Alright, everyone. I reedited this chapter and I hope you all enjoy.

Key:

Bold: Dragon Dialogue

Italics: Thoughts

"Quotation Marks": "Regular Dialogue"

So, ENJOY!

_~Chapter 1~_

"LEAVING! We're leaving, Lets pack up! Looks like you and me are taking a vacation… forever." Hiccup shouted to Toothless. Hiccup dropped the basket of fish and sighed. Toothless looked at him oddly. He had been hoping this would happen, that he would be free with Hiccup, all by themselves. But Toothless cared about Hiccup, he didn't want to leave if it would cause Hiccup pain. He wondered if Hiccup was making the best choice.

"Don't give me that look, you know I can't understand you."

"Yep, and it's starting to get frustrating. Although you would never listen to me anyway." Toothless thought. Dragons communicated by sending messages through the brain. Of course, the human brain was too primitive to contain the ability to translate those brain waves.

Hiccup kicked at some pebbles, sat down on a boulder and thought about his situation for a very long time. As time passed, Toothless also thought about it. Hiccup had hoped that maybe, just maybe, Astrid would've been chosen to kill the dragon. That would've solved everything. Astrid would no longer envy him. He didn't have to kill a dragon, and everything would be back to normal, with everyone ignoring him and he could spend his time with Toothless. But of course, for whatever reason, the Norns, and the Fates just had to have chosen him to be the one. He didn't want to kill the nightmare. Hiccup was still planning everything when he noticed Toothless was still staring at him.

"Go ahead. Eat the fish, we have a long journey ahead." He ordered. He stood up and began to pack. Toothless gobbled up all the fish. Luckily, Hiccup didn't bring eels.

Hiccup thought of Berk, his dad, of Gobber, and most of all, of Astrid. Astrid was acting very jealous lately. If only she knew. Hiccup chuckled at the thought. He had a crush on Astrid since forever. It won't be easy leaving her. Ever since her mother died too, she started hating Hiccup, yet Hiccup still loved her more than ever. It was a strange feeling, and beyond confusing.

He looked at Toothless and his crippled caudal fin. In it's place was a prosthetic made by Hiccup himself. The last month had been crazy, domesticating a dragon? It was unheard of. His ancestors would be surprised at him. Besides ancestors, his own father would also be surprised. No doubt he would be exiled from Berk.

Hiccup knew leaving was the best, no only, choice he had. Of course, he would miss Berk and it's amazingly lush forests. The cliffs over looking the sea and the horizon.

He shook out of his deep thoughts and focused on Toothless. He began to pack up and equipped Toothless with his makeshift harness. Toothless stood still patiently as Hiccup prepared everything.

Toothless raised his head and turned as he heard leaves and grass crackling from behind him.

"Um, Hiccup, we've got a visitor." Toothless bounded towards Hiccup. "Hiccup! Now would be a great time to leave!" Hiccup gave Toothless the stink eye.

"What is it?" He asked. Hiccup suddenly heard footsteps. He beckoned Toothless to be quiet and slowly lead him away from the Cove. He pushed Toothless into nearby bushes at the last second.

"Hiccup!" Hiccup nervously turned and found his crush staring at him angrily. "Oh hey, uh, Astrid. Um, what are you doing here?" He asked, again, very nervously.

"I wanted to ask you the same thing." Astrid replied getting more furious by the second. "I know you're up to something. You can fool all the others, even your dad, but NOT me. Whatever is making you so good all of a sudden, I will uncover your secret."

"Oh, uh, I hope you find what you're looking for, I'm sure you very capable of it." Hiccup replied. He almost slapped himself. That was the most outrageous thing to say in this situation. "So um, I'll meet you back at the village ok?" Astrid stared at him as if he was mad. "Oh, no no no. You think you can just avoid me and deal with me later 'at the village'? You really think I'm stupid?" She grew even more angry.

" Are you training with someone?"

"Uh, no..." Hiccup replied. Astrid sighed. "Gotta do this the hard way, huh Hiccup." She said. "I thought you were smarter than that."

"Um, alright! Fine, I've been... making outfits!" Hiccup falsely declared. "You got me! I think it's time you drag me back to the village and tell everyone." He nervously glanced at where Toothless was hiding. He didn't want Astrid to find it. She would think I'm a freak, and worse, maybe even kill him. He tried his best at making Astrid turn away from the bushes.

Astrid noticed this and pulled Hiccup closer to her. Hiccup tried not to look into her eyes, his hands were fidgeting behind his back, nervous at the whole scene unraveling before him. The two teens seemed to be too close for Hiccup's standards.

"Ya'know? You are sometimes SO ANNOYing!" Astrid said, her fist tightening. "I can never understand you. You pulled away when I needed you the most!" Astrid was now in tears. Hiccup felt a pang of guilt shooting up his heart. So this was all about her mother. Nothing to do with anything in training. Hiccup remembered the day clearly. Whenever Stoick went off on his voyages to get his revenge, he left Hiccup with Astrid's family. They were quite the pair back then. Hiccup with his wacky ideas and sarcastic personality was always enough to keep Astrid entertained.

Then another giant dragon raid came upon the village. A monstrous nightmare broke into Astrid's home, searching for food, when it came across Hiccup and Astrid. Astrid's mother rushed in and pushed the two out of the path of the dragon's flame. They found her charred body later, after the raid was over. When Stoick came back, he moved Hiccup to Snotlout's household, abandoning Astrid to do her own mourning. It was during that time when Snotlout also came up with the nickname of 'Useless', emphasizing the fact that Hiccup didn't do anything to help kill that very dragon.

The truth was, Hiccup was just as scarred. It was a rerun of his greatest nightmare. It reminded him of his own mother and what possibly happened to her. Seeing Astrid's mother's charred body gave him an image, one that of his mother just like that. Hiccup also missed Astrid's family, they were closer to him than his dad ever was. Stoick was too focused on revenge on the dragons.

Astrid sighed once again, wiping her tears. "I'll meet you at the village. Maybe your senses will come back, with your father confronting you instead," She said. Oh Gods. He didn't want his dad to get into this mess. He was supposed to to disappear without a trace, but Astrid just had to have interfered leaving Hiccup with these new conflicts and emotions.

"I'll meet you there. And you better come! Or else..." She answered and she started walking away. She noticed the pieces of fish on the floor, but didn't pay much attention to it. Hiccup sighed. He nervously swallowed and went to find Toothless. He was still waiting inside the bushes.

"If you want to mate with her, now's your chance ya'know? Since we're gonna leave, I bet this might even be the last time you see her." Toothless teased. " But then again, she doesn't look like she's in the mood to tangle." But Hiccup could never understand him.

"So we're still leaving right?" Toothless asked. Hiccup was pacing back and forth now. He, once again, came back to the same conclusion.

"Yep, we're definitely leaving."

_~Author's Note~_

I'll usually have some questions for you down here. But for today, I hope you enjoyed it and please leave some reviews. They mean so much to me. Cya! ^_^

Edited 05/31/15