Luckily, after the wedding, the Vikings saw that there was nothing that they could do against the entire kingdom of dragons and also saw that there was nothing the people wouldn't do to defend their dragons, so they left, and they were never heard from again.

As for a month after the encounter, Hiccup and Toothless were currently gliding over the ocean, the water rippling below them. Salt water splashed in his face, and he ignored it. His mask helped him do that.

Thunderdrums rose out of the water, bounding through it like dolphins. Toothless maneuvered himself around them and over them, and when one of them raised its wing, Hiccup twisted his prosthetic, and Toothless barrel rolled underneath it and shot into the sky, his wings pounding against the air.

Toothless spun upwards as he and Hiccup had done so many times, navigating himself through the clouds with expertise only a dragon and one who rode a dragon would know. Hiccup kept his eyes focused on the sky at all times, content and relaxed.

He loved flying more than any other activity in the world. Flying was something special. The feeling of the wind in his hair, knowing that the sky was endless, enjoying the marvelous thrill of flight on his best friend's back with the reassurance that Toothless would never drop him.

Toothless flew upside down for a brief moment, letting his wings rest, and then, just like that, he spun back and shot downwards. He arched back up, leveling out and keeping his wings spread as much as possible, letting the updrafts keep him floating on a bed of air.

"What do you think, bud?" Hiccup asked, panting briefly as he patted Toothless' neck to get the dragon's attention. "You wanna give this another shot?"

Toothless' ears went up, and then, they went flat against his head again as he growled.

Hiccup knew how much the dragon hated his invention, but it didn't bother him. It was a trick question anyway; Hiccup would give it a shot whether Toothless approved of it or not.

"Toothless!" Hiccup groaned. "It'll be fine!" He switched the gears on Toothless' tail fin and rolled his shoulders, trying to stay relaxed. He wasn't worried about his invention not working. From the minute he did the first drafts of his flight suit, Toothless always caught him when he fell. If he did it before, he would do it again.

Hopefully.

"Ready?" Hiccup asked.

Toothless growled, cooing lowly, almost as though he were saying "No."

Well, it didn't matter. It was a trick question anyway.

Hiccup shut his eyes and leaned over the side of Toothless. He slid off the Night Fury's back effortlessly and plummeted towards the ocean with a whoop of half fear and half excitement.

Toothless turned and fell alongside him. Now that they were in the middle of the practice of Hiccup's invention, the Night Fury seemed a bit more...calm. Hiccup laughed giddily. "Yeah!"

Toothless tilted his head and let his tongue flop out of his mouth. Hiccup smiled briefly, and then looked back down at the ocean.

He slid his hands into the straps, waited until they were tight around his wrists, and then pulled them open. He was jerked back into the air, the leather wings of his flight suit opening around the same time Toothless let his own wings unfurl.

And then, they were gliding peacefully across the sky. Hiccup loved this. It was amazing. Everything about this was amazing. Everything about dragons was amazing. Everything about flying was amazing.

Toothless fired plasma blasts beneath him, and the heat kept Hiccup airborne, with the help of the updrafts. Hiccup laughed again; he couldn't help it. He enjoyed this so much.

"This is AMAZING!" he shouted.

In front of him, the clouds parted, and a sea stack came into view. It was rocky and jagged; not the best place to crash into without a doubt. "NO LONGER AMAZING!" Hiccup said, mostly to himself. "TOOTHLESS!"

He always knew Toothless would catch him, but that really didn't make it any less unsettling. He could still crash, and he could still die. Those two things were always possibilities.

At the very last second, Toothless blasted the rocks just ahead of Hiccup, and then wrapped his wings around his rider, ducking his head. They flew through the smoke, debris, and pebbles from the peak raining down around them. Toothless finally emerged from the cloud of dust, just to be flung into the trees of a peak. He rolled down the uneven terrain, coming to rest all at once on a small plateau near the edge of the cliff.

Toothless opened his wings, and Hiccup stood up, shaking his head back and forth to the and knock the nauseating, dizzy feeling out of his system. That was not one of their better landings. Hiccup turned the gear on his prosthetic, switching it from flying mode to walking mode, and then began stowing the man-made leather wings.

"Whoo," he breathed, still running on adrenaline from their flight. "Thatreally came out of nowhere."

He heard crashing behind him, and he turned around in time to watch as the entire sea stack crumpled into the ocean. Hiccup gave it one last look, and then shrugged. It wasn't the first time they'd knocked down a sea stack. Hopefully, nobody missed it.

Toothless grumbled in annoyance. Hiccup ignored him. "We've really gotta work on your solo gliding there, bud." He commented, laughing quietly to himself. "That, locked-up tail makes for some pretty sloppy rescue maneuvers, eh?"

He heard Toothless complain again behind him, but at this point, his eyes were fixated on the stretch of land before him. He took off his helmet and continued looking forward.

It wasn't just any stretch of land, but a new stretch of land. A stretch of land Hiccup had never seen before. His eyes brightened in excitement, and his lips curved into a smile.

"Oh," he said in awe as he surveyed the terrain. "Looks like we've found another one, bud."

Hiccup expected Toothless to be happy, but instead, the Night Fury flicked a pebble at him. It hit the back of Hiccup's head, not heavy enough to cause him pain, but enough to get his attention. He wiped his head around in his dragon's direction.

"Oh, what?" Hiccup asked. "You want an apology?" Toothless grumbled again, and Hiccup approached him. "Is that why you're pouting, big baby poo?" he mocked.

Toothless cooed noises that sounded very much like he was mumbling something.

Hiccup could imagine the dragon imitating him in just another way of getting on his nerves. "Well, try this on!" He dropped his helmet, his arms snaking around Toothless' neck. He tried wrestling the dragon, and he failed, but that was alright with him. He was just goofing off anyway.

"Oooh, ya feeling it yet? Huh?" Hiccup asked. "Picking up on all of my heartfelt remorse?"

Instead of replying, Toothless stood up on his hind legs and strode towards the edge of the cliff. Hiccup sighed, his arms locking around Toothless' neck.

"Oh, come on, come on, Yeah-yeah, you wouldn't hurt a...one legged-" Hiccup looked down, and it was then that he realized Toothless was swinging him directly over the side of the cliff. "AH!" He yelped, clinging to Toothless even tighter. He could hear the water splashing against sharp rocks beneath him, and he realized that falling down there wouldn't be very fun.

Toothless chortled deep in his throat.

"Ooh, okay!" Hiccup said, finally giving up and letting his one leg and prosthetic dangle. "You're right! You're right! You win! You win!"

Toothless laughed again and flung himself backwards. Hiccup gasped again, and then began laughing when Toothless flipped himself over, pinning Hiccup down underneath his body.

"He's down!" Hiccup said, letting himself flop against the ground. Toothless batted him, and Hiccup lifted his head, grabbing Toothless' front leg. "Oh, and it's ugly!mDragons and Vikings, enemies again!"

Toothless batted at him and swatted at him like a cat, and Hiccup tried in vain to defend himself.

"Locked in combat to the bitter-AAAHAHHH!" Toothless flopped his head down on Hiccup's chest, cutting the boy off and pinning his upper body to the ground. For a few moments, Hiccup just laid there, powerless against his dragon.

And then, Toothless started licking him.

"Gaaaaagh!" Hiccup groaned, shoving his dragon off of him. Toothless finally stepped away, and as soon as he did, Hiccup scrambled to his feet, glaring at his dragon angrily. "You know that doesn't wash out!" He stated, trying in vain to wipe the spit off his face.

Toothless laughed again, just as Hiccup flicked his hands, flinging Toothless' spit onto the dragon's face. Toothless shook his head feverishly and glared harshly at his rider, but Hiccup was, once again, ignoring the dragon.

He looked back at the land they had discovered and quickly took out his map. He unfolded every page carefully, being ginger with the parchment and ensuring he didn't rip it even a little bit. He took another piece of paper out of the stash he kept buckled to his arm, had Toothless lick the back side of it, and then, Hiccup stuck the new addition of their map to the other pieces.

He sharpened his charcoal with his dagger, set the writing utensil between his teeth, and opened his compass. After determining just where exactly this new land was located, he took the pencil out of his mouth.

"So...What should we name it?" Hiccup asked as he looked to see Toothless scratching his armpit. "Itchy Armpit it is," He decided, quickly writing down their new discovery on the blank paper he had attached to his map.

"What do ya reckon, bud?" Hiccup asked as he continued drawing, looking up every now and then to make sure he was getting accurate detail. "Think we might find a few Timberjack's in those woods? The odd Whispering Death or two in the rocks?" He shrugged. "Who knows...maybe we'll...finally track down another Night Fury."

He turned his head, looking directly at his best friend. Then, he sat back from his worn. "Wouldn't that be something."

The mood went from happy to down in a matter of seconds, so Hiccup decided to lighten it again. "So waddya say?" he asked. "Just keep going?"

Before they could though, they then hear a screech and turn to see a Deathsong approaching them. And atop of that Deathsong was none other than Rapunzel herself with her hair braided up with flowers.

"Afternoon, my beloved." Hiccup greets Rapunzel as she drops off of her dragon and Toothless races to greet her and Serenity. "What brings you all the way out here?"

"I was looking for you." Rapunzel admitted as she scratched Toothless' chin and strolled over to her husband as Pascal leaped off and jumped onto Toothless. "My question is what are you doing all the way out here?"

"Avoiding your dad." Hiccup confessed, surprising Rapunzel as he and her dad have gotten along tremendously since the day they met.

"Uh, oh...should I be worried?" Rapunzel asked as Serenity and Toothless began to play behind the two of them.

"Oh," Hiccup said with a laugh as he stood up, "you're gonna love this." He broke off into a very officiant story-teller voice Rapunzel knew and saw this was gonna be a story to hear. "I wake up, the sun is shining, Terrible Terrors are singing on the rooftop, I saunter down to breakfast thinking all is right with the world, and I get-" Hiccup then deepened his voice and added a thick accent to it, exaggerating every word he spoke. "My boy," he said as he was imitating her father, "we need to talk."

Rapunzel cut in with a voice that sounded too high pitched and nasally to belong to her. "Not now, Dad," she mocked, "I've gotta whole day of goofing off to do."

"Okay," Hiccup said, "first of all...I-I don't sound like that, who - what is this character? And second..." He gestured to Rapunzel. "What is that thing you're doing with my shoulders? That's a truly flattering impersonation, honey," Hiccup says, and although sarcasm was heavy in his words, he was smiling. "Anyway, he goes: You've become quite the prince to Corona, son.'" Hiccup marched around Rapunzel. "And I couldn't be prouder."

"Aw, thanks, Dad!" Rapunzel said in the nasally tone once again. "I'm pretty impressed with myself, too!"

Hiccup bursts into laughter. "When-when have I ever done that with my hands?" Hiccup asked as he spoke, he did the exact same thing with his hands.

"Just hold-" He put his hand on Rapunzel's head, "still. Okay? I'm very serious. You and our daughter are all grown up," he said, still imitating her father, although it was less exaggerated now, "and since no King could have ever asked for a better successor, we've decided...it's time you two took up the crown."

"WHAT?!" Rapunzel asked in shock as she jumped up in shock.

"Yeah," Hiccup said, "so...this is what I'm dealing with."

Just then, Toothless came past and knocked the two of them onto the ground. Rapunzel offered him her hand, which he took, and she hoisted him to his feet, brushing off his shoulders for whatever reason.

"What did you tell him?" Rapunzel asked. Hiccup glanced at her; his expression unreadable. She looked back at him, confused. "It's exciting, Hiccup! You must have said something."

"Actually, I didn't," Hiccup admitted as he scratched his arm. "By the time he turned around, I was gone."

Rapunzel sighed. "Huh, well, it's a lot of responsibility. The map will have to wait, for sure, and...I guess we'll need to find someone to fly Toothless, since we'll be too busy..." She then stopped talking when she noticed Hiccup's concerned look. "What's wrong, Hiccup?" Rapunzel asked, trying to lighten the mood. "Don't you think it's great?"

Hiccup shook his head. "It's not me, Rapunzel. All those speeches, and planning, and running the kingdom...that's something I ran away the first time. I'm not a leader, like my Dad. I don't really know who I am. After all of these years, I'm still looking." He headed towards the edge of the cliff again, looking over his shoulder at the girls as he spoke. "I already know I'm definitely not my father, and...I never met my mother...so what does that make me?"

Rapunzel began twisting Hiccup's hair, doing a second braid right next to the first one she had put into his hair. "What you're looking for isn't out there, Hiccup," Rapunzel said as she put her hand on his chest, right where his heart was. "It's in here. Maybe you just don't see it yet." She kissed his cheek, recoiling in disgust a moment later. "Did Toothless lick your face again?"

Hiccup, however, had his eyes fixated on the land ahead of them. "Maybe, but, you know...there is something out there."

"Hiccup..." Rapunzel sighed, shaking her head. Hiccup grabbed Rapunzel's chin and lifted her head. Rapunzel squinted at a swirl of dark colors, trying to make out what it was. "Is that smoke?" She asked in disbelief.

"I think it is," Hiccup nodded. "Come on. Let's check it out." He stated as he got up and raced over towards Toothless as Rapunzel called for Serenity before the husband and wife took to the skies and towards the smoke.