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A few months later the winter arrived on Berk.
All was under the pretty white blanket of snow. Making the village look magical.
You experienced for the first time snow on land and it had been a hoot. You, Hiccup, and the gang had actually a snowball fight or more of a war the other day as you admitted that you never have done something like this before.
Of course, the guys had been mindful of you, you were nearing the end of your pregnancy, and the baby could be born any day now. That didn’t mean you hadn’t waterbend waves of snow at them.
It had been an amazing day.
You and Hiccup even build a little snowman family before your house with a dragon, symbolizing you two with your to-be-born baby and Toothless.
The dragon had cooed at his snow doppelganger. He seemed pretty happy with it. Toothless was such a sweetheart.
But right now, he was been a little pest.
It was early morning, you and Hiccup cuddled up under the blankets of your bed and groaned together at your dragon who banged on your rooftop.
“Don’t go!”, you whine to Hiccup, embracing him by the shoulders, your huge stomach didn’t allow for more.
“You know he won’t stop till I go flying with him.”, he reminded you, giving your forehead a kiss. “You know I would rather stay here with you in the warm, but Toothless is family too.”
“Of course. I just miss flying with you guys. Till the baby is born, I can’t come with you.”
Hiccup placed a lot of kisses on your face, while he caress your stomach. You giggled cutely under the affection gesture.
“I speak for Toothless and me, that we miss flying with you too, but remember, Gothi said one week or two more weeks tops, then our little bundle of joy should be born.”
“All right, all right.”, you hummed.
Your lips found each other sweetly.
“Now go, before Toothless storms into the room.”, you tell him playfully.
Hiccup steals another kiss and gives your stomach one too before he gets dressed to meet Toothless outside.
You sign happily.
Who would have thought this would be your life one day?
To say you are happy would be an understatement.
You caressed your stomach and decide to get some more sleep. You fall asleep again with a small smile.
The snow follows your hands moved gracefully, you arch and spin how much you can with your pregnant belly and create beautiful snow sculptures around the village plaza.
The little children are oh-ing and ah-ing at you. You smile at them and bend the snow so that it falls down on them in snowflakes. The little Viking children laugh, trying to catch them with their tongues.
You feel all warm seeing the joy in their eyes.
You can’t wait when you can play with your child like this.
“Good job, [Y/N].”, you hear Astrid say to you. She comes up behind you and wraps an arm around your shoulders. Stormfly, her trusted dragon, noises delicately your stomach.
You lean on her and pet Stormfly’s snout.
Who would have thought that after the first time you meet, you both were now good friends?
“You and Stormfly did a great job with the tree and the shields too.”, you compliment them.
“Well done. Well done, all of you!”, you hear your father-in-law call out to you all. Gobber is with him. “I've never thought I'd live to see this day. Peace on the island of Berk. This will surely be the greatest holiday, we've ever seen!”
Everybody, human and dragon, cheer happily.
Suddenly all the dragons start to get tense, Stormfly even stops cuddling Astrid and you.
“What the...?!”, wonders Stoick, like all of you.
What is going on?
The sky of Berk is filled with dragons of all kinds.
“What in Thor's name?!”, adds Gobber.
One of the village Monstrous Nightmares let out a loud roar, which the other village dragons answered, and one by one they start to take off and join the other dragons in the sky!
You and Astrid hold each other by the arms.
“Where's Hiccup?”, asks Astrid.
Since he was the first dragon rider, she logically thinks he knows the most about dragons.
“He is flying with Toothless.”, you answer her. “They should be back soon!”
That’s when also Stormfly decides to join the flying dragons.
“Nonono! Don't leave, Stormfly, don't go! Please?”, begs Astrid her Nadder, but her dragon doesn’t listen to her.
You hold Astrid’s shoulders in comfort and look around worried. You also don’t know what this all means. Dragon and merpeople have been friends since forever, but you never experienced this or heard about this from the Elders of the coven.
Finally Hiccup and Toothless land back on the island. Your husband jumps from his dragon, while you waddle up to him.
“Hiccup!”
“[Y/N]!”
You take each other hands.
“Hiccup! What's going on?”, comes Astrid after you. “Where are they going?”
The whole villages assemble around you guys. Questions get asked left and right.
“Why did they leave?”
“What's happening?”
“Will they ever come back?”
“Stop! Wait!”, Hiccup asks for room to breathe.
“One after another.”, you suggest.
Thankful Stoick comes for you.
“Calm down! Give him a chance to speak! Hiccup, where are all our dragons going?”
Your husband looks sad at his father, while you squeeze his hand.
“Dad... I don't know.”
There you hear how it seems that Stormfly is trying to encourage Toothless to fly with them away, but your dragon of course can’t because of his tailfin.
A while later the whole village is at the Great Hall.
You are sitting on a chair, Hiccup beside you holding into your shoulders, you holding one of his hands and rubbing with the other your stomach. The baby seems to feel the sad and nervous energy and is kicking you.
The gang is around you two and you all listen to what the older Vikings discuss.
“Where'd they go?!”
“Snoggletog is ruined!”
“It's not ruined!”, contradicts your father-in-law. “We're Vikings! We've been perfectly happy celebrating without dragons for generations! And there's no reason we can't do it again! Now we don't know where they've gone off to. But we have to have faith that they'll be back again soon. Am I right?”
“You're right, we are Vikings! We are tough!”, agrees Gobber with him, while not really looking Viking-like with all the shiny bells and baubles attached to his arm and helmet. “Most of the time...”
It’s like you all agreed on, you and the gang walk out of the Great Hall, in the meantime, Gobber tries to get the other Vikings to sing Snoggletog songs.
Out in the streets, you hold into Hiccup’s arm and walk with the gang in a line.
“That was depressing...”, says Ruffnut, what you all thought.
“I know! I was looking forward to spending the holiday with Stormfly.”, signs Astrid sadly.
Strangely Fishlegs is whistling a happy tune. What is up with that?
“What are you so happy about?”, wonders Tuffnut too. “Don't you miss Meatlug?”
“Me? Oh! Yeah!”
Fishlegs lets out the fakest sobs you ever heard.
“I miss him so much!”
Not a second later he wishes you all a good night and formally runs home.
With your free hand, you point at him.
“I’m not the only one who thinks this was fishy.”
Agreeing nods from everyone.
“I’m with, mermaid-girl.”, expresses Snotloud.
Yeah, he never stopped calling you that and probably wouldn’t. Not that it got on your nerves.
“I've got an idea!”, tells you Astrid suddenly excited. “Let's come up with a bunch of new holiday traditions! You know, to bury the sadness!”
Ruffnut, Tuffnut, and Snotlout groan at that.
“Actually, Astrid might be on to something.”, states Hiccup.
You nod.
“Keeping our minds occupied can help us till the dragons return.”
Tuffnut scoffs: “Easy for you two to say. Your dragon can't go anywhere without you. One of you needs to fly him always.”
At this, you and Hiccup look for Toothless and find him on a cliff looking pretty sad.
Your poor sweetheart…
“Must be nice.”, adds Ruffnut sarcastically.
You and Hiccup look helpless at each other. What could you do for Toothless?
After you both retire to your home, you both brainstorm together. That’s when Hiccup gets a brilliant idea and you applaud him.
The next day you sit on a chair watching your husband working on his idea in the blacksmith stall.
“[Y/N], Hiccup!”, you hear Astrid call for you two.
“We are here, Astrid!”, you call back.
Your friend enters the blacksmith stall with a tablet with two mugs on it which smell disgusting! You wrinkle your nose.
Whatever that is you wouldn’t taste it!
“Here.”, she hands you both a mug. “Happy holidays, from me to you both, or three should I say.”
She makes a kissy face at your stomach, which makes you giggle and rub your belly.
“Thank you, 'Strid!”
Hiccup thanks her too and when she turns to him to see what he is working on you fast throw the beverage away. You wouldn’t have your future child taste that!
“What are you up to, Hiccup?”
“Okay, you're gonna think I'm crazy, but me and [Y/N] just couldn't stop thinking about what Tuffnut said last night. Toothless can’t come and go like the other dragons, and that's just not fair. We were up all night and I think I found a way to fix that.”, explains Hiccup to her.
He shows Astrid the new tail fin and takes a sip of the Yaknog. Realizing how disgusting it tastes, he's unable to swallow. You bite your lip to not start laughing out loud. You should feel bad for your husband, but his face is just hilarious!
“No way! You built him a new tail?”, gasp Astrid surprised. “So he's gonna be able to fly without you or [Y/N]!”
“Hmhm!”
“Wow, what a great gift!”
“Hmhm...”
“What if he never comes back?”
“Mh...”
That’s when your amusement turns into dread. Toothless, your sweetheart, never to return to you and Hiccup?
“What am I saying? Of course, he will!”
“Mhm!”
“Well, I'm going spread some more holiday cheer! See you guys later!”
With that Astrid runs off again. Once she gets far enough away to not notice, Hiccup spits the Yaknog onto the floor.
Now you can’t help but laugh.
“You could have warned me!”, he growls playfully to you.
“And miss the show? Now you know how I feel with morning sickness, Mister!”
Hiccup and you walk to your house with the new tailfin, where already Toothless is on the roof jumping up and down, dislodging shingles.
“Toothless! Come on down, bud, we have got something for you.”, your husband calls to him up.
The dragon leaps down and approaches. He sniffs, curious.
“What do you think, sweetheart?”, you ask him.
He is more interested in what Hiccup's holding than what you guys say, follows the fin as Hiccup tries to line it up with his tail.
“Would you just settle down? Toothless, come on bud, let me get this on you.”
“Be a good boy.”, you join and hold his snout in your hands.
Toothless croons at you in question, while your husband closes the latches on the fin.
“Yeah, you are going to love this. Okay?”, tells him Hiccup.
For the time being Toothless seems really confused about what he has now on his tail. He roars, swinging his tail around wildly.
You and Hiccup try to calm him down.
“Easy sweetheart! It’s nothing dangerous! Just stay calm!”
“No, no! Toothless, stop. Please, wait. Toothless, please!”
The tail unfurls by itself. Toothless freezes, wide-eyed. He tests the new tail, gears whirring as he sweeps his wings in and out.
“There you go.”, says Hiccup. “See? Got it?”
Toothless stares deeply into Hiccup's eyes, a kind of animal communication both familiar and feral. Hiccup stares back. You look confused between the boys.
What is going on?
Questioning Hiccup says the dragon’s name, when Toothless turns, push off the ground and into the sky!
Hiccup and you watch shocked as he files away and disappears into the clouds.
Three days.
For three days Toothless was missing.
You and Hiccup were worried to death.
And Hiccup even more so because you were pregnant and the stress was not good for the baby.
That’s why you visit this early Gothi to do a quick check-up on you. You let Hiccup sleep in. He didn’t catch any sleep over the last three days worrying about anything.
The old Viking woman told you to relax, with the baby all was good, but you wouldn’t make the situation better by worrying over Toothless so much.
But you couldn’t help it.
You loved Toothless too.
Yet you would try it for your child.
Signing you sat at one of the piers of the village looking into the ocean. How you wished to take a dive and visit your parents, yet it was forbidden to change forms when one was pregnant.
It was not good for the unborn child.
That’s when you see a familiar Gronkel having a very familiar passenger on him flying over you.
“Hiccup?!”, you shout surprised and stand slowly up. “Where are you going?!”
“I have no idea...!”, he shouts back.
“Meatlug!”, the familiar voice of Fishlegs shouts. You turn in his direction. “What about presents? Hey!”
Curious about what Meatlug was still doing here on Berk and what Fishlegs had to do with it, you waddle up to his shed.
The others are here too and Astrid seems to scold Fishlegs.
“You can't believe him? You kidnapped your dragon!”
“That makes it sound so mean.”
You rub the spot where your baby is kicking you and turn to Snotloud.
“What’s going on?”, you ask.
“Apparently Fishlegs hold his own dragon prisoner so he couldn’t fly away, mermaid-girl.”
“Damn!”
“Guys!”, shouts Tuffnut for all of your attention.
He and his twin are kneeling before a haystack. They seem to have found something interesting.
“Whoa, Meatlug barfed up a pile of rocks!”, yells Fishlegs surprised as the twins step back.
Lying in the hay are a dozen or so small, blue, rocky spheroids. Astrid grabs one and holds it up.
“You're such an idiot. Those aren't rocks. Your dragon laid eggs.”, corrects him Ruffnut.
“Hey, wait.”, calls Astrid in between. “I bet that's why the dragons left. To lay their eggs.”
“That makes actually a lot of sense. A lot of animals wander to different places to have their young. Why not dragons too.”, you agree, a finger on your lip, thinking out loud.
“But boy dragons don't lay eggs.”, disagrees Fishlegs what Ruffnut said.
“Yeah, your boy-dragon is a girl-dragon.”
“Okay. That actually explains a few things.”
You snort quietly at this. Did Fishlegs never check Meatlug’s gender?
Astrid pops up in front of you guys and dashes off.
“Hey! Everyone's missing their dragons, right?”, ask Astrid rhetorically.
Snotloud groans at this: “Ugh, here it comes.”
You hit his side with your elbow and he whines and rubs at the hurting spot.
Astrid snags a ribbon and wraps it around the egg.
“I've got an idea. It'll be another new Snoggletog tradition!”
She presents you with the Gronkel egg with the pretty red ribbon around it, like a gift. She explains to you all her plan and you can’t help to get excited.
This sounds so wonderful.
So you and the gang sneak out of the shed, arms full of Gronckle eggs with red bow ties. You break apart, each heading for a different section of the village. Each of you sneaks into a Viking home and places your eggs in an empty Snoggletog helmet.
After you have finished you all meet up at the village plaza.
“Wasn't this a great idea?”, asks you, Astrid.
“Uh-huh. Everyone is gonna be so surprised!”, answers her Fishlegs.
Suddenly you all hear a loud explosion.
Before you can even wonder what it was a baby Gronckle bursts through a nearby door in a ball of fire, hitting Fishlegs on the head and knocking him back.
“Surprise!”, yells Snotloud cheerily to the fallen Fishlegs.
You all crowd around the little baby Gronkel, while Snotloud and the twins coo at it, you and Astrid stare at the baby and then at each other.
“The eggs explode?”, you say together shocked.
A second Gronckle bursts out of an attic. Another one through a house's roof.
“The eggs explode!”, you both scream.
This will not end well!
And you will be right because the exploding eggs spread fire and chaos among the whole village. Vikings run, yelling, from their houses, into the town square.
“I'm sorry! Sorry!”, apologizes the blond.
“We didn’t know!”, you add and twitch at another explosion with flying baby Gronkel.
A ball of fire bursts through a roof, leaving a giant hole. Another Gronckle soars past the tip of the Snoggletog tree, setting it alight.
“Save us!”, one of the Vikings yells.
One by one, as if on a timer, three houses explode in a row. Gronckles crash through the Snoggletog tree, ripping off wood and lighting giant patches of fire.
Astrid and you are paralyzed with fear. The others watch in awe.
“Awesome.”, declares Ruffnut.
“Wow.”, comes from her twin brother.
“This is your best idea yet!”, compliments Snotloud Astrid.
Your father-in-law and the other Vikings crowd around the Snoggletog tree, which is slowly burning to the ground.
“What in Thor's name is going on?!”, Stoick demands to know.
“The eggs explode.”, you and Astrid explain together again.
The final egg explodes in a house behind you.
Astrid and you wince.
This was a catastrophe!
A dozen or so baby Gronckles lie sleeping beside a house. Vikings are walking across the town with wood and supplies, helping each other clean up.
You also helped and dosed all the fire you could find with ice.
That is the last you could do for being partially responsible for the destruction of your home.
You sign and look into the night sky.
You wonder where Hiccup is and when he is coming back.
You would really like to get a hug from him.
At this moment you see a dark figure appear from behind the clouds. Wondering you join the other Vikings who are all in the plaza and try to see who it is.
It's the mast of a Viking ship. Held up by hundreds of flying dragons. And piloted by a very familiar Viking.
“Hiccup! It’s Hiccup!”, you yell happily seeing your husband well.
“And our dragons!”, adds Astrid excited.
The crowd cheers. The ship drops lower and lower in the sky until it crashes down onto the icy ground of Berk. The ship scrapes to a stop in front of the crowd.
The dragons release the ropes holding it up.
Baby dragons emerge from all over the ship to an aww-ing crowd. You and the gang run up to meet them.
“Love!”, you call for your husband and find yourself back in his strong arms.
You both kiss each other sweetly, while your friends and neighbors are greeting happily their dragons and the babies.
“I hope I didn’t worry you too much pearl.”, asks Hiccup, after your kiss.
You play with one of his little braids and smile sheepishly. “Me and the gang nearly let whole Berk explode, so I didn’t have time to worry.”
“What?!”
That’s when Stoick comes up to you two and lifts you together in a giant bear hug.
“Well done, son.”, he chuckles.
“Thanks, Dad.”
“Everyone, grab your dragons.”, calls Stoick. “To the Great Hall! We finally have something to celebrate!”
Vikings and dragons cheer together.
It's a giant party, lit by the glowing candle-balls and decorated with shields and wreathes. And best of all, the dragons are with you.
Hiccup has his arm around your shoulder, you lean on him and have your arm around his waist and watch the others with a smile.
Fishlegs hugs the baby Gronckles. Snotlout jumps back as his baby Nightmare releases a burst of fire. Kids play with a tiny Zippleback. A young girl squeezes a Terrible Terror into a hug.
You see how the smile of your husband fades.
You know what he is feeling. You feel it too.
“Love.”, you start and turn his head to you. “You did something amazing today. You brought anybody dragon back and saved the holiday. You are amazing.”
You pull him into a loving kiss and hug him tight as you can with your pregnant belly in between.
“Oh pearl, where did Toothless go?”
“I don’t know, I miss him too. We just have to believe he will return to us.”, you mumbled to him and give his cheek a kiss.
Very quietly, the Great Hall door opens and closes behind Hiccup, drawing your attention.
Toothless peeks into the hall!
You gasp happy, tears spring from your eyes.
“Hiccup, turn around!”, you beg your husband.
He does it with a raised brown to see the Night Fury run up to you two.
“Toothless! Hey, bud!”
“Sweetheart!”
You both hug the dragon around his neck. Your dragons seem to enjoy greatly the affection.
“Bad dragon! Very bad dragon!”, Hiccup lets go of Toothless and scolds him, while you cross your arms and nod. “You scared us to death. Don't ever stay away that long again. And what is in your mouth?”
Toothless deposits a very slimy Viking helmet onto Hiccup's head. Dragon saliva drips down into Hiccup's hair.
You and everyone who saw it happen gag at this.
“Yeah, you found my helmet.”
It takes Hiccup a second to realize what that means.
“Hey! You found my helmet! That's where you've been? Buddy, thank you. You are amazing.”
“You are the best boy in the world, my sweetheart.”, you coo.
Together you embrace your dragon again.
Everybody is happy and Astrid shouts: “Happy Snoggletog!”
Suddenly you feel how water drips down your legs. Frowning you let go of Toothless and hold your stomach.
Something is happening…
“Pearl? What’s wrong?”, ask you Hiccup worried, even Toothless croons at you.
“The baby…”, you stumble and hiss at the pain you start to feel. “The baby is coming!”
“The baby is coming?!”, shouts Hiccup shocked.
Toothless looks at you wide-eyed.
The whole crowd repeats what Hiccup said.
“YES I’M HAVING A BABY!”, you shout angrily and hunch over from the pain. “OH BY THE SEVEN SEAS IT HURTS LIKE A BITCH!”
You can’t even look that fast, as Hiccup picks you up and puts you on Toothless.
“Gothi, where is Gothi?!”, yells now your husband in a panic.
Calmly the old Viking woman walks up to you three and gestures for you to follow her.
After hours and hours of the worst pain of your life and threats to Hiccup that you would never again have sex with him if he put you a second time in this agony, your child was finally born on the first hours of the new day.
It was a pretty little girl.
She had your skin color but came clearly after her father.
Her father who sat beside you on the bed, holding the babe in his arms, staring at this daughter in wonder and crying silent tears.
You just watched the two silent and happy, petting Toothless who was sitting on your orther side, cooing at the infant.
“She is so beautiful.”, Hiccup whispered and kissed her tiny forehead. “I can’t believe, that I got to have something so beautiful. That this is my life. With you and Toothless and now her.”
You hummed and stroked his head.
“You are okay with her name?”
“Yes, it’s perfect, since she comes from both worlds.”
You put your head on his shoulder, Toothless right behind you, and looked down at the most precious thing in the world. You would have killed for Hiccup, you would destroy the whole world for her.
“Then welcome to the world Katara Valka Haddok.”
Katara, named after one of the greatest waterbending mermaids from your childhood stories, who had been your hero growing up and Valka for the mother Hiccup never knew but missed the same.
You had a feeling she would be something special.
Not because she was your daughter.
No, because she was her father’s daughter, you just knew it.
This time when Toothless wakes you up, Katara is sleeping between you and Hiccup.
Normally newborns don’t give their parents much sleep, but Katara liked to sleep. It was more of a hassle getting her to drink milk from you.
The baby babbles, while Hiccup kisses her forehead and then your lips.
“What do you say? Do my girls want to join the morning fight with our Toothless.”, he asked playfully.
You giggle. “As long daddy doesn’t jump from the saddle and does other tricks why not.”
You had missed flying with Toothless and Katara would be one day a dragon rider too, so why shouldn’t she already experience flying?
After you three get dressed and Hiccup puts Katara into a backpack-like baby transporter he invented, so she can be strapped on the chest or the back, you make your way out of your house to Toothless.
Katara is strapped on your chest and coos at the black dragon who waits for you on the ground.
Strangely Toothless has pulled out the old tail and saddle in front of him. He looks between them and Hiccup.
“Toothless, what'd you pull this out for?”, wonders Hiccup. “You don't need this anymore. Come on, let's get going.”
Toothless groans, and walks around Hiccup, gesturing again to the saddle and tailfin.
You want to say something, but you feel your boys have to understand each other alone, so you just caress your daughter, while you watch on how Toothless destroys his new tail and makes Hiccup understand that he only wants to fly with him.
Your husband looks at you, you smile back and Katara babbles at her dad.
With a big smile, Hiccup turns to Toothless.
Winter in Berk lasts most of the year. It hangs on with both hands and won't let go. And the only real comforts against the cold are those you keep close to your heart.
You are up again in the sky and can help your happy shout. Katara seems transfixed with these new sensations.
Hiccup makes Toothless fly higher, towards the sun, while the dragon croons happily.
You all were together again and your family just got bigger.
Turns out that was the best Snoggletog ever. Not only made I an awesome gift for my best friend and he gave me a better one, but no my wife also gave me the greatest gift of them all. A beautiful daughter .
Katara waves one tiny hand around trying to reach for the clouds. You kiss her head.
Hiccup turns around and looks at you two with so much love in his eyes.
I could never imagine that one day I could be so happy. And I’m so thankful for all this. All because I made friends with a dragon. I will never not be grateful for that.
You smile back at him.
Your first Snoggletog has been a wild ride, you can’t wait for many else to follow.
With the men you love, the dragon who is a part of you, and a daughter who owns all you are and ever be.
And so your little family flies into the unknown future.
Full of possibility and new memories.