A/n: This is Nathalie Shiffer's idea. (Sorry it took so long to do!)
It was a typical day on Berk. The terrible terrors were squawking at anyone who dared cross their path, dragons flew lazily overhead, and Astrid and Toothless could be heard throughout the village, arguing loudly in Dragonese.
Of course, the last point wasn't exactly typical in everyday Berk life. It was still typical enough for the residents of Berk to roll their eyes - whether dragon or Viking - and know the same thing.
Hiccup has a day off again.
'Can't you just both spend time with me?' Hiccup suggested tiredly. He had yet to get out of bed, for Thor's sake, and he already had a shouting match starting up on either side of him. At least the two had the decency to keep it to Dragonese this time - it was pretty embarrassing to have all the villagers repeating parts of the arguments to you for days after.
'No!' Astrid and Toothless snapped. It seemed about the only thing they could agree on: Hiccup could only spend time with one of them. It was his only full day off for what was going to be a while, so neither were happy to let the other take him.
'You had him last time!' Toothless whined. He was lying, and it was a point that he made every time this argument rolled around, but Astrid still felt the need to provide a counter argument.
'You spend more time with him in general!'
Hiccup sighed. They had reached that point. It was truly amazing, or at least he thought it was, that they could argue so much, then become friendly again the moment the conflict had been resolved. He supposed he was lucky in that respect; your best friend and your girlfriend not getting on held potential to cause so many problems, he didn't even want to think about it.
'I'm going to get up now,' Hiccup said, keeping his tone even and his voice lowered to a normal voice. With the volume of their screams, he went completely unnoticed. Hiccup pushed off the bed, having to clamber over the entire thing to get past his two arguing friends.
'I'm going out now,' he revealed evenly, grabbing his flying gear from the end of the bed as he went.
He was already down the stairs and at the door by the time he heard Astrid's '- right, Hiccup? Hiccup?'
"What was that for?" Astrid exploded, her frustrations at Toothless being momentarily directed at Hiccup.
"I'm sick of you arguing," he laughed, unable to take Astrid seriously with her ridiculous righteous rage. "And it's my day off. I'm going to the nest.
'My day!' Toothless shouted, springing out of the house to land on Astrid's back. 'I want Hiccup!'
"Hiccup wants peace..." Hiccup sighed, sitting on the steps leading up to his house and resigning himself to a day spent trying and failing to split up arguments.
He needn't have bothered. While Toothless and Astrid continued their argument in the form of a wrestling match, Cloudjumper and Valka swooped down to pick Hiccup up.
"He's my son!" Valka shouted down to the two, who had stopped fighting when they noticed Hiccup's disappearance. "I need to spend time with him every once in a while, too!"
Toothless growled as Valka sped off, laughing as she kidnapped his Viking. I'll show you... he decided, springing up to charge after them.
As he left, Astrid's yell of 'Stormfly!' echoed around the village.
"Thanks..." Hiccup said gratefully, taking Valka's staff in one hand to lift himself up onto Cloudjumper's back.
"No problem!" Valka laughed. "So, where now? The nest?"
Hiccup nodded. Finally, things were looking up for him; he was going to get to spend the day with the dragons, after all. He had yet to get properly acquainted with all the dragons at the nest yet, something he wished to spend the day rectifying.
Cloudjumper got them to the nest in seconds. 'Thanks,' Hiccup said again as he stood on the edge of Cloudjumper's wing.
"We'll get them off your trail!" Valka shouted down to him as he leapt off, pulling out his wings to glide into the mouth of the caves.
Toothless caught up with Cloudjumper a minute later. 'Where's Hiccup?' he demanded, looking around as if he'd be hiding under one of the other dragon's wings.
'Where is he?' Astrid asked the same question as she arrived, Stormfly's panting drowning out her words.
"He's at the nest!" Valka revealed. "And he's staying there all day, to greet the new dragons." She looked over to Astrid, who had leant down in preparation to tell Stormfly something, "I suggest you go back to the village and make sure no one's doing anything stupid." she told her.
Muttering something about Snotlout and the twins, Astrid sighed and allowed Stormfly to start taking her back to Berk.
"And you should be going to the nest," Valka told Toothless with a wink, "You need to meet the new dragons too."
Toothless gave Valka a gummy smile, nodding to Cloudjumper slightly in thanks before shooting off back to the nest.