she didn't do the things she had done he would still be there for her.
Right?
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Suki looked around, multiple people were staring at them. Many of them were large and pretty threatening, wearing metal hats with what looked like horns on them. What happened to be even more threatening was the even larger beasts.
"Hello?" A man asked, he was lean with shaggy brown hair and definitely didn't look like the other people around them. He wouldn't seem like much of a threat if it weren't for the huge black dragon next to him, a glare on its face, the forest green eyes digging into their souls.
"Hi! I'm Aang" Aang said with his usual charismatic personality. He jumped up, carefully floating down with his airbending. He extended his arm out, a large smile on the monks face. A pebble was thrown at his head and he looked over to Toph with an unimpressed look.
"He seems friendly!" Aang defended, looking back to the man. A woman came out of the house behind him, she had blue eyes like Katara, but she was pale-like the others in the village-and had odd hair.
"Hiccup." He replied, taking Aangs hand and giving it a quick shake. Though he didn't let go of his hand, he turned it over and looked at the tattoos. Aang pulled his hand away, and Hiccup raised his hand to the dragon next to him. The beasts features calmed down and he took a seat, turning his head.
"This is-" Sokka cut Aang off and put a hand on the boys chest, moving him out of the way. "Introductions later, we're here for a reason." Aang shrugged his shoulders, looking a bit disappointed.
"Other people trying to take our dragons? You'd think they would give it up by now!" A scrawny man said, he had a funny hair color that was unfamiliar to the six of them, it was braided up.
"We want to help your dragons." Katara said and Momo chirped on her shoulder, nodding along. Rattling came from the house behind Hiccup, it seemed much larger than the other ones in the village. He turned his head "Astrid! Come quick!" He yelled out, going into the house.
"Their smelly." Toph stated, and she could feel some of them staring at her. A grin came onto the girls face when she heard some sniffing around her. "Says the one that's not wearing shoes." One man said smugly, he crossed his large arms over his chest.
"You got something to say, loudmouth?" Toph shot back, though she looked in the wrong direction. "Its Snotlout." The man muttered and looked to the large red dragon next to him. "You're not going to do anything, Hookfang?"
"What is that?"
Heads turned to the woman coming out of Hiccups house. She had bright blue eyes like Katara and Sokka had, her hair was also a weird color like the scrawny man. She must've been Astrid.
Her finger was pointed to Appa, who, under the circumstances was pretty calm. "Oh!" Aang smiled and gestured to the furry beast "Thats Appa! He's my sky bison." Laughter came from around the village. This one man, who also had that hair that looked like the sun was bending over in his laughter.
"You got something to say, little legs?" He quickly stopped laughing and glared at Toph. "No, sorry." He said, but then quickly decided to open his mouth again. "Its just, there's no way that thing can fly."
"Actually-"
"We're not here to make friends!" Sokka yelled out, and everyone quickly turned their heads to see him. A few dragons seemed to take his tone as a threat, and they were fast to get into a defensive stance.
"We're here to stop a war."