The young auburn-haired dragon rider had always loved dragons before he even realized he loved them, but that was an emotion entirely different from the one just before him. He held tightly the piece of beautiful crystal that belonged to importantly to Sunami and hoped that its pure dragon magic would help him know what to say.

"Toothless," he finally said. "Do you really love me?"

Toothless nodded. "I do. I have always loved you from the first day we met in the clearing in the woods. Except I knew that we could never be together because I was a dragon and you were a human and everyone would say that our love was wrong."

"Oh my goodness gracious gods!" Astrid exclaimed, pointing at Hiccup. "Toothless is talking! Hiccup, don't you hear it? Toothless is talking in English just like a human!"

"Yes, it's a miracle," the boy called Hiccup agreed. Truly, he could not decide if he was more impressed with the fact that the dangerous Night Fury dragon could speak or that he loved him.

It was a strange thing, being told by a dragon that he loved him. Yet…. Yet was it so unreasonable? After all, the dragon knew the boy better than anyone else in the world, had been the listener to all his hopes and fears.

"It is a miracle," said the Viking girl called Astrid. "Those are the stones that allow dragons to speak human language likes English and Norse. We should take them back with us so all the dragons of Berk can converse like proper humans!"

But Hiccup Haddock was no longer listening to his beautiful girlfriend and the mother of his unborn child. He could not take his eyes off of his pet dragon.

"Toothess," he said quietly, softly. "I had no idea. I had no idea that you loved me."

"That was the only reason I ever wanted to be able to talk to you," came the tearful and emotional reply. "All I have ever wanted to was to tell you how much I love you! And I do, Hiccup, I love you more than I have ever loved anyone!"

Hiccup turned, fighting back emotional tears of his own, putting his back to the dragon. "Toothless," the teen said in a breaking voice. "I… I truly do not know what to say! For though the announcement of your love touches my very heart and soul like a bonfire on the coldest winter night in the islands of the frozen sea I do not know if I can return your love."

"But Hiccup! Think of all that we have ever meant to each other! All the times we have shared! And you can only tell me that you don't love me?"

"It's because he loves me!" Astrid Hofferson announced, flinging her arms around Hiccup. "You see, Hiccup and I are going to be married! I am already carrying our child and we will raise that child in love!"

"Whoa!" Hiccup said to his lovely girlfriend. "Who said anything about getting married?"

Astrid stepped back, shocked. "But I thought that if we were going to have a child together, which we are as you soon will be able to see, we would be married to that our love would be pure and right and we can raise our family together!"

"I want to have our beautiful child, Astrid!" the Viking teen boy said. "But I don't know if I can marry you! Why must we get married? You see, even thought I am stunned by Toothess' announcement it is something I have to consider. Who knows? Maybe I do love him!"

This flooded Toothless' dragon heart with joy.

"No!" Astrid shook her head wildly. "No, you can't say that!"

At that moment Hiccup's heart broke for he could not bare to see Astrid in pain and heartbreak. "But I also love you!" he declared. "And all that you mean to me! Like when we make love that is wild, hot, yet full of beautiful and ethereal emotions that surprises and frightens me, love full of such intensity and passion I didn't think I could ever know!"

And with that Astrid knew that Hiccup did love her. "I know, Hiccup! I feel exactly the same way when me make love! I want to do it now, to make that love that is wild, hot, yet full of beautiful and ethereal emotions that surprise and frighten us thought of such intensity and passion far beyond what we thought we could ever know!"

They kissed again, and Toothless turned, heartbroken.

"But we need to escape for we are far beneath the dangerous sea and have found the crystal that Sunami needs to save the world!" Astrid said. "Hiccup, you are holding that very crystal and I don't think you understand how vital it is that we get it to Sunami!"

Though Hiccup knew he had broken Toothless' heart, he hoped the black dragon would think of their friendship and fly them back to the sky. "Toothless," he said, "for the sake of our friendship would you fly us back to the sky?"

Toothless wiped away a tear and nodded. "Hiccup, my love has no qualifications and I will do anything you ask me even if you will never love me in return with the same passionate and ethereal love with which you love Astrid and Sunami."

Astrid screamed at that and hit Hiccup.

"But I will fly you wherever you need to go!"

With that, a one-legged boy and a crying girl climbed onto Toothless' back and within a few minutes they had taken to the sky.

Astrid's own heart was broken. She knew that Hiccup would fall in love with the blindingly beautiful Sunami whose loveliness was like a snowy day at dawn, but all she wanted was for Hiccup to love her.

"Thank-you!" Sunami announced in her perfect voice as she flung her arms around Hiccup's neck and kissed him soundly on the mouth with all the love in the world. "We know have two pieces of the crystal and we will be able to save the world!"

All the young Vikings cheered, then returned to the dangerous mission of saving Tuffnut Thorston which even though dangerous and scary they managed successfully without being seen by the evil dark dragons.

Then all the young Vikings went in search of the next crystal.