My parents are the best parents in the world! Not only did they buy me How To Train Your Dragon on DVD but also they bought me Legend of the Bone Knapper! The extra DVD that you have to buy with the DVD! Yay! And it's good for you because now I'm inspired! All I can think about is Hiccup and his adorable twin children now!
Chapter 8
Hiccup sat in his home, rubbing his temples in a vain effort to calm his growing headache. He and Astrid hadn't slept in nearly two days, or he hadn't slept in two days, Astrid was in their room sleeping.
'It just doesn't make sense! Children don't just up and disappear!' He dropped his head onto the table and groaned loudly, 'I miss them so much…"
~Flasback~
It was a quiet summer day, the twins had just turned five about a month before and had finally broken out of the stage of just wanting their mother, but the need for Astrid was suddenly replaced by a need for their father.
"Daddy! Daddy!" Lucas shouted tumbling into the blacksmith. He tugged at his fathers sleeve until Hiccup turned his attention towards him, "yes Lucas?"
"Anna and I want to go riding!"
Hiccup sighed before turning back to his work, "I'm sorry Lucas. Not now, daddy's busy."
"But dad!"
"I'm sorry Lucas but I'm busy right now! Can't you and Anna go play by yourselves for a few seconds?" He began hammering again and didn't see the tears spring into his son's eyes. Suddenly the silence of the smithy was broken when Lucas began crying his eyes out.
"You always say that, and then when you get home you fall asleep! You never wanna spend time with me and Anna!"
Hiccup dropped his hammer and picked up his bawling son. "Oh Lucas I'm sorry! Please don't cry!"
The boy just continued to sob into his arms. Blowing his now shoulder length auburn hair out of his eyes he ran outside and saw his daughter sitting on the stone steps. She looked up at him and Hiccup held out one hand and she placed her small hand in his. They ran towards the barn and Hiccup let go of Anna and put Lucas on the ground. He stuck two fingers in his mouth and whistled.
As always his loving Nightfury flew into the barn and nearly tackled the gangly father to the ground.
"All right! Down boy!" He placed his two children in the saddle and they took off into the sky.
As soon as Toothless left the ground Lucas's tears magically stopped and he and his sister giggled during the entire ride. Hiccup rolled his eyes, but smiled lightly at his son's wit. He knew that Lucas had only cried because he wanted him to spend time with them, but still.
The kid was too damn smart for his own age.
Hiccup watched as they stuck their hands out to feel the clouds. They smiled at him and he couldn't help but smile back.
'Well.' He thought, 'seeing them happy makes it all worth it.'
~End flashback~
Hiccup smiled at the memory before snapping back into reality. 'Maybe I can think better when I'm hammering away at something.'
He got up from his chair and started making his way to the smithy. He pushed open the door and tied his apron around his waist. He picked up his hammer to find a small note lying on the table.
(Berk)
When Lucas awoke the next morning he found himself in bed, with his sister still passed out next to him. Deciding not to waste the rest of his day in bed her jumped up, dressed in the clothes Anna had lent him and walked out of the room.
"Good morning little one." Anna said as she made breakfast of roasted fish.
Lucas smiled and said, "good morning." He sat down at her table and looked out the window. He saw the sun was just above the horizon and the people of Berk were just starting their day-to-day jobs.
"What are you going to do today?"
The blonde shrugged, "not sure."
Anna rolled her eyes before setting the now cut up fish on the table, "I'll call your sister, start eating."
Lucas grabbed a piece of fish with his fork and chewed thoughtfully. When he finally managed to swallow his food his sister was out of bed and groggily eating her breakfast.
The healer seated herself and began to eat as well. When their meal was done Anna shooed the twins out of the house and closed the door behind them. The twins looked at each other and shrugged before walking away.
"What should we do?"
"Hey!" A voice shouted at the twins. They simultaneously snapped their heads in the direction of the voice and saw Walnut running up to them, Chestnut trailing behind him.
Lucas crossed his arms in front of his chest and glared at the boy in front of him, but Walnut simply smiled at him before turning to Anna, "we were going to play dragons and Vikings! Do you want to play?"
The twins exchanged small smiles. They hadn't played dragon and Vikings since they were five.
"Sure!" They both replied. The four children took off into the woods and began their game.
Dragons and Viking was a quite simple game. One child would pretend to be a dragon while the other children pretended to be big bad Vikings, which they would one day be, and pretend to slay the dragons, but after the battle with the red death the game had changed greatly. Now only one child had to be a Viking and the other children were dragons that the Viking had to tame.
All in all it was an amusing sight to behold.
Lucas had been forced to become the Viking and he was careful as he tried to tame the "dragons".
He found his sister a few feet into the bushes, crouched on her fours and hissing wildly. He nearly laughed at her but keeping to the characters game he edged carefully toward her and said, "here's some fish. Do you want some?" He held out an empty palm and watched as his sister greedily ate the fake fish.
After she had finished "eating" she purred like a cat and rubbed her head against her brother. After gaining her trust Lucas went on to the other children and tamed them just the same. Once he had "tamed" all the children he smiled at his handiwork and the other children stood up. He smiled at his newfound friends before asking, "Who's the next Viking?"
(Draco)
Hiccup raised an eyebrow before shaking his head in annoyance. He picked up the note, shoved it in his pocket and returned to his work.
"I need to stop leaving my blueprints out like this…"
(Berk)
The sun had set over the horizon and everyone was walking to the mess hall for dinner. Anna and Lucas had seated themselves next to Chestnut and Walnut while Anna tended to another patient back at the hut.
A man with long blonde hair walked up behind Walnut and grabbed him in a playful headlock. Walnut smirked broadly before fighting back, "oh come on dad! Put me down!"
"Say uncle!" The man ordered playfully.
"Vikings never surrender!"
The man released Walnut and patted him on the head before sitting next to his son. He turned to Chestnut and smiled and her, "hey Chestnut."
She smiled, "hey uncle Tuffnut."
"Hi honey!" A female voice rang out and suddenly Chestnut was ripped from her seat.
She giggled as a woman spun her around in the air, she looked almost exactly like Tuffnut, expect for the fact that she had a large belly, swollen by pregnancy.
"Mom! Put me down!"
Anna glanced sadly at her brother and he simply shrugged before turning back to the two new adults.
"Dad this is our new friends Anna and Luna."
Tuffnut looked over the table at the two new children and his eyes immediately focused on Lucas. He stared at the boy for a few minutes with a confused look on his face.
"Hiccup?"
"What?"
The blonde man shook his head quickly before sighing, "sorry. Never mind."
The pregnant woman rolled her eyes before sitting herself next to her daughter, she stuck out her hand and smiled at the twins in front of her, "my name is Ruffnut Jorgeson."
Anna shook her hand and smiled, "my names Anna, this is my twin sister Luna."
Ruffnut's gaze lingered on the small red head. This girl looked familiar almost like…
Her thought was cut off in mid sentence as Ruffnut suddenly felt something move inside her belly. For a second she worried that her baby was ready to be born, but then she felt a small kick and smiled when she realized it was just the baby moving around inside of her.
"Aunt Ruffnut is the baby kicking again?" Walnut asked scooting closer to his aunt.
Ruffnut nodded and motioned for the two children to come closer and feel her stomach. The two cousins were grinning from ear to ear as they felt the child pushing against Ruffnut's stomach.
"What are you gonna name my new little sister?" Chestnut asked taking her hand off her mother's stomach.
"Remember Chestnut it might be a boy. If it is a girl I'm going to name her Coconut."
Lucas did his best to hide his ever-growing grin.
A small smile creeped onto her face, "and if it's a boy. Your father wants to name him Hiccup."
(Draco)
"Astrid. Astrid wake up." Hiccup said softly as he gently shook his sleeping wife.
Astrid jerked awake and she grabbed the front of her husband's shirt. "Hiccup I had the worst dream ever! The kids were gone, and we had no idea where they went."
Hiccup gripped his wife's hand and sighed sadly, "Astrid that wasn't a dream. It's real. The kids are gone…"
The normally strong shell Astrid wrapped herself in cracked as she allowed herself to sob uncontrollably. "No! Why couldn't it just be a bad dream?"
The dragon tamer did his best to wipe away his wife's tears. "Shh, it's alright! We'll get them back!"
She laid her head on his chest in complete sadness. "Oh Hiccup, I miss them so much."
Hiccup gently laid his wife down before getting up. "Where are you going?" She asked propping herself up on her elbow.
"Hanging up my vest." He said shaking off the piece of brown fur.
The piece of paper fell out of his pocket and he picked it up. "I've been wondering what this was."
He sat down on the bed and slowly began to unfold the piece of paper and nearly fainted as he read the first few words on the note. As his eyes scanned over the small paper tears sprung into his eyes and he shoved the note into his wife's hands.
Confused Astrid looked down and saw that she was now holding a note. It read:
Dear Mom and Dad,
If you are reading this it means either one or two things that I suck at hiding things or Anna and I are missing. If it is the latter than I just want you to know we're okay. Anna heard the two of you fighting one night about a place named Berk and of course being Anna she just had to figure out what it was. So if you're wondering where we are, we're more than likely in Berk. I didn't want to go, but Anna did and being the younger sibling it seemed like natural instinct that I follow behind her every step of the way.
Love,
Lucas and Anna
Astrid hugged the letter to her chest. Her children were safe! Suddenly dread filled her eyes as she realized where they were. "Berk. Hiccup they went to Berk! What are we going to do?"
Hiccup gave his wife a strange look. "I thought it would be obvious. We go to Berk and get back our kids, and remember, if anyone has a problem with it, they'll be dealing with my very pissed off Nightfury."
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