Disclamer: I don't own the characters of How to train your dragon, lady and the tramp belong to Disney, Monnshadow, Boden, and any other non cannon characters belong to my friend Kelseyalicia
There is but one thing money cannot buy: to wit- the wag of a dog's tail. This is quoted from Rush Billings in the original version of Lady and the Tramp. So it is to all dogs, be they ladies or tramps, that this fanfic is respectfully dedicated.
It was Christmas morning in Dragon city, in the Berk district it was a very special one for Stoick, his wife Valka and their two children Hiccup and his little brother Boden. For pretty soon, they were going to add another addition to the family. Inside the living room, Stoick gave Boden his gift to him while Valka gave hers to Hiccup.
"It's for you, Boden, and Hiccup" he said. "Merry Christmas."
"Oh, dad," Boden said with awe. "It's just what I wanted, isn't it? Trimmed with ribbons?"
"Well," Valka began as he opened the present, "it has a ribbon."
Inside was a silver phantom puppy, female. Boden gasped in surprise, smiling.
Hiccup opened his to find a male night fury puppy. "Oh, how sweet," Hiccup said, holding the puppy.
"You like them?" Valka said.
"Oh, I love them," both boys replied.
"So," Stoick began, "What are you going to name them?"
Well," Boden answered, "I think I'll name her Stardust"
"And I'll name mine Toothless," Hiccup said.
Valka giggled, "Stardust and Toothless it is."
That night, Hiccup and Boden set up a place for the new puppies to sleep in the kitchen. Hiccup put a basket near the table. In the basket was a sheet and a small pillow. Boden carried little Stardust into the kitchen where Toothless already was. The puppies didn't seem to like it.
"Come on, Toothless, come on, Stardust" Hiccup called. "Over here."
Stardust and Toothless came, and Hiccup placed them into the basket.
"There now," he continued. "A nice little bed for you guys."
"But brother," Boden began, "do you think they'll be warm enough?
"Why not, Boden?" Hiccup answered as he was about to flip the light switch. "They'll be snug as a bug in a... Uh-oh." He just realized the day's newspaper. "Almost forgot something," he continued as he placed the paper next to the basket. "There we go." He then flipped the switch. "Good night, Toothless and you to Stardust." He turned to Boden as they started to go upstairs. "Don't worry, bro. They'll go right to sleep."
He stopped short when Toothless and Stardust got out of the kitchen and followed him.
"No, Toothless, no Stardust," he said, picking Toothless up, and Boden did the same with Stardust. They placed them back in the basket. "This is where you belong, right here."
However, as soon as they left, Toothless and Stardust started following again, and began to whimper when they saw her new owners nearly all the way upstairs.
"Oh, Hiccup, look," Boden said in awe. "They're lonesome. Don't you think, maybe, just for tonight?"
"Now, Boden," Hiccup began, picking Toothless and Stardust up, "if we're going to show them whose master, we must be firm from the beginning."
With that, he put both puppies back in the basket in the kitchen once more. This time, to make sure she stayed in the kitchen, he placed a chair in front of the kitchen door before making his way to the bedroom.
Toothless had stayed in the basket understanding what Hiccup wanted. Stardust, tried to open the door, but found it blocked. She started to whimper, but some knocking from above made the whimpering stop.
"Stardust, please stop," Valka called from inside her bedroom.
"Yeah," Hiccup added from inside his bedroom.
But again, Stardust whimpered. Hiccup turned on the living room light, tapped a foot, and said, "Stardust, quiet now. Ya' hear me? Back to bed, quick now." Stardust did so. "And not one more sound out of you tonight."
Time passed, and it was two in the morning. Stardust scraped the chair away from the door, making her escape from the kitchen, Toothless not far behind. While in the living room, she made her way up the stairs and found Boden's bedroom. She started to whimper. Toothless did the same outside Hiccup's room.
Upon hearing pupies whimpering, Boden called to his brother from next door, "Hiccup..."
Hiccup responded by placing his pillow over his head to drown out the whimpering.
Again, Toothless and Stardust whimpered, and yipped.
"Oh, Hiccup," Boden said, understanding that they needed to sleep in there bedrooms.
Hiccup finally gave in. "Oh, okay, Boden. You win. They can sleep with us."
This delighted Boden, as he placed Stardust at the end of his bed and Hiccup did the same with Tothless.
Six months have passed, and Toothless and Stardust fully grown. Upon those six months, they gained the ability to walk and talk like a human, even though to the others it still sounded like barks and growls.
Upon fetching Boden's slippers, she barked, "Good morning, Boden."
"Good morning, Stardust," Boden replied before looking at the window. "Uh-oh."
"What's wrong, Boden?" Hiccup said, walking into his brothers room upon hearing Boden say that Toothless hot on his heels.
"Can't you explain to Stardust and Tothless about Sundays?" Boden replied, yawning.
Toothless then went downstairs it was his day to get the paper. Outside, he saw a squirrel and started to chase it. However, the chasing stopped when he heard the newspaper boy's bike bell ringing.
"Good morning!" Toothless yipped to the paperboy.
"Good morning!" the paperboy called back as he threw the paper to the Haddocks' yard.
Toothless caught the paper, and tried to carry it all the way through the doggie door in the kitchen door.
During breakfast, Stoick read the paper, and didn't mind the hole in the headlines section.
"Have any of you noticed?" he asked his family. "Since we had Toothless and Stardust, we don't see anymore of those disturbing headlines."
"Yeah, Dad," Boden agreed.
"I just don't know what we'd do without them," Valka added.
As Boden gave Toothless and Stardust a doughnut each, Valka said, "Well, it looks like they're six months old. We may give them a licence soon."
"Yeah," Hiccup agreed as Stardust began to eat her doughnut.