A/N- I have nothing to say right now so off we go! Wait, I forgot! Thank you to all that reviewed! I greatly appreciate the support for this story and I promise I will not stop this story and leave it dangling as a cliffhanger. I currently have 9 reviews and that is my new record so thank you all. I love that you guys enjoyed the last two chapters and hope you enjoy the next few. Also, I had some minor cases of writers block so if any of you wonderful reviewers had ideas to where this story should go such as new villains, old villains, new dragons, old dragons, etc, etc please do comment it in the review area. I love suggestions and new ideas more than my brother. Some to think of it I love suggestions more than him by a long shot. Well enough of my rambling. On with the show…err...story!

Chapter 3

Hiccup wandered over to the Hofferson household and changed into a very small Terrible Terror that was all different shades of blue. He climbed up to Astrid's window and peered in as he had done at his minutes before. One of the other abilities that his "mother" had given him was he was able to talk to people in his dragon form without speaking. He could enter their thoughts and plant a message there and they should see it. It was just like you were talking to them, but without the talking part.

"Astrid. If you want to see Hiccup follow me and I will show you where he is" Hiccup told her still in the dragon form. She glanced at him and didn't try to hurt or catch him, but rather got up and followed him through the forest before shooting a fire blast upward. He hoped Toothless saw it.

Toothless was resting in his warm nest when he heard six feet padding along and getting closer. Then he saw the fire blast. One meant hide, two meant help and three meant get out of here they are going to kill me or you. Toothless hid himself in Hiccup's secret cave after dragging his nest with him. He hoped Hiccup wasn't going to get himself captured. What he saw next was a first. A very tiny Terrible Terror was being followed by a girl named Astrid. Toothless knew that Hiccup would have a good reason for this.

Hiccup shot forward and behind a tree. There he changed back into his human form and walked out. Astrid ran toward him and tackled him before punching him hard in the arm. Then she kissed him on the lips. When they finished, Astrid started the stream of questions and Hiccup told her the partial truth. He told her nothing of his past or his relationship with dragons. The tiny blue Terrible Terror that she followed was a little harder to explain. That's when Hiccup decided to tell her about Toothless.

"Come on out bud, she won't kill you" Hiccup told Toothless. Then he told Astrid to turn and look at the stars pointing out some interesting formations that they made. That gave Toothless enough time to crawl out of the hidden cave and rehide it so it was still invisible to anyone who tried to find it. Astrid gasped as she saw Toothless, but didn't back away.

"Why is there a Nightfury staring at us and why isn't it killing us?"

"Well Astrid, meet my best friend Toothless" Hiccup said glancing at Astrid who was reaching toward her axe. Toothless noticed this and growled and started to slink away.

"Toothless calm down bud, she won't hurt you I promise."

"How can you be so sure? She has a weapon. What if you were in your dragon form? Then you would be as cautious as I Hiccup" Toothless growled at him. Hiccup and he were glaring back and forth at each other while Astrid looked at them curiously. She had not understood what she had just witnessed. Astrid didn't know what Hiccup said, much less what language he spoke. Hiccup saw Astrid's confusion and stood up.

"Astrid. Put your axe down on the ground as well as any weapon on you. It freaks him out." Astrid did as she was told and created a small pile.

"What were you saying and what language was it?"

"I was talking with Toothless to tell him you're all right and he told me to…" Hiccup trailed off realizing he almost gave away his most personal secret other than the one about the other dragons.

"What. Told you to what Hiccup? I can keep a secret or two. You can trust me." Astrid looked sincerely at him and he looked at his feet. Hiccup wandered over to Toothless and made a noise that sounded like a throaty growl. Toothless did what Hiccup had told him to and flipped the switch on his tail so he could fly on his own. Then he took to the sky and flew off toward Nightfury Isle where he often stayed when he needed to get away.

Astrid watched Toothless turn and do something to his tail that made a small click. She looked closer at the tail fin and saw it was not real, but fake and was just covered in dark Nightfury scales that made it look like his other tail fin. All of a sudden, Hiccup touched Toothless' nose and he shot into the sky leaving Hiccup and Astrid in the clearing.

"Where did he go?"

"He went to his home. And we are going to follow" Hiccup said still looking at the sky. He cupped his hands around his mouth and let out a loud roar that sounded exactly like a Deadly Nadder. Astrid looked at him with a look that made him smile. She was scared. Just then, a blue Deadly Nadder swooped down from above and did a mid flight spin before landing.

"Hiccup is everything okay? You called… who's that" the Nadder squawked at Hiccup who answered "Icewing, meet Astrid. Astrid, meet Icewing" Hiccup said looking and pointing at each respectively in turn. Icewing cocked her head at Astrid and walked toward her. Astrid was frozen in place. Icewing continued to approach Astrid slowly before halting and cooing at her.

Astrid looked up at the sound and stared at the Nadder with slight fear in her eyes.

"Hiccup I am waiting and she is not approaching like I told her to. Can she not hear me?"

"Icewing she speaks a different language than you do as well as the other dragons. You may understand her, but she doesn't understand anything you're saying. The only reason I do is because-"

"-of your mother. Yeh I know. By the way, she says hi and she thanks you for saving every dragon by helping them relocate. She is very proud to call you her son" Icewing said, bowing her head at Hiccup to allow him to pet her.

Astrid watched as Nadder, which Hiccup called Icewing, had a conversation with him and then bowed it's head at him to allow him to pet her. Astrid watched with curiosity in her eyes as Hiccup reached out and stroked her nose then hopped onto the dragon.

"You coming Astrid? We won't catch Toothless if we continue to stand around and do nothing." The truth was that Toothless had already arrived at Nightfury Isle and was watching for them to come. He knew that they might not be here for a few hours, but was proved wrong as no more than an hour later, Hiccup and Icewing came flying through the clouds holding a screaming, shouting Astrid below in the Nadder's talons.

"Let me go Hiccup! You didn't have to kidnap me" screamed Astrid. Hiccup shrugged and flew closer to shore before dropping Astrid on the stony shore of Nightfury Isle. Hiccup landed and dismounted Icewing. Icewing then squawked something to him that made him chuckle and then she flew off to her island to find her friends.

"Okay you didn't have to drop me Hiccup. I was kidding and by the way, where in the name of Odin's beard are we?"

"Welcome to Nightfury Isle, home of the unholy offspring of lightening and death itself. Or as I like to call it, Toothless' Island considering he is the only Nightfury to ever live here or more likely come here."

"Wait so you're telling me you knew about this place and never mentioned it to anyone?!"

"Yep, pretty much. I didn't want to or more like I couldn't bring myself to do it. This is just one of the islands of dragons that I know of." Hiccup looked at Astrid who was fuming and trying to find a way off of the island. She continued to search, but came up with no way to get home. They were surrounded by water that seemed to never end.

"You won't find any way home unless you ride a dragon. There's only one way home, so I suggest you trust me." With that Hiccup mounted Toothless after switching the lever on his tail back so Hiccup could help him fly. Astrid just looked at him before coming closer and hopping onto Toothless' back.

They were just about to take off back to Berk when Angel came flittering to him.

"HICCUP! The Vikings, they're coming. And guess how they found us" Angel said looking at Astrid.

"How could you Astrid? I trusted you and you led them straight here" Hiccup said glancing at Astrid with hurt shining bright in his eyes. Now Astrid felt really bad. She wasn't sure who this little dragon was or what it said, but it did not look good. Yes she led her people to this island, but she didn't realize how much she would hurt Hiccup by doing so. It looked like he was a whipped puppy.

"I…I'm so sorry Hiccup. It's just-"Hiccup cut her off.

"It's just what Astrid. I care about Toothless and in fact I care about all of the dragons that live in the Archipelago. And most importantly I trusted you. I have made many mistakes in my miserable years of living with you humans. In fact I was better off living on my own with the dragons. Yes I said it, before you found me in the forest or more like, before I found you in the forest I was living and playing peacefully with the dragons. They were the only family I knew and now you led you friends straight toward them to kill them. I was better off living with them than I am with you insensitive people. In fact, ever since I came to live with you guys, I have been pushed around more than I was with the dragons. Also the dragons considered me family unlike you guys. No one cares about the useless little hiccup that was the chief's son. I should have stayed with the dragons and my mother. Oh wait I couldn't because your people were threatening her species existence by killing them all off. The only reason they are still alive is because I rescue them. I have helped every single dragon alive find a new home and survive. They all have feelings unlike you humans" Hiccup vented while dismounting Toothless and staring with hatred and sadness toward Astrid. Astrid was shocked at the confession.

Hiccup looked away then when he looked back, he had the start of tears glistening in his eyes.

"Just leave Astrid. I made a mistake by living with you heartless Vikings. Though I stayed because I thought that there was some good somewhere on the island. My father turned out to hate me as well as everyone else did. I met you and you seemed different though. Dragons have a good judge of character you know. But I was wrong. I should have left years ago" Hiccup said before staring off into the distance.

Toothless could sense his rider's distress and flung Astrid off his back as gently as possible before walking over to Hiccup who was sitting down on the stones that littered the beach watching the coming Viking ships.

"Time to go bud" Hiccup said to Toothless who had already switched his tailfin back so he could fly on his own. Hiccup glanced back at Astrid before changing into a Nightfury himself and flying off after Toothless to warn the other dragons.

Astrid saw Hiccup look back at her with teary eyes. What happened next bewildered her. She saw this innocent, scrawny, fishbone of a boy turn into one of the most feared dragons in the world. A jet black Nightfury. Astrid watched as he turned and sped away toward another one of the islands.

From the ships, Stoick watched as two Nightfurys took off in the opposite direction as they were heading. When they reached the shore, Stoick noticed imprints in some damp sand that wasn't covered by stones. There was a footprint of a boot as well as a footprint of his son's prosthetic. Next to them were Nightfury prints. Stoick was bending down to inspect them when he heard the sound of crying and turned around to find Astrid running toward him, tears streaming down her face.

"Chief. Hiccup's gone. The Nightfury-"

"I saw the Nightfury leave, but there were two of them not just one." Stoick took Astrid in his large arms and brought her back to the ship, leading her behind him.

Hiccup and Toothless saw this from the cliff they were sitting on. Hiccup had changed back and was silently crying into his arms, murmuring something about his only family being dragons and how his real family hates him. Toothless nudged him and made a warbling noise.

"I know bud. Let's go tell the others." Before they were too high in the air, someone from the ship shot a large boulder that hit them square on. Toothless didn't fall very much, but the rock hit Hiccup square in the chest, sending him flying backwards and down onto the large rocks that surrounded the island. Toothless tried to follow his rider, but his wings were to big and would not allow him to get close enough to catch Hiccup. He could only watch as his rider plummeted down to the sea and rocks below.

Stoick was on the ship when he saw the Nightfury come out of the cave with something, or someone on his back. He murmured Hiccup under his breath and was about to give the order to stand down, but it was too late. Someone had already fired and the large boulder had hit its mark. Stoick and the rest of the Vikings aboard the three ships could only watch as the Nightfury tried in vain to catch the person riding it only to almost hit one of the rocks jutting out from the ocean below. Everyone watching with horror plastered on their faces. It was silent until someone shouted out.

"HICCUP" shouted Astrid as she saw Hiccup plummet from Toothless' back. It had hit him square in the chest and knocked the wind out of him. Hiccup knew he was falling and was almost to the ocean when he spread out the wings in his armor and grazed the ocean as he shot back up into the sky by flapping the Nightfury like wings. Everyone on the ship looked on with different expressions. Some were shocked and others scared. Many though seemed frozen with the fear of seeing the young boy fall off the back of a dragon, subtracting the fact that this was the unholy offspring of lightening and death itself.

Hiccup was breathing hard by the time he reached Nightfury Isle and landed on the cliff which he so earlier was sitting on with Toothless. Speaking of Toothless, the large black dragon came shooting onto the cliff on which sat Hiccup who was panting. Toothless nudged his beloved rider and best friend. Hiccup stood up and remounted Toothless who then shot off and down to the beach below. Hiccup was going to have to have the rest of the Vikings know what he was doing with a Nightfury. This was going to be just great.

Stoick watched as Hiccup flew backup to the cliff where he had flew off of before. Then the accursed Nightfury flew in very fast toward him before Hiccup mounted the beast again and flew back down to the beach. Astrid went running off of the ship and toward Hiccup. Snotlout, Fishlegs as well as Ruffnut and Tuffnut, all followed Astrid's lead before anyone could stop them.

Hiccup saw the group of his "friends" come running toward him. He was not looking forward to this, but he kept walking forward toward them.

"Hiccup I'm so glad you're okay" Astrid yelled as she got closer. Hiccup still looked very much hurt and looked down at Toothless as she spoke. Pretty soon the rest of the gang reached him and were shouting lots of questions. Before Hiccup could answer any of the questions, Toothless growled at all of them, but mainly Astrid and then leaped up into the air and soared off. Hiccup patted him on the side and thanked his best friend for saving him. They flew off toward the cove that they had called home for so many years.

The next day, Astrid tried to find the cave that the little dragon had brought her to. Now she realized that this little dragon was Hiccup. She could not find the cove and realized that only a bird or a dragon could find. She gave up and never looked again.

Hiccup sat in the cove drawing in the dirt as Toothless looked over his shoulder. It was just like when they had first met and Hiccup had to gain Toothless' trust. Hiccup gave a little smile at the happy memory before it flittered away into the darkness that filled his mind. Toothless knew that Hiccup was sad and had tried to cheer him up. It never worked. Not even soaring through the air with Toothless could fix Hiccup's mood.

Astrid always took one of the smaller boats out to the island that Toothless called home every week. She sometimes allowed the rest of the group to come along, but usually not. She needed to be alone. It wasn't until Hiccup disappeared that she realized she liked the scrawny runt. Once on the island she would sit on the shore for a bit before wandering to the cliff where Hiccup last took off from. There she sat until the sun sank and allowed the moon to shine. While she watched the sunset she couldn't see anything but blurred colors that always mixed together. She always cried quietly to herself while sitting up on that ledge. One day when she allowed everyone to come, they sat until the sun rose the next day. All the while Astrid and Ruffnut sat together, quietly crying and trying to comfort each other, while Fishlegs, Tuffnut and Snotlout stood together and talked quietly, sometimes even they cried a bit. None cried as much as Astrid though. They all knew Hiccup wasn't dead, they thought or at least they hoped. They were not prepared for what came next. Except for Astrid, who had already seen this happen. Even she was not used to it though.

Hiccup realized that some of his new weapons and ores that he discovered where still hidden in a cave on Nightfury Isle. He sighed with sadness before changing into a Shaderunner and took off in the direction of the island. Hiccup had told Toothless to stay put so he wouldn't be spotted and Toothless understood that his rider was trying to protect him from harm.

As Hiccup was flying, he didn't notice the five Viking teens on the island. He just flew to the cave and changed back. He didn't notice the other teens staring at him. He quickly gathered up everything into a small cloth sack that he was carrying and tightened the drawstring that held everything in. He quickly changed back into his dragon form, but not the Shaderunner, but the LighteningStriker. He shot out of the cave and began flying back to Berk without hurry, even though he could get there in minutes, he decided to slowly make his way back, casually flapping his wings when he needed to.

Fishlegs had glanced at the sky very briefly, but it was enough to see a small dragon of an unknown species speeding toward them.

"Uh guys" Fishlegs said, but no one heard him. The dragon drew closer. "Guys" Fishlegs said with an edgy tone. The dragon had almost reached the island. "GUYS" Fishlegs yelled to his friends, who looked up teary eyed at him. "I think you might want to see this. It's a new dragon. I have never seen anything like it except, wait that one dragon that Hiccup was supposed to kill, but instead a Gronkle let it out!" Fishlegs watched the smaller grey dragon get closer before turning to the left and sliding into a shallow cave that they had failed to notice before. Everyone was watching the dragon and they noticed it seemed sad like themselves. Suddenly the small dragon started changing. They all watched with wide, curious eyes as the dragon changed into none other than Hiccup himself. They all stared with there mouths gaped wide open. Astrid was the only one who wasn't fazed by this change. Yes it was weird, but it didn't bother her. Hiccup bent down and gathered whatever was in the cave into a cloth sack before setting it onto the ground as he changed back into a dragon. Fishlegs gasped at the dragon he saw, as did the others. They had never heard or seen a dragon quite like this one. They watched as Hiccup shot out of the cave faster than lightening and even faster than a Nightfury, which was the fastest dragon known. Then he slowed his pace and slowly glided back toward Berk. Everyone looked at each other and decided on what to do. They were going to bring Hiccup home.

Hiccup lazily let the wind carry him back toward his home. Scratch that. Back toward the cove he called home. Yeh that's better. Hiccup didn't notice as Astrid and the rest of the gang followed him slowly in their boat. Not until it was too late that is. They had a lager row boat to fit all of them on it. Hiccup had started down toward the ocean to glide along it. He needed to cool off a bit so he ran his stomach along the cold ocean waters.

"Now" someone had shouted from behind him and Hiccup felt something catch his wing causing him to fall farther down into the ocean. Hiccup continued to sink because he couldn't move his one wing. It was broken from the rock that hit it. Hiccup was still sinking and trying to move his wings to fly away, but his broken wing said otherwise. Then Hiccup noticed the approaching sound of a ship. They were trying to capture him. Without thinking he dove beneath the cold ocean water only to realize he could breathe and see under the ocean. Hiccup could have slapped himself for overlooking that fact about the LighteningStriker. It wasn't just a land dragon, but was also a tidal class dragon. In fact, it could fit into every single classification in the Book of Dragons. It could also see in the dark using the same method as Toothless to maneuver. Hiccup continued to swim along the best he could before deciding to give up this useless race and just change into a different dragon so this form could heal. That should take about a day for the wing to heal itself. So with that, Hiccup changed out of the LighteningStriker form and into a Shock Sniffer. It was basically the same as a LighteningStriker, only it lived underwater and needed to be in water to survive. Other than that, it was the same dragon. Hiccup continued to glide through the water like a Timberjack would slice trees. That was until the net caught him. Hiccup struggled against it, but it had gotten tangled around his tail and wings. He couldn't do anything other than shriek. It was an ear piercing shriek, but the net never gave.

Astrid watched as Snotlout, Fishlegs and Tuffnut dragged the strange dragon up from the ocean floor. They were supposed to catch Hiccup, but instead caught another unknown species of dragon. Fishlegs started hopping and bouncing around like a little kid who had received his first axe.

"Can I name it? I have to name it. We have to put it into the Dragon Manual" Fishlegs said while shaking with excitement. Just then the dragons shape began to shrink and change into a Fireworm. It then burned the rope and hopped out of the net. Then it changed into a Nightfury like dragon that wasn't black, but instead an albino Nightfury. Then It changed once more, this time into Hiccup.

"Hey guys. What gives? I was having a nice flight to Nightfury Isle and back until I was interrupted by a boulder hurled at me. Oh and to who ever launched it, thanks a lot. Now I can't change into my LighteningStriker form until the wing is healed. You broke it. Great just great" Hiccup said to all of the shocked faces that he saw before him. Then he realized that he had dropped his cloth sack into the ocean. "Hold that thought for a moment" Hiccup told everyone before changing back into the albino Nightfury and diving underwater. Moments later, he jumped back onto the boat with the sack in tow. Hiccup changed back and muttered "Can't leave this behind now can we."

"Wait so what just happened" asked Tuffnut completely confused.

"Hiccup can change into different dragons" replied Ruffnut smacking her brother over his head. He could be so stupid sometimes.

"So I guess you are all curious about that little show I just put on so listen closely and promise me you won't tell anyone." Everyone on the ship promised and Hiccup changed into a Monstrous Nightmare and gestured with his head for someone to get him some rope and to tie it to the ship in a place that wouldn't break. They all grabbed some rope and tied each piece to different parts of the ship. Then Astrid took all of the pieces and tied the together to fashion a loop that Hiccup grabbed in his talons. Hiccup increased his size to that of a Titan wing and lifted the boat out of the water. He began to fly back toward the cove on Berk he calls home. Since he couldn't really trust anyone anymore since Astrid's betrayal to him, he took the long way home.

It was morning by the time they reached Berk and luckily no one was awake yet to see the very large Monstrous Nightmare carry one of their ships overhead and into the forest. Hiccup set the ship down close to the clearing, but far enough that they didn't know where it was exactly. Hiccup shot a burst of fire into the sky to signal Toothless to hide before changing back and leading everyone to the cove. He had a lot of explaining to do.

Toothless was about to enjoy a nice nap in his nest when he saw Hiccup's signal to hide. He knew this couldn't be good and took the chance he had to hide in Hiccup's secret cave that he had expanded since they were living here constantly or very close to constantly. Toothless dragged his nest as well as anything that should be hidden into the cave with him. Then Toothless crouched down and watched silently, waiting for whoever, or whatever, was coming. Toothless heard some rustling and then his friends prosthetic clinking against the rocks as he made his way down. Toothless didn't hear any of the other footsteps and made the mistake of running out to greet his rider. His gaze locked on Hiccup's. His friend looked sad and depressed like he had been caught. Then it dawned on Toothless. Hiccup had been caught. And he was leading them to him. Only Toothless, being the friend he is, jumped toward Hiccup and picked him up off of the rock ledge. Toothless swooped down and dropped Hiccup in a shaded area that was covered by leaves and branches to camouflage it from searching eyes.

Astrid was following Hiccup and the others were following her. Suddenly, Toothless flew up and grabbed Hiccup with his feet and flew off. They disappeared somewhere that Astrid could not see. The others saw this too and started to hastily make their way down the steep cliff face. They saw Toothless swooping in and taking Hiccup as a threat. Only Astrid's shout made them stop and look at her instead of trying to find Toothless.

"Guys, that Nightfury was Toothless and he is Hiccup's best friend. Don't hurt him please or Hiccup will never forgive you" Astrid said while staring intently at her feet.

"Wait a second Astrid you knew about this dragon and you knew that Hiccup could change into other dragons and you didn't let anyone know" Snotlout questioned Astrid. Her only reply to Snotlout's question was a nod.

"Hiccup, what are they doing here? They are humans. They are Vikings. They followed you and that blonde one with the blue shirt told them to. Now they're your friends again?!" Toothless was fuming until he heard Hiccup's answer.

"Bud calm down. I am not their friend nor do I even want to know them, but they saw me. They saw me change. I was in my LighteningStriker form and they shot me with a boulder. It broke my wing. Then I changed into my Shock Sniffer form because I was in the ocean when they threw a net over my and forced me to change in front of the in order to get free. I didn't want them to know, but they have to now or they will tell everyone on the island and we will never be able to live here much less ever come back here again. Please just help me bud. I need you" finished Hiccup with a loud breath. He sat down on the ground and put his hands over his face. Toothless nudged him to get up.

"I don't know what I'm going to do bud. I just don't know."

A/N- HA-HA! Take that computer! I finished this chapter tonight so that I could post it. I don't want to keep you guys waiting. Thank you to everyone that reviewed last time. You make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! *Smiles broadly* Okay enough with the happiness and stuff. Next chapter will consist of Hiccup's life living with the dragons. It will be some repetitive stuff from the first chapter, but it will be more in-depth about Hiccup's past. Also, how much longer should I keep this story going for? I need you guys to help me with this. Please R&R it helps me feel confident about my writing even if it's something I screwed up. There's always room to improve you know. Anyways, Ciao! Until We Meet Again! * Hops on dragon and flies into sunset in a comical style*