"Bye Toothless, be good okay?" Hiccup smiled as he hugged Toothless around his neck.
The dragon purred and rubbed his scaly check against Hiccup's "Bye Hiccup, tried not die without me"
Next to them stood Astrid, stroking Stormfly's beak sadly "Sorry girl, but the village we're going to still fight dragons, they could hurt you if you came with us"
Stormfly cooed "I know, but I'm allowed to miss you"
"I know what you're thinking, but Fishlegs is going to be feeding you and Toothless" Astrid smiled.
"Not what I said but okay" Stormfly smiled and saw Toothless frowning at her in the corner of her eyes; she turned to him "What?"
Toothless just rolled his eyes in response before turning back to Hiccup, purring as Hiccup scratched him under his chin. Stormfly chirped and closed her eyes, rubbing the side of her head against Astrid, making her laugh.
"I'll miss you too girl" she said why stroking Stormfly's head "Oh hey, here comes Stoick and Gobber"
Stormfly squawked and turned her head to the side, watching as Stoick and Gobber walked towards them, climbing down the steps of the docks and stopped in front of the small group; trailing behind them, holding Stoick's hand, was Mason, wearing a long blue tunic with dirty greens leggings and brown sandals.
"Daddy!" Mason cried out, clumsily tripping over his own feet as he running up to his father, giggling.
"Hey buddy" Hiccup smiled and kneeled down, lifting his son up when he ran into his arms "Are you gonna miss us?"
"Yea!" Mason smiled "Are you gonna be gone long?"
"We'll be back before you know it" Astrid took Mason off of Hiccup and kiss the top of his head, holding him close "So be good for your grandfather while we're gone"
Mason nodded and Astrid kissed him on his head again and Hiccup stroked the auburn hair out of his sons face and smiled "Be good"
Mason nodded and Stoick reached for him, taking him out of Astrid's gripped and smiled "Good luck Son"
"Bye dad, bye Gobber" Hiccup smiled and turned back to Toothless, patted him on his head and then turn away, stepping onto the large sail boat where other Vikings were waiting to set sail.
Snotlout stood at the side of the boat, his arms crossed over his chest "Come on guys, both the sea freezes over"
"Shut up Snotlout, we were saying goodbye to my son" Astrid glared at him as she followed Hiccup onto the boat.
A moment later, a horn blew in the distance and the ship set off, moving slowly at first and then picked up speed as wind hit the sail. Toothless, Stormfly, Gobber, Stoick and Mason watch from the docks as the ship grew smaller.
"Bye bye" waved Mason with his small hand while holding onto Stoick's shirt with the other.
"Come on Mason, let's go back home" Stoick smiled and turned, walking back up the dock.
Gobber watched them go before elbowing Toothless "Bet you my hand that I'll be stuck with that pain while Stoick's chiefin' for Hiccup eh?"
Toothless snorted in agreement and Gobber smiled, chuckled to himself and then walked up the docks.
"So what do you want to do now?" asked Stormfly to Toothless, looking down at him.
"I'm hungry, Hiccup only gave me a few fish this morning" Toothless said, putting his paws on his stomach for emphasis "I'm wasting away"
Stormfly laughed and the two dragons walked side by side, their tails swaying lazy behind them. As they walked into the town square, Vikings walked past them; busy with their own lives to take notice of the two dragons.
When they arrived at the large, slightly crooked house of Fishlegs; Toothless let out a low growl and scrapped his claws along the rough surface of the door. Footstep echoed inside the house before the door opened to reveal Fishlegs; wearing his normal brown shirt and a matching fur vest and boots with black leggings.
"Oh, hey you two, come here for some lunch?" Fishlegs' asked; the short hair of his chin even and neat.
"No, we can here to fix your roof" growled Toothless, smirking lightly.
"I was just about to feed Meatlug actually, why don't you wait in the back with her while I get your food ready" smiled Fishlegs and shut to door.
"Great, more waiting" Stormfly huffed and walked around the house to the back, followed by Toothless.
Meatlug laid on her sigh, scratching her stomach lazily with her back paw, her eyes half closed. Behind her were her two sons, play fighting noisily.
"Hey Meatlug" Toothless smiled and the Gronkle look at him.
"Oh hey guys, what are you doing here?"
"We're here to eat; Hiccup and Astrid left for their trip and Mr. No Flight over here can't catch his own food" Stormfly said, flicking her tail in his direction.
Toothless shorted as Fishlegs came around the corner, two big baskets in his arms and another two over his shoulders.
"Hope you're hungry guys" he smiled and he spilled one of the bags in front of Toothless and then Stormfly, leaving a pile of fish in front of them.
"There you go girl" Fishlegs patted Meatlug's head as he put the basket down next to her and then spilled the last one in front of her sons, who growled and quickly dived at the pile, before Fishlegs walked off.
"Fish, fish, fish, fish!" they chanted.
"No offence Meatlug but they're quiet annoying" Stormfly said
"I know" Meatlug smiled as she tipped over her basket and began to eat "But what are you going to do?"
"I can think off a few things" Toothless muttered loud enough for Stormfly to hear, making her chock on her fish a little as she laughed.
They dragons continued to eat in silence after that, Meatlug's two sons occasionally growling at their lunch before swallowing their fish whole and running off, leaving nothing behind. Toothless was the first to finish his lunch, chewing down a salmon before swallowing it and stood up, stretching.
"With all that fish and no flying, Hiccup going to come home to a boulder instead of a dragon" Hookfang snared, coming into view as he lay on the roof of the house "Don't want that to happen now do we?"
"Shut it Hookfang" snapped Stormfly and she throw her fish in his direction.
Hookfang catch it in his jaws and chewed it "Thanks"
Stormfly hissed, annoyed at the dragon, Toothless and Meatlug watched from the side, slightly amused. All four dragons didn't notice Gobber walking up to them until he yelled loudly.
"Lookly what I've got" The dragons turned to see Gobber hold Mason above his head, kicking his legs in the air and screamed in delight "Up! Higher!"
"Just goes to show you how well I know Stoick" Gobber smiled, putting Mason down next to Toothless.
Gobber stood with his hands on his hip, a wide smile on his face as he looked at the dragons, not doing anything for a full minute before he slapped his hands together and took a step back.
"Well….I'm off" he said merrily and started to walk off.
Toothless screeched at him and grabbed Mason by his tunic, running after Gobber and stood in front of him, huffing "You want to try that again?" The dragon growled
"Sorry Toothless but I can't have a two year old in my shop" Gobber said, stopping in my tracks "You know, lots of sharp metal, lots of dragons that can bite or spit fire when I pull out their rotten chompers"
Toothless snorted "Are you saying what I'm think you're saying?"
"Look at it this way: if something was to happen and Hiccup and Astrid found out they wouldn't let me babysit" Gobber smirked
"Where's he going with this" Stormfly crouched behind Gobber, eyeing him warily.
Gobber smiled and continued as Toothless looked at him questioningly "Well let's say if Mason gets hurt in my shop, I won't be allowed to look after him anymore and Stoick is always busy which means you and that Nadder will have to babysit him, which I'll imagine it will happen a lot with Hiccup being chief and all"
Toothless growled as he thought it over; his eyes turning into slits as he released Gobber was right.
"Bye" Gobber grinned and walked off happily.
"So…are we babysitting him again?" Stormfly asked, tilting her head to the side.
Toothless sighed and nodded "Yeah, we're stuck with him again"
"Okay…Toothless?" Stormfly asked.
"Yes?"
"Where is Mason?"
Toothless jerked his head down to see Mason gone; his eyes grew wide and he jumped back, looking in all directions.
"Ha!" barked Hookfang from the roof.
"Not again" sighed Meatlug and Stormfly together
Toothless ignored them and turned in a full circle before sitting down, defeated, and screamed to the sky "GODS DAMN IT!"
