Gobber was working on a new sword hand attachment when Stoick strolled into the shop."Good morning Gobber." The blacksmith didn't seem to notice or he just wasn't listening."Gobber? Again the blacksmith continued to work. "Gobber can you hear me?" "Yes! Yes I can hear you. I just wish I couldn't." Stoick was shocked at his friends outburst."What's wrong with you?" "Stoick you are an awful human being." This the chief was even more shocked by. "Gobber." "Your gone has been missing for nearly a year and now two more children are missing because you refused to look for him. I know you love him. Why did you say those why did you only search for two days?" Stoick sighed and turned to leave. He had lost all of his friends and respect as a chief. This wasn't new.

"Stoick I want to tell you something. Will you please sit down?" Stoick rolled his eyes but obeyed. "When Hiccup started working here as my apprentice he hated it. Not because he didn't like the job, because he wanted to be with you. He was a five year old boy who was bullied to no end. He just wanted his dad's love. He never even talked really about making you proud. He just wanted to feel loved. Like any kid would. All kids need that. He became attention starved and it made him make stupid choices. There is no doubt in my mind that if you had given him a chance he would never screw up like he did again." Stoick growled under his breath. "Then when I finally gave him attention and love he still screwed up." Gobber rolled his eyes. "Because it's too late for that now Stoick. You disowned him. That scars a person young and old. That's never going to go away. Even if he's forgiven you. It's impossible to take it all back. Have you seen the way he's so upset when he screws up. The kids terrified of getting disowned again. Of being hated and an outcast. You literally made him realize his worst fear. Even if you didn't mean it, he's broken. He probably didn't think you meant it at the time but now that you've just been sitting around doing nothing, he's probably figured out that you don't care what happens to him or not." "I do care." "Then act like it. Until you pull yourself together, Spitelout is going to be chief. The council had a meeting last night and they decided that you are unfit to lead." Stoick jumped out of his seat in anger. "You can't do that!" "Huh, funny how you care about a job that you've been neglecting for so long more than you're son."

Stoick's expression turned from on of fury to one of regret. Gobber walked out and left Stoick in the shop alone. He couldn't believe it. He lost everything.


Astrid finally found the pair. Hiccup was crying onto Toothless. Astrid led him back to the cave where they slept. again Fishlegs tried to stay out of in."Hiccup I'm sorry." "It's okay. I don't know why I'm not over this already. It's been along time." He wiped away another tear. "We need to focus at the problem at hand. Frigga. She's probably looking for me and Toothless. I can find her and stay with her during the day and sneak back here at night." "What is this some kind of romance story?" Hiccup chuckled. "Maybe you should try to introduce us." Hiccup shook his head. "I don't know. Maybe tomorrow. But right now I have to find her before she finds us." He stood up and kissed Astrid on the top of the head. "You're awesome you know that right." "Yeah I do." Toothless gagged at there physical affection.

"Frigga! Where are you?!" Hiccup and Toothless wandered back to their camp. They finally found the huge emerald dragon.Toothless?Hiccup?She roared. Where have you been?She sniffed and nuzzled Toothless. Hiccup backed up a bit."We found more humans. But there nice! I know thses ones. They came to find Hiccup because they missed him." Frigga growled and snorted smoke out of her nostrils.More humans?! What do they want?!Toothless and Hiccup both backed up away from the furious."One of them is Hiccup's friend and the other is his uh...mate." Frigga shook her head.He's only a mere child himself. He can't have a mate,Hiccup watched to two exchange words but he had no idea what those words were."He's not a baby and neither am I. And what do you care? You tried to boil him the other day. I was playing and I care because I'm not letting any more rotten humans take away my babies again!

Toothlesses eyes widened. He bowed abit even though she couldn't see it."Okay." Toothless slicked back to Hiccup and looked at him with big sad eyes."It's okay bud. You tried." Hiccup hugged the night fury and followed Frigga nervously back to camp. But what they didn't know was Frigga now had a plan to protect her babies. And she would put it into action tomorrow.


Sorry it took so long to update. I felt like Gobber was being left out of the story so I used him as the voice of reason to Stoick. Since Gobber was Stoicks only friend left he has now hit rock bottom. And I also wanted to point out that Frigga still sees them as her babies even if she's still weary of Hiccup. I'll update sooner next time. Thanks for reading. Please review.