"I'm so sleepy," Hiccup complained, throwing himself onto his bed. Toothless growled, slumping down on his own cool bed, not even bothering to heat it up.
Someone knocked on his door.
Hiccup groaned, sitting back up. "Come in," He called, rubbing his eyes. When he removed his fingers from his eyes, Astrid came into vision with a smile, leaning against the door frame.
"Tired?" She asked, walking over to him.
"More like exhausted," He said, slumping back down on his bed. Astrid laughed, walking fully over to him and putting one leg on each side of his waist. She leaned down, only a small gap between them.
"Too exhausted to spend some time with your girlfriend?" She asked, smiling down at him. Neither of them noticed the black reptile leaving the room, to give them some privacy, closing the door behind him.
"Could you be more specific?" Hiccup smirked, gladly accepting her lips onto his when she leaned down to close the little distance.
Astrid smiled, letting Hiccup gently roll her over, with a supportive arm beneath her, so he could be top. Hiccup deepened the kiss, opening his mouth little by little as his hands traced down her slim waist, stroking her beneath her clothing.
She moaned lightly as Hiccup bit her bottom lip, silently asking to enter. Her lips parted even further, letting Hiccup in. Their tongues fought for dominance, Astrid giving little to fight for as her girly instinct kicked in, telling her to lose herself to him. Eventually, Hiccup won and explored every corner of her mouth freely, earning a few moans. His tongue left her mouth, licking her cornered lips as his own traced down her jaw line and onto her neck, nipping at it lightly.
Today, neither of them was going to hold back their love for one another.
Another boring, uneventful week passed by for Hiccup. The night a week ago lit up his mood and though he got weird looks and questions about it, he kept their little secret hushed. His project was still in progress but soon coming to an end and after yesterday's day of break, where they replaced work with a dragon race, everyone was in a better mood.
It was all just a normal day for Hiccup. He woke up to his everyday mess of a hair, ran a hand through it to smooth it down, and walked lazily over to his desk chair where his armor rested. As any other day, he walked down the stairs, after strapping the endless of many belts from his armor on, and was greeted by the smell of chicken and cabbage.
"Morning dad," Hiccup greeted his father who sat in his special made chair by the table, eating up his plate filled with chicken wings and cabbage. He sat down by the table, greeted by the same plate, only filled.
"Son, we need to talk," Stoick said sternly, lying his fork down on the table and looking seriously at the boy who sat across from him.
"What? Not even a greeting? A good morning? A-
"This is serious Hiccup," Stoick slammed his palm on the table, making his cup of water jump and drop a few inches of its liquid. Hiccup muttered an "okay" and looked at his father both curiously and frightened of what was to come. His mind was staying on one thought. A thought that could be the reason of his father's serious, mood. The thought about his and Astrid's night a week back.
He was positive they both stayed quiet and at least finished up before his father was even home. After telling Astrid, and getting the same reply, to be quiet, he couldn't possibly think they'd heard them.
And to top it all, it wasn't in the middle of the day. It was after supper. After everyone had done their last finish up for that day before heading exhausted to the Great Hall to get their food and then back to their homes for a good night's rest.
"You're the pride of Berk son, and I couldn't be prouder," Hiccup was taken aback by the sudden change of his father's mood. Stoick's stiff body language turned abruptly to the proud father Stoick really is.
"Thanks…I guess?" Hiccup replied awkwardly, but his father didn't even seem to catch his low tuned voice as he continued on.
"You're all grown up, and since no chief could ask for a better successor, I've decided to make you chief," Hiccup choked on the little chicken he filled his mouth with and looked up at his father with a wide open mouth. He was happy that his father obviously hadn't heard them or even found out about the even a week ago, but this was a total shock to him. NO matter how many times he heard the lines, "son, you have to be chief soon" or "it's time for you to act like the chief you soon will have to be," he couldn't get the six big, in Hiccup's opinion, out of his head that easily.
I've decided to make you chief.
Hiccup's mind subconsciously repeated the six big words. He looked up at his father who stood up with his empty plate and walked over to one of their buckets filled with boiled water. Hiccup looked up the stairs to find his sitting in the doorway, looking down at him curiously. He took a quick glance over to his father who stretched his back with a loud sigh.
Panicked, Hiccup ran up his stairs and jumped onto the window frame where he motioned for Toothless to follow him. He jumped out, with his dragon following from behind. Mounting Toothless, the two were airborne and just in earshot to hear his name get called angrily.
"HICCUP!" His name was yelled from the Haddock house hold: yelled by the owner of it and also the chief of the whole island that echoed the call. But Hiccup was too distracted in his own thoughts to turn around. Instead, the two set for the forest alone.
The duo landed a good distance into the woods before deciding to take a walk in the fresh morning air to clean their minds; or more precisely, clean Hiccup's. His mind set to the same thing from every thought he tried to use as an escape from the old.
"I can't be chief!" Hiccup yelled. His hands flying up in the air angrily. "Why me? Why me of all the people on Berk?" Toothless cooed worriedly beside him. "I mean, I get why he didn't choose Snotlout 'cause only Thor knows what would happen then, but me? I'm worse than him!" Hiccup sighed and sat down against a tree, his hands rubbing his face to calm down his nerves.
"Everything I've done the first fifteen years of my life has been a disaster, and I've been away from Berk three years straight! One could even claim me as a new member of the Hooligan tribe. Who would even want me as their chief?" Toothless nudged his rider, cooing at him. He looked up worried. "Sorry, Toothless," Toothless warbled. "Yeah, let's keep walking."
Hiccup stood up, unsteady on his legs at first from blowing of steam to the wind, but Toothless caught his weigh on his head and held him steady for the first few steps they walked deeper into the woods.
Toothless looked up every so often at his best friend who seemed to be deep in thoughts now that he didn't say everything out loud. He wanted to tell him he could yell, even scream out everything in the open, but a dragon who didn't speak the same language could only do as much as watch. His neon green eyes kept a good eye on their surrounding seeing that his rider was too distracted to even keep an eye on his footing.
By the stones and small spots of green with trees here and there, Toothless knew they were close to the mountain they always flew around each morning (except for today that is). Though, closer to the village the trees were lighter and full of bright colors. Here it was the exact opposite. The trees held a dead color to the trees, making the distance forward darker and the distance backwards lighter. Toothless cooed, letting his ears fall down. He nudged his rider, but Hiccup didn't respond. They kept walking. Toothless nudged him again and again but not before the light was gone did Hiccup snap out of his thoughts. Toothless nudged him again and growled.
"Where are we?" Hiccup whispered, looking around. "We should head back," Toothless growled in agreement, both on the edge of running to familiar grounds. Suddenly, something snapped. The two stopped abruptly, looking at each other. They listen. Another twig snapped, sounding closer. "Who's there?" Hiccup called out, placing his hand on the hem of his inferno. The only respond he got was a growl. Toothless's ears perked up and he snarled towards a black shape a far distance from them. "Do you see something?" Hiccup looked in the direction Toothless's eyes were directed against, and almost instantly he backed away. The black figure began moving out of its hiding spot, almost as if it wasn't afraid of revealing itself. Then it growled. "Wolves," Hiccup's eyes widened and immediately he brought out his inferno with Toothless standing protectively around him. The wolf growled and suddenly lunged at Hiccup, but Toothless was too fast.
Toothless wacked the wolf with his tail and hissed at it. The wolf whined and backed away, running behind the bushes again. Hiccup sighed, standing up. "What are wolves doing on Berk?" But just as he finished that sentence, more growls were heard in every directions, and slowly but surely wolves surrounded them. "Ready, bud?" Toothless growled as a yes and snarled at their enemies.
Hiccup held his inferno in front of him with slightly bent knees. All at once, the wolves lunged. Hiccup and Toothless fought side by side; wolves jumping and clawing at them from every direction. They wacked them, burned them and sliced them, but even then the wolves didn't give up. A wolf pinned Hiccup down, making him lose his inferno.
The wolf growled ferociously. Hiccup held the wolf out in an arm's reach as it clawed and growled. It clawed the side of his left cheek, making him yelp slightly but hold on even tighter. Almost as if he was holding onto his own life. Suddenly, the wolf was wacked off him. Hiccup panted heavily, looking up. He looked to his side and his eyes went wide.
A mysterious person in brown and blue armor fought the wolves off with a staff. In Hiccup's eyes, the foreign man, he assumed it is, was a professional in combat. The man was pinned down by a wolf but threw him off with his shield as if it was nothing. Slowly, the wolves retreated. Hiccup stood up on shaky legs, reaching out for his unlit sword and backed away towards Toothless.
The man turned to face him with a blue mask, two horns on its chin and spikes like a deadly nadder on the top of the helmet. They held eye contact, though he wore a mask, but that soon ended as wings flapped above them. Hiccup broke his gaze towards the sky, finding a four winged dragon swooping down above him. His eyes followed the dragon as it grabbed the man and carried him off to the skies. He pulled his inferno back in its place and jumped on Toothless.
"Follow them bud!" He yelled, and the two set up to the skies. Toothless flew at high speed after the dragon that headed towards the village. Neither he nor Hiccup knew if he was a threat. Either way, they had to stop them.
Hiccup caught sight of the man and noticed he was standing on the dragon. "It's his rider!" Hiccup yelled surprised through his helmet. "Alright, get us a little closer bud," Toothless screeched, picking up his speed.