Disclaimer: I don't own httyd

AN: HTTYD 2!

Arc: Till Death Do Us Part

Days Until Wedding: 1 month and 5 days

"What Is It That You Want"

-Meathead Tribe-

Thuggery was preparing at the docks, ready for his departure towards Berk. Because of his dad's aggressiveness, it had cost their alliance with one of the most trustworthy tribes in the whole archipelago, according to him that is. His mission right now was to make peace with them. He had to do everything he knew in negotiations to get their trust back even if it meant he was going to have to marry someone in their tribe.

Mogadon was there, keeping his head down because Thuggery kept reminding him of his incompetence. Normally, he would never stand for that kind of disrespect but even his people looked down on him. In fact, he already lost their respect the moment he attacked the Hairy Hooligans during the meeting.

Mogadon saw Thuggery boarding a ship so he walked towards him "Son!" Thuggery gave him a glare so cold that he shivered. He sighed deeply "Please be careful" he said solemnly.

Thuggery just turned around and said slowly "Speak for yourself dad."Mogadon winced at the word 'dad'. Thuggery then ordered his men for departure and in just a few minutes he and his men were gone, leaving a grieving Mogadon on the docks.

Just as he was slowly trekking back to his house, one of the watchmen called his attention.

"Chief! A ship is coming this way!"

"What?!" Mogadon squinted his eyes and sure enough, a ship was heading towards them. Mogadon paled No! Not at a time like this! I still need time!

He knew that flag. It was another one of his mistakes coming back to him. He thought they had forgotten about him. This was really bad. To makes matters worse, Thuggery brought with him some of his strongest men. They were defenseless.

Mogadon closed his eyes "Odin help us all…" he whispered to himself, expecting for the worst.

-With Hiccup and the others-

"Come on man, what are you waiting for?" Tuffnut groaned as Hiccup was the only one left fully clothed. Everyone was surprised since they thought Fishlegs was the one who was going to chicken out. Hiccup was actually hoping that was the case. He wanted to have as much distraction as he could so that he would have time to walk away.

"Forget about him Tuff" Snotlout waved him off as he floated on the water. "I'm betting he's afraid that we'll laugh at his tiny d-"

"Shut up man!" Tuffnut shouted as he splashed some water on Snotlout's face. "You're just jealous of my man Hiccup here!" he said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Snotlout stood up and glared at Tuffnut "That's shit and you know it." He huffed and crossed his arms "Why would I be jealous anyway?"

Tuffnut snorted "Isn't it obvious? He's handsomer. He's taller. He destroyed that giant dragon thing. Oh, and he has Astrid" Tuffnut counted off and smiled smugly after he said the last part.

Snoutlout was seeing red "That's IT!" he jumped and tackled Tuffnut. He punched him on the nose and Tuffnut retaliated by grabbing Snotlout's ear and giving him a blackeye. Fishlegs tried to stop them but he was just shoved away and when he tried again he was punched.

Hiccup had enough. He had to stop this. He was the reason why there were fighting in the first place. He removed all his clothes and jumped in the lake and made his way towards the fighting pair.

"Ok, ok, break it up!" he said as he yanked Tuffnut away while Fishlges held Snotlout in place. "Geez you guys. You act like children!" he scolded

"Woah…" Tuffnut whispered as he stared at Hiccup's left arm. Half of it was now made of iron. There was part of the skin that looked like it was sliced but was quickly replaced by iron. Hiccup wondered if those happened during the raid. He did get hit a few times by the meatheads and he forgotten about them. Hiccup smiled sadly at that thought, little by little, his once human arm was being replace by a mechanical one.

"Dude, what happened to your arm?" Tuffnut asked once he recovered from the shock

Hiccup sighed "Guys, this is our secret, ok?" he looked at each of them "After fighting the Red Death, the giant dragon, my arm was crushed when Blindspot caught me from midair. After I woke up a few days later, Acne came to my house and told me that my arm would eventually heal but it couldn't be used again" he looked down and smiled sadly. "She said that the only way for it to fully recover was to replace it with a different one."

"Woah, woah, woah!" Fishlegs waved his arms around "She didn't mean a human arm, right?" he asked hopefully

Hiccup shook his head and Fishlegs paled "You should've seen my face when I realized what she meant. I mean, what kind of person would do such a thing?" Hiccup laughed humorlessly "That's when I got thinking, she never said that I couldn't use a mechanical one." He looked up and smiled sadly again "That's when I started planning on making one. At first I thought it was easy but after a while I realized that even designing one was a task itself." He laughed, this time with life "That's when Astrid told me that I'm over complicating things and need to do things slowly" he then raised his arm and gave everyone a good look at it "Long story short, this is the product of me and Astrid's handiwork."

Suddenly, Fishlegs' eyes widened "Wait! Does that mean that the sound we heard when Snotlout brought his hammer down on you was the iron in your arm?"

Hiccup nodded and Snotlout cheered "I knew it! I knew that he did something to win! He cheated!"

Tuffnut just gave him a deadpan look "Dude, he defeated you with his metal arm. He didn't even need a weapon to begin with" Hiccup and Fishlegs blinked at Tuffnut. That actually made sense considering it came from Tuffnut's mouth.

Hiccup sighed "And then here we are…" Hiccup noticed that Tuffnut was poking his arm

"So… since this thing is made of metal… can you feel anything?" Tuffnut asked as he continued to poke it

Hiccup swatted his hand away "As a matter of fact I still could. Acne never told me why though."

"This is so fascinating" Fishlegs said as he was now in his thinking mode "Just imagine the applications we could do to improve our men. We could be invincible!" he raised his fists in the arm while he shouted the word 'invincible'. He blinked and noticed that everyone was looking at him. He sighed "I did it again, didn't I?"

"Yup…"

"Totally…"

"Well…" Hiccup clapped his hands "As much as I want to stay here… I think I'm needed somewhere else… Things to do… dragons to teach…" he tried to reach for his shorts but to his confusion, it wasn't there. He searched for his shirt but, like his shorts, it was also not there. "Uhm… guys?"

"What?" Tuffnut asked as he pretended to have a sword for an arm

"I think somebody took our clothes…" Hiccup deadpanned

AN: I'll end it here… Damn, I'm being lazy! I just hope I would lose this sooner and not later… Enjoy and Review!