My Version of How to Train Your Dragon

A/N: I have to say, this chapter includes my least favorite scene in the movie. I mean, who disowns their own son? But then again, in there, he did commit what they would put it, a crime. It still hurts, though.

But now is not the time to get sad or sentimental. It's onto Chapter 21! Action!

Chapter 21

Dishonor and Something Crazy

Stoick pushed the Misfit Trio into the dark and empty Great Hall. He was furious. "I should've known." he grumbled. "I should've seen the signs."

"Dad." Hiccup tried to get his attention.

"We had a deal!" Stoick shouted.

"I know we did. But that was before- oh, it's all so messed up." Hiccup panicked, running his hands through his hair.

Cosette wanted to say something, but Ragnar held her back gently. They'll step in if it goes from bad to worse. Which usually happens.

"So, everything in the ring?" Stoick asked angrily. "A trick? A lie?"

"I screwed up." Hiccup admitted. "I-I should've told you-"

"And you two!" Stoick turned to Cosette and Ragnar. "Did you help him?!" His tone made them jump back.

Hiccup got between his father and his friends. "Dad, don't drag them into this! Look, take this out on me, but please, just don't hurt Toothless. Or Fossil or Violet."

"The dragons?" asked Stoick. "That's what you're worried about? Not the people you almost killed?"

"They were just protecting us! They're not dangerous."

"They've killed HUNDREDS of us!" Stoick shouted.

"And we've killed THOUSANDS of them!" Hiccup yelled back.

Ragnar decided to step in now. "They just defend themselves! That's all!"

"They raid us because they have to!" Cosette explained. "If they don't bring enough food back, they'll be eaten themselves."

"Isn't that what any living thing would do?" Ragnar tried to appeal. "Steal and kill to save your own skin?"

"There's something on their island, Dad." said Hiccup. "It's a dragon the size of-"

"Island?" Stoick repeated. The Misfit Trio froze, with Ragnar and Cosette giving Hiccup a quick "nice going" glare. "So, you've been to their nest?"

"Did I say, 'nest'?" Hiccup asked.

"How did you find it?" demanded Stoick.

"We didn't." Hiccup said. "Our dragons did. Only a dragon could find the island."

The Misfit Trio felt shivers go down their spines when they saw the look on Stoick's face. "Oh, Dad, please no!" Hiccup pleaded. "You- you don't know what you're up against. It's like nothing you've ever seen!" Stoick just ignored him and began walking to the doors. "Dad, I promise you can't win this one!" Hiccup had enough as he went up to his father and started to pull on his arm. "For once in your life, will you please just listen to me?!" he yelled, before he was shoved to the ground. Cosette and Ragnar ran to check on him. They looked up at Stoick.

"You've thrown in you lot with them." he said, sounding betrayed. "You're not a Viking. You're not my son." Hiccup felt like he suddenly couldn't breathe.

But Ragnar and Cosette finally exploded. "What kind of a father are you?!" Ragnar yelled, surprising Stoick. "What father disowns his own son?! His only son?!"

"Some father you are!" Cosette retorted.

Stoick went up to them and grabbed them by the arm as he got them on their feet. "You two dishonor your family. Your parents." he said solemnly.

"You don't talk about our parents." They said in a low growl, glaring daggers at him.

Stoick dragged them out of the Great Hall, leaving Hiccup on the floor. He pushed them to a nearby Viking who grabbed them. "Lock them up." he ordered. "And ready the ships!"

"NO!" the Misfit Trio screamed, heartbroken.

Hiccup heard his friends struggling as they were dragged away. He could feel his eyes getting moist and a lump building up in his throat. He couldn't help but feel guilty about everything.

Later, the armada was armed and ready. They got a chained Toothless onto the lead ship. They would've taken the other two, but they were too big. Stoick saw Hiccup on the gangplank, seeing the armada off. Cosette and Ragnar's angry retorts came back to him, but he brushed them out of his head.

Hiccup watched as the armada sailed off with his best friend. Well, one of them. The other two were locked in the jail. When the armada returned, the three of them would be banished. But, he knew that they won't come back. At least not alive.

There were no sobs or whimpers. There were just silent tears running down his face. This was all his fault.

After a couple of hours, the armada was long gone, and Hiccup was still staring dejectedly at the horizon. He then heard someone come up beside him. It was Astrid.

"It's a mess." she began. "You must feel horrible. You lost everything: your father, your tribe, your best friends."

"Thank you for summing that up." Hiccup said sarcastically. "Why couldn't I have killed that dragon when I found him in the woods?" he quietly asked, directing this question to himself. "Would've been better for everyone."

"Yep." Astrid agreed. "The rest of us would've done it. So, why didn't you?" Hiccup was silent. "You told Rag and Henderson why. Now, tell me. Why didn't you?"

"I don't know." said Hiccup, turning away. "I couldn't."

"That's not an answer." Astrid stated.

"Why is so important to you all of a sudden?" Hiccup questioned, getting frustrated.

"Because I wanna remember what you say right now." she answered.

"Oh, for the love of- I was a coward!" Hiccup ranted. "I was weak! I wouldn't kill a dragon."

"You said 'wouldn't' that time." Astrid pointed out.

"Whatever!" Hiccup yelled. "Three hundred years, and I'm the first Viking who wouldn't kill a dragon." He then turned away from her again.

"First to ride one, though." said Astrid, making Hiccup perk up a bit. "So?"

"I wouldn't kill him because he looked as frightened as I was." Hiccup admitted. "I looked at him, and I saw myself."

"I bet he's really frightened, now." Astrid said, looking out to the ocean, then turning back to Hiccup. "What're you gonna do about it?" she asked.

"Eh, probably something stupid." he said with a shrug.

"Good, but you've already done that." She lightly teased.

"Then, something crazy." Hiccup said with determination before he started running.

"That's more like it." said Astrid as she started after him with an excited grin on her face.

A/N: I thought I wouldn't finish this in time. But I did. Don't hate me for locking up Ragnar and Cosette. You'll see why in the next chapter.

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