Aeryn had grown especially fond of Ruffnut and Hiccup in their stay of the island. Hiccup because he found out was his brother and for a reason looked almost exactly like him, Ruffnut, because she was the first 'human' to discover him in the wild, and he was quickly growing affections for her.

"How's your progress?" Stoic came back to the island, after a month, to check on the progress.

"Well, we've gotten him to talk, sir." Astrid said, while all the teens, minus Aeryn, were sitting by the camp fire.

"Have you asked him about going back to Berk? Or about ... me." Stoic's voice sounded broken. Astrid remembered the last time he used that voice, was when Hiccup had defeated the Red Death and lost his leg.

"Not yet, sir. Hiccup said, that maybe it would be better if you talked to him."

"Ok, well where is he?"

"Uh, Aeryn kinda leaves every night somewhere and then comes back in the morning. So you'll have to wait till morning."

"Urgh, fine." Stoic made his way towards his dragon.

"You know, I've never seen him so happy, before." Jarius said, as the two friends watched their friend run towards the camp.

They had noticed his recent change in routine. He woke up especially early, did his usual chores, which included, empting the nets and traps, quickly ate breakfast, in the whiz of time finished a morning wrestle with either of them and ran off to the beach, where he spent most of his day at.

"What do you say we follow him?" The green Nightmare put on his infamous mischievous grin, and crawled after Aeryn, keeping his distance.

"Urgh, its times like these that I wonder, why Aeryn is still your friend."

The two dragons followed Aeryn to the camp, and Aeryn himself was too busy thinking, that he didn't smell nor hear them coming.

"Hello, everyone." Aeryn still had a funny accent, when he talked to the humans. He stood up on his legs when he came into the camp.

"Aeryn?" Hiccup and Ruffnut looked up from their spot by the fireplace.

"He's spending time with the aliens!" Soros chocked out.

"Soros, he is one of these aliens. Let's go. Leave it." The Nadder pushed the Nightmare away.

"Aeryn, you remember him, right?" Hiccup gestured to Stoic, talking to the boy who was crawling on all his limbs.

"Yes." The wild boy nodded, keeping his intense green eyes on the Chief.

"Well, he's yours ... and mine father."

Aeryn fixed a powerful gaze that Stoic would never forget. "I have no father. I only have a mother, but never a father and especially not one who dumps his son into the sea."

"Aeryn, wait ... I didn't dump you into the sea. You were stolen from your home, by the Outcasts, even before you were named."

"What are 'the Outcasts'?" Aeryn looked at him. "Is it like another herd?"

"Yes, it's another herd of Vikings. That doesn't like me, or our herd." Hiccup simplified for his brother the understanding.

Aeryn sighed, not knowing, what to do. "I'll accept you as the man that gave birth to me, but not the father that protected me for my entire childhood."