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Chapter 11
"Dad, meet your grandkids."
The surrounding Vikings all gasped in shock and their eyes darted to Stoic to see his reaction.
The burly chief's gaze flickered between his son, and the two children in front of him who were, at the moment, desperately clinging to Hiccup's legs.
Stoic took one step forward and the two kids inched closer to their father. Hiccup looked down at his two kids and gently smoothed down their hair.
"It's okay. I know he looks scary but he's not."
Now you might be wondering: why are they scared? They've seen him before! Well put yourself in their situation, they knew that Stoic was their grandfather, since he had bluntly/unknowingly explained the small fact to Lucas, but Lucas didn't really pay attention to the man and Anna was passed out and had no chance to see this man before, but now, in broad daylight, they saw how, well, scary he was!
They expected him to start yelling or screaming, but what they didn't expect to see… Was Stoic hitting the ground, and bluntly passing out.
Anna and Lucas turned around and looked at their parents in confusion.
"Don't worry." They said at the same time, "Passing out means he likes you."
"Dad? Dad? Come on dad, time to wake up!"
Stoic blinked twice before opening his eyes fully. He groaned and proceeded to sit up.
He looked to his left and saw Hiccup standing next to him, worry written across his face, putting two and two together he snapped his head to the right and saw just the girl he knew would be standing there.
Astrid.
Stoic reached over and wrapped his son in another bear hug.
"Son! I knew it wasn't a dream! You really have come home to us!"
"Dad… Put… Me… Down!"
Realizing that he was closing to crushing his son, again, Stoic gently put him down and apologized.
"What happened?" He asked aloud.
"You fainted, Astrid, Anna and I dragged you here."
The chief turned around and saw Berk's healer standing behind him, her loyal Gronkle, Gretchen, standing behind her. She smiled at the chief before nudging her head towards Hiccup.
"Best talk to your son before he leaves."
"Leaves?"
Hiccup nodded, "I'm going to answer your questions. Then Astrid and I are going to take our children, ground them like there's no tomorrow, and then go home."
"Children? Wait! Slow down, this is too much for me. What are you talking about? What children?"
The skinny Viking was about to open his mouth to say something, but was cut off at the sound of two loud screeches. His face paled and without a word to the other two in the room, he and Astrid bolted out of the room.
The other two glanced at each other before quickly following, and despite his recent faint attack, Stoic was running fairly fast. He ran out of the house and noticed that he must have been out for a while, because it was now nighttime.
When Hiccup and Astrid finally reached the source of the sound they simultaneously face palmed.
Arrow was screeching like a deranged bird at the other dragons, and Toothless was in front of him, his wings outstretched as he tried to keep the Nadder from killing every dragon in sight.
'Arrow calm down!' Toothless begged his mate.
'No! One of them has my babies, and I will find out which one!'
'By murdering everyone?'
The two dragons were drawing such a big crowd that Hiccup felt he need to put an end to… Whatever it was they were doing.
However for the second time that night, his plans were cut short. Anna and Lucas came plowing through the large crowd, dragging a black and gold Zippleback behind them. They let go of their dragon and the Zippleback screeched in joy.
'Mom! Dad!'
'Tarina! Torin!' Arrow shouted running over and nudging them lightly.
Toothless bounded towards his family. He checked his son and daughter once before roaring loudly.
'Your wing is torn Tarina! What on earth did you do?'
Tarina hung her golden head in shame, 'we crashed daddy… I'm sorry.'
'How did you crash?'
'Lightning crashed into us.' Torin replied, coming to his sister's rescue.
The nightfury roared again, and refused to stop until Hiccup grabbed him by the neck and slapped him lightly on the head.
"Calm down!" He ordered and the nightfury whined loudly.
His head snapped towards the twins and motioned for them to come closer. The two children obeyed and their father rubbed both their heads in approval.
"Good thinking you two."
They smiled and Hiccup turned to his confused father. He gently pushed the twins toward Stoic and smiled.
"As I said before. These are your grandchildren."
For the second time that day, everyone gasped, but Stoic didn't faint. Rather he just stepped back in shock.
"Grandchildren? Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third you have some explaining to do."
Astrid stepped forward and touched her husbands shoulder.
"I got pregnant when I was sixteen." The blonde admitted to their chief.
Stoic's eyes narrowed at the thought, "so Hiccup and I took what little money we had and ran away."
"Then we were born!" Anna and Lucas said together.
Hiccup smiled as his children and gestured them forward. He pointed to Anna first, "This is Anna Zorania Horrendous Haddock."
"Quite a long name isn't it?"
Despite the awkward situation, Hiccup allowed a small smirk to grow onto his lips.
"Yes it is, and this." He gestured to Lucas, "is your grandson. Lucas Harold Horrendous Haddock the Second."
As soon as the words left his lips Stoic froze like a block of ice. "What did you say?"
Hiccup nodded, "yes dad, I named him after my brother."
"Your dead brother."
"Yes dad. My dead brother."
Sadness filled the great chief's eyes as he remembered how much Valhallarama had cried as she held their dead son in her arms. He looked down at his grandson and saw a blonde clone of his son.
The child in front of him brought so many emotions. It was no secret that Lucas looked exactly like Hiccup, meaning that, had he lived, he would have looked just like his uncle. Pain coursed through his veins as he remembered that day.
He and Hiccup were only two months old at the time, and they were gurgling happily in their crib, but then it stopped, and the only sound Stoic heard was Hiccup's screaming, and he knew it was Hiccup because Hiccup inherited Stoic's emerald green eyes, but Lucas had received his mother sky blue ones.
He and Valhallarama had rushed over and saw their blue-eyed son wasn't breathing, and as much as she tried, Anna could not revive him. The day following his twin's death, Hiccup refused to stop crying, and Anna believed that he knew his other half was gone, and would never come back.
Caught up in her grief for her dead son and the stress from her living one Valhallarama fell ill shortly after, and in five months, she was gone.
"Dad? You still there?"
Stoic shook his head and stared at his son in wonder. Just as he was about to reply something popped into his head.
"Wait, I thought your name was Luna."
Astrid, figuring she had been too quiet, stepped behind her son and whacked him on the head.
"Ow! What was that for?"
"For pulling that stupid stunt again!"
"I had- ow!" Lucas turned around to see Walnut standing next to him, "why is everyone hitting me? Hit her she's the reason we're here!" He pointed to his sister, who was whistling innocently.
"That was for making everyone think you were a girl! I mean seriously that's the weirdest thing you could ever do!"
"But he pulled it well." Chestnut admitted.
"Shut up it's no excuse!"
"There's a reason for everything, numb skull."
"Bride of Grendal!"
"Warty Troll!"
"Bucket of dung!"
Their argument soon escalated from insult throwing to full on fighting, as they wrestled each other on the ground Hiccup turned to his wife and shrugged, "well, what do you think we should do now?"
Astrid shrugged, "we take them home."
"All right."
Finally recovering from the shock the villagers of Berk began loudly protesting.
"You can't leave!"
"We need you two here!"
"Ye' just got back!"
"Why would you leave?"
Stoic reached out his hand, "Astrid don't you at least want to see yer' parents before ye' leave? They've been so depressed after you left."
That stopped them. Hiccup looked at his wife with a serious expression in his eyes.
Astrid was frozen in time as she thought about her parents. She hadn't seen them since she them in twelve years, and she had missed them dearly.
"Would they even want to see me? I broke a law."
"I'll make an exception so you may see them." Stoic said evenly.
Astrid turned around to see her old house that rested near the ocean. Arrow came up behind her and nudged her in the back.
'Go.' He said, repeating the very same words she had said on that day, long, long ago.
Unlike her husband Astrid didn't know a word of dragonese, but she understood her dragons message loud and clear. She scratched his head and nodded.
"Just one last time, let them know I'm okay."
Hiccup nodded and took both Lucas and Anna by the hand. "Do you want us to come with you?"
"I think they'd decapitate you, but I can take the twins with me."
He nodded again, "all right. That's fine with me." Arrow loyally followed his master as she began walking up the large hill towards her old home.
Hiccup patted his dragon on the snout and began walking away, Toothless following behind him. The nightfury unfolded a wing and draped it over his human, shielding him from view as they walked.
The nightfury looked over his shoulder, and roughly gestured his head forward. The Zippleback nodded and then proceeded to follow him.
The remaining villagers stared in shock at the two-headed dragon as it hissed at anyone who dared get in their fathers path.
Yeah, that's all I got, it's short I know! I'm so sorry!
