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"I think it's time for some re-arranging." grinned Kat. With a wave of her hand, a grass-green couch appeared, along with two stone slabs at the sides.

Valka smiled at her husband before she grabbed both of their wrists and dragged them to the couch. They sat down, Valka and Stoick at the sides with Hiccup in the middle and Toothless with Cloudjumper on the stone slabs.

"We're all together again." whispered Stoick, hugging his family close, a tear running down the face of the usually, no pun intended, stoick chief.

Hiccup pushed himself further into the hug, crying silently, yet with a huge smile on his lips. He couldn't think of anything that could make him happier right now. His father accepted him and was proud of him, he had the mother whom he had thought dead for years back and his best friend by his side. This honestly couldn't get any better.

Meanwhile, our three hosts smiled sadly at the scene before of them. They all felt terrieble for having to show them what was to come and destroy their happiness. Guess being a writer meant breaking hearts. [1]

"At least, they'll have an extra five years." Pag consoled the fellow hosts. "I just realized something, are we going to allow them to 'fix' the future? I mean seriously, just by showing them these videos is technically creating another dimension. And if we are, what the heck are we going to do about movie 3?"

"I don't know," Kat responded, sounding a bit distressed. Her hand raked through her hair. "I- we'll figure this out later."

EXT. ARCTIC SKY - NIGHT (MIDNIGHT SUN)

Stoick and Gobber search over the frigid waves that lap against the pack ice.

STOICK Boar-headed! Just like his mother! She could never stay put either.

"If I remember correctly, that was why you liked me when we were young." teased him Valka. Stoick leaned over Hiccup and pecked his wife on the lips.

"Who said I don't now?"

Gobber glances over at Stoick, who's hunched over, brow furrowed and solemn.

GOBBER Ah, he's just twenty. And a Viking. I mean, could there be a worse combination? Ha! When I think of how stubborn and senseless YOU were back in the day... well, not much has changed, actually.

STOICK You know what he's like. He won't give up, Gobber. And if Hiccup finds Drago, before we find him...

GOBBER Bah! NOTHING can hurt Hiccup so long as that Night Fury's around. It's a Night Fury!

"I'm glad someone recognizes my awesomeness." smiled Toothless, raising his chin up.

Framed by a hole in the ice, a glistening object bobs on the surface below. Stoick squints and CIRCLES BACK, leading Skullcrusher in a DIVE toward it. Stoick SNAGS it out of the water. It's Hiccup's helmet. Gobber pulls alongside Stoick, seeing his look of dread. Stoick holds the helmet out for his dragon to SMELL.

STOICK Find him, Skullcrusher. Find him.

Skullcrusher SNIFFS the helmet like a bloodhound, ROARS, and suddenly CHANGES HEADING.

INT. DRAGON MOUNTAIN - TUNNEL - DAWN

CLOSE ON Hiccup, flustered, winded, chasing VALKA through tightly winding corridors.

HICCUP Hold on! Wait just a minute! Come back here!

VALKA This way. Come.

HICCUP You can't just say something like that and run off! You're my mother?! I mean, what the - do you grasp how INSANE it sounds?! (BEAT) I have questions!

"You always have questions." said Toothless, emphasizing the 'always'.

"Well, I'm a curious boy. It's not my fault."

"Yes, it is."

VALKA Come. Quickly!

Hiccup follows her over the difficult terrain. He tries to clamber over a tall rock, unsuccessfully.

HICCUP Where have you been all this time?

Toothless boosts him over. Hiccup lands on the other side.

HICCUP (CONT'D) What've you been doing?! They said you were dead! Everyone thinks you were eaten by...

Hiccup trails off as he enters...

INT. DRAGON MOUNTAIN - OASIS - CONTINUOUS

... a stadium-sized chamber teeming with ferns, waterfalls, hot springs and THOUSANDS of new DRAGONS. Hiccup wanders in, basking in the in the amazing sight: a dome of sweating ice capping a geothermal micro climate, filled with dragons of every shape and kind. He spots Valka clinging to a basalt overhang, watching him.

Everyone's eyes were wide, their mouths agape. It was like they were taking a glimpse of heaven. Dragons of every kind were flying in the cavern and even though they had spent so much time hating and fighting dragons, the scene alone gave the Vikings a sense of tranquillity.

"That's amazing..." whispered Hiccup, as if speaking any louder would make the scene before them to collapse.

HICCUP This is where you've been for twenty years?

She nods from her perch.

HICCUP (CONT'D) You've been rescuing them.

She nods again, this time with a smile.

HICCUP (CONT'D) Unbelievable.

VALKA You're not upset?

HICCUP What? No. I don't know. It's a bit much to get my head around, to be frank. It's not every day you find out your mother is some kind of crazy, feral, vigilante dragon lady.

"That's a nice way to put it." mused Valka. "Do you like your crazy, feral, vigilante dragon lady mother?"

"Do you need to ask?" smiled Hiccup.

Valka chuckles, and using her dragon's wing, lowers herself to the ground like a skilled acrobat.

VALKA At least I'm not boring... right?

HICCUP I suppose there is that... (feeble, trailing off) ... one... specific... thing...

Excited dragons rush up to greet Hiccup and Toothless. Hiccup pets a few, marveling at the vast dragon utopia before him.

VALKA Do you like it?

HICCUP I don't have the words.

Toothless SNARLS in annoyance as the curious, smothering dragons SNIFF every part of him.

VALKA Can I... ? He's beautiful!

"Thank you." said Toothless, nuzzling Valka. "Though I prefer handsome. Sounds more manly."

"I imagine Hicca's Toothless would be blushing like crazy." Pag whispered to Kat. "Ever wonder what a red nightfury would look like?"

She reaches out to stroke Toothless, who PURRS at her touch.

VALKA (CONT'D) Incredible. He might very well be the last of his kind.

She inspects his talons as Toothless rolls onto his back, nuzzling her.

VALKA (CONT'D) And look, he's your age! No wonder you get along so well.

"So... you're a teenager now?" Hiccup asked, his head tilted to the side. Toothless nodded.

"You didn't figure that out when Hicca was here?" Pag said while giving Hiccup a strange look.

"He looked young, I'm just not good at telling people's age. I though he was in his twenties or something.: replied Hiccup.

"And yet he's still cute." muttered Kat.

"Hey! I'm not cute!"

"Yeah. You're adorable." corrected Zamble.

Hiccup smiles, astounded by Toothless' affection for Valka. She checks his teeth. They recede into the gums at her touch.

VALKA (CONT'D) And retractable teeth? Ah! How did you manage to-

HICCUP -I found him in the woods. He was shot down and wounded.

She winces and offers a sympathetic nod as she stands to caress a few of her own rescued dragons.

VALKA This Snafflefang lost his leg to one of Drago Bludvist's iron traps. This Raincutter had her wing sliced by razor netting. And this poor Hobblegrunt was blinded by a tree snare... then left to die alone and scared. (re: Toothless' tail) And what of this? Did Drago or his trappers do this, too?

HICCUP Heh. Well, crazy thing is... I'm actually the one who shot him down.

She glares, confused.

HICCUP (CONT'D) It's okay though. He got me back. (playfully, to Toothless) Right, bud? You couldn't save all of me, could you? You just had to make it even. So... peg leg!

"Stoick, can you tell me why our teenage son has only one leg?" demanded Valka, scaring Stoick. He learnt long ago that making his wife mad was not an options if you want to be healthy.

"In other words, he's well trained." Pag mused, gaining the chinese styled host incredulous looks.

"Um, it's a long story..." mumbled Stoick, hoping to get out of this one.

"Hiccup made that cannon that threw bola and shoot down Toothless. He couldn't kill him, so he fried him. Stoick made him go to dragon training and thanks to everything he learnt from Toothless as they became friends, Hiccup won and had to kill a Nightmare in front of the whole village. He tries to show everyone that dragons aren't bad, but Stoick hit the cage and the Nightmare attacked Hiccup. Hearing his cry, Toothless ran from the cove to save him. Toothless almost killed Stoick, but Hiccup told him to stop and Toothless was captured. Thanks to Hiccup's big mouth, Stoick learns that only a dragon can find the nest. When Hiccups tries to stop his father because going to the nest is a suicide mission, Stoick banishes and disowns him. Hiccup trains the rest teens and riding the dragons from the arena, they try to save the people who went to the island. Stoick saves Hiccup and Toothless from drowning and reclaims Hiccup. Hiccup is the last one still in the air and shoots fire into the Queens mouth. He gets hit by her tail and fall into the fire but Toothless saves him so he only lost a leg." Kat summed up, doing wide gestures with her hands the whole time.

"Wait... You banished AND disowned our son?! Stoick Haddock, I leave you alone with our son and this is what you do? Mister, we'll have a long talk when this is over."

"Yes ma'am." gulped Stoick.

Hiccup rattles his prosthetic leg with a smirk. Valka observes their playful rapport with curiosity.

VALKA What did your father think of your Night Fury friend?

HICCUP He didn't take it all that well.

"That's an understatement." snarled Valka glaring at Stoick.

"I'm sorry, honey." he mumbled.

She mutters in agreement.

HICCUP (CONT'D) But then... he changed. They all did. Pretty soon everyone back home had dragons of their own.

She smiles at Toothless, dismissive.

VALKA If only it were possible.

HICCUP No, really, I -

VALKA - Believe me, I tried, as well. But people are not capable of change, Hiccup.

"That sounds a bit like Neji." mused Kat to herself. "When he still had a stick up his ass."

Some of us... were just born different.

EXT. BERK VILLAGE - NIGHT

FLASHBACK

Dragons sweep from the sky, blowing FIRE, carrying off sheep and dried fish. Vikings chase them down, hurling weapons.

VALKA (V.O.) Berk was a land of kill or be killed, but I believed peace was possible.

A Viking is about to finish off a felled dragon, but Valka chases up to him and tugs at his arm.

VALKA Stop! You'll only make it worse!

The dragon takes wing, escaping to safety... leaving the Viking warrior glaring at Valka.

VALKA (V.O.) It was a very unpopular opinion.

As he rushes off, Valka hears a clatter and whirls around to see a DRAGON (Cloudjumper) clawing its way through the roof of a house.

VALKA Hiccup!

INT. STOICK'S HOUSE

Cloudjumper enters the house through the hole in the roof, sniffing out a baby's cradle in the corner. Valka rushes in, panicked.

VALKA (V.O.) One night, a dragon broke into our house, finding you in the cradle.

Valka draws a sword quietly, slipping up to the dragon, only to find it huddled protectively over the cradle as BABY HICCUP innocently plays with one of its talons.

VALKA (V.O.) I rushed to protect you, but what I saw... was proof of everything I believed.

Valka's careful approach causes a floorboard to squeak. Spooked, Cloudjumper whips around to face her, accidentally SCRATCHING baby Hiccup's chin. Their eyes meet. Valka lowers her sword, transfixed.

"So that's how I got that scar? I always thought I got it when I tried to eat a knife or something." mused Hiccup, touching his little scar.

"No, that's Jason. He tried to eat a stapler." Kat said matter-of-factly.

"Who?" questioned Toothless, this being the first time he ever heard that name.

"And what is a stapler?" asked Hiccup, though his question was ignored.

"He's from another world. She's been like this ever since she finished the 'Heroes of Olympus'." explained Zamble, pating Kat at the back, who in response, wailed: "I want more!"

"I still haven't finished Mark of Athena." Pag huffed and began mumbling about mean friends and no library time before returning. "And you could also re-read the series."

"It's not the same!" yelled Kat, mumbling something about 'a flaming piece of shit', a ' stupid and heroic repair boy" and 'MY POOR BABY!'.

VALKA (V.O.) This wasn't a vicious beast, but an intelligent, gentle creature, whose soul reflected my own.

Stoick's AXE spins through the air between them, barely missing Cloudjumper and planting into a pillar.

STOICK Valka, run!

Alarmed, Cloudjumper WHIRLS around at Stoick and BLASTS! Stoick DIVES out of the way as the FIRE SPLATTERS against the wall, burning a hole and setting the room ablaze. The dragon moves toward Stoick, but Valka grabs hold.

VALKA Don't!

It turns to face her again, locking eyes, agitated.

STOICK Hold on!

Stoick dashes through the fire toward Hiccup and pulls him out of the cradle. He pulls his axe from the pillar...

VALKA (O.S.) No! Stoick!

... but in a WHOOSH of smoke and embers, the dragon and Valka are GONE.

STOICK VALKA!

VALKA (DISTANT) Stoick!

Stoick and baby Hiccup watch helplessly as the dragon spirits Valka away into the night sky.

STOICK Valka...

ON BABY HICCUP'S FACE, with the fresh nick on his chin...

MATCH CUT TO: INT. DRAGON MOUNTAIN - DAWN PRESENT DAY

HICCUP'S FACE, with the matching scar.

VALKA You and your father nearly died that night, all because I couldn't kill a dragon.

HICCUP Yeah, it runs in the family.

VALKA It broke my heart to stay away, but I believed you'd be safer if I did.

Hiccup considers this, then raises his eyes to hers, seeing the sting of remorse.

HICCUP How did you survive?

VALKA Oh, Cloudjumper never meant to harm me. He must've thought I belonged here...

She leads him to the edge of raised natural terrace, overlooking the steamy oasis with its flowing hot spring waterfalls. Half-submerged in the warm lake below, a massive white dragon with pronounced, mammoth-like tusks rests benevolently on the banks, his stately countenance like that of a lion surrounded by his pride.

"That's a big dragon." mumbled Hiccup in awe.

"No," Pag murmured. "That's a big~ fish."[2] Then promptly burst into snickers.

The words earned the hooded figure some strange looks and the fellow hosts scooted away.

VALKA (CONT'D) In the home of the great Bewilderbeast. The alpha species. One of very few that still exist. (BEAT) Every nest has its queen, but this is king of all dragons.

Dragons land and bow reverentially to the Bewilderbeast. Valka gestures to the spiked ice ceiling that acts as a sweating greenhouse.

VALKA (CONT'D) With his icy breath, this graceful giant built our nest. A safe haven for dragons everywhere.

On HICCUP, putting it together.

HICCUP Wait, that's the ice-spitter? He's responsible for all that destruction?

VALKA He protects us. We all live under his care. And his command.

They pass an eggshell-littered NURSERY. HATCHLINGS dart out of it, greeting them excitedly and inciting chaos. Toothless is overwhelmed by their manic picking and scratching. Cloudjumper balks and sends them scattering.

VALKA (CONT'D) All but the babies, of course...

The hatchlings clamber on top of the Bewilderbeast and play on his massive tusks, despite his authority. Valka laughs.

VALKA (CONT'D) ... who listen to no one.

The Bewilderbeast lets out a frosty SNORT, sending off the youngsters to spread more mischief. Now awakened, The Bewilderbeast raises his gargantuan head to take a closer look at Hiccup, coming eye to massive eye. Valka bows in his presence. As does Toothless.

VALKA (CONT'D) I've lived among them for twenty years, Hiccup, learning their ways, discovering their secrets...

He acknowledges Hiccup with another icy snort, slicking back Hiccup's hair in a frosty veneer. Valka laughs.

"Nice Jack Frost cosplay, Hiccup." Zamble giggled, along with our other two hosts.

"Do you think Astrid can pull off an Elsa?" asked Pag.

"Maybe. But who would be Anna?" questioned Kat.

VALKA (CONT'D) He likes you.

HICCUP Wow.

She chuckles, delighting in his awe.

VALKA You must be hungry.

HICCUP Uh, yeah. I could eat.

VALKA Good. It's feeding time.

"Mmm, my favorite time." Toothless licks his lips hungrily.

Toothless tucks himself beneath Cloudjumper's wing, trying to befriend him, but Cloudjumper isn't having any of it. He grimaces and follows Valka out.


[1] I'm sure you can all connect with that. Just let me say this:

NICO! My poor baby! *shoves cookie into Nico's mouth*

Will: What are you doing to my boyfriend?

Me: He he... * runs away*

(I've had a Solangelo fever lately. Don't judge.)

[2] From the beta. It's a Black Cat (anime) reference. I really couldn't help it! I don't remember the episode though.

Wow, that's a lotta words this time.