(A/N): This is my first fanfic EVER, so please read and give a review if you can. This story has been floating around in my head for weeks, but I just haven't had the energy to put it down. I will try to post regularly, if anyone likes it. Please enjoy!

(Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Dreamworks Dragons characters or anything belonging to how to train your dragon franchise.)

Chapter One

It was one of those mornings on Berk where no matter how many blankets or furs you wrapped yourself up in, when you woke up, you wouldn't be able to feel you're limbs. Not that if it where warm, Hiccup would be able to feel one of them anyways. He liked to think he was fully adjusted to not having a lower left leg, but him being hiccup, he was never really fully adjusted to anything.

Anyways it was cold, like it usually is on Berk, but this was one of those mornings where during the night, when the sun was down, everything in sight seemed to freeze over. Luckily, now that the Berkians were friendlier with dragons, anyone that had one could snuggle for warmth. Or rather, huddle, for survival purposes of course.

Evidently, Dragons were a Blessing in disguise, of course some people weren't too happy with the changes, namely Mildew, but most other Berkians couldn't even remember how they survived without the dragons before. Even Stoick was jumping onto the bandwagon, despite his conservative ways. He did believe in tradition, but he also knew that sometimes tradition could be wrong, Hiccup had taught him that.

The young Viking boy, sat up in bed, waiting for the feeling to return to his fingers and toes. He glanced to the side of right, where Toothless laid on a stone platform across the room, snoozing lightly in front the fireplace. He was lucky, Hiccup thought as he lazily crawled out of bed towards the sleeping dragon, everyone knew that dragons were naturally warm, and cold weather only made the huge reptiles sluggish and sleepy. Not that toothless didn't mind the cold weather, he didn't like it just as much as anyone else, but the difference was that he could actually tolerate it.

"Open up," Hiccup half mumbled, his arms holding together a fur blanket draped over his shoulders. The wooden floor was cold and stung at his right foot like icy needles. His left foot though, was still detached resting against the bedpost, where he had placed it the previous night.

The dragon opened one eye lazily to see the boy inching towards him as fast as his numb body could move, which was quite frankly, not very fast. He lifted one wing, as he had been lying on his side, and allowed Hiccup to nestle himself into toothless body. Despite Hiccup being half-asleep, he still possessed some reason, and knew that if he put himself in between toothless' wings, he wouldn't be getting out until toothless said so. But as soon as he was wrapped up and surrounded by the dragons natural furnace, being held prisoner there was much more preferable than being in his ice-block of a bed. He settled for the warm-dragon-choice and within minutes the two of them returned to their slumber.

Hiccup smiled faintly as a dream began to play out in his mind. He was in a field, it was warm and cozy, and the sunset in the horizon casted a magnificent mix of orange and pink hues into the sky. He heard a familiar sound of laughter behind him, and as he turned he saw Astrid. Her hair was billowing in the breeze, as she had seemed to unravel her braid, and she was wearing a sky blue dress that danced around her with the wind, instead of covered in spikes. Her smile was inviting, and he approached cautiously, worried she might surprise attack him, as she usually did. There seemed to be a warm glow emitting from her as she smiled and held out her arms to him, which he contemplated on taking. This was quite the unusual sight. Astrid? Inviting? Soft? He knew it was too good to be true, so he proceeded looked at her skeptically.

Her lips parted slowly as she approached him, arms still outstretched.

"Astrid?" Hiccup asked dumbly.

Her face neared his and her warm hands came to touch his cheek.

"As…as…stri-" She was so close now, and her hands were making him nod off blissfully. He closed his eyes and prepared his lips for what he expected was coming.

Until a loud gruff voice erupted from her mouth and disrupted the pleasant moment, "Hiccup!"

His eyes instantly shot open and he looked around him, to find he was surrounded by darkness.

"Hiccup!" The familiar voice sounded again, "What did I say about mornings?" Just then Hiccup realized it had been his father's voice he had heard in his dream. He pushed open toothless' wings, to which the dragon gave a small noise of protest, but was too tired to put any energy into it.

"Yes…dad?" Hiccup rubbed his eyes with the knuckles of his hands and stretched his arms.

"What were you doing over there son?, " He gestured to the blocky wooden bed across the room, "What about your bed?" Stoick questioned as Hiccup revealed himself, "Haven't I told you not to coddle the thing?"

"I wasn't coddling Toothless… I was… huddling with him, for survival purposes." Hiccup stated with still hooded eyes.

"Never mind that, we haven't got the time. Hurry and get dressed, today's a very important day remember?" Stoick pointed out with a rather excited expression, which he only reserved for special occasions.

Hiccup thought for a moment then asked hopefully, "… Is it Sleep until whenever you want day?"

His father gave him a dry look, "A chief never rests"

Hiccup shared a cynical look with toothless then hoisted himself up onto his right leg. Stoick reached for the prosthetic and handed it to his son, before continuing to ramble on, "I'm sure you remember what today is, I have been reminding you for the past week."

With a sigh, Hiccup attached the prosthetic. He knew what day it was, his father had in fact been reminding him all week, he just wished this day didn't have to come. Today was the day that the chief of the Glunky Gunnsons, and his daughter would be visiting.

Fortunately, No one really heard from them often, since they lived in an island way a ways south from Berk called Gunge Guck, but whenever they did make an appearance, it was something the whole tribe dreaded. They were known all around as being arrogant, trouble making slobs. Last time they visited, when Hiccup was only seven, they were real pests, eating all the food, stealing things giving orders.

What made it worse was that Hiccup had to wait hand and foot on the chief's daughter Heidi, who was the most annoying of them all. She was the apple of her father's eye, and if she so much as frowned, she could very well start a war. She didn't know that back then, because she was six, but Hiccup figured she probably understood how important she was, and wouldn't hesitate to take advantage of it.

"Why did you even invite them dad? Couldn't we renew a treaty with some other tribe?" Hiccup whined.

"It is a chief's duty, and since one day, you will become chief, I want you to see firsthand what a chief has to deal with." Stoick explained, "And besides, I didn't invite him, He heard about our dragons and suggested that we renew the treaty himself."

Hiccup watched his father shuffle through the tiny doorway, as he usually did whenever he needed to go in and out. After he was gone he dropped his head and stared glumly at the floor. Toothless knew how Hiccup got whenever Stoick mentioned him becoming chief. It was an idea Stoick was very proud and excited about, but hiccup feared.

The dragon came over to the boy and nuzzled his shoulder to comfort him. Though it has been a year since the fall of the Red Death, Hiccup still doubted himself. He was praised as a hero, he led the dragon training academy, and now he was most-likely going to be the future chief of Berk, but all these accomplishments did nothing but weigh him down.

"It's okay bud." He rubbed toothless' snout and gave a half-smile, which did nothing to calm the dragon's nerves, "They're only staying a week right? Not anything too bad…" He tried to reassure himself as he stood up to get dressed.

He quickly put on his green tunic, which seemed to be getting a bit tighter; He had grown in the past year, and was in serious need of some new clothes. His prosthetic was new though, the one Gobber had made up for him after the battle just wasn't going to cut it, and at the rate he was growing, it seemed he'd have to draw up another design soon.

"Come on bud" Hiccup called as he left the room, the dragon pushed open the large window they had installed, and jumped out to meet the boy at the front door.

The whole island was busy, aware of what today was, and they were hastily making preparations. "Morning toothless" A familiar voice called from behind, he turned to find Astrid approaching him. She scratched under his neck lightly and smiled, "Where's Hiccup?" The dragon turned towards the door where Hiccup appeared, a discouraged look still plastered over his face.

"Hey Astrid," He met her by Toothless and began absently rubbing his neck.

"Hey…Hiccup? What's wrong?" Astrid noticed his dim mood.

"You haven't heard? The Chief of the Glunky Gunnsons is arriving today…"

"What's so wrong with him? Aren't the Glunky Gunnsons one of the fiercest tribes around? I can't wait to meet him so he can show me some of his techniques!" Astrid got excited at the idea of becoming an even greater warrior.

"I'm sure you'd be the one showing him techniques. Besides, he's here to renew a treaty, chief stuff." Hiccup commented, the Viking girls excitement deflating at his words.

"I still don't understand why you're so upset."

Hiccup let out a sigh, "My dad is probably going to make me wait on his daughter…again"

"Oh…"

"Yeah."

"Well," She stated with an optimistic tone, "You said that the chief is coming to renew a treaty so wouldn't you be with your dad discussing chiefly-stuff? If you're busy with that, he'll probably make Snotlout look after the chief's daughter."

"Yeah…" Hiccup replied drearily, discussing Chiefly-stuff wasn't any better to him. Hiccup having to become chief one day was already looming over his head constantly, so sitting next to his father, learning how to be one made him feel extremely nervous.

Astrid noticed his still-discouraged look and opened her mouth to say something but heavy arms landed on her and Hiccup's shoulders.

"You guys talking about the chief's daughter?" Snotlout loud voice interrupted their discussion. She elbowed him in the side causing him to let go of them to bring his hands to his rib. "Ow!"

"Someone's jealous…"Snotlout created a safe distance from Astrid and stood nearer to Hiccup, "Worried that Heidi will take all of the attention off of you huh?"

Astrid balled up her fist and neared Snotlout in a menacing way, the thought of ever wanting to be like that spoiled priss disgusted her, but Hiccup held out an arm to stop her, "She doesn't have anything to be jealous about Snotlout, Heidi's a brat…"

"Yeah, but she's super-hot! They call her Heidi the Heavenly!"

"I thought it was Heidi the Hellish…?" Astrid corrected him.

"See? She's obviously jealous…" Snotlout commented in a depreciating way as he crossed his arms and shook his head.

Astrid growled and punched him in the stomach, He doubled over in pain as the air was knocked out of him, "And you're obviously stupid!" She bit back.

Hiccup laughed a little, Snotlout did deserve it. "It actually is Heidi the Hellish, but don't say that in front of her father…"

"Whatever" Snotlout wheezed as he tried to stand up straight again, "That doesn't matter, because you're looking at the future chief of the Glunky Gunnsons. You can go ahead and be chief of this dump Hiccup, I'm going for the gold!"

"…." Hiccup and Astrid gave Snotlout an unconvinced look.

"What? You guys don't think I can woo her with my manly Viking charms?" He defended himself.

"No offense Snotlout…but you're probably... not her type." Hiccup commented.

"Yeah, she doesn't go for the sleazy type. And unfortunately for you, she only wants things that she can't have." Astrid added.

"You guys don't know anything about a Jorgenson's charm!" He said to the two before he tromped off.

Hiccup and Astrid laughed and shook their heads. Snotlout really was oblivious, he didn't accept the truth until it hit him in the face, literally.

"Well I'm going to take toothless on a flight… I have a feeling I won't be getting much time with him this week…" Hiccup said as he patted the dragon's neck.

Toothless heard the word flight and jumped around excitedly.

"Yeah, I think you might be right," Astrid smiled then turned to walk off but seemed to remember something, "Oh I almost forgot, you're dad told me to remind you to meet him at the docks before noon."

"Thanks for reminding me, It's only been hanging over my head for the past week." Hiccup said dryly as he climbed up onto toothless.

"It'll be okay Hiccup, come meet me before you head for the docks okay?" she wanted to give him more reassurance, but didn't have the time right now.

"Sure thing," He answered before him and toothless leapt into the air. Toothless' wings hoisted them up and they were soon far up in the sky getting smaller and smaller as they left Berk behind.

(A/N): So, I hope you liked it! Like I said this is my first fanfic, so I would appreciate some constructive criticism to help make my future stories or chapters better.

And Thanks for reading! I will post next chapter soon, and might come up with a regular posting date if people like it