I had trouble starting this... until I got to a certain point then it just wouldn't stop... I like it though HTTYD is not mine the mistakes and insanity is.
With the send off party for the Bog-burglars and the Meatheads the last official duty they were required to attend; Hiccup and Astrid started to settle into married life. A week had passed since the wedding party and the young couple were thoroughly enjoying their honeymoon... mostly. Hiccup loved Astrid, loved the way she would wander around their house nude, in search of whatever item she happen to be looking for, or randomly ripping his clothes off whenever she felt frisky. He loved sparring with her after every lunch, and loved their early morning workout session(not that kind you dirty minded people) which now took place in their home due to unpredictable weather.
Not every thing was perfect, Astrid was fairly messy, leaving her, and sometimes his, clothes where ever she felt like. Hiccup at one point found her breast wrappings in the flour bin with no idea how they could of got there. The first week of marital bliss was judged a good one by the on looking villagers which rarely saw the young couple. Though the two lovers were becoming somewhat stir crazy as there was only so many times you could bake bread or be frisky per day. In the workroom of their small home sat a growing pile of vellum. Line after line of various anti giant dragon plans filled them most crossed out with obvious reasons listed beside them.
axe catapult- It would work on little dragons Astrid, but I don't think it will work on the queen.
Gobbers cooking? HAHA Hiccup
Your cooking? Hiccup do you want to sleep outside?
The list continued with very few useful ideas but many of them were fairly entertaining. The weather outside was getting colder, and on this day the two decided to venture into the village to procure the remainder of the supplies they would need to survive the winter.
"Uh Hiccup," Astrid commented while looking over the supply list. "This is the dragon plan..." She said while showing Hiccup the list, who shrugged before pointing to the side that was now facing Astrid.
"We need more vellum, We've gone through my entire store, I had to start writing on the back of some of the older ones." He explained giving her a cheeky smirk. "And the last few sheets I snagged to draw naked Astrid stretching." He added before receiving a quick punch to the shoulder before being dragged towards the stalls. "OW, what I'm not aloud to..." Hiccup dropped to a whisper noticing the crowds eyes on him. "...Draw my wife naked?" he whispered and Astrid shook her head.
"Why do you need to draw me when you can just look at me?" She asked, cheeks turning slightly red.
"Um well I like to draw you?" Hiccup sputtered. "And do you really want me staring at you all the time?" He asked and Astrid snorted.
"Hiccup you have to stare at me to draw me." She pointed out and Hiccup rubbed his neck sheepishly.
"Well I... Guess that's a good point," Hiccup mumbled as Astrid tore the list in two.
"Here take this half and gather the supplies." She ordered and Hiccup nodded, before he could step away Astrid kissed his cheek.
"You know, its kind of fun to get you all flustered." She said with a mischievous smirk, before turning to tackle her own list.
"You mean... you... didn't..." Hiccup stuttered, while Astrid raised her hand to wave him away, calling behind her.
"I knew what you were doing."
The few onlookers glanced between Hiccup and Astrid before going about their own business. Hiccup shook his head and ran through the list. She seems to have divided it evenly, her list having less items but all were of greater weight.
"Great, I get to play wife..." Hiccup glances up to catch Astrids swaying hips round the corner at the end. "...I suppose it's not all bad." He mumbles with a dreamy sigh, and then made his way to his required stops. While haggling with the various merchants he had to deal with, Hiccup couldn't help the feeling that he was being watched. Every time he would try to cautiously glance behind him, he would never peg anyone out of the ordinary. He shrugged it off as he came to the last of the stalls on the list. While haggling for extra furs, Fishlegs happen to bump into him. Now Fishlegs being about the twice the size of Hiccup, the bump sent Hiccup to the ground with an humph.
"Hiccup! I'm sorry I didn't see you there." The large teen cried before hauling Hiccup up by his fur vest. "Are you okay?" Fishlegs asked concerned before setting him down and brushing some stray dirt off of his shoulders.
"Hey.. Hi Fishlegs." Hiccup managed before the shop keep growled about payment and Hiccup fumbled with his roll of silver.
"Here let me help you with that." Fishlegs said before taking a large portion of Hiccups wares into his hands. Hiccup gave a thankful nod before, with free hands now, paid for the furs and bid farewell.
"Thanks..." Hiccup said while motioning to hand him the stuff back.
"Here, I'll walk with you home, I wanted to talk with you anyway." Fishlegs said, and Hiccup shrugged before the larger teen started to walk towards Hiccups new home.
"So what did you want to talk about?" Hiccup asked and Fishlegs gave a nervous glance around.
"Um well... I'm sorry, it's... can we wait till were a little further out of the village?" Fishlegs requested and Hiccup gave him an inquisitive look before nodding. When the reached the base the hill that led up to Hiccup and Stoicks home, they started to take the less warn path to the house on the left.
"Okay, well I wanted to ask you about a dragon." Fishlegs started uncomfortably. "Say hypothetically, a Fishbone shot down a legendary dragon, but he didn't kill it..." Fishlegs started as Hiccup blanched. "Now say he let it go and the beast didn't kill him, for some reason the Fishbone decided he should stay far away from dragons." Fishlegs continued doing his best to avoid looking at Hiccup, who was trying not to panic. "Now with the Fishbones focus else ware he starts to gain recognition, erasing some of his ill will gained by trying to fight dragons," Hiccup was seriously considering calling for Astrid, if he wasn't sure she wouldn't chop Fishlegs into bite size pieces and call it a casualty of war. "Things are up until he learns he crippled the dragon, so the intelligent young man seeks to amend his wrong doing and returns the beasts flight." Fishlegs pauses for a moment. "All I know from that point is the beast hypothetically fled south and the Fishbone, and his wife knew about it." The pair reached Hiccups door and the young men let out an audible gulp. With a jovial smile Fishlegs opens the door. "How about we talk about that dragon, Fishbone." He finished pleasantly before falling to the ground with a thunk.
"Hiccup! What did you tell him." Astrid shouts having rendered Fishlegs unconscious with a large somewhat frozen cod and Hiccup gives her the three headed stare.
"I didn't tell him anything, He started out with a hypothetical conversation...that...was kind of a retelling of what I did to free..." Hiccup cringes. "...Toothless." He tried to make himself as small as possible to avoid Astrids wrath. With a huff, Astrid dragged Fishlegs unconscious form into the living area before she started to lash him to a chair.
"You might as well put that stuff away and start supper." She instructed before shaking her head. "That isn't right... Could you please put that stuff away and start supper." She amended and Hiccup gave her a confused stare. "I decided I should start using non Viking speech when I talk to you." She smirked and Hiccup shook his head. There was something sexy about her saying that while tying someone up... Hiccup had to wonder if she would tie him up some time...
"So what are we going to do with him?" Hiccup asked as he started a simple supper of roast mutton and veggies.
"I don't know, it depends on what he was going to do with that information, and how he got it." She looked up at Hiccup and glared. "Did you take all your work out of the forge when you left?" Hiccup gulped and shook his head, while Astrid growled at him.
"What? Its my workplace I never take anything out of there, I didn't think anyone would go snooping in Hiccup the useless' workspace." Hiccup defended, but Astrid only growled again.
"Stop calling yourself useless," She commanded and Hiccup gestured to Fishlegs.
"But now he knows, and he could try to blackmail us and I don't want you to chop him up into little bits..." Hiccup rambled quickly before Astrid raised a hand to silence him.
"THIS is Fishlegs! he's probably the second smartest person on the island, and the smartest Viking!" She cried and Hiccup blushed at the compliment. "Now we're going to have dinner, give him a good meal and figure out what he wants..." She said confidently. "...If he wants to blackmail us, we disappear on the next merchant ship out of here, there's one in two days." Astrid thought out loud. "If he isn't going to give us the time of day..." She made a horrified face. "...Then its out of my hands, I'm not going let a narrow minded Viking take my happiness or our chance to end this war." Astrids face is resolute and Hiccup prays to Odin that Fishlegs will listen.
It was some time later that Fishlegs woke.
"Not the face!...huh wha..." He asked groggily. "Why do I smell like fish?..." The large teen tried to stand. "...And why am I tied up?" He looked around to see Hiccup looking back with apologetic smile and Astrid glaring at him.
"How did you find out?" Hiccup basically whispered and Fishlegs had to think on what he was talking about.
"I... sort of put it together, ever since you claimed to down the Night Fury." Fishlegs responded timidly, and Hiccup and Astrid relaxed slightly.
"What were you planning to do about it." Astrid snarled and Fishlegs flinched.
"I wanted to know if it was true, I wanted to know how he survived." Fishlegs gestured towards Hiccup with his head. "After that I didn't really have a plan, it's not like I could tell anyone they would brand you traitors and either exile you or..." He added and Astrid's face shifted to one of guilt. "...You would have..." Fishlegs nodded in understanding. "...But I'm not going to tell anyone I swear!" He shouted and Astrid shook her head.
"It's okay, I'm not going to kill you..." She stared him in the eyes. "...But if your lying, not even Odin will stop me from ripping your head from your shoulders." Her tone chilled both Hiccup and Fishlegs, who both shivered.
"So you had what? My claim to hit a Night fury and what else?" Hiccup asked, while Astrid stood up and cut Fishlegs bindings.
"Your workspace is filled with a dragon I've never seen before." Fishlegs explained as Hiccup palmed his face and Astrid sighed.
"It must have plus 20 speed with at least 15 agility, though it didn't look like it had a lot of stamina..." Fishlegs tented his fingers nervously as the two other teens gave him a worried look. "... Well I also know that it flew south and saved that Bog-burglar, that's when I got interested, A Dragon saving a human its..." Fishlegs paused. "... well unthinkable, and then the leather led me to you Hiccup..." Hiccup nodded. "But after that I was only guessing that's why I said hypothetically..." Fishlegs finished as Astrid forced him to sit again and handed him a plate of food.
"Well you hypothetically pinned the tail on the Gronkle." Hiccup smirked and shook his head. "Except its a he and his name is Toothless." He finished and Fishlegs sputtered into his food.
"Retractable teeth." Astrid supplied and Fishlegs nodded and tried to mumble through his food. "Chew your food, talk after." To which he nodded again.
"And the dragons are victims, just like us." Hiccup asserted and Fishlegs swallowed his food and eyed Hiccup.
"The hypothetical Giant dragon wasn't a hypothesizes?" He asked and Hiccup nodded.
"Astrid and I have been trying to figure a way to kill it, but honestly we're not having much luck." He said, disappointed. Astrid shook her head too.
"And like you know Toothless has flown down south, and he wont be back until..." Astrid shuddered. "... Well we don't now IF he will come back, but it will probably be some time in spring," She finished and Fishlegs nodded.
"The dragons rarely ever raid in the winter I figured they may hibernate, but we keep the training dragons warm so they have no reason to sleep." He explained while eying the newly weds. "Can... Can I help?" To which both Astrid and Hiccup shared a look.
"If you want, we could use ever head possible, we only have three weeks left." Hiccup stated while Astrid nodded.
"Three weeks till what?" Fishlegs inquired.
"Till we tell Stoick everything, trade in the knowledge we gained to secure our safe passage if they decide to exile us, or use the combined knowledge of the village to come up with a plan to kill a dragon the size of Berk." Astrid explained and Fishlegs grew very pale. "We figured it was better to not have Toothless here, so they couldn't try to kill him, and if we flee south we could hopefully find him." She said, a mixture of sadness laced her voice.
"But why would you do that, no one would ever need to know!" Fishlegs squeaked worriedly.
"Because the Village should know that their not the only victims in this war, that their are less lethal ways to fight the dragons, and because someone has to start somewhere." Astrid added heatedly.
"If dad needs me to show him, I can use the training dragons, The Nadder will listen... I kind of told it to let Astrid win when you guys were fighting it." Hiccup muttered sheepishly.
"Really?" Fishlegs looked at Astrid who shrugged.
"I had no idea, but that was sweet of you..." Astrid stated and Hiccup turned pink.
"So what have you learned?" Fishlegs asked, and the pair spent the next hour filling him in on everything they had learned. They then showed him the table and gave him a few moments to run through the list. Every now and again he would chuckle before his face would turn serious again.
"So dragons can be friendly? I wonder what it's like to fly on one... I mean not in its mouth or anything." Fishlegs stated and Astrid and Hiccup grinned.
"Greatest feeling in the world, I can't wait for Toothless to come back, I have Hiccup keep his saddle well oiled." Astrid stated enthusiastically while Hiccup gestured to the back of the room where a fur covered a small bundle. Moving over to it Hiccup pulled the fur off to reveal the saddle and Fishlegs marveled at it.
"Wouldn't it be amazing to have Vikings ride Dragons?" Fishlegs stated in wide eyed wonder. "I think if we could get that across the village we could win them over..." Both Astrid and Hiccup shook their heads.
"Peace first before we start trying to use them as war engines or their will just be another war and it will be our fault." Hiccup intoned seriously and Fishlegs nodded.
"Well it is a thought, and who knows maybe will be lucky and our kids will be raiding on the backs of Monstrous Nightmares, and Zipplebacks." He imagined and Astrid smiled.
"What kind of dragon would you ride?" She asked and Fishlegs smiled brightly.
"I don't know, something intelligent that likes to explore and seek new knowledge." Fishlegs spouted quickly before blushing. Astrid gave him an intrigued look.
"You want to be an explorer?" she asked incredulously. Fishlegs nodded sadly.
"More then anything I would love to take up my hammer and cut across the unknown," he said quietly. "But I will most likely be forced to follow in my fathers trade." He finished while wistfully looking at the saddle.
"Well you're in luck," Hiccup commented. "You just offered to help the future chief, if we solve the dragon problem I'm sure Astrid can give you your wish." He looked over at Astrid who was nodding thoughtfully.
"Berk will need explorers, we can't always trust the other chiefs so we will need our own scouts." She said, a small grin forming as Fishlegs eyes brightened. "And who better to send then a walking encyclopedia, We might even join you before I take up the office." At this Hiccup glanced at her excitedly.
"You mean... we could go exploring? With Toothless?" He said while grinning, Astrid smirked and nodded.
"So the three of us, The smartest Viking on the island, The smartest... Whatever you are," Astrid gestured at Hiccup who scowled. "And well me, are going to end a three hundred year old conflict." She confirmed, mirth in her tone. Fishlegs nodded and held his hand out. Astrid placed her hand on top and looked over at Hiccup who was staring at her.
"Don't cut yourself short, First Viking to ever touch a Night Fury, first Viking to ever reduce it to a puddle of purrs." Hiccup stated fiercely. "And don't forget, its not the three of us," Astrid gave him a confused stare. "It's the three of us AND Toothless." Hiccup said with a smile before placing his hand on top.
"OW, what was that for?"
"That was really corny, now come here you."
"Um Guys... yeah I'm just going to let myself out..."
Poor Fishlegs... I was going to add more dialogue but I think you can figure out who said what :D SO What did you think? quick recap: Guy named Fishlegs is cod slapped then tied up... Hiccup might have a bondage fetish... and the three amigos are on the Giant dragon problem... oh this is fun :D