Alright you stubborn people. I know you are all looking for the happy ending, so here's your reward for reading all of my sad one-shots.
Takes place after the end of the movie.
After flying for most of the day, the two families, dragon and human, settled down on a grassy sea-stack to rest and eat. Hiccup gathered some kindling for a fire and sat next to Toothless on the ground. Astrid and Stormfly sat across from them, and the Light Fury lounged on Toothless' other side, watching the three baby Nightlight dragons play in the grass. Hiccup's five-year-old son laughed gleefully as the little white dragon with black splotches on his ears licked the young boy's face. The two black dragons with white bellies and white paws played with his seven-year-old daughter, one climbing on her shoulders and head, while the other pawed friskily at her wristband.
Hiccup breathed in the cool air and smiled to himself. His heart was soaring. He hadn't felt this happy in years. For the first time in so long, he was surrounded by everyone he loved, and there was nothing more he could want or need in his life. He could not possibly ask for a better day than this.
There was a small blast from behind him and the kindling suddenly burst into flame. Then, a familiar black tail wrapped around him and pulled him backwards, so he could lean his back against the dragon's wing. Toothless lifted his head to gently lick Hiccup's face, and Hiccup's smile grew even bigger as he happily took in the kisses. The dragon cooed loving hums and purrs before resting his head in his lap.
"Aw," Astrid grinned. "I think someone really missed you," she said.
Hiccup gave her smile that made his eyes sparkle, and then wrapped his arms over the dragon's head, leaning his cheek against the black scales. "I missed you too, bud," he said to the dragon. He could feel the loud rumbling of his happy purring. He closed his eyes and sighed, more contented than he could ever remember. It was like breathing for the first time.
"Daddy, look!"
Hiccup opened his eyes and looked up at the sound of his daughter's voice. Zephyr had removed her leather wrist band and was dangling it in front of one of the black and white dragons. It was the frisky female with blue eyes. The baby dragon pounced and tackled the string, and Zephyr laughed.
"I've named them," the girl announced. "This is Kitten," she said, scratching the frisky female under the chin. "And this," she pet the male black and white dragon sleeping in her lap, "is Patches."
Hiccup chuckled. "Nice names," he said. He looked over at his son, Nuffink, who giggled at the white baby dragon that was rolling around in the grass. The little Nightlight dragon had inherited his father's bright green eyes. "What about you, Fink?" Hiccup asked the boy. "What's that one called?"
The boy frowned in thought. "His name is Sky," Nuffink decided. "Because I met him in the sky!"
Astrid and Hiccup both laughed.
"What do you think, Toothless?" Hiccup asked his friend. "Are those good names for your kids?"
Toothless turned his eyes up to look at him and happily voiced his approval.
The Light Fury stood up and went over to Sky, who was still lying happily in the grass. She picked him up with her mouth and carried him over to where the mother had collected a pile of fish. She then ushered the other two babies to the food, and the three of them began to eat.
"Good idea," Astrid said. "Let's eat some dinner, shall we?" She opened up the basket of fish that they had brought with them and attached them to cooking rods. Zephyr and Nuffink went over to their mother and each took a fish, crouching by the fire to let it cook. Astrid handed Hiccup one as well. Toothless took immediate interest in Hiccup's fish and reached his head out to sniff it.
"Ah ah ah," Hiccup pulled the fish away from the dragon. "This is my fish!"
Toothless huffed and gave him a dirty look, before grabbing some of the raw fish from the pile the dragons had collected.
"Boy, some things really don't change," Hiccup grinned at Astrid.
Stormfly squawked and nuzzled Astrid. She laughed and hugged the Nadder's horn. "Nope," she agreed. "Some things never change."
"Daddy," Zephyr said. "Will you tell us the story again?"
Hiccup raised his eyebrows. "Which one?"
"All of them!" Nuffink chimed in.
"All of them," Hiccup laughed. "Okay well which do you want to hear first?"
"Why don't you start with the one about how you met," Astrid said.
Toothless nudged his head underneath Hiccup's hand and he ran his palm over his rough skin. "That's the best one," he smiled, looking into the dragon's big loving eyes.
"Tell it!" Nuffink said excitedly.
"Well," Hiccup began. "When I was a boy…"
Oh precious. So precious.
Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed reading all of these as much as I enjoyed writing them. I hope you at least cried a little. This is honestly one of the saddest, most beautiful love stories I have ever seen, and it was really important to me to get it right.
