So many things can change in two months. Two months ago Hiccup was the least popular person on the entire island of Berk. Two months ago Dragons and Vikings were still at war. But that was two months ago. Things were completely different now. Hiccup yawned as he climbed out of bed, his metal foot squeaking as he put his weight on it.

Hiccup`s dragon, Toothless was still asleep in the rafters of his home. Then Hiccup proceeded outside to get breakfast for his friend. Hiccup walked down the rocky path that led from his house to the market. The sun was already up, but the cool sea breeze kept it nice and cold. Hiccup placed his hands in his pockets and enjoyed the peacefulness of the morning. Soon he`d reached the market, where he was to buy a small basket of fish for his dragon.

"Morning Hiccup", The Fisherman said.

While his dragon, a grey and blue Gronckle. Who sat in the corner feasting on roasted mutton. The fisher man was a muscular man, with blonde hair and beard. Since Vikings on Berk didn't fight dragons for living, they were exploring new occupations.

"Are you going to my daughter's party this afternoon?" He asked.

"Toothless and I wouldn't miss it for anything." Hiccup replied.

"Good, she`s very excited to have her friends over on such a special day." The fisherman gave the basket of fish to Hiccup. "Don't disappoint her."

"Yes sir." Hiccup said awkwardly before trudging back to his house.

"Don't forget her gift!" The fisherman called.

Hiccup almost dropped the basket. He hadn't gotten Astrid a gift yet. A surge of panic and anxiety hit him. What kind of boyfriend was he, forgetting to buy his girlfriend a gift for her birthday. He`d surely be dumped.

"Don't worry," Hiccup called back trying to sound as confident as possible. "It`s an awesome gift! "

He opened the door to his house and walked inside. Hiccup tossed the basket of fish onto the table in frustration. Toothless jumped down from the rafters and tore open the basket with his teeth.

"What are we goanna do, Astrid is going to kill me." Hiccup groaned. Toothless glanced at Hiccup, rolled his eyes and continued to eat.

Hiccup sat down on his bed and placed his head in his hands.

"Its ok, we`ll figure something out, probably."

Toothless ate the last of his fish then glanced over at his rider, as if to say "calm down". Hiccup walked over to the map of Berk and studied it for a few minutes. Toothless lumbered over to Hiccup`s side, staring at his friend with concern.

"Toothless saddle up, we`re going to the Forbidden Caves." Hiccup told his dragon who started lumbering towards the door.

Hiccup grabbed his saddle, and riders harness. He hooked up to Toothless once they were outside and took to the skies.

The wind was fairly strong during the flight, but there were very few clouds in the sky. Toothless seemed uneasy, Gobber had told him that Dragons can sense coming changes in the weather. Far off in the distance, a typhoon was brewing. Hiccup could see the black storm clouds. They flew to the southwestern side of the island, not too far from where Astrid first kissed Hiccup. Then Hiccup sent Toothless into a shallow dive. Then Hiccup had Toothless make a hard right turn and they flew into a small sea cave. Luckily, there wasn't a Thunder drone inside of it.

"Perfect." Hiccup said as they landed.

In the middle of the sea cave was a blue crystal formation. Hiccup walked up to it and tried to break off a piece. Then Toothless snorted and jerked his head to the left, and Hiccup stood aside and Toothless destroyed the formation with a single fire blast.

"Thanks bud." Hiccup said as he placed the pebble sized crystal bits into a small leather pouch. Then Toothless bounded out of the cave.

"Where do you think you're going?" Hiccup shouted while chased after the Dragon as it ran across the rocky shore.

"Wait up!" Hiccup shouted.

Toothless would look back occasionally at Hiccup and snort as if to say "Keep up". Then Toothless reached a rocky ledge and jumped down. Hiccup followed, although he had to climb down a series of razor sharp rocks to reach the sandy cove that Toothless was in. There buried in the sand was a pile of beautiful sea shells.

"What would I do without you, buddy?" Hiccup asked his friend. Toothless sat on his hind legs and smiled.

"Now, if I could just get some shark teeth." Hiccup said to himself. Then he had an idea.

"Toothless, were going to the market." Hiccup told the dragon. Then Hiccup leapt onto the Night Fury`s back and they took to the skies.

They landed outside the Fisherman's store. Hiccup ran in.

"Back again are we?" Astrid`s dad asked.

"Yeah", Hiccup replied, "have you guy`s caught a great white shark yet?"

"Why yes," the fisherman said beaming with pride, "two days ago we hauled in the monster. It's in the back of the shop, you can have a look see if you`d like."

"OK, then I'll be in the back." Hiccup said nervously stepping into the back room, closing the door behind him.

Hiccup slowly walked over to the shark`s corpse, which sat in the back of the room on a butchering table. Hiccup gagged at the smell of the decaying fish, and slowly pried open its jaws. Which contained dozens of razor sharp teeth, Hiccup grabbed one tooth and yanked it out of the fish`s mouth. He repeated this until he had ten teeth in his leather pouch. Along with the crystal fragments and the seashells,

"Perfect." Hiccup thought and then opened the door to the front of the shop.

"It's a beauty, isn't it?" The fisherman asked Hiccup upon his return.

"Yeah, sure is." Hiccup replied. I`ve probably should get going, you know with the party in an hour or so.

Oh yes, the fisherman, you should probably go get ready.

"Yeah, I should." Hiccup said as he exited the shop. "See you later then… I guess." Hiccup then closed the door to the shop, looked at Toothless and sighed.

"What I do for my girlfriend." He whispered to the Night Fury, who made a noise very similar to a laugh.

"Stop it, Toothless." Hiccup said turning red. We`ve got work to do.

Then the duo walked uphill towards Hiccups house. Once inside, Hiccup got a thread of brown leather and sat down at dinner table with the rest of his supplies. Which he dumped out onto the table, then began arranging the trinkets in a pattern along the leather thread.

"There we go." He said after finishing the gift, which was a necklace.

"What do you think, bud?" The young Viking asked showing the necklace to Toothless, who nodded in approval.

"Good, time to get ready for the party." Hiccup said as Toothless smiled and went off to his corner of the house.

After a minute or so, Toothless came back with a dark red bow tie around his neck. Hiccup was dressed the same way he did every day but he had a black bow tie around his neck. He also carried Astrid`s gift along with him, wrapped up in paper with red rose tied to it.

"Ready?" Hiccup asked his friend, who excitedly ran around in circles.

"I`ll take that as a yes." Hiccup said with a grin. Then the two exited the house and started walking towards party.

Hiccup knocked on the door of Astrid`s house, but it was her Deadly Nadder, named Thorn who answered. Toothless greeted him with a friendly grunt, and then as they entered the house the two began to chase one another through the house.

"What`s up." Snotlout said as Hiccup entered the living room.

"Hey." He said in reply.

"Hiccup, my man what's happening?" Tuffnut said as he started up the stairs to Astrid`s room.

"Nothin much", Hiccup replied.

Then Ruffnut came down the stairs behind her brother.

"Hey Hiccup." She said. "Did Toothless come with you?"

"Yeah," Hiccup said, "He`s down stairs playing tag with Thorn."

The twins then rushed down stairs to see the Night fury. Then as he reached the top of the stairs he saw Fishlegs come out of the bathroom.

"Man, he grumbled, this is like my fifth bathroom break in the past hour. Something's wrong with me."

"Maybe the twins put laxative in the appetizers again." Hiccup said with a laugh.

"Maybe", Fishlegs murmured before walking downstairs.

Then Hiccup knocked on the door of Astrid`s room.

"Who is it?" She asked from inside the room.

"Your boyfriend." Hiccup replied.

"Which one?" Astrid teased.

"The one who rides a Night fury!" Hiccup said sarcastically.

"Oh, Come in." she told him. Hiccup opened the door.

"Happy birthday." He told her holding up the package.

"Thanks." She said kissing him on the cheek.

You're welcome. He murmured, his face still scarlet red.

The two started walking down stairs, only to see Fishlegs rushing past them trying to get to the bathroom. Hiccup shook his head. The two reached the ground floor and sat at the table. Even though Hiccup was now accepted by the other teens of Berk, it was still a bit of an adjustment. Going from zero to hero in two months, but he never let the fame go to his head.

Toothless then bounded up next to Astrid, and sat down.

"Hi Toothless, how you doing. Ready to munch-munch?" She asked

the last bit she said was actually Dragonese. It basically means eat, though that may seem a little obvious. Toothless smiled at Astrid. Astrid giggled.

"I still can't believe you taught him that." She said glancing at Hiccup.

He glanced over at his girlfriend, an octopus tentacle sticking out of his mouth. He swallowed and said Scrumlush, (Delicious). Astrid grinned;

"Hiccup had pronounced the word wrong. Hiccup you need to roll your tongue on the last bit." She instructed.

Astrid was better than Hiccup at many things, speaking Dragonese was one of those things. Soon Hiccup realized that the Twins weren't eating any of the appetizers. Which meant that they`d put something in the food. Ruffnut saw the look on Hiccup`s face and snickered,

"Don't worry we didn't put laxative in the octopus." She whispered.

Soon the feast had been reduced to scraps.

"Thankee." (thank you) Tuffnut said after belching fairly loud.

"Alright time for presents." Astrid`s mom said after collecting the plates.

Hiccup looked around. Everyone's gifts were far bigger than his. Ruffnut and Tuffnut had gotten Astrid a brand new dragon saddle from Gobber`s workshop. Snotlout had gotten her an awesome looking lance. Even Fishlegs had out done him by getting Astrid very nice expensive looking battle helmet. Hiccup was nervous when he gave his gift to Astrid. She sniffed the rose and smiled

"My favorite flower." She said. Then opened the packaging, taking out the necklace.

"It's supposed to reflect your personality." Hiccup explained,

"The crystals show that you're amazing, and that you can outshine the stars."

"The shark teeth symbolize that you're fierce and brave, when required."

"Finally the sea shells represent your natural beauty, and gentleness. "

Hiccup was bright red; there was an awkward silence at the table. Astrid examined the necklace,

"Hiccup it`s…" but before she could finish Hiccup started talking again.

"I know it's a crummy gift compared to a lance, or a dragon saddle or even a helmet." He stammered.

"I wouldn't blame you if you're mad at me."

Why would I be mad? Astrid asked.

" Because it's a crummy gift." Hiccup replied.

"No it isn't." Astrid protested.

"It isn't?" Hiccup murmured, perplexed.

"Hiccup, this necklace is beautiful." Astrid said holding it to her heart.

"It is?" The Viking teen asked.

"Yes!" Ruffnut replied. "You must have spent hours making it."

"Yeah no kidding." Fishlegs murmured.

"It is pretty cool." Snotlout grumbled.

"Gee, thanks guys." Hiccup said sheepishly as Astrid put the necklace around her neck.

"How do I look?" She asked.

Awesome, Hiccup replied. He then glanced back at Astrid`s dad who nodded in approval. The rest of the party went off without a hitch.

Soon after everyone had left Astrid and Hiccup were snuggling by fireplace.

"I still can't believe you liked my gift." Hiccup said to his girlfriend.

"Like it? I love it because you made it. Not some craftsman." Astrid replied, scooting closer to him.

Then Lightning flashed, the house shook as thunder rumbled outside. Toothless and Thorn appeared to be nervous.

"Sounds like a typhoon." Astrid murmured.

"Toothless and I better start heading home." Hiccup said with a sigh.

"Oh no you don't." Astrid`s mom said entering the room.

Hiccup and Astrid quickly scooted away from each other.

"Thor-forbid you walk home in the midst of a storm. You can stay here for the night."

"Thank you ma`am." Hiccup replied.

"You're welcome, young man" Astrid's mom said walking back up stairs.

Then Hiccup saw Astrid`s dad shoot him a venomous look from the top of the stairs, as if to say "don't try anything with my daughter". Then the two walked off to their bedroom.

"Astrid, I don't think your Dad…" Then Hiccup noticed that she`d fallen asleep in his arms.

Hiccup smiled and noticed he was feeling tired as well. Before he knew it he was asleep too. Then explosion shook the house, wind and rain poured in from a hole in the wall. Then a terrifying machine charged into the house, snarling and screeching. Toothless and Thorn attacked almost immediately.