What's up my ghosties? I know this is weird since I haven't done an author's note since starting this book, but I need to clarify some things. I have gotten some reviews on HTLANF since I posted the past 11 chapters that I cannot tell if they were just trying to help me or get to me. I have a hard time deciphering between things when it comes to comments or feedback. I was not able to respond to either of them since they were from guest accounts. I would love to get reviews from you guys, but if you don't have anything nice to say about my work, don't say anything at all. I did not start posting on here to get harsh words and negative criticism. I wanted to post on here to reach out to more people. This story is also on Wattpad and hopefully will be on AO3 later this month. I am very passionate when it comes to writing. So please refrain from leaving hurtful reviews on my works. Speaking of those reviews. One of them talked about the romance going on in this book. This work is on going, and won't be done for a few more chapters. The romance is a slow burn, as any normal romance book should be. (You guys may be very happy with this chapter though.) With that said, the same review mentioned that they didn't get what the ages of the characters were. This book is taking place during the first movie, so all the teens are fifteen. Back to the romance thing, the person I am talking about kept giving me suggestions on how to do the romance. I like how I am doing it right now and the suggestions were hard to tell between helping or berating. Again. I posted my work on here to expand my reach into the fanfiction community. Not to get berated for my writing. Another thing I should clarify is my choice in love interest for Hiccup. I personally do not like Hiccstrid. I am the type of person to think through all of the events that have been played out. Throughout the first movie it is shown multiple times that Astrid does not like Hiccup in the slightest. To have her fall in love with him from just one flight on the back of a dragon seems ridiculous because of how poorly she treated him for the past fifteen years. So that is why I chose to do a Hicctooth book. If you do not like what I write, then don't read it. Simple as that. Something else that one of the guests brought up was point of view changes. If you see ~~~HTLANF~~~ throughout the chapters, minus the ones at the end of each chapter, that indicates a POV change. Whether it be a transition into another scene, or just character point of view. The main ones I do are third person, Hiccup's POV, and Kala's POV. There will be no other first person POVs besides Hiccup and Kala since this story focuses on them and their relationship. This is the first story I have done where I switch POVs, so please keep that in mind. I did not want to be the cliché type of fanfic writer and type out who's point of view it changes to. When I read stories like that it unsettles me a bit because I am the type of person that pays attention to details and can figure it out for myself, so that extra info is unnecessary for me. I apologize if you guys need that kind of clarification for POV changes, but you will not be getting those kind of POV changes in any of my works. Anyways! Sorry for such a long author's note. I just needed to get all of this out there for you guys so that you know what you are getting into. The reviews that were left messed with my emotions in a way that I am not proud of. I am not a mean person and I hope that is proven as time goes on. Having this author's note was the only way I could explain things to the people that left said reviews.

P.S. This is an edited version of the first AN. I got a couple new reviews that opened up my eyes a bit to my actions, so thank you to elRancho and QG for helping me come to that realization. Again. I am bad at deciphering helpful from hurtful. It's a problem I have had my entire life. 😅

Onto the chapter!

~~~HTLANF~~~

Chapter 11

The next morning a beat up ship pulled into port. Gobber and the other adults that stayed gathered at the docks to welcome the others home. From what Gobber could tell, the ship was struggling to stay together with all the supplies and people that were on it. He went up to the ship when he spotted Stoick.

"Well, I trust you found the nest at least?" He asked as his chief and best friend was gathering his belongings.

"Not even close." Stoick replied as he got off the ship agitatedly.

"Ah. Excellent." Gobber said sarcastically.

"I hope you had a little more success than me." The chief said with a bit of hope in his tone as he adjusted his sack on his shoulder.

"Well, if by success, you mean that your parenting troubles are over with, then...yes."

The two started to make their way off the docks as they talked. Some of the villagers that stayed behind came up to them excitedly.

"Congratulations, Stoick! Everyone is so relieved." Phlegma said.

"Out with the old and in with the new, right?" Starkard commented.

"No one will miss that old nuisance!" Hoark the Haggard said cheerfully.

"The village is throwing a party to celebrate!" Ack exclaimed just as cheerfully.

Stoick gave them all a worried look and looked at Gobber.

"He's gone?" He asked with worry and fear very prominent in his voice.

"Yeah...most afternoons and days off. But who can blame him? I mean the life of a celebrity's very rough. He can barely walk through the village without being swarmed by his fans. Not to mention he seems to be distracted by his own thoughts now-a-days. Always has a love-struck look on his face." Gobber explained. That last sentence caught Stoick's attention.

"Hiccup?" He asked, very shocked. As far as he knew, his son had a crush on the Hofferson girl, but never to the point of constant love-struck looks. Who gained his son's attention like this?

"Who would've thought, eh? He has this way with the beasts. Must be trying to show off for whoever he has eyes for." Gobber chuckled then walked off to work on helping everyone who returned settled back in.

~~~HTLANF~~~

As everyone was getting settled back in, Hiccup and Kala were preoccupied with trying to get flying together perfected.

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"Okay, Kala, we're gonna take this nice and slow." I said a bit nervous as we glided over the ocean. My grip on the saddle was tighter than it should be.

I looked over the cheat sheet that I drew out yesterday.

"Here we go. Here we go...position three, no, four. Alright, it's go time. It's go time." I fixed the tail fin into the correct position as I talked. I looked back at the tail fin and smiled. "Yes! It worked!"

While I was looking over the tail fin I accidentally made Kala crash into a sea stack.

"Sorry! Didn't mean to do that!"

Kala huffed as we flew away from the stack, but then I steered too hard and she ran into another one.

"That was my fault." I said apologetically, but I got a smack from her ear plate as a response. "I know, I know. I'm on it. Position four, uh, three."

I changed the position of the tail fin again and Kala started to soar happily.

"Yeah! Go baby! Yes!" I leaned closer to the saddle to help her gain more speed. This was so exhilarating. No wonder she wanted me to experience this so badly.

"Oh, this is amazing! The wind in my-" Before I could even finish, the wind blew my cheat sheet off of the saddle. My eyes widened and I quickly sat up to try and catch it. "-CHEAT SHEET! STOP!"

As I was trying to grab the paper, Kala came to a full stop and looked at me startled. But when she stopped, my tether came undone and I fell off. Both of us started to fall screaming.

I tried to grab hold of the saddle to get both of us in the air again, but since we were both freaking out Kala couldn't stay close enough for me to get ahold of it. In my attempts I even got whacked in the face with her tail.

"NO! Oh gods! Okay, Kala, you're gonna have to kinda angle yourself!" As I was trying to calm myself down Kala tried to do as I instructed. "Okay, no, no, no...come back towards me! Yeah there you go!"

After some effort I was able to get back on and secured. In the process, though, the sheet I was trying so desperately to grasp that led to this mess smacked me in the face. I grabbed it and quickly looked it over after I noticed we were heading for a big cluster of sea stacks.

Once I was sure I had it all down, I released the sheet and leaned close to the saddle preparing myself. I took a deep breath then changed the position of the tail fin.

Kala and I started to dodge all of the stacks at lighting speed, completely in sync for the first time since we started this journey. It was so exhilarating. It felt right. Like this is what I was meant for.

When we made it out of the sea stack cluster I sat up and raised my arms up high.

"YEEAHHH!"

Kala was just as thrilled as I was. She even released a plasma blast in celebration. Downside of that though was that she did it right in front of us. I put my arms down, already knowing I was about to get covered in soot.

"Ah, come on Kala!"

She laughed as we flew through the smoke cloud.

~~~HTLANF~~~

After flying for a little longer, Hiccup and I decided to stop for a bit to eat on one of the sea stacks. On our way to one of them I released a plasma blast onto a school of fish that was close to the water. Hiccup changed the position of my tail fin so I was able to grab all of them, then we found a decent stack and landed.

I made a pile with all the fish as Hiccup hopped off my back and took my saddle and tail fin off. He found some sticks and I lit them for him once he had them in a pile.

He smiled at me then got himself a fish to cook over the flames.

Once we were settled, I turned human and sat next to him as I ate some of the fish.

"Thank you for that." Hiccup said. I looked at him and tilted my head.

"For what?"

"For that amazing experience." He looked over at me with a light blush and the cutest smile I have ever seen. "You opened up a completely new and exciting life for me. So thank you."

I blushed and smiled back.

"You're welcome."

We kept eye contact for what felt like ages and very slowly started leaning closer to one another. As we got closer and closer our eyes slid closed and the next thing I knew our lips slotted together perfectly.

It was absolute bliss. It was very slow and sweet, but filled with complete and utter love. I didn't want it to end, but eventually we had to pull apart for air.

Hiccup and I made eye contact again as we tried to catch our breath.

"So I take it, you want to be with me?" He asked once our breathing was starting to regulate.

I smiled and got closer to rest my head on his shoulder.

"I would love to be with you Hiccup."

He smiled and wrapped his free arm around my waist.

"Well in that case, can I know everything about you? Only fair since you know everything about me." He smirked at me a bit and I stifled a laugh.

"What would you like to know?"

"Well you already know I'm fifteen. What about you?"

I looked down and tapped my chin in thought. How old was I? So much of my memory was blank. How much of my life has been forgotten?

"I think...that I am fifteen as well...but I'm not too sure...a lot of my memory has gone blank…" I kept my eyes on the ground as I spoke and I could feel Hiccup's hold get a bit tighter.

"I'm sure one day it'll come back to you. You look my age, so you must be."

I looked up at him with a sad expression.

"And if I'm not? Would you still want to be with me?"

His eyes widened.

"Of course I would! I don't care if you are older or younger than me Kala. That doesn't matter to me. What matters is how you make me feel, and you make me feel like I'm flying on my own pair of wings."

I blushed deeply and smiled.

"You mean it?"

Hiccup nodded and kissed me again. When we pulled away he rested his forehead against mine, our eyes still closed.

"With all my heart and soul."

I purred and enjoyed being in his embrace.

Although the moment got ruined when a small flock of Terrible Terrors landed and tried to steal my fish.

I growled at them as my scales became more prominent from my anger. They backed away from the pile, one of them still dragging a fish with it.

Hiccup chuckled and pulled me into his lap.

"Relax love. There's plenty of fish there for you to share with some Terrors."

I whined as I tried to get out of his hold.

"But it's my fish! I caught it fair and square!"

He shook his head trying not to laugh. After a little while longer of squirming I gave up with a huff.

"If I let you go, will you behave yourself?"

I sighed and nodded. He smiled and let me go. Finally free, I got up and transformed into my dragon form to protect my fish. Hiccup sighed and smiled at me.

I kept a close eye on the Terrors as Hiccup ate his fish. When one of them started fighting me about a fish, I sent a small plasma blast at it and when it was about to send fire at me, the plasma blast went into its mouth and made its fire go off inside. I laughed at it as it walked off dazed.

Hiccup saw and shook his head smiling, then he looked at the Terror as it came up to him.

"Not so fireproof on the inside, are you?" He asked as the Terror started to get out of its dazed state. Hiccup grabbed a fish that was close to him and gave it to the Terror. "There you go."

The Terror took it happily and devoured it. When it finished it got into Hiccup's lap and fell asleep. My eyes widened and I whined. Hiccup laughed a bit.

"Oh calm down. It's not gonna steal me from you Kala."

I huffed and focused on eating my pile of fish.

Hiccup pet the Terror as it slept.

"Everything we know about you guys is wrong. Guess they're all too stubborn to open their eyes and see you all for who you really are. I'm glad I was able to."

I purred and transformed into a human again then went over to him and kissed his cheek.

"I'm glad you were able to, too."

~~~HTLANF~~~