Disclaimer: I do not own the "Dragons" franchise. The franchise is property of DreamWorks.

Author's Note: I got this idea a while back and, like many of my ideas, it refused to go away. The author katurdi suggested that I go ahead and write it, for that I say thank you to this person. And a special thanks to Skylight369 for your help in making it possible.

It is basically my idea of how "Alvin and the Outcasts" might have gone had Hiccup been discovered in the village rather than show up at the beach unexpectedly. I hope it turns out okay. Well, here goes nothing.

Arrival of the Outcasts

It had been two days since the dragons had been banished from Berk and Hiccup and his friends were still saddened at being apart from them.

All of the trouble started when one morning, everyone in the village woke up to find their boots missing and Zippleback tracks leading to the academy where Barf and Belch, the shared dragon of the Thorston twins, were covered in the stolen footwear. The day after, the villages found the Great Hall wrecked with Monstrous Nightmare claw marks on the walls. The final straw was when the villagers saw Toothless flee from the armory just before it caught fire, destroying all of the weapons in the process.

After the destruction of the armory, Stoick had no choice but to banish the dragons to Dragon Island. No one was more upset about that than Hiccup; his dragon, Toothless, was more than just a creature he rides, he was Hiccup's best friend.

Hiccup had a suspicion that the dragons were not the true culprits but in fact, it was Mildew doing everything and making it look like the dragons so that they would get banished. It was not until he went to Mildew's house to fix his roof that he discovered that his suspicions were correct. Upon secretly searching the old man's house, Hiccup discovered a pair of Zippleback feet hollowed out into boots and a Monstrous Nightmare claw made into a staff; no doubt he had used both items himself to steal the villagers boots and wreck the Great Hall and framed Hookfang and Barf and Belch.

Unfortunately, Mildew returned when Hiccup least expected it and he was forced to hide. Unaware that he was being watched, Mildew took the evidence that he framed the dragons and threw them into the ocean. Hiccup had seen the whole thing and was determined to find that evidence and get Toothless and the other dragons back.

Which brings the story to the present day. Hiccup had convinced his friends to go with him to the beach to search for the evidence, hoping that it washed up on shore. His friends agreed to help him search hoping that by finding them, they would get their dragons back. Unfortunately, they at first had no luck in finding them and one member of their group was getting frustrated.

"Ugh!" Snotlout whined, "We've been out here for hours and we haven't found anything!"

"We've been out here for ten minutes, and you've done nothing but build... that," said Hiccup, gesturing to his friend's creation made out of sticks and rocks.

In truth, while the others had been searching for the Zippleback feet and Monstrous Nightmare claw, Snotlout had actually been building a building of some kind in the sand.

Snotlout stood proudly in front of his creation and said, "That is Snotlout manor!" he then walked over to Astrid and added in a flirty tone, "And now all I need is a queen."

Astrid only rolled her eyes and scoffed at him. Tuffnut then started roaring and stomping on Snotlout's building, smashing it to smithereens. Ruffnut and Astrid watched with amused looks on their faces while Snotlout freaked out.

"What're you doing?!" Snotlout asked in a shriek.

"Storming the castle," Tuffnut answered, and then he continued destroying Snotlout's castle while his sister cheered from the side.

Hiccup could only sigh in annoyance at this; although part of him felt a little bad for his cousin watching his hard work get destroyed. However, as bad as he felt for Snotlout, Hiccup really just wanted to find the evidence that could help clear the dragon's names.

"Come on, guys!" said Hiccup, "I'm telling you, Mildew framed our dragons! I saw a pair of dragon feet and a dragon claw in his house, and I saw him throw them into the ocean."

"Uh, I don't mean to be Norbert the Negative here," Fishlegs said, "But the ocean is really, really vast. And the chances of us finding those things are about as good as Snotlout and Astrid..."

Before he could finish, Astrid shot Fishlegs a glare and said, "Don't go there."

"Going nowhere," said Fishlegs, holding his hands up in defense.

Astrid then turned to Hiccup and told him in a calmer tone, "Look, Fishlegs is right. Even if Mildew did toss those things into the ocean, they're not just gonna wash up on shore here."

While Astrid was talking, Snotlout was digging in the sand. He stopped when he came across something and then shouted, "I found it!"

"Great!" Hiccup cheered and shot Astrid a smirk as he said, "You were saying?"

Hiccup then rushed passed Astrid to Snotlout to get the dragon feet or the claw that he thought he found. Unfortunately, when Snotlout turned around, he did not have said items in his hands, only a bludgeon.

"I haven't seen this since I was a baby," said Snotlout, knocking himself on the head, "You never forget your first bludgeon."

Hiccup sighed in disappointment and said, "Just keep looking."

Everyone went back to searching for the evidence on the beach. About an hour later, Snotlout got bored again and decided to mess with his cousin a little. So, walked over to Hiccup and poked him with his old bludgeon for fun. This annoyed Hiccup a great deal until he finally snapped.

"You know, Snotlout, you could actually help us look!" Hiccup snapped.

"Jeez, Hiccup, relax, I was just having a little fun," said Snotlout, "Lighten up."

"How can I lighten up?" Hiccup asked, "Toothless is on Dragon Island waiting for me to keep my promise to bring him and the other dragons back home. Don't you care about seeing Hookfang again?"

In response, Snotlout glared at Hiccup and snapped, "Don't you go accusing me of not caring about Hookfang! I do care about him!"

"You've got a pretty funny way of showing it!" Hiccup yelled, "You're not even trying to find the evidence that could clear his name and bring him back!"

"You heard Astrid and Fishlegs," said Snotlout, "The odds of finding those feet and that claw aren't in our favor. I hate to tell you this, Hiccup, but sooner or later you're gonna have to face the facts that we aren't gonna find those things! You might just have to let Toothless go."

"I can't give up on him. He's my best friend!" Hiccup yelled. He then took a breath to calm down and started to leave as he said, "I don't expect you to understand."

"Where do you think you're going?" Snotlout asked.

"Home," Hiccup answered, "I need to think. You guys can just head back to your places if you want."

The other riders stared at him sadly as he walked away from the beach back to the village. Astrid glared at Snotlout and punched him in the arm for the way he treated Hiccup.

"Ow!" Snotlout cried, rubbing his arm, "What was that for?"

"For the way you treated Hiccup!" Astrid answered, "You know how much Toothless means him!"

"You guys are the ones who said yourself that the chances of finding that evidence weren't good first," Snotlout pointed out.

"Yeah," said Fishlegs, "But we didn't flat out tell Hiccup to just give up."

"I was just trying keep him from getting his hopes up only to have them dashed," said Snotlout, "From where I stand, I was being much kinder than you were."

"It didn't seem like it to me," said Ruffnut.

"Me neither," said Tuffnut, "And people say things go over my head. Whatever that means."

Astrid rolled her eyes at the twins and then asked Snotlout, "And since when have you ever cared about Hiccup's feelings? You've always been a jerk to him."

"You're one to talk," Snotlout retorted, "Until the day you found out about Toothless, you acted like he didn't exist."

Astrid wanted to tell him he was wrong, but she could not. She hated to admit it, but Snotlout was right, she was not the best friend to Hiccup before Toothless came into his life; in fact, she barely gave him, or anyone else for that matter, the time of day. Fishlegs and the twins were no better; heck, the twins were a lot like Snotlout, while Fishlegs just avoided Hiccup. The way things looked, that dragon was the first real friend Hiccup ever had.

Astrid simply sighed and said, "I know. And I feel really bad about that."

"Me too," said Fishlegs, "I avoided Hiccup a lot when he really could've used a friend. And Toothless was the one that was there for him first"

"I guess none of us were very good friends to him before the dragons came along," said Ruffnut, her voice full of guilt.

Tuffnut then gave Snotlout a dirty look and said, "But at least we're trying to be better. You've barely even tried to change."

Snotlout only sighed in defeat and said, "I guess I owe Hiccup an apology."

"You bet," said the twins in unison, and then decided to go back to searching for the evidence.

Meanwhile, in the village, Gobber was hard at work making new weapons to restock the armory. Unfortunately, he only managed to make a few weapons so far. Right now, Gobber was putting the finishing touches on a new double bladed axe when Stoick came over to check his progress.

"Can't you do that any faster, Gobber?" Stoick asked, "Until we restock the armory, we're completely defenseless."

"Maybe you should've thought of that before sending the dragons away," said Gobber, as he went back to work on the axe.

"I had no choice, Gobber," said Stoick, "They destroyed the armory."

"Do ya really believe Toothless did that?" Gobber asked, "You know that Dragon as well as I do. And you know he would never do anything to put Berk- more specifically Hiccup- in danger."

Stoick sighed and said, "I know that, Gobber. But if I tried to defend him, or the other dragons, the whole village would've been against that. As a chief, I must put the village above myself."

"Unfortunately, you also put the village above your own son," said Gobber, "Did think of Hiccup when you made that decision?"

"You have no idea how much it hurt to see Hiccup that heartbroken and knowing that I caused it," said Stoick, his face and voice full of guilt, "But all we can do now is restock the armory as fast as we can."

"Good point," said Gobber, going back to sharpening the axe, "This would be a bad to get attacked."

"I know, Gobber," said Stoick.

"Not that there's ever a good time for that," Gobber added, "But this would be particularly bad."

"I know, Gobber," Stoick repeated.

"Especially by Alvin," Gobber continued, "The Treacherous. Our oldest and most feared enemy. Who'd kill us all to take Berk for his own."

"I got it, Gobber!" Stoick shouted. He then looked out in the distance and said to himself, in a venomous voice, "Alvin the Treacherous."

While Berk was doing their best to restock their armory, another island was having a different kind of problem. Not too far away from Berk was an island that most would deem uninhabitable at first glance but in reality, it was inhabited; specifically, by outcasts that had either deserted or had been banished from their tribes for different reasons. The island was named Outcast Island and their problem was... dragons.

Like Berk, Outcast Island was inhabited by wild dragons. However, unlike Berk, the outcast still fought the dragons since they had not learned how to train them, or that training them was even possible. Currently, they were doing their best to repel a wild dragon raid. The outcasts leader, Berk's old enemy Alvin the Treacherous, was on the battle field with them as they fought.

The battle was quickly getting out of hand as their catapults were not enough to repel number of dragons that were coming at them. Alvin was too stubborn to admit it, but they were losing this battle.

Savage, Alvin's second in command, ran to him and shouted, "Alvin! There are too many of them! We have to get inside!"

Alvin just stood where he was, probably thinking about taking on a few more of the dragons himself, only to see that his second in command was right. There were far too many dragons to fight off, the only option was to get into their shelter and wait for the attack to subside. With that in mind, Alvin turned away from the battle and walked towards the shelter. Once their leader was inside, Savage quickly shut the door and blocked it.

"I've had it with these dragons!" said Alvin as he walked over to the stone table where the Outcasts were looking at a map. "Is the ship ready?"

"We still have a little more work to do," Savage explained.

"That's not my problem is? We sail for Berk immediately," said Alvin. He then pointed to a spot off of Berk's coast and added, "We'll land here, under the cover of night."

"Why aren't we taking the whole army, sir?" Savage asked.

"We're not going there to fight Stoick," Alvin explained, "We're going there for one man; the Dragon Conquerer."

"Oh, and you'll have him," said Savage, "I hear he's ten feet tall, with the strength of a hundred men."

Alvin chuckled a bit and said, "Well, he shouldn't be too hard to find, now. Should he?"

Of course, what Alvin did not know was that Savage's description could not be more off. For one thing, the "Dragon Conqueror" was actually a fifteen year old boy and was no where near as strong as a hundred men. Also, he was not a "Dragon Conqueror" at all, he was a "Dragon Trainer". All in all, one might say finding him might be harder than Alvin thought.

Speaking of "Dragon Trainer", back on Berk, Hiccup was decided that his only option was to take a chance and tell his father what he knows. His hope was that his father would believe him and let the dragons return. Gobber was at the Haddock household as well and listening to what Hiccup had to say along with Stoick.

"I'm telling you, I saw a pair of Zippleback feet in Mildew's house. He must've used them to make the footprints of the dragon who supposedly stole the boots," Hiccup told his father, "And I also saw a Monstrous Nightmare claw in there that I'm betting he used to make the claw marks on the walls as he was wrecking the Great Hall."

Stoick pondered the idea for a moment, believing it to make sense. After all, Mildew was the only one on Berk who still hated dragons while everyone else accepted them after making peace with them. Who else would do such horrible things and blame it on dragons?

However, Stoick still needed proof. "Well, let's have a look at them," he said.

Hiccup frowned and explained, "There's gonna be a problem with that. I also saw him throw them into the ocean."

Stoick let out a sigh and told his son, "I know your upset about the dragons, son. But you're gonna need evidence to accuse a man of high treason."

"It's not about me being upset, dad," said Hiccup, "You know as well as I do that the dragons are innocent. The evidence that was used against them doesn't add up."

"There were Zippleback footprints leading to and from everyone's houses that ended at the academy. And Barf and Belch were covered in the boots when we found them," Gobber pointed out, earning him a glare from Hiccup. Gobber held up his hands in defense and said, "I'm just saying..."

"I thought it was them too at first, but then I noticed that their footprints were deeper than the ones at the houses," Hiccup explained, "Obviously, Mildew knew Barf and Belch were at the academy at the time and made the trail himself so we would believe it was them. He must've also cut up the boots himself before throwing them on top of Barf and Belch to make it look like they chewed them up."

"How do you explain the Great Hall?" Gobber asked, "There were Monstrous Nightmare claw marks all over the walls?"

"I had a little trouble with that one at first," said Hiccup, "Until Hookfang got angry at Barf and Belch and flared up as he growled and clawed at the ground; the marks he left on the ground were scorched. Snotlout said that Hookfang does that when he gets angry. The ones at the Great Hall had no scorch marks at all, like I explained to my dad. I also found it a little odd that a dragon would wreck the Great Hall without touching any of the food that was left there. I'm guessing Mildew wreck the Great Hall and scratched up the walls with the Monstrous Nightmare claw to make it look like Hookfang did it. I explained both already."

"You didn't explain the armory," Gobber asked, "A witness saw Toothless there."

"He couldn't have seen what happened inside the armory. I don't know how the fire started, but I know Toothless didn't do it," said Hiccup, "Toothless would never do anything like that. That and didn't either of you find it a little strange that Mildew knew Toothless wasn't with me before the armory was destroyed? And that he was in the village at that hour when he lives away from the village?"

"That does sound a little strange?" said Stoick, raising his son's hopes. Unfortunately, Hiccup's hopes were quickly dashed when his father said, "However, all it is right now is speculation. Unless we have real evidence, we can't just bring the dragons back or put Mildew on trial."

"Are you serious?!" Hiccup asked, "You know Toothless and the other dragons are innocent! You can't just ignore this!"

"Hiccup, I'm the chief," Stoick explained, "Every decision I make affects the entire village, not just you or me. If I try a man for high treason without solid evidence other than the word of one person, my son or not, it says something about the type of leader I am."

Hiccup only glared at his father as he said, "So that's how it is. Mildew gets his way and an innocent party pays for his crimes."

Stoick let out an exasperated sigh and said, "The dragons stay on dragon island, and that is that. I'm sorry, son."

Hiccup growled and turned away from his father and mentor. He went to the door, opened it, and walked outside. Just before he closed the door behind him, Stoick and Gobber could have sworn that they heard Hiccup say, "This is so unfair." Stoick felt a twinge of guilt seeing Hiccup that way.

"You can't blame him for being that way," said Gobber, "Toothless is his best friend after all."

Stoick plopped down into his chair, sighed and said, "What do I do now?"

"You know, you could've told Hiccup you believe him," said Gobber, "And that you're having your own doubts about the dragons being guilty."

"I can't side with my son over the entire village," said Stoick, "What kind of a chief would I be if I did that?"

"Yeah," said Gobber, "But giving into the demands of a mob led by a miserable old man isn't exactly being a good father."

"I know, Gobber," said Stoick, sighing in frustration, "But sending the dragons away was our only option."

Outside, Hiccup cooled down from the talk he had with his father and ran into Astrid.

"How did talking to your dad go?" Astrid asked.

"I didn't have the evidence, so my dad didn't change his mind," said Hiccup.

Astrid sighed and said, "So the dragons are staying on Dragon Island."

As the two of them walked to an edge of the island, Hiccup tried his best to reassure his friend and crush that everything could still be fixed.

"Astrid, we'll prove it was Mildew," said Hiccup, "Somehow, I don't know how yet, but we will get the dragons back."

"I just hope they're okay," said Astrid, thinking about her Deadly Nadder, Stormfly. She then noticed a ship anchoring nearby a small island and asked, "Why would one of our ships be anchoring there?"

Hiccup looked in the direction she was pointing and noticed the ship as well. It was pretty far away, but he could still tell the ship looked different from the ones in Berk. Curious, he pulled his spyglass out of his pocket and looked through it to see where that ship was actually from. Upon closer inspection, Hiccup saw the insignia and recognized it as the crest of the Outcasts. He also saw some men in a small boat rowing towards the island; no doubt Alvin the Treacherous was among them.

"It's not one of our ships. It's an Outcast ship," said Hiccup, "We've gotta tell my dad. Come on! hurry!"

He and Astrid ran back to the village as fast as they could in search of Stoick. They found him and Gobber just as he was leaving the house.

"Dad!" Hiccup shouted, "Outcasts!"

"What?!" Stoick asked in shock, "Are you sure? Where?"

Hiccup and Astrid stopped and took a second to catch their breath before explaining, "Astrid and I saw one of their ships anchored just off shore."

"It's true," said Astrid, "It looks like they might arrive here by tonight."

"And dad," said Hiccup, "I think Alvin the Treacherous is with them."

Hearing the news from his son and his friend, Stoick's face turned serious as said, "We need to gather everyone to the Great Hall, immediately."

Stoick, Gobber, Astrid, and Hiccup went around the village to tell everyone about the emergency meeting at the Great Hall. Gobber even went outside the village to warn Mildew about it; though, he would have preferred leaving him to the Outcasts. On the way back, Gobber found Fishlegs pining over his Gronkle, Meatlug, and brought him back to the village as well.

After everyone was gathered in the Great Stoick informed the people of the Outcast ship that was spotted just off shore and sent a man out to do a head count. Many of the people who remained started to panic worrying about the safety of their families.

"This is not the time to panic!" Stoick shouted, "That's just what the Outcasts are counting on!"

"Considering we're weaponless, dragon-less, and Outcasts are on their way, I'd say it's the perfect time to panic!" Fishlegs screamed.

Snotlout smacked the husky boy across the face and shouted, "Calm down, Fishface!"

"Ow," said Fishlegs rubbing his cheek.

Suddenly, the door flew open and Stoick's scout rushed over to him.

"Stoick!" he called.

"Sven, did you get a count?" Stoick asked.

"I saw thirty men, at least," said Sven, "All armed to the teeth."

"Without our weapons, we'll never be able to fight 'em head on," said Gobber.

"No weapons! And Outcasts on our shores!" Mildew cried out. He then pointed at Hiccup accusingly and added, "And all because of your boy and his dragons!"

Hiccup glared at Mildew and yelled, "Why don't you take responsibility for your actions for a change instead of blaming everything on someone else?!"

Everyone in the Great Hall gasped at Hiccup's statement. The other dragon riders and Stoick were esspecially surprised by Hiccup. It was pretty rare to see him angry, and they hoped to never see that again; Snotlout esspecially hoped to never be on the recieving end.

Mildew glared back at the boy and asked, "What do you mean by that, boy?"

"I know the dragons didn't do any of that stuff," said Hiccup, walking towards the old man, "I know they were framed. And I know who really did it and why."

Mildew got in Hiccup's face and said, "You sure you're not the one accusin' people of crimes they didn't commit?"

Hiccup was about to say something back when Stoick got in between them and said, "Enough! This isn't the time for this." As Stoick led his son away from Mildew, he secretly whispered to him, "That old liar isn't worth the energy."

Hearing his father say that made Hiccup smile a little. While he still had no evidence, Hiccup was happy to know that his father did believe him; even though he could not go against the village. Stoick had Hiccup stay with the other riders while he went back to addressing the villagers.

Mildew approached the chief and said, "Thank you, Stoick, for getting that little accusing brat away from."

"I didn't do it to protect you," said Stoick. He then glared daggers at Mildew and added, "And don't call my son a brat. Ever!"

Mildew gulped and nervously said, "You got it, chief."

Stoick regained his composure and said, "Alright, here's what we're going to do: Mulch, you and Bucket take the elders and the children to Thor's beach. They'll be safe in the caves there."

"On it, Stoick," said Mulch, and then he and Bucket went to do the task they were charged with.

"We can help fight!" said Astrid, as she and Snotlout approached their chief, "We've been trained as warriors."

"She may have trained, but I was born a warrior," said Snotlout, arrogantly.

"Spoken like true Jorgenson," Spitelout, Snotlout's father, whispered to another viking, who merely rolled his eyes in annoyance.

Stoick reached underneath the table and pulled out a hatchet. Judging by the bad craftmanship, it was clearly nothing a real blacksmith like Gobber would make. It looked more something an ammiture would make.

"Take this," said Stoick as he handed the hatchet over. Snotlout held his hands out to recieve the hatchet, only to frown when Stoick gave it to Astrid. "It was Alvin's. But with the other's; you can help protect them."

Astrid nodded and left with Snotlout to follow Bucket and Mulch to Thor's beach with the rest of the children and the elders. As much as she did not like hiding out in the cave, Astrid knew that the vhief was right.

Hiccup approached his father and said, "Dad, let me go to Dragon Island and get the dragons. At least with them we can defend ourselves."

Stoick thought about it for a moment. As much as he would rather have his son go to the beach with the others, he knew Hiccup was right; they stood better chance against the Outcasts with their dragons. Reluctantly, Stoick told Hiccup, "Alright. But be careful; you don't what Alvin is caplable of."

Hiccup nodded and turned to leave. He was momentarily stopped by Snotlout who grabbed his shoulder. Hiccup saw a look of guilt on his cousin's face.

"Hiccup, listen, I just wanted to say-" he began. But Hiccup stopped.

"This isn't the right time," said Hiccup, "I'm going to get the dragons to help fight the Outcasts. After everyone's safe, we can talk."

Snotlout was about to say more when Asyrid called for him, so he had to rush to catch up to the others. Snotlout made a mental promise that as soon as this was over, he would tell Hiccup the was sorry. Hiccup went out the main entrance to make his way to the docks to get a boat and go to Dragon Island.

Stoick then turned the remaining vikings and said, "The rest of you, come with me into the forest. No one knows those trees better than us."

"And when Alvin goes there looking for us, he'll walk right into our trap," said Gobber.

And with that, Stoick, Gobber, Spitelout, and the other warriors made their way out of the Great Hall into the forests with whatever new weapons or blunt objects they could find.

Meanwhile, night had fallen and the Outcast boat had landed on Berks shore. Alvin jumped out first and his men followed close behind.

"Sure is good to be back on the Shores of Berk," said Alvin.

"Maybe good for you," said Savage, with an evil laugh, "Not so good for them."

Alvin laughed wickedly as he said, "Let's go find this Dragon Conqueror."

Author's Note: So, tell me what you think. And be honest. I only have one rule: No Flames. I accept constructive criticism, though.