Another year has passed. Hiccup and Toothless were helping to build yet another new house. This one though was for Astrid and Eret who just got married just a few days before that. He and Merida had been married now for up close to a year. And she was just about to pop with their first child.

He was elated when she told him she was pregnant. And now she was due any time now. And with Embers there as well, Toothless finally decided that he liked the tail that let him fly on his own. The two of them flying all around the island but never leaving it unless he and Merida were on their backs.

"Hiccup!"

Looking down he laughed. "Sorry Eret. I was just wondering how much longer it is going to take for Merida to have the baby."

"That will come in time. Lower that last sheet and this will be done." Eret then guided the last of the roof into place for him and Astrid. "There. No go check on her yourself if you want."

"I will."

But a roar from the sky made him turn his head. a very excited and yet very nervous looking Embers flew at them. "Merida." Letting Toothless take off they flew to the house that was built just for the two of them and rushed in to find her in bed with his mother there. "Merida?"

Laughing as she held his hand and let one hand lay on her very large stomach she winked at him. "I am alright. In pain but it will be worth it."

"I know that." Sitting down on the side of the bed he reached out and laid his hand on her stomach but pulled it back nearly instantly when she flinched and her stomached rippled. "I am sorry."

"Yeah don't do that. They always move all over the place and don't stop when you touch my stomach."

"They? Still think you are having more than one?"

Nodding as she let Hiccup put a few more pillows behind her head she smiled. "I do. After all. Mum and Dad had three at one time. I say I am having at least twins."

"We will see about that one."

Looking up at her son after checking on his wife, Valka glared. "Don't think you won't be shown up and proven wrong Hiccup. A mother knows. If she says there are at least two babies then there will be at least two babies." Then she sighed as she stood up. "You are clearly in labor but it is just starting. The pain will be harder as it goes. Do you want Hiccup in here or out?"

"I want him with me."

"Alright."

X

"Oh my God that hurts!"

Flinching once again at the sound of her screaming in his ear, Hiccup felt like his hand was going to break she was holding it so hard. "Mom?"

"It hurts like hell but she will be just fine Hiccup." Once again, now late in the night Valka checked on Merida's progress and then gasped as she smiled. "I think it is time."

"It is? I can push?"

"Yes. Let me get some towels and Astrid. She is waiting outside to help. If you are right and you have two, she will be needed."

"Right."

Coming back in, Valka told her to push while Astrid stood off to the side with a towel in her hands ready for a baby.

Merida pushed with all she had. Once. Twice. Three times. Then finally on the fourth she felt some of the pressure leave her as one baby was finally born. "What is it?"

Handing the baby off to Astrid, Valka saw her face and looked to see yet another head crown. "That one is a boy. Hiccup your wife was right. One more time Merida."

Nodding as she bore down with the last bit of strength that she had left, Merida then felt all the pain leave her and a dull ache where the pain was. "That one?"

"A daughter. In one go you got one of each."

Hiccup turned and kissed Merida as he helped her to sit up. "You alright?"

Tears falling from her eyes she nodded as she looked over at Valka and Astrid. "I am fine. I want to see them."

Turning with the boy in her arms, Valka smiled. "Well they both got your red hair Merida. Though your boy got your blue eyes."

Right next to her Astrid smiled down at the girl she held. "And your daughter got Hiccup's dark green eyes."

Merida took her son, as Hiccup took his daughter and they both just looked at them. They were parents now! And they were just perfect.

"Names?"

Looking up at his mother he smiled. "Well we talked about it. And I like the ones that Merida came up with. Not your typical Berk names either."

"What are they?"

Looking down at her boy she smiled. "The name fits him though. His eyes are blue, but more like blue lighting than the blue I have. He is Thor."

"That is a fine name. And your daughter?"

Looking into eyes that mirrored his own he smiled as she smiled back at him. "Merida sort of picked her name out too. Said it was a name that she had always liked and we figured we would go for it if she had a girl. "Kerri."

Looking at her grandchildren, Valka smiled. "Thor and Kerri. I think I like those names."

X

Cracking an eye open, Hiccup looked over to see Merida moving back into place with Thor in her arms. "Hungry again?" Really?"

Laughing as she pushed her shirt down to nurse her son, Merida smiled at him. "He is. According to yer mother, you were just like this. Always hungry."

"I didn't say it was a bad thing ya know." He then let his eyes drift shut again. "You know. This time a year ago I would have never thought that in a years time I would be married to one of the most beautiful girls in the world and father to twins."

"One of?"

"You, my mother, and your mother. Don't think I am going to get them on my bad side." Laughing as he opened an eye and looked upt to see her rolling her eyes he sighed. "But life is perfect ya know. And your parents will be here in a couple of days."

"I know. Life is perfect isn't it?"

Looking up as another cry rang out through the room Hiccup got up and went over to the other bed with his daughter in it and lifted her into his arms. "It is now." Going back to the bed as he held her, and Merida held Thor, they were all content now. "This is perfect."

"Yes it is."

Looking up though when they heard their door fly open Hiccup stood up with Kerri and went to open their bedroom door to find a shocked Valka standing there. "Mom? What happened?"

"I didn't say anything, and neither did anyone else. But once Merida's labor started and you and her were in here all day and night. At some point, Embers just sort of left."

"She left?!" Her eyes wide as she sat in bed Merida was shocked. "Did she come back?"

"She did. She and Toothless were both gone actually. They just got back. You have got to come and see."

Handing his daughter over to his mother, Hiccup went back to Merida as he helped her stand up. "Don't worry. If something bad happened to them, then she would of said so. Let's go see what is going on."

Nodding as she held her son, Merida leaned on Hiccup as they went downstairs and then out the door into the morning light to see the two Nightfuries sitting there waiting on them. Her eyes half glaring she smiled. "Where did the two of you go?"

But when they moved, they were shocked to see that they had eggs! Two eggs! "Hiccup they have eggs!"

"That means two more Nightfuries!"

Taking Kerri back from his mother as the dragons came up to see them he smiled. "Well, everything is perfect now. Right Merida?"

"Oh yes. I thought it was before but it is even better now."