Epilogue

Rapunzel sighed as she lifted down a pottered jar from the shelf in the doctor's office.

"What's that?" Jack asked looking at the jar with a raised eyebrow, Rapunzel turned to look at him.

"Anaesthetic salve." She said as a matter of fact. "I am in no mood to have you squirming in pain, removing that scar will hurt, not only because I will be cutting away skin, but because of its place, your shoulder blade, barely have any leverage for me to work with, and you will be unable to move properly for I don't know how long. By putting this on, you won't feel a thing, until it wears of, by then I can have you drugged on the painkillers if you can't stand it." Jack gaped at her before he shook himself into alertness and nodded.

"Right." He said. Rapunzel ordered him to take of his shirt and lay down on the bed on his stomach so that she could begin to work.

Jack yelped and a violent shiver wracked thru him when the cold salve landed on his skin.

"Sorry." Rapunzel apologized, before she started to massage the salve into his skin around and on the slave mark on his back. They were in silence for a while before Rapunzel wiped her hands on a piece of fabric and got up from the side of the bed, she returned later with a thin but sharp knife in one hand and a clean towel in the other. "I'm gonna start now, tell me if it hurts." Jack nodded.

"Have you started jet?" he asked after a while, not feeling Rapunzel cut away the mark.

"Yeah, I'm halfway done." She said and continued. She cut and took the fabric to wipe the blood away. When she was done she put the fabric against the wound before she got up again, getting the stuff she needed to make the wound heal in peace. She took out some bandages and started to dress the wound before she nodded and let Jack take on his shirt again. "When the anaesthetic disappears it might feel strange, if it's become unbearable, come to me and I can give you some painkillers."

"Thank you Punz." Jack said and smiled at her.

"Yeah. Yeah, but I'm not making that Tattoo unless you give me an extremely good reason to why." She said and pointed at him.

"Fine, I've got it."

Days went by and Jack fought against to scratch the itching that the wound made when new skin grew to replace the removed one.

"Are you sure you still want the tattoo when the wound has healed?" Hiccup asked one late evening when they had stumbled to bed after a storm, drenched to the bone, cold and tired. Jack grumbled as he moved from the position he'd fallen to and looked up at Hiccup who was sitting up leaning on his elbow. "Why do you want it in the first place..? You're not a slave anymore."

"That's the very reason as to why I want it." Jack said looking up at him.

"What do you mean?" Hiccup asked

"I mean, you guys saved my life, and you took down the Nightmare Dragon in order to save me..." Jack grew silent for a moment eyes lost in his head, before he blinked and looked at Hiccup with steady eyes. "The reason to why I want the night fury on my back is because I never wanted to hold my back straight, but now, I want it, I want to wear it on my back, carry her with us, it's my fault she's in the dark ocean now... it's the least I can do for the ship that saved me." Hiccup stared back at him, surprised, before he sighs, a smile growing on his lips.

"She'd like that very much." He mumbled out before he smirked and before Jack had time to react began to tickle him. Jack snorted trying to fight back.

"Hiccup! Stop-!" he laughed barely able to talk, trying to get away from Hiccup's tickling hands "Stahp! Hahaha please! I give, I give!" he laughed, tears in his eyes, Hiccup stopped and Jack gasped for air still laughing slumping against the bed, before he looked up at Hiccup who had crawled up to sit over him. he reached up and took a hold of the collar of Hiccup's shirt before he jerked him forward, making Hiccup loose his balance and had to bring his hands down at the sides of Jack's head to not crush him. "If I wasn't so tired, I'd get you back for that." Jack said smirking up at him before he cupped Hiccup's face and kissed him lightly. "But I'm tired and rather sleep."

Hiccup lied down next to him and yawned. It didn't take long before they fell asleep.

Rapunzel removed the bandage and gave the wound a look, the skin had healed fine, and unless you knew the scar was there, it was barely visible.

"Decided about the tattoo?" Aster asked form the door, there he stood leaning against the frame with arms crossed over his chest. Rapunzel sighed heavy and sent him an unhappy look.

"Yeah..." Jack said "I still want it."

"Why?" Rapunzel grumbled getting up.

"To hold my back straight and to remember the Night Fury. That ship saved my life, and it's my fault she's on the ocean floor. I want to do something for her." Rapunzel looked back at him before she sighed.

"Fine..." Rapunzel said "Aster will do it, he knows how." She said gesturing to the Pooka who nodded and smiled.

Jack was sitting as Aster sketched up the Night Fury's symbol on his shoulder with a blue pencil to get the lines, he then showed Jack with a mirror, asking if it was okay, Jack had nodded and Aster had started to gather the stuff he needed. Jack winched slightly when the Pooka began to work with the needle, but once he got used to the feeling he didn't say anything as Aster worked.

"How ya doing, kid?" Aster asked when he had made the head of the dragon done.

"I'm fine." Jack replied. Aster hummed in reply and continued. It took a while but Aster wiped the ink away when he was done eyeing the art with a smile.

"There we go." He said and brought the mirror up again. "Happy?" he asked as Jack looked at the tattoo, Jack smirked and nodded.

"Thanks Aster."

"No problem, Jack." Aster said and put on some protection to make sure the tattoo could heal properly, otherwise Rapunzel would kill him. "There ye ago, take it easy an' no direct sunlight on it, got tha'?" Jack nodded.

Days turned to weeks, weeks turned to months, and months turned to years. The Night Fury stayed a ship followed by rumours and stories among peoples, everyone knew about the ship, and if you didn't you soon got schooled about it by sailors and bartenders.

The marriage took place on Fairy Cove, and Toothiana was overly excited about it and the many new teeth of the crewmembers. But the real party wasn't until they got to Berk again and it was then that Rapunzel and Eugene finally got together after dancing around each other for weeks, and everyone praised the gods for it. On their way to Berk they met Ariel again; she had smiled at them when she learned about the marriage and gave them her blessing and promised them, that if they needed help from below just call and she'd come to them.

Skullcrusher was taken over after Stoic, taking over more and more of the chief's work and everyone was glad for it, they met the Deadly Nadder on Berk again and everyone laughed and danced. And another magazine got blown up, the twins getting help from the triplets all to Hiccup's horror, and Merida's head.

They left Berk after staying there for far longer than before and instead headed towards Burges, a request from Jack, who wanted to see his home after so many years.

The city had grown a lot since the fire, and Jack led Hiccup along until they stopped at the empty overgrown ruin that was left of Jack's home. Jack looked at it with a sorrowful look on his face. Hiccup sighed there he stood further back and walked up to Jack placing his arm around his shoulders.

"Can it be..? Jack?" they turned in union at the old lady's voice to look at a short grown woman with white hair gathered in two ponytails down her chest, she was tanned and had a worried look on her face, she had two red markings draw across the bridge of her nose. Jack gaped at her, and Hiccup looked between the two

"Jack, do you know her?"

"Tanana..." Jack managed to say, before he rushed up to the elderly woman who smiled at him "How can- how did you survive the fire?" he asked she put down her wanderings staff and took his hands in hers.

"I was on one of my long walks when it happened; I got back to the town brunt to the ground." She gave him a sad smile. "A few survived that night, I feared you were one of those who didn't make it, but something told me I was wrong, now I see the proof." She smiled bigger, before she looked to Hiccup. "Who's your friend?" she asked.

"Oh, Tanana, this is Hiccup, my husband and captain." Hiccup walked closer "Hiccup, this is Tanana; she's my father's aunt." Hiccup smiled at her and held out his hand in greeting she took it with both of hers smiling up at him.

"A Viking? Doesn't look like much but oh so strong and so wise." She said looking at Hiccup. "How did you manage?" she looked to Jack who laughed.

"He saved my life..." he said. "He saved me from Drago's grasp."

"So I've heard." She said and smiled.

Hiccup gave away a shout from the galley, and everyone on deck blinked to the door before the door was thrown open and the triplets ran out holding hiccup's peg leg in their hands, followed after them Toothless chased trying to get his humans leg back. Hiccup stumbled up thru the door later gripping the doorframe hard to stay on his foot. The triplets laughed as they ran left and forth over deck, Toothless followed the best he could, but he couldn't catch up to them. Hiccup managed to hobble up to Jack who stood close by.

"How many times is it now?" Jack asked.

"Far too many!" Hiccup grunted out as he looked to the triplets still chased by Toothless.

"Gonna do anything about it?"

"Like I can do anything? They don't listen to anyone." They looked up when one of the triplets called out and Jack blinked when the peg leg suddenly was thrown to him. Jack caught it with a surprised sound, looking after the triplets that shattered over deck in different directions. "Toothless! STOP!" he suddenly heard Hiccup cry out.
Too late.
The panther crashed into them making them fall over each other. Jack grunted when his breath was knocked out of him, he heard Hiccup grumble something as he rose from the deck, legs caught under Toothless who lied on his back over both of them. Toothless whined and rolled of shaking his head before he looked at Jack and Hiccup with an apologetic expression on his face. Jack sat up and gave Hiccup the peg leg, before he got to his feet, brushing dust away from his clothes.

"You okay?" he asked when Hiccup had fastened the peg leg again and held out his hand to him. Hiccup took it and was pulled to his foot.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

The sky grew darker as the sun turned orange, clouds turned pink and soon the sunset coloured everything gold.

"Where are we heading?" Jack called out looking at Hiccup with a smile.

"Towards the horizon." He called back and grinned.

As the Bewilderbeast sailed towards the sunset. Towards new adventures.

Trade Johann sailed into port greeted by a school of children.

"Trade Johann, trader Johann!" they called out "Got any stories for us?" one of them asked. He laughed.

"Well, there is one tale I haven't told you." He said. "Do you know the legend of the Fountain of youth?" he asked.

"Ach, that's just legends." One child said.

"True, but legends ring with truth and the tale I'm about to tell you will prove you wrong." He said and smiled at the children.

"Will we like this tale?" they asked in one.

"Oh you will love it; it got everything you can ask for." He said and held up a small piece of red fabric with a drawn Night Fury on. "The tale is: The Tale of the Night Fury."

The End

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