This is by far my longest chapter I have made for this story; it is over 17,000 words long. I am sorry for that, it is long, but I believe every word matters in this chapter unless there's a mistake. Originally this wasn't supposed to come out yet, but it's been a month since I last updated the story. This chapter will change and be upgraded possibly in the near future but here it is raw.


Hiccup(POV)

2 days, it took us 2 days since the Day of Peace and we just to make it back to Berk. We assume that this is where Ronde was based on Stormfly, she was following his scent. We all landed near the middle of the village. It seems nobody pay us any mind.

I looked around to see if Ronde was nearby or if there were any signs of him "So, he did come back here?" I asked.

"I don't know, Stormfly could have just followed his scent a few days ago when he was following us," Astrid replied.

"Were should we start?" Asked Fishlegs.

I came up with a few ideas where to find him but we needed to separate, "Astrid, try to see if he's at Mildew home, Fishlegs looked around the island and I will ask people around the village have they seen him. If no one doesn't find any information we just try to find him another way. "

We all separated into different directions in the middle of the village. I asked people around the village have they seen Ronde, or at least have they seen the dragon he can turn into. But no one I've talked to had seen him. So, if no one had seen him there a good chance that he never came back. But I had to keep looking, maybe mom and Gobber have seen him.

I hop on Toothless's back and we flew towards Gobber workshop, and he was working on melting iron with Grump asleep next to the fireplace. Gobber took notice of me, "Las, Your Back!" He yelled and then got up and gave me a bear hug that could almost break my back. "Oh, did everything go well? Did you managed to gain any allies, or did you make more enemies?"

"Yes, yes and maybe, but Gobber that not why am here," I said while he was putting me down.

"Oh, so you were worried about me? Oh, Hiccup I'm fine and so is your mother. The tribe that we captured are cooperating and helping us fix the village-"

"Gobber." I said cutting him off, "have you seen Ronde?"

"Oh, that boy that took out some of those trespassers? He has been crying since yesterday morning in mildew old home."

Hold on, did I miss heard him? "Gobber did you say that he been crying since yesterday?"

"Yeah, I assume that he was bum out about not going with you guys but this is a little bit much I told Snotlout and the twins to help cheer him up but well...that might have been a mistake on my part."

'He's been here since yesterday morning? Yet no one seen him as the Chimera dragon and the meeting was 2 days ago. Is he really that fast?'

"Gobber I got to go see him, I'll see you later."

I flew with Toothless to find Fishlegs and we found him. "Hey Fishlegs, Gobber just told me that he's in mildew home. I hear from him as well that the twins and Snotlout are there with him. We should probably hurry before they upset him even more."

We both flew towards mildew home and I saw Astrid at the front door of the house. We landed a little farther up that when I saw the twins and Snotlout sitting a few feet from the house.

"What going on?" I asked

Snotlout look irritated and answer, "He's been lock-in that house ever since he woke up yesterday, he refused to come out. We have been ordered to get him out, but I say just let him cry about getting left behind."

"What are you talking about?" Fishlegs asked, "He's not crying because of us, where did you come up with that?"

Snotlout shrugged, "That what Gobber told us, or at least that what he thinks."

Astrid stared at us, "Shhhhh..."

She turned towards the door and knock on it and said, "Ronde please come out and talk to us."

"Go. Away." He said angrily.

"No, just come out and talk to us you can't just stay in there all day. When was the last time you have eaten anything?"

"Get away from the door, Astrid."

"No just listen to-"

"NOW!"

Everyone got up from sitting down and Astrid back away from the door. All of our dragons were on the defensive, he didn't yell at Astrid he just roared at her.

"What was that?" Tuffnut asked. "It almost sounds like a roared from a dragon." Replied his twin.

I wanted to see if Astrid need help but then she smiled at me and gestured to stay right where I am. Then she walks in front of the door one more time.

"Look, I know that you're upset about that whole situation that happened at the meeting, and if it's worth anything...I'm sorry for not stopping the queen from seeing you."

Ronde didn't respond but there was no noise coming from the house, so I assume that he was listening to her.

"I thought that you would be happy to see your...queen again but I was wrong, I didn't know that seeing her would be too much for you to bear. I just thought that you should know it wasn't my intention to make you upset. I just wanted to see you happy and smile next to her."

She walks away from the door and towards us. "Guys just give him time, he'll come out eventually."

But as soon as she said that a loud noise was coming from the house. Suddenly the door flung open revealing Ronde, but he only had pants on. That when I noticed the scars all over his body, they were not there when he was a dragon.

He didn't say anything he just stared at us, but by his facial expression, he was still upset.

Astrid spoke, "Ronde-"

He cut her off, "Don't, just don't. You shouldn't involve yourself in my business, I don't care if we are close. Stay away from me and leave me alone!" After he said that he gasps, "I'm sor... look Just go...I don't want to talk about it any further. I'm going back inside."

That wasn't the response that I was expecting, he was going back inside the house looking even sadder than before.

"HOLD ON!" Yelled Snotlout.

Ronde had his hand on the doorknob but looked over towards Snotlout.

"What was the point of coming all the way out here for almost 2 days straight trying to get you out of this smelly house if you're going to say that nonsense! And now to find out that you were with them and you upset because you couldn't talk to one of them? Get off your butt and stop mopping around!"

Ronde closes his eyes before responding with, "This has nothing to do with you. Just shut up and mind your own business."

Snotlout wasn't having any of that, "Oh, look am upset because I was afraid to talk to someone wah. Grow up! It was your fault your upset no one else so don't get upset at us for trying to get you out of this house that was given to you by us!"

Ronde got even more upset and giving Snotloud a series glare, "You have no idea what you're talking about! Just shut up!"

"Snotlout stop talking," I said.

"Why are you defending him? He doesn't have enough respect for you or Astrid for him to talk to you like that! All this mopping and crying about how upset he is meaningless! I don't care if he's upset about this, he needs to learn that he's our guess and those who don't respect us get knockout!

"Meaningless..."

"Snotlout for once in your life just listen ok, he is upset not because of us, he's angry because-"

(Creeeeeeeeek...)

We all look over to see where the creaking noise who's coming from and it was Ronde pulling on the doorknob. The door was about to break. And it looks like there's was steam coming off of him.

"Meaningless."

He continues to pull on the door until it finally broke into pieces. The steam around his body became more apparent. He finally looked over towards our direction.

"WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF MEANINGLESS!" He yelled and leap towards us and landed near Snotlout yelling.

"SPEND MOST OF YOUR LIFE KNOWING YOUR LIFE DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU! WATCH YOUR OWN FATHER TEAR YOU APART DAY AFTER DAY FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR OWN HOME AND PEOPLE! THEN COME TO THE REALIZATION THAT NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO YOU CAN'T SEE AWAY OUT OF YOUR OWN BIRTHRIGHT! THEN IMAGINE ALL THAT TIME YOU SPENT, ALL THE SUFFERING YOU WENT THROUGH WAS FOR NOTHING BECAUSE OF AN ACCIDENT THAT WAS OUT OF YOUR CONTROL! WAKE UP IN A DIFFERENT FORM UNABLE TO CONTROL YOURSELF THEN WATCH YOUR OWN FATHER TRY TO TAKE YOUR LIFE ONLY BECAUSE HE COULDN'T RECOGNIZE YOU! NOWHERE TO GO, NO ONE TO HELP! SO, TELL ME WHAT HAS MORE MEANING THEN TRYING TO FIND A PLACE THAT YOU CAN CALL HOME!"

Then all of a sudden, the steam around his body disappear and his eyes were wide from realization. He fell on his knees and was shaking looking at the ground, "Home..."

Snotlout and the twins were almost freaking out.

He looks down towards his hand and tears began forming in his eyes, "She...she knew...it was me and yet...why couldn't I control myself? For the second time in my life, I had an opportunity to show her that it was me, but my emotions stopped me again...why?"

He then looked up towards us and saw how frightened everyone was. He quickly got up and took a few steps away from us. "No...no, no I.. I Can't...go back and fix it. That was my only opportunity to see her...to see them and I blew it again."

He places his hands on top of his head and had a very horrified look on his face, "And now she only can remember me as a monster other than her deceased son..."

Astrid slowly walked towards him and said, "Ronde just calm down."

He wasn't listening and he continues to back away from us until he was at the edge of the cliff. He looks down towards the open ocean and back to us. He isn't going to do what I think he going to do, is he?

He did, he jump off the cliffside.

Everyone gasped and ran towards the cliff Astrid quickly hopped on Stormfly. But before she took off a shadow loomed over us, I turned around to see Ronde as the Chimera Dragon looked over us with tears in his eyes. He looked down at us for a moment then flew off in another direction towards some part of the island.

"Ronde wait!" I yelled, but he continues to fly away from us.

"How did he know that that dragon was there and was going to catch him?" Snotlout asked.

"Not now we need to find him. Astrid sees if you can find him with Stormfly's sense of smell. Snotlout, Ruffnut, and Tuffnut stay here just in case he comes back."

"So basically, what we've been doing?" Tuffnut said.

"Yes, I and Fishlegs will search in the air. When you find him created a flare for all of us to see. "

{2 hours later}

Astrid(POV)

Nothing, 2 hours of searching and yet nothing. The sun was over the horizon nearly close to fading giving the sky an orange color. Stormfly lead me around the forest and what we had discovered was that the trees all around us had claw markings all over it, and these were recent. It seems he did get here a few days ahead of us and in his frustration, he clawed these trees. I didn't think that he would be so upset. I thought that he wanted to see his mother. I should have stopped it.

Suddenly Stormfly squawked at me to get my attention. "What wrong?" I asked, then she made a warbling sound and made a gesture for me to fly with her. I climb on her back and she took off towards the sky. She flew the side of the island where the beach was. As she was flying, I noticed something on the beach it was some sort of object moving around slowly. It was the same color as the beach, but something was off the more I stared at it. Then something weird happened the color around the object change color. That when I realized what it might be.

"Ronde, I think we found him." I was relieved that he was still on the island but now what should I do? Should I tell the others that I found him, or should I just go down there myself and see if I could see what was wrong with him?

I know It's best to see the other's and tell them that I found him, but this could be the last time I see him if he decided to leave the island.

I signaled Stormfly to go towards the beach. She landed a few feet away from him. And from this distance, I can see the outline of a dragon and it looks like he was just staring at the open ocean. I slowly approach him and then I was on his side.

"Ronde?"

He didn't do anything, he just stood there still nearly invisible. But then suddenly the color around his body began to shift back to their normal color. He wasn't trying to hide his color anymore, but he wasn't looking at me he was still looking over towards the horizon with tears in his eyes.

"Ronde I'm sorry, I know you're mad at me for not stopping the queen from seeing you."

He didn't move at all or even acknowledge that I was there.

"I know that you don't want to talk to me but please listen, I understand why your upset with us. You didn't want to see your queen in the manner that it happened. And we should have stopped it.

He continues to stare at the open ocean. It seems he's not listening to me. I don't know what to do. He seems unresponsive right now.

I looked over to him one more time before going back to Stormfly, I'm not sure if the others can help but it's better then what I can do right now. But I heard a voice behind me.

"I'm not mad at you."

I turned around to see he moved slightly but still staring towards the ocean, but he continues with, "I'm upset with myself for how I acted towards you and my reaction with my...with my..."

"Your mother," I finished his sentence.

He slightly flinched when I said that but then he said, "Yes," he pauses trying to compose himself, "I thought that seeing them would put my mind at ease so I could finally move on. But it had the opposite effect, I actually wanted to go with them, back home so we could be a family again, to laugh, to fight and coming together for family meetings like we always did. But I can't do that anymore more with them, it been too long to go back there. They won't accept me like this regardless if I can change back."

Now he looks towards the ground, "But somehow she knew it was me. My grandmother is the only person that truly knows what happened to me even though she doesn't know if I'm alive or not. But she must have told her about me out of guilt, but I doubt she believed her at first. But my mother did see me as a dragon before I ran away. My grandmother must have described what I look like, there's aren't any dragons that look like me so she must have made the connection when she saw me at the docks."

I don't know what to say to make him feel better. For all I know I could just make it worse.

He sighed heavily, "I didn't want her to see me like this, I would rather let her think that I'm dead than as a monster in her eyes."

That comment shocked me, "Don't you think that going a little too far?"

"No, you saw how they acted, still as prideful as the day I left and still as joyful as if I didn't leave. You saw my mother she was so happy before she saw me and now, she probably crying her heart out knowing that her son grew up like this for 7 years. But people move on with their lives."

He paused and repeated himself, "People move on with their lives..."

"Ronde are you okay?" I asked concerned

"It's ironic, that all I've been doing all these years and were has that gotten me? An unstable mess of a former person."

What is he talking about? "What do you mean?"

For the first time, he looked at me and then back the ocean. "It was a sunset like this back on the island I ran away to. It had been 2 weeks since I ran away from home and I was feeling homesick and worried about those who I had loved. But then my adopted father was looking for me because it was late, could you believe that? Even dragons have a bedtime for their young. But when he found me, he questions why I was out that late and I told him. The dragons on that island didn't believe me when I said I was human. The only proof that I had that I at least had contact with people was the boat that I stole."

"The dragons who raised me also didn't believe me, it was hard not to talk to anyone about my feelings or my problems because no one would believe me. So, I just repressed those feelings just to move on. But once I met you guys and when I found out that you were constantly trying to find out about my past I tried to stop you because I was afraid you guys knew about me, you'll reject me. I can't...live with that feeling again, people that I have come close to liking rejecting me because of what I am."

'That how he feels about us?'

He then stared at his claws, "But by repressing those feelings I tend to get upset easily when it comes to my past. So I tried to distract myself for 7 years by learning what my body can do, writing in my journal, going to island to island putting myself in a situation to deal with and was difficult to get out of or fighting the Dragon Hunters just so I would have something to do so I wouldn't feel so sad. I was being selfish by doing that, using others so I wouldn't think about myself, what a fool I've been."

After hearing that I walked on the beach until I was next to him. I sat down next to him and said, "I wouldn't call it selfish, but it is unhealthy."

"Call it what you will, it the truth." He responded.

I guess the first step is to admit it, what should I do now? "Ronde is there anything that I can do to make you feel better?"

He was quiet for a moment then he looked down towards me, "How much do you know about my past?"

I was confused

"I won't get mad; I just need to know before I make my next decision."

I was wondering what he meant by that, but I told him everything that I gained through the past few weeks. About his parents, Kindle and the island he grew up in. He didn't look surprised at all.

"Is that all?" He asked me.

'I think so, that was everything that I learned from him and Fishlegs.' I thought to myself. But then I remember something back when we were on his ship. So, I asked, "Ronde do you remember what happened after we escaped the Bog burgers?"

He thought for a moment then looked frustrated, "Barely anything I don't know what happened I remember telling you that I was the night fury but then after that nothing. What happened? Was I knocked out by something?"

"Yes, you were hit by a dart and the effect didn't kick in until you were explaining yourself to us," I explain

"I don't remember any of that; did I act strangely?"

"Again yes and no, you didn't do anything out of the ordinary but you were rambling about being excited about going back to your home to see your mother, sister and I believe you also mentioned your mentor."

His eyes slightly widened, "I did? What else did say?"

He didn't lie to me at this moment so I should do the same. "You didn't until I asked you something."

"You ask me something? Why don't I remember this? What did you ask me?" he sounded a little more frustrated.

"I asked you why you run away."

He looks slightly angry but then he just sighed, "There no point being angry, what done is done. What did I tell you?"

"You told me that your friend bit you and you were poisoned and close to dying. Your father killed your friend in front of you and your grandmother did this to you."

He looked towards the ocean, "I see, then I guess there no point anymore."

"What do you mean by that?" I asked concerned.

He didn't respond he just stood up and walked towards Stormfly. He growls something to her, and she responded with a growl herself. He then faced me, "Astrid bring the remaining Dragon Riders here I have something to do. And don't worry I'll still be here."

"What are you trying to do? You want them all to see you like this? Are you sure?"

"All my life I've been trying to avoid my true feelings, but I think that what holding me back now. I'm still not ready to face my mother and go back to my home but I need to start somewhere, right?" He had a small smile on his face when he said that. But even I could tell that he was nervous about something.

"Just go Astrid, I'll be here wait for you to come back."

I got on top of Stormfly and look at him, "I shouldn't be too long."

He slowly nodded at me, "Alright."

And then I and Stormfly flew off to get the others.

Ronde(POV)

As I watched Astrid and Stormfly fly away my mind was racing.

Every fiber of my body was screaming at me to fly away from this island, get away from the others and start a new life.

But that what I've been doing for the last 7 years and where has that gotten me? I need to change and start fresh. I need to do this so I can feel free once more. This burden that I been carrying needs to go away before I do something that is going to get me killed. I didn't mind helping all those that crossed my path but I was using their situations to help me forget about my pain.

I need to tell them how it all started, my Origin, my history.

(15 minutes later)

I was staring at sunset around the horizon. It's almost nighttime, the stars are more visible now and the temperatures were being to drop slightly. Just then I heard the sound of wings flapping in the air. The heard several thumps behind me, I didn't bother turning around I already knew it was them.

"Astrid he still-"

"He knows I think he's really to tell the other two."

Before I had the opportunity to respond, Snotlout yelled, "Alright, where is he? I see the dragon but were that outcast!?"

"Still calling me an outcast? So, you were faking being nice to me on the ship." I said without turning my head towards them.

"Oh, hiding in front of that dragon eh, turn around and face me so I can put you in your place!"

I sighed and then turned around facing him and when I did, he looked confused and came closer looking around my body.

"I said face me you coward!" He yelled.

I moved in a position where I was possible to move my neck and I moved closer to his face. He was scared by my expression, he looked scared when I started to open my mouth and said, "I am facing you, you moron."

He fell backward from shock and tried to scramble away from me while looking at the others, "Did that dragon just talk? Where is that outcast? DID THAT DRAGON EAT HIM!?" He screamed while pointing at me.

So, he really is all muscle and no action, or at least the things that he does can cause others to possible get killed. Well, I already talked so I might as well finish it. "Well then, might as well say it now, no I did eat him. I am him Snotlout."

He looked even more horrified and said, "Oh my gods! He's a Lycanwing!" He quickly ran towards Hookfang and climb on his back, "Come on Hookfang let's go before he bites me!"

I was confused, What the heck is a Lycanwing? Is that some sort of dragon? And he thinks that I'm going to bite him? "I don't know what this thing you call a Lycanwing but I'm not that."

He was still anxious to get away from me by trying to force his dragon to fly off. But then the Nightmare lit itself on fire and Snotlout jump off of him and ran towards the water to cool himself down.

While the others were laughing at him the dragon which I believe his name was Hookfang tried to get my attention and growled, ("I'm sorry for the misunderstanding, he can get easily confused.")

I slightly laughed and told him, ("It's fine, he is the 6th Scaleless that knows about my abilities, plus this interaction was quite funny.")

I somewhat find it funny that it can take a dragon a few minutes or a few days to find out that I'm not what I appear to be while I'm human. Is it my scent? My appearance? Or they can feel a connection whenever I'm around them? I blame that Bewilderbeast for that.

I told and showed Toothless during the day I cleaned the Great Hall. Stormfly figured it out during the freezing rain incident. Hookfang was following me into the woods after I got out of Gothi home and saw me.

But anyway, "I know that is may come as a shock but now you know the reason why I ran away from my home."

Snotlout got out of the water, and looked at me and said, "You can't be that outcast this is some sort of trick!"

"I am not surprised that your shocked, but I am surprised that you believe that I would try to trick you. What reason really would I try to waste my time trying to prank you? You wanted to know the reason why I ran away, well this is why."

"This is impossible." He muttered underneath his breath.

"THIS IS AWESOME!" yelled both of the twins in unison. And both ran towards me bombarding you with questions. "How are you a dragon?" Scream the male, "Are their more of you?"

Astrid then grabs the horns on top of their helmets and move them away from me. After she was done she quickly turned towards me and asked, "Ok, we brought them and now they know. What are you going to do now?"

I lower my head and looked back towards the ocean. 'Am I really ready for this? To tell them my history' I thought to myself.

I looked back at the group waiting for me to say something. "As my father said, it's better to rip off the patch now than later."

I looked down towards them, "One of the reasons why I wanted you all to come was for me to see their reaction when they saw me like this. You guys are the first people to know about me other than my grandmother. And now I think it's time."

Hiccup then Asked, "Time for what? You're not thinking about leaving, are you?"

"Honestly, I'm surprised that you even want me here at all, even after all the trouble I caused. But no, that not what I'm going to do."

"Then what are you doing?" Asked Hiccup

I looked up towards the darken orange sky, It wouldn't be long until nightfall. I looked towards the group and sighed, "I think it's about time I tell you all the truth about me."

Astrid was confused and asked again, "What are you talking about?"

I looked towards the ground, 'love, rejection, joy, fear, loyalty and homesickness, these feelings are what I'm feeling right now. I miss my home; I miss being around people that cared about me but the fear of being rejected outweighs the feeling of returning home. I'm just scared about how they'll react both here and home. But that let me know that in my heart I can consider this place close to home with people I grew attached to.

"I need to tell you all about my history during my childhood and what happened before I had met you all. I need to tell you how I came to be as a dragon."

Astrid, Hiccup, and Fishlegs were wide-eyed as I said this but before they had a chance to respond I told them, "I will meet you all in the Great Hall later tonight when the majority of the people are asleep. Please bring only those who are trustworthy to hold a secret." I then looked over towards Hiccup and asked, "Hiccup, please bring your mother Valka, I have a few things to say that she can confirm."

Then I turned around to face Astrid, "Astrid, you probably didn't know this, but I hate to beg others for help unless it's important but..."

"What is it?" She asked.

I hate asking people to spend money for me but..."I... need clothes...please."

I was flustered and angry, but I had nothing now other than my book that Fishlegs was carrying and the boat I stole from the Dragon Hunters. I needed something to cover myself. The pants that I had on earlier I stole when someone was dry cleaning them outside.

She had a blank expression for a moment but then she spoke, "Alright but this is the last time. What would you like for me to do with them?"

"Just hold them until I come to get them while you're all in the Great Hall. Just remember what I said tonight while everyone is asleep. Goodbye for now."

I open my wings and flew off towards the other side of the island I just needed some space to prepare myself. This is only the first step I just hope that I'll have enough courage in the future to face my mother or go back home. But not today I still don't have the confidence yet, but I will get there soon.

{4 hours later}

Astrid(POV)

It's completely dark outside and the majority of the people of Berk are asleep. The people Ronde asked for were also here in the Great Hall with us. We also brought Eret and Gobber. Hiccup's mother was a little anxious about this, she knows that Ronde knows her, but she thinks he's mistaken her for someone else but at this point, I doubt that he is.

We all sat down waiting for him to appear, but nothing happened for the past hour. I was starting to get a little worried. I place the new clothes I bought for him a couple of tables away from us while I was talking to the others.

"Ugh!" Yelled Snotlout, "I couldn't have to have my beauty sleep by now! Where is he!?"

"Just give him time." Fishlegs said, "he's telling us his background and you know he's angry before about anybody trying to find out about his past, right now he could be just trying to gather as much courage as he can before facing us."

Snotlout scuffed to Fishleg's statement and said, "Yeah, well I believe he ran away again and just did this to waste our time."

"Snotlout just stop talking," I said

"Fine, I'll just go back to my house and go to sleep, come on Hookfang."

Hookfang stayed in the same position.

Snotlout was getting upset, "Hookfang let go now."

Hookfang snarled and hiss at him.

"Hookfang I just wanted to slee-"

(SLAM!)

the door of the hall just closed, and I thought that it was Ronde for a moment. But when I looked over, I saw nothing. Was he invisible? That when I noticed that the clothes, I bought him were gone. He just snuck in without anyone else noticing him. I quickly got up and ran towards the door and opened it, but I didn't see any signs of him.

I tried to call out, "Ronde?"

...

I tried again, "Ronde if your there I wanted to let you know that you don't have to tell us your past. We can try something else, but you don't need to tell us if you don't need to."

I didn't hear a response, so I just walked back inside.

"I'm not doing this for you guys."

I turned around to see if he was there, but I saw nothing. But then I looked a bit closer to see a pair of glowing eyes looking at me.

"I'm doing this for myself, I need to let go of my doubts about my history and myself and tried to express my feelings that I've been holding on for almost all of my life." He told me.

"Are you sure? We won't judge you it's just, are you ready telling us everything about you."

"Yes, perhaps this way I'll be ready to face my mother again and maybe return home in the future. But now I need to do this." He responded.

He was still invisible but the outline around his body was more apparent. Then he began walking off into the outside of the hall into the forest. "I'll be back in a few minutes I just need to change and put on these clothes."

He then disappeared from my sight, after a few moments I walked back into the hall to inform the others of what going on.

Ronde(POV)

I walked inside the woods and waited for a few moments to see if anything was around. I didn't see or smell anything, so I prepared myself to change back.

This sensation is painful, and it gets worse the older I get. Hearing your own body change is not pleasant at all, my bones changing size, muscles tearing apart and then fixing themselves, feeling parts of my body disappearing and finally my senses are going haywire across my body. But once the change is completed it takes just a few moments for everything to return normal.

Once it was over myself sense came back and the first thing, I could feel was pain from the change and the cold air. The heat that I stored was gone and I quickly tried to put on the clothes that Astrid bought me. Some sort of green long sleeve shirt with dark pants and boots, it was warm when I put it on.

I sat down on the ground rubbing my arms tried to warm up, 'to this day I still don't understand why is it so cold here? It's spring!' I thought to myself.

The pain somewhat dyed down, I can change back in forth one more time today but that it and I have to show the people that they brought that what I'm saying is true.

I looked up towards the sky and saw the many stars in the night sky. I don't know why it took me so long to find this out but the star's here a kind of different than the ones back when I was living inside of the Foreverwing nest. The distance I've traveled must be massive.

I got up and began walking out of the forest.

As I was walking, I was thinking back before I first met these guys. I was only trying to protect others that were endangered. I didn't care about the affairs of other's Vikings and Warriors unless they had to do with other dragons. But when I heard about a Vikings village that had integrated dragons into their home, I couldn't believe it. But the day that I decided to let the dragon Hunters captured me on purpose so I could destroy them from the inside out the Hunters mentioned them again I knew that it might have been true.

After I stole that ship and set free the dragons, I made my way towards Berk and well the rest is history.

I made it out of the forest and into the village and took the first step towards the Great Hall. Then a second then a third, the more steps I took the more anxious I became. Am I really ready for this? To tell them everything that has happened to me? My past, my family, my heritage and my home?

'I know that I didn't do anything wrong, but my situation is very complicated to understand. Will they still want me here after this is done?'

I took the final step and now I was in front of the door.

'This will make me more comfortable around them if they know more about me and maybe give me the confidence to go back home someday. But now I just need to get everything out of my mind that I've been holding onto these years.'

I open the door slowly and enter the Great Hall.


The young man walked inside of an unfamiliar place to him. He looked towards the group of people that he and the other had invited. They all welcome him with open arms, but he refuses to knowledge them, he had only one thing in mind, to tell them his story of origin. They all sat down on the largest table that was there within The Great Hall. He sat down near the end of the table while the others were on the opposite side. Only a few candles were lit but the light from each candle could not reach the corners with this place. Each dragon was behind their Riders staring at the boy with the utmost curiosity as the boy drew his breath and was about to speak.


Ronde(POV)

"Hel-hello, everyone..." I said nervously.

Eyes looking back at me both from humans and dragons, what are they thinking? What I'm I thinking? I shouldn't do this! Eyes full of curiosity can easily turn into eyes of burning hatred.

"Some of...you are pro-probably wondering why I've brought you guys here. And I'm here to tell you the reason why I've brought you in so late at night."

'I can't do this! But I need to get this out! I didn't do anything wrong for the past 7 years and my family history doesn't have anything to do with me. So just tell them at your own pace.'

"I need to tell you all my story of why and how I left my home and survive the 7 years I was away from there."

I looked to the group this time and said, "But before I do you need to know where it all began."

"It all started when I was 5 years old during one of the worse dragon raids that my country has ever experienced."

"Some people were killed others gravely wounded, the dragons nearly burned down almost everything that my country had and they managed to take off with so much of our food and resources that if we didn't find a way to replace everything that they managed to take the people of the five tribes that made my home would certainly die from lack of food and housing."

"My father was in a tough position to find a way to replace what was lost. Until I gave him an idea."

"You gave your father an idea?" Asked Fishlegs, "what was it?"

"I made the comparison to follow and an animal to its home to find its stash of food. I thought that if we use one of the dragons that managed to capture, we could use it to follow the other dragons to get back our stolen food, but I know now that would have been impossible."

"My father was amazed by that idea and managed to gather an army of people to find were ever the dragons took our food. He even managed to chain a dragon that we managed to capture.

"Before we had set off my father wanted me to come so I could 'witness history'. He brought me and my mother to the upcoming battle, but he left my sisters behind just in case something bad happened all of us. He leads our people towards the dragon's nest and kept me and my mother at a safe distance in the back of the fleet with my mentor at the head of the ship."

"The dragon that we captured lead us towards an island and once that my father confirmed that that was the island were the dragons came from him and our people set up weapons around the island and prepared themselves for the assault. We attacked the structure of certain points of the nest so it was a lot easier than the mountain would give out. And when it finally broke Dragons from every direction began to fly off. However, it wasn't towards us they flew out towards the open sea. Everyone was confused until the ground began to shake and the mountain was spewing lava and then a giant 6 eyed dragon came out and nearly destroyed everything and everyone on the island."

"I was horrified, I saw body's flying into the air crashing down on the ground, people on fire who quickly tried to go towards the water to put the fire out and I've seen people get crushed by the debris of rocks when the dragon came out. I would say that nearly 25% of the people that were there died during that moment that the dragons came out. And there was more when the dragon finally decided to attack us."

"But somehow during the chaos, my father was still alive and formulating the strategy to take down the dragon. And he did, my father took down that dragon by himself with a well-executed plan. He told me that he noticed that every time that the dragon was about to use its fire, he notices that a green like gas would appear in the mouth of the dragon. So he baited the dragon to follow him towards the catapult that he lit on fire and when the dragon was about to kill my father the green gas appeared again and he launched the flaming rock down the dragon throat and my father knew exactly what was going to happen next so he warned the people around him and ran towards the ocean. And the dragon...burned from the inside and died"

It was silent they did respond at all and that was just the beginning portions of my story.

Until...

"So, your father took down a Red death that was at least 100 times bigger than himself?" Asked Hiccup.

"You met my father, so you already know that he is a very wise but also a very cruel person."

Gobber then spoke up, "Hiccup you met his father? When was this?"

I answered for him and said, "Both Hiccup and Astrid met my parents during the Day of Peace meeting. My parents are...the King and Queen of my home."

I heard nearly everyone in the group gasped, then I heard Gobber asked, "Then why are you here? In fact, if I remember correctly, you're not from this side of our archipelago why travel all the way out here?"

"You will know soon enough before I continued does anyone else have any questions?"

I noticed Fishlegs eyes lit up and then said, "I can't believe I just realized this but if your parents are the king and queen of your home, doesn't that make you a prince? The next in line for king?"

I sighed I had wished that they would have overlooked that, "Yes and no, I'm am technically a prince but not next in line for the throne. I wasn't the firstborn in my family, that honor goes to my sister's. But not being the firstborn doesn't mean that you still don't have a chance to become a king."

Astrid then asked, "What do you mean?"

I looked at the group and said, "You heard my father my people can choose to vote people who in our bloodline to be the ruler of our nation or if the people think that we are unworthy they would choose a new bloodline to inherit the throne. But the children of the king and queen must pass a test during a certain age."

"A test?"

"A test to measure our intelligence and our decision making, and all of us pass. But my sisters didn't want it and neither did I but since I was the last one born the focus was on me, just in case my sisters didn't change their mind. I will tell you more during the story but first I must continue where I left off."

"After the battle was over the people who had survived went to explore the dragon nest but there was nothing except for one thing that my father found to be useful. At first, we thought it was a golden rock we could use to sell outside of our home. But it turns out it was more than that, but I'll tell you what it was later. Once the stone was loaded, we gathered the bodies of the people that had died in battle and buried them on that island and people that were injured we taken off during our ride back home."

"But when on our way home a dragon landed on my boat and the people in charge of guarding us were going to attack it. But the dragon did nothing but stared at us and we were afraid that it was going to attack and poison someone, but it didn't. The people on my boat were concerned and confused, but I didn't think it meant any harm, so I want towards the dragon when no one was looking, and my mother was busy."

"I went towards the dragon and everyone else was freaking out. Nobody got close between me and the dragon because some of them believed that if they were to get closer the dragon would have been agitated and attacked me. I and the dragon lock eye's but he didn't do anything but stare at me with curiosity. I decided to feed the dragon with food that was leftover when I gave it to him, he only ate the fish that was on the plate. But then suddenly the dragon wraps itself around my body. The guards thought that the dragon was going to attack me, but the dragon was just laying down with me between its legs and stomach."

The dragon was cuddling me around its body, and somehow, I fell asleep around the dragon.

"What kind of dragon was it?" Asked Fishlegs.

"I think you could call it a Threadtail a dragon that can secrete poison from its scales when it feels threatened. So that was one of the reasons why our guards didn't want to get me away from it."

"When we finally made it back home, we were given the shock of a lifetime, the dragons that left the nest came to our country. Everyone on the boats quickly got off and prepared themselves for battle. But every time someone went to attack the dragons, the dragons would just avoid the blow but wouldn't fight back."

"My father noticed this and tried to see if the dragons would attack him if he got to one close. Once he did the dragon didn't attack him, only examined him and my father place one of his hands out and the dragon place its snout on his hand. It was at that time my father realized that I would be possible to control a dragon by trust or fear."

"But after a few hours had passed my father told the people to not harm any of the dragons that were in our tribes or outside of them too. But my father was still in a bad position and situation."

"The children of the people that were killed during the battle had no way to provide for themselves, the lack of food that would only last all of us a month and the situation with the dragons in our home. No one could think of anything to deal with these problems. But my father came up with an idea that could deal with 2 out of 3 problems while my mother tried to figure out the last one. He tried to train the dragons to obey him and when he found out how he taught some of the people he trusted the knowledge to Scout the east, north, and west of my home while people that were used to sailing would capture as much food as possible."

"My mother was trying to figure out a way to help the children and my grandma was helping the injured from the battle."

"But everything works out in the end because of the dragons helped us find food in the outlands. The sailors caught so many fish because of our Nets. And my mother found ways that the adults and children could help with building houses while feeding them."

"We managed to even integrate the dragons into our homes, by building feeding stations for them. Homes, we even hire someone to help breed the dragons. And after that, I managed to keep the dragon that was on the boat that was friendly towards me and I named him Dapper meaning brave. But my dragon had a habit of biting itself so some of the poison would mix with its saliva. But while my grandmother was creating an anti-venom, she created a mixture that has multiple healing properties."

"During the years dragons had become completely integrated into my home and that golden rock turns out to be a dragon egg, or more specifically the dragon egg of the giant dragon that my father killed."

A Red Death egg?"

"Yes, but something was different about this dragon, the coloring was off and it was easily scared but it was not aggressive at all. My grandmother had no choice but to take care of it because she lived in a very open place and if that dragon did grow into the size of its mother it would be disastrous but when it first hatches it was probably the size of an average adult male. Speaking of which my grandmother discovered that the dragon was male and that might have something to do with its coloring and behavior."

"But during those years I was also learning combat with my mentor. I was 6 and a half at the time but I had an incident involving one of my peers."

"The children that were orphaned hated my father because of the battle that took their parent's lives, so since they knew I was his son they would pick on me and call me out of my name. One day in the middle of practice my mentor put me up against one of the kids I had the most problems with. He knew this so the lesson was to stay calm under extreme emotion. I managed to beat him and pass the lesson, but he said something that hit a nerve and we fought seriously. I got the upper hand on him, but I was so angry that I was beating him scentless, I remember seeing blood on my hands and my mentor pulling me away from him forcefully. My father saw the whole thing and for the first time I saw in years, he smiled at me. He saw potential in me in my fit of rage, but he thought that my mentor was being too soft on me, so he decided to train me himself."

"The next 3 years were hell to me. My father constantly beat me until I was a bloody mess 5 times a week for hours until I was 10. Sometimes hand to hand combat other times with weapons."

I took off my shirt so they could see the many scars all of my body. The ones who didn't know gasped.

"But within those 3 years, my mother tried to stop him from being so abusive towards me. My mother and father came to an agreement that my mentor was allowed to train me once a week. However, the time I spend with my mentor was only for physical therapy with a few training sessions."

Then Astrid spoke up, "Why didn't your mother just completely stop him?"

"My father is very stubborn and he wanted me to either to become a king that was better then himself or become the strongest crown guard that was able to protect whoever was next in line, rather it would be my sisters or mother or if something were to happen to them my father twin brother, my uncle."

"Your father has a brother?" Asked Hiccup.

"Yes, however I didn't see him during the Day of Peace meeting, he's my father adviser so I don't know why he wasn't there. Anyway, my mother wanted it to stop but she knew that her mother, my grandmother could heal me within a few hours. He could heal me physically, but nothing could fix what my father has done to me mentally."

"But that was happening until I was 10. Most of you know what I'm about to say."

"The final days I spent at my home was the same until my father one day announced that we as a family needed to have a meeting to discuss the future of our home and ourselves.

I was happy during that time because that meant that my father would be too busy to train me for a few days while preparing for this meeting. So, I spent the last few days with my grandma and my mentor. I remember she was discussing something that had to do with dragon Anatomy and my mentor was having a deep discussion about if I were to become the king of my home or not. But I didn't want to become a king or crown guard.

"Why didn't you?" Asked Hiccup.

"The responsibility of other people other than yourself, the choices that you make could affect others. You could ruin someone's life just with a simple mistake. I never wanted that, I want to be responsible for my own life, my own choices and not other people's. That why during all those times like on my island or when the Bog Burglars raided this village, I put you guys on the least dangerous role while I was on the most dangerous. I don't want to be responsible for another person getting hurt, that was part of the reason why I snapped when I saw Astrid hurt when the Bog Burglars came.

Valka then spoke up, "You saw Astrid get hurt? Where were you during the attack? I didn't see you anywhere."

"I...I was around and...you did...see..me," I responded nervously.

"No, I didn't, I would have remembered you, what you've done I would have easily remembered you." She responded almost angrily.

I don't know why but I was scared, "like I..I...s-said I was around...and you did see me. I know it's doesn't make sense right now, but you'll understand soon. Just let me finish my story, ok?"

She gave me a blank stare, "Fine go on then."

I don't think she truly cares about me, not that I blame her. I put these guys through so much I don't blame her for not treating me nicely. But she saved my life before and yet she doesn't even know that it was me.

"Everyone that was a part of my family was invited, even my dragon. But during the discussion, my dragon friend was acting strangely and suddenly he was trying to attack my father I quickly tried to stop him but then he bit me around my torso and flung me to the other side of the room. When that happened, my father took advantage of the situation and cut my friend's neck, all I remember after that was seeing blood sprayed out of my friend's neck and my father with blood all over himself. But the worst was the building burning Sensation that was spreading across my body that was getting worse with each moment that passed. I was poisoned by the bite."

"But I thought that you said that your dragon can only secrete poison from its skin," Fishlegs stated.

"I did but remember I did just note that my dragon had a habit of biting itself because it's poison makes it skin itchy. So, when he bit me some of the poison was still in his mouth." I answer.

"I don't really remember much after that just a burning sensation. But I believe that when my grandmother was trying to cure me. But I remember when I woke up, she told me that the anti-venom wasn't working for some odd reason when it had worked before. So, she tried another method which to this day I don't know what she did to me, but it had a side effect."

The others knew what I was going to say next, but the other adults were looking at me with curiosity. Gobber then asked, "What side effects what you grew a few bumps all over your body?"

I don't know how they're going to react when I say this, but I need to get it out, if I tell them this then the rest of my story should be easier to say to them.

"My grandmother...somehow turned me into a dragon."

The room was silent, the Dragon Riders were looking at me with a bit of joy and nervousness for getting it out. But the adults were...

(*Laughing*)

"Oh, boy that a real kicker," Gobber laugh.

"That poison must have made you hallucinate. But it made you think that you turn into a dragon is priceless." The muscular man who I think his name is Eret laughed.

Valka just looks at me with pity, "So you did tell my son this nonsense, and the fact that he believes you..."

I stood up and said, "I know that it's hard to believe but it the truth." Then I looked to her and said, "But the fact that you stayed alive in a dragon's nest for almost 20 years it almost as unbelievable."

She looked over to Hiccup and then back to me, "So my son has told you about me."

"I knew even before I came to this island like I said before you saved my life before," I responded.

"I have never met you before." She responded

I walked towards the darkest corner of the room so no one could see what I was about to do while saying, "I may look different but it was still me that you saved almost 4 years ago and took me inside of the Bewilderbeast nest. I didn't trust you because you wore a mask but when the Your Stormcutter told me that you had worked for hours trying to keep me alive while I was unconscious I was shocked, why did a person care so much for another? Did she do it out of the kindness of her heart? Or was she planning to use me for later?"

She looked at me while I was heading towards the darkest corner in the room and said, "Your crazy, you've been researching me."

I laughed because she just reminded me of a joke, she told me while we were in the nest, "The only thing that more stubborn than a dragon sharing its food is a Viking with anger issues. am I right Valka?"

Even from this corner, I could see her eyes widened, my best guess is that she remembered telling me that joke. Then she asked, "H-how, do you know of that joke I made it up while I was..."

In the darkness, I took off my remaining clothes and changed. I didn't want the others to see me while it was happening. I tried my best to not scream in pain, but I am sure that the others heard it. There I was a dragon once again breathing hard to catch my breath. I can change back one more time but that is, if I go any further, I could rupture something. Once this is done, I need to sleep to recover more quickly.

"Hey, are you ok?" Asked Gobber while getting up from the table, "what was that noise?"

"Don't come any closer." I nearly yelled, "I'll come to you just stay seated please."

I don't know Gobber to well to trust him, he still a Viking and I know that they still have the instinct to attack anything that they see as a threat.

He steps back said, "Ok...no need to get angry with me las."

Good, he didn't see me like this, now I need to change the color of my scales and slowly approach them to sit back where I was or at least close to there.

I did just that while speaking out loud, "Life is full of mysteries that things that we cannot understand or explain. We just have to live with it and move on. But my situation is different, my grandmother somehow made the impossible possible with me on accident."

The adults were looking around confused, they couldn't see me. But they were looking around the area where I am talking.

"Where are you las? It's like you're over there but you not there," Gobber said.

I was in the area where I was sitting at but I couldn't sit back on the table with them. "You're not crazy for what you are about to see next. Valka please pay attention I'm going to need you to explain some parts of my story."

She looked around and was confused, "I don't even know what you're even talking ab-"

She cut herself off when I finally revealed myself from hiding. The other dragon Riders didn't look surprised to see how the adults acted. Scared out of their minds.

I looked over to the adult's Males of the group Eret and Gobber and said, "Still think I was hallucinating?"

They both were freaking out, the one called Eret fell from the table, Gobber just stood back.

Then I looked over towards Valka, she had a looked of shock on her face, but I said, "Still Think I'm crazy?"

"Yo-you was this dragon this entire time? The one I even recused all those years ago?"

I nodded, "Yes, I am sorry for hiding it from you of all people, but I was scared to tell the others."

She had her hand over her mouth and looked towards her son, "So you were telling me the truth. I didn't think that this was possible."

"That my grandmother for you," I responded

I know that you have questions, but I'll like to continue my story.

They all nodded while looking at me.

"I believe that I may have been a few hours since the incident at the family meeting, but I woke up feeling somehow better but at the same time I felt something off. It took a while, but my grandmother finally came into the room she had blood on her apron I assume it may have come from me. But when I tried to see what was wrong with her, she steps away from me. I was confused about why so I called out to her and that when I noticed my voice was different and I couldn't speak properly. When she finally spoke to me, she asked if it was me. I was very confused, and I nodded my head yes to show her. She hugs me and told me that what she did to me was her fault. She gave me a mirror and I saw that I was a dragon. I freak out but she managed to calm me down and she told me that she had to tell my parents. I was scared at first but she was going to be to protect me, so I let her carry me back to my house. She leads me into my room and told me to wait."

"Around 30 minutes had gone by and yet she hadn't returned. But the person we hired for cleaning came into my room and saw me and alerted the guards. I hid underneath my bed when they came. But after that, my father had dismissed them all and then flipped over my bed to find me. He...kick me away from my bed so I had nowhere to run or hid."

I began to tear up just my remembering those moments, "And M-My's father raised his sword to strike me down. I remember trying to call towards my mother who was watching the whole thing from my door, but she couldn't understand me. But she did ask my father to stop, I was happy at that moment because she was giving me a chance but then my father was about to swing his sword at me and then my instincts kicked. It took a while for me to remember but the person I saw in front of me was no longer my father it was just a person who was trying to kill me. Everything was a blur, but I remember dashing and cutting my father's leg with my claws, then the moment he lost his footing I knocked him down by tackling him and knocking the sword out of his hand."

I don't know why but when I lose myself like that, I have an intention to kill and yet I didn't know why that I didn't kill my father while I was like that. I'm happy that I didn't but something prevented me from doing it. So, my instincts lead me to flee, I jump off my father and I jump out of the window and open my wings. I was gliding through the air as I did it before. But while I was in the air my senses came back to me and I lost my balance while flying. I was fine when I landed but I didn't know what to. Should I go back and try to convince my parents that I was me? To find my grandmother? But the more I thought about it the more it seems to put the others endanger."

"Why did you think that?" Asked Fishlegs.

"Because I knew that there wasn't another dragon that looked like me and the fact that I saw my father blood on my hands I knew he would be looking for me. My father would have killed me or just kept me as his pet then put me in his dragon-like army."

I couldn't hold in my tears, "I didn't want that...I just wanted to go back home to see my mother again...to hold her, to hear her voice telling me that everything was going to be ok...but she saw what I did to my father. I knew that she would only see me as a monster than her son. So, I decided to get away from them and tried to get an island that I could live on. I don't know how to fly so I just decided to steal a boat."

But I ran into some kids that were somewhat torturing me. I escaped but I don't want to explain how I did..."

'Don't think it about just tell them the remaining part of the story.'

"I managed to sneak inside of the docks and pier but the only ship that wasn't completely secure was the biggest one that they had. But I manage to get the ship moving by cutting some rope and bring up the anchor of the ship and I was sailing."

"I knew how far the destination was, but I didn't think about food or water. I was sailing for 3 days straight, the ship had barely any freshwater and I couldn't eat some of the food because I would just throw it up. But I manage to find a cave behind a waterfall to put the ship in. But before I pull inside, I wanted to find some food on the island. But after a while, I was too weak and tired, so I rested underneath a tree. But when I woke up, I was surrounded by dragons. I didn't know what to do I thought that they were going to attack me because I was in their territory. I was having a panic attack but a Nadder told me to calm down. Her voice was calm and smoothing and then I began to become less anxious. But then I realized that the dragon spoke to me."

"They all were asking me questions like where was I from what was I doing there and other questions. I tried to answer them the best way that I could and then I told them that I was human. They didn't believe me and then the Nadder must have noticed that I hadn't eaten a while, so she regurgitated some food for me and before I had a chance to complain about it my body acted on its own and I swallowed the food. She invited me over towards her home with her mate and children. One thing led to another and they became my new family."

"It was 2 years I spent on that island, and one day my adopted mother told us that she was pregnant and needed to get off the island to have her new babies. During this time the pairs of dragons began to get off the island to have their babies. I took advantage of this and went island searching on my own. When I found an island, I noticed a girl practicing her ax-throwing skills at a few trees I didn't know why but I wanted to watch her, and it irritated me because her form was off. But I manage to make a sound and she discovered me and tried to attack me, but I manage to pin her down. I wasn't going to harm her but when I saw the fear on her face I hesitated and decided to let her go. But the moment my back was turned she threw a pair of bolas at my feet and I couldn't move. She was going to kill me but then she hesitates. Suddenly she cuts the rope around my arms and legs and then she runs off back towards her village. That girl was named Kindle."

"I didn't know what to do so I looked around to see if there was a cave nearby. I found one where no person could reach and slept in theirs. The next day I found the girl again over the edge of a cliff just staring out towards the ocean. There was no one around us so I decided to go near her, she didn't have any weapons on her so when she finally noticed I was behind her she slightly panicked but she quickly just gave up. I didn't want to seem as a threat to her so I just place my head on her lap and see what she would do. She suddenly was petting me and then we formed a bond after that."

"Over the past few weeks, we played with one another. And within those weeks she discovered how smart I was, she knew that I could understand everything she said when we first met on the cliffed but she didn't know how much. I do remember taking her flying and I help her with her training, her form was off, and she was only using her arms and not her whole body. But the more we hung out the more dangerous it became. She and I both knew that if we were to get caught, I would be killed, and she would be banished. I didn't want her to go through that, so I tried to explain myself thought body language and she understood I left her island and went back home."

"I really did like her, but I couldn't just take her off the island to live with me, she had a home and so did I. But I do miss her every day and I hope one day I could go back and see her."

"A few months go by and I decided to leave the island that I was living on with my adopted parents. I needed to explore the world for myself and my parents understood that. I flew for a few weeks and I came across another dragon nest. They seem to be friendly, so I decided to stay within the nest, but trouble happened."

"The same species of dragons that my father took down was also a part of this nest and she was the queen. The queen knew that she couldn't control me so she threatened me that if I didn't become a part of the next raid, she would kill the dragons that I grew close to."

I had no choice but to become a part of a dragon raid.

"You raided a village!?" Yelled Snotlout.

"I had no choice but to," I responded.

"Everyone has a choice, just tell those that their leader was trying to kill them!"

I sighed, "The dragons were under her influence even if I did tell them they would just deny it. It was either say no and watch my acquaintances died or raid a village and made sure there were no casualties."

"My job was to take down their weapons and catapults and I successfully did that without harming anyone. We had enough food to satisfy the queen, so we retreated. But one of the dragons was shot down and another tried to rescue him. It was a domino effect we lost focused and 9 other dragons went down including our leader. I tried to help but I was also captured. We were kept alive for to reason they needed a dragon to train their children and they wanted to study me because they never have seen a dragon-like me before. They cage us and only fed us once a day."

"The village that we raided was the Meatheads tribe. That why that chief recognizes me. They took me out in a place similar to your training area to put other Vikings to face me to see how I would react. But all I showed them was I had no interest in them. They tried to attack me, but I would either move or catch something they threw at me. They had deemed me worthless so during the time of the final trial they were going to use me for the dragon to kill to whoever was the worthiest in their village."

"But each and every time that they took me in and out I would see the contraptions that open and close the doors and they also had an emergency lever just in case if a person were to get caught within the cage. I came up with a plan that worked during the final trial and I managed to free every dragon but one."

"This dragon was a Sand Wrath and she was our leader during the raid. But she broke her wing during the raid when we got captured. I carried her with all my strength and we barely escaped. However, we only escaped The Village I wasn't strong enough to carry her off the island, so we hid inside of a cove with caves all over the place."

"She wanted me to leave her alone because she wasn't used to others helping her. Her pride got in the way but eventually, she swallowed her pride and allowed me to help her. I tried to straighten out her wings about using Vines and sticks the way my grandmother taught me and brought her food when she needed it. This lasted for almost a week I didn't want to leave her just in case the Meatheads came. But she did a 180 on me she was much more friendly towards me and one night we were talking about our feelings and I understand why she was so prideful before. I told everything I been through in my life except for the parts that I was human. And we slept next to each other that night."

The next morning was the worst morning of my life. For the first time, I somehow changed back into a human while I was sleeping. The female sand Wrath didn't recognize me and attack me causing those 3 claws marks you saw on my chest. I remember acting in anger I don't know how by my anger triggered something in me and I changed back into a dragon roared very loudly and was about to attack her, but the pain got to me and I fainted."

"Wait, now that I think about it where are all your scars? I don't see them on you anymore," asked Fishlegs.

"I there still there underneath my scales, the scars do heal well but they are quickly hidden underneath a new growth of scales. I basically have 2 layers of skin." I answered.

"After I fainted the female sand Wrath was trying to wake me up inside of a cave to warn me that the Meatheads were coming. I quickly got on top of her and covered her with my wings and tried my best to camouflage myself with her underneath me. It worked but I was weak from blood loss. She tried to ask me a question about me but I was weak and fell asleep. But while I was asleep the dragons from the nest found us and carried us back to it. I woke up inside of a cave next to the Sand Wrath and my cut had fully healed. She was happy and apologized to me. I spent the next few days inside of the nest until the day the queen took things too far."

"What happened," asked Hiccup.

She was about to kill a family of dragons because they didn't bring enough food for her. But before she had a chance to, I blasted her with a fire blast. I challenge her to a fight inside of the nest, it wasn't easy, but I won by using all of the gas I had left into a single blast and blew off one of her horns. I threatened her that if she would ever harm her nest again, I would kill her by blasting the next fire down her throat. She was scared of me, so she agreed, at the moment in my life I never felt proud of putting fear into someone's heart and I hated it but it needed to be done."

After a while, I decided to leave the nest to discover more of the world. I said my goodbyes and left. I travel until a hurricane nearly swept me up, I managed to find a cave within a pair of sea stacks, but a family of Nightmares was also inside. It took some convincing to show them that I wasn't a threat, but they allow me to stay within their place until the storm blew past. After a while, I noticed that the Nightmare didn't have a mate, but two children and I asked what happened and the Nightmare explain that her mate was captured a few days before I had arrived by dragon trappers."

I knew if it happened a few days ago and they were on ships they would be too far out of my reach. I ask the dragon for directions where her mate had gone, and I followed it. It took me all day but I found an Armada of ships with dragons cages on top of the one that was leading them, I turned my self-invisible and went towards the ship. There were Hunters and trappers everywhere but I manage to elude them and freed the dragons on the ship but once I freed the last dragon I was discovered and surrounded they tried to tranquilize me but the darts wouldn't penetrate through my scales."

That when I met the mad man himself Drago Bludvist, he tried to make me submit to him by screaming and whaling his bullhook, it was intimidating but I stood my ground. But in an instant, he slashes my stomach with it and manages to cut through my scales and my skin underneath my scales. He cut very deeply, and I was losing a lot of blood I made a diversion for myself by blowing up part of the ship and turning myself invisible and flew off towards the ocean. But I was losing my strength and landed in the ocean, when I did I floated on top of the ocean with the remaining strength I had left I tried to cauterized my wound but because of my blood was different my dried blood made a seal around the wound and stopped the bleeding but I fainted in the process."

"I keep going in and out of consciousness I remember being hot and cold seeing the sunrise and fall but then I remember feeling something pulling me out of the water."

I looked over towards Valka and said, "I think this is your part to tell the story I don't remember much during those first few days."

Valka looks at me than the group, "I'll try but it was a while ago I might mess up with a few things while telling my side of your story."

Gobber then asked, "Wait Valka you knew him before you came back to our village?"

She nodded and looked at me, "This...boy was the dragon I rescued all those years ago."

"Once one of our dragons found you, we took you back to the nest and I was trying to heal you. The cut looks bad, so I tried to clean the wound first, but when I did, I cleaned the blood off but the wound itself was already closed to be completely healed. So, I tried everything I could to make sure that it stays clean, we put you in a warm place and within an hour you began breathing normally. After finishing examining your body, I saw the Belt on your leg and removed it, that when I saw a book with dragon information in it but I didn't read all of it. It took you 3 days to finally wake up, you acted differently from most dragons. Most dragons would be confused about my appearance, but you knew that I wore a mask, and you made gestures that were clear to understand."

I responded, "I couldn't clearly talk during that time I was still trying to learn how to adjust my vocal muscles so people could understand me, or at least one person could..." I slightly blushed and said, "You scared me at first I didn't believe that there were people outside of my home that took care of dragons. Your appearance didn't help at all, I knew that you were a person but why wear a mask? It took me a few days to understand why you needed it to show the dragons you were a threat or at least trick a dragon to think you were not human until you had gained its trust."

She nodded, "And when you first saw me it had the opposite effect. Cloudjumper and I brought you food, but you didn't want to eat while we were in front of you, so we left. And when we came back you were asleep with the food was gone. The next few days had gone by yet you wouldn't leave the cave that you were in, so I stop by to see what were you doing. Until now I thought I was going crazy, but I saw you reading that book that was attached to your belt on your leg. But you saw me and hid it, but you didn't seem interested in my presence until I took off my mask. But when I tried to see the book you growl at me."

I sighed, "I apologize for that, it was pure fear and instinct that caused me to do that. I didn't want you to know what was inside my book and discover what I truly was."

She continues with her side of the story, "It did take a few tries, but I manage to get you out of the cave and that when you meet the king himself the Bewilderbeast. Yet you didn't bow, in fact, you snarled at him, why did you?"

"As I mentioned before, I had 2 encountered with dragons his size, everything that they did was for themselves not for the entirety of the nest, so I didn't trust him," I answered

"But eventually you grew to like him?"

I nodded, "yes, you weren't there but he knew that I wasn't a dragon at heart and mind, and he taught me how to control myself and change back and forth between human and dragon."

Everyone looked at me and all of them were asking the same question, 'how?'

The Bewilderbeast has some sort of connection to the mind of a dragon, he looked through my mind and memories and found the trigger that caused my change. He made me think back to when I was with the sand Wrath and made me replay the same emotion that I had back then, and it worked I was human again. He taught me how to change back and forth during the nighttime where everyone was asleep. That why I gain respect for him during that time and began bowing to him, he is a true king that takes care of everyone within his home."

Valka then looked at me and said, "Every act that you took makes much more sense now. You were a very smart and strange dragon. Everything that you did confused and surprised me. Like that time during the mating season where that female Nadder chasing after you and-"

I cut her off before she told that story, "DO NOT tell them that! I don't want to think about that time."

She then giggled and said, "it was just funny was all."

"To you," I retorted. During the time I was at the nest I guess my body was mature enough to...do the deed...and the female dragons could sense that or they could smell my musk and they wanted...me, because they never have seen a dragon-like me before so their instincts lead them to have more interest in me. But I guess the word 'no' or 'I'm not interested' doesn't have any meaning during that time. It's a good thing I could turn invisible otherwise those females would have found me.

"But anyway, I continued from there before you say something that embarrassing to me," I said, "I believe that I spent at least 6 months inside of that nest but I wanted to go exploring again by myself. So, I said my goodbyes and left the nest. Soon after that, I found another island full of dragons, this island was the Foreverwing nest and I quickly became a part of the nest. I met a dragon that was very optimistic but did have a temper who became my friend, that dragon was the Typhoomerang that tackle me after we rescued all those dragons during the time my island was attacked. I named him Combustion because dragons don't have names."

"What do you mean by that?" Asked Fishlegs.

Dragon culture right, "What I learned is that a dragon isn't born with a name, they are given a title that defines them. That what I've learned, but he didn't have one, so I gave him a name."

I laughed because I just remembered something and I look over towards Hiccup, "in fact Toothless was upset with you because of the name you gave him, or at least the meaning of the name. One without teeth..."

"But anyway, that when I was a part of that nest, but a situation happened were a few dragons that were off the island got captured by dragon trappers. I want to save them, but no one wanted to help but one dragon, my friend Combustion. But It was going to be difficult because we were big and easy to spot dragons, even if I turned invisible, I wouldn't be able to rescue the dragons without other people noticing. So, I had to tell Combustion my plan and show him my secret. He actually took it well and that surprised me, but we managed to find and rescue them. But that incident may have caused the dragon Hunters to get involved discovered my island and will...the rest you know."

"That not everything that happened in the last 7 but the key points in my life. I am sorry for deceiving you guys all this time but since the incident, with the Meatheads, I had trouble trusting people with dragons. I've seen people and dragons die in front of me. I didn't have the courage to tell anybody about me unless it's necessary like when you were thinking about going back to the Bog Burglars island to come to rescue me when I was in front of you and you didn't know that I was a dragon, I'm sorry so for that."

I tried my best not to cry in front of them, but I had told them everything important that happened to me for the past 7 years. And like I said to them I hadn't done anything wrong but...that what happened I didn't have a choice but to leave and survive.

But after everything, I said they understood where I was coming from and why I lied to them all this time. Gobber and Eret were still a little freak out by me but at this point it better then someone putting a sword on my neck. Everyone but Hiccup and Astrid left, I changed back when no one was looking but I could barely move but then those two helps me back towards my house when I could barely walk.

We finally made, "Thanks, you two for helping me up, I'm sorry about this but I had to show the adults that I wasn't crazy."

"It's no problem we understand but are you going to be okay?" Asked Hiccup.

"For now, yes," I answer.

They both look confused then Astrid Asked, "What do you mean by that."

Shoot I let it slip...but I did just tell them my Origins so perhaps I should only tell them, but I don't want pity. "Look I have been...what I mean is I haven't told you everything about me or my condition. And I don't want your pity I have accepted this for a while that this might happen to me."

Now they looked worried, "Ronde, what are you talking about?"

I sat down next to the door I broke (going to need to fix that or at least cover the door frame.) "Please don't tell the others I told you this but during the last 4 years I've possibly known this but...the older I get, it becomes more difficult to change back and forth within a days' time and it becomes more painful because of the size I am when I'm a dragon."

"What are you saying?"

"When I get older...I might not be able to change at all...I might have to choose between living as a human or a dragon when I get to a certain age and I don't know when but I can assume that it will happen within a decade. Possible more than 6 years but after that...I just don't know. The pain is somewhat unbearable but quickly goes away, but as I said before the pain wasn't as worse back then as it is now."

They look at me and I could tell that they feel bad for me. But again, I have accepted that this might happen to me and depending on how my life plays out I might stay as a dragon for the rest of my life. It's easier to get around. "Hey, I told you I don't want your pity, it's not like I'm dying or anything I'll just be living just like I was before I met you guys."

They just look at me and look at each other,

But I had one other thing on my mind, "Before you guys leave may I ask you two something?"

They both nodded "Sure what is it?"

I was rubbing my right arm, again I was nervous, but I needed to hear their opinion about me. "I know I said this before, and I sometimes do hate repeating myself but...you guys heard my story; you saw my parents and know the history of my home and myself. And you know that I didn't do anything wrong to want to leave my country yet...why do you lot care so much about me. It's been nearly a month since I met you guys yet you've done so much for me, yet I didn't so little for you. So why do this for me? I should be on my hands and knees begging you guys for mercy after everything I have done to your village, I was being so selfish."

Hiccup then said, "You call saving those dragons on your island selfish? Or fighting off those Bog Burglars even though that would have been the perfect opportunity for you to escape from punishment. Or rescuing me from the Bog Burglars at the risk of your secret? Ronde every action that you have taken has been for the well-being of others, I don't call that selfish."

I turned towards Astrid and asked, "Well what about you? Why have you been so nice to me? Was it because of pity?"

She gave me a straight answer, "In some ways yes it was. I felt bad for you after I heard that you ran away at 10 years old and that your father tried to kill you. But even after all that you continue to make right by facing punishment for what you did and had many opportunities to leave yet you didn't. And now that I know it was you who saved me from being killed by the Bog Burglars I know now that you're not someone who should not be pitied for. You have one of the biggest secrets I have ever heard of, yet you risked so much for us knowing that there was a chance that we might find out, that the reason I'm nice to you."

She sounds the same way as she did on that island before we made it to the day of peace meeting. "I see..." I whispered.

Hiccup leans down facing me, "So now what Ronde? What are you going to do?"

"If you're asking what I'm going to do next, probably stay in your village for another month or possibly longer then I'll just try to go back home...maybe if that's ok with you," I responded.

They both nodded.

But I wasn't finish explaining myself, "But what we need to do is get the remaining Bog Burglars and take them back to their island or give them a ship."

They both looked at me as if I was crazy.

"Remember." I pointed at Hiccup, "you're the one who promised Bertha that you'll return her man and woman to her."

"Right...how are we going to do that? Some of our villagers still use the boat to capture food?"

I thought of something at that moment, "They can have my boat or ship whichever is your preference. I don't need it anymore, I just needed something to make sure you guys didn't ask how I got here with no boat or dragon."

"Wait you stole a dragon Hunter ship for that reason?" Astrid asked baffled.

"3 steps ahead, remember," I responded.

"You are something else," Hiccup stated, "Are you sure that you want to give it away?"

"I have no further use for it, let them have it."

"Ok, is there anything you need?"

I look back at the house that they gave me and pointed at it, "A new door for tomorrow and time to clear my head. I will lead the Bog Burglars towards my ship tomorrow once you had gathered them. For now, I believe we all need to rest...so good night you two."

Hiccup and Astrid said their goodbye and I waved them off. I went inside the house to find something to block the door frame. I decided to just use the mattress and sleep on the floor. Surprisingly it wasn't that bad I guess this beats sleeping on a rocky surface. I lay down just to try to fall asleep but there was so much going through my head.

'I just told them everything, yet they didn't have the reaction that I thought they were going to have. And this feeling, I do feel better but now it's like...what should I do now? Should I go see my mother? I still have mixed feelings for my dad but my sister's Grandma and my mentor, they don't know that I'm still alive. And my mother's face when she saw me...was that pity, sorrow empathy or just frustration? I know she wants to see her son again, but I am not that little boy that she raised anymore.'

'Still, I need to see her again, but right now I'm still not comfortable with the idea of facing her yet, but I will in time. I wonder what she's doing right now?'

I slowly fell asleep on the floor.


3rd person view.

As the boy was falling asleep there were others outside thinking of ways to prank the village in an ultimate fashion...Aka the twins.

"Ok I thought of the ultimate prank and we need some Dragon nip for our new friend." Said Tuffnut.

"Ah yes, and this way we can sit back and watch the explosions of laugher." Replied his twin.

"Yes, the ultimate prank! Let see, where do we find Dragon nip again? Somewhere in the field outside of the village?"


I would like to point out that there are certain things I did not mention Within this part of his story I am saving some key points for the prequel am planning on creating possibly during the summertime. But you can get a feeling of what I'm going to be writing about and it might be a bit darker than this story. But these are the key highlights of his origin. I hope you're looking forward to the next chapter and the next book I plan to make for this story.

Review or comment will be appreciated tell me what you like about the story that's far and tell me what you dislike I might change it when I get to the prequel of the story.

See you guys next time.