A/n: Idea from Emerald has been Cumberbatched. (In answer to your question, yes. Like Toothless, the movie dragon is a lot different appearance wise though (in my head-canons, anyway.))

'Wake up..' Toothless muttered impatiently. His rider was taking a stupid amount of time to wake up. Well, it was his usual time, actually, but that didn't make it any less stupid. Toothless wanted to take Hiccup out for another surprise flight, and, petulant as it sounded, he wanted to do it now.

''m 'wake...' Hiccup mumbled into his pillow, torturing Toothless with the knowledge that he was awake, just too lazy to get up and conform to his dragon's wishes.

'Flying! Now!' Toothless told Hiccup, grabbing his good leg gently in his mouth, taking care not to have his teeth out as he did. Didn't want him getting his other leg taken off. Not on his birthday.

'Okay...' Hiccup whined, pushing himself up in a truly elegant move that sent him straight off the edge of the bed and left him sprawling on the floor. 'I'm okay...' he said weakly as Toothless sent out a few worried coos.

Decidedly more awake now, Hiccup shook himself out before hopping up. 'So! Flight?'

"Woo!" Hiccup yelled, arms outstretched to brush the cloud layer as he soared past. Doing so was like dipping his hands in the ocean, only with less resistance and splash-back. "Yeah!"

Toothless gave his own whoop of joy to match Hiccup's, bringing the pair down into a nose-dive and flaring his wings out at the last moment to prevent them taking an early bath. Hiccup gave a contented sigh and leant back further on his friend's back.'So, what now?'

'We land.' Toothless said, spotting the familiar island, now only a few seconds of flying away. As they touched down neatly in a patch of grass, Hiccup grinned.

'Itchy armpit...' he said quietly, recognising the view - still as breath-taking as the first time he'd seen it. It was a bittersweet memory, tainted by the dark events that followed. Why had Toothless brought him here? There were plenty of other islands known only to the two of them -

"Hey Hiccup!"

Ah, yes. Itchy armpit wasn't known only to the two of them. "Hello Astrid," he greeted warmly, turning round to face her.

Astrid was walking out of some nearby bushes, a few twigs and leaves that had worked their way into her hair fluttering about in the breeze as she walked. She was carrying a basket, but Stormfly was nowhere to be found.

Neither, Hiccup realised suddenly as he turned back around, was Toothless.

"Did our dragons just abandon us here?" Hiccup asked, bemused. Astrid nodded, grinning mischievously. She's been in on the plot the whole time! Hiccup thought, pouting slightly as he realised his betrayal. At Hiccup's expression of fake hurt, Astrid laughed. "It's not funny!" Hiccup frowned.

"You have to admit, it's a bit funny." Astrid said, grinning even wider at Hiccup's frown. "Besides, I brought food!" she revealed, holding her basket out enticingly.

"Suppose its good the dragons didn't stay then," Hiccup commented. "Otherwise, all that'd be gone in seconds!"

Astrid smiled, sitting down on the grass and setting the basket beside her. "Let's have lunch," she suggested. "You probably slept in and missed breakfast."

"You know me too well..."

Several hours and lots of food later, Hiccup and Astrid were ready to head back to Berk. Only one problem: their dragons weren't.

Hiccup sighed in exasperation, looking at the two dragons. When he'd found them, not too far away and giving their riders amused looks from their position hidden in the bushes, he'd told them he'd like to go home. Toothless had laughed.

'Fine.' Hiccup said, smirking as he formed a plan. 'I'll just fly home myself.'

'You can't.' Toothless said, not quite sure whether to be confused or amused. 'You're not a dragon.'

'Watch me.' Hiccup said cockily, walking over to the nearest cliff edge, making sure that Toothless was in clear view.

Both dragons - and Astrid - groaned in realisation of what he was about to do.

Hiccup turned and gave the trio a sarcastic salute before he stepped straight off the edge and started plummeting towards the ground.

'No fair!' Toothless shouted after him, jumping off the edge to save his rider without a sign of being begrudging.

'Worked, didn't it?' Hiccup pointed out fairly. 'Now come on, let's go home!'

(Go Hiccup, it's yo birthday. We gon' party like it's yo birthday)