One, two, three, come on, let's go! Four, five, six, HEY! Whaddoyaknow!? Seven, eight, nine, now, what comes next? CLIFFHAAAANNNGGGGEEERRR! YEAH! IT'S DA BESSSSSTTTT!

Okay, so sorry about that little thingy...gah. Shout-outs:

xFaerieValkyriex: I know what you mean about Valka. She's such a likable character, but then, she did abandon Hiccup when she could have gone back. I mean, I understand the whole "I thought you would have been safer without me" thing, but come on. What kind of mother abandons her only son when he was just a baby?

Edlover23: Seriously, all they do is look for trouble (and find it, too). :)

Jesusfreak: FEEELSIES FOR REALLLSIES! GAH! I totally agree. I wanted to see some Hiccup Angst in the second film so BADLY! I wanted to see Mother/Son plus Astrid/Hiccup hurt and comfort...gut alas *sigh* NOW I CAN DO IT MYSELF! YAY! :D

Omegaman17: Yes, Hiccup! Stoick loved you, and he would never take back his choice in saving you!

silverwolvesarecool: Thanks! I'm glad you like it so far! :D

AnimeAngel: I predict a lot, too. *shrugs* WE CAN PREDICT TOGETHER! YAY! :D

Silver Electricity: Seriously! :D

Wanli8970: :D :D :D I'm excited about writing this one! Having so much fun with it already! :D Hopefully I meet your expectations! :D

Valka watched as Hiccup walked out the door, closing it behind him. She wanted so desperately to follow him, and just to make sure he was truly alright, but she didn't. Every time he woke up from a nightmare, he always took a short walk just to be alone for a little while.

Besides, Valka didn't know how to comfort him when he woke up each night screaming as a nightmare gripped him in all its fury. She hadn't seen him for twenty years; she didn't know what to do when he was hurting.

She was angry at herself for not coming back sooner. Hiccup needed her while he was growing up, and where had she been? With the dragons, that's where. She had picked the dragons over her son, and husband. She had picked living among them instead of watching Hiccup grow into the man he was now.

She hardly even knew him. He was twenty years old, and her son, but she didn't know him. She didn't know what he liked, what made him happy, or any little details such as that. She didn't even know his favorite color.

Plus, there was the thing about his leg. He had lost his leg. Of course, he had told her how he had lost it in the past, but she wasn't there to help him through it. She had been abducted by the dragons, and then, she had chose to stay with the dragons, leaving Stoick to raise Hiccup by himself, and Hiccup to live, thinking that his mother had been killed.

Valka shook her head to break herself from her thoughts. She wasn't there for Hiccup while he was growing up, but she needed to be for him now, specifically, when he got back from his walk.

So, she walked down to the main room, sat down at the table, and waited.

…

I flew through the cloudless sky, Toothless flying as fast as he possibly could have flown. He knew I wanted to just get away from it all for a little while, and flying was the best way for me to do so.

And so, he flew. He flew into the sky, keeping a gentle glide while at the same time moving swiftly as to try and keep my mind off my nightmare, and everything else that could have possibly been bothering me.

We flew for hours, and I couldn't stop thinking. The nightmare replayed over and over in my head until I started crying all over again, leaning on Toothless' neck, crying silently into his scales. Toothless did his best to nudge me, and then continued flying in a straight line, heading no where in particular.

I was Chief of Berk, but I felt like I was failing all the Berkians. Wait, no, they weren't just "all the Berkians" anymore. They were "my people" now; my tribe, the people I was trying to protect, working to keep safe from any attackers and tribes who tried to come against us.

However, I had no practice. I was the leader of the Berk Dragon Training Academy for a while, but even that paled in comparison to being Chief of an entire village. I had five students in the Dragon Academy, not to mention the fact that one of than was my cousin while the rest of them were my super close friends. Chiefing an entire village of more than two hundred people was a lot different.

I had thought that my Dad gave me the job as head of the academy just because Astrid was too competitive, Snotlout was a fool, the twins were too ignorant, and Fishlegs was arrogant, but now I saw that he gave me the promotion because it was all to prepare me for the life that laid ahead once I got older.

At that moment, all I wanted was my Dad back. I had my father stolen from me by Drago Bludvist. And what was worse, he used my best friend to do it. I would never be able to look at Toothless the same way again.

Of course, I knew it wasn't the dragon's fault, but still, it made me feel uneasy, if just slightly. I thought that another reason Toothless always slept outside, addition to being Alpha, was because he knew how scared I felt sometimes.

I tried to do the right thing, but it was hard, all the time.

I was broke out of my thoughts suddenly by a gust of wind. I sat up in the saddle, my body tensing. The winds grew in strength and persistency as Toothless roared, trying to find his way back to Berk.

I looked behind me, just as it started snowing. The world as we knew it turned into a whirlwind of icy white blizzards as it swirled around us, copious amounts of frozen water slamming into us at full force.

"Toothless!" I shouted, just barely getting my voice over the wind. "We have to get out of here, buddy! Come on!"

Toothless tried flying in the opposite direction, but the wind was against us, and stronger than any wind I had ever felt before. We must have strayed pretty far away from Berk if we were all the way out here.

"Come on, bud!" I shouted. "You can do it, Toothless!"

If we didn't get out soon, I knew what was going to happen.

"Come on, hurry!" I tried again.

Too late.

The ice froze Toothless' prosthetic over, rendering it functionless and useless. The dragon roared, falling straight to the ocean that laid underneath us.

Suddenly, I felt very ignorant. I had forgot to strap myself to the saddle. As Toothless fell, I was flung off his back, so that we fell a few feet away from each other as opposed to falling together.

"TOOTHLESS!" I shouted.

Then, we hit the water. I didn't even try to dive, and it hurt. I had slammed into it on my left side, and screamed from pain. Then, I started sinking.

All I could see was dark, all I could feel was wet, and all I could breathe was water.