OK, so I've maybekindasorta invited my mother into my huge house… yeah…

"Where have you been?" was her first questions, "All these years, all this time that I thought you were dead."

"What're you talking about?" I questioned, "You sent me away."

"No I didn't."

I blink, OK, there seems to be a difference in memory here.

"Yeah, you did."

"No I didn't, Hiccup, you were taken."

"By who?"

"By sorcerers."

"I've spent the past fifteen years of my life being raised by my grandparents, the ones that you sent me to live with."

She gasps. "They took you!?"

"Yeah, of course, you should know this, you asked them to do so," but even as I said that I knew that it wasn't true.

Was it possible that my own grandparents had lied to me? Had tricked me into believing that my mother had given me up willingly?

"You were stolen from us right after the naming ceremony. I'd put you to sleep in your crib and then gone to sleep myself, your father and I woke up in the middle of the night when we heard something crash. We ran to your room just in time to see a robed lady whisk you away. I haven't seen you since, until, well, until obviously you came back here."

"But-"

"Where are they, Hiccup? And wait, does this mean that you have," she gasps, "magic?"

I sigh, but slowly I nod.

"Oh my, I-I knew it! Oh, Thor, I knew that the killings were being done by someone new to the village."

"Mom," just saying that feels weird, "I'm not responsible. The man you're looking for- he's a dragon sorcerer, his eyes are more of a-a greengage-electricy kind of green. He's got fairly high cheekbones and his skin is darker than mine- definitely healthier looking, he has short-cropped black hair that falls just partially onto his face, and he also had or has these weird ink marks on his cheeks," I ramble, finally having someone to talk to about him.

My mother is quiet for a moment, as though she has something that she wants to say before she sighs and nods.

"S-son," it looks as though she finds the thought of this all as weird as I do. "I just wanted to say that even though I've gone the past fifteen years assuming you were dead, I wouldn't mind getting to know you."

I smile at her as she leaves, "Thank you," I say, softly though I know she can hear me, "I'd like that too."

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Tomorrow! What a beautiful island, the island that was home to my ancestors and my ancestors' ancestors and my ancestor's ancestors' ancestors! Wow, that sure is a lot of ancestors!

My room, the most glorious room I have ever been in which, despite being the smallest bedroom in the castle- obviously not including the servants chambers- it is definitely the best! For starters it's in the North Tower! Now I know what you're thinking, tower? Your father leaves you all stranded and alone in a tower, far away from family contact!?

Not quite. See, the castle that we inhabit is… kind of weird, but weird in a good way! Of course, I mean. Alright, so we have the castle and on the final, I guess one could say 'storey', there are four 'towers' in each corner. I only use quotation gestures because they are not true towers for they do not stand alone and are not separate from the castle, but we do refer to them as towers although I understand someone calling them wings or something.

The other three are used for varying things. One, laughably, is where the Healer, Bearcub, lives. She is our chief spiritualist among other things (as mentioned, healing). Her position in the East Tower is a way of keeping her close to the gods.

The West Tower is where we keep part of the treasure of the Wilderwest- but don't let father catch me telling you that! We keep only a small fraction of it in there- which, to anyone else, looks like the full thing- as a decoy in the event that we are ever scourged and the fiends somehow manage to get past the sentries.

And now finally, we have the South Tower- drumroll please! What is kept in this tower is a secret, even to me, which considering what I told you about the West Tower is probably a good thing.

Father never speaks of it Thugheart says he know, but let's be real here he knows? Chucklehead says there's a rumor that it's the coffin of our mother that he quested for months to find, but I find that one truly unbelievable.

I personally do not know what on earth is up there, and honestly, a part of me hope's that I never will.

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It's been nearly a week since I've left Berk, and six days since I killed the Wanderers.

Yes, since leaving the Island I've learned quite a bit about them from whispers the gem gave, as well as several libraries on other islands.

For starters they were transformed as part of a punishment for luring young children into their homes and eating them, and I've no doubt that they would have done the same to me had I given them the gem, which is in my shirt pocket.

I'm camping out on an island just west of the island where the Wanderers had had their village.

So far I've found no inhabitants. I think it's deserted, in which case I think I shall name it… hmm, it's getting late, I'll have to think of it tomorrow.

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OK, so that whole 'maybe Hiccup 1's a villain now' thing that pretty much anyone who read the footnote last chapter went 'mhmmm, sure, it's totally just a 'maybe',' at has finally come true. HHH1 is a villain, I'm not sure whether to celebrate or mourn my first time using a Hiccup as a villain…

-httyd4eva

peace out yo;P