Greetings! sorry for a small chapter for such a long wait, chapters should be more regular now and I'll try to make them around 3500-5000 words from now on, this one is around 3000.

So please enjoy!

Hiccup woke up it was late, lunch time actually.

After last nights events, Astrid simply blushed muttered a 'bye' and headed back to his house while Hiccup stood frozen for a few good minutes, later he couldn't sleep first because he had kissed Astrid Hofferson, The Astrid Hofferson.

And second because a certain voice kept screaming in his head every couple minutes "I can't believe you actually did it! I'm so proud!"

But he eventually got too tired and fell asleep.

He swung his legs to the side of his bed and walked to his closet, after dressing himself in his usual attire he walked out, his stomach growling like a Monstrous Nightmare all the way to the Great Hall, when he got in he saw the teens and Gobber, and the few remaining Vikings, they all looked at the door looked at the doors most looked back to their food but the teens waved at him to come sit with them.

Astrid pushed Snotlout to the other side of the bench and moved after him, allowing Hiccup a spot on their bench, the twins and Fishlegs on the other side of the table and Gobber standing.

"So what did we manage to conclude from this training session?... Snotlout"

"That Nadders can laugh?"

Before Gobber could spat a comment at him Hiccup interrupted "Wait, what?"

"Oh, Snotlout threw a mace trying to impress Astrid, but having the horrible aim he has he missed the Nadder completely and the Nadder seemed to laugh" Fishlegs informed

Hiccup nodded and Gobber continued "I meant something that could be useful to kill them...Astrid?"

"The Nadder's blind spot is right in front of it's nose"

"Very good Astrid" Gobber cheered

"Hey Gobber you've been around for a long time right?" Hiccup asked

"Are you calling me old Hiccup?"

"No, no, no, no... I was just wondering if you ever saw a Night Fury up close"

"Nope I don't think anyone has, but if they did they didn't comeback, why you ask?"

"No reason just curious"

Gobber hesitated looking at the boy then nodded.

They started a full blown argument on something that Hiccup didn't care to pay attention to and soon he said his goodbyes and left, oblivious to the blonde girl following him, as soon has they were out of the hall Astrid grabbed is upper arm and dragged him to the back of a house.

Astrid pushed him to the wall, his back against it and they stared at each other for a moment, when Astrid talked.

"Was that about the Night Fury you released?"

"Uh.." figuring it was best not to lie, he nodded

"Why?"

"I was trying to figure out why it did what it did, why didn't it bite my head off?"

"I don't know... but I'm happy it didn't" She smiled and he smiled back.

They didn't realize how close they were until they heard shouting, Snotlout's voice calling her name "Astrid? Babe where are you?"

She sighed and said "If you excuse me I have to go break someone's teeth" she smiled innocently.

She turned to leave, but in one swift moved turned pecked Hiccup's lips and left.

He left, stunned, but he still heard Astrid shout at Snotlout "Hey Snotlout! I got something for you..." he imagined her cracking her knuckles.

He entered the storage careful to make sure no one saw him and removed a fish from one of the baskets leaving quickly, passing by the forge to grab the first shield at hand and heading for the Cove.

He entered the Cove, getting the shield stuck between two rocks in the entrance. Amazing he thought.

He walked around seeing a black spot at the end of the Cove

"Hey!" He shouted the dragon came running and tackled him to the ground, he was about to roar but stopped, recognizing the boy who had saved him and his eyes turned rounder, he gingerly got off him and saw a fish in his hand, he licked his lips and looked at it, but saw the sun reflect off something in his vest, the Night Fury's eyes turned to slits and started to growl a low growl, Hiccup looked at it and it was looking at his vest , Hiccup looked down and saw his dagger, with his free hand he grabbed it and threw it to the lake in the Cove, the Night Fury visibly relaxed, stopped growling and his eyes turned rounder

Round eyes means friendly, slits means not so friendly Hiccup took a mental note to write that down in his note book later.

Hiccup slowly extended the fish towards him.

The dragon opened his mouth to eat the fish, and it had no teeth.

"Toothless?" He asked "I could have sworn you had-" he was cut off by the Night Fury's teeth suddenly popping out and grabbing the fish, happily eating it "-teeth..."

After eating the fish the Night Fury started smelling Hiccup's clothes, probably searching for more, Hiccup backed away until he hit a rock and sat down, the Night Fury looked at him, his eyes rolled up and it started making a strange sound in it's throat and regurgitated half a fish, that fell in Hiccup lap, the same dragon now sat on his hind legs like he was sitting on a bench.

Hiccup looked from the dragon to the fish then back to the dragon.

"I think he wants you to eat the fish"

"Awesome….." Hiccup said picking up the fish and bringing it to his lips, he took a bite and looked at the dragon, who made a gulping sound, Hiccup grossly swallowed the bite and smiled, the dragon's lips' corners started to go up a bit until it looked like he was smiling, well as much as a dragon can smile, Hiccup rose to his feet to try and pet the Night Fury who simply took a step back and growled slightly.

"So… I guess you want to be alone…" Hiccup turned around to leave, he had his back against the dragon when he felt something it his back he turned around to see the dragon looking to the sky, pretending to look innocent, Hiccup smiled and grabbed a ball of dirt off the ground and threw it at the Night Fury hitting it in the nose, it's nostrils twitched and with a movement of it's front paw threw some more dirt at Hiccup who managed to dodge most of the dirt, this began an all out dirt fight.

After the fight ended the Night Fury went over to a tree and hung himself like a bat would with his tail grabbing the branch, and fell asleep, minutes later he woke up and looked around to check if the boy was there still, turns out he was, the Night Fury slowly walked behind the boy and he was dragging a stick in the dirt, magically (for Toothless it probably seemed like magic) making an image of the Night Fury's face, the Night Fury had an idea so it walked to the other side of the cove and grabbed, with its mouth, a small, dying tree from the ground, thinking the noise would be enough to get the boy's attention, but the boy didn't turn around so the dragon slapped him in the head with the small tree making the boy flinch.

The dragon started to drag the small tree around making its own magic drawing after a bit it dropped the tree and looked at his drawing proudly.

I can make magic too!

The Night Fury just made a drawing! Hiccup thought has he looked at the lines drawn in the dirt Not a very good one, but a drawing none the less!

Hiccup took a step forward and accidentally stepped on a line, making the Night Fury's eyes turn to slits and it started growling, Hiccup removed his foot and the dragon's eyes became round and it started purring, then Hiccup stepped on the line again, this time on purpose and the Night Fury's eyes turned to slits and it started growling, he roved his foot and the dragon's eyes became round and it started purring, he did this again, then stepped over the line, and smiled at the dragon, he started walking around making a sort of dance to avoid stepping on the lines until his back hit something he turned to see the dragon standing on his hind legs looking at him with big round eyes, Hiccup slowly extended his hand to try and touch its snout but it growled slightly, Hiccup then looked away and moved his hand so it was almost touching the dragon's snout, after what felt like hours he felt a warm scaly skin touching his palm, he looked at the dragon who removed his snout from Hiccup's hand and they locked eyes, then the dragon licked Hiccup in the face earning a 'Ewww' from him but a smile afterwards.

"What should I call you?" he asked, shaking the last bit of saliva from his clothes, the Night Fury, looked at him curiously

"What about Toothless?"

"Why Toothless?"

"Well he has retractable teeth… "

"What do you think about Toothless?" he asked the Night Fury

The Night Fury seemed to ponder for a bit then nodded, Toothless it was then.

The newly named dragon - Toothless - nuzzled Hiccup's chest and Hiccup slowly scratched him under the chin.

"I should be heading back, bye Toothless I'll see ya tomorrow, probably" Toothless, looked at the lake

"You want to take a bath?"

Toothless looked at him with the Are-you-really-serious-guy? face and looked at the lake again.

This time Hiccup saw a fish.

"You want me to bring fish?"

Toothless nodded eagerly, Hiccup chuckled.

"I'll bring you a whole basket!"

Toothless seemed to like the idea and pounced on him and started licking him.

Hiccup left, after he manage to leave the Night Fury's licking session, and shaking most of the saliva off he headed for the village.

When he entered the village he saw the teens lead by Gobber heading for the watch tower, he decided to join them and headed towards the tower.

When he got there they had just arrived and the food was still cooking, he sat down next to Astrid.

"Hey" He said to all of them

"Hey" was their reply

He sat down next to Astrid, while Gobber started to talk about how he lost his hand and leg

"Where did you go?" Astrid whispered

"Went to see something"

Astrid's face turned white has she realized that he had gone to see the Night Fury.

"Tell me you didn't go see that dragon!" she whispered even lower

"I did and it was.. amazing, he's really smart and actually kinda cute"

"You could have been killed!"

"Sorry Astrid, I just needed to know"

She sighed "I understand" Hiccup was about to smile but he was slapped across the face by Astrid, earning a very loud 'OW!'

Everyone, except Astrid and Hiccup, started to laugh their butts off.

"What was that!?" Tuffnut asked "It was awesome, let me try" He leaned over to slap Hiccup, but Astrid's death glare told him to back off

"None of your business" Astrid simply said, and knowing her, Gobber resumed the story.

"And that dragon must've spread the word because it wasn't a month before another took my leg!" Gobber finished

"What if you had killed the dragon and like opened it's stomach" Ruff said " and took your hand back out, could you like sew it back to your arm and use it again?"

"No" Gobber, Hiccup, Fishlegs and Astrid exclaimed at the same time

"I'm so angry right now!" Snotlout said angrily "I'll avenge your beautiful hand and your beautiful foot - I'll bash off the legs of every dragon I fight, with my face!" They all picked up their now cooked food, from the sticks over the fire.

"Nope" Gobber answered "It's the wings and tails you really want. If it can't fly it can't get away. A downed dragon is a dead dragon."

It was like Astrid's slap, Toothless would never be able to fly, he felt so bad in that moment, it wasn't his fault, but the thought of not being able to do anything to help made him sad.

"You could make a prosthetic"

"What?" he whispered, Astrid heard and turned to him, he simple pointed to his head, it took her a moment to remember the fact that he could hear a voice inside his head but she nodded

"Like Gobber make him a prosthetic tail fin, so he can fly again!"

Hiccup grinned realizing what the voice meant, he dropped his fish and ran down the stairs.

"Hiccup! Where are you going!?" Astrid shouted after him

"I have something to do, so don't wait for me guys!" He shouted back

Astrid grunted, said goodbye and told them not to wait for her as well and rushed after Hiccup.

Hiccup arrived at the forge, entered his small room and got a big piece of paper, first he'd need a blue print of the prosthetic.

He laid the sheet down on his table, and has he was about to grab his charcoal pencil,when a hand grabbed his arm, he panicked for a moment but looked at the owner of the hand and relaxed when he saw it was Astrid but the look she was giving didn't really allow him to relax a lot, her look was a mix of worry and annoyance.

"What are you doing Hiccup?" she asked

"Something for Toothless"

"Toothless?"

"The Night Fury"

"You named the Night Fury!?"

"He's not the mindless killer we point them out to be"

"Explain" letting go of his arm and sitting on his table.

Hiccup explained what happen earlier in the morning, the Cove, Toothless, the playful dirt fight, the drawing, everything.

Astrid remained quiet throughout the explanation.

"Why Toothless?" Was her first question

"Really! I befriend a Night Fury and the first question you make is why Toothless?"

"Yea it's a weird name for a Night Fury"

"Voice told me to name him that"

"I assume 'Voice' is the voice inside your head" He nodded "But that doesn't explain why you're here"

"When I first saw him in the Cove yesterday, I noticed he was missing a tail fin, so that's why I'm here, to make him a new one"

Astrid nodded "I want to meet this Toothless"

He tough for a moment "Tomorrow I'll show you to him and we can try the new tail fin"

She smiled "I'll leave you to work on your project, or do you need any help?"

"No, but thanks"

Astrid, unable to contain herself grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him into a long, passionate kiss.

When they separated a few moments later, Astrid was blushing slighlty and Hiccup had a huge grin on his face.

"G'night Hiccup"

"Good night Milady"

After Astrid was gone Hiccup decided to get down to business, he drew a schematic of the fake tail fin, then melted iron, removed bolts from shields and collected leather to start making his tail fin.

Don't worry Toothless I'll get you back up there, bud

After at least a couple hours of work he had a leather and iron tail fin, it looked almost identical to the real one, but being the distracted fool he is he forgot he didn't know the measurements, so he had to guess it, but it have to do for now.

He looked out the window it looked to be almost midnight, figuring he still had time he decided to work on the blade of Endeavour.

It wasn't long before a drunk Gobber came stumbling down into the Forge, he didn't have time to even make the blade it self only most of the system that made it pop out, deciding it was best not to leave Gobber sleeping on the stone floor he gathered all his strength, which wasn't much sense he relied more on speed in his fighting style, he managed to pull Gobber to his feet and walk him home.

The next morning he woke up early, he was sleepy but he wanted to show Astrid Toothless and Toothless was probably hungry for breakfast, so he went to the storage and grabbed a basket of several fish, he looked inside and saw a brown trout some Icelandic cod and a smoked eel.

He went over to Astrid's house, it was early so there was no one on the streets just the occasional sleeping drunk Viking, she wasn't at her window so he laid the basket down and climbed, a bit of the wall to her window, he was going to climb in and awake her but he remembered that she might not be dressed properly so he climbed back down, wrote a on small piece of paper, Hiccup always walked around with papers in his pockets in case he needed to write some notes it had proven very useful, and wrote.

'Meet in the back of my house

Hiccup.'

He quickly climbed just enough so he could put his arm inside the window, and dropped the paper.

People were starting to wake up so Hiccup had to run to the back of his house, making sure to stay in the shadows, when he arrived at the back of his house he placed the basket down and sat on top of it.

It wasn't long before Astrid appeared, wearing her normal clothes, a smile on her face.

She smiled brighter remembering a year before when they met here, a restart of their great friendship.

"Hey there" She greeted

"G'morning Milady" he answered back grinning

"Let's go meet this Toothless"

...

I love the twins, you can make say the funniest things.

So it was 'Voice' who came up with the name Toothless, damn that guy, and it was him who got the idea for the prosthetic.

See you next time!