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-_- Last Time: Still angry with each other Stoick and Hiccup did just that.

Now:

After everyone was fed and ready they went back to the theater. "From now on anyone who wants to comment must keep it appropriate for children." Slayer said before sitting down. A few mumblings could be heard from the dragon's side but no one voiced it.

STOICK, seated on a thick slice of tree-trunk. He is slouched over the fire-pit, stirring the coals with his axe.

"Dude you are so dead." Tuffnut says to Hiccup once he saw the seen. "Yeah I know." Everyone was worried that he didn't reply with his usual sarcasm.

Embers waft around his beard. Hiccup tries to sneak past, up the stairs to his room. Stoick seems none the wiser, when...

"Cuz when we get back I have to teach you how to sneak around." Hiccup said nothing, too shocked that Snotlout said something nice to him.

STOICK: Hiccup.

HICCUP (CAUGHT): Dad. Uh...

Stoick stands, takes a deep breath.

HICCUP (CONT'D): I, uh... I have to talk to you, Dad.

STOICK: I need to speak with you too, son.

Hiccup and Stoick STRAIGHTEN at the same moment.

HICCUP STOICK: I've decided I don't want to I think it's time you learn fight dragons. to fight dragons. (BEAT) (BEAT): What? What?

The entire audience bursts into laughter. Only those two would change their minds at the exact same time. After their done laughing Gobber sighs, knowing what's coming.

STOICK (CONT'D): You go first.

HICCUP: No, you go first.

"Wrong choice!" No one knew who had said it but they agreed. And Slayer thought it sounded familiar but dismissed the thought.

STOICK: Alright. You get your wish. Dragon training. You start in the morning.

"Wow you really are dead."

HICCUP (SCRAMBLING): Oh man, I should've gone first.

"Yes you should have." the same voice said. But this time a boy that looked about fourteen with blond spiky hair that had red highlights and silver eyes stepped out of the shadows (give you three guesses who it is) and smirks at the group. "Matt!?" Slayer suddenly screamed. She ran up and hugged her brother before dragging him to the chairs.

Uh, 'cause I was thinking, you know we have a surplus of dragon-fighting Vikings, but do we have enough bread-making Vikings, or small home Repair Vikings-

"Home repair?! If anything you'd be in the forge with me lad!?" Gobber said with mock anger.

STOICK: -You'll need this.

Stoick hands Hiccup his axe. Hiccup avoids taking it.

HICCUP: I don't want to fight dragons.

The dragons feel glad that one of the Vikings, even though it's Hiccup, would say that.

STOICK: Come on. Yes, you do.

Hiccup sighs. The one time his dad actually listens to him is just before he decides to change his mind.

HICCUP: Rephrase. Dad I can't kill dragons.

STOICK: But you will kill dragons.

HICCUP: No, I'm really very extra sure that I won't.

STOICK: It's time Hiccup.

HICCUP: Can you not hear me?

"Can he ever hear me?" Only the dragons hear this and Toothless growls at Stoick.

STOICK: This is serious son!

Stoick forces the axe into Hiccup's hands. Its weight drags him down. He looks up to see Stoick under-lit with firelight.

"That is a very scary picture. How are you not trembling?" Matt asks Hiccup. "I'm too busy trying to hold up the sudden weight of the axe to notice." Hiccup says like he's done it a thousand times. (He probably has)

STOICK (CONT'D): When you carry this axe... you carry all of us with you.

"Wouldn't that crush me?"

Which means you walk like us.

"I don't think I can manage that."

You talk like us.

"I like the way I talk."

You think like us.

"NOOOOOOO! My brain!" Hiccup wails in mock horror. Making the Viking teens laugh, along with many children.

No more of... (GESTURING NON-specifically at Hiccup): ... this.

HICCUP: You just gestured to all of me.

Matt laughs and says, "Is that like your catchphrase or something?" Hiccup smiles and only nods his head, not letting on just how often he really needs to say it. (Last time I checked twenty time the day before last)

STOICK: Deal?

HICCUP: This conversation is feeling very one-sided.

Hiccup says nothing. Just lowers his head. This causes the dragons, mainly Toothless, to mumble some very rude words about Vikings in general.

STOICK: DEAL?!

Hiccup glances at the axe in his hands. It's a no-win argument.

A curious Astrid turns to Hiccup and asks, "Are all your conversations with your father like that?" He simply nods his head. This surprises many of the Vikings, who never really thought about how Stoick and his son got along at home.

HICCUP (RESIGNED): Deal.

Satisfied, Stoick grabs his helmet and duffel bag... and heads for the door.

STOICK: Good. Train hard. I'll be back. Probably.

HICCUP: And I'll be here. Maybe.

Stoick heads out the door, leaving Hiccup holding the axe.

Fishlegs turns to Hiccup and asks, "What did you do after that?" He shrugs and says, "Not much, I put the axe away, ate supper, and went to bed."

-_- A chapter! At last! *Falls to my knees dramatically* Hope you like the fact Matt made a reappearance. If not... OH WELL! :)

Until next time this is Blackdragonslayer signing off! PEOPLE!