I open my eyes as the sun just finishes dipping below the horizon, to find a sleeping Merida in my arm, back against my stomach, holding my arm like it's a teddy bear. I smile into the mass of red curls, and gently pick her up. She shuffles, and grunts something, but stays asleep.

I hook my riding top around my foot, and I do a gentle whistle, and Toothless perks up, and jumps up, hovering enough to where I can hop on him with Merida in my arms. She mumbles and yawns, and opens her eyes.

She smiles up at me, and I return the favor. I help prop her up, and Toothless circles down to Angus. She gets up, wobbling a little, and makes her way to Angus. I throw on my riding top, too lazy to buckle it.

We walk our horse and dragon all the way back to the castle, where I hop off of Toothless, and help Merida off of Angus. We walk to the stable, and feed Angus. As we say our goodbyes, Merida hugs me. I hug her back, confused but not questioning it.

"Hey, Hiccup. I had a great time today." She says into my shoulder.

"Me too, Mer."

"I have these stupid lessons tomorrow until Friday, but I get out of them around midday. I'll meet you at market tomorrow, after supper, around six?"

"Okay. I'll be there." She pulls out of the hug, and motions me to come closer. So I bend my face down a little. I have about four inches on her, so my little bend and her tiptoes make us the same height. She pulls my head closer, and leans to whisper in my ear. "And Hic, you're good either way." I have no idea what she's talking about. But I can't say anything before she hops up on her toes and places a quick kiss on my cheek and hops up the stairs and turns at the door and waves before stepping inside.

All I can do is just hold my cheek, all the way to the forest, hopping on toothless, all the way home, and all the way to sleep.

It's noon when I wake up, the early morning rise and long day was obviously not nice to my body clock. I realize I have to meet Merida at the market in six hours. I start rushing around trying to get ready. I run over the happenings of last night over and over in my mind. But I still don't understand what she said.

"You're good either way." What does that mean? It doesn't have to do with last night. I try and remember earlier in the day, any time I asked a question. And then it hits me like a brick. I asked her about wearing a shirt.

Something along the lines of weather I was hotter with or without a shirt. Oh. So that was her answer. Oh. She called me hot.

I just laugh and make my way out to the river, clean clothes in hand. Despite being a Viking at birth, I believe in clean clothes, unlike most of them. I strip down to my underwear and jump in. I scrub my body as Toothless catches fish hair. I call Toothless over, and grab onto an ear flap and pull myself out, and change into my new clothes for the day, and probably tomorrow. I grab the cloth I brought and dry myself, and slip into the outfit.

I look up at the sky, and determine it to be about 2. I just smile, thinking I'm that much closer to spending more time with Merida. So to ease the stress, I throw on my riding gear, and hop onto Toothless, and take off into the sky.

It's pretty cloudy, so I can dart in and out of the clouds, above the Highlands. I fly over to the places the clans were Merida was talking about. I see a field on one, and two men with long black hair working on sword fighting. I pass over that one, and recalled it as Macintosh, the way Merida described the boy's hair.

I cross a strait of water, and there lies another field behind a large house, and there is a boy with a short man, with gray hair and a crazy look to his eyes, visible from way up here. The boy, presumably the son, is being taught at archery. Well, attempted to be taught. He looks out of it, day dreaming, not focusing on anything. Merida said the crazy ones were the Dingwall Clan.

The next island over, lied two large men, who I can only take as the Maguffin Clan, being the remaining clan and exactly matching the description. Big. The boy there, almost the size of his father, was practicing tossing cabers, with the large pole in hand.

I had heard of a few other tribes around here, but I realized I should be getting back, considering I have been flying in the open air for an hour and a half now. On the way back, I see the queen on a dock, handing a scroll to a sailor. I take a good look at the boat. I see shields on the side, and 2 big burly men on it. If I wasn't mistaken, it looks like a Viking ship. I make my way through the clouds to get a little closer for a better view of the boat. Toothless hops from the cloud we're above to the next one over, and what I see startles me. On the sail, is a very familiar dragon design, a monstrous nightmare with a sword in its throat. I saw that exact ship on Berk. Knowing if they even catch a glimpse of Toothless, he's dead, I fly straight up and head home through the clouds.

I make my way back to the hut shell shocked, and tend to the animals. I collect and go to clearing the sheep of their weight. I put the bushel of new wool into a basket, and check the sky. The sun is at about four-ish. So I leave the basket by the door, and go out with a knife and a pencil, having an idea.

First, I run to the tree where Merida shot me. I find a dent and a little blood in one of the trunks, and I know this is the one. I pull out my knife, and carve into the tree. Satisfied with the carving, I move back to the cabin, and carve into the wooden doorway. After, I found my way to the beach, getting lost along the way. I know I'm there when I see a pair of footsteps in the now dry mud. I make it to a familiar bend in the path, and carve into the nearest tree. After getting lost again, I finally found the hut. I walked inside, and put the knife down. I would get the castle one done later, but I hopped onto Toothless and made it to the jut of rock next to the falls. I hopped onto the rock and scribbled down onto the rock, and sat up satisfied.

At this point, I figure it was about time to make my way to the market, so I fly to the hut and toss Toothless a fish, grab a few coins, and head out. I see the triplets there almost immediately, and they run over and start to grab my arm and pull me to the sweets stand. I am not one to say no to a little extra spending money, but now that I have ties to the royal family, I don't want to risk it.

"Hey, not right now, ok? I have plans on meeting your sister in a few, so I don't want to do any looting today, got it?" I say in the sweetest way possible, and they just shrug and make their way over themselves. I just laugh and make my way to the apple stand, getting about 6. I hold them in a basket, and I go to the bread stand, and find Merida waiting near it. She was leaning against a tent pole, in a light red dress, riding boots, and her hair flowing free.