Hiccup and Elsa were walking, holding hands as he showed her around his new home. Elsa still seemed flushed from kissing him a few moments ago, so to divert the topic, he looked around and sighed.

"Isn't this a great place?" Hiccup asks as Elsa nodded in agreement.

"It is beautiful." Elsa agrees as he noticed her eyebrows furrowing as she looked at him. "But I don't understand something. You've been alive all this time...why didn't you come back to Berk?"

He took her to his private hang out area, where he and Flynn had constructed a hammock from the supplies that they had lifted on one of their 'heists'. He let go of her hand and jumped into it and sighed in relaxation with his palms clasped behind nd his head as he looked at her.

"Well...I just needed to...get out on my own...live my own life." Hiccup lied. He didn't want her to know the truth. "And I did! And it's great!"

Elsa looked very serious as she sat down on a rock next to him. "We really needed you at home..."

Hiccup snorted, not believing her. "Nobody needs me. I only bring trouble wherever I go."

Elsa looked at him sternly as she continued. "Well, we do! You're the king!"

Hiccup shook his face slightly as he retorted. "Elsa, we've been through this...I'm not the king. Drago is."

Elsa held Hiccup's hand tightly and spoke to him with a very serious face. "Hiccup...he let the Berserkers take over our lands."

Hiccup looked shock as he didn't expect his uncle to have done any of that. "What!?"

"Everything's destroyed. We have no trade, some or most of the people have escaped to other kingdoms. The Berserkers and their dragons have laid waste to our home and we're on the brink of war with many kingdoms." Elsa explained everything to him. "There's no food, no water. Hiccup, if you don't do something, everyone will die...and there won't be any more Berk on the map..."

Hiccup let go of her hand and rolled around in the hammock, staring into the wilderness. "I-I can't go back..."

Elsa crossed her arms at him in anger. "Why!?"

Hiccup jumped out of the hammock and began walking back. "You wouldn't understand..."

Elsa stood up and grabbed his hand. "What wouldn't I understand?"

Hiccup opened his mouth to tell her, but then shook his head and decided against it. "It doesn't matter. Hakuna matata."

Elsa looked at him with a seriously confused look. "Haku-what?"

Hiccup wriggled his hand out of her grasp as he felt the tension rising. "Hakuna matata. It's something I learned out here." He grasped Elsa by the shoulders and looked into her eyes as he elaborated. "Look...sometimes bad things happen..."

Elsa's eyes widened in disbelief as she heard him making excuses. "Hiccup!? How could you say-" He let go of her and picked up his sword as he began to walk away.

"And there's nothing you can do about it, so why worry?"

Elsa ran forward and blocked his path. "Because it's your responsibility!"

He felt his temper rising as he looked at her and argued back. "Well, what about you? You left!"

Elsa picked up her bow and swung it around her back. "I left to find help, and I found you! Don't you understand? You're our only hope!" She pleaded with him.

Hiccup looked at her for a few seconds before shaking his head and continuing to walk away as he clicked his tongue. "Sorry...you got the wrong guy."

Without turning to look at her, he heard her continue to look at him angrily. "What's happened to you? You're not the Hiccup that i remember."

Hiccup looked over his shoulder as he retorted, "You're right...I'm not. Now are ya satisfied?"

She crossed her arms at him and gazed angrily at the snowy ground as she said "No...I'm just a little disappointed."

Hiccup stopped in his tracks as anger filled his veins. "You know, you're really starting to sound like my dad."

Elsa then snorted. "Good. At least one of us does."

His eyes widened in anger as she said this And spun around and advanced in her.

As the tension rose, she grasped her bow as he yelled at her "Listen, you think you can just show up and tell me how to live my life!? You don't even know what I've been through!"

"I would, if you'd just tell me!" Elsa pleaded with him one last time.

He opened his mouth to argue back but then gave up as he turned on his heel and stormed away from her. "FORGET IT!" He didn't look back at her but heard her yell back

"FINE!"

He heard Toothless land next to him and cooed reproachfully at him. He clambered onto the dragon as he shot up on his dragon at a slow glide forwards over the grazing lands. Once out of everyone's earshot, he landed Toothless and jumped off, kicking hard at the rocks and snow on the ground in anger as the dragon watched, confused.

He then began to pace back and forth under the moonlight with Toothless watching in curiosity. "She's wrong!" He told Toothless shrugged his shoulders at the unassuming dragon, who now lay there, licking his paw.

"I can't go back...what would it prove anyway? I can't change anything. You can't change the past..." Hiccup then paused and stared up into the stars and yelled as hard as he could at it. "YOU SAID YOU'D ALWAYS BE THERE FOR ME!...but you're not... " He dropped his head to his chest as he muttered, his voice cracking. "And it's because of me..." He dropped to his knees as he began to cry silently, remembering the stampede from ten years ago. "...it's all my fault."

As he sat there, lost in his sorrow, he heard the gurgle or dragons bickering behind him and turned around to see Toothless being annoyed by three little terrible terrors. Then, as Toothless roared disapprovingly, they all jerked and flew up into a huge tree where they see a boulder...chuckling and humming in some ancient dialect he couldn't understand.

"Du er en bavian og jeg er ikke. Du er en bavian og jeg er ikke!" The boulder hummed to itself and cackled as Hiccup approached it and lightly tapped it, revealing a Grandpabbie.

"It's just a troll. Sorry." Hiccup apologized as he walked forward down the slope with his dragon. "C'mon, bud...let's find some place without any humming Passerby's." And he walked off.

Hiccup walked out of earshot of the troll and sat down next to a stagnant stream, which shone under the moonlight. He gazed sadly at his reflection for a few minutes.

Then his zoning out was interrupted again when he looked around and was mildly surprised to find the troll was back, now rolling to follow them.

'How did he move so fast and so silently?' He wondered to himself.

The troll then threw a nut he was holding at his reflection. He snorted in resentment and turned away as the troll began to hum again. "Du er en bavian og jeg er ikke..."

Hiccup got up and walked away again, sighing in annoyance. "Come on. Will ya cut it out?"

The troll just smiled at her awesomeness and then grinned at Hiccup. "Can't cut it out. It goes right back! Haha!"

Hiccup rolled his eyes and began walking away with Toothless following him, looking around suspiciously at the troll.

"Creepy little troll..." Hiccup grunted as he noticed that the troll was still following him, rolling along with him. "Will You stop following me?" He asked the old troll, irritated by its actions. "Who do you think you are?"

Grandpabbie merely chuckled and then stopped in front of him and leaned forward, giving Hiccup the creeps as he was inches away from his face. "The question is...who are you?"

Hiccup opened his mouth to argue back but then he decided to shut up and he sighed. "I thought I knew...now I'm not so sure..".

Grandpabbie then chuckled. " Well, I know who you are!" He pulled his head closer to him by pulling in his ear. He put her atm around his shoulder and raised his hand as if she was saying something very secretive. "Shh. Come here. It's our little secret..." Then to Hiccup's annoyance, he began to sing in his horrible voice again. "Du er en bavian og jeg er ikke!"

Hiccup groaned and got himself free. "Enough already! What is that supposed to mean anyway?" He turned to face him and grinned widely from ear to ear.

"Nothing much. It means, you are a baboon. And I'm not! Hahaaa!" Toothless cocked his head curiously as he saw these two interact.

Hiccup shook his head and tried to walk away from him. "I think you are a little confused."

What happened next almost jerked him off his feet when he turned and began walking, only for a second later, a hand poked out of the snow covered grass And revealed to be the troll as he poked Hiccup straight on his nose.

"Wrong!" Grandpabbie yells as Hiccup rubbed his nose in pain as he heard Toothless making a laughing noise.

"Very funny you big useless reptile..." Hiccup states in annoyance.

"I'm not the one who is confused. You don't even know who you are!" Grandpabbie says as Hiccup rolled his eyes are him and was growing increasingly impatient with this strange troll.

"Oh. And I suppose you know who I am..." Hiccup says as he didn't look at him but heard him chuckling.

"Sure do. You're Stoick's boy!" Grandpabbie states, causing Hiccup's eyes to widened and him to stop in his tracks as he gasped and then spun around to see the troll was gone.

He looked around frantically until Toothless nudged him and nodded downward. To his surprise, he saw the troll rolling away as fast as he could go. "HEY! WAIT!" He called after him desperately as he clambered onto Toothless.

Hiccup flew after him until he found the troll who was sitting on a rock. He steered Toothless down and jumped off his back and ran to the troll who seemed to be in some meditating pose.

Panting, from the effort, he held his hands on his knees. "Wait. You knew my father?"

The troll didn't open his eyes as he spoke. "Correction: I know your father."

Hiccup's face saddened and believes he probably didn't know about Stoick's death. "I-I'm. ..sorry to tell you this...my father passed away...a long time ago..." to his surprise and bewilderment, the troll cackled and grabbed his staff, using it to hop fast off the rock and rolling away.

"No!" Grandpabbie hopped to the entrance of some moss covered cave and looked back at Hiccup. "Wrong again! He's alive! And I'll show him to you! You follow your Grandpabbie! He know de way! Come on!"

And with that, the troll rolled into the cave, disappearing from view. Hiccup had half a mind not to follow a creepy stranger he had just met, but if he knew his father and seemed to believe him to be still alive.

He wanted answers and his curiosity overpowered him as he glanced at Toothless and then ran in after the troll.

The inside of the cave proved to be an exhausting labyrinth of mazes as he followed the Troll's laughter, which echoed through the place.

Hiccup fell on his face a couple of times and needed Toothless to help him over some really tall ledges.

"Chop. Chop!" He heard the old troll call out.

"Okay, slow down!" He called out as he pelted after his voice.

Then, after a minute or two of twists and turns in the maze, he halted all of a sudden when he popped up out of nowhere, halting Hiccup.

"Stop!"

Hiccup halted just a few inches from his hand as Toothless brought up the rear as Grandpabbie put a finger to his lips in a shushing manner. Then with a serious face, he hobbled along to a clearing in front of them, and pulled back some tall grass that hid the path ahead from view.

"Look down there..." He whispered to Hiccup.

Hiccup glanced at Toothless as the dragon nodded to him reassuringly as he began to crept up to him silently and he nodded for him to move forward.

As he walked over the grass, he realized that it was a stagnant stream that the woman was gesturing towards. He eyed Grandpabbie suspiciously as he walked forward and sat onto his knees, leaning over the edge to see 'his father'.

As he stared, to his disappointment, he was staring at nothing but his own reflection and sighed. "That's not my father. It's just my reflection. "

Grandpabbie hobbled along closer and grabbed him with his cold, scaly palm on the top of his head. "No, lad. Look harder."

As he said this, he touched the glassy water surface with the tip of her index finger, causing the water surface to ripple in disturbance.

Hiccup glanced at it one more time, and his eyes widened in shock as he was aghast as he was seeing his reflection morph into a more younger version of Stoick that he recognized from the paintings that he had seen hung around the castle when he was a child. He looked exactly like Hiccup, only with a bit more facial hair, his hair color being red instead of Hiccup's brownish color and obviously had more muscle.

"You see?" Grandpabbie says to the shocked in awe Hiccup. "He lives in you."

As he stared at it in disbelief, Hiccup heard a deep rumble coming from the skies as the wind began to blow harder and harder.

Then, all of a sudden, the northern lights lit up the sky as it shone in vivid and bright colors. Hiccup gazed at the dancing skies in wonder, he almost jumped in shock when he heard his father's voice behind him.

"Hiccup..." The sky rumbled. It sounded strangely echoing.

Hiccup spun around to see his father standing behind him. His hair was not tied in a ponytail as he had last seen him and he wasn't wearing any battle armor that he was a usually seen in. He seemed rather like a ghost.

Like he was there, but not really there either. His body glowed brightly as a stand of colored light connected him to the skies. Hiccup wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't seen this for himself. The figure of his father spoke to him ."Hiccup. You have forgotten me...".

Sadness filled Hiccup as he heard his father's voice. He shook his head. "No. ..How could I? ". He asks as his father gazed at him, emotionless.

"You have forgotten who you are and so you have forgotten me. Look inside of yourself, Hiccup...you are more than what you have become. You must take your place at the table of kings and complete the circle of life."

Hiccup shook his head reverently, pleading with his father. "How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be..."

Stoick gave him a sad smile as his deep voice rumbled as he spoke. "Remember who you are. You are my son and the one true king..."

Hiccup watched with tears stinging his eyes as his father gazed and him and repeated himself over and over again. Slowly, his glowing form began to fade away as the lights from the sky began to disappear.

"Remember...remember...remember..." Stoick repeated before he completely vanished.

Hiccup ran forward and tried to grasp at his long lost father. "Dad! No wait! Please! Don't leave me..." His pleading was of no use as he grasped at thin air; Stoick's form had disappeared from his view. He panted and gazed up at the sky for a few seconds.

Then he heard Grandpabbie's voice behind him as she rubbed her chin mischievously. "What was that! Haha! The weather is very peculiar...don't ye think?"

Hiccup stared at the ground as he muttered. "Yeah...the winds are changing..."

Grandpabbie bobbed his head, agreeing with him. "Aye, change is good."

Hiccup glanced at him sadly at what needs to be done. "Yeah...but it's not going to be easy. I know what I gotta do but...going back means that I'll have to face my past. And...I've been running from it for so long..."

At this moment, for no reason whatsoever, Grandpabbie jumped and whacked Hiccup in the head. Toothless cooed reproachfully at him as Grandpabbie chuckled at the confused dragon.

"What was that for!?" Hiccup asked him as he rubbed his head in pain.

Grandpabbie doesn't answer and cackled. "It doesn't matter! It's in the past!"

Hiccup had fallen to the ground when she had wacked him. He stood back up and rubbed his head. "Yeah, but it still hurts..."

Grandpabbie raised his eyebrows at him and nodded, folding his arms. "Yes, the past can hurt, but the way I see it...you can either run from it or learn from it!" He said this and swung his staff around again and this time, Hiccup's reflex kicked in and he ducked under it, causing Grandpabbie to laugh heartily. "AHHA! See? So what are ye going to do?"

Hiccup glanced at Toothless and back at Grandpabbie with a mysterious glint in his eyes. "First...I'm gonna take your little stick." He then grabbed the troll's staff when he didn't expect it and hurled it in the opposite direction.

His face widened in terror at loosing his staff and went to pick it up. "Not the staff!" He hobbled forward and picked up his staff when he turned around to scold Hiccup, only to his surprise, he was already climbing onto Toothless. "Where are you going?!" He yelled, a smile creeping on his moss covered face.

Hiccup grinned at him as he steered Toothless skyward. He looked over his shoulder and yelled back to him. "I'm going back!"

And with that, he shot Toothless up towards the starry sky as shooting stars fell, as if in celebration to his decision to go back.

Grandpabbie laughed heartily as he put a palm to his mouth and yelled. "GOOD! GET OUT OF HERE! HYAAH! SCRAT! SHOO! HAHA! WHOOOOOOOO!" Grandpabbie cheers.