Hi lads and lasses supersandman86 back to give you a new story i had been thinking of for a long time , now most of you are thinking that I've abandoned something stupid, something crazy, and i can assure you i will get back to that. But this goes out to Nightstar Fury for inspiring me to put this up, you should check out their work on their page, Its very mind blowing in my opinion.

The survivalist

Chapter 1- A new home

"He's a menace!"

"He can't do anything right!"

"Every time he steps out, disaster follows!"

"He should be made to stay inside at all times"

"He should not be allowed near anything"

These were the things the young auburn haired Hiccup had to listen to.

All his life he had to endure what many adult don't get through most of their lifetime.

And here he was, ten years old and already the village despise his existence.

Hiccup had to endure this every time something happened and he got the blame for it.

Some times it was his fault, but purely by accident as his own inventions backfired on him.

And the rest of the time, like this time, was due to someone messing about with one of his own inventions or causing damage and blaming Hiccup for it.

He was their scapegoat.

Hiccup knew why the forge caught fire, he caught Snotlout and the twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnut messing about with the forge as they pretended to be blacksmiths, only them to cause the molten iron inside to overflow and his the wooden table next to it, which set off the blazing inferno around the building.

But unfortunately for Hiccup, no one ever believed him or even listened, all except the blacksmith himself, Gobber, who was not only a mentor to the young boy, but also a second father to him too.

But he was one voice out of the hundreds that believed him and it hurt him to think that no one else even liked him and made sure that they made their feelings well known.

The worst part was the look his father, Stoick 'the vast' Haddock, chief of the hairy hooligan tribe and Berk itself, who like his name and title, is huge even for a Viking and could scare the life out of any human or dragon that get him mad.

But for Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third, he got the worst of his fathers emotions.

Disappointment.

No matter how hard Hiccup tried, he could never please Stoick at all. And that hurt worse than the village combined.

"D-dad I d-didn't do..." Hiccup stuttered as he tried to explain that it wasn't that set the forge alight, but was cut of by his fathers booming voice.

"Enough Hiccup!" Stoick shouts startling not only his son but the village too as he carried on.

"This is another one of your messes I have to clean up after! We're lucky it never spread to the rest of the village! Would you want that on your conscious?!"

This hurt the small boy even more, not only did his father not listen to him but, in front of the whole village, tried to make him even more guilty.

He just wished his father would listen.

But before either could get in another word, a familiar croaked voice made its way through the crowd towards the front.

"He will never learn Stoick, he will only get worse as he gets older!" Mildew, one the villagers oldest residence, besides Gothi, the villagers healer and seer, but unlike her, Mildew has a tenancy to rial up the village whenever he felt like it.

Just like now.

"You all agree that we must do something before it get worse the next time?!" he shout as many of the villager all shout their approval.

At this point, Gobber stepped in front of Hiccup, protecting him from any who try to harm him.

"And what in prey tell do ya mean by that ya cranky old goat?" he said angrily not liking where this was going.

"It's very simple Gobber, we kick him out of the village, if he can't be here then there will be no more disasters" Mildew simply put it as he looks at the crowd who were shouting and yelling for Hiccup to be kicked out, including the teens.

Minus Fishlegs who cowardly hid behind his family, not wanting to be part of this.

And Astrid who stood there but ignored Hiccups pleading look he was giving.

Hiccup at this point wasn't just scared, he was terrified that the village he grew up in, the people of the same tribe who swore to look out for one another, are willing to throw him out so easily like that.

By this point, Stoick had just about enough of the shouting and yelling as he boomed his voice once more to silence the crowd.

"Enough!" he looks around to see that everyone had shut up as he carried on.

"If this is a decision that you all want to go through, then we must put it to a vote here and now" he looks around again.

"All those in favor, of keeping Hiccup in the village, raise your hands"

Disastrously, only a few people put their hands up. Gobber, Gothi and, surprisingly, the Ingermans.

Now Stoick was skeptical in asking the next bit, but he had no choice as he took a deep breath.

"All those who want him out...raise your hands"

A sea of hands, raised by their owners, was Stoick feared just a second ago as most of the village wanted his son out.

Hiccup saw this all, he couldn't move, he couldn't speak, his heart was pounding like mad, he feared he would have a heart attack there and then as his eyes filled with tears as his brain finally registered what that meant for him as he looked up pleadingly at his father.

Stoick however only sighed as he turned and looked seriously at his son.

"It is settled then, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third, you are hereby, from this day forward...banished from the village of Berk!" he then looked away from him as he looked at the crowd once again "he will need to be escorted far away from the village, I will need a volunteer to do so"

Mildew was about to volunteer for the sheer pleasure of it but was cut short as Gobber got there first.

"I will take him!"

Everyone looked towards the blacksmith, thinking he gone mad as Mildew protested about it.

"No! Why should our only blacksmith go out and take this runt?!" but as he said that he was forced backwards by a hook coming towards him, followed by the face of an angry Gobber.

"Because ya horrible old git! For two reason! One I don't trust any of you lot to safely escort him away! And two I'm the only one here that cares for the boy to find him a safe place to live the rest of his life!" Gobber then turn his head sharply towards the villagers before speaking again.

"And if you deny me this or try and go finding Hiccup when he's gone so you can hurt him, then not only will I refuse to fix or make any more weapons again, I will leave the village myself! Yer got me?!" he watched as all the villager quickly nodded their heads as they allow before heading back to the still petrified boy as he gently escorted him to the house.

But not before giving Stoick a glare that even stunned him.

At the Haddock hall

Gobber opened the door, shoving Hiccup through it and up the stairs towards his room.

Hiccup managed to recover from his stunned position as he came to realize that this was for real.

He was kicked out of the village, he was homeless.

It was at this point that the young boy started to tear up again.

But instead of being left to stand there and fight back the tears, he was engulfed in a bone-crushing hug from Gobber.

Hiccup could feel the squeeze easily but he didn't care as he burst into tears on Gobber's shoulder, to which the old blacksmith let him.

"There there lad, let it all out" he said calmly as Hiccup cried even more as he tried to speak.

"I-I d-d-din't do it Gobber, I-I really d-din't" he said, stuttering each time.

Gobber could only smile "I know lad, I know ya didn' do it"

Hiccup remove his head from Gobber's shoulder as he looked up at him, eyes red from the crying.

"H-how can you k-know Gobber?"

Again Gobber smiled again as he put his real hand upon Hiccups head.

"Because ya never do the same mistake twice lad, ya did it when you were younger and still learning the ropes, that's how I know ya didn' do it"

Hiccup just kept staring at Gobber, he couldn't believe one person actually believed he didn't do it, and from that he did something that he thought he'd ever do again.

He smiled, a small smile but a smile nonetheless.

But as quickly as it came, his smile was gone as he realized he had to get packing, so sadly grabbed his rucksack from his closet and proceeded to start packing all of his things he would need to survive out there.

Clothes, blankets, spare furs and most importantly, to hiccup anyway, several sketchbooks and charcoals sticks.

He always love to draw and if was going to be alone, he might as well have something to keep him sane, or until he was killed by something, whichever way.

As he finished packing he went downstairs to Gobber who was standing there with a bag of his own.

As they both stared at each other, a long agreeable silence fell upon them as they headed out of the door and towards the edge of the village to the forest.

They looked up as they exited where the sun was high in the sky indicating it to around midday before setting off through the village.

As they were walking they could hear cheering and music and people genuinely having fun, Hiccup and Gobber knew why and neither didn't like it, so sped off into the forest till the sound died away from their ears.

All that time they were walking, Hiccup kept looking back, hoping that his father would come running to embrace him and make the villager take him back, but after an hour of walking, he gave up.

No one was coming back for him.

And so silently accepted his fate as he trudged along as he followed Gobber deeper and deeper into the forest.

He wanted to ask where they were going but thought better of it as he didn't want to make Gobber angry and lose him as well so kept it to himself.

But after a short while later, Gobber did finally stop as he came to an slope, leading to an opening before he gestured Hiccup to follow him, to which the boy did, slowly as he went down the steep slope, careful not to slip.

As he walked through the dark opening, he was rewarded by a sight he thought only could be seen in Asgard itself.

It was a cove of such beauty, green grass growing in all places, rocks that lay untouched by man ever, but the most beautiful thing Hiccup couldn't take his eyes off was the waterfall and lake.

So blue and yet crystal clear with life swimming freely as they jump from the water fall into the water below.

Hiccup, to say the least, was mesmerized by the whole thing before looking at a smiling Gobber who gestured a nearby cave hidden in the side of the cove itself.

"This is yer new home lad"

Hiccup was about to ask where he found such a place before Gobber cut him off, knowing what he was about to say.

"Found it years ago on one of my travels around the forest, came across it by accident when I fell into it" Gobber chuckled as he remembered landing face first into the lake itself. In truth he wanted to bring Hiccup here and show him a beauty to which to draw, but seeing the situation now, the one thing the boy needed was an amazing place like this to call home.

Gobber then decided to get Hiccup set up with shelter and a warm fire for when the night time came.

He hobbled over to the cave entrance as he unloaded the bag he was carrying which contained some flint, enough bread to last for at least a week and extra cloths in case Hiccup got cold in the middle of the night.

An Hour Later

After the fire had been lit and the cave was comfortable enough to use until something can be sorted at a later date, he unfortunately had to say his farewell to the boy he had treated like a son.

"Well lad, this is it, I gotta head back to the village before nightfall, as per the agreement of escort ya"

He saw straight away that Hiccup wanted to protest, wanted him to stay, but Hiccup knew he had no choice, even at his young age he knew this was his life from now on, to live in exile. Gobber was scared for the boy but he also knew Hiccup was very resourceful when he put his mind to it.

Gobber knew what he had to do.

He went through his bag, pulling out several large books as he hobbled over to the depressed boy sitting next to the fire as he gently laid them down next to him, making Hiccup look at them curiously before looking up at Gobber.

"These book you will find a very interesting read, but the most important I want ya to read Hiccup is this one" he picked up the book and placed it in Hiccups hand.

Hiccup looked down at the books title that read "A guide to survival" he said out loud as he looked down at the author "By Hector Valhallarama?" Hiccup looked confused, it was like he knew that name from somewhere. But from where?

Gobber smiled knowing Hiccup was trying to wonder who he was.

"Tha' would be the name of a man who also went by 'Old Wrinkly' ya maternal grandfather"

Hiccup's head shot up at what Gobber said, this was his grandfathers book? His mother's father's book?

"B-but what are you doing with it Gobber?" he asked as he wanted to find out more.

Gobber merely chuckle as he walk to the cave entrance "ya grandfather entrusted it with me, stating that the more knowledge is kept safe, the better the future shall be, ya mother knew about the book too and told me that when if the time ever came ta pass it along to you"

"But why didn't she entrust it to my dad?"

Gobber at this just rolled his eyes "ta Hiccup, Valka knew ya father would use it on ya before it was needed and at that point she was still pissed fer him asking to make you an axe when ye were born"

Gobber then looked serious at Hiccup before he left the cave "read that book lad, it'll be the one thing that will help ye survive on ye own" and with that, hobbled over to the young Hiccup before giving him on last hug as he whispered into his ear.

"Stay alive fer me Hiccup please, I'll be back in a week" and with that leaving the cave and the cove as Hiccup watch him go from the cave entrance before looking around as he sighed to himself.

"Welcome to my new life"