Hiccup Haddock blearily rolled over in his bed, reaching for Astrid, his wife of one month, not bothering to open his eyes. Feeling it empty, he remembered that Astrid had decided to wake early for some extra training with her axe. Not that his beautiful warrior queen needed it. She could kill him with her pinky if she wanted to.
Hiccup rolled back over onto his back with a sigh and decided to get up himself. He had a long day of chiefing to do after all. He opened his eyes, meeting the green ones staring at him from above for a split second, before jumping in shock with a yell of shock as he realized what he was seeing.
Toothless laughed that strange dragony laugh of his as he caught his best friend before Hiccup could land on the floor as he tumbled from the bed, tangled in his sheets. Hiccup, barely believing his eyes, stared.
"Toothless?" he questioned. The Night Fury in question gave him a look. "Toothless!" he launched himself off the bed and wrapped his arms around the dragon's neck as he laughed. He pulled back suddenly. "What are you doing here?! You're supposed to be with the other dragons in the Hidden World!" Toothless have him another look before grabbing Hiccup's arm and pulling him towards the door. "T-Toothless, hang on, bud, I haven't got my leg on!" Toothless stopped, giving him an impatient look. Hiccup just barely managed to pick his prosthetic up before he found himself suddenly on Toothless' back with a startled as the dragon bounded towards the door and right through it, knocking it off it's hinges. Hiccup absently made a mental note to fix that later as he took in the sight of his village as it should be.
Dragons and Vikings greeted each other joyfully after months of the dragons leaving as he looked around, his smile growing. Toothless warbled at him happily and he laughed scratching the scales underneath his fingertips.
A few houses away, he could see Snotlout reprimanding – or trying to – Hookfang for something or other. Fishlegs was hugging Meatlug and Fishmeat with the crimson gorecutter watching over the tiny gronkle. He could see his mother flying with Cloudjumper already, laughing as they flew passed them. An explosion in the middle of the nearby forest told him exactly where the twins were, most likely with Barf and Belch. And coming straight towards him was Astrid on Stormfly. Hiccup grinned at her as she landed, a smile as big as his on her face.
He got off Toothless as he fixed his leg into place and took her hand as she came down to stand next to him.
"They came back," Hiccup said happily.
"Of course they did," Astrid told him. "They –" Whatever Astrid was going to say was interrupted as Toothless pounced on Hiccup, knocking him to the ground and thoroughly covering him in thick, slimy saliva add Astrid laughed.
"TOOTHLESS, EW! GET OFF ME! You know that doesn't wash out!" Toothless laughed again as he stepped back slightly to give Hiccup some room. "You've been waiting to do that since before I even woke up, haven't you?" Toothless just have him a gummy smile and Hiccup laughed, rubbing the scales on his friend's head. He looked out over the village again only to see the Light Fury looking at him cautiously. He lifted his hand and looked away, giving her the same choice he had given Toothless. A few seconds later she pressed her snout against his palm and he let out a breath, looking up at her as she went to stand beside Toothless. He turned back to Astrid with a smile.
"Just in time for Snoggletog."
"They do have a habit of that."
Toothless' POV
I watched as My Human's mate walked out into the forest where Stormfly was waiting for her, knowing she would go out there to practice with her sharp human weapon before sneaking. I watched him sleep for what felt like ages, before he started to wake. Green eyes stared into mine for a few seconds before Hiccup seemed to realize I was here. He started jumping about and even ended up on the floor wrapped up in those coverings he was using as he slept, and I realized that he wasn't expecting me at all as he started babbling in his human tongue that I had learned to understand over the years with him.
"You didn't think I'd stay away did you? Oh you did, you silly fishbone boy. I'd never stay away from you, silly little brother." I took hold of his arm – careful to retract my teeth, so I didn't break through fragile skin – and started dragging him behind me as he hopped unsteadily. He talked again whilst pointing to my leg and I let him pick it up before getting him on my back and racing outside where the other dragons and Vikings were.
"See? We're all back! We'll travel between here and the Hidden World of course, but we're here!" I waited as Hiccup and his mate, Astrid, conversed before giving into the temptation of pouncing on him and licking him as he squirmed and protested like a hatchling who didn't want a bath. I laughed and gave him a toothless smile as he accused me of having wanted to do that for ages, which of course was true. His reaction, whilst usually the same, was always amusing to watch.
Luna – my own lovely mate – watched, head tilted slightly. Hiccup turned to see her as well and held his front paw up to her as he had to me years before. Luna's head tilted slightly to the other side before she walked up to him silently and pressed her snout into his hand before she pulled away and stood next to me.
Normal POV
And so things went back to as normal as Berk could be, on a new island. Not to mention, of course the trips between Berk and the Hidden World. Hiccup sent word to Heather, Dagur and Mala on Beserker Island that Windshear, Sluether, Shattermaster and the Eruptodon had also arrived on Berk, because apparently when Toothless had left for the Hidden World, literally every dragon everywhere had followed. Hiccup figured he probably should have known that would happen, but it has still taken them by surprise when they had contacted them about it.
And whilst they waited for replies – or rather, waited to see the people themselves as they arrived on the backs of their dragons who had delivered the messages themselves – they celebrated the first Snoggletog of New Berk.
So this is my first attempt at a httyd fanfiction. I might post another chapter with the Night Lights, Zephyr and Nuffink, I don't know yet. So now that you've read it, I'd really like to hear what you guys think.
For those who read my other fanfics, I'm really sorry I haven't updated in so long, I've just been really busy and I will try to update soon.
- Kyrian Mikaelson
