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WARNING: BoyXBoy if you do not like this then stop reading now! (Also somewhat boyxdragon so if you don't like that either…eh you know the drill.)

"Dad! Please just listen! Maybe I don't want to marry Astrid! Did you ever even consider that?" Hiccup pleaded, trying to catch up to the man as they trudged back to the house.

"Hiccup," Stoic began, "you have to face the facts. You're going to be chief one day and you'll need an heir. Like it or not you also need a wife if you want an heir." he paused to look back at his son. "And you do want an heir. You have to."

Hiccup sighed as he closed the door behind them. "If being chief means I have to get married then maybe I don't want to be chief." He knew he was pushing it now but what choice did he have? He did not want to marry Astrid. He didn't want to marry any girl for that matter. But once again his father refused to listen.

Toothless greeted Hiccup as soon as he was over the threshold looking as happy to see him as always. The dragon had spent most of the day inside snoozing after a long ride the night before.

"And what about Toothless. Doesn't he get a say in this?" Hiccup demanded.

Stoic looked at him as if he'd suddenly grown two heads and become a hideous zippleback. "Why would Toothless get a say in this? He's only a dragon son."

"He's not just a pet Dad! He's my best friend! He's not just a dragon!" Hiccup wrapped his arms around Toothless' large head and looked down at him. "Do you want me to marry Astrid bud?"

Toothless' response was to snarl loudly and glare at Stoic. He snorted and shook his head, tail lashing. His stand on this was obvious. There was no way his Hiccup was marrying the viking girl.

"Thanks a lot Toothless." Stoic grumbled. He turned his attention back to Hiccup. "I'm sorry son but it's final. You're going to marry Astrid at the end of this week. No more arguing." he sent him one more stern look and headed off to bed.

Hiccup sighed in defeat. "This is gonna be a long week Toothless…"

It wasn't that Hiccup didn't like the idea of a family. He wouldn't mind that. It was the thought of marriage that got to him. He didn't want to commit to someone that he didn't love. It just wouldn't be fair to them.

He sighed for the fifth time that day and kicked a stone across the dirt. He and Toothless had decided to camp out in the grotto for a while. Especially after last night's little banter with his father. Hiccup couldn't believe him. After all this time he thought Stoic would understand that he needed to listen to him sometimes.

It hurt too. He'd sacrificed so much for his village and they wouldn't give him at least this much. It wasn't fair.

Toothless lunged forward to catch the boy before he could fall face first into the forest floor.

"Thanks bud." Hiccup said, looking back to glare at the root that had tripped him. It seemed that Toothless had to be his eyes for a while. He just couldn't concentrate on anything. Even walking!

"This is such a mess!" he groaned. Toothless gave him a worried look and made a purring noise in the back of his throat. "Why won't he just listen to me?" he asked the dragon. As if he'd know.

"I don't ask for much! I don't show off! I just want peace and less dependency on me! Can't people handle their own problems?"

Toothless snorted in response as they came to a stop at the rocks that led down to the grotto.

"Well I guess it doesn't matter." he continued to complain. "I'll be married by the end of the week and that'll be that." Hiccup huffed. He climbed down the rocks with some help from Toothless. The mechanical foot strapped to his leg was still giving him a bit of a hard time every now and then.

Toothless honestly didn't mind his little rants. That didn't bother him. However, the subject of this rant did. He had no problem with Astrid. Not her personally. But he did have a problem with anyone who tried to take his Hiccup away. And she hadn't said a word of objection to the idea of their marriage.

Hiccup had been counting on this too and she'd let him down. Instead she had been ecstatic and couldn't wait for the end of the week. She was busy planning this and that. Hiccup just wanted to wake up and have it all be a dream.

The worst part was he didn't know why he didn't want to get married so bad. Part of it was that it meant spending less time with Toothless. For some reason he knew that to get married he'd have to stop devoting all his time to the dragon. And that would never happen.

He sighed again and sat down on one of the rocks beside the water. He watched his and Toothless' reflection in the water. "Don't worry bud. I'll fix this." he promised. Though he had no clue why he promised this. But Toothless did.

A/N: I know it's pretty short but I'm just kinda testing the waters with this first chapter. Since I don't know if a lot of people will read this or not I just wanna see. I have the entire plot mapped out in my head though. Just in case I get positive feedback. If not oh we'll I tried at least lol ^-^'

Thanks for reading! Please review and tell me what you think and if I should continue this! :)