Authors note: Dreamworks and Cressida Caldwell own everything i own nothing. For those of you who are just tuning in I actually finished this story a while ago. This is a revised touched-up version. And Stoick arrived about a day after Hiccup learned to ride Toothless instead of the day of.

Hiccup slumped to the opening where Toothless was waiting for him as usual, he brought Toothless's usual fish with him and threw it too him and he caught it in mid air. Then Hiccup slumped down on the ground and sulked. Toothless, seeing his friend like this walked over to him and put his head down next to him and nuzzled his arm.

"Thanks buddy." Said Hiccup petting him on his scaly head.

Hiccup had done even worse in dragon training then yesterday. He was reminded by Gobber that his father would be back any day now and it would be good if he had made some progress . But it was hopeless, Hiccup had learned so much from working with Toothless, but had been to shy to use it during training. Maybe if he had the others wouldn't ridicule him and his father would have a son to be proud of when he came home.

"What am I gonna do?" Asked Hiccup "Dad was counting on me to become a great viking like him and everyone else who ever lived on Berk, he wanted me to get "rid of this"." he said gesturing to all of himself.

He thought of how ashamed he would be to see his son's lack of progress.

"Dad's gonna be back soon, it's not that I can't face him it's just that I'm tired of embarrassing him, it would be better for him and everyone else if I just disappeared."

Then after realizing what he had just said, Hiccup's head snapped up and he turned too look at Toothless.

"Yeah, how about it Toothless, we can leave, just you and me what do you say?"

Toothless looked a bit skeptical for a minute, then gave a reassuring look of approval to Hiccup.

"Great." said Hiccup

A few hours later Hiccup walked towards the space where Toothless had been hidden. It was dark and he was tired, so he decided he would spend the night here and leave at dawn. If he got cold feet about leaving he would remind himself that this was what was best for everyone.

"Well Toothless were leaving first thing in the morning" he said to the night fury. Toothless nudged him as if trying to cheer him up.

"Hey hey don't worry, it'll be like an adventure. I wont embarrass dad anymore and who knows maybe I can improve my fighting skills, and come back one day as the brave warrior son he always wanted."

Toothless made a scuffing sound like he was rolling his eye's.

"Yeah, your right, not even in my dreams."

Hiccup then yawned and he and Toothless huddled together to get some sleep for the journey they would start in the morning.

Hiccup awoke the next day with a jolt but the position of the sun he could see that he had overslept...by a lot.

"Oh no!" he said fumbling to get his things together " I wanted to leave before anyone in the village was awake." He was working so hard trying to get his things together that he accidentally scraped his arm on a thick branch on the ground tearing his shirt in the process leaving a slightly bloodstained piece of cloth stuck to the branch.

"Darn it" he said wincing "Oh well, I'll worry about that later" he thought seeing as the scrape wasn't bad.

With a few heaves he managed to get his bag on Toothless's back, he hopped on and flew away a bit to close to the trees at first but before you knew it they were soaring through the air over Berk, he looked down to see none other then his father's ships about a mile away from the shore arriving home. "Guess we left just in time." he thought just grateful they weren't spotted.

It was nearly noon when Gobber went to go and get Hiccup to tell him his father's ship had been spotted on the horizon. He knocked on the door. When there was no answer he knocked again.

"Hiccup are you in here?" he called as he opened the door." Your father returned, I'm going to meet him by the dock's you should come." Gobber knew the lad would be a bit apprehensive about facing his father but it had to happen sooner or later. Gobber stepped inside and called Hiccup's name again when he spotted a note on the kitchen table addresses to Stoick. Gobber picked it up and read it.

"Dear Dad,

I'm leaving. I'm tired of disappointing you, and I'm just a nuisance to the village, this is best for everyone.

,Hiccup

"Oh No." Thought Gobber panicked"How am I gonna tell Stoick about this."

Meanwhile Astrid, who had been looking for Hiccup, decided to try and find him in the usual place she had spotted him, she would see him sneak off into the forest everyday after dragon training, normally she wouldn't care what he was up too, but she was curious about where he disappeared to all the time.

She was walking through the forest for a few minutes when out of nowhere she saw a large black mass fly over the trees so fast it nearly stopped her heart. "What was that?" she thought trying to catch her breath, it could have been a dragon but she had never seen one like that. She headed in the direction of where it had come from until she came to an opening between some rocks. Behind it was a cage like quarry, with a waterfall and a small lake. "I guess this is where Hiccup disappears too." She thought looking around. Then she spotted something on the ground, she picked it up, it was flat and black. "A Dragon scale." She felt suddenly frightened as she looked around.

"Hiccup?" she called a sudden feeling of dread washing over her "Hiccup, are you here?" as she looked around until she spotted something stuck to some thick fallen branches. A peace of green fabric...a piece of Hiccups shirt! observing it she saw a small patch of blood on it. She covered her mouth as she realized what mush have happened and ran back towards the village.

As Stoick the Vast was approaching the shores of Berk, he and the rest who had left had had absolutely no luck in finding the nest. They had searched high and low but found nothing but some angry Dragons. He hoped at least Gobber had had even the tiniest bit of luck in training Hiccup.

..."You found the nest at least?" Gobber asked.

"Not even close, I hope you had better luck than me?" asked Stoick.

"Well" said Gobber nervously not sure how to tell Stoick his son had run away from home. "If you mean by luck that your parenting troubles are over with then yes."

"What do you mean? Has something happened with Hiccup?" he asked hopefully.

"Well yes and no, you see the thing with Hiccup is...well...he left."

Stoick looked to Gobber confused "He's gone?"

"Well...yes. I got found a letter from him in the house. To make it simple he said he was tired of embarrassing you and seems to think it would be best if he just left. And sometime between last night and this afternoon he took off."

Stoick took in the shock at hearing his son had run away. Then he snapped out of it.

"I've got to find him!" yelled Stoick. "He can't have gotten far!"

"Ready a ship" yelled Gobber, but just as the words left his mouth Astrid came running down the docks tears in her eyes and looking very shaken.

"Astrid what is it?" asked Gobber.

"I went to look for Hiccup today... I would see him going into the woods a lot...I wanted to see what he was up to so I went in the direction he usually goes into." she said shakily.

"Astrid Hiccup has run away." he tried to explain.

Apparently not hearing Gobber Astrid continued.

"I was walking and I saw this big black thing fly over...It must have been a dragon."

"A black dragon?" said Stoick; then it hit him " A Night Fury!"

"I went towards the direction it came from and I came to a clearing were I found these." she held out the scales she had found. Gobber picked them up and studied them "And then I found this" she held out the piece of green cloth with blood on it.

Stoick pushes forward and grabbed it from her hand and studied it. Then after a few moments his eyes grew wide. This blood stained cloth... it was part of Hiccup's shirt.

Stoick sank to his knees.

"Hiccup!" Stoick yelled "Hiccup, no!"

After hours of flying around making sure they were far from Berk and trying to find a village to settle into Hiccup and Toothless came across a small village that was on the edge of a forest. "This looks perfect!" Hiccup yelled to Toothless and they made a quick landing in the trees.

"Stay here buddy." said Hiccup as he headed into the village to check the place out and find out if they would be permitted to live there. He approached a villager and asked were he might find the leader of the villager.

"Go and find Jeremiah boy." said the man obviously a bit wary of the strangely dressed boy, and pointed in the direction of his house.

Hiccup approached the house and knocked three times. Before a kind faced old man opened the door.

"Yes?" he said looking Hiccup over.

"Excuse me, are you Jeremiah?" asked Hiccup shyly.

"Yes I am. Sorry, I don't believe I've seen you before."

"Yeah well, my name is Hiccup Haddock, that's Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III." He said sounding nervous.

"Interesting name."

"Yeah Yeah, believe me I didn't pick it. Anyway I need a place to live I was thinking of building a house outside of town. And I guess you being the village leader I'd need your permission first."

"Fine by me as long as your not here to cause trouble" answered the old man " Buts its hard to imagine a scrawny thing like you building a house by himself."

"I'll manage." He said. "And I'd like to sell fish in the village too if that's all right, and I'm a pretty good blacksmith if yours is too busy."

"Fine,Fine do what you like. Now, if you don't mind I'd like to get back to my lunch." And with that he shut the front door.

Hiccup headed back to the forest and until he came back to Toothless who was waiting for him.

"Well buddy looks like this is wear our new home will be what do you we get started."

Toothless grunted in agreement.

AN well here's the first chapter in the revised draft tell me what you think even though not much has changed.