There was a loud knocking on the Haddocks' door.

Stoic got up from his seat next to the fire in the center of the room, and walked towards the door, opening it. Astrid was standing at the steps, and was about to ask an eager question, when Stoic answered for her.

"There's been no update on the egg. It's still the same, as usual." He said.

Astrid sighed, "Do you know where it is at least, Chief?" she asked. "Hiccup took it down to the Academy, it should be there. He's been down there for an hour at the most." The Chief chuckled. Astrid nodded and said her thanks before running down to the Academy.

Meanwhile, Hiccup had placed the brown egg on a metal table, taking notes about it. He drew the egg in a detailed way on a new page in his journal, and tapped the place where the name should be with his charcoal; there was none. Toothless was standing next to him, looking at his rider with an obvious expression, as if he couldn't believe he didn't know what type it was.

Out of the corner of his eye, Hiccup thought he saw the egg move. His head jerked up, and he looked at the shell carefully, seeing if it had really cracked-

-when suddenly he was pulled backwards.

"Oh, so now what, you want an egg to blow up in your face like the Gronckle's? You know, I thought you out of all people would have known better."

"Geez, ok, I'm sorry! Gosh, it didn't do anything anyway, Astrid."

"Does that matter?"

Hiccup got to his feet and rolled his eyes. Astrid looked at the table it was sitting on, and questioned, "Why metal?" "Because if it does explode, then we don't really want a fire catch onto a wooden one." He replied. She nodded.

Just then, the rest of the group came flying in. "Has there been any change?" Fishlegs called out immediately. Both Hiccup and Astrid shook their heads. Snotlout groaned, "How long are we going to have to wait, the suspense is driving the twins insane, and quite frankly, I don't want another twin skirmish!" Hiccup looked at the twins, confused. "The potential damage is underestimated." Was Tuffnut's response.

Hiccup's eyes widened. "Since when did you guys know words like frankly, skirmish, or underestimated?"

"We've been hanging out to long with you two." Snotlout replied, pointing to him and Fishlegs. Fishlegs looked taken aback. "Well, at least somebody-" he started to reply, but was interrupted by Astrid, clapping her hands once, getting their attention. "Why not instead of correcting each other's grammar, we focus on the new dragon egg?" She said sarcastically. "Uh, we weren't really correcting each other." Fishlegs defended himself.

Astrid glared at him with a don't-question-me face.

"Ok, well, anyway, let's just focus on the egg. None of us need to go to the healer in anyway." Hiccup said, trying to move things along. "At least not yet…" Snotlout muttered. Hiccup ignored him.

"What have we not tried?" Fishlegs asked.

Hiccup shrugged.

The four who were on their dragons hopped off of them, giving them a break. But as soon as they hopped off, the dragons darted to where Toothless was standing; next to the egg. The gang turned around to see them, now confused.

"Toothless what are you doing?" Hiccup asked, seeing how now his dragon was giving him a funny look. Toothless rolled his eyes, and grumbled, nodding his head to the egg. Hiccup just looked at him quizzically. Suddenly, the dragons backed away from the Night Fury, as Toothless arched his back and a green mist started to form inside his mouth.

Hiccup knew what that meant.

"No, no, NO TOOTHLESS DON'T-"

Toothless shot a plasma ball at the egg, sending it up in flames.

"-…shoot." Hiccup muttered. The teens watched in horror as the egg (somehow) caught fire. Toothless sat down and looked very pleased with himself. The other dragons grumbled and squawked their approval, and watched along intently with Toothless at the burning egg.

"Toothless what did you do?!" said a now very upset Hiccup. Toothless snorted at him, almost as if asking him to be quiet, and then threw his head in the direction of the egg. The teens turned to look, and with gasps of shock, watched as the egg slowly cracked.

The flames settled down, until it was just a smoldering shell. The egg rocked back and forth, cracks forming all over it. Hiccup fumbled for his notebook, still watching with awe. He got it out, and got the charcoal stick out from his belt, and opened to the recent page.

Suddenly, a small part of the shell fell off, letting out a small bit of steam. The rest of the top part of the egg broke off as well, and it fell to its side, letting out a small black dragon. It's body was a tad bit like a Gronckle, only that it didn't have a Gronckle tail, instead its tail was long, with the normal arrowhead point on the end. It had spikes running up and down its spine, but they weren't like a Nadder's, they were just normal points. It had pretty large wings for its size and were purple on the leathery part of them, and they fought against it as it tried to stand up on its four legs, sending it tumbling off of the table. It had noticeable ears, and yellow eyes. The weirdest thing about it though, was that it had a large horn-like thing on the end of its nose that was the size of about half its head. Suddenly it sneezed, and the spike started turning, making a familiar drilling sound.

It blinked up at them with its big round eyes.

The teens just continued to stare.

Until Toothless nudged the little baby forward. It looked at them, its eyes spooked, and tried to scurry away.

That snapped Hiccup out of his trance. "It's ok, I'm a friend." He knelt down, encouraging the dragon to come. Toothless once again, nudged the dragon to his rider, this time more gently. The unknown dragon hatchling walked to Hiccup slowly, as he held out his hand for it.

When it finally reached him, he starched it under its chin, which all dragons enjoyed. It ran around him, grumbling and purring.

He picked it up, and turned back to the other teens. They just stared at the little dragon, curiosity flowing through them. "What should we name him?" Hiccup asked.

A/N: Hey everyone! Here is the sequel to Birthdays! I hope you liked the first chapter! Now, can you all help me with this: I need a name.

Most of you may have guessed the dragon (haha, that sounds like it would be a fun game) by now, but if you haven't, that's ok, you'll find out in the next chapter. But for now I need a name, and I would appreciate all suggestions!

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and that you have a wonderful rest of your day!

-ccatz4eva101