Another update to the story, this part of the story happens at the end portion of chapter 19. This way you could see what was going through the head of Ronde and another special character. Enjoy.

Ronde(POV)

The day of peace was finally over and I finally saw my parents after all these years. I was happy to see them but then that happiness turned into sadness, they looked so happy without me being in their lives. But I know that people need to move on with their lives, they can't stay sad forever. But the way my mother looked, she was happy to listen to the others within this place, she was also so invested in Hiccup while he was speaking. Until my father interrupt him when he was almost finished speaking. Then he came towards us, every fiber in my body wanted to scream, pounce and hurt him for everything he's done to me while I was a child but I stood my ground and clawed the ground to try to calm myself down. But when he threatened to destroy Berk I lost myself for just a moment but I knew that that was just a threat to get a reaction from Hiccup. But still, that is something he would do, I needed to vent, I needed to get this anger out before I do something I will regret. I yelled into the fireplace and in the process, a stream of flames came out. But that doesn't matter, this meeting is over and now we're going back to Berk.

"Well, it looks like we made no progress in the way of connections with other tribes," Hiccup said out loud.

"What did you expect?" I asked, "People cheering for you and praising me and Stormfly?"

"Look, I tried, ok? People are just very stubborn. But that doesn't matter, what about you? Are you satisfied with coming here?"

"Yes, I have seen what I needed to see. Now, let's hurry back to Berk so I can decide what to do next."

"Oh, did you have something in mind?" asked Astrid.

"I need to blow off some steam, I'm still angry at my...king for what he did."

"So that man was your king after all?" Astrid asked.

"Yes, and I didn't think it was possible, but he's worse then I remember."

I didn't want to talk about this any further, my parents had moved on without me so I need to do the same. As much as I do miss them this feeling of loneliness is better than the feeling of getting rejected from them or anyone. But I'm still sad about not being able to see them again after this. Too much time has passed for me to return home to them.

Astrid must have noticed my sadness and asked, "Does your king mean something to you, like a role model or something?"

"Let's just drop it and go..." a familiar scent had entered my nose, but this smell is the fruit oil of a certain fruit that doesn't even grow on this side of the world. It had an exotic smell yet next to that scent was something else...something I only had a chance to smell once...when I first became a dragon...' NO!'

I turned around to see her walking towards us, but why here!? Why now? Did she know that I'm this dragon in front of her!?

Excuse me, may I speak with you," My mother asked.

Both Astrid and Hiccup turned around to see my mother in her dark blue robe she wears when she presenting around others. She continued to speak to them, "So, are you the Dragon Riders that I have been hearing rumors about?"

'She not here for me...' I was both happy and sadden again. Why am I? Why do I keep getting mix emotions when I see them? Do I feel guilty or something?

"Yes, but who are you?" Hiccup asked.

My mother looked shocked, "Oh, I'm sorry. I heard that first impressions matter so how could I forget to introduce myself. I'm sorry; my name is Neurie. I am the queen of Afri, and wife of the man who...made a scene during your moment."

My mother then lowered her head in a formal bow, she only does that when she tried to show respect to others even she knows that she is a queen and queens don't bow to others. Then she said, "I do apologize for my husband's outburst and actions today. He saw you as easy prey and tried to demonstrate his power by using you. I regret not stopping him; so again, I am very sorry."

"Ok, but why are you here?" Astrid asked.

I wasn't listening to there conversation I was looking at my mother, even with my sharp vision I could tell somehow she looks the exact same way as she did 7 years ago. Not one wrinkle has shown on her face from stress or aging. I guess the fruit oil she uses has something to do with that.

The more I examined her the more scared I became. How much of her life have I missed? Is she still the same as before? Can she really accept me like this?

I began to shake uncontrollably the more I thought about this.

Their conversation has ended and my mother began to speak," Anyway, I have to see my husband off in a few minutes since we came here in separate ships. Leave it to him to make me mad before we even began to sail here. But, I do hope to see you aga-..."

She was looking at me.

She looks at Hiccup and asked, "Young leader, is there something wrong with your dragon? It seems to be terrified of something."

Everyone was looking at me and instinct somewhat took over, I made myself looked as small as possible and tried to distance myself away from them but I manage to trip over my tail in the process but I caught myself being falling towards the ground.

My mother looks at me with the same pitied look when my father was about to kill me, "Is there something wrong with that dragon? Why does it look so scared?"

She begins walking towards me and the other stopped her. They were talking but I didn't hear them I was to get away from them but I was running out of room on the docks and something was preventing me to fly away.

But eventually, they let her pass to see me. I backed farther away from them but I was at the end of the docks and my mother was approaching me like a certain dragon lady I met a few years back with her walking slowly and low towards me.

"Please, don't be afraid dragon." My mother said. She walked closer towards me and said, "I saw that you were constantly looking over towards my side of the group. Do you have any interest towards us or just me?"

My eyes slightly widened, 'she saw me looking in her direction? I thought my mentor was the only one.'

As I was thinking about that she snuck in my face and placed her hand underneath my chin towards my cheek and I flinched. She quicker then I remember but I don't face her.

"See, I'm not going to harm you. I see you have stopped shaking, I do have that effect on dragons. But why do you refuse to look at me?" she asked while rubbing my cheek but she sounded so hurt. I didn't look at her but I turned my head towards her.

"Ok, that's a start, but could you at least look at me...please."

I was scared to look in her eyes but something inside me wanted to look at her, so I stared in her eyes.

Neurie(pov)

The dragon finally looks me in the eye "See was that wasn't so..." I stop talking to further examine this dragon eyes, and something was off yet familiar, "Your...your eyes are...very different from any dragons I've seen before, and they look familiar...Have I seen you before?"

This dragon looked familiar but where have I seen it before? And its eyes looked so human-like, all the dragons I have encountered had fully colored eyes with irises. But this dragon is different, and its behavior is also strange. Why is it so scared when I approach it? Does it know me or something?

I took one step closer to examine this dragon farther. This dragon had hair on top of its head or maybe it was fur but the only dragon that I have heard that has fur is the Woolly Howl, but this dragon is different. But I remember I have seen a dragon before with hair on top of its head before, but where?

'Then I remember something, the day that the family meeting when my son was poison. A baby dragon somehow found it's way into my son's room and...'

My eyes widen and I gasped out loud, "No, you...can't be...," is it possible that this is the same dragon that was in my son's room...and if so could this be...

I then remember the day that my mother told me the truth of what happened to my son.

I was in my son's room just cleaning the dust off his desk and toys rack. It's been over a year now since we had to bury him or at least whatever was remaining after the poison finished him off. It makes me so sad that he died in such a way and he was so young. After I finished dusting I sat down on his bed and looked at the spot where he always rested. I imagine him just being there sleeping so soundly, humming his favorite lullaby.

Today was his birthday.

I laid down next to the spot where he was, and I could see him just sleeping, and suddenly he opened his eyes to look at me.

"Mom.."

He was speaking to me and I answered, "Yes, son?"

"Why are you so sad?"

A tear came out of my eye, "I just miss you so much...I wanted to celebrate your birthday with you before the Spring Festival that coming up soon...I want to see you again.."

He smiled at me, "Mom it's ok, you need to just focus on your happiness. Please don't be sad because of me."

"Am not...it not because of you, it's just...you were so young you didn't get a chance to experience life outside of your village. I just wish I would have done more for you."

He places his hand on top of mine grab it and place it on his cheek and smile at me, "Mom it's ok, I'm free." He looks me in my eyes and said, "mother could you hum that lullaby I like please?"

I smile while rubbing his cheeks, "Sure Ronde, anything for you."

I close my eyes and hummed the song that has been past down to generation to generation. A song that had a story that I never had the chance to explain it to you. A story of a person who fought against destiny and made it his own. Through trial and error, he had it possible to live his life the way he wanted. The story makes it sound like the person was selfish but it quite the opposite, all he did was help people to. The portion of where the song where we have to pitch the high note represents the portion that's a person's life when he was at the highest point of his life, the happiness he experienced. But the low portion represents the time he struggles. But at the end of the song is a mixture of both high and low to represent that life can be cruel but it can bring happiness to one's self and others around him.

I finished the last note of the song, and when I opened my eyes Ronde was gone and my hand was just over the spot where his head used to be. I was imagining this entire conversation. I was so saddened, for a moment I thought he was here. I just miss my son.

"Why must I be reminded that just because I have the power of the queen, I don't have the power to bring my son back!?"

I cried onto his pillow I feel so weak, I feel like a failure. I fail as a parent, I couldn't protect my only son. Why did it have to happen like this?.

Suddenly I heard the door open, I tried to wipe away my tears before I face whoever was there.

"Neurie..."

I turned to see who it was, it was my mother. She then closed the door so no one could see us.

She sat down next to me, "His birthday was today, isn't it? Is that why you're here upset?"

I nodded wiping away the tears from my cheek.

She looked towards the wall in front of us and said, "He turned 11 today..."

"He would have turned 11," I responded.

She looked towards me for a moment then she looked towards his drawing space. She looked almost guilty of something. But then she faced me and said, "Neurie we need to talk about Ronde."

I didn't want to discuss this topic I already fell like a failure. I got up from the bed and began walking towards the door.

But my mother grabbed my wrist and said, "You need to hear this."

"NO!" I yelled and got away from her, "I already feel like a failure as a parent, I couldn't protect my child, My Son. I don't want to be reminded of my failure."

"Ronde might be still alive."

The moment she said that the world became silent, "What did you just say?"

She got up from the bed and walked towards the window. "I said Ronde might be still alive."

"What do you mean by that? You told me he was dead."

She then turned to face me and said, "Neurie, you know I only lie when the truth is so unbelievable that a lie is more believable than that of the truth."

I was shocked and angry, "This is my son were talking about!"

"And my grandson," she responded.

I tried to calm myself down, but she knew that Ronde wasn't dead yet she lied to me for over a year. "Why?" I asked, "Why did you hide this from me? My son is alive why did you hide that from me?"

She had a guilty expression, "I wanted to tell you for so long but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I didn't want you to be angry with me or think I was crazy but I need time to gather my courage to tell you. I'm sorry for hiding this fact from you but you must understand the events that happened that day are crazy and unbelievable."

What is she talking about? "Mother where Ronde?"

She faced the floor and said, "I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know? You just said he was alive, now tell me!" I yelled.

"He might be alive but I don't know what happened to him."

"What do you mean?" I asked concerned.

"I need to tell you what happened during that day. Please sit down."

I was still angry, why is she wasting time where we could be finding him? He couldn't have gone that far. I know that it been a year but he never goes outside of our tribe unless he went Hunting with our men. But I sat down.

"During that night. I couldn't stop the poison from spreading across his body. The Anti-Venom just wasn't working. And I believe it was because of that drug that was found in the dragon's food. But I had no way to heal him. But I thought of a method that did work but..."

"But what? What happened to my son?" I asked.

"She looked at me with a facial expression that I can't describe but contorted, and she finally said, "I believe I know how but I manage to turn Ronde into a dragon."

...

...

"Mother are you crazy enough to think I would believe such a stupid story!?"

She looked disappointed, "This is why I didn't say anything about this I know that you would think that I'm crazy but it true!"

I was beginning to get irritated, "Ok mother what kind of dragon did you turn him into to?"

"That just it, I don't know! He was a tiny purple dragon with hair on top of his head that walks on 4 legs with wings on his back. His eyes and hair color stayed the same but that was it. I left him here while I went to find you but I got tired of walking up and down all those stairs and I fell asleep near the entrance waiting for you to return."

"I would remember a...purple...dragon...with hair...in here..."

I remember, that night of the meeting there was a dragon in this room. That dragon was around the same size as Ronde and it did have hair on top of its head. And when Woede tried to scare that dragon, the dragons looked at me with its eyes...brown eyes that looked like Ronde's and made a gesture at me. Then when I tried to stop him the dragon looked like it smiled at me, but then when Woede scared him the dragon attacked him, I thought that the dragon was going to kill him but it flew out the window.

And mother perfectly describes the dragon, and she said that she left him in this room. Which means she's might be telling the truth. "M-my son was that d-dragon? H-how is this possible? Why did you do that to him?"

Then her eyes began to widen, "You see him as a dragon didn't you? Only you know what happened to him. So tell me did you have a dragon I just described to you? That might be him."

"No" I yelled, "you answer me first why did you turn my son into a dragon!?"

She looked hurt, "I didn't mean for it to happen, I just wanted to save his life. The method I use was supposed to just heal the damage that the poison caused, it wasn't supposed to turn him into a dragon. I'm so sorry."

I was more angry about her lying to me, but she saved his life. But what happened to you Ronde? Where are you now? Why haven't you tried to return home? "Look mother just tell me are you telling me that purple dragon was really Ronde?"

"Yes, if my memory is correct." She responded.

"The dragon attacked Woede and flew out the window."

She had a very shocked expression and she came towards me. "Ronde attack Woede, his father?"

"Woede tried to scare him and the just dragon reacted."

Her eyes began to widen further, "no, no oh no I told him not to get too upset. That would mean he's was possibly responsible for that kid..."

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

She tried to calm herself down, "When Ronde first woke up he tried to attack me but soon fainted. When I finally realized he regained his senses he got angry when I told him that I needed to tell you and your husband about his condition. And when he did it looked like he was ready to pounce on me."

"What are you saying, mother?"

"If he gets too mad or scared, he might act like a wild feral dragon. And remember those reports during the same night of the meeting of those kids that was attacked by a dragon and the kid with the most damage had 5 claw marks on his neck. I think that was Ronde being wild and there a slight chance that he may be like that...forever."

Those kids were cut badly but one of them confessed that they were torturing the dragon, "I don't know what to believe anymore I just want my son back, and if your right about that dragon being my son then I'll have scouts looking for that dragon across this country."

"I'm sorry for hiding the truth but if it really Ronde in that mind of that dragon he'll come back on his own time."

6 years later and yet still nothing until now, if this is Ronde, I need to see something.

The young man behind me spoke, "Ms, is everything ok?"

I was looking back and forth between them and this dragon that could be my son and said, "I don't know...I just...need to see something."

I turn towards this dragon and asked, "Dragon, can you understand me?"

He flinched

He just flinched! But something was off, "Your...no, it's just a coincidence...but you did just flinch...you do understand me, and you know me too, don't you?"

The dragon just closes its eyes a looked away from me.

I moved my hands away from this dragon but I still need to know if this was my son, I stood in front of him. I walked closer to him, closed my eyes, and began humming my family lullaby.

"Hm, Hm, Hm-hm, Hmmmmm."

I heard the dragon move closer to me but I was just focusing on the first verse of the lullaby.

When it was over I open my eyes and saw that the dragon was facing me with its eyes closed but did not react.

I knew it...I was hoping to have a chance to see him again but he's gone. Why did I believe my mother? This story about my son turning into a dragon is ridiculous. This dragon is probably very intelligent it's just not probably not used to seeing other people. And the fact that it looks like the same one that broke into my son's room is just a coincidence.

I began to walk away from the dragon to say my apologies for wasting the time of these two.

Until I heard humming coming from behind me.

Hm, Hmmmmm, Hm."

I turned around towards the dragon who was singing the second part of the lullaby!

"Can it be? Only my mother, daughters, and my ...son..know this song." I said with my hand over my mouth.

There is no way that this song was taken outside of my home only those who had past down from my family know this song. Yet this dragon was humming every note correctly and with precision as well! That would mean that this is my son! He's been like this for 7 years all alone with no one he can talk to.

I couldn't hold in my tears as my son finish the last note. And when he finally opened his eyes and he looked scared but I didn't care. So I finally said, "My mother told me that...you...were still alive but...I couldn't believe how it...happened or if it was even...possible, until I saw you."

I began to walk a little closer towards him.

"Ro...Ron...Ronde is that you-?"

Ronde then panicked and looked around frantically around the docks. I think I know what he was about to do.

"Wait! Please don't-!" but the wind when he opened his wing cut me off mid sentenced.

He flew away quickly from the docks, over the open sea, and into the empty sky.

"Oh, no-quickly Hiccup, hop on Stormfly!" yelled the young lady.

I tried to stop them. "WAIT! PLEASE!" I screamed.

But they began flying away and I heard the leader say, "I'm sorry, but we have to see what is wrong with him."

I didn't know what to do once again my son was in my gasped yet I couldn't stop him. I cried on the docks.

"Neurie!"

I turned around to see Skild, my old friend and my personal guard.

"What wrong? Did those Berkens hurt you?" He asked.

"No," I respond, "they agreed but I saw..."

Wait a minute!

I quickly stood up, "Skild do you still have that map around the Meridian of Misery?"

"Yes, I d- wait you not thinking about going there are you?" He asked concerned.

"Yes, I must!" I yelled.

"But that at least a week and a half of sailing! Maybe even 2, why do you want to go there?"

I hate playing this card but this is my son were talking about. "Skild I am your queen and you will do what I say."

He looked surprised, "So it's that important that you'll pull out that card?" He laughed, "fine but what about your husband?"

"Do you have a bow and arrow and a piece of paper?" I asked.

"Oddly specific but yes I do."

"I'll write him a note to tell him that I have another meeting to go to and he can't come because the island only allowed female or something like that, and I'll strap the note around the arrow and shoot it on his ship."

He moves closer to me, "You're going to great lengths just to do this. Did you see something important or something?"

"Yes, but you wouldn't believe me if I told you. Right now I'm still having a hard time believing it but we need to go there, the village called Berk. We still have plenty of food and water for 3 weeks."

He bows, "I understand just allow me to get everything prepared for the journey."

He walked off.

I looked towards the sky, 'Ronde I'm coming to see you again please don't anything crazy or move from Berk.'

I walk towards my ship, preparing myself for this long journey.

this was Longer than what it was supposed to be but I think this turned out okay. Anyway, this is just an update for the story moving forward the next chapter is finished however this is by far the longest chapter I have written thus far and I want certain scenes to be emotional as the one in this chapter so please be patient with me I am working on chapter 21 as we speak.

And as you're all well aware school's back that means updates might be a bit slow again and also I was hoping to create the prequel to this story around spring but it looks like that's not going to happen. it's going to happen eventually after the story is complete but I just don't know when anymore but I do have a special surprise during the first anniversary since this book has come out and it has been almost a year since I've created the story.

I'm also for some odd reason notifications are still down when it comes to private messages and I think I know the reason why when I look on the subreddit at this point it's been close to 3 months.

Also, this is probably a spoiler but not really but I'm going to do one more flashback into Ronde past during chapter 21. Oh and speaking of 21 this to my Beta readers that chapter is technically not on the synopsis I gave you and I do apologize for that but this chapter is supposed to be a fun one so if you have any questions about it please let me know but until then please be patient with me.

Oh, one more thing the character (Shild) is the name of Ronde mentor which translates to shield.

Take care.