Now I'm going to reupload this chapter with all the given thanks and well… I'm sorry for the guys who alreadyread Chapter 9 and thought this was a new chapter, but I'll hurry up with Chapter 10!

This Chapter is still dedicated to TheLonelyApparition cuz of the fanart!

Thanks to: Aislynnrose2010, Dragonfriend, Kiraranekochan (thx, everything was fine so far in Paris), DisasterCode7, XxMadMax593, Girlydragon (it's more like Toothless has no idea about pregnancies at all and the magic isjust about Hiccup and Toothless can only use it to help Hiccup), Dracoess (thx very much for your allowence), 2x SarcasticProcrastinator-AMLF, Wolfdog67 (yes, Paris has proven to be very nice so far^-^ I hope so of your questions are being answered in this chapter and I was glad you could take the time to review), leyu02o.O wait leviathan02 too, 2x 00Ginji (thx for the PM and the nice reviews – I'm sorry this is no new chapter... but I'll still try to keep up the epicness), crypto496 (here I go mentioning you again XD), Lost Flame (thx for reading and liking it now, even if you were skeptical at first :3), Alana-kittychan, Emerald Hawkness (thx for your understanding and support *huggs*), ladykale1985, NinjaFoodLover (thx for the compliments, I won't dicontinue – at least I hope that), wizardswriter (hello my dear, how are you doing? Do you have found a new work? Sorry this is no new chapter...)

I hope I did not forget anybody!

-SKIP-

Chapter 9

Hiccup thought it would be best to first explore the island before he set off for Berk. He did not want to go to Berk, just to return to the island and to find that he still needed something. He also did not want to risk having to visit Berk twice or even more. Toothless and he would be glad to survive the first return to the village!

So after he had returned to a not naked state, he and his dragon started roaming the island.

The snow was really white and powdery – it seemed to have never been touched by humans. Hiccup's foot and prothesis changed that, leaving tracks which looked kind of unsteady. The young Viking frowned. Was he starting to waddle? Great, add a funny walk to the other nice surprises of pregnancy like backache and a swollen ankle.

There were no humans on this island and only conifers. That meant that the island was too far away from any other islands for seeds of other tree species to reach this island by wind's ways. Hiccup hoped that this isle really was far away from Berk for his father would surely send some dragon riders to search for him as soon as he realized that his son was no longer in Berk.

The boy was also quite happy to find a little stream. Of course, it's surface was frozen and there was enough snow for Hiccup right now to provide fresh water of a sort. But if he stayed until spring he would need that stream. He sighed, once again realizing that he had no idea how long the pregnancy would last.

Other than that, he just saw few animals like rabbits and a doe which sprang away hastily when she saw Toothless approach.

And then they reached the coast and Hiccup frooze. The island was surrounded by high cliffs and the young Viking nearly fell over the edge for there was no real end to the forest – they just stood up to the edge. There was no real beach, just the cliffs and some stones.

"Well, at least nobody will reach us by ship… I guess it's pretty un-Vikingish that I'm glad about that… Hey, what's wrong, Toothless?"

The dragon was kind of excited, stomping his feet and swinging his tail. As he started licking his lips and staring at the dark waves underneath them hungrily, Hiccup started to understand. "You want to go fishing, right? But there's no way you'll get down these cliffs without flying… and there's no way I'm going to take a bath with you! I just dried my clothes!"

Toothless moaned – and then he swiftly snapped at Hiccup's shirt and held it between his powerful toothless jaws. The Viking sighed.

"Don't tell me you want me to undress… Just because you can keep me warm does not mean that I like being naked all the time."

The dragon just looked at him with a little joke in his eyes and held on to his shirt tightly. The boy sighed yet again and patted the dragon away nodding. "Alright, alright. But we will return to the cave first for I don't want to put my clothes in the snow. And you better hope that the salt water won't ruin your saddle – or else we won't be able to fly back to Berk which would be really bad." For it would result with me being naked all the time. But Hiccup did not mention that particular idea.

They returned and Hiccup got rid of his clothes once again. He had to leave on his woolen pants for otherwise he would not stand the feeling of the rough leather against his lower parts. He then had some trouble settling into the saddle. His stomach was really starting to push out and that was really unconfortable agains the saddle. It even hurt a bit and he feared that he would have trouble steering the artificial tail fin.

As they took off, Toothless had some trouble gaining height in the dense forest. After he managed to rise above the tree tops, Hiccup got a nice view of the general isle. The island really was small, but there were no signs of humans like smoke or gaps in the forest. Only cornefors as far as he could see. And then there were the cliffs which looked grey and rough.

Toothless turned downwards swiftly and they fell towards the sea. Good thing that Hiccup could steer instinctually, otherwise that could have gone terribly wrong.

It was also very good that Toothless constantly warmed Hiccup through magic, for the sea was really cold. Even with magical help, when they entered the cold liquid mass, Hiccup felt for a short moment like his heart was going to stop.

As soon as they were in the rough depths, Toothless started showing why dragon were so keen on fish. Fishing seemed to be their easiest and most enjoyable way to hunt – at least for Night Furies, so it seemed. The dragon suddenly had complete control over his body, for in the water he could also use his feet to steer. Hiccup had to use all his might to stabilize the artifical tailfin for with every movement of the dragon, the water pressed the tailfin into another angle or position.

Whenever Hiccup needed air, he hammered at the dragon's neck, saying Toothless that it was time to help the human survive. The dragon made sure to be in safe distance of so surface for he had more lung capacity than a human.

And finally the Night Fury set target on a little fish swarm. What followed Hiccup would afterwards describe as art. Toothless' body seemed to move with another sort of grace than his aireborne one. He moved more slowly, for he had to fight the water's force, but his strong wings allowed him to attack swiftly nevertheless. His body turned and spinned to confuse his prey and to destroy their safety as a swarm. He had no trouble swallowing distracted and bewildered fishes. After he was full and had decreased that swarm of mackerels by certain numbers, he shot out of the water like a black arrow. Just in time, for Hiccup was near fainting because of his lack of air and all the turning under water.

Toothless landed gracefully atop of the cliffs and Hiccup descended. But he hastily put his hands back on Toothless scales when he realized that without physical contact to the dragon, he was freezing badly.

The Night Fury gently shook his body to get rid of some water pearls and then regurgitated a big fish and looked at Hiccup expectantly. The Viking boy shook his head. "Oh, boy, that's really disgusting, Toothless! Can't you just digest all your fish until the end? You already no that I don't li-"

He stopped, for just in this moment he did realize that he did indeed crave this half-digested, slimy, raw fish in the snow. He scowled at Toothless, suspecting that the dragon was somehow forcing that feeling on him – for he could not stop the touching the dragon without freezing to death and the Night Fury had forced him to feel hungry before – and gulped dryly afterwards.

He then bent down slowly – which was getting really difficult with the prothesis, the big belly and one hand on Toothless' snout to keep warm– and lifted the fish. He grimaced because of the wet and slimy feeling of that unusual meal but he still craved it.

As he took the first bite, his tongue did not seem to realize that this fish should taste bad and his mouth and teeth did not notice the disgusting substancy of the wet scales. It somehow tasted delicious. So he had no problem finishing his meal and just leaving the tiny fishbones.

A moment later, just the idea of having enjoyed such a disgusting meal made him want to vomit. He felt sick, but he again sat atop of Toothless and told the dragon to carry him back to the cave. On their way to the cave, he felt how the young moved around happily and lively. It seemd to have enjoyed the fish.

When they reached their temporary home, Hiccup got rid of his wet pants and put on his dry clothes, not really carrying about the feeling of his trousers against his naked legs and genitals.

The boy then motioned to Toothless to lay down beside him. "We should better sleep, my boy. We have to sneak into Berk tonight and so we should better rest now so that we are concentrated and fully awake this evening." With that, he curled against the smooth dragon scales, not caring that the dragon hugged him closely.

-SKIP-

Hiccup gulped that he approached the isle of Berk. He saw torches and fireplaces in the woods and dark figures across the sky. He had expected guards in the woods as a precaution should Hiccup return. However, he had not imagined his father using the new alliance with the dragons as a guard also. They had to be nearly invisible to get onto the ground and had to find a place to land away from the fires.

Fortunately, Toothless was a Night Fury and thus became part of the dark sky as soon as he was aireborne. Hiccup steered him towards a meadow in the deeper woods which was not being watched for it was no good place to hide. Hiccup could only hope that the guards did not patrol or else they would find them in no time… after all, this meadow was no good place to hide.

"Toothless, I want you to stay here. You won't be able to go through Berk unnoticed for you are too big and furthermore, if they found us both together, they'd immediatly kill you!"

The dragon growled and shook his head. He did not want to leave the boy on a dangerous mission for Stoick would surely be angry at his son, too, as worried as he might be. After all, as soon as he would realize that Hiccup had not been kidnapped but had run away. Furthermore, how did the boy intend to stay warm without the dragon's magic if he could not even close his fur coat any longer?

Hiccup nevertheless just crossed his arms. "Toothless, I don't have time for discussions. I will go and you will not follow me – for your and mine sake. For I clearly would get hurt while trying to rescue my best friend when he's being attacked by evil Vikings. And I don't want you to get hurt or even die. Toothless, you stupid dragon, I just don't want to lose my best friend, alright?"

The dragon growled furiously, but he sat down in the snow.

Hiccup smiled. "And one more thing, my boy, if they find you here, please run away, okay? Try to fly. Just don't let them catch you. Please?"

The growling grew louder, but the dragon nodded nonetheless.

Hiccup turned and the last thing he told Toothless was to shut up or else he would attract attention with all his growling and he hurried of towards the village.

He soon realized that if the guards patrolled, they would have no trouble following his tracks in the snow. Apart from Gobber, he was the only one in Berk who had an artificial limb. Fortunately, he found a big branch from a spruce which seemed to have been brocken and which he dragged behind himself to erase his tracks.

He also tried to avoid all sorts of noise and especially the fires and torches. He could only hope that he would not be spotted from above.

Then he reached the village which was mostly unguarded. It seemed like noone did really expect him to just take a nice walk through Berk after he had gone missing. Noone except for Astrid who was keeping watch at one village entry, staring into the dark forest with serious eyes.

Great, Hiccup thought. First she allows me to flee and now she's ready to catch me!

He was forced to return to the deeper parts of the forest and to take a loop way to sneak was glad that no one males were near Wiebke's house. After all, who would expect a boy to go to the seamstress when he wanted to steal things?

Hiccup frowned at the thought of stealing from the people of Berk, but he had no choice. After all, he could not just walk into Wiebke's house at night and offer her something to trade for her clothes. He planned to return to Berk one day, when he survived all this pregnancy horror and then he would pay Wiebke back.

Firstly, he searched for an entrance to her house except the front door. He found that she seemed to keep a little cellar with a separate door in the ground. Hiccup gently opened the door and descended. He realized soon that she kept the cellar to keep her fabrics and finished clothes dry and untouched in the dark underground.

Unfortunately, being surrounded by a lot of clothes which all looked pretty much the same, he had no idea where he should look for something which would suit him. So as he stumbled through the darkness, he suddenly hit a table and landed rater loudly on the floor with a book landing in his lap together with some carbon pencils.

Hiccup gulped. Hopefully nobody had heard him. Then he replaced the book and pencils – and realized that he was holding Wiebke's order book. He took a look and saw that it was divided into the sections of "clothes ordered", "client", "state" and "remarks".

Then he hastily looked up his own name. There it was: "winter clothing", "Hiccup H.H. III.", "abandoned", "client disappeared."

Hiccup sighed desperately and then saw his father's name. "shirts, trousers", "Stoick t. V.", "finished", "not fetched".

Great Thor, that was perfect. Now he just had to find them. He observed the room more closely. There were the fabrics, the unfinished clothes and the finished pieces. Hiccup hurried there and found that the clothes which looked really familiar to his father's usual ones where on top – he was the chief, after all.

Hiccup heard footsteps upstairs and frooze. He must have woken Wiebke. He hurried to find a bag made of linen and threw his father's clothes into it. His father would not miss them, he did not even now they existed. He added a grand fur fabric to his goods which he would use as a blanket and then he stormed out of the room, closing the cellar doors just in time. He could already see a candlelight approaching at the other side of the cellar.

He sneaked away as fast as he could and cursed himself for having left the branch in the wood. As soon as Wiebke saw his tracks, she would raise an alarm.

The boy saw the open door of a house without lights burning inside. He hurried inside, stole some small cups, bowls and dried herbs and then turned to hurry outside but was stopped by a light touch on his shoulder.

Hiccup flinched and turned ready to beat whoever was behind him to quiet him down. But it was just the tribal elder which looked at him with nearly strangely clouded eyes and made no attempt to alert the village.

"Hiccup Hourrendous Haddock III., soon you will trade love for love, family for family, home for home. One day, you'll leave this village forever."

She spoke with a strange voice, even more a whisper than normal. She sighed when she had finished thoose two sentences and looked at him with normal eyes again. "Really, I wanted to get rid of that for quite some time – since this Night Fury got your friend." She smiled. "Now don't mind me, just steal my tableware and return to the forests. Your baby-dragon-boy's father is getting anxious waiting for you."

She hushed him away and he staggered outside. He was quite confused for he had not know that prophecies were in her reportoire.

He ran back into the forest, now hoping that he had not forgotten anything essential and telling himself that he would think about this strange encounter later. He was surrounded by the familiar darkness of the trees around him when he heard the noise of agitated voices behind him.

It seemed like the Vikings left in the village first met to hear Wiebke's story instead of following his tracks immediately. He could only hope that the guards in the wood would also follow the call and return to Berk.

Unfortunately, he saw torches approach – it seemed that the guards were indeed on their way back to Berk, but for he was just leaving the village… they might very well catch him. He was so absorbed in watching the approaching torches that he did not notice the black root on the ground before he stumbled over it.

Fortunately, it was no black root but Toothless tail. The dragon turned swiftly and catched the boy in his claws before he could fall and draw more attention to them.

Hiccup sighed relieved and turned to Toothless to hug him. "Thanks buddy for not listening to me this time." He handed the dragon the bag so that he could carry it with his front claws and climbed onto the Night Fury's back. "Let's go."

Toothless did not need an invitation and quickly took off. However, he was not gaining height fast enough because of the bag. As soon as he was above the tree tops, he tried to reach the coast of Berk as soon as possible.

But suddenly, there was a growl behind them and a brightly red figure passed above them. The Nightmare crossed their way and snarled, his rider preparing to shout at the other dragon riders on guard.

It were Snotlout and Fireworm.

Hiccup gulped and thought about a way to navigate around such a big and agile dragon in time as Fireworm stop snarling and looked at Toothless that was flapping aimlessly in the air. She then grunted, folded her wings and swiftly turned towards the ground. That distracted Snotlout long enough for Hiccup and his dragon to gain enough speed and heights to melt into the night sky and to disappear.

-SKIP-

When they returned to the cave, Hiccup started to replace his old clothing with the stolen ones. They were pretty wide, but he guessed that not-too-far-away day in his pregnancy he would fill those clothes nicely.

As he folded the fur fabric on the ground to have some kind of bed, he remembered the elder's words. He was pretty scared because of the sentence: One day, you will leave this village forever.

Would he even return to Berk?

As the hatchling started kicking gently, he was reminded of the elder's other remarks. "Toothless?", he asked the dragon that was curled in the cave's entrance and looked pretty tired after fleeing so fast. The Night Fury rose his head sleepily and yawned, looking at the young Viking interrogatively.

The boy strocked his stomach nevously. "Ehm… I think we're going to have a boy… and I think that… our child… is going to be a hybrid: half human, half dragon."

The dragon blinked at that, then grinned his toothless smile and reached for Hiccup to lick the boy's face.

Hiccup giggled, but nevertheless, he was still worried whether his future would be dark and dangerous…