All around Hiccup, students were piling out of their parent's cars with heaps of their personal belongings clutched in there arms. They were all heading to the dorms where they would, for the most part, be spending the next few years of their life. Hiccup had arrived early that day with his Uncle Gobber and had already unpacked his things into his half of the dorm he was sharing with his best friend Fishlegs; now he was taking in the atmosphere of the University for the first time.

His dad hadn't dropped him off as per usual, he was too busy for Hiccup. It had been like that for almost all of Hiccup's life; his father was to busy being the CEO of one of Berk's most profitable businesses, Haddock Enterprises, so he had no time for his son and as a result, Hiccup had almost no relationship with his father. He had practically been raised by his Uncle Gobber who, no matter how busy he was at the garage he owned (The Berk Forge), had always made time for his nephew. His mother had left when Hiccup was just a young boy so the memories of her were few and far between; his father had told him once that she left to travel the world and never came back. The way he had said it made Hiccup think something more had happened to make her leave but he didn't press it any further, not wishing to induce one of his father's painful outbursts of anger that he had from time to time. It was bad enough having to deal with the stubborn man who never listened to you when he was calm.

Hiccup felt his phone buzz in his pocket and he pulled it out to see he had one unread text from Fishlegs.

"Hey, dude I just arrived at our room. Where are you at?" Hiccup turned around to his Uncle Gobber who was sat in the driver's side of his car, getting ready to leave and called out

"I'm off back to my room, Fishlegs has just arrived!"

"Alright Kiddo," Gobber shouted back, "Good Luck!" He smiled, showing off his golden tooth, and wound down the window of his car, driving off to the campus exit. Hiccup looked down once more at his phone before shooting Fishlegs a quick text.

"On my way back now, See you in a minute dude."

"Come on Ruff," Astrid moaned in a very annoyed tone, "You've been unpacking for like an hour now. I want to go and check out the campus before everything closes off."

"It's bloody midday Astrid," Ruffnut responded, "They won't close for hours. And I know you really mean you want to check out the gym and the other sports facilities."

"Yeah well I have to start training again as soon as I can, I mean I already signed up online for the Track team, the Football team, the Swim team, the Netball team and…" Astrid was cut off by her friend.

"Yeah, yeah we get it. You signed up for a lot of clubs. That doesn't mean you can't relax for a little while. I heard there is a party going on tonight, we should go."

"And where did you hear about this?" Astrid asked sceptically.

"Tuff was invited by his roommate, Snotlout I think it was, he invited me and by extension you to come."

"I don't know," Astrid said hesitantly.

"Come on, Strid" Ruff pleaded, "It will be fun."

"Fine," Astrid relented, "But you have to come down to the gym with me for a few hours now then." She smirked at Ruff.

"Fine," Ruff agreed, "I could use a run, I myself have a few clubs to get prepared for."

The two girls quickly gathered up their gym gear and left their room, locking the door behind them and headed down the corridor toward the stairwell. They were stopped, however, just down the hall as a blond-haired boy who looked very similar to Ruff and a stubby but muscular brown haired jock stepped out of their room into the path of them.

"Sup Sis," the blond said with a grin on his face. Ruffnut groaned,

"Hey Tuff," she replied in mock annoyance. They were twins the two of them and loved to tease and fight with one another.

"Where are the two of you beautiful ladies going?" The other boy asked. Both Astrid and Ruffnut grimaced at his remark.

"Down to the gym," Astrid responded, "I'm guessing you're Snotlout?"

"The man, the myth, the legend," He responded proudly, "I see my reputation precedes me."

"No just you fit the description of the stubby, proud boy my brother gave me," Tuffnut snickered.

"I'll take that as a compliment," he replied.

"Anyways," Tuffnut carried on," We are heading down to the 1st year's common room which is on the way to the gym I believe, and I take it we will be seeing you at the party tonight?"

"You know it bruv," Ruffnut responded enthusiastically and with that, the four of them set off in a group to their respective areas of the campus.

Hiccup pulled down his reading glasses and peered up from the book he was reading to see Fishlegs fussing about with his wardrobe.

"You know it is only meant to be a casual party right Fish?" Hiccup asked his friend, "You don't have to pull everything out of your wardrobe after you just put it all away to find a great outfit. You can just go in jeans and a T-shirt like I am."

"Yeah," Fishlegs replied, "To be honest I don't really know why I care that much, I just want to put on a good impression and at least slot into a friend group."

"I know what you mean," Hiccup said, "But it will be fine dude. Everyone will probably be drunk anyways."

"How did you even find out about the party?" Fishlegs asked.

"I friend of mine from that camp I went on last summer, Tuffnut. His roommate is one of the people organising it so he invited me. And I invited you. And now we are both going." Hiccup replied laughing a little. "Speaking of the fact we are going, we should probably set off in a second. I'll go wait outside whilst you get changed so you can preserve your fragile modesty," Hiccup joked.

"Not funny Hic," Fishlegs said sternly as he glared at him. Hiccup continued to laugh at his friend's reaction as he slid off his bed and slipped out the door of their dorm.

The corridor was empty at that time as most people had already made their way over to the party, getting their early so they could have the first pick on the drinks. Hiccup and Fishlegs didn't care much for drinking so they were happy to turn up a bit later. Hiccup leaned against the wall on the opposite side of the corridor taking in the quietness of the usually busy dormitory. Suddenly he heard the noise of two people chatting as they made their way up the stairs. They rounded the corner at the end of the corridor and Hiccup could see two people who looked very familiar to him. He racked his brain trying to figure out who they may be as he stared at them. Suddenly the blonde haired girl who was leading them stopped, causing the other blonde girl to bump into her. She let out a gasp before Hiccup heard her exclaim down the hall.

"Hiccup! Is that you?" That soft, sweet, angelic voice shook his brain back into action and he realised who the two girls staring at him were; and most importantly who the girl who had called out his name was.

"Astrid! Ruff!" he called back down the hall, noticing a smile appear on the face of both the girls although on Astrid it was a full blown smile as opposed to Ruff slight smirk of a smile.

Astrid rushed forward and wrapped both her arms around Hiccup pulling him into a tight hug as he wrapped his arms around her body too. A huge smile was plastered on both of their faces making them look very stupidly happy. Astrid pulled back after a few moments with the same goofy smile still spread on her lips and Ruffnut took up the spot she had just been in; although she held on much less tightly and for a lot less of time.

"I never thought I'd see you two again," Hiccup stated his voiced laced with more happiness than he thought it had ever been. Ruff and Astrid looked at each other and smiled before looking back at Hiccup. Ruffnut was the first to speak,

"It's not just us Hic," she said as though she was falling back into a rhythm, "Tuff is here too." Hiccups smile widened even more at that sentence.

"Looks like we will be spending the next couple years together," Astrid beamed as her smile intensified evermore. All three of them were grinning like fools now. Hiccup let out a contented sigh.

"Man, I've missed you guys."

So, I wrote this in about an hour as I felt really inspired after reading other fanfictions on the similar idea of the gang at University/College. I will be trying to update about 1 or 2 times a week even if I don't get many reads I just like the idea of this too much to let it fizzle out. Until the next chapter, I hope you enjoyed.

Please leave a comment about what you enjoyed or any constructive criticism. It really helps motivate me to write more if that is what you want. :)

P.S The Hiccup in my story won't be the really scrawny, helpless kind of Hiccup I have seen in some other fanfics. I am basing him off Hiccup in RTTE around season 4 or 5 so he will have some confidence in himself and ability to defend things he loves but will still have problems and insecurities he will have to deal with. So you don't have to worry about him becoming some super macho hero that does not fit the character of Hiccup at all, I will try and balance out how I think his personality should be using RTTE as my guideline :)

- Pluckycross