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Chapter 1

On a grassy cliff overlooking the sea sat a rather strange being looking over the vastness of the ocean before him with a relax look in his eyes and a small grin. He seemed to like the peace and quiet that he was experiencing and relaxed even more by spreading out his huge black bat like wings as he stretched for a bit before folding them back up.

Besides his wings, he had a long black tail that rested to his left side while part of it dangled off the edge by his legs, which were covered in black scales along with his arms, while his hands and feet had long white claws were his fingers and toes would be.

He wore a pair of brown shorts and a green shirt with sleeves that only covered his shoulders, while on the back of his clothing there were three slits, two on his shirt for his wings and one on his shorts for his tail. Clothing like this didn't come easy to the hybrid, but he was thankful that Berk had an amazing tailor that did the best he could do and it worked.

As Hiccup continued to look out to the beyond he thought about how far he had come from his previous situation that happened months ago to where he was now. Even after the defeat of the Red Death things were still rough for him and his dragon family in Berk. You would think after defeating the greatest enemy that had plagued Berk for generations with dragons and Vikings fighting side by side would change things, but it didn't.

There had been many problems since then, probably more than the young hybrid had faced in his entire life. The first being that the local crazy and grumpy old man that everyone despises, Mildew, had caused an uproar not a few months after the defeat of the Red Death of how dragons were just wild and vicious animals and that they couldn't be trusted. This of course almost caused Hiccup to go all out berserk on the old man, but restrained himself after the promise he made himself after the battle with the Red Death to never inflict serious harm or kill anybody again. The old man however made that increasing hard to keep.

Simply though he was able to convince everyone that they could learn to trust dragons and started a dragon academy where he trained Vikings to ride dragons, where both species could learn to trust and rely on one another. However, it's still a work in progress since only the teens, Snotlout, Fishlegs, and the twins were still willing to ride the dragons.

Another problem was trying to build a relationship with his father and get that all sorted out. The chief still wasn't really liking the idea that his son was a half scaly lizard and seemed to try and teach Hiccup more about how to be a Viking and a future leader of the tribe, the latter being the least of the favorites that Hiccup was looking forward to deal with.

With all of these problems and challenges that he was facing, Hiccup wished that he could just hide away for a bit with Astrid, his girlfriend that he turned into a hybrid, and just relax and let his mind be at peace for a moment.

Thinking about that as he closed his eyes made Hiccup smile and relish in the idea of it, but soon he was brought out of his thoughts when he heard the sound of stomping coming from behind him and a shadow casting itself over his body.

He didn't even need to turn around to know who it was, because just by the shape of the shadow and smell of the creature that stood behind him he knew. Smiling softly Hiccup turned his head to see a giant dragon that stood behind him with brilliant blue scales that shined from the sun's rays and blue eyes that stared at him in a loving manner as it cocked it's owl like head looking him up and down.

"Hey mom," Hiccup spoke in his dragon tongue as he addressed the Stormcutter that raised him all those years, "What brings you here and how did you know where I was?" he asked as the dragon went to the right of Hiccup and sat by him while she still stared at the hybrid with a small smile on her face.

"Momma Blueray always knows where her children are at," She said while rubbing her snout on his head in an affectionate way. "And I came here to see how my son was doing. Apparently there's something or things on your mind from what I can tell."

Hiccup nodded his head, before he turned his gaze back out to the sea and let out a sigh. "I don't know mom how I'm going to deal with all these problems," He said exasperated. "There's just so much on my plate, I just can't… I don't know."

The mother Stormcutter raised an eyebrow before rolling her eyes and nudging her son to get his attention, causing him to look back up at her with a defeated look on his face. She sighed before putting a comforting wing around her child and brought him in close. "Hiccup darling," She said in a sweet, but firm voice, "You're only one person, a 15 year old, you have done things people never do in their life and have won a great victory in ending the war between Vikings and dragons. However, even the greatest of us all need to have help and understand that the weight of the world just isn't upon their shoulders." She said while turning him towards her. He had his head down with his eyes closed trying to understand what she was saying, but was having a hard time accepting it. Blueray then placed claw underneath his chin and lifted his eyes to meet hers as she continued.

"You aren't alone my child, you have your family that supports and loves you," She said, "If you need help just ask or else some of us might take it upon ourselves and just help you, like me." She chuckled earning a smile from Hiccup.

"Now," she said seriously, "As your mother I am going to give you advice, whether you will listen to it or not is completely up to you." Hiccup nodded before she continued ready to hear what she had to say.

"First, look at the biggest problem and deal with that first. Not all these little minuscule ones that don't matter like whether or not to roast Mildews butt." She said earning a laugh from Hiccup, before she went on. "If you deal with the biggest ones and then work your way down to the smaller ones one at a time you're life will be a lot better and a lot less stressful."

"Alright," Hiccup responded as he contemplated which issue to tackle first.

His mother though made an 'ahem' making him to look back up at her. "If I may make a suggestion, listen to it or not my child, but one of the bigger problems would be a certain someone's parents." She said earning a look from Hiccup.

"A certain someone?" He thought trying to figure out what she meant. A light then turned on and his entire frame shook as he realized what she was talking about. "You're talking about Astrid's parents aren't you?" he asked as Goosebumps went about his body. His mother nodded causing him to groan as he placed a hand on his forehead and rubbed it. "They seemed fine at Snoggletog, but then, argh! I don't know. Me and Astrid are trying to figure out why they're upset with us, I mean it was Astrid's choice to become a hybrid and she's still the same person, she just looks different on the outside."

His mother had a blank look on her face as she grumbled and looked up to the sky as if she was praying for strength. "I don't know Hicky," she said his nickname teasingly, "Maybe because in their minds Astrid shouldn't be making big life alerting choices at her age that would cost her families reputation of being fierce Vikings and having her daughter being made an outcast by the entire village?"

"She's still fierce and a Viking, not an outcast" Hiccup countered quite irritably, "I mean the girl's form of communication is hitting people. She's still Astrid."

"She's no longer considered a Viking Hiccup," His mother retorted while glowering at her son, "Yes she's fierce and has the same personality, but she's now a hybrid. You have to step back and look at this from a parent's point of view son. A drastic change like this so quickly isn't easy for parents to accept, you should know this."

Hiccup stared up at his mother with a surprise look then shook his head and turned it away from her as he stared at the ground soaking in what she was saying. "I know what you're saying, but still," Hiccup finally said earning a sigh from his mother. "They have to get used to the idea and accept it, along with my own father." He stated as he walked out of his mothers embrace and turned his back to her.

"Some people just can't accept things right then and there Hiccup," His mother replied calmly shifting her gaze out to the sea. "Change is a slow progression and can't be done all at once. It comes from time, effort, love and care. Even if the individual seems to look like they have accepted it on the outside, on the inside they are still fighting themselves, hence why they need help." With that said she turned back towards the island and prepared to fly off, but before she did she gave Hiccup one more piece of advice.

"You have to spend more time with them along with Astrid for them to see change. You should also do the same with your father." With that said the blue Stormcutter toke off flying leaving a bewildered Hiccup behind thinking to himself.

Change, was the only word that came to his mind as he wondered how much he changed or that he thought he had. The word wasn't easy for Hiccup to accept for most of his pre-teen life and for good reason. His life as a hybrid he spent a lot of time with his dragon family, but also being trained by a savage titanwing Monstrous Nightmare by the name of Scorchclaw who made it his goal in showing Hiccup that people can never change by themselves alone. No, people had to be forced into accepting what they deemed to be true.

Hiccup never truly ever got along with his old mentor and despised him even more after he came to his village all those months ago demanding to be turned into a hybrid while at the same time threatening his family and Astrid's life. Well, he got what he wanted, but ended up dying shortly after due to Hiccup draining him of his magic, curiosity of his former master teaching him it at a young age.

His body now rested at the bottom of the sea far away from his home to where no one would find it and Hiccup thought that he would soon forget his old masters teachings. But, talking with his mother however about change stirred some of those memories he had all those years ago, causing him to have a momentary flashback when he was seven. A year after he became a hybrid.

A younger Hiccup sat the back of a extremely large blood red Monstrous Nightmare with black markings throughout its body, while its two enormous wings flapped in the cold night air with the moon high above them shining its light on the two creatures.

The young boy held on tight to one of the creature's spikes that were on its back causing his already tattered and torn green shirt to tear more. His clothing was already small enough when he was six, but as he grew in that year one could tell that the boy defiantly was in need of new cloths, because first, they stunk and second they couldn't really accommodate the boy's rather large size.

No one at the nest really knew what to do about the situation, not even his own mother, but Scorchclaw did and didn't want a naked half human running about the nest. The dragons wouldn't have really cared, but Scorchclaw refused to deal with it. Sure the boy was half dragon, but he was human too and Scorchclaw couldn't stand seeing the sight of naked humans when they were at hot springs or pools cleaning themselves as he flew over. The sight disturbed him. So he opted in finding the new boy some clothing and finally begin his training.

Since Hiccup was turned into a hybrid by the Queen, she lost so much of her strength and had to rest from the amount of magic that was used due to the fact that when Hiccup was making the wish he asked to forget everything. That in itself caused the Queen to be depleted of her magic and since this was the first time she used her powers and that much of it, it would take a while for them to be fully restored. She still could control dragons, but that didn't require any magic, however to control or influence a hybrid did and even then there had to be things that had to happen in the hybrids mind to manipulate them. One of them being they had to have enough memories to use and said memories had to be ones of much anger and sadness. So she came up with a different plan. She could still influence Hiccup to be on her side another way, it would just take longer, and that's where Scorchclaw came in.

His mission was to train Hiccup into a weapon of destruction, and what better way to do that then to start his first training session in getting some clothes for the child, but it was how they were going to get the clothes that was going to be the fun part.

Scorchclaw smirked when he saw an island appearing before them in the distance with lights from torches that were concentrated in one area of the island. There were docks, boats and people going to and from the docks to the small settlement up on the island.

The Titanwing flew faster and dove into a secluded part of the island. There he landed and started to walk towards the glow of the torches from the settlement that was beyond the forest they were in that hid them from any unwanted eyes, but Scorchclaw would've been fine if they were seen it just would've gave him an excuse to kill all the humans in the village.

As the dragon walked, Hiccup looked up at all the tree's that were around them and let out a small nervous sound as the shadows began to look like monsters to him making him hug Scorchclaws spike harder as his eyes darted back and forth.

He almost let out a yell as an owl dove down at them and was about to fly away before Scorchclaw snapped his jaws upon it and ate the poor creature as he continued on to their destination. "Do not show fear Hiccup," He snarled, "Fear is for the weak and you will not be weak!" He hissed out causing the boy to shrink back. The dragon chuckled before they were at the forests edge overlooking to what appeared to be shops.

Hiccups eyes went wide as he stared at the strange beings before him that sort of looked like him. He knew that he was half human, from what his mother said and that he was different from them because he was sent to the dragons as a gift from the gods. He wasn't sure what she meant by it, but came to like the idea of it and rolled along with it, but he never saw a human before and now that he did he felt something. Something that seemed to fill a hole, but not fully, like there was more that he needed to know about the humans to have it filled. He would have to ask his mother about it though, because he fully knew all too well that Scorchclaw wouldn't say anything about it, but that all humans needed to die. Still though, he wanted to learn more about them and since he was here he knew that he could, but he also knew Scorchclaw wouldn't allow it and that they were here for something else, clothes.

Scorchclaw scanned the area looking at all the shops till he found the one he was looking for and smiled to himself before he turned around to look at the stunned Hiccup . "You will make a distraction while I'll go to the shop and get you some clothes." He said pointing to the shop. "Cause destruction, but don't be seen. Understood?" Hiccup nodded before he jumped off and began to stick to the shadows as he approached the village while Scorchclaw moved behind the tents that were shops to the one with clothes in it.

Hiccup shot a plasma blast at a barrel of fish from between two shops causing it to explode and having the local residents scream out in terror from the sudden attack as they began to run around grabbing weapons and trying to find the source of said attack.

"A dragon!" one man screamed. "Find it and bring its head! Viggo will be pleased that we killed it!"

Men in armor carrying weapons of all sorts searched around the market trying to find said dragon, but Hiccup was too fast and fired another plasma blast at a stack of weapons causing more mayhem in the ranks of soldiers and shop owners.

Scorchclaw reached the tent with the clothes while everything else was going on and thanks to Hiccup he drew the majority of the people away from him. Looking inside the tent, he decided just to grab all the clothing that was in there with his left foot and shot up into the sky.

He searched the ground for Hiccup and upon seeing him he swooped down causing a lot of alarm to the Vikings as they ducked or ran from the beast while at the same time not seeing a small hybrid jump up and land on the creatures back as the two made their way away from the market. However they stopped once they heard the sound of a dragons cry on the other side of the island and went to investigate what was happening to it.

When they arrived Hiccup gasp while Scorchclaw smirked seeing a dragon in a cage with men all around it loading boxes and weapons onto a very large boat. One of the men stood next to the cage with his hands clasped behind his back as he inspected the Skrill that was inside it giving it a smile before he turned to his men and barked out some orders for them to get moving faster.

"What are they doing?" Hiccup asked as he looked down at the scared dragon.

"They are dragon hunters Hiccup," Scorchclaw said with a growl, "They hunt and capture are own kind to sell us, kill us for are hide, or use us for entertainment."

"What? Why?" Hiccup asked confused as to why they would do that.

"Because humans are the scum of the earth that believe they are entitled to everything!" Scorchclaw said with a hiss.

"Can't we go down there and talk with them about it?" Hiccup asked earning a quizzical look from Scorchclaw. "They just don't understand us, from what you and mom told me about them they're just confused of who we are. Can't we change their minds about it?

Scorchclaw bellowed a laugh before he snarled looking back down at the humans below. "Change, change Hiccup?" he said mockingly, "People don't change, especially Vikings. The only way to change people is by force!"

"How can you be so sure?" Hiccup asked.

The Nightmare looked at him for a second before an evil grin appeared on his face. "Fine," he said, "Since I know how to speak the language of the humans, I shall convince them of their wrong traditions." He said causing Hiccup to smile as the dragon flew down to the group of men and landed in front of the leader making them all yell in shock of the sudden appearance of a large titanwing.

Before any of them could do anything their jaws nearly dropped to the ground as the beast began to speak. "Hello humans," Scorchclaw said with a wicked smile as he raised his head and body to make sure they didn't see Hiccup, "I am Scorchclaw, how are you this evening?"

The leader, after catching his bearings stood their shocked and unable to speak for sometime before he finally spoke in a calm, but nervous tone. "I am Viggo Grimmborn." The man stated, "Leader of the Dragon Hunters. What on Thor's green earth are you suppose to be?"

"Someone who has come to change your mind about dragons," Scorchclaw said noticing the hunters around him pointing their bows at him with their arrows notched.

"Is that so," Viggo said more calmly this time.

"Yes, so will you listen?" Scorchclaw said knowing full well what the answer was.

"Of course," Viggo said in a happy manner spreading his arms out in a welcoming gesture, "In more pleasant terms though."

"Pleasant terms?" Scorchclaw asked resisting a chuckle, "What type of terms?"

"Oh nothing really, but one where you are behind a cage on my ship with this Skrill." He said pointing to said Skrill.

"Please, do you think I'll actually do that?" Scorchclaw mocked.

"Oh not really, but hey it's not every day that you meet a talking dragon." Viggo said with a grin. "Imagine the profit we can get from you and with your ability to talk with humans we can find more dragons and business will be booming."

"So even though I can talk you still won't change your minds about dragons?" he asked earning a wicked smile from Viggo. "That's all I needed to hear." With that arrows were launched at Scorchclaw, but the dragon was too quick and shot up in the air before any of them could hit him. However, the hunters weren't able to reload as the Nightmare set a blaze the entire area causing the men to retreat, but before Viggo retreated he grabbed an arrow and aimed it right at the Skrill's heart.

"You won't be getting this dragon you abomination." He breathed before he fired. The Skrill let out a cry and before Viggo could leave he heard a "NO!" that didn't sound like the beast at all, but he didn't let that distract him as he quickly left before he got scorched.

Up in the air Hiccup's eyes were to the brim with tears as he looked down at the lifeless form of the Skrill in the cage. Even after the human heard Scorchclaw speak along with hearing how Scorchclaw just wanted to talk and change his mind, the human just wanted to make money by using Scorchclaws ability and toke a dragon's life that didn't do anything.

"Why?" Hiccup sobbed, "Why did they kill him and not listen to what we had to say?"

"Because Hiccup," Scorchclaw said in a gentle tone, "People don't change, if I were too force them by destroying everything they had and made them submit that Skrill would still be alive." With that said Scorchclaw turned and flew away from the scene as a young Hiccup continued to think about what just happened.

"People don't change." He thought, "People don't change. That Skrill would still be alive if I didn't persist on changing that Vikings mind." It was because of him and his ignorance that got that Skrill killed, it died because of him.

Hiccup reopened his eyes as the memory went away and he sighed as he continued to ponder his mother's words and reflect from the experiences he had in his life. Pushing aside the past he knew he had to talk to Astrid about her parents and they had to come up with a game plan to help them see that everything is fine.

"I just hope that whatever we decide to do, it'll work." He said as he spread his wings and toke to the air while flying towards the forest to where he knew Astrid would be along with the other dragons. "I pray that it'll work."

In the forest a hybrid stood in a grassy spot while swinging her axe to get a feel for it. Her arms, legs and tail looked similar to Hiccup's; except that they were blue and her wings were also blue, but not as large as his. She wore a blue shirt and similar to Hiccups she had two slits in the back for her wings. Her shorts were red with a slit in the back for her tail, but her shorts were covered by a spiked skirt that went down past the middle of her thigh.

Astrid swung her axe around before chucking it at a nearby tree making it go deep into the wood with a loud cracking sound that echoed throughout the forest. A Monstrous Nightmare stared at the tree before turning to the hybrid and letting out a snort.

"Not as deep as before," he smirked, "Getting sloppy?"

Astrid growled, but before she could do anything a Night Fury that was to the right of her let out a laugh earning a glare from the Monstrous Nightmare. "Please Hookfang," the dragon said, "Like you can do any better!"

The Monstrous Nightmare growled as he shot daggers at the Night Fury. "I have no hands!" he roared back earning another laugh from the Night Fury. "Shut up Toothless."

"Ah poor baby," A Nadder teased as Astrid went to retrieve her axe from the tree. "Get over yourself."

"You get over yourself!" The Nightmare fired back while the Nadder only rolled her eyes at him.

"Good come back Hookfang," Toothless applauded rather smugly.

"Is this all the time with you guys?" Astrid asked lining up her shot again while she listened to the three dragons bicker back and forth.

"Most days," A voice said causing them to look up and see Hiccup landing right behind Astrid. Before he could say anything Astrid already ran up to him and gave him a quick hug and a smile.

"Hey babe, how are you doing?" She asked sweetly.

"Ah you know, trying to relax then talking with mom," Hiccup deadpanned.

"Sounds fun," Hookfang said with a smirk, "Got in trouble again?"

Hiccup rolled his eyes before he toke Astrid's hands in his and motioned her to follow him to which she complied earning a wolf whistle from Hookfang who only received glares from Toothless and Stormfly.

"Grow up will you!" Toothless shouted.

"You grow up!" Hookfang shouted back.

Going a bit more into the forest Hiccup led Astrid to a small stream where he motioned for her to stop and sit down by him by the bank of the stream. He toke in a breath before he looked up at the worried look that Astrid gave him. Before he could even speak Astrid beat him too it. "This is about my parents isn't it?" She asked in their own language causing him to stop from saying what he was about to say and look at her in shock before he slowly nodded his head making her sigh.

"It's been interesting to say the least." She stated. "Every time it seems that when I walk in the house, they give this disappointed scowl, like someone skimped the meat on their sandwich or something and I just don't know why, well 'x' that I do know why, but it was my choice."

Hiccup was following along just fine till she said 'skimped the meat on their sandwich' which made him think if he heard that before and if so where? But, he didn't let it bother him as he continued to listen to her and understand where she was coming from.

"That's what I was talking to my mom about," Hiccup explained catching her attention, "She said we need to work together in dealing with this problem and try to help them understand that this is a good change."

"What's there to talk about though?" Astrid said a little bit more frustrated this time. "It's my choice, not theirs!"

"I know I know," Hiccup said trying to calm her down to which he was failing at, "Maybe we can talk to them?"

"Already tried that," Astrid growled, "They just say that I was acting foolish and that you had something to do with my decision, I make my own decisions!" She yelled while grabbing her axe on her back as she threw it at a nearby tree.

"Uh…," Hiccup didn't know how to approach this mostly because he didn't want to be on the receiving end of said axe. Astrid however noticed this and let out a sigh before she sat back down beside him while placing a hand on his arm to reassure him that he wasn't going to get attacked.

"It's not your fault Hiccup," she stated rather upset, "It's my parents, they're just too stubborn and boar headed."

"Welcome to my life," Hiccup said earning a little playful glare, "My dad is just like them, another problem that I have to deal with in the near future." He stated while Astrid nodded her head in understanding.

"Look Astrid, maybe it is my fault," Hiccup said as his shoulders sagged a bit, "I haven't really made any attempt to talk to them, maybe if I was able to sit down and have dinner with them they could really get to know me."

"They do know you Hiccup." Astrid said, but was cut off by Hiccup.

"That was over 9 years ago Astrid." Hiccup replied, "I think they think that I have changed a lot especially since I was around dragons." He knew though that there was a lot of truth to that said statement.

Astrid thought about it for a moment and darted her eyes back and forth trying to process it till she looked back up at Hiccup with a big smile. "Ok, but only if I get to help you with your dad ok?" she asked. Hiccup nodded.

"Sure why not, what could possibly go wrong?" Hiccup asked.

"You die," Hookfang said from behind them.

"Would you just shut your mouth for once in your dang life?!" Toothless shouted from afar.

Another Chapter done.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and I look forward to make more in the future.

So just so that you guys know, there's going to be a lot of flash backs in this story that explains more about Hiccup's origin.

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