Well readers, this is it. The final chapter. I must say I've enjoyed writing this story for you guys and I never thought I'd make it this far. Thank you for not only encouraging me to push on but also putting up with my occasional spelling and grammar mistake. Note that speed typing on a tablet is never a good idea.

Also, I decided to give Hiccup a different injury. By having Draven save Hiccup as well as Toothless in the last chapter, it only makes sense that less fire would have reached her. I also did this as I didn't see limb loss as a crucial thing required to show the friendship between Hiccup and Toothless (I'm not the first person to do this, just so you guys know. Some people didn't even injure Hiccup at all in their stories (male or female)). At the end of the day, this is MY non-profit story and I've written it MY way.

I'm possibly considering a sequel to expand into HTTYD2 but I'm still deciding on that, my ideas are still in concept phase. If you guys have any ideas, don't hesitate to tell me. Though I will be taking a break from all this writing, so don't expect an update any time soon. So without further delay, I give you the final chapter to The viking girl and the hybrid.

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Hiccup was sound asleep in her bed. She had been out for over a day now and her mind had felt so at peace. Her chest rose and fell with every breath as she lay there in the quiet, dreaming of flying with Toothless and Draven. Slowly, she began to stir from her sleep with the feeling of a gentle breeze on her cheek. Opening her eyes, she came to see Toothless looming over her protectively while also playfully and gently nudging her with his snout.

"Oh, hey, Toothless." she friendly greeted at seeing his large eyes.

Seeing Hiccup awake was more than joyous for Toothless. Leaning closer, Toothless continued to playfully nudge his rider. It was also to get her to move so he could at least see if she was okay moving on her own "I'm happy to see you too, buddy." Hiccup said again, rather surprised to see Toothless behave like this, until he accidentally stepped on her gut.

"OW! What-" Hiccup groaned, until she saw where she was. "I'm in my house. You're in my house." she said in surprise and shock. "Uh... does my dad know you're in here?!" she asked her Night Fury, even though he couldn't answer her.

Toothless however was overjoyed to see his rider awake and speaking. For him, he was glad he hadn't lost his best friend, and celebrated by leaping from rafter to rafter of the Haddock house.

"Okay, okay- no, Toothless! Aw, come on..." Hiccup said, reaching her arms out to Toothless to try get him to stop, but stopped herself when she looked to her hands. Her left hand was bandaged up to her elbow. Remembering the battle against the Red Death, she recalled getting hit by the dragon's tail and falling into heat as she passed out.

Pulling her blanket back, she saw part of her right leg was bandaged as well. Examining her body, she found a third bandage around her neck. Slowly and somewhat fearfully, she carefully unravelled the cloth on her arm, soon revealing scarred burns spanning her whole left hand up to her elbow. Undoing the remaining bandages, her right calve was scarred as was the entire left side of her neck.

Moving so she sat on the side of the bed, she ran her hands over the burns to feel how they had changed, yet surprisingly, she still had full feeling and functionality in her hand and leg. She had always heard of burn victims getting nerve damage from the burns, yet her hand, neck and leg still felt normal.

Hitching her breath slightly, a few tears managed to escape her eyes. Seeing this, Toothless came down to her side and Nuzzled the side of her face to see if she was okay.

"It's okay bud. I'm just glad we made it out of there alive. I'm okay." Hiccup said cheerfully with a smile as she wrapped her arms around Toothless' neck.

Pulling back, Hiccup tried to stand up but suddenly felt heavily fatigued and collapsed. Toothless however stepped forwards and caught her with his head.

"Thanks, bud." she said softly as Toothless supported her towards the door.

Cautiously as not to hurt Hiccup any further, Toothless inched his way closer to the door with Hiccup leaning on his side. Reaching the door, Hiccup was able to stand on her own as she extended her hand out to the doorhandle.

However as she opened the door, her eyes were greeted with a large snarling Monstrous Nightmare. Out of natural reaction, she slammed the door shut and looked back to Toothless. Then she recalled that the Nightmare looked like Hookfang.

"Toothless, stay here." she said as she opened the door again. This time however, she saw that her cousin was atop the Nightmare with nearly a dozen vikings behind him on dragons of their own.

"Come on, guys, get ready! Hold on tight! Here we go!" Snotlout said as he led the vikings and their dragons off.

Stepping out of her home, Hiccup could barely believe what she was seeing. Vikings and dragons living and working together. "I knew it. I'm dead."

"No, but you gave it your best shot." Hiccup heard her father say as he came up next to her.

Placing a hand over her shoulder, Stoick gestured out to the village. "So? What do you think?"

At this point, vikings and dragons alike began to see Hiccup standing at the top of the hill.

"Hey, look! It's Hiccup!" one viking announced, causing nearly two dozen of them to swarm up to Hiccup.

"Hiccup, how you doin' lass?"

"It's great to see you up and about."

Hiccup was utterly shocked. The people looked up to her and praised her. For dragon riding?

"Turns out all we needed was a little more of... this." Stoick said, gesturing to Hiccup.

Wide-eyed, Hiccup smiled as she replied to her father "You just gestured to all of me."

"Good thing you still are all of you. Your burn could have been worse had Draven not had that medicine of his." Fishlegs said as he joined the crowd.

Pulling out a brand new saddle and bright red leather tail for Toothless, Gobber handed it to his apprentice. "Welcome home."

Toothless had come out now to see Hiccup as well. "Night Fury! Get down!" one Vikings yelled out as Toothless jumped over all of them to get to his rider. Seeing her okay as well as sniffing his new saddle and flying gear, he knew everything would be alright.

Hiccup kept looking around at the crowd and genuinely didn't know what to do or what to say. She had never been appreciated before for who she was and yet here she was. Stoick, Gobber, the twins, Fishlegs, Andor, even Snotlout, all were there for her. All except one. "Where's Draven?" Hiccup asked.

"He's by the cliff." Andor answered. "Seeing you burned, well let's just say he's blaming himself."

Shaking her head at how Draven always burdened himself with everything, Hiccup left the group in search of her companion.

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Hiccup had gone down the the cliff side overlooking the docks where Andor said Draven was. The hybrid was indeed there, standing alone without his mask and his hood down. Why would he be standing here? Why wasn't he there when Hiccup woke up? Of course Hiccup didn't blame him. After all, she was the only person he cared for in his life, and seeing her hurt would no doubt hurt him as well.

"Draven?" the hybrid heard a soft, gentle voice say behind him. Feeling a shiver run down his back, he slowly turned to see Hiccup smiling with her radiant emerald eyes staring at him.

Unable to control his emotions, Draven quickly stepped towards Hiccup and pulled her into a tight embrace. After all, she was the one who made him retain his humanity when he first changed five years ago. She was the one who motivated him to better himself and come back to Berk. She was the reason he was still alive, for without her, Draven saw his life as meaningless.

His hug was a bit tight though and Hiccup did groan slightly to the pressure on her burned areas. Hearing her, Draven let go of her and stepped back. "Ugh, sorry... I just, uh... I mean I'm glad that you're okay but...i-" Draven stuttered out, feeling ashamed that he couldn't get to Hiccup in time to prevent her getting hurt.

Hiccup however cut him short. "Oh shut up." Hiccup said as she wrapped her arms around Draven's neck and pulled him down into a kiss. The hybrid tensed slightly at first, but soon relaxed and sank into their kiss, wrapping his own arms around her to deepen it.

When they separated, the rested their foreheads against each other, with emerald eyes meeting that of crimson. "I love you." Hiccup softly whispered to Draven. "I love you too." the hybrid soothingly replied. For a while, all the two did was stand there as they leaned into each other's embrace.

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Later in the day, all the teens had gathered together to take their dragons around the island. Assembling and testing Toothless' new tail, she patted her dragon on his side. "You ready?" Hiccup asked Toothless. "Always." Toothless eagerly answered, ready to get back in the air for the feeling of freedom. Looking to her side, Hiccup saw Draven with Violet, also ready to take to the sky.

Looking around, dozens of vikings with their dragons were doing the same; bonding and working together for the better of the island. They had done it. It took them years and countless challenges, but Hiccup and Draven had done it.

If someone had told you that dragons used to be hunted on Berk, you'd probably call them senile. That was the old Berk. Sure most things were still the same there on the island, like how it snows nine months of the year, and hails the other three. Any food that grows there is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here are even more so.

The only difference now to the island are the pets. While other places have dogs, cats or parrots, the people of Berk have something better. They have dragons.