Hey guys I'm here with chapter 9! I don't know if I'll end this story soon or not ( I'm not saying its ending in a weeks time it'll probably be a month or so) I just wanted to give you a heads up, I just wanted to know if you guys want a sequel or not, or even just an epilog. Remember I'm not ending too soon! :) By the way YOU ALL ROCK! :D Nos on with this chapter!

Two weeks later, Astrid's ribs were healing well, and Hiccup was trying to figure out how to get her a gift for Christmas witch was approaching fast. There wasn't much to get someone on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic, but maybe he could draw her something! But, what? She liked horses, dogs, and well, violence (and him but he doesn't know yet ;) ). 'I wonder if she likes dragons?' He thought to himself, then it hit him 'I wonder what we would look like as Vikings and our dogs as dragons!'. Hiccup looked over at his sleeping friend. Her ribs had been bothering her pretty badly the night before to the point were she was crying, (witch rarely happens now that they've stop having emotional break downs about there family's and stopped having near death experiences, she had proven to be pretty tuff.) He kissed her cheek then laid back down on his bed. Toothless and Stormfly both glared at him.

"What are you looking at?!" Hiccup growled at them. Toothless raised one droopy eyebrow at him. "I know I really should stop doing that." He had kissed her cheek or forehead every night when she would fall asleep every night since she had nearly died two weeks before.

Hiccup pulled out his sketch book then carefully studied there furry friends. Toothless's fur was smooth and had dark grayish stripes along his lower neck and under his stomach that most people don't notice. He was fairly quick for his size and he was quite powerful and muscular. Some times he even acted like a cat. So once Hiccup got the image in his head of what his canine would be like as a dragon he quickly sketched it.

The dragon was big, strong, powerful, and most of all, speedy. His head was shaped like a rounded triangle, with little fin like things on the sides of his head and two others in between to large pointy ears ( Toothless's ears were actually floppy but it would have looked odd on a dragon.) It had large green eyes and a mouth full of retractable teeth, and small spikes from his forehead to a few inches above his nose. His creation had a long muscular neck and body, with large wings and spikes across his back. It had four short legs and a long tail with little spikes a long the sides, two large fins at the base and two smaller ones on the end that helped him steer. His scales were jet black with dark gray stripes under his neck and stomach. Hiccup leaned back and took a good look at his creation and smiled. Then named Toothless's dragon species 'Night Fury'.

"Hey Toothless, do ya like it?" He whispered to his pouch.

"Woof!" Toothless barked happily.

"Shh you'll wake her!" he mumbled then began studying Stormfly who was leaping excitedly in the air at the moment. "What are you doing silly?" He teased and laughed when Stormfly leaped on him and attacked him with kisses "Ok! Ok! I love you to Stormfly!" Hiccup giggled and stroked her silky fur and scratched behind her ears then kissed her forehead. He looked over at Toothless who had curled up next to Astrid and went to sleep then back at Stormfly who was grooming herself again. Then the idea of her dragon sprung into mind, and he sketched out.

She was about twice the size of Toothless (witch is ironic because he's actually about twice the size of her). The dragon was bird like, with a sharp beak and a sharp horn just above her nose and large spikes around her head. Her mouth was full of large sharp teeth and she had small yellow eyes. She had a short muscular body and two long legs with huge claws for toes. Her tail was covered in poisons spikes that she could whip at intruders at will. The scales were bleu across the top of her head along her back, tail, and the top side of her wing. The under side of her wings were yellow, and under her head, neck and belly was white. Hiccup named the spices 'Deadly Nader'.

"Stormfly," He said and looked over at the pouch rolling around on his bed next to him. "What are you doing silly!?" Stormfly stopped rolling then looked over at Hiccup who was holding up a drawing labeled 'Stormfly the Deadly Nader' "Do ya like it?"

"Yip!" she barked then licked his face again.

"Stormfly we've been over this! We need to be quiet!" He whimpered.

He glanced over at his snoozing friend and wonder how to draw her. So he sketched her out and decided to just draw what came to mind. Then he looked at her hair, witch at the moment was spread messily across her pillow. Usually Vikings had to keep there hair up, he had seen her with her hair in a braid before, but it was messy and bits of her hair was falling out, a bit on the sides and a tuff off shorter hair was always hiding her left eye. So he drew her hair in a braid and had long strands in front of her ears, with the shorter bit still draped over her left eye. Over all her hair was basically the same but a lot neater.

"How's that look so far Stormfly?" He said, looking over at the dog next to him.

"Woof." She barked quietly, but she did really like it, a lot like her's and Toothless's dragon.

Hiccup smiled then went back to drawing, this was going to be harder then he thought. He drew a tank top on her, gave her shoulder pads and wrappings on her forearms. On her head he gave her a head band, and two little sculls on the ends of her shoulder pads. Then he gave her a skirt with an armored one over top that had spikes and it was lined with more of the little sculls. Lastly he gave her leggings and furry boots. After he colored her in, her tank top was bleu and green, and her skirt was burgundy, and so was her head band.

"Stormfly," he said to the squirming fur ball "is it done?" She gave it a long, hard look then shook her head no. "I know, I feel like its missing something. Oh! I have an idea!" He sketched out a pouch on the right side of her hip, then drew a large double sided battle ax. "How bout now?"

"WOOF!" Stormfly barked LOUDLY. Astrid jumped out of her slumber, startled and in excruciating pain. Hiccup immediately rushed to her aid.

"Are you ok?!" He said and gently wrapped his arms around her middle and rested her head on his chest, then buried his face into her hair. She sobbed into his chest and wrapped her arms around her chest.

"It hurts."

"I know, I know." He said trying to sooth her while stroking her back gently. "The Nurse said it'd take 6-8 weeks to heal."

"So, Christmas?"

"Eh, more like New years if your lucky. Are you hungry?"

"No, not really, what time is it?" Then Jackson knocked on the door.

"Lunch time!" He said happily.

"We'll be out in a minute Jack!" Astrid replied.

"Would you like me to leave the room while you get dressed?" Hiccup said and nuzzled her cheek.

"Ok, come back when I call you ok?"

"Got it." And when he left the room he quietly muttered something he'll never have the courage to say to her face to face "I love you."