Chapter Fourteen: First Day

Gobber, Toothless, and Hiccup were all waving goodbye to Stoick as he flew off on Thornado. When he was out of sight Hiccup lost all his confidence and began to panic as he scrambled over the list his father wrote out that day. Toothless looked at him like he was crazy and Gobber mode it worse by snatching the parchment out of the lad's hands.

"Gobber give that back!" he reached for it as the older Viking held him back.

"Why would you need this when chiefing is easy work?"

"Oh yeah if it's so easy how come you weren't left in charge?" Hiccup question.

"Because it's not my test and this," he waved the list in his face, "is a cheat sheet." With that, he shredded it make Hiccup gasp. Gobber walked away as he slumped down to his knees picking up the pieces of paper.

"What am I going to do bud," he asked his dragon holding up the shredded remains. Toothless looked at him whining not sure how to help. Hiccup brushed himself off before walking back home.

On the way though he was stopped by some of the villagers and he tried to help them the best he could. One was a dispute between some of the men; they all blamed one another for their missing objects and food. He of course being the Chief of Berk went to investigate this problem. What he found at one of the men's house all shocked them. Underneath the house was a hole about the size of a bucket and one of the men's furs.

"Ha! See that! I told you he was stealing from me!" the Viking screamed.

"If I was stealing then why would I put your ratty fur in a hole under my house, even though that's where it belongs!" the other screamed.

The hollering was getting on his nerves and was giving him a headache, but something caught his attention. He bent down to get a closer look. What he found explained everything. "Hey guys," he called out, but all they did was argue right above him. "MEN!" he yelled and finally they all looked at the young Chief in training who was holding a Terrible Terror, "I think we found our bandit. He was building a nest under the house." All of the men felt silly and ashamed at blaming each other for something as trivial as possessions. The items were all returned except the fur the owner saying he did not need it as much as he thought, letting the little dragon keep it for his nest.

Hiccup put down the reptile who dragged the fur under the home allowing him to continue with the day.

The next thing was tedious and unexpected on his part. He was standing in the Great Hall with at least ten Vikings and their wives holding newborns. He knew every now and then his father had to bless the names of the infants, but he never thought he was going to be assign to do it. Eleven children were passed and blessed by him and out of the eleven; all but three were screaming bloody murder. Five could pack a punch and kick better than he could at the age of three. Two of them thought he was a toy and could be climbed on, he believe he was now rocking some bald spots when they pulled out some of his hair. He was very grateful to have a shaggy hairstyle now. The worst part was when he ended up being puked on and he did not know what these parents were feeding him, but puke should not be that color. In the end, he grinned and bared through it making all the families happy and proud.

He rolled his shoulder back when the final task of the day was complete. Fencing off the Yak pen was hard work even with the help of dragons. Even Toothless seemed to be worn out as they headed back to their home as the sun was setting. He saw Eira and Dust sitting in front of his home and he smiled. She was too busy cleaning dirt from under her nails to notice them coming up. When she did, her smile was a welcome gift.

"How was the first day, Chief?" but when she saw his vest her voice changed to disgust, "and what is on your clothes?"

He looked down and groaned before answering her, "It's the reason why I don't want kids."

She burst out laughing as she rolled his eyes," take it you had to deal with blessing names."

He nodded trying to scrub the vomit off his vest, not having any luck. "Don't suppose you know how to get throw up out of fur do you?"

Shaking her head still with amusement in her voice, "can't say that I had that happen to me, so no."

"What more can go wrong," she bit the inside of her cheek, which he noticed, "I just jinxed myself didn't I?"

Eira gave an uneasy smile nodding slowly, "it's no big deal really, you just have to make a small itty bitty speech in the Great Hall before dinner." Hiccup started to his face against the wall of his house. She pulled him away before he bruised himself. "It's not that bad you say two sentences and move on with eating."

He stared at her in shock," how would you even know about this?"

"Gobber," she sheepishly said," apparently you dad told him what needed to be done in his absents and he happen to like it slip when I helped him in the shop."

The boy glared in the direction of the black smith until it dawned on him and he snapped his head at her, "you know what I need to do as Chief?"

"Um yes?" she said uncertain of where he was going with this.

All Hiccup could think about was Thor must have been smiling down on him, that or felt some sort of pity, to have Eira know his schedule.

All the dragons were down by the feeders eating their meal as Eira and Hiccup were walking into the Great Hall. Both were greeted by the Viking's eyes upon them as the strolled to the head of the table. The girl was feeling uncomfortable with everyone's staring, while Hiccup was looking as cool as the snow. When they reached their seats, they stood there for a moment before Gobber calmed down all the whispering noise in the hall. Hiccup stood there holding his mug, he took a deep breath before starting. He tried to bellow out his speech so everyone could hear, "today has been a great day, it has also been a blessing for some," he took a pause," it has also been my first day as Chief for this island that we call home and I believe that with everyone's help I hope it won't be my last. Now with that said, let's eat!"

Everyone hooted and hollered as they began eating. Hiccup sat down smiling still holding his mug. He leaned a bit closer to Eira as he talked through his smile, " is today over now?"

She laughed before leaning in to answer him," yes now enjoy the meal a hard-working chief deserves."

He relaxed after that and began chewing down thankful he could enjoy something at the end of the day.

A/n: Woo baby throw up! Now for a question for the readers I've been debating if I should add a scene that would be classified as Mature content in this story making me change the rating to "M" or if I should just eliminate it and keep it rated "T". Tell me what you think and if it I do happen to change it I will make a note of where the mature content is in the story so you can skip over it if you so desire.