This is my "Hiccup runs away" story. This is my first so please take it easy on me. Please R&R.

"Hiccup! Hiccup! Hiccup! Hiccup!" the village chanted in unison. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III had passed the test. He had beat their expectations. You see, Hiccup was, well, a hiccup. The runt of the village that seemed to do nothing right. Yet, he had somehow managed to pass the test, so he would soon kill a monstrous nightmare.

Little did they know, Hiccup was breaking inside. He could not, more like would not, kill a dragon. He recently discovered how wrong everybody was about the dragons. The dragons were not the mindless killing machines everybody thought they were. If they were, Hiccup wouldn't even be alive right now!

Just a few weeks ago, Hiccup shot down a night fury! The unholy offspring of lightning and death itself! Yet, when he looked into the monster's eyes, he saw something else. He saw fear. The monster feared him. Hiccup saw this and couldn't bring himself to do it. He instead, used his dagger to cut the ropes that bound the scaly, black night fury. The night fury pinned him down to a nearby rock and let out the fiercest, loudest roar Hiccup has ever heard. Hiccup had expected death but was pleasantly surprised to find that the offspring of lightning and death had spared him.

After that, Hiccup had stumbled upon a cove by Revan's Point and discovered that the night fury had lost half of its tail. Hiccup came almost every day to give the night fury fish, since it couldn't hunt for itself anymore, and work on creating a prosthetic. He also learned about and drew his new friend in his notebook. He named the night fury Toothless, for, when Hiccup had first fed the dragon, he found that Toothless had retractable teeth.

Hiccup then took Toothless out for a test flight with the new prosthetic tail. Toothless could now fly with Hiccup's help. Toothless showed hiccup what it was like to be a dragon and Hiccup loved it. Up in the air, Hiccup no longer had to worry about anything. He could forget about Berk and its inhabitants. How they treated him.

Soon after, he learned about the kindness of dragons. He actually met a few of the dragons up close and saw them for what they were: Scared, innocent beings that feared for their lives. They only stole from the village because there was something far greater than them controlling them and threatening their lives. But nobody knew that. Not even Hiccup.

After passing the test, Hiccup decided to run. He had to get as far away from Berk as possible. As far away from his tribe as possible.

When midnight fell, Hiccup snuck out of his hut with a bag packed lightly: Some food, water, medicine, books, and 'pencils'.

Upon arriving at the cove, he was pounced on by Toothless. "It's good to see you too, bud," he said quietly, "c'mon, bud, we're leaving."

Toothless looked Hiccup questionably, noticing all of the 15-year-old's features: A twig body, auburn hair, emerald green eyes, and freckles dotting his pale skin. Suddenly, he jumped around gleefully, happy to leave this rock filled with vikings that only wanted him dead.

With that, the duo took off into the night, never looking back.