AN: Skipping ahead to Annly and Torinth's teenage years for a little while for a bit of a lighthearted, funny moment after all the feels I dumped on you guys in the last few chapters, and to show off the kiddo's personalities more since I haven't really done that yet.

Overprotective Daddy Syndrome:

"Pirates?" Astrid asked, arching one eyebrow. "You and Toothless go flying for one hour and you come back with pirates?"

"What can I say, it's a gift," Hiccup answered with a shrug as he stood outside the great hall with his family for a brief moment before he'd have to go give an update to the village in the meeting that was to take place in about an hour.

"Do they want to harm us?" Astrid continued to inquire as Annly and Torinth oversaw some competition between Jiniva and Handalf behind them. As usual, Viddi had her nose buried in a book, ignoring her siblings' shenanigans.

"Well I'm sure they don't want to invite us to a tea party," Hiccup answered.

Astrid gave him a playful glare, causing the corners of his mouth to curl up in a grin. "In all seriousness, though, I don't know what they want, if anything at all."

"So you brought their captain and crew members to Berk's prison?"

"Well, they did try to shoot me and Toothless down, what did you expect me to do?"

"I don't know. Taunt them with sarcastic quips."

"Who said I didn't?"

Astrid rolled her eyes. "Y'know, I thought by the time we had teenage children you'd be over this daredevil, finding danger thing."

"Now what fun would that be?"

Astrid chuckled and shook her head.

"Naw!" Handalf screeched as, apparently, Jiniva had won the game. The twins congratulated their younger sister as Handalf stalked off towards Viddi and leaned his head into her thigh, distraught by his loss. Even though Viddi was only thirteen she was incredibly tall, the same height as Torinth, and almost as broad. Without taking her eyes off her page, she reached down with one arm, grabbed Handalf by the scuff of his shirt, lifted him up, and set him on her shoulders, where he fit easily thanks to the fact that he had inherited Hiccup's unfortunate childhood size issues. Handalf slumped over, resting his arms and head on the giant puff ball that was Viddi's ponytail.

"Aw, your book doesn't have any pictures!" he groaned in disappointment. Viddi let out a small sigh through her nose.

"That's because it's not a kids book."

"But I'm a kid! I need pictures!" the six year old lamented melodramatically. "Why don't you have a kid's book?"

"Because I'm a teenager."

"Teenagers stink!"

"True, but it is what it is," Viddi stated as she licked the tip of her finger to turn the page.

"Ugh!" Handalf collapsed into the puffy mess that was his sister's hair. "My life stinks!"

"Aw, c'mon, Handalf," Annly jeered as she reached up to poke Handalf in the ribs. "It's not that bad."

"But I never win anything, I'm the only one who doesn't have a dragon, I can't lift any weapons! I'm a failure as a Viking!"

"You're six," Viddi stated as she rolled her eyes. "You haven't eve grown into your nose yet. Chill out a bit and give it time."

"What's wrong with my nose?" Handalf asked, concerned, as he set a hand on the problem area.

"It's a figure of speech," Viddi sighed, turning the page again.

"Didn't you finish reading that book last week?" Annly asked, as she read over her younger, but already noticeably taller, sister.

"Don't judge me," Viddi blushed slightly as she pulled her book closer to her face.

"Judging!" Jiniva called as she appeared to be using Torinth as a jungle gym, who was watching on in amusement. "Come on, bro! Help me get on your shoulders."

Torinth signed "I cannot read lips when you move."

"Bull crap!" Jiniva yelled.

"Jiniva, what did I about that term?" Hiccup scolded.

Jiniva ducked her head in shame. "Sorry, Daddy."

Torinth gave Jiniva the "shame" sign, to which she stuck out her tongue.

Hiccup shook his head. "I'm not sure where she even heard that," he said, before an inkling sprouted in his mind. "It certainly wasn't from her father…" he gave Astrid an accusing glare, to which she put on her best innocent face with a small "hm?"

"What's this!?"

All of the Haddocks stopped their afternoon fun and turned to find the pirate captain swaggering towards them with a bowl in his hand. "Found this on a table in my cell."

"Really?" Hiccup asked in a amazement at the pirate's escape as Toothless jumped down from where he'd been perched on top of the great hall and plodded up behind him protectively. Handalf squeaked in fear and threw Viddi's ponytail over his head to hide. Viddi frowned at him in annoyance as she stored away her book in her bag and began cracking her knuckles, just incase she needed to punch anyone's lights out. Annly also turned and stood in front of her younger sibling with her arms crossed in a protective mode.

"A real pirate!" Jiniva whispered in wonder as she began to reach for Torinth's sword to go fight said pirate. Torinth stopped her, picked her up with one arm and covered her mouth with the other.

"Heym!" Jiniva cried in protest under her brother's hand.

"What?" the captain asked at the chief's shock as he waved his wrist that had a half locked pair of handcuffs latched to it. "I'm a pirate what did you expect? Now what is this mess?" He pointed to the bowl again.

"Gruel," Hiccup answered point blank.

"It's food, you eat it," Astrid added.

"Eat it?" The captain look unimpressed, "Are you trying to poison me?"

"If we were, you wouldn't be able to tell," Hiccup explained.

"Oh, wouldn't I?" the pirate challenged.

"Just please go back to your cell until we can figure out what to do to you," Hiccup began to strongly gesture the pirate back to the jailhouse.

"Being pushed about by a one-legged fishbone, I must be dreaming," the pirate groaned.

A snickering noise from behind the two men as Annly tried to fight back her laughter at the pirate's insult. Hiccup was about to make some playful comment about how she was a traitor for laughing at her old man, but the pirate spoke out before him.

"Oh, hello there," the pirate smoothly called, as he looked Annly up and down hungrily. "Now I'm really hoping that I'm not dreaming, what about you, Gorgeous?"

Hiccup clenched his fist as he glared at the pirate. Annly's laughter immediately dropped as she gave the pirate an unimpressed scowl.

"Really?" she asked, as she crossed her arms.

"Ruh-Roh!" Jiniva called, still muffled by her brother and eagerly waiting to see a fight.

"Aw. What's the matter, Sweetheart?" the pirate took a step closer to her, causing Hiccup to bristle up and run up to his daughter's side. He could feel the blood boiling to his face at the sight of this slimy…criminal…thing! Trying to put moves on his little girl! Astrid got there two steps before he did, axe already in hand.

"'Sweetheart?'" Annly scoffed as she made a motion to her mother saying "I got this." Astrid lowered her axe a tad, but did not move an inch away from her daughter. Meanwhile Hiccup began reaching for his sword.

"Don't like pet names then?" the pirate asked.

"No, I don't like scumbags," Annly explained and then waved her hand. "Bye, bye."

"Oh, ho, ho, ho. Sassy, are we?" The pirate chuckled as he began to take a few steps closer to Annly, causing Hiccup pull out his sword and Astrid to raise her axe again.

"I like a little fire in a woman," the pirate growled lustfully, making both parents to a step towards him.

Annly motioned for them to stand down again, and reached into the leather vest that she wore every day to pull out a metal cylinder with a Night-Fury design along the edges.

"You like fire?" she asked, pressing a button and a large bullwhip popped out of one end. Hiccup grinned, knowing exactly where his daughter was going with this. A proud smirk also graced along Astrid's face.

"How do you like this!" Annly cracked the whip, pressing another button and igniting it into a burning red flame.

The pirate shrieked and jumped back, his eyes were wide with shock. The other four children giggled from behind their sister, her wanna-be lover, and their parents.

Then, to Hiccup's dismay, the pirate smirked and laughed. "Well, well, well, I'm impressed. What's your name, Gorgeous?"

"I'm not telling you my name," Annly exclaimed.

"How about a nickname?"

"Her nickname is 'daughter-of-the-chief,' and I'm the chief, that's all you need to know," Hiccup replied, now pointing the tip of his sword under the pirate's chin.

"Oh," the pirate nodded. "I see what this is. Can't let Daddy dearest know how much you're into bad boys, can you?"

"I just waved a flaming bullwhip in your face and you think I still want you? And even if I did, my dad has a sword, that can catch fire, by the way, to your neck."

The pirate shrugged. "Playing hard to get?"

Annly lifted one eyebrow in disgust. "Okay. You're a special kind of stupid."

"Maybe you can smarten me up a-"

"Alright, enough is enough," Hiccup said as he dug the point of his blade just deep enough into the pirate's neck to get his attention. He grabbed the pirate roughly by the arm and dragged him back towards the jail. "C'mon."

"A little overprotective, aren't yah Daddy Chief Dear."

"Oh-ho-ho, you don't wanna know how overprotective I can be," Hiccup warned as they reached the jailhouse and he shoved the pirate to the guard.

"Wha-How-" the guard stuttered.

"I dunno, just put him back in his cell and get a Nadder on him, just to be safe," Hiccup ordered before turning back to the pirate. "Now, behave yourself and I might, MIGHT, go easy on you. Depends on how forgiving I'm feeling after that little stunt you pulled."

"Over protective AND over sensitive, eh?"

Hiccup growled low in his throat. He REALLY hated this guy! "Just stay in your cell and away from my daughter!"

"You tried to hit on the chief's daughter?" the guard exclaimed. "Oh, we gonna get some special treatment for you!" He shoved the pirate inside and turned back to Hiccup.

"It was the brunette, wasn't it? I told you that you needed to watch that girl!"

Hiccup nodded and began to walk back to his family. He knew the guard was right. Of course he was biased since Annly was his daughter, but even if she wasn't he'd have to admit that she was becoming…who was he kidding? HAD become a beautiful young lady. She looked a lot like Astrid when she was younger, only with his hair, freckles, and tendency to be a bit unkempt due to stunt flying and exploring, but even that couldn't dim her beauty. Hiccup sighed. Sooner or later some young man was going to catch her eye, and he wasn't going to like it! In fact, Annly's love life was a little overdue. Torinth had already found himself a girlfriend, Annly seemed to be content to be single, ironically. It was usually Torinth who needed a push towards growing up, not Annly. But that was the power of teenage boy hormones Hiccup supposed.

By the time he arrived, everything seemed to have gone back to normal. Handalf was still pestering Viddi atop her shoulders, while Torinth was teaching Jiniva some fencing techniques and Annly made playful jabs at the ten-year-old. Astrid was leaned against the outer wall of the great hall, watching them. She smiled when she saw Hiccup returning.

"Take care of it?"

"Oh, yeah. Told them to put a Nadder on him, and I let it slip that he'd tried to put the moves on Annly, so they won't be treating him very nice."

"Excellent," Astrid nodded in approval.

A loud crowd was forming in the Great Hall. Hiccup sighed. "Well, guess that's my cue. Let these five hooligans run out a little more energy before you bring them in."

"Will do," Astrid agreed before giving Hiccup a small kiss as he went inside.

A juvenile, albino Night Fury landed behind Annly and nudged her in the back. Annly turned and rolled her eyes.

"Oh, NOW you show up!"