Chapter 2- A DRAGON?!


Valka now holding her 10-year-old son who had just tried to kill himself after his Idlot father banished him for a crime he did not commit.

She could not belleve what she had watched her little boy had wanted to kill himself he had almost done it as well.

If she had not been there he would be dead and no one would know about it.

"O.K. son now that you are leaving with me we need to get your stuff from your room in your father's house, so we can leave Berk."

Valka told her still shocked son.

"But, mom I was banished how can I go and get my stuff they will kill me the first chance they get." Hiccup said to Valka Valka gets a

mischevious smirk and Hiccup knows she has and idea.

"Mom I know that look its the same one that I get when I'm about to do something stupid." Hiccup said to his mother with a little hint of fear.

"And I really don't want to go back there alone, I don't want them to hurt me again."

"What do you mean son? Has someone in the village hurt you?" Valka asks.

"They all have I have no friends Snotlout beats me with the Thorston twins, and Astrid just watches as they are beating me." Hiccup says with tears in his eyes.

"WHAT! Did you tell your father about all this?" she asks her son.

"Yes I did and every time I did he would say it was a good thing because I needed to start behaving like a Viking should then

he would hit me and send me to my room. It never mattered to him how hurt I was he would just send me away."

Hiccup says as he looks down in shame not wanting his newly returned mother to see how weak he really was.

He looks up at his long lost mother when he hears her stomping back towards the village saying "THAT RAT BASTARD HOW CAN HE

THINK THIS IS KEEPING HIS PROMISE TO ME. WHEN I GET MY HAND ON HIM HE WILL WISH HE WAS NEVER BORN.

NO ONE AND I MEAN NO ONE TOUCHES, MY SON."

She stops and tums aroum, and looks at her son. " Come along son we are going to have a word with your Father.

"Please, mom no I just want to leave. PLEASE, can we just go." Hiccup pleads with his mother.

Valka just looks at the pleading face of her son and with a sigh says "O.k. son when it gets dark we will sneak into the village when no one will see you and get your things."

"O.K. mom."

Few hours later.

Night Time

Hiccup and Valka are sneaking into the village when they notice everyone is in the great hall.

"Is there anything going on tonight Hiccup?""Ya I heard when I was heading into the forest early today after Stoick banished me that they

were going to have a 'Hiccups gone for good party." Hiccup sadly says. Valka just looks in shock at the great hall and says

"I'm sorry son if I had known they were going to treat you this bad I would have tome back and taken you at the first chance that I got."

"It ok mom, Astrid was my friend at one point and I really had fun with her when we were kids. She was my best friend till one day she just stopped talking to me.

1 never did find out why." Hiccup says happy at first then starts to turn sad as he remembers his only and best friend leaving him.

Valka helps Hiccup sneak into is old room through the open window. Hiccup sticks his head out and asks his mother "Mom what do I need to bring with me?"

"You only need clothes, a bedroll, and if you have a weapon bring that as well."

Valka hears Hiccup snort when she says his weapon and wonders what it was about but pushes it to the back of her mind as he drops a pack out the window for her to catch.

Valka catches the pack and helps her young boy out the window. Then she grab his pack and started running into the forest back the same way they came. What they did not see was a little girl the same age as Hiccup some out of the great hall almost in tears as she sees Hiccup running into the forest and runs in after him.

As Hiccup is following his mother she only runs for a little while till they are both in the forest and hidden from the view of the village. unfortunately, for Hiccup and Valka is that the little girl was following them as they made their way deeper into the forest.

Valka leads Hiccup to a cove where she has a surprise waiting for him.

Valka stops and turns to look at Hiccup as she says.

"Son, will you trust me?"

"of corse mom, I trust you."

"O.k. son when we go in here there is someone I want you to meet but you have to be careful he is my friend and he will not hurt you."

As Hiccup follows Valka into the cove he is surprised to see his mother walk up to a dragon and start to scratch him as the dragon nuzzles its head into her side, she looks at her son's open mouth and smiles that he has not run away.

"Hiccup this is Cloudjumper he is a Stormcutter dragon."

"But mom, dad told me dragon are monsters that will kill us all how did you get Cloudjumper to be nice?"

"Hiccup your father does not understand dragons so he hates them because they are not like him. The truth is dragons are not all bad there are bad dragons just like there are bad people. Cloudjumper has saved my life several times since i lef Berk." "Mom, is he the reason why you could not come back to Berk?"

"yes son, he Is the reason he has become my best friend. Your father would not understand the first time I looked into Cloudjumper's eyes I realized that his was not a soulless monster the Vikings say he Is he has a soul that reflected my own."

"So does he carry you in his claws?" Hiccup Innocently asks.

Hearing this makes Valka laugh out loud.

"HAHA! No son he lets me ride on his back because he lares about me and If you come with me we can find you a dragon of your own!"

"That sounds great mom are you going to help me?"

"of course, I'll help you son It's what a parent is supposed to do."

Valka helps hiccup climb on top of Cloudjumper's back then she get on herself.

"All right Cloudjumper its time for us to head home."

Cloudjumper spreads his wings and jumps in the air flapping his wings down hard and starts to gain altitude and turn north heading home.

The little girl watches the boy that she loves with a woman she does not recognize as they talk about something as she gets closer so she can hear. The woman says

"Hiccup your father does not understand dragons so he hates them because they are not like him. The truth is dragons are not all bad there are bad dragons just like there are bad people. Cloudjumper has saved my life several times since I left berk."

She then watches as Hiccup gets on the back of the dragon with the help of the woman. the woman tells the dragon to take them home and the dragon takes off and heads North.

Taking with it the chance she wanted to tell her best friend that she never wanted to abandon him but her parent made her.

She ran down into the cove and made a decision that when she was old enough she would find him and tell him how much he means to her. She pulls out a necklace that Hiccup gave her back when she was able to be his friend when her parents liked the boy. As she looks at the necklace she vowed she would find Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the III if it was the last thing she did because she was Astrid Hofferson and she was fearless.