I go back to my room and put my sleeping clothes away. I lay down on my bed and keep one hand on my tiny baby bump. I hear our front door open and close. An ax is dropped by the front door, Astrid must be home. I hear Hiccup clomp down the stairs.
"Hey Hiccup! Lazy afternoon, thought we could cook up lunch here! Rye said he would come and help, maybe your dad will stop by for a bite to eat. Where's Isabella?" Astrid says in a rush, Hiccup looks at her. "Astrid, that dragons blood in Isabella has taken a full effect. I will have Fishlegs document this, Belle's going to have a baby. She found out nearly four weeks ago. And, I trust her when she says hasn't done anything else that would cause her to fall pregnant." He says to his no longer grinning wife. "Oh, wow. Can I go talk to her?" She asks him, Hiccup nods his head and Astrid jogs up the steps.
My door creaks open, I glance towards it to see Astrid. "I'm presuming Hiccup told you..." I say as I stare out the window. I sit up against my headboard, Astrid takes a seat beside me, one leg dangling off the bed. "Yeah, do you have a bump yet?" She asks me. I tug on my tunic and show off the small roundness. Astrid runs her fingers over it. "Don't worry, you won't hurt me or the baby if you press harder." I ease her of her caution.
Astrid smiles a little and places a hand on my bump. The front door slams again below us. I hear Hiccup's metal foot click against the floor as he stands up, but two sets of footsteps. Rye and dad I'm going to guess. We wait for almost fifteen minutes in silence, we can hear a few words from Hiccup. "Hey you girls! I brought home cooked chicken! Come eat!" Rye calls to us. Astrid stands and waits until I'm standing before walking down stairs.
Astrid takes a seat next to Hiccup at the table, I seat myself between Hiccup and Rye. "So, my daughter is going to have a baby?" Dad asks me, I can sense some pride in his tone. "Yes, now I know it's awkward, Rye I can already tell you were told about the dragons blood. But let's make this a pleasant time, for everyone. Let's do something fun, come up with names. Names for a boy first." I take charge of my situation. Everyone looks a bit more relaxed. Rye looks at me, "Before we start, am I going to be the dad of this kid?" He asks me, I think in a joking way, then answer him. "Yes, of course you are. You, are going to have to pretend that you are the actual father. Nobody else knows or will know about the dragons blood. Now start picking names for boys." Rye nods and accepts his position as father.
He speaks up again with a name suggestion. "Ashin," I smile, "I actually like that." I say. Dad chuckles and I turn my head to look at him. "How about we name it Gobber?" He says and takes a sip of his water. "Oh yeah, Gobber Jr, that would work so well. The kid would be swept up by Gobber and taught to be just like him. Becoming the actual Gobber Jr." I say with an eye roll as punctuation.
Astrid takes her turn, "How 'bout full name, Ashin Finnick Haddock." A small smile forms on my lips, "I think that might work! But let's get Hiccup's name suggestion first." I reply, Rye jumps in while Hiccup is thinking, "Wait, if the baby is my kid wouldn't its last name be Fereckson? Ashin Finnick Fereckson?" He asks all of us. I turn my head to dad, he's chief, he should answer this one.
"Well… I will have to look at the laws, and consult some others. For now, for now we will mix both the last names, err, Haddockson. Until I can find out, the baby's last name is Haddockson." Dad attempts to fix our problem. I ignore Astrid's tries of covering her giggles. Haddockson, oh Gods… I look at my older brother, "Got anything?" He puts his chicken leg down. "As well as this is going we might as well call it Hiccup and let it suffer teasing as well." He says with slight sarcasm. I take the ridiculous offer, "Done deal, if it looks anything like you it can be nicknamed Hiccup." Hiccup stares at me for a second then nods his head.
"Names for a girl?" I ask everyone. This time dad goes first, "Angora Carrie Haddockson!" He says, "I like Carrie, more or less on Angora..." Rye clears his throat, "Alma, Kaylin, or Katrina." He says,
Astrid jumps in, "Name her Aster! That will be a great example!" She says, Hiccup lightly hits her while I roll my eyes. But apparently Hiccup likes little girl names more than boys. "Kylin Alma Haddockson." He says simply.
I grin. "Yes! So if it's a boy the name will be Ashin Finnick Haddockson, and if it's a girl her name will be Kylin Alma Haddockson!" I say in an over excited tone. Dad gets up and grabs his helmet, "Got more chiefing to do. So you later." He says and walks out the door. Astrid gets up a minute later, "Rye wants me to show him some more dragon training tricks. Come on father-to-be." She says and goes to get her axx. Rye looks at me with a slightly annoyed face and follows Astrid out the door. I look at Hiccup, "Want to go flying?" I ask him. "Are you sure you should?" He asks me slightly worried.
"I'm pretty sure it's safe. If you want me to ride with you on Toothless that's fine." I say, really it's an excuse to fly on Toothless instead of taking Zip out. My dragon is shedding some scales, and spikes... I have to stop flying on Zip unless I want to accidently hit someone with a spike. Hiccup doesn't understand why I don't just fly Zip over the ocean. I've tried that, every time Hiccup coaxes me into it, I almost get thrown off and have to come in early.
Hiccup nods and I fetch my boots and slide them on. "Toothless!" Hiccup calls the dragon, who must have jumped in my window because he clomped down the stairs from my bedroom. Hiccup gives Toothless a pat on the head and we walk out the door. Hiccup puts Toothless's saddle on while I throw Zip an extra fish. "We're ready." He says, I turn around and walk over to Toothless, what? I glance down and smirk a bit, my belly jiggles a bit, Hiccup must have noticed the new movements, that and he really has no experience with this stuff. I start to put my foot in the stirrup to boost myself onto Toothless, but Hiccup puts a hand on my shoulder before I can even lift up my foot.
He slides an arm under my knees and one under my arms. He scoops me up, some very familiar snickers come from behind us. Hiccup spins around, with me still in his arms. "So Belle, are you like, completely unable to move your legs?" Ruffnut asks me. Snotlout steps up beside him, "And what's with the chubby stomach?" Snotlout says. Hiccup sets me down, "She can use her legs, and she is NOT chubby, she's going to have a baby in around eight months." Hiccup defends me. Ruffnut, and Tuffnut's jaws drop. Fishlegs looks excited, and Snotlout might pass out. Fishlegs turns to Tuffnut, "I knew it! You owe me a chicken." He says to the male twin. I look at the two of them like they're insane. "You were betting on if I was pregnant?" I question them. Fishlegs blushes a bit, "No, Tuffnut and I were betting on which one of you would become a parent first. I said you, Hiccup and Astrid just don't seem like they will…." He says and trails off at the end.
"I'm standing right here!" Hiccup yells. Ruffnut is snickering at this tangled up conversation. Snotlout takes the chances, "So Belle, who's the dad?" he asks me and leans against a post. I draw back my arm to hit him but Hiccup stops me. "Don't," he whispers to me.
I glare at Snotlout, "Very funny. It's quite obvious who the father is, now I believe Hiccup and I were about to go flying." I say, Hiccup nods and proceeds to pick me up again. He turns back around and whistles for Toothless who has wandered over to our stalls by the house. The black dragon bounds back over and stands in a ready position. Hiccup sits me gently on Toothless, I straddle him and scratch him for a minute while Hiccup double checks the connecting rods and other pieces.
Snotlout and the others have already flown away. Aaaah flying…
Hiccup stands and is about to sit down in front of me when we stop. Toothless turns his head back toward me, he sniffs and seems to become giddy, I slide my legs over to one side and let Toothless turn his head back to sniff over me, he sniffs at my lower stomach. Then lifts up an ear and listens closely. He stops sniffing and listening and gives a kind of purring sound. Then lets me go back to my straddled position. I look at Hiccup, "Can dragons, sense unborn babies?" I ask Hiccup, he shakes his head to put himself back in reality.
"I don't know, I guess they can. I will add that to the new book Astrid, Fishlegs, and I are working on. It's a book on what dragons can do, what illnesses they can spread, what makes them sick. Cures, you know, stuff like that." He says then straddles in front of me.
He clicks his metal foot into the stirrup and gives Toothless a nudge. The dragon gives a leap and flaps his wings hard, we fly out until we're out over the ocean. A nice breeze is blowing. "Smell the sea water?" Hiccup asks me. I sniff and then it hits me. A very large scent of sea water wells up. Oh gosh, I try to shake it off. And that works for a few minutes. But the scent is unable to rid of. "I'm gonna be sick.." I say, Hiccup jerks his head up from his loose concentration on a random Deadly Nadder catching fish beneath us. "Should I turn back? Should I land!?" He asks me, and glances at my nauseas body. "N-no," I stutter. Hiccup turns back to look at where we're going. But I notice his gaze snap back to me when I make a slight choking sound. I throw up my lunch. It falls and hits the water. I wipe my mouth with my sleeve,
"You okay?" Hiccup asks me. "I'm fine, I'll get used to this.." I say. Hiccup directs Toothless towards Dragon Island, that's always a pretty place.
So, opinions? I've been writing so much lately. You guys must be loving it! We had to have a little humor, the name selection, the betting.. That end scene of them out flying, I was liking it so much.