Chapter 3

Trade

A/N: this chapter is going to go to different time periods a lot.

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Ever since Hiccup went into the forest by himself, he's been, in a way, the 'popular kid'. Adults would go up to him and say how worried his father was about him. Or even how brave he was. A lot of the kids would ask him what he saw out there. Hiccup would never tell them about Toothless. Because the last time he told Gobber, Gobber didn't believe him. So he just said that he went exploring and saw different things that he hasn't seen before. Which was true. It was his first time in the forest, so he was pretty excited.

But he also didn't like all of the attention because that meant that he couldn't get out to see Toothless as much. So he kept himself busy with Gobber. His dad is always so busy with Chef duty and what not. He's never home anymore and always comes home late.

Sometimes Hiccup wonders if his dad actually wants to be with him.

From what he had heard about his mother being taken away by a dragon, he would think that his father would spend more time with him. The only overprotectiveness he does is that he's band from the forest until he's 10. Which would be YEARS from now. After all, he's only 5.

He's also gotten closer to his cousin Snotlout. Mostly because Snotlout likes to hang around with the popular kids. Hiccup doesn't mind. But he would still like some time alone.

But whenever he's alone, he always makes a run to the forest.

He and Toothless has gotten especially close! They would play with each other a lot. Toothless would show him some dangers around the forest. He even showed him where the men from his village put the traps so Hiccup doesn't get caught in it by accident. Hiccup has realised that Toothless is a very intelligent creature. He's learned what Hiccup is talking about. If only Toothless could speak human, then they would be talking nonstop! But Hiccup can still tell what the dragon is thinking.

They teach each other many new things. Toothless would show Hiccup how to hunt and Hiccup would show Toothless the best hiding spots. Since there both small, they have an advantage. Hiccup would also tell Toothless about some of the weapons his village uses for hunting dragons. So that if Toothless was encountered with one of them, he would know what to do.

Hiccup has often wondered what Toothless would give him in return.

He would find out tonight.

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Gobber picked up Hiccup and trudged up the stairs. Hiccups head was laying on his shoulder trying hard not to fall asleep. Gobber is usually the one who takes care of the kid now a days. Stoik is too busy being Chef. He frowned at that. Before when his wife was still here, Stoik would always be with his family no matter what. Gobber's guess is that because Hiccup looks so much like his mother. Once he got to Hiccups room, Hiccup fell asleep on his shoulder. Well, at least Gobber thinks he did. Hiccups breathing was small and slow and he was still. He gently grabbed the kid in his bed. Hiccup had a small black bear cub skin for a blanket. His mother made it for him when he was a baby. Since he was still small, it still covered him up pretty good.

After Gobber left the room to go back to his place, Hiccup cracked an eye opened. He waited a few minutes until he was certain that Gobber had left. He quickly took his blanket off and grabbed a big back pack. He put it on his bed and put the blanket over it. To make it look like he was still in bed. Hiccup quickly went to his door and opened it slowly so it doesn't make any squeaky noise. He got down on all fours and scanned the house to make sure no one was there. Sometimes his dad would come in to grab something and leave again. There was no one there. He got up and jumped down the stairs really fast. He knew that there would be some vikings still up and about at night, so he went through the back door. Once he got out, he ran down the small pathway that led to the sea. Took a sharp right. When he turned, there were some big rocks. All he had to do was crawl threw a few of them. Once he got out of the rocks, he padded down a hill to a certain bush and tree.

Toothless made sure to mark something to indicate where they should meet. But also invisible to the naked eye. Or at least a stubborn viking thats going hunting.

Once he got there, he sat by the tree to wait for him. As he was waiting, he thought of something. 'We should wive each other a sigwal so we know it's us.', he thought to himself. He would tell Toothless when he gets there.

Hiccup rested his head on the tree and closed his eyes. Once he did, he heard a rustling in the bush in front of him. He opened his eyes and saw the black dragon. His green eyes stared into his. "Hi Toothless!", chimed Hiccup. The baby dragon pounced on him and licked his face a lot. "Hehe! I missed you too buddy!", Hiccup laughed. Toothless jumped off of his friend and licked his lips. Hiccup whipped himself off, "Yucky! Dis stuff is gwoss!", he complained as he whipped some slobber off of his forehead.

Toothless lifted his head and made a sort of a chuckle. Hiccup couldn't help but laugh.

"Oh ya! Hey Toothless!", Hiccup squeaked. The black dragon tilted his head as his green eyes showed confusion. "To wet us know it's us, we should make some type of sigwal.", he smiled. Toothless tilted his head some more and thought for a moment. His eyes lit up when he thought about it. He shook his head fast and jumped in place. Making Hicucp laugh. "Well.", Hiccup thought for a second, "Since you can't weally talk… We could woar!", Toothless kept nodding. "Ok, I'll stawt!", he obliged.

Little Hiccup took a deep breath and put his hands around his mouth in a circle. His hands made a small hole and started to make a type of growl/roar. With his hands around his mouth, it makes a good effect on the sound. It sounded just like a dragon roar. With his hands, it also made a type of echo with it. Toothless lifted his long ears in the air to listen. For a minute, Toothless didn't think it was Hiccup making the sound. But then realised it was him. Hiccup noticed that Toothless understood the signal. Once Hiccup was done, Toothless made his mouth in an 'O' form. Then he made his roar. Not too loud where the villagers would hear it, but loud enough for Hiccup to understand. Hiccup giggled once he was done.

After all that, Toothless started to bounce a little and hopped over to his best friend. He nudged Hiccup up to stand. So Hiccup did.

Toothless stood sideways on all fours and layed his wing down on the floor, showing his back. Hiccup tilted his head. His green eyes showing confusion. Toothless nudged Hiccup closer to his wing. It only took little Hiccup a few seconds to realise that Toothless wants him to go on his back. "I-I can?", he asked. Toothless lifted his ears and made a type of purring noise. Hiccup gulped. He's touched Toothless of course but he never had gotten to ride him. Hiccup slowly put his arms on the dragons neck. Then his right leg went around it's back as he got into a sitting position on top of Toothless. It was like sitting on a saddle but with a moving thing. Toothless cracked his neck as he spread his wings out. Hiccup whimpered a bit, leaned down and held onto Toothless's neck a little tight. Toothless twitched his long tail and lifted his wings in the air.

He flapped them to the ground and jumped up. Hiccup screamed. The dragon was flapping it's wings as it got closer to the sky. Hiccup stopped screaming and held on even tighter. Once Toothless stopped gliding upward, he had started to hover in the sky. Hiccup's mouth dropped open in awe. He looked all around him. His green eyes as huge as a boulder. Hiccup looked down and saw that the giant trees were now like tiny sticks. The giant ocean he sees surrounds the forest and village.

Wind blows threw his brown hair. Moving strands of hair from his face. He has to blind a few times to keep from his eyes watering from the pressure of the wind. He looks straight ahead and sees the billions of star within the darkness of the sky.

Hiccup looks straight ahead again. His eyes still wide. He lets go of the dragons neck. Toothless tilts his head a little up to look at the kid. He smiles as he sees Hiccups expression. "So dis is what it's wike to be a dwagon…", Toothless heard Hiccup mumble to himself. After a round of flying around Berk, Toothless descended back to the ground.

Toothless was only a foot from the ground when Hiccup jumped off. "That was amazing!", he shouted and flailed his arms in excitement. "Can we do it again!?", he asked with his lips from ear to ear.

Toothless shook his head. "Why not?", Hiccup whined. The dragon gave him a look and raised an eyebrow. "-sigh- Fine~", Hiccup didn't want to argue with his best friend.

Hiccup looked at the sky again, "I better get going Toothless!", he said sadly. Toothless's ears went down and nudged him in a loving way. "Sorry bud. But I don't want Daddy to wet worried of me again.", he said with a sad smile. Toothless made a sad face and a small groan. Hiccup went up to him and hugged his dragon. "Bye Bye Bud!", he chirped. Toothless made a type of roaring noise and flew in the sky. Hiccup stared up in the sky and watched his dragon leave for a bit.

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It didn't take long for Hiccup to go back to the village. Thankfully he got there on time. And it took him enough time to figure out a plan in case people started asking questions. He was sure that Gobber would be asking a lot.

Once he was behind his house, he quietly opened the back door. He had better hurry into his bed. His dad usually comes back around this time.

He got inside and closed the door as quietly as he could.

A/N: I'm sorry if the flying part went kind of fast and not a very good description. From the signal that they are going to do- it's like in the episodes when they were practicing their dragon calling. Hiccup used a Night Fury call. But he doesn't know that Toothless is a Night Fury yet. And remember, he and the others are still kids!