This chapter in my opinion is okay. The proposal scene is finally here! Here we see Frida proposing to Hiccup and what Hiccup wants.

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Love the Beauty Within


Chapter Three


The Proposal

Hiccup at this moment is unaware of the peril his family is in as he assisted his grandparents with the ailing patients. He is also unaware what is happening outside the lodging.

"Father." Fríða adjusted her Thor's Hammer charm necklace. "Are you absolutely sure this plan would work? I mean can't I get him to marry me in another way?"

"Of course." Alvin sniffed, altering his hook for a hammer. "He agrees and you both marry. Everybody wins!"

"I think you got everything all backwards, Alvin." Gobber spoke. "The boy proposes it not the girl. Also propose first then-."

"Don't worry." Alvin said walking back to town. "Everything is planned. Exactly planned. Look like everyone is here."

Outside of the Haddock elders' residence are villagers dressed in their best clothes. An arch with one of the elders standing beneath it with a goat. Daffodils and bluebells elegantly hung on the chairs and table present.

"Now, dear daughter," Alvin turned to Fríða. "You go in there and ask in his hand in marriage."

"Father, I don't think-."

"Get in there!"

"You really want me to marry him?"

"Yes, to achieve your happiness." A secretive smirk crosses his face as he pushed Fríða. His secretive smile went unnoticed by the others. They frowned and did not say anything. "Your mother would definitely be proud of you."

Fríða winced at the mention of her deceased mother. Her mother, her best friend, was killed when she was eight. She was found dead in her bedroom with a bottle of poisoned medicine next to her. Her mother was ill the day before and nobody knows who slips poison into her medicine.

"That's right. Mom would definitely be proud of me." She held up her nose snobbishly and knocked on the door.

"Could you please get the door, Hiccup?" Old Wrinkly asked as he places a strange white powder on one of the patients.

Hiccup nodded, placing the jars onto a nearby table and ran to answer the door.

He came face to face with the last person he wants to see. "Good morning, Fríða."

Fríða smirked and strolled inside. "Morning to you, Hiccup."

She seems well-dressed today, Hiccup thought observing her gown. If he was the type to fall in love with an ample pair of breasts and hourglass figure, he would have fallen to his knees.

"So what do you want, Fríða?" Hiccup asked, tilting his head.

"Oh, today is the day your dreams come true." The huntress grinned. She frowned when she saw a free lock of hair.

"And how do you know about my dreams, Fríða?"

"Plenty." Tossing back the lock of hair, she continued. "A house on a pleasant part of Berk built from our love," Hiccup turn green. "My latest kill roasting on a spit, my husband massaging my feet," Hiccup shuddered. "And the dogs playing with the little ones." Fríða popped up to Hiccup's face. "We'll have six or seven!"

"Dogs?" Hiccup asked innocently. His nosy eavesdropping grandparents slapped their foreheads.

"No, Hiccup!" Fríða shouted. "Strapping young men and bountiful women like us!"

Hiccup's eyes widen, walking backwards slamming himself onto the entrance. "F-Fríða, I r-really d-d-don't k-k-know what to s-say."

"Say you'll marry me, Hiccup." Fríða leans in to kiss, but Hiccup's hand took the doorknob and pushes it open. "I just don't want to marry you. Thanks for asking though."

The huntress fell out of the house and into a pile of dragon dung. She could've sworn she heard bolts snap in place.

"Hiccup rejected, eh?" Gobber shooked his head.

"Dad…"

Alvin grabbed his daughter by the collar. "I'll make Hiccup yours no matter what. NO MATTER WHAT."

Fríða nodded and haughtily grinned at those words.

Alvin tows his daughter away, ignoring the looks from the women.


Soon everyone left and continued to do their daily labor. Fishlegs, Camicazi, Snotlout, Tuffnut, Ruffnut, Thuggory and Dogsbreath knocked on the door. Gothi opened the door.

"Hello." Gothi said. "How can I help you, youngsters?"

"Where's Hiccup?" Snotlout asked his grandmother.

"He went back to the smithy."

"Thanks, Old Wrinkly," Camicazi smiled and gestured the others to follow. "Come on!"

They found Hiccup grumbling as he pounded on a developing sword. Toothless watches his friend as he chomps on fishes.

"What does that girl think she is? She thinks she can just waltz in and propose to me!" Hiccup shouted as he put the sword away and began to melt metal. "Me, the husband of that boorish, brainless… Ugh!"

"Hey, Hiccup." His friends and cousin greeted the blacksmith apprentice.

"Hi." Hiccup's emerald eyes traveled over to them. "Can't you believe Fríða tried to propose to me!"

"Yes," Ruffnut frowned. "Actually it was her dad's plan."

Gobber nodded as he wobbled in. "Alvin, that devil, organized the wedding, assumed you'll marry Fríða and have his said daughter propose to you. Apparently that failed."

"I don't want to marry anyone yet." Hiccup sighed as he stops melting the metal. "I just want an adventure. An adventure where someone can understand me. Besides you guys of course."

Before anyone can say anything else, a pair of swift wings catches their attention. Flying towards them was Ariel panting from flying too fast.

"Ariel!" Hiccup took Ariel by the body. "Where's Snicker? Sneeze? Where are my mom and dad?" Ariel crooned mournfully.

"Oh no!" Hiccup immediately saddled Toothless. Before he can mount, Gobber took him by the arm. "Gobber!"

"Do not go yet!" Gobber yelled. "It's getting dark and you won't be able to see where Ariel is leading you!" He sighed. "You can go tomorrow."

Hiccup breathed a sigh of defeat and nodded. "Alright."

"We'll go too!" Camicazi shouted, waving her arms ecstatically. "We'll help you find them!"

"Thank guys."

"Now go home and get to bed." Gobber towers over the poor dragon riders menacingly. "If you go, I'll rip you limb from limb and feed you to the gulls."

The dragons and their riders nodded frightened and ran back home.

At the Haddock residence, Hiccup stared up at the starry sky. "Mom, Dad, Snicker, Sneeze, where are you?"

He fell into troubled sleep as Toothless watch in concern.


Stoick awoke to the feeling of cold stone walls. He gazed around to see his wife and children playing a simple game of Hnefatafl using makeshift straws and pebbles.

"Dad! You're finally awake!" Sneeze jumped on her father.

"What happened?"

"You don't remember, Dad?" Snicker frowned. "You were knocked unconscious by that…Dragon and we were taken to the dungeons."

"So how we'll escape?"

"I doubt we can escape." Valhallarama sighed. "The castle housed enchanted objects that are servants to that Dragon. Remember they were scared when their mistress came. They do not want their mistress to punish them."

"So we rot to death in the dungeons?"

"That's pretty much it." Sneeze shrugged.

Stoick tried to fall asleep, but he didn't manage to fall asleep until sunrise.


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