"This is creepy," Ruffnut said, her hair spilling over their legs; she was strewn on the floor in a way that hardly looked comfortable, but apparently was. "You're a little psycho in this one, Hiccup." He reached for the scroll. "The first two chapters you're pretty normal. Astrid and you clash or something because of her dad."

"Her dad likes me, thank you," Hiccup said. "I worked hard to win him over."

Astrid grinned. "He put you to work."

"I'll say. I was sore for two weeks."

"Chapter 3," Ruffnut directed.

Hiccup read. Astrid watched, waiting for him to toss it at her. "Yeah, psycho works," he agreed. "In this, I've carved a cross in my wall for every time someone insulted me. Gods, we're talking about hundreds at least. Oh, and the kicker? The biggest one's from when my dad supposedly told Gobber he wished I'd died instead of my mother and I was to blame for her death. Ouch. I mean, my dad wouldn't say that kind of thing. We've had our problems, but still. Gosh, it'd be really great if fanfiction would quit trying to ruin my relationship with my father." He handed it to Astrid, "You slap me, too. Twice," he added. "I dunno, punching my arm seems milder than slapping me…I do get the kiss afterwards though."

Astrid punched his arm. Hiccup waited for the reason. "Oh, it just felt appropriate," she explained. Hiccup rolled his eyes. "Thanks." She pulled him in for the kiss.

Snoutlout coughed something along the lines of "Whipped!"

"Hey, Snoutlout, any girl on the horizon for you?" Hiccup returned innocently.

"Um…yes…"

"Who actually talk to you?" He probed.

Snoutlout looked at Ruffnut.

"Yeah, no, moron," she told him.

"Question answered," Astrid finished.

"Ew," Snoutlout groaned. "Hiccup is my cousin. I mean, pairing us is incestuous. And slash. And just really wrong. Ewwwwwwww!"

"You know, that might be the first one like THAT we've read," Fishlegs thought. "How does that even…happen?"

Snoutlout scanned it. "Erm, kidnap Hiccup, beat up Hiccup, fall in love with Hiccup…yeah. That's about it."

Hiccup met Snoutlout's eye and they both cracked up. "Yeah, right," Hiccup chortled.

Snoutlout made a face. "Like you'd get all of this."

"Okay, Lout, okay. Crying over here from the deprivation of all of that."

They burst out laughing again.

"Mary Sue," Fishlegs grumbled. That was one phrase they had grasped the meaning of quickly.

"Mary Sue dragon," Hiccup added. "They don't exist. They don't get dragons. They don't get OC dragons, either. I mean this one has one she wears on a bracelet around her worst, and it goes into a full size dragon. I mean, where does the saddle go? Matter cannot just VANISH!"

"Speaking of OC dragons, what is it with white furies?!" Fishlegs cried. "They aren't even a species."

"OC dragons," Tuffnut said, shaking his head. Aren't there already enough of them to write a decent story?"

"I kind of get the logic," Hiccup thought. "I mean night furies are black, white furies rhymes, and they're white, which is the opposite of black...still, it's weird."

"Speaking of which," added Tuffnut.

"What? White furies or weirdness?"

"Kind of both. Okay, so this chick Zathara is a—" Air quote time! "—normal demigod. Okay, how is a demigod normal? You're part god. Her mom is the goddess of dragons—there's another thing, all the GODS are OC—"

"Why? We already have real gods, why make any up?"

"Dunno. So Stoick is her daddy and you're her bro, Hiccup."

"Hmm, I always wondered what it was like to have a sibling."

"Awful!" "Terrible!" Ruffnut and Tuffnut exclaimed at once.

"Wait, what about my mom?!"

"Um…I wasn't reading that closely," Tuffnut sidestepped.

"So then what happens?" Snoutlout asked.

"Eh, not sure, I kind of zoned out reading it."

"How does this relate to white furies, toe-nail head?" Ruffnut demanded.

"Oh yeah, she rides a white fury."

"Toe-nail head, that one's new," Astrid noted.

"Good one, Ruff," Snoutlout complemented. Tuff narrowed his eyes. "Toe-nail head? Alright, then. It's ON."

While the twin tested their inventiveness, the others returned to reading.

"Mildly out of character in some places, still a good read," Astrid pronounced of 'Hero of the Day.' "Even though your dad dies…" not hearing a reaction out of Hiccup, she inquired: "Hiccup?"

His eyes were soft and dreamy, like when he gets lost in his thoughts. "Sometimes reading these ones from Toothless's point of view is weird. I feel like they make him too…human? And then sometimes it's the other way around and he's not intelligent enough." He stopped to smile at his dragon. 'Sometimes they get it right. Or close enough. I couldn't say just what his thought process is like…hmm." He returned his scroll, but his face didn't change. Astrid half-smiled. Hiccup could never stop wondering.

"Well, that's refreshing," Hiccup told his dragon, who merely rolled over with his paws up, begging for a good rub. Hiccup lay down the scroll to indulge him. "Regular old bonding with you and me. Toothcup free." Toothless gurgled his approval, either for the fanfiction that had pleased his hatchling or that Hiccup knew exactly where to scratch. Ahhhh.

Hiccup moved his hands under the chin and continued. "Unlike that one over there. You turned me into a Night Fury. I mean, people are so desperate to make Toothcup work. And it doesn't." Toothless gave an emphatic growl. "In one Loki himself turns you into a human with wings and a tail. And then the Toothcup."

Toothless flapped his tail. Hiccup smiled. "Are you ready for me to stop complaining and us to go fly?"

Toothless scrambled up.

"That's a yes, huh?"

Okay, so I am a Wicked fan. Defying Gravity is one of my favorite songs. So I get a tip to go on DeviantART and see "Defying Gravity." Someone had taken the lyrics and applied it to HTTYD comic.

I died laughing.

Seriously. Go look it up. You're welcome.

I'm also in the process of reading Hitchups, because it is "the father of deviation fics." Gosh, no one told it me had forty chapters. I've been reading it for three days. I'm on Chapter 30. It may end up appearing in this story.

I really love you guys. I have 13, 536 views on this, 187 reviews, 67 followers and 68 favorites. This one's my most popular, except my Sherlock Holmes story and possibly Volleyball Wars. So thank you all so much!

While I'm saying updates, I've been getting a lot of recommendations for specific things. Please don't give me something that I can only write a sentence about, especially not if it's long, because that just delays chapters. But thanks for the suggestions; KEEP THEM COMING!

Oh, and someone reviewed critically about my choiuce of fanchildren. One: I take suggestions, I don't browse in my free time, so I don't even know of other fanchildren, because I didn't look for them. Also I wouldn't call them "crap." I thought they were well done. That's not very nice. What if the artist saw that? Please be considerate, readers (says the girl who makes fun of stories for her own pleasure. Still. I'm serious).