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Here's another chapter for you! I'm so happy I could finish it today! In this chapter things will be explained, and plans are being made. So I hope you'll like it!

I'm sorry to tell you guys, that this story will definitely not be as long as Black Hollow, and I apologize for that. I just didn't plan on making a sequel/episode after Black Hollow, and I'm glad I could make this far already.

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- Doomsday BeamXD

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- mycove

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Astrid, Fishlegs, Snotlout and the twins were at the Academy, but they didn't know what to do. Everything was just different without Hiccup. And because Stoick asked- no, demanded them to stay near the island, they couldn't do anything to help Hiccup.

But there was something else that the teens desperately wanted to change. Since Hiccup's gone, it became harder and harder to get Toothless to eat. He just missed Hiccup so much. He wouldn't leave their room. The only thing he did, was lying on his rock and looking at Hiccup's bed, as if he was hoping that Hiccup would be there the next day when he woke up.

Astrid visited him as much as she could. She tried to cheer him up, even if it was just a little bit. But everything she tried was in vain. And Astrid knew it.

She couldn't cheer him up, because she couldn't even manage to cheer herself up. Every day when she woke up, she looked out of her window, hoping to see the black blur that were Toothless and Hiccup, enjoying their morning flight. But all she ever saw the past few days was the empty sky.

And now, they were at the Academy. Everyone, even Snotlout, was sick of not being able to do anything. They wanted to look for Hiccup, to see that he, Mulch and Bucket were all right. That they'd just snuck away for a little vacation without anyone knowing.

But they knew that wasn't the truth. Hiccup would never leave them worried on purpose. And so wouldn't Bucket and Mulch do that.

'I say we go now and look for them,' Snotlout said, while he slammed his fist at the nearest wall. Just too late did he realize that that wouldn't be such a great idea. After his fist made contact with the hard, stone wall, he hissed and held his hand in his other one. 'Ow ow ow, that hurt!'

'I…' Fishlegs said, 'Who knows what happened? Maybe one of them, or all of them are really hurt! I can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with Snotlout.'

Astrid wished he didn't say that they could be hurt. But she knew she couldn't deny the possible truth. She just hoped it wasn't.

'Where do you agree on?' The teens turned around and they didn't like what they saw. Before them stood Stoick. And they were just about to ignore Stoick's, the Chief's, orders.

'Uhm… I… Ehm…' Fishlegs stammered. Astrid was surprised that he hadn't blurted their plan out already. She was beginning to hope that they could mislead the Chief by lying to him…

'We're going to look for Hiccup, Mulch and Bucket!' Tuffnut said. He then received a hard punch on the arm by his sister.

'Shut up you idiot!' she said, but it was too late. Everyone looked fearful at Stoick, dreading the moment when he would burst out, and yell at them for ignoring his others.

But he didn't. 'Me and Gobber are coming with you,' he said. Astrid couldn't believe what she was hearing. They could finally go and search for Hiccup! She couldn't wait to see him again, hopefully healthy and all.

'We'll meet here over half an hour. Make sure you're prepared,' Stoick said before he walked away, probably getting Thornado and some supplies for the search party.

'I was trying to prove myself worthy to dad,' Hiccup said. Valhallarama sighed at that. She remembered how Stoick sometimes would complain about Hiccup being so small and scrawny. For him being everything but a Viking. And she knew that Hiccup sometimes heard it. And while she was stuck on this island, she wondered how things were going between her husband and her son. She hoped that they could oversee the differences, and have a bond a father and his son should have. But deep inside, she knew that wasn't happening.

'It's okay Hiccup,' she finally said. She knew that he hadn't said anything that told her it was all his fault, but she knew he felt that way. She wasn't sure if this was the right moment to cheer him up again, so she decided to continue with her story.

'I must have passed out after the Nadder attacked me, because when I woke up again, I was on this beach. When I saw the wrecked pieces of a wooden raft, I realized that you believed I was dead. I didn't know how I could be alive, because when someone dies, their body it shipped of the island, and the raft they're one is set on fire.'

'It rained. Dad didn't want to wait for the rain to stop, so we continued with the ceremony, without setting the raft on fire,' Hiccup said. 'But I don't understand it. I saw you dying, and overheard dad saying that he couldn't find a pulse. You died in front of our eyes.' Hiccup looked at her, and Valhallarama didn't know what to say. She didn't really know why she was alive either. She had always been thinking one thing.

'Maybe the Gods have been merciful, and decided to let me live. Maybe that was why it was raining. To give me another chance to live. But I guess we won't know.'

'But that doesn't answer the question as to why you didn't return,' Mulch said. Valhallarama nodded, and started to explain.

'I tried many times to leave this island. But every time I did, I was stopped. You see, there are three Scauldrons living in the waters of this island. I don't know why, but they wreck everything that can make someone leave this island. I've tried to fight them, but I always ended up on the beach. There is no way for anyone to leave this island. The Scauldrons will stop you.'

Hiccup couldn't believe what he was hearing. He'd thought that there was something mysterious preventing anything to leave this island, but that thing being three Scauldrons? If he could train them, then they could get away from this island. They could get back to Berk.

'Hiccup,' Mulch said, and a smile was on his face. 'You thinking what I'm thinking?' Hiccup smiled too, and nodded. Bucket was still trying to get the pieces together, and Valhallarama looked just confused.

'What are you thinking?' she asked. Hiccup looked back at her, and seeing him smile made Valhallarama happy. But she still wanted to know what was going on.

'I think it's time to tell you my story, mom,' Hiccup said. Valhallarama sat down, and was ready to listen closely to what he was going to tell.

'I think you've seen my leg, haven't you?' Hiccup asked, and he moved his left leg a little. Yes, Valhallarama had seen it, but she had been afraid to ask. Maybe something terrible happened, and thinking about that could be depressing for Hiccup. The only one who ever lost a limb -or in Gobber's case, two limbs- were Mulch, Bucket and Gobber. And they all lost their limbs thanks to dragon attacks.

'I lost it while I was fighting a dragon,' Hiccup said. 'But it wasn't just some random dragon who was raiding our village.

We don't have any dragon raids anymore. Because when the last raid was going on, I shot down a Night Fury. But I couldn't kill him, so I tried to become friends instead. And it worked. Dad went on another search for the Nest, and in that month that he was away, he sent me to dragon training. What he didn't know, was that I was bonding with the Night Fury, whom I've called Toothless. Everything I learned from Toothless, I used in the ring. I learned that dragons weren't the ferocious beasts we thought they were. Me and Toothless, we became best friends. By that time, we were each other's only friend. We relied on each other. I learned Toothless to fly again, because when I shot him down, he lost one of his tailfins. A made a new one, so that he could fly with my help.

Astrid discovered our secret, and she wanted to tell it to the village. I stopped her by sort of kidnapping her, and took her on a flight with Toothless. She turned out to be okay with Toothless. But after a while, Toothless took us to the nest. There, we found out that there was this huge dragon, the Red Death. It turned out that the dragons that raided our village needed their catch to offer it to the dragon. It's just like Astrid said. It's a gigantic beehive. The Red Death was the queen, the dragons her workers. If the dragons didn't bring her enough food, they would be dead.

The day after Astrid and I discovered the nest, I had to kill my first dragon. Instead of killing the Monstrous Nightmare, I tried to show everyone what dragons really were. But they wouldn't listen. And when dad slammed his hammer against the bars of the ring, the Nightmare went nuts. The control I had was gone, and the Nightmare wanted to kill me. And he almost succeeded, if Toothless didn't hear my screams. But he did, and he came all the way to the village to save me. But that triggered the other Vikings to kill him. I can understand it, because no one's ever seen a Night Fury, or never survived one. So killing it would be amazing. But instead of killing him, dad used Toothless to guide him to the Nest. All because I blurted out only a dragon could find it. Almost everyone went to the Nest, not knowing, nor listening to me, about the Giant dragon that would be their death.

Astrid convinced me to make up a plan after everyone had gone to the Nest, and I did. I trained the dragons that were held in the ring for the other teens, and after they could ride them, we went to the Nest as well.

When we reached it, every dragon had fled, except for the Red Death. We managed to distract her, and Astrid helped me to get to Toothless, who was trapped on one of the ships the Red Death set ablaze. Once I was up in the air with him, we challenged the Red Death, and in the end, we defeated her. But when we did, I ended up with losing my leg.

Now we live in peace with the dragons, and we even have a Dragon Academy, where we learn more and more about dragons every day,' Hiccup said. Valhallarama had listened very closely to what Hiccup had to say, and she was shocked to discover such a thing about dragons.

'So you're saying that we could tame those Scauldrons?' she asked.

'No. No dragon can be tamed. But they can be trained. They can learn how to live with people, and they can learn to interact with them,' Hiccup explained. 'So I can try to train the Scauldrons, and then we can leave this Island.'