Thought I'd give a one shot at something that's been plaguing my mind. Basically here's the background to this. Hiccup never shot down Toothless, but Toothless still went to the cove and Hiccup was still put into dragon training like in the film, now here's where the story begins after the Nadder incident, now imagine is Hiccup somewhere deep in his mind after years of crap given to him suddenly decides to explode onto the surface. Well let's see shall we…..

"Is this some kind of a joke to you?!" Astrid yelled at the stunned looking auburn haired boy we all know to be Hiccup "our parents war will become our own! You better figure out which side you're on! Otherwise you'll bring shame and dishonour to everyone in this village! Well more than usual!" she carried on yelling at Hiccup who took every word in she was saying to him, but one word that stuck in his mind repeated itself over and over again.

'Dishonour'

A word Hiccup knew too well about, but not the dishonour he'd given but the ones he received.

He carried on listening to Astrid shout all sorts towards him from his inventions, to not being able to lift a weapon, or the potential to kill a dragon, keeping his head down towards the ground, to many that would indicate he was ashamed of his actions, however to some, mainly Gobber and the elder Gothi who were watching the whole scene knew what the young boy was doing, after all, Hiccup was raised by them after his mother, Valka, was taken and Stoick was too focused in his chieftain duties to look after a kid, especially Hiccup.

Gobber decided to get into the ring to stop Astrid from carrying on with her rant before it was too late.

"Astrid, tha's enough!" Gobber scalded as he opened the gate to the kill ring and hobbled towards them.

"No! He needs to hear this! How is he going to become the next chief of the tribe, if he has no loyalties, no honour and no fighting spirit that we all should possess!" Astrid retorted back before turning her back towards Hiccup and walking away to the gate.

But before she could exit the ring, she heard Hiccup laugh which made Astrid turn around and glare at him.

"What's so funny Haddock?!" she shouted as she saw Hiccup stand up straight but still kept his head down as he laughed.

"Honour and loyalty" Hiccup muttered as he shook his head in disbelief "Honour and loyalty?!" he said again sharply this time making a few of the people around the ring step back as he lifted his head to give Astrid a glare to out rank her own "that's rich coming from you!" he shouted making Astrid's eye change from a glare to confusion.

She went back to glaring again as she took a few step forward holding on to her axe in a tight grip "What? How dare you say that! I have shown nothing but honour and loyalty to the tribe for ye…." She yelled back but was cut short as Hiccup started shouting even louder than her.

"I'm not talking about the god's damned tribe!" he shouted making even Astrid jump back from those words "I'm talking about dishonour you did to me!" Astrid's look said it all, she didn't understand and Hiccup saw this clearly.

"I thought you would forget" Hiccup said calmly as he took a deep breath, he didn't know why he said all this but now the damage was done, it was time to break it even more "but not surprising really, after all it was nearly ten years ago" he looked straight into her eyes as he carried on "but I remember it so well"

Astrid didn't know what to make of it 'what did he mean?' she thought to herself not realizing Hiccup walked close to her.

"We used to be friends Astrid" he said as he got so close she could feel his warm breath "we used to be friend!" he shouted as she stood then, frozen, like her uncle was during the Flightmare incident.

Hiccup turned his back on her as he carried on talking not wanting her to see the tear rolling down his cheeks "we made a promise, both of us that no matter what we will always be friends" he took a deep breath as he thought to himself 'fuck it, let her see me cry' and turned back towards her with bloodshot eyes glaring at her "but you abandoned me! For loyalty and honour! You stood there and ignored my pleas as the others bullied me!" he shouted as the pain he felt building up all those years finally came bursting out.

Snoutlout thinking he could shut his cousin up came walking up to him brandishing his muscles "now look here useless! No one shouts at my girl and gets away with it!" he said as he approached Hiccup.

"Back off assface!" Hiccup shouted so loudly that even Snotlout was so surprised that he backed away remembering an old saying Mulch used to tell everyone "it's always the quiet one's that snap the loudest" and true to the word, Hiccup was doing exactly that.

"You want her so badly? Be my guest! You want to be chief? Go ahead! Let Berk fall into ruin by your hands!" Hiccup shouted more at his cousin who at this point had backed all the way out of the gate followed by the twins. Fishlegs however was too scared to move.

Hiccup then turned back towards Astrid "I did everything I could to get you to be my friend again, even as to go far as making that for you!" he shouted pointing towards the axe in Astrid's hands to which she looked too, her mouth hung wide open as well as her eyes bulging out of their sockets at the realisation. She didn't want to believe it, she couldn't believe it and she looked to Gobber and to her fear, nodded to say Hiccup was right.

"In fact most of the weapon here on Berk were made by me!" Hiccup shout as he looked around at the villagers who started to gather around after hearing the commotion "if you don't believe me, look under the base of your weapons, my initials are on them!" with that all the villagers with weapons looked at their weapons bases and all gasped at Hiccups true words.

They all had his initials.

Hiccup smirked "that's right! Hiccup the useless, the embarrassment of the village made your finest weapons!" he shouted before finishing off with a sigh as he walked towards Gobber who put his real hand onto the boys shoulders "ye okay Hiccup?"

Hiccup just sighed again as he looked up to his mentor "I'm going for a walk Gobber, I-I need to clear my head" and with that he walked towards the exit as everyone backed away leaving a still stunned Astrid in the middle of the ring still looking at her axe.

In fact the whole village was stunned, both from the anger that Hiccup had built up inside of him and that he made their weapons. But no one could ask the boy in question for he was long gone.

In the Forest

Hiccup ran as fast as he could through the dense forest, running through bushes, jumping and ducking branches and climbing over rocks, but still never slowing down, never stopping, he just kept going and going even when his feet screamed out in pain, even when a lone twig cut his arm and even when he tumbled to the floor, he just got back up and kept on running leaving behind a streak of tears upon the ground.

He didn't know where he was going, he just needed to get away, away from the village that shunned him throughout his life, from the father who was always disappointed in him no matter what he tried to do to impress him and from Astrid who broke her promise and his heart several times over.

Eventually after so much running, he finally stopped, crouching low with his hands on his knee panting heavily with tears running down his face.

He wipes his face with the palm of his hand as he looks around to where he was, nothing around looked familiar and he didn't know which way he came as everywhere looked the same, and with the trees around covering up the sky above he didn't know when the sun was.

Now most would panic knowing they were lost, maybe even scared.

Hiccup however was….glad.

Glad that he couldn't find his way back to the village, and if he knew the villagers they wouldn't go looking for him, more likely they'll celebrate.

Shaking that thought out of his head he looks around a bit more until he spots a descending pathway, he decides to head down there slowly avoiding the surrounding bushes and rocks that would not bat an eyelid that it lead to anywhere, but Hiccup thought since he came this far, he might as well carry on.

Further down the slope he comes until he reaches an opening where daylight was shining through, stepping forward past the entrance way, Hiccup couldn't believe his eyes.

A beautiful untouched cove, a crystal clear lake surrounded by lush green grass and a blue sky to top of the sheer beauty he saw before him.

For once since they whole ordeal in the ring, Hiccup felt at ease, walking around slowly as he took in his surroundings, with no one in sight for as far as he can see and for once felt the pressure of trying to be so Viking like for all his life, well the best that he could, he finally did the most unviking thing he had ever done, in fact what any Viking ever did.

He cried, boy son of a powerful chief of a village full of dragon killing Vikings cried loudly, tears that once trickled down his cheek flooded out as he screamed at the top of his lungs cursing the gods for giving him this life.

"Why?!" he yelled as loud as he could as he looked up to the sky "What did I do to you lot up there?! To give me this horrible life! Why don't you spare me this existence and kill me now!" banging his fist into the dirt with every scream coming out. He didn't care if his hands hurt from the banging or that he eyes and throat was sore from all the crying and screaming, he didn't even care for the pressure building up in head causing him pain, he just didn't care at all, he just wanted it all to end, for something to take his life, maybe then he could be reunited with the one person who loved him the most, his mother.

As if the gods heard his yelling something landed behind the crying boy, a black scaly demon with wings and a tail. It landed with a thud so loudly that Hiccup heard it and froze in place.

As he turned around to look identify what caused the noise, he suddenly jumped to realize what it was in front of him.

A dragon!

But what got Hiccup was that this dragon didn't look like anything from the dragon manual he read last night, but looking at the black scales, the powerful muscles and the enormous wing span he came up with the conclusion of what dragon it was.

"A-a N-night F-f-fury!" he stuttered as the black dragon sat there staring at the small boy curiously, the Night Fury heard the cries coming from here and as he flew over the cove to investigate, he heard the screaming and shouting and despite this boy being a different species to him and worse, the enemy of his species, he felt the pain the boy was feeling so flew down to get a closer look.

Hiccup meanwhile looked at the sitting dragon as he thought that this was a sign from the gods, to give him some slack and end his misery, after all, getting killed by a Night Fury should surly get him a place in Valhalla.

Take a deep breath he stood straight in front of the Night Fury holding his arms apart "well, I know you answered my call, now, please get it over with" Hiccup said calmly as he closed his eyes "kill me dragon" Hiccup wait for the sharp burst of pain and then swift release.

After a few minutes of nothing however, Hiccup bravely opened one of his eyelids only to see the dragon hasn't even moved from his spot, in fact the only thing it did was tilt its head in confusion at what this boy requested from him.

Hiccup closed his eye again and said the same thing again, and again nothing happened.

It was then Hiccup at this point had enough so tried shouting at the beast to get it angry.

"Are you deaf or something?! I'm giving you an opportunity to avenge your fellow dragons who have fallen upon the blades of my kind!" Hiccup shout breathing heavily as he felt the tears roll down his cheeks again "this is an easy kill! You get to kill the son of one of the biggest dragon killers on this island! You will be a hero to your kind! So do it! Do it now you useless reptile!" at this point Hiccup fell to his hands and knees as his legs couldn't support his weight any longer, sobbing hysterically and looking down at the ground, he felt emotionally tired as didn't know why this dragon didn't want to end his life.

But what Hiccup didn't know was the Night Fury was slowly walking up to the small boy, sniffing to make sure he had no weapon, and came in closer, but what was shocking was the expression on the dragons face, sadness. He felt sadness for the boy, he heard it all, the screaming, the crying and that this boy would rather end it all then carry on living, in his lifetime he has never known humans to be so emotional, apart from the human the Stormcutter brought with him fourteen years ago to his alphas nest, in fact upon looking closer the Night Fury notices that this boy has the same features as that human, could they be related? He wondered.

Hiccup at this point was still looking down as he felt a warm breath on the back of his neck realizing the dragon was next to him now. 'I wonder if it's going to eat me instead.' Hiccup thought to himself as still looked down, waiting for the end.

But what he didn't expect to happen was a the black scaly head of the Night Fury rubbing up against his affectionately while it sadly cooed, it kept rubbing him till Hiccup lifted up his head to look into the dragons eye, and saw something amazing.

Green eye's shining into his own, pupils fully dilated fully of sadness and concern. Hiccup never saw that in anyone before. But what shocked him most was what was coming from the dragon's eyes.

Tears.

'What? Why was the unholy offspring of lightening and death itself crying?' Hiccup thought as he looked again to see he wasn't imagining it. He wasn't, the dragon was truly sad 'was he sad for me?' he thought again.

The Night Fury was saddened, he saw the pain in the boys eyes, saw right into his soul, it was shattered, the black dragons heart hurt to think anyone this young could go through so much at such a young age and so did the best thing he could for the boy. Comfort him.

And he did so by bringing the boy closer to him with his tail before wrapping his leathery wing around the boy like a blanket, something his egg mother used to do for him when he was upset, he hoped it would work for this boy as he sadly cooed.

Hiccup felt the warm embrace surround him and what he thought only a few seconds ago was right, the dragon was sad for him, and Hiccup did something he thought he could never do.

He hugged the dragon back as he smiled, this dragon could have taken his life, and yet chose to do what even his own kind never did for him his whole life, comfort him.

It was at that moment he realized he felt safe, and in the arms, or should I say wings, of his enemy.

No not Hiccups enemy, not anymore, Hiccup came to realize that if the most dangerous dragon ever known could be loving like this then what they knew about dragons is all wrong.

And it was at that point he could never kill a dragon.

Feeling comfortable, warm and safe in the Night Fury's wings, Hiccup started to feel tired.

The Night Fury looked down and gave what can only be described as a gummy smile, to which Hiccup saw and kept on smiling as he closed his eyes.

"Thank you ever so much…Toothless" was his last words before falling asleep.

The dragon didn't know why this boy called him Toothless, but he assumed it was a name, funnily enough, he liked it, Toothless the Night Fury, and with that Toothless gently laid down upon the grass not to disturb the boy in his wings before falling asleep too.

Next day before sunrise

Hiccup slowly opened his eyes as he awoke, the cove around him was quiet and calming, not another living soul around.

Well except the snoring dragon next to Hiccup.

At first Hiccup was startled by the black dragon next to him but quickly remembered yesterday's events, how this dragon, a Night Fury to be exact show more concern for him in the short time they met compared to the hate and denial his own people gave him throughout his life.

Hiccup smiled at discovering this side of his supposed mortal enemy but frown when he realized the way he had discovered it.

Suddenly Toothless opened his eyes and saw the frown planted on the young boy's face, so he decides to give him a nudge making Hiccup turn round and smile.

"Hey morning bud, hope you slept well" Hiccup said as scratched the back of the dragons head earning him a purr making him laugh.

Hiccup decided he'd best get going back to the village and get something to eat as his stomach was growling.

But the dragon had other ideas.

Just as Hiccup was standing up to go, Toothless grabs him by his green shirt with his gummy mouth, taking the boy by surprise.

"T-Toothless what are you…..ahhh!" Hiccup couldn't finish off his sentence as the black dragon threw him up in air and moved slightly forward just in time for Hiccup to land upon his back.

Toothless looks around to the boy who at this point was crossed-eyed, well anyone would if they landed crotch first.

Hiccup regains his sense and see the Night Fury looking at him with wide eyes as the said dragon looked up towards the sky gesturing to the boy what he intended.

Hiccup looks up and was surprised, Toothless wanted to take him up in the air, did he trust the dragon? A dragon feared by his fellow Vikings?

'Yes!' Hiccup thought to himself, those 'Fellow' Vikings of his never gave him a doubt to trust them however, this dragon who could of killed him instantly and kept him warm and safe all night long earned his trust in just one night where the Villagers failed in the fourteen years he was around them.

Steeling himself, Hiccup smiled and held onto Toothless' neck as he patted him to signal that he was ready.

With one strong flap of his wings, Toothless shot into the air like a released arrow, hearing the boy on his back scream, but he smiled.

This wasn't a scream of terror, but of joy as they shot higher and higher into the air.

They flew into the clouds and above to which Toothless levelled out.

Hiccup, who caught his breath back realised they steadied out and wondered why until he looked in front of him to see the most beautiful thing he ever saw.

The sun rising for the day, producing a soft and yet bright glow that spread across the sky. Hiccup never saw a sunrise like this before, usually he would have to climb a high hill just to get close to this as possible.

But up here you could see it all.

Hiccup couldn't help what happened next, he cried as he began to hug Toothless' neck.

"Thank you bud" Hiccup quietly said as he smiled, Toothless warbled in response before he decided to descend past the clouds and near the sea where he spotted a school of Icelandic cod, to which he dived down to scoop them up in his mouth as he headed back towards the cove again to land. Once on the ground, Hiccup gathered some wood in a pile as Toothless blasted it setting it on fire, taking one of the fish shoving a stick through it as he cooks it on the fire.

After the most fantastic morning he has ever had in a very long time, Hiccup got up to head back to the village, wishing he didn't have to, and neither did Toothless, but he promised the black dragon he'll meet him tonight and they can go fly together, to which Toothless accepted before Hiccup scratched his neck affectionately before leaving the cove and walking through the forest towards the village.

As he was walking through the forest he hears something that sounds like, sobbing, Hiccup must have been hearing things, the only one who even showed even that close of emotion was himself, everyone else are tough Vikings. No one else on this rock would sob, right?

Following the direction where the sobbing came he froze in place as he saw who was sobbing.

He could recognise the blond hair that belonged to Astrid, but something wasn't right, first off she was crying, Astrid never cried, never.

Second, she looked a mess, her hair wasn't in its usual perfect braid, more like she hadn't brushed it for at least a day.

Third, which Hiccup had to sneak round to see her face, was the bags under her eyes, she looked like she has been up all night.

All these things didn't make sense, why would Astrid put herself through this Hiccup thought to himself until he saw all around her surroundings, mainly the trees. All were to the point of falling down, deep cuts in every single one, even the rocks around weren't safe either.

Wondering around where the source of the cuts came from, Hiccup saw with wide eyes what caused it.

Astrids axe, the one he made for her years ago, was lying next to her, Hiccup could see the major damage she had done to it, the blade was chipped and cracked, any blade would after trying to kill a rock, the handle looked like it was ready to snap, Hiccup looked saddened, he spent a very long time perfecting that axe for her and looking at how much it had been abused.

But what she said next made hurt him more.

"Stupid Hiccup, useless Hiccup, why did he have to make this!" she shouted gesturing to the nearly destroyed axe "why won't it break?! All I managed to do was chip it! How can an axe this tough come from the hands of Hiccup?!" those words stung so much that Hiccup could take it anymore.

He comes out of his hiding spot behind Astrid, walks casually toward her, picks up her axe with ease, after all, those years spent working on all sorts of weapon have paid off, even though he shows no muscle doesn't mean he has any.

"It's because you don't know its pressure points" he said dryly as he walk towards a large boulder, but before Astrid could say anything, Hiccup lifted up the axe in a certain angle and brought it down upon the rock, causing the axe head to shatter into pieces followed by the handle, Hiccup looks down at the remains of the axe and sighs "all that work I put into it, and I had to destroy what I created, a shame" his face was emotionless as he walks away throwing the remains of the handle on the ground.

Astrid just sat there in shock, how Hiccup managed to do something she couldn't even do, she had to find out so she got herself up and followed him.

By the time she saw him he was heading into the village so she followed until he stopped as he looked at a large pit of what looked like ash and burnt metal, did we have a raid last night she wondered but looking around no buildings were damaged just this pit upon close inspection she can tell straight away what they were, weapons, armour and tools all burnt, rendered useless, but what caught my eye most of all was the initials on the metal themselves.

Hiccup's initials, she come to realize that the villagers have done the same as her and destroyed the things Hiccup created for them, it was at this point that Astrid felt something deep inside her rise up and there was no stopping it. Guilt.

But what she heard next kind of scared her, Hiccup laughed, but it wasn't a joyful laugh more like a laugh you do when something's drove you over the edge.

"It's funny Astrid" Hiccup said not looking at her and as she raise an eyebrow looking confused "these weapons, these exact weapons, everyone said they were the best they ever had, the second they find out I made them, they discard them like they're cursed" he says calmly, a little to calmly for Astrid's liking. Before she knew it Hiccup had turned around to look at her looking serious "do you remember asking me the question 'who's side are you on'?" she slowly nodded not wanting to speak as he gestures the pile of burnt weapons "well here's your answer. Not Berk!" he shouted the last part startling Astrid so much that she fall to the ground, Hiccup just looks at her with dead eyes before storming off to his home ready to pack his essentials up leaving a stunned Astrid on the ground.

It didn't take him long to get his affairs in order as he carried a bag on his back and a large basket upon his left shoulder as he walked towards the forge where a saddened Gobber just looked out of his window facing the ocean, he saw what everyone did last night, the threw Hiccups weapons into the fire pit claiming to rid the 'useless curse' the only ones who didn't participate was himself, Fishlegs, Astrid and her parents which was an odd thing, thinking they would want to rid Hiccups 'curse' upon them, of course knowing Astrid she'll find a way to destroy it her own way.

Gobber was so into his own little world that he didn't notice Hiccup come in until he spoke.

"Gobber"

Gobber turn around to spot the auburn-haired boy he raised like a son, hobbling towards the boy and engulf him in a hug before crying into the boys shoulder "I'm sorry Hiccup, I really am, I tried to stop them but they would have nothing of it" he said quietly before he felt Hiccups hand gently pat him on his back. Hiccup would know Gobber would have done his best to stop them but what could a two limbed blacksmith do against an entire village.

Gobber then opened his eyes as he saw the basket next to the doorway and realized straight away what was going on "you're leaving aren't you lad" he said to Hiccup calmly to which the boy nodded. In truth Gobber knew this day would come, he wish it didn't but there's no denying it.

Hiccup could only smile at his mentor "you know Gobber when I settle somewhere, I'll tell you where I am, I promise" he reassure Gobber patting him on his shoulder to which Gobber smiled.

Gobber thought of something and hobbled towards one of his shelve full of books, passing a particular one to Hiccup, the auburn-haired boy read the front cover and smiled 'How To Create A Forge' and Gobber patted Hiccup should as they both looked at each other as they hugged again "I'm gonna miss you lad" Gobber said quietly as Hiccup returned the compliment, before long Hiccup got all the things he needed to survive before heading to the docks, he needed to make it look like he left the island all together.

He found an old rowboat and loaded it up, what he didn't expect was the entire village to turn up with Gobber standing next to him as they watched the others in mixed emotions, but Hiccup didn't give a damn, they all did this to him and now they'll have to live with the fact that they won't have Hiccup to push around anymore.

Suddenly the crowd parted to let the elder of the village, Gothi, walks towards Hiccup as she asks for him to kneel down thinking she was going to hit him for being a coward.

But what he didn't expect was the elder to hug him tightly before whispering something into his ear so no one else could hear "You take care, dragon rider"

Hiccup was stunned and was about to ask how she knew but she pulled away and smile as she tapped her nose before walking away.

With that Hiccup hugged Gobber one last time before getting into the boat, untying the rope holding it to the dock and rowing away never to be seen by the villagers again.

By this point the crowd dispersed and went back to their regular routine.

All except Astrid, she just stared at Hiccup as he shrank into the distance, her heart and head were hurting for some reason and she couldn't understand why. She can't ask her parents, after they witnessed her saying those thing to Hiccup they felt disappointed in her for doing such a thing, same with Gobber, who by now went back to the forge but not to work, more like drown his sorrows. She didn't want to talk to the village as she felt like they would hate her like they did with Hiccup.

She didn't know what to do, she felt like she can't do anything. She felt useless.

And with that realization, she fell to her knees and cried, she didn't give a damn at this point if the village saw this, what she did was unforgivable now thanks to her and the village, they have lost the heir to the throne.

"Oh gods what will the chief say when he gets back" she said out loud yeah sure they had Snotlout as heir, but she knew he would be the worst chief imaginable.

Meanwhile…..

Hiccup realized he was far from Berk now to relax as he tried something he wanted to try before.

He tried to roar like a Night Fury, the same sound he heard when his best friend use to blow up the catapults during raids, in secret, he used to practise it until one day he did it and somebody shouted 'Night Fury! Get down!' that's when he perfected it and now he was using it to call his dragon friend.

Within a few minutes Hiccup smiled as he heard the familiar roar of Toothless who flew down towards him, and gave the boy a concerned look at he hovered above the water.

"I've left bud, they dishonoured me for the last time, I'm never going back" Hiccup said to his dark friend until he saw the boy smirk "well not at Hiccup the Useless anyway" and with that Toothless helped Hiccup but pulling the boat towards the opposite side of Berk. Hiccup knew one place where he wanted to live and knew no one else knew about it. The cove, it had everything he needed to create a home plus it would be easy walking distance for Gobber when he visited.

And so after several flights to get things to make a home, Hiccup and Toothless got started in turning the cove into their own little paradise.

Several day later back in the village

The whole village was silent and worn out. Another raid happened last night, but with all their best weapons destroyed, they lost more than they ever had in any raid they ever had.

Houses were burnt beyond repairs, the weapons they did used, wore out too quickly. Gobber's a good blacksmith, but with limited time before the raid and everyone demanding their weapon need replacing, it was too much for the two limbed smithy especially since the village did a great job at making Hiccup leave.

The only ones able to defend the village with more success than they others were Gobber, Fishlegs and Astrid's parents as they were the only ones who were using Hiccups crafted weapons. Astrid did her best with her mother's old axe, but unlike the one Hiccup made, this one was battle worn, unbalances, too heavy and slightly blunt from not being used in years, it was at this point that Astrid felt regret, she broke a promise she made a long time ago, just so she could be the pride of Berk.

She didn't notice that the other teens were walking near her until she lifted up her head and saw their face.

The twins were supporting each other as they tried to limp back to the remains of their house, Astrid saw what happened to them. Tuffnut went charging after a Zippleback with an old rusty spear only for the gas head to spray him, before he could escape the spark head ignited the green gas blasting him through a nearby building breaking several ribs and causing third degree burns.

Ruffnut wasn't so lucky two Gronkles decided to double team her as she followed her brother by attacking head on resulting in the already damage sword she was carrying to shatter on the tough scales of one of Gronkles, causing both to fly into her multiple times, Astrid cringed at remembering hearing the crack and crunch of bones and the screams of the female twin as she fell in a heap on the floor.

Next to walk by was Snotlout, even though at the time of Hiccup leaving he was glad, after all it was him to convince everyone to burn Hiccups weapons, but now looking at him he doesn't look like the same confident arrogant Viking that he convinced everyone he is, he was different, paler, scared, shoulders dropped in defeat, he looked weak. Astrid didn't see what happened but was told by several eye witnesses what happened, apparently he went head on with a Nadder only to call it ugly, now we all know or whoever read the book of dragons that Nadders have a lot of vanity and by insulting them on their appearance is like calling Thor himself a wimp right in from of his face. And as predicted the Nadder didn't take too kindly to his words so used its magnesium flame to melt the hammer of Snotlouts, well technically it was his dads so he'll get an earful from him when they get back, and before he could react the Nadder flew off with him in its talons squawking and roaring to the other dragons. Now for the purpose of what was happening the Nadder was basically telling the other dragons to give this kid hell by playing catch with him. All the dragons found this amusing as the Viking teen screamed throughout the entire ordeal, purposely dropping him before grabbing him by the last second, this went on for most of the raid until the dragons grew bored and toss him into a pile of yak dung, Snotlout saw in horror as all the dragons surrounding him were laughing, now he knew how Hiccup felt when he bullied him, humiliated people ignoring him, giving him funny looks or just plain laughing at him.

Fishlegs fared better than the others, he's just a little exhausted from defending, the village, not attack head on like his fellow teens just trying to stop the dragon taking everything. Astrid looked closely at his mace and saw it wasn't damaged at all, she wondered why that was.

Fishlegs saw her looking at his weapon and glared at her, Astrid was taken back she never saw him glare at anyone in his life "before you ask Astrid, yes this is a Hiccup crafted weapon, unlike you and the others, I'm not so stupid to destroy such a wonderful creation!" Fishlegs said directly to her as his glare intensified before walking away from the blond teen, making her look down realizing he's right and now the whole village will suffer.

Throughout the whole day the village didn't feel like chatting at all, they repaired in silence at their losses, what was worse was that the Night Fury appeared last night as well, but with all the damage the raiding dragons were doing, it's focus was on the arena, completely destroying the roof before a dark figure jumped off the dragon and released all the arena dragons, but thinking the dragons will kill this dark figure, they seemed friendly towards it and then this figure got back on the Night Fury and took off followed by the others who at this point decided to get revenge by destroying the arena completely, turning it into rubble.

Throughout the whole time the villager come to realize that this is the worst day of their lives.

Several days later in the Cove

Hiccup was having one of the best time of his life, not only did he feel happier, but he liberated the captured dragons in the arena who decided to stay with him and Toothless in the cove which they didn't mind, they all loved the boy, even the Nightmare who was supposed to be an aggressive dragon, it was then Hiccup decided to upgrade the cove to different structures so that each dragon had a personal space to rest in.

Now Hiccup didn't have the pressure of disappointment weighing him down, he was able to think freely about things that would help him in his daily life like growing crops even in these cold climates thanks to some warm dragons, this will do for now till he has the right equipment to make an improved version.

Hiccup also figured out that two of the dragons, the Nadder and Gronkle, who he found out were female no use in asking him how he found that out, were treating him like he was their hatchling, which Hiccup didn't mind one bit, he felt safe with them, he felt safe with all the dragons around him, Toothless and the Nightmare were like big brothers to him, and always those three did something so crazy like letting Hiccup jump from one to the other in mid-air making his mother's worry or they would wrestle each other which to Hiccups surprise, held his own pretty well. Hiccup had a few nightmares while sleeping but it's like the dragon sensed this and all crowded around him in a protective circle which seemed to help the boy drift off into a peaceful sleep every time. Even though Hiccup didn't think about the villagers except for Gobber and Gothi, one person kept creeping into his mind.

His father. Hiccup wondered what his father reaction would be like when he gets back from another failed search for the nest.

One week later the village

Gobber stood at the docks waiting for the one remaining ship to come into port, straight away he could see no lives were taken but many men and women were clearly injured as the quick fixed ship came into port, Gobber tried to put on a smile but what happened the last two weeks he couldn't.

Stoick was not happy, first he loses nine of the ten ships in that search, dragons and sea stacks causing this making everyone get on the last remaining ship to head back home, even if the dragons took a few hit at this one too, now as he heads closer to home he clearly saw the damaged houses half repaired and his people looking down, he wondered what in the nine realms happened here while he was gone, looking at Gobbers frown told him something bad did happen.

"Gobber what's happened" Stoick asked as the two limb blacksmith picked up the chief travel sack as they walked along.

"Yer gonna want a drink an a sit down first chief" Gobber relied in a dull tone as the two burly Vikings head up to the Haddock hall.

On the way there Stoick noticed the teens who were put into dragon training, which seemed strange why they were not in the arena at the moment, but looking closer he saw something wasn't right at all.

He saw the twins, bandaged up holding crutches, looking burnt, battered and bruised, but what caught his eye was they were frowning, he knew the Thorston twins loved pain so seemed odd they would be frowning at having injuries. 'Things must have been really bad' he thought to himself.

Next one he saw was his nephew Snotlout, the over confident arrogant boy he remembered before he left a few weeks ago, the one the villagers wanted as future chief instead of Hiccup, now looked terrified, pale and completely slumped in defeat, Snotlout kept looking at the ground to avoid eye contact. 'Really bad' Stoick thought again.

Astrid was his next line of sight, biggest shock for him looking at her, she looked a mess, her neatly braided hair was sticking out all over the place, bags under hers eye, which he saw was red like she'd been crying a lot, she looked guilty as she propped herself up on the remains of an old broken axe he knew to be her mother's when she was younger 'where's her axe?' Stoick thought as he looks at the other teens as he come to realise that the four teens didn't have their regular weapons, just old battered up ones.

The only one who still had their weapon Stoick saw was Fishlegs, who by his confusion looked a mix of guilt, exhaustion and anger. Stoick knows the Ingerman boy well, as he used to be friends with his son and knew Fishlegs was never angry so whatever happened here must have been really bad. Stoick also noticed that Fishlegs was standing well away from the others giving them glares once in a while, this made Stoick wonder even more what had been so bad as to change the teens like this.

Another question plagued his mind. Where is Hiccup?

It was like Gobber could read his mind as the blacksmiths face fell even more from a frown to just sadness as he chief and best friend looks at him with worry.

"Gobber, where's my son?" Stoick asked Gobber with concern in his voice.

Gobber however never said a word, he knew Stoick would be too….well stoic until he showed him the letter Hiccup left him. So with hesitation he slowly dives into his right hand pocket and produces the dreaded letter, to which he gave to Stoick before giving him room to breathe, he'll need to after this.

Stoick unfolds the letter and immediately recognises Hiccups neat handwriting, something not favoured in Berk since they don't do much reading period, he starts to read it out loud in his head:

Dear Dad or Stoick if what I put makes you disown me.

I know by the time you get back to Berk, you'd of known by now that I'm no longer living on Berk anymore. The reason I left comes down to several reasons, but one stands out more than the others.

Berk doesn't want me.

Before you start saying that stupid, go out into the centre of the village and find a pile of burnt metal and ash there, if of course the others haven't clean it up which is highly unlikely…

Stoick checked the last part before heading in the direction of the village centre followed by Gobber who only sighed, reading the note himself.

As Stoick nears the centre he can clearly see the pile of ash and what look like destroyed weapons and tools, he kneels down looking at the remains and notices straight away what they all had in common.

They all had Hiccup initials carved on them.

"No…." Stoick quietly said as he looked bewildered at the remains before carrying on with the letter.

…..If you saw or didn't see the pile, then I will give you details I'm sure Gobber can vouch for.

Yes the villagers, after discovering I made their weapons and tools destroyed them out of spite, I was hoping for them to acknowledge that I'm not useless after all, sadly that wasn't the case to which they claimed it to be 'cursed'. So coming to the conclusion that they don't want me around since they destroyed their best weapons to prove the point, I will leave Berk, for how long I don't know, but it won't be to live back in the village.

But please for once understand me while I write this, don't go looking for me, if you drag me back to the village, I will either kill one of the villagers, you or myself, so for the sake of losing me for good, please respect my wishes.

Stoick looked away at the letter for a few minutes, he knew Hiccup didn't use threats lightly as he always stuck by his word, he nodded to himself as he thought that he could see his son one day, but on his own terms, and for once he thought to himself to heed his sons wishes as he carried on reading the letter.

…And before you start to worry about my safety, no need to worry for I am staying with a few friends I met some time ago, I do trust them as they trust me, we'll keep an eye on each other don't you worry about that.

I guess this is goodbye for now.

From the village screw up

Hiccup.

Stoick looked up from the letter with sadness, he never knew his own people could be that cruel. Sighing he slowly walks back towards his empty house, ignoring the villager's comments and complaints, he can't deal with this just yet, his son has left and doesn't dare go after him, he knows Hiccup would go as far as to kill himself if he said he would, let him come back when he's ready.

Before he could get to the steps of his house, a familiar and extremely annoying voice was heard in the distance.

"You see what happens when that runt of the chief runs off! He angers the gods so much that they curse our lands with the worst raid we have ever had!" the voice belongs to none other than the annoying old Viking by the name of Mildew, he's been known to gather up followers with his forked tongue and venomous words. This time he went way too far as others agree with him "and those who have kept the runts cursed weapons instead of destroying them like I said to, they have kept this curse in the village!" he shouts earning cheers from those around him.

This was the last straw for Stoick, not only had he lost his son and the village was in ruins, but that old bastard has insulted his son's honour for the last time. He storms towards the mob parting them as they see the anger in his eyes, the villager's know that when Stoick gets like this you best pray you aren't the target, lucky for them they weren't his target, unlucky for Mildew he was.

*Whack!*

Mildew didn't have time to react as he was punched directly in the face with a blow so strong it sent his flying into a nearby house wall, nearly breaking through it, as he was about to argue at whoever did that, he sees the hammer of the chief's pointing directly at his head, looking above that he sees the anger of the chief himself. "chief Stoick! W-whats the meaning of th…."

"Don't you dare argue back with me Mildew!" Stoick interrupted him but shouting at his loudest, and boy that was loud, the whole village stopped at hearing his voice "you have dishonoured this tribe for the last time! You have insulted me and insulted my son! There was a reason why we built your house on the other side of the mountain so we didn't have to listen to you whine! You have destroyed weapons that would have saved the village from the raids and still you dishonour my son even further! An act of treason and for that, I, chief Stoick 'the vast' Haddock hereby cast you, Mildew Blunge, out of the Hooligan tribe and off the Island of Berk! Now get your things and get off my island!" and with that Stoick left the shocked old man sitting there as his crowd left too, they knew if they followed what he was protesting, they would face the same wrath as him.

As soon as Stoick got into his home and lit a fire, he slowly went upstairs to his son's room to see it was not empty but Hiccup did leave it tidy, Stoick made a vow that until his son came back one day that he'll keep his room just like it is in memory of him.

Time Skips:

Three months later:

The village was still recovering from their worst raid they ever had a few months ago, not the physical side of thing as the houses were repaired and the injuries of the villagers were healing up, but the physiological and emotional side was still recovering, especially the teens.

Snotlout was still scared at what happened so much so that he quit dragon training after wetting himself, over a Terrible Terror that flew by, he's since tried to keep himself busy by helping the fishermen on their boats.

The twins have since stayed away from causing havoc considering what had happened to them, Tuffnut has started dabbling in tailoring and was quite good at it, he still had the scars on his face, but it was a reminder for him to be careful. Ruffnut still walked with a limp even though his bones have all healed up she still couldn't walk properly and spends her time helping out her mom who is the healer, hoping to learn a thing or two from her. Her number one patient seems to be Snotlout himself, but not treat his physical injuries but comforting him whenever he has a breakdown.

Fishlegs however was more confident in himself, in fact out of all the teens, he was the one who gained instead of lost, he took up the reins as a writer, warrior and Gobbers assistant from time to time and out of all the teens, he honoured Hiccup by keeping his mace intact at all time. He still love to read and hear stories, especially from trader Johan, one set of stories he loves hearing about is that of the boy and the dragon, listening to every detail, he wrote them all down in a book especially for that so that one day he could tell them to his own children one day. He also kept an eye on time spans between raids and noticed something very strange a few months back they were getting worse, at least four a week then a couple of weeks ago they just stopped, in fact there have been no dragons potted anywhere near the village and from what others from different tribe have said, they stopped there about the same time, Fishlegs came to conclusion that the raids have stopped but kept this information to himself.

Astrid well, let's just say she's confused she felt empty inside, angry and hurt at the same time but more importantly she felt, alone, sure she's the shield maiden of the village and has her friends, well apart from Fishlegs who refused to talk to her after Hiccup left, she had her family, even though they still weren't happy with her for destroying her axe but they accept it's what she wanted.

Or was it.

She started to feel like this ever since Hiccup left and never came back, she would go looking for him but Stoick refused her request as he reread what Hiccup wrote to her. She realized that her outburst was uncalled for, and because of that, she'll never see Hiccup for a very long time. She didn't know what to do, she tried to kill the trees like she used to but it felt so different without her axe, the axe Hiccup made for her, the axe she tried to destroy finding out he made it, and if you were in the forest most of the time, you could hear the sound the blond shield maiden crying.

Little did she know that a lone figure in full black leather armour was listening to her, shaking his head in disappointment he silently jumps from tree to tree till he got back to his home.

The armour stranger heads towards the cove he calls his home and removes his helmet to reveal it to be none other than Hiccup except, something was different about him, he looked more confident in himself, showing off his one scar going across his left eye down to his nose, a scar he well remembers as it was the only permanent injury he sustained in the battle with the giant queen on dragon island, he always wondered what would of happened if he decided to go ahead and take down Toothless that night months ago, maybe he'd of lost a tail fin, if he did and they faced the queen then maybe it would have been different, he could of lost a leg, instead they were only caught in the aftermath of the queens explosion as one of the her claws came loose and because of the blast flew directly up hitting Hiccup in the face, luckily it didn't hit his eyeball otherwise he could of lost it, instead he got a cool looking scar out of it. It was an intense battle, it took Hiccup and his family of dragons to take her down, they succeeded but were too tired to fly away so set up camp on the island itself to which they celebrated with fish. It was later on that night that the situation got more intense by the arrival of another dragon rider, one all dressed on blue and brown scales riding a Stormcutter, when this mask figure approached their camp, Hiccups family got into defensive position but upon sniffing this mysterious new rider they realized three things.

One this rider was female.

Two she has the scent of the Alpha upon her.

And three they smelt the same sort smell that came from their boy.

They were cautious but allowed her to see the boy close up, as she examined his face she gasp at the scar on his chin and realized it was her baby boy, all grown up, and riding dragons, just like her.

Hiccup was confused at first until he saw her eyes, same as his, hair colour like his and even her facial features were like his, he knew straight away this was his supposed dead mother.

At first it was kind of awkward for both mother and son, but as time went on the grew a loving parent child bond, she offered him to stay at the sanctuary with her, but declined, not for the reason that he didn't want to but he made a comfortable home in the cove, she was sad but understood, but they both agreed to visit each other from time to time, go on flights, save dragons and maybe even convince some Viking that dragon aren't as bad as they thought.

Today Hiccup was doing his farming, wondering why Astrid was crying, until he heard the flapping of a certain Stormcutter reach his ears and smiled knowing what that meant.

His mom was visiting.

Before the giant dragon could touch the ground, the blue and brown armoured figure jumped off, removing her helmet reveal it to be Valka Haddock, who at this point was smiling as she looked at her son as he ran towards her to give her a hug, these two enjoyed their moment like this as mother and son, sure she wasn't there for most of his childhood but he understood, protecting dragons and hoping that Stoick would keep their boy safe, she was disgusted the way the village treated her son and would of gone after them if Hiccup hadn't told her that it wasn't worth it and to let faith decide, this made Valka proud of him for taking the high road and not getting revenge by destroying them, true honour which they'll never see.

Usually with visits like this they either go exploring, talking about new discoveries of dragons or just plain chatting about what they've been doing since the last time they saw each other, it was at this point that Hiccup wanted to ask his mother what he saw in the forest and wanted to ask her opinion on this.

After telling her what she saw with Astrid in the forest crying while looking at her axe, how she looked different from what she used to be, it was then Valka came to a conclusion.

"Hiccup, you said she was looking at her axe while crying?" Hiccup nodded as Valka carried on "and she seemed so different from when you saw her before you left" again he nodded, this made Valka smile as she patted her sons shoulder making him feel confused.

"My dear boy" she laughed seeing the confusing on her sons face "I think that young Hofferson has a hidden crush on you"

This made Hiccup laugh in disbelief 'Astrid? Having a crush on me? Yeah right' he thought to himself as his laughing continued, after several minutes he finally calmed down only to see the seriousness expression his mother was giving, this sobered him up.

"You got to be kidding me mom, Astrid Hofferson having a crush on me is like Gobber deciding to take weekly baths. It'll never happen" he then stood up and waving his arms about as he paced back and forth while carrying on with his angry debate "this is the same girl who broke her promise to me that we would remain friends! This is the same girl who ignored me when I was getting beaten up! This is the same girl who shunned me out of her life for her own damn honour!" his voice was faltering at this point as tears ran down his cheek "this…..is the same girl….who broke my heart" at this he collapsed to the ground not giving a damn if anyone saw him like this, even his own mother. Valka however felt sad for her son, she can tell he still had feelings for Astrid and that's why it hurt so much, she walked over to her son and embraced him in a comforting hug gently cradling him until he calmed down. She might have missed most of Hiccup's life but by hell will she miss out on it anymore.

I'll make this a two parter, this story is an experiment to see in my mind how it would be like if the village pushed him to leave. See what you think. I will go the full five years, and yes there will be a happy ending for both Hiccup and Berk, but for now, let the village suffer. Peace out.