Summery- (AU kind of story.) Running away from home and surviving on your own is never an easy goal. Unless, of course, you had some help from an unknown person you didn't even know was your alley the entire time, leading you to your mother, your dragon, your first real friend (Who's a total nutcase) and your first love.

Okay, now anyone who's read my 'The New Life For A Hiccup' FanFic could probably figure out that I have a thing for 'Run Away' FanFic's. I don't know why, I just do. But that's not the point.

This is actually a request by zyonzilla. Zyonzilla offered me a nice summery of a story that I believe has potential to be a great story. So thanks there.

Actually, zyonzilla changed the username to 'the core of justice', because when I looked over the messages we sent back and forth, the pen name seemed to have changed.

So, because I should probably get off the NLFAH and had a good idea, I am going to start a new story.

I'm gonna try to make each chapter longer than how I usually write it, and I want it to be a tad more serious, since Hiccup runs away due to bullying. Also, this story takes place during a time when Hiccup didn't meet Toothless via finding him in the forest. He meets him later.

I don't own HTTYD. This was zyonzilla's/the core of justice's idea. I am writing this and I own any OC's (Except for a few the core of justice's requested)

Okay, get ready for 'Call of the Dragons', or, as I like to call it, 'Carnivore', after the song by Starset.

Call of the Dragons

Chapter 1

Hiccup's head felt ready to implode. His back and shoulders ached like he had just carried a heavy load up a large hill. His chest hurt badly and he was pretty sure his right wrist was badly sprained, and that was at the very least. Basically, almost everyday of his small form hurt.

But, most of all, what little bit of what was left of Hiccup's pride was now completely gone. Wiped clean as though it was never there to begin with. For the first time in his life, Hiccup literally felt like nothing.

Not like no one had made him feel that way before. But they had imprinted it deeper in stone this time.

Hiccup was laying on his back on his wooden bed, feeling even more miserable than he usually did. He knew full and well that everybody on the island thought of him as a nuisance. Yes, he knew that, everybody knew that. Why did they have to keep reenforcing it?

Staring at his ceiling, Hiccup thought back to what had happened.

Mostly, all he remembered the pain.

Hiccup never understood why the other teens of Berk insisted on venting out their problems on him. Even if he was the source of the problem, hurting him wasn't gonna make it better. Though Hiccup knew that no one ever realized this other than himself.

Hard kicks to the chest. Blows to the head. Someone jumping up and down on his stomach, he was sure. Someone grabbing hold of his wrist so hard...

Yes... Hiccup remembered the pain of that beating quite well.

And insults. Harsh words thrown at him faster and harder than a dragon could blast fire.

'Useless idiot!'

'Weak nuisance!'

'Skinny freak!'

'Weakling!'

'You tear everything to the ground!'

'Go die in a fire!'

'Jump off a cliff!'

'Not even your own father wants you! I'll never understand why he didn't send you off this island the second you were born!'

The things they said weren't new, but they still stung painfully. Hiccup didn't know why they hurt more this time. They just did. Maybe it was because the teens seemed to be putting more effort into making him feel insignificant than usual, of that was even possible.

They were very hurtful things that he was forced to listen to. His cousin and lackeys practically carved them into his mind.

Before long, they started to seem like the truth.

Why not? He was 'Hiccup the Useless'. He was suppose to be useless. He did everything wrong. He wasn't strong like his father, of his father's father beforehand. He couldn't pick up a sword, axe, mace, or any weapon without dropping it or injuring himself.

All Hiccup had was his intelligence, and even that managed to screw things up. Since he wasn't strong or burley like the others, Hiccup was constantly trying to build things to help the village.

This usually lead to something getting destroyed due to a malfunction, a miss-fire, or just sheer accident.

And no one liked Hiccup. They treated him like it was his fault for being so small. It wasn't his fault, but did that matter? Apparently not. Hiccup noticed that some of the teens his age were also pretty scrawny, like Astrid and the twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnut. But the difference there was that, despite their looks, they we're uncharacteristically strong.

Due to this, they hated him.

Even his own father hated him. Sure, Stoick had never come out and said it, but it was obvious as far as Hiccup was concerned. He could always see the anger in Stoick's eyes when he looked at him. Hiccup could hear the disappointment in his voice whenever he spoke directly to him. And the way he was never home made it clear that he was purposely trying to avoid his son. It broke Hiccup's heart, but he wasn't surprised. His father had always hated him.

Hiccup could not remember a day in his life when he wasn't hated.

Hiccup didn't realize he was crying until he saw wet spots on his pillow. Hiccup frowned.

'Stop that,' he scolded himself. 'Real Vikings don't cry.'

"That's just it, though," said a small voice inside Hiccup's head. "You're not a real Viking."

So true.

It was so true, it hurt worse than a thousand burns.

Despite the pain Hiccup was in, he rolled onto his side and curled into a small ball. Almost as if he were trying to disappear.

That was what Hiccup wanted to happen to his life. He wanted it to disappear. He wanted the hurtful words to vanish as if they never existed. He wanted the physical and mental pain to disappear into thin air. He wanted to disappear himself.

But even Hiccup knew it wasn't that simple. He couldn't just pack up his stuff, get on a boat, float away and hope. He couldn't do that.

Still on his side, Hiccup stared out his window, his eyes glued to the night sky. The sky was pitch black, like the souls of each of the villagers of Berk, especially Snotlout and the twins. There were barely any stars in the night sky, almost as if they had vanished, just like Hiccup's hopes and dreams had vanished over the years due to the dark abyss of depression and fear.

However, there was still one star out there. It seemed to be the 'odd-one-out', despite being the only star left as far as Hiccup could see. It was a large star, like the sun. It was white as snow, oddly shaped, and seemed to glow against the night sky, despite not seeming to radiate any sort of real light.

But it wast just any star. It seemed to be a shooting star. The way it moved with grace and speed through the air. The way it lit up the darkness despite not seeming to have any actual light.

That part gave Hiccup new hope.

He stared at the star as it moved. And thought. To one of his earliest memories.

Back when he was just a baby, Hiccup's mother used to tell his stories about how beautiful stars like this one could grand wishes. Well, if anyone on Berk had a wish beyond becoming stronger or more skilled or killing a dragon, it was Hiccup.

It made Hiccup feel childish, seeing as he was fourteen and believed i some dumb story he heard as a baby. But he had been broken, battered, yelled at, and mistreated all his life. So why not? What did he have to lose? Unlike his father, Hiccup didn't even have the smallest bit of pride left to salvage. And no one would see him. So what?

So, Hiccup closed his eyes and began to think about his wish.

Though, he didn't wish for power, or strength, or skill, or speed, or good leadership, or approval, or anything like that.

No, all he wished for was someone who cared. Someone who loved him for him for him, not the things he did.

No... Not just for anyone who cared. Hiccup didn't want just anyone.

"Please," he unconsciously begged the star. "I wish for my mother. Please. I want my mother."

'All I want is the one person who could have had some chance at truly understanding me. Not this island of carnivores that pray on my dreams.

'All my life, they have constantly told me how far I won't go! It's this kind of abuse that turns innocent people into beasts that grow bigger and bigger, chewing through the ropes that restrain them. Maybe that's why dragons hate us so much. We belittle them, and that's putting it mildly.'

Hiccup gritted his teeth in a mixture of anger, sadness, and grief. This hurt his jaw, as he had gotten a hook to the face during that beating. But Hiccup didn't care. Tears were streaming down his face now as he thought back to every single person involved in his life.

'Stupid Snotlout. Stupid twins. Stupid Berk. Who do these people think they are, trying to change this world? To change me?'

Hiccup probably would have gone on to rant about the evils of Berk...

Until he realized he was just sinking to their level. Petty insults weren't going to help his situation, no matter how much he wished they would. It filled him with dread. As much as he wanted to fit in, Hiccup didn't want to become a heartless monster like real Vikings.

'Gods, they really are turning me into one of them! Odin, help me!'

Hiccup looked back to the star. "No... Mom, help me..." He said out loud. "Please..."

But, just like that, the star was gone, flying past Hiccup's line of view and out of sight. Though Hiccup didn't know if it was going off to fulfill his wish.

He'd have to wait and see.

Okay, hope you guys enjoyed that.

Okay, now I don't know if anyone noticed, but the star thing is a bit of foreshadowing.

See, zyonzilla asked me to foreshadow his OC in this story. When he's introduced, I'll explain it a bit more, but the star thing is the beginning of his foreshadowing. I'll probably do more later.

Also, I sort of added in some lyrics from Starset's 'Carnivore'. I called the people of Berk Carnivores because they are preying on everything that makes Hiccup Hiccup. And that is making the beast inside him (Inside us all, if you think about it) grow and want out.

Actually, that might come back later. The beast coming out thing. But in s much later chapter.