Hey peeps! I'm very new in terms of writing fics on HTTYD, but I've been getting on some RTTE and I'm seriously hooked! I decided to try it out with this story first but bear with me, I haven't written anything in so looooong xD

Anyways, I plan to have this mini fic to have like 3 to 4 chapters, but I might make it longer cause I am weird like that :P

ENJOY!

In days like this….

He really wished that everything would just leave him alone.

To say that Hiccup's had a bad day is quite the understatement.

His day has been so horrible he thinks Loki has a personal grudge on him.

It started off with Snotlout forgetting to gather the fishes for breakfast, forcing himself to go out and gather some, even when it wasn't his turn.

Then he returned to the cooking station only to realize that the twins have wrecked the area due to their "experiments" with their gas and fire breathing dragon, forcing him to clean it up first with Fishlegs "mildly" helping, although all he did was avoiding splinters coming out of the wooden parts of the table, which furthermore delayed their breakfast.

He then had to take the minimal amount of fish out of the many he gathered, due to Snotlout and the twins already gulping most of them when he finished cooking.

That was just the morning, when he thought it couldn't get any worse, Toothless tailfin had somehow broke and needed meticulous repair, which grounded them until noon.

Then came the evening times, oh how much he wished that part didn't happen despite everything that has already happened to him that day.

It was supposed to be a simple flying-by bombing minor dragon hunter ships that were getting a bit too close to islands of dragon. Nothing out of the ordinary day to day encounter with those guys.

Except, it wasn't an ordinary day. For the hunters it might've been, but for the riders? That's a completely different story.

"Just drop the bomb on the barrels we've cluttered around!" He shouted out to his cousin, who only gave him grumbles in annoyance in response. Dropping the bomb is usually the easier task out of the others job, especially dropping one on such a big target. Hiccup had to zip close through all the ships to induce panic and commotion, Fishlegs had to take out the archers having the only dragon impervious to dragon root, Heather has to practically keep everyone's back on the watch.

Snotlout just had to drop the bomb. Literally.

The twins weren't much of a help either, all they did was bicker with each other with their job being lightning up the barrels that Hiccup and Fishlegs had pull together as a drop point to blow the ship up, simple stuff.

Usually it would've been done and dusted within the next ten to fifteen minutes.

But no.

Snotlout missed the drop point.

The twins ended up firing in panic, blowing their selves up in the process.

The bomb was then dropped and caught fire midair, resulting in on-flight explosion.

Resulting, in the team scattered by the bomb's shockwave, and the last hunter ship to escape brutal explosion, and to gain passage to dragon territory.

Now that just sucked. Bad day? Call it horrible at this point.

That wasn't even the end of it.

Sure he didn't expect his cousin to apologize, and like Hel would he expect the twins to make an actual apology.

But he didn't expect them to lash out at him like that.

"Guys what happened?" Hiccup asked, flustered due to the aftermath of the battle.

Snotlout simply crossed his arms "Obviously I didn't get a good enough clearing to drop off the bomb correctly"

Hiccup didn't have the audacity to jump on what he just heard "Excuse me?"

His cousin gave a sneering look while blurting "I said, I didn't get a good enough clearing for me to drop the bomb"

Fishlegs then protested "But we cleared any remaining archers, weaponry, basically anything to could jeopardize the drop!"

All Snotlout replied was "Whatever fish face, it still wasn't good enough for me to drop the bomb"

Hiccup can only sigh and shake his head, before realizing the futile attempt to get some point across to the Jorgenson. Instead, he turned to the twins, who were busy checking out their "explosive" burns.

"How about you two? What happened to gassing and firing the barrels?"

The twins looked at each other as if looking for a reason, to which they say "Too many barrels in different ships, we didn't which barrels we should fire on" said Ruff, meanwhile Tuff added "Although on second thought, we should've just fired all of them cause why not?"

At this point Hiccup quite bewildered "What do you mean which barrels on which ship!? Me and Fishlegs gathered every barrels available on one, singular, ship! There's no other ship with barrels on them!"

The twins only shrugged, Ruff replied with a casual tone "Maybe next time you shouldn't be leading such a mission that just gets all of us confused"

Now Hiccup was starting to boil, he's had a bad enough day due to these same people, why should he be taking more dump from them.

He decided to pull himself together for a little longer. But that action hasn't gone unnoticed by Heather and Fishlegs, who were staring at each other, worrying what Hiccup might resort to.

He clears his throat "We've done this routine multiple times, how is this one any different than the other?"

Ruff spoke up once again "Maybe because you're only barking orders at us this time around?"

Snotlout perked up "Yeah Hiccup. How about next time you actually helped instead of just shouting stupid commands at us!"

Oooh Hiccup was now seething, this forced Heather to take a step forward in his defense "Well, have you tried leading missions properly before!? It's no easy task and he has to constantly blow ship holes everywhere and also be YOUR wingman because Astrid isn't here!"

Aah yes. That's one more contributing factor to his bad day. One that he would judge to be a bit…. well who is he kidding, her absence really didn't mix well with having a high spirit that day. That girlfriend of his had to go back to Berk due to a union her family was a part of. His problem was only for how long she had to be away.

A few days ago….

"Sure you won't be long?" he asked once again.

She looked at him with teasing eyes "Miss me already? Haven't even got off the island you know?" she chuckled straight after.

He can only smile "Well… being away from you for a day is long enough, not sure how I would cope with four"

She smiled back and gave a small shove on his shoulder "You dork" she said and gave him a soft hug, to which he hugged back. Tucking her head under his chin while softly stroking her blonde hair that's shining gracefully under the evening sun.

He was feeling the moment until she said

"I love it even more now" while still hugging him.

He was confused for a second, looking towards the sun "What, the evening sun?"

She then chuckles and looks up at him "Your sensitive side, it really is a cheesy side of you"

He smiles and leans his forehead to hers "Be careful, I'll be waiting right here" then presses a light kiss on her forehead.

She reluctantly let go of the hug and trudged over to her faithful Nadder, she then saddled up and soon after that, was ready to go.

She gave him a look that says "I'll be back as soon as possible" but all she said was "In four days time?"

He looked up with a smile and a look of assurance "Four days time milady"

She smiles and gave a final wave, and in just a flap, she was already off to the horizon. Leaving her boy with only a dot to stare at before retreating to his hut.

He smiles a bit before harshly being brought back to reality. With Snotlout's voice raising up to defend himself from Heather's rather sharp statement "Well forgive me, I was never really interested in shouting bossy commands to everyone"

Hiccup can only sigh, wondering how today would've turned out if he had her with him. That was three days ago, she should be back here by tomorrow. I just have to weather this situation and things can go peachy again right? Or so he thought…

He was about to interject until Snotlout began saying "Where is Astrid anyways!? How come she gets days off to Berk while we have to singe our butts here? Just keeps on bringing problems!"

Now Hiccup never cared about what his old bullies had called him, but to call Astrid as something as close to being problematic, is enough to bring him on edge.

"She has family matters to attend to Snot, a union in fact. Now lay of the steam a bit" he said almost with a bit of venom, which was unnoticed by Snotlout.

"Oh of course you'd be on her side mister lovey dovey being with her every day! Like, I don't even know what she sees in you that I can't do better!"

Hiccup was an inch away from boiling point now, he was visibly seething even "And what are you implying by that?"

Snotlout looked sort of proud, probably because no one has managed to bring him as on edge as he is right now "Duuuuh, you don't deserve her! And for all I'm sure, I can even lead the riders ten times better than what you're doing now"

That. Was the breaking point. He was pissed beyond doubt. But if he was more honest to himself, the latter didn't piss him off as much as the first part of that sentence did.

He stood there, shaking with anger. His fists are curled and he figured that any moment now, he can knock Snotlout out on the Edge for the second time of their period in being there.

Fishlegs and Heather didn't know what to anticipate. All they can see is the fiery red aura that's burning in his eyes which can lead to all sorts of disaster. Snotlout was standing there in the ready to receive the punch predicted would land straight on his face. That way he could use the twins to use their "words of wisdom" and ensure Hiccup a moral defeat in being a leader. The twins on the other hand, waited in anticipation. To finally see their righteous leader actually do the dirty deeds.

Time seems to tick by forever, even when it was probably only for mere seconds. Snotlout closed his eyes with a smug smirk knowing that he has achieved what he thought was victory. The twins were getting riled up, Heather and Fishlegs can only try and prevent the worse.

They then heard a loud huff, Snotlout awaited the punch, the twins have their eyes almost popping out of their socket, meanwhile Heather and Fishlegs can only close their eyes.

….

Silence….

That's all that surrounds them.

Heather and Fishlegs slowly open their eyes not knowing what to expect, Snotlout immediately cracked open with confusion and the twins had their mouth dropped open in dissatisfaction.

There Hiccup was, leaning towards the Clubhouse table while pinching the bridge of his nose, seemingly infuriated while also having the edge taken off of him. Heather decided to close in and slowly calls out "Hi-Hiccup? Are you-"

She was interrupted with the brunette raising his hand to have her stop talking. He then turned to face the group and to be honest they were surprised and shocked to see his state.

Hiccup who looked blaring in anger just a few seconds ago, now only has bone weary tiredness filling his eyes, completely devoid of the anger everyone saw just a moment ago.

No one knew what to do before Hiccup sighs and just says with a voice that seems to no longer have the emotion that it usually has. Which concerns Heather and Fishlegs to the core.

"Look, you want the leader title? Sure, take it"

Snotlout looked proud as he thinks his effort to attain leadership over him has succeeded, but said "future chief" wasn't finished yet.

"But if you think that I'll be one of the people you'll be oh so gracefully leading. Then by all means, No. Thank. You"

He turns with a rather tired posture as he calls for his dragon to run by to the Clubhouse.

Snotlout was far from pleased, but he sure wasn't done trying to rile up that cousin of his, and decided to go for a point that he would regret to ever mention.

"Ha! The future chief really IS a coward! Now that said girlfriend of yours would see why the Snotman here deserves her better than-"

He was cut off by a loud thump and crash by his right side, to which he noticed is a dagger that was so precisely thrown that it just barely grazed the tip of his right ear, causing it to slightly bleed.

He looked forward to see that Hiccup was indeed the thrower and was extremely scared of what his cousin can do next.

Hiccup then took a deep breath and walked slowly towards his cousin, while making sure to keep his eyesight straight at him.

"Sure, you can say that I don't deserve her…. Or she doesn't deserve to have such a miserable failure of a Viking to be her partner. But" he pulls out the dagger in the process while pausing for a bit.

"But if you ever so mention that YOU out of all the deserving people in the world, deserves HER care, then let's just say that I won't be bothered to knock more than just a tooth out of that disgusting mouth of yours"

He turns around and walked to his dragon that just arrived in the entrance, unbeknownst to what had just occurred in the scene.

Heather extended a hand to try to stop him "Hiccup! Whe-"

"HAHA! Just leave him be Heather. He's just a coward who constantly runs from his problems instead of dealing with em'. Go ahead and go back to being the Useless again Hiccup!" as much as he tried to sound loud and brash, no one could ignore the evident shake in his voice, much more the trembling of his legs as Hiccup hops on to his dragon.

Hiccup can only bring a sad smile to his face, uttering one more sentence before leaving.

"It's nice to feel appreciated around here doesn't it?"

And with an extremely gusty flap of a wing by Toothless (To which Fishlegs determined was intentional), he was off to Odin knows where with no one daring to get on their dragons and chase him down.

Snoutlout puts out a grin as if signifying a victory on a war field. He then turned around with a tough bravado and decided to "address" his new "underlings"

"Gang! You have your new leader! From this day on, the Snotman will be in charge of leading you dragon riders to everyday victory and would be in bid to rule you over the time we are in the Edge"

Heather sharply fires back "Rule over us? That's not what an actual leader would be attempting to persuade his people with"

Snotlout glared at her while addressing to the twins who were "paying" attention "Tuffnut, Ruffnut! You two will in charge of making sure that rules here are followed as order! And as for the first rule that I am issuing, it would be that NO ONE is allowed to speak back towards the leader with such unpleasant demeanor"

Heather can only glare and look away, with Fishlegs whispering to her

"What should we do Heather? Chase after him?"

She can only reply "Not a good idea. With that Night Fury, gods known where he is already reaching by now."

The two can only stare up to the spot where Hiccup was last seen with his Night Fury, with only one thought being in Heather's mind.

How would I tell Astrid of all the craziness that happened today?

Man...

I wrote this story and I'm utterly pissed at Snotlout...

-Blind