Another fun fact: When I was looking up where Beserker Island is on the map of the archipelago (couldn't find it despite going there in the show about two or three times), I found in the Viking Guide that apparently Valka's eyes are blue (more of a turquoise really hence the confusion) and her hair is red not auburn. (She's also 6ft 3in—girl is tall).

Go and spread the word! Basically almost everyone on this platform is wrong about Valka and Hiccup's likeness. He (she in this story) has his (her) dad's eyes and a bit more of his (her) mom's hair color but not really since she's classified as having red hair and Hiccup is classified as having auburn hair (technically that's a form of red, but not really especially since his hair could easily be mistaken for brown and has as seen multiple times on this platform).

Hope that left everyone all nice and informed. Now on with the show!


Chapter 3: Goodbye Toothless

As usual Toothless was having his fun on the roof thinking Hiccup was in her room. Hiccup, once again, shook her head at the reptile.

"Toothless! Come down bud!" she called as she went up to the house.

"Hiccup?! But I thought—"

"Nope. Actually never went to bed. I made something for ya."

"Oh? What is it?! Come on, let me see!"

"Uh-uh. I'm going to have to put it on you first", she said as she moved to his tail only for him to follow her causing them to run around in a circle.

"A new tail fin? What's different about this one? Is it blue?"

The dragon just kept going on and on, and all Hiccup wanted was to show Toothless the gift the best way possible.

"Toothless! Would you just…settle down", she laughed.

"But why do I need a new tail fin? What's so special about this one?"

"You'll find out soon enough. But not if you don't let me get it on ya." At last the curious dragon stopped and she was able to put the new tail fin on.

"Yeah…you are going to love this", she muttered. She grunted with one last push of a gear she had to snap on tight. Okay", she said as she finished.

Toothless picked up his tail, but didn't seem to like how the new fin felt. He began thrashing his tail side to side roaring nothing but 'discomfort', wanting the new prosthetic off. Hiccup began to fear he might break it.

"Nonono…To-Toothless stop! Please wait! Toothless please!" she yelled beginning to freak out.

Toothless then activated the mechanism to open his tail fin, and once he opened the lighter black fin, he stopped to study it. He moved it with his own, getting the hang of it rather quickly, and Hiccup sighed in relief.

"There you go; see? Got it?"

He turned back to her. "You made this for me?"

Hiccup smiled. "Yeah. This way you can fly without me. It's great, right?!"

Toothless didn't say anything, just staring at her. She stepped towards him with her arms open "Toothless—"

Toothless suddenly leaped into the sky as if running away from her. Not even a good bye. As he flew further away, Hiccup only stared up stunned, saddened, and afraid that her fear may have become reality.


Hiccup was on a cliff seeing Toothless so happy to be flying. She wanted to join him and backed up to then run off the cliff. She spread out her wings, and beat them quickly to fly towards her best friend. As she approached him, however, his form began to shift into nothing but black mist. He was gone, and soon so were her wings. She fell out of the sky…

Hiccup gasped as she woke up from her nightmare. Realizing it was just a dream she calmed down and turned onto her back. She stared up at the ceiling hoping to hear Toothless jumping on the roof seeing it was morning.

Three days had passed and there was still no sign of Toothless. Hiccup had convinced herself into hoping he'd come back, but with each passing day that hope was quickly diminishing. She didn't know what she'd do if he never came back, if he truly vanished from her life. Hiccup felt empty without him; she even missed his early morning call to go flying.

She gave up staring at the ceiling, knowing the sound would never come, and rolled onto her side draping one wing over herself like an extra blanket. It reminded her of Toothless; sometimes, before winter hit, they went to the cove to spend the whole day together—just the two of them. Hiccup would at times fall asleep there, and she'd always wake up to being encased in the darkness and warmth of Toothless and his wings. The memory of her best friend made her smile for a moment only to fall at the reminder that he had left her, and might never come back. He probably already forgot about her, enjoying his life without the person who had grounded him.

Just then, Hiccup heard someone on the roof and then a single banging sound; hope began to blossom in her, and then turned into a full on bloom when she heard the banging become more frequent emanating the sound she had been waiting to hear for three days.

"Toothless!" She jumped out of bed and raced outside to see the dragon she had missed so much.

"I knew you'd come ba—agh." Once again, she had slipped on the ice because of her prosthetic. But unlike usual, Toothless didn't come to save her and she fell back smacking her head onto the ice. She saw her father, and realized it was only him that made the noise; Toothless hadn't returned.

"Morning dear!" he said happily, turning away from his hammering of decorations.

"Oh…hey…dad", she said standing up.

"Glad you're up. I was looking for your helmet."

'Oh no my helmet!' Between the dragons and Toothless she had completely forgot.

"My-my helmet?"

"Odin needs a place to put your goodies."

"Yeah, right…I'll…uh…get on that. Great", she finished muttering under her breath.

Stoick saw his daughter turn around with her head drooped down, tail limp, and ears down; something was wrong.

"Hold on! Hold on…alright, come on. What's on your mind? Out with it."

Hiccup turned around, her still head down.

"Well…sigh…it's been three days dad. I just thought Toothless would be back by now."

"Oh, I'm sure he's with the other dragons."

"Yeah? I wish I could be that sure…"

"Ah, listen…I know what it's like to miss someone you love this time of year. But what do we do when they can't be here for the holiday? We celebrate them. And I imagine that's exactly what Toothless would want you to do."

Hiccup looked up at her father, still sad, but realizing he was right. She couldn't mope around forever worrying and hoping; she had to move on with her life.

"Right?" he asked.

"You're right", she replied.

"Good!" He hit her shoulder rather hard causing her to stumble and possibly need to relocate it; that type of stuff seemed to happen a lot due to her being so much smaller. "Now go get that helmet! We've had enough disappointment around here", he continued.

As he left, Hiccup merely sighed.


She couldn't fly yet and there were no dragons on the island, so her only option was to travel by boat to find her helmet. She was carrying the oars through the village when she was suddenly punched in the face by Astrid causing her to fall over.

"Happy holidays Hiccup!" she said cheerfully.

"Ugh! What? Wha-what you do that for?!" Hiccup yelled from the ground with a very sore cheek and jaw.

"You walked under the missing toe."

"The what?"

"Missing toe."

Hiccup looked up to see a toe hanging by a string by where Astrid stood. She wasn't really sure how to respond grimacing at it.

"Missing toe…" Snotlout said as he and the twins walked by. "It's a new genius holiday tradition Astrid just made up."

"The rules are simple", Astrid said.

"Step under the missing toe…" Ruffnut started.

"And you get punched in the face", Tuffnut finished.

"It's tradition!" Astrid then exclaimed with her same, yet strange, cheerful tone.

"Hmm…not a classic tradition", Hiccup said picking herself up and the oars.

"It's better than yaknog", Snotlout muttered to Ruffnut.

"You want to try it?" Astrid asked. "Here comes Gobber."

"Uh, nah…" Hiccup replied. "I have to find my helmet."

"In a row boat?!" Snotlout laughed. "Yeah that's got a happy ending."

Hiccup just glared at him for a moment and then turned to continue her trek down to her boat.

"Have fun in your dingy!" the boy shouted, as Ruffnut laughed.

She just kept walking, and when she wasn't looking she accidentally bumped into Fishlegs suspiciously carrying an awful lot of fish.

"Oh, Fishlegs, you hungry? There's enough fish there to feed a dragon!" she said to the nervous looking boy.

"Hahoho, oh…a dragon? That's…" he replied, trailing off and then running away.

Hiccup knew he was hiding something, and if she had to hazard a guess, it was a dragon. She followed him to a barn that he ran into with the fish, and hid at the side of the building for him to come out and leave. Once he did so, giggling oddly, she placed her oars at the wall of the barn, checked to see if he was coming back, and then opened the doors.

"Freedom!"

"Ahhhh!"

A dragon came barreling towards her at full speed, taking her into the air with them. She opened her eyes to see the face of Fishlegs' dragon.

"Meatlug?!"

"Hiccup?" she only replied.

They flew passed Aric who was walking nearby. "Woah!" he exclaimed, ducking away from the fleeing dragon. He then saw Hiccup and his eyes widened.

"Hiccup?! Where are you going?!"

"I have no ideeeeeaaaaa!"