Astrid stood watching as Hiccup and the boys prepared Stoick's funeral ship, Heather was making a small fire for the arrows. They had to use one of the ruined ships from Drago's fleet, not something suited for a man like Stoick, but it was better than nothing.

As she watched Hiccup getting the ship ready, she could only imagine what he was going through. He had just met his mother and now he lost his father and his best friend all because he wanted to convince Drago that dragons weren't mindless beasts. Now Drago's intentions were clear.

"Not easy to watch is it?" a voice said behind her.

She turned and saw Valka walking alongside her. This was the first time she got a good look at Hiccup's mother and now she knew were Hiccup got it from. She could tell that Valka was heartbroken as well after meeting her husband and son again after twenty years and now seeing her husband body being put on a funeral ship.

"No, it isn't," said Astrid.

Valka looked at her curiously, which made Astrid uneasy.

"We never got a proper introduction," said Valka. "I'm Valka, I'm—"

"Hiccup's mum, I know," said Astrid. "I'm Astrid Hofferson and I'm—well I'm—"

"I know," said Valka saving her from embarrassment. "I can see it in your eyes."

They remained silent, not looking at each other.

"I'm sorry about Stoick," Astrid said finally.

"Don't be, it wasn't your fault," said Valka.

"But if I had followed Stoick's orders like I was supposed to I won't have got caught by Drago and he couldn't attacked this place as soon."

"You only want to protect Hiccup. Just like what Stoick did to save Hiccup," said Valka. "Besides if I hadn't stand here I would have been there for Hiccup when he need me."

"I still feel guilty about that," said Astrid not looking at her eyes. "Apart of me always liked Hiccup back then. No matter what people say to him, no matter what they did, he never gave up, he always tried to help even when he wasn't wanted."

"Just as stubborn as his father," said Valka smiling.

"Yeah, even Ragnar says he's too stubborn to die," said Astrid laughing. "Even still I let my pride get the better of me and ignored him. But that changed when I saw Hiccup with Toothless, he was so care, so brave and even after Stoick disowned him, he want to help him."

"I suppose he had someone to give him a little push," said Valka raising an eyebrow.

"Well, me and Ragnar might have gave him a small push," said Astrid blushing. "He was stronger than all of use put together."

Valka looked at Hiccup as if something about Astrid's words reminded her of something.

"After this is done," said Valka looking at her. "I want to know you a lot better if you're going to be my future daughter in-law."

Astrid blushed, but then she saw that the boys had finished preparing the funeral ship and Heather had got the fire going.

It was time.

The sun was setting when they finally set Stoick's funeral ship afloat. They laid Stoick's body on a pyre and covered it with a sail and laid his axe and helmet on top of it. Everyone one, apart from Hiccup, had a bow and arrow in their hands which they got from the battlefield.

Gobber then began to give Stoick's his final farewell.

"May the Valkyries welcome you, and lead you through Odin's great battlefield. May they sing your name with love and fury, so that we might hear it rise from the heights of Valhalla… and know that you've taken your rightful place at the table of kings."

Gobber walked up to Hiccup and handed his bow and arrow, meeting his eyes with sympathetic glance and then continued.

"For a great man has fallen. A warrior. A chieftain. A father. A friend."

Hiccup dipped his arrow head in the fire Heather made and set it alight. He aimed the arrow at Stoick's ship and realised it. It sailed across the air and landed on the deck of the ship setting it ablaze.

The others, apart from Gobber who could wield a bow due to his prosthetic arm, follow Hiccup's lead. They draw back in unison and realised their arrows, filling the sky with crisscrossing, flaming streaks. They arc over the lagoon and set the ship alight.

Hiccup looked out at the burning ship. His guilt about not listening about Drago was eating away at him.

"I'm sorry, Dad," he said.

All the Dragon Riders looked on saddened by the scene, both Astrid and Ragnar were sad for Hiccup, Fishlegs was sniffing, the twins just looked on in silence and Snotlout was brushing away a tear, Heather had no idea what to say. Eret wasn't sure what to say meanly because he hardly knew him. Gobber and Alvin, both knowing Stoick since were kids looked on sadly.

"I'm not the chief that you wanted me to be. And I'm not peacekeeper I thought I was. I don't know…"

Valka looked at her son, her heart breaking. She walked up to him and stoked his hair as they both looked out at the burning ship.

"You came early into this world. You were such a wee thing. So frail, so fragile. I feared you wouldn't make it," said Valka and looked straight at his eyes. But your father… he never doubted. He always said you'd become the strongest of them all." She then turned to face him. "And he was right. "You have the heart of a chief and the soul of a dragon. Only you can bring our worlds together. That is who you are, son."

Hiccup then turned to stare at the ship and watches it in silence, silhouetted in its glow.

"I was so afraid of becoming my dad. Mostly because I thought I never could. How do you become someone that great? That brave? That selfless?" said Hiccup as a tear ran down his cheek. "I guess you can only try." He then turned to face all the people behind him with a new determined face. "A chief protects his own. We're going back."

Ragnar looked on and saw that next to him, Astrid was smiling at him proudly. Ragnar was proud too, he was proud to call him his friend.

Many people have asked me when was it that Hiccup became the chief I know. Well, it was on that day when I say that I thought to myself, there is one who I could follow, there is one that I could call chief.

"Uh, with what?" Tuffnut asked.

"He took all the dragons," Ruffnut reminded him.

"Not all of them," said Hiccup with a knowing smile.

Moments later, they were zooming through ice channels on the baby Scuttleclaws. It was extremely difficult to stay on them and trying to fly in a straight line. Fishlegs, Snotlout, Eret and the twins were screaming their heads off as they flew.

"Fly straight!" Ruffnut ordered.

"I don't want to die!" Fishlegs yelled.

"We can't fly these things!" Tuffnut said trying stay on his Scuttleclaw.

"Yeah, no kidding!" said Fishlegs.

As if to prove his point his Scuttleclaw flew straight into a snow bank, sending several chinks of snow right into Eret's face almost knocking him off his.

Astrid then flew alongside Hiccup. "But won't that Bewilderbeast just take control of these guys, too?"

"They're babies. They don't listen to anyone!" said Hiccup.

"Yeah, just like us!" said Tuffnut.

"Unfortunately that means us as well," said Ragnar trying to stay on his.

"Like we had much choice," said Heather.

Gobber and Alvin were flying clumsily behind them, struggling to control their Scuttleclaws.

"This… is… very dangerous!" said Gobber.

"Just like old times isn't it," said Alvin.

They both then caught up to Hiccup and Valka.

"Some might suggest this is poorly conceived," said Gobber.

"Well, it's a good thing that I never listen," said Hiccup.

"Stubborn, just like his father," said Alvin.

Then a sharp ridge came rushing towards them. Hiccup quickly turned to flew alongside it and Gobber and Alvin turned flying alongside the other side of it.

"So…what is… your plan?!" Gobber asked yelled through the gaps in the iceberg.

"Get Toothless back and kick Drago's—"

Gobber and Alvin never heard the last bit, because they were interrupted by another closure in the gaps of ice. Gobber and Alvin looked in front of them and saw an icy peak heading straight towards them.

"Heads up!" Gobber yelled.

They all quickly dodged the peak, but Hiccup saw another problem ahead of them.

"And that thing," said Hiccup.

Gobber and Alvin looked ahead of them too late, to discover that they were about to ram into an icy peak ahead of them. While everyone else managed to avoid it, Gobber and Alvin weren't so lucky. They slammed straight into it and felt a lasting imprint of their bodies on it.

It was night time when the Bewilderbeast arrived at Berk. Torches were burning in their braziers as Berk slumbers not knowing of the incoming threat. The Bewilderbeast approached closer and closer to the shore and crushed one of the monolithic Viking statues that guard the harbour.

It carried one towards the sleeping village of Berk.