Toothless watched as the little thing wiggled, whining as he stuck his chubby hands in the air, trying to grab the black dragon. Toothless stared at it curiously as his whined again, grabbing hold of one of the small wooden bars and looking at the dragon, tears in his eyes.
Toothless looked around the empty room and huffed before leaning over the crib and grabbing the small child by his tunic and lifting him up gently. The child cooed and wiggled again in his grasp, looking at Toothless and reached out to him, trying to grab his ear flaps. Toothless carried him out of the room and down the stairs, making sure that the boy was comfortable as he laid him down on the woven carpet in the living room.
The young toddler made a noise and reached up for Toothless, wrapping his cubby arms around his snout. Toothless smiled and cooed happily at him, lifting him up so that he was in a sitting position, laughing a little as he held onto Toothless, before the dragon slowly laid the child down onto his back.
"Toothless, I'm back" Astrid called as she opened the front door and smile when she saw Toothless and her son together.
Bending down, Astrid scooped up the child and patted Toothless on the head "Thanks for watching Mason, Toothless"
Toothless growled softly in response and walked over to the fireplace, laying down on his side and sighing, shutting his eyes. Astrid smiled at her baby and kissed the top of his auburn hair, making him giggle.
Taking him back upstairs, Astrid placed him back in the crib, looking at him lovingly "Sleep tight, son"
Astrid walked back down stairs after Mason had fallen asleep to see Hiccup patting a sleeping Toothless' head, holding a small object in his other hand.
"What's that?" Asked Astrid as she bent down and gave him a small kiss on the cheek.
Her husband lifted up a small doll; it resembled a Nadder with 'horns' on its head but with four legs "Thought I'll give it to Mason, don't worry, I cleaned it"
Astrid took it off him and turned it in her hands "Wow, are you sure Hiccup? Your mom did make it for you"
"It's okay, I don't mind" Hiccup smiled and handed her the stuff doll.
Astrid nodded and squeezed the toy gently "Yeah, Mason never really liked those wooden toys Gobber and Stoick gave him"
"Yeah, but those things were a bit…out of date" Hiccup paused, glancing at the corner where a box sat full with wooden figures of Vikings with weapons and dragons with the fangs and claws showing "I mean look at them"
Astrid rolled her eyes and chuckled before putting it on the table as Hiccup walk to the door and went outside. Astrid smiled to herself and then looked at where Toothless lay, seeing one of his eyes half-open, staring at her.
"Watch Mason, Toothless" She said as she stroked his ear and joined Hiccup outside.
Toothless watched her go with one eye before opening the other and getting up, stretching and then picking up the stuff dragon, lazily climbed up the staircase, past Hiccup and Astrid's room and into Mason's small room.
Toothless pushed the door open with his head and looked at the crib with wide eyes. Mason lay on his back, staring at the ceiling blankly while chewing on his chubby fist.
Human hatchling are quite dull Toothless thought to himself as he sat on his back legs, leaning forward and dropping the doll on Mason's belly gently. The child stopped what he was doing and looked at the doll questioningly before awkwardly sitting up and grabbed it by the head, shaking it hard.
"I'll pray to the dragon that gets stuck with you" Toothless laughed but gave a small shrieked in shock when Mason slapped Toothless in the eyes hard with the doll, making his eye water.
The dragon huffed and shook his head before glaring at Mason "You think that's funny?"
The child blinked in response at the dragon's seemingly mindless growl "Baa?"
"Come here" He grabbed Mason by the back of his brown tunic and lifted him up "Let's go find my hopeless rider and your father, shall we?"
Toothless trotted out of the room and down the stairs, turning to the front door and seeing it shut tightly. Rolling his eyes, Toothless head for the back door, pushing it out and closing it with his tail as he walked down the small steps into the back garden, where the grass was bright and the forest began slowly, small trees and bushes before tall trees grown.
Right before Toothless turned to move to the front of the house; Mason whined and reached up, grabbing Toothless' snout and tugging.
"Stop Mason!" Whined Toothless and jerked his head up, making the child cry and grab on harder.
Toothless sat Mason on his bottom and quickly jerked his head upwards away from him, making Mason lose his grip on his nostrils.
"You're a pain" growled Toothless and rubbed his nose with his forepaw.
Mason sat still, completely uninterested in the Night Fury as he looked up to the sky. Toothless huffed and glanced back toward the front of the house them back at Mason.
"You" he snorted "Stay…put…there"
Mason didn't look at him and Toothless huffed, rolling his eyes "What am I saying? He can't understand me"
Toothless trotted to the front of the house, going around the corner to see Hiccup and Astrid sitting side by side, their fingers entangled as they sat on the steps of the porch, watching a small group of baby dragons playing with each other.
Toothless huffed, making Hiccup look at him questioningly "Yeah Bud?"
Toothless whined and wiggled it behind, his head jerking in the direction of the back of the house; Hiccup watched intensely before nodding and getting up, looking at Astrid "I'll be right back, Toothless wants to show me something"
Before Hiccup took a step of the porch, Spitelout, Hiccup's uncle, ran up, wheezing after th' run up the hill and look at Hiccup "Lad..yer..yer need ta get to th' ring! Someone feed a zipple a eel by mistake and now th' arena is full of tha gas, one wrong move and BOOM!"
Hiccup sighed and nodded, his shoulder sagging as he looked at Toothless "Show me when I get back, 'kay bub?"
Hiccup jogged down the hill with Spitelout in tow; Astrid looked at Toothless, smiling at him sadly "I should go to you know, he has a habit of almost dying, mind watching Mason?"
"I'm a Night Fury, not a babysitter, you stay her and I'll go save Hiccup's butt" Toothless growled
"Thanks Toothless, knew I could count on you" she smiled; unaware of what the dragon said, Astrid ran down the hill, catching up to Hiccup and disappearing from view.
"Great, sometimes I wish I could speak to Vikings" Pausing, Toothless' thoughts turned to Stoick "Well, some Vikings"
Toothless turned back around and walked alongside the house to the back door; Toothless rounded the corner to see no Mason in sight. Toothless shrieked and looked around, not seeing him anyway; the Night Fury turned and ran to the front of the house, thinking the child will be there but found he wasn't in sight.
"I'm so dead" Toothless growled and ran down the hill, hoping someone would have seen Mason.