Stoic looked around at everyone who had gathered in the Great Hall. In one corner and behind him were his tribe. From where he stood, he could see Hiccup sitting with the other teens and looking extremely tired and exhausted.

'Better end this quickly' thought Stoic as he looked at the twelve other tribes that had received a letter asking for them to come to Berk for an explanation. No one had seen the Dragons as they arrived due to the fact that all the Dragons were asleep.

'Well most of the Dragons are asleep' thought Stoic as he looked over to his son and saw him look up to where his Night Fury, Toothless hid.

"Okay!" he yelled.

Every silenced and turned to look at him.

"I have called you all here today to discuss the Hairy Hooligans defeat of the Dragons Nest" Stoic told them and they all cheered.

Well all expect Bertha.

"How did you do that then eh Stoic?" she called and that caused the room to silence.

"About three months ago, my tribe was betrayed by one of our own. He befriended a Dragon, trained it, helped it and even rode it" Stoic told them.

"Who was the traitor?" someone called.

"I'm not saying until the end of the story" Stoic said.

"Anyway, we learned about it and took the Dragon and used it to lead us to the Nest. The traitor was to be banished as soon as we returned from our certain victory. But, after we chased all the Dragons away, we learned that they were in fact running away and a Dragon the size of five of my villages erupted from the moutain and started to burn all of our weapons. Then, just as I was about to burnt, the traitor rode in on the Dragon with the teenagers from the village..." Stoic was interrupted by a ugly boy from a ugly tribe.

"Bet anything Hiccup stayed at home like the wuss he is!"

Hiccup quickly looked up at Toothless, to make sure he stay there. Stoic was relieved to see that he had.

"Then the traitor ordered them to stations and went and got their Dragon. With all the teens out of the way, the traitor and the Dragon defeat the Red Death, as we call it, but not without a price. The traitor was in a coma and only woke up two days ago and lost the bottom of his left leg. Their Dragon was weak" Stoic took a deep breath and looked at his son, who smiled at him but his eyes were dropping.

"Who was the traitor then?" Bertha asked.

"My son, Hiccup" Stoic said proudly and everyone turned and looked, wide eyed at the teen, who had his head resting against Astrid's shoulder.

"Your lying" said Bertha.

"Why would I be lying?" asked Stoic.

"To get your son into a better light? He is still as weak as he was when his mother was alive" said Bertha and Stoic jumped and the loud snarl that came from behind him.

Everyone went wide eyed at the green eyes that were glaring at them from shadows.

"No, Toothless" said Hiccup and he stood up, wobbling on his leg.

Toothless walked into the light and everyone gasped.

"Everyone, this is a Night Fury. Toothless, Hiccup's best friend, and if you try to attack Hiccup, he will attack" said Stoic with a grin.

Hiccup tried to walk toward Toothless, but started to fall. The other teens caught him and helped him onto the stage.

Everyone gasped at the wooden/metal leg that had replaced the bottom half of his left leg.

"Toothless, can you take Hiccup to bed?" Stoic asked the Dragon, who nodded and used his tail his tail to lift Hiccup onto his back and began to walk off, the other teenagers following behind.

"Any questions?" Stoic asked when the door had closed.

"Why? How?" a random person called from around the back of the room.

"Because he wanted to be accepted. One night, during a raid, he shot down Toothless. No one believed him and some of us even laughed at him. I don't know the story because Hiccup keeps falling asleep at random times and doesn't have time to tell me. But he managed to handle Dragon Training with Gobber, his blacksmithy duties as Gobbers apprentice and managing to train a Dragon to fly. Hiccup is really intelligent and I am very proud to have him as my son" Stoic smiled.

"Gobber can answer the rest of you questions, I only ask for you to not attack our Dragons when you leave and do not bother Hiccup" Stoic left and Gobber walked up to the centre stage.

Stoic walked through the quiet village and up the hill to his house. He entered and saw all the teens were talking around the table. They bowed their heads when Stoic walked in.

"You lot better get home, you all have to help fill in Hiccup's duties" Stoic told them and with a lot of "Yes Sir" 's they left.

Stoic looked at the back of the room and saw Hiccup fast asleep, on his side with his mouth open slightly and quiet snores filling the room.

Wrapped around the bed was Toothless, who was sleeping with his mouth slightly open and his toothless mouth smiling.

'Dreaming about flying' thought Stoic as he headed upstairs before shaking his head and going back downstairs. He pulled a chair beside Hiccup's bed and fell asleep.

He woke up to Hiccup's small and tired voice saying:
"Dad?"