Toothless leads them to the Cove, and Hiccup and Stoick follow him as he jumps down the rocks…only to be stopped by Shift suddenly appearing.
The Changewing growls threateningly, baring its teeth at the two humans, and Hiccup says "Easy, Shift, remember me? Bloom's brother? We were eating cooked fish on a cliff and you were right behind us?"
Shift seems to nod, then growls at Stoick once again.
"Yeah, I know. Bloom's kinda mad at him. That's why we're here. She's down there?"
Shift growls, and Hiccup swears he's saying 'Yeah. And seriously ticked off.'
"Look, can we just talk to her? No weapons, we're not here to hurt anybody. Now please let us through."
Shift climbs out of the way, disappearing once on the trunk of a tree.
Stoick mutters "I'll have to watch out for him next time I'm out here."
Hiccup quietly says "Dad, these dragons know how to hide. If they don't want you finding them, you won't find them."
When they get down to the bottom of the cove, Hiccup can immediately tell Bloom's here - or been here recently, anyway. There's a campfire going, and a pile of leaves that looks vaguely like a bed. Hiccup says "Bloom's here. Or was. Maybe the dragons warned her we were coming. Or maybe she's just waiting to see what we want. Hey, Bloom? You here? We just want to talk, that's all! Also, I got worried when I went upstairs and you were gone."
After a minute, Bloom walks out of a natural cave in the walls around the cove, and says "Alright. You say you want to talk, now talk."
Instead of saying a word, Hiccup runs over and hugs her hard, startling her and making four Terrible Terrors growl at him until Bloom throws her hands around him in return. Hiccup breaths out "You're ok, oh man, you've got no idea how worried I've been for the past few weeks."
"Yeah, I'm awake, I've eaten ten fish already and I'm still hungry, what's he doing here?"
"Uh, you mean Dad?"
"Yeah. Or rather, not-Dad. He disowned us, remember?"
Hiccup takes a step back, and Stoick rubs his hand against the back of his head, saying "I may have overreacted then, Bloom."
She crosses her arms, and says "Sending us to the house for a day after a dragon attack is overreacting, disowning us because we tried to prove dragons aren't the mindless killing machines everybody thought isn't! Disowning us is telling us to go and never come back!" Tears run down her face, for the first time ever.
Hiccup says "Dad apologized before Toothless and I flew up to join the fight against the Red Death. And said he was proud we're his kids."
"And that makes it all better? 'Lead us home, devil' - that's what he said! Told me to lead almost everyone I grew up knowing to their deaths! Despite the fact that I kept saying they were getting in over their heads like they were swimming to the bottom of the ocean where the Scauldrons live! And an 'I'm sorry' is supposed to make all of that better? Supposed to make fifteen years of ignoring us both disappear? All the times you got bullied and I'm the only one that ever gave a damn about you enough to help? All the inventions you made to try and be 'one of them' that they never even glanced at because it wasn't 'the Viking way?' How he, and I quote Gobber on this, 'wasn't disappointed in what's on the outside, but what's on the inside' - how apparently you needed to stop being all of this? Being yourself? Being the one person in the whole village that has a brain that hasn't been given a concussion so many times it's half dead? And a simple 'I'm sorry' makes all of that disappear?" Her hair starts floating up above her face and her eyes turn orange, making the Terrible Terrors back away slowly and cower while some of the bigger dragons step forward and start growling angrily.
Hiccup says "Calm down, Bloom. Please, you really need to calm down. Before something, I don't know, catches fire or something. Because your glowing orange now."
Bloom blinks, and then the glow fades as her hair suddenly drops back to where it's supposed to be and her eyes turn blue again- and then Stoick nearly crushes her to his chest, saying he's sorry.
Bloom breaks and starts sobbing at that, pounding on his on his chestplate a few times - and a few dragons roar at him, but its likely because he's got Bloom so close that they don't tackle him to the ground like Brightfire did.
After about twenty minutes, and a lot of apologizing on Stoick's part, Bloom apparently forgives him - and her head is pounding, her stomach is growling like she's got another Terrible Terror in there, and she can't really stand.
But she also doesn't want to be carried either - they finally settle on her riding Brightfire back to town, and back to the house. Where she crashes back onto her bed and falls back asleep, much to Hiccup and Stoick's relief - after saying she's got notes on dragon species not in the Book of Dragons hidden under her bed, including one she calls a Typhoomerang. It has a head like a bare skull, gets massively huge, and creates a distinctive swirling burn mark on the ground.
And then they realize there's dragons surrounding the house, including a Zippelback poking both heads through the window. And they don't leave when Stoick tries to shoo them away either - its worse than the first few days!
AN: Hey, everyone, sorry about the wait for an update! Here it is, though - no, i couldn't have Stoick get eaten just yet. Then it would fall to Hiccup and Bloom to lead the place, which is definitely not happening - Bloom has absolutely no interest in doing such, and Hiccup's an awkward fifteen-year-old that only recently got accepted by his tribe at last. Can't really see either of them leading the Hooligan tribe.
In response to a guest review...yes, Hiccup's mother did go the movie route. Like she'd have let the village bully Hiccup so much. She'd probably have been the one Bloom would've gone to about the dragons, in all honesty.
Anyway, enjoy! Please review if you've got suggestions!