"Cami?!H-How- Where- WHAT?!" Hiccup sputtered as Camicazi giggled and backed up.
"You miss me?" She asked with a grin as Hiccup's jaw dropped.
"B-But we aren't in Bog Burglar territory, right?" He asked as Camicazi shrugged.
"Yeah, I was kinda exiled." She said sheepishly before noticing Toothless.
"Wait a minute, I'm not the only one?!" She exclaimed as Hiccup gave her a confused look.
"Only one who what?" He asked as Camicazi smiled before whistling as a roar could somehow be heard over the thunder and a large Timberjack appeared, it's amber scales turning to golden yellow at the tips as Hiccup gasped in wonder.
"Her name is Windslicer." She introduced as Toothless protectively wrapped his tail around Hiccup's legs at the arrival of the new dragon.
"This is Toothless." Hiccup said as Camicazi looked at Toothless in confusion.
"Toothless?" She asked as Toothless unsheathed, and sheathed his teeth.
"Ohhhhh, I get it. But what type of dragon is he?" Camicazi asked as Hiccup grinned.
"Night Fury." He said as her jaw dropped.
"You trained a Night Fury?! And named it Toothless?! Come on! You couldn't have given the unholy offspring of lightening and death itself a cooler name?" She questioned as Hiccup shrugged.
"It seemed to fit him at the time." He said with a small grin as Toothless gave him a gummy smile and licked him, making Camicazi smile as she wiped some more wet hair out o her face.
"Hey, I have a hut not to far away from here. You wanna get out of the rain and have some dinner." She offered before jumping onto Windslicer's back.
"Sure." Hiccup said, getting onto Toothless's back as they took off, but Toothless crashed to the ground as another clap of thunder rung through the sky.
"Oh no. Your tail fin." Hiccup muttered as he looked back at Toothless's tail, his prosthetic was completely burned off.
"You coming?!" Camicazi called before noticing Toothless tail and landing next to them.
"I think I have some leather back at my hut, here, we'll give you a lift." She offered as Windslicer lowered down her wing, allowing for Toothless and Hiccup to crawl on, making her grunt.
"It'll only be for a few minutes." Camicazi assured as Windslicer took off.
A little boat slowly drifted out to sea. The water was strangely calm and just added to the melancholy feeling in the air. Because the day was full of grieving, regret, and sorrow. For this was Hiccup's funeral.
"May the Valkyries welcome you. May they sing your name with love and fury, so we may hear it rise from the depths of Valhalla, and know you've taken your rightful place in the halls of Valhalla." Gobber sighed as the entire village sadly looked at the boat and readied their arrows.
"For a great boy has fallen: The winner of dragon training, an heir, a son, a-a friend." He choked as Stoick and Valka both bent down and grabbed bows. They looked at each other sadly before lighting two arrows on fire and launching them at the ship, the others following in suit. Valka bit her lip before turning away and crying into Stoick's shoulder, he sighed and embraced her sadly, a single tear falling onto his cheek as he looked up at the boat, which was now a burning inferno. It seemed to hover there for a few seconds before a small wave beckoned it into the ocean.
The entire village sat in the Great Hall, talking among themselves sadly, until Stoick sighed and stood up.
"May I have all your attention?" He asked as the hall became completely silent.
"I would like to say a few words about my-my son." He started before glancing over at Valka, who stared into her drink sadly.
"He was definitely, a, a different boy." He said with a small chuckle, making all the villagers nod and knowingly smile at the statement.
"Like you've all seen, I haven't been the best father to him. Mostly because I just wanted to toughen him up. And it worked. At least I got to spend one last moment with him before..." He trailed off as Valka took a huge swig of her mead and stood up before putting a sad hand on his shoulder.
"I-I would like to say a few things as well." She choked as a few people shot her dirty looks.
"I never met Hiccup. For the last 15 years I've thought about who he was or what he has become. Heh, I still remember when he was that tiny little baby that I sang to, I held closely. H-He was my life." She sighed as her eyes started to well up.
"Leaving was the biggest mistake of my life. I-I thought coming back would be a way to finally meet my own son. But I was too late..." She trailed off as tears fell freely down her cheeks before she sat down and cried into her hands.
"Hey! Who's gonna face the Nightmare then?" A voice called from the crowd as Stoick looked up.
"Yes, I have thought about that. The honor will go to the runner up, Astrid Hofferson." He said as he gestured to Astrid, who was talking quietly to the other teens before she snapped up and all eyes locked on her.
"Astrid, you will be fighting it in a few days. Good luck to you. Now, this is a situation I have to address. Who my new heir is going to be." Stoick sighed as the teens perked up.
"You teens will have to prove to me who will be best for this island. The strongest, bravest, and wisest will be my new heir. Any questions?" He asked as Snotlout blurted;
"If you're looking for all that stuff in an heir, then why was Hiccup ever even considered?"
That made the hall go dead silent. Rage almost oozed out of Stoick as his face turned red and he gripped his axe tightly.
"Because he his a better man then you will ever be." He snarled.
"Well I'm just saying, he was scrawny, always destroyed half the village, and even lied about shooting down a Night Fury!" Snotlout added as Spitelout stood up as well.
"Yeah! No one will miss that old nuisance!" He exclaimed as a few other people nodded in approval while Stoick almost shook with rage. Gobber glared at the them angrily. And Valka, well she silently snuck outside before jumping onto Cloudjumper and letting out a loud sob.
"I-I missed my only son! Hiccup was just like me and I stayed away!" She cried as Cloudjumper crooned sadly.
"He needed me..."
"Whoa." Hiccup said as Windslicer landed next to Camicazi's hut, which was massive. It had two floors and took up an entire large clearing.
"Well Windslicer needs to be able to come in. Hey! I forgot to ask, how did your dad find out about, you know..." She trailed off, gesturing to Toothless.
"Well he kinda, didn't. So you know how on Berk we have dragon training for the young recruits and the winner gets to kill a Monstrous Nightmare?" Hiccup asked as Camicazi nodded before opening the door for Windslicer
"I was chosen after figuring out how to defeat the dragons without hurting them. So I was picked. But I couldn't kill the Nightmare, and I knew if I tried to train it my dad would exile me. So I faked my own death and left with Toothless." He explained as Camicazi gave him a sightly angry, slightly sad look.
"Look, I do realize you didn't want to get exiled. But you probably have no idea what this did to your dad. He thinks you're dead for Thor's sake!" She exclaimed before noticing Hiccup, who was sitting on top of Toothless, his knees tucked into his chest as he sadly looked in the direction of Berk.
"I know. I'm a terrible son. The second he starts to except me, I run away like a coward. It's no wonder he didn't love me these last 15 years." He sniffed as Camicazi's expression softened and she put a gentle hand on his back.
"Hey, he does love you. He just isn't very good at showing it. Trust me I know how it feels." She assured with a small smile as another loud thunder clap got their attention.
"Let's get inside and get some rest. We'll catch up in the morning." She said before walking inside and Hiccup and Toothless looked at each other before following.
"I'll make you a new fin and we'll leave in the morning. We're too close to Berk for my liking." Hiccup muttered before shutting the door behind him.
I AM SO SORRY FOR THE LATE UPDATE! I had the last 300 words ready to write for like two days now! Okay, so here's what happened, on Thursday I was going to finish, but then I realized I had to wake up at 5:45 in the morning for a music thingy. Then I Friday I was so tired from the music thingy that I feel alseep at like 7:30 at night! (I got to skip school for it so that was kinda awesome though :D )