Hiccup was in his room.

It had been a few days since Toothless and the other dragons had left and still nothing about where they were or why they went.

Sighing and turning to his side, Hiccup tried to finally get some sleep when.

'Bang' 'Bang'

Slowly Hiccup sat up and after one more 'Bang' cried out

"TOOTHLESS!" and ran outside "I knew you'd come..." he said slipping on some ice and landing on his back, making him have a better view of the roof and his dad fixing the tiles.

"Morning son," Stoick says happily.

"Oh hey Dad," Hiccup says getting up.

"I'm glad you're up," Stoick says coming down "I was looking for your helmet."

"My... My helmet?" Hiccup asks slightly worried, how was he going to explain that he had lost it and it was currently floating somewhere in the ocean.

"Odin needs a place to put your goodies..." Stoick says cheerfully not noticing his son's stammer.

"Yeah sure I'll get right on that... Great..." Hiccup says sighing and turning to the harbor.

"Hold on," Stoick says picking up something was wrong. "Hold on. Ok out with it, what's on your mind?"

"Well... It's been three days Dad," Hiccup explains "I'd just of thought Toothless would be back by now."

"I'm sure he's with the other dragons," Stoick says trying to bring belief that everything was alright into Hiccup.

"Yeah? I wish I can be that sure..." Hiccup said sighing, this was the first Snoggletog with his brother and it looked like they were going to miss it.

"Listen," Stoick says sighing "I know, what it feels like to miss someone you love this time of year. But what do we do when they're not here? We celebrate them. And that's just what I'd imagine Toothless would want you to do."

"You're right," Hiccup says smiling.

"Good. Then go get that helmet," Stoick says patting (rather hard) on Hiccup's shoulder before turning and walking away "We've had enough disappointment around here."

o0o

A few hours later, Hiccup was on his way to the harbor with a pair of oars - if he was going to get his helmet back with out a dragon he'd have to sail to it, when he bumped into Fishlegs who was carrying a rather large quantity of fish.

"Whoa Fishlegs, you hungry?" Hiccup joked "You've got enough fish there to feed a dragon.

"Oh, a dragon... ha ha ha oh..." Fishlegs laughs and sidesteps Hiccup and continues on his way in a slightly faster than average 'Fishlegs speed' to a boat house.

Curious about his friend's behavior, Hiccup followed him.

After a bit Fishlegs came out, basket free, quickly closing the door and making his way back to the village.

Coming out of hiding, Hiccup checked to see if his friend was gone, before leaning the oars against the wall and opening the door.

'Got to go!' was all he had time hear before something came charging at him.

"AHHHH!" Hiccup cried being hit in the chest and scooped up my this... something.

After a bit Hiccup was able to get a better look.

"Meatlug?!" he asked.

'Hi Hiccup,' the Gronkle said before concentrating on where it was going, passing Astrid in the plaza.

"Hiccup?" she asked "Where are you going?"

"I HAVE NO IDEA..." Hiccup replied as Meatlug flew further and further away.

"Meatlug," Fishlegs called out from one of the walk ways above the plaza "What about presents? Hey!"

A bit later, after Astrid had collected her friends, they met up to where Fishlegs was holding Meatlug.

"I can't believe him," Fishlegs said speaking of Hiccup.

"YOU CAN'T BELIEVE HIM?!" Astrid screamed "YOU KIDNAPPED YOUR DRAGON!"

"Well that makes it sound so mean..." Fishlegs says.

While this was going on Ruff and Tuff were looking in some hay shocked at what they found.

"Hey guys..." Tuff said trying to get their attention.

"He flew away the second he was unleashed..."

"I'm 72% sure he wanted to stay..."

"GUYS!"

"Whoa..." Meatlug barfed up a bunch of rocks," Fishlegs says as he and Astrid came over to see.

"You're such an idiot," Ruff said "Those aren't rocks. Your dragon laid eggs."

"Hey wait, I bet that's why the dragons left," Astrid said looking at one "To lay their eggs."

"But boy dragons don't lay eggs," Fishlegs says confused.

"Yeah, your boy dragon, is a girl dragon," Ruff says.

"Ok, that actually explains a few things," Fishlegs says in reply.

"Hey everyone's missing their dragons right?" Astrid says getting up an idea going through her head.

"Oh here it comes..." Snotlout says groaning still having the taste of yaknog on his tongue.

"I've got an idea," Astrid says pulling a length of ribbon from a box on the shelf "It'll be another, new, Snoggletog tradition," she said spinning around and showing the others the decorated egg.

o0o

A few minutes later, the five friends were going around every home and placing an egg in every helmet.

Not knowing the dangers this idea came with...

AN: Sorry for the length, but the next part needed a chapter all it's own.