HTTYD

First fanfiction I have ever written, hope you like it :)

This story takes place just after the second movie.

It was the wee hours of the morning the sun was still a few hours from rising. The fires in the great hall have been out for only a few minutes. Only a young Viking was sitting in the hall. He had a half-empty mug of mead, though it wasn't his first. He has been trying to drown his sorrow in mead for days. The people of his village have kept out of the great hall, as to not disturb him for the better part of a moon cycle. His friends have tried everything to get him out, but he just stares at them blankly. His skin has become nearly transparent from the lack of sun. The only person who could get him to eat had been Gobber, without him the young Viking would have starved by now. His father had died at the hands (paws) of his best friend of many years Toothless. His father Stoick had died a week before he dissented into this depressed state.

One moon cycle ago

It had been a few days after Toothless became alpha and Hiccup Chief. Hiccup had been so busy trying to get the village back on its feet after the tragedy of losing it long time Chief and the devastating attack of Draco Bloodlust, that he hadn't had the time to properly grave his father. He woke up to the sun shining in his eyes which was very strange as his nightmares of the weeks past would have woken him in the middle of the night. He sat there almost sadly, he didn't want to be up he just wanted to go back to sleep, he wanted to sleep for the rest of his life. Yesterday he had worked so hard that he couldn't even dream, which he was silently thankful for. The village had needed his undivided action for what seemed like forever to him. "Toothless…" he said with a hushed voice from crying himself to bed for days.

Toothless came to him almost immediately with some water in a mug for him. Toothless had gotten used to Hiccup needing water in the morning. The first morning after Hiccup became Chief Toothless had never seen him so sad, he had seen him cry sure. But never truly morn. This was very new for him. Dragons morn but not in the way humans do. Humans are much more vocal about their saddest while dragons mostly morn in silently. Toothless truly wanted to help his friend for so long as Hiccup needed him, but he felt something calling for him deep in the forest of berk. It started as a quiet sound just loud enough to hear, but not it felt like someone was screaming in his ear and he had to know what it was.

"thanks, bud" Hiccup said sounding much better, but instead of getting up he went back to sleep hoping to catch up on the hours of sleep he lost from nightmares. Toothless saw this as the perfect opportunity to find where the noise was coming from. By noon Astrid came in to check in on Hiccup hoping to find him tinkering in his workroom, only to find him still in bed asleep. She stood in the doorway debating with herself whether to wake him up or not. She decided that it would be for the best if she did. As she walked to his bed she noticed the absence of Toothless. "Hiccup? Are you awake?" she said as she put her hand on his shoulder. He moved to face her as he groaned with pain and tiredness. Astrid looked at him with concern as he sat up with huge pick bags under his eyes. With the best smile, he could muster.

"I am now."

"how are you doing?"

"I'm ok, just tried"

She wasn't buying it, she put her hand to his head to check his temperature. He was a little warm but not enough to worry her. "I don't think so," she said jokingly, "Toothless" Hiccup called out for him wanting some back-up. Only to realize he wasn't there. He looked to Astrid to see if she knows where he was, she looked back with the same face. He got up as fast as he could, putting on his prosthetic carelessly. He all but ran to the door hoping Toothless was just outside the hut. His prosthetic coming off as he ran down the stairs, luckily Grobber had been coming up them coming to check on him. He got the breath knocked out of him as he caught the young Viking. "Whoa, there boy what's your hurry?" He said looking at Hiccup trying to read his face only to find that he looked scared. "Huff…. Huff… Toothless is gone I don't know where he could be" He said looking hopefully up at the older Viking "He probably just went to have a nap in the forest Lad," Grobber said as he voicelessly told Astrid to pick up Hiccups leg. "Don't worry about it lad," he told him as he helped the young Chief back up the stairs to the hut. "He'll be back by nightfall" "Thanks Grobber but I still want to go looking for him. He hasn't used his wings in a while and I don't want him to get sore" This time it was Astrid that spoke up "We'll go looking for him if he's not back by tomorrow morning. But for now, you need to eat something and get ready for the rest of the day properly".