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Dragons!

"Wooo hoooo!" Hiccup shouts as his Night Fiery dodged sea stacks. Hiccup pulled back in order for toothless to land on one of the stacks. He got of his dragon and took off the helmet that he had worn during the flight session.

Hiccup looked out and all he saw was the peaceful blue ocean. A sense of peace overtook him, just him and his best friend. "I'm sorry it took me so long to realize how much I miss flying with you toothless." Hiccup stated scratching his dragon on the head. Toothless did a sort of laugh and plopped down on the ground.

Hiccup followed the idea Toothless had, and laid back against his dragon and continued to stare out into the dark blue ahead.

Hiccup had finally had some time to himself after weeks of cleaning up after the Drago fiasco, getting important alliances, and dealing with all the problems of Berk. He had his friends' help of course, and they helped as much as they could, well most of them did, but he was the chief, not his friends. He still had enormous responsibilities and that didn't leave much time for flights with Toothless. Today's morning flight was a break from everything that has been going on. A flight he kinda took without anyone knowing, so he tried not to think about what was happening on Berk, and that meeting he was supposed to be at when the sun reached the middle of the sky, which was right now...

Hiccup, suddenly remembering he had the council meeting today, jumped up and woke up Toothless in the process who had been previously asleep. Hiccup saddled up on Toothless and they took off, headed for Berk.

Meanwhile in the Council room back on Berk.. "Gobber, You told Hiccup about the meeting right?" One of the Council Men asked. "Aye, but it seems the chief has forgotten." Gobber laughed a nervous laughed. Hiccup had still yet to prove himself a worthy leader to some of the Council Members, and by him not showing up proved what some of the men thought about the young chief. "I think I'll go try to find the lad." Gobber announced, leaving the men to wait for Hiccup to show up.

Gobber had searched everywhere that Hiccup liked to hang out, the Armory, The training arena, his house, and in the forest to practice with Toothless. Toothless! Then Gobber had an idea of where the Chief was, or who he was with. He hadn't seen much of Toothless and Hiccup together, they both had been on the rather gloomy side for the lack of time spent with master and dragon.

Gobber's attention turned to the blonde walking towards him, along with some of her friends. "Hey Gobber, Have you seen Hiccup?" Astrid asked as she got closer. Gobber shook his head, "I was going to ask you the same question." Astrid shrugged her shoulders. "Yeah, you would think Astrid would know where her boyfriend, soon to be husband is!" Snoutlout said sarcastically.

"Snoutlout!" Astrid shouted angry. "What?! We're all thinking it." He replied with a smirk. "Hiccup can and does whatever he wants! I don't care what he does or try to babysit him!" Astrid replied still angry. Before Snoutlout could say anything else, Toothless landed beside Gobber and his friends.

"Hey Gobber-" Hiccup started saying but Gobber interrupted him. "Chief, You need to come with me." Hiccup did as he was told and followed Gobber to the where the Council Members were waiting for him. Even outside the room he could hear them arguing. "Berk needs stability! We will be attacked by our enemies if we don't have it!" One of the men had said. "Berk is stable! We are just fine! Hiccup has done a fine job these past weeks." Another man said. Gobber had opened the door and the men had stopped speaking when they saw their chief come in.

Hiccup had seated himself down and looked around the table, there was definitely tension in the room. Gobber was now seated as well. Hiccup cleared his throat. "So.. What did I miss?" He asked, with little enthusiasm.

"Chief Hiccup, Most of the men here believe Berk needs to be as stable as it can be. But some think Berk is just fine the way it is." A Council Member stated. He was a rather large Viking, like his father was. Hiccup wasn't sure what kind of stability they were thinking. "We have many allies, as well as dragons, we have a steady trade system, and Berk is stronger now then it has been in a long time, I think that is all the stability we need as of now." Hiccup stated with calmly.

"Chief, indeed we have all of that, but what we were thinking was the next chief, an heir. And in order for you to have an heir, you must wed your betrothal sooner rather then later. But if you don't take our advice, Berk will fall. Our enemies will come to attack and take over Berk ending your bloodline, because you are the last of The Haddocks." The Council Man said.

Hiccup wasn't prepared for this discussion. Hiccup didn't have a reply to give him so quickly. His council wanted him to be married and secure the Haddock line with a heir. It was all so sudden, they hadn't talked about marriage or an heir since he had been chief, which was a short while still, but he hadn't thought about it. He doubt Astrid had any thoughts about the subject either, Hiccup had always thought they would get married when the time was right, when they both wanted to settle. But know, he seemed like he had no choice in the matter, although he did, he felt trapped. He knew he wanted to marry Astrid, and he knew she wanted to marry him, but they were still quite young yet, even though they were betrothed. That was normal at their age, but the weddings were not sudden, they took one or two years after a normal couple have been betrothed.

Hiccup turned his mind towards his current situation. "I will think it over and talk to Astrid about this." Hiccup stated. Hiccup turned to leave without looking back at the Council Members. He needed to clear his head, all over again.

Astrid was feeding stormfly along with Toothless since Hiccup had gone with Gobber for some unknown reason, her guess was a meeting. Hiccup always hated those, they never turned out good, and every time he went to one, he was not pleasant to be around, but that didn't stop Astrid from talking with him.

Just as she finished giving Toothless his last fish, Hiccup appeared beside her. "I'm taking Toothless for awhile, thanks for feeding him." He stated, sounding different from when she first saw him earlier today, her thoughts had been right about a Council meeting.

"Yea, Are you alright Hiccup?" She asked with a hint of worry. He nodded his head and turned to leave her, Toothless following his master. They soon took off to the sky, Astrid wasn't convinced he was ok, so she took off as well to follow her boyfriend.

Hiccup and Toothless landed on a sea stack like they did previously that morning, Hiccup dismantled from Toothless and sat down on the rock. His thoughts were everywhere, was he going to tell Astrid what the Council has mentioned? Did he agree with them? Would she want to get married right away or wait? He didn't know, Hiccup's head hurt from thinking to much and the throbbing inside of him, made him oblivious to the fact that something just landed next to him.

Astrid slid off of her Nadder and watched Hiccup, he just sat there, back to her, looking into the sea with the sun blazing down on him, as well as herself.

"Hiccup?" She suddenly spoke. Hiccup turned around and jumped at her presence. "Hi Astrid." He tried to smile at her. She smiled back, to at least try to cheer him up. Astrid then moved closer and sat down next to him, there was some distance between them, she could feel it too and he as well.

Hiccup knew she was waiting for him to start, to start explaining to her what was discussed at the Council Meeting.

"Astrid, They want us to get married." Hiccup simply stated. Astrid suddenly giggled at his words. "Hiccup, I think we already know we are going to get married someday." Astrid replies with a genuine smile, a smile that Hiccup didn't return. "I know that Astrid, but they want us to be wed soon, instead of how we planned it." Hiccup continues to explain.

Astrid still didn't quite understand what Hiccup was getting at, but she had an idea. Astrid's stomach filled with anxiousness about the thought being married to Hiccup so soon. Was she ready to become his wife? She had expected to be older then this before they got married. And being married to a Chief would come with responsibilities, a ton of them. She knew that of course when they first started dating back at Dragon's Edge, but she pushed all that to the back of her mind, now she was feeling nervous about it but she tried not to show it.

Hiccup knew when Astrid was uneasy about something, he could tell she was thinking about the subject as much as he was. But he hadn't told her about the heir part, she knew of course but neither had really talked about it up till now.

"Hiccup. Why do they want us to get married so suddenly?" She asked curious. "They want stability for Berk." Hiccup answered. "Why would us getting wed bring stability?" She thought but accidentally said it out loud.

"Astrid, they want an heir to the haddock line, as soon as possible. Since I'm the last of the haddock's, there is threats out there to Berk, if anything happens to me, Berk won't have a rightful leader.

Then Astrid got it. She knew that having an heir was one of the chief's wife duties. Astrid didn't say anything back, just thought about everything that she had been told. The silence broke when hiccup started taking again.

"They expect me to do everything my father did, how I should just do what he did. My father was a great chief and left me with so much, I'm not sure what to do, there is a part of me that wants to make my father proud and another that I know I'm not my father, I was never like him, so how can I follow in his leadership?" Hiccup stated mostly to himself.

Astrid gazed over at him, looking at him tenderly. "Hiccup, you are right, you aren't Stoick, you don't need to follow everything everyone says. You have to be your own chief, and be proud of it, I know you will figure it out. You always do." Astrid says softly. Hiccup looked at her and gave her a grateful smile, which she gave back.

"We will figure everything out later, and I'm with you on whatever you decide." She added placing her hand on his but quickly removed it. "I have to get back to Berk.." Astrid stated standing up and calling Stormfly over. "It's about time for the dragon race." She said excited. And with that said, she jumped on her dragon and flew off towards her home.

"Are you ready to lose again Astrid?!" Eret teases as the riders line up for the race. "Very funny, you got lucky last time." Astrid replied with confidence. "What are you two talking about?! I'm the one who's going to win!" Snoutlout shouted at the end of the line. Astrid rolled her eyes and got ready to race.

She glanced over at where the people were on the benches, and the cheif's spot in the middle. Hiccup hadn't returned yet, she felt some disappointment that he hadn't come to watch the race but she had to focus on winning, being the competitor she was, especially to her opponents. She wasn't losing to The Twins, nor Snoutlout. He would never let her hear the end of it.

The horn sounded and they were off, finding sheep in every little crevice. Stormfly dove, ducked and flew up as her master said to, although Stormfly knew what to do most of the time. Eret was close behind her while she carried the last white sheep, Stormfly flew left and right trying to lose Eret and get to the basket before he could take the sheep, but before she knew it, Stormfly ran into the twins knocking both Astrid and Ruffnut to the ground while Tuffnut stayed unharmed.

Tuffnut looked down at the two of them and began laughing, neither were hurt but that meant Astrid lost her lead to Eret who took the sheep when Stormfly crashed into Barf and Beltch. Astrid called to Stormfly and they got back in the race, ready to get the black sheep, the horn sounded again notifying the racers that the black sheep was about to apear. Eret, Snoutlout and Fishlegs were ahead of her by some distance and the black sheep appeared and Fishlegs was first to have it, then Eret snatched it from him and began towards the baskets of sheep. Only, the black sheep missed the opening and Astrid took advantage of that. Stormfly grabbed the sheep and dropped it into her basket, declaring her the official winner of that day's race.

The Vikings cheered for Astrid, as most of them had bets on her to win, and the Vikings who lost money, weren't so happy she won, they scowled and shook their heads. Astrid just laughed and her friends congratulated her on winning. Even if snoutlout didn't mean it.

That evening everyone celebrated in the Great Hall with a big spread of food for the day's fun. Astrid, The Twins, Eret, Fishlegs and Snoutlout were lauging and talking about the day's events and how Eret should practice more for the next race. Slowly, Vikings went to their homes to go to bed for the night, Astrid was the only one left besides Gobber. She was waiting for Hiccup to return. He could of gone home, but he usually stops by the Great Hall to get a small dinner.

Gobber sat down next to her, "I don't think the Chief will be coming tonight." He said watching Astrid's expression. "I know. He needed to clear his head." She replied.

"Aye, so you he told you." Gobber replied and Astrid nodded. She didn't want to talk to Gobber about her personal relationship with Hiccup, she only shared it with Heather and that was it. Sometimes she would talk to Stormfly about Hiccup, but that was on special occasions.

Gobber, who guessed what Astrid was thinking, said one final thing. "He will come around lass." And with that, Gobber left.

Astrid walked home shortly after Gobber had left. The night was unusually quiet, that was odd. Suddenly she saw multiple fire balls coming towards the village. She ran quickly to the warning horn and blew it, warning people that they were being attacked. The dragon riders appeared out of their homes and got their dragons and joined Astrid in trying to stop fires from spreading.

Hiccup, who had apparently returned, ran outside his hut with Toothless and bolted into the darkened sky heading toward the fireballs, dodging them like a expert.

Astrid and the gang followed him in suit, but when they reached where the fireballs were coming from, nothing was there. Hiccup orderd the gang to search around, Astrid, and Fishlegs searched the water, and the rest searched on the land. Nobody had found anything, except Eret. Who found a piece of parchment with wording on it.

'It's your turn Hiccup Haddock'

Authors note:

Hey guys! I hope you liked the first chapter, I sure do. My goal for this is to get this story exciting and more like httyd 3 but also make it my own. Please leave your opinion so I can know what you think or what I should add to the story, and how you think I did with the characters? I thought I wrote them all right, but let me know! I'm so excited to begin the story!