Chapter2: Seeking advice

Hiccup looked around for his mother to see what she would say about his perdicament with he got to the house she wasn't there confused by it he decided to go speak to Gobber at the forge to see what light he could shed. He walked down the hill to Gobbers work shop seeing Gobber working on a troubled Zippleback and its tooth and he was finishing up. He yanked the tooth out with one mighty pull and then sent the relieved dragon home.

Hiccup looked to Gobber and said "as busy as ever i see Gobber , i see you have another satisfied dragon".

Gobber laughed and said "well Chief what can i say no one knows dragons like Gobber".

Hiccup laughed the looked to Gobber and said "Hey Gobber i was wondering if i may ask you something?".

Gobber packed up his tools and set them down on grump and turned to Hiccup and pulled his stool and offered Hiccup a stool as well and they sat. When he and Hiccup sat and talked it reminded Gobber of the good old days when he and Stoick were young Vikings.

Gobber smiled and said " Go ahead Hiccup i'm all ears , some issues with being chief or is Snotlout trying to force you to stepdown again cause i told you what to do. just have that night fury of yours fire some warning shots and he will run like a scared Sheep.

Gobber began laughing which brought tears to his eyes and Hiccup kinda laughed at the idea of Snotlout running scared. He looked to Gobber and said "no,no Gobber its about Astrid Ruff told me shes really mad and i don't know why?, i was hoping for some advice".

Gobber scratched his chin and said "Hiccup you and Astrid are together now which is great hole Village knew you two would be together after the kiss you two shared, but the other day did you notice the village girls getting very close and Astrid was in dragons eye view".

Hiccup became pale remembering the other day as he was walking around the village the girls were getting really close. What he didn't was Astrid was there as well and she was watching. Gobber saw the look on Hiccup's face and the old viking shook his head thinking the boy did it this time.

Gobber looked to Hiccup and said "Hiccup you do know as chief your supposed to not only run the village but also choose a young lass as your wife right have you asked Astrid yet?".

Hiccup who was now in shock said "That's why all the young woman in the village have been fallowing me lately and Astrid ... OH GREAT THOR'S THUNDER THATS WHY SHES MAD!".

Gobber rubbed the back of his head and said "Yeah that be it she no mind reader , Hiccup she looked for you yesterday and when she couldn't she beat Snotlout and Tuffnut senseless out of anger".

Hiccup began to panick and jumped up saying "Yeah but how do i ask Astrid ? , i've never done this before and ... and im just now getting used to being chief".

Gobber put his hand on Hiccup's should and made the boy sit and Gobber said "how do you think your father did , your father had trouble to lad".

Hiccup calmed down and said "Gobber you and my father were great friends , how did he ask my mother?".

Gobber turned to the fires in the forge thinking back to the good old turned to Hiccup and laughed as he grabbed a mug of mead and had a quick drink.

Gobber looked to Hiccup with a smile and said "Stoick back in the day Hiccup was a bit like you are now ,stubborn but would listen to advice time and again he was the viking the woman want. On the day he became the chief he recieved so many perposals even Bertha's but when he was walking in the village of berk he spotted a young woman out of all the young woman in the village one with an axe who as memory served was a greater fighter".

Hiccup laughed and said "sounds like someone i know haha". He started thinking about Astrid and the night he saw her lit up by the light of the fire behind her, to him it was like seeing a goddess descend from valhalla.

Gobber laughed "It was your mum shoot she knocked one of my teeth haha first swing, When Stoick saw her he asked her for her name she told him it was Valka they started to date but time was drawing near for Stoick he vast to make a choice. So he got Valka to meet him in the middle of the village when everyone was there doing chores. I was there helping out with some repairs to spitelouts house".

Hiccup wasn't surprised Spitelout and Snotlout always did break took another drink from his mug. He sat his mug down on a table.

Gobber continued "so there was he Stoick started to whistle a tune Valka turned to see stoick then he started to sing the song you heard him sing to Valka in the nest. But what threw Stoick she knew it to After that they got hitched and a few years later you were born Hiccup".

Hiccup amazed by his father said "wow my father did that really , guess he was brave in more ways then on the battle field".

Gobber laughed and said "back in the day when your parents were on the battlefield, when they teamed up not even Alvin and the outcasts could stand they're ground".

Hiccup thought about it for a moment and then came up with an idea something so crazy he couldn't believe what he was planning on doing. Gobber smiled knowing Hiccup was planning on doing something that the village will never forget just by looking at the look on the young chiefs face.

Hiccup looked to Gobber and said "Gobber you and my mother are the only ones who know the hole song , I can't find her please will you teach me the song".

Gobber smiled and agreed but then said "OK lad but you better pay attention or ill jump in and sing for ya" Gobber said laughing.

Hiccup laughed and Gobber grabbed a paper and charcoal and began writing down the words for Hiccup. He handed Hiccup the paper and then began practicing.

Mean while out in the woods the girls were finishing their practice of the song and Astrid was just finishing the song. Valka cheered Astrid and handed her a bottle of water from the stream.

Valka smiled while wiping a tear from her eye because of how beautiful Astrid sounded. Valka then said "Very well done Astrid your doing so wonderfully the more you practice you wont need help remembering the words".

Astrid smiled "i dunno if i could sing this with Hiccup , i mean like i'd be nervous to sing in front of everybody and if Snotlout made a comment id have to blacken both his eyes".

Valka laughed almost falling over "I thought the same way but it was spitelout who i thought id have to give black eyes too".