To Belong

To Belong

She was the weird foreign girl, he was the most useless Viking in the history of Berk. Together they were just Leandra and Hiccup. Two best friends who searched for their place in the world. Would their search for it unite or separate them?

Chapter 4

After the first artificial tailfin Hiccup and Leandra start a daily routine with their dragon friends.

In the night they work together to make a better tailfin for Toothless, early mornings they go to the Night Furries, and spend time with them, trying to get Toothless to fly again, then Hiccup goes to dragon training and Leandra to Gothi.

When Hiccup presents Toothless for the first time with a saddle and harness, so he could help Toothless fly, the dragon was not impressed and run away from him.

The boys chased each other through the cove.

Leandra, who leans on Starchaser, snorts, and the female dragon joins her.

Then Starchaser nudges Leandra, looking at her with big puppy eyes, then pointing at the still-running boys.

“You wanna play, catch?”, coos Leandra at her dragon, giving her a head pat.

Excited Starchaser wiggles her tail.

So the two girls play catch with each other, laughing and smiling happily.

Hiccup who finally managed to catch Toothless and put on the saddle on him, can’t help but smile softly at the scene before him.

His best friends seem so carefree chasing and getting chased by Starchaser around. It reminds him of the little girl he meet ten years ago, who became his dearest friend.

Toothless is just happy that his mate has another playmate. He likes the black-haired girl, she gives good pets.

“This is AMAZING!”, shouts Leandra into the heavens.

She is flying for the first time on Starchaser back over the cove.

This feeling of freedom!

It’s unexplainable. You need to experience it yourself.

Starchaser cooes at her.

The dragon is happy that her human girl is so excited.

Toothless and Hiccup are also trying out to fly together. But the tail breaks free sending Hiccup flying.

“Hiccup, Toothless!”, shouts Leandra worried.

Starchaser whines, thankful both boys landed in the pool of the cove.

The girls are flying over to them, stationary in the air.

Toothless seems to let out a sign, while Hiccup decides he needs to build something which doesn’t make him fly off the saddle.

Leandra is sitting with Starchaser beside her in the cove. Tufts of different healing herbs before them.

“Okay, what do you think about this?”, she holds a tuft of Chamomile under Starchaser’s nose.

Her dragon friends sniff it, making a pleased sound.

The black-haired girl nods and writes it down in her journal. She is determined to make her own healing herbs book for dragons with receipts for ointments and salves for them.

Starchaser is a big help.

She gives the Night Furry a kiss on the snout, which Starchaser recuperates with a lick on her cheek.

“Aww, Starchaser, you know this takes awhile to wash away!”, whines the Spanish girl.

The female Night Furry just laughs.

That’s when Toothless and Hiccup come back from their test flight and Toothless…seems high?

Leandra really doesn’t have a better word for it, how Toothless is all wobbly on his legs, tongue lolling out and peaceful expression on his face.

Worried Starchaser walks over to her mate, but he just falls down before her, showing her his belly. The female Night Furries doesn’t seem to know how to handle this situation either.

“Hic, what’s wrong with Toothless?”, ask Leandra standing up. She worries too.

Her best friend just grins and hands her some green grass.

“Toothless landed in dragon nip, you know, just like cat nip.”

Oh, this explains it!

She gets her journal down and writes this down too.

Could be useful in the future too.

Leandra and Hiccup give their respective dragon a good cuddle and scratch session.

Both Toothless and Starchaser are enjoying it greatly.

That’s when both teenagers rub behind their ear plates, causing the dragons to relax and fall over.

The best friends stare at each other and then at the purring dragons on the ground.

They can’t help but laugh.

Finally, Leandra’s grounding is over and she can eat again in the Great Hall with Hiccup.

Like they are used, they take a table for themselves when suddenly they are swarmed by the teens minus Astrid and some adult Vikings.

“Hey Hiccup.”, greets him Fishlegs.

“What was that?”, ask Snotloud excited. “Some kind of trick? What did you do?”

“Hiccup, you're totally going to come in first, there's no question.”, tells him Tuffnut.

Even more, questions get fired in Hiccup’s direction.

Of course, no one takes note of Leandra, she is just like an appendage on Hiccup, even if she sits beside him.

She rolls her brown eyes and catches how angry Astird smashes her cup against her now vacant table.

Well, at least someone else feels worse than her.

Maybe that will take down the Hofferson from her high horse and make her humble.

That’s when she feels how a hand takes hers.

She looks down and sees how Hiccup gives her hand a squeeze.

This makes Leandra smile a bit.

Even if Hiccup is now famous, thanks to the things he learned from Toothless and Starchaser about dragons, he will never forget her.

So Astrid is in a worse situation than her.

Hah!

Leandra can’t help but feel satisfaction in it.

With his hammer, Hiccup has created a little light spot, which Toothless and Starchaser chase around the coven like big kitty cats.

“Dragon nip and now this.”, can’t help Leandra but laugh. “Are we sure our Night Furries aren’t actually big cats?”

“Well, they DO love their fish.”

“Oh my lord you are right!”

Both best friends laugh heartfully.

Leandra spreads her arms to feel the wind around her. She and Starchaser are taking a flight around Berk.

The Spanish girl will never get enough of this feeling of liberation.

Up there, close to the clouds, she feels like she can be her true self.

No parents who want a Viking girl, no Gothi who wants a perfect apprentice, no villagers who see her only as the foreigner.

Here with Starchaser, she can be…just Leandra.

Thankful she pets her dragon.

“I love you.”, she tells her. “Without you, I would never feel this.”

Starchaser purr at her. She loves her little human too.

They return to the cove and see how desperate Hiccup tries to get off Toothless.

“What’s wrong?”, asks Leandra.

“The harness is jacked. I can’t break it off.”

That’s how Leandra finds herself sneaking into the village at night. She told Hiccup to stay put with their Night Furries since it was better she got the thing from the blacksmith stall he needs to free himself from Toothless.

She sneaks up to shadow to shadow. Careful that no one sees her.

Finally, she is at the blacksmith stall and gets the thing Hiccup needs.

Like she is a shadow herself, she makes haste back to the cove.

No one in the village is non the wiser.

“Are you both ready?”, calls Leandra on the back of Starchaser to the boys.

Both Night Furries are flying for the first time in a long while side by side.

Today is the final test.

Today it will show if Hiccup succeeded in making a tailfin for Toothless and if they can fly together.

Billowing clouds rise like mountains. The ground seems miles below them.

“Ready as we will ever be!”, calls back Hiccup to her.

“Okay, me and Star, will stay close if something happens, but the stage is your Hiccup and Toothless.”, tells them Leandra and makes Starchaser fly now behind Toothless.

“Okay there bud, we're gonna take this nice and slow.”, reassure Hiccup Toothless with a side pat. “Here we go. Here we go...position three, no four.”

He presses the pedal, causing the tail to flare. They roll off into an arcing bank, gloriously lit by the late afternoon sun.

Hiccup tucks tight against his neck, thrilled that his new harness and vest are holding. The foot controls make the tail appendage quick and responsive. He watches Toothless' every fluctuation, trying to match it with the prosthetic.

He sizes up a target a towering arch of stone, rising from the sea.

“Get ready for anything, Star.”, whispers Leandra to her dragon. “We are going in and the boys could need our help.”

Starchaser grumbles in agreement.

“All right, it's go time. It's go time.”, calls Hiccup.

They dive toward it, lining up to pass through the arch.

“Come on. Come on buddy. Come on buddy!”, Hiccup encourages Toothless

They zip through the arch. A perfect maneuver.

“Yeah! Yes, it worked!”, he yells happily.

Leandra and Starchaser sign together. Seems all to be okay. The triumph is short-lived. They smack into one of several sea stacks as Hiccup tries to keep up with the turns.

“Sorry.”

They hurtle into another rock pillar. Toothless grumbles. Leandra facepalms and Starchaser deadpans.

“My fault.”

Toothless swats him with his 'ear' plate.

“Yeah, yeah, I'm on it.”, Hiccup promises and checks again his cheat sheet. “Position four, no three.”

They pierce the clouds. For the first time, Hiccup can see the whole of the island below them. Leandra all ready seen it on her flies with Starchaser, but she is still charmed by the view.  

It shrinks with every passing second. He swallows hard and tightens his grip on the handles.

“Yeah! Go, baby! Yes! Oh, this is amazing! The wind in my...CHEAT SHEET! STOP!”

However, Toothless obeys the command and suddenly stops beating his wings. As they slow to a stop, Hiccup goes weightless. The rings of his vest float off of the harness hooks. Hiccup suddenly finds himself detached, free-falling!

“STARCHASER, GO GIRL!”, commands Leandra scarred for the life of her best friend and his dragon.

Like she is a rocket Starchaser dives after Hiccup and Leandra can pull him behind her. He hugs her so tight, that she can’t breathe, but she lets him.

“Toothless!”

“I know, Hic!”

Starchaser dives after her mate, helping him to roll back into the flying position. 

The girls can’t even look that fast as Hiccup bravely jumps from Starchaser back to Toothless.

“DIOS MIO, HIC!”

Hiccup finally grabs hold of the harness and manages to lock in just in time to pull Toothless out of his dive barely shy of the tree tops. Leandra and Starchaser are again behind the boys.

They careen past the wooded cliff and directly into a treacherous slalom course of jutting sea stacks. Hiccup pulls the cheat sheet from his teeth and attempts to check positions. It flaps violently in the turbulence, making it impossible.

With no time to think, Hiccup throws it away and steers Toothless' tail on instinct with perfect intuition. Together, they manage a tight, hair-raising series of split-second turns, making it to the open water, unscathed.

The girls are behind them and let out a relieved sound.         

Hiccup takes a breath and glances back at the death-defying obstacle course, now safely behind them. He beams, relieved.

He sits back and throws his arms up in victory.

“YEEAHHH!”

“WUHU!”, can’t help Leandra joining Hiccup in his celebration.

Toothless and Starchaser concur with happy squeals and a fireball each. Hiccup's and Leandra’s glee turns to dread as they fly directly into it.

“Ah, come on.”, he groans.

Leandra just puts her arms over her face.

Better than nothing.

Later our quartet is on a deserted little island on its beach. With Toothless’s help, Hiccup made a fire and Leandra with Starchaser caught for them enough fish to eat.

Leandra and Hiccup are cooking their fish over the fire while leaning comfortably on their respective dragon, who gleefully enjoy their share.

Suddenly Toothless regurgitates a fish head. Hiccup smirks with forced politeness.

“Uh..no thanks. I'm good.”

Starchaser does the same thing and looks with big eyes at the black-haired girl.

“I’m good, Star, don’t worry.”, she tells her Night Furry and waves around her stick with her cooked fish.

Several Terrible Terrors land like seagulls, hissing and nipping at each other as they approach Toothless' pile of fish. One grabs the regurgitated fish head and drags it away. Another attempt to steal it from him. They face off and last fire balls at each other to settle the fight.

The four watch, amused.

That is until Toothless spots one of his fish leaving the pile. A stealthy Terrible Terror is exposed as the thief. They tug on the fish, and it snaps back into Toothless' mouth.

He swallows it back tauntingly.

Irate, the little dragon paws at the ground and blast Toothless. He opens his mouth, the gas hiss comes, and Toothless fires a tiny flame straight into its mouth, causing the gas to backfire into the little dragon. It coughs up smoke and staggers away, looking ill.

Hiccup, Leandra, and Starchaser laugh.

“Not so fireproof on the inside, are you?”, the brunette says to the little dragon. He throws the helpless Terror his freshly cooked fish. “Here you go.”

The appreciative little dragon gulps down the meal and approaches Hiccup cautiously. He curls up next to him.

Both humans are amazed.

“Everything we know about you guys is wrong.”, Hiccup carefully pets him sending the Terror into an immediate, blissful sleep.

Leandra joins in and signs: “The world is such a cruel place. We judge before we understand something. Look at us being friends with dragons. I wonder if others can do it too.”

“I don’t know Lee, for 300 years my people fought and killed dragons…why did no one take the time to understand them, as we did?”

“I don’t have an answer either.”

Now both teenagers sign loudly.

Their dragons don’t like the mood swing of their riders and they nuzzle their cheeks.

This makes Hiccup smile a bit and Leandra hugs Starchaser.

How the world changed for them.

What should they do now?

Next

Making Waves

You are a young mermaid, not ready for your adult responsibility when you find a secret underwater tunnel that leads to a secret cove. You couldn’t imagine how your life was going to change because of it. HiccupXMermaid!Reader

Chapter 7: We can change the world

You hate to leave Toothless all alone in the cove.

You hated more that you couldn’t go with Hiccup to his village and watch how he shows his people the truth about dragons.

But you needed to do it.

It was high time.

So after weeks away, you returned to the underwater place your coven used as a home. You lived around a sunken old ship, in the underwater grottos.

You hoped you could return to your home to your parents without a fuss, but of course, your neighbors and friends saw you and swarmed you.

Your best friend hugged you tight and screamed for a solid minute about how you could vanish for weeks without a word!

You let them get it out, that’s when they got your scent and stared with big eyes at you.

When merpeople mated they had a special scent then on them.

You read in their face the question of who the hell you mated with.

That’s when your parents arrived and you gladly let them hug you till you couldn’t breathe anymore.

Your parents asked the same questions, mostly your mother, why did you leave without a word, where have you been, till they smelled you too.

Your father took both your mother and you by your hands and swam up to your home.

This was a family matter.

Your neighbor and friends could wait.

After you made yourself comfortable in your home you told them anything. When you finished your tale, your parent’s chins were on the floor.

“You found a life mate.”, your father said in shock.

“A human!”, your mother shrieked.

“A Viking no less.”, reminds your father.

“A Viking who made friends with a dragon!”

“A Viking who made friends with a dragon and is the next leader of his people!”

“Mom, dad, can you keep it down!”, you begged them.

You bet the whole neighborhood heard it.

“Sorry, my little dolphin, but this doesn’t happen often that our people mate with humans.”, tells your mom this and holds the hand of your father.

…Wait what?

“It happened before?”, you shriek now shocked.

You never heard that a mermaid or merman mated with a human before. You thought you would get in trouble because you mated out of your species, yet your parents were mostly calm.

“Ah yes, the last one was Marina. She was a childhood friend of mine.”, told your father this. “It was before the coven moved to these waters, she lives in a place called Italy now with her human mate and children.”

You just blink.

Huh.

“So you are not angry?”, you asked to be sure.

“Of course not, seastar. Sure if you mated with a merperson then you could stay here, but you can visit us.”

“And we will come visiting you and your mate and our grandchildren too.”, says your mother smiling and looking excitedly at your stomach. “Do you think you are already with child?”

You blushed and put your hands on your stomach.

“We only mated once…”

“Oh my little dolphin, your papa and I needed only two shots before I was pregnant with you!”

“MOM!”

“WOMAN, DON’T SAY SUCH THINGS OUT LOUD, THAT’S STILL OUR CHILD!”

Your mother just giggled at your horrific face.

Oh by the seven seas, you would not think about your parents doing that.

You shiver all over.

Nope! You have amnesia now!

In the end, you made your way back to the secret cove happy and glad.

Sure after talking with your parents, you had needed to tell the Elders of your coven about your mate and that you would now live mostly on land, but they took it pretty well.

Like your parents told you, you weren’t the first to mate with a human, so the Elders had experience with such a case.

They asked you only to follow a few guidelines.

Don’t tell anyone where the coven lives and only tell you are a mermaid if it’s really important and you trust this person.

So no problem that also Astrid knows about you.

If anything goes well you needed only to tell Hiccup’s father about yourself, so you could get married in the human way too.

What you would tell the rest of the village and when your parents visit you, you had no idea, you and Hiccup would take care of it when it was time, you decide.

Anyway, you arrived at the secret cove and called Toothless: “Toothless, sweetheart, I’m back!”

Strangely no Toothless came bouncing up to you.

Frowning you got on land and searched the entire cove.

The dragon wasn’t here.

Did Hiccup come earlier to the cove and took Toothless for a flight? Does this mean his plan worked?

You decide to get dressed, then you would check again for some clues.

You couldn’t put your finger on it, something just was weird.

It was like in the air.

You found a clue that made goosebumps appear on your skin.

A part of the high stones of the cove was filled with claw prints. Something, Toothless, who tried desperately to get out of the cove and succeeded.

“Oh no.”, you said. You started to run out of the cove. “Oh no!”

You didn’t care if Vikings spotted you as you raced to the forest following Toothless tracks.

Something terrible happened, your feeling was right.

That’s when you saw a familiar figure racing towards you.

“Hiccup!”, you yelled happily.

“[Y/N]!”

You both meet each other in a tight embrace.

“Are you okay? Are you fine? Where is Toothless?”, you fired one question after another checking your mate for injuries.

“I’m fine, but, oh pearl, all ended in a catastrophe!”

Hiccup told you how he was unable to show the village the truth about dragons. If it weren’t for Toothless your mate would have been toasted by a Monstrous Nightmare! Somehow your dragon friend had sensed that Hiccup needed him. The dragon protected him even against the villagers who wanted to harm actually the Night Furry. They capture Toothless and Hiccup told his dad the true why the dragons raided them. Just Stoick, Hiccup’s dad, didn’t listen to him how dangerous the giant ass dragon actually was and disowned his son also.

Yeah, your mate had a pretty shitty day.

After Astrid talked to him, Hiccup got an idea of how he could help his people who were sailing towards danger, but before he wanted to check on you.

He was happy that at least you were fine.

What he wasn’t so happy about was that you insist on coming with him.

“I’m going to fight the Red Death! Before a hoard of Vikings!”

“I understood you the first time, you can use my waterbending to aid you. I will waterwhip this bitch back to the hellhole it crawled out!”

“They didn’t react well at Toothless, I don’t want that they see you as a monster also when you throw water around. Also, your Elders told you to tell as few people as possible. Outing yourself to nearly the whole village goes against it!”, he argued.

“I’m pretty sure the Elders will understand that I did this to save our dragon friends from the Red Death! Please, I want to fight on your site. Together we are stronger!”, you plead and caressed his cheek.

He looked into your eyes and saw the determination.

“You would just swim after me, right.”

“Yup.”

“All right, then together!”

Your mate takes your hand and you run to the Kill Ring, not caring if someone is seeing you.

You can’t even take in the place as Hiccup makes haste to the Monstrous Nightmare's pen.

Suddenly you hear an unknown boy’s voice: “If you're planning on getting eaten, I'd definitely go with the Gronckle.”

You both turn around, you only recognize Astrid, but the other young woman and the three young men must be Hiccup’s fellow recruits from Dragon Training.

“Wow, who is the bombshell, who holds Hiccup’s hand.”, says the young man with black hair and practically salivates at you.

You frown and Hiccup gives him the evil eye.

Thankful Astrid hits his helmet and declares: “[Y/N], his girlfriend so hands off you all. She is cool, we can trust her.”

This seems to be enough to not get asked questions by Hiccup…friends? They take Astrid words without a doubt.

You smile thankful at her and she winks.

Yeah, definitely not a bimbo.

The long-haired blond young man steps forward with a scowl.

“You were wise to seek help from the world's most deadly weapon.”, he declares. “It's me.”

He gets shoved out of the way by the black-haired who called you a bombshell.

“I love this plan.”

Now he gets shoved by the other blond-haired young woman.

“You're crazy. I like that.”

You are ready to hiss at her, thankful Astrid comes up and grips her by the horns of her helmet.

“He has a girlfriend, Ruff. One who will do horrible things to you if you don’t lay off.”

“Sick!”

You can’t help but snort. These Viking young adults are a hoot.

“So? What is the plan?”, ask you two Astrid.

You and Hiccup smile at each other.

Time to make some dragon riders out of them.

Hiccup steps back from the door, drawing the Monstrous Nightmare out of its cave. It snorts, stepping into the ring, calmed by Hiccup's outstretched hand focused on him.

You see how the other Vikings are bewildered in awe. Well, okay Snotlout, you learned their names, nervously reaches for a spear laying near his foot, but Astrid stops him.

Hiccup slows to a stop in front of you all, with the Nightmare inches from his outstretched hand.

He reaches over and grabs Snotlout's trembling hand.

“Wait! What are you...”

“Relax. It's okay... it's okay.”, calms Hiccup him down.

He replaces his outstretched hand with Snotlout's, putting him in control of the massive beast. The Nightmare snorts but remains calm. Snotlout, by contrast, chuckles nervously it's at once terrifying and amazing.

The others watch, spellbound.

You smile at their faces. They look like children who saw magic for the first time.

While Hiccup searches for his friends something to hold on to the dragons, you let the other dragons out.

A Nadder, a Gronkel and a Zippelback.

Then you go over to Astrid and lead her to the Nadder. You have a feeling this two will do well with each other.

You are flying on the Nadder with Hiccup and Astrid.

The plan was that you and the gang occupied the Red Death, while Hiccup got Toothless.

As you arrive at the Dragon Nest and you can’t help but gasp.

The Red Death is already out, torched the ships of the Vikings, and now is hunting them.

Hiccup doesn’t waste time and asks the Nadder to attack the Red Death with her flames.

Kablam!

The blast explodes against the back of the Red Death's head. It turns distracted, as the Nadder punches through the flames, banking across the sky. Followed by the Monstrous Nightmare, the Zippleback, and the Gronckle.

The dragons roll in unison, revealing to the adult Vikings the recruits and you riding on their backs.

Hiccup, of course, leads and starts to give commands: “Ruff, Tuff, watch your backs! Move Fishlegs!”

The monster shakes off the blast and snaps in your wake. Hiccup directs your squadron out of harm's way. You climb out of reach and circle each other.

“Look at us, we're on a dragon!”, yells Tuffnut to the awestruck adults. “We're on dragons, all of us!”

“Up, let's move it!”, orders you Hiccup.

That’s what the dragons do, climbing past the Red Death. Your group circles over its head.

“Fishlegs, break it down.”, ask him Hiccup.

“Okay. Heavily armored skull and tail made for bashing and crushing. Steer clear of both. Small eyes, large nostrils. Relies on hearing and smell.”

“Okay. Lout, Legs, hang in its blind spot. Make some noise, keep it confused. Ruff, Tuff, find out if it has a shot limit. Make it mad.”

“That's my specialty.”, preens Ruffnut.

“Since when?”, wonders Tuffnut. “Everyone knows I'm more irritating. See.”

He follows this up by hanging upside down his Zippelback head.

“Just do what I told you.”, signs Hiccup exasperated. “I'll be back as soon as I can.”

“Don't worry, we got it covered!”, reassures Tuffnut.

“Yeah!”, adds Fishlegs.

Hiccup, you and Astrid peel away to search for Toothless. He has to be on one of the burning ships!

“There!”, Hiccup shouts and steers Nadder over the deck and hands Astrid the reins.

He lines up his jump and hops off, guarding his face against the flames. He lands on the burning deck.

You get ready to waterbend.

You make an arc-like movement, careful not to catch Toothless and Hiccup in the waves, and dose the ship with the ocean water.

At least the ship doesn’t burn anymore and this will give Hiccup enough time to free Toothless.

“Awesome pearl!”, yells Hiccup up at you.

“Mermaids for the win.”, can’t help Astrid herself to add.

You grin.

“Get Toothless, me, Astrid, and the Nadder will help the others.”

Hiccup nods and you girls fly up to the Red Death. You waterbend as much ocean water as you can after you in a long stream.

Astrid and you flie by on her Nadder, catching Snotlout in all his heroics by playing whack-a-mole with the Red Death eyes.

“Yeah! You're the Viking!”, tells him, Astrid.

Snotlout grins, finally vindicated in her eyes. In his distraction, he gets thrown, but thankful you are there and catch him in a waterstream.

Careful you take him to the ground away from the Red Death.

“Thank you, mermaid girl!”, he calls up to you.

Yeah, you had told the gang what you really were on your flight here. Better before they saw you waterbend, it would be a drag to explain later all this to the adults. Mostly to Hiccup’s father.

You nod and turn to Astrid: “Astrid, hold on tight!”

You go into another bending position.

“Hey, you ugly ass bitch how about this!”

You waterbend at the Red Death head the biggest waterwhip you have ever done. The giant dragon nearly falls to the side. You let the water return to you and attack again with the waterwhip. This time the bitch falls down.

“Awesome, [Y/N]!”, cheers Astrid.

Her cheer is short-lived since the Red Death stands up again and starts to inhale, preparing to blast.

You, her, and her Nadder get caught in the suction, pulled toward the monster's gaping mouth.

You try to waterbend, anything to help you guys, but the air circulation is too strong. You lose your grip on the water and it splashes down on the ground.

That’s when you hear the familiar whir of the...

“Night Fury! Get down!”, yells a Viking.

A massive blast jolts the Red Death's head sideways.

Astrid and you are thrown clear of its mouth and her Nadder.

You two can grip each other hands and you try with your free hand to reach for the ocean water, so you don’t end up as pancakes but you don’t have to worry since you get caught by the leg.

You look up to see Toothless.

“Sweetheart!”, you nearly cry happily.

He gives you his cute toothless smile.

Hiccup and Toothless fly over the crowd of Vikings and set Astrid and you down.

They circle back to reengage a black speck against the clouds.

“Go.”, whispers Astrid after them.

“End this.”, you add quietly too.

You feel how Astrid squeezes your hand and you squeeze back.

You stay by her as you watch Toothless and your mate fight the Red Death with anything they got.

You pray to the seven seas that both return to you.

In the end, they must have sent a plasma blast into the Red Death’s mouths since it hits the ground, head-first. It explodes in the biggest explosion you ever saw.

Dust and ashes are twirling around the Vikings, who watched with you, and your form.

You all watch in horror as Hiccup and Toothless disappear into the boiling inferno.

“HICCUP!”, your scream and want to run but Astrid holds you back, hugging you tight.

“No, [Y/N]! That’s suicide!”

“BUT I NEED TO GET TO HIM!”

“I promised Hiccup, I would keep an eye on you and I will do so!”

You try to break out from her embrace, but Astrid is much stronger then you. Defeated you wail on her shoulder, hot tears running down your cheeks.

He can’t be…

He can’t be…

No of the two can be…!

While for you your whole world breaks done, Stoick searches for his son.

You get thrown out of your despair when you hear Stoick call that Hiccup is alive.

This time Astird lets you go and you run up with all your might to your mate.

Toothless lays on the ground tired, Hiccup is in arms of a big man, you bet his father and another Viking stand beside him.

You hear how all the Vikings and dragons cheers, yet you are only fixed on your mate’s still face. He breathed, at least that.

 “HICCUP, TOOTHLESS!”, you fall on your knees between the dragon and the large Viking who held your mate.

You pet Toothless with one hand, who gives you a tiny purr and with your other you stroke Hiccup’s head.

Tears of pure joy stream down your face.

They are okay, they are okay!

You thank the seven seas for that.

Your head nearly hits Hiccup bedframe as you try to stay awake.

It’s been a week since the battle with the Red Death and your mate hasn’t woken up.

You healed him up every day, every hour.

You couldn’t bring back what he lost in the battle, but you could help him to recover faster.

Toothless is curled up beside your chair, his head on your lap, and purrs at you.

“Don’t start.”, you mumble to him. You know what he wants to say. “I will sleep when he wakes up.”

You hear the now familiar footsteps of a large Viking coming up to you and feel a big hand laying on your shoulder.

“Toothless is right, lass.”, says Stoick. “Using all your forces to heal him and not recover any will do you no good.”

You look up at this man, who a week ago didn’t even know what you were to his son, and see real concern for you.

The one you show a child.

Or a daughter-in-law, in your case.

“I know, father, but it I feel so helpless seeing him like this. I just can’t leave him.”

Yes, after you explained to Stoick anything, it was normal for you to call your father-in-law also father. Merpeople did this.

He caressed your head and shook his.

“Stubborn, just like my son. No wonder he loves you so much.”, he mussed and you turned shy. “But, lass, what do you think Hiccup would want from you?”

That was simple.

“That I go to bed and sleep.”, you sign.

 Annoyed you stood up and made your way over to the door.

“I will sleep for a while at the port, then I will be back.”, you promised.

With that, you open the door.

It still filled your heart with joy to see Hiccup village transformed into a dragon sanctuary.

Everywhere were dragons and dragon riders. Humans and dragons lived in perfect harmony together.

You smiled and waved at the people who recognized you.

Saying you were pretty famous on Berk was an understatement.

You couldn’t even step out without getting crowded by the Vikings.

This time they let you go to the port faster. An old treasure chest where your clothes would be kept till you return was placed there just for you.

After undressing you dive down into the water. Not even on the ocean ground and you fall asleep before your head even hit the wet sand.

Okay, maybe you were more tired than you let on.

You sleep for a long time. The lull of the water relaxes you and makes you forget for a time all your worries.

You start to awake as you hear a ruckus on the surface.

Yawning, you stretch yourself and then swim up to see what that is about.

There is a crowd around Stoick and Hiccup house!

This can only mean…!

Faster then lighting you jump out the water, get dressed and run up the hill to the house. The crowd makes space for you.

“HICCUP!”, you shout joyfully seeing him awake at his front door, his father and Gobber beside him with the other Vikings.

His face formally brightens as the sun as he sees you running up to him. Thanks to his new protestic he doesn’t dare to run, but he can come towards you.

Hiccup spreads his arms calling your name in the sweetest voice, when you are finally, finally back in his arms.

Happy tears roll down your cheeks and your lips find each other hungrily.

Hoots, hollers, and cat-calls are heard around you, but you two couldn’t care less.

You are finally together again.

No one would separate you.

“Okay, okay, leave something for the wedding night you two.”, calls Stoick fatherly over.

That’s when you both realize that maybe you kissed a bit too much in front of the whole village.

You stop and bury your head into Hiccup’s chest, while Hiccup’s face is red as a tomato.

A sheepish laugh comes out of him.

The whole village coo at you two.

You dare to look and see first Astrid huge grin and Ruffnut thumbs up in your direction.

Yeah, the two girls gave you great company while you waited for Hiccup to wake up.

Playful you poke your tongue out of them.

That’s when Gobber walks up to you and presents Hiccup with a rebuilt saddle, rigging, and tail.

“Welcome home.”, he simply states.

Suddenly, Toothless pounces on the crowd, crushing several unsuspecting Vikings under his weight.

“Night Fury, get down!”

Toothless eyes the new tail excitedly, tongue wagging. Amidst the groans and grumbles, Hiccup and you exchange a sheepish grin.

“Oh, sweetheart…”

It doesn’t take long that you and Hiccup are back on Toothless’s back, ready to reach for the sky again. Astrid is beside you on her Nadder she named Stormfly and smiles at you two.

“You guys ready?”, ask Hiccup you and Toothless.

You hug his waist tighter and put your chin on his shoulder. You give his cheek a kiss, while Toothless snorts an excited 'yes!'.

“Let’s go, love!”

From his mount, Hiccup looks out over the changed world.

This... is Berk. It snows nine months of the year...and hails the other three.

Your trio leaps into the bright blue sky, Hiccup and Toothless together as one. Astrid follows suit, giving chase.

Any food that grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here are even more so.

Hiccup and you and Astrid race your dragons through the village under eaves, over rooftops, down cliff-sides, and between ship masts. You shout happily into the sky and raise a fist.

The only upsides are the pets. While other places have...ponies or parrots, we have...

The gang joins you as they take to the open sky, rocketing far above the village. The Northern sky swirls with blazing, multicolored dragons. Hiccup, you and Toothless break from the pack, spinning into the blinding sun.

Hiccup turns his face to yours and you share a passionate kiss, Toothless crooning approving.

Dragons.

And we are done with the movie!

I’m so happy!

I will write now one original chapter and after that, we will have Gift of the Night Furry :D

I can’t wait for it, what about you guys?

Next

Making Waves

You are a young mermaid, not ready for your adult responsibility when you find a secret underwater tunnel that leads to a secret cove. You couldn’t imagine how your life was going to change because of it. HiccupXMermaid!Reader

Chapter 4: Growing closer

Tight your little hand was held by your mother. She was making sure you didn’t get lost.

With your free hand, you scratched the collar of your dress. You weren’t used to clothes.

It was so itchy!

Your father laughs and pats your head.

You grin up at him.

Your little family is one of many in this ocean of land-dwellers. No one would suspect anything.

With big eyes you let your parents lead you through the festive land dweller home.

There was food, music, and games!

Things you have never seen. It was so different than when your people celebrate important dates.

Children run around laughing. Men cheery drunk many cups of ale. Women talked, and gossiped with each other.

Young men asked young women to dance with them at the plaza in an enchanting circle, where they switched partners, twirling around and finding each other again.

Laughing you pointed at it and your father got the hit.

He took you in his arms, twirling you around.

You giggled happily and heard how your mother was clapping in tune with the music for you both.

You could see that some land dweller, mostly older women, watched you and your father dancing away, cooing at you two.

You did blush a bit, but you wouldn’t stop.

Your father picked you up and throw you high up. You heard the worried gasp of the land dwellers, but you were used to and had faith in your father.

He caught you, putting you down on the floor.

The music got more energetic.

You gripped one of each hand of your parents so that you three could dance together.

It was so much fun to get twirled around by your mother and your father.

It was heartwarming seeing how they danced with each other, emotions you didn’t understand in their eyes, yet you wanted that someone looked one day at you this way.

This look was so amazing.

With a last big twirl the song ended, you laughed gleefully and your parents took you in their embrace.

That’s when you saw him.

He was all alone in a corner of the plaza, like a lost little lamb.

He looked at you with big green eyes, as if you were something otherwordly. You didn’t know why you blushed.

You saw how he seemed to give himself a pep talk and walked slowly up to you…

Abruptly you awoke from your dream or more from the memory and looked confused around.

Last night you decide to sleep underwater, even if Toothless was an amazing cuddle partner, you had missed the lull of the water, so you slept on the ground of the pool in the hidden cove.

You were enjoying your dream, remembering your old land dweller friend, as two big splashes woke you up.

Finally, you saw that Hiccup and Toothless seemed to have taken a dive.

But why was Hiccup cheering like a maniac?

Determined to get the answer you swim up and break the surface beside Hiccup.

“Good morning, Hiccup. You seem really enthusiastic, what’s up?”

Grinning he turns to you and shakes his wet brown locks from his forehead.

“Hey [Y/N]! Good morning to you too I was wondering where you were.”, he greets you, his grin really bordering on maniac.

“Mermaid, did you forget? I’m more used to sleeping underwater.”, you raise an eyebrow at him and turn to Toothless.

The dragon is on land and is shaking himself dry like a big dog.

Wait for a second, what was that?!

“Hiccup, what is this on Toothless tail?”, you ask shocked.

It looks like a tailfin, but it’s impossible. It can’t just grow back!

“That my dear friend is my newest invention.”, he tells you proudly. “I understood that without his tailfin intact Toothless can never fly again, so I made him an artificial one.”

Here Toothless snorts really loud and seems to shake his head at Hiccup.

“Yeah I know, Toothless, it wasn’t that good. But I will work on it till I get it right! You will fly again I promise.”

You get all mushy inside.

How sweet of Hiccup to want to help Toothless.

“You are a good man.”, you tell him proudly.

Here he grins sheepishly and rubs his neck.

“Well, it is actually my fault that he is like that…”

…What?!

With an ice-cold voice you demand to know what he means by that and he tells you that he was the one who shoot down Toothless with one of his inventions!

You know what do to!

With your fishtail, you send a huge wave in his face, which nearly drowns him and makes Toothless laugh a dragon laugh.

“Come on [Y/N], I said sorry a 100 times, even Toothless isn’t angry at me anymore.”. Hiccup whines at you.

You just scoff and cuddle closer to Toothless, who has one of his wings wrapped around your form.

Maybe you are been petty, Hiccup is doing anything to right his wrong, just your anger is still bigger. You still remember with clarity how Toothless has suffered under his wound till you healed him up.

“All right.”, signs Hiccup. “I brought something for you too, I will just leave it here.”

This perks you up.

“You have something for me?”, you repeated and even Toothless grumbled interested.

Hiccup grins a little and hands you a big parcel.

You look at it confused.

“The big fur is a blanket, so you don’t freeze if you sleep above ground.”, he tells you, while you unpack it.

A pretty dress in your favorite color, undergarments, and shoes come out.

You blink a few times.

Then you give him a grin.

“It bothers you so much that I’m naked that you got me clothes, I’m right?”

He splutters an excuse, but his red cheeks are a dead giveaway.

“All right, all right. I will wear it. There is just a problem.”, you tell him gleefully, excited to see how he reacts.

“W-What?”

“I don’t know how to dress in it. You need to help me.”

Hiccup turns formally into a statue. Just his gapping mouth and his red cheeks are any indications that he is still in the realm of the living.

You and Toothless break out in laughter. For that Hiccup gives you both a death stare.

But it seems his discomfort with seeing you all the time naked is higher than helping you dress because he tells you to stand up.

Grinning cheekily you do it.

“And now?”, you ask with a wink.

 The young man huffs at you and picks up the undergarments.

“First this!”

Oho, seems like someone wants to be all tough. You just can’t and giggle even more. He looks at you annoyed.

Putting the undergarments on is an experience.

Feeling his callous hands on your skin gives you goosebumps and lets your mind thrift to places where you probably shouldn’t go.

Like how they would feel in your most sensitive place.

You fight off your lust, while Hiccup helps you put on the dress.

Okay, now you feel like a toddler.

After the shoes are in their place, you playfully pick up the skirt of your dress and twirl around.

You admit you feel beautiful wearing it.

Nonetheless, you ask: “So how do I look?”

The way Hiccup stares at you and gulps, make the butterflies in your stomach fly wild. This look…you have seen it before, you can’t just put your finger on it.

“You look amazing.”, Hiccup coughs shyly. His eyes look at the ground and a cute blush is on his cheeks. “The color suits you well.”

“You have seen me butt naked, but me dressed get’s you all bothered. You are a cutie pie, you know?”, you can’t help but tease him a bit.

For that, you get again an annoyed look.

You just giggle.

The next day you watch amused at how Hiccup chases Toothless around the coven.

He had made a saddle and harness so he could help Toothless fly. To say the dragon wasn’t impressed with his idea was an understatement.

“[Y/N], please help me!”, Hiccup formally whines at you.

 With a laugh, you help him to catch the running dragon.

“That a good boy.”, you coo at Toothless, giving him pats, while Hiccup puts the saddle on him. “Who is the most handsome boy? Yes, it’s you!”

Toothless gives you for this a big dragon smooch.

You give his snout a kiss back.

You miss how heartful Hiccup looks at you.

Toothless and Hiccup are trying out to fly together. You are in your mermaid form in the water watching them.

The tail breaks free sending Hiccup flying.

“Hiccup!”, you shout worried. “Toothless!”

Thank god for the two land in the water.

You swim up to them to check if they are okay.

“Okay, I need something that doesn’t make me fly off this easily.”, Hiccup mumbles to himself, while you look for injuries.

“I have something for you.”

You are petting Toothless and grin up to him.

“Another gift? You spoil me, Hiccup!”

He turns red, handing you a book.

You look at it fascinated.

“If you are ever bored, you can read the book. It’s one of my favorites.”, he explains to you.

“That’s very sweet of you.”, you tell him touched. “There is just one problem.”

“Huh?”

“I can’t read your language.”

Hiccup is still for a second, blinking with wide eyes, till he announces: “Well then I have to teach you how to read and write.”

Thus your first lesson starts.

You laugh out loud seeing how blissful Toothless is rolling around in the tall grass. The dragon writhes on his back, tongue wagging, in complete bliss.

Hiccup picks up a bit of the dragon nip and gets a mischief idea.

Later, before he has to go to Dragon Training, you both sit together leaning on Toothless in the cove, reading together.

Well, Hiccup reads and tries to teach you.

You follow his finger moving over the writing word, reading out loud with him.

Slowly you get a grasp on the language of the Vikings.

Like Hiccup has taught you, you write your own name on the ground of the cove.

Meanwhile, Hiccup rubs Toothless behind the ear, causing him to relax and fall over.

You both stare at each other and then at the purring dragon.

You laugh together.

You feel your heart hammering in your chest.

These days with Hiccup and Toothless have been so far the best days of your life.

You didn’t know, but Hiccup thought the same about you and Toothless.

“You are so mean.”, you tell Hiccup giggling.

With his hammer, he has created a little light spot which Toothless chases around the coven like a big kitty cat.

He just winks at you, which makes you turn shy and he blushes red after he realized what he has done.

You both look down at the ground, small smiles on your faces.

Hiccup straps a newly designed harness onto Toothless. With Toothless tied to a nearby post with a rope. Hiccup rides him in the air while stationary. Toothless looks like a giant kite tied to a tree stump.

This harness seems to work.

You look up from your book and smile at them.

They are slowly getting there.

The rope breaks and the pair crashes into a tree.

Worried you call out to them and look for injuries.

That’s when Hiccup sees that the harness has become jacked.

“Oh, great.”, he groans.

“Oh dear, what now?”, you ask him.

Hiccup looks from you to Toothless.

“Well, you both ever visited a Viking village?”

Toothless and you stare at him.

“This is crazy!”, you mumbled as you search in the Blacksmith's stall for the tool Hiccup asked you.

Toothless is with you in there, while Hiccup is out, playing guard.

Suddenly you hear a feminine voice calling out to Hiccup.

Both talk really awkward to each other or better this Astrid is accusing Hiccup of being weirder than usual.

You turn angry hearing that.

Who is this girl and who the hell does she think she is?

You find the tool the same moment Toothless sees the sheep.

“Toothless, no!”, you hiss at him.

Too late then Hiccup gets pulled through the shutters.

You sit behind Hiccup holding on tight as you three make it like a tree and escape from this Astrid.

At least you got the tool and can separate Hiccup and Toothless in the safety of the cove.

What crazy days you have lived with them!

Next

To Belong

She was the weird foreign girl, he was the most useless Viking in the history of Berk. Together they were just Leandra and Hiccup. Two best friends who searched for their place in the world. Would their search for it unite or separate them?

I counted the votes on fanfiction.net and Quotev and we have a clear winner. Sides that allow pictures can already see Leandra’s dragon beside Toothless, the other one, well read the story. :D

Chapter 3

Leandra was glad that Gothi stepped out to watch the progress of the Dragon Training. She had stayed up late to make various ointments for the Night Furry and got so little sleep.

The black-haired girl was taking a cat nap on the mat where normal Gothi’s patients lay.

Was it wise?

Absolute not.

But the Spanish girl swore she would die if she didn’t catch some snooze. The whole morning had been hard on her and Gothi even more.

It was like the old Viking woman knew she hadn’t slept much and was making her work and learn more.

Her brain was not there today.

She really, really hoped that one of the ointments for the Night Furry would help him.

A sign left her mouth and she rolled herself to the side.

Leandra was asking herself how Hiccup was doing in Dragon Training. Being together with teens who didn’t like him and with his weird crush, was hard, she imagined. Well, besides the murders dragons who wanted to kill you.

Yeah, Leandra found Hiccup’s crush on Astrid freacking weird. The girl didn’t give him the time of day, never talked or interacted with him, and yet Hiccup crushed on her hard.

Just because she was the perfect Viking girl?

It was a weak reason.

On the other hand, the only other girl was Ruffnut and she was crazy.

No wonder Hiccup liked Astrid.

It’s not like he had many choices.

What about you?, whisper a voice in her head, that Leandra always ignored.

No, she wouldn’t think about this possibility.

She and Hiccup were fine the way they were.

Best friends forerver.

However, it still stung a bit that Hiccup didn’t seem to see her like a girl.

No one of their age rages did.

Not that Leandra wanted any of the Viking boys.

It just…would be nice to feel wanted sometime. Astrid didn’t need to do anything and anybody was armored with her.

Leandra was not vain, but she knew she was a pretty girl.

Her hair was strong, wavy, and black like the night, and she had big, pretty brown eyes and a healthy tan. She had a curvy body and probably the biggest breast size, for her age.

Her papi always told her she comes after her late mother, who had been the village beauty, with suitors left and right.

On the other hand here in Berk, they were other beauty standards.

And Astrid was all of them and she was the exact opposite of it.

Maybe that’s why no one found her attractive.

Again, not that she wanted any of the Viking boys, it just got on her nerves that even Hiccup, who know her like the back of his hand, never seemed to see her as a girl.

And no, that didn’t mean she wanted something from him.

No, no, no!

She didn’t want to lose his friendship, just for the tiny possibility of being more.

Friendship was more important than love.

Besides if she ever got the chance Leandra would return to Spain to her Abuela. Her dad could stay here on this miserable rock with his new Viking family, and she would get back home, where it was warm, colorful, and full of life.

She only would miss Hiccup and be in a relationship with him would be even worse if she would go back to Spain.

He could come with us, it’s not like he would be missed here, again this voice in her head whispered.

Angry she opened her eyes and sat up.

Leandra could never take a nap like this.

What was wrong with her brain today?

That’s what she gets if she doesn’t sleep her eight hours. This should be a lesson for her.

Grumbling she decides to make some more ointments.

This would keep her thoughts in check.

Today Gothi let her go home earlier.

This was good.

So she could join Hiccup and the Night Furry in the cove and her parents would think she was still with Gothi.

As she enters the cove, Leandra has to put a hand on her mouth to not let out the gasp she was about to make.

The scene before her.

She feels she can’t interrupt it.

It’s between Hiccup and the Night Furry.

They're face to face and Hiccup slowly extends his hand. The dragon growls at the hand, he isn’t ready to let Hiccup touch him.

That’s when her best friend turns his head away with closed eyes and again holds out his hand to the Night Furry.

Leandra’s heart beat fast in her chest.

Hiccup is showing the Night Furry a lot of trust. What had happened between the two that he risk getting his hand eaten by the dragon?

Yet, nothing like this happens.

The dragon bridges the gap and presses his muzzle against Hiccup's hand.

They stay for two heartbeats like this.

The black-haired girl has the feeling that the whole world turned upside down.

A dragon and a Human….touching each other in a nonviolent way.

Showing each other trust and understanding.

Leandra feels tears in her eyes.

It touches her heart in a yearning way. She wishes she would find a connection like this.

Then the Night Furry stops gives a little snort and flies to the other side of the cove, leaving an amazed Hiccup behind.

“Hiccup.”, she calls out softly to him. The moment is over, but she would feel bad talking louder. It wouldn’t fit now.

Thank god, Hiccup hears her.

“Leandra.”

“So you made friends with the Night Furry?”

Hiccup turns a moment in the direction of the dragon.

“Yeah, I made friends with Toothless.”

Toothless why Toothless?

She asks him this and he waves her over to him. Hiccup tells her what he experienced today with Toothless and wow, Leandra is just speechless.

Who would have thought that a dragon could be this sensitive and intelligent?

How she wished she could have seen it, but something in her tells her that it was good that it was only between Hiccup and Toothless.

They seem to share a connection with each other.

The two best friends sit on a log together and watch how the sun slowly goes down.

“I need to be home.”, signs Leandra sad.

“I need to meet up with the Gobber and the other recruits. We are eating together.”, he signs too.

The girl opens her pouch and shows Hiccup the ointments she made.

“Do you think you could get to Toothless and we can try out one of these for his wound?”, she wonders.

“We could try but I don’t know-“

The boy gets interrupted by a familiar screech.

But it can be!

The only Night Furry here is Toothless!

Who is suddenly staring at the sky and jumping up and down happily.

Hiccup and Leandra look in the direction where Toothless looks. Both want to pinch themselves when they see what got the dragon so excited.

It’s another Night Furry!

A Night Furry, who is fast closing in on the cove and lands gracefully before Toothless.

Both dragons cooed, snuggled their muzzles together, and lick each other.

Leandra and Hiccup’s chins meet the floor.

The Spanish girl grips Hiccup’s shoulder and shakes him.

“Hiccup! Hiccup! There is another Night Fury! Oh my lord, what?!”

“That Night Furry is a bit smaller than Toothless.”, analyzes the boy fascinated. “But the wings and the tailfin are bigger. I think it has brownish-golden eyes. It’s also a lot darker than Toothless, wow.”

Seeing how the two dragons do practically the equivalent of kisses for humans Leandra adds: “I think, that’s Toothless mate. He or she must have been worried sick for him. I’m glad they found each other.”

“He or she?”

“We don’t judge, Hiccup. Love is Love. End of story.”

It’s then that the other Night Furry sees the two human teenagers and stands protectively before Toothless. It growls at them threatening, but before anything happens Toothless purrs at his mate and it seems to calm it down.

Now it looks with big brownish-golden eyes curious at Leandra and Hiccup.

“Okay, I totally believe that these two are mates.”, agrees Hiccup.

They do act like a couple. That’s something new to learn about Night Furries too.

Meanwhile, Leandra’s eyes are transfixed, at the beautiful eyes of Toothless mate. They are like molted gold.

She never saw eyes like this.

The Night Furry stares at her in the same intense way.

Something deep and profound is exchanged.

Leandra can’t explain it.

It’s like she found a missing part of her soul.

A soul who reflects her own.

Like bewitched she walks closer to the Night Furries.

“Lee?”, calls Hiccup confused to her, but is ignored.

Toothless also grumbles questions to his mate, who is walking up to the human female and gets ignored too.

The girl and the dragon stop a meter from each other. Still looking into the other eyes. Leandra titles her head and the Night Furry copies her. Then she smiles and the dragon tries to mimic her.

“Hello.”, Leandra whispers to the dragon. “You are the most beautiful dragon I ever saw.”

It’s like the dragon understood her because it lets out a pleased purr.

For a moment Leandra checks the gender of the dragon.

Ah, it’s a she.

Of course, only a girl could be so beautiful!

Like Hiccup had done with Toothless, Leandra turns away and holds her hand out.

She waits for three heartbeats when she feels something scaly and warm touch her palm. Leandra opens an eye and sees that the female Night Furry closed the gap between them.

They stay like this for another two heartbeats before the girl Night Furry gives her hand a lick and returns to Toothless’s side.

Her hand is wet with dragon saliva, yet Leandra couldn’t care less, this was the most amazing thing she ever experienced.

“Lee?”

“Starchaser.”, she just says to her best friend. “I will call her Starchaser because her eyes are bright as stars.”

It’s night and Leandra can’t sleep.

In the end, they couldn’t try the ointments on Toothless since the sun was nearly down and she needed to be home, and Hiccup needed to meet Gobber and the others.

She stares in the darkness at the hand that Starchaser had licked. Somehow she manages to bond with the most beautiful creature on earth and for the first time in her life Leandra feels the hole in her heart dimmer.

The girl feels like she meet her soulmate. Who would have thought that it would be a dragon?

How she wishes to be in the cove and learn more about Starchaser.

They only had one big important moment together, but she knows nothing about her.

Leandra wants to know anything about her Night Furry friend.

Well, it’s not like she is alone.

Determined she stands up from her bed. Sleep is for the weak. In the darkness, she dresses in her dress and kirtle and, like always, uses her window to escape from home.

First, she checked if Hiccup was in his house, but not finding him there, she goes to the blacksmith stall.

Her best friend is really there and seems to work on something.

She makes the special knock they both agreed on she uses when he works so Hiccup knows it’s Leandra.

You don’t want to spook a blacksmith while working.

Could end in a bad accident.

“Come in.”, tells her Hiccup.

Couriers she watches him working on…something.

“What’s that going to be?”, she wants to know.

“Gobber told us a dragon who loses his wings and tail is a downed dragon. A death one.”, explain Hiccup. “So I’m making a tailfin for Toothless so he can fly again.”

“That’s awesome, Hiccup. I’m sure it will make him happy and Starchaser too.”

“Do you want to help me?”

“Just tell me what do to, partner.”

And so the best friends work together on the tailfin for Toothless. They get done with it before the sun rises. Both agree to meet up before Dragon Training and when Leandra needs to go to Gothi to visit the two Night Furries.

After they slept a bit, it was time again to wake up, but Leandra feels this time different. She is more excited than tired, even if she probably only slept two hours tops.

Hiccup and her meet up and take a chest full of fish for each Night Furry with them. Of course, he also has the tailfin for Toothless and Leandra her ointments.

They arrive at the cove where Toothless and Starchaser seem already to be waiting for them.

“Hello, Toothless.”

“Hi, Starchaser.”

“We brought breakfast for your guys.”, explains Hiccup to the two curious Night Furries.

The teenagers kick open their chests so that the fish spills out of the ground.

“Okay, that's disgusting.”, says Hiccup matter of fact.

“Yuck!”, adds Leandra with a wrinkled nose.

Toothless and Starchaser approach, settling in to devour the feast.

“Uh..we've got some salmon, some nice Icelandic cod, and a whole smoked eel.”

Hiccup could say he wanted to poison them since both Night Furries reacted with horrific screeches as they see the smoked eel.

“Throw it away, throw it away!”, yells Leandra to her best friend.

“No, no, no! It's okay. Yeah, I don't like eel much either.”, reassures Hiccup the dragons, and the eel gets thrown in a random direction away from them.

Satisfied the two dragons begin again to eat.

Both best friends nod at each other.

They planned that Leandra should have the attention of the dragons on herself, while Hiccup tries to put the tailfin on Toothless.

“Eat up, you big cuties. Yes, that’s good. We only want the good stuff, right, right?”, Leandra cooes at them. “Yummy, yummy, fish for the two most beautiful dragons in the world. Yes, who is the best girl and best boy? It’s you two!”

Hiccup straps the prosthetic fin in place. The dragon tenses, slowly spreading his wings. The boy cinches the straps.

“There. Not too bad. It works.”, mumbles Hiccup pleased.

That’s when Toothless bolts!

Not only Hiccup is surprised and scarred a second later since he hangs for dear life on Toothless’s tail, but also Starchaser and Leandra watch the boys flying around the cave with big eyes.

“What the heck?”, shrieks Leandra.

This was so not the plan.

Starchaser grumbles, she seems to agree with her.

The little fly of the due stops as fast as it started and they land in the water.

While the females winces, Hiccup celebrates happily. Toothless shakes himself dry and wonders what had happen.

“Okay how about this one?”, asks Leandra and holding another ointment under Toothless and Starchaser’s nose.

It is a while later, still too earlier for Dragon Training and Leandra’s job. Hiccup is trying to dry himself in the morning sun, in the meantime, Leandra is trying with the Night Furries’ help to see which ointment could work for Toothless.

Till now, they reacted with disgust, growls, and hiccups at her ointments.

She hoped this one is a winner.

It isn’t since both let out big dragon sneezes.

Leandra signs sadly.

Only one ointment is left.

Starchaser sensing the distress from the girl she took a liking purrs at her and nuzzles her cheek. Even Toothless joins in.

“Aww, thank you two. You both are precious, you know that?”

Both Night Furries purr happily.

Hiccup can’t help but smile softly at the scene. It’s really adorable seeing Leandra interact with their dragon friends.

Also, her tanned skin and black hair seem to formally glow in the morning sun.

The boy frowns at his thoughts and shakes his head.

Why is he thinking about such things? That’s his best friend, it’s weird.

Besides, he likes Astrid. He always had.

“All right, last one.”, say’s Leandra and holds it out. “How about this?”

Again the dragons sniff at the ointment and this time…they only purr. They like the smell. It is really comforting and clean.

Leandra smiles.

“Then we have a winner! Okay, Toothless let’s try this out.”

And so Leandra smears the ointment on Toothless missing tail.

After waiting for a bit it seems to have no negativ effects on him.

Grinning Leandra turns to Hiccup and he gives her a thump up.

Together they are a step closer in helping Toothless to fly again.

The Night Furry won!

Give a warm welcome to our golden-eyed girl Starchaser, Toothless mate!

You know what that means ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Can you guess it? :D

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Making Waves

You are a young mermaid, not ready for your adult responsibility when you find a secret underwater tunnel that leads to a secret cove. You couldn’t imagine how your life was going to change because of it. HiccupXMermaid!Reader

Chapter 3: Mermaid, Human, and Dragon

You were just floating around on the surface of the pool in the hidden cove and staring into the sky. Sweetheart has made himself comfortable on a rock formation, taking a nap.

After the strange boy had left yesterday, you really thought that he would be back with his whole village to hunt you two down, but nothing happened.

You were glad!

It just didn’t make sense!

What was going on, in his brain? Why did he just leave? Why didn’t he return?

Why did you want that he returned?

Yes, he was very, very handsome and his green eyes have haunted you in your sleep, but you shouldn’t feel this way.

You should just be happy that the boy left you and Sweetheart alone.

End of story.

Yet you didn’t want that it ended like this.

You wanted to understand him. You wanted to understand these new feelings in you. You wanted to understand why you thought you knew him.

You signed out loud and dipped down in the pool.

Maybe being a bit underwater would help you.

Bored you braided some seaweed. You had no idea what do to with yourself. Or for what you could use the seaweed.

Still you braided.

You were so fixed on the braiding that you got something happening on the surface as a shiny little dagger floated down your side.

With a raised eyebrow you watched the dagger floating down on the ground of the pool.

Okay?

That’s when you heard a muffled voice saying: “Huh. Toothless. I could've sworn you had...-“

Yes, this was Sweetheart who swallowed something. Probably a fish.

“-teeth.”

And a land dweller was talking to him.

Could it be…him?

You felt how your heart started to race at that thought. You needed to check!

So slowly and carefully you emersed your head till your nose out of the water to see who was with Sweetheart.

Indeed, it was him!

The strange young man from yesterday!

You felt yourself blushing. You were closer to him now and…wow he had adorable freckles on his face and his eyes were still this brilliant forest green.

You hadn’t made them up. They really were so enchanting and familiar like you remember.

Currently, he and Sweetheart are sitting in front of each other, and…is this a regurgitated bit of fish on the boy’s lap?

Fascinated you looked at how the two seem to communicate without words.

Sweetheart wanted that the boy eats the fish and he did it with great discomfort.

You have to give kudos to the young men.

Eating fish with dragon saliva on it was something nasty! Not to copy.

The boy gave Sweetheart an awkward smile, which made you smile too, and… incredible Sweetheart tried to copy him.

You had to fight a giggle at Sweetheart’s smile. It was so crocky and adorable!

Amazed, the boy sits up and tries to touch him. Sweetheart just hisses at him. So the boy didn’t know that dragons didn’t like to be touched. They needed to come to you, not you to them.

Your dragon friend flaps off to a crash on the other side of the cove. You whine silently at it and hope he doesn’t hurt himself. But seeing how he blasts the mossy ground to a red-hot temperature and curls up on it like a giant puppy, shows you that all is good with him.

You need to stifle your giggles as you see how the strange boy sits now beside sweetheart waving innocently. Sweetheart tolerates his persistent presence until the boy tries to touch his damaged tail. The dragon snaps at him.

At least he doesn’t have a death wish and leaves Sweetheart be.

Mmh…could you maybe?

He is here, so why not.

Careful and silent you swim to the pool edge, where Sweetheart is sitting.

He titles his head cutely and wants to croon at you, but you make clear that he needs to be still.

So he does and just blinks at you.

When you are out of the water, you turn your fishtail into legs and stand up. You give sweetheart a pet and then slowly walk over to the strange boy.

He is sitting with his back towards you, minding his own busy. You can see he is enjoying the rays of the sun.

What was the best way to approach him?

“You came alone, why?”, you ask him directly.

Dancing around the subject is too troublesome. Just go for the kill shot.

Startled he twirls around with his head and gets so red in the face that you need a new word for the color seeing you in all your naked glory.

He gaps like a fish, then shyly looks at the ground.

You cock a hip out and cross your arms wondering.

Humans and their weird way how the handle nudity. What was so wrong with being nude? Why did they have the need to cover up something so beautiful like the body?

“Hello, I asked you something.”, you say to him.

You see him gulp, still looking at the ground.

“You…you are the mermaid. The…the one from yesterday.”, he stutters.

“Correct.”

Why should you lie if he knows?

He is still and plays with his fingers.

You sign.

Better address the elephant in the cove.

“Okay, what has you bothered so much?”, you start. “That I’m not a bloodthirsty mermaid or my naked tits and pussy?”

How he splutters makes you bit your lip to not laugh out loud. He seems overwhelmed with all.

You are not that evil to make him suffer more.

“You know what forget it. I’m [Y/N], what’s your name?”

He still doesn’t look at you, but he answers: “I’m…Hiccup.”

“Bless you?”

“No, that’s my name.”

Which kind of parents gave their offspring such a name?

Maybe he practically hears this question in the silence between you, because he rolls his eyes and explains: “Parents believe a hideous name will frighten off gnomes and trolls. Like our charming Viking demeanor wouldn't do that.”

“So that is what you call yourself, Viking.”, you say astonished.

Now he makes the mistake to look up. He is still red, but you see how he tries only to look at your face. It’s sweet, but it’s not like you are ashamed of your body. Probably a human thing.

“What do your people call us?”, he asks curiously.

“Land Dweller and we are the merfolk or merpeople.”

“That… fascinating.”

You nod and then raise an eyebrow.

“You still haven’t answered me, why did you come alone? I was scared you would return with your whole clan to hunt down Sweetheart and me.”, you tell him truthfully.

“Sweetheart? He looks more like a Toothless.”, he rebukes with a frown.

“Only because he can retreat his teeth? You are not that creative.”, you fire back.

“Says the one who just calls him by a pet name.”, he counters.

You both stare at each other frowning, till you feel how your lips twitch and see how Hiccup’s does too.

Not a second later you both laugh.

The whole situation is so surreal.

Here you are with a human, Viking, probably the first time in the history of both your people talking and you both can’t agree on a name for a dragon.

Even thinking about it, it’s just crazy.

“I came alone because…I don’t want to hurt you two. Neither Toothless nor you. I told nobody of you both.”, he explains finally.

This…is actually good.

You sit down beside him, hugging your knees to your chest so he doesn’t see your breasts. Maybe that will make him calm down more.

“That’s really noble of you. I never heard of a land dweller who didn’t kill a dragon or mermaid.”

Hiccup doesn’t seem to share your sentiment. He rolls his eyes and huffs.

“That’s you, but if my people found out that not only I’m hiding a dragon, especially a Night Fury and a mermaid from them, they would call me crazy and banish me without a doubt.”

“Really just like that?”

“We have been enemies with the dragons for 100 years and your people have a bad reputation of singing Vikings to their doom, so yeah, the popularity award I wouldn’t win.”

“That’s just insane!”, you shout and can’t help to let go of your knees and raise your hands over your head. “Dragons are wonderful creatures, we have been friends with time since we can remember and my people don’t do that. Or at least we don’t do it anymore. When we first learned that land dwellers died because of our singing we are careful that no one of your people are near us when we sing.”

“Hey, calm down, all is good. I’m not thinking like my people. At least not anymore.”, he admits.

Like if you had agreed on, you both turn to Toothless, who is taking now a nap, hanging upside down from a tree like a bat. You coo at the dragon and Hiccup smiles a bit.

“These past days have been crazy but…I’m starting to see the truth.”

“And what is the truth?”

Now you look each other in the eyes. How you wished to dive into these pools of wonderful green.

“There…there is more than meets the eyes with dragons and mermaids.”, he whispers like he is telling a secret. “Maybe, no, we did judge to fast and didn’t try to understand you. And I want to understand.”

This really touches your heart. You feel and hear in his voice how sincere Hiccup is.

He wants to change, to learn, to understand.

“Then.”, you begin and hold out a hand for him to take. “Let’s be friends and learn from each other, Hiccup. I too want to understand you Vikings better.”

He gives you a crooked smile, which is not good for your already racing heart, and takes it carefully like you are something immensely precious, your hand in his.

Your small hand fits perfectly into his larger one. Like you are two pieces of a shell. You try not to think about it too much.

You shake each other hands.

And something beautiful is born, you can just feel it.

You don’t know how, but you and Hiccup end up drawing on the earth together.

Well he draws, you make nonsense.

Drawing was not really a hobby mermaids did.

While you two draw away, you talk with each other.

You learn from Hiccup that he is the son of the chief, the leader of the Vikings, and one day should take over. But in his father’s eyes, he was a disappointment, even if he wasn’t anymore so little as he used to be.

You tell him about your parents and your coven. How you are practically one big family. About the circle of elders who lead and made the rules, your coven has to follow. You needed to have a certain age and other merpeople had to vote for you to enter the circle of elders.

It was fascinating how different your societys worked.

What you had in common was that you both may be 18, actually been young adults, but in the eyes of your people you were a man in Hiccup’s case if he killed his first dragon and for you when you born your first child.

Yeah, neither of you was jealous of the other.

You couldn’t image killing a dragon like Toothless, it would rip your heart out and Hiccup found it so weird that he would need to father a child to be seen as an adult.

“So marriage doesn’t exist for your people?”, he asks again, after he explains to you the concept of marriage of his people.

You have given up on drawing and just watch amazed at how Hiccup is making a drawing of Toothless.

“Yes, we mate just. Sometimes for life, like my parents, and form our own family units.”. you tell him. “Most of my people stay with a mate for a short while, till the baby is a toddler, and then search for a new match.”

“You don’t believe in love for eternity. Having one person to share anything till your last breath?”

“Me personal or my people?”

“Both?”

“Did you really make it sound like a question, Hiccup?”, you try not to laugh.

He makes a face and adds some more details to his Toothless drawing.

“Also?”

You sign. You never really thought about it. You should go with that what you people believe.

“We believe in love. But the love of the family, of the entire coven, is more important than one between two merpeople. Only united we are strong. It’s not like that this love is frowned upon, my parents aren’t treated differently just because they are Mates.”, you tell him. “For me personally…never thought of that. I just know one day I need to find a mate to have a child if I want to be an adult.”

You weren’t ready to tell that you actually run away from your duty to your people since you didn’t feel ready to make this step. You guys got to know each other still, it was way too earlier to talk about something like this.

Before Hiccup could answer, you both felt Toothless behind you, staring down at the drawings.

Hiccup continued to draw like nothing was happening, while Toothless crooned at it.

What happened in the next minutes…you could only describe it as magical.

As world changing.

You were a silent observant of how this two, dragon and young men, got an understanding for each other.

How Hiccup reached his hand out to Toothless turning his head away, showing him trust.

And then…Toothless touching Hiccup’s hand with his snout.

They stayed like this for a few seconds.

You swore the world stood still and started to again as Toothless got away from him and Hiccup stared in awe after the dragon.

You walked up to your Viking friend, putting a hand on his shoulder.

“Dragons are amazing, aren’t they?”

He turned his head to you. You saw a flicker of the young boy he once was when the world was still filled with hope, magic, and unconditional love.

Somehow this was so familiar…

He nodded speechlessly.

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Making Waves

You are a young mermaid, not ready for your adult responsibility when you find a secret underwater tunnel that leads to a secret cove. You couldn’t imagine how your life was going to change because of it. HiccupXMermaid!Reader

Happy Valentine’s day my lovely reader!

I hope you enjoy my Valentine’s gift to you all! :D

MINOR’S DON’T INTERACT!

Chapter 6: Only you, no one else

You are cuddled up to Toothless, the dragon nuzzling your cheek, while you scratch him under his snout.

Together you are waiting for Hiccup. It’s high time he comes from Dragon Training.

You wonder what is making him late.

“I will ask him, Toothless.”, you whisper to him like it’s a secret. “I will ask him to be my Mate and start a family.”

Practically, you want to ask in the mermaid way for Hiccup’s hand in marriage. Some land dwellers would say it’s way too earlier, but for your kind, it was only natural to go the whole way when you found your Life Mate.

It was incredible you found what your parents have.

Even with a human!

Who would have thought?

Toothless seems to like the idea because he gives you a big dragon smooch and purrs.

“You will be the best uncle to our children, I just know, Toothless.”, you tell him and give him a kiss on his snout.

The idea of little you’s and little Hiccup’s made Toothless purr even more. Of course, he would love your guys hatchlings like there were his own. He loved both of you so much.

That’s when you hear two voices discussing with each other.

One is Hiccup’s, and the second one is female.

“AAAAUUGGGHHH! Why would you do that?!”

“That's for the lies.”

It seems like the female hit Hiccup with something. You stand up and Toothless is right beside you. You can feel how your canines become sharper, hearing your mate in distress.

“And THAT'S for everything else.”

Hiccup yelps and both you and Toothless start to growl. You feel how your nails get longer and sharper.

Now you see the intruder.

It’s a young blond Viking woman with an axe.

She sees you two now too, but Toothless is the first to pounce toward her, snarling.

“Oh man.”, whines Hiccup who manages to stand up.

He doesn’t stay long up because the intruder dives onto Hiccup.

“Get down! Run! Run!”, she commandes.

The young woman pulls her axe, ready to take on Toothless.

“No!”. yells Hiccup.

That’s when you step in.

The water answers your command.

With a waterwhip, you hit away the axe out of the girl’s hand and hold then her hand in place, while you stop Toothless in his tracks with a stream that wraps around his body.

You hold your bending form and walk up to Toothless’s side.

You give the girl, who looks at you with fear, a cold glare and show your grown canines.

“What do you want from my mate and my friend, human!”, you hiss acid.

Even Hiccup seems to be taken back.

“You never told me you can do that with water.”, he blinks confused.

“It never came up.”

“What is going on?”, shrieks the intruder and tries to get her hand out of your water hold. It not working. “Who is this water witch?!”

“Mermaid!”, you correct angrily.

“Astrid.”, Hiccup turns so that he is between your and Toothless side and this Astrid sides. “You scared them, it’s okay.”

“I scarred them?! Your water I mean your mermaid is holding me hostage with water!”, she yells shocked.

Hiccup turns to you: “[Y/N], pearl, please let her go.”

You want to melt at the pet name, but you stay in your bending form.

“No, I don’t trust her!”

“She is a friend!”

You and Toothless snort at the same time. Yeah right!

“Please.”, begs Hiccp and gives you puppy dog eyes.

Damn you can’t resist them.

With a sign, you stop your bending, and the water splashes on the ground. Hiccup comes towards you two and puts a calming hand on Toothless’s neck, while he wraps his other arm around your waist.

You snuggle up to your mate and show this Astrid again your canines as she stares at you three in disbelief.

“Who are they?!”, she wants to know from Hiccup.

“Astrid, [Y/N] and Toothless. [Y/N] and Toothless, Astrid.”, he introduces you all to each other.

Toothless growls and you hiss at her.

You are so not charmed to meet her.

Astrid backs away, eyeing you, Hiccup, and Toothless together with pure disgust. She turns and runs for the village.

“We're dead.”, deadpans Hiccup.

Satisfied with Astrid's departure, Toothless and you turn away.

“Where do you think you're going?”, Hiccup wants to know.

You can’t believe Hiccup talked you and Toothless into it. You two are riding and flying with Toothless in search of this stupid Astrid.

You couldn’t care less but your mate insisted that it was important that the blond-haired bimbo didn’t reach his village and blab all about you and Toothless.

You rather would run away with Hiccup and Toothless!

Why did you agree to this again?

Right, because you loved Hiccup and trusted his judgment.

But one stupid move from the bimbo and you would decapitate her with a waterwhip.

No regrets on your side.

Your trio finally found her and Toothless snatched her up by one of her arms.

The blond-haired bimbo screams in fear: “Oh great Odin's ghost, this is it!”

You fly Astrid to the top of a towering pine. It bows and creaks under your combined weight as Astrid dangles a hundred feet in the air.

“Hiccup! Get me down from here!”, demanded Astrid from him.

You growl at her in a warning. She seems to shrink under your piercing glare.

Hiccup pats one of your hands on his side to calm you down. He is pretty damn sure that given the chance you would murder Astrid without regret.

You have told him in the days you passed together how protective mermaids could get for their mates.

He didn’t want you to murder someone for him. It made him just sick thinking about it.

“You have to give me a chance to explain.”, he implores Astrid.

“I'm not listening to ANYTHING you have to say!”

“Watch it, bimbo!”, you warn her hissing, canines poking out from your mouth.

It makes her shrink even more into herself. Someone isn’t used to getting intimidated by someone much more powerful. This gives you a certain glee.

“Pearl, please.”, whisper Hiccup to you, before a turns his words back to Astrid: “Then I won't speak. Just let me show you.”

Hiccup extends a hand.

“Please, Astrid.”

She eyes him, you and the dragon, then the ground far, far below.

After a moment, she swats Hiccup's outstretched hand away and reluctantly climbs over the pedal, lines, and harness. She settles behind Hiccup and you, avoiding as much contact as possible.

Yeah, you don’t really want her hands on you. You can’t guarantee that you wouldn’t bite them off. This woman lets your feral side out.

“Now get me down.”, she says to Hiccup.

“Toothless? Down. Gently.”

You and Toothless share a glance and nod to each other. You would give the bimbo a lesson she wouldn’t forget.

The dragon spreads his wings slowly. With a whop, they fill with the updraft. Toothless releases the tree tucks in his legs, and hovers in place.

“See? Nothing to be afraid of.”

Hiccup spoke to soon, Toothless suddenly launches straight upward. Astrid screams and you grin. The acceleration is tremendous. Every downbeat buck the saddle, heaving you into the sky, doubling your speed like a rocket.

Astrid is thrown backward. She screams more and hugs you for dear life, squeezing the breath out of you.

You fight the instinct to bite her hands off.

“Toothless! What is wrong with you?! Bad dragon!”, scolds Hiccup him. “He's not usually like this. Oh no...!”

Toothless rolls and plummets toward the coastline far below. You laugh happily at Astrid’s screams, Toothless is doing an awesome job. He rockets over the ocean waves, deliberately dipping you all in the froth.

“Toothless, what are you doing?! We need her to like us! [Y/N], say something to him!”, begs you Hiccup for help to get control over the dragon.

“Toothless, do the spin!”, you yell cheerfully.

He does as you tell him.

“Thanks for nothing you two, you are a great help!”, groans Hiccup defeated.

“Okay! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!”, shrieks Astrid regretfully. “Just get me off of this thing.”

Now that’s more you like it.

You give Toothless side a pet and you level off and head up into the clouds.

Astrid opens her eyes again and looks out over a world she'd never dreamed of. She reaches out and touches clouds, pierces columns ablaze in golden hues, and floats over a vast, alien skyscape.

You reach also a hand out, bending the water out of the clouds and letting the waterdrops fly in a beautiful arc over your group.

You hear how Astrid gasps in wonder.

It’s beautiful how the light reflects in rainbow colors in the water drops.

She grins, despite herself.

Toothless rises above a blanket of clouds and levels off under a starry sky. You emerge from a blanket of clouds under the dancing Northern Lights, shimmering in ribbons across the vast sky.

Below you, Berk's torches flicker in the inky darkness. The new perspective is breathtaking.

Toothless climbs past Berk's tallest peaks and heads out over open water, leaving the village lights behind you.

“All right, I admit it.”, breaks Astrid the silence over your group. “This is pretty cool. It's... amazing. He's amazing.”

Carefully she reaches down and pats Toothless' side.

“And you are pretty cool. Never knew mermaids could do such things.”, tells you Astrid fascinated.

Well, maybe she isn’t such a bimbo.

Even just a little bit.

You thank her simply.

“So what now?”, turn Astrid the word to Hiccup.

Yeah, you are wondering this too.

Hiccup groans.

“Hiccup, your final exam is tomorrow.”, she reminds him. “You know you're going to have to kill...a dragon.”

“That’s such a stupid and disgusting rite of age!”, you add angrily.

“Don't remind me, guys.”

A strange, unearthly din approaches. Toothless ear plates suddenly stand on end. Panicked, he abruptly dives, dipping into cloud cover.

“Toothless! What's happening? What is it?”, Hiccup asks him confused.

Meanwhile, you rub one of your ears. Something is making a strange sound and it vibrates in your head. Autsch.

“You all right?”, ask you, Astrid.

You can’t answer her since Toothless actually barks at you all in a way that clearly says to stay quiet.

Suddenly, out of the dense cloud, a Monstrous Nightmare emerges.

“Get down!”, whisper-shouts Hiccup at you girls.

Hiccup, you and Astrid duck.

The Nightmare calls out. A Zippleback appears on the other side of Toothless, boxing him in.

“What's going on?”, wonders Astrid.

“I don't know.”, admins Hiccup.

“You guys don’t hear it? There is a strange sound in the air. I can’t make it out what it is.”, you explain to them.

“Toothless. You've got to get us out of here, bud.”, declares the young man.

Yet the Night Furry just hisses at him.

Other dragons, previously invisible in the thick clouds, appear all around you. Hundreds of them, all carrying fish and game in their talons.

“It looks like they're hauling in their kill.”, whispers Hiccup.

The Zippleback eyes you ravenously.

“What does that make us?”, wants the blond-haired woman to know.

No one has an answer for her.

The dragons bank and dive in formation, plummeting through the thickening fog and weaving between towering, craggy sea stacks. They emerge at the base of a massive volcanic caldera, glowing with rivulets of lava. The flock of dragons fall into rank, funneling through a crack, and zipping through a winding tunnel.

It gives way to a vast, steamy inner chamber, tiered with pocky shelves. Dragons of all breeds lay about, nested in hordes.

The arriving dragons fly in, dropping the fish and game into a central pit, glowing red and shrouded in mist.

“It’s the Dragon Nest!”, you realize shocked.

So here live your dragon friends. There exist nicer places than a volcano. Why would they live here?

“What my dad wouldn't give to find this.”, signs Hiccup.

Toothless peels away from the procession, landing on a small shadowy shelf to keep a low profile. Hiccup, you and Astrid peek around, taking in the busy hive of sorts.

You watch on as the food continues to be dropped into the pit.

“It's satisfying to know that all of our food has been dumped down a hole.”, remarks Hiccup dry.

“They're not eating any of it.”, notes Astrid.

“I have a bad feeling about this. A really, really bad one.”, you share and bite your lips.

Now that you are in the Dragon Nest you can pit-point where the strange sounds come from.

It comes from the pit.

This couldn’t mean anything good.

And you would be right as a Gronkel spits a little fish into the pit and get’s rewarded by getting eaten by the biggest dragon you ever saw!

Your mermaid instincts formally scream to run and never return.

“By the seven seas!”

“What is that?”, adds Astrid terrified.

The monstrous beast sniffs the air, seemingly aware of you. It nears the ledge where Toothless is hiding and roars.

Several dragons take flight in fear.

“Alright buddy, we gotta get out of here. Now!”, commands Hiccup to Toothless.

Toothless listens and takes flight, barely evading the monster's snapping jaws.

The behemoth dragon lunges for you, snatching a Zippleback out of the air instead.

Your group disappears into the winged exodus as thousands of dragons flee the caldera in fear.

You are still reeling from the revelation of this giant ass dragon when you four arrive at the cove.

Astrid is talking yours and Hiccups ears off: “No, no, it totally makes sense. It's like a giant beehive. They're the workers... and that's their queen. It controls them.”

You touch down at the sandy ground and Astrid doesn’t waste time jumping down from Toothless.

“Let's find your dad.”, say Astrid to Hiccup, ready to return to their village.

Hiccup helps you down from Toothless since you wear a long dress and tucks you close to his side. Shaking you embrace him.

That giant dragon would haunt your dreams you were sure.

“No, no! Not yet. They'll kill Toothless.”, reminds Hiccup Astrid. “Astrid, we have to think this through carefully.”

Saying Astrid is astonished is an understatement. She gaps at you two. “Hiccup, we just discovered the dragons' nest the thing we've been after since Vikings first sailed here. And you want to keep it a secret? To protect your pet dragon? Are you serious?”

“Yes.”, Hiccup and you say as one resolute.

Astrid's taken aback.

“Okay. Then what do we do?”

“Just give me until tomorrow. I'll figure something out.”

“Okay.”

Then Astrid punches you and Hiccup in the arm.

“That's for kidnapping me.”, she tells you two.

You raise an eyebrow at her, while Hiccup looks at Toothless who snorts dismissively.

Next Astrid gives you and Hiccup a short hug.

“That's for, everything else.”

With that, she leaves.

“I don’t get this girl.”, you say to Hiccup. “Is that normal for a Viking?”

He wraps his arm around your shoulder and hugs you to himself. His head is put over yours and you hug him back.

“To be true I don’t get it either, pearl.”

You sign together.

Toothless comes over and joins your hug. You pet the Night Furry.

“Love, stay here tonight. We can think about something together to protect Toothless.”, you plea to him.

You can’t bear right now the thought to be away from your mate.

“You know what, this sounds good. I don’t wanna leave either of you right now.”

Toothless purrs, while you smile.

So a while later you and Hiccup lay under the bear fur he gifted you in the little cave you made your sleeping place.

Strangely Toothless didn’t join you guys and decided to sleep upside down like a bat on a tree.

Well, it would give you privacy to talk with Hiccup about other topics than how to save Toothless from the other Vikings.

Hiccup’s plan right now was to show the village that dragons were friendly while he should kill the Monstrous Nightmare in the Kill Ring.

It wasn’t the best plan, but the only plan were Toothless wouldn’t be exposed to the village.

You snuggled up closer to your mate, while Hiccup played with your hair.

It was a comforting and so domestic feeling.

You wanted to experience this for the rest of your life.

No time like the present, before all this with Astrid and the big bad dragon happened you wanted to ask him something important.

“Hiccup?”

“Mmh?”

“Do you want to be my life mate?”

He formerly turned into a statue and stopped playing with your hair.

You put your chin on his chest to look him in the face. He was blushing red and gaping.

“Hiccup, love?”

“D-Did d-did you just asked me in your mermaid way to marry you?!”, he stutters shocked in disbelief.

You nodded.

“Yes, I did.”

“W-Wait you mean also y-you w-want-“

“Your children? Yes, indeed I want that.”

Your mate turned so red you were worried for a second he would faint.

But he said in a tiny fragile voice: “A-Are y-you s-sure you want me? Like forever? W-What if you meet a nice merman and want him instant? Not that I would blame you, I’m just a hiccup.”

This broke your heart. Who made him believe he wasn’t worthy of love?

You would show him.

So you sat up and swung a leg over his waist. His eyes got big like a pufferfish.

He stutters your name.

“I love you, Hiccup.”, you purred softly. You touched your necklace. “I think, I loved you even when we were kids. That’s why I couldn’t decide which merman from my coven I wanted as a mate. I know this now.”

“Huh, what do you mean by that?”

You smiled and took off your necklace to give it to him.

“This was once a bracelet.”, you explained to him. “When I was a little girl I once visited Berk with my parents. It was a big festival. There I meet a shy, sweet, and intelligent land dweller boy who showed me his home, played games with me, and made me laugh till I couldn’t breathe anymore. As a goodbye gift, he gave me a bracelet he had made for me, while I wasn’t looking. I never asked for his name but…you both have the same green eyes. The same crooked smile. The same big heart. You are my first and last love, Hiccup, I’m sure. So….I’m yours too?”

You waited nervously for his answer. After spending so much time together you were pretty sure that Hiccup and your first land dweller friend were one in the same.

You just hoped he felt the same.

Hiccup played with the bracelet, seeming deep in thoughts, till he said: “I…I always thought that day…that I made it up in my mind. That I just dreamed that I found a friend…who liked me for me…but…you look like the little girl…the one I made this bracelet for…”

He looked up at you, tears were twinkling in his eyes.

“You weren’t a dream…you are real.”

You put your hands on his cheek and whipped away the falling tears.

“I’m real Hiccup. I’m not a fairytale. I love you, only you and no one else, I promise, for infinity. We can even get married in your land dweller way, I just want to be at your side and love you and love the children we will have together.”

The young man made a gasping sound, like he couldn’t believe someone could love him this much.

Still, he leaned up and gave you a quick peck.

“I love you too, maybe it’s crazy after a few weeks with each other, but I don’t want I live without you anymore.”, he told you smiling, even if he still cried. “You were the first person to accept me, you came back to me, you gave me your friendship and your heart…Yes, I want to be your life mate.”

“And I want to be your wife.”

You both meet in a passionate kiss which made you both moan out loud.

It was like fire.

Burning you from the inside and outside.

Only getting better, the more you kissed, the more you touched.

But at the same time, it fawned the flames.

You couldn’t take it anymore and stripped down your dress and undergarments.

You helped Hiccup out of his clothes and pants.

Kissing and touching every new part of him.

Worshipping him in the way he deserved.

This was your mate, your heart and soul, no one would take him away from you.

You throw your head back, enjoying Hiccups strong and deep trusts. One of his hands is on your hip the other goes to your cheek caressing it.

He closes his eyes in pleasure and moans. You shiver and kiss his hand, impaling yourself on his thick hard cock. Over and over again.

Soon Hiccup reaches his limit and comes.

He yells your name into the heavens and you feel his seed entering you, warming your womb.

You purr at the feeling.

You are still not ready to orgasm but Hiccup rubs frantically your clit to help you to get over the edge.

He swerves it’s the most beautiful thing in all the world to see you coming apart.

With a loud keen, you come and feel your own liquid splashing down on your joined parts.

It’s messy and sticky, but so damn hot.

Tired you collapse on top of Hiccup and you two share loving kisses in the afterglow.

For merpeople, you are married now and you couldn’t be happier.

Whatever would bring tomorrow…you would face it together.

I can’t believe I finally wrote smut.

Somehow.

Kinda.

I hope you all enjoyed it.

If not I’m sorry, I’m new at this.

Happy Valentinesday again my loves!

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