Hey everybody! So sorry this chapter is so late to come out. But guess what? I'm not depressed anymore! WOO! YEAH BABY! YOU WANT SOME OF THIS? WELL COME AND GET IT! Ha-ha sorry about that….I am a bit spastic right now! But I have a question for you guys: What kind of a guy could you see Astrid dating? Please answer, in reviews, in a private message, whatever the case may be. Thank you bunches!

-Mofo

Random Lyrics: I hear the preacher say speak now or forever hold your peace. There's the silence there's my last chance. I stand up with shaky hands, all eyes on me. Horrified looks from everyone in the room, but I'm only looking at you. I am not the kind of girl, who should be rudely barging in on a white veil occasion. And you are not the kind of boy, who should be marrying the wrong girl. ~ Speak Now-Taylor Swift.

Chapter 5: A "New" Old Beginning

Hiccup POV

We sat in my room after my dad got back. I was in my bed and Toothless was on the floor. We explained everything to my dad. I was so happy that Toothless was going back to being a dragon. But she seemed a little jumpy and worried now. Gods only know what it was about.

"Hey bud?" I leaned over the side of the bed.

"Yeah?" she said, shakily.

"Thank you for what you're doing. It means a lot." I smiled.

"You're welcome." She frowned. "I'm glad to be going back to a dragon. But I'm not so sure you should be thanking me."

It was my turn to frown. "Why not?"

"I…I-I did something…something that you probably won't ever forgive me for." She stuttered. Her eyes were watering.

"Toothless, you can tell me anything." I whispered. "There isn't anything in the world that could make me hate you."

She gave into the tears and put her face in her hands and started bawling. I got down off the bed and sat next to her, putting my arm around her shoulders.

"You can tell me." I said again. She looked up at me with red eyes. It looked like she was having difficulty looking me in the eyes.

"I'm not sure I can." She whimpered.

"Please?" I mouthed. She stared at me again, for what seemed like forever. She looked like she was thinking, 'I don't want to. But if I have to…' I didn't want her to think I was forcing her into something. I was about to tell her she didn't have to tell me, but she spoke, her voice full of worry. I was starting to get scared.

"Do you remember when…when you told me about what happened to your mom?" she asked. I nodded. "Well, you said that you heard a roar and an explosion. So it had to have been a dragon." More tears streamed down her face. An idea started forming in my head. An idea of what she was going to tell me. An idea that I really wished would not be right. "Your mom, I know exactly what she looked like. Because I've seen her once." She looked up at me slowly. My eyes widened. And realization sunk in, burying a deep hole in my mind. I tried to search for words.

"You…you…" was all I could get to come out of my mouth.

"Hiccup…" she choked. "Your mom is gone because of me."

That was the last thing I heard.

When I woke up, I didn't know what to do. I remembered everything that Toothless told me before I blacked out as soon as I woke up. I didn't know what time it was, where I was, or who was in the room with me. I opened my eyes and risked sitting up.

Why did it have to be Toothless? Was I really upset? Yes. Was I angry with her? Not at all. Unless she did it on purpose. I was beyond sad. I wasn't mad though.

I was still in my room. It was still dark out, and no one was in here. It was just me. I pulled my knees up to my chest and put my chin on them. Then I heard something. It sounded like someone crying. I turned my head slowly to the corner of my room.

Sitting there was Toothless. Her knees were pulled up against her chest too, and her face was in her hands. She was sobbing and shaking.

"I never meant to!" she cried to herself. "Why did it have to be Hiccups' mom?"

"Toothless…" I whispered, not loud enough for her to hear. I scrambled out of the bed, making a lot of noise. Toothless looked up, surprised to see me out of the bed probably. I stumbled over to her and once I was close enough, I wrapped my arms around her, pulling her close.

"Hiccup?" she sniffed. I didn't say anything. I just held her tighter. I could never hate her or anything like that. "I'm so sorry. I was young at the time. I didn't know any better. She pulled a knife on me. It was either I kill her, or she kills me. I acted on defense." I nodded. Her head was still resting on my shoulder while I had her in a hug.

"I'm not going to say it's all right, because…well you know why." I said. "But I am going to forgive you. It wasn't your fault. I could never hate you." I heard her whimper again. "Are you crying again?"

"I'm sorry." She chuckled. "I'm still recovering."

"Well, I'm sorry for blacking out like that." I smiled. I quickly changed the subject. "So…what was up with Iratze? About wanting to be your mate or something."

"Yeah. He's been trying forever to get me to be his mate." She said. "But I just don't want any dragon cross breeds."

"Oh. Well he could have been a little more quiet about it with me standing right there." I grumbled.

"Why do you care?" her eyes narrowed.

"I don't!" I flushed. "It was just a little weird to hear that."

"Mhm. Sure." She mumbled. I rolled my eyes.

"I swear, Toothless. You have got to be the most stubborn dragon ever."

"I'm not a dragon right now, though." She smiled coyly.

"Exactly what I'm talking about." I put my head down on my pillow as I got into bed.

"You know," she yawned, laying her head down too. "You're not the easiest trainer to deal with either."

"I know." I said as I watched her eyelids close. "But I like being yours." But she was already asleep.

I leaned over the side of the bed and kissed her on the for-head lightly.

"My dragon."

I woke up after sleeping well. I didn't open my eyes, I just lay there. Two days left. Two days left until I got my dragon back. Thank the gods. I needed her back. As a human, she just couldn't comfort me like she could as a dragon. I couldn't wrap my arms around her big scaly neck, and I couldn't give her my goofy smile and know that I would get a gummy one in return.

Gods, why did I have to fall in love with a dragon? Why does Gobber have to be right? I got up out of the bed and left Toothless in my room and walked over to the forge where Gobber was up early working.

I walked in without saying anything and started working. Gobber eyed me but decided not to bother me. I took out a sword and started to sharpen it. For about an hour there was only complete silence. I was just thinking about how much I hated falling in love with a dragon.

"Hiccup, hand me the axe." Gobber said. But I didn't move. "Fine. I'll get it myself then." I still didn't move. "You know, that Cleo girl," my head shot up, earning a satisfied look from Gobber. "It's weird how I've never met her or seem her before, and yet she seems so familiar. And she hovers on you like if she loses you, then she'll die too. And she doesn't look much like the name she has. Cleo's just…" I cut him off.

"Don't call her Cleo." I said through my teeth. But I relaxed. "Call her Toothless."

"Ah, so that is her." He nodded slowly. "I thought she had some resemblance to your dragon."

"Don't tell anyone." I begged. "Only you and Astrid know."

"I won't. So what's wrong with you this morning?" he asked.

"You were right."

"About?"

"Gobber, you know exactly what I'm talking about."

"Maybe I do, maybe I don't. Just tell me!"

"You were right about me. Falling in love with Toothless and all."

"And that's a bad thing?"

"For me it is! I fell. In love. With a LIZARD." I whined.

"It's not that bad." He said. I raised my eyebrows.

"Not that bad? Not that bad? She's a dragon! And I can hardly stand to look at her as a human!"

"Well, are you going to find a way to turn her back?" he asked.

"I already did. In two days she's a dragon again."

"You should be happy then!" He urged. "You just said you can't stand her being human."

"But I can't stand the fact that I'm in love with a dragon, Gobber! Why did you have to be right? And, I understand why I wouldn't kill her when I found her in the woods, but I kind of wish I would have at times like this!" I know it sounded mean, but you're not the one that's in love with a dragon!

"Three hundred years and you're the first Viking who wouldn't kill a dragon."

"That's exactly what I said to Astrid." I said.

"But 300 years before that, there was another Viking just like you."

"How do you know?"

"There's a story that's been passed down in my family for generations. Not a word of it has been changed, and I'm the only one alive in my family who knows it right now. I'm not supposed to tell it to anybody that isn't family, but I think of you as a son almost.

"Three hundred years ago, well, more like six hundred actually, another Viking just like you befriended a dragon. There were different kinds of dragons back then, but other than that, everything was about the same. Shows you how much we've evolved." He chuckled. "After a few months with it, he started to develop feelings for it. The dragon turned into a human, and the boy didn't like it. He wanted to find a way to change it back. He found some papers saying how to do that. But when he was in the woods, he was knocked over the side of a cliff and onto a ledge that led into a cave. He sat there, waiting for someone to come and find him. But no one ever did. He rotted in that cave until he was just a skeleton."

"Seriously? Because me and Toothless were knocked over the side of a cliff and into a cave. We found a skeleton there with papers telling how to change her back." I said.
"Well there you go." He shrugged. "My story is true."

"I never doubted it." I laughed. "But that still doesn't make me feel any better."

"Nothing I can do to help you there!" He smiled.
` "Well you're a great help." I muttered. "There's nothing for me to do here, so I'm gonna go back home." I started walking out.

"You take care of that dragon!" Gobber called after me.

"I will."

Gobber POV

I only told him that story to scare him.

I didn't know there was actually a skeleton and papers and all that.

But I still scared him, right?

Hiccup POV

"Toothless? Toothless, what are you doing? Don't touch those!" I hissed and ran forward. I came into my room walking home from the forge to find Toothless up and looking at all the papers on my desk. She had about five of them in her hands.

"Why do you have so many drawings of me as a dragon?" She giggled. "Even one of them is me as a human!" I grabbed the papers out of her hands after stumbling trying to run really fast.

"Those were from when I first met you." I stuttered. "A few are more recent because I get bored so I draw. And the other one of you human is just so I can remember what you looked like. Why were you looking at these anyways?"

"I woke up and you weren't here so I decided to check it out. And they're drawings of me, so I should be able to look at them." She put her hands on her hips.

"Yeah, but…"

"You wanna know which ones my favorite?" she asked. She picked up a drawing and held it up to me. "This one." I smiled. It was a drawing of me and Toothless. I was standing with my arms crossed, smiling, and Toothless behind me with her big head over my shoulder and her neck resting on it. Her big eyes were looking at me, even though her head was facing straight forward. Her tail was up in the air and she looked about as happy as any other dragon.

"It's my favorite too." I breathed. She took the paper back and set it on the table.

"How come?" I asked.

"I don't really know." I tilted my head. "I can't really explain it. I just like it. Why do you like it?"

"Same as you. I don't know why it's my favorite." She chuckled. "It just is. You're really good at drawing. The closest I can get is drawing lines in the dirt."

"But it's fun to watch you make those." I said. "The first one was the best."

"Why? It was just a bunch of squiggles." She said.

"Because it's when you first started to trust me." I grinned. "And I thought it was funny that you growled whenever I stepped on it."

"Hey, I thought it was a masterpiece at that time." she said. "I didn't want you to ruin it."

"I think those drawings might still be there. Now I want to go check. Let's take Astrid's dragon." I suggested. She followed me down the stairs and to the dragon's stables. It was a beautiful day. Blue skies, no clouds whatsoever. The sun was illuminating the dust in the air. Astrid's dragon, Kaminari, was awake. I left a note on the stable door in case Astrid came to get Kaminari early. I saddled her up and we hopped on.

Kaminari took off and we flew off over the forest.

"Is that it?" Toothless pointed.

"Yeah, c'mon Kaminari." I steered her down towards the cove. We landed smoothly by the pond. I hopped off and helped Toothless down. We ran over to where we saw the drawings and stopped.

They were still there. In perfect condition.

"They're still here!" Toothless exclaimed. "Look, there's yours!" She pointed to the picture in the dirt I had drawn of her as a dragon when we had first met.

"Wow." Was all I said. I didn't really know what else to say. For some reason it just seemed weird for them to still be there. I wasn't sure why. I sat down on the rock in front of it. Toothless's drawing was all around me.

"This is so cool!" she said.

"Yeah." I chuckled.

"Say something! Gods, you're so gloomy right now!"

"Like what?"

"How about, 'Hey Toothless, this is the best dirt drawing I've ever seen!'" she said in a really bad boy voice.

"That's how I talk?" I laughed.

"No. That's apparently my generic boy voice." She smiled.

"Oh, I like it. It's funny." I said, tossing a rock into the air.

"It's horrible isn't it." she simply stated.

"Yeah, pretty much. Well, I wouldn't say 'Horrible', more like 'exceptionally terrible'." I said. She pretended to be offended.

"Well, excuse me for being a girl!" she said.

"You're excused." I said, grinning.

"Did I ever tell you how much you annoy me?" she sat down next to me.

"About a billion times." I muttered.

"Well you do."

"You're annoying too, you know."

"Yeah, but I'm annoying in a good way."

"Oh, and I'm not?" I raised my eyebrows.

"Hmmm….maybe." her eyes sparkled.

"I can't wait for these two days to be over and done with." I said.

"Am I really that bad as a human?" she asked.

"No! You still act the same as when you were a dragon, but…"

"But what?" she pressed.

"Nothing." I mumbled. At that moment, Kaminari decided to knock me to the ground. "What?"

"Can we go home now? I'm bored." She asked. Toothless started laughing.

"Yes we can. C'mon Tooth." I hopped up on Kaminari and pulled Toothless up. She took off flying very fast. I guess she couldn't wait to get home.

When we landed at the stables, Astrid was waiting by hers.

"Thanks for stealing my dragon." She said.

"No problem." I said, putting Kaminari back in her stable.

"Oh, um, your dad told me he needed you down by the docks. Better get going."

"Okay, C'mon Toothless." I said, not loud enough for anyone but Astrid to hear.

"Actually, why doesn't Toothless stay here and help me take care of the dragons? You go one. She'll be fine." Astrid smiled.

"You two? Really? Um, okay. Bye." I turned, confused.

What was Astrid up to?

Toothless POV

"What do you need me to do?" I asked.

"Nothing. I'm not taking care of the dragons today. Snotlout is." She said.

"Then why…?"

"I wanted to talk to you."

"About what?"

"About Hiccup."

"What do you mean?"

"Oh, like you don't know."

"No, actually I don't…"

"Toothless, I don't know how Hiccup hasn't noticed it yet." She tilted her head down and put her hand on her forehead.

"Astrid, what are you talking about?" I was really confused now.

"Stop acting like you don't know!" She exclaimed.

"Seriously, Astrid! Tell me so I actually know how to answer this!" I said, really annoyed now.

"Ugh…You're in love with Hiccup!" she said firmly. Crap, how did I not see that coming?

"What? No!" I squealed.

"You don't have to hide it from me. You give Hiccup the same look my mom gives my step-dad. You really love him."

"Is it really that obvious?"

"To me. But to him, it's not. How long has it been like that?"

"A little before you guys started…Err…dating." I blushed.

"That's why you acted so angry during all that time?" she asked.

"Yep. I'm sure Hiccup could tell. He did everything he could to make me happy again." I said.

"So wait. You fell in love with Hiccup when you were a dragon?" she asked.

"Yes. Which is why it sucks. I can't help it. Why would he ever love a dragon like that?" I exclaimed. Astrid muttered something I couldn't understand. "Just please don't mention it to him! I won't be able to stand it if it gets weird between us."

"Fine. But only because you're my friend and so is he."

"Thank you!" I breathed. "Oh gods, thank you Astrid!" I leaped forward and threw my arms around her. It shocked her at first, but then she patted my back.

"You know," she said. "For a big strong dragon you're really very girly. I'm gonna miss you as a human. I won't be able to understand you anymore."

"Have Hiccup teach you." I said. "It might take some time but I think you'll be able to get the hang of it." '

"I will. Is it hard to learn?"

"Dragonese is difficult for humans." I said. "If you try hard enough, then you can learn to understand it. But it's physically impossible for a human to speak it. it involves how you make the noises in your throat. I can't even do it right now. I'm happy to be going back to a dragon. I'll be able to breathe fire from my mouth and not from my hands."

"You can do it from your hands as a human?"

"Yeah, but it hurts. I guess my skin is more fireproof than normal humans, but that last time I did it, I still had some burns on my hands."

"Hmph." She crossed her arms. "What about your tail fin? Your legs are perfectly fine. Do you think the transformation healed it?"

"I don't know. Maybe. Either way I won't fly without Hiccup." I said. Astrid chuckled.

"Astrid!" I heard someone call. It was Hiccup.

"Crap." She muttered. "What?"

"My dad said that he never told you he needed me." he said.

"Oh well, um…"

"After you left Astrid told me she meant to say it was Spitelout that needed you." I said.

"Are you sure this time?" he asked.

"Positive." Astrid replied. He nodded and turned.

"C'mon, we gotta find Spitelout before he does!" she mumbled. We raced off towards the place where Spitelout usually was.

"Spitelout!" we shouted when we saw him. He turned to us with an annoyed look on his face.

"What do you want?" he said.

"Hiccup is going to come here in a few minutes. When he gets here and asks if you need him, say yes and give him something to do. And don't tell him we told you to." Astrid explained.

"But…"

"Just do it!" we said at the same time. We didn't wait for him to reply because we heard Hiccup's voice calling Spitelout's name. Once we were far away enough we stopped and caught our breath. We straightened up and with one look at each other, we started cracking up.

"Never. Do that. Again." I rasped. I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard.

"I won't. Trust me."

I smiled. Astrid really wasn't that bad after all.

Hiccup POV

That was weird. Astrid told me to go talk to my dad and said that he needed me. He said he didn't need me and then they told me to talk to Spitelout. He made me get a bunch of firewood that we didn't need. The people I'm friends with are just so weird sometimes. I question why I'm even friends with them at times like these. I especially question why I fell in love with my dragon. The one thing I have to say on this is thank the gods I fell in love with a girl dragon. If Toothless was a boy I don't think I would be able to live with myself.

Then again, back to the whole friends' issue, I bet they question why they're friends with me. I wonder why they even come near me. How can Toothless stand to be my friend? Let alone my best friend?

These are questions I would ask myself if I had a reason to. But my friends are actually my friends. Toothless is actually my best friend, and the dragon-girl I'm in love with. Being six-teen and in love sucks. Especially if it's a dragon you're in love with.

My thoughts are going in some random direction so I'm just going to shut up now. I walked into my house after taking care of the firewood to see my dad sitting with Toothless on a bench in front of the fireplace. They were in the middle of a conversation so when I opened the door and Toothless saw me; I just waved and walked up the stairs to my room.

I sat on my bed and waited for Toothless to come up.

I heard my dad say goodnight to her and shut the door to his room after a while. Toothless walked into my room.

"Hey." She said.

"Hey. What were you guys talking about?"

"Your mom." She said nonchalantly.

"My mom?"

"Mhm. He just brought it up. That night you guys fought and you told me what happened to her. He started talking about it. I still can't believe that I killed her." She sat down on my bed next to me and put her face in her hands.

"Toothless…It's okay…." I said.

"No it's not! You don't understand the guilt I live with, Hiccup. I killed my best friends' mother. It just makes it worse that you're my best friend. I could never do anything bad to you. You mean too much to me." I smiled, and pushed her chin up to have her eye level with me.

"Toothless." I said. "You need to forget about this. What you don't realize is that you are doing something bad to me by feeling so guilty about this. So stop. Please. It hurts me to see you feeling so bad about this. Okay?"

She smiled and nodded. A tear rolled down her cheek. I put my thumb up and wiped it away. We sat like that for what seemed like hours. Her head resting on my shoulder and my cheek resting on her head. It felt like she wasn't going to move, so I assumed she was asleep. I lifted my head up and put my hand on the back of her head. I was just going to lay her down on the bed because if I tried to put her on the floor I would probably drop her. I struggled to try not to wake her up and put my other arm under her legs. I lifted her about an inch up off the bed and lay her down and pulled the covers up over her.

After she was in the bed, I got on the floor. It was surprisingly comfortable. I covered up and closed my eyes. I was close to sleep. Today had been a long day. We found the drawings, and the rest of it was spent getting firewood that wasn't needed. I was exhausted. I felt myself drifting. I didn't fight it.

I gladly let sleep control my mind.

When I woke up, I tried to go back to sleep. Maybe I could sleep the day away until tomorrow. It would go faster. Toothless would be a dragon sooner. But I didn't feel all that tired. Drowsy, but not tired.

"C'mon, Hiccup! Wake up!" Toothless was jumping up and own on the blankets. Tonight's the night!"

I sat up. "But we still have one more day." I said, rubbing my eyes.

"Nope." She stopped jumping. "You slept the whole day yesterday. You wouldn't wake up. It was starting to worry me. I thought you were dead at first, but you were breathing so I figured you were just in some kind of deep sleep."

"I slept the whole day?" I asked unbelievably.

"Yep. Astrid told everyone to leave you alone. But I still came up every once in a while." She chuckled.

"Well that's weird." I said. She handed me my prosthetic. "Thanks."

"Welcome." She said. I got out of the floor bed and stretched.

"C'mon." I said. We went to the forge. Gobber was sitting on a bench drinking something.

"Good morning." Toothless said before I could even open my mouth.

"Mornin' Toothless." He said. She stopped and looked at him. I forgot to tell her that he knew.

"Uh, Toothless is his dragon." She tried to cover.

"Yeah. Exactly why I called you Toothless. You're Hiccups' dragon."

"I don't know what…"

"Uh, Toothless?" I butted in. "Gobber knows. It's okay." Toothless looked awestruck.

"But how did her…I mean…"

"Long story." Me and Gobber said at the same time. I started laughing. "He also knows you're going back to being a dragon tonight."

"Speaking of which, how come you slept all of yesterday?" Gobber asked.

"I don't know." I said. "But who cares? Now I don't have to wait a whole two days for her to change."

"I did." Toothless muttered.

"Well, if you had slept the whole day like me, you wouldn't have had to." I teased.

"It's not my fault that I woke up." She pouted.

"Actually, yeah, it kind of is." I smirked.

"Shut up." She mumbled. I stuck my tongue out at her like I used to when my mom and me teased each other. Toothless stuck hers back out at me, and rolled her eyes.

"Ah, behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." Gobber sighed. Toothless started laughing.

"Hiccup! Hiccup!" I heard a little voice calling me. I turned around and say little Henrietta running to me. She was a little 3 year old girl with blonde hair she always had in a ponytail. She was the cutest little girl ever. She loved me like a big brother.

"Hey girly!" I laughed and held my arms out for her to jump into. "How's it going? When did you get back?" she had been on a ship with her family going to visit another village where some relatives of theirs live.

"I don't know. Not tellin'."

"Why not?"

"Because."

"Good enough answer for me!" I said. Henrietta looked over my shoulder.

"Who's dat?" she pointed. I turned.

"Oh, Henrietta, this is Cleo." I gulped. "Cleo, this is Henrietta."

"Nice to meet you!" Toothless said.

"You're pretty." Henrietta said. Toothless's face flushed.

"Thanks." She replied.

"Your eyes look like Hiccups' dragon! Toophless!" she squealed.

"Okaaaayy!" I said as I turned. "Why don't you go and find your mommy? I'm sure she's looking for you." I set her down.

"Awww!" she whined. "Fine." She pouted her lower lip and stomped off. I chuckled.

"Well, that was close." Toothless said.

"Yeah. Your eyes got really big when you saw her. I'm pretty sure that's what she meant by that." I said.

"Sorry. I can't really help it if my eyes are big or not. It just happens on impulse." She looked at her feet.

"I wasn't mad at you. Or even blaming you. I was just saying that's what I think she meant. I know you can't help it."

"I know there's one thing that you can't help." She giggled.

"Oh? And what's that?"

"You can't help but think that I'm amazing." She over exaggeratingly flipped her hair and fluttered her eyelids.

"Oh, he thinks you're a lot more than amazing." Gobber muttered.

"GOBBER!" I hissed, earning a confused look from Toothless. "Can I see you outside please?" I gestured for him to come. "What is WRONG with you?" I threw my hands in the air. "I swear I just wanna…." I clasped my hands together and took them apart and started smashing them over and over again into each other. I made a grunting noise and then let out an exasperated breath. "Do you really want to ruin everything for me?"

"First of all, I highly doubt that you could even scratch me." he gestured with his arms. I took that opportunity and pulled out my dagger that I kept with me at all times. Not even stopping to aim, I sliced a good cut along Gobbers' fore arm. He stared at me in disbelief. I had a completely bored expression on my face. He honestly couldn't believe I just did that.

"Point taken. But you still wouldn't be able to win a fight against me." he said.

"I'll agree with you on that one." I smiled. "But I swear to the gods, you do one more thing to even suggest to her that I like her as more than a friend, I'll get her on you without any hesitation." You could probably feel the venom leaking from my voice.

"Get your dragon to fight your battles for you. Sure, sure." She yawned with boredom.

"You disgust me." I said with fake anger.

"Eh, you know me." he shrugged. "Probably why the last part of my name is 'The Belch'."

"Oh, would you just go find your trolls or socks or something?" I complained.

"They do exist!" he said.

"I never doubted it." I said, walking away and back inside the forge.

Toothless was sitting on the bench Gobber had been on earlier and was swinging her legs back and forth. She looked up and saw me coming back in so she got up.

"What was that all about?" she asked. She followed me over to a bucket of water. I took out my knife and put it in the water to wash off the small amount of blood on it. Toothless saw that and her eyes widened. "Gods, Hiccup! What the hell did you do? Gobber never did anything to you!" I raised my eyebrows.

"You'd be surprised." I said. "And all I did was cut his arm. It didn't even hurt him."

"Sometimes I wonder why I ever trusted you, Hiccup." She said. That stung. I dropped my knife in the bucket.

"Seriously?" I asked. She didn't look at me.

"Yeah." She said curtly. I stared at her. Hurt was obviously showing on my face. I was silent. Maybe I was taking it too seriously, but it still hurt. When it was quiet for a moment, she looked up at me. She saw the hurt expression on my face and she freaked out a little.

"Oh gods, Hiccup. I didn't actually mean…I didn't…" she stumbled for words. "I…I gotta go!" she turned and ran out of the forge. I watched her run off towards the cliff that we sometimes like to sit on.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid!" I yelled at myself. I let her go! Why didn't I stop her? Ugh!

Now, when I get really pissed off at myself, I do stupid things. I do whatever stupid thing comes to mind.

I dumped the bucket of water on me.

Toothless POV

"Stupid, stupid, stupid!" I smacked myself. "What's wrong with me?" I just had to go and say that. And why did I run away? I'm a freaking Night Fury! The dragon that's supposed to make other people run. People aren't supposed to make me run!

Why did I have to turn into a human? Those papers said that I would turn into a human because I needed to accomplish something that could only be done as a human! What am I supposed to accomplish? Does it have something to do with me being in love with Hiccup? Because he would never love a dragon like that, in human form or not. I raced up the hill to the cliff so Hiccup would know where to find me if he came looking. Not even a few minutes after I sat down, Hiccup came running up. I tried not to look at him.

"Toothless!" he tried to catch his breath. Once he did, he sat down next to me.

"I'm sorry." I said. "I didn't actually mean what I said back there."

"It's fine." He said. I looked at him now, and saw that his head was drenched and his clothes were a little wet.

"Why are you wet?" I asked.

"I dumped a bucket of water on me." he shrugged.

"Why?"

"Because when I get mad at myself, I do something bad to myself."

"Why were you mad at yourself?"

"Cause I let you go." He blushed. I felt a smile creep onto my face.

"Well aren't you sweet?" I elbowed him.

"Shut up." He muttered. I laughed.

"Hiccup, how did you get to be my best friend?" I sighed.

"I shot you down, remember?" he said.

"I remember perfectly." My eyebrows creased. "But why did you set me free? Why didn't you just kill me?"

"Because I was just as scared as you looked. It sounds corny, and I already had to explain this to Astrid once, but…when I looked at you, I pretty much saw myself."

"Wow that is corny." I giggled.

"And that was when I thought you were a boy."

"Now that's…I down know if I should say weird or just downright creepy." I said.
"Why? You're my best friend, whether you're a girl or a boy. Doesn't matter to me." he said defensively.

"Okay, okay. I was just kidding." I smiled. Hiccup sighed.

"C'mon. Let's go back down." he started to stand up.

"Okay." I stood up too.

"But there's one thing I need to tell you before we do." he said.

"What?"

"Say away from Gobber."

Hiccup POV

"Thank the gods." I said to myself. It was dark out and me and Toothless were getting ready for bed. She would be back to a dragon by tomorrow. The past two weeks had been hectic. I was starting to think this would be better than I thought.

"Okay," Toothless said, shaking me from my thoughts. "So what are you going to tell your dad when Cleo just disappears over night?"

"Probably that you had to leave at night so you could be back by morning." I said.

"All right." She said. I walked over to my desk and reached into the drawer that had my favorite drawing of me and Toothless. But I couldn't find it. I opened all the other ones but still didn't see it.

"Oh gods, where is it now?" I said.

"What are you looking for?" Toothless asked.

"That one drawing you like so much." I kept looking. "Did you take it?"

"No, I set it back on the desk." She said.

"Well, it's not here." I said angrily. She walked over and stood by me. I thought I saw her move out of the corner of my eye.

"This one?" she asked, shoving the paper in my face.

"Uh…yeah." I said, taking the paper from her. "Where did you find it?"

"It was sticking out from behind your desk." She said.

"Okay, well, I wasn't standing where you were so I didn't see it."

"Excuses, excuses, excuses." She wagged her finger in front of me. I smacked it away.

"Shut up." I muttered, smiling.

"Why did you want the paper?" she asked. I shrugged.

"Just for something to do, I guess. Plus I like to look at it." heat rushed to my face. Did I really just say that out loud? Toothless giggled.

"Same here. It's cute." She said. The corner of my mouth twitched upward, forming my goofy smile. She gave me a normal smile back. Soon I would have my toothless smile back. "What's wrong?"

"Huh?" I said. "Oh, uh, nothing. Let's just go to bed. The sooner you're a dragon, the better." I turned toward the bed, but Toothless grabbed my arm and pulled me back. "What?"

"Hiccup, can I ask you something?" she said, sounding kind of nervous.

"Ask away." I said, creasing my eyebrows.

"Why do you want me to go back to being a dragon?" she asked. "I mean, I get that you miss flying and hate to pretend I'm someone else, and I miss flying too and all and I want to go back to being a dragon. But I want to know if there is another reason."

I had really kind of been hoping that she wouldn't bring this up. I didn't want to tell her the real reason.

"There really isn't another reason." I lied. Once again, I'm a very bad liar.

"I don't believe you." She said. Knew that was coming. "There is more to it. I can tell."

I sighed. "Toothless, I don't know what…"

"Stop lying. Why won't you tell me?" she whined.

"Why is this so important to you?" I asked.

"Because it just seemed like there was another reason. And now that you are pretending there isn't another reason it just makes me want to know more." She said.

"Toothless…." I mumbled. She looked me straight in the eyes. I couldn't think of any other reasons. I knew she wasn't going to let this go. I had to tell her. No matter how much I didn't want to, I was going to. I stared back at her.

"Please?" she whispered. I took a deep breath and let it out slowly. This was it.

"The reason is…that…" I paused. "The human you…isn't the you that I….that I fell in love with." I looked down at my feet. I could feel Toothless's eyes widen. Why did I tell her?

"Wh-what?" she whispered. I forced myself to make eye contact with her. Her face was a mixture of shock and…something else…

"I-I…" I said shakily. "I fell in love w-with the dragon you. Not the human you. I didn't know it at first. Gobber started teasing me, telling me I let it show too much. I refused to believe it. I didn't want to think I was actually falling in love with a dragon. That's why I was acting so weird when we were flying with the others and kept running into things. That was when I found out that I loved you as more than a friend.

"And…you…you didn't feel this with Astrid?" I squinted. I never thought about that. Did I have the same feelings for Astrid when I liked her? No, I don't think I did.

"No." I stated. "This is different somehow. Astrid was a mistake. This feeling…this feeling is stronger. I can't explain it. I was never in love with Astrid. I only liked her. It was a crush. With you…I get the feeling every time I see you. That fluttery, light headed feeling and my heart starts beating really fast." She stared long and hard at me. Finally, when I was just about to loose it, she spoke.

"Hiccup, I'm a dragon. Why would you fall in love with a dragon?" she asked.

"I don't know. I saw all the beauty in you. You amaze me. You were sweet and nice. You always knew what to do to make me smile. And you still do. When you said you loved me, it hurt me because I know you don't love me the way I love you." I frowned.

"I'm so sorry Hiccup." She whispered again.

"Sorry for what?" I asked. "I mean, why would a dragon love a human like that? It's impossible."

Something flickered in her eyes.

"You're a human who's fallen in love with a dragon. I'm pretty sure a dragon falling in love with a human could happen. How come you didn't tell me?"

"I couldn't exactly go 'Hey Toothless! I'm in love with you!' you know?" I said.

"Oh yeah." She chuckled.

After that it was silent again. It didn't seem so long though.

"Hiccup…" Toothless said softly. "Before I go back to being a dragon, I want to…I want to try something. The right way." My heart was pounding. She was leaning in slowly. She put her hand on my shoulder. When our faces were inches apart and our noses were touching, she put her mouth to mine. An electric shock when through me. Her hands fisted in my hair, and I reached up to caress her face. It was the best feeling in the world.

But even as we kissed, I had to wonder, why was she doing this? To make me happy? Why was she kissing me? I didn't get it. but all my thoughts flew away when her whole body pressed up against mine. Her hands slid down my neck and she wrapped her arms around it, closing the remaining space between us. I wrapped my arms around her too, smiling as I did so. She broke the kiss first, and we rested our head against each other. We were breathing hard. I opened my eyes.

"I love you." Toothless whispered.

"You do?" I asked.

"Why do you think I just kissed you?"

"To make me happy. In which you succeeded." She laughed.

"Hiccup, you have no idea how long I have wanted you to say 'I love you' and know that you mean it the same way I do." she breathed. I've been in love with you since the fight with the Green Death. It killed me because you thought I was a boy so I knew I never had a chance. And yet just a few minutes ago, you told me you love me. you have no idea how happy I am right now." I smiled.

"I love you too. Does this mean that I'm your…mate?" I asked.

"Technically, yes. But I definitely don't want any dragon-human crossbreeds…"

"Okaaaaaayyy…" I widened my eyes. "Lets not think about that right now." She blushed.

"Right. Shouldn't have even brought it up." She said. "I'm just happy I was able to do this the right way before I went back."

"Toothless, no matter how you do it, it will always be the right way." I assured her.

"Okay. Now lets go to sleep." She said. I nodded in agreement. We pulled away and walked over to the bed. She started to get into her blankets, but I stopped her.

"The bed?" I gestured. She smiled. I climbed in the bed and she got in next to me. I took my prosthetic off and set it down. Toothless scooted closer to me and put her head on my chest. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight." She whispered once again. I put my hand on her hair and stroked it. tomorrow I would wake up with her as a dragon. I guess as a human she wasn't that bad, come to think of it, I would kind of miss her being human. But I missed her being dragon a lot more.

Sleep started to overtake me, and my hand went still and I fell asleep.

And yet, right before I did, I could have sworn I heard a creak outside of my door…

OH MY FUDGING NICKELS! YOU PEOPLE HAD BETTER BE PRETTY FREAKING HAPPY WITH THIS CHAPTER! I TOOK EVERY INCH OF MY SPARE TIME TO TYPE IT! AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT MY LITTLE SISTER CONSTANTLY WHINED AT ME TO GET OFF THE COMPUTER! This is the LONGEST chapter for a story I have EVER written! I EXPECT A LOT OF REVIEWS FOR THIS ONE! Remember to tell me what kind of a guy you could see Astrid dating. Sorry about the cliff hanger. ONWARD WITH THE POSTING OF THIS STORY!