The Fire Fist, reincarnated. ONE PIECE X HTTYD

Ch. 17 - RTTE

Just found out I've been writing Hiccup's hair color WRONG and it's actually fucking AUBURN-HAIRED holy shit.

Anyways.

Ever since the incident with the submaripper, Ace had never left Hiccup's side. Gold rush happened, and it was up to Thatch, Dagur, Heather and Fishlegs to save the rest of the dragon riders.

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Hiccup hadn't been the same since Ace's confession that he was in love with the teenager. The auburn-haired had plenty of time to think as the raven-haired gave him time so. Though every time Hiccup interacted with Ace, it wasn't the same, it was rather awkward but the teenager was so thankful the young adult was patient enough to put up with Hiccup's awkward moments whenever he mounted the dragon or hesitantly scratch him and hear him groan in pleasure. Safe to say the teenager was slowly trying to get accustomed to the newest fact his dragon-human is in love with him but never exactly made any sudden move towards the auburn-haired, which Hiccup was grateful for but at the same time which was somewhere deep down he wanted Ace to do something. The raven-haired in his dragon form just acted normally as if they are still best friends and not the 'in love' act and would be protective of his human during times people would attack the teenager.

But at the same time the auburn-haired wanted the raven-haired to approach him, to do something just so to stop this awkwardness. Hiccup wanted to hold Ace again without the awkward thoughts lingering. To sit in between the dragon's arms and legs again and cuddle with him without thinking and suspecting this might encourage the dragon-human to make a move (that urges him to return into his human form) and that involved the term 'romantically'.

But months passed he's no longer thought of those things. Ace proved he wasn't doing anything that Hiccup suspected. The man was respecting his boundaries and held him close like they usually do with each other when the auburn-haired approached him for some hugs and cuddles. Eventually, they were back to being normal and best buds even with the fact known to just the two of them that Ace is in love with Hiccup.

As weeks pass, the submaripper incident happened, and that caused Ace to become a little more clingier to Hiccup. Which the auburn-haired teenager doesn't mind much.

In fact, Hiccup was waiting for a moment like this if he was going to be honest.

Because Hiccup only then realized maybe he also returns his feelings for him.

He overthought it, hard. With some advice from Gobber that day, the blonde elder barely minded if the auburn-haired mentioned about vikings falling in love with the same gender as theirs. Assuming the guy is not Tuffnut or Fishlegs, Gobber spoke to the auburn-haired, giving him hints and advice and it was up to Hiccup to realize hos true feelings if the male is just his friend or more than that. Looking over everything they'd gone through together for the past three years and a half and examining his feelings, he wasn't so sure, though Hiccup and Ace may have shared quite a ridiculously amazing and unbreakable bond between human and dragon-human.

Maybe he too, is in love with Ace.

Setting those things aside, one day Hiccup and Ace decided on training vigorously and have been pushing themselves too far. Although, Ace has trained all his childhood and life as a fighter, he's not used to aerial combat as a fire-breathing dragon and thus he trains to be better. The rider and dragon duo needed to try out new skills either way, and some of those are to enhance the dragon's speed when flying underwater as Hiccup commanded 'dive' and shooting plasma blasts underwater before resurfacing and fly back up the sky.

"Nice one bud!" Hiccup praised his best friend followed by giving him a few pats and the dragon aggressively waved his head to shake off the remaining water stuck to his scales. "Yeah, I- I don't love the water either. But we have to try new moves! This'll definitely give us an added element of surprise." he reasoned with his dragon, but Ace's response wasn't what the teen was expecting. "Are you kidding? It's nice being underwater for a while!" the dragon-human exclaimed enthusiastically and the auburn-haired could only chuckle in nervousness, before they flew back to the island and tried another few tricks more before heading back to the main hall for breakfast.