Disclaimer: I Do Not Own How To Train Your Dragon.
The Dragon's Brother
All the teenagers felt frozen. This was the boy they had tried to kill as children. All they wanted to do was make their cheif proud, and from the talks of the parents saying how Stoick was left to raise a son who could never hope to be a Viking and actually become a failure to the tribe.
They felt that the best way to make the village happy again was to be rid of the disappointment.
They now knew that they were lucky that Stoick didn't have them executed for the death of the heir.
"I forgive you for you know, the attempted murder," said Hiccup, and he turned his back on them to talk to his dragon.
"Wait what?" yelled Astrid, she was fuming.
For years, she had felt guilty. After her mother and father punished her, and explained what she had done wasn't just wrong, but illegal and that the children involved were lucky they weren't killed in retribution, all Astrid had felt was guilt.
And here was the boy she had felt guilty over for years, saying 'it's fine, it's alright'. She was not having it.
"What's wrong?" Hiccup asked.
"You should not forgive us. You are supposed to yell at us! Call us traitors to Berk, even threaten us a lot! You aren't supposed to walk in here after years of being dead and say that it's okay. But it is not. We tried to kill you. We were children, and we tried to drown you in cold blood to try and better ourselves and our families in Berk. Instead, while you were off playing families with dragons, we were locked up for a long time, then we were to scrub all the ships, clean out all, and I mean all, the farmhouses and outhouses. All the while, you were actually alive!" screamed Astrid.
"You feeling better?" Hiccup asked. Astrid, tears in her eyes, shook her head.
"No, we went through years of hurt and blame, and neglect because of you!"
"And I would've gone through years of abuse, neglect or someone else would've tried to kill me because you failed," said Hiccup. The teenagers froze.
"I stayed away because I knew that live on the move with dragons of all things to keep me safe, would've been a hel lot better than staying here and being spat on, yelled at, blamed for every little mishap that happens on Berk long before I was even born," said Hiccup.
"You don't know that it would've happened like that" whispered Ruffnut.
"No, I do. Why?"
"Why?" asked Tuffnut. Fishlegs stayed off to the side because Hiccup had already talked through this with him. Snotlout was frozen, his uncle hadn't talked to him since he proudly yelled that he killed the hiccup of the village.
"Because you're a hiccup," said Snotlout. Everyone looked at him.
"Yes," said Hiccup, "because I'm Hiccup."