Whilst their riders were dealt with at the party, Toothless and Snowcap had been lounging together on the raised rock that was the bed for dragons inside the Haddock house. They were snuggled up together for warmth and mainly because they loved the closeness that they both felt through the action.
"Toothless?" Snowcap eventually spoke into the dark silence that had occurred.
"Yes Snowcap?" Toothless asked his voice no higher than a whisper.
"Does mating with someone hurt?" She asked, and she sounded scared to even be considering asking him this question.
"I'm not sure...I've heard that it doesn't for a male, but it can for a female...Why?"
"No reason, I was just curious." She told him quickly, her cheeks gaining a soft blush.
"Snow, what's the matter?"
Snowcap eventually looked at him. "Toothless, I want to mate with you, and I know that you want to as well, but I'm just scared."
"What are you scared of?" Toothless asked her as they both sat up and he nuzzled her. "But, I do want to mate with you, but we won't do it until you're ready to both mate and carry our egg."
Snowcap nuzzled him. "Thank you for being considerate of me Toothless."
"You don't need to thank me, I love you, I would gladly take your feelings into consideration because I don't want to jeopardise this." Toothless told her, before he watched her.
Snowcap moved so that she was standing slightly and she looked at him. "I'm ready Toothless." She told him, her voice quiet.
Toothless just looked at her in almost surprise. "Snow, are you sure?" As she nodded, Toothless kept his eyes on her to make sure that she was 100% positive, whilst Snowcap just looked at him.
"I am serious about this Toothless."
Toothless just nodded, he wasn't about to try and dissuade her, heck he knew how stubborn she was, and he nuzzled her gently, to get her into a position which would make her first time more comfortable and enjoyable and he still nuzzled her even as he got into position.
Their mating session wasn't the usual carefree and painless time that came with the other dragons, but neither of them had expected it to be like that for their first time, especially Snowcap's. However, Toothless tried his hardest to make it as painless as possible for his mate as evidence of his love for her. He heard her let out a lust filled noise as pleasure overtook her, and this was Toothless' undoing as he released his seed inside her with the same noise, when he was fully spent, Toothless collapsed on top of his mate, he now knew how tiring mating could be, yet how satisfying he found it. He nuzzled Snowcap who nuzzled him back, feeling tired.
"I love you Snow." I told her, nuzzling and licking her back and neck.
"I love you too, Toothless."
Snowcap's voice was no more than a whisper, but Toothless still heard her, and it made him smile to know that his mate loved him just as much as he loved her. He soon regained his strength and he climbed off of her, lying beside her with his tail curling around hers, and they snuggled the dragon version of this 'cuddling' that they had witnessed their riders doing with their mates.
"We should get some sleep." Toothless told her.
"Yeah we should, before our riders come looking for us." Snowcap told him as she snuggled up close to her mate. "Good night Toothless."
"Good night Snowcap." Toothless replied, falling asleep beside her with ease.
The two dragons slept soundlessly that night, wrapped up close to each other for warmth, not realising that everyone at the party was wondering where they were. However, at the party, Caverna and Hiccup were getting the talk of the century from Stoick. Both of the teens held their heads down in shame, though all they really wanted to do was join the party.
"And another thing, when I tell you two to be there for a certain time, I expect you to be there, how do you think it made me look when you two didn't turn up on time like you had promised?" Stoick asked them.
"Ah Stoick, leave 'em be, you know what they're like." Gobber told him, before he gulped down his mug of ale.
Stoick looked back at his old friend, and then to the two sad and ashamed looking teens, before he sighed. "Alright, you two go and have fun." He shooed them away and he almost laughed as he watched them both scarper, and he sat back in his chair.
"What do you think of Caverna, Gobber?" Stoick asked as he watched his new daughter pull a reluctant Fishlegs to dance as Astrid done the same to an equally reluctant Hiccup.
"She's a wonderful girl Stoick." Gobber told him. "Though, don't you find that she looks a lot like Valka did when she was Caverna's age?" Gobber asked.
Stoick froze, and he looked over at Caverna, Gobber was right, when you saw Hiccup and Caverna side by side, they both looked the same, and he remembered Valka looking the same when she was young. He had found himself wondering about it, but also let it drop, Valka had died when Hiccup was a baby, it wasn't possible for them to be related. Was it?
Meanwhile, Hiccup was dancing with Astrid and the song that they were dancing to was a rather slow song and Astrid had her arms around her boyfriend's neck, with her boyfriend's arms around her waist and their eyes finding each others.
"Are you enjoying having a sister?" Astrid asked him as they danced.
"Yeah, she;s pretty fun to have around and makes a change from it being just me and my dad." Hiccup told her, looking over at where Caverna was dancing to the same slow song, with her arms around Fishlegs and her head resting on his shoulder as he done the same.
"You know, when most of us first saw you two together, we all thought that you were actually relation, and not just from Stoick adopting her."
"What do you mean?" Hiccup asked, looking back at her.
"Well, look at her, you both look relatively similar."
Hiccup looked at Caverna and he thought about what Astrid had said about them looking alike. "Yeah, we do."
Hiccup, Astrid, Stoick and Gobber weren't the only ones who watched Caverna and Fishlegs, but every other Viking in the Great Hall occasionally watched the couple as they danced. It seemed to go unnoticed by both Fishlegs and Caverna, but there was one couple who frequently looked at the young couple, and they had been described to Caverna was the Ingermans – Fishleg's family. She hadn't had a chance to speak to them properly, but she figured that she would soon now that all of the Vikings in the village had gathered in the Great Hall for what was known as 'Her Feast'.
As the song ended, Stoick's voice could be heard throughout the Great Hall as he stood up and hit his fist on the table to gather everyone's attention.
"Vikings gather up your glasses, and my children join my side." Stoick told them, and he watched everyone gather their drinks and Caverna and Hiccup join his side.
"Now, I would like to raise a few toasts." Stoick bellowed. "Firstly, to my oldest son Hiccup, and his beautiful girlfriend Astrid." Stoick smiled at hearing Hiccup groan as he raised his glass. "To Hiccup and Astrid!" The entire room raised their casks of ale and echoed his words, before he started to speak again. "Now to my wonderful new daughter Caverna and her boyfriend Fishlegs, daughter I can't tell you how proud I am that you have chosen a man as fine and as caring as Fishlegs." Hiccup and Stoick both laughed at hearing Caverna's grown of embarrassment, before they all toasted to Caverna and Fishlegs' relationship just as they done with Hiccup and Astrid's. When the toasts were over, everyone went back to enjoying the party, and at this moment, Caverna was standing with Ruffnut and Tuffnut, sharing a drink and she was watching the twins antics. Whilst Hiccup was with Astrid and Snotlout all of them drinking mead and talking, Snotlout was obviously really drunk by now. Meanwhile, Fishlegs was sitting at a table, watching his girlfriend who was a few tables down, and he looked back at his table as he felt someone sit beside him and he noticed his father and mother sit with him.
"Mother, father." Fishlegs smiled at them.
"Fishlegs, darling." His mother smiled, his mother had almost the same build as Fishlegs did, and even the same blonde hair but Fishlegs still had the look of his father about him.
"What is it mother?" Fishlegs asked her.
"You never told us that you had a girlfriend Fishlegs, it was quite a shock when we saw you both tonight, and when Stoick made his toast." His father told him.
"I'm sorry." Fishlegs told them, suddenly feeling shy and guilty. "I was looking for the right time to tell you though and to let her get used to living on Berk." Fishlegs told them, making his mother smile.
"You've always been so caring Fishlegs, I'm proud of that." His mother smiled. "We would like to meet her properly soon, how about, after tonight, if she isn't too hung over, you invite her over to our house tomorrow for dinner?"
Fishlegs nodded. "I think that she would like that mother." He smiled, nodding and he watched his parents get back up and leave before he made his way over to where Caverna was now talking to Gobber.
When he reached them, he got there just as Gobber asked Caverna for a dance, and he thought that he might cut in to save the young Viking from the much older two-limbed warrior.
"E-excuse me, M-mr Gobber, may I please borrow my g-girlfriend?" Fishlegs asked, mentally cursing his stutter as Caverna looked at him.
"Of course Fishlegs, I shall save a dance for you Caverna." Gobber told her as she was pulled from the room by her boyfriend.
When they were outside, she looked at him. "What's wrong Fishlegs?"
Fishlegs was pacing across the edge of the top step as he looked at her. "What's wrong? Nothing's wrong, it's just...Um..."
"Fishlegs, what is it?" She asked, grabbing him to stop him from pacing anymore, and she turned him to look at her.
"My parents want to meet you and get to know you." Fishlegs told her.
"Okay...What's the problem?" She asked.
"Well, they don't know that you're..." He gestured to her, too nervous to say the word out loud.
"That I'm what? Barren?" She asked him, raising an eyebrow and folding her arms over her chest.
"Yeah...That..."
"Fishlegs, I don't see why it has suddenly become a problem now." Caverna told him.
"It's not...Well...For me anyway...But my parents won't like it." Fishlegs told her, looking away from her.
"I didn't realise your parents had so much influence over our relationship." She told him. "If you know that your parents wouldn't like it, then why are you still dating me?"
"Because I love you Caverna." Fishlegs told her.
"If you loved me, then me being barren or your parents disapproving of my lack of ability to have children shouldn't have any affect what so ever on our relationship, but I can see from your face, it does." She told him. "Good night Fishlegs." She then walked inside the Great Hall, leaving Fishlegs stood outside, alone.