Author's Note: I'm sorry for the long wait. New Year comes with new problems. Also I was helping Plasma Snow with his fanshots. It has had me busy as of late. Still I hope the wait was worth it with the chapter. This was supposed to be longer, but I decided to split it up as the next chapter will have a lot of content in it, I think. Still it's a tad bit shorter than the others, so I apologize. Either way enjoy.

Chapter 10: Intervention Part 1

"What in Thor's Name Happened!" Stoick's voice boomed inside the Haddock Household, the dragons outside cringing at the sudden outburst. They all were a bit nervous for their riders as they weren't sure what was going on with them. Yet they had to wait outside for them, all except for Toothless.

Inside, Stoick stood before the five teens, all of whom flinched at the Chief's rage induced voice. It made none of them want to answer the question, since that rage could be directed at them, but mainly out of fear of how he would react to the news. All in all, they should have expected this reaction, but things weren't thought out properly, and now they weren't sure how they would tell the chief that his son killed four Berserkers to save them all.

After Toothless had knocked out Hiccup, which surprised them all, it took a moment for the shock to wear off. The realization finally cementing itself on what their leader wanted to do as they no longer had to hold him back. Thankfully Astrid managed to regain her composure to issue out orders. She told them that they were all leaving now. Since Hiccup was knocked out, Astrid was the only one that could work Toothless' tailfin, so she would have to fly him back home. They had dragged Hiccup on the Night Fury and they all left Dragon Island, leaving all the tied-up Outcasts and Berserkers behind, but still alive.

No one said a thing for the whole ride home, their minds still on how Hiccup wanted to kill them. Granted he had killed four of them as he was rescuing them all, leaving him covered in blood. They had seen him like that before, but this time it was different as the kills were intentional. Either way the sight alone was a bit scary for them, and it didn't stop there. Afterwards they were in the clear his voice all serious and cold, and intent on killing their defenseless enemies. Yet they maybe deserved it but that's not what Hiccup would have done, as he just charged in like that to do the deed. They still couldn't believe how it took all of them to hold him back, yet they still struggled. This was beyond their comprehension as they had no idea what to do when they got back. Worse of all, what were they going to tell the chief.

When they neared Berk, they planned on sneaking Hiccup back inside his home so they wouldn't cause a panic, due to his bloody appearance. Unfortunately, Hiccup's bedroom window was shut and only opens from the inside, so they tried taking him in through the front. Unfortunately, Stoick came out at the same time and practically shouted his son's name at the top of his lungs upon seeing him unconscious and covered in blood. His shouting drew a crowd as they saw the boy's appearance and various questions were asked towards the riders.

Stoick hushed them all and carried his son inside, telling the teens to follow. Hearing him say that in his authoritative tone made them obey, along with Toothless, as not wanting to incur more wrath. Once inside they helped clean Hiccup up and left him in his bed. Afterwards he wanted answers, which lead to now. Various thoughts flowing through Stoick's mind as he wasn't sure how to feel. Concern at seeing his son covered in blood, fearing he got hurt in some way. Relief, that he wasn't hurt at all but now curious as to why his clothes were covered in blood in the first place. All he knew is that the five Dragon Riders before him had all the answers and from the looks on their face what had happened must have been bad.

"Well? Do I have to repeat myself!?" Stoick spoke again, making his anger known to speed up the process. Although this didn't really help as it only made them not want to answer.

After a while, surprisingly, it was Fishlegs who spoke up, "W-W-Well sir… We all went to d-d-dragon island to talk to Hiccup about what was going on with him… B-B-But something unexpected happen."

"Define unexpected?" Stoick glared, knowing that with the teens they could get into all sorts of trouble anywhere they go.

"Sir," Astrid took over, as she had managed to wipe the nervousness off her face. "We were ambushed by Outcasts and Berserkers."

"What!?" the chief shouted in shock, clearly not expecting this. "What in Thor's name happened over there!?"

"Sir… The talk with Hiccup didn't go well and he stormed off. It was then the Berserkers came out and ambushed up, we were caught easily as well as the dragons… We were trying to figure out how to escape… but well…" Astrid seemed to drag on, as she wasn't sure how to say the next part.

"Well?" Stoick asked, now curious as to how they escaped. Especially since Hiccup stormed off from what they said.

"You see… what happened next is that the Outcast came and asked for help as they couldn't catch Hiccup," Snotlout went next, telling the next part of the tale but not revealing the absolute truth they wanted to avoid. "There were only four guarding us… Yet slowly two disappeared and…"

"Is someone going to tell me how all this has to do with Hiccup being covered with blood or what!?" Stoick demanded, getting tired of them stalling for some reason.

"Hiccup killed the four Berserkers to save us," Tuffnut blurted out like it was nothing. Silence filed the home after he had said that, all eyes locked onto the blond twin as the rest of the riders gave him looks. "What? He wanted the truth."

"Wait, I must have heard you wrong," Stoick said in disbelief, a hand going up to his ear to clean it out. There was no way Tuffnut had said Hiccup did something that… Well it was possible but there was no way his son could have killed four more times, especially after having a hard time dealing with his first. "There's no way I heard that… Hiccup managed to kill once more… That's… That's just not possible."

"It is," Astrid affirmed what Tuffnut said. "We all saw it, well not the first two but we saw the last two. Hiccup killed them to save us… But chief, Hiccup is really unstable right now."

"What do you mean unstable?" Stoick asked, barely even able to fully process Hiccup killing once more, but now hearing there was more to it. "What did he do?"

"Well tried to do," Snotlout corrected.

"We had just gotten free and managed to round up the rest of the Outcasts and Berserkers and had them all tied down. Hiccup… Well he…" Astrid began to speak but had trouble speaking the next part. She wasn't sure if the chief would believe them or not or would fear his reaction as he is already mad.

"He wanted to kill the rest," Fishlegs managed to say for her. A deafening silence filling the home once more, as both of Stoick's eyes rose in shock. His mind now having trouble trying to accept what he is being told. This had to be a joke, it had to be, but one look at all the teens and the looks on their face only made him believe them.

"No… No, he… He couldn't… D-Did he?" Stoick couldn't help but whisper, but it was loud enough for them all to hear. Now a pang of fear started to overcome him, not sure if he had wanted to hear the rest.

"No, he didn't," Astrid took over once more, which calmed Stoick's nerves some. "We all tried to stop him, but Hiccup proved to be much stronger than we realized. Thankfully Toothless managed to knock him out, after that we got out of there quickly after that, the rest you know."

For a moment Stoick said nothing, mainly since he wasn't sure what to say, or how to feel. His eyes looked over all five teens once more before looking over at the Night Fury on the side. Toothless' head was bowed once the kids told the chief of what he done. Part of him expected the man to be mad for hurting Hiccup like that and waited for any kind of response. Instead, to his surprise, he received a pet on the head, "Thank you for stopping him." That caused the dragon to look up in surprise yet relaxed at this.

'I had no other option,' Toothless warbled back, relieved that there is no anger. "I took no pleasure in doing it."

After petting the dragon Stoick walked back to his chair and sat down, sighing heavily as his hands cradled his head. No one said anything as they allowed him to process everything he was told, as he was at a loss as to what to do right now. Things have gone too far with Hiccup hiding his true feelings on the matter and it seems to manifest into something bad. This disheartened him big time, yet most of all he was angry with himself for not confronting his son with his issue before. He should have ordered him to stay where he was so they could talk. It might have been a blow to their mending relationship, but it could have at least worked. Instead he agreed to back off… What a terrible mistake he made. Now his son had killed once more, and it made him want to do it again. Was it because he loved it, or was there anything reason behind it? That is the key question, "D-Did he say anything else when he wanted to kill them?"

All five teens looked at one another, mainly to see if any of them remembered anything important Hiccup would have said. It was Astrid who spoke up, "He said about showing Dagur that we weren't weak and killing them would show it."

"And something about dealing with the consequences from it," Snotlout added in. Never forgetting those chilling words his cousin had said to him.

"He did?" Stoick asked again, getting a nod in return. Sighing his mind started to mull over what was said, slowly he started to understand what was going on. All in all, he didn't like the revelation he came to as to why his son was acting like this. Yet, the more he thought about it the more it made sense… No wonder why Hiccup didn't want to come to him. "This isn't good not at all. This has to be stopped right here and now before it can no longer be treated."

"But how?" Ruffnut asked in confusion. If Hiccup was so intent on killing their enemies then how is there a way to stop that?

"I'm afraid to say that we are going to need to make him talk to us whether he likes it or not," Stoick admitted, not liking the measures that would need to be taken but Hiccup has forced his hand. Standing up from his chair he then headed for the stairs leading up to his son's loft.

"What are you going to do?" Astrid asked. She and the others confused as to what's on his mind.

"Don't worry about that right now, I'm going to need all of your help for this. Right now, someone go get Gobber, he'll be needed here," he instructed, not seeing as Snotlout rushed out to get the blacksmith. He then looked over at the Night Fury, "Come Toothless, I'll need you for something."

'ok, just hope nothing bad comes out of this,' Toothless warbled as he followed right behind.

…..

Hiccup groaned as he slowly started to come to, head moving as his eyes started to show movement. Man, his head hurt, feeling like he got hit on the head with a hammer. Although if he really had chances are that he wouldn't be alive, still he tried to search his memories as he felt himself lying on a bed. He tried to rub the sleep out of his eyes but found that they wouldn't move. He tugged upward but found some resistance, and something pressing into his arms. Shock ran through him, jump starting his senses and allowing his eyes to burst out wide as he tried to sit up, only to be prevented from doing so.

His head was the only part of his body he could move freely so, lifting it up he looked down at himself and gasped, "What in Thor's name!"

He found himself inside of his room, lying on his own bed, yet the surprising thing is that there are several strands of rope wrapped around him, he is tied down to his own bed! One strand of rope on his torso, which pinned his shoulders down. Another one right above his belly which also pinned his arms, his waist and hands were pinned, and two on his legs. His arms and legs pulled at the rope on reaction, eyes squeezing shut and teeth gritting as he used all his strength but ended up slumping against his bed. He then tried to wiggle his hands free, hoping they could slide through the rope, but they wouldn't moving either, and felt that they dug into his wrists as he did so.

After a few more minutes of trying Hiccup stopped, head falling back down onto his pillow, panting. As he laid there his mind started to wander, trying to remember how, and mainly why he's like this. His body stiffen and eyes widen as it all came back to him… Every single second of it. His accidental kill of the Outcast because of the malfunction of his shield… The Berserkers he killed so he could save his friends. His body shivering as he could still feel that stick, wet blood on his skin. In a flash he could see himself stabbing those men, the looks on their faces as the life left them before collapsing down on the ground dead. His breathing started to increase as he could see their faces once more. He almost came close to screaming… that is until a coo made them all disappear.

It was then Hiccup realized that he wasn't alone in his room. Raising his head back up he spotted Toothless staring right back at him, sitting on his stone bed. The Night Fury looking sadden, yet on guard as he stared back at his rider. If he wasn't so focused on trying to escape Hiccup would have noticed this, right now all he wanted was some help. He didn't even remember it was Toothless that is responsible for his aching head.

"Toothless, come over here and cut these ropes," he called out to his dragon, knowing his sharp teeth can tear the rope. A few seconds passed but his dragon remained rooted on the slab of rock. Confused Hiccup called again, "Toothless, come on, help me."

Another few seconds passed before the Night Fury shook his head, denying his rider's request much to the teen's shock. He just laid there, frozen and not able to believe what he just saw. Other than the time when Toothless fought the Whispering Death for the first time, his dragon never disobeyed. Well actually there was earlier on back on Dragon Island where he refused to fly him off the island. Before his mind could wander back to that moment, he saw his dragon get up and head for the door.

"T-Toothless, get back here!" Hiccup once again pulled at the rope to try and get free again, yet it yielded the same results. Real alarmed that Toothless is leaving him like this, which only renewed his struggles, but not for too long. He stopped once his dragon warbled once more, head sticking outside the door, almost as if he was trying to get someone's attention. A few seconds passed but then footsteps could be heard climbing up the stairs, making Hiccup relieved and worried at the same time.

One by one he saw as his father, Gobber and his friends walk in, all of them taking a moment to look at Hiccup all bound. Sadden looks graced their faces as they saw this but quickly covered it up as they all surrounded the teen, all followed by Toothless, the Night Fury sitting by Hiccup's side, still looking a bit troubled.

Confusion swelled up within Hiccup as no one did anything but just stared. They weren't helping him at all, meaning this was done intentionally. Yet why? "What's going on? What happened? And why am I tied to my bed!?" Hiccup asked out loud, wanting answers. He nearly scowled at the silence that was given to him.

Surprisingly it was Astrid who spoke up first, a look of uneasiness on her face the whole time, "Hiccup… That's for your own safety."

"What?" he asked in shock.

"You know what I mean… Because of what you almost did," she responded back, making Hiccup remember back, at how he had wanted to kill all those defenseless Outcasts and Berserkers. How he tried to but his friends tried to stop him… Then that was it, he just blacked out. He couldn't remember what made him black out, but it wasn't important right now. All he could think about is how they couldn't trust him at all.

"Son," Stoick said, catching his attention. A stern face upon him, "I didn't want to do this, but you left us no other option. We're going to talk, and you're going to listen and tell us everything."

Hiccup's body tensed up, now realizing the purpose of the rope. Not only was it meant to keep him from doing anything rash, but it also is meant to keep him from leaving.

Author's Note: I hope you like. Weren't expecting that did you? Well it's an idea I originally had when i came up with the story. Plus there was a bit, a small bit, of foreshadowing of Stoick tying Hiccup to his bed in one of the earlier chapters. It may have not been an action but it was a thought Stoick had. Still hopefully it sate you enough. I'm working on the next chapter so I hope it'll be good as it'a major part of the story. If any questions feel free to ask me. Till next time.