Astrid smiled. The ceremony took place half a month ago, but Hiccup was still as excited as the first day.
"C'mon, come back here. It's cold outside..."
The young Viking obeyed without any complaint. He sat next to her in the makeshift bed and he covered herself to the waist. After that, he took a worn-out map out and unfolded it on his lap to take a look.
"I can't believe you are carrying this thing everywhere..."
"Of course", he said with pride. "So... where should we go next?"
They had been traveling the known remote islands looking for new lands, enjoying that peculiar way of their honeymoon. Travel was easier when they had dragons, but they were Vikings and sailing ran through their veins, so they got used to traveling that way quickly.
"Do you already want to leave? We've just arrived!"
"I know, but there is nothing here..."
"I am here..."
Astrid softly caressed Hiccup's arm with her finger.
"But there is still a lot to see, a lot to discover... When we get back to the village we will be busy trying to keep Gobber's customers from killing each other, or intervening in any Fishlegs and Snotlout fight due to any girl or whatever. We have to seize this!"
Astrid sighed.
"Alright. But what if we wait... I don't know... say fifteen minutes? Twenty maybe?"
Hiccup rolled his eyes, theatrically.
"I think I can handle it."
He put his map back in his pocket and he settled under the covers. Astrid moved closer to him, until their bodies were completely glued, and they began to kiss slowly. Without parting her lips from him, Astrid climbed the Viking's body until she ended on top of him. Her feet circled Hiccup's leg and she held a giggle.
"You are gonna mess with my leg again, aren't you?"
"It is so tiny!", Astrid laughed heavily. "It is like a... I don't know... a chicken leg, that's it! It is too thin to hold such a weight!"
"I must say that my leg is a completely real Viking leg", he said, hugging Astrid and rolling her to put himself over her. "Look how much weight it carries every single day!"
Hiccup kissed her passionately, and Astrid corresponded to him while moving softly her hands over Hiccup's naked back. Suddenly, he seemed to hear a flapping and he stopped short.
"What's up?"
"Shh."
They put all their attention into the surrounding sounds, but they could only hear a deep silence.
"Sorry, I must have imagined it. I heard something like a dragon for a moment."
Astrid smiled. She knew exactly how much he was missing Toothless: as much as she was missing Stormfly. The idea of seeing them again produced to her a nice tingling that ran through her body.
Hiccup put his hand softly in his wife's face and he kissed her hard in her lips and her neck.
"Stop!"
This time it was Astrid who heard the flapping.
Again, only the silence appeared.
"Maybe it was... the wind?", Hiccup said shrugging his shoulders, before resuming their privacy.
And, once again, the flapping appeared.
"Oh! For Thor's sake!"
Astrid came out of the bed and dressed her body quickly; she grabbed her ax and exited from the tent followed by Hiccup, who was trying to put on his shirt.
Using their hand to protect themselves from the Sun, they looked into the sky looking for any sign which revealed any dragon presence, but they only found some white, bright, and fluffy clouds.
Astrid sighed, putting down her ax.
"Wait", Hiccup said, putting his hand on Astrid's arm and making some steps with his eyes stuck on the sky.
He introduced his fingers in his mouth and whistled.
They heard a little explosion and a dragon's silhouette appeared from one of the clouds that were in the Sun's direction, flying towards them.
"It can't be...", Hiccup mumbled, his heart throttling.
The dragon descended at high speed and landed just in front of them, raising a dust cloud that forced them to close their eyes.
When they were able to open them again, they found themselves face to face with Light Fury.
"Fury!", Astrid yelled happy, who dropped her ax and ran to hug her, ignoring the dragon's growls.
Hiccup couldn't hide his disappointment. He was glad to see Fury again, of course, but she was not the dragon that he was missing so much. He met with them and he saw that the dragon was very tired. He put his hand to her head without touching her, welcoming her, while his eyes were still looking for any sign of Toothless, unconsciously.
"Hi..."
He was trying to find the words to ask for his friend, but there was no time for it. Fury opened her jaws and started to make a guttural sound as her body jerked spasmodically. Little by little, something emerged from inside her, spatting it to the ground, drool covered.
"Yuck...", Hiccup said. "What the hell is this?"
Trying to touch that thing as little as possible, Hiccup grabbed it and shook it to clean it up, trying to figure out what was that.
Hiccup and Astrid looked at each other worried: it was Toothless' prosthetic tail.