*The cove after dragon training(hiccup POV)

'Oh no Astrid saw toothless, now she's going to tell everyone'

Hiccup rushed to put his gear on and get out of there while shouting to toothless. "Come on bud lets go before Astrid finds my father and they try to kill you."

Toothless gave a worried croon at his rider, but understood his urgency. Within a matter of minutes the 2 were now flying away from berk.

"Goodbye berk, maybe one day I'll be back." He shouted back to empty air.

He thought nobody heard him, but the village elder, Gothi, was standing on her hut watching him go with sad eyes. She was hopeful though because the bones said he'd be back some day, but until then she would wait.

*Stoick's house (and POV)

I was leaving my house to go get things done, while feeling proud with the thought that my boy will finally become a viking! He was just chosen to kill the monstrous nightmare and I couldn't be prouder. When Astrid came running up to me I didn't know what I thought would happen, but I definitely didn't expect what she said

"CHIEF CHIEF HICCUP HAS A DRAGON he actually trained a dragon and claims it's his best friend!" She screamed as she ran up the hill to me. I couldn't believe it. Surely she was lying right, but she had no reason to lie. RIGHT?

(Gobber POV)

I saw Stoick and Astrid run past me and by the look on Stoick's face I knew something was up.

Deciding to follow them Astrid led us to the cove and we hid behind some boulders that had a shield stuck between them. When I peaked over to see what was going on, I couldn't believe what I saw. HICCUP was standing there with a NIGHT FURY that was acting like a Thor forsaken PUPPY.

What really shocked me was what hiccup said next, "Come on bud lets go before Astrid finds my father and they try to kill you. We should just leave, I'm already a disappointment to everyone. They only liked me for who I WASN'T after I met you. Gobber is probably the only one I'll miss, but that's not a good enough reason to stay"

The dragon crooned WORRIEDLY? 'dragons have emotions? We were told there just mindless killers. Has the past 300 years been a lie?'

"Im ok toothless, its not like I'll miss anything or anyone besides Gobber."

My heart did a little happy dance. When I looked at Stoick though, any happiness deflated.

(Stoick POV) just real quick

With those words I felt my world shatter.

I watched as the DRAGON of all things, the enemy of my tribe, comforted my son as if it were a human. Then Hiccup got on the thing and they took of. He tuned around and shouted something I wish I understood.

*The next day at the kill ring

Stoick stood to address his people

"People of Berk, today my son was supposed to kill the Monstrous Nightmare"

Everyone except Stoick, Gobber, and Astrid cheered

"But yesterday I was informed that my son was carried of by a dragon while he was training in the woods"

Some villagers cried out, for he was their new dragon killing protigy. The rest just didnt care. This happened all the time and besides he was just a little runt.

"I pass on the honor of killing the dragon to the 2nd in class, Astrid Hofferson"

The crowd cheered, but the teens didn't.

"As of now, anyone to go into the woods is to stay within sight of the village"

The rest of the year passed uneventfully and Astrid killed the nightmare.

The raids mysteriously stopped 3 months after hiccup left and they only lost a few people during the freeze.

No one talked much about the lost heir and Stoick didn't name a new one yet.

Snotlout stopped hitting on Astrid and the teens all grew closer together, they all swore to train harder and better to save anyone from the "Haddock family curse" as it became known in the village, because so many haddocks were taken by dragons.