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Chapter 3:
"I don't think you should doubt your decision of passing your position to Hiccup," said Gobber. He and Stoick were sitting on one of the bleachers in the Great Hall. Gobber had a cup of beer in front of him, and he was trying to take it off from his prosthetic arm, but it got stuck, "Come on, every day!"
"You think he is not ready? I was preparing for the power-transfer speech and the retirement speech," Stoick said thoughtfully, running his hand along his long, brown beard, "I wanted to quit the job the second day when I got elected as the chief of Berk. You remember?"
"Of course. You were punching in the air and cursing those redundant and tedious paper works."
"I know, and I can't believe that I came through all of those decades. Preparing for the winter, filling up the granary, taking care of the sea, making treaties with other tribes, fighting against our enemies, and killing dragons… Well, that job stopped a couple of years ago."
"He knows how to lead a group of Vikings. I saw how he organized his fela dragon riders during the Battle of Woden's Sea. He is an experienced warrior and dragon trainer, or maybe the best dragon trainer in the whole Archipelago."
"I was in the battle as well, and I was the one who dispatched the Riders to the battle. But leading a small company isn't the same thing as ruling a whole village,"Stoick said.
"You don't have to worry about him. Astrid can assist him as well. She is pretty responsible and downright," Gobber patted Stoick on the back, "Well, so long for the talking, and I have to prepare for the fishing. We are running out of some fine deep-sea fish for our growing dragon population."
"Where is Hiccup?"Stoick asked abruptly.
"Who knows. He is on some boating, and he even left Toothless back on Berk."
"That's weird. He never leaves Toothless on Berk alone."
Astrid carefully opened Hiccup's hut's wooden door. Everything was in place. His shield was on his work table, some tools were in the drawers, and his own wings stood in the corner of his work area. Everything seemed to be covered in dirt, yet no signs of people entering in the past few day. Except some footprints made by Toothless. Hiccup taught Toothless how to open and close the door on his own so that he could go back to bed when Hiccup was doing some weapon testing on the field.
She walked around his working area, where he invented all those brilliant weapons and wings. She put her hand on the wooden work table, and she could feel the marks on it made by cutting blades and hammers. Oh, and the hand-sized heart symbol with his and her name under it which she carved it when she was in his work area a couple of weeks ago.
She walked slowly up the solid stairs. Most stairs on Berk were unstable because the weight of the Vikings, and after the dragons came in, workers must repair stairs every day in order for the village to run fluently. But in Hiccup's personal hut, the weight of himself and Toothless was not even close to break those fine stairs Gobber made years ago.
Toothless was awake when she reached the upper stairs, and he turned his head and stared at her with his grass-green eyes.
"Oh, boy," She sat down beside him, "you must feel lonely without Hiccup around, right? I can't even stand a minute without Stormfly."
Toothless the dragon groaned and moved his head closer to her as a sign of welcome and agree.
Astrid didn't bring her axe with her this time because she didn't want Toothless to be so stressed out. Two weeks ago Astrid almost chopped his ear down when she was practicing axe throwing strategy.
"I wonder when will he say 'will you marry me' or something like that," she put her right hand on Toothless' scale-covered head while he reached over to her and placed his head on her laps, "I'm pretty excited and nervous for that, you know, the first time in my life. Hopefully, he will make up his mind after his sea voyage, or he wants me to say it to him? I'll torture him if that's his idea."
"Man, you are heavy. How many fish did you eat today?" Astrid tried to lift Toothless' head, but she failed.
Toothless didn't respond, and he turned his body and tried to find a more comfortable position, but he accidentally slapped Astrid's face with his long ear.
"Hey, watch it," Astrid laughed.
"Those two should get married right away, and I don't want to see them 'physically flirting' each other in front of the public," said Snotlout when the Riders were walking from the arena, "Just look at them during the Battle of Woden's Sea."
"They will continue 'physically flirting' each other in front of the public after they get married, but I think that's sweet. And, I didn't witness a thing during the Battle of Woden's Sea," shrugged Fishlegs.
"Wow, that was honest," shouted Snotlout, and he jumped in front of Fishlegs, "We all saw Hiccup gave Astrid multiple hot kisses when they destroyed the Commander's ship."
"To be more exciting," interrupted by Tuffnut, "They spent the night before the battle together in the cove, not even with Toothless and Stormfly. Who knows what happened."
"How did that affect you, Snotlout? You still have this thought that you will win Astrid over Hiccup? Or sweep her off her feet? Even Gustav stopped flirting with her. You know, that wimpy kid?" said Ruffnut, "Just look at her, she can't even talk appropriately without Hiccup around soothing her, and I believe that now she is wandering around in Hiccup's personal hut, personal hut."
"No, I won't do that. Why would I do that?" said Snotlout.
"Because you are a muttonhead."
"Ok, fine, I admit it that I still have some feelings about her," Snotlout gave up, "but he will never know."
"Oh, he knows, that boy is a wizard. He knows everything, including your little dirty mind."