"What do you say bud?" Hiccup asked as they entered a layer of clouds. "Wanna go again?"

'Now that I know we can, yeah...' Toothless said smiling.

'Out of the way...' they both hear somedragon say and look up to see hundreds of dragons flying their way.

"Whoa..." Hiccup says ducking as Toothless weaves out of the way of the oncoming dragons.

'Need to go,' 'Need to get there,' 'Hurry, hurry,'

Just then one of them knocked into Hiccup's helmet and sent it falling into the sea.

"Oh no my helmet..." he says looking down.

'I'll get it...' Noche says as he began to dive for it.

"WHOA!" Hiccup cries not expecting the sudden dive. "Toothless! Whoa no no no no no no no. Toothless! NOCHE STOP!'

That got the dragon to stop and listen, never hearing Hiccup use his dragon name before.

"We'll get it later bud," Hiccup says patting the dragon to show he meant it "Right now we need to get back and find out what's going on."

After checking to be sure he knew where this was for when they came back, Noche turned and together they flew back to Berk.


Back on Berk, more and more dragons were leaving and the people were getting more and more worried.

"What's the matter?" Horak asks hit Monstrous Nightmare as it took off.

"No no no no," Astrid says worried as she sees her dragon about to leave "Don't leave Stormfly don't go, please..." but it was a failed attempt.

Just as the last dragons were leaving Hiccup and Toothless came back, Hiccup hopping off and running up to his friends.

"Astrid!" he calls out.

"Hiccup what's going on where are they going?" Astrid asked looking to the dragons.

Before he could answer, the whole village was upon him asking questions to the boy who knew more about dragons than anyone else, hoping he'd have an answer.

"Why did they leave?" "What's happening?" "What if they never come back?"

"Stop please..." Hiccup said trying to get order, but as usual no one was listening.

"CALM DOWN!" Stoick cried pausing his way to the front "Give him a chance to speak. Hiccup, where are all our dragons going?"

"Dad... I don't know..." Hiccup said looking up to him and seeing all the disappointed faces everyone was giving.

Just then they heard Stormfly calling to Toothless.

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'Noche come on, we need to go...' Stormfly says hovering before him.

'You go, I need do something else,'
Noche says sending her on her way.

'See you when we get back,' Stormfly says and leaves with the rest.


That evening everyone was in the Great Hall trying to work out what had happened that day.

"Where'd they go?" Thuggory asked the same question he had been asking every hour.

"Snoggletog is ruined," Ug said looking upset.

"IT'S NOT RUINED!" Stoick cried out to his people and getting up on the stage. "We're Vikings! We've been perfectly happy celebrating without dragons for generations. And there's no reason why we can't do it again. Now we don't know where they went off to... But we have to have faith that they'll come back again soon. Am I right?"

"You're right!" Gobber cried out getting everyones attention seeing him in his Snoggletog outfit of deer antlers covered in holly, his prophetic arm now covered in bells and carrying two lanterns. "We are Vikings. And we're tough! Most of the time..."

Over to the side the teens shook their heads at this and decided to leave, not being able to take much more of this.

"Let's sing some Snoggletog songs..." Gobber suggested to lift the spirits.

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Outside the teens were walking down the streets all wearing sad faces.

"That was depressing..." Ruffnut said more to herself.

"I know," Astrid agreed "I was looking forward to spending the holiday with Stormfly."

At the end of the line, Fishlegs smiling and whistling a happy tune.

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

"Me?" Fishlegs says realizing he was caught out. "Oh yeah... I miss him so much..." he said coughing and letting out some fake tears. "Well goodnight."

With that his went home wanting to get away from the others so he didn't let anything slip like that again.

"I got an idea!" Astrid said turning to her friends "Let's come up with a whole bunch of new holiday traditions. You know, to bury the sadness."

Tuffnut, Ruffnut and Snotlout all sighed at this none of them ever being all that like-able to hard work.

Seeing this Astrid turned to Hiccup a determined look on her face.

"Actually Astrid might be on to something," Hiccup said smiling and liking the idea.

"Easy for you to say," Tuff said gesturing up to the highest cliff where Toothless was looking out to sea. "Your dragon can't go anywhere with out you."

"Must be nice..." Ruff said not caring how Hiccup felt when she said it and walked off with her brother and Snotlout.

"Hiccup," Astrid said coming up beside him "I know you said you didn't know when you said it to everyone else... But do you actually know or..."

"No Astrid," hiccup said cutting off the question "I don't. I heard some things they said, but they didn't say exactly where they were going, just that they had to get there."

With that said he heads off to the forge to see what he could do to get his brother flying on his own again.