Author's Note: Rated M, part one


In the moments after the first Race in two months, the Academy fell deathly silent as I approached Astrid underneath the protection of the Dragon Pens, with only Stormfly and Toothless being within earshot. She leans her back against the wall as I pin her to it, my right hand resting above her head on the wall and my left cupping her chin as our lips locked. The adrenaline, the sweat, the rush from the Dragon Race still pumping through us both, I felt my own heart beating faster with each second that we were kissing. Guiding my hand down her side, with both her hands pressed against the wall, pushing her lips passionately back into mine, I hook her right leg and hoist it up. Wedging myself closer to her as our tongues dance until our already short breath forces us to part. Panting as we do, I gaze into her eyes and see the look that never ceases to drive me wild.

"Are you sure?" I whisper softly against her lips and I can see her nod and bite her lower lip in a smile as I feel her hands hook around my hip, pulling my hips to connect with hers. Pressing my already excited member against her thigh as she nods again.

"Yes." She says simply, softly against my lips before kissing my neck and up her way to my ear. Whispering, she adds, "I want you to take me, here, now." She finishes by kissing back to my neck and biting it, causing me to exhale sharply with a smile.

"Your wish…" I begin, my hand running up her thigh from below as her leg is hook around my waist, her other leg propping her up, leaning back against the wall as she gazes at me. "…Is my command, Milady."

I slide down her body onto my knees with her still leaning against the wall and undo her flight suit, sliding her leggings and scaled armor off to reveal her gorgeous lower body. I hear her moan softly as I run my finger up her now bare thigh, stimulated from the contact as I lean in and lightly lick the area between her legs, prompting her to gasp as my finger finds its way up to where my tongue is. Still on my knees, my fingers and head prompts her legs to widen, letting me edge closer inside her thighs, granting me freer access. She stifles her moans as my tongue and fingers go to work on her delicious area, I can feel my heart still beating quickly as my other hand widens her left thigh. Diving my tongue in deeper with my finger as my lips suck on her lower lips, my finger darting back and forth repeatedly within her as she bites her own finger to hold back her moans. Still being in a public area, any sounds we make could echo to any passerby and while we had the run of the area at the moment, anyone could be by at any moment.

"Hi-Hiccup. Alm-most th-there." She says through a stifled whisper as I increase my speed and lather her area with my tongue before I feel her legs start to shake around me and her insides tighten around my finger and tongue. I can hear her muffled moan as she closes her eyes and rests her had against the wall, her hands trailing up the side of the wall as her back arches against it. I drink in her passion as she lets loose and when she slowly starts to calm down, I take a moment and undo my own leggings. I had long-ago built-in groin attachments to my leg for quick restroom breaks, and while this wasn't the same thing, the use of it was equally as fitting.

Sliding back up her body, her vest still snug around her body, I press my lips to hers and let her taste herself as our tongues do their customary dance. I hike up her right thigh again and it instinctively locks around my waist as I guide my member towards her entrance and slowly slide it in. I hear and feel her let a long, muffled moan of pleasure out against my lips, helping to muffle the sound as I can see her eyes roll back. Slowly parting our lips as my member fully enters her, I kiss her neck then lean into her ear.

"I'm going to take you, right here, right now, Astrid." I whisper teasingly as she smiles.

"Mmm, take me, Hiccup." She answers softly in my ear as I smile, my left hand pressing against her hip as my right stabilizes me against the wall.

I can tell she is still sensitive down there as I begin pushing back and forth within her, pressing my lips to hers again as our tongues lock in an endless dance. The move had become so familiar to the both of us, so much like second nature. We lived in each other's presence, soared in the passion between us that had grown and exploded in recent months. I doubt either of us knew how much we had built up within ourselves over the years as platonic friends to a nigh platonic relationship to true intimacy and love. Our love for each other was never in doubt, but we had lacked in intimacy when we first got together, but it was so new and unlike Dagur and Mala, we weren't adults at that time. We didn't know what it meant to be intimate to this level, but now, now we had explored each and every inch of each other's body's multiple times. Now we were starting to get creative with the ways we pleased one another than we could truly enjoy the passion and intimacy burning within us.

I could hear her sharp intake of breath, followed by the subsequent exhale with each thrust upwards against her hips. Her arms had locked around my neck, our lips only parting for the briefest of moments in between thrusts to either supplement air because the sheer movement broke us apart. In either case, our lips quickly found each other again as her hiked and wrapped right leg helped keep pressure and helped steady her hips against my continued thrusts while her left leg kept her steady. We were both leaned and athletic from the years of riding dragons and warrior training, blacksmithing or the like that I could feel her muscles tense with each thrust against her posted thigh. Each moan against my lips only drove me to go faster, and I'm sure she was nearing her next climax as I could feel her insides tighten in unison with each thrust that I made. I was close, and I knew she was too though with our lips in constant connection and showing no signs of breaking, only the gods could guess.

That was when I felt her legs begin to shake again as I felt her bite my lip playfully tugging at it. "I'm close." She whispers as her hoisted leg pulls my hips back towards her again, reconnecting her lips with mine. I take that as the sign to push through to the finish and my thrust become more pointed. I wasn't going to stop or change what I was doing, she was close and wanted me to keep doing what I was doing, so I would, to give her the maximum amount of pleasure that I could. My own pleasure was already had, just by having her in my arms in this way, was more than enough for me to be content with the world. I kept our lips locked as I leaned in, quickly driving my hips back and forth repeatedly until finally I felt her left leg start to give out as her right, hoisted leg begun to spasm and lock up behind me.

Hooking her leg with my free hand I hoisted left leg off the ground and it instinctively locked behind my back with her right leg, them both locked as I finished driving inside her. I felt my own passion build to its climax as I let it release within her. I could tell that was within moments of her own release as she her eyes rolled back and she brough her head forward against my shoulder, her arms around my neck tightening, bringing her closer as I felt her muscles contract tightly. Her legs spasming for a few moments before finally slowing as she let out a long-drawn breath. Leaning her head back, she looked at me with a smile, her legs still hooked behind my back.

"That… was amazing." She says softly, breathlessly. My own heart racing as the adrenaline and sweat hadn't died down, but only exploded since the race.

"New… new thing… to do… between or after… races, huh?" I add, trying to recover my breath as she laughs lightly and nods.

We slowly break away, and I help clean her up and readjust her leggings. We still had to go grab food, but sometimes, some things were just more important than others. And Astrid would always be the most important thing in my life, next to Toothless; my best bud, and my best and only girl.


We were getting more and more daring with our activities as of late, and as the rush of the Dragon Race and the passion that followed subsided, I was in awe that I was so overtaken that I wanted it there, like that. I mean, I did, and I don't regret it, not even remotely. And the fact that Hiccup gave me what I wanted made me enjoy it even more, how he did it, what he did; just made the rush feel so tantalizing. After we cleaned up, we tended to our dragons who had just nestled near the entryway of the pen and basically ignored us. How they had become so used to our activities was both something to be thankful for and something of awe.

"What brought that on, if you don't mind?" Hiccup asks besides me, helping me tend to Stormfly as we had both just given Toothless a quick scrub.

"I-I don't know, to be honest. Maybe it was the rush of the race; our first race since being… intimate. Just made my body heat explode and all I could think about during the last leg of that lap was getting you alone in a pen." I admit sheepishly and he smiles, laughing slightly.

"Is that why you didn't make a move towards the black sheep?" He asks playfully, nudging my shoulder as I blush and nod.

"Maybe. You gave me the points anyways. Didn't I say you had to give me your all?" I ask and he nods along, grinning.

"Oh, I did, a couple minutes ago." He answers and my cheeks flush as I shake my head, prompting him to laugh. "I mean, Astrid." He pauses, taking my hands and making us face each other. "Any time you win, I win, we win. We're a team. As far as I'm concerned; we won that race. I don't need to be the fastest or best rider, I don't need to prove I can beat people at the dragon races." He admits and I shake my head, now smiling as I lean in and kiss him.

"You're too perfect, sometimes. You know that? Come on, let's go grab some food before the races start back up. We've still got almost an hour to kill." I say as he smiles.

"We could go another round, just us, right here." He whispers, leaning in and lightly tugging my lip with his teeth as I smile.

"Don't tempt me. We're lucky we got away with what we did. Let's not push our luck… today." I answer softly against his lip, stifling a moan at the thought as he leans fully in to kiss me. Drinking in the kiss, I exhale as we break with a smile. "That. Being. Said." I say with a pause as he looks at me. "After this next race, when we feel that rush again…" I begin as I feel his finger to my lips as he smiles.

"Say no more, milady. Your wish is my command." He answers, removing his finger and kissing me again. I couldn't get over how amazing Hiccup was as a betrothed, as a person. He probably thought he was the lucky one, no, in fact, I know he thought that. But honestly, I felt like the lucky one. He had a sharp mind, a caring heart, a warrior's spirit and a gentle soul. It had become refined at the Edge, and tested against Drago and Krogan; now the warlords and the summit. He was the best of all of us, and someone that was one in a million.

Together we hopped on our dragons and made our way to our house, we saw people were already filtering out of the Great Hall, and the Twins were already flying back to the Pens; we were fortunate we stopped when we did. We had spotted scattered groups of Vikings already finding seats in the stands around the Academy as they eagerly waited for the rematch. Deciding not to make our presence, or tardiness to lunch, known to the overall group, we grabbed food left over at our house and ate there. We had a couple mugs of water and small bites of food before sitting in front of the lightly smoldering fireplace.

There, we just sat in each other's arms for a few minutes, comfortably sitting in silence as had become customary for us. We were slowly starting to create our own traditions between each other, such as sitting together quietly and gazing at a fire pit together. Just taking in the heat and each other's presence and nothing else. It was one such tradition I was going to enjoy throughout the rest of my life, for there was room on this chair for a kid or three down the line. Once the wars of the Archipelago had ceased and we knew true peace, Hiccup and I could come to know a family as well. It was just another dream I had, one I kept to myself for the most part. Some part of me wondered if he thought of it too, and there would be a time to ask more specifically about it later but for now, just sitting here with him was enough. Especially after the pens, my body needed a few moments to recover.

"So, about that vacation we had talked about. Wasn't it after we captured Krogan?" I asked him softly, looking back over my shoulder at him as he nodded with a smile.

"It was. Let's wait for my mother to get back. That way, she can help cover. I'm sure she'll endorse any vacation we want to take. In the mean time, we keep morale high. We hit the trappers where we can, keep Krogan behind bars." Hiccup answers and I nod.

"You're so thoughtful." I say simply as I feel his grip around my waist tighten as he kisses my neck.

"Did you have any thoughts on where we should go?" He asks and I smile, nodding.

"Remember that grouping of Islands that we scouted before the first time Gustov crashed the Edge. There was a spring one, had no dragons on it, half the size of Berk with several hot springs. We didn't think much of it at the time, but as I think back, may be a perfect isolated get away for a few days." I answer, leaning my head back against his shoulder.

"Sounds perfect. Maybe we can find Garff while we're out there and say hi, it's been a little while. I wonder if he'd even remember us?" Hiccup suggests and I nod along, my eyes closed.

"I'm sure he would, and I'd love to see him again. We'll keep working on a plan then. When's your mother due back?" I ask, as my hands find his around my waist and I slowly clasp them, running my fingers against the backs of his hands.

"She and Eret took Skullcrusher and Cloudjumper, but they went by boat as to not startle the other tribes. I figure, two weeks if we haven't heard anything from them in that time, we search them out. I had her leave a map with her intended course so it should be easy to go from there." He states with mild apprehension in his voice as I shift.

"You think something will happen to them?" I ask softly, turning to look him in the eyes as he shrugs.

"I-I don't know. No. Probably not. But I can't shake the unease. I think it's because of how recent still my dad's death is, that I'm overly worried for my mom. She's survived for years alone; she doesn't need me trying to be overprotective." Hiccup admits as I smile.

"Hey, Hiccup. It'll be okay. Everything will be okay. We'll hear from them in that time, and we'll get our vacation, and we'll right the Archipelago. Soon, you'll be the Chief of Chiefs, the great Chief Hiccup Haddock the Third, son of Stoick." I say, smiling and kissing him lightly on the lips as he squirms at the thought.

"Yeah, I don't know if I want to be the Chief of Chiefs. Managing Berk alone is hard enough some days." Hiccup says softly as I shake my head, pressing my finger to his lips.

"You're doing great, you'd be the one to unite the Archipelago, dragon and humankind. I will be by your side every step of the way." I answer, kissing him as he smiles. "Come on, we've got to get back. The race starts soon." I say as he sighs and nods.

"I could stay here with you, like this, all day." He admits as we slowly climb out of the chair and I laugh lightly and nod.

"Me too. How shall we play this race, babe?" I ask with a grin and he shrugs, smiling back at me.

"Let's work up a real sweat, really try to beat each other. Whoever has the black sheep decides the race and neither of us can be upset about the result. No matter how it ends, we'll have a private rematch after the race." Hiccup answers and I audibly let a moan slip my lips thinking about it.

"Mmm, I like that idea. Lead on, Chief. We've a race to get too." I answer, pecking him one last time on the lips in private before we find our dragons and take back off. It was still a quarter hour until the race, but the stands were mostly full, with Gobber and the other riders in the Academy arena getting ready to go. Time to show the rest of the riders how serious Hiccup and I could get when we wanted to be, I'd get the black sheep this time, and I may even give it to him just so we can hold a private tiebreaker later.