This is it, the final chapter. ALSO the footnote on this one is VERY important! So once you finish this last chapter it is crucial you read that. Well, enjoy the grand finale everyone.
So apparently during my fainting spell they continued the ceremony without me. Annoying, but maybe for the best. The day after giving birth and the Gods decide to throw at me, a family dispute, an unwanted responsibility, a needy baby like I could avoid that anyway, and Snoggletog is just two days away! UGH!
Asvor let me go home. So we came home, eventually ate dinner, and now we are just sitting. In silence because nobody wants to speak. And dad is off seeing if he can change the laws to the future Haddock's responsibilities as chief.
BANG. A loud thudding on the door sets Azalea crying. I quiet her down and we sit there, Rye, Me, and Azalea on one side of the fire, Hiccup and Astrid on the other.
The house is cozy, but outside the snow is falling heavy and the wind is howling.
BANG BANG. We hear it again. "What's that?" I ask in slight fear.
BANG BANG. Hiccup stops warming his hands and deadpans a response of, "It is probably just one of the dragons or something."
BANG. Another loud thud. "Hiccup! You know all the dragons are in the stables or in shelters and houses! And no other dragon would be outside!" I say, I'm terrified now, Gods I'm such a wimp.
Hiccup is standing now, BANG BANG BANG.
Azalea in my arms, Astrid and I rush to Rye and Hiccup who are standing a few feet from the door. I put myself between my brother and, what I want to say is my fiance, but that is slightly incorrect.
"Hiccup!" I cry out in fear as another loud 'BANG' comes from behind the door. Astrid is on the other side of Hiccup, and the four, no, five of us counting Azalea, are clumped together. Shoulder to shoulder in fear.
Hiccup reaches out and flips the latch, opening the door.
An angry looking Night Fury is glaring at us.
"Toothless…. Whoops…." Hiccup says and brings the dragon inside.
The dragon then curls up in the house, ready to sleep.
"I must have forgotten to put him in his stable…" Hiccup says sheepishly. I'm furious. I hand Azalea to Rye and storm over to my brother.
"YOU FORGOT TO PUT HIM IN THE STABLE?! YOU ABOUT GAVE US HEART ATTACKS!" I shout at him.
"I'm sorry! Toothless walked away and I stayed during the last of the ceremony and then went to see you and-"
"SERIOUSLY THOUGH! YOU FORGOT ABOUT YOUR DRAGON! AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE A PARENT SOMEDAY?!"
"HEY! It wasn't me who fainted!"
"AND YOU THINK I DID THAT PURPOSEFULLY?!" My anger is going away. Now it is sadness and pain.
Hiccup opens his mouth as if he is going to scream back at me. But then he looks at me with big green eyes full of emotion. My own eyes are closed and I'm fighting back tears.
Hiccup, instead of replying with words, puts his hands on Belle's face and kisses his sister's forehead. "I'm sorry…" He whispers to her.
I open my eyes and look up to see Hiccup's face staring shamefully at his feet, like they would help the problem.
I can't stay mad at him, not before Snoggletog. "I'm sorry too." I say and throw my arms around him.
Late on Snoggletog Eve. Everyone in the family is home, almost ready for bed.
Hiccup approaches Rye and taps the taller man on the shoulder. "I don't really have much of a present for you, but can I ask for this to be my gift from you? I want to relive the past, can I sleep with Belle for tonight? We used to sleep like infants in a crib, together arm in arm. Please?" He asks.
Rye debates it, but he knows how much this would mean to the pair of siblings. "Go ahead. I'll sleep on the spare bed in the other bedroom." He answers and smiles in happiness. Hiccup smiles back and quickly hugs him. Then darts down the hall.
He enters the room to see Belle sitting on the side of the bed, facing away from the door, rocking Azalea to sleep. "-Don't take my sunshine away…" He hears her sing.
He quietly sits down on the other side of the bed, and she turns around, surprised to see Hiccup sitting there.
"Hi." I say and place myself under the blankets on my bed. "One of my presents from Rye, to you and me, I'm sleeping here tonight."
I smile at him and lift up the blankets. He crawls in next to me and put his arms around my waist and I do the same. "Just like old times." I whisper.
"Old times? You're eighteen almost nineteen and I'm twenty one. We're not old." He laughs. I smirk at him, our faces are just inches away from each other, reliving past things.
"Remember that time, when I was sixteen and you were eighteen, and Snotlout smuggled a barrel of mead to the arena, and we stayed hidden in a room, the seven of us, me, you, Snotlout, Fishlegs, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, and Astrid, and we drank together half a barrel of mead?" I say with a laugh.
"Oh yeah… It was our first time drinking alcohol like that, Astrid's yaknog only got to me that one time quite a few months ago. Oh we were so drunk the seven of us! And I was so scared for the both of us! You were only sixteen!" He replies.
"It was when you and Astrid had just started getting a bit more into the whole romance thing, more intimate than before. It is funny how Astrid was your only girlfriend, meanwhile I've been engaged, almost married, and caught in a feud over my boyfriend."
"Hey, once I snagged one of the prettiest girls on Berk I didn't want to give it up. And you just want to avoid something else about our night with mead, you about had a one night stand with Tuffnut."
"No! Don't remind me!"
"I remember it perfectly, it was one of the most awkward and nauseating nights of my life. I walked around behind the writing board and some other dragon training things, to find you on top of Tuffnut, him pinned to the ground with you straddling him carefully. His hands moving upward to your, chest, and your lips were firmly planted on his. I about fainted when I saw you on him."
"Oh Gods please… I was drunk! I thought Tuffnut was one of the options I had for a boyfriend, so I took him back there and started doing some things….."
"And then a few minutes later I came to find you, and saw that. I'm pretty sure I was as pale as you were giving birth once I saw that. And then I got mad and had to literally grab you and drag you off of him."
"Oh yeah, it was bad. I still don't know WHY drunk me decided to get playful with Tuff'."
"Yeah…. We should be glad dad doesn't know what we do with our significant others, especially when we were younger. We would both be beaten!"
"Oh no. Dad has walked in on me and Rye."
"WHEN?!"
"The night I went to the Mead Hall, when I told Rye I was from the future. Dad walked in to get me, and he got to see Rye straddling a bench, and my legs wrapped tightly around his waist. And Rye had his hands on my hips, on not just placed on my hips, no, he completely slipped his hands under my shirt down the waistline of my leggings until he had his hands directly on my hips. And we were kissing pretty passionately…."
"Ick. Not just because dad saw that, but because yet another man is putting his hands on you, and yet again you are kissing, and because I'm your protector and older brother I don't like it. Ever."
"Shut up. And Hiccup, you do realize that you aren't my protector anymore, you don't have to guard me like you used to, Rye has taken that job. But then again, you aren't Rye. Maybe you know a bit more than him." I say in a teasing manner.
Hiccup's smile falters for a second, but I see him fix it and smile once again.
"Goodnight Belle…" He whispers to me.
"Goodnight Hiccup." I say in reply.
The next morning. Snoggletog morning.
Everyone in the house was downstairs quickly for breakfast, this time everyone except Azalea, whom was asleep in a more mobile cradle Belle had been given for Snoggletog, pitched in and helped cook.
It was a good meal, small, for the rest of the day would be a feast at the Great Hall, but it was good.
Soon afterwards the Haddock and Fereckson family gathered with the rest of the village at the 'Hall.
I hold Azalea close as we make our way to a large table where the gang of friends are sitting.
We as a family sit down across the table from our friends, me between Rye and Hiccup, with Astrid next to Hiccup and Azalea in my arms.
Gifts are passed out and I gain a growing collection of things for Azalea and myself. Little dresses and tunics, diapers, toys, dolls, everything. The hours roll by and everyone sings songs together.
Asvor makes her way to the family of Haddock's, minus the chief who is on the stage at the very back of the building chatting with villagers. She taps Astrid on her shoulder.
"Astrid, I have a gift for you." She says.
"Oh?" Astrid replies in slight surprise.
Asvor smiles and says to her,
"In two weeks you will be able to have your brace removed! You have healed greatly and some still gentle but less constricted weeks after that and you will be fine!"
Astrid gasps in happiness, and her husband grins in delight. The young woman throws her arms around the healer in delightful thanks. Leaving the older woman stunned greatly.
A little bit of time passes happily.
"Isabella, Rye, would you come up here please?" dad calls down to us. I don't understand the reason but I stand up to go. Astrid, Heather, and Ruffnut, who had shifted around to sit together for Boys-Against-Girls arm wrestling matches, volunteer to hold Azalea for me.
"Here, we'll hold her, we are three young women, eventually we'll need practice holding and caring for a baby." Heather says and takes Lea from me. "Especially me." Ruffnut says. "Wait what?" Almost everyone says in something around that line.
Ruffnut laughs and reaches across the table and takes Fishlegs' hand. "Fishlegs and I are engaged, and hoping to have our wedding in a couple or few months, because we screwed up. I'm pregnant." The woman says and we're all a bit shocked. Fishlegs just looks delighted, but we are stunned. Rye clears his throat and fixes the awkward silence, "Well congratulations! You'll love parenting. Most of the time." We all laugh and Rye takes my hand, he drags me up to the stage and we stand up there awkwardly for a second before dad speaks.
"Well, go ahead." Dad says. I stand there looking a bit confused, but then Rye takes both of my hands in his own. He looks into my eyes and smiles at me.
"Isabella, will you marry me?" He asks.
I burst out smiling and feel tears welling up in my eyes. We have made plans to get married, but we weren't really engaged, until now!
"Yes!" I say and wipe away a few stray tears. I glance around at the rest of my family and friends, just by the looks on their faces I can tell they already knew.
I grab Rye who is grinning at me and the cheering villagers, and I kiss him fiercely. He returns the kiss and pulls me in closer for a hug. We stand up there and kiss for quite a long amount of seconds, the sounds of everyone around us slowly fading away.
And then a long loud cry I can identify easily as my daughter fills the room. We stop kissing and turn our heads to see if our daughter is okay, but she is just fine. Apparently, Stormfly, Zip, and Toothless were playing a game, and managed to get into the Great Hall. And spent some of their attention on our little girl.
We laugh and stand, I look at my brother wiping dragon saliva off of his face, thank you Toothless, and listen to the joyous sounds bounce off the walls. Snoggletog this year is better than ever.
The End.
It is done. Isabella In Berk is done... The work put into this story, all by myself for months. 136 pages of this story is in my documents. Now, no more sappiness, onto the best part. The stories don't end here, another one is going to be up soon, the title of the next story is, Azalea In Berk . Now, the next story, as you can tell, features Azalea more, as well as everyone else. I don't want to sit here spoiling the next story, so I just have a couple things to say.
Thank You. For reading all of this, staying with me through all of this. THANK YOU!