Not sorry in the slightest for updating such a short chappie..speaking of which. Anyone excited for that move, 'CHAPPIE'?

Hiccup was surprised Asher had warmed up to Toothless at all. The fact that he agreed to keep quiet about him was great. She almost smiled at him, but the problem at hand halted her. No. Toothless, now. Crush, later.

She'd figure it out by tomorrow. That was a promise she made to all three of them.

Asher stopped her pacing, getting in front of her. She flushed. So close. Too close! Eek!

He flicked her between the eyes. Ow! "Hey-!"

"That's for kidnapping me," he said, as a matter of fact.

Hiccup looked over to Toothless, who was calmly sipping water. Noticing her look, he rolls his eyes and flicks his head towards her. 'That's your problem now.'

Ass...

Hiccup turned back over, taking the advice and facing her own "problem". But he cupped her cheek, so she had no other choice but to still and blush. No doubt, he knew what he was doing to her. It was impossible for him not to.

His lips were close, and they neared her at a quick pace, but it felt like a very long time before they actually touched her. On her cheek.

It was great...

"That's for everything else," he said, before jogging away to his own home.

He'd kissed her. He'd kissed her!

Hiccup let a goofy smile reach her lips, before feeling a presence behind her.

Toothless looked at her. His 'you were saying...' look was correct, but nonetheless annoying.

"Wh-wha- what are you looking at!?"

'Oh nothing,' He looked away. 'Idiot.'

Hiccup scoffed. "He's Asher. I already told you he's perfect... Out of my league."

Toothless gave her a longing look. He crooned. 'You're not serious, are you?'

"I'm Hiccup," she said, "Of course he's out of my league. Anyone is."

The dragon glared at her, bumping his head into her abdomen. 'No, you are not!' He growled.

"Toothless," she gave him an appreciative smile, "thanks, but you don't have to do that. Even you think I'm usele-"

Toothless growled. He growled and she hushed, letting him shake his head at her angrily. 'I never meant it!'

Hiccup stared at her dragon for a second. Did he seriously believe she was better than a useless Hiccup? That was impossible. Nobody believed she was more than that. Nobody.

Not the adults, not the teenagers, not her father, not Asher, not even Hiccup. Why did Toothless-

She'd built him the tail.

"Oh," she finally said, feeling guilty for having him living such a lie. "Oh."

She tried to correct it the rest of the way, but Toothless wouldn't give in. She was special, he would argue in his own dragon way. In some way, she was special! No, not in some way! She was special in every single way!

Sure I am, Hiccup smiled as she walked back home. The door of the house creaked softly, but Stoick's snores drowned it out. If he did hear, he was already used to the creak. She'd arrived later when she was younger.

A period of solitude she'd gone through and he'd gotten used to, now that she thought about it. That's why she knew the forest better than most teenagers. She'd stayed there from dawn to midnight, and Stoick stopped asking questions after the fifth time. She returned unscathed and with a smile on her face, tracing the lines on her sketchbook, so there was no need to worry.

But that was when she'd been nine, ten. She still hadn't been dangerous. After she turned twelve, her staying out late actually became a worry for him.

That year, she built her first cannon. And almost broken Bucket. Strangely, Bucket still broke a month later, but at least it wasn't her fault.

Now that she was so good in dragon training, he was probably fine with her staying out late again.

Tomorrow, she'd break that small pact they held.

Hiccup had made up her mind walking back home. It had always been the first thing to pop into her mind, telling the village, but that was a stupid idea if she'd ever heard one. Sadly, it was the only choice left unless she left.

She wanted to leave. Why stay in a village where everyone hated you, but loved the lie you'd made up? She looked over to the helmet that had belonged to her probably fierce mother. What a disappointment, she was.

And Asher... Maybe he...cared?

The thought kept her heart pounding erratically and face flushed as she fell asleep that night.

Toothless never knew! It had been a joke. A game between...friends... He'd never meant to actually make her feel-

She was not useless! For her to actually believe she was so hurt him. How could she think of herself that way? Toothless had been useless without his tail fin. He'd been so useless he couldn't even take care of himself. He couldn't even catch a single fish!

But then Hiccup had come and offered her own. She'd looked terrified, but determined to...keep him alive. Him. A dragon! She ended up being more useful than anyone the Night Fury had ever met.

Eventually, he and Hiccup had come to be best friends.

They joked. Roughly sometimes. She had the ability of getting hit by a dragon and not get bruised apparently, and showed no pain when he through himself on her or slapped her with an ear. Usually it was amusing or irritating for her.

Communication, because words didn't seem to be available, had been just as rough, in a friendly sardonic way.

Hiccup called him a useless reptile, an overgrown lizard, and he let her know just how "useless" and "weak" she was.

He never thought she took it seriously.

Toothless shook his head roughly, glaring at the ground. That was just the type of friendship he and Hiccup had. No. It wasn't Toothless' fault.

It was her tribe's.

Never before had Toothless hated Vikings more than he did now.

And...the angst. No wonder this was my shortest chapter. I suck at angst.

Anyways (is not a word). Chapter name: The Angst She Must Deal With

See ya, I guess