Hello everyone. This is one of the first fanfictions I have ever written. A little about myself. I am 17 years old and I am NOT a writer. This is the first time I actually wrote on my spare time so it probably has a lot of errors. So go easy on me.

Anyways, this story is an alternate to the battle scene and final scene of the movie. So you can say it is an alternate ending. However, this is a more romantic yet tragic ending, so be warned. It's sad.

Hope you enjoy it! Constructive criticism welcomed, but go easy on my, I know I'm not that good .

So for this scene, just imagine Hiccup just got Toothless out of the water and is about to be on his way to the battle. Astrid, rather than fighting with the other teenagers like in the movie, is doing something else. Read on!

Smoke and fog clouded her vision as viking were scattered in all directions. Screams and explosions could be heard, some far, some near, and everything was in complete chaos as the green death pummeled everything in its sight with its massive hands.

Astrid ran through the pack of vikings, heading the opposite direction as the rest of them were going and towards the danger that was before her. "Hiccup?!" she yelled as she maneuvers around the panicking vikings, looking for the boy. "Hiccup, where are you?!"

She was at the verge of tears as she started feeling helpless, as there is no way she can find Hiccup over all this chaos. Astrid couldn't help but think of the worst case scenario. What is he doing right now? What if he can't handle the dragon by himself? What if something happens to him? What if he's already gone...?

No, stop it Astrid, she thought. Of course he is ok, don't think like that. He's strong, stronger than most vikings think he is. She is the only one that knows the true Hiccup, the only one who look pasts the scrawny features of his body and see how strong he truly is. He has the strongest heart Astrid has ever seen in a viking, and he is the bravest viking she has ever met. Hiccup's fine, he's fine, he's ok...

Oh, why can't things just stay the way they were? Only yesterday was life a lot simpler. It was wake up, train, eat, go to bed. That was that. But look at her now. She's worrying about a boy who showed her the wonders of flying a dragon, reminiscing about the romantic flight she and hiccup went on, how she has never felt as happy or as loved in her life. In a matter of days her world was turned upside down as she realizes who Hiccup really is. He is a kind, caring, brave, and smart viking who cares about her and is worth more than people value him as. He is just so different, different in a way that Astrid loves. She loves him. All of him.

And now that she finally realized that, she is not going to let that slip away from her. She just can't.

Her determination however was quickly shut down as she looks at the scene around her. There were so many cries of terror that she doubts her voice can even travel a few feet in front of her. She sees in the distance the green death destroying their ships and vikings sank to their deaths in the ocean. She watches the scene in horror, but she can't give up. She has to find him.

In the midst of all this chaos, the last thing she thought about was tripping, which is what happened as she trips over a rock, landing face first onto the hard rocky surface of the floor. The mixture of fear, sadness, and the pain of falling finally got to her as she could stand it anymore. She doesn't even bother to get up as tears started to pour down her eyes, the sound of her sobbing muffled by the screams of the people in the distance. Luckily, the vikings have already moved farther away from the area of the battle so no one saw her as she cried her eyes out.

Why has she become like this? What happen to the confident, cocky Astrid? When has she ever cried for a guy, or cried at all for that matter?

But this isn't just some guy, this is Hiccup. The wonderful, shy, awkward, cute Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III that made her feel happy and special. He is someone who she finally felt open enough to express her emotion to and just like that he's gone. And thinking about that just made her cry even more. She shuts her eyes tight as more tears came out, hoping this is all a dream and all this would go away.

She laid there crying for who knows how long when she heard it. "Astrid!" a voice said in the distance. She heard that familiar voice before, but did not bring her hopes up as she stayed lying there with her eyes closed. "Astrid!" the voice says again, but much louder. She glances up with her tear filled eyes and saw in the sky the approaching figure of the giant blue dragon and the familiar face of his owner.

"Hiccup!" she exclaims as she got up as fast as possible, wiping her eyes on her sleeves as the dragon landed a few meters in front of her. She couldn't help but smile in the middle of all this, seeing her man safe and sound.

"Astrid, is everything ok?" Hiccup asked. "You're not hurt are you?" She heard the concern in his voice, and she thought how cute it was that he cared about her so much. A bubble of happiness stirred in Astrid's chest. "Listen Astrid, I..."

But before Hiccup could say another word, Astrid grabs both his cheeks with her hands and kisses him deeply. Hiccup's eyes grow wide with surprise, but gradually closed as they both embraced the kiss. He places his hands on Astrid's waist as Astrid wraps her arms around his neck. With all the chaos happening in her life and around them, she is glad to have something real with her, something that she has that doesn't cause pain or sadness and is just pure happiness. And for a moment, it seemed to the two of them that all the problems in the world just disappeared and only the two of them existed. It was bliss.

A loud explosion and more screams from the distance brought the two back to the reality as they pulled away from each other. They both quickly flashed a grin at the idea of their first kiss, but Hiccup quickly puts on a stern face.

"Astrid, listen," he continued. "I am so glad you are ok. Please, you need to get out of here. It's dangerous. I need to go and help the others stop all this."

"No!" Astrid cries, louder than Hiccup expected, which made him jump a little in shock. "Please don't go!" She throws her body at him and wraps her arms tightly around Hiccup's torso, Hiccup jumping back a bit and feeling slightly awkward on where to place his hands.

"Astrid!" Hiccup exclaimed. He decides to very gently try to push her away, but she wouldn't budge. Partly because she is gripping so tightly but partly because he loves the feeling of her embrace, no matter what situation they were in. "Please Astrid, I don't want to leave but I have to. I need to fix this! This was all my fault, I have to at least try. The fate of the vikings depends on it!"

"No!" Astrid said, pouting like a crying child. "I thought I lost you! I don't want to lose you again! Please!"

Hiccup looks down at the sight below him, the girl whom he was in love with for so long, wrapped around him, begging him to stay with her. Hiccup never saw her this emotional before, which made him understand just how much he meant to Astrid. He want to stay with her more than anything in the world, but has a job to do, and if he can't do it, then no one can. As much as it pains him to say it, he has to go.

"Don't worry about me," Hiccup said, rubbing his right hand on Astrid's back to soothe her. "Everything will be alright. It will be over soon."

"But...but..." Astrid stuttered as her tears are starting to come back, but she fought hard to hold them in. She wants to show Hiccup that she is a strong woman, even though at that moment she wishes she can just be in Hiccup's embrace forever. She manages to breathe through her tears and tries to speak as steadily as possible. "Just...promise me you will be ok? Please?"

She looks up and stares at him with her big blue eyes that were filled with fear and concern. But as Hiccup looks down at the girl of his dreams staring mere inches away from him, with her arms wrapped around his body, he was struggling to think of how to answer that. He is usually a logical person, and the logical answer is that there is always a chance that he won't come back. And the fact that he is, well, Hiccup, there is always a chance that something will go horribly wrong.

"Hiccup?" She said, her voice starting to shake as she is dreading the answer. Hearing his name said in such a heartbreaking way, he decides he couldn't do it. He couldn't tell her the truth. All he could say was...

"Of course. We're vikings, it's a occupational hazard." he said as confidently as possible as he forced a small smile. Astrid did the same, even though inside she knows he was only saying it to make her feel better, but it still helped. Hiccup pushes Astrid off of his chest a few inches in front of him. He holds both her shoulders with his hands, their faces staring at each other. God she is so beautiful, Hiccup thought, and that only makes it so much harder to leave.

He stares into her eyes and said as strongly as possible: "I will be back as soon as I can. I promise."

She stared back at Hiccup's beautiful eyes and seeing them made her say the first thing that popped into her head.

"I love you, Hiccup."

This was the first time she actually said this to him, the first time she said this to anyone. But she does love him. She loves the awkward Hiccup whom she knew for almost all her life. She loves how awkward he can be sometimes. She loves the way he tries to joke around with his sarcastic humor, or when he talks about his new inventions. She loves his smile, his laugh, his concern for her well being. She really does, in fact, love him. Everything about him.

Hiccup felt a little kid who just got a compliment as his stomach quickly filled with butterflies, but his anxiousness of the events that lay before him snapped him out of his giddy trance. Usually in situations like this he tends to over think things, which ends up in him saying something weird or awkward. He knew Astrid for most of his life, and he had always dreamed of Astrid telling him that she likes him back, but he never thought of what to say afterwards. But here he is, time was running out, he has to go, and Astrid just said to him the thing he wanted to hear from her his whole life. And in this moment, he didn't even think about what to say as he went with what his heart told him.

"I love you too, Astrid."

He gave her a assertive kiss on the lips, Astrid loving the fact that he initiated, and then he grudgingly turned away from her and headed towards his dragon. He hops onto Toothless' back as he takes one last glance at Astrid. Even in the middle of all this, even when her eyes are full of sadness and concern, Hiccup still can't get over the fact of how beautiful she is. For a few seconds, they just looked at each other, both trying to hold back their tears as they didn't want the other to see their weakness. "Go." Astrid said simply. He looks away and takes off, not because Astrid told him to, but because he simply can't hold in his tears anymore. The wind whipped his eyes, which finally caused tears to leak out. "We can do this Toothless." he said to his dragon as he wiped the tears away from his face. "For all the viking of Berk. For Astrid. We have to do this!"

The dragon roared in approval, and with the adrenaline pulsing through his veins, the dragon swiftly moved through the air and headed towards the hideous green death in the distance.

"Looks like it has wings." Hiccup said. "Let's see if it can use them!"

Thanks for reading guys! There will be 2-3 more chapters after this that I'll post this week or the next. To give a heads up of where the next chapter will jump to, I basically skipped the battle scene as the same thing will happen in this story as it did in the movie. The part that I changed and will start being different is the scenes that happen after [NEXT CHAPTER SPOILERS]:

...Hiccup starts to fall from the sky.

That is where the next chapter will pick up at. Please review, I appreciate it!