Chapter #4

Author's note: Hello everyone! I'm very sorry for the long awaited chapter that I've been meaning to write for a very long time. Also, I've finally got the motive to write this chapter. Also, I've been going through this chapter as much as I could to make adjustments as much as I could trying to fix errors that I've been trying to fix. Though if I do make mistakes, don't feel bad letting me know. I don't mind fixing them. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this long awaited chapter, I've been meaning to write.

~Mysterious tone~

Somewhere off in the Highlands, Dagur and his men were making an abandon castle their new home.

"Uh sir, y-you sure this is a good idea to stay here? I- I- I mean..." He was stopped by Dagur.

"What's wrong? To scare to see a bunch of skeletons?" Dagur questioned.

"U-uh n-no sir" He finally answered. This made Dagur very irritated, he walked towards the hall inside the abandoned castle and stared at one of his men that was frightened by the place.

He pulled out his dagger and stuck the end point of his sword to his throat.

"You know the ONE thing I can't stand?" Dagur was more and more frustrated.

"PEOPLE like you!" Dagur pulled his sword out to swing at his frighten men.

"D-DAGUR! Wait!" A voice came behind Dagur, stopping him from what he was going to do.

"Savage! You BETTER have a good reason for stopping me Savage." Dagur was at his limits.

"Uhh... Y-yes sir... I've my men have found Hiccup on the island."

"Ah good. Yes Brother! I can't wait to come and greet you and your Nightfury."

"B-but there's more sir." Savage stuttered. Dagur replied with a sigh of frustration.

"What more is there Savage?" Dagur spoke.

"Uh... T-they've found a-a girl. With Hiccup. She's possibly a highlander." Savage spoke out. Dagur became more intrigued by the news.

"What's to say about this, Girl?" Dagur questions.

"From what I've got from my men is only her name."

"And what is her name?" Dagur questions.

"Merida. And it seems she and Hiccup have a connection together." This brings Dagur his most sinister smile he has on his face.

~With Hiccup~

Finally when the sun starts to come up hiccup was flying on Toothless with a fish net, trying to catch a lot of fish for breakfast. He didn't think he had to convince Toothless he'll be fine when they're flying. Eventually Toothless gave in and the two were off around the ocean, with Aadolf basket they borrowed. As they were done fishing, Hiccup hopped off of Toothless and unhooked the fishes they catch together off of Toothless back. Toothless made a concern little growl to Hiccup, since he knows about Hiccup's left arm.

"Don't worry bud." Hiccup assured Toothless.

Hiccup lifted the basket filled with fish with his good arm and swigged it onto his back. As he started to walked back to his resting place, Toothless halted in front of Hiccup making stop in his tracks.

"W-what is it bud?" Hiccup asks as he puts down the basket filled with fish.

Toothless gave a 'are you serious now' look and gave a little hint to Hiccup by using his prosthetic tail fin to show he has red hair. It took a few minutes for Hiccup to realized Toothless was talking about Merida.

"Wait Merida? W-what about her?" Hiccup spoke.

Using his tail, Toothless waked the back of Hiccup's head.

"Hey!" Hiccup yelled out. Toothless laughed at Hiccup and started to hop around him.

"Uh come on bud. I really don't understa-..." Toothless stopped hopping around Hiccup and ran next to the red haired lass who was crossing her arms. Seeing Merida, gave the fright of Hiccup's life.

"M-Merida!" Hiccup gave a nervous laugh.

"W-what are you doing here?" Hiccup was trying his best to act natural.

"Ie woke up trying the find ye inside thei house. But where du Ie find ye? Ie find ye riding onto Toothless." Merida spoke in frustration.

"W-well... I-I was getting fish for-"

"When ye have a bad arm!" Merida scolded Hiccup.

"Uch, never mind." Merida gave up.

"Here I'll carry that." Merida picked up the heavy basket with her arms, she struggled a bit to hold up the basket. Hiccup quickly helped Merida with the basket.

"Whoa Merida, it's really heavy. Here." Hiccup swigged the basket over onto his back.

He gave her his signature smile letting her know not to worry so much. Merida's heart was beating fast from his smile she had to look away to calm herself again.

"A-alright Viking! I'm nut guing tu help ye if you're in pain." She spoke. Hiccup laughed at her remark and the two walked back to Aadolf's house.

As they finally got to Aadolf's house, Hiccup realized they were missing a person.

"Wait. Where's Toothless?" Hiccup spoke as he puts down the basket in front of Aadolf's house.

Merida looked around as well seeing it was strange for Toothless to run off like that.

"Toothless!" Hiccup called out with no answer in return.

"Toothless!" He called again with the same results.

"Can you stay here just in case he comes around the house?" Hiccup requests Merida. Merida nods to answer his question. Hiccup runs off looking for his best friend.

"Toothless!" Hiccup calls out again.

"Toothless! Toothless! Tooth-" Hiccup caught a rather loud growl sound and followed towards it.

He ran and ran until he saw Toothless back facing towards him. Seeing his friend made some relief off of him until he realized something off about his friend. He was standing in a defense position, showing his Teeth to whoever was near him. Hiccup walked to his side and looked towards the direction Toothless was looking at.

"W-what is it bud?" Hiccup asks his friend.

Toothless continues to growl. Hiccup pats his friends head and Toothless stops his growling and stares at Hiccup. Hiccup looks back again, squinting his eyes to see if he can see something that was bothering Toothless.

Hiccup looked back at his friend and started to rub his head. "Come on Toothless. It was probably a animal you saw." Hiccup spoke leading his friend back at the house.

Toothless made a low humming sound and follows Hiccup. He then stops for a moment to look back, hearing his name being called again and following the sound to where Hiccup is at. What Hiccup didn't realize, was that Toothless scared off someone he know in the past, that was watching them.

When they finally arrived at Aadolf's house, all three of them sat down eating breakfast having fun conversation with Aadolf. Though he was old he didn't mind telling the two about his past when he used to work on Berk. But he told the two he doesn't mind working where he is now either. Finally Aadolf finished his food and polity excused himself off, leaving Hiccup And Merida alone. Though Hiccup loved having conversations with Merida something kept on bothering him.

"Honestly I think you'd stand more of a chance winning Merida's hand if you ever entered to be honest." Adolf's words kept playing in his mind over and over again.

(I stand a chance for winning Merida's hand?) He asks himself. Hiccup was so deep in his thoughts he didn't realize Merida was staring at him.

"Hiccup what's wrong?" She asks.

Hiccup, was pulled out of his thoughts by his name and looked up to Merida.

"U-uh, sorry what?" Hiccup stutters. Merida rolls her eyes and repeated herself.

"Ie said, what's wrong? Something been bothering ye." Merida spoke. Hiccup was trying to find his words but nothing came out.

Trying to keep his head straight from his question, he took a deep breath and started to talk.

"U-uh w-who were your three suitors Merida?" Hiccup asks.

Merida confused a bit by Hiccup's eventually answered his question.

"There's Lord Macintosh's son, Lord Macguffin's son and Lord Dingwall's son." Merida spoke.

"W-well if I were to, I dunno enter to win for your hand. Do you think I would stand a chance?"

Hiccup asks Merida. This made Merida a little uncomfortable to answer.

"I-Ie dun't know. Ie... Their all nice lads. Y-yu tu! It's just.. Ie h-haven't thought of choosing someone at thei moment." Merida spoke out her thoughts, while she was fiddling with her fingers.

Hiccup stopped asking anymore questions since his last one left them having an awkward breakfast. After they were done eating, Merida excused herself to leave and off she went back to her home. Hiccup stood at the door waving her goodbye even though he knew she'll come back later.

But sadly her presence felt empty. He walked back into the room with his head in the clouds, opening his book filled with sketches of Merida. Everyone had a great detail of her face and look. You can tell Hiccup took his time in each drawing that he did since he want to draw every drawing to make it look like her. He looked down onto the sketch and smiled at his work that he did. Putting his head onto his crossed arms on the desk, he sank down onto his desk. Letting a sigh out as he sat there.

~At the Castle in Dunbroch~

Merida got back at the castle, where she walked towards the dinning movie where her family is eating breakfast. She quickly went to the table and sat down to the set next to her father.

"Merida there yu are dearie. Where were ye?" Her father asks.

"I-Ie was on a morning ride... With Angus..." She spoke softly.

Merida tried to put on a fake smile. She didn't want her father knowing she's been with a boy since she's going to soon be marrying the lord's sons. Even though her father was fine with her to marry someone, he would rather have her marry Lord MacGuffin's son.

"Morning ride? Before breakfast-" Merida stood up before her father finished what he was saying.

"I-I-I'm going to go outside..." Merida quickly went out of the room before her father said anything.

Her brothers Harris, Hubert and Hamish were staring at each other wondering what was up with their sister. It took some time for Fergus to realize that her daughter walk out of the dinning room without eating her breakfast. He then turned to his sons.

"Du ye boys know what's going on with ye sister?" He asked calmly.

"Us? Nu dad." Hamish spoke out.

"We don't even know where she rides Angus." Hubert spoke out next.

~With Hiccup~

Hiccup was flying off with Toothless, having fun with his best friend flying in the sky feeling the nice air in his face. He didn't have his leather armor suit on he just had his two green shirts on. Even though his left arm was in a sling he could still fly with Toothless with his right arm. Hiccup had a smile on his face for a while through the ride. He patted the side of his friend.

"Thanks bud, I-I think I needed to ride to get things off of my mind." Hiccup spoke. Toothless made a little humming sound to reply to Hiccup.

Relaxing by the breeze, Hiccup couldn't help but put on a smile. Moments passed as he closed his eyes letting the cold air brush against his face. But soon abruptly ended with a harsh pull. His eyes awoken to his friend making a dive towards the ground to land. Soon as they hit the ground, Hiccup was able to regain himself from near falling off of his friends back.

"Toothless, buddy. What was that for?" He questioned his friend.

Rubbing the back of his neck, trying to make sure nothing was ripped or broken from Toothless 'Sudden dive.' As he shook his head, Hiccup checks his surroundings seeing that Toothless brought them to a forest. His thoughts wandered around seeing the trees and trees around them. Though he's been around forest before, let alone he's flown over them he couldn't understand why Toothless had brought them here.

He opened his mouth to speak but a small sound of a whisper came behind Hiccup. He stopped and closed his mouth as he turned his head around. He was nothing behind him, quickly he jumped off of his friends back and slowly looked around seeing what the whisper he heard. Soon another whisper came behind Hiccup again. He turned around seeing nothing there yet again, getting frustrated with what he's been hearing. He rubbed the back of his head thinking it's probably something he just heard.

But finally saw a blue light floating not too far from him and Toothless, calling to them. Staring at the floating the blue light, memorized by it. He remembered Merida telling him about the wisps that appeared for her when she was little. And again when she and her mother had a fight over her getting married. What he remembered Merida telling him about the wisps was, that they appear you guide you to your fate. Now, the wisps appeared before him. He looked towards his friend, seeing if he saw what he saw.

Toothless was looking and hissing at the wisp that appeared in front of them. Hiccup looked forward seeing a trail of wisps just appeared, leading a tail for the two the follow. Hearing the little whispers from the one wisp in front of him, he slowly walked forward reaching out to it to touch it. It disappeared before he could touch the wisp.

As he looked back at Toothless, he only looked back at Hiccup not knowing the reasoning behind the wisps. He looked back and looked at the other wisp behind the one that appeared in front of him. Seeing the other wisp behind the one that was in front of him. He slowly started to walk towards the next one, feeling as like he was being pulled by their sudden whispers and low tone voices calling to him.

He continues walking the tail the wisps was leading him, leaving Toothless growling, making aggressive tones get Hiccup's attention. This didn't get his attention as each time Hiccup would come to the next wisps would disappear. Finally, he ran in front of Hiccup trying to halt him in his tracks.

This only caused Hiccup to side step Toothless and continue his tracks, following the wisps to wherever they're leading him. With no choice, Toothless followed his friend from behind. Though Toothless didn't understand where or why these wisps were appearing in front of them, one thing he knew was he felts as if this was the wisps were leading them to their fate.

Author's note: OMG, finally! So sorry for the very long wait but I've finally gotten to write this next chapter of this story. Sorry for the followers who've waited for a long time for me. You may be wondering, where the wisps are leading Hiccup and Toothless? All in good time readers. Next time, you will learn what's going to happen the characters :D. Goodbye!