Disclaimer: Natsumi does not own How to Train Your Dragon. No matter how much plotting she does. Which reminds me, I have to go and take away her spy gear before she decides that breaking into DreamWorks and stealing the rights to it is a good idea. If you'll excuse me.
A/N: Okay, so, we secretaries have finally decided to let Natsumi have a small something to keep her happy so she doesn't spontaneously combust from not having something to write. Meh, writers, so demanding. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'd like to go and sleep now. Honestly, the things we do for her. Have fun, and please review. Onoro out.
Things Toothless is not Allowed to Do
1. Toothless is not allowed to sleep in the bed with Hiccup
It was night in the village of Berk, home to Vikings and dragons. For once, it was mostly quiet, with many of the dragons inside of their barns or resting on top of roofs. Most of the Vikings had vacated the streets in favor of their houses, each eager to be out of the cold winter air. And in the house of Stoick the Vast and Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the two humans inside were just beginning to go to bed. As Hiccup limped his way upstairs to his bed, his ever faithful dragon followed behind him. As the two climbed the stairs, with Toothless giving Hiccup the occasional bump up, Hiccup began to feel the pull of sleep with each step up. By the time they reached his bed - now returned to its proper place upstairs after he was done healing – he was almost dead to the world. All he really wanted right now was to curl up in bed, underneath all of his blankets and furs that had grown since the brief summer that Berk had had. It took a few tries, but he was finally able to slip off his prosthetic leg and hang it up on the nail that had been put into the side of his bed after his first day back on his feet after defeating the Queen Dragon. Finally, he crawled into bed, dead to the world as his head hit the pillow.
He wasn't, however, destined to stay that way for long.
A couple of hours later, he woke to the strange feeling of being watched. At first, he ignored it, rolling onto his side, and trying to go back to sleep. But as he lay there, he found that he couldn't fall back asleep. He tossed and turned, pulled the covers over his head and even stuck his head under his pillows, but he still couldn't sleep. Because he could still. Feel. Those eyes. On him. Finally giving up, he sat up in bed, staring disgruntle at the pair of acid green eyes at the foot of his bed, wide and innocent and pleading to be let up. Hiccup scowls for a moment, contemplating telling the beast to go back to bed, but sighed in resignation as he hung his head.
"All right," he said, his voice unusually loud in the mostly silent house, "you can get up here you overgrown lizard." Instantly, those eyes became happy, and he could swear that he could see those black ears perk up as they came closer. Finally, the pair of seemingly floating eyes came up next to his head; shaking slide to side slightly, in a way that Hiccup had learnt meant that Toothless was getting ready to pounce "gently" onto a surface. And just as he bounced up in the air just above his bed, Hiccup suddenly had a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.
Maybe this wasn't a good idea.
But it was too late to tell the dragon otherwise. In a second, he'd plopped himself down onto the bed, making it creak and groan in protest to the sudden weight it was forced to bear. And to make matters worse, Toothless seemed to feel a bit uncomfortable, if his wiggling and squirming were any indication. Hiccup just tried to catch his breath again, after having it forced out of him when the heavy reptile bounced on him on his way onto the bed. Suddenly, there was an ominous "CRACK" from his bed, and he knew then that he was in trouble.
For a moment, everything was quiet and still, as if that crack had been able to make time freeze. But if it did have that power, then it only lasted for a second, because the next thing he knows, Hiccup's bed is breaking straight down the middle, the wooden structure splintering as it opened up, allowing for his mattress to pass through its new mouth, falling to the floor, slamming into the unforgiving wooden floor. He yelped, hissing in pain as his stump banged into the mattress, his hands automatically coming to cup the still hurting wound. To his credit, Toothless only let loose one "small" (as in Hiccup could still hear out of his ears and there was no ringing) roar at the sudden upheaval he had inadvertently forced. He started to look over the bed, head darting back and forth as he tried to see what had happened, confusion in his eyes as they tried to piece together how he had gotten from being up higher in the bed to suddenly being surrounded by wood and only a few inches from the ground that he thought he'd escaped from moments ago.
After a few moments of disoriented and painful moments, their eyes met, forest green staring into confused acid green, silence between them as they each waited for the other.
Finally, Hiccup sighed, running a hand through his slightly messed up, and now wood infected brown locks, surveying the damage before looking back at Toothless.
"Toothless," he began. "Maybe you shouldn't sleep in bed with me." The large and sad eyes that stared back at him told him exactly what his scaly companion thought of that. Suddenly, the door banged open, permitting his still sleepy father to enter.
"Hi dad," Hiccup said slightly nervously. His father just stared at him, before taking in the damage done. He lifted one of his large hands to his face, sighing as he realized immediately that a new bed frame would have to be made.
"What in the blazes were you thinking?" Stoick finally asked as he walked over to his son and the bed breaker.
"That I could defy the laws of physics and make the bed hold both of us," he sarcastically said back, grabbing the hand offered to him as he was raised out of the mess. Toothless climbed out after them, the prosthetic leg hanging in his mouth as he came over to his boy.
"Well, that just goes to show you."
"Yeah, never let your dragon cuddle in bed with you."
Note: So, that's the end of Chapter 1. If you have any suggestions for any other rules, just leave them in your review. Thanks. Bye.