Chapter Three: Those Damn Instincts!
Warning: Possibly some disturbing content to follow.
Warning: If you are drinking anything, this chapter may pose as a choking hazard.
During the night, Cloudjumper spent it at Hiccup's house. His presence started to drive Toothless crazy; as the Stormcutter would drive him away as soon as he cast a glance in Astrid's general direction.
"Oh come on, you let Stormfly, Sapphire, and Midnightfire near her!" Toothless complained. Cloudjumper roared and drove him out of the house.
Toothless returned with Hiccup a moment later. Cloudjumper roared and spread his four wings at them, but made no other defensive moves towards them. Hiccup sent Cloudjumper a glare and told him: "She is my mate, you can leave her alone now."
Cloudjumper roared at him again, not saying anything, just making a lot of noise and trying to look as menacing as possible. Hiccup was having none of it, he went to the kitchen, and pulled out one of Astrid's smoked eels and held it in front of Cloudjumper. The Stormcutter let out a shriek, but extended two wings to block Hiccup from Astrid.
"Hiccup, he's not thinking logically. All he sees is a male human when he looks at you. The only way he'll see you as Astrid's mate is if he sees the two of you as the same breed." Stormfly spoke as she tiptoed around Hiccup to get out of the same room as that eel. Hiccup rolled his eyes to himself and tossed the eel aside. Astrid made a move towards the eel, but Cloudjumper blocked her way, and the distraction was enough for Hiccup to sneak past Cloudjumper and tuck himself under one of Astrid's wings while Cloudjumper swept the eel out of the house with his tail.
After incinerating the eel, Cloudjumper turned back into the house and noticed that the Dragon Chief was nowhere to be found, and Toothless ran upstairs to his bed. He sniffed around and found Hiccup's hiding spot.
That was when Astrid retaliated at Cloudjumper:
"ENOUGH! He is my mate, and he can stay at my side if he wants to!" She roared; but Cloudjumper would have none of it. Astrid was a pregnant female, and Hiccup was a male intruder. With his foot, Cloudjumper picked up Hiccup, and flew him out of the house!
Cloudjumper flew across the village with Hiccup in his claws. He hovered over one house for a while, and dropped Hiccup into an open roof window. The window's typical use was to allow dragons fly in and out of the house.
Hiccup got up to his feet, and listened closely to see if anyone was home. He wished he didn't, though; because while he was listening for a presence in the house, he heard the moaning and gasping of a pair of lovers 'doing it'.
Oh great, could this get anymore awkward? Hiccup thought to himself. He just had to think that!
"OH, OH MY, SSSSTTTOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIICCKK!" The woman's climax sounded from the floor. Hiccup's eyes widened when he heard the climax; but at least the occupants of the house were no longer a mystery.
Oh gods, I've got to get out of here and kill Cloudjumper! Hiccup thought.
"Yes milady, you are welcome." Stoick said from below.
"Let's do it again!" Valka replied.
Hiccup, now completely grossed out, was resisting the urge to scream with all his strength. He had to get out of the house, but he sure as hell wasn't going to go downstairs to make his escape, and he didn't want to have to resort to turning into a dragon. He walked to the opposite wall of the room, started hearing his parents moaning, and charged to the window. He jumped, grabbed the frame, and let out a grunt.
"Hold up, did you hear something?" Valka asked from below.
Hiccup cursed inside his head as he heard his parents moving downstairs. From the hushed voices, he could tell that they were looking for their clothes. He hoisted himself up with his legs kicking about, and then he heard the sound of his prosthetic make contact with the wall.
Damn it they would've heard that! Hiccup cursed inside his head.
Sure enough, just as he was halfway out the window, Stoick and Valka entered the room. Hiccup gave up and dropped to the ground, put on a brave face and faced his parents.
"Hiccup, what are you doing here? How did you get in here?" Valka asked.
"Cloudjumper's gone crazy, and he dropped me in here." Hiccup replied. He then excused himself and escaped the house with the speed that could've matched a Strike class dragon!
He retreated to the spare room in the smithy, where he designed Toothless' first tail, and slept in there for the night.
When Hiccup woke up that next morning, he marched right over to his house, as for what he was going to do, he didn't know. All he knew was that he was going to face Cloudjumper. He grabbed a container of dragon nip before leaving, and as he walked past the fish buffet, he grabbed a salmon, and seasoned it with the dragon nip. It was an improvised trick but he hoped it would work.
Before entering the house, Hiccup creaked the door open and threw the seasoned fish inside. Cloudjumper perked up and moved towards the fish, but once he caught the scent of dragon nip, he mellowed out, and collapsed after eating the salmon into a happy nap. Hiccup was just about to enter the house, but Astrid got up and fled, taking Hiccup with her one foot with her.
"Whoa, Astrid, where are we going?" Hiccup asked.
"To the cove!" She replied.
When they landed at the cove, Astrid curled around Hiccup and told him: "I missed you last night; and thanks for subduing Cloudjumper, he was starting to drive me nuts!"
"My pleasure." Hiccup replied.
"So where did he take you last night?" Astrid asked. Hiccup started to elaborate on that, and soon enough he had Astrid pleading him to stop talking.
"ALL DRAGONS EVACUATE THE NEST! THIS VOLCANO IS GOING TO BLOW!" The Alpha called out. Various dragons were fleeing their nest, most of them being Strike, Stoker, and Sharp class dragons. The earth below their Alpha's feet was cracking, and lava was spurting out of it.
After looking around the nest once more, the Alpha saw no more dragons, spread his wings and flew off himself.
Within a matter of minutes, the volcano nest erupted so greatly, that it destroyed the home of these mighty dragons. After mourning the lost of a great habitat, the Alpha had no choice to lead the dragons to another home.