Hey guys! So I thought it over and I decided that the idea submitted by JEM48893. Mostly because she submitted an idea for two chapters. But I thank everyone for their suggestions.

Valka marched into the cove angrily, her eyes full of determination as she bent down and inspected the scratch marks on the tree.

"Not that long but very deep. Hmmmm." She said curiously as Cloudjumper landed next to her, his eyes full of sorrow and a but of anger.

"Well don't just stand there, help me look for clues." Valka snapped as Cloudjumper growled before looking around as well and noticing a dark scale laying on the ground. He grunted and gestured for Valka to come over. She picked up the scale and inspected it curiously.

"It's thick, but not blonder class thick. And the color is darker than any dragon I can think of." She muttered before standing up and blowing a bit of dust off it, "It's black as night. Night. Night... Night Fury!" She exclaimed before hitting her head against a rock angrily.

"The Night Fury in his journal! Of course! He was watching that dragon and then... It saw him and it..." Valka trailed off as tears started to form in her eyes and Cloudjumper cooed and nuzzled her sadly.

"I-I'm okay." She stuttered before picking up the scale and jumping onto Cloudjumper's back.

"Lets go get Stoick." She said as Cloudjumper took off.

"A Night Fury?" Stoick asked in shock as he eyed the scale and Valka nodded.

"Yes." She said as Stoick gave her the scale back and realization dawned over his face.

"We need to go to Raven Point." He said quickly as Valka gave him a confused look as he threw on his cape.

"Why? What's by Raven Point?" She asked as Stoick ran upstairs and into Hiccup's room. He searched around before finding Hiccup's journal and running back down.

"A few weeks ago be claimed to have shot down a Night Fury with an invention he created and said it landed just off Raven Point. If only we had listened to him. Maybe, just maybe he wouldn't have... You know." He muttered as Valka sighed and crawled onto Cloudjumper's back.

"Well then let's get going. That might not have been the same dragon. M-Maybe there's a chance that he really didn't shoot one down and he just watched it from afar." Valka suggested as Stoick sighed and warily got onto Cloudjumper's back and they took off.

"No." Stoick muttered as he jumped off of Cloudjumper's back and stared at the broken trees and destroyed forest floor.

"Um, Stoick." Valka called out as Stoick quickly ran over to her. She was bent down next to a broken bola, "The cut's too clean to be from a dragon. Hiccup must've freed it when it was napping and then it flew away."

"Freed it? Valka, do you have any idea how crazy that sounds? He's been trying to kill dragons for as long as I can remember." Stoick said as Valka raised an eyebrow.

"Have you forgotten who his mother is? He might've gotten ready to kill it but then didn't have the heart to do so. Then he may have waited until it was asleep to carefully cut him lose. Hiccup saved that dragon's life, but it took his in return." She choked before looking at the journal and staring at the Night Fury angrily, "He saved his life and it KILLED him! Dragons up north are kind and loving, but down here... I should have listened to you. These dragons truly are monsters, devils. We have to find that dragon." She snarled as Stoick put a hand on her shoulder.

"Valka, no one is as heartbroken as me about Hiccup. But, that dragon could be halfway across the world by now. We can't go wasting time and ships for a most likely lost cause." He rationalized as Valka glared at him.

"That dragon killed your only son and you just want to stand idly by?! Is that what you did when I was taken?!" She snarled as Stoick gave her a look of shock and disgust.

"You really think that's what I did when you were taken? Just give up? Valka I searched for years before rinally giving up! I missed Hiccup's first steps! His first words trying to find you! Or at least that dragon! *sighs* I don't want to give myself that sense of false hope again. As heartbreaking as it is, we just have to let it go. That dragon is gone, and so is Hiccup." He sighed as Valka looked over at Cloudjumper before back at Stoick.

"Well then I guess we're on our own. Stoick, the next time you will see me I will have killed that dragon." She muttered before climbing onto Cloudjumper's back and taking off.

"Valka wait! VALKA COME BACK!" He called after her as she disappeared into the clouds.

"I won't give up on you Hiccup. No matter what I will not stop looking for the monster that took your life." Valka muttered as she looked up at the sky and headed south, towards the edge of the archipelago.

Man, this is the shortest chapter I've written in a while. But I wanted to get this out and this seemed like a good place to stop. Anyways, sorry this chapter is super late. I've just been really busy lately and haven't gotten a chance to write. But I am really trying to get back on schedule.