EXT. HIDDEN COVE - DAWN

Hiccup arrives, winded, straining under the weight of a full basket. He clicks the scale he found (like a jar top). Toothless approaches, sniffing him. HICCUP Hey Toothless. I brought breakfast. I hope you're hungry. Hiccup drops the basket and kicks it over. Fish spill out.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) Okay, that's disgusting.

DRAGONS: Disgusting? What about food is disgusting? You don't like food. That must be why you are such a small human.

TOOTHLESS: YOU NEED TO EAT. You could hurt yourself. How could I not notice? I am a horrible companion.

HICCUP: Calm down bud. Just that much raw fish is nasty to me. I mean humans don't eat raw food. We cook it otherwise we'l- we'll get sick.

Hiccup stumbles on his words the pain in his neck momentarily becoming too much. Stoick hearing the pain in his son- no Hiccup's voice forces the guilt to smother him unexpectedly before he gets it under control again saying that it was for the best of the village.

GOBBER: HA, boy what happened they think you are crazy right boy. Dragons after all-

The dragons look to him with narrowed eyes just waiting for the insult to slip out, possibly around the same time a zippleback or nightmare caught themselves aflame, or yawned out a little to much gas for a human's comfort level.

GOBBER:- only eat raw fish. They don't cook their fish. But that might be because of their fire which in all likelihood cooks the fish enough for it to not be dangerous while they be digesting the food.

The Dragons look to him in surprise that he would say something so relatively intelligent. But not as much as the fact that a viking (no fooling themselves on that one) would say something about them that's is not an insult to the dragons.

Toothless approaches, settling in to devour the feast.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) Uh..we've got some salmon...

Toothless swallows it.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) ... some nice Icelandic cod...

Swallows those too.

HICCUP: Oh here we go.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) ... and a whole smoked eel.

HICCUP:So over dramatic bud really. I don't like eel much but that doesn't mean I would rather eat dirt than an eel.

TOOTHLESS: Are you crazy Hiccup eel is extremely poisonous to us dragons. It can make us violently ill and it can also cause us to lose our mind and make us unable to control our fire, see, hear, and even think.

HICCUP: I didn't know it was so bad for you guys i'm sorry bud.

Hiccup gives toothless a hug in comfort and apology.

TYPHOOMERANG: Not quite. My species eats eels to make ourselves stronger against an enemy in our territory. We use the excess fire power and extreme anger caused by the eel to our advantage.

HICCUP: Really?

The Typhoomerang's all nod in agreement.

HICCUP: Wow that's incredible.

Toothless nabs it, chews a few times, then spits it out. He shakes his head violently, snorts and scrubs his massive tongue on the sand. Hiccup takes note.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) No, no, no! It's okay. Yeah, I don't like eel much either.

Toothless focuses on the remainder. With the dragon distracted, Hiccup unwraps his prosthetic fin and opens it like a fan.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) Okay. That's it. That's it, just stick with good stuff. And don't you mind me. I'll just be back...here. Minding my own business.

SNOTLOUT: Could you be anymore noticeable Hiccup. I mean you're just asking to be noticed.

Toothless slouches in embarrassment at allowing that to happen and not even noticing.

Hiccup cautiously approaches the injured tail, but every time he gets near it, Toothless sweeps it away like a cat.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) It's okay.

Hiccup drops a knee on top of the tail. Toothless' head juts up, slows its chewing to a halt.

GOBBER: You're in for some trouble boyo. haha

STOICK: Oh my boy this is the moment you are killed. You idiot of a boy. I should have taught you better.

Stoick's hands start to gripping the seat causing a loud crack to go through the room as he cracks the armrest which went ignored by the oh so gracious vikings allowing this one moment of "weakness".

HICCUP: (CONT'D) Okay...okay..

The dragon tenses, slowly spreading his wings. Hiccup straps the prosthetic fin in place. He cinches the straps.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) (PLEASED) There. Not too bad. It works.

Toothless BOLTS! He snaps his massive wings and takes to the air, carrying Hiccup with him.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) Woah! No! No! No!

The room seems to get a deafening silence as everyone bar hiccup and toothless is in shock at what they see happening.

Hiccup struggles to hold on to the tail. As the ground speeds away, Toothless immediately TIPS into a uncontrolled bank and dive. Hiccup sees the folded fin rattling uselessly in opposition to its flared counterpart. Flap as he may, Toothless can't correct his trajectory. Hiccup swallows his fear and crawls toward the folded prosthetic. He reaches it and YANKS it open. The flared, fan- like appendage catches the air, stabilizing the twisting tail.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) (excited, terrified) It's working!

Toothless arcs just short of the water and climbs... high into the air.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) Yes! Yes, I did it.

DRAGONS: He did it you could fly.

HICCUP: No not yet. He could only fly if i was on his tail which is uncomfortable and dangerous.

GOBBER: Don't sell yourself short boy. That is a great start for a new technology it's unbelieveable.

DRAGONS: What the metal man said is right if he was in a nest he would have probably died by then and no one would expect otherwise. That's just how it works in life.

He glances back at Hiccup, busily holding the tail open while trying to hold on. They're going to crash. Whoomp! Hiccup is suddenly thrown from the tail in the intense force of a turn.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) AAAAAGGGGHHHHH!

GOBBER: You get hurt boyo?

concerning dripping from his voice. Waiting for an answer Hiccup just gestured toward the screen as if to say see and find out.

He bounces across the water's surface and takes a dive. Without Hiccup to operate the tail, Toothless does the same, plunging in a massive cannonball. Hiccup resurfaces, roughed up, but beaming. Toothless appears seconds later.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) Yeah!

GOBBER: I guess you were fine boy.

HICCUP: Yeah I was fine.

A small lopsided smile making it's way onto his face.

STOICK: I haven't seen him smile this much in years. To think those beast caused it. Oh god what kind of a father have been? A bad one for sure but not horrible enough to warrant him betraying his people.

GOBBER: I only see you smile that much when you're in the smithy making those ideas in your mind come to life. I'm glad you found something else in life to make you happy. You deserve it even if it is a dragon.

Sorry it took so long to update this time. I was having a hard time finding the want to write. Then when I did I was stopped by my final exams coming up should be done with the distractions now. Hope to see you all real soon.