A week had passed since Hiccup had been turned into a dragon. And he had been doing pretty well considering. Wanting to learn how to be a dragon Hiccup had started to hunt...sort of. Every morning and evening the forest was filled with loud cries of Hiccup not catching his meal. All though he would usually catch a rabbit or some other other woodland creature he always came back exhausted and grumpy. To which Toothless would lick him until he felt better.
"Hiccup do you want me to come with you tomorrow?" Toothless asked while grooming him after on particularly unsuccessful hunt. Hiccup had told Toothless early on that he wanted to try out his hunting skills, so he would be on hunting duty.
After a moments Hiccup shot him a small smile. He was tired of not catching anything so maybe watching Toothless would help him develop his skills. "Sure if you really want to."
"Good." Toothless purred licking Hiccups hide and shooting him a sly smile. "I'll show you how it's done."
Hiccup felt a bit uncomfortable at the look the dragon shot him. He felt that is he were human again he would be beat red. It seemed like since he had told Toothless he loved him the dragon seemed to be making passes at him. Licking him, biting his rump, everything. He really didn't know how to take it. His dragon was coming on to him. He loved his dragon but in that way? He liked Astrid...didn't he? When he really thought about it he liked her as more of a friend not as a love interest. She thought of him as her boyfriend and he just let her go along with it. He really didn't care. Snotlout could have her for all he cared.
Sighing he glanced at the black dragon that had resumed his grooming. The dragon always made him smile. He could forgive him a lot easier. All in all he liked the company of Toothless much more than any person. Smiling he let the dragon groom him till his hearts content.
Somewhere in the forest Astrid found herself very lost. The last time she had been to the gorge had been before the Queens attack and that had been over half a year ago, and she had FOLLOWED Hiccup. She didn't find the bloody place herself. Now she was alone and trying to find two dragons in a forest she didn't know her way around. Groaning she sat on a rock and glared at the surrounding forest. It couldn't be that hard to find a dragon in a forest...could it? Astrid felt like she was going to cry. Where was Hiccup? Stoick had asked her to watch over his son and she couldn't even find him! Was she really that pitiful?
Puffing out her chest she jumped off the rock with more determination then before. She was going to find the blasted dragon if it killed her. "HICCUP HORRENDOUS HADDOCK WHERE ARE YOU?"
Toothless lifted his head and gave an amused look towards the forest. Astrid was coming which meant Hiccup was going to go see her...that was if he heard her. Smiling he lifted his wing and smiled at the smaller dragon that had snuggled under his wing. Dropping his wing Toothless smirked at the thought of a clearly lost and flustered Astrid. Hiccup wouldn't be coming for her because he was sleeping. Chuckling softly to him self he licked hiccups head gently and listened as Astirds voice steadily got softer.
Light shown through the trees as Astrid neared the gorge. Finally. Picking up her pace the teen all but ran into the light. She was so exited. She would finally be able to watch over Hiccup like Stoick had asked. Excitement made her run towards the light faster. Instead of the gorge that she had intended to walk into she was greeted by the village. Berk. She had gone in a circle. She was getting nowhere. Falling to her knees she stared at the village in true disgust. After a few minutes of self loathing she stood and walked towards the village feet dragging and head hanging. When she reached the edge of Berk she was greeted by her Nadder. "Hey girl." She sighed. "Can you find Hiccup for me?" It was a pour mans bet but she was willing to take it. Maybe her Nadder could find the two dragons...just maybe.
The Nadder stared at her before cooing and flying off. Huh...It really worked. All she had to do was ask and the Nadder went off the find the missing dragon. Why didn't she think of that in the first place? Why hadn't she taken her Nadder along.
Toothless-who had since dozed-woke to the sound of flapping wings. Glaring he looked up at the sky to see a blue Nadder flying towards them. The dragon landed hard on the ground and stared at Toothless and Hiccup.
"So this has where you've been hiding out" The Dragon said glancing around. "Astrid wants to know where Hiccup is. She asked me to come find him."
Toothless nodded and picked up his wing. "He's right here." He growled giving the Nadder a tight smile. He was going to have to leave this place. He had to keep Hiccup away from everyone. Especially Astrid, Stoick, and other dragon. The rest of the people of the village didn't pose any threat to him or his Hiccup. "If you want you can bring Astrid so she can make sure he's okay." All he needed was for the other dragon to go, then he would wake Hiccup and they would make a run for it.
Nodding the Nadder jumped into the air and was out of view in a matter of seconds. Waiting a few second he then lifted his wing and pushed Hiccup till he woke up."Toothless whats wrong? I was having a good dream." Hiccup sighed looking tiredly at the other dragon.
"I forgot,...um I have something I want to show you. But we have to go. Now. Um You'll really like it!" Toothless flashed Hiccup a quick smile.
"Okay but does it have to be now?" Hiccup asked with a yawn. Toothless simple nodded and Hiccup nodded and stretched. "Lead the way Toothless."
And with that the two were off, farther into the forest than Hiccup had ever ventured. It was hard for Hiccup to run and ignore all the new sights and sounds without exploring them further. But the dragon wanted to show him something and he wasn't going to fall behind because he got lost while exploring some tree.
Hiccup was surprised at how fast Toothless was. Sure he knew he was fast but when he was running with him and Toothless was actually running-rather then prancing around trying to avoid Hiccup-the dragon was actually very fast. "Toothless slow down." Hiccup called slowing to a walk. It had been increasingly hard to run on 3 legs and he was about at his limit.
Up ahead Toothless stopped and looked back at Hiccup. "Hiccup are you okay? Is your leg bothering you?"
Hiccup sighed and sat back and stared at his missing foot. Growling he smacked at the where his foot would have been. He didn't let people know about it but it really affected him. He hated not having his foot. He couldn't run as fast and as far, or do many of the things that he used to be able to and it was very annoying. "I'm fine Toothless. Lets go." He sighed getting back on his feet and running after Toothless at a much slower pace.
Toothless slowed till he was trotting next to Hiccup. The smaller dragon huffed in silent aggravation, but other wise said nothing. Toothless nuzzled Hiccup affectionately, getting a soft purr from Hiccup. Toothless nearly moaned at how right this felt. Just him and his Hiccup trotting through the forest. Hiccup not thinking about Astrid and only focusing on Toothless his mate...that also sounded right. He hadn't told Hiccup for fear of rejection but he did give him hint. Strong hints he thought but he guessed they weren't strong enough. At this rate he was going to have to yell it out to him. Sure he was being protective but recently he had become a big pain. Why were humans so dense. He would have to tell get him to understand eventually, but how to go about that. He would figure that out later. Right now he had to focus on Hiccup and getting him farther away from the the village.
Toothless fell back a bit more and pushed at Hiccups rump. Hiccup turned and gave him an inquisitive look, before picking up his pace. Toothless gave on last look back before hurrying after his soon-to-be mate.