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A.N.

Okay, this idea came from a mix of Borderlands 2 and the episode The Next Big Sting. In Borderlands 2, I don't know if any of you play that game, one of the characters ends up being worshipped as a God by a cult because of her special abilities and in the 12th episode of RTTE, Fishlegs comments at how he wants to see Hiccup do the hand thing and that he loves it when he does this. So, put two and two together and you get this story. Enjoy!

DreamWorks Dragons, Race To The Edge

Post-13 EPS

Unexpected

Chapter 1, Discovery

A Night Fury shadow traveled across the ground followed by four others, the owners flying high above below the sun. The dragon riders were soaring over an unknown island, continuing their search for new lands and more dragons. They had been flying for quite a while without seeing any signs of a new dragon, so they made the search interesting by gambling.

The group looped around a mountain peak before diving down toward the treetops to hover in a circle above them.

"Ugh, we've been flying for hours and haven't found any dragons!" Snotlout complained. "Let's just move onto the next island so I can have my mackerel." He insisted, the mackerel being the currency of the bet.

"Nnnnot entirely true." Fishlegs disagreed, "We've come across plenty of dragons: some Gronkles, a couple of Nightmares, even Nadders." He listed off with the help of his fingers.

"Yeah, the usual kind." Snotlout retorted. "Our bet was when we find a new dragon, and I bet we'll find it if we just head to the next island."

"Not uh!" Ruffnut took this opportunity to jump in in defense. "My bet was that we'd find a new dragon at the first island we came across. We're staying here until we find one, I'm not losing my mackerels!"

"I'm with her; you know, considering we made a deal to split it 50/50." Tuff added, whispering the last additive.

Ruffnut scoweld at her brother and placed her hands on her hips. "It was 80/20! Don't you be stealing my mackerels!"

"Alright everybody, calm down." Hiccup jumped in to control the situation. "Geez, I haven't ever seen you guys this excited to find new dragon species." he commented a bit cheerfully. "Besides maybe Fishlegs."

"That's because Vikings don't like losing. And besides, I'm good until we get to the third island." Astrid stated with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Maybe we should have bets more often? What do you think, bud?" Hiccup asked while placing his hand on Toothless' head. Said dragon shook his head no, seeing how losing your possessions in the attempt to gain glory wasn't worth it. Who could just willingly give up their mackerel?!

"Hey, Hiccup!" Fishlegs piped up; his finger pointing down to the forest below them. "I see some rustling." At his exclaim, Hiccup looked down, searching the flora for any signs of Fishlegs' proclamation. Sure enough, there is was. Bushes were moving down at the forest floor and some of the nearby trees were being jostled.

Ruffnut gasped, "A new dragon?!"

"What? No!" Snotlout whined.

"We don't know what it is, so let's head down to find out." Hiccup said.

"First one to find it gets all the mackerel!" Snotlout shouted with greed as he and Hookfang dived down.

"Hey!" Ruffnut shouted angrily.

"Snotlout!" Hiccup called, but it was too late. Snotlout and Hookfang were already near the ground before he could stop them. As the two landed, their smiling faces grew into fear as a load of barbs shot out from behind a bush. Snotlout screamed as Hookfang quickly dodge to the left.

As the other riders joined them on the ground, the attacker jumped out from behind the bush. A purple and orange Deadly Nadder roared and hissed at them, her tail spikes all raised up. Toothless jumped out in front of the group and roared at the threat, his eyes narrowed as he glared at the other dragon.

"Toothless no!" Hiccup ordered quickly as he hopped off of the saddle and stood between the two. He held out his hand and turned away, going 90% and letting the Nadder come the last ten. The Nadder's eyes widened and her posture relaxed; her tail spikes folding back. She sniffed the hand briefly before moving into it and closing her eyes. Hiccup now looked at her and smiled, petting her head as the dragon nudged him affectionately.

A load of gasps and ah's sounded out from their right, causing the riders and dragons to turn their gaze. A small group of vikings, male and female, stood still with wide eyes; in their hands were some meat and fish.

"Uh, hi!" Hiccup greeted shyly while waving his hand. The Nadder chose this time to calmly walk off. The riders hopped off of their dragons.

"New people! Sweet!" Snotlout started, "Hi, I'm Snotlout Jorgenson, a great and might warrior across the lands!" He bragged, holding up his arms and flexing his muscles with a smug look on his face. "I'm sure you've heard of me someway, somehow-"

"Screw him, we own a whole island!" Tuff interrupted while also knocking Snotlout aside for he and his sister to stand before the group.

"Guys...!" Hiccup attempted to stop them.

Snotlout got in the twins faces, "Hey, we've already agreed that the island belongs to all of us!" he retorted. "Besides, Meatlug over there ate your stupid "claimy rock"."

"Oh he did NOT just go there!" Tuff exclaimed defensively.

"Oh his SO did!" Ruff added with equal irritation.

Astrid came in between them and bonked each on the head. "Your not helping." he hissed, watching as they clutched their heads and turned away.

"Sorry," Fishlegs joined in. "We were just trying to calm down the dragon..."

"We don't mean to intrude on your land, so-" Astrid added before she was cut off.

"Did you just see what he did?" One of the men whispered, his eyes never leaving Hiccup.

"He put his hand up and the dragon immediately accepted him." A lady added, also with a hushed tone.

"Do you know what this means?" Another man added. They all glanced at one another, each with the same astonished look.

"Look, we don't mean to cause any trouble." Hiccup continued, stepping out in front of his friends and their dragons. "We'll just be heading off now, if you don't want us around." He said before peering over his shoulder and whispering, "To which I can fully understand."

"NO!" The group shouted in unison causing Hiccup to whip his head back around. Before anyone knew it, they were all on their knees and crawling up to him.

"You've finally come, you heard our prayers!" One of the woman cried happily.

"Our shaman said you would come, and you have!" Another man exclaimed.

"Oh great Dragon God!"

"What?!" Hiccup was at a loss for words, as he stared with widened eyes at the people now bowing down to him and claiming him to be a god. "I-I-" he stuttered, turning his head around to see if his friends could help. All of them shared the same expression, even the dragons, shock.

The people were now kowtowing in front of him with their supposed leader kissing Hiccup's foot. Hiccup quickly yanked his foot away and backed up.

"No, stop that, stop... all of you!" he said nervously.

"Hey," Ruffnut pouted, "I want my feet to be kissed."

"Apparently you can only have one foot for that to happen." Her brother commented.

Ruffnut stood in thought for a second before setting her eyes on Astrid, "Astrid, gimme your ax!"

"I am not a god! I-I'm not a Dragon God, nor am I any kind of god. I'm just a human being, like you guys." Hiccup tried to explain, but it was all in vain.

"That dragon became submissive towards you. Only our Dragon God can do such a feat with so little effort!" One went on explaining with her hands cupped together at her chest.

"Well, they got you there. That hand thing of yours is pretty impressive, Hiccup." Fishlegs stated nonchalantly.

"You're not helping Fishlegs!" Hiccup hissed back to him. He then turned to the rest of his team. "Guys, help me out here!" That's when Astrid stepped forward.

"Look, Hiccup's not a Dragon God. He's the son of the Chief of Berk, the great Stoick the Vast? Surely you've heard of him."

One of them gasped, "Stoick?"

Hiccup smiled, "Yes, yes, see? I'm his son! Not at all born from any god. That right there is proof that I'm not your Dragon God." He finished with high hopes as the glanced around for support from his friends, to which they replied also with smiles and nods of agreement.

"You're Stoick the Vast's son? Oh, what a glorious man to help bring forth such a holy seed!" Their leader proclaimed loudly with his arms up in the air. He was now the only one not with his face in the dirt. "None is more worthy than he." Hiccup face palmed while Astrid sheepishly whispered her apologies.

"I got this, don't you worry." Snotlout stated while stepping up to stand beside Hiccup. "Looky here folks." he said with a grin as he pointed down at Hiccup's prosthetic. "If I'm not mistaken, Gods don't bleed. And our friend here lost his leg. And I'm telling you, heh, he might have been unconscious for it, but there was a lot of blood."

As weird as the proof may have been, Hiccup had no doubts that it would finally show these people that he was not a god.

"You have graced us with your compassion! You've have graciously giving up your godly nature to suffer with us in mortality, so that we might be taught your ways." The leader stated factually.

"Seriously?" Snotlout gaped in disbelief.

"You've always taught us that it's not what's on the outside, but what's on the inside that counts." One of the women added before she returned her face back to the ground.

"Wow that's cheesy. That does sound like something you would say." he commented back at Hiccup. In return, Hiccup glared at him.

"Enough with the tests, Dragon God." The leader stood up now, "We would know of your arrival any day." he said with a warm smile. "Please, come, we will take you back to our village and celebrate with a feast."

"Ooooh." Fishlegs stated unconsciously, his stomach growly. "I did miss out on breakfast."

"Yeah, us too, can we go?" Ruff added cheerfully.

"No, no!" Hiccup commanded. "I'm not a God, and we're not taking advantage of these people. They need help." Hiccup argued.

"And you will help us, that's why you came." Their leader replied.

"Well, yeah-"

"And you knew that we were having problems with your offsprings. You've come to help your faithful followers."

"Um..."

"Of course he has, don't you question your Dragon God!" Snotlout stepped in, his voice a bit deeper.

"Snotlout, what are you doing?" Hiccup whispered to him, pulling him aside so the others couldn't hear.

"Hey, I'm hungry and we skipped out on lunch. Just play along, they'll welcome us with open arms, we'll solve their little dragon problem, and then we leave. No problem at all." Snotlout reasoned.

"I don't know Hiccup. I mean, it doesn't seem like anything we tell them is going to change their minds." Astrid pointed out.

"I'm not taking advantage of these people." Hiccup said sternly.

"I don't like the idea either, but there's nothing else we can do. Let's just play along for now." She replied. Hiccup closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Okay, fine." he breathed before turning around.

"Congratulations, my... faithful followers. Your test is indeed complete and you have certainly proven yourselves to be my... children?"

"Wonderful! Come quickly! We have chocolate strawberries for you." Their leader stated happily as he stood aside for Hiccup to walk. Hiccup motioned for Toothless to come, and the black dragon rushed over to his side before slowing down to his pace and trotting beside him.

"I don't know what strawberries are, but chocolate... count me in!" Snotlout shouted with joy. Hiccup glared at him as he walked by, Astrid punched him in the gut as she passed him, the twins snickered and hit his helmet and face as they went, and Fishlegs readied a punch before Snotlout eyed him, daring for him to throw it. Obviously, Fishlegs backed down and just followed the rest; Snotlout joining behind him as did the dragons.

"Slugcheek! Quickly, run ahead and tell everybody the good news!" Their leader commanded, said Viking quickly jumped up and ran ahead. The others that were bowing on the ground stood up to follow their leader and Dragon God.