Chapter 8
Hiccup let out a yawn as he dragged his disheveled self out of the bedroom. There was some noise in the kitchen and Hiccup found Astrid fighting with the demon cookie jar............. again.
Hiccup had gotten the cookie jar from Astrid's mother once she learned that Astrid was spending most of her time at Hiccup's apartment. Hiccup remembered her popping in with a gaudy pink cookie jar which had a demonic face painted on it. She explained to Hiccup that Astrid tended to get a wee bit sugar high around Halloween time, and while not as bad as her husband's, he would certainly find himself out of sweets for a few weeks.
The cookie jar turned out to be more than it seemed when Toothless, curious as ever, poked it with his paw. The cookie jar came to life and started talking. Hiccup found out that the cookie jar happily gave him the candy he placed in it but went full on demon-defensive when someone else tried to get at the candy.
"Hey!! All I wanted was a Hershey's bar!" Astrid shouted as the cookie jar tried to bite her. Toothless who was also awake hung upside down by his tail from a metal bar in the kitchen while watching the scene unfold. "Damn stingy jar!" Astrid grumbled as the cookie jar stuck out his tongue.
"Astrid?" Hiccup asked while stifling a yawn. "Morning Toothless, Cookie."
Toothless let out a happy yip and flew over to land on Hiccup's head. His disheveled auburn hair making the perfect nest.
"Morning" The cookie jar grumbled. "Can you tell your girlfriend that I won't be swayed!"
"Astrid did you try bribing it again?" Hiccup asked as he started the coffee maker. He had to hand it to Astrid's mom. His chocolate bars were as safe as could be. The day before Halloween he had bought several bags of candy and placed it into the demonic jar. The candy was for the trick-or-treaters and Hiccup walked in on Astrid having a discussion with Cookie to repaint him a less neon color in exchange for some candy. That hadn't worked.
"No......." Astrid told Hiccup sheepishly while the little dragon let out a chortle as he flew back to the counter.
"Astrid did you threaten Cookie again?" Hiccup now asked as he had gotten used to these two duking it out.
"Noooooo..........." Astrid said much too quickly.
"What even happened to your stash?" He then asked as he knew they had gotten some candy when Astrid took him trick-or-treating in Hell that morning before heading over to the twins' Halloween bash near midnight. He turned around with mug of coffee in his hand and saw his girlfriend blush. "You ate it all huh?" He guessed.
"I can't help it!" Astrid mumbled. "Halloween demon candy is so delicious. Halloween is also the biggest celebration for demons."
Astrid shot a glare at the cookie jar who laughed at her sugar deprivation woes. Astrid and Cookie were holding a glaring contest when Hiccup's phone beeped. He picked it up from the counter just before Toothless could lick it again. The little dragon found the phone interesting and tried to chew on it, lick it and even use it as a pillow. At least Toothless was focusing on something other than trying to murder his couch. He was happy when Astrid explained that the dragon would likely not get any bigger. The human world did not have the conditions anymore for dragons to grow larger as they did in Hell. At least Toothless only charred a pillow instead of the whole couch.
Hiccup opened the message and saw that it was an email from the twins.
"Hey Astrid, the twins sent the pictures from the party." Hiccup told her, interrupting the glaring contest. She perked up upon hearing that and even Cookie looked interested so Hiccup went and got his laptop to watch the pictures. He placed the laptop on the counter and opened the mail from the twins. Astrid was leaning on Hiccup with her arms around his waist. Cookie, being the curious jar that he was, hopped closer to get a better look. He grumbled when Toothless landed on him wanting a scratch from Hiccup.
He opened the attached link which took them to a cloud site. "Wow that's a lot of photos." Astrid commented. "When did the twins have time to take so many pictures?" She asked as she knew that they were busy with various tricks through the night. She even saw them spiking the large cauldron punch bowl with lord knows what.
"Let's see" Hiccup mumbled as he blushed slightly as Astrid leaned in closer. He clicked on a picture and he immediately had to avert his eyes.
"So that's where granny went." Astrid mumbled as she looked away. On the screen was a picture of Astrid's grandmother dancing on a stripper pole with several men in speedos around her. The twins had extended their invitation to Astrid's family with the reasoning 'the more demons, the better'. During the night Astrid had lost track of her parents and granny.
"She appears to be having the time of her life." Cookie remarked a the demon jar looked at the picture.
"Where did the twins even get a stripper pole?" Astrid asked.
"I've learned not to ask honey."
Hiccup clicked on the next picture and Cookie remarked "Who is the ugly girl?"
"That would be my cousin Snotlout." Hiccup groaned as he now remembered. Snotlout had lost a bet with Astrid and had to dress up at little Bo Peep for the party. He looked at the picture and wondered why Snotlout had lifted up his petticoat and looked like he was fleeing in terror. That was when Hiccup saw the sheep that was behind him.
"I don't remember Snotlout having a sheep even if he was little Bo Peep." Hiccup remarked to Astrid who was trying to stifle her laughter. "Astrid what did you do?"
"You remember Mildew right." Astrid asked and Hiccup nodded as he remembered the twins' grouchy neighbour and his sheep.
"Wait don't tell me that you sicked Mildew's sheep after Snotlout."
Astrid nodded as Hiccup groaned. "Oh look there are Fishlegs and Heather." Astrid said as she clicked on another picture. Heather was dressed as an Oreo cookie while Fishlegs was dressed as a glass of milk. "Aren't they cute together?" Astrid asked as Hiccup nodded in agreement.
The next picture showed Tuffnut and Chicken both dressed as vampires while the picture after that showed Ruffnut, dressed as Morticia, clinging to someone dressed as a mummy. The person was wrapped from head to toe and though you couldn't see their face it didn't take a genius for them to figure out that it was poor Eret. Hiccup was beginning to suspect that Ruffnut had an Eret-dar.
The next picture was one of Astrid's parents who were dancing. Her mother was dressed as a large green snake with big black round eyes while her father was dressed as an shiny red apple. She had to roll her eyes at the obviousness of the costume.
Then they came to pictures of them. There appeared to be several but all of the pictures showed off their costumes. Hiccup had to try and fight the blush that was appearing on his cheeks as he now saw what he was wearing. Astrid had told him with a wink that she would take care of the costumes. On Halloween morning she appeared dressed as a Playboy bunny, pink ears and fluffy cotton tail included, and handed Hiccup his costume.
Hiccup looked at the black material before going to get dressed. They were a bit late as Astrid wanted to go trick or treating in the Underworld. According to her the early bird gets the best candy. Hiccup didn't really check what he was wearing. Astrid just told him it was a demon costume but perhaps he should have looked in the mirror when he saw his girlfriend give him a hungry look. The picture showed off the tight black leather pants, the silk black long sleeved shirt and the red vest which had some small bat-like wings attached to it. He suddenly felt Astrid's arms around him tighten and he blushed as she was feeling him up.
"A.....Astrid" Hiccup gasped out as his coffee and the pictures were forgotten when she purred into his ear "You looked hot." She then giggled as he blushed before pulling him into a searing kiss.
They were heavily making out against the counter when Cookie remarked "Get a room you two!"
Hiccup came up for a breath of air as Astrid's hands roamed all over him. He turned to the cookie jar and said "We did. It's called the kitchen."
"My eyes!!" Cookie shouted as things were turning quite graphic on the counter. Toothless decided to do the jar a favor and picked him up before flying to the living room. The last thing Astrid and Hiccup heard was Cookie yelling "Don't drop me you crazy reptile!"
---------The End?------
AN:
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