Okay,

Well this is going to be a new story for me, and my first ever HTTYD fan fiction.
This, as you've guessed, is a Hiccup leaves Berk story.
However, as of yet, Outside of the prologue, this story is not going to focus on Hiccup. Rather it is going to focus on his father, Stoick.
He's going to be the main one this story focuses on. I don't know if I will include any of Hiccup while he's outside of Berk and what he's doing
in the time that he's gone. This story has been in my head for a few years now, but it's not been very fleshed out. I'm rewriting what little I did have written out. In all honesty I'm not completely sure
how this story is going to go or where it's going to go, or even if Hiccup will return in the end. That's something that even I don't know myself yet. But that's something we will also discover together.
The inspiration for this story was the song Already Gone, by Kelly Clarkson, but is currently being written to Boadicea, By Enya.
I'm looking forward to writing this story. I haven't felt inspired to write anything in a long time, so I'm happy to finally have some of that inspiration back and hope it leads this story, and you readers, to a great place.
Also, I apologize in advance for any grammatical errors. I try my best to catch them, but I may still miss some. I hope this doesn't disrupt the story to much for you.
So let us begin.

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-PROLOGUE-

It was dark, Late, the full moon the only light to guide him as he ran through the forest to meet up with his one and only friend. The only creature to ever care for and accept as he was without trying to change him. It was not as easy a decision as he thought it would be. Sure he was bullied and ridiculed by Vikings young and old, but Berk was the only home he had ever known. It was where he was born and raised. His only remaining family lived here. Sure his father hated him, was embarrassed by him, as well as constantly disappointed in him but he was still his father and he loved him. Then there was his cousin and uncle Snotlout and Spitelout. His uncle never even acknowledged that he existed, and Snotlout was the worst of all his bullies and never acknowledged the fact that they were even related, but again, they were still family, and that wasn't something that Hiccup could easily ignore. Not like they could.

Then there was Gobber. Gobber the first and only person in entire village to see him In any kind of positive light. The only one to be nice to him. Sure Gobber could never fully understand Hiccup and his eccentric ways, but he didn't make fun of Hiccup for them, and even lightly indulged them every once in a while. Gobber was the closest thing to a real father he had ever had, and he would always love and appreciate him for that. But, even still. It wasn't enough to keep here, not after he found out the truth.

Dragons. Dragons. The very thing his tribe, his father, had been fighting against for 300 years. The very creatures that took his mother away from him. There was more to them than anyone could have ever imagined there would be. They weren't the mindless and animalistic killing machines they were led to believe they were. That's why he had to leave. His best friend, his brother, he was a dragon. A dragon he couldn't-wouldn't kill. He would never kill a dragon. He would never be a true Viking.

That's why…that's why he had to leave Berk. Leave his family, his village, everyone, and everything, he's ever known, behind.
It was not an easy decision. It broke his heart to leave, and he cried. He cried when he realized that this was the only way.

He was going to leave…

And he didn't know if he would ever return.

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And there's the prologue. Its not very long I know, but it wasn't really meant to be.
The real story takes place after Hiccup leaves. Just a bit of information for you all. Ive changed the time stoick and the others return from their nest hunt.
They don't come back until AFTER Hiccup was chosen by the elder to kill the nightmare. Everything else stays the same, except for the fact that Astrid never follows Hiccup into the woods, and never discovered Toothless. Hiccup did get taken to the dragons nest that same night that the romantic flight was supposed to happen, and he did discover the queen and that the dragons are being controlled, but he has not come up with any plans to defeat her as of yet. He knows he wants to, and that he has to, but right now its not his first priority. His first priority is to leave, to protect Toothless and to avoid killing the nightmare. From there he will have to learn how to survive being on his own, how to fight, how to live, how to survive. Everything else comes after.

Also, of all the other Hiccup leaves Berk stories ive read and come across there was only about one that was very realistic. It was a very good story and I really enjoyed it. I can't remember who it was by but I believe the titled was called "Hitchups" it was as close to realistic as a story could get, and if you haven't read, I highly recommend it. As for several others, they just weren't that realistic to me. They either changed Hiccups character to make him, this like revenge seeking asshole, or they made it seem that leaving had no effect on him at all. And I just couldn't get behind that. Hiccup is very attached to his family. It might be a broken family, but it's all the family he's got, and he's always loved his father. Sure they never got a long, or saw eye to eye, but Hiccup could never bring himself to actually HATE his father and want to harm him or anyone in his village. Hiccup doesn't have an evil bone in his body. He's always tried to do right by everyone, even at the cost of his own self. Hiccup would sooner run away and never come back than actually hurt anyone.

That was also shown in the first movie when his father disowned him. Even though he was heartbroken, and thought he'd lost everyone and everything, he still risked his life to save his family and friends. Hiccup is completely selfless.
His emotion and his difficulty leaving. That's what I wanted to get across here. I wanted to show that it was not easy for him to turn his back on everything he's ever known. This will not be a clean break. He will cry. He will be devastated at the thought that he may never see his father, or Gobber, or any of his village ever again. He knows fully well that once he leaves he will be considered a traitor and an outcast and that if anyone from his past finds him, he may even be killed. But he's willing to take this risk and loose everything, because it's the right thing to do. For the dragons, and his village.