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"HICCUP!" Stoick yelled trying to find his son. He had heard Toothless and saw them land a bit away, but saw two figures on the dragon's back. Stoick pushed through the crowds, followed by the Riders and Gobber. They were all stunned to see Hiccup getting off of Toothless and Dagur still presently on the dragon.
"Yo, H, why is Dagur on T?" Tuffnut asked, using his nicknames for his friends.
"Oh, hu- hey guys! What are you doing here," he asked while running his hand through the back of his hair.
"Well weren't we going to rescue you?'' Ruffnut asked while several heads nodded in her direction. "Just making sure," she finished
"Son, come on. Grab Heather, we need to go. I don't trust the simplicity of getting to you," Stoick said to Hiccup.
"Dad, I don't need rescuing, I'm good," HIccup paused, was he really going to say this? "Dagur is my-our brother. He won't hurt me," there, he said it, no taking it back now. He gestured to Heather who had come closer to Hiccup.
"Son," Stoick started, looking a bit hurt
"Chief Stoick, Hiccup is right. Now that I know the truth, I would never let anything happen to my siblings, they are the only family I have left." Dagur said shocking literally everyone.
"Besides, we were free to go. Just wanted to see where this went," Heather added on. All eyes shot to Hiccup. Surely he wanted to go back to Berk, right? He didn't want to stay with this deranged lunatic more than his family he has to know his whole life?
"But, wait, isn't Dagur, like oh I don't know, someone who wants to kill dragons?" Snotlout asked irritated.
Dagur, Hiccup, and Heather had a small smirk on their faces. Apparently, they hadn't seen the green gronckle land in the village with Windshear and Toothless. Hiccup whistled and Shattermaster came bounding over happily. He stopped when he saw Dagur, then flew a high speed into the young chief. Everyone, spite Hiccup, was concerned for not only Dagur but the dragon as well. Stoick was about to interfere when he noticed that Heather and Hiccup were smiling like a kid on Snoggletog. Stoick paused before acting and noticed that the dragon was licking Dagur, and Dagur was genuinely laughing. Not the deranged laugh they had heard so many times, a real happy laugh. This shocked everyone.
"Shattermaster, stop, please," Dagur said between laughs, he finally was able to stand up and looked at his armor disgusted.
"That stuff never washes out," Hiccup said, his voice light and airy. Heather stifled a laugh. Everyone stared, mouth hanging open.
"So wait, we just like you now?" Snotlout asked directing the question to Dagur.
"Yeah, didn't you try to kill us?" Tuffnut added on, his sister nodding in agreement.
"Yes, I did. I will admit to that, but you try having your family ripped away from you and thinking they were dead. It makes you go crazy sometimes. Look at Heather, I killed the village she lived in for her entire life, and she wanted to kill me. She wanted revenge. I wanted to, well, kill Hiccup because he betrayed me. I have had a lot of betrayal in my life and I didn't want anymore. I never truly hated him, just angry...you know after a while he starts to grow on you." Dagur looked at Hiccup, "You're too stubborn,"
"Yes, I am. Is that an issue?" Hiccup asked
"Ah we all love it," Heather said putting a hand on Hiccup's shoulder.
Stoick watched the three of them. No matter what Hiccup said they looked like friends, not exactly family. Hiccup and Heather still sensed when Dagur came too close to them. To be honest he never really wanted Hiccup until he lost Valka. Val had wanted the little boy, she felt sorry for him and a bit of a motherly connection to the boy. After a while, the little boy grew on the chief, and that fateful night when Valka was stolen from him in their home he knew he had to protect his son. Sure he went about it in a horrible way, distancing himself and trying to keep the young boy inside. Who knew that the scrawny little boy could change the world's mind? Certainly he didn't, however, Val seemed to have a bit of an idea.
"See? I'm fine, no need to worry," Hiccup said snapping Stoick back to reality.
"Son, I don't trust it, people don't just change overnight," Stoick said
Hiccup had had enough, something inside of him just snapped.
"Well you did, Astrid did, the rest of the gang did. For Thor's sake, everyone did! I fought a dragon the size of a mountain and lost a leg doing so! I lost a leg saving all of your asses and you all changed. I'm glad you all did, but I had to kill a dragon in order to do so! Something I thought I would never do. And what do I get? I was lied to! You lied to me my entire life, I knew I was never going to be good enough for you, I've always known that. Thank you for finally treating me like you care, but we both know it won't last, it will go straight back to the way it was the next time I screw up or piss you off. So stop telling me what you think and listen to what I fell!" Hiccup paused, he saw all the faces. He had done it, he was finally going to hear. Great, just great. I messed everything up, yet again. He thought. He took one look at Stoick's face, along with his friends. He ran over to Toothless and jumped onto the saddle. They were up in the sky in less than a second.
Heather watched everything go down, she knew some of the things he said, but others were new to her. She had no idea that he suppressed so much anger. She saw him take off into the sky, and she ran over to Windshear and situated herself in the saddle. Dagur had the same thing going on in his head. He went over to Shattermaster and as he was about to get on Heather stopped him.
"I got this," she simply said to him, her face calm and voice quiet. Dagur knew that she would calm him down so he just nodded his head. With that she and Windshear we off and following were the black dragon went.
Like I said, mild profanity. Sorry, this chapter was really emotional, but I thought it would be nice for Hiccup to finally snap. Please review follow and favorite.
~Ocean