Author's Note: So this idea crept into my brain and is refusing to let it go. So yeah this is gonna be interesting I hope. I own nothing.

What If…

1. The Test

Everything went wrong when Stoick smashed the hammer against the cage. When Toothless blasted his way into the arena Hiccup made up her mind. She wouldn't let her father get a hold of her best friend. He was still wearing the rig she'd built. As soon as the smoke from the disintegrated bars cleared and the monstrous nightmare backed off Hiccup leapt onto the saddle and clicked Toothless' tail open.

"Let's go bud!" They took off as the crowd panicked. They spun midair firing four consecutive shots, blasting the doors off the dragon pens and loosing the trapped dragons inside who flew into the sky blasting the armed Vikings who were taking aim at the girl. Even the nightmare rose into the sky with them once he figured out what was really going on here. Stoick screamed as the black creature, the demon turned in the sky with his daughter on its back and flew off in a streak of black.

"No! Hiccup!" He tried to run after them but a stream of fire from the nightmare who had just tried to kill his child stopped him in his tracks. The captive dragons flew off after the black demon into the rapidly growing storm. Aster screamed after Hiccup as Gobber stared in disbelief up into the sky that had swallowed his apprentice. Taken by dragons, just like her mother. But no, that wasn't true. She had leapt onto the dragon of her own free will. She'd freed the others. The whole town was in shock as the storm rolled in and rain began pouring from the skies. Stoick stood in the same place he'd been when the dragons had flown off with his only child leading the way. He couldn't think, couldn't move. She was gone, just like her mother.

Aster was shattered. He sat watching the sky from the roof of his house, sharpening his axe. He didn't talk to anyone, not even his parents could get a word out of him. He'd disappeared for a few hours into the forest around the town after the dragons had disappeared but had reappeared with a look of defeat and hadn't spoken since. The other teens weren't much better off, each stunned by this turn of events. Gobber had retreated to the forge and locked himself in Hiccups private workroom.

Meanwhile many miles away on a tiny island in a cave out of the rain sobs echoed off the stone walls. Toothless wrapped Hiccup in his wings as the other dragons gathered around the entrance of the cave keeping the cold out. Toothless warbled as Hiccup cried into his scales. She was soaking wet and shaking. Toothless growled at the monstrous nightmare who glanced at him before lighting itself on fire instantly warming the cave to a more comfortable temperature for Hiccup. She wiped her bright green eyes and turned to Toothless.

"They would never listen, he would never have listened to me. I can never go back. I just can't." Toothless warbled and nuzzled his friend, the girl who had spared his life and given him back the sky when it had been taken from him. He looked around at the other dragons they had freed. There was the nightmare that had tried to kill his friend, a deadly nadder, a zippleback, a gronkle and a terrible terror. They had all the beginnings of their own flock here, they would live. They would become the family the young girl needed. The one she could never have back amongst the others of her kind. She wasn't like them. She was a dragon in her soul. He had sensed it that first time they had flown together. She was one of them, they would show her how to be a dragon since her own kind would not accept her. He shared this idea with the others of their brand new flock and they all agreed. He glanced back down at the girl still wrapped in his wings. She had fallen asleep, tears still staining her face. He nuzzled her again. They would care for her as she had cared for him.