This is a very important chapter, read carefully. I'm not sure how I like the idea that follows, but I have to do it. I set myself up for it, and without using this plot line it would be a very boring story. But now that you've suffered through reading this piece, enjoy the next chapter.
Hiccup sits up and bumps me in my sleep, I open my eyes as we hear knocking on the door. We suddenly realize that people want to visit Hiccup, I scramble out of bed and grab a comb running it through my hair. Hiccup runs his hands through his hair and makes the bed so it looks like we've been up for a while. "Coming!" I say as I put the comb down and run to the door, Hiccup stands and adjusts his metal foot.
I open the door, A small crowd stands there, in front is dad, Astrid, and Rye. Behind them is the twins, Fishlegs, and Snotlout. Astrid runs in infront of everyone and grabs Hiccup. She kisses him in a very excited way, she must be really anxious. They never kiss each other in public!
"Astrid!" Hiccup says as he hugs her. "Gosh I'm glad I can leave this room today!" He finishes with a grin. Dad laughs at the happy couple as everyone finds a place in the room. Rye stands by me and places an arm around my waist. Astrid drops her grasp on Hiccup, the only thing Hiccup loves a bit more than Astrid and me, and dad, is, "TOOTHLESS! BUDDY! I'VE MISSED FLYING ON YOU!" He says as the ecstatically bouncing dragon bounds into the room. Toothless nudges Hiccup as he pets and hugs the dragon.
"Has he been ridden recently?!" Hiccup asks in a panic, Rye removes his gaze from me and looks at Hiccup, "Yeah! I did it for you, three times a day. And took Zip out with me as well." Rye says with a smile that says everything without needing words. Hiccup walks over to Rye, who removes his arm from me. Hiccup gives him a quick squeeze of a hug, "Thank you SO much! I was afraid he wouldn't get any flight times while I was stuck here!" Hiccup says happily to him.
Rye laughs nervously at the slightly smaller man, "Your welcome. Now that you're better maybe you can find me that wild dragon to tame? So I can marry Isabella eventually." Rye says with a hopeful smile, Hiccup nods and laughs, "Sure. Inbetween that I have to finish off some wedding details. Don't I Astrid?" He teases Astrid. Who at Hiccup's antics laughs a little, "Yes! You do! I want to be married in a month! I've waited to long!" She says. Oh it's good for everything to be normal again.
Snotlout pipes in from the corner, "There better be yak butter parfaits!" Fishlegs eagerly nods, "Uh huh! And smoked salmon and pies!" He says in his still squeaky voice. The twins snicker in unison, "And a fire, a huge bon fire!" Tuffnut says with excitement in his eyes. Wedding plans….
It's hard to believe how quickly a month and a half can pass when you are putting together a wedding and watching your boyfriend train a Monstrous Nightmare. Rye got himself a dark blue Nightmare, trained it himself and named it Fireworm. He earned me and a saddle, It's kind of odd having to be won over by someone. Honor wise, he won over my heart a long time ago.
The wedding plans, so hectic, Astrid got a nice blue dress, I got a brown dress, because I'm filling in for our mother, meaning I'll walk in behind Hiccup. Hiccup got a very tight dark blue tunic and grey vest. With grey leggings, everyone will look nice.
A few minutes and Astrid will be family! It's starting, dad and Astrid's father walk up to the platform, then in comes Astrid and Hiccup! I walk a few feet behind Hiccup, who turns and winks at me nicely, Astrid's mother beside me, we take our places at the front. Astrid's father starts on Hiccup's vowels, "Do you Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third take Astrid to be your wife? To protect and guard through the rest of your days?" He loudly says to the huge crowd,
Hiccup grins, "I do!" He says and failing-ly resists the urge to bounce up and down on his foot. Dad turns towards Astrid, "And do you Astrid Hofferson take Hiccup to be your husband? To heal and love for the rest of your days?" He says even louder, Astrid smiles and looks at Hiccup gently, "I do." She says, Stoick pulls his shoulders back and yells loudly, "THEN BY THE POWER OF ODIN, I PRONOUNCE THESE TWO, MISTER AND MISSES HADDOCK. YOU MAY KISS."
Hiccup takes lead this time and swoops Astrid down, planting his lips on the tip of her nose and moves down to her lips. The whole village erupts loudly, Snotlout, who no matter how annoying, is still our cousin, directs Toothless to fire at the bon fire a few feet behind us. The pile of logs bursts into flames. Everyone cheers as Hiccup and Astrid march into the crowd, I follow in pursuit.
We eat and dance a bit, and sing some viking songs, and then the mead is broken out. Fishlegs comes up to me, "Mead?" He offers me a mug. "Uh, no, thank you. I don't think that would be wise." Fishlegs questions me, "Why would that be? I know you can't hold rum very well, but this is different. It won't hurt you, you should drink it. Wait! Are you, pregnant?" He whispers the last piece to me.
"Thor no! I just don't like the taste, even Yaknog tastes better in my opinion." I say in a rushed and embarrassed way. Fishlegs nods, "Yeah, it's not that good of a taste." He says. I shuffle my feet, "I'll see you later, I'm going to go talk to some people." I say, Fishlegs nods and I start walking off. I slip out a back door, that was close.
I found out last week, but I think I might actually be pregnant! I don't understand it though. I haven't even done anything that would cause me to fall pregnant, but the day I noticed those symptoms of pregnancy, nausea, unneeded stress. I also saw that my stomach was glowing, I had to wear an extra layer to keep the glow from showing through. I sit down on a bench and put a hand on my stomach, after the day of glowing, it disappeared. I can press and push as much as I want, but no glow. I don't understand, if the dragon blood was going to cause me to fall pregnant with a baby, then why didn't it happen earlier? Like, around six years earlier! It's like all the blood has been drawn to one thing, and just vanished from me. It's scaring me a little, but if I really am pregnant, then is the dream I had true!? A slight warm air blows over me, and I feel tired suddenly. I curl up on the bench.
I feel a hand rubbing on my shoulder, "Wake up Belle. Time to go back home." A voice says, I open my eyes to see Hiccup standing above me. I must have slept through the last piece of the wedding. I nod and follow Hiccup to our dragons, Stoick is on Thornado, Astrid is on Stormfly, Rye is on Fireworm, Hiccup is mounting Toothless. And I hop on Zip, everyone has a dragon. We all fly back to the house, we are all living under one roof.
My idea succeeded, and I won over the idea of adding on two rooms. Inside Hiccup carries Astrid into their new room, Rye walks into his, and I head to my own, which was me and Hiccup's old one. I change quickly and lay down on my bed. I put a hand on my stomach and rub it gently, am I really going to have a baby? It's just so confusing…
I wake up one morning, I already know that Hiccup and I are the only ones in the house. Our Mrs. Haddock as we tease her, is out on Stormfly training for the day. Dad's the chief and most likely won't get back until tonight, doing whatever chief's do. And Rye is at the dragon training arena with Fireworm for a bit, then he is going to go find some work, possibly on fishing boats.
Dad is getting used to all five of us under one roof, with two young couples, one married, one not, he is adjusting to lots of kissing. He has walked in on some kissing sessions before, nothing worse luckily. I slide out of my bed and go over to the shelves. I pick up a tunic and leggings. I got some tightened and adjusted to my figure, which is a little awkward. But I slip them on anyways. I try to pull the already tight leggings past my hips, but they won't move, oh no! I think I just certified me having a baby. My stomach has a small, bump to it. Small, but noticeable. I rip the leggings back off and slide my sleeping clothes on, Hiccup can probably give me something.
I knock on the door, "Come on in Belle, I'm just working on the Book of Dragons." He says, apparently he knows we're alone as well. I open the door to their room, they have one large bed, a clothing trunk, a weapons and armor barrel to keep their battle ready stuff in, and Hiccup has a desk and stool. "I'm just getting a tunic and a pair of leggings." I say as I go to open their clothing trunk, "Go ahead, change in here if you want." Hiccup says without ever looking up from his work. "Thanks,"
I say as I grab a green tunic and some random grey leggings and change quickly. I walk over to Hiccup's desk, "What are you working on?" I ask him as I stare at the bad hand writing which I'm guessing is notes about something.
"Get me more charcoal from the jar under the desk and I'll show you." He teases me, I roll my eyes and bend down to grab some, I notice he's staring at my middle section. I put a piece of charcoal on his desk, he seems to debate something for a second, "Belle, lift up your shirt." He commands me, I frown at him, "Why?" I ask, "Just lift up your shirt!" He says loudly, I roll the hem of my shirt up to the bottom of my rib cage.
Hiccup gets down on his knees and stares at my stomach, he runs a hand gently over my hips. "Have you gained weight? That's impossible! You and I, we never gain weight." Hiccup says as he looks at my small bump of a stomach, "Wait, are you...?" He asks slightly panicked. "Yes..." I say, oh this is bad.
I didn't want a baby yet! Odin please spare me.. Hiccup sits back down on his stool with a thud, I grab another stool from behind the door and place it a foot from him. He stares at me, wide eyed, mouth open, not even blinking. "So did you and-" He starts to say, but I cut him off.
"No! We wouldn't dare. I, I think the dragons blood finally took a bigger effect. Because if I press, no glow. How am I going to tell dad! And Rye! And what if the baby is some half dragon creature!" I panic, Hiccup tries to calm me a bit, even though he looks like he's about to pass out. "The baby won't be half dragon, you aren't half dragon. I didn't expect this, but I should have... I'll tell dad and everyone else for you. You look stressed. And you need to just relax, something might go wrong if you keep worrying. Don't panic okay!"
I glare at Hiccup, "Says the guy who looks like he's going to pass out! Hiccup, you aren't getting the full message are you? Your sister, is going to have a BABY." I argue, Hiccup looks at me, his face changing to an expression of sudden realization. "When did you find out?" He asks me, "Around four weeks ago..." I mumble, Hiccup looks at his metal foot. "So eight months 'til." He says.
He goes and sits on his bed, I follow and sit down beside him. "Why did this happen? I just wanted to stay young like this, not expecting a baby. And as much as I love time with Rye, and all the people in the house, I miss it being just you and me..." I confess, "Hiccup blinks back some tears, I throw my arms around him, he pulls me into his lap and hugs me. He plants a kiss on my forehead. "I don't know why, I've missed you to. But everything will be okay Belle." He comforts me. I feel his hand slide down and rest on my still small stomach. A baby, eight months until I have a baby...
Alright, you are going to think I'm crazy doing this, but that dream scene, it needs to be more than a dream. But I'm not going to spoil some major stuff I have planned. ;) Keep reading and reviewing everyone!