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Hand on my Heart

Chapter 8

Hiccup and Cami stayed on the island with the two dragons for two weeks. They were enjoying the island immensely because it was the adventure exploring it. On the second day, Hiccup discovered hot springs which proved to be a welcome sight. In very un-Viking-like fashion, he bathed every day after training, but it wasn't so much to do with staying clean, it was more to do with having time to himself to think. Around Camicazi he pretended that the fight with those guys hadn't happened, but when he was alone he found that he was devastated. He replayed the incident over and over in his head, trying to think about what he could have done differently, had he not lost his temper. Although he wasn't the short and scrawny boy that he was when he left Berk, he was still sensitive, more so than any Viking should be and he often found himself in tears.

The rest of the time spent there was getting to know Stormfly and exploring the island. On their last day they had come across a picturesque waterfall that was at least twenty feet tall and Camicazi had the crazy idea to climb to the top and jump down. She expressed no hesitation when she reached the top and plummeted down to the watery depths, coming up for air with a squeal.

"That was incredible!" She laughed. "I'm doing it again! Come on, Haddock! Live a little!" She teased. Hiccup was sure, with his luck, that he'd end up breaking something but after significant name calling from Cami, he decided to try it. Even the two dragons had done it a few times and Camicazi was up to seven times before Hiccup tried. He changed his foot attachment to the one for swimming so he wouldn't sink and drown then climbed up the rocky crags to the top. "Don't look down!" Camicazi scolded when she saw him peering over the edge.

"Cami… It's a long way down." He pointed out.

"Hiccup! I've done it seven times and nothing happened! Stop being such a baby!" She shouted and both dragons laughed at him. He had to stop being the wimpy kid at some point right? He took a deep breath and leaped over the edge. The free fall was scary, but really only because it reminded him of the two times he fell off Toothless and fell to the earth. Soon the fear was replaced by pure exhilaration and he let out a whoop before taking a deep breath and crashing into the water. He swam back up with ease and laughed when he reached the surface.

"Ok, that you were right! That was great!" He said to her.

"See! Told you nothing bad would happen! Let's go up and jump together." She suggested and he smirked at her knowing what he would do.

"Race you." He laughed and started running to the crags. He climbed up expertly and beat her to the top.

"I let you win." She mocked.

"Liar." He smiled. She reached out her hand for him to take it so they could jump together but he had other ideas. Before she could react he hoisted her up bridal style and she gasped.

"What are you doing?" She asked wide eyed.

"Getting you back." He laughed. "You know for a Viking, you really can't weight more than a Terror." She playfully slapped his arm.

"Shut up, Haddock. What are you doing with me?" She asked again and he smiled evilly at her.

"This." He told her before flinging her up in the air and over the edge. She shrieked all the way down and landed with a big splash.

"You'll pay, Haddock!" She laughed when she resurfaced.

"I'm sure." He nodded then turned his back to the waterfall. He planned to dive backwards and see what happened. He was a lot more confident about the jump now that he had done it and everything was fine.

"What are you up to, now?" She asked as she climbed back up.

"I'm just trying something." He told her before positioning himself on the edge, feeling the water rush against his good foot. He crouched down before springing back up and flipping off the edge, flying backwards then descending upside down. He straightened himself just in time and the maneuver turned out perfectly. And it was a total rush. He wanted to try lots of different ways to jump down. When he came up he cheered and he saw Camicazi staring at him wide eyed.

"That was amazing!" She said to him.

"Thanks." He smiled as he climbed back up where she stood waiting for him. "You know, I had an idea if you feel like being a little dare devil." He told her.

"Of course you did." She chuckled to herself. "What's the idea?" She asked curiously.

"If you stand on my shoulders and jump down from there it would be even more of a rush." He told her with a grin.

"Ok." She nodded. Camicazi wasn't afraid of anything and he knew she would be up for it. "How would I even get up there." She pointed to his shoulders.

"Start off by sitting on my shoulders, I'll walk to the edge, then using my hands for support, hoist yourself up." He explained to her and she figured that she could do that. He kneeled in the stream and she swung a leg over each shoulder and held on to his hands as he pushed himself into a standing position. "What's the view like from up there?" He laughed and rotated himself so she could look around from that height.

"I can see can see caves down at the side of the island we haven't explored yet."

"That could be interesting." He told her.

"We should check it out tomorrow when the sun comes up so we have all day." She said.

"Sounds good. You ready?" He asked as he moved closer to the edge.

"Yes." She tried to say bravely but it came out a little forced and he smiled. He had managed to strike even the tiniest bit of fear into the great Camicazi and he chuckled quietly. He moved his hands from where they held on to her knees and reached up so she could take them. Hiccup steadied himself so that if she jostled, he wouldn't tip over and she pushed herself up into a standing position. "Ok, I'll admit, this is quite scary. It's a good thing I trust you." She laughed.

"You know I'd never put you in any danger." He reminded her.

"I know." She remarked and stared out at the view. The dragons had gone so still, they looked like statues, watching intently as they stood at the edge of the falls.

"You going to stand there all day?" Hiccup asked amused. He didn't really mind, it's not like she weighed much.

"You're right. Here I go." She took a few deep breaths then leapt off him and he pushed his shoulders up to give her more of a spring board. When he figured out roughly where she would land he jumped too so that he would be there in case she went too deep or something. Her monstrous splash sprayed him as he descended and when he came up for air, she was already swimming to the shore.

"So?" He asked.

"That was great!" She chirped. "What a rush! The only thing I would say is that I hit the water harder and went much deeper when I landed, so it was fun but can we not do that again?" She laughed.

"Are you ok?" He asked her seriously. "Did I hurt you?"

"No, no. I'm glad I did it, it was fun."

"Ok." He nodded. "I want to check out what's behind the falls. There might be a cave there or something." He said to her and she nodded. Hiccup swam back out and ducked under the falls, gob smacked at what he found. He darted back out under the falls gazing at Cami amazedly. "You need to come see this." He pointed to the falls and she gave him a curious look but followed anyway. Her jaw dropped as she came up for air and looked around the small cave, hidden by the falls.

There were bags of treasure lining the walls, weapons everywhere as well as chests full to the brim. Hiccup was rifling through the bags when he hit the jackpot. One of the bags was full of four smaller bags. As he opened each of them they were packed with diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds.

"Cami, we need to take this." He said to her and she was surprised.

"Definitely." She said as she tried out the weapons.

"We could start our own city with this much wealth!" He exclaimed.

"We're set for life now." She said to him in awe of the treasure. He stood up and hugged her and she responded eagerly. "How are we even going to manage to take all of this?" She asked.

"I have some leather and supplies with me; I can make more bags that I can attach to Toothless. We won't be able to take everything but we can take the best of things. We're definitely taking all of the gems, they will be tradable anywhere." Hiccup replied as he scoured the other bags, finding gold coins, jewelry and things made of gold like cups and chalices.

"We'll have to leave this island quickly then, we don't know if or when the person that put this here will be back." She warned him.

"Then let's go now." He said to her and she nodded.

"I'm kind of sad we found this on this island because it would have been nice to come back here someday for a while, but it's too risky." She said sadly.

"I know. I was thinking about building a house here." He agreed.

"Really?" She stopped what she was doing and looked at him.

"Not to live here all the time or anything, but it would be nice to have access to this place whenever we want." He said to her absently without thinking about the implication of his words. Cami had to try and hide her smile as she continued filtering the treasure into keep and leave piles. When they left the cave they had between them seven large bags of gold coins, the big bag of gems, Hiccup kept two ornate daggers he found and Cami kept a sword and an axe which was no easy feat for her considering the amount of weapons she already had strapped to herself. Not that it was likely to happen but they discussed it and decided to trade the weapons as soon as they hit a trading port so that they wouldn't be found out to be the ones that took some of the treasure. The weapons stood out immensely and wouldn't be easy to mistake for something else. The sword and the daggers were made out of gold and would be worth a fortune. The axe was crafted from what they figured was either silver, white gold or platinum.

"We'd get something big out of a trade with those weapons. What do you think we should get?" Camicazi asked Hiccup as she packed and he fashioned a way to carry all the treasure.

"Honestly? I think we should try to get a ship. That way we can store food and more clothing and we don't have to always try to find land to sleep." He said to her.

"We'd get a really nice one out of this." She pointed to the weapons.

"We should get one with a nice big cabin and put beds in there. Make it like a floating house." He laughed.

"I like the way you think, Haddock." She replied. "What about Stormfly? We aren't going to just leave her here, are we?"

"I was thinking that she could come with us. She seems to be taken with you, so maybe you could even ride her." Hiccup said and Cami was excited at the thought.

"So, we'll just see if she follows us? What do you think is going on with her scales?" Cami asked.

"That's a plan. I've been studying her for the past two weeks and she appears to change her scales dependant on her mood." Hiccup said analytically.

"A mood dragon? That's cool. Don't you think she looks like a smaller version of a Nightmare with a prettier, more proportional head?" She asked as she surveyed the dragon.

"Yeah, definitely." Hiccup nodded in approval.

"We should go while there are still a couple of hours of light out. Do you want to go to the trade port that most of the Vikings go to?" Camicazi asked.

"Yeah, that'll be closest probably. I just hope nobody I know is there." He mumbled.

"I doubt they would recognize you, Hiccup." Camicazi told him.

"Well that's good at least. I'd like to stay as incognito as possible." He admitted.

"What are we going to do when we get there? Especially with the dragons and our valuables."

"I've been to that port before and there are caves about a half hours walk away from the port. We could land there and leave the dragons with the things. They won't let anyone take our stuff and it's close enough that if I yell really loudly, Toothless will hear me." Hiccup answered and finished loading the stuff onto Toothless. "Is that too heavy, bud?" He asked the dragon and got an insulted snort in return. "Ok, sorry." Hiccup laughed.

"Think we should stay overnight above a tavern?" She asked. "It'll probably be too late to trade the weapons by the time we get there. That'll also give us a chance to scope it out and see if there are any trade ships that we like the look of. We'll need to make sure to get one that we'll be able to work, just the two of us."

"Yeah we'll get a room above one of the taverns for tonight and tomorrow night. We should try to be done by tomorrow night so we can leave early the following morning."

"Do you have any silver? I don't think we should pay with a gold coin, they might catch on to that." Camicazi thought out loud.

"Yeah, I have a few pouches of silver. I was thinking we could sell the axe for silver coins so that we have something smaller than gold. I'll need to buy some supplies there too. We've got a busy couple of days ahead of us." He laughed.

"I'm just looking forward to having a hot meal in a tavern tonight." She smiled.

"Oh, I totally forgot about that. Me too." He grinned then jumped on top of Toothless' back. Once he was strapped in, he patted her half of the saddle behind him indicating that they were ready to go. Hiccup had made a double saddle when they were on the Bogburglar Island so that she would be more comfortable and have her own straps eliminating the chance that she could accidentally fall.

"Stormfly? You coming with us, girl?" Camicazi asked as she walked over to Toothless. She watched as the dragon's scales glowed blue then pink then became a light purple color. "What does that mean?" She asked Hiccup and he smiled at her.

"Blue means happy, pink means love or like and I think the purple means both. That's what I've gathered from her behavior so far." He explained and Camicazi was happy.

"Good. I'm glad you're coming girl. We don't want to lose you." Cami told the dragon. "Let's go then." She put her arms around Hiccup and settled in.

"You heard the lady." Hiccup patted Toothless' neck and he took off with Stormfly flying closely behind. They had spent their first day on the island cleaning and patching up her wounds and they were almost completely healed already. She had no trouble moving or flying and they were already attached to her. She was very sweet and loving and even Toothless liked her. She had joined them everywhere they went on the island, which they aptly named Stormfly Island for future reference. They had countless discussions about how she ended up being there alone in the first place. They hadn't found any other dragons on their explorations and the only place they hadn't looked was the caves on the other side. They figured that they were empty as if there had been dragons there, no doubt Stormfly would have gone back when she felt better or others would have been too curious not to check them out.

They made great time and reached the port just after nightfall. When they flew over, they could see it was still buzzing and they were confident they would be able to complete their many missions. Hiccup steered Toothless to where he remembered the caves being and soon landed. They noticed that a small stream ran through the caves and they could see the fish swimming in them. It would be easy dinner for the dragons and Hiccup felt a little better about leaving his friend. He explained to Toothless what their plan was and to listen out for Hiccup's call, just in case. Toothless nodded when Hiccup asked him to look after Stormfly. Toothless didn't mind, the golden dragon was growing on him immensely and it was nice to have some company while the humans went to the port. Hiccup and Cami set off with the weapons they were planning to trade and a few pouches of coins each in case they were separated for any reason. They had discussed their plans on the flight there and started implementing it when they arrived.

The first part of the plan was to walk around and get a feel for the place. It had always been a reputable trading port but as was usually the case, where there are Vikings there's trouble so they didn't want to take any chances. They walked through the streets, seeing all that the port had to offer. It had grown substantially since Hiccup had been there, but that was when he was twelve and a lot can happen in five years. There were stalls everywhere selling all sorts of stuff and the market had everything they had planned to get and more. They continued onto the ship grounds to have a look at what was on offer when they saw her. The ship they both knew they had to have. It was about half as wide as it was long, which was unusual for a Viking ship. Normally they were less than a quarter as quite as they were long. Hiccup gathered that the length was about 50-60 feet long and it had a double decked cabin on the top of it which would be perfect for landing and taking off on. They glanced at each other and grinned.

Hiccup looked around until he found the stall the ship maker was sitting at and walked over. He put every ounce of authority he could muster into his strides; making him look regal and he deepened his voice as much as he could when he spoke.

"Evening, ship maker, it's a fine night to buy a vessel, wouldn't you say?" He smiled lightly at the man. The man surveyed him curiously and approvingly.

"Fine night. What one are you interested in?" He asked with a grin. Now the ship they were after was by no means the biggest, but it suited what they needed completely. A more perfect ship they couldn't have asked for.

"You have several great ships, but the one I've decided upon is that one." Hiccup pointed to the ship and the man smiled warmly.

"I'm glad someone has taken a liking to that ship. Most Vikings are put off by its width. Now I warn you boy, that ship isn't built for speed, it's for comfort." He told Hiccup honestly. Hiccup liked that and decided to reward him handsomely.

"I know that, Sir." Hiccup smiled. "That's exactly what we're looking for you see." He gestured between him and Camicazi and the man gave him a knowing smile.

"Well, that's wonderful. It's normally 50 Gold coins but for you two I'll cut it down to 30. You'd be doing me a favor taking it off my hands and it's so nice seeing a young married couple out on an adventure." The man smiled at them fondly.

"We're not…" Hiccup began before Cami cut him off.

"Thank you so much for that, Sir." Cami said taking Hiccup's arm fondly. Hiccup looked at her with a cocked eyebrow but didn't say anything.

"I have a better offer for you, Sir, if you're willing?" Hiccup asked.

"Of course, I love a good barter!" The man laughed.

"Well if you could get the name of the ship painted on for us, supply two sets of extra good sails for it and fit it with some beds by tomorrow or the day after, I'll pay you with this." Hiccup drew the golden sword and handed it to the man. The man's jaw dropped as he surveyed the fine sword, which was no doubt worth hundreds of gold coins.

"It's too much." The man said honestly and Hiccup smiled at him.

"Not at all. We need the ship that quickly as we are picking up a friend in a few weeks time and we need to stop dillydallying." Hiccup lied.

"Where would you even get something like this?" The man asked in shock.

"It was a wedding present from a rich uncle of mine." Camicazi improvised on the spot. "He blessed us with a few other things so it won't do us harm to part with it."

"If you're sure…" The man said.

"Quite sure." Hiccup nodded.

"Then I will make sure the ship is kitted out with the finest things for you both to start you off. It will be done by tomorrow night for you. If you come by tomorrow morning we can get all the necessary paperwork done for the ship." He said looking at the sword once more before handing it back.

"Excellent. That is very good of you." Camicazi said.

"Not at all. Fine young couple like yourselves deserve it. Now what name would you like painted onto it? And in what color? And what color sails do you want?" Hiccup and Camicazi looked back over at the ship and thought about what colors would look nice paired with the dark painted wood.

"Black sails." Camicazi said and Hiccup nodded.

"We'd like the name painted along both sides of the ship, on one side red and the other blue if that isn't too much trouble."

"No trouble at all. We usually do paint the name on both sides unless requested otherwise." The ship maker said as he wrote down their requests.

"Thank you. We would like the name to be The Hiccazi Stormfury." Camicazi told the man and spelled it out for him.

"What an interesting name. How did you choose it?" The man asked, happy to be naming the boat something so unusual, instead of the usual drab Viking names for ships.

"Well, my name is Hiccup and this is Camicazi so we just joined our names. Stormfury comes from two people very close to us." Hiccup winked at Cami and she grinned back.

"Well I like it, I have to say." He smiled. "So I'll put down your names on the papers then? What's your family name?" He asked.

"Haddock." Camicazi replied immediately and Hiccup was surprised that she'd be ok with being Mrs Haddock on paper even if it was just to get a better deal.

"Well Mr and Mrs Haddock, I'll have the papers ready for you tomorrow, so come by anytime. I'll endeavor to have the ship ready for you by the time you come for the papers, but it might be tomorrow evening before it's ready." He told them.

"That's absolutely fine." Hiccup smiled.

"Thank you." Camicazi said.

"Can you do us one last favor?" Hiccup asked.

"What can I do for you?" The man asked sincerely, liking the pair immediately.

"We are somewhat new here and we'd rather you didn't tell anyone that we were carrying such valuable things since it's just the two of us to look out for each other." Hiccup said as kindly as he could and smiled at Camicazi for effect.

"That will not be a problem, Mr. Haddock. I know what you mean and I won't be telling anyone about the sword once we've traded either as you never know what someone would do for something valuable." The ship maker agreed.

"Thanks again. We'll see you tomorrow." Camicazi said and led Hiccup away.

"That went really well." He said to her once they were out of earshot.

"It did. Now let's go get some dinner and a drink to celebrate." She smiled.