Hiccup And The Gang Short Stories

A Very Stubborn Dragon

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A scaly black head peaked out from behind a rock, watching a butterfly. Toothless slowly moved towards the butterfly staying low on the ground getting ready to pounce when all of a sudden the butterfly flew away. Toothless refusing to lose it pounced at the butterfly but missed and went flying into the mud. 

Grumbling Toothless shook himself off trying to get the mud off before continuing to grab the butterfly. But before he could a voice snapped.

"Toothless!" Causing the dragon to freeze. Toothless knew that voice anywhere, Hiccup only had it and he knew that tone of voice he was in trouble.

"Toothless I have told you hundred times not to go rolling in the mud, now you need take a bath..." Toothless growled when he said the word bath so he sat down on the ground refusing to get up. Hiccup glared at the dragon and stated firmly.

"Toothless, we are going back to my house so that I can clean you up!" Toothless just glared at Hiccup making no move to follow his rider.

Up on a hill sat Ruffnut and her twin brother Tuffnut watching Hiccup trying to get Toothless take a bath. 

"What are you guys doing?" Astrid asked worriedly

"Hiccup's trying to give Toothless a bath" Ruffnut replied laughing hysterically when Hiccup tried to drag the Night Fury off.

"Should we help him?" Astrid asked while watching Toothless shaking Hiccup off.

 "In a minute" Tuffnut laughed. Astrid just continued to stare at Hiccup as he kept trying to fight with his dragon, unable to stop the laugh from escaping when Toothless knocked Hiccup over to escape, but only looking back feeling guilty to make sure Hiccup was ok before bolting when Hiccup clumsily got to his feet, but falling back down because of his prosthetic slipping underneath him.

"Toothless! Get back here!" Hiccup yelled. Toothless grinned at Hiccup before climbing up a tree, while looking smug Hiccup glared at Toothless who sat on one of the branches looking very proud of himself.

"Can you imagine much worse it would be if Toothless could actually fly away?" Ruffnut asked, looking far too excited about that idea anyone's good.

"Hiccup wouldn't be able to get Toothless to do anything" Tuffnut agreed, laughing. Astrid winced as Hiccup continued to yell at Toothless, threatening to never fly with him again not give him cod, but Toothless refused to budge.

"Wow, Toothless must hate bathing" Astrid commented, "Usually when Hiccup mentions no more flying he goes ballistic" Astrid frowned when Toothless lowered his ears flat, a sad almost scared look in his eyes. Hiccup paused in his rant looking up at his dragon in concern.

"Toothless? Bud? What's wrong? I thought you didn't mind taking baths" Hiccup asked. Toothless looked at Hiccup sadly, the Night Fury's looking intently at the prosthetic. Hiccup glanced down at his foot asking

"What's wrong with my missing leg? What does that have to do with...?" Realization shone in Hiccups eyes

"Bud, are you afraid of water?" Toothless continued to watch Hiccup sadly, Hiccup sighed  "of course... you almost drowned in water" But that didn't make sense, Toothless had been in the water with Hiccup before.

"I don't get it... you've swam with me before, and you dive into the water all the time when we're flying..." Hiccup paced trying to figure out what his dragon was trying to tell him. Hiccup seriously considered the fact that maybe Toothless was faking to try and avoid a bath. But, glancing back at the dragon made that seem very unlikely. Than another thought occurred to Hiccup.

"Is it being in the water alone that scared you?" TOothless whined, that was all the evidence Hiccup needed.

"Buddy come on, you're not going to drown, I promise" Hiccup gently assured the terrified dragon. Toothless glared at Hiccup and Hiccup groaned, "What's the problem?" Toothless huffed and Hiccup sighed, "I won't tell any of your dragon friends if it makes you feel better" Toothless continued to glare and Hiccup relented

"Ok then nobody has to know. But it's not like all the other dragons aren't afraid of anything you know" Grinning Toothless jumped out of the tree and ran towards the docks, with a very angry Hiccup running after him.

"Toothless! Where are you going?" Toothless ignored Hiccup and flung himself into the ocean, spun through the water and jumped out again, with a smug look on his face.

"This is not what I meant!" Hiccup snapped continuing to glare and the grinning Night Fury, "No you need a proper bath" Toothless looked sadly at Hiccup who snapped, "Don't give me that look! The dirt won't out unless I scrub it. If I don't you're scales will get irritated and start falling out" Toothless' ears went flat and Hiccup groaned

"Toothless the sooner I get you cleaned up the sooner we can go flying! I am not flying on you while you're dirty. So either let me clean you up or we don't go flying end of discussion" Looking dejected Toothless slowly made his way back to the Haddock house, a still annoyed Hiccup following closely behind.

"Whoever said Hiccup wasn't very Viking like was so wrong" Astrid commented grinning

"He's even more stubborn than Stoick" Tuffnut added

"Is that even possible?" Ruffnut questioned

"Who knows" Tuffnut replied.

Hiccup had a hard time at first understanding how a dragon could become afraid of something, other than eel but all dragons were of that except the Typhoomerang of course. As Hiccup thought about it, even though dragons weren't humans they still had the emotions and fears, that's what made dragons so much better than other animals around Berk.

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Sorry it took so long for an update but there it was.

Hope you liked it.

Bre <3