Next story of mine, takes place after the finale as I've said before. This story was supposed to be a humorous one, but a new idea came to me and I think it's better; still the same concept just different events. Enjoy!

PLEASE READ: This takes place approximately 16 days after the events of my last story Nameless Foray. This is not a sequel, but just the next 'episode'.

Disclaimer: I own nothing

The sun rose above the horizon, shadows sheltered themselves behind trees and rocks, outlining their figure. Though there wasn't any windows in the house, its residents knew what time it was and begun to wake. Stoick placed some wood on the fire, poking it with a metal rod to spread the cinders still burning. When done, he grabbed his wooden duck off a shelf along with a carving knife and continued to work on his project.

Upstairs lay Hiccup in his bed. Toothless was snoring on his rock slab, curled up like a kitten. A yawn escaped Hiccup's mouth as he rose up from beneath his covers and rubbed his eyes. Twisting his body, he placed both feet/prosthetic on the ground and stood up. Walking over to Toothless, he lightly tapped his shoulders before petting him, one hand under the chin while the other stroked his head.

"Come on, bud; time to wake up." He said. Toothless yawned and cooed from the warm motion. He lifted himself off of his "bed" and shook away all drowsiness. The two ventured downstairs where they met Stoick sitting in his chair carving away at his duck.

It's always soothing for him. Hiccup thought.

"Hey dad," He said as he reached the bottom and sat in his chair.

"Morning son," Stoick said, lifting his eyes up from the duck to look at his son before drifting them back down. Hiccup snatched his plate that was in the center of the table and moved it closer to him. Taking ahold of his fork he began to eat; Toothless sat beside him, staring at him eating.

Still focused on his project in his hands, "There hasn't been any delivery of fish for Toothless yet, so you might have to go out and get him some." Stoick looked up at Toothless and chuckled, "He looks hungry; you should probably feed him before he starts snacking on something else."

Hiccup lifted his gaze off of the plate to his dragon; Toothless was watching him eat with a strong desire to have something himself.

"Oh, sorry bud;" Hiccup said, finishing his meal and running out the door with Toothless in tow. Outside, he jumped onto said dragon's back, clicked in his prosthetic and the two soared into the sky. They began to descend towards the sea when they passed the cliff side, the waves reaching up the rock walls to meet them. Toothless soared over the sea; turning right, the wind took him over to the islands that dotted the sea all around Berk. Diving down, the two flew beneath an arc, and veered right again. They swooped down towards a low raised isle, landing on its sandy beach. Hiccup leaped off of Toothless and walked up to the tree line only a few yards away.

"Okay, Toothless; I really don't have a basket to put your fish in so you're just gonna hav'ta eat breakfast here." Hiccup turned around and saw that Toothless was way ahead of him as his whole head was under water scavenging for fish. Hiccup smiled and shook his head turning back around to adventure through the small forest. Passing a field of flowers, maneuvering around falling tree trunks, it wasn't until he came to the edge of the small island that he saw the main land—Berk. For such a low view, it was actually nice; a perfect snap shot of Berk's good side, so to speak.

Hiccup furrowed his eyebrows, lifting a hand to shield his eyes from the sun and better see afar. In the distance, right on the side of a cliff was a giant tree, its limbs hanging down along the cliff's rock wall. But that wasn't what caught Hiccup's eye; on the tree was someone familiar. If his vision for such a distance was correct, then he'd say that figure was Snotlout.

"Snotlout? What is he doing?" A roar from behind him alerted Toothless' presence; obviously done with his fish buffet.

"Come on Toothless, we need to figure out what Snotlout is up to." Hiccup jumped onto the saddle and clicked in his prosthetic. "Thor knows it's nothing good." He muttered before they took off into the sky.

Snotlout hummed to himself as he lifted his right foot and brought it down onto another tree limb, balancing himself there while he pretended to professionally analyze the area for unknown purposes.

Hiccup and Toothless dropped down behind the tree, Hiccup jumping off of him and calmly walking around and over to Snotlout who was unaware of their recent presence. With Toothless following him, the two found their so called friend murmuring to himself and holding his fingers in the shape of a picture frame while moving around and observing the tree.

"Snotlout, what are you doing?" Hiccup asked. Snotlout cried out from surprise and fell off of the tree and onto the ground. He lifted his head up and sneered at Hiccup.

"Top secret; need to know only." He hissed back before getting up and brushing himself off.

"Uh, you're scouting out a tree." Hiccup replied, informing him of the absurdity of this so called 'top secret' project.

"It's none of your business, Hiccup. Go back to flying around with Toothless." He shooed him, but Hiccup only rolled his eyes and crossed his arms.

A roar from the skies brought their attention to the arrival of their friends, Astrid, Fishlegs and the twins; and their respected dragons.

"Hiccup," Astrid said as she and the others jumped off of their dragons. "Good, you're here; I was just going to go find you to tell you something."

"Hey, this is a secret matter!" Snotlout complained.

"Snotlout, Hiccup is our leader; he has all rights to know everything that goes on in our group." Astrid sassed back with her hands on her hips.

"Oh really, okay, last night I ate some chicken with soup and I had the strangest dream that I was riding a fly whale." Tuffnut commented.

Everyone just looked at him with expressions of confusion and a sense of random strangeness.

"Wait, we didn't have chicken and soup last night." Ruffnut added.

"We didn't?"

"No, that was the night before."

"Oh,"

"Back to the matter at hand…" Astrid said bring the topic back to what it was before.

"So what are you guys doing with this tree?" Hiccup asked.

"We're making a tree house; a place so where can discuss important topics privately." Astrid informed him.

"Probably the majority of it being about dragons." Fishlegs added. "With all of the stuff that's been happening due to your knowledge of training dragons, we figured it'd be a lot safer to discuss such matters in private."

"No one besides us knows about this place." Astrid added as well.

"Yeah, and no one ever will, so keep your mouth shut around your dad." Snotlout retorted, pointing his finger at Hiccup.

"Why does this have to be a secret to my father?" Hiccup asked.

"It doesn't, you can inform Stoick and Gobber they're trustworthy." Astrid said with her arms folded and eyes staring daggers at Snotlout.

"Well I think this is a great idea. Establishing waypoints on Berk could really give us an advantage should anything happen." Hiccup said, "What do we need?"

"Planks, but we already have that covered." Astrid said. "What we really need is some tools; you could fetch us some from Gobber's forge."

"I'll go get 'em." Hiccup replied as he hopped back onto Toothless.

"And we can go get the planks awhile." Fishlegs said, he and the twins hopping onto their dragons.

"Remember to keep it secret!" Snotlout shouted at them as they began to ascend into the air.

"Shut up Snotlout!" Astrid yelled at him, she was staying behind to help Snotlout; they all knew he needed it.

Well, everything is all nice and peaceful… for now. Just wait for the up coming chapters!