Chapter 1: You miss me! Dad!
Hiccup was riding Toothless, all the rescue crew behind him, flying to a distant island. Hiccup was thinking about the past, it had been almost 8 months since he had become Berk's chief.
"Time passes so quickly when we are busy all days," he thought, "
8 months and I still don't find the time to talk with Gothi about my father ... I'm sure he well arrived in Valhalla, he was the proudest Vikings all around the world."
He was looking far away, beyond the horizon, lost in the horizon. Astrid
came close to him and asked him: "What are you thinking about? Usually, you talk a lot before our rescue mission."
He came back from his thought like he was waking up after a dream, blink back tears. "Hmmm, Hi Astrid! I was thinking about the past, my father and all I've done since his death. I really wish he'd been here to support me, to help me."
Astrid knew that the anniversary of his father's death came closer day after day, she answered back,"You know, I'm sure, if he was here, he will be very proud about all the things you had done."
Valka, who was listening to their conversation behind us, said: "
I agree with you Astrid, your dad surely was very proud of you, you change and lead Berk in a right way. Before his ... death, he knew you will be a great Chief, like him. One of the most famous Chief that Berk never got!"
Hiccup slowly answered back, with sadness deep in his voice, "Thank you, Astrid. Thank you, Mom. I really wish that he was here, and see everything I managed to do, what I've done with his village, with Berk."
Valka exclaimed, "You have well managed Berk, you know! I'm really pleased, it would have been too, by what you've done with Berk. I mean, you transformed Berk into the biggest city of peace between Dragons and Vikings. A Dragons-Vikings utopia! And that would have made him surely very proud of you!"
Hiccup looked at the horizon, stayed silent a few minutes, his heart filled with joy, sadness, pride... All of these thoughts for his dad were so strong that he felt some tears beginning to drip in his eyes. He tried to hold them back, because like his father told him one day: "A chief should have to stay strong in any circumstances, no fears, no feels, no tears!"
Hiccup leaned above Toothless's head and caressed him between his eyes. Then he whispered to his dragon: "Hey, bud! What about some exercise?"
Toothless seemed to appreciate the idea as his smile and shake his head.
Hiccup raised back, some tears were flowing on his cheeks, and he said to all the crew, with a brittle voice which he tried to hide by speaking loudly: "
Guys! Mom! I will check our target."
Astrid would say something, rising one of her hand, but Hiccup stopped her as if he knew what she will say, "Alone ..."
"Let's go bud!" Toothless speed up, making them both distanced the rest of the crew.
"And he is left... Do I make something wrong?" asked Astrid who always had her hand up.
"Nothing, Astrid... Nothing. But go, go after him, I think he needs you now, more than never. Don't let him alone, he has to know that you are here for him !" said Valka, using her mom's skills.
Astrid looked at Valka, she saw that Valka said that because it was what she will do as a mother as well as a girlfriend. It was her experience and her love who just talked. Astrid decided to follow the Valka's suggestion, and her and Stormfly flew away, trying to catch her boyfriend up.