(a.n.) Due to the pandemic, I was finally able to start working on this fic.

Since the HTTYD series has officially ended, this is just my humble attempt at continuing the story that I've loved since childhood

Sorry for the bad english, it isn't my first language and I'm still learning. Please review and tell me what I can do to better my writing.

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"Save him"

This was the words Hiccup had said to the Light fury as he let himself and Grimmel fall to their death, in exchange of his best friends' life.

When he finally saw the light fury successfully push his best friend to the cliff, saving his life, he felt so glad; glad that his best friend will live, but he couldn't help but feel regret as well.

Panic had struck Grimmel stronger than a stray Gronckle as he realized that he was falling to his doom, in his desperate act of self-preservation, he had tried to maneuver Hiccup so that he would cushion his fall, breaking his artificial wings in the process. But Hiccup, despite his impending doom, still fought Grimmel and he managed to push him off of him. Now Grimmel was only holding on to his prosthetic leg.

As death crept closer time seemed to slow, he watched as Grimmel desperately tried to hang on to him for his life, he watched the battle that was taking place behind him, the battle he started to save his dragon from being captured and killed. At that time, he wondered if his father experienced the same thing when he tried to save him during their battle against Drago Bludvist.

Then he heard the signature whistle of a Night fury, but when he looked up it wasn't the Night fury he heard, instead he heard the Light fury as it was rushing towards them.

Hiccup knew that she could have only been trying to save him so, he detached his leg leaving Grimmel to fall on the water, and hiccup, being carried to safety by his best friend's partner.

The light fury looked down at her claws to see if she succeeded in saving her mate's friend, as she saw him she crooned at him seemingly asking 'are you okay?'

"See?... I knew you'd come around" he said in relief

He was worried that the light fury would never cooperate with them, but it seems he was wrong, seeing as she was saving his life.

When they finally landed on the green pastures of New Berk, he looked around to see the remaining dragon riders land on the island, then the remaining Vikings greeted their chief with cheers.

As the cheers begin to subside, Hiccup hopped over to his Dragon to wake him up.

He had hoped to gently wake his friend, but he was interrupted when the cliff on their right suddenly erupted in dirt and rocks, then the same had occurred on the cliff to their left. The sound was enough to frantically wake Toothless up.

To the villagers' horror, they saw what seemed like a wall of ships, lining the horizon, heading towards their new home. The ships had been shooting cannonballs at them from afar.

"Evacuate the townspeople!…get them and their dragons out of the open!" Hiccup instructed his dragon riders.

Upon receiving their orders, the dragon riders hastily cleared the cliff edge of citizens and dragons alike and started to look for cover in their impromptu village.

Though Hiccup tried to join them, he remembered that he no longer had his prosthetic leg, so as he tried to hop to safety, Toothless took the initiative to lift his rider up and on his back with his snout.

"Thanks, bud", he told his friend, which Toothless only answered with a huff.

"Take us to our tent, I need a leg." he instructed his friend, in which Toothless obliged

The pair ran through the chaos and the destruction caused by cannon fire, dodging explosions on their flanks and jumping over holes created by stray cannonballs. As Toothless weaved through the wreckage of their new village, the Light fury was closely following them easily dodging the wreckage.

Once Toothless got to their tent, it was already toppled by the other tents in its vicinity. So Hiccup had to scramble and shove the cloth that was used as their tent. When Hiccup finally found a leg he quickly attached it and instructed Toothless to fly up and survey the enemy, to see just what they were dealing with.

When they flew towards them, Hiccup paled as he saw the sheer amount of ships that were there, numbering to about hundreds, or maybe even thousands, going as far as he could see.

"How can there be so many of them, bud?" he asked Toothless, in which he only cooed in concern for his rider

It was then that the action to take was clear, so they flew back down their people.

The citizens and dragons were evacuated at the center of the forest. As he approached the mass of Vikings he was greeted by a familiar sound, their jumbled voices and complaints that was loud enough to hear from the sky.

Upon reaching them, he found that they were facing the riders, it looked like an impromptu briefing that was similar to the ones that were done in the great hall of old Berk.

When they landed and Hiccup got off of Toothless, he proceeded to the gathering of the riders. When walking towards them, Snotlout and Fishlegs seemed to be arguing about something.

"-but we don't have the weapons-"

"Is everyone alright?" asked Hiccup as he joined in on the meeting

"Yes, everyone is safe and accounted for, except for the few who were injured by the blasts and debris, but luckily there were no casualties" Answered Valka

"Hiccup, our people have been attacked, our homes are destroyed. These idiots seem to want a fight, so are we just gonna stand here, or are we gonna bring the fight to them?!" Snotlout exclaimed, this received screams and yells of agreement from the Vikings that were watching

"But we don't even have any catapults built yet, the only weapons we have are the ones that we took from Berk, and there aren't even enough to arm everyone" countered Fishlegs.

"Then what should we do? Do we just wait until they get here and have them kill us, cause that seems to be your plan" Snotlout said as he was walking closer to Fishlegs

"Well yours can't even be applied!" retorted Fishlegs

"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP" screamed Astrid, as she silenced the two from bickering.

Hiccup silently thanked Astrid by nodding at her and looked at his people, now in complete silence.

"Alright, everyone pack your bags we're leaving" Hiccup started.

Then everyone had erupted in outrage of his decision, he heard various screams across the cacophony of yells, ranging from 'we're not running away' or 'we're not just gonna run away again!' Hiccup then interrupted them.

"Look, I know everyone is upset that we are already leaving when we are already getting used to this place…. but we never truly intended to stay here…our main mission was to reach the hidden world-"

He was quickly interrupted by another cacophony of dissatisfied screams.

"EVERYONE QUIET!" bellowed Hiccup. Everyone was taken aback by Hiccups sudden outburst, he was never known for being able to scream like that, even his mother, girlfriend, and even his cocky cousin seemed to cringe away from him.

"There are currently hundreds, if not thousands of ships in front of this island. Fighting them is suicide, and even if- IF we were able to win….the casualties we suffer will never be worth it, Viking and dragon alike." he paused giving his people time to comprehend what he said.

"Remember what I had told you in Berk; Berk was never the place, it never was and never will be… Berk will always be the people and the dragons." Hiccup finished

"But where do we go?" asked one of the villagers in a dejected voice

"to-"

"To the hidden world" Astrid chimed.

When the Hidden world was mentioned everyone started to dismiss the idea again.

" We would not be mentioning this right now if we were not sure of its existence." Hiccup followed.

"While looking for Toothless, Stormfly had tracked them to what seemed to be a gigantic hole in the ocean, when we entered and went deeper, what we found was a beautiful cavern that glowed with luminous rocks. It was a paradise of dragons" Astrid was then interrupted by a cannonball that barely missed their evacuation area. The villagers instinctively ducked as the blast had kicked up dirt and rocks.

To Hiccup this was the signal to go so he quickly ordered his people to pack their bare essentials like clothing, food, weapons as well as the remaining livestock that was not killed during the initial attack.

When everyone was able to collect what they needed, Hiccup and Astrid led them to the hidden world.

….…..

"They're getting away" Chaghatai mentioned as he was looking through his telescope

"That damn Grimmel! He betrayed us, I hope he drowns for what he did" a woman exclaimed.

"So what do we do now?" the big man asked

"Of course we follow them, Ragnar. We'll follow them to the edge of the world and further if we have to" the woman exclaimed

"They are already out of our line of sight, Griselda. We cannot follow them, any longer, seeing as how they are on dragon-back and we are on boats" Chaghatai said as he collapsed his telescope.

"So what do we do, do we just let them go?" Griselda questions.

"Of course we don't" Chaghatai interjects. As he walked toward the entrance of the cargo hold of his ship.

"So tell me, what should one do if they need something done but can't do it themselves?" Asked Chaghatai as he stopped walking and turned around to wait for their answer.

"they should.…uuuuuum….try really really hard" Ragnar proudly exclaims.

"What do you have up your disgusting sleeves, Khan?" Griselda asks, not willing to play his games.

"I say we send someone after them" Chaghatai proclaims

Fuming, Griselda walks towards him and angrily says" Have you not learned anything from Grimmel? He had just betrayed us moments ago and now you want to hire another mercenary?!"

"I never said we're gonna hire anyone" Chaghatai proudly mentions

"Ragnar, would you tell your men to retrieve the corpses of Grimmel's deathgrippers" Chaghatai had requested his ally.

"Sure" he answered. He then proceeded to yell at the boat next to theirs "Hey you, over there" he pointed "you and your men will go and collect Grimmel's dragons and store them on your ship, report to me once you've succeeded."

"Aye!" replied the crew

"The reason why Grimmel betrayed us is because his goal never was money, instead he wanted the dragon itself. But for what I have, money is not required, since we hold the one thing that he truly desires" he said, as he led his comrades towards his ship's brig.

When they finally got to it, Griselda and Ragnar physically recoiled due to the extreme stench of the area, the scent of spoiled meat and fish wafted through the air as well as the smell of what could only be feces. Upon stopping the pair followed where Chaghatai was looking and to their surprise there was a body.

Inside the brig was a young man tied to a pole with his hands up over his head and his hair strewn about in messy long strands, he wore a very worn out blue vest with black outlines and what was probably once white pants. He was slumped over, his head looking down at his lap. He was disgustingly malnourished.

"Oh you are a disgusting man" exclaims Griselda to Chaghatai, disdain clear in her voice

Chaghatai only shrugged her comment off as he proceeded to wake the man up by loudly shaking his cell door.

But despite the rude awakening the man was not mad, nor did he even flinch, he only lifted his head and opened his eyes, revealing black slanted eyes, and to his right, another pair of eyes opened, Griselda and Ragnar became wary as they could not see who's or what those eyes belonged to due to the lack of sunlight but they knew it wasn't a human's, seeing as how it unnaturally glowed in the dark, as well as the growl that came after.

"I have a mission for you" Chaghatai exclaims as he pulls out the handle of Hiccup's flame sword from his back.