The usual peacefulness of the morning sun and singing night terrors was a harsh wake-up call for all the human residents of The Edge. Yesterday had been the twins' nineteenth birthday and so after completing two induction trials (one of which was just a scheme Gruffnut had concocted to find gold), the gang had a rather large party with lots of drinking. Hiccup pulled the blanket over his face trying to get a few more seconds of sleep before ultimately giving up and deciding to start the day. Swinging his legs over the edge of the bed he finally noticed something very important was missing; looking down where there should have been a metal leg he saw nothing but air.
"Hey bud, a little help here," Hiccup called to the half-asleep night fury. Toothless took his sweet time waking up and sauntering over to his rider making a point that he was not ready to be awake.
"Well, I better figure something out," Hiccup said, looking over at his pile of spare legs he had yet to fix. "And that should probably start with finding my leg." Hiccup climbed onto Toothless and the two headed over to Astrid's hut. Knocking on her door Hiccup could already imagine the seething anger and as if on cue her shouts could be heard clearly. "I swear to Thor whorever is there is going to fucking regret it!"
"Good morning to you too M'lady," Hiccup said, a mocking smirk on his face. Astrid just glared at him before fixing her hair and noticing that his leg was missing.
"What happened to you," Astrid snickered, pointing her axe at where the metal leg should be.
"Trying to figure that out right now, you don't happen to know what happened last night?" Astrid shook her head before giving the brunette a morning kiss and going back inside to get ready for the day.
Meanwhile, in the twins' hut, the rest of the gang was sitting in a circle, their eyes fixated on an item they would have never been able to get so easily if it weren't for the events of last night.
"I don't know guys, I really think we should give it back," Fishlegs said, upset that yet again he had been dragged into one of the idiot plans.
"Quit worrying Fishface, there's nothing wrong with a harmless prank. You need to learn to live a little," Snotlout replied throwing Hiccup's missing leg at his larger friend.
"If you tell him, we're going to take something of yours," Ruffnut said, her eyes mischievously eyeing his pouch. Fishlegs let out a yelp, blocking the twins from taking his belongings.
"Now go hide it before he finds us," Tuffnut said nonchalantly while digging through a box containing a vast collection of stolen items.
Fishlegs shuffled out of the hut, his eyes darted every which way, and Hiccup's leg stashed away in his pouch, as he tried to avoid The Edge's resident power couple. As he turned the corner he nearly ran into the exact two people.
"Hey Fishlegs, you haven't happened to see my leg anywhere," Hiccup asked after recovering from the near crash.
Fishlegs fiddled with his fingers trying to come up with a lie on the spot. "Uhm… nope haven't seen it; strange some of my stuff is missing too. Anyway, see you later."
"That was weird," Astrid commented watching as the gronckle lover ran off. The two shook off the awkward conversation and continued on their search. Only to stop yet again when they saw the other three sitting in one of the darkest corners of the hut murmuring among themselves.
"I'm probably going to regret asking but what are you guys doing," Hiccup asked with an exasperated sigh.
"Well if you must know oh one-legged one, we're debating whether or not old Fishy-boy would be stupid enough to buy back his own things," Tuffnut explained, holding up one of the dragon figurines.
"Yeah he wouldn't, but if you want to try that be my guest," Hiccup said before leaving the three to their own idocity. Of course that is not what they choose to do instead they offered to 'help' with the search.
"I don't get it, we looked everywhere it could possibly be. It's not like it could have just walked away." …?
"Well it's a leg so yeah it could have walked away; do none of you know what a leg is," Tuff said causing the others to stare at him in disbelief. "Oh sure, I'm the stupid one here! None of you knew that a leg walked!"
"Right, well do you remember anything that happened last night maybe then we'll know where to look," Astrid said, steering the conversation back in the right direction.
"Wow imagine not having both legs, that must suck," Snotlout laughed before getting punched in the arm by Astrid.
"All I remember is that awesome fight," Ruffnut added, a small spark of joy flashing in her eyes. That's when everything came back to Hiccup, for the most part anyway.
The party was going strong and had no clear end, at some point it was decided that they would just keep going until everyone passed out. At the moment, however, a bit of a fight had started; nothing serious just the usual Snotlout-Astrid banter, the only difference being that Hiccup had joined and was on Astrid's side.
"I swear Snotlout if you don't shut up I'm going to hit you over the head with this," Hiccup said holding his false leg meer inches away from Snotlout's face. Toothless, who had been ready to go to sleep hours ago grabbed the leg, threw it into some random corner of the room, and dragged the now baffled viking to bed.
"Alright so it should be in here, only we already searched every inch of the clubhouse so what am I missing." Hiccup stated, his frustration starting to take over. Fishlegs, who had been rather quiet the whole time started pacing the room and muttering to himself.
"Uh, Fishlegs care to share," Hiccup asked, his patience wearing thin. The plump viking shifted his weight, his eyes bouncing from one group of riders to the other, gods he hated when he was put in these situations.
"Ugh, follow me," Fishlegs finally caved knowing that he would get killed no matter whose side he chose.
"Here you go Hiccup, and before you ask it was their plan," Fishlegs said walking out of his hut with the missing leg in hand and a glare directed at Snotlout and the twins.
"You know I'm not surprised that those three would do this but really Fishlegs, you too," Hiccup asked making it seem like he was disappointed but in reality, he couldn't stop himself from laughing at the way Fishlegs always found a way to get himself involved with the twins and Snotlout. Fishlegs shuffled around a bit before giving the excuse that they had threatened him, which Hiccup seemed to accept with a simple nod.
"You know what, I have the perfect consequence for you three," Hiccup said, a devilish smirk playing on his face.
"Great, now I have to do crappy chores because I went along with your guys' crappy plan," Snotlout complained, throwing the scrub brush back into the bucket of water. The twins, who were supposed to be cleaning the dragons, were sitting against the wall with zero interest in their current task.
"Are you two idiots going to do anything!" The twins looked up at Snotlout before getting on their dragon and flying off.
"Wow, that must suck," Hiccup mocked as he landed on the deck his smile making it clear that he found the whole thing to be amusing. "Shut up Hiccup."