Please don't kill me for this story, I just felt it needed to be written! And yes, this is a full story not a one-shot.
Flying Through Ashes
Toothless paced nervously outside the hut, letting out an impatient growl every now and then. Why was this taking so long?! Hiccup was fine, he just had a cold, so why were they taking so long? He tried to reassure himself that it was just because the new healer wasn't as fast as the old one. Gothi hadn't made it this far, even Astrid was almost ninety...
Amazingly, Gobber had held on this long. At 105, nobody could understand how he did it. But the man had always been stubborn - Thor, he nearly got eaten by a Bone-Knapper because he didn't want to get rid of his belt buckle!
The Terrible Terrors were watching him anxiously - when Gothi passed she had left them to Hiccup, and most of them didn't know what was going on. The brighter ones caught on that something was wrong, and tried to rub round Toothless' legs like oversized cats in an attempt to comfort him. However, this didn't work today as it made Toothless trip over. Even now, he was very self conscious in front of other dragons, thanks to the whole Alpha business. It just felt so weird being called Sir or Great One, and having dragons bow to him all the time.
Still, there was the odd dragon who still treated him normally - Barf and Belch, Stormfly, Meatlug, Hookfang, Skullcrusher and Cloudjumper all treated him as their best friend, still. With them, he could always be himself. And Thornado... He had always missed Thornado. His heart clenched when he thought of the late Stoick the Vast's first dragon, and he felt a pang of guilt even after so long. He should've tried to find the Thunderdrum, tell him exactly what he had done - but he couldn't. How could he tell Thornado that he had killed his rider?
But time heals, and now Toothless had started to forgive himself. He looked across the village at the statuue of Hiccup's late father, and gave it his characteristic toothless smile.
Then, Astrid came out, looking like she had been crying - why did she look like that?
"Toothless," she said, "You'd better come in."