A.N.

Well, this is the last chapter. Sorry if it's a little short, its all that was left of the plot. Hope you guys enjoyed the story! There will be more lengthy ones, but for the moment, I'll be writing some one-shots or short stories. Until Defenders of Berk September 10th, my stories are probably going to be humorous long one-shots. Speaking of which, Anonymitywill be posted either tomorrow or Monday, so be on the look out for it. Thank you everyone!

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Burdened Onus

Chapter 7

Dragon Riders

Hiccup was busing himself by covering Toothless in fish. The dragon literally looked like he was wearing a fish coat, having to stand still so none of the delicious, juicy meat would fall off the top half of him. It was rather hard for Toothless; he was extremely hungry and this was cruel and unusual punishment.

Hiccup reached his hands back into the fifth basket; all the other surrounding ones being empty. He pulled out a fish and placed it right on Toothless' forehead between the eyes.

"Alright, that's the last one." Hiccup backed up slowly, holding his hands forward, "Now, remain still until I say go. And when I say go, you're going to eat all of the fish as fast as you can, but you can't let any touch the ground." Toothless grumble in response. Hiccup stood beside a sun dial; waiting a few seconds until...

"Go!" Off screen, Toothless went on a feeding frenzy; small pieces of fish were flown out towards Hiccup, though none hit him. Hiccup did, however, shield his face in case any hit him, closing his eyes until he heard Toothless' chomping settle down. Once it did, he looked over and saw the Night Fury sitting on his butt and chewing a fish in his mouth, the fish tail hanging out and flopping around from Toothless' chewing. All around him were little teed-bits of left over fish; some tails, some fins, one head...

Toothless swallowed his little cod whole and smiled. Hiccup giggled.

A Nadder's roar caught his attention and while looking up at the sky, he saw his friends return. He prepared himself for a rant and possible a dozen threats from Snotlout about the treasure. Walking over towards the entrance, they all came in and landed in front of him near the middle of the arena. He noticed their unusually large inventory and furrowed his eye brows.

"Whaa—is this?" he asked, utterly confused.

"The treasure." Astrid answered with a delighted smile. She jumped off of Stormfly, as the rest did, and walked up to Hiccup. "I can't believe you actually had treasure at the end of all this; I thought the treasure was just the items that you gifted to us seeing how they were hidden specifically for our individuality to find."

"But tha—I wa—its not—what?" He studdered. "Where did you find all of...this?"

"It fell out of the sky." Astrid didn't understand what Hiccup was confused about.

Hiccup had his eyes squinted and head tilted slightly to the right. His eyes jerked to the right then up at the sky. Now confusion was an understatement for him. Snotlout came over and wrapped his arm around Hiccup's shoulder. He was decked out with a ton of silver and gold necklaces, a couple of bracelets and one gold jeweled ring.

"You my friend have just moved from being my arch enemy to my nemesis!" Snotlout "promoted" him. Hiccup unwrapped Snotlout's arm from his shoulder.

"Snotlout, that's the same thing, and we're not arch enemies."

"Still, I was seriously starting to think that you were lying to us."

"Metaphorically yeah; guys there wasn't suppose to be any treasure, I was meant to be the items you were to find. I had to come up with a way to keep you three out of the village so you don't cause trouble and mess up the meeting we had with the Meatheads. I had Fishlegs and Astrid go with you so you guys did mess up or come back sooner than what I needed." Hiccup explained.

"Wait, so you did lie to us?" Snotlout asked.

"Really, that's all you got out of that?" Hiccup criticized.

"So if there wasn't suppose to be treasure, then, what did we find?" Astrid asked.

"Uh, treasure." Ruffnut replied, though she wasn't entirely sure.

"Wait, so if you didn't put the ship there," Snotlout pointed to Hiccup; "then that means we found it on accident, which means I can still claim all of it!" He ran over to Hookfang, "Come on Hookfang, time is money!" The two flew out with haste.

"Hey!" the twins shouted, hopping onto their dragon. "That treasure is ours, we were the ones who blew it out of the rock!" They too raced for the gold. Fishlegs and Meatlug watched them take off.

Hiccup looked at Fishlegs and noticed he had the book clutched in his hands, as well as some artifacts in his lap—not as much as Snotlout's and the twin's though. Looking at Astrid, she had nothing on her.

"Why don't you have some of the treasure?" Hiccup asked.

"I've already got my treasure." She held up the little rose pendant and smiled.

Hiccup began to laugh nervously, blushing a bit and rubbing his neck. "So you did find that."

"Mmmhmm." Astrid replied while staring at her jewel, memorized. All of a sudden, she kissed him on the lips before bringing him into a hug. "And I love it."

From the top of the ring, Stoick, Gravus, Vamiera and Gobber watched the scene unfold. They were all smiling, but none were as loving as Stoick's.

Gravus turned to him, "You've got a good thing going on here. None of us would have ever believed the dragons to be helpful, but your boy changed that. He's something history doesn't have enough of. I am honored to be your ally." Gobber opened the peace treaty and handed Gravus a charcoal pencil. He signed it, then gave the pencil to his wife who also signed.

"Take care friend." Stoick said, shaking Gravus' hand.

"You too."

The END

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