Weeks passed as Sigrid recovered from her injuries. Normally she would've left after a few days but she was practically forced to remain by Hiccup and the dragon riders. Well, that and she had found herself growing quite fond of Berk and its occupants. She loved being surrounded by dragon lovers and riders. Being able to talk to, train with, and offer her expertise and experience to the other riders was the highlight of her life. Sigrid was used to being alone, never relying on or trusting anything that didn't have scales, but she felt different here. She was with people that shared her passion to see dragons liberated from the cruelty of humans, to treat them as equals and friends and companions. But it was more than that. She felt safe and for the first time in her life, she felt like she was home. The feeling scared her more than she wanted to admit. It was unfamiliar and strange, and she wasn't sure she could ever truly fit in, even on Berk. She was too wild, too untamed, even for Vikings!

Sigrid sat in front of the fire in the Haddock house, sewing a new shirt with new scales from Toothless combined with the ones from her old shirt. Toothless had finally molted yesterday and she intended to make good use of the valuable scales. Hiccup and Stoick were at the Great Hall for some meeting so she had the place to herself. Sigrid had made up her mind; she was leaving tomorrow. As much as she had grown to love Berk and the riders, as much as she felt at home here...she was restless. She wasn't the type of person to stay in one place for very long. She needed to be out in the wild, free with no inhibitions, no rules, and no people, as fond as she was of the Berkians. They were an odd bunch, but the best people she had ever known. Even so, there were dragons to save. She knew of a group of hunters and she had a hunch that they were only a small part of a much bigger operation. She intended to get to the bottom of it, and put an end to them.

The door opened and Toothless bounded inside, Hiccup trailing behind him. Sigrid smiled at him and laughed as Toothless stuck his snout in her work and practically crawled in her lap. Hiccup chuckled and sat down opposite her.

"I'll tell you what, having you here has unleashed an energy in him I didn't know he had." Sigrid's smile fell at that as she looked at the dragon sitting beside her on his haunches. "You ok?" Hiccup asked, noticing the drop in her demeanor. He heaved a barrel of fish over to the fire and Toothless dove in, acting like he hadn't seen a meal in a week.

"Yeah, sure." Sigrid answered, distracted by her own thoughts. "How was the meeting?" Hiccup rubbed the back of his head and looked at her sheepishly.

"Good. There's something I want to discuss with you." Sigrid looked at him as he took a seat next to her. "The meeting was with the Berk council and the dragon riders; We want you to join the riders." Sigrid stared at him, not sure what to say. "The reason we had to discuss it with the council is because you're not part of the tribe and...well some of the elders had a few concerns but they finally agreed to let you join the tribe, if you wanted to that is." Hiccup had a nervous look on his face. Sigrid could only imagine the concerns that had been brought up about her but that didn't matter. She couldn't accept, at least not right now.

"Hiccup," she began, looking into the fire. "I can't. I'm sorry. It's not that I don't want to join you but...I'm afraid there are things I need to do first." She looked him dead in the eye. "I'm leaving tomorrow." Hiccup's eyes grew wide and slightly panicked.

"But...but why!? You're the most amazing dragon rider I've ever seen and you offer so much to the team and this island. I thought you were beginning to like it here?"

"I do like it here Hiccup, but this isn't about likes or dislikes. This is about doing what I was put on this earth to do, and that's help dragons to deliver themselves from the injustices done them. And I can't do what I need to do from Berk. Maybe someday I'll be ready to settle down in one place, to have real friends and a home, but that's just not in the cards for me right now." She looked at him earnestly. "You understand that, right?" Hiccup looked over her shoulder at Toothless, now sleeping near the fire, his eyes betraying his distress even though he'd schooled his features.

"That's what we all want to do. Why do you have to leave, why can't you do it with a team?" Sigrid sighed.

"Berk isn't exactly a hotspot of dragon distress, at least not anymore. Most of the archipelago is free of major conflict with dragons, it's outside the borders where the trouble is. And you guys are not ready to travel that far, to take those risks...at least not yet. I have to go where my skills and knowledge will benefit and help dragons." Hiccup lowered his head.

"Toothless will miss you. So will the team, they've all grown quite fond of you." He said. Sigrid saw right through him.

"I'll miss Toothless so much it'll hurt. And you all will always be a part of me, whether we see each other again or not. I'd be willing to bet we will though." She took his hand in hers, noting the similar, slender structure of their hands. "I'll remember you most of all. I feel a connection to you I've never felt ever before, not even with a dragon." Hiccup's head shot up and he looked her in the eyes.

"You feel it too?" She nodded. "I thought it was just me. Wait...it's not...romantic for you right?" He asked hesitantly. Sigrid laughed. He was so innocent.

"No! First of all I don't have that kind of interest and second, Astrid." That was all that needed saying on that matter. Hiccup's shoulders relaxed and he let out a clear sigh of relief, but then his expression turned confused.

"Then, what is it?" Sigrid shook her head.

"I have no idea. I feel like I've known you all my life." Hiccup nodded in agreement and then sighed heavily.

"I'm not going to be able to change your mind on this, am I?" Sigrid's face gave him the answer he needed. "Do you think...," he trailed off and Sigrid looked at him questioningly. He sighed and started again. "Do you think we're ready to go out there?"

"It's not a matter of whether I think you're ready, it's whether you know that you're ready. Only you can know that Hiccup, nobody else can decide it for you."

"How will I know?" She grinned and stood, snapping her shirt in the air to straighten it and admire her work.

'You'll know Hiccup. Someday...someday very soon...you'll know." She turned and wrapped her arms around him, surprising the boy. "Thank you for giving me a home, if only for a short while. That's something I've never really had." Hiccup wrapped his arms around her waist and squeezed her tight.

"Berk will always be a home for you, whenever you decide you're ready for it." Sigrid smiled into his shoulder and stepped back, tilting her chin up slightly to look him in the eye.

"And you will always have an ally in me. Doesn't matter what it is, if you need me-," she looked to Toothless. "Just tell him. I'll know." Hiccup chuckled.

"Have a psychic bond with my dragon do you?" Sigrid laughed but didn't answer. She just knew she'd know if he ever needed her. It was instinctual. That night, Sigrid slipped out of Hiccup's room and hurried down the steps quieter than a mouse. She didn't want to wake Toothless up. Truth was she didn't think she could bear to say goodbye, to any of them, least of all Hiccup and Toothless. She already felt like she was leaving a gigantic piece of her heart behind, no need to make the wound gush more blood than it already was. She was to the door when her sharp ears heard a scuff behind her. She whirled around and crouched defensively on instinct, then realized it was the chief, sitting in his chair looking at the fire. He was facing the stairs so she wasn't sure how he hadn't seen her, even though she's hadn't made a sound. He appeared very deep in thought though. She stood and cautiously approached him. She and the chief had barely spoke since she'd been there. Every time they were in the same room he looked at her with such familiarity that it scared her. And the heartbreak on his face was abundantly clear. She didn't know why but for some reason she evoked these emotions in him, and by Thor she wanted to know why.

"Chief?" She asked, her voice barely a whisper, still cautious of the Night Fury asleep above her head. Stoick startled and looked over at her, wide eyed.

"Oh, Sigrid...how did you get down here?" He asked, now seeming very confused as to how she'd suddenly materialized out of thin air.

"Down the stairs like usual." She smiled. "Just quietly. I didn't want to wake Toothless or Hiccup. See, I'm leaving and I don't think I can face goodbyes." Stoick looked stricken for a moment before covering his expression and clearing his throat.

"Well, I know how much Hiccup has enjoyed having ya here lass, you're always welcome on our shores."

"Thank you chief. For everything." She turned to go, but then her curiosity got the better of her. "Chief?" He looked over at her. "When we first met, you called me Valka. Who is she?" An overwhelming sadness appeared in the hardened chief's eyes and Sigrid almost apologized. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't pry I just-,"

"She was my wife." He responded quietly. Sigrid's heart clenched. Was. "You...you look a little like her when she was your age. Between my old eyes and memory of her, I guess for a moment I thought I was seeing an apparition or some nonsense like that. My apologies lass." Sigrid nodded.

"I'm sorry chief. Truly I am." And with that she stepped out the door and ran into the woods to find a dragon. She couldn't risk calling for one and have Toothless hear it. She found a Nadder and approached it slowly, beginning to croon to it with low hums and growls. The Nadder responded and chirped, letting her place her hand on it's nose in friendship. She communicated her need to the dragon and it complied. She hoisted herself on it's back and took to the sky. Looking down one last time at Berk, she tried not to let sadness creep in.

"I will see you all again. Just you wait."

1 1/2 years later

"This can't be all there is."

"Guess it's just you and me now bud."

"Unless of course, any of you can make time out of your busy schedules to capture a dangerous maniac?"

Hiccup was ecstatic. Not only were they out exploring again, together, as a team, but they were going out further than ever before, even if it was to capture Dagur again. And they were finally getting the most action they'd gotten since Sigrid had come to the island. Hiccup sighed internally. He'd been thinking about her a lot lately. He knew there was more out there, Sigrid had said as much when talking about her past and why she needed to leave Berk. She said he'd know when he was ready to take that step. Well, if his adrenaline levels and sheer joy of being back in the saddle again to actually do something worth while was any indication, he was ready. He knew it.

Now, after just emerging from the deadliest ship ever created and staring straight at his mortal enemy, Hiccup was having second thoughts, or at the very least, reservations. It would figure, the first time the team ventured beyond where they had ever been in 3 years, all but him and Toothless get captured by Dagur, the dragons were no where to be seen, and he was forced to give Dagur a strange object that he was fairly sure was some kind of dragon killer. Just his luck.

"You know you're not going to get very far with that thing right?" Hiccup asked as he handed it to Dagur.

"Oh boy, here we go!" Dagur rolled his eyes and then wrapped his arm around Hiccups's shoulders and squeezed. "Must we always do the same dance Hiccup, you and I? Not that you're not a fabulous dancer." Toothless snarled and Dagur's guards raised their crossbows.

"Easy bud! Not yet." Hiccup reassured.

"That's right Mr. Night Fury. Today is not the day. But it's coming! And soon. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have people to see, an army to build, revenge to plot...oh so much to do and so little time! Isn't this exciting Hiccup!? You-you must have been so bored the last three years!"

"He has a point." Hiccup thought, mirroring what Tuffnut said.

"But alas, my time here has come to an end! Farewell for now, brother. Until we meet again...on the field of battle." Dagur murmured darkly as he stalked across The Reaper and left with his guards to his own ship. Well, more like Johann's ship. Hiccup raced to the cage his friends were locked in and observed the lock.

"Forget about us! Go after him!" Astrid encouraged.

"What are you waiting for?" Snotlout demanded as he blew fake hair out of his eyes. Hiccup stood.

"Are you guys sure you'll be ok?"

"We're fine! Go!" Hiccup nodded to Astrid and leaped on Toothless's back, taking off after Dagur. Astrid set her sights on the lock, observing how to get it open when a flash of black appeared in her peripheral vision. She gasped, thinking Dagur left a man behind to kill them when she saw a hooded figure cloaked entirely in black scales, a black mask covering their face hovering in the shadows. The figure darted out and hurried to the lock, taking out a sharp tool and wedging it between the bolt and the cage frame. "Who...," Astrid trailed off as the figure locked their blueish-green eyes to her icy ones and winked. Astrid relaxed, knowing exactly who it was. Everyone else seemed to realize it too, but before anyone could say anything, a boulder smashed onto the deck of The Reaper. The ship lurched and jostled the cage and the figure was thrown to the side, landing hard against the wood. The Reaper immediately started to go down by her head, tipping the cage that was bolted to the deck. Everyone screamed and started yelling for Hiccup.

"What's it going to be Hiccup? Catch me, save your friends? Ooh, tough one! Glad I'm not in your shoe!" Dagur cackled maniacally as the screams and pleas of the riders echoed across the water "Isn't this exciting! What will he choose ladies and gentlemen!? Saving his friends, or capturing his mortal enemy...his brother!"

"Oh no he doesn't." Sigrid latched onto the side of the deck and hoisted herself up. She stumbled across the almost vertical bow and thrust all her weight into the latch. It was beginning to give. All of a sudden Hiccup and Toothless appeared behind her.

"Stand back!" Hiccup ordered and Sigrid ducked to the side as Toothless fired a shot at the lock, leaving not so much as a scratch on the metal.

"No good, dragon proof! We need to pry it open!" She yelled and returned to her task. Hiccup joined her and after a few moments insisted on having Toothless fire again, twice. She glared at him. "What about dragon proof do you not understand!?"

"We need more firepower. Guys, dragon calls!" Everyone let out with a chorus of calls. Sigrid strained against the door and after Toothless shot an eel off his leg, Hiccup removed the metal and wedged it between the door and the frame. They both pulled and then the ship went vertical, leaving them all hanging from the bars. "Toothless!" The Night Fury tried to fire at the eels again but was out of shots. He roared and the other dragons appeared hovering over the cage.

"It's so close! It just needs-," Sigrid was cut off as The Reaper jolted and everyone let go and came crashing into the door, opening it and tumbling out towards the sea. Snotlout grabbed the door and everyone else grabbed everyone else's foot. "Well that's one way to get it open." Sigrid muttered as she pulled herself on top of the cage. The dragons roared at their riders.

"Oh so now you decide to show up!" Tuffnut accused. Sigrid leaped onto Stormfly and then grabbed Astrid's hand, pulling her onto her dragon. They all flew into the air.

"That was way too close!" Fishlegs said.

"Hiccup, what are we doing?" Astrid questioned, her voice tight.

"You guys go back to Berk, I'm going after Dagur. Whatever that cylinder-looking thing is I know one thing for sure; it shouldn't be in his hands." His gaze shot to Sigrid's and she knew that even though she was still wearing her mask and looked like an assassin, he knew it was her.

"Back on Berk." She said, referring to the thousands of questions he must have. He nodded and the team flew off in one direction while Hiccup and Toothless flew off in the other. Everyone was silent on the ride back, until they landed on Berk. She dismounted from Stormfly and was met with 5 pairs of curious and excited eyes. She removed her mask and hood and smiled at them. "Hey guys, miss me?" Everyone gathered around her, firing off questions and welcoming her back and...

"You left without saying goodbye!" Snotlout shouted, looking angry in typical Snotlout fashion. Sigrid bowed her head slightly.

"I know, I shouldn't have, but I knew we'd see each other again." She smiled at them all the placed her hands on Snotlout's shoulders and kissed his cheek. "Forgive me?" She asked innocently. She was toying with him but did genuinely want to know she was forgiven. Snotlout blushed about 5 different shades of red.

"W-well yeah I-I mean its fine...ya know whatever." He mumbled, not meeting her eyes. She held back a smirk.

"How did you end up on The Reaper?" Fishlegs asked. Sigrid removed her cloak and slung it over her arm.

"Lets wait till Hiccup gets back. he should be along any minute." She sauntered towards Gobber's shop.

"How come?" Astrid asked. Sigrid tossed a look over her shoulder.

"Dagur always lets his guard down when he gets cocky. And I'm sure after that little performance he was crowing like a rooster. Retrieving the device shouldn't have been difficult." She smirked. "Now come on, he'll take it straight to Gobber when he gets back. Might as well wait for him at the shop."

A/N: Hi everyone! So since I have reached the RTTE part of the story, in the spirit of fun I would love for you guys to give me requests on what episodes you would like me to rewrite with Sigrid in them (much like my Ice Age stories with Sassy). So please! Give me requests! This won't alter how I do the story line that I have planned but it will be very fun and enjoyable for me and for you all. Happy reading!