"Ok…there is pain. That means I am alive," Hiccup groans waking up.

"You have no idea," Thorve spoke up getting into his vision and he sees her arm in a sling. "If it wasn't for Toothless…we never would have made it. How are you feeling?" she asks smiling.

"Truth be told, I feel a little better now. What happened?" Hiccup asks trying to move.

"Wait!" Thorve calls before Hiccup groans in pain as he holds a hand to his back. "Next time…wait for help or go slowly," she says helping him sit up. "You got a bad burn to your back. Gothi tired a lot of herbs for this type of injury."

"And what about you?" Hiccup asks.

Thorve looks down to her arm sadly. "It's…badly burnt. They don't know if I can use my arm as well again."

"Sorry," Hiccup says looking ashamed.

"Why are you apologizing? We survived and got the queen," Thorve says confused.

"For my plan getting you hurt," Hiccup says.

"If you didn't come up with a plan, we would have all died anyway," Thorve consoles as she slowly sits on the bed by him.

"So…" Hiccup says looking away.

"So you really care that way about me?" Thorve asks.

"Toothless, a little help?" Hiccup asks.

Toothless brings her head up from the other side of the bed and smirks at them before leaning her head over as she gives a thinking expression before trying to push him towards Thorve with a smirk on her face.

"I think that says it all," Thorve says smiling as Toothless lays her head on the bed and watches them. "So…what do you have to say for yourself?"

"Probably the same you have to say about you and Astrid," Hiccup says smirking.

Thorve rolls her eyes before looking at Toothless and the dragon smirks before smacking Hiccup on the head with her tail. "How about now?" Thorve asks chuckling as Hiccup rubs his head.

"Oh…so it isn't going well?" Hiccup jokes.

"Why you…!" Thorve yells and pounces on him and tries to hit him as Hiccup holds her back. "Come here! I'll show you not working!" she yells as she tries to get him with her good arm.

Hiccup smirked before pulling her into a hug.

Thorve groans and rolls her eyes before laying her head on his shoulder as Toothless kept smiling at them. "I suppose you never expected to end up like this?"

"No. I actually thought we were going to die there at the end," Hiccup says.

"Same…only thing I was thinking about before you kissed me was Astrid and then…" Thorve trials off as she looks up to him.

"Go on. What about Astrid?" Hiccup says smirking.

Thorve slowly shakes her head a bit before sighing. "No. Not about Astrid," she says looking at him.

"I kid, but how long have I been out?" Hiccup asks.

"About two weeks. I just woke up a few hours before," Thorve explains.

"Ok. Mind helping me up?" Hiccup asks.

Thorve nods as she sits up before helping Hiccup slowly sit up to not cause more pain from his back. "Just…take it easy," she says softly as she leads him slowly out of bed.

"So what has happened in the village?" Hiccup asks as Toothless walks behind them.

"Well…" Thorve tries to start as he opens the door and a monstrous nightmare roars in front of him before shutting the door as quickly as he can. "At least he isn't burning the village," Thorve says opening it again and Hiccup sees Snotlout on the dragon's back.

"Alright, guys. Here we go," Snotlout calls behind him and they both fly off with some vikings following them on their own dragons.

"Ok…this a surprise…next, you will tell me that…on second thought, never mind. Not giving any of you ideas," Hiccup says making Thorve and Toothless giggle or laugh.

"Come on. The others will probably want to see you up and walking," Thorve says smiling as she helps him down the stairs to the square of the village.

"So was Astrid there to see you when you awoke or you going to see her later?" Hiccup asks.

"She came by in a bit once I woke up…we talked…" Thorve trails off blushing.

"Ok…so should…you or her will kill me if I finish that joke is what that look is telling me," Hiccup says seeing the look she was giving him.

"Good boy," Thorve says teasingly.

"Oh boy. So what kind of trouble have they been causing that you heard of? And that includes both vikings and dragons," Hiccup says.

"We can talk about that later. Why not see the others?" Thorve suggested smiling.

"Well, I have seen Snotlout and spotted the twins doing…I don't want to know what. Fishlegs I am guessing bonding with his gronckle and Astrid, there you are," Hiccup says seeing her walk up to them.

"Hey you two," Astrid says before hugging them both. "Glad to see you are up Hiccup."

"Yeah, so how are you and your nadder?" Hiccup asks.

"Her name is Stormfly," Astrid informs.

"So how are you and Stormfly doing?" Hiccup corrects smiling.

"Fine…did you tell him?" Astrid asks Thorve.

"Not yet," Thorve says smirking a bit.

"Tell me what?" Hiccup asks.

Astrid chuckles. "Simply…your father is actually considering making a dragon team."

"Saw that coming. Actually, anyone upset about the dragons?" Hiccup asks.

"A few. Your father is talking to them now in the Great Hall," Astrid says.

"If they don't like it, they should complain to the big thing. Oh, wait. We killed it," Hiccup says smugly.

"Hiccup," both of them say a bit annoyed as Toothless knocks him behind the head with her tail.

"I just have no patience for those who only whine," Hiccup says.

"We know," they say rolling their eyes.

"Also, Gobber says you two can take the time off until you two heal," Astrid says looking at Thorve's slung arm.

"Should I leave you both alone?" Hiccup asks.

"Hold Toothless," Thorve says frowning as Toothless prepares to smack him behind the head again with her tail.

"That was a serious question," Hiccup says making Thorve blush a bit.

"Hiccup, we have things to do. Or rather I do. As for you two…it's more of a break and a vacation to rest up after something like that," Astrid says rolling her eyes.

"What do you all expect us to do?" Hiccup asks.

"Sleep, fly, relax, enjoy the day, and have fun. Not work," Astrid says dryly. "You're not going to do that, are you?"

"I find the work we do fun…like how you like the stingers," Hiccup says.

"And you can both take a break. Look, you two need it after something like that battle. Plus, with your injuries, we don't know how much you can work without them acting up," Astrid says concerned.

"Shouldn't you also spend time with Thorve?" Hiccup asks.

"I would think you would like to," Astrid says smirking a bit and makes Hiccup actually blush. "Yeah. Thorve told me after she woke up."

"Should I…you know what, forget it," Hiccup says jumping onto Toothless. "Run Toothless!"

Toothless raises an eyebrow up at him as she doesn't move.

"You…do realize she is a girl too and knows how you act around girls?" Thorve points out.

"Cooked boar if you do," Hiccup says and Toothless immediately jolts to life and starts running before taking off.

"Hiccup! Oh, I sometimes hate that guy," Thorve huffs before Astrid hugs her and leads her back into the house. "Um…Astrid?"

"I am going to wait to ambush him and you will keep me company all the while," Astrid says.

"Um…" Thorve mumbles blushing heavily before moaning quietly as Astrid kisses her neck as she shuts the door behind them. "Astrid…you don't have to do that…oh boy."


"What do you think girl? It has been nearly a week and my burn doesn't hurt me as much. Should we return to the village?" Hiccup asks as Toothless ate another cooked boar.

Toothless looks up from her boar before getting up and walking towards him and then pokes his shoulder with her nose.

"You are right. We should. Besides, Astrid must be still scouring the forest for us after we didn't come back after the third day," Hiccup says.

Toothless shrugs and barks a growl.

"You are also right. Hide where she would least suspect," Hiccup says getting into the saddle.

Toothless rolls her eyes and starts to walk along the ground as she wonders how she likes this rider.

"And while we are at it, how about we fly around for some fun," Hiccup says.

Toothless rolls her eyes before unfolding her wings and taking off.

After a bit of flying, which mostly involved Toothless flying how she wanted, Hiccup finally landed at his home and walked in through the front door.

"Hiccup? Do you have any idea how worried we were?" Astrid asks surprised as she stood in front of the fireplace with a cooking pot over the fire.

"Oh, Astrid. You miss us while we were on vacation?" Hiccup asks not daring to back up.

"At least you can tell us where you went. Some of us were worried when you and Toothless just flew off," Astrid says huffing as she goes back to stirring the pot. "Toothless, can you go and wake Thorve? She's in her bed upstairs. As for you young man, sit down and enjoy this."

"So…how is yours and Thorve's relationship? She told me her thoughts were of you when we nearly died," Hiccup says taking a seat.

"Flattering. But it's going well. However, she did say that she also thought of you at the same time. Seems all that time working with you got to her," Astrid points out.

"Ah. Well, still think you are better for her than me," Hiccup says pulling down the hood of his new boar fur cloak.

"Are you kidding? You two are a match for each other. Besides…word has gotten around about you two without even hearing of how Thorve is caught in the middle…or rather none of us at all. They just saw you two fight so well against the queen and it took off on its own," Astrid explains sitting down next to him.

"She loves you. Not me," Hiccup says bluntly.

"Partly true," Thorve yawns as she comes up behind them with Toothless trailing behind. "It's amazing what you think of when you are left alone for a whole week…mostly…" she says looking tiredly to Astrid who just smiles at her.

"Please tell me I don't need a new bed…and we have to figure out what to do for your bed," Hiccup says looking to Toothless.

"No. You don't need a new bed. Don't worry about it. For now, though, we have to worry about what's next," Thorve groans as she sits down and tightens her sling so her arm doesn't move. "Especially with what are we going to do with all these dragons."

"It's Mildew, isn't it?" Hiccup asks.

"And a couple of other stubborn vikings. Your dad has been trying to placate them for a while now. But now he kinda wants your help since you seem to come up with good plans…no matter the problems afterward," Thorve explains as Toothless sniffs her arm and she starts to pet her head.

"I'm going to have a few hunting accidents in the future I think. Astrid, can I borrow an ax?" Hiccup asks.

"Only if you clean the blood," Astrid adds.

"Guys…please…no more killing for a while and don't encourage him," Thorve pleads as she lays back in her seat.

"Fine…I will only…"

"No maiming either!" Thorve calls at Hiccup.

"Well, I'm out of ideas," Hiccup groans, hanging his head.

Astrid shakes her head amused. "Come on lovebirds. Maybe some food will help," Astrid says getting up and going to the pot.

"No thanks. I have been eating a lot of boars lately," Hiccup says.

"Oh. So that is where this one came from," Thorve says.

"Kinda. But Thorve here needs to eat. As for you Hiccup, I got some other food here. Toothless, how would you like some fish?" Astrid asks smirking.

Toothless looks at her before belching in her face for a bit and when she stopped, her and Thorve's hair was standing on ends and Hiccup was passed out in his chair.

"Okay…no fish…I'm surprised Toothless loves you Hiccup…Hiccup?" Astrid says, looking at his downed form.

"And he is out cold," Thorve says.

"Yeah…Toothless is more a viking than anyone here," Astrid says.

"Here you go girl," Thorve says smirking, putting a helmet on her head.

Toothless blinks as she looks up to the helmet before shaking her head a bit and makes it tilt to the side before panting out cutely to them.

"Aw. Now if only Hiccup can see this…Toothless…since Thorve likes both me and Hiccup…me to Thorve…and Hiccup to Thorve. What about you?" Astrid asks curiously.

Toothless belches again at them.

"So is that all of us?" Thorve asks waving a hand in front of her face.

Toothless belches again.

"We're going to need a bigger bed," Astrid jokes smirking.

"Oh, what do you have planned for me?" Thorve jokes.

Astrid giggles and points towards Toothless as she gives a look towards Thorve and leaning her head in. "Take a guess."


"Ug…what hit me?" Hiccup asks coming to.

"Oh Hiccup," Thorve says in a sultry voice and makes him look up to see Toothless grinning at him as he is lifted up by Thorve and Astrid.

"Gotcha. That's payback for not telling us anything," Astrid says lightly hitting his shoulder.

"Is that Toothless trying to be cute and sexy?" Hiccup asks pointing at her.

"Actually, that's her being mischievous. This is her being cute," Astrid says as Toothless tilts her head with the helmet on her head. "And this is her being sexy," she says as Toothless shakes the helmet off and starts to stalk closer to him with lidded eyes. "See?"

"I see…what were we talking about again?" Hiccup asks not wanting to touch this subject.

"Well…" Astrid says as Toothless pounces on Hiccup and sends him down as the two girls sit down against Toothless's sides. "We were talking about ideas on how to handle the older vikings, right?"

"Yeah. We passed on killing and maiming," Thorve says looking down to Hiccup as Toothless rests on him.

"But not drowning," Hiccup says.

"Hiccup," Astrid says in a warning tone.

"What? It's hard to swim…while poisoned or shot in the back," Hiccup says.

Toothless croons and lightly hits his head with a foot.

"Oh, sweet Odin. We are going to have to watch him closely," Astrid says.

"I can do that. I'm stuck with him anyway," Thorve says lightly hitting his head.

"How is the arm?" Hiccup asks.

Thorve looks at it and sighs. "Getting better…but I still feel a bit of pain from time to time."

"Alright, you keep taking it easy," Hiccup says before settling back in to wait for his dad the chief.

"So Hiccup…still like her?" Astrid spoke up.

Hiccup reaches and grabs a shield and holds it between them. "I am not that stupid," Hiccup says seeing her smirk.

"Just say it Hiccup. Say your feelings," Thorve says rolling her eyes.

"Take that ax and all her daggers away first," Hiccup says.

"Hiccup," the girls all complain, including Toothless.

"Yes. There? Are you happy?" Hiccup asks.

"Better. Just don't hurt her," Astrid warns laying back against Toothless.

"Why are you two always making these things awkward?" Hiccup asks.

"Cause we love you," they say together.

"So you two going to stick around till my dad gets here?" Hiccup asks, seeing Toothless had fallen asleep.

"Yeah. Why not? We could even give better, non-killing, ideas to him," Thorve points out smiling a bit.

"I don't know. Some of Hiccup's ideas had potential," Astrid jokes.

"What did I say about encouraging him?" Thorve asks frowning a bit.


A few hours later Stoick finally came home looking exhausted.

"Rough day?" Hiccup asks.

"Try dealing with stuck up vikings and…" Stoick stopped as he looks to see Toothless sleeping her head in Hiccup's lap as he looks to him while Thorve and Astrid slept on the sides of Toothless in chairs. "Rough day for you?"

"Hardy har. Wake up you two," Hiccup says shaking them awake a bit.

"Wha…oh. Hey…chief," Thorve says a bit embarrassed as she rubs her eyes.

"So what is the complaints?" Hiccup asks.

"Dragons messing up the field, dragons disturbing the peace, dragons sleeping on houses. They keep going on and on," Stoick says taking a seat.

Hiccup was about to speak up and holds up a finger with an idea.

"No!" Thorve calls, knowing what he was about to say.

"Well…dragons will be dragons…maybe we can tame them as best we could like Toothless here," Astrid proposes. "Get them to stop doing certain things or even redirect it somewhere useful."

"And put them to work like helping to fish and hunt. They are good at that," Hiccup says.

"Considering how they raided our village over the years, that's a given," Astrid says smiling.

"Maybe help defend and fight. After word gets out, other tribes are going to be hungry or groveling in some way," Thorve adds.

"Or they could attack us," Hiccup says.

"That's what I mean by hungry. The tribe that takes down one who tamed dragons. Now that's a glory kill," Thorve describes.

"First, we should set our own house in order," Hiccup says.

"And how do you propose that?" Stoick asks, looking at how Toothless seems to snore a bit.

"First, we figure out how we can put the dragons to do some jobs, not just running wild," Hiccup says, scratching Toothless's head.

"For that, we need to figure out what kind of jobs they can do," Astrid adds.

"It could be based on what they can do," Thorve says smiling a bit.

"I think you already have ideas," Astrid says.

"I may," Hiccup says.


"Ok. We have gronckles and nadders helping to dig in our fields. Now for the other two," Hiccup says trying to think.

"We got Snotlout to help with the fishing so we can use monstrous nightmares for that," Astrid says.

"And the twins used Barf and Belch to scare a bunch of boars into the slaughtering house," Thorve says smirking.

"Hunting. And all the dragons can crap in the fields where it needs to grow plants…I can't believe I said that with a straight face," Hiccup says a bit surprised.

"I believe that is everything," Thorve says smirking.

"Should be. And they should be helping our village as of now. The only problems we might have that is bigger is the wild ones, but I would like to leave them alone," Hiccup says looking at the forest.

"We deal with them if they become a problem?" Astrid asks as Stoick walks up.

"Yes," Hiccup says looking back to the village.

"I got the word around the village. Far fewer complaints. Well done, all of you. Also, pass on my thanks to the others involved," Stoick says.

"We'll do that…now we need to work on others…unless you two want to take a break again…for your injuries," Astrid says looking to Thorve and Hiccup.

"I'm fine Astrid," Thorve says smiling at her worry as she lifts her slung arm a bit to show how much she can move it.

"Same here," Hiccup says.

"Considering you can't use that arm as much, maybe take it easy," Astrid says concerned.

"Carry me then Astrid," Thorve says smirking.

Astrid looks at her and tries to figure out if she is joking or not. "Your arm is burnt…not your leg…are you sure that you are not burned on your leg?" she asks raising an eyebrow.

Thorve just kept smirking.

Astrid sighs and facepalmed. "I had to end up with this one," she mutters to herself.

"Alright, you two. That is enough for now. I am thinking we repurpose the arena into a training area for dragons and vikings," Hiccup says.

"Better than having it stick to killing dragons…I hope no old coot will come after us for basically destroying the original idea of the arena," Thorve says before looking to Stoick staring at her. "No offense."

"None taken. It was built to train," Stoick says.

"So…what else should be addressed?" Astrid asks.

"None really for now. Except maybe cleaning our dragons," Hiccup says.

Toothless growls happily at the prospect of being washed as she wags her tail.

"Come on girl. Time to get cleaned then we will head to the forge to work. Got to start brainstorming for how to feed the dragons and stuff," Hiccup says.

Toothless growls and walks under him before sliding him to her saddle and runs off towards the forge.

"Sometimes his head outpaces his body," Thorve says.

"Isn't that a good thing?" Astrid asks smiling.

"Got to keep him somewhat grounded," Thorve says.

"You know that won't happen much because of Toothless," Astrid jokes.

"So what about Stormfly? You want to wash her with Toothless?" Thorve asks.

"In a bit. What about you?" Astrid asks looking at her.

"I have to help. After all, she is my dragon too," Thorve says smirking.

"Cute. Come on," Astrid says smiling as she wraps an arm around her and pulls her away.