So this is the sequel to Deagon Conquerors: my version of Gift of the night fury. Please excuse any errors, I didn't proofread the chapter after writing it. Enjoy!

Chapter 1

"This is Berk, boasting the kind of balmy, fun-in-the-sun climate that will give you frostbite on your spleen. The one upside is our annual holiday. We call it Snoggletog. Why we chose such a stupid name remains a mystery. But with the war long over, and dragons living among us, this year's Snoggletog promises to be one to remember."

Hiccup woke due to someone banging on the roof. A second later the door to his room flew open.

"Morning, sleepy head!" his twin sister Hilja shouted. "Come on, wake up already!"

By now she was next to his bed and pulled the blanket away.

"Hey!" Hiccup complained,rolled to the other side and pulled his knees up to his chest. "Give me a few minutes, please." he murmured.

The banging got louder and Hiccup groaned. With his eyes closed he reached for his helmet in vain until his sister tossed it to him.

"Would you please stand up now?" Hilja asked impatiently.

"I'm coming." He stood up and went down the stairs.

Hiccup opened the front door and looked up at the roof.

"Well, good morning, Mr. Bossy!" he called up to the black dragon jumping up and down and making a few shingles fall to the ground.

Toothless seems to answer him and Hiccup chatters back while Hilja exits the house after him followed by her dragon Wildfire.

Toothless climbs down the roof and Hiccup walks towards him.

"Do you always have to wake me up so early to go flying?"

"Hiccup! The ice!"

Too late. Hiccup had already slipped thanks to his metal leg and would have fallen painfully if Toothless hadn't caught him in time.

Hiccup stared at his prosthetic. "Stupid leg. Thanks buddy, I'm okay." Toothless nudges him eagerly. "Yeah, we can go flying now."

The siblings mounted their dragons and were flying far away from Berk over the ocean a few minutes later.

"Come on! Let's see what you've got today!" Hiccup shouted and he and Toothless dove down a cliff face while the girls slowly glided after them.

"Hiccup, wait! We have this new trick I wanted to show you!" Hilja called after him.

Hiccup turned around in his saddle. "Really? We too." he shouted against the howling wind.

The boys flew up to an arch of rock and Hiccup went to stand in the saddle.

"Hiccup, what are you doing?" Hilja called, worry audible in her voice.

The boy rolled his eyes. "Obviously a trick, you'll see."

"Okay, you ready?" he asked his dragon. They were right in front of the arch now and Hiccup jumped into the air.

Hilja looked in awe as her brother leaped over the arch while his dragon glided beneath it.

"Yes! Finally!" Hiccup cheered.

Them the boys closed up to them again.

"So, what is yours?" Hiccup asked her, his eyes glinting.

"By far it as impressive as yours." she said and signified her dragon to fly straight up.

Wildfire shot through the sky, turning here and there making Hilja whoop in joy. At last the girl let herself fall from the saddle and dragon and rider plummeted towards the sea. A few dozen meters above the ocean Wildfire seized her rider, tossed the girl into the air, flew beneath her and caught her in the saddle.

Breathing heavily Hilja looked at Hiccup.

"Not impressive?" he asked her in bewilderment. "I never thought you would dare jumping off your dragon!" he exclaimed.

Hilja beamed.

Back at home everyone was preparing for the upcoming holidays.

"Here?" A viking woman was sitting on a Gronckle and held up a shield.

"Yes, yes, nooo, nooo, no." Gober stood on the ground and instructed her where to hang the shield. "That one a wee bit higher!"

"Here?" she asked again and Gobber nodded.

"There! Ah, that's the spot!"

"Alright!" she called at him and attached it.

"Roar!" A little girl, running around dressed as a Gronckle, came up next to Meatlug. The Gronckle playfully roared back and the child giggled happily.

"Attaboy, Meatlug!" Fishlegs praised his dragon from nearby.

In the middle of the plaza stood a tall wooden structure that looked remarkably like a tree.

"Are you ready, girl?" Astrid threw two shields in the air Stormfly used her tail spikes to nail them to the tree.

"Odin's beard, Gobber. Vikings spending the winter holiday with dragons. What would our fathers say?"

Stoick and Gobber were walking nearby, the chief supervising the preparations.

"They'd think we'd lost our minds!" Gobber answered and chuckled.

Stoick laughed and then turned to the villagers. "Well done. Well done, all of you! I've never thought I'd live to see this day. Peace on the island of Berk. This will surely be the greatest holiday we've ever seen!"

Suddenly the dragons seem to get nervous.

"What the …?!" Stoick asked bewildered and looked up.

Hundreds of dragons were flying above the island and the Berkian dragon went to join them.

"What in Thor's name?!" Gobber looked around at the departing reptiles.

"Come back! Where are you going?" Snotlout shouted after his dragon who had left him dangling from a roof, but none of the dragons obeyed their human's orders.

Fishlegs was weaving through the crowd like crazy. "Meatlug!"

Astrid looked worriedly at the sky. "Where's Hiccup?" she asked noone in particular.

The boy in question was still enjoying the flight with his sister and their dragons.

"What do you say, bud? Wanna go again?" Hiccup asked, a broad grin on his face.

"What's that?" Hilja suddenly asked and pointed ahead.

When Hiccup looked up he saw hundreds of dragons coming in their direction. Toothless and Wildfire tried to swerved them.

"Oh no! My helmet!" Hiccup suddenly exclaimed when a passing dragon accidentally pushed it off his head.

Toothless began diving after the helmet until Hiccup finally managed to make him stop.

"Whoa. Wait! Toothless! Stop! We'll get it later, bud. We need to get back and find out what's going on."

Meanwhile Wildfire was getting restless, seemingly wanting to join the other dragons on their flight.

"Easy girl." Hilja tried to soothe her dragon. "No, come on! It's this way!" she began to shout when Wildfire finally managed to turn around.

Reluctantly Wildfire resumed her flight home, catching up with the boys again.

"What's the matter? Where are you going?" On Berk the dragons were still flying away, leaving confused vikings behind.

"Nonono!" Astrid shouted when her deadly Nadder took off too. "Don't leave, Stormfly, don't go! Please?" She was starting to sound desperate as Stormfly flew away.

At that moment Hiccup, Hilja and their dragons touched down. The boy immediately ran to Astrid, calling her name.

"Hiccup! What's going in? Where are they going?"

In no time the Haddock twins were swarmed by vikings.

"Why did they leave?" "Whats happening?" "Will they ever come back?" they all asked at the same time. Neither of the kids understood anything so Hiccup interrupted them.

"Stop! Wait!"

"Calm down! Give them a chance to speak!" Stoick was weaving his way through the crowd and stopped in front of his kids. "Hiccup, Hilja, where are all our dragons going?"

The siblings shared a look and then turned to their father.

"Dad … I don't know." Hiccup said in all honesty.

In the meantime Wildfire had left her rider and was flying just off the cliff, encouraging Toothless to join her. After a few minutes the Scuttleclaw gave up and turned away.

"Wildfire!" Hilja desperately called after her departing dragon, running towards the cliff and sadly looking after her.

Stoick had called a meeting in the Great Hall to discuss the problem.

"Where'd they go?! Snoggletog is ruined!" a viking sadly spoke to his neighbor. Stoick had heard him.

"It's not ruined!" He contradicted and climbed one of the tables. "We're vikings! We've been perfectly happy celebrating without dragons for generations. And there's no reason we can't do it again! Now we don't know where they've gone off to. But we have to have faith that they'll be back again soon. Am I right?"

"You're right, we are vikings! We are tough!" Gobber enthusiastically thrusted his arm into the air, which had bells instead of the usual weapon. "Most of the time …"

The teens are standing in a corner of the Hall, all looking sad.

"Let's sing some Snoggletog songs!" Gobber exclaimed, which made the teens leave the Great Hall.

"That was depressing …" Ruffnut groaned as soon as they were outside.

"I know! I was looking forward to spending the holiday with Stormfly." Astrid added.

Suddenly Fishlegs started whistling and Tuffnut questioningly looked at him.

"What are you so happy about? Don't you miss Meatlug?"

Fishlegs looked up as if he had been caught with something. "Me? Oh! Yeah!" He started to fake sobbing. "I miss him so much!" Fishlegs stopped his sobs. "Well, good night!" He said cheerful and walked away.

"I've got an idea!" Astrid spoke up and turned around in front of the others. "Let's come up with a bunch of new holiday traditions! You know, to bury the sadness!"

Everyone looked at her questioningly, Ruffnut, Tuffnut and Snotlout groaned.

Hiccup decided to join his friend's side. "Actually, Astrid might be on to something."

"You too?" Hilja looked at her brother as if he had gone mad.

"Easy for you to say. Your dragon can't go anywhere without you." Tuffnut interrupted an looked at Toothless sitting on a cliff.

"Must be nice." his sister added.

Hiccup and Hilja shared a look and knew they were thinking the same.

"To the forge?" Hikja asked with a grin and Hiccup nodded.

"Yaknog! Get your Yaknog! Come on! Get a frothy delicious cup of cheer!" a voice shouted through the village the next morning. Astrid had come up with a new holiday beverage and now wanted everyone to try it.

"Hey, guys!" she called, when finding her friends. "Try this tasty new beverage I made for the holidays."

Astrid showed a cup to Tuffnut.

"Ugh! What's that smell? Is that you?" he turned questioningly to his sister and shoved her away.

"Its Yaknog!"

Tuffnut coughed and wrinkled his nose, clearly disgusted.

"Ugh! If I drink that I'm gonna take nog all over the place!" he exclaimed, keeping his distance from the tray.

"Maybe you'd rather taste a punch in the face?" Astrid suggested.

Ruffnut now came nearer again, smelled the cup in Astrid's and recoiled.

"Astrid, it sounds delightful. I'd love a mug." Snotlout was weaving his way towards the friends, once again trying to hit on the girl of his dreams.

Astrid hands him the already filled mug and he takes a gulp, visibly shuddering from the bad taste.

"You could really taste the yak!" he stated after forcing himself to swallow.

"Mmm, yum! What is that?" Fishlegs chimed in as he too showed up.

Astrid turned to face him. "Oh! You wanna try some? It's my new traditional drink."

Unknown to Astrid Snotlout was standing behind her, shaking his head with a warning look. Fishlegs took the hint and recoiled.

"Oh … You know … Ehm … I have … suddenly inexplicably changed my mind." he stuttered. This didn't deter Astrid.

"Well, you don't know what you're missing. I bet Hiccup will love this." With those words she runs off to find said boy.

Meanwhile Ruffnut noticed Snotlouts discomfort.

"Are you crying?"

Astrid found Hiccup, along with his sister, in the forge, the two working on a new project.

"Hiccup?"

"Yeah, I'm over here, Astrid. Coming!" he answered her call.

"Here. Happy holidays, from me to you." she said, handing him the last cup from her tray.

"Thank you, Milady!" Hiccup replied and took the mug.

"Hey Hilja. Sorry, this was the last one."

Hilja declined. "It's okay."

Astrid noticed what Hiccup was working on. "What are you up to?"

"Okay, you're gonna think I'm crazy, but I just couldn't stop thinking about what Tuffnut said last night. Toothless can't come and go like the other dragons, and ghosts just not fair. We were up all night and I think we found a way to fix that."

Hiccup shows Astrid a new tail fin and afterwards takes a sip of the Yaknog. Disgusted by the unpleasant taste he refuses to swallow, simultaneously trying to hide it from Astrid.

"No way! Our building,t him a new tail? So he's gonna be able to fly without you!" Astrid exclaimed when she realized what lay before her.

"Hmhm!" Hiccup agreed, his mouth still full of Yaknog, and sent a silent call for help to his sister.

She understood and chimed in on the conversation.

"Yeah, it's an automatic tail fin that Toothless can work alone."

Hiccup used the little moment to run into his little room to get rid of the Yaknog in his mouth. Then he showed up again.

"Wnat if he never comes back?" Astrid asked as he went through the door.

"What?" he asked confused as Astrid continued.

"What am I saying? Of course he will!"

Hiccup and Hilja nodded and Astrid left the forge.

"Well, I'm going spread some more holiday cheer! You're amazing!" she called, turning in the door frame before vanishing.

After Astrid left, Hilja worriedly turned to her brother.

"You don't really look good."

"Probably because this stuff tasted worse than a raw fish regurgitated by a dragon." he stated with a smirk. "How about we try this out now?"

The twins ran to their house together, where Toothless was once again jumping on the roof.

"Toothless! Come on down, bud! I got something for ya!" Hiccup called to his dragon who excited jumped off the roof and landed in front if his human, curiously sniffing the contraption in Hiccup's arms.

"What do you think of that? Yeah!"

Toothless began to run around playfully, which made Hilja laugh.

"I'd say he love it!"

"Maybe a bit too much." Hiccup agreed. "Would you settle down! Toothless! Come on, bud!" he tried to calm the excited dragon. "Let me get that on you! Yeah! You are going to love this. Okay."

Hiccup finally managed to get the tailfin where it meant to be, only for Toothless to freak out about it.

"Nonono … To-Toothless! Stop! Please, wait! Toothless, please!"

Toothless continued trying to get rid of the thing on his tail when it suddenly opened, immediately calming Toothless down again.

"Here you go. See? Got it?" Hiccup reassured. Toothless looked at the boy, his eyes slowly turning to slits. Without any warning the dragon shot into the sky, flying away from Berk without a look behind.

Okay, so the other part will be up next week. I hope you liked this.