Another week later, Stoick and the warriors returned.
Stoick steps onto the deck frustrated.
Gobber ask "any luck?"
Stoick sighs "not even close. I see that Hiccup hasn't destroyed the village in his revenge because of how we treated him while I was gone."
Gobber replies "actually, he's been doing better. Less coldness towards the villagers since me and Ingrid earn his trust and letting him have freedom."
Stoick and the men gape in shock.
Alistair ask "Hiccup been free while we been gone?"
Gobber nods his head "yep, at night, he patrols around Berk's borders with another Night Fury that turned him into a Night Fury."
Ack comments "how could you trust Hiccup to not attack the houses?"
Gobber answers "because I had his trust and Ingrid is returning the bride price for her daughter."
Spitelout gape "what do you mean by that?!"
Alistair ask "what happened between my daughter and Snotlout?"
The villagers welcome their husbands back.
Ingrid and Astrid hugged Alistair.
Hiccup pitch on the cliff overlooking the docks.
Stoick notice a Night Fury and ask "Gobber, is that Hiccup?"
.Gobber answers "yes, because Toothless doesn't leave the forest and Hiccup has been taking a couple of lessons from Toothless about defending ourselves from other dragons."
Stoick sighs "you haven't been able to turn him back to human?"
Gobber comments "well the funny thing is that he needs a reason to turn back to human and has to fall in love with a human girl and she has to return his love and kiss in order for him to change back."
Alistair gape "you mean that Hiccup is stuck being a Night Fury?!"
Stoick ask "has he been a problem?"
Gobber sighs "the first week after you all left for the nest, but that was due to Snotlout and the teens pranking him."
Hiccup walks down to the docks to see the warriors.
Stoick and the men look at Hiccup curious about him.
Stoick ask "what are you doing out of your cage, Hiccup?"
Gobber nervous comments "uh, Stoick? I wouldn't ask-"
Hiccup tail whips Stoick off the dock and into the water.
The warriors gape in shock.
Hiccup looks at Gobber and points to himself and Stoick and waves it off and motions them to come and leaves walking up the ramp.
Stoick climbs back onto the dock.
Gobber comments "well he did say that you and him are even now, but most of you are on his list of villagers that he wants to punish."
Alistair gape in shock.
They walk up the ramp to the green hall for Gobber to debrief them on the past fourteen days.
After the debriefing, Alistair curious ask "daughter, you been spending time with Hiccup at night?"
Astrid nods her head "yep, he's been acting nicer ever since I spent the night in his wings and ending my engagement to Snotlout."
Alistair sighs "daughter, did you kiss Hiccup?"
Astrid grins "I kissed him on his forehead as a sign of apologizing."
Alistair ask "what happened between you and Snotlout?"
Astrid sighs "he lied about why he wanted to court me."
Ingrid comments "Snotlout had no intention of loving our daughter. He was going to turn her into his personal trophy.
I'm curious about something though, what led to you breaking off your friendship with Hiccup?"
Astrid sighs "after reading his journal, it was because Snotlout surprised me with Hiccup's present, my double bladed axe and told me that he bought it from Johann.
Two days later, I took it to get sharpen and later examining it, I discovered Hiccup's initial on the handle and questioned Snotlout about it and he lied about it,
saying Hiccup carved it into the handle wanting to take credit for it and told me that he just wanted to use me to get the villagers to like him and then I-"
Alistair and Ingrid widen their eyes at hearing that Snotlout set their daughter up to destroy Hiccup's feelings to make him cut everyone out of his life.
Stoick ask "do any of you know where Hiccup is?"
Alistair grins "he was on the cliff overlooking the ocean by the jagged rocks."
Ingrid sighs "no wonder, he was hostile to everyone, but more to you, Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut."
Alistair gape "what happened while I was gone, daughter?"
Astrid nervous answers "I commented about him being a Night Fury and needed to be exiled and he dumped green paint and honeymead on me."
Alistair yells "why would you spend the night with him after that?!"
Astrid sighs "because I owe him for believing Snotlout over him."
Snotlout walks over and puts his arm around Astrid's waist and grins "hi, Mr. and Mrs. Hofferson. Ready to finalize the marriage contract?"
Alistair sternly warns "Snotlout, you better remove your arm before I beat you for trying to turn my daughter into a trophy."
Snotlout removes his arm and stands closer "my father paid for her hand in marriage and our wedding was to be after your return from the search for the nest."
Alistair gape that Snotlout would talk back to him.
Astrid backs away from Snotlout.
Ingrid sighs "and we're returning the money."
Snotlout grins "actually, you can't because I had my dad put in the marriage contract, that you can't refund the money to end the engagement between me and Astrid."
Astrid gape "you what?!"
Snotlout grins "I had my father buy you and your parents can't buy you back and Stoick approve it."
Ingrid curious ask "wait, wasn't Hiccup supposed to have first pick of girls since he's heir to Berk?"
Snotlout grins "Stoick told my father that he denounce Hiccup as heir after he turned fourteen and announced me as his heir, which is why I had my father proposed a marriage contract to Alistair and Astrid couldn't get out of it."
Alistair gasped "Stoick removed Hiccup from heir?"
Ingrid gape "Hiccup didn't write it down in his diary-wait a minute" and thinks back a year ago to after Hiccup turned fourteen and thinking through the whole year and closes her eyes in heartbreak.
Astrid ask "mom? What is it?"
Alistair ask "darling?"
Ingrid sighs "Hiccup accepted that he was a mistake at birth and when Stoick announced it in the hall at dinner time, Hiccup told Stoick that he needed to get caught up on back orders,
but Hiccup instead went home and wrote a list of destroying his father's possessions and two morning later, Stoick's room was destroyed, his ship set to sea and set on fire, father and son shield melted down.
All pictures of Stoick and him burned to erase that Hiccup was Stoick's son. Hiccup came to the forge with a new attitude towards Berk."
Alistair ask "how did you find out?"
Ingrid sighs "it was on the page after the list of villagers to punish."
Stoick returned to the hall looking like he got into a fight with a dragon.
Astrid looked at Stoick bruised and ask "mom? What plans did Hiccup have for me?"
Ingrid paled "daughter, he was going to prank everyone by making you look like you had sex with him by getting you drunk to passed out and not remember, paint the bed sheets red and convince you that you wanting to have sex with him."
Alistair gasped "what stop him from doing that?"
Ingrid sighs "he loved her too much to ruin her image like that and settle with watching her become Snotlout's hot trophy sex object wife and see her live not being treated like a wife should be."
Astrid sighs "he is crafty for retaliation."
Snotlout grins "good luck getting out of the marriage contract."
The Hoffersons scowls at Snotlout leaving.
Stoick grab a mug of honeymead to nurse his bruised cheek and headache.
Gobber ask "I take it, Hiccup wasn't done making you feel his vengeance for denouncing him as heir?"
Stoick groans "he told me to never call him my son again, even if he got turned back into human."
Gobber gape "he can talk?!"
Stoick shakes his head "no, he drew a picture of us and ripped it in half and burned it, then pounce on me and slapped me three times before roaring in my face and fly away to go patrol or something."
An hour later, Guard runs in the hall "Chief! Outcast are attacking!"
Everyone rush outside to get ready for battle against the Outcast.
Hiccup noticed the Outcast army coming and turned away from defending the village that made him feel like he didn't belong.
His ex-father took away his birthright.
Astrid grabbed her axe and noticed Hiccup wasn't on the front line and ask "Gobber, where's Hiccup?"
Snotlout grins "he retreated to the dragon arena. I guess having his birthright removed from him without a reason and his crush dropped him!"
Astrid widen her eyes "crush? he'll fight if I make a deal with him" and runs towards the arena to spot Hiccup walking towards the arena and runs to cut him off.
Hiccup stop in his path to see Astrid standing in front of him with a serious face.
Astrid sighs "I forgot that you had your birthright removed last year and had no reason to defend Berk from invading tribes and I know you still have a crush on me even if you want to deny it."
Hiccup snorts at that.
Astrid smiles "Hiccup, defend my village and I'll surrender myself to you by spending every night sleeping by your side on your wings."
Hiccup widen his eyes at what that entails with a girl and sniffs her waist.
Astrid gape at what he was doing and push him away "what are you doing?!"
Hiccup stands on his hind legs and points to her and pinch his nose, then shakes his head no and at like he was cradle a baby in his arms.
Astrid sighs understanding that he was sniffing her waist to check if she was in heat and ask "why would you think I was in heat?"
Hiccup points to her and shake hands and points to himself and pucker his lips.
Astrid sighs "Hiccup, I'm not in heat, but we'll discuss this tonight after the fight with Outcast. Now, do we have a deal?"
Hiccup leans in and licks her face before turning around and flies into the sky to defend Berk against Outcast tribe.
Astrid stood shock at what Hiccup just did to her and comments "I'm so going to give him a lecture on licking me."
She races off to fight the Outcast.
Toothless join Hiccup doing dive bombs blasting ship after ship.
Alvin gape in shock that a Night Fury was blasting his ships.
Berk warriors fought the Outcast warriors.
Hiccup was low on shots and flew to the arena and released the other dragons and command them to help defend Berk.
Alvin widen his eyes in shock that a Night Fury leading five dragons and turns to his ships being attacked by another Night Fury and comments "two Night Furies."
Hiccup lead the counter attack.
The dragons swarm attacking Outcast warriors in a line.
Alvin orders his remaining warriors to retreat and sworn to be back next year.
Stoick and the warriors cheered in victory.
Hiccup survey the tribe until he spotted Astrid and dive towards her.
Alistair and Ingrid noticed two Night Furies in front of five dragons and then one dives towards someone to see it's their daughter and panics "ASTRID! WATCH OUT!"
Astrid turns her head to her parents, before being knocked down by a force.
The villagers gathered around in surprise.
Astrid gasped for air being knocked down and then feels a wet tongue licking her face.
Alistair gape "what is going on between you two?!"
Hiccup looks up to Alistair Hofferson and growls a little laying on Astrid.
Alistair widen his eyes in shock that the Night Fury would growl at him and ask "uh, Hiccup?"
Hiccup bare his teeth a little.
Ingrid sighs thinking about Hiccup's new behavior like possessive over their daughter and gulps in fear "uh, daughter? What did you say to Hiccup to make him start licking you like a lover?"
Astrid coughs "Hiccup, lift."
Hiccup widen his eyes at pressure on Astrid's chest and lifts off her chest and groans softly in apologizing.
