'CRASH!' 'BANG!' 'SMASH!' and people screaming as they tried to get away from the fire the fallen torch made as it rolled away.
Once it was put out, everyone turned to the direction it came from and saw a littler than little boy standing where the trail stared.
Runty little five-year-old Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the heir of Berk nervously raised his hand and waved to everyone, counting in his head 'Three... Two... One...'
"HICCUP!" he heard his father, Chief Stoick the Vast "What happened?"
"Well..." Hiccup began but was cut off by his father.
"And what are you doing out again?" Stoick asked "Haven't I told you to stay inside when Dragon Raids are happening?"
"The house was on fire so I thought..."
"What if that dragon had gotten you instead of the torch pole?" Stick asked coming over to his son, who was gaining a small smile.
Maybe his father did love him, he thought, only to be cut down when he heard his cousin Snotlout and the Nut Twins laughing.
"Well for one thing the torch wouldn't have fallen, for another I would be the heir, and finally there won't be any more problems during future dragon raids."
That last comment getting some of the adults to nod and murmur words of agreement.
"Hiccup, we'll talk more about this later," Stoick said sighing and pinching the bridge of his nose "Just get back to the house. Gobber make sure he gets there please."
"Sure thing Chief," Gobber, the village's blacksmith said coming out of the crowd and leading the young boy back home.
As soon as Gobber had seen Hiccup home, and the boy had closed the door, he started looking for his 'Run Away' basket.
A basket holding all the necessary items a young boy would need to live life alone in the wide, wide world of the Archipelago...
A couple of clean changes of clothes, a pencil and notebook, some medical supplies, some food, some money, a few blankets, his tiny set of forging tools, some water, his small knife, a compass, and a map of the islands.
Checking that he hadn't forgotten anything, Hiccup lifted the basket onto his back, and headed outside and down to the port.
Getting into his boat, Gobber helped him build – the man thinking Hiccup only wanted to do this so he had something to do, 'The Hopeful Puffin', and untying it, Hiccup sailed away from this island he had been living on for the past five years.
He didn't call it 'Home' because, to him, with all the bullies and too-quick-to-judge grownups, it just never felt like it.
Back on Berk, it was getting towards midday, and Stoick and his men had just finished cleaning up the mess. So he decided to go and check on Hiccup.
"Hiccup?" he called out when he got to the house "Son?"
Thinking he was just asleep upstairs, Stoick went up to check, and found nothing except a note.
'Dad, I have come to realize that I'm not all that welcome here. What with me never being where I'm supposed to be, letting dragons escape in dragon raids, destroying the village by accident, and being a runt.
So to stop anymore mistakes happening I have run away.
Signed Hiccup Haddock.'
Reading the note over a few more time, not believing it, Stoick took it into his hand and raced outside to see if anybody had seen Hiccup since this morning.
"Last I saw him Chief, he was at the house," Gobber said when Stoick came to him.
"Did he seem upset in anyway?" Stoick asked his friend.
"Not really," Gobber said thinking "Although he is very good at keeping his feeling hidden."
"What do you mean?" Stoick asked confused.
"Come now Stoick," Gobber said pausing in his work to look at his old friend "Surely anyone would have been upset by the way things went, if they were in the kids place right? And yet the boy did nothing, except try to explain himself and then walk on home."
Sighing, Stoick went out to see if anyone else had seen Hiccup.
"I saw him heading towards the port a few hours ago Chief," Astrid a young blonde haired girl said, pointing in that direction.
Quickly Stoick raced off towards the port and began counting to see if all the boats were there, seeing that there was one missing.
"No..." he said getting to his knees, reading the place name on the wooden pole.
'The Hopeful Puffin'
Out at sea, Hiccup was coming up to his first island he deemed 'Safe to land on' and got out, pulling his boat up shore a little bit so it didn't drift away.
Hiccup had just pulled his basket out of the boat and was about to start setting up a small camp, when he heard the bushes behind him rustle.
"He... Hello?" he said slightly scared, as he slowly pulled out his knife from the basket.
When nothing answered, Hiccup stepped forward and tried again.
"Who's there?" he tried again but still got nothing.
Guessing it was probably just the wind; Hiccup turned around, picked up his basket, and went up the beach a little to be safe from the tide.
Not once noticing the two bright green eyes that were watching him from the bushes.
That evening, Hiccup was having dinner and looking up at the stars and moon, thinking on what he would do now.
He was so busy thinking, he didn't seem to notice the small black dragon cub coming out of the bushes to try and have dinner with him.
He only really did notice, when the dragon nudged him, knocking him off his rock and onto the sand.
"Omph, hey!" Hiccup said spinning around and seeing the baby dragon.
Noticing it was sniffing at the food, Hiccup slowly took the fish he was cooking off the stick and gave it to the dragon.
Happily, the cub went for it, but not before Hiccup noticed the cub didn't have any teeth.
"That's strange?" Hiccup said to himself "I thought all dragons had..." two rows of razor sharp teeth popped out of the dragon's gums and snapped at the fish "Teeth."
Soon after, a call of another dragon came from somewhere in the forest making the cub run off after it.
And leaving Hiccup alone.
Hiccup decided he wanted to draw a picture of his new friend so he went to get his basket and pulled out the things he needed.
Once he was done, he curled up and went to sleep.
Further into the forest, the little black dragon cub had just returned to his mummy and daddy's cave.
Well to be more precise the cave where he was being cared for by two other dragons, because his parents were taken away by mean humans who all had weapons, and shoved them into metal boxes.
He was out playing with his friends when this happened, so thankfully they didn't get him.
And when the Nadder and the Nightmare found out that this had happened, they invited him to join them.
'Rosie! Rosie! I saw a human on the island!' he cried out to the Nadder when he came running into the cave.
At this the Nightmare asked him where, and the cub said at the beach.
Quickly, the Nightmare, who was the protector of their little family, went out to chase the human away.
But was surprised to see when he got there that it was only a small human hatchling.
Slowly, the Nightmare came over to the sleeping human hatchling, and inspected him to see if he can be trusted.
Humming, Hiccup rolled over in his sleep, a small hand managing to land on top of Dark Fang's nose.
Stunned, the Nightmare looked over the hatchling again and saw it shivering from the cold breeze.
Sighing, Dark Fang carefully swaddled the hatchling up in the blankets he was using, picked up the basket with the hatchling's sent on it, and headed back to the cave.
In the morning, Hiccup was woken up by someone prodding him.
"Snotlout... Stop it..." Hiccup mumbles and rolled over not opening his eyes.
But the prodding just continued.
Groaning, Hiccup opened his eyes only to be met by the face of the little black dragon from last night.
"Oh, it's you," Hiccup said sitting up slowly "Hello again."
Roaring happily, the little dragon smiled and started jumping around wanting to play.
It was then Hiccup noticed that he wasn't on the beach anymore.
"Did you bring me here?" Hiccup asked looking to the black dragon, after checking he still had his basket.
Seeming to understand the boy, the dragon shook his head and got behind him pushing him outside to meet Rosie and Dark Fang.
Seeing the big dragons, Hiccup was afraid and tried to get away, but tripped over his own feet while trying.
Scared that his new friend maybe hurt, the black dragon rushed over checking every inch of him.
"I'm ok, I'm ok," Hiccup said getting back up and hugging the little dragon "I'm used to falling over like that," he muttered.
Soon Rosie, the pink and purple Nadder came over and placed some fish before the two of them, blasting the ones in front of Hiccup, cooking them.
"Thanks," Hiccup said smiling, waiting for them to cool a little before picking them up and eating them.
Barely been here 24 hours and already these three dragons have shown more care and love towards him then his people have ever done.
Hiccup thought he was going to like it here...