EXT. VILLAGE - UPPER PLAZA - CONTINUOUS
The escaped Nadders fly past with sheep in their clutches.
The raid is over. The dragons have clearly won.
The murmuring crowd eyes Stoick, awaiting his response.

HICCUP
(SHEEPISH) Okay, but I hit a Night Fury.
Stoick grabs Hiccup by the back scruff of his collar and
hauls him away, fuming with embarrassment.

HICCUP (CONT'D) It's not like the last few times,
Dad. I mean I really actually hit
it. You guys were busy and I had a
very clear shot. It went down, just
off Raven Point. Let's get a search
party out there, before it-

STOICK -STOP! Just...stop.
He releases Hiccup. Everyone goes silent, staring
expectantly.

"I'm sorry that I didn't believe you son," Stoick calls.

"It's ok Dad, I did what I thought was right." Hiccup replied.

What's that suppose to mean?

STOICK (CONT'D) Every time you step outside,
disaster follows. Can you not see
that I have bigger problems?
Winter's almost here and I have an
entire village to feed!

Stoick is ashamed of himself.

Hiccup looks around. All eyes are upon him.

HICCUP Between you and me, the village
could do with a little less
feeding, don't ya think?
A few rotund Vikings stir self-consciously.

The teens snicker.

'I definatly agree, I don't even think they can see their toes. How by the sky have they killed so many of us?' Toothless rubs on Hiccup, rumbling and huffing.

Hiccup contains his laughter unsuccessfully.

STOICK This isn't a joke, Hiccup!

"Really? I thought it was rather funny." Hiccup rolls his eyes, Astrid elbows him -what she thinks is lightly- in the ribs. Hiccup groans ans Toothless laughs at him.

(EXASPERATED) Why can't you follow the simplest
orders?

HICCUP I can't stop myself. I see a dragon
and I have to just... kill it, you
know? It's who I am, Dad.

Toothless snorts, 'suuuurrreeee it is Hiccup, why am I here again?'

Hiccup defends, "Hey! that was before I met you!" The Vikings think he's gone insane.

STOICK You are many things, Hiccup. But a
dragon killer is not one of them.

'exactly.'

"Shut up Toothless."

Sting. Hiccup looks around to see many nods of agreement.

STOICK (CONT'D) Get back to the house.

(TO GOBBER) Make sure he gets there. I have his
mess to clean up.

Toothless growls, 'your mess?! The nightmare did it not my rider!'

The dragons rather have to agree with Toothless. The Nightmare looks a bit sheepish, but what could he say you are what you eat.

Stoick lumbers off in the opposite direction.
Gobber leads Hiccup through the walk of shame. They pass the
teen fire brigade as they snicker.

TUFFNUT Quite the performance.

SNOTLOUT I've never seen anyone mess up that
badly. That helped!

Toothless flashed his teeth, Hiccup comforted him.

HICCUP Thank you, thank you. I was
trying, so...
Hiccup avoids Astrid's glare and heads up toward a large
house, standing prominently on the hill above the others.

The young teens are ashamed, is this really how they treated him? Every day?

HICCUP (CONT'D) I really did hit one.

GOBBER Sure, Hiccup.

HICCUP He never listens.

"He never does."

GOBBER Well, it runs in the family.

HICCUP And when he does, it's always with
this... disappointed scowl. Like
someone skimped on the meat in his
sandwich.

Is that how he see's me? Is that how I am, to my own son? Stoick wonders.

(MIMICKING STOICK) Excuse me, barmaid. I'm afraid you
brought me the wrong offspring. I
ordered an extra large boy with
beefy arms. Extra guts and glory on
the side. This here. This is a
talking fish bone.

Stoick is ashamed, that is how he had felt. Now he see's how harsh he had been, when they get back he will fix it.

Tuffnut tilts his head, "you know. That kinda did sound like Stoick, I could defiantly see it. that was AWESOME." Everyone sighs, they had gotten exited, he said something intelligent. Then he went back to how he was. The twins bonk heads.

GOBBER You're thinking about this all
wrong. It's not so much what you
look like. It's what's inside that
he can't stand.

Stoick turned to Gobber, "your not helping, in fact you made it worse."

Gobber shrugged, he never has been good at words. More with actions.

Beat.

HICCUP Thank you, for summing that up.
They reach the doorway.

Gobber winces, seeing the pain he unknowingly inflicted upon the boy closest to him. The boy who like his son.

GOBBER Look, the point is, stop trying so
hard to be something you're not.
Hiccup SIGHS heavily.

Annnnd he made it worse...

HICCUP I just want to be one of you guys.
Gobber eyes him sympathetically. Hiccup turns and goes
through the front door.
And straight out the back door. He hurries off into the
woods, determined.

Stoick straightens, "and where do you think you are going?"

"To find the dragon."

Stoick lifts his chin in pride.


Sorry it was kinda short