Okay, people, you asked for it, and I'm giving it to you! (Or to be more accurate, Shadowassassin755 asked for it, and the idea's been stuck in my head for so long I just had to get rid of it by... writing another chapter! You're welcome, Shadowassassin755! By the way, just because there's a new chapter to this story, doesn't mean I now own the How To Train Your Dragon movie franchise and/or book series.) Anyway, enjoy!

The next day, Hiccup woke up far earlier than he normally would. Since he couldn't get back to sleep no matter how hard he tried, he decided to find something to occupy himself with to help pass the time. But although Hiccup just loved to build new tailfins for Toothless and wild but cool inventions (such as his shield, with the built in catapult and bolas), the only thing he felt like doing was flying. I bet Toothless knows how this feels, Hiccup thought to himself, as he glanced over at the peacefully sleeping Night Fury. This is probably about the time when he'd wake me up, if I wasn't already awake. I wonder how he likes being woken up early.

Hiccup decided to tiptoe near to the stone slab Toothless slept on and see if Toothless had woken up yet or was close to waking up. After checking his dragon's face for signs of consciousness, Hiccup concluded that Toothless was sound asleep. After a few moments of deliberation, Hiccup decided to look for the long goose feather that had driven Toothless nuts the last time he had used it on him. It turned out that the feather was still in Hiccup's bag from the last time he'd used it, which was the first place he'd started looking for it anyway. Teasingly, he tested it on Toothless to see if it was as tickly as it was the last time, brushing it up and down his sides in short bursts and watching as the still-asleep Toothless squirmed and stifled a giggle. Smiling, he took the feather and went for Toothless' sides and armpits relentlessly with the feather, while also using his fingers to scratch his sides. The results were perfect.

"Hahahahahahahahahaha! Hey, whahahat's going ohohon?" Toothless giggled sleepily. He was awake now, but still fairly sleepy. Hiccup sniggered to himself - this was going to be fun, and he'd get to show Toothless how much he absolutely hated being woken up early. (As we know, Hiccup would probably figure out how to hibernate all year-round if he could.) A win-win situation from every angle, Hiccup thought, as he used the feather to get to Toothless' most ticklish spots.

"Nohohohohohohoho! Hiccup, dohohohohon't!" Toothless laughed, trying to get away from Hiccup. But it was too late, as Hiccup had now gotten on top of him, and was exploiting this as much as he possibly could. Hiccup remembered that most of Toothless' sweet spots could be accessed from sitting on his back, and after realising that, Hiccup soon had Toothless begging for Hiccup to show mercy. "AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OKAY, HICCUHUHUP, I'M UP, I'M UP! NOW GEHEHEHET OHOHOHOHOFF MEHEHEHEHE!" Toothless begged, tears of laughter already streaming down his face.

"If you insist, you big baby," Hiccup teased, getting off the Night Fury to allow him time to breathe. "Sheesh, I didn't know you'd allow yourself to be reduced to begging quite so easily. I bet Dagur and his men would have a field day torturing you if they knew this." Toothless shuddered at the thought. Hiccup may be mean when searching for information, but Dagur would be ruthless. He just knew it.

"And I didn't know that you'd actually wake up early for once in your lifetime, Hiccup," Toothless retorted grumpily, as he got up and stretched. "Hiccup, you play dirty, you know that?"

"Nothing that you haven't already done, Toothless, you hypocrite," Hiccup replied, making Toothless freeze up with both anger and embarrassment, because Hiccup's comment made him remember that he'd done this twice in the past, and this gave him a rather guilty conscience. (Well, technically, only once, because Toothless had scared him out of bed the other time, but you know what I mean!)

"Anyway, Hiccup, why did you wake me up? This definitely isn't like you, so spill," Toothless demanded, keeping an eye on Hiccup at all times, like he had seen Stoick doing before. Now, it was Hiccup's turn to feel embarrassed.

"Well, Toothless, I woke you up early because . . . I wanted to go flying. There, I said it," Hiccup confessed, going tomato-red. This was something Toothless normally did, instead of him, and now he realised that, he felt like he'd done something extremely childish, which he had.

"Well, I guess you're lucky, then, I could definitely go for a morning flight right now," Toothless said, as Hiccup stood there, speechless. (Well you'd do the same thing if you were Hiccup, wouldn't you?) "Well, Hiccup. what are you waiting for? You said you wanted to go flying!"

Hurriedly, the pair took to the skies and decided to see if they could beat Astrid and Stormfly's top speed . . . right in front of them. This blatant display of arrogance by the pair had them smirking at first and then fuming as Hiccup and Toothless beat them and raised the bar even higher for them the next time they tried to break that record.

"See you around, you two," Hiccup yelled arrogantly as they flew off.

"Have fun trying to beat that, Stormfly! I'll have fun watching you fail!" Toothless taunted in Dragonese, so only Stormfly would understand. But what he'd forgotten was that Hiccup understood as well.

As soon as they were out of Astrid and Stormfly's sight line and earshot, Hiccup tweaked Toothless' ear viciously to get his attention, making him yelp with pain and shock. "Ouch, Hiccup, don't do that! My ears are really sensitive to pain!"

"Toothless, don't be so mean to Stormfly. You know how competitive she can be," Hiccup chided, like a parent to an errant child. This just made Toothless smirk.

"You're one to talk, Hiccup! Do you remember what you said to Astrid, who happens to be just as competitive as Stormfly?" Toothless felt Hiccup's legs stiffen up and he knew without looking that Hiccup had turned red from embarrassment. I'll take that as a yes, then, Toothless thought.

"Fine, Toothless, you win, we're even now, OK?" Hiccup blurted out, making Toothless snigger.

"Hey, Hiccup, how do you win against somebody else and still be even with them?" he cheekily replied, making Hiccup see red and twist his other ear in frustration, but much harder this time.

"YEOW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" Toothless yelled angrily, as he instantly flattened both ears against his head to stop Hiccup from twisting them again.

"You might want to watch your mouth, Toothless," warned Hiccup. "If you were understood by humans, you'd have managed to talk your way into your grave by now."

"Well in that case, let's be glad most humans don't know what I'm saying," Toothless snapped. "Mildew would be after me with an axe, and so would your dad, now I think about it!"

"That's what I meant!" Hiccup fired back. Unfortunately, he said this a lot louder than he meant to just when Snotlout and Hookfang, of all the people (and dragons, obviously) were flying past, naturally. (Honestly, what are the odds?)

"Hey, Hiccup, I see you're talking to Toothless again, dragon boy. How pathetic. You know and I know that Toothless can't give you an intelligent answer," Snotlout sneered, as Hookfang looked downwards, feeling embarrassed. (I don't blame him, to be perfectly honest. If I had a rider like Snotlout, I'd be embarrassed too.)

Hiccup was about to give Snotlout a rude and sarcastic answer, but he didn't even need to open his mouth, because Toothless answered for him, even though Snotlout doesn't understand Dragonese. But he didn't need to. It only took a few plasma blasts at Snotlout's oversized head before he clung to Hookfang's long, spindly neck to get away from all the plasma blasts being aimed at him.

"Alright, Toothless, I'm so sorry I insulted you! Even though you can't actually give a reply back, you're great company and super smart, too! Now stop shooting plasma blasts at me, please!" Snotlout begged, hugging Hookfang's neck with a vice-like grip like a baby clinging onto his mother's arms. At this, Toothless stopped firing, not because he was happy with Snotlout's answer, but because Hookfang looked like he was being strangled by Snotlout. Still terrified, Snotlout and Hookfang flew off, although Toothless couldn't help noticing that Hookfang looked significantly less embarrassed now than he did before. (Maybe it was a trick of the light. Then again, maybe not.)

"Thanks, Toothless."

"Don't mention it. I've been wanting to do that for a while anyway."

"Really?" Hiccup choked out, shocked. "I-I-I knew Snotlout was a muttonhead and a jerk, but I didn't think that some of the dragons would like to see him humbled, too!"

"Oh, they'd love to see that happen, believe me," Toothless replied calmly. "Even Thornado would like to teach Snotlout a long and possibly embarrassing lesson about respect if he could, and he's Stoick's dragon, for crying out loud! Anyway, enough about who we dragons do and don't like. We need to get back as soon as possible. We started our flight at sunrise, and judging from the sun's position in the sky, I'd say it's about noon. If we stay out any later, our skins will be on the wall as decoration by your dad."

"Fine, fine, let's go."

After arriving back at Berk, they were immediately confronted by a couple of yaks escaping their pens. These weren't baby yaks that Toothless had been mercilessly tortured by in the past, but their fully grown counterparts. Toothless and Hiccup helped round up a few of the yaks to save Gobber and Stoick some trouble. (Toothless scared them into their pens, and Hiccup held out what Toothless thought were buckets of water that the yaks somehow couldn't get enough of, coaxed them into their pens, and shut the door on them when they were back in their pens where they were supposed to be.)

A few minutes later, when everyone had returned to whatever they had been doing, Toothless went over to one of the buckets that the yaks had wanted to devour so badly, and out of curiosity, took a sip from it. It only took a second for him to regret it. Yuck - it tasted like an entire block of salt! Toothless thought, as he raced over to a nearby water trough to get rid of the unenviable taste it had left in his mouth. And Toothless realized he wasn't the only one who noticed, as Hiccup was now doubled over laughing. Toothless felt an unwelcome and slightly sickening wave of embarrassment wash over him as he stared at Hiccup.

"Just shut up, Hiccup! I didn't know it was saltwater, otherwise I wouldn't have even thought about drinking it!" Toothless protested angrily, glaring at Hiccup. "Also, why were those yaks drawn to that stuff? It tastes disgusting!"

"I don't know, to be honest," Hiccup admitted. "Nobody does. But when one Viking noticed that the buckets of saltwater he kept to melt the ice in front of his house kept getting eaten by local yaks, he realized what else they could be used for."

Toothless thought for a moment, and smirked. "Well, if nobody knows why they like saltwater so much, then maybe we'll spend some time finding out," Toothless said, grinning.

"Wait, what did you say, Toothless? And what did you mean by 'we'?" Hiccup asked scaredly. Not bothering to explain, Toothless picked up one of the buckets of saltwater carefully with his mouth, not wanting to drink it a second time, and doused Hiccup with it, causing Hiccup to now become covered in the saltwater the yaks were apparently so addicted to. Hiccup gave a small yelp of shock because of how cold the salt water was, causing much of the herd to run in the opposite direction in fear.

"What was that for, Toothless?" Hiccup shouted angrily, causing the rest of the herd to join the first half on the other side of the spacious pen. "Is this your plan? To cover me in water?"

"I didn't cover you in water," Toothless corrected, "I covered you in saltwater. And before you silence me and say that it's basically the same thing, allow me to prove you wrong." And with that, Toothless tossed Hiccup into the yak pen, where he was quickly surrounded by a few curious yaks. But these yaks were fully grown, and definitely a lot stronger than poor Hiccup.

"Now then, just d-don't come any closer, and w-we should be fine with each other," Hiccup stammered nervously, as he backed away from the yaks, who clearly weren't taking the hint and moving closer to him. Suddenly, one of the yaks lifted up Hiccup's tunic and licked his stomach, causing him to leap back in surprise.

"Ehehehehehe! Hehehey, what are yohohou doing?" Hiccup giggled, twisting away from the yaks. But it was too late. They were onto him like a pile of bricks, and none of them were willing to let go of their huge saltwater-covered prize. Pity their 'prize' didn't think the same way as they did.

"YAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Hiccup laughed, struggling desperately to get away from the yaks' evil tongues. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! TOOHOOHOOHOOHOOTHLEHEHEHEHEHESS! HEEELP!"

Calmly, Toothless shook his head. "Sorry, Hiccup. I'm not getting you out until you've learned the difference between regular water and saltwater. Until then, I guess you'll just have to stay there."

"NOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO! I'VE LEHEHEHEHEHEARNED THE DIFFEREHEHEHENCE BETWEEHEEHEEN REHEHEHEHEGULAHAHAHAHAR WATER AND SALTWATER! NOW STOHOHOHOHOHOHOP!"

"And you have to give at least one difference between the two and what salt water can be used for," Toothless added coolly. "However, stating what it is being used for now doesn't count, obviously."

"WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAT!? YOHOHOHOHOHOU ONLY SAHAHAID THAHAHAHAHAT SO I'D STAHAHAHAY HERE LONGER, YOHOHOU JEHEHEHERK!"

"Well, if you want to get out of there, then I suggest that you find a way out of there, and fast," Toothless said, grinning as he laid down on the floor close to the yak pen, intending to get as comfortable as possible while Hiccup was being tortured by the tongues of the yaks.

"YAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHELP! TOOHOOHOOTHLEHEHEHEHESS!" Hiccup begged, tears of laughter streaming down his bright red face like small rivers, made that way from the embarrassment of being tickle-tortured in public, and also from laughing so hard, because as we know, Hiccup is extremely ticklish. Suddenly, one of the yaks went for his armpits, which were now soaked in a mix of sweat and saltwater, which sent Hiccup into a spell of silent laughter. Hurriedly, Toothless scared the yaks off and pulled Hiccup out of the yak pen as quickly as he could.

"Hiccup, are you OK?" Toothless asked worriedly, inwardly panicking. He didn't mean for the prank to go this far and he never meant for Hiccup to be so tired and out of breath. He was trying to get him back for the prank he'd played that morning!

"Regular water can be used for drinking and washing, unlike saltwater, and saltwater can be used to melt ice quickly in cold weather," Hiccup replied calmly. Toothless was about to ask him what he meant, until he remembered that he'd told him that he had to answer those questions for him to be let out.

"That's - that's correct," he stuttered. Smirking, Hiccup got up and used his hand to wipe off any saliva on his stomach.

"Also, I thought I only got out until I told you the answers. Why didn't that happen, Toothless?" Hiccup asked.

"Hiccup, you were about to pass out. I had to get you out of there," Toothless pointed out. "Unless, of course, you'd rather cover yourself in saltwater again and get back in with all those friendly yaks?" Hiccup froze and slowly backed away, making Toothless giggle. "You know, Hiccup, how about a truce? You don't tickle-torture me, and I don't tickle-torture you. Deal?" Toothless negotiated, feeling rather nervous and stupid, like a child being scolded after a fight and was now being made to apologize.

Looking around, and blushing, Hiccup playfully punched the side of his head and replied, "Deal. Now, how about some water, Toothless?"

"Oh, thanks," Toothless said, and gulped down the entire bucket of water before grimacing at the taste. "Seriously, Hiccup? Saltwater? Oh, don't think I'm gonna let you get away with pranking me like that. Get back here!"

Laughing, Hiccup took off, Toothless hot on his heels. Hearing all the commotion, Astrid looked out of her window and laughed. After all. that sort of thing always seemed to happen on Berk with those two around.

Hi there, all you gorgeous people! This is just a message from me, FoxtrotTango543, to say sorry for taking so long with this second chapter, and also to say that I will be taking a hiatus from writing HTTYD fanfics so I can cast a wider net across the world of fanfiction! In fact, I'm thinking about writing a fanfic about Sing! 2016. Oh, and I almost forgot to say this to you all: HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ME!