T'was the night before Snoggletog

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Astrid's P.O.V

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A week later
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I woke up to Stormfly sticking her head through the window,almost breaking it, and a huge gust of air flew past me.

"Not again" I said angrily. I got out of bed and walked over to Stormfly.

"I'll be down in a minute" I said kissing her nose then shoving her head out and closing the window tight up. I ran downstairs and got a quick snack before heading out the door to Stormfly.

"Her girl!" I called as she jumped up and down I front of me exited. "You wanna go see Toothless?" I asked and in reply she ran away and came back with her saddle undone but on her back. "Ok then that settles it" I said tightening the straps before mounting.

"C'mon girl!" I shouted giving her a slight kick with my heels. She launched herself in the air and the fresh morning air brushed against my face, I took in a deep breath admiring the cold winters morning.

"We can get ready for Snoggletog with Hiccup" I said leaning down to her face so she could hear me, and with that she flew even faster. "Woah girl!" I said laughing. We landed next to Hiccups house and I got off then patted Stormfly, I walked over to the door where Toothless happily greeted me.

"Hey boy" I said. "Is Hiccup in?" I asked and he warbled at me in return which I guess means 'yes'. I walked to the door but before I could knock Hiccup opened it giving me a heart attack.

"Oh my Gods Hiccup!" I shouted.

"Hahaha sorry Astrid!" He laughed, he then gave me a kiss o. The cheek and walked over to our dragon who were playing happily with each other.

"Hey bud" he said and Toothless came over jumped on him and licked his face. He struggled underneath the huge dragon and tried pushing him off.

"You useless reptile!" He shouted although not angry but more in a joking sort of way. I then gave in from laughing and attempted to push him off Hiccup, it actually took me, Hiccup, and Stormfly to get him off. Toothless chuckled thinking it was funny when Hiccup gave him a glare as if to sarcastically say 'thank you very much'.

"Wait here Astrid I'm just going to clean my face" he said walking over to the hot springs. Luckily it's not bath day for anyone, while we still wait for Gobber to go anywhere near the hot springs. Hiccup the. Came back still rubbing his face with an old towel.

"Follow me Astrid" he said walking into his workshop, I followed him and he turned around with and automatic tail in his hands.

"This is the new and improved, version of the automatic tail" he said proud of his heady work.

"What did you do to it this time" I said joking around with him.

"Well I actually made a whole new saddle just to make this comfy for him" he said pointing to a saddle on a wooden log the shape of Toothless, it went all the way from his shoulder blades down his back and finally ending at his tail.

"Can you help me fit it on" he asked politely.

"Sure" I answered. He walked outside and got Toothless to stand still. We both carried the saddle over to Toothless and placed it on his back, Hiccup put Toothless' spines in the slots in the saddle all the way down and strapped the saddle to his tail. I passed him the automatic tail and his strapped it on to different places so it was tight and secure. He stood back and studied his work then walked back adjusting his tail slightly.

"Perfect" he said standing next to me.

"I love it" I said admiring his work.

"Want to come test it with me?" He asked.

"Sure" I said. We climbed on Toothless' back and he jumped in the air. We glided smoothly around for a while until Hiccup had other ideas.

"Now for something harder" he said. "Toothless, weave in through those cliffs" he ordered. Toothless went to the cliffs full speed and weaved two and span around in a circle then a loop the loop, and plenty more showing off his skills.

"Ok I think that's enough" I said giggling. We flew back to his house and landed near Stormfly.

"This year I had a new idea" he said while I just sighed while smiling.

"Instead of us using the other method of getting the dragons back every year" he said. "I have spent the past month making these bags" he explained. "And when the month has come to an end, we will go there and put all the babies into the bag and, hey presto, easy" he said.

"And how exactly do we get there?" I asked trying to catch him out.

"The same way we got back to Berk when all the dragons were under control by Drago's alpha" he said.

"Scuttleclaws" we both said at the same time.

That night all we did was attach all the bags to the dragons and got the scuttleclaws ready, and we had a goodbye party as the dragons were leaving once everyone was awake.

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