Chapter 5

Stoick slammed his hand on the table yelling.

"That disrespectful child, he is in so much trouble. How dare he says things like that i'm his father-"

"You know, Stoick," Stoick looked up to his wife to see tears in her eyes.

"When Hiccup was 12 all the kids would tease him and bully him, saying horrible things, but the one thing that hurt him the most was when they said, 'how could the chief be your father, you're just a runt, a, a, a, Hiccup'….One night when you were away I heard him crying and I asked why…..people of the tribe and the other children had been saying this to him every day to the point where he thought it was true, I told him they were wrong and that you are his father, and ever since then he has wanted to hear I'm proud of you son from you. I guess that didn't happen," Valka walked out the door to go looking for Hiccup in the forest.

Meanwhile, Hiccup sat on a fallen tree trunk, his knife in hand and stabbing the wood next to him.

There was the sound of a snapping twig behind him. He turned to see Astrid walking towards him. He rolled his eyes and went back to furiously attacking the tree.

"So… I, ummm, heard yelling in your house…" Astrid started.

"So you were spying on me?" Hiccup asked in a moody tone.

"What? No, the whole neighbourhood could hear. I only walked by to make sure you were alright but then you just ran out," she explained. Hiccup only shrugged, never making eye contact with her as she walked around in front of him, just as he threw the knife, but Astrid being Astrid, caught it before it could hit her.

"Throwing weapons doesn't make you feel better, believe me, I tried," Astrid said sitting down next to him.

A tear rolled down Hiccup's cheek, but Astrid noticed and tried to make him feel better.

"Look, I can talk to Gothi and make her change her mind," Astrid said.

"No, she's a stubborn bitch. She will only make it worse…" Hiccup trailed off and wiped his face on his sleeve.

"Yeah she will," Astrid said.

"Congrats on getting to kill the dragon," Astrid could hear the venom in his words but it wasn't because he didn't get to kill the dragon she thought, no its something else.

"So what was all the yelling about if you don't mind me asking?" Astrid asked as she started to throw Hiccup's knife in the ground.

"Ah you no my dad he was just a little bit upset that I didn't get to kill the dragon no biggy"

"Hiccup I heard you yelling for most of it" Astrid said. Hiccup just looked at her sideways, but she looked back into his emerald eyes. He fully turned his head to look at her, and soon after in the silence, they moved closer and eventually filled the gap with their lips. Hiccup put his arms around her waist pulling her closer, and Astrid was pulling at the back of his neck.

Their soft lips separated and they were left in a silent forest, just staring at each other's eyes.

They sat back in their previous spot, blushing.

"So, ummm… What really did happen?" Astrid finally asked again. Hiccup sighed, and told her about the fight, how his father is never proud of him and that his father said Hiccup embarrassed the Haddock line.

"Look, Astrid… I kinda want to be alone right now," Hiccup finished taking his knife and getting up.

"Oh, ok…" Astrid said disappointed.

"Hiccup. Thank you for telling me… I hope you can figure this out soon," Astrid said, smiling half-heartedly. Hiccup smiled back and started to walk away, weaving through the trees before walking out of sight. Astrid smiled before calmly getting up and following Hiccup's trail.

She saw him jump down into a cove, and as not to lose him she started running. She stopped at the ledge and crouched down to peer over, only to see a large black mass move closer to Hiccup. Astrid gasped and jumped down after him.

"Hiccup! Get away from there, it's a dragon!" Astrid yelled as she ran closer to him.

"Astrid, stop, its ok!" Hiccup replied stepping forward to stop her. He knew this was going to go south so quickly if she attacked Toothless.

"Wha- Hiccup! Its a dragon! They're dangerous!" Astrid yelled trying to push past him. Hiccup's face was completely neutral and calm, and he just stood straight and kept her from passing him.

"Hiccup! Wha-" Astrid exclaimed as he just put his arms around her to stop her from moving. She stopped struggling eventually, and Hiccup stepped away from her to Toothless without saying a word. He adjusted the saddle, tightened the connection rod to the prosthetic tail and jumped into the saddle. He held out his hand to Astrid.

Shocked, she stared at it, wondering what he wanted.

Then she knew.

She took his hand and got into the saddle as well, and sat behind him.

The dragon then took off into the air.

"Hiccup!" Valka called, walking through the woods in the hopes of finding her son before he did something he would regret. But alas she was too slow because when she reached the cove where she knew her son would be, him and his Night Fury shot straight up into the air with a mop of blonde behind him and a girl screaming.

"Oh shit," Vaka said, it was rare for her to use this type of language but, with what her son did, taking Astrid on a dragon. There was no doubt in her mind it was Astrid, who was all we should keep the dragons a secret they could be used as weapons blah blah blah, just took the person who was going to kill a dragon tomorrow… Dragon flying.

Valka sighed and called for Cloudjumper with a dragon call. What the hell was she going to do now.

Back with Hiccup and Astrid, the young blonde was having trouble of holding on as Toothless kept doing angry flips in the air.

"He's not usually like this."

"Bud we need her to like us."

"Thank you for nothing you useless reptile."

Were just some of the things she managed to hear hiccup shout before she screamed

"I'm sorry."

As though like magic Toothless snapped his wings out and started gliding into the sunset. As Astrid realized that the spinning had stopped she opened her eyes to see she was in a world of sky She raised her hand to touch the clouds to find that her hand went right through. It was not solid as looking at them from the ground made them appear.

"Alright, this is pretty cool"

There was a pause when astrid said that.

"You know you don't have to kill dragons….I could... um... show you," Hiccup stammered, blushing.

"This is amazi- WOA!" Astrid exclaimed as a massive dragon with two sets of wings appeared with an intimidating figure standing on its back with a mask .

Hiccup rolled his eyes as the figure riding the dragon took off it's mask.

"MOM!" Hiccup yelled across the sky, angry and annoyed.

"Hiccup, go back to the cove now. We need to talk!" Valka answered as she turned Cloudjumper around.

"Wait thats your mother?!" Astrid yelled in shock as she looked at valka flying away.

"Yup..."

Hiccup turned Toothless around and shot straight down to the earth.