A/N: sorry for not posting in a bit, I was away for a week and was otherwise engaged by school activities.
--Gobber--
"Hey, Gobber?" He barely heard Hiccup's voice over the grinding of the stone wheel. Gobber stopped the wheel and looked up.
"Joining me for the morning?" Gobber asked, putting the sword he was sharpening on the table.
"I uh, I actually have, I have a question for you." Hiccup played with the edge of his fur vest. Gobber grunted and took a swig of water.
"Is this about the Night Furies again?" He asked, wiping his mouth with his arm and picking the sword back up.
"Um, no, actually." Hiccup looked at the ground. "It's about, it's about my lost sister." Gobber's stomach dropped to the floor.
"Hiccup." He said quietly. "You know Stoick doesn't want anyone to talk about her."
"I know, I do know, but please, just between us?" Hiccup held his hands out almost defensively. Gobber sighed.
"What's making you think of her, anyway?" He asked. The boy shrugged and looked at the floor. Gobber put the sword back on the table. And paused for a moment. "What do ya want to know?"
"Well, um. Just like, what did she look like? Was she small, like me?" Hiccup leaned back against the wall.
"There's a reason she was named Lovely." Gobber sat against the table. "Gods, she was the most beautiful babe I ever seen." He closed his eyes and smiled. "Took after your father. Fuzzy red hair, pale skin, and blue, almost gray eyes that could freeze a dragon's fire." The forge was quiet for a few moments.
"Wow. She sounds incredible."
"Aye, she was." Gobber smiled and chuckled.
--Nanta--
Nanta watched from her rock as Hiccup ran after Toothless with a saddle contraption. She couldn't help but laugh as the dragon jumped around playfully. She sketched the scene in her journal as she watched the two of them. This was a time she wanted to remember. Toothless stopped running and Hiccup managed to get the saddle and new tail on him.
She drew down the expression on Toothless' face as Hiccup scratched his neck. The boy and the dragon grew closer with every passing day. They were bonding very well, and Nanta was happy that of all the humans Toothless could have bonded with, it was this one. Hiccup reminded Nanta a lot of herself. Hiccup came over to Nanta.
"Can I see today's?" He asked, standing next to her rock. She handed the book to him. Hiccup smiled as he looked at the drawings.
"Not finished the last one." Nanta said, tapping her charcoal on the rock. Hiccup nodded.
"These are so amazing. As usual." He said, handing the book back.
"I just do to remember time. Bad at writing, so I do the drawing." Nanta rubbed the back of her head.
"Well, they're still amazing." He smiled and Nanta finished the drawing.
Today, Nanta was drawing Toothless chasing a spot of light that Hiccup was shining on the ground.
She watched as Hiccup strapped a harness contraption onto Toothless. Nanta was very curious about the invention.
"So this will let you to…" She pointed to the foot pedal.
"The tail fin, yeah." Hiccup answered, tightening a strap on Toothless' shoulder. Nanta nodded and rubbed the dragon's head as he ate some fish.
"You create like this much?" She asked, putting her hand on her injured side as it painted with dull pain.
"Like this? Not really. Most of my inventions don't work well, if at all." Hiccup stood up and dusted off his hands.
"You shown me drawings of things I never could think of." Nanta looked at Hiccup over Toothless and smiled.
"Drawing them is one thing, but actually making them, that doesn't usually end so well." Hiccup sighed. "I want to test this harness, wanna come watch?"
"Oh, no, I should stay and rest, let wound heal." She looked down at Toothless.
"You should come along. It will be interesting to you" He said, swallowing a whole fish.
"Another time, brother." Nanta said, scratching the top of his head.
"We'll see you later, then." Hiccup got on Toothless' back. The dragon took one last bite of fish before they were headed out of the Cove.
