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Hiccup walked back into Berk not sure what to expect, he had been gone for four days, and what about Toothless… Suddenly before he could prepare, he was scooped up into a tight hug. "Hiccup, you're alive," his father, exclaimed. "Good to see you too," Hiccup replied, slightly muffled. Vikings began to notice and a crowd formed around them. "His's alive, Hiccup's returned," they cheered. Hiccup was puzzled, since when did the Vikings get excited for his return. "Congrats chief," someone shouted. Yep his father was the chief, most people would love to have a chief as a father, but not Hiccup…
When his father finally put him down, he relaxed and turned around to face the people, they started to mob him, asking how he survived and whether he'd killed the Nightfury. The last one made him wince and he wondered how to answer the questions so it didn't seem too suspicious. After some thought he decided on a reply, "The Nightfury picked me up, I could bare;y see it but I hit it so hard that it dropped me in the forest and I had to spend the last four days trying to survive and get back to Berk." He held his breath, would they remember that they had trapped the beast with the bola launcher he had built, because then they would know the dragon was out there, wounded. The Vikings all nodded and gave him hearty smiles, and pats on the back. Hiccup let out his breath, they'd believed him.
"Now I think its bout time this one started dragon fighting." Hiccup turned around. "Gobber," He cried and ran over. Stoick looked on, mostly disguised hurt in his eyes. Gobber smiled, and patted his young apprentice on the head. "Come on Hiccup, let's get you rested, and we can get back to work," as they left together the Chief stood there, frozen trying his best to hide his jealousy and pain, his own son had unintentionally picked Gobber over him. Oh Valka, what have I done…
Gobber dropped him off at his house and bid him a farewell. Hiccup pushed open the door and ran upstairs, he knew that Gobber expected him to be tired after his whole "ordeal" but what he really wanted was to record every last detail of the last few days, he didn't want to forget a thing. He went over to his bed and picked up his notebook and found a charcoal pen, the he flipped to the next empty page and started to sketch Toothless. He drew the head, the body, and then with long strokes replicated the wings. However when he got to the very end of the tail he stopped, one tail fin on the page, the other missing. He felt hatred for himself begin to well up, he had invented the thing that had ripped off the tail off his only friend, and now he was trapped in that cove unable to fly, his freedom stolen from him. Yes the dragon had tried to kidnap him, but he had let Hiccup go and Hiccup had to return the favor. Quickly he drew in the other tail fin, his mind already dreaming up a way to fix it.
Out of the blue he remembered what Gobber had said, I think its bout time this one started dragon fighting. Before he would have been whooping with joy, but his heart dropped at the thought of fighting dragons, and he knew he couldn't do it. Maybe he could say that dragon had terrified him so much that he never wanted to see another one again. Sure he would look like a coward, but that was a sacrifice he was willing to make, to make sure he would never have the blood of a dragon on his hands. Or maybe he could just leave…
Hiccup dropped his notebook and pen on his bed and ran back downstairs, he needed to go to his workroom in the forge, and there he could plan the tail, and his possible escape.
Stoick walked into the house minutes after Hiccup had bolted, he walked upstairs and scanned Hiccup's room, empty. Then he spotted the notebook open on the bed, his brow furrowed, that hadn't been open before, he picked it up and saw the drawing his brow furrowed further. Why was his boy drawing a dragon they had never seen, if this was the nightfury… How would Hiccup know, he had claimed to be dropped in the forest? Something wasn't right; perhaps Gobber was correct, his boy was ready to be trained to kill dragons, before he followed in his mother's footsteps.
The chief let out a burdened sigh, he loved Valka with all his heart, but her opinions had been poisonous, and he had always feared that their son would side with her. If Hiccup was to be chief then he could not share her opinions. His son would start training tomorrow, no questions asked.
I'm sorry if I made the relationship between Toothless and Hiccup to instant but remember they spent like 3 days stuck in a cove together, and I didn't write about every second of it. Also about Stoick, don't take it the wrong way, he isn't the bad guy. As stated he love Valka very much, it's just he hates dragons a lot. Even more after his wife was taken, and he fears that if Hiccup sympathizes with the beast then he would be taken too. In fact Hiccup being taken by Toothless was already to close for his comfort.