AN: This au is if Hiccup saw the dragon's nest on his first flight (aka: alone, without Astrid) and decided to runaway after being chosen to kill the Monstrous Nightmare. This au later leads into HTTYD 2.

Hiccup's stomach was still recoiling from announcement earlier that morning. He couldn't—wouldn't—kill a dragon. First viking in three hundred years not to. He wondered if he looked as pathetic as he felt. Probably.

As he finished up strapping his guarnet into place, he heard Toothless get out of the cave he was in.

"Hey buddy. Sorry I'm late today, had to pack a few extra things for our trip."

Toothless looked at him with a tilt of his head.

"We're leaving Toothless." He climbed onto the back of the nightfury. "For good."

He settled his foot into the prosthetic, opening up the man-made wing. In a gust of wind, they flew off.
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Stoick got up with pride growing through his limbs. His boy was at the top of dragon training, and today is the day he gets to kill his first beast.

"Hiccup!" He called, getting out of bed. "Today's the big day!" He walked out of his room when he was suddenly hit with worry.

"Hiccup?" He quickly bounded to his boy's room, finding it empty.

Clambering outside, he worriedly scurried through the village.

"Hiccup!"

Not in the arena, not in the workshop, not at Silent Sven's sheep farm, not anywhere.

"Gobber," Stoick called as he saw his friend walk by. "Have you seen Hiccup?"

"Eh he's probably out wherever he's been these past few afternoons. I bet he'll show up. Don't worry Stoick. All he's ever dreamed of is about to come true. He wouldn't miss a chance to make his old man proud."

Stoick nodded, even though his worried just borrowed deeper into the lit of his stomach.

The time came for Hiccup to kill the dragon. And there was no sign of him. The village searched, yet he still was no where to be found.

He was just, gone.

AN: That's all I have for chapter one. I do have chapter two written (more than 1,000 words!) which will be uploaded sometime tomorrow. Come visit me tumblr: personal: bothwaystrustgoes; HTTYD: acehiccup.