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"Do you think I was too harsh on her, bud?" Hiccup stroked Toothless's head. They'd now been flying for hours and Hiccup had no idea where to find Berk.

The dragon gave a small roar. "I can't believe you're saying that. I mean she tried to kill me!" Toothless expressed, exasperatedly.

"I know. But she did that to protect me." Hiccup defended.

"From me?" Toothless questioned.

"Argh ... you're impossible." Hiccup muttered.

Hiccup saw something on the horizon and began flying towards it. When they neared it, thinking it was an island, still better, the island of Berk, they were disappointed: it was a sole ship in the middle of the ocean. The sun was setting, sending red and orange gradients into the sky. For the first few hours, Hiccup had only tested his dragon's flying abilities. After being sure that the dragon felt comfortable in his new tail, they'd set on the journey. But still Hiccup didn't know what his mother might be doing. Many a times, Hiccup had turned his head around to see if Valka was following them. But, no. She wasn't anywhere.

The ship looked out of shape. Hiccup wondered what a ship was doing all by itself in the sea.
"Want to check it out, Toothless?" he asked the dragon. The dragon swooped down low and let Hiccup observe the ship.

The ship wasn't a warship, the way Valka described to him, when he had asked about what she did when she went out. More like ... a trade ship. Hiccup decided to go ahead with that thought. There were many wares on the ship and one sole person was steering the ship. Hiccup couldn't quite understand what he was saying and he didn't want to. Valka had told him that there were people who were scared of the dragons and seeing this person, Hiccup could bet on his dragon that he was the first amongst them to scream out. Hiccup was clever enough to find his way through the sea. Hiccup decided to follow the ship to see to which island it visited. He decided to steal some things from the first village he saw. The movement was slow. So most of the time, Hiccup tried out new flying techniques on the dragon, still keeping the ship in view. He had also let Toothless feed on fish when it was getting boring. Just to speed up, they even let the ship disappear before finding it once again. They reached an island during nightfall. Hiccup had spent an entire day without his mother and he was jubilant.

People live on this island and Hiccup swore as he realised that he had chosen a terrible day to steal.

There was a dragon raid going on.

Multitudes of dragons attacked huge people who fought them off with axes, bows, swords and a variety of tools Hiccup hadn't seen before. And it was evident that the trader too hadn't anticipated the attacks. Hiccup was in a state of confusion. He had no idea what to do. Toothless kept on turning his head left and right, seeing the dragons attack and flying off with their prize. Then something happened that neither Hiccup nor Toothless had anticipated: Toothless's eyes slit as he geared up to fly and, to Hiccup's utter dismay, attack the village. Hiccup didn't know what to do. All the dragons back home were under the control of the Alpha. Never had there been a situation where the dragons slit their eyes and refused to listen to Valka's words.

The familiar whistle of the dragon that had been so reviving to Hiccup, suddenly felt like a sign that he might be captured. And it was only his first day! Hiccup bent his head, laying it on the dragon's back, praying to the Alpha to come and save him somehow. He went beyond asking for help from his mother too. He shut his eyes tightly, not even letting the glow of the fire open his eyes.

Somebody beneath him, yelled, "NIGHTFURY! Get Down." Toothless let a plasma-blast, as Hiccup had decided to call it at that Life-and-death moment when his life depended literally on a crazy, mentally affected dragon. Hiccup opened his eyes a bit and a screenshot of the picture in front of him flashed before his eyes- A really big man, with a strawberry blonde beard and hair so thick that, when twisted, it just stood out just like that.

"Move the others to the southern brook," the huge man said. He wore a green dress and had a fur cape around himself. He held an axe in his hand as he stared in disbelief at Toothless and, possibly, him too. Hiccup just wanted to melt into the Dragon of embarrassment. If his mother had been here, Valka would've put him in serious trouble.

"Toothless, get us out of here, bud. Please!" He prayed, long and hard.

Maybe it was Toothless's conscience or the Bond that they had shared over the past few hours, Toothless shook his head hard and then, coming back to his original personality, eyes big with happiness, before they flew away from the island. The island was a speck in a few minutes. But a few hours later, Hiccup remembered something.

"Toothless, we need to get some leather."

"Leather? But you wanted cloth." Toothless argued.

"Plan changed. We need leather, not cloth." Hiccup spoke before turning around back to the island. The island was silent. All the dragons had gone and it looked as if everyone had gone to sleep. Hiccup knew he had a few moments before someone noticed a dragon inside the village. And Hiccup needed no introduction to their ability to tame and kill dragons.

He visited the Forgery where Hiccup found some metals he could take back. As about the cloth, Hiccup decided to steal an entire flag. Lucky for him this flag was black.

It took toothless and Hiccup a whole hour to round up their essential supplies. When Hiccup had begun crossing the list of things mentally in his head, he heard a door creak open and, to his great dismay, saw that the Villagers had begun coming out of a huge door on the side of the cliff.

"Toothless, no time, we need to go now." Hiccup stuffed everything into a bag and swung over Toothless, the dragon gearing up to fly. They took off just as someone with a gruff voice yelled, "Hey! Come back here!"

In a few minutes after they're airborne, Berk was a small speck, a small spot in the middle of the sea. Hiccup just wondered if that trader was okay, the one they'd been following to Berk.

Hiccup began caressing Toothless's head. "What happened there, Tooth? You grew all..." Hiccup paused searching for the right adjective. "Angry and bad, just like that. Are you OK?"

"Stop asking me those questions. It irritates me. I too have no idea. And yes, I am perfectly OK." Toothless warbled.

"Shall we go back then?"

"It's upto you. You feel ready?" Toothless asked the concern clear in his tone.

"I guess so. We'll see." Hiccup answered as he directed the dragon back to the Alpha in the nest. It was going to be a long night journey. And he had a mother to apologise to.

It felt to Valka that she'd been waiting for a whole lifetime for Hiccup to come back. She didn't want to go find him, but wanted him to come back on his own. And she knew it. Knew that he'd come back. Cloudjumper gave a small grunt, gaining her attention. He nudged her pushing her away from the Cliff. They'd waited for long. It was either that he'd gone and wouldn't come back or he'd come back later.

Valka knew Hiccup's emotional outbursts well enough. It was just like the boy's father, Stoick. Hiccup wasn't the type of person who'd bear a grudge for long. He would come out with it someday, like her. Sometimes Valka did amuse herself with the Stoick she saw in Hiccup, the way he would glare, eyebrows furrowed, chin lifted up, a sign of anger.

Cloudjumper crooned and pushed his head under her palm.

Valka sighed. "Hiccup will come." Thus pacifying herself, she swung herself over Cloudjumper who took off the edge and soon they were flying in the cool breeze that, even though she was used to it, sent chills down Valka's spine.

A new dragon hunter had entered the fray and he was killing dragons relentlessly. Valka had been releasing dragons for the past few hours and it was clear to Cloudjumper that she was exhausted.

Now again they were going into the middle, endangering Valka's life and his own too. Cloudjumper sent a roar ahead. He knew exactly how Valka felt, although he never had any offspring of his own. In a few hours they made it to the Hunters' base.

"We need to distract them." Valka swung her staff around and the Alpha rose from the cold sea. All the hunters on the ship ran hither-thither, some yelling in fear. Some of them were chanting Nordic verses loudly.

Valka immediately set to work. While the Alpha distracted the hunters Cloudjumper blasted away the gates and released the dragon trapped, the dragon immediately joining the Bewilderbeast's Armada. She had managed to free fifty such unfortunate dragons when she felt a sword blade poke into her tough scale.

"Cloudju -" She spun around. But her dragon was trapped under heavy sophisticated netting held together by a few men and a man was looking at her with hatred and a drunken feeling of victory dancing on his face.

Drago Bludvist smiled at her. "Well, well. Who do we have here?" He kicked Valka to her knees and then lifted her head with his metal hand. "A distraught dragon rider. Utterly hopeless." Drago spat the last words with such ferocity that Valka turned her head in disgust.
"TURN AROUND! COME BACK! The danger has gone." Drago leant and took away Valka's staff.

"No," Valka tried to stand up but she was again kicked by Drago. But this time as she fell, she felt her ankle twist. Valka groaned.

"So this is how you control the beast." Drago tapped the staff on his hand. He began accessing the staff. "Hmm... Light. Made of bone. A Bone Knapper, I see. Exotic. " HE looked at Valka. "Thank you, for this." Just as he brought the staff down on Valka, a whistle blew and the Staff disintegrated.

The next blast distracted the men holding the storm cutter captive, thus freeing it. Valka squinted at the coming speck of black against the back ground of white sunlight. She tried moving her legs but it hurt every time she moved. Cloudjumper hurried to Valka, kicking out of the way. Valka managed to climb on and they were in the air in moments. Before Valka had the minute to see her saviour, the Nightfury and rider both together blasted off some other Traps and cages. This went on till sundown. The hunters were then weak and powerless. Satisfied, the Nightfury and the rider flew to where Cloudjumper was stationary in the air. The rider had a green cloth tied around his face and she couldn't quite make him out.

"We go home, then?" the rider asked her.

"You destroyed my staff!" Valka replied. As rider pulled his scarf that was tied around the face down, Valka gasped and then smiled. "I don't believe it."

"Your blacksmith will make another one for you. Don't worry." After a moment Hiccup added. "Mom,"

"Hiccup, I- how..." Valka reached out to Hiccup, but cringed and groaned.

"Mom!"

"I am fine. Just a sprain." Valka muttered.

"We'll go back now. Let's talk later." Hiccup said and Valka nodded as they made their way back home.

Back home, Hiccup told Valka everything except about Berk, knowing how much of a Hel she could become, if she knew about it. So he had wrapped up the story with him trying out new flying stunts and techniques with the Nightfury.

Hiccup looked fondly at Toothless.

"The credit goes to him." He summed up. "If it weren't for him, maybe I would have los-"

"Shush Hiccup." Valka put her fingers on his lips. "Don't." They were sitting on the bed. Hiccup sleeping on Valka's shoulder, as the mother rubbed her son's back in a fond way. "I am so sorry, behaving like that with Toothless. I didn't know. Knew nothing at all. " Hiccup had made a separate crutch for her to use, because of her sprained ankle. Valka marvelled at Hiccup's uncanny talent to make anything. Gobber would have loved him a lot. He would've been of great help. Toothless was sleeping on the other side of the room with Cloudjumper, swishing his tail frequently.

She just looked at hiccup. Hiccup had fallen asleep, snoring seriously in his sleep. He had stayed up late in the night, making the crutch for her. It was too tiresome for a ten year old to go through all of that, especially on his first flight. Valka didn't want Hiccup to meet Drago, at least, not so soon. But they were safe, if at least only for now and the thought warmed her from the inside.

Valka smiled. "Toothless is a part of the family. He lives with us now. I love him like you. You both are my children, my stars."

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