July Break Bingo 2025
There is Only Love
Summary: Set during Httyd 1. Toothless has a moment as he plays with Hiccup.
Warnings: /
Rating: Teen and Up
Words: 1 093
Prompt: Learning to Love
Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon
Characters: Hiccup, Toothless
Pairing: /
Author’s Notes: I saw this prompt and it just HAD to be a Hicctooth fic. Or Toothcup, I don't care however this fic gets taken, it fits in both categories.
Enjoy!
-XOXOX-
Toothless doesn't think he can remember anything else beyond… Her.
There was the volcano he and his fellow dragons called home, the only somewhat safe nesting ground they've ever known. Not that she gave them much choice in where they could nest, she allowed no opportunities to go search elsewhere.
There was only the power she had. The one she held over them, the one she constantly used as a threat. She was the biggest dragon there, impossible to defeat. All dragons are linked together with their minds, but only she could reach out and make them do things they didn't want to do.
There was only the threat she posed. Those who didn’t bring enough food back for her would be eaten themselves. Those who cause problems would be eaten. And sometimes, just being a nuisance meant your eggs would be crushed.
There was only the fear she caused and Toothless was always and every single day of his life afraid that he would be next.
He knew nothing else beside her. No idea how he got to that nest, no idea where his original family might’ve gone. Did he go exploring and strayed too far? Was it his family that got him so north and the queen took them from him? Did she kill his mother? Did he have siblings? These are questions Toothless will never know the answer to and that heartache was nothing compared to the fear of Her.
And now…
There’s Hiccup.
“Argh, no! That’s so unfair!” He and the human boy got to wrestling in the cove today. He wanted to put that leather contraption on his back again that connects to the fake tailfin so they could practice flying again, but Toothless had other ideas when he stole it from him and then they began to wrestle for it.
Hiccup, small and scrawny, didn’t stand a single chance against the Night Fury, although he’s barely a day older than him. Toothless considers it one of the best things about him. He’s human, he should be scared of Toothless, the dragon wouldn’t expect anything different. He knows the other humans are all afraid, yet Hiccup faces him so fearlessly every single day.
He valiantly tried to put up a real fight, he wasn’t even scared when Toothless batted him around a little, but in the end, he ended up pinned beneath his head. The human boy’s entire torso disappears beneath it.
“Come on!” Still the boy fights. At first, trying to push him off, but finding that the dragon’s head is just a little bit too heavy. Then he tried to kick his way out, but his long, skinny legs just flailed about uselessly. The sight was quite amusing, Toothless’ tail swishing from one end to the other expectantly.
Now Hiccup has rolled onto his front and is trying to claw his way out. He has a lot of spirit for a human. He would’ve made a good dragon had he been born as one.
Not getting very far and instead getting his stumpy claws very dirty, Hiccup changes tactic again and Toothless purrs as he watches him make another attempt. He has never seen anyone try so hard at anything before. Hiccup tries to roll out from under him, nails still in the dirt.
“Come on. Come… on!” With one last growl of effort, Hiccup finally manages to free himself. He climbs back up on his knees and then his feet. Throwing his fists into the air, he yells joyously.
“I did it! I won!” He declares and Toothless, of course, can’t let his head get too big. So he stands, steps close, and bumps him with his head. Hiccup stumbles backwards and falls into the lake.
He lands on his back, his boots all that stay dry as he instantly comes back up, leaning on his elbows and gasping for air. It’s of no surprise that the water is just as freezing cold as it always is. Toothless chitters, a noise Hiccup has never heard before. Wiping at his eyes, he sits up quickly to look at his dragon as he realizes that may have actually been a laugh.
At first grinning, Hiccup follows quickly after.
“Okay, fine, you won!” He gives it to his dragon, splashing water at his snout with his hand. Toothless sneezes and decides to retaliate, pushing Hiccup with his head again to dunk him back under.
Hiccup comes up gasping the second time even worse than the first. Now his boots are wet and Toothless laughs again.
Standing up, the boy comes out of the lake. He looks down at himself, his clothes entirely drenched. He may need to go home and dry off before he catches a cold. But before he does…
Hiccup spreads his arms out wide and lets himself fall.
Right on top of Toothless’ laughing head.
He lands with a wet splatting noise, immediately chilling the Night Fury to the bone as well. He wraps his arms around his neck, his cold cheek and hair rest on his smallest earfins. A cold chill runs down Toothless’ spine and he howls softly at the feeling of very wet and very cold human on his big flat and previously warm head. His nose peeks out from between Hiccup’s legs.
“Serves you right for dunking me in water twice!” Hiccup teases him and Toothless immediately throws him off, rolling with his head. Hiccup can’t help the yelp, he’s very loud and very talkative.
Now lying on the grass again — and most likely getting covered all over with blades of it — Hiccup stares up at Toothless, expecting to feel his head come back down on him. But instead, Toothless stares at the human boy who shot him, a Night Fury, out of the sky and thereby indirectly saved him from the cruel dragon queen.
Hiccup taught him what mercy was again, he showed him a whole new side to mankind, he has given him patience and decided that Toothless mattered. And today, like many days before, he risks everything to come here just to play.
“Uh, Toothless?” Hiccup wonder what is up with the dragon as he gazes back at him with a look he can’t quite read yet.
There is only one thing he can do to thank him for everything that Hiccup has taught him, the void he filled after the dragon queen clawed it in there.
He drops back down, heavy head landing on top of Hiccup, trapping him again.
Hiccup’s shout of defeat fills the cove.
