A/n: Note a change in speech - dragons now speak like 'this', because it gets too hard to follow when thoughts are like this. I'll go back and change it for the rest of the chapters soon. (This is a compilation of various people's ideas.)

'Shut up you guys!' Hiccup shouted. The crowd didn't quieten. Oh, yeah. he thought. "Shut up!

Finally the group of Vikings stopped talking. Hiccup jumped on the opportunity to speak uninterrupted before the quiet mutters could devolve into a shouting match again.

"Now we're all here," Hiccup gestured grandly to the - much quieter - crowd of dragons behind him, "We can discuss the nest."

"What nest?" a Viking called out.

Hiccup sighed. He cared for each of the residents of Berk, but gods could they be annoying sometimes. "Back at the dragon sanctuary, there was a nest" Hiccup explained, verging on being patronising. "We aren't at the sanctuary, but we still need a nest."

"No we don't!" another Viking yelled, "We have houses!"

"Yeah!" someone else agreed, "Why are we here?"

'Shut up!' This time, despite it being the call of a dragon that told them to stop, the entire village ceased talking at once. Toothless, glowing blue slightly in authoritative anger, was the one who had shouted for silence.

"Thanks, bud," Hiccup smiled at the night fury. He spoke louder to address the crowd: "We need to compromise! If we can all come up with a nest design that suits us, I can build it."

General noises of agreement started from the crowd, voices chiming in in Norse and Dragonese alike.

"So... any suggestions?"

The silence was palpable. This is about as successful as -

'How about we use the ice?' Cloudjumper came as salvation to Hiccup's sarcastic inner monologue. 'There's loads of it everywhere, and no one can melt it.'

'I can,' Toothless boasted proudly, letting his blue alpha fire flare up in demonstration.

'Not everyone has your amazing power, oh great one,' Stormfly rolled her eyes. Astrid petted her happily, understanding a few of her words due to her Dragonese lessons but primarily noticing the way Stormfly seemed proud of her response to Toothless's boastfulness.

"Anyway," Hiccup coughed pointedly, "That's a great idea. We'll make the nest out of that. Now, where should we build it?" He directed the question more towards the Vikings this time.

"In the forest!" Fishlegs suggested. "It's close enough to reach them easily, but far away enough that nobody gets in anyone else's way!"

"Great idea!" Hiccup praised, "So, we can find a place in the forest..."

'How about that cove!' Meatlug said. Hiccup pulled a face. The cove was his and Toothless's last truly private spot. Building a nest, which would be constantly filled with dragons, in that space... Hiccup didn't like the idea.

A chief puts the needs of his tribe above his own,' he reminded himself mentally. Watching Toothless's face set in determination, he realised that they both had the same qualms, and had both come to the same decision.

"Great!" Hiccup lied, trying to sound happy, "We'll start tomorrow!"

The Vikings and dragons grumbled in contentment as the two crowds dispersed.

"Are you sure about this?" Astrid asked. She'd chased after Hiccup once the meeting ended, but he'd managed to get away from her. She'd later found him while flying with Stormfly over the island, but he had been in the cove. Now, now that Hiccup was no longer preoccupied by chiefly duties or hiding away in the forest, she could talk.

"Yeah," Hiccup insisted. "A chief puts the needs of his tribe above his own." he added, "Both me and Toothless agree."

"If you're sure..." Astrid said uncertainly. There was nothing she could do to stop him now that he'd decided; he was both headstrong and a chief, so she couldn't change his mind easily. Besides, he and Hiccup still had the skies.

Outside, a similar conversation was playing out between Toothless and Stormfly.

'Really? You're totally okay with this?' Stormfly checked, not believing Toothless.

'Okay, so not completely.' he admitted, 'But Hiccup can deal with it, so I can too.'

'Where are you two going to go now, then?' Stormfly wondered. There really weren't that many places on Berk that had any privacy, except perhaps your own home. And with being a chief and alpha respectively, neither Hiccup nor Toothless could really achieve that semblance of privacy.

'I don't know. Maybe go and find some cave somewhere and live in that.' Toothless joked. Stormfly laughed along for a bit, then froze.

'Tunnels...' she murmured, 'I've got an idea! See you in a bit!'

'Wait! Where are you going?' Toothless yelled after the nadder. She didn't reply, or even look back, as she flew off.

The next day, Hiccup, Toothless, and a group of Viking and dragon volunteers all stood in the cove.

"Right..." Hiccup said, voice slightly strained, "Let's start."

'Wait!' A yell from above halted the proceedings, and everyone looked up to see Stormfly flying urgently towards them, another dragon in tow.

"Is that... a whispering death?" Hiccup asked rhetorically. Indeed, the long spiralled body and overly large head belonged to a whispering death. What's that doing here?

"Stormfly!" Astrid shouted, jumping up to pet her dragon, "Where were you?" she asked, voice betraying her relief.

'I had an idea!' Stormfly explained. 'See, we can get the whispering death to dig some caves for us!'

'Where?' Toothless wondered. He wanted the idea to work - especially if it meant he and Hiccup could keep the cave - but he knew it needed to be a good idea, one that would work.

'I found some cliffs near the edge of town. Me and the whispering death discussed it, and he agrees that we could build a nest there!'

'That's great!' Hiccup smiled. "Change of plans guys! We're going to the cliffs!"

With the whispering death to help them, the nest was created in a few hours, and all the dragons were easily settled into their new homes. The ice from Drago's bewilderbeast was still used, though it was to make the caves feel more like home rather than to craft an entire nest from it.

'I'd say this day was quite successful,' Toothless decided, sitting down next to Stormfly as both of their riders enjoyed their tea. 'Thanks for helping.' he added, 'Now we still have the cove!'

'Hey, what're friends for?'