Chapter Eleven: Flirting… Horribly

Hiccup and Eira were talking to Stoick and Gobber near the smith shop about their design plan on the feeders, as Hiccup liked to call them. Of course, he older gentle men were going to deny their request once again when Eira contributed where they were going to be. Grabbing the map She saw earlier with Hiccup she made two very clear x's along the coast of Berk near where the anglers would unload their catch for the day, but still far enough away from the community.

"And you're positive that it will be easier on the men?" Stoick asked and the two teens nodded. "And nothing bad will come of this?" again the teens nodded their heads.

"Well then when do we get started?" Gobber asked making all of them smile.

They gathered their friends and their dragons to help in the building process. Astrid and Stormfly made the holes in the sheet metal and wood for the rivets. The twins and their dragons were helping Fishlegs and Meatlug with the frame. Snotlout and Hookfang were caring the heavy pieces down to the shore and into place. Whilst this was going on Hiccup was walking around making everything was going according to the blueprints and everything was running smoothly. This job of course allowed him to catch the scene of Eira helping in the Black smith shop with Gobber forming and hammering the shape of the metal. He watched he while the sweat off her brow and taking a second for a break. Apparently he was too because he did not realized that Gobber had come up behind him and saw what he was staring at.

"Go talk to her."

"Huh, oh no I really can't do that," he scampered out.

"Why not? She's just like any other Viking just with pretty features," and he nudge him towards her, which turned out to be a push.

He stumbled, but regained his composure and walked over towards her as normal as he could. She was back to work when he arrived and he seemed a bit nervous. He could not understand why he was so shaken, they had talked before, but as he fiddled with the parchment in his hands, it seemed to calm him down. He looked over her shoulder and smiled, she was doing a good job.

"It looks great Eira," he complimented her.

"Think so?" she blushed as she told him, "Gobber had to help me in the beginning."

He agreed and she continued to work. Hiccup stood there awkwardly and she kept eyeing him out of the corner of her eye wondering if she should say anything, but she opted to stay quiet and focused on her work. He turned back to look at Gobber who only shoed him to continue talking to her. That is when he saw a man and his Gronckle walking around and an idea struck him.

"Say Eira how much does a Gronckle weigh?"

She thought about it before answering, "According to Fishlegs about five thousand pounds. Why do you ask?"

His face fell, but he continued chuckling nervously along the way, "I bet that's enough to break the ice."

"Anything that heavy is enough to break ice Hiccup."

"Yeah guess you're right, " he scratched the back of his head as Gobber smacked his fore head at his next words, " well do you drink yak milk because it sure is doing your body good."

She gave him a weird look, "I never had yak milk in my life Hiccup."

Hiccup flushed, as Gobber groaned. To make matters worse Snotlout had just flew in, in time to hear what Hiccup had just said. The teen started to laugh so hard h was holding his sides, making Hiccup want to hide under a rock.

"Oh this is priceless!"

"Am I missing something?" She looked towards Hiccup who was banging his head against a support beam. Snotlout hopped off his dragon to fill in the gaps. Now Hiccup just wanted to hide under a mountain.

"He's trying to flirt with you and can't." He turned to Hiccup wanting to bury him in more misery and so he caught sight of Astrid across the way, "watch this cousin, " he then yelled out, "Hey Astrid are you tired because you've been running through my mind all day!" He blew her a kiss. The blonde's eyes widen as she cover her mouth to trying not to throw up, but she could not hold it in and ran behind a barrel to puke.

Even Eira gagged, "I think I'm going to throw up too after hearing that," she held it back though as she looked over at Hiccup. A small blush snuck up over her cheeks and to get away from him she ran towards Hookfang and hopped on, "I'm taking Hookfang to deliver these materials." Before the teen could protest, she was gone.

Both boys watch her leave and before they could lay into one another, a smack to both their heads was delivered by Gobber.

"Both of you are pathetic."

"But-" they said.

"No buts you," he pointed to Snotlout," finish up Eira's work and you, "turning to Hiccup, "are an idiot I didn't say to flirt with her!"

"I know, but it just came out and I couldn't stop," he explained embarrassed at himself that he did that. Gobber just stared at him making him to sigh in defeat, "I'm just going to see how far along everyone is." As he walked off down to the beach, Gobber called out to him,

"Good idea!"

He picked up his pace and the first person he came in contact with was his father.

"Looks like you and your friends did another good thing for the people son."

"Thanks dad," he smiled and as they were looking at the dragons eating out of the finished one to test it.

They all cheered and clapped when they did, but no one seemed to notice one of the terrible terrors having trouble balancing on the thin edge of the metal bowl that they fish were lying in. The poor dragon fell in the fish and was about trying desperately to get out but more fish just kept piling on top of him. When he looked up he saw that he was about to become lunch for a Monstrous Nightmare. He squealed and frantically clawed at the bowl to get out, but it was useless when the fish kept slapping him back down. He curled up in a ball and closed his eyes waiting for the end. That is when he heard an angel like voice stop the beast.

"Whoa there big guy you wouldn't want to eat your own kind now would you, " and the little dragon was saved and was grateful to the woman who saved him that he curled up on her shoulder and was nudging and purring in gratitude. She scratched beneath his chin and laughed when his tongue flickered out to lick her cheek, "you're very welcome."

Little did she know a couple of men were witnessed what had transpired. The older of the two chuckled, "you have a good women there son."

The younger male blushed a deep red saying, "she's not mine dad."

"Not yet just need to grow a back bone and not get pick up lines from your cousin."

His green eyes popped open," you heard about that!"

"Yes, I am the chief after all and that brings up another matter. I will be leaving in a couple of days to a gathering of all the chiefs in the villages and I will be leaving you in charge while I am gone."

"You can't be serious."

"I am. Hiccup you are the son of the chief and someday when I am gone you will have to step forward and claim the position. These days on which I'm gone is a great way to show me and the people that you can handle the pressure," he explained.

"What if I'm not ready?" Hiccup asked.

His older hazel eyes narrowed, "what are you saying, of course you'll be ready you are my son."

He bowed his head and mumbled, "I'm also a hiccup, if you recall it is my name."

The father stood there in silence trying to come up with anything to say to convince his son, but he ended up empty handed. He was lucky though because the people of Berk came to congratulate the boy on his idea, along with a certain girl with a dragon on her shoulders.

"Well done Hiccup," she leaned on his shoulder smiling, "though I think we need to add a birch for these guys so they don't end up as the feast."

He agreed and was thanking everyone on their compliments when they were given. It was during this time in his life that he enjoyed. When everyone cheered his name out and did not remember that, he was a screw up.

When the applause died down and everyone went to go back to their daily routines the two Night Furies returned to their owners. Dust was happy to see a ton of fish she could eat as Toothless was just happy to see his friend smiling. When the bellies of the dragons were full, Eira went to go check Dust's wing. What she said next made everyone's mood even better,

"I think we can try flying again tomorrow. What do you think girl?"

The dragon perked up her ears and started to purr and chirp in happiness filled with agreement.

"Then it's settled we'll go flying tomorrow," Hiccup announced clapping his hands together making it sound like an official statement.

A/n: writing this chapter was really fun, especially with the flirting scene and the next one is going to be even better. Read and Review.