A/N Just a heads up, exile will consist of four parts: one week in, five years in, 9 years in, 10 years in. this is, of course, one week in. Also, the rest of the story will now take place in Hiccup's POV unless I give you a glimpse into something else which will be third person.

Chapter Eight: One Week In

It was a good thing I had packed those camping supplies. I would have died in this cold without them. Toothless and I had only found uninhabited islands as we flew east, into the sun every morning and at our backs as it falls. I was beginning to wonder if anything was this way and if I had made a mistake in coming this way. But I wasn't going to head back. Even if she only saw a black dot in the sky fly by, I would break her heart all over again.

We had to land. It was getting late and the sun was beginning to set. Oh great, another uninhabited island. Toothless and I had a routine set now. As soon as we landed, toothless went for the trees to gather firewood. I would take his packs off before he went to the forest and began unpacking. It didn't take Toothless long to get firewood being a dragon and all so I would barely have things out of their packs when he returned. We had been smart to keep the large wooden sticks used for the rather large tent after we spent almost all of the first night trying to find the perfect ones. Toothless had taken to sticking the end poles in the ground and I would fling the cotton sheet we had over top and began nailing it to the ground. After a week's worth of practice, we could get camp set up in about 15 minutes.

With camp set up, we would go fishing, dragon style. And by dragon style, I mean the only way you can do it without fishing poles or a boat. It took us a few attempts to catch anything as we continued to dive bomb into the water. After 10 or 15 minutes, we came back with 12 fish. I would usually only have one fish but had the best fishing trip yet so Toothless had insisted that I have two tonight. After being the son of the chief, I found myself startled that I thought of this as a feast. Compared to the other nights, this was a feast. After having our meal, Toothless and I resigned for the night, heading into the tent. He had taken to sleeping close to me after seeing how much trouble I had in my sleep. I was being haunted by the same dream every night.

In my dream, I found myself in Berk. Everyone had their backs turned to me. I looked to the skies and saw my father amongst the clouds. He asked me the same question every night.

"Son, why did you let me die?"

I couldn't answer him. I tried and yet no words would escape my mouth. He turned his back in disappointment. That wasn't even the worst part of the dream. I then found myself in Astrid's house as she was lying in her bed. She looked so peaceful when she slept. I knew what would happen next and so I would try to hold off for as long as I could before triggering the next part. I would just sit and watch her sleep. It was the only thing, other than Toothless, that I could find joy in. But I knew I was trapped in the dream unless I continued. So I walked up to her and laid a hand on her shoulder. The instant I touched her, her eyes snapped open and she screamed out in agony. I had no choice but to watch her endure the pain until she fell silent and could see she wasn't breathing. My touch had put her through what felt like an eternity of pain and eventually killed her. Then the dream turned to Alric and Cynwise standing there laughing evilly as they watched Berk go up in flames. I tried to get up and tackle Alric but he would vanish as I jumped. As I hit the ground, I awakened to find the day starting.

Taking camp down was easier than putting it up. Within several minutes we were in the air, heading into the sun again.


It was midday and Toothless and I watched another Island go by with no signs of civilization. We were both getting fed up with finding no one out here. Every time it happened I had to cheer him up.

"Don't worry buddy" I said as I patted his head. "We'll find someone out here."

He grunted with a 'yeah right' attitude.

"Once we do, I promise to go fishing on a boat everyday to bring you a feast of fish home every night" I promised. That would always get him in high spirits. He purred at the thought. I had almost fallen of Toothless when I jumped at a new sight on the horizon. It was another island but this one was different. This one had smoke rising out of the one side of the island. It was civilization! Toothless had gone as fast as I had never seen him go. I knew he was only trying to get his feast of fish early.

As we approached the island I noticed that it was twice the size of Berk. I had also noticed that the island was vastly larger than our own island but that Vikings resided here nonetheless. Without any sign of dragons around, I had pondered as to how the village would react to this beast I was riding. I would soon find out as I heard the natural sound of a night fury sighting.

"Night Fury!" someone shouted. However, I didn't hear people running in terror or the whistle of projectiles. Instead, I heard the sound of adoration as quite a few people looked at the night fury in the sky. I had even heard a few younger children yell "cool!" as they saw Toothless.

"Look! Isn't that strange, there's a person on top of him!" yelled another.

"Hey you! Come on down! We'd love to meet a tamer of beasts!" shouted a third.

I looked at toothless to see if he was ok with it and we headed in for the town square. By now, all of the village was aware of our presence and quickly came running to the square. People were still keeping their distance though as we stood looking at everyone. For a minute they just stared at us and I knew we weren't going to get anywhere so I should start this.

"Hi. My name is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third" I told them. "And this is my Night Fury, and best friend, Toothless."

"Oh what a silly name for a dragon" said a woman as she approached us. "Hi, I am Youruk the Wise. I am the chief of Tristin."

"I'm assuming this is Tristin, right?" I enquired.

"That's right" she answered. "Say, you wouldn't happen to be the son of Stoick the Vast, are you?"

I was flabbergasted. My father's reputation was known this far out of Berk. Tristan was a week by air so it was roughly three weeks by boat. The thing about boats is that you don't need to stop come nightfall; you all just work in shifts.

"Why, yes I am" I answered. "How do you know of my father?"

"He came here about 24 years ago" she responded. "He fell in love with the place but couldn't stay. He said he was soon to be married and couldn't just leave his village. He told us his surname was Haddock before he left and you don't run into many Haddock's around here."

"Ah. Well yes, I am his son" I told them again.

"Well you are just going to LOVE this" she said. "Morianna come here." She motioned for a girl in the audience to come to her side. The woman made her way through the crowd and emerged. She was stunning. She had long, red hair and averagely cute blue eyes. She was a bit scrawny like Hiccup and a little shorter for her age, though slightly taller than Hiccup. She was wearing the usually Viking getup and was sporting a massive hammer on her back.

"Hi Morianna, nice to meet you" I said.

"Hiccup, how much do you know of your father?" asked Youruk.

"He was a quite strict to me. I had heard stories that he wasn't always strict though" I responded.

"Well you father, Hiccup, had a way with women" she said. "He was only here for two weeks but managed to leave his mark in more ways than one."

'Oh gods, you've got to be kidding me. There's no way.' I though as I looked back at Morianna.

"Hiccup, this is your sister, Morianna Haddock."


I must have hit my head hard as I fell off Toothless. I woke up in one of their houses and saw Morianna over in the kitchen fixing something up. 'It can't be' I thought. But as I continued to look at her, I saw Stoick in her. Instead of having all the red hair in the front, she had it behind her as it extended below her bottom half. Her blue eyes were his too. She even had the same signature weapon as Stoick, the hammer. She was scrawny too. It had seemed that Stoick kept all the muscle to himself.

"Are you really my sister?" I asked.

"My mother never married. She had only been with Stoick and no one else. I have to be your sister. Well, half sister" she told me. She brought over a cup of something. "Here, drink this, it will help your head feel better, Brother."

"Wow!" I exclaimed. "It's delicious! What is it?"

"It's called hot chocolate" she told me. "Don't drink it too fast, it's hard to make and we don't have much chocolate left."

"Ok. Is this your house?" I asked.

"Yes it is."

"Cool. Um… can I stay with you for a while?" I asked.

"Your family! Of course you can!" she said. "Why? Is everything alright in Berk?"

"Not even close…" I sighed as I began to tell her the story of everything that happened. I told her of Alric and Cynwise, of Astrid and Harald. Eventually came the heart wrenching end of the story.

"And Stoick, our father…" I started, "was killed by Alric and Cynwise."

"No!" she yelled, tears coming to her eyes.

"But Morianna, you didn't even know him" I said, confused by her reaction.

"He was still my father" she explained. "And my mother died a while ago. Now… now I have no parents at all…"

"Neither do I" I told her. "My mother died giving birth to my other sibling, who died with her."

I was suddenly shown the power of family as Morianna simply hugged me as I was lying down and cried into my shoulder. We didn't even know each other until earlier today and she was treating me as if she knew me her whole life. I was at a loss for words. I couldn't explain it.

"Oh Hiccup… I'm so sorry to hear about your mother." She said in between sobs. And then it hit me like a ton of bricks: in this big world, we only had each other left. And no matter what, we had to help each other out, regardless of the situation. I had trouble adapting to a family, albeit one person, to love and care for me considering my old one barely showed me any love. But I would get used to it eventually. I could see why my father fell in love with this place.

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