Chapter 10

"Anna! Luna!" Chestnut and Walnut screeched before running over to peer over the cliffs edge.

Huge waves washed over the both of them as they saw Anna and Lucas hanging on the edge, or rather, Anna was hanging on the edge. Lucas was desperately clinging to his sister's feet.

Anna looked up at Walnut and the boy saw fear burning in her eyes, "help us up!"

Walnut knew that he and Chestnut weren't strong enough to hoist them up. He turned to his cousin and told her to stay with Anna and Lucas.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to get help! Don't move!" Without another word on the subject he bolted into the forest and made it back to Berk in record time.

He ran towards his house and flung open the door. His mother wasn't there, but Tuffnut was sitting in the living room. He jumped in surprise as his son leaped into his lap.

"Dad! You have to hurry! You have to help us!"

Tuffnut grasped his son by the shoulder and asked in a calm voice, "son. Slow down and tell me what happened."

"Anna and Luna! We were playing by the cliff's and they fell off the edge!"

That was all he needed to hear. Tuffnut stood up and he and Walnut ran towards the cliffs at breakneck speed. When they finally reached them Chestnut was talking to the twins, trying to calm them down. As soon as she saw Tuffnut she leaped up and waved at them, and obvious sign that they needed to hurry up.

Tuffnut rushed over and looked at the two children dangling helplessly. They were both crying and begging him to save them. The elder Viking reached down with both hands and grabbed Anna's arms. With great strength he pulled the girl up until her stomach was on the top of the ledge. She hoisted herself up, but in the process she moved her legs, causing Lucas to loose his grip.

The boy screamed in fear as he lost his entire grip on his sister's leg and fell to his death.

Tears leaked from his eyes as he prayed to the gods to save him. His screams continued, until they were suddenly cut off.

Anna, who was now kneeling on the ledge of the cliff, was sobbing uncontrollably.

"No! No!" She would have yelled and cursed but at the moment her grief was too great to allow words through.

She turned towards the nearest person, which was Walnut, buried her face into his chest and cried. Walnut wrapped his arms around his friend in a protective manner, shielding her from sight just as Toothless had done for Hiccup on that fateful day.

Tuffnut froze in his spot, guilt hanging over him like a rain cloud loomed over a mountain. He couldn't save her. He fell to his knees and buried his head in his hands, turned to Anna and said.

"I'm sorry Anna. I couldn't save your sister."

Anna let out an unearthly cry before edging closer to Walnut. Her tears soaked through his shirt but he just let her cry. At the moment Chestnut was the only one that wasn't crying her eyes out. Knowing fully well that, even though he was only twelve, Lucas always said that death wasn't something you should cry about, it wasn't goodbye forever, just a temporary farewell.

She knelt beside her friend and laid a hand on a small part of her back that Walnut's arms didn't cover.

"He's in a better place now." She whispered quietly into Anna's ear.

"I know Chestnut. I know."

As their tear fest continued they failed to see the shape rising above the fog that lay just below the cliffs and hovered above the ocean.

"You guys cried, for me?" A voice asked from behind them.

Everyone snapped their heads around to see Lucas sitting on the back of a large black dragon with a red, prosthetic tail fin, and glowing green eyes, sitting in front of him was a man with red hair tied back with a black leather strap. He wore a green tunic, brown pants, and a large fur vest.

The man landed his dragon next to them; let Lucas jump off and then leaped off as well.

He hadn't even spoke one word before he was tackled to the ground.

"DAD!"

Hiccup laughed as he wrapped his children in a huge bear hug, "Anna! Lucas! Oh I missed you so much!" He got onto his knees so that he was eye level with his children.

He held them both out at arms length and gave them both a very, very stern look. "What were you thinking? Do you know how worried your mother and I have been? We thought someone had taken you and killed you!" The twins looked down at the ground in shame.

"Don't ever do that to us again!" He threw his arms around them again before whispering, "I'm so glad you're okay."

The twins hugged their father and replied simultaneously, "we missed you too dad."

"Hiccup?" Their moment was broken as Tuffnut spoke.

Hiccup gently pushed his children away so he had room to stand up. He looked Tuffnut straight in the eye and discovered that they were both the same height, but Tuffnut obviously had more muscle, but that didn't mean Hiccup lacked any either.

"Tuff?"

Suddenly Tuffnut reached out and trapped Hiccup in a headlock and ran his knuckles over his head, "you numbskull! Everyone nearly died when you and Astrid disappeared! Do you know how long your dad went without sleep because he just had to find you?"

Hiccup wrenched himself free and rolled his eyes, "I am aware, but we had reasons for leaving."

Tuffnut was about to ask more when something dawned on him. "Where's Astrid?"

The dragon tamer's face went pale white as he realized that he and Astrid had split up. He had taken the cliffs, and Astrid had taken.

"She's back at the village."

Everyone exchanged looks before taking off into the woods.

~Flashback~

Astrid looked down from her perch on Arrow's back and gazed at the island of Berk. Had it been a different situation she would have smiled at returning home, but right now she was too busy listening as Hiccup explained their plan.

"Okay, you take the village and I'll check the cliffs."

Astrid nodded and was just about to fly off when she realized where she was going. She turned around to yell at her husband but saw that he was gone. She swore under breath before soaring off towards the village.

As Hiccup circled the cliffs he saw a small group of children playing by the cliffs. He stopped and watched them closely; at that moment two kids were hanging off the cliffs edge a girl and from far away it looked like a boy. He peered closer and saw a man helping the first of the two up, but as she pulled herself up the boy below her lost his grip on her foot and fell down the side.

Panic welled up inside of the dragon tamer and he steered Toothless down in hopes of rescuing the child. As he soared through the thick fog he could hear the screams of the boy as he drew closer. He told Toothless fly faster and the nightfury responded by folding its wings so that it fell like a dead weight.

As they drew closer to the boy Hiccup could make out a shape. Toothless picked up speed again, dipped just under the boy and Hiccup caught him in his arms.

The boy looked up at him and his eyes widened, "dad?"

~End Flashback~

The small group of Tuffnut, Walnut, Chestnut, Anna, Lucas, and Hiccup, burst through the trees to see a small group of Vikings gathered around something. Hiccup took one look at his children and in a silent agreement they took off towards the gathered group, or rather, Anna and Lucas took off. Hiccup quickly hobbled behind them. The run through the forest had worn him out quite a bit.

As the reached the outside of the circle a man stepped back and his eyes landed on Hiccup. His mouth opened and closed several times, reminding the dragon tamer of a fish, before he finally said something.

"Hiccup! It's Hiccup! Hey everyone Hiccup's back!"

The circle spread apart and the said man saw his wife standing in the middle, gripping her axe and glaring at someone.

He shoved his way through the many gawking Vikings before smiling at his wife. Astrid gave him a confused look.

Hiccup stepped to the side and revealed the two children hiding behind him. Both obviously frightened by her axe. The said battle weapon fell from her hands as Astrid stared at the two children in shock. Her hands flew to her mouth as she tried to hide her gasp.

She knelt down on one knee and held her arms wide open. The twins leaped into her arms and embraced her. "Mommy!"

Astrid felt another round of tears build up but she quickly blinked them away. She embraced her children tightly before holding them at arms length, the same way Hiccup had done just moments before.

"Don't you ever scare me like that again, do you know how worried I was?"

"We're sorry mom. We never should have left."

"You two are in so much trouble!" Astrid said standing back up and giving her children a very cold stare.

Suddenly they heard a loud voice cry out,

"Out of the way! Coming through!"

A large, burly, man with a thick red beard popped out of the crowd and stared at the two parents in shock, but his gaze focused mainly on Hiccup.

He moved closer and by instinct Hiccup and Astrid immediately stepped in front of their children. Hiccup took one step forward and Stoic paused in his stride.

There was silence as Stoic looked at the man in front of him. This couldn't be Hiccup. The last time he had seen Hiccup he was a short, thin, gangly thing that could barely hold up an axe, but here before him was a man only half a head shorter than him, had broad shoulders, strong looking arms and hair that was so long it tickled his shoulder blades, and right now that hair was tied back with a piece of midnight black leather.

The differences were obvious, but one thing hadn't change, it was the pools of emerald that Hiccup called eyes. That, and the little paternal instinct, was how Stoic was able to tell it was his son. Hiccup's eyes told the story of his life, the pain of being to small, the stubbornness that could be achieved only by a true-blooded Viking, but the one thing that could be pointed out, was the fact that over time something in his eyes became so obvious that even Stoic picked up on it easily.

When Hiccup stared at you seriously, his pupils would shrink and his eyes would begin to just slightly glow.

Stoic gave his word on this. When Hiccup's eyes did that. He looked exactly like his nightfury.

That very thing was happening now as Stoic reached out to put a hand on his son's shoulder.

Hiccup tensed at the touch, but managed to keep a steady, emotionless face, but that mask gave way as Stoic suddenly lifted him off the ground and spun him around.

"Son! I knew ye' would return to us one day! I just knew it!"

"Dad… Can't… Breathe!"

"Oh, sorry son." He said before placing Hiccup back on the ground.

After making sure his body was still intact he turned around and gently guided his children towards the chief of the village.

Astrid grabbed his arm, "what are you doing?" She hissed into his ear.

The blonde Viking took one look into her husband's eyes and she backed off, she had seen that stubborn look in his eyes and she knew that no matter what she did, he wouldn't give up.

'The one Viking-like quality he gets just had to be the stubbornness issue!'

He nodded at her once before moving his kids closer.

"Dad. Meet your grandkids."

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