Before Hiccup could ask anything else, the monster sniffed the air. "Oh Gods." Toothless breathed from next to him. "She smelled us!"

Hiccup knew that cannot be good. "Tooth, we have to get out of here, bro." he said, swiftly helping Astrid on Toothless's back.

"I can't agree more." Toothless said as he felt Hiccup use the pedal on the saddle to open the potositic to take off position. He got off the ground not a moment too soon as the Queen's head snapped at the spot the three were. Hiccup and Astrid looked back at the dragons flying behind them. Even though Hiccup could only understand his brother, it seemed as if the other dragons were formed in some sort of winged shield around them.

Toothless flew straight ahead, trying to ignore the cries of 'humans' coming from the Queen and panicked yells of 'get them to safety' from his fellow dragons and focus on his flying while Hiccup worked the tail from his back. Soon they landed to be greeted with a sharp "What happened?" by a worried Stoic the Vast. After making sure both his boys were alright, Toothless got a drink of water from the lake as Hiccup explained.

"And Toothless flew us out of there." Hiccup finished.

Stoic went over to Toothless. "Good work, my son." He whispered. Toothless nodded, not wanting to sift and cause another shock to his brother's system so soon. They heard Hiccup yelp, and winced. Astrid must have punched him.

"That is for nearly getting us killed." He looked at his dad and brother, who just shrugged. Then, Astrid kissed Hiccup. "And that's for a fun night." she murmured, blushing.

"We better head home." Stoic said softly. "You coming, Hiccup?"

Hiccup shook his head. "I'll catch up later. I need to talk to Toothless about something."

"It'll rain soon." In answer, Toothless raised his wing over Hiccup's head, making him chuckle.

"I think Tooth has me covered there, Dad."

He chuckled as well. "Alright, just be back by time Gobber calls the other teens for dinner."

After they left, Hiccup turned to his brother. "Toothless, that, thing, back at the nest, I know you said it was causing the raids, but how?"

"It's the Queen. She came to the nest and took us over. Myself being an exaption, if the dragons don't bring her food, she'll-"

"Eat them." Hiccup shivered, remembering what happened to the gronkle. "Well, I'm glad you're an exption to that rule."

"So am I she makes living there hard, though." they both laughed then grew silent again."There is something else troubling you, what?"

"It-it's nothing brother." Hiccup answered. He did not want to tell Toothless about the other teens. Astrid and Fishlegs liked him, Snotlout was the best cousin he could wish for, and the twins practically ignored him. All the other teens was a different story all together, they hated Hiccup's guts.

"Oh come on, bro, you know you can tell me." Toothless said nuzzling him caringly. "I will never let anyone hurt you.

"That's what I'm afraid of." Hiccup said in a low voice. It was not low enough.

"Hiccup," Toothless growled dangerously, pulling his brother closer,"DID someone hurt you?" He was practically in his brother's paws, and could feel his muscles tighten protectively. As their dad said,it started to rain. Toothless brought his wing over Hiccup, still not letting him go.

Even though Hiccup did not answer his question, Toothless already knew the answer was 'yes', he could smell the hurt coming off his twin in waves. They stayed like that until the rain let up, than Hiccup rushed home.

Snotlout and the other teens turned as Hiccup came in, soaking wet. Three minutes away from the village, the rain became another downpour. "And where did Hiccup go wrong?" Gobber asked.

"He showed up all week." one teen said.

"He didn't get eaten." another teen suggested

"He kept getting IN the dragon's way instead of trying to stay out of it." Snotlout said, making a slight patting motion on a Hiccup-sized gap at his right. But when Hiccup started to sit down, Ruffnut scooted into his seat.

He started to sit at Snotlout's left, but Tuffnut closed the gap. With a sigh, he went to sit at an empty table. Snotlout stood, grabbing his plate. "Where are you going." Snotlout glared at Tuffnut.

"To sit with my cousin."

"That sounds like a good idea. I think I will join you." Astrid said, doing the same thing.

"Want some company?" Hiccup looked up as Snotlout and Astrid sat on eighter side of him, and smiled.

When Gobber showed them the book everyone left, Fishlegs more reluctantly than the others. "Well, I guess we will share, then." Hiccup said to his friends.

"I already read it, but I won't mind reading it again." Astrid said ,scooting closer so she can see.

"Reading's not my thing, but alright." Snotlout said, doing the same thing.

I know Snotlout's a little, ok, a lot ooc, but I like him that way. I got the idea for Snotlout being caring towards his cousin from the fanfic TTT by Httyd4eva. In it, Snotlout beats someone up just because they hurt Hiccup.