That Look (Hiccup x Reader)

71: Gruff Around the Edges

I was sleeping surprisingly soundly in a pile of hay next to Spike in the stables. That was until the sound of a horn blasted across the Edge and I shot up from my comfy but slightly itchy hay pile

"What the heck?!" I growled along with the other dragons and went outside to find what was making such a racket.

I almost got taken out by Astrid's door as it flew open by a double knife-wielding, crazy-haired maniac.

"Ahhhh-oh my god?!" I yelled as I realized the maniac was indeed Astrid. "You look terrible."

"Have you looked in a mirror?" She grumbled and only then did I notice I was covered in hay.

"'Hay', would you look at that!"

"..."

"Too early for puns?" I laughed awkwardly.

"Goooood morning, Dragon's Edge! I-I-It's Tuff!" Tuff's voice rang around the island.

"Aaand Ruff!"

"Aaand Chicken!"

"Skquaaak!!"

"In the mooornings." They sang.

"Alright folks, now it's time for your weather forecast." Ruff said. "Today's it's gonna be freezing cold."

I heard a yawn and turned to see Hiccup and Toothless walking up to us. Hiccup didn't need beauty sleep, meanwhile I looked like even more of an idiot than normal.

"You're covered in hay." He told me and plucked a piece from my hair. "Wait, you've actually been sleeping in the stables?"

Luckily, I was saved by the Ruff.

"And tomorrow will be, well, freezing cold!"

Snotlout stomped out of his hut, looking particularly pissed off. He clearly didn't get his beauty sleep.

"Leave it to you two muttonheads to use the Thunder Ear backwards!" Snotlout yelled and covered his ears.

"Ooor...are we using it right-wards?" Tuff shot back. "To inform the masses!"

"Plus, the earwax on this thing keeps our lips from chapping!" Ruff said and wiped in her and Tuff's lips while almost hurled.

"She didn't just do that..." I gagged and looked away.

"You know, we really should market this." She told her brother.

"This is worse than Gobber waxed our saddles with ear wax." I cringed.

Heather came out of her hut yawning and looking perfectly normal. She saw me and Astrid and was extremely startled, almost jumping.

"OK, let's check the old mailbag and see what Terrible Terror Mails came in last night." Tuff announced and Ruff pulled a letter out of a bag.

"Oh, here's one for Snotlout! 'I miss your snuggles, too.' Signed, Mommy." She read.

"Hey! That's private!" Snotlout yelled and snatched the letter.

"These are all for (Y/n)." Ruff continued reading and shuffled through the letters. "Thank you for saving me, thank you for healing me, I am very grateful, blah blah blah. Man, these defenders like a woman who can chop off a foot."

I was mortified.

"Whoa, this one's addressed to us!" Ruff pulled opened the letter. "'Dear Ruff and Tuff, your cousin Gruffnut is on his way to visit you today...'"

"Wait, Gruffnut? Gruffnut's coming here?! Today?" Tuff gasped and started panicking. "Oh, no. Look at me. I am a mess. Alright, show's over, I gotta go get ready." And he ran off.