A/n: This was the last of Emerald has been Cumberbatched's three ideas. That means that trystrike's one is next (yep, I'm doing it, just without shipping. It's a cute idea!)

'What now?' Toothless asked. Both he and Cloudjumper had spent the majority of the day helping the various dragons around the island, and now they had nothing to do. Usually this would be the point when Toothless sought out Hiccup and the two would go on a flight together, but today Hiccup was going to be working at the forge all day.

'Go for a flight?' Cloudjumper suggested. At Toothless's unimpressed glance, he corrected himself: 'Sorry. I don't know then. How about we talk to Hiccup?'

'Might as well.' Toothless agreed. If Hiccup wasn't going to go on a flight with him, the least he could do was have a chat.

"Hey bud..." Hiccup greeted, hefting a hammer onto the table in front of him, "What brings you here?"

'Flying!' Toothless said happily, swinging his tail around to demonstrate and knocking a group of swords off their shelf in the process.

"Not now bud," Hiccup said, going over and picking the misplaced weapons up. Toothless smacked him in the head with his tail accidentally as he walked over, sending him flying into the shelves. "Toothless!" he complained, rubbing his head as he sat up and tried to brush the collection of sharp objects off himself without getting injured.

'Come on...' Cloudjumper instructed, knowing when to give up. Toothless shook his head stubbornly and glared at Hiccup.

"Fine," the chief relented, "If you want to fly that badly, you can use the automatic fin." Toothless growled. "Oh, come on! I'm busy! I'll take it off in a bit, and we'll have a proper flight. Until then, it's that or nothing."

Toothless sighed. 'Fine.' he agreed moodily. Hiccup nodded, expecting the result, and walked into his space. Neither dragon was small enough to follow, so they simply sat and listened as Hiccup knocked over various things and robably fell over himself a few times in his efforts to retrieve the tail, which hadn't been used since Toothless returned it after that first Snoggletog. Hiccup returned and Toothless bowed down, letting Hiccup attach the fin. 'It's gonna be a really long flight.'

'All night!' Hiccup promised with a laugh as the two dragons left the forge. "Now... where was I?"

'What's wrong?' Cloudjumper asked, looking at Toothless in concern. The two had set off to have a flight a few hours ago, but the younger dragon had been a lot less enthusiastic than he usually was. 'Is it really that different without Hiccup?'

'Yes,' Toothless snapped. 'It's not even worth it without him.' The alpha sighed and started to land, coming back into the village.

'Well, what should we do instead?' Cloudjumper asked, not wanting his friend to be unhappy.

Toothless looked around for a bit, then his eyes landed on Snotlout. 'I have an idea...'

"Who's there?" Snotlout asked nervously. There was no reply.

For the last few minutes, he'd been getting the distinct feeling that someone was following him. He just couldn't see anyone who could be doing it. A sudden bang behind him made him jump around, but there was still no one there. A bucket rolled into view, just having fallen over.

"Calm down Snotlout..." he told himself unconvincingly, "There's nothing there..."

"Hey Snotlout."

"Aaah!" Snotlout yelled, spinning around again to find himself face to face with Astrid. She smirked at his reaction.

"Scared?"

"What? No!" Snotlout denied, "I'm never scared!"

"That explains the screaming." Astrid smiled.

"Shut up! I'm being followed by someone!" he whispered loudly to her. She smiled again.

"Someone like... two dragons?" she asked, looking behind him.

"Yeah!" he agreed, turning round to again see nothing. "Have you seen any?"

"Can't say I have!" Astrid laughed. "Good luck finding them!"

Behind a nearby house, Cloudjumper and Toothless were barely able to contain their laughter. 'This was a great idea!' Cloudjumper whispered, 'We need to do this more often!'