Starstruckdreamer1: Hey guys I'm finally back! Shoutout to Transformers 0 for taking such a big interest in my story. Thanks for reading everyone! Hope you enjoy! Flashbacks are in italics.

Toothless was sad that Astrid had to go back to her family. He huffed in frustration. He missed playing with her and she would give him some good scratches! Cloudjumper and Valka had taken the girl back to Berk several hours ago and he was started to get bored without Astrid there. Stormfly wasn't going to help quell his boredom she was still moping over her best friend.

Toothless waddled over to a clearing and plopped down. He was getting really tired of searching for something to do and he started to close his eyes. Toothless felt something pull on his ears. He ignored whatever it was and swatted it away with a quick flick to of his ear.

However, whatever or whoever it was was VERY persistent. Toothless growled in frustration as he finally got up. He turned to see it was Stormfly. He looked at her annoyed he had to wake up just when he had started to fall asleep. Stormfly chirrped at him to follow her before she took off running. Toothless sighed but he ran after her anyway. At least it gave him something to do for now.

As he was running he picked up the scents of Cloudjumper and Valka. He roared in happiness at their return. When he finally got to where they were. They were looking worriedly at a crack in one of the walls. As he got closer he could smell another scent…...IT WAS ASTRID! SHE CAME BACK! But why was she hiding?

Stormfly stopped running and walked up to Cloudjumper. He looked relieved to see Toothless and pointed towards the crack in the wall. He and Stormfly squeezed through the cracks to Astrid. As he got closer to Astrid there was one question on his mind.

Why was she crying?

By the time Astrid got there she could see a crowd of dragons gathering near the king. She gestured for Toothless to land and then pushed her way through the dragons. She could see Valka applying some sort of medicine on the nightmare in a cave not to far away from the dragons were gathering .

Astrid looked up to see Cloudjumper and the King talking quietly to each other. She stomped over to where Valka was tending the dragon and was about to say what was on her mind when Valka looked up. Astrid stopped in her tracks at the look on Valka's face.

She had only seen this look whenever Valka was talking about her son. Her jaw was set tight and her eyes were storming with barely concealed sadness and anger. Astrid decided to put aside whatever she was going to say to her and just assisted her in trying to heal the dragon. They sat in silence for a while as Astrid passed Valka bandages and ointment. They sat in silence for a moment before Valka finally spoke up.

"You have to go back you know." Valka whispered. Astrid raised an eyebrow.

"Where?"

"Berk." Astrid snorted at her. "I don't want to go back there." she snarled her eyes blazing with fury as she remembered that dreadful place . Valka shook her head.

"You don't get it Astrid. The king is making you go back to Berk." she said as she looked down at the ground.

"What!"

Hiccup chuckled as he watched Gobber dance on top of one of the tables on the great hall. He had just managed to escape from the other teenagers. Not that he didn't mind the company but it felt like no of them could understand him. He needed someone or something to give him a challenge.

He sighed. Well, at least he had dragon training to look forward too but even that lacked excitement. He took the moment of peace to slip away from the great hall and go into the forest. He needed to do some more practice on shooting arrows in the dark anyway.

He headed towards his sacred place, the cove. He discovered it one day after falling down trying to work on his agility(not that he would ever tell anyone that). It was a place he went to when he just wanted to get away from all his responsibilities for a while. When he finally got to the place he finally removed his bow and quiver from his back.

He leaned them against the rock as he started to stretch and then he went back to grab his bow. He gave a quick glance at the bow looking at the letter carved into it. V. When he asked his dad what it meant he just gave him a grunt and walked away. Hiccup shook his head. It couldn't be anything important he thought has he preparred to fire an arrow.