RECAP: Hiccup and Astrid had both began their campaign trails to try and win over the support from as many vikings across Berk as possible. Whilst Hiccup did the usual by simply talking to them, Astrid took it to another level by physically letting everybody know why she should win their vote. It was revealed that Eret, in fact, didn't actually tell Cloudjumper about what he had heard Morgan say; he said to the Stormcutter to return near the hall tonight after he had stormed out of the hall itself from feeling as if he was getting the blame for everything.
Valka was tired. From hosting the debate, to ensuring that all three of the campaign sessions went smoothly and as planned (which can't be said for the third one), it exhausted her not just physically, but mentally, and ultimately she had concluded that if she got an early night, her mind will feel like she hadn't even done any of the things listed. Despite this, she's been able to cope with being isolated with Cloudjumper for all of those 20 years when he first took her from the hut that night, during one of the dragon raids. Maybe it was something to do with age, but it wasn't that severe. It felt as if she did an all nighter, where her eyes felt dry with their aching sensations, and she was just generally sloppy towards the end of the day. Because of this, the only time in which Cloudjumper had seen her was the morning, when he was at the appalling campaign session of Morgan's, and when he flew her to the hall before Eret told him what to do.
Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs, Gobber, Snotlout, Eret, Gustav and Ruffnut, after what was a serious day, had all gathered around the area surrounding the stone steps leading up to the hall, and if you thought they were alone, that couldn't be further from the truth. In what was a memorable sight because it hasn't been seen in quite some time, all of their dragons were there, even including Skullcrusher. The only dragon who wasn't there was Cloudjumper, because again, he didn't want to cause an annoyance to his viking, Valka. As they all stood together, they were laughing with each other whilst those of Snotlout and Eret mainly masked straight faces. They'd have the odd smirk, but their viking selves didn't really lift upwards in terms of their emotions within the laughing atmosphere. Valka wasn't here either, because after the campaign session and the morning, she remained put within the Haddock house as she felt exhausted.
"You got completely slammed like a bug today, huh Hiccup?" Astrid said, whilst Stormfly had her tucked up under her wing practically.
"Oh please, you didn't even see what I did..." Hiccup fired back, raising his palms upwards as he said it.
"I'm gonna bet that you were a phoney in everything you did, and hey, I'll take anything of the sort, hahaha"
"You know guys, I was thinking that we should uh...perhaps try and do something differently for once, like uh, a game or something? I dunno.." Fishlegs said, with the attention of the vikings mainly being placed onto him upon making that declaration.
"Huh...that's not such a bad idea, you know? I mean uh, since Toothless and myself have most likely upped the ante on whatever Astrid did to try and persuade the other vikings, we ought to at least have a break from that type of atmosphere to enjoy ourselves?"
"I'd like that quite a bit...if only my dragon wasn't so lazy.." Gobber said, looking to an awakened Grump, standing besides him with his clubbed tail.
"Yeah uh, what do you say, Snotlout?" Gustav asked, looking towards Snotlout, who, for once, didn't look as focused and mischievous as he usually is.
"I wouldn't mind I guess.." he said, not sounding quite like what his face was delivering, since the cause of his toned-down self had occurred hours and hours ago, so he's slightly back to his normal self.
"Why don't we give ourselves a good old tackling, huh? watch this you guys.." Hiccup said, moving to the middle of them all, leaving Toothless's side.
Toothless was surprised to find that Cloudjumper wasn't here, since he and the Stormcutter are pretty close. He's also close with Stormfly, but Cloudjumper was at an equal level with the Deadly Nadder in the dragon's he's closest with. He also kept a firm secondary thought focused on looking out for a particular turn-up in the midst of being with not just his viking, but the many others, including the other dragons.
"You want a tackler? you're looking at one right here.." Eret claimed, as he looked at Skullcrusher, wanting to show-off.
"Oh please, Hiccup, and you Eret, nobody here can compare to my strength...let's make it a best out of 3 session, huh? me and Hiccup, in a game where we have to try and tackle each other; the winner is the one who's managed to tackle the other the most, and the loser has to take a big deep dive off of his or her dragon, but obviously you can have your dragon rescue your falling body...so come on..." Astrid said, holding her battleaxe firmly as she tapped it against her other hand gently, "who's it gonna be? or is it gonna be you, Hiccup?"
"Oh fine, but trust me Astrid, Toothless knows me, it'll be as if it's not even a punishment..." he laughed, walking closer to the middle as Astrid had dusted the metal of her battleaxe with her free hand before gently tossing it down to the grass.
The reason why they're all so playful is because of the seriousness of the day that's basically passed just now; Hiccup and Astrid, on their campaign trails, have led to stress, uncertainty as to whether or not they're doing a good job of persuading the vikings to vote for them, and the unpredictability of the election result itself when that time comes. They wanted to break away from the serious atmosphere, and so, that's why they're suddenly playing a game of who can tackle the other viking the most as all the dragons watched, not including Cloudjumper.
Toothless and Stormfly suddenly exchanged a stare; but they both smiled, with their reptilian selves, at each other; seeing their two vikings not only clash in an election, but right now for a game, had caused the two of them to become perked up. Toothless was letting off those sounds that he did when he was still getting to know Hiccup in the cove at the time, particularly the one he did when he watched Hiccup draw within the dirt using that large wooden stick. Stormfly let off some rumbles in exchange, as the two loyal dragons looked back at Astrid and Hiccup.
"Fucking hell..." Morgan explicitly said, walking through the village, in which he was walking towards the Great Hall.
His usage of the taboo, loud and clear, was not only because he recognised that absolutely nobody on this island knows what a 'swear' word is, so it'd sound normal to them, but because he was messing around with his Samsung Galaxy S5 as he had just attempted to get it working despite being free of any charge; he did this by taking off the back cover, and removing the battery briefly, but it was the need to put it all back together that had caused him to use the explicit taboo. He hardly swears, but for instance, when he steps into somebody by accident, he'll naturally spout out 'shit' unintentionally. Not constantly, but occasionally, and quite honestly, it makes him sound terrible to the person he stepped in.
The satisfying click of the back cover being inserted firmly back onto the battery section of the phone had caused Morgan to instantly turn it around so the blank screen was facing him, but little did he know, that walking past the many vikings of the village, who were starting to go into their huts in bigger numbers as the day was gradually coming to an end, without a single awareness of his surroundings would lead him to walking into full exposure of the gathering of all the dragons and the main vikings near the stone steps. He pushed the button at the bottom of the model of the phone, but to no success; it remained vacant entirely. Morgan tucked it into his shorts as he realised that he was nearing the cliff up to the Great Hall; the dirty looks he was getting past the various vikings was still a thing, but he did his best to ignore them. He walked out of the area of the village with the collection of the huts, and as soon as he did, his eyes automatically turned to the gathering between all of the dragons and the main vikings; he instantly turned his back around and walked off to the opposite direction as if it was an automatic movement.
He stopped, and then turned back around to face the gathering. He didn't know what to do, because it'd be awkward for him, should he actually go there; they've seen him for what he was this morning, and then there's the issues with Snotlout and Eret, but what made it better for him was the fact that Cloudjumper didn't seem to be there. He took a huge puff of air in, before letting it out of his mouth, and proceeded to walk right over to the dragons and the vikings. He's going to try and avoid looking at Eret and Snotlout as if they weren't even there.
Hiccup charged forwards to Astrid, attempting to tackle her, but he failed completely; Astrid utilised her agility as if she was skating on ice to rapidly duck underneath Hiccup, and as everyone was cheering on for it, Astrid took her arms all over Hiccup's chest to slightly raise him up and off his feet, only to trip him up and down to the ground, back first. She laughed, and she looked at Stormfly before winking at the Deadly Nadder.
"Okay okay...you got me Astrid, argh.." Hiccup said, with Toothless suddenly moving in towards his fallen human.
Toothless ducked his head down to allow Hiccup to hold onto his head to raise himself up from his fallen self. Hiccup nodded, grabbing onto Toothless's head before placing his armpit over the Night Fury's head, in which Toothless had gradually raised his head up as Hiccup regained stability in his metal leg.
"Thanks bud..."
"Right Hiccup, remember the deal we set out just now? you've gotta go on Toothless later on, and dive right from the top of him, and then have him capture you about a minute before you hit the ground.."
"Oh please, Astrid.." Hiccup laughed, removing his grip off of Toothless's scaly black head, "we've done it all the time...it won't be a problem.."
"What're you all doing? that looked pretty cool.." Morgan said, basically standing behind the lot of them.
Hiccup was the first one to diverge his eyes onto Morgan, finding it surprising that he's actually turned up. Astrid looked at him too, and she seemed to welcome him with neutrality. The nearest dragon, Barf and Belch, had watched him with the two heads, where he, along with the many other dragons, looked right at Toothless; they knew what was going on, but what made it even more stressful for both Morgan and Toothless now was the fact that the vikings were all here, so the secret could be easily revealed from the body language of the other dragons. Morgan stepped into the group further, where he instantly, at the sight of Snotlout and Eret, planted his head downwards to the ground, before looking at Toothless next to Hiccup. He was suddenly thrown into that stressful feeling again, but he was at least going to try and act normally.
"We're just uh...just messing around I suppose, haha, we were actually gonna do one with the dragons, but uh, do you wanna give it a try, Morgan?"
Morgan's stress at the moment had caused him to sense all the eyes of the reptiles looking directly at him, but he's seemingly acting normal; Toothless wasn't reacting like he normally has in the past; he was acting exactly like he was when Morgan wasn't here, so the two of them seem to be playing it off pretty well.
"Oh come on Hiccup, me? you're joking, haha. I'll watch though, it's uh, it'll be cool to see.."
"Oh, okay. Bud, do you uh, do you wanna do it?" Hiccup said, with Toothless instantly letting off a purr, with a smile, implying that he want's this opportunity, but he didn't hold that much enthusiasm before, when Morgan wasn't here.
"Come on Meatlug.." Fishlegs suddenly said, tapping Meatlug on her back, "show Hiccup what you're truly made of!" and although at first Meatlug didn't look so keen on the whole thing, she stepped towards Toothless in the middle of the gathering, as Hiccup took a slow step back.
"Alrighty, Meatlug vs Toothless, who wouldn't wanna see this? the first dragon to tackle the other down wins...if uh, if only my mum was here if she wasn't so tired to witness it...but oh well..when I say go, you guys, you GO!" Hiccup once again said, stepping backwards towards the side of Morgan.
"GOO!"
And just like that, Toothless's speed overpowered Meatlug; he rapidly slid over to her side, and he took both of his paws onto her scaly body to flip her over, causing her to emit a loud bang against the ground, like a pile of bricks slamming down to the ground; as a Night Fury, Toothless has incomparable strength for a dragon his size, so much so that he's managed to carry Stoick on his back before when he was still alive. Fishlegs gasped in shock at Meatlug's rapid defeat; but what did he expect when he put her up against Toothless?
"Nice one, Toothless...you uh...you're strong as hell, huh?" Morgan said, in the midst of the clapping of the vikings, and this instantly caught up into the Night Fury's ears; he looked at Morgan for a split second, and he blinked only his right puppy eye at him, so none of the other vikings or dragons noticed it; he winked at Morgan, and in turn, Morgan couldn't help but have those feelings in himself again.
He said that just now as a way to, in a hidden way, show to Toothless that he still loves him.
Despite the fun, Morgan felt like somebody who's on a stage, where he's forgotten his lines, so he's left standing awkwardly in front of a gigantic crowd; this was because of Eret and Snotlout, but he was thankful that Cloudjumper wasn't here. He was much more cooled down with Skullcrusher now than he was in the past. As Fishlegs attended to Meatlug as she shook her body, everybody agreed on heading back to their huts for the day, after the brief fun. Morgan stuck around with Hiccup for a bit, but in the background, as everyone was walking off with their respective dragons, Eret was watching on with a smile; something was going to happen tonight, but even he doesn't know what to expect, but with him telling Cloudjumper everything, he knows for a fact that something will happen.
"So uh...how're you feeling, then?" Hiccup asked, as all the dragons in the background watched the three of them walk off, but they watched because Morgan and Toothless were close together, so at the final chance they have at seeing them, they wanted to witness them finally emerge together, but the Night Fury and Morgan seemed to be acting it all off for now, as they're in the presence of everybody else.
"Good, good, uh, where's Valka at?"
"She hit the bed earlier on, because she's feeling tired of doing everything to do with...yeah, you know what?" Hiccup said, referring to the election.
"Ahh right.." Morgan said, looking to the other side of Hiccup to see Toothless's black scaly head.
Morgan secretly wanted to walk in the middle, but at the same time, he didn't want to make Hiccup think about why he'd do that. He refrained from doing it as a result.
"Have you thought about your stance on leaving?" Hiccup said, with Toothless's ears and head instantly perking upwards at the mentioning; he was paying full attention to the conversation at this point because he's simply not going to let Morgan leave, when he does intend on doing so.
"I uh...I...I...oh my god..." he let off a huge sigh, finding it harder than ever to commit to it because he's near Toothless, "I-I guess..."
"Ah, well uh, I'm gonna talk to the viking tomorrow about the boat, so uh...I guess you've still got a chance to change your mind. Also, quickly uh, do you feel better from this morning?"
"Yeah yeah, I mean, it's been hours since it happened, so it's not affecting me as much. I just hope that when I uh...when I do leave, nothing bad happens, because I've got a bad feeling, Hiccup..." he said, referring to the future events of How To Train Your Dragon 3, whatever it may be.
"Trust me, we've dealt with Drago, haven't we bud?" Hiccup said, looking at Toothless, as the Night Fury purred loudly, "and we've maintained peace...and now we're having an election, things will go alright for us, I can assure you..."
They ended up walking up to the area of the cliff where Hiccup's two-storied hut was at. Morgan looked behind himself briefly, deciding that it'd be best for him to head back to his own hut for the night.
"Well uh, I guess I'm gonna head on back for the night...it was nice walking with you Hiccup and Toothless..."
Toothless turned his entire black scaly body around to Morgan, and Hiccup walked up to him.
"Yeah, we'll uh, we'll see you tomorrow then?" Hiccup said, sounding neutral, as a focused Toothless watched him on.
"Yeah, for sure. Toothless, I hope you have a good night...and uh...how can I put this...I admire you..." Morgan said, basically saying to Toothless that he loves him, but using a word that completely conceals that from Hiccup's perspective.
The Night Fury purred, as Hiccup looked like he was sorting out the saddle pack. He let his fork tongue slip out from his black soft lips towards Morgan, with the tongue sliding in and out like a snake; this was Toothless's 'flirt' with Morgan, and Morgan loved it all; all of that worry about this going too far seemed to have died off, because Toothless's flirt just now had caused Morgan to want to see what Toothless has in store for him. Morgan winked at him, and Toothless winked back, as the Night Fury slowly moved his wings to help out Hiccup as he was adjusting the saddle pack. He genuinely couldn't believe, that as a male, he's winked as much as he has. He's done some things on Berk that he'd never do back at home, so it added up.
Morgan waved at the two, as Hiccup sat up briefly to wave right besides Toothless; the Night Fury purred quite softly, almost as if he was upset, but he recalled that he's got his human right besides his wing, sorting out the saddle pack, so he refrained from purring, but man, with him now knowing that Morgan has the exact same love, he's wanting to, more than ever, 'reward' the young lad, but he'll have to be patient, and he acknowledged that.
"Bud we'll uh...we'll do the whole diving punishment tomorrow..." Hiccup said, standing back up straight, referring to the deal set by Astrid.
**MORGAN'S BACK AT HIS HUT FOR THE NIGHT**
Now that he's seen Toothless's clear attempt at putting him into 'that' mood for the future, Morgan couldn't stop thinking about the many things that Toothless might do; they were things that he obviously wouldn't mention out loud, but they're also things that make him feel guilty. He's done it, he now sees Toothless in 'that' manner, and as a result, he can't stop imagining some odd scenarios, but honestly, as a How To Train Your Dragon fan, living out the reality of Berk whilst finding out you're literally loved by the main dragon of the entire thing, he felt more than lucky. However, despite all of this, he was still intent on leaving, no matter how reluctant he's feeling about the entire thing; he's defied that thought of concern of everything going too far to the point that he'd 'question his mentality', but still, he thought about his family, and he did, deep in his heart, miss them. So far though, he's only told Toothless he loves him, he hasn't actually gotten with the Night Fury, yet anyways, if he decides to stay.
The other thing that'd be odd, but instead, to actually see and feel in the middle of the night? flames amongst wood.
Tonight, the vikings had decided to have a bit of a fun session to break away from the serious tone of the day that's just passed, and it involved a tackling game between the vikings and also the dragons. Morgan joined in halfway through, in which he felt awkward because Eret and Snotlout were there, but he was willing to at least put aside the differences to observe the session. Toothless was also there, and one thing that's been made clear tonight is that the extent of the love between Morgan and Toothless is so much so to the point that they're willing to pretend that nothing's even happening between themselves when it comes to being around the vikings. The other dragons however, couldn't stop looking at Toothless, and speaking of which, the thought of a human actually getting it on with a dragon, in their minds, at first was repulsive, but now, they want it to happen; with Cloudjumper not being particularly bothered about the entire thing. However, the time has come for Eret and Cloudjumper to meet up; what will happen? with Morgan still on the edge as to what to do, will he ultimately give in, and stay to be with Toothless?
