Chapter 1: Conversations

"Well bud."

Hiccup leaned back onto his knees. "I think we're out of map space."

Toothless nuzzled him and looked down at the map. He was right.

The map was huge, covering everything from the Island of Berk to Valka's dragon sanctuary. Toothless could recognise every island, lake, river and mountain from his explorations with Hiccup. He could see the chief's house where he lived. He could see the training academy. He could see the cove where him and Hiccup had grown so close. He could even see the Dragon Island to the north-west where they had defeated the Red Death all those many years ago.

"Still haven't found any more night furies."

Toothless jumped at the mention of night furies. He huffed slightly.

"Pretty cool to find a night fury..." Hiccup's eyes seemed to glaze over slightly.

"I think we should be getting back." Hiccup thought out loud. "Got a busy day ahead of me."

Toothless whined knowingly and stuffed his nose into Hiccup's neck.

"Yeah, bud, we have a busy day ahead of us."

Hiccup walked back through the village to the chief's house. He had told Toothless to come and pick him up after so they could go flying, but so far there had been no sign of him. Where was he?!

"Hullo, Hiccup!" Hiccup turned to the voice and saw Gobber leaning against the blacksmith's, picking something out of his teeth with what looked like a very thin scalpel.

"Hey Gobber." He replied wearily.

"Tough day, chief?"

"Meh, could've been better. Have you seen Toothless?"

"Yeah, I saw him up at Raven Point just there a few minutes ago."

Hiccup sighed. He had modified the tail a few months ago so Toothless could fly on his own if he wanted, and he found it extremely useful that Toothless wasn't pestering him constantly for flight time in the middle of work. The only downside was that he'd occasionally fly off somewhere Hiccup couldn't get to him. Hiccup would get really worried about him, even though he knew Toothless would be perfectly fine.

"I think you should skip your night flight for today Hiccup. Get a good night's sleep and have an extra couple hours with him tomorrow mornin'. I'll look after anything that comes up."

"Thanks Gobber."

"Think nothin' of it."

Toothless stretched and looked up at the sky. The moon was full and bright and the stars twinkled happily. Every now and then a terror would call out or a changewing would scuttle by, but otherwise it was a peaceful night. He spread his wings and basked in the moonlight, letting the cold seep through him. He heard a rustle behind him and turned as Stormfly landed on the cliff ledge.

"You're going to scare Hiccup out of his life some day." She said.

"He gets worried, doesn't he?" Toothless yawned.

"Yes, and I agree with you."

"Do you think there's any way we could console him?"

"Bring him on a holiday."

"What?"

"There's loads of places on that map of his you could go to."

"No, I mean WHAT?!"

"He needs a break, Toothless. Even just for a couple of days. Gobber can hold the fort."

"Okay, fair enough. But how am I meant to give him this news?"

"I'm sure you can find a way."

"You can be so horribly persuasive sometimes."

"Just doing my job." Stormfly squawked.

Toothless snorted and she flew back to the village.

AN. sorry its quite short, but I hope you enjoyed!