=Normal POV=
(Laugardgr, Goi; Night)
(Berk; The Great Hall)

Hiccup was gone for hours until past sundown. Certainly, no one could chase him except his friends who rode dragons, but it would make a difference when Hiccup rode the fastest dragon known to man; a Night Fury. Everything was still a shock to the people of Berk, and visiting guests, but they shockingly understood that Hiccup needed some time after what happened.

"Where is he?" Stoick grumbled.

"Was it not you who said to give him some time?" Valka rolled her eyes. "Hiccup will be back when he's ready to. Everything is fine here; you left many times to find me, didn't you?" Stoick said nothing but nodded.

As if on cue, the doors opened, and Hiccup stood at the entrance, with Toothless behind him. The room seemed to fall silent, looking at him; he didn't appear to be wearing his Drage costume anymore but wearing black boots, pants, and a shirt with gray armor that was like his brown set.

"Welcome back, Chief," Krogan put an arm across his chest, bowing.

"Thanks. I trust things were fine in my absence?" Hiccup asked.

"Of course, Chief," Krogan replied respectfully.

"Good…Good," Hiccup nodded.

"Are you alright, Hiccup?" Brenna stepped beside him now. "You took a few hard hits in the fight…"

"I will be alright, thank you," Hiccup assured, kissing her temple as Brenna nodded, not wanting to push the issue. "I'm sure everyone here wants to know everything, so I will tell you. If you feel afterward that I should leave…I will without a fight,"

"What do you think we'd want you to leave?" Stoick asked.

"Because I'm sure not many of you are pleased to know I've hidden that I was Drage Riddari all this time, that I ride a Night Fury, and I'm considered the Dragon Master," Hiccup stated. "I did lie to everyone, and there are things about me you would not expect, nor have seen before. So if you desire I leave after the explanation…I will go, and you will not see me again,"

"Where…Would you go?" Brenna frowned. "And what about me?"

"I have many places I can go, and you're welcome to come with me," Hiccup said. Brenna nodded, holding onto his arm. "So…This explanation starts where all of this began, when I met Toothless while I was fifteen," Hiccup began.

"How…Did you meet him?" Heather asked.

"I shot him down with one of my inventions. I tried to tell my dad, but he wouldn't listen, so I went into the forest to find him myself. I found him tangled up in a bola, and when I went to kill him…I couldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. I knew what it was like to be weak and defenseless with no one to help me, so instead of killing him; I cut the ropes and let him go. Once he was free; he tackled me down, and I thought I was dead, but he roared in my face and flew off. A couple of days later; I found him in the cove, his left tail fin had been ripped off, and that was my fault,"

"It…It doesn't look like it was taken off?" Mogadon pointed out.

"I know, the tail you see is a fake, made by me so he can fly normally. Toothless and I became friends, bonding, and that's how I learned dragons aren't merciless and aggressive if shown kindness. After we became friends; I decided to make Toothless fly again, so I started working in the forge to make a tail fin for him. It took a few tries, but I eventually got it. The one he has now is the newest version I made when I became Drage Riddari. It's connected and colored black, to make it blend in with the rest of him," Hiccup explained.

"Okay, so you met Toothless at fifteen, but you hadn't been banished yet…So, why didn't you tell anyone?" Snotlout inquired.

"Would anyone have listened to me if I said I freed a Night Fury and befriended it? Gods, no; I would have been cast out or killed for being a traitor, so I hid Toothless in the cove for about a year while all that stuff happened, and I was blamed for it. At some point, I decided to live up to being a trouble-maker, showing everyone what happened if I had turned bad…It resulted in being temporarily banished," Hiccup continued.

"Alright, we know about the banishment, so when did everything start with the Drago guy?" Eret wondered.

"Not right away; there had been another source of the raids. Your original theory about the dragons having a nest; I found it with Toothless during one of our night flights after the banishment," Hiccup said now.

"Where…Was it?" Stoick questioned.

"Same place you believed it was. Helheim's Gate," Hiccup informed, grabbing his notebook from under his armor and setting it out on the table. Hiccup unfolded everything to reveal a large map. Hiccup went to put it on the wall for everyone to see but had trouble getting it to stay. "Toothless, get one of the Nadders for me?" the Night Fury nodded, roaring out. Moments later; a purple one with red eyes and an off-white underbelly came forward.

"Hey…I recognize that one…Drage, rather you, saved me from it…" Brenna blinked.

"Oh, this is Venomfire; he's harmless but very playful and protective. He likes you a lot, so he's stuck around. You would have been safe even if I hadn't stepped in," Hiccup assured as Brenna nodded. "Venomfire…Spineshot the four corners, and don't hit me please?" he asked. The Nadder warbled, raising its tail and firing single-shot spines at the four corners of the map, pinning it in place. "Thank you!"

The Nadder bowed its head to Hiccup before sitting down and staying out of the way. "So…This is the Barbaric Archipelago. I made this map myself during my travels while banished; it has all islands with dragons and humans on it. The Dragon's Nest you all looked for…Is right here; I've named it Dragon Island. You usually all sailed through a wall of fog and were attacked; those were orders from the queen of that nest. However, had you made it through; you would have found a massive, volcanic island. The source of the raids was the queen; Toothless, and I defeated her shortly after I turned sixteen and was banished,"

"This…Queen? What was she? Another Bewilderbeast?" Dagur asked.

"Smaller than a Bewilderbeast, but also possessed the power to control dragons. The King of Dragons was also a male and considered Tidal Class, this thing, I call her Red Death, is a female, or so I assumed, and she's Stoker, living in the Carona of volcanos," Hiccup informed calmly.

"What are we talking size-wise?" Stoick pushed.

Hiccup took a breath, thinking for a moment. "Three pairs of eyes, clubbed tail, head frill, four-hundred feet long, ninety-nine inches tall. Five-hundred and fifty-foot long wingspan…Weighing close to twenty-thousand pounds," Hiccup stated.

"And you took this dragon on and killed it?" Brenna blinked.

"Yeah, wasn't easy, and nearly killed me…But I lived thanks to Toothless," Hiccup shrugged. "When Red Death was gone, you might have noticed the raids stopped for a while, and there was peace," he went on as many nodded, remembering that. "I was unconscious for a week, but Toothless took me to Berserker Island, and that's where I met Iceshot, my Bewilderbeast…"

"Wait…There was a Bewilderbeast on Berserker Island?" Heather said in shock.

"Yes, hiding beneath it," Hiccup nodded. "Anyway…So…Iceshot, Toothless…And a few others helped me recover. I…Don't know what they did to me, but I gained some…Abilities," he said quieter.

"Go on…" Stoick urged.

"I, uh…I have enhanced sight, hearing, smell, speed, and strength. My…Eyes can turn to slits, like the Bewilderbeast, and I can partially make dragons bend to my will…And the last thing…" Hiccup took a deep breath as he held out his hand, palm up as it sparked once and created a fireball. "I can manipulate and make fire…"

"That's…Incredible, and scary…" Fishlegs said. "Can you do it with both hands?"

Hiccup nodded. "Yeah. I can…Set myself on fire, and be fine. I feel like it might have come from a Monstrous Nightmare…Since they set themselves on fire. Not sure, I was unconscious and woke up having all this. I spent a couple of months training and mastering them,"

"Can we see your eyes change?" Sigvard asked.

"You've seen it before," Hiccup rolled his eyes.

"I know, but it's so cool!" Davyn chuckled.

"Fine," Hiccup groaned as he got closer to the table, staring forward as his pupils changed from orbs to slits. Toothless started growing a little as Hiccup fixed his eyes and shook his head. "Sorry, bud…I know you don't like it,"

"Why doesn't he like it?" Valka asked.

"When my eyes change, there's a…A high-pitched sound that emits and only dragons can hear it. That's…How I can semi-make them bend to my will. The sounds get in their heads, clears their thoughts, and they obey the one making the sound. Mine, as a human, isn't as strong, but it's how I used to manage raids. Temporarily grabbing hold, and making them leave. I can also gain their attention by using my sword against the shield; this is a sound you can hear. And my staff helps round them up because it's made from Bewilderbeast scales, and they recognize the scent of their…Well, former Alpha now…" Hiccup explained.

"Ah…" a few nodded.

"So…You defeated the first source, then what happened?" Soren questioned.

"Well, that's about when I started traveling around with Toothless outside of the Archipelago," Hiccup sat down now. "I used to find Johann and Krogan a lot, and set down to get some things while flying around,"

"You never traveled with them…Did you? It was on Toothless," Brenna said.

"Correct," Hiccup nodded. "Dragon travel is ten times faster than a ship. So, I met my friends, learned how to fight, use weapons…So on and so forth with meeting mom. I'm sure you can guess now that we met with me as Drage, and after some talking; it came out she was my mother, and I was her son. That started about…I don't know…It was a little after beating Red Death and mastering my powers. I was probably nine months from turning seventeen…" he shrugged, guessing the time.

"But the raids started again when you would have been two or so months from turning seventeen…" Ragna informed.

"I'm well aware, thank you," Hiccup remarked. "I'd spent a lot of time traveling, making that map, learning about the dragons…Studying them. I have my own Book of Dragons now, much more complete than yours here on Berk, Dad…" he stated, moving to Toothless's saddlebag and pulling it out. "Organized by classification, then species, and subspecies…" he added. "I began noticing their behavior was a bit different, migrating outside of the season, moving in groups that didn't make sense…I started to investigate things, but when I returned to the Archipelago a month after turning seventeen…I noticed the raids and had to stop them. Not wanting to get caught, I created Drage Riddari, the Dragon Master, which was a title you all gave me, and I went with it," he chuckled.

"I made the suit you saw earlier from Toothless's discarded scales and has a set of wings I created. Might have to show you that sometime…Took forever to perfect," Hiccup continued. "Anyway, that's why I started in on raids. To help until I figured out why the dragons were raiding again. I looked everywhere, in case it was another Red Death, but I knew the possibility existed that it could be a Bewilderbeast. I knew it wasn't mine or Moms…But the chance was there as very few still lived,"

"And…You found Drago, when?" Stoick inquired.

"When I left here on Hookfang to bring mom to you. I actually doubled back to get Toothless, then go. I found him by accident while freeing dragons, and then finding mom. I was captured as Drage and beaten up to keep mom safe, but Drago never knew who I was under the mask. I realized he had the black Bewilderbeast and was causing all the trouble. But of course…You went and made me Chief early, so it put a damper on stopping him before things turned out the way they did today,"

"Sorry…" Stoick looked down.

"I told you I had other business to handle…" Hiccup remarked. "But anyway…That's the rest of things. That's everything from start to finish," he added.

"But why didn't you tell us?" Spitelout asked.

"As I asked before; would anyone have listened?" Hiccup inquired. "You all wanted Drage dead, thinking he led the raids until the day I set down on Berk to tell you that it wasn't me, well, him…"

"And you told us that day that if you were discovered, it could make us targets," Astrid pointed out.

"Exactly. I didn't want anyone knowing who Drage was under the mask, or things could have been worse. Drago thought to travel around the islands and look for Drage, and learning that all the Chieftains were here…He came here, and I decided that you couldn't believe Drage wasn't on your side, and that I've always been here to keep you safe," Hiccup said softly.

"But you were always him, and it makes sense why Hiccup would vanish when Drage appeared. And you set things up to let us see another way of Drage's motives," Mogadon said.

"That's right. I needed you to see that dragons weren't bad and stop attacking me. So I played it off that I learned how to train dragons as easily as Drage did…To show you that Drage may be doing this to help, not harm," Hiccup nodded. "I had hoped that all of that…Would soften the blow of learning I was Drage Riddari. I always intended to tell everyone, after I knew it was safe to,"

"So…Why do you think we'd want you to leave?" Brenna asked now.

"I kept secrets, lied to everyone…And I have weird abilities, wasn't sure people would want me around. Come on, babe; no one wanted me when I didn't have all this…" Hiccup shrugged.

"Well…It's not right that you hid everything, but you did it with a cause to keep us safe," Gobber remarked. "I stand by what I said a while back that you would change the world, lad. And you have. You stopped a war that has been going on for hundreds of years. You've always been different, you having abilities as you do now doesn't change that fact. I'm proud and honored to have you as our Chief,"

"Agreed," other members of the Hooligan Tribe said, though a lot of others nodded.

"You…Kept ur Tribes safe as well," Alvin said. "I think we can all accept things as they are,"

"Same," the other Chieftains agreed, nodding.

"See…It all worked out," Brenna smiled. "Just like we said it would,"

"I'll never doubt you again," Hiccup chuckled as he wrapped in arm around her waist, and kissed her deeply as the crowd in the room laughed and cheered. The war was over!