Chapter Ten:

"What!" Dad yelled suddenly, shock flooding his voice.

I grimaced slightly, recalling something that Drago had mentioned, once. Right before Toothless killed him actually. "Oh yeah, it was Drago that killed all those leaders at that Leaders Conference all those years ago that you barely survived. Yeah, he's dead now.. oh and that one wasn't me."

"Um...what do you mean by that one wasn't you?" Mr. Hofferson sounded a smidgen concerned.

"The fact that I really didn't kill him. Toothless got mad and plasma blasted him right in the chest point blank." Pausing, I turned to face my future father-in-law. "Have you seen what happens when a Night Fury plasma blasts someone point blank? Trust me, it ain't pretty."

Mr. Hofferson looked startled at that, glancing nervously over at Johan. "Um, how bad of a fighter was this Grimmel the Grisly if Hiccup could beat him?"

I raised an eyebrow at that, even as my friends turned to face him. "Been awhile since someone thought Hiccup was a bad at fighting." Ruffnut commented casually, crossing her arms as she looked at him.

Snotlout gestured at Astrid. "Astrid is a much better fighter than me... Astrid going full out while sparring with Hiccup lasts for about six minutes." Dad winced at that, giving me a sympathetic look.

Tuffnut nodded at that, a grin looping across his features. "Yeah, that's why none of us go against Hiccup. He holds back majorly when going against Astrid, and it only takes six minutes to beat her."

"WHAT!" Apparently the adults that refuse to see that we are now adults too couldn't understand that I was stronger than Astrid now.

We scattered after they yelped that, Astrid and I tracking down where Briar and Hiccstrid went to check on them while the others did who knows what. "We need to discuss our wedding plans. Eret thinks that you not coming home when we expected you means that they, obviously, figured out it was you." Astrid tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear. "Do we need to ask Gothi to officiate our wedding? Or is Eret still doing it?"

I barked out a laugh at that, swinging an arm around her shoulders. "Funny, I was going to ask you the same thing."

Astrid smiled at that, quickly pecking a kiss on my cheeks. "Well, two minds are better than one."

I groaned at that, shaking my head at her even as I finally spotted the two girls playing with a bunch of other Hairy Hooligan children. "Please don't quote the twins on me. I can't handle it right now."

"Hmm..." Astrid hummed thoughtfully, thankfully not asking me what I meant by that. "Hiccstrid come here baby."

"Mommy!" Hiccstrid tackled Astrid, wrapping her arms around her tightly. I smiled at the sight of my girls together, trying to picture what it would be like to have a child with Astrid as I stood there...not for the first time.

~Stoick's POV~

Hiccstrid looked nothing like Hiccup, and you had to squint to see the similarities between her and Astrid... clearly she had taken after her father, whoever he was. Part of me suddenly wondered if maybe my presumption was wrong and Hiccup didn't pay the guy to leave. If what the teens are saying are true, then Hiccup could have easily have killed him. "Stoick! Gothi isn't helping Johan with his bloody nose." Spitelout hollered to me, startling me out of my thoughts.

Right. I'm still chief, and right now I need to help our favorite trader, that for some reasons the teens seem to have decided to hate on, is alright. "Are you alright Johan?"

"I'm just peachy... Nothin' like havin' a idiot punch you in the face randomly for no reason whatsoever..."

"Ruffnut please don't pour that vial of poison into Johan's mug." Hiccup sounded tired as he suddenly appeared out of nowhere, crossing his arms as he stared at Ruffnut who was about to pour something kind of liquid out of a vial and into Johan's mug. I couldn't tell what kind of liquid it was, and the fact that Hiccup identified it as poison had me rather concerned.

"He totally deserves it though!" Ruffnut whined as she took a step back, putting the stopper back on the vial. Uh, I've never seen any of the Thornston twins listen to someone before. Good to know that she's learned to listen to others.

"Why are you trying to poison Johan?" I probably should figure out why she felt that was necessary.

"Because he's Johan!" Ruffnut scoffed, right before she dumped the vial's contents into the mug.

"Ruffnut! I said don't poison him!" Hiccup groaned, but he didn't seemed too surprised about what she just did.

I cleared my throat, glaring at her. "I was asking you why you were trying to do that, not telling you to do it."

"Why would I listen to you? You're not Hiccup." I turned stunned to stare at Mr. Thornston.

"Don't look at me. I could never get her to listen." He raised his hands up in surrender.

"Have you ever tried allowing the twins to blow stuff up under supervision? Works wonders." Hiccup cheerfully suggested, as if that was a perfectly sane thing to suggest.

"Ooh! Can I go blow stuff up!?" Tuffnut popped up out of nowhere, joining Ruffnut into staring eagerly at Hiccup.

"Sure... Johan has that storage island not too far from here on dragon back. Go have some fun." Hiccup waved them off like it was completely normal.

"I need to lay down..." Mr. Thornston muttered to himself.

That was when I noticed that Hiccup was by himself. "Where's Astrid?"

"With the lady that is apparently my supposed to be dead mother, Briar and Hiccstrid trying to convince the last two that they need to take a nap." Hiccup deadpanned, seemingly not impressed with what was going on right now.

Then again... I'm starting to realize that if the twins apparently listen to Hiccup now, when before they disappeared they barely acknowledge his mere existence something must have happened while they've been gone for the past five years...

Reviews!:

LJF613: Glad that you find this story funny!

Toothless Lover 13: Hiccup doesn't want to be known as the guy that sends people to their watery grave though... and I completely agree with you! Johahn deserves to die.