Ch28: Another Hole In The Head

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Chapskin and Shazz went up to go see her mom.

We spent the last day hanging around the village seeing if there was anything we needed to do for the wedding.

But no matter what we did to keep busy we both kept thinking about one thing. Lanie and the kid Hiccup.

"I know she's the village's best healer but that doesn't mean that she can just keep us away. I'm sure there something up. I know you realized it too Chap."

"Yeah I have, but it's not our place to try and push things that seem to be very personal. Let's just remember what she did the last time we tried."

Snapping her fingers at the frustrating recollection of her mom's lectures brings my point to her. "Still it just feels too suspicious."

"I'm sure that things will become clearer once Hiccup wakes up. I'm sure she has her reasons for privacy. Besides she's right, we still do have things that we need to do for the wedding. Which is why we should only pop in and check that she's fine. And if he's up then we can get some more answers."

"I can't believe we forgot so many things! Seriously I thought we had all this taken care of! Why do we still have so much to deal with?"

"Simple, we kept putting it off thinking we still had time and only focused on what we thought was going to take longer. Hence we got too many little things to deal with."

"Right."

We kept walking thinking of all the things we still had to check and get for a few days. Flowers, decorations, small offerings to family and friends participating, and of course the ceremonial outfits for both of us.

I took care of the ceremonial swords and rings since it was easy for me to deal with the metalsmithing myself since it's what I do after all. Shazz had made all the arrangements as to where the ceremony will take place and who will be conducting the ceremony.

We still had the issue of the public consummation. It will be awkward but in light of the last two days thanks to Lanie I think we can get over it. Since Lanie said her advice for all the village to hear everyone has been giving us their own bit of advice. It was embarrassing to say the least but it accomplished one thing; any hesitation about the consummation was effectively shamed clear out of us.

"Yeah well still I'm sure that we'll have everything done before the day but still it's too much work. And the others aren't helping one damn bit!" Shazz continued complaining.

"Yeah that's true. But just imagine the relief when all this is done."

"By the way what about the new house Chap?"

"Since our new home can't be completed until most of the snow is gone in spring, we'll be staying in my old house. My dad already moved out leaving me the house for my 18th birthday so it'll still be just us. It's cramp and not ideal for a family but since it's just going to be us it'll do. The new place that they will build will be bigger and supposedly more fit for the soon to be chief."

"I'm gonna make a recommendation for that, soundproof."

"Yes soundproofing will be definitely included, even if I have to do it myself. But that's gonna take a lot of feathers to do. It's gonna be a big place."

"Just checking."

"I can't shake it."

"Shake what Chap?"

"I'm forgetting something. I'm sure I did everything else, but I can't help but feel I didn't do everything. What about you Shazz are we forgetting anything?"

"I'm not. I just have to do it all. I can't imagine what you could have forgotten. Did you finish the offerings?"

"Yeah."

"The after wedding procession?"

"Yeah."

"Your oath?"

"Barely, but yeah."

"Then what could you and Coralmold have forgotten?"

"…Ok now I know what I'm forgetting."

"What?"

"Coralmold."

"I'm sorry what?"

"Hahhha. You forget too. He left the village to go meet a friend in another village. He expected he would be back this week but then the freeze came and now he won't get back in time."

"You can't be serious. You don't have a Best man!"

"No?" She smacks me in the back.

"I can't believe you could forget that!"

"Yeah I realize that it might be a bit ridiculous that I can't remember my father and forge master isn't here at the moment."

"I can't believe you! You gotta find a new Best man in two days! He needs a speech and the date and and and!"

"Ok calm down Shazz. Maybe Stickstone can fill in?"

"You mean the same man that will be marrying us?" She said with anger over my oversight.

"Ok so I may need to think this thru a bit more."

"You have till the end of the day."

"Yes dear."

We keep walking to Shazz's home while I though on who could replace Coralmold as my best man. I don't blame him for not being here, that's just a weather oversight. Nope it's all on me. I was the one that didn't think about the gap in positions till now. So now I got to think of who can play the replacement.

"SHAZZZZ!" We hear someone calling out to us.

"Chap you go on ahead I'll go see what that's about. Probably the cooks upset over what I want for the reception."

"What did you order?"

"Full exotic seafood selection with shark as the main course."

"Yummy?" Wait shark really?

"Don't give me that. You'll love it I promise." And she ran off to see the cook.

"I wonder if it occurred to her that the ocean is frozen. Fish food might not be the best choice at this time."

Putting Shazz's food ideas aside for now I reach Lanies house and enter the house where I find Lanie and Hiccup still sleeping.

...

Slowly taking a seat and doing it quietly so not to wake them up I continue thinking about who should be my new best man.

I obviously can't ask chief Stickstone but who else can I ask? It has to be someone who can make a speech. Someone who will prepare and bring our offerings for the ceremony. Someone who can learn the ceremony procedure and what has to take place. Someone who would be honorable to the position. Responsible, loyal, and presentable. And they have to become all that in two days.

I really can't think of too many people I would trust with that. It's a big thing and I can't just hand it out to anyone who would possibly ruin the ceremony. I'm the one who will be screwed otherwise.

Dryfins and Hangnail would happily volunteer, but I know that that's just inviting trouble to the party.

My best bet would be to ask one of the married villagers who have done it before. The experience would be good have.

'Stupid cook doesn't know what he's talking about! We have plenty we just need to get the shark! How hard can that really be?!' Shazz is here.

I can't tell if this is going to be really good or really bad. All I know is as railed up she was now this is going to make her lose it.

"Hey Chap did you hear me? Where are you Mom? Mom, Chap?"

We're gonna be lucky if she doesn't kill Hiccup. I hear her enter but I just keep my eyes on the two sleeping.

"There you are. What are you doing Chap just sitting there?" She still hasn't seen it, but she just needs to turn her head a little and she will.

"Where's mom?" she's looking around when her eyes lock onto where Lanie was laying down with Hiccup.

Together.

In each other's arms.

Cuddled and coiled together tighter than the knots on a ships mast.

"WHAT THE FUCKING IN ALL DRAGON RAIDING SNOWMEN IS GOING ON HERE!" Don't know what that means but it better than what I couldn't think of or say.

"Huh!?"

"Whoa!?" The two wake startled then looking at their positions the scramble away from each other.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY MOMMY YOU LITTLE BASTARD!" Shazz yells out to Hiccup who was shuffling on his butt to the wall.

"Uhhh?" Good answer buddy. Couldn't have said it better myself.

"Shazz dear please calm down it's not what you think."

"HOW COULD I MISUNDERSTAND THAT!"

"Shazz go and wait outside."

"NO!"

"Shazz! Out now!"

"Mom?!" Now she's whining.

"Shazz I'll be out in just a second. Now go!"

"No!"

"Shazz get out!"

"Ok Shazz lets just step out for a second." I try to reason with my enraged fiancé.

"I am not leaving my mommy in the same room as that!" She was pointing to Hiccup as that.

"Shazz lets just wait by the door."

"GRRRR! FINE! I can kill him later."

So we step out the door but before I leave I notice something that I let them know. "Hey uh Hiccup you should… your clothe. Umm…. I think that their? Yeah I think that you two should find your clothe."

He must have just now realized that he only had on bandages all over his body.

"Yeah thanks but could you get out please."

"Sure."

And I step out to join Shazz who was still fuming next to the door.

"Let it go Shazz." I try to soothe her.

"Never! Did you not see them? No wait you did! Before I got their even! Why didn't you do something?!"

"Yeah I tried not to think about it. Too… what's the word?"

"BAD!"

"Not that's not it. I mean it is but I'm thinking something else."

"Remind me again whose side you're on."

"I don't think I want to get involved in this."

Hiccup and Lanie looked up to the ceiling after Chapskin and Shazz left.

"YOU."

We almost yelled but remembering the two just outside we held it to a whisper.

We saw Toothless looking down at us with his big signature smile and hear him snickering at us. He jumped down a sat in front of them grinning mischievously over what he did last night.

Last night we kept talking about several things until we reached the topic of Shazz and Chapskins pregnancy. That pretty much killed any further dialogue, she seemed depressed and I felt uncomfortable about it so we decided to continue talking in the morning. The one and only thing we decided on was to keep Toothless hidden till at least after the wedding they are having here in two days.

I doubt he'll like being cooped up for so long but it's for his own good. He made his displeasure very loudly known. He kept moaning and whining for a while. Eventually he gave up but knowing him he gave up too easily and he would do something to get even.

He did.

Before we turned in for the night Lanie had to change all my bandages, which meant that I had to strip. It was horribly mortifying for me which she made worse when she said "It's all right I'm a healer, and I already did it before while you were sleeping so I already saw it all."

Yeah that not an awkward thought or anything.

Well anyways Toothless made things worse when he stole my clothe while I was being rebandaged and wouldn't give them back no matter what I told him. I had to forget about my clothe for the night and just slept in my new full body bandages. Lanie went to sleep too.

But not together with me like how we were found this morning. Not on purpose at least.

Before she went to another room to sleep Toothless tackled her down onto my bed and fell asleep wrapping us in his wings. Actually I don't know if he was really asleep or not, but we knew he did it on purpose. With him on top of us we were stuck like that all night.

'Sleeping close with lots of people is supposed to be good for you and help others get better. At least that how I always see others do it, both Uverworlders and humans. So the closer the better right? You seem a bit more peaceful when you sleep next to me after all. Maybe this'll clear your bad dreams.'

It was comfy sleeping tight under dragon wings but it was another awkward thing to be sleeping next to someone else. I was too tired to care much and it wasn't like I could do much and he wasn't getting off of us, so we gave up and at some point we fell asleep.

"Toothless!"

Back to the present he was sitting in-front of us laughing like he had seen the funniest thing ever.

"Seems your dragons a comedian." Lanie spoke with a lot of anger in her voice.

"I swear he's never done anything like that before." Ok so he's tackled me down in the past but never someone else. "Toothless that wasn't funny. Why'd you even do that?"

'Hey you can yell all you want but you didn't cry or talk at all last night as you slept so I'm happy.'

"Ok I'm sure that little prank will keep him satisfied for a while Lani whoa!" I covered my eyes quickly when I noticed that she also didn't have her clothe on and was standing with her nude body in full view.

She seemed to also just realize this as she tried to cover herself. I look closer at Toothless and see that here clothe were hooked on his saddle. They must have got stuck on him so when he jumped off us to hide so he accidentally ripped off her tunic.

My stuff wasn't any better covered in dragon drool. "I'm not putting that back on."

Lanie already finished putting on some new wardrobe while holding the torn remains of her old robe in her hands. She handed me some new clothe that looked like they might fit me but "Sorry but they are some of Shazz's old things. They are from when she was 12 but I am sure the size will fit you. I figured you wouldn't want the skirt so I only brought the leggings and a shirt. I will wash your things later of the dragon saliva."

With unbelievable amount of reluctance I put on the offered attire. They fit perfectly. Ow my pride.

"Ok ma'am I'm sure we can just go ahead and forget what just happened."

"Hiccup I am more than happy to, but I doubt that my daughter and Chapskin will forget."

"They wouldn't tell the village about how they found us would they?" That's not a pleasant thought to have everyone thinking we did something together and it really was just a misunderstanding caused by a dragon, but naturally we couldn't tell them that. Even if I just leave it's going to be something that others will bother her about I'm sure. Gossip I know from experience can be a cruel thing, whether it's true or not.

"I am sure they would not."

'WHAT DO YOU MEAN CALM DOWN! HICCUP WAS SLEEPING WITH MY MOTHER!'

"But then again my daughter does tend to scream a lot."

"Oh that's just great. What are the chances that someone from the village heard that?"

'Wow, that was loud. I'm sure all the Uverworlders in this territory heard that.' Toothless was rubbing his ears like that yelling hurt him.

"I get the feeling this is about to become a very awkward day."

"It might be a good thing that I do not have to go anywhere. I do not want to imagine what the rest of the village will say about what they just heard."

"Oh that's not good." I exclaim out loud.

"What?" She asks.

"What are the chances that people will come over here to gossip about what they just heard?"

"Unfortunately, very good. Plenty of chatty people here in Grissgom who love to talk about each other's lives'. What about it?"

"You think that anyone will not notice him." I point to Toothless who was in the kitchen area taking some fish from a basket.

If more than a few people come here at once then it just a higher chance that they will see him even if he's hiding in the rafters.

"I see your concern. What do you plan to do about it? We could have him hide in the woods again if you want."

"I don't think I trust him enough at the moment to let him run free in your village. He might learn Yak tipping and like it."

'Hey!' He looked over at me looking insulted.

"As awkward as it may be I think it's best to face this somewhere not here. He won't go into the village unless I'm in danger so I'm sure he'll stay here."

"I am not sure about leaving him here alone in my house to do as he pleases."

"He'll be good. Or I'll wrap him up in eels."

He looked at me in shock over what I said. Shaking his head, he knows now that he has to behave and stay grounded here. He leapt to the ceiling rafters and disappeared up there. I could still hear him whining up there.

"Ok so he will stay hidden but are you sure you want to head out?"

"Yeah I do. Mostly because I want to see your village forge. There are some things I want to make there. I finally get the chance so I might as well make good use of my time here in Grissgom."

"Are you good at Smithing?"

"I'm ok I guess. I actually have some things I want to make. I want to do it as soon as I can since I don't know the next time I'll get to use a forge so now that I kinda do I might as well."

"What do you need to do?"

"I have some things I want to make. For me, for Toothless, and for someone else."

"I will not ask just yet what you plan to do but you should know that I do not think you are in any condition to be heading out just yet, let alone work. So give me a good reason as to why I should let you go and do something that will most likely aggravate your wounds. I told you before that your physical condition is bad, you could do even more damage to yourself if you do something like work in a forge. So why should I let you take that risk?"