Sorry for the semi lateness of the update.

I had a bad seizure and have been sick most of the day. And on top of that I haven't really had a chance to get some sleep.

I've been up for almost thirty something hours without rest. So I'm going to try laying down and attempt another update later today.

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A short time later Hiccup and Skye returned to the place where Toothless had been left, carrying a large freshly killed deer and a leather satchel full of medicinal herbs.

"Hey boy," Hiccup called out as Toothless slowly got to his feet and began chirping at them in an annoyed manner. "I guess it would be dumb to ask if you had been waiting long, huh?"

Toothless growled at him for a moment as Skye walked up to him and gently laid a hand on the side of his neck and looked at the tuna that he had caught as well as the overly large beast of a fish. "Well, you've been busy." She said, feeling more than a little bit proud of her little Nightfury.

Toothless chirped happily as he told her about the big fish that had tried to attack him. Taking full pride in his kill.

As he should, Skye told herself.

Especially when the fish he was speaking of was one of the kind that could actually devour dragons and become land wandering beasts that attacked indiscriminately and ate animals and people alike. So naturally, Toothless should feel proud of managing to kill such a thing. Skye thought to herself as she chirped at him a bit.

Telling him how brave and strong he was. Including how proud she was to be his mother in with her message as Hiccup walked over, looked at the tuna- then the monster fish from hell- then cast a slight glance at his deer and wrinkled his nose a bit.

Herbs and such aside, the deer and the fish made quite a haul.

Frankly speaking, Hiccup and the other dragon riders may not need to hunt again for a while.

A few days at the most. Which was fine by him since he wasn't feeling all that inclined to leave Skye's side until everything with the others was resolved and he knew that there was no impending threat towards her or his child/children's safety and wellbeing.

"Wow. Good job Toothless." Hiccup said as he carefully regarded the beast like fish and all the fat tuna strewn about. "Someone will be getting something good to eat tonight." He said as he reached out and patted his dragon affectionately on the tip of his nose causing the Nightfury to preen and purr.

Skye made a soft cooing sound at Toothless in agreement with Hiccup's words as Toothless gave the both of them his famous toothy smile.

The one that he was famous for because it made him look deranged.

Putting the dead buck down on the ground, Hiccup pulled a long tether made of several strands of incredibly strong, thin strands of braided leather and began to tie the small group of large fish each by the tail so that they would be easier to carry back to the keep.

It only took several moments, and once he was finished, he began the somewhat tedious work of placing everything across Toothless's back before turning to Skye and holding his hand out to her so that he could pull her in close enough to place her back onto Toothless's back just a smidgen behind the fish and deer carcasses.

And once he was sure that she was comfortably in place, he swung himself up on Toothless's back behind her and wrapped his arms around her slender waist and gave the command for Toothless to fly.

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Fishlegs and the other dragon riders watched a hysterical Astrid pace back and forth as she told them about what had happened when she had snuck into Hiccup's hut. Not bothering to spare any details, she informed them of everything. And I do mean everything.

The state of Hiccup's undress. The fact that he was inside of the hybrid.

Screwing her as if she were Berk's village whore or something.

Those weren't her exact words... It was merely the words that Snotlout and Tuffnut supplied their minds with since they couldn't see Hiccup doing such things with anything that wasn't human. After all, that was like mating with a yak. And while in some village's that was an outstanding practice- it wasn't one that was well practiced back home.

And then there was the somewhat one sided conversation she'd had before fainting (which she still was in denial over despite having been found after Hiccup's vanishing act- unconscious. after all, good Vikings didn't faint!) the one where Hiccup had introduced the hybrid girl as his mate.

Mate!

She still didn't know what the hell that meant but she was fairly certain that it wasn't good.

Fishlegs however seemed to disagree with her, stating very clearly for everyone to hear that in theory if the girl really was part human then it was completely understandable- and not outside the realm of possibility- that the hybrid could in fact actually be Hiccup's mate.

That they, like many dragons, could have a mating bond of some kind in which case they needed to leave the girl alone otherwise Hiccup wouldn't hesitate to kill them.

Astrid gaped at the blond Viking as if he were insane. Which he very well might have been. He'd been spending an unusual amount of time with the twins of late.

Hiccup may be a little out there (mate or no mate) but he would never in a million years hurt his friends. She was sure of it. Well... Sort of anyways.

But then Fishlegs made a point of pointing out the fact that if Hiccup had a mating bond with the hybrid then until it was completed- he would be volatile, unstable, even uncharacteristically violent towards anyone he saw as a threat towards the hybrid.