(Gobber's POV)
The next day, down on the docks, Gobber was making his way to the remains of the only bashed up half destroyed Viking warship that had come back from Stoick's 'Nest-Hunting-Expedition' or as Gobber had worked out pretty early on, 'Getting-Away-From-Hiccup-For-A-Few-Days-Excuse'.
"Well..." he said as the Chief came off the boat an annoyed look on his face "I trust you found the nest at least?"
"Not even close."
"Ah... Excellent," the blacksmith said sarcastically.
"I hope you had a little more success than me," Stoick said giving his friend his bag and heading up the ramps.
"Well if by 'Success' you mean that you're parenting troubles are over with then... yes," Gobber said happily.
Before Stoick could ask his friend what he meant, the villagers who had spotted the boat returning and were coming to help unload it came up to him all cheerful and congratulating him on Hiccup's success.
"Congratulations Stoick," a woman said happily "Everyone is SO relieved."
"Out with the old and in with the new. Right?" a black haired man said coming up next.
"No one will miss that old nuisance."
"The village is throwing a party to celebrate."
With that everyone was gone, off to help the people who went to find the nest get back on their feet.
Quickly Stoick looked to his friend and asked shocked, amazed that he has grown so attached to the boy that's not even his "He's gone?"
"Err... Yeah, Most afternoons," Gobber said continuing to the village. "But really who can blame him? I mean the life of a celebrity is very rough. He can barley go through the village with out being swarmed by his new fans."
"Hiccup?" Stoick asked to be sure they were talking about the same person.
"Who would of thought it ay?" Gobber asked grinning a bit "He has this... Way with the beasts..." he said smirking as he saw Stoick's face as they continued to the village.
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Earlier that day just as the sun was rising, Hiccup and Toothless were waking up and after Hiccup had gone off for some baskets of fish (no eels) for breakfast, they spent the rest of the morning checking and double, and tripple checking that everything was alright for when they would be going to try their first real sky high flight later that day.
"Ok bud," Hiccup said after climbing onto his friend's back, and placing his cheat sheet in front of him "You ready?"
Giving a nod and a toothless smile, Noche spread his wings and took off a mad grin on his face that he can finally feel the wind under his wings truly this time, since he was shot down.
'Oh it's good to be back in the air,' he whispered to himself.
"Ok there bud," Hiccup said speaking to him "We're going to take this nice and slow..."
'I'm not all up for slow Hiccup...' he said more to himself while Hiccup was distracted with trying to get the right setting 'But... At least I'm flying again. And this is his first flight...'Feeling a shift in his tail Noche looked back to see what 'position' Hiccup had set and copied it with the fin that he still had doing a perfect arc in the sky trurning back to the island.
"Ok it's go time," Hiccup said to himself "It's go time..."
Leaning forward, Hiccup led the two of them to the sea stacks.
"Come on buddy, come on buddy."
As they were going under an arch in the stacks, Toothless looked up, which got Hiccup to do so too, and spotted birds flying around the roof of it.
"Yes it worked," Hiccup said looking behind him to see if everything was working, not paying attention to what was in front of him, meaning they bashed into a different stack.
"Sorry," the boy said after he got a growl from the dragon he was riding, as they set off again on a calmer flight.
But that was short lived as they bashed into another stack.
"That's my fault."
Getting annoyed that his brother kept making them crash into rocks Noche slapped one of his ears against the boys face.
"Yeah yeah I'm on it," Hiccup said slightly annoyed "Position 4 err... 3,"
Shifting the tail again Hiccup pulled back getting Noche to begin to climb into the sky.
'Yeah now that's more like it,' Noche growled when they began.
"YEAH!" Hiccup cried "Oh... this is amazing the wind in my... cheat-sheet. STOP!" he cried trying to grab it.
'Ok,' Noche said doing what his brother told him to.
But the momentum kept the Viking going which also unclipped his safety line.
Noche wasn't really paying attention, he was enjoying the view from the sky again after being grounded for three quarter moons (three weeks).That was until a shadow got in the way making him look up and see Hiccup WAS NOT ON HIS BACK and they began to fall.
Screaming more concerned for Hiccup than himself Noche tried to get back under the boy but instead batted him with his wings a few times.
After a few failed attempts, Hiccup managed to get back into the saddle, strap himself in, slid his feet into the stirrups and pulled as hard as he could telling the dragon to pull back which he did just in time, one more second and they would of crashed into a whole forest of trees.
Seeing fog covered stacks up ahead that could not be diversed, Hiccup looked at the paper again, but the wind was not helping.
Throwing it away, he decided to trust his instincts and clicked the peddle.
After a few minutes of flying through the fog covered stacks, they were out, free, alive, and in Hiccup's case - curtsy of Toothless - being burnt to a crisp.
***A Dragon Soul***
They went back to the cove, picked up the second basket of fish Hiccup 'borrowed' that morning and went to enjoy it at one of the out of sight beaches Berk had to offer.
While the Viking was roasting his fish, he went over what happened when they were in the fog...
It was like he knew what would be where... BEFORE he could see it.
But how was that possible? He could barely of seen just passed Toothless' nose. How could he of been able to of seen the rocks that didn't become visible until they were about to bash into them?
His thoughts were lost when he heard Toothless coughing up something.
Noche seeing Hiccups was worried too much for something and not eating anything, decided to see if it was because he wasn't having his fish right and coughed up some for him.
'Yours if you want it,' he said smiling.
"Err... No thanks. I'm good," the boy said holding up his fish.
Suddenly there were screams from Tiny Ones who had seen all the fish the two brothers were having.
'Fish, fish, fish, fish, fish,' they called coming in for a landing in front of the boys. 'Get away from our dinner you rats-with-wings,'
Since Noche was paying attention to the green and orange one who went for the piece he had just coughed up for Hiccup, he didn't notice the Tiny One that had snuck under the pile, right under his nose until one fish started to move.Grabbing it with his teeth right away he started to try and pull and reclaim the fish winning it in the end, making the Tiny One fall back on his butt.
After eating the fish right before the Tiny One, Noche began to laugh at how this small dragon thought he could outsmart a Night Fury.
'Right you asked for this Meanie' the Tiny one said narrowing his eyes and scratching the ground standing up on his back legs 'Get ready to feel a world of...'But before he could finish that sentence, Noche shot a small blast into the Tiny One's big mouth causing the fire to back fire and leave the Tiny One feeling a bit dissy.
"Huh? Not so fireproof on the inside are you?" Hiccup asked amazed taking his fish off the rod and throwing it to the Terror.
"Here you go."
'FISH!' the Tiny One gasped tucking into it before anyone could steel it.
After he had downed the fish he turned his attention to the thing that gave it to him and saw it was one of those mean things that live here that are always trying to kill the Dragons... But there was something... Different about him.
With each thought the Tiny One got closer and eventually decided he liked this thing and curled up beside him to have his after-food-nap.
Slowly placing his hand onto the Terror, Hiccup began to gently rub the small dragon's back.
"Everything we know about you guys..." he said speaking to all Dragons "Is wrong."
*** A Dragon Soul***
Staying there for a bit longer Hiccup and Toothless, once they had finished their dinner and said goodbye to the Terror, made it back to the cove and from there, Hiccup to the Village leaving Toothless there again.
That night Noche had a weird sleep-story about the two of them fighting a Seadragonus-Giganticus-Maximus, all of whom Noche thought were gone. They were on an island that was not this one, but one the looked like and somehow felt like a nest - in the sleep story at least.
**DREAM***
The two had just finished blasting at the beasts wings making holes in them and were diving getting her to follow to make them bigger.
'It's ok bud we're good just a little bit longer' Hiccup said patting Noche's head looking back at the beast.
Just as the monster was about to fire at them, her mouth full of green gas, Hiccup spoke again.
'Hold Toothless... NOW!' Spinning around Noche faced the monstrosity and fired into it's mouth, just like he did to that Tiny One, spread his wings wide and got out of the way of the now raging inferno that was that dragon burning from the inside out.
They were zig-zagging up the Seadragonus-Giganticus-Maximus' back along her spines and only just staying ahead of the fire their tail literally burning, just as the beast tail came up and knocked Hiccup off Noche's back making them fall into the fire.
***DREAM***
Suddenly Noche opened his eyes wide and looked around trying to get his whereabouts, panting and trying to remind himself that Hiccup was fine.
Lying back down Noche wondered what that sleep-story could mean, but as he closed his eyes and went back to sleep his mind went back to today's flight.
In the morning he had totally forgot about it.