AN: I will not apologise for the feels! More at the end of this chapter.
Hiccup was looking for his sister on dragonback when he heard screaming. Naturally, they immediately turned on wingtip and sped toward the sound – worried that Aurora was involved somehow.
Well, they weren't exactly wrong.
In all honesty, they should have been expecting this. Their sisters were a little nuts, and the twins lived on this island. The multicoloured stampeding chickens were probably a best-case scenario, at least nothing was on fire.
Fwoosh.
"I had to tempt it; you'd think I would've learned by now." Hiccup groaned.
"You'd think that, yes." Toothless agreed.
"Let's go do damage control."
They arrived at an outhouse, which was aflame. A bucket of water appeared from nowhere and dropped over the inferno, pail and all, extinguishing it.
"Hiya Hiccup! Hiya Toothless!" Called someone cheerily.
The duo glanced up, catching their sisters hovering above the flames. They looked, happy. It seemed arson made everything better.
"What in the name of Freja is going ON?!" Toothless screeched.
"Well, we made a couple friends?" Astra offered.
Her brother shrieked again, probably something to do with the fact that he had just noticed the twins standing by the smoking husk of what was an outhouse, and realised that his worst nightmare had come true. Hiccup was suddenly white as a sheet, and Aurora snorted at him.
"Oh dear Gods I hoped you guys wouldn't meet. The world is doomed."
"Hiccup! You mean you knew that they were actually on my level and you never told me?!"
"I had hoped that if I didn't tell you how good they were I could protect the world from Ragnarök, I failed!" Hiccup wailed.
"You're overreacting." Aurora muttered, rolling her eyes. "Ragnarök will only happen when the roosters tell the Gods, and I'm blackmailing them so they can't."
"What?!"
"Pu-lease, it isn't hard to blackmail a few roosters." At Hiccup's dropped jaw she added. "Besides, it isn't like they really want Ragnarök to happen either."
"Wha-when-how?! When and how did you start doing this?!"
"That is classified information that I do not have to provide without a lawyer present."
"Hey what are you guys talking about?" Tuffnut called up, before his sister whacked him in the head.
"They were arguing! You can't interrupt sibling arguments! It is rude and you know that, think about what we do when someone interrupts us!"
"We will discuss the blackmail later – this is not over!"
Spoiler alert: they did not discuss the blackmail later.
"So, are you gonna fill me in on when you two knuckleheads met my sister?" Hiccup asked hesitantly, after Tuffnut had regained consciousness.
"Oh, about fifteen minutes ago." Tuffnut replied, with the goofiest grin on his face.
Hiccup facepalmed. "You mean to tell me you have known each other for less than twenty minutes, and already something has blown up?! The archipelago is so screwed, if not the world." He groaned.
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In Lieu Of A Tail
FanfictionHiccup runs away from Berk with Toothless (after the fight with the Nadder in the ring). Astrid never stopped him and the romantic flight never happened. Many years later, Hiccup has built a new life for himself where his talents are appreciated and...
