I woke up that morning to Toothless practically dragging me out of bed. I got dressed and Toothless pushed me down the stairs.
"Well good morning Mr. Bossy." I said Toothless kept pushing me. I then noticed that Frostbite had finally woke up. "Morning Frostbite." I said going to get the dragons' breakfast. Toothless gave Frostbite half of his fish. I didn't blame him, I had given Astrid half of my food before when she was pregnant for Hackett. She was now pregnant with twins, and I was really excited. She was already starting to show too. I guess it's because she had two instead of one.
Snoggletog was coming up. Toothless and Frostbite would be leaving soon. I had already given Toothless his Snoggletog tail so that they could leave whenever they needed to.
It was actually that next day that the dragons left. I said good bye to Toothless and Unn was crying as she said good bye to Frostbite. I pulled Unn off of Frostbite and our dragons took off. Unn broke free of me and ran toward the migrating dragons. I ran after her but to tell you the truth, I am not that good of a runner with my metal leg. I was not able to catch her, but I was able to keep her in sight. Unn stopped at the cliffs and cried as she watched Frostbite disappear into the horizon. It was easier to see Toothless longer than Frostbite because of her white color. As soon as I couldn't see Toothless anymore I picked up my crying baby girl and brought her back toward the house.
While on our trip back Unn started to calm down.
"Will Frostbite come back Daddy?" she asked.
"Well last year all the dragons came back in time for Snoggletog." I started. "I think they may be back around the same time." That still didn't seem to cheer up Unn at all. That night I had to rock Unn to sleep. I knew Unn was going to be upset with Frostbite being gone for so long, but I didn't expect it to hurt so much to see her like this. I hoped that they came back for Snoggletog. I figured it was the perfect time to make her feel special like Astrid and I did when Unn surprised us for Snoggletog 10 years before.
The next morning I woke Hackett and rushed straight for the dining room.
"Somebody's hungry." I said as I made my over to Unn's room.
"I want to get a head start on Unn's present." Hackett said. "Her birthday is in a couple day." I smacked my forehead with my hand. Unn's birthday. I had completely forgot with all the drama going on. Astrid and I talked about it and we both agreed that we didn't want her to feel as if Snoggletog over shadowed her birthday. So we usually made a big deal out of it. I was in charge of presents and I had nothing ready. What do I even get her. I had new saddles for her and Hackett, but that was for Snoggletog. I went in and woke up Unn.
"Come on sweet stuff." I said kissing her head. "Gotta get up."
"There is no point." she said. "Frostbite isn't here." I started to tickle her, but she didn't laugh and pushed my hands away.
"Unn, Frostbite will be back." I said. "She may have a Snoggletog present for us this time when she comes back." Unn just laid on her bed with her face in her pillow. "Unn, do you want to help me with my duties today?" I asked. Unn turned her head toward me.
"Really?" she asked. I smiled and nodded. Unn smiled, jumped out of bed and ran toward breakfast.
That day was a lot of fun. We had a couple of disputes to settle, a marriage contract to approve, checking how much food we had for the winter, shoveling the snow that came the night before, typical chief duties. Unn made every little thing that would usual groan at something I would laugh at. Unn was as curious as i was when I was her age, or even more. So she usually do silly little things or get into trouble. Not bad trouble. Good trouble. Like when I was settling the dispute between Mulch and Bucket, Unn was chasing the sheep and one of the sheep ran past us with Unn behind it.
"Uh, what is she doing?" Asked Bucket.
"I don't know." I said. "Unn, what are you doing?" I called over.
"She won't hold still!" Unn yelled.
"Why do you need her to hold still?" I called. Unn finally tackled the sheep to the ground and that was I saw it's face. I started to laugh so hard. Mulch and Bucket were laughing too.
"I am not done painting it yet." Unn said. Unn was painting the sheep's face in outrageous colors. The sheep looked so annoyed and the fact she kept painting it was hysterical! Mulch and Bucket were laughing so hard that they forgot what they were fighting about and Unn and I left.
That evening was the night that Astrid and I decided to tell Hackett and Unn about the twins. Supper was over and I asked them to stay at the table.
"So what's going on?" Asked Hackett.
"Did we do something wrong?" Unn questioned.
"No you didn't do anything wrong." I laughed. "Momma and I want to tell you something." I stepped behind Astrid and wrapped my arms around her little baby bump. "Hackett, Unn, we are adding two more members to the family." I couldn't contain my excitement. "Momma is pregnant. With twins!" Unn jumped up.
"Momma is going to have babies?!" She asked. I nodded.
"Yeah Momma is going to have babies." I said. Astrid was blushing madly and it was making me want to take her, but I kept myself under control for our kids.
"That means I am going to be a big sister!" Unn said excitedly. "I hope they are both girls!"
"No way. They are both going to be boys." Said Hackett. I could help but chuckle. I remember when Astrid and I fought over Hackett being a boy or a girl.
"What if there is one boy and one girl?" asked Astrid. I was happy to hear anything about having children. I know I wanted a girl when Astrid was pregnant with Hackett, but now that I had Unn, I really didn't care what gender they turned out to be. I wanted a lot of kids.
"No there is going to be two girls." said Unn.
"No there is going to be two boys." Hackett shot back. I was too excited to notice that Hackett and Unn were fighting. Soon Astrid tore the two apart and sent them to bed. As she and I came back from saying good night to Hackett and Unn, I gently kissed Astrid.
"What was that for?" she asked.
"Oh I just think that you are amazing." I said. I kissed her again. "You are so beautiful." I went to kiss her again and she stopped me.
"What is wrong with you?" She laughed. "Every time I get pregnant, you become a huge flirt. Do you like the baby belly look?"
"You got me." I said. "I love the look you get when you are pregnant."
"Oh I have a look do I?" she laughed as she grabbed my shirt.
"Oh yeah and it is divine!" I smiled. Astrid kissed me, then lead me up the stairs.
