2. Gift of the Predacon

To Celebrate

When they got there, they saw Toothless was banging on the roof again, thinking that Hiccup was sleeping in again.

"Stubborn Night Fury." Emily chuckled softly as Hiccup roller his eyes.

"You have no idea." He said before he called out Toothless.

"Toothless! Come on down, bud! I got something for ya!" Hiccup called him.

Toothless saw the two and quickly came down. He nudged Emily's hand before going to Hiccup and sniffed the new tailfin and gave a confused warble.

"What do you think of that? Yeah!" Hiccup asked with a hopeful smile.

Hiccup approaches his tail but Toothless playfully turns away from him as Hiccup laugh at him.

"Would you just settle down! Toothless! Come on, bud! Let me get that on you!" Hiccup told him as Emily shook her head.

"Toothless, sit." She said firmly and he did so while Hiccup started to attach the tailfin to his tail.

"Yeah! You are going to love this. Okay." Hiccup said and finished strapping it on.

Toothless didn't seem to like it and started to thrash around to get it off his tail as Hiccup tried to stop him.

"No, no, no... To-Toothless! Stop! Please, wait! Toothless, please!" Hiccup pleaded before Toothless was able to open it at the same time with his natural fin.

It made him freeze in shock and surprise as Toothless tested it a few times as Hiccup didn't notice that his eyes went into slits slightly.

"Ah... Here you go. See? Got it?" Hiccup said with a smile.

His smile eventually disappeared when he saw that his eyes were slitted and became concerned.

"Toothless... Whoa!" Hiccup tried to approach him but without warning Toothless took off.

Hiccup yelped when Toothless suddenly took off and could only watch helplessly as he flew farther away from Berk. Hiccup felt tears sting his eyes as he tried to stop it.

Emily sensed it quickly and came to his side as Hiccup hugged her for comfort. Emily just embraced him to calm him down but even she was shocked by what happened and wondered what was going on with Optimus and Toothless.

Three days had passed and Hiccup was laying on his bed and wide awake as he was still worried about Toothless. Emily tried to cheer him up but even she and the Predabots weren't able to cheer him up. He let out a small sigh and turned on his side and tried to sleep a little. His ears heard something and he slowly sat up. He heard the banging again and brightened up quickly. Toothless must've been back by now!

"Toothless!" Hiccup cried excitedly as he got out of bed and ran down the stairs and out of the house.

"I knew you'd come back... Urgh!" Hiccup started only to slip and fell back on the ice with a small grunt of pain.

He sat up and saw that his dad was fixing the roof. Stoick turned and saw Hiccup and smiled down at him.

"Morning, son!" He greeted while Hiccup just sigh dejectedly.

"Oh, hey, Dad..." He greeted as he stood up slowly as Stoick came down using the ladder.

"Glad you're up! I was looking for your helmet." He said as he approached Hiccup.

The teen tensed and almost forgot about it. Emily came landing from her morning patrol with Smokescreen as she got down and walked towards the two.

"My-My helmet?" He said nervously.

"Morning, chief. Hiccup." She greeted the two and Stoick nodded a greeting to her as he returned his attention to Hiccup.

"Odin needs a place to put your goodies." Stoick said as Hiccup rubbed his neck and glanced at Emily for help who shrugged.

"Yeah, right... I-I'll get on that. Great..." Hiccup said and started to head back to the house with a small sigh.

Sensing that something was wrong, Stoick walked towards Hiccup and stopped to see what was wrong.

"Hold on! Hold on. Alright... Come on. What's on your mind? Out with it." Stoick said as he looked at his son who looked up to him with his emerald green eyes a little dim.

Hiccup sigh and looks to Emily who had the same expression as Smokescreen left to join the other Predabots with a daily routine around the island.

"Well, it's been three days, Dad. I just thought Toothless would be back by now." Hiccup said as Emily stood beside him.

"Are you alright, lass?" Stoick couldn't help but notice the same expression his son and Emily had.

"It's the same as Hiccup, chief. Optimus just disappeared one night and I'm getting worried. It's been three days since he was last seen." Emily said sadly.

"I'm sure he and Optimus are with the other dragons." Stoick reassured them to keep their spirits up.

"Yeah? I hope we can be that sure." Emily said as Stoick put his hands on their shoulders.

"Ah, listen... I know what it's like to miss someone you love this time of year. But what do we do, when they can't be here for the holiday? We celebrate them! And I imagine that is exactly what Toothless and Optimus would want both of you to do. Right?" He said as Hiccup and Emily looked at him.

He has a point there.

"You're right." Hiccup said as Stoick chuckled and messed up Hiccup's hair.

"Good! Then go get that helmet! We've had enough disappointment around here." Stoick said before he left for his chiefly duties as Hiccup pouted while fixing his hair.

"You're gonna go to the ocean and find your helmet, aren't you?" Emily asked as Hiccup just nodded.

"Pretty much and I need you to cover for me." He said as he and Emily went off to get ready.

It's going to be a long day and hopefully they can find something.