Christmas special that may or may not have been hinted at on the Facebook page.

Hiccup and Ragnar had almost the whole base to themselves as most of the soldiers were granted leave to go home to their families. While Ragnar knew why as he had been on base for a few years, it was Hiccups first year for the Christmas holiday. It was Christmas Eve and the boys were up in the range and were practicing with their pistols with Hiccup using the standard issue M9 nine-millimeter pistol while Ragnar preferred the classic M1911 forty-five caliber pistol.

"Hey Ragnar, where is everybody?" Hiccup asked his counterpart during a lull in the shooting.

"Most have been given a week-long leave to go see their family for Christmas." Came the reply from Ragnar as they reloaded the magazines.

"What's Christmas?" Ragnar simply looked over at Hiccup in disbelief. "What?" Hiccup once again asked after looking over to see Ragnar's look.

"You really don't know what Christmas is? I thought you would have learned by now."

"No, what is it? Is it anything like Snoggletog?" Hiccup asked, turning to him once he had finished loading his magazines.

"Actually yes, you could say Christmas is like Snoggletog."

"Well, what are the traditions? I don't want to miss..." Hiccup started, only to be interrupted by Ragnar.

"Don't worry about it, I got everything planned out and I prepared for this; now you better get back to practicing with your pistol. You need to get better in time for your first exam." Ragnar replied as he placed his firearm and extra magazines on the platform in the lane.

"All right, is that why you have been spending more time in the classroom?" Hiccup asked as he did the same thing. Ragnar didn't respond as they both resumed practicing their shooting and stayed there for a few hours, switching from their pistols to the M16A2 and then Hiccup spent some time with his new rifle, Hefnd Nótt. Hiccups accuracy was improving the more he was shooting his weapons.

"I'd say it's time to hit the sack," Ragnar said around 2100 hours (9:00 PM). With the agreement of Hiccup, they packed away the weapons in the weapon lockers and Hiccup stored Hefnd Nótt in its case before taking the elevator back down to the 'ground' floor and their room.

"You didn't answer me earlier, is Christmas the reason you have been spending a lot of time up in the classroom?" Hiccup asked his friend as they prepared to go to sleep.

"Yes, and you will find out why tomorrow morning. Speaking of which, there is no wake-up time in the morning." Ragnar told him as they climbed into their beds.

"Ok, I guess I will see you in the morning then."

"Yes, you will," Ragnar replied to him as they went to sleep. Or at least Hiccup did, Ragnar waited for the young man to fall asleep before he got up and went up to the classroom where he put the finishing touches on a surprise for Hiccup before going back down to his bed and quickly fell asleep.

-Next Morning-

With no need for an alarm, the pair slept in till 0900, a few hours past what would be considered the normal wake up time for them, 0600. Ragnar was the first one awake, followed soon after by Hiccup.

"Come on Hiccup, it's time to get up. I got a surprise waiting for you upstairs." Ragnar said as he sat up on his bed and looked over at Hiccups bed to see ahead of auburn hair and green eyes poking out from under the covers and gave him an almost glare before falling back to hit the pillow and after a few seconds the sheets got flung back as Hiccup sat up in his bed with a grunt. By that time, Ragnar had gotten up and started to change into something a bit warmer. Once both had changed, Ragnar lead Hiccup out the door and into the elevator to take them up to the classroom.

"Now before the doors open, I'm going to ask you to close your eyes," Ragnar told Hiccup as the elevator started coming to a stop.

"Okay." Hiccup replied as he shut his eyes just before the doors opened. Ragnar had a hand on each shoulder and was leading him into the room. The smell of a pine tree and fresh pie assaulted his senses as he was guided further into the room.

"Now on the count of three, I want you to open your eyes," Ragnar said as he stood Hiccup about the center room and walked around to his front. "Three...two...one...Open 'em"

When Hiccup opened his eyes, he saw Ragnar, the Colonel, Wraith, and Toothless standing before a large pine tree that had lights and decorations strung all around it and topped with a star. Sitting beneath the Tree were large gift-wrapped boxes that Hiccup guessed where gifts. There were cutouts of snowflakes hanging from the ceiling and a table of to the side with all sorts of food sitting on top, awaiting somebody to eat it.

"Merry Christmas!" Ragnar and Ben said to Hiccup once he opened his eyes while the dragons just let out a merry sounding growl. Hiccup didn't know what to do, he was stunned by the surprise. Even though he had been on base for little over seven months, the amount of support he received surprised him. Unknown to him, tears started to form in his eyes.

"What's wrong?" Ragnar asked as he walked closer to his friend. When Ragnar got close enough, Hiccup lunged and gave Ragnar the best bear hug he could, while stronger than when arrived was still not that strong.

"Nothing. It's amazing." Hiccup told him as he broke the hug. Never before had some thought of him like that, even during Snoggletog. Back on Berk he was expected to hold his own, which he couldn't, and was always put down. Even during Snoggletog his father only paid a bit more attention to him in the morning by waiting for him to awake before leaving to do his rounds of the village. The only person he missed was Gobber, who treated him like a son and would grant the boy access to everything in the forge and the supply room for the whole day.

That rest of the morning was spent with opening the gifts under the big tree and eating the food off the table. Most of the gifts were for Hiccup, though Ragnar and the Colonel both gave each other some. Some of the things Hiccup got were a bigger scope for his rifle, some time in the armory to customize it, and a some of an Aramid-Kevlar weave for Toothless's prosthetic tail. Once all the gifts had been unwrapped, Ragnar notices something off.

"What's wrong Hiccup?"

"Nothing is wrong. It's just you guys got me such wonderful gifts and I have nothing to give you guys in return." Hiccup said as he laid back against Toothless, who was laying behind his rider as Wraith was with his.

"You didn't need to get us anything, you being here was a good enough gift for itself." The Colonel told him as he stood up out of his chair. "Now if you will excuse me, I have some things to do of my own."

"Bye Ben!" The boys yelled out to him as he left.

"Want to go flying?" Toothless asked once the Colonel was gone. This earned a chuckle from the other three in the room.

"Sure buddy, let's go flying." Hiccup said, cause the massive reptile to jump and rush towards the freight elevator that was installed just for the dragons. The other followed while laughing at the Night Fury's antics. The four were soon in the air, enjoying just being with each other and the joy of flying on dragon back or with a rider on their back. They spent the short amount of daylight they had in the air before landing just after dark. However, instead of going to the base Christmas party for those who didn't leave, they stayed with their dragons in the "Jungle", eventually falling sleep there after a few hours of playing around with each other.

"Good night Hiccup, Merry Christmas," Ragnar said as they each got enclosed by their own dragons wings.

"Good night Ragnar, and thank you for being there for me. Merry Christmas." Hiccup responded, the joy of being best friends with each other being the last thing to cross their minds before sleep took them.

Merry Christmas everybody! Or happy holidays if you don't celebrate Christmas. I felt I owed you guys something with the real chapter being put back further than normal. So here it is! Hope you like it. This takes place, like it says, little over seven months after Hiccup arrives in Alaska, or left Berk, however you count it. I'm going to leave this chapter permanently, as compared to the April Fools chapter which I took down after a day.

This is the part where I say thank you to everybody who is a new favorite/follow and answer guest reviews, but I'm going to save that for the actual chapter later on. Instead, I'm simply going to say thank you to everybody. So, Thank You. Thank You, everybody, who has made it this far with Narniaqueen and I. It's been a joy seeing the support and reading/replying to all of your wonderful reviews.

Semper Fi,

Thearizona