Hello world new update from Midnightsky! We are getting closer and closer to this story's conclusion so I hope you are enjoying this story as much as I enjoy tortur- I mean writing this ;)

Anyway without any more interruptions, enjoy. ^_^

P.S. Do not try to hunt me down once you finish reading this chapter, I have my ways of never being found. Just saying.

The dust in their eyes lasted a little longer than they had hoped and pretty soon it was sun set until the four vikings, and three dragons calmed down. Dagur and Heather were called back to see that all was nearly well. They knew Hiccup needed some time to actually trust anyone again but they were willing to wait for that day to come but now they had other things to worry about.

"So...Exactly what happened while I was knocked out?" Hiccup asked as the four of them sat in front of the lake. "All I can remember was the pain and then I woke up hearing you guys talking, anything drastic happened?"

"Actually yes," Heather answered, then explained as calmly as she could. "You were showing symptoms of the effects of a deadly poison that was in you from getting that cut from the black arrows back at Berk. Dagur and I were sure that you wouldn't make it, and I wasn't helping much by taking my anger out on Stoick. But thankfully Stoick knew the cure so he and Dagur got the ingredients and gave it to you just in time." She didn't bother to add the part when Hiccup stopped breathing because from the look at her twin brother's face, he didn't need to much details."But you're okay now, that's all that matters so we can now focus on healing what has been hurt." Hiccup nodded, knowing very well that they all need time and support to get through this, to find trust in each other.

Dagur then wrapped his arms around his siblings, bringing them closer to a hug, "Well I'm glad that we can work things out without either of you getting hurt, even though it feels kinda of weird for me-"

"That's because you're Dagur the Deranged," Heather smiled as Hiccup tried to hold in his laughter. "Everything you do is crazy and always has violence into the mix in how to settle business."

"No need to be harsh sis," Dagur pouted, "Doing stuff that isn't crazy is not easy for me you know. I was born crazy and doing dangerous, reckless stuff."

"We're vikings, it's an occupational hazard," Hiccup quoted, smiling at Stoick who returned the same smile since he stated that more than once around his son. Dagur could see how left out Stoick was so he separated himself from his siblings to grab the chief's arm and drag him into a four person hug. All Stoick could do was look at Dagur with confusion because sure he was feeling left out but he didn't expect Dagur to trust him enough to be brought into a hug already!

"After being stuck with you for a few days, I kinda see that your actions to my brother were made for what you thought was for the best," Dagur explained to the chief, "You're probably an even better father to Hiccup than my own father could ever be even if he had lessons."Dagur's statements are not only shocking Stoick but Heather and Hiccup as well. It's not every day they see Dagur this calm and agreeable. Maybe there are some similarities between Oswald and Dagur than what meets the eye. "I think you still got anger issues to work on but you're good father and guardian for my brother for now," He continued with a real smile but that friendly face soon melted to threatening, "But if you somehow do something very horrible, even more, terrible than disowning him, then I would stop at nothing to personally hunt you down, kill you the most agonizing way, use your beard as a pillow, your skull as my helmet, your rib cage as my armor and your skin as my rugs!" He then smiled in less than a second, not even noticing Hiccup and Heather giving him an 'are you serious' face, "Just so we're clear and so you know since I never actually got to give you instructions as a kid when you got Hiccup."

"And then you say he has anger issues," Hiccup chuckled as he shook his head.

However, their laughter was short lived when Skullcrusher began to sniff the air until he roared, earning everyone's attention. "What is it Skullcrusher?" Stoick asked, approaching his dragon to see what got him so worked up. Skullcrusher was pointing his head up the sky, roaring with concern as Heather got on top of Windshear to fly up in the trees to see what was in the sky while they remained hidden. Stoick was trying to calm Skullcrusher down while Toothless was starting to roar with concern which had Hiccup run to his dragon to see what was bugging his friend.

"Hey bud what's wrong?" Hiccup whispered, but the dragon was only pointing up to the sky covered by the trees then shouted over to Heather, "You found something, Heather?"

Heather was looking through the trees, her right eye looking through a spyglass until both eyes widened in shock, "Oh Thor I sure did...But how? When?"

"Heather?" Dagur called out.

"Everything alright up there lass?" Stoick asked.

Heather and Windshear got back down then she reported with concern and confusion. "I just saw a group of dragons heading towards here; they're six dragons riders from Berk." They didn't need to think twice to realize that the group of dragon riders were Astrid, Snotlout, Fishlegs, Ruffnut, and Tuffnut, the sixth rider was probably Gobber!

"What do you mean they're coming here?" Dagur asked, starting to get worried. "Oh man I knew they would escape but I didn't expect them to actually keep looking for you."

"Why don't we just tell them that all this fighting is over?" Heather suggested, hoping that it could probably work. "I'm sure they'll be able to listen an understand, they're our friends."

Dagur shook his head, "Maybe but do you honestly think they can forgive me and just let me go just like that. Don't forget that I'm a fugitive viking, and even if you cleared my name, that won't change how everyone else feels about me."

Heather shook her head, unwilling to believe that this was a good excuse,"Then you'll prove it them! You'll prove that you're not the crazy bad guy that you once were, we can work something out." Despite her suggestions, Dagur only shook his head, which quickly had Hiccup to begin to look at his older brother with suspicion. Something about his excuses seemed a little off. "Dagur if we could patch things up then I'm sure Berk will too, you just gotta give them a chance, we'll convince them."

"Look Heather it's complicated, do you have any idea how much bad things I did to Berk? And don't forget about what I did to yours," Dagur winced when he had say his past mistakes, but Heather knew he regretted his actions in the past. "I don't think they'll just forgive and forget."

"We can convince, we'll do everything in our power so you can redeem yourself," Heather reassured, as Dagur shook his head, his eyes avoiding hers which thankfully went unnoticed from her, but unfortunately not unnoticed to Hiccup.

Dagur was about to repeat his excuse but before he could-

"Or maybe you can tell us the real reason why you're declining every suggestion Heather made," Hiccup stepped forward, approaching Dagur, "I can see it in your eyes, you're hiding something. Something that seems very bad and probably could endanger our safety that you couldn't get us involved if you can't tell us about." He placed his hand on his older brother's shoulder. "But unfortunately, we're going to get involved either way, we just have that kind of bad luck."

"You know me so well Hiccup," Dagur sighed, "A little too well."

Hiccup grinned but only a moment before his face turned serious, as well as Dagur's. "We're siblings after all Dagur, so of course we'll know each other more than we think. So are you going to tell us the real reason why you can't come back with us?"

"If I tell you, none of you might not believe me," Dagur commented.

"We'll take our chances," Stoick reassured.

"Trust us, we've heard crazier," Hiccup added while the dragons took note that all three vikings suddenly had their arms crossed very seriously with their eyes narrowing at one another...

"We're approaching this next island," Gobber reported as he pointed forward with a map full of crossed X's on other drawn islands. "So get your search and rescue skills ready, so we can't go sleeping on the job like what happened in Dragon Island." He was mainly looking at the twins who were still wet from sleeping and falling off their dragons only to fall into a river.

"In our defense we didn't get much sleep," Tuffnut informed, feeling offended.

"Don't worry," Astrid replied to Gobber, completely ignoring the twins, her eyes had heavy bags but she refused to keep them closed. "I don't plan on resting or even getting a wink of sleep until we find the chief and tell him the news." She whispered the last word in silence and no one could blame her. She wasn't over the fact that her lover was dead, and she never got to tell him. "And then we'll find Heather, save her from Dagur before she becomes a victim of him too."

"Uh guys but how are we going to tell him?" Fishlegs asked nervously, "None of us could tell him without breaking down in less than two seconds." He sniffled, wiping small tears from his eyes.

"We're just going to have to tell him," Snotlout answered, his face was only focusing on the island. "Even if we breakdown, it won't matter, it just shows how much pain we're in, and how much we actually cared about our friend Hiccup."

Before anyone could comment, their dragons eyes narrowed all of sudden, beginning to take take the led themselves but mainly Stormfly. "What's wrong with them?" Gobber asked with confusion. "Did they find something or are acting up for no reason?" All Astrid did was shake her head, completely confused herself with the dragons sudden actions. If only you were here Hiccup! She thought to herself. You would know what to do, you'd know exactly what to do! I wish you were here Hiccup...I really wish you were here..."Astrid?" Gobber interrupted her thoughts as she shook her head and looked over at the concerned blacksmith. "Are you alright lass? What do we do about the dragons?"

What would Hiccup do? What would Hiccup do, what would he do? She asked herself, until saw that they were circling around a certain area of the island which was something she barely seen the dragons do unless they found something very concerning...That's it! She finally came up with the final decision. "Let the dragons lead us, they seem to have found something down here! So get ready to make a landing!"

"Are you sure Astrid? This is the middle of nowhere our dragons are circling around?" Ruffnut questioned.

"I'm sure!" Astrid insisted, then took a deep breath to be able to say the next words. "It's what Hiccup would do at a situation like this."

No one did not dare to question her decision any more no matter how confusing it was so they allowed their dragons to take the lead as they swooped down the trees to make a landing. However with all the trees, it was hard to see but they did hear something that caused them panic!

"YOU CAN NEVER WIN! I'LL ALWAYS WIN NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!"

Fishlegs gasped, "Is that-"

"Dagur!" Astrid interrupted, but this time with rage. He was the one who made Hiccup suffer! He manipulated him into joining his forces, then go back to Berk where the villagers would kill him when they saw him! Her hands reached for her axe, gripping it so tightly that the wood was starting to break! Dagur is the one who never cared about anyone but himself, he never even cared about the outcome of the danger he put his own family through! "Come on!"

No one hesitated to follow those orders and withing second, they barged through those trees like mad vikings into a cove like place and what they saw in front of them made their hearts stop, their breath suddenly disappearing from their lungs, and were silently praying to the gods for a sign to show that what they are seeing didn't mean they're going crazy:

Just a few yards away from them was Heather and Stoick, chained to a nearby tree while Skullcrusher, Windshear and Toothless were held down by dragon proof chains, all of them were pretty beat up from what it looks like a tough battle to fight! Toothless was struggling to break free from the chains, getting frustrated that he couldn't budge as he roared in anger with his teeth clenched with fury. Heather and Stoick were struggling to break free from their restraints as well, until they looked up to see the gang staring at the scene in shock. Then they saw Dagur, smiling his usual deranged smile just another few feet away, backing someone up to the stone walls of the cove, holding his sword tightly. That someone getting backed up to the wall, was-

"HICCUP!?"

That grabbed Dagur's attention from whatever trance he was in as he turned around to see the gang, smiling at the extra company. "Oh I see my big mouth was loud enough to grab your attention now wasn't it?" He swung his sword around while his right arm made sure it kept Hiccup on the floor against the stone. "I guess you still have some luck left for you after all brother."

How? Astrid asked herself, no longer feeling the strength and anger that was flowing through her veins mere moments ago. Hiccup was supposed to be dead? What's Dagur doing here? Doesn't he have an care for his brother and sister at all? She watched how Dagur tried to throw a punch at Hiccup, but the teen seemed to have enough strength to hold that fist down from making that blow. Why is he trying to hurt Hiccup, his brother? This can't be right, what's going on? "You just don't know when to give up," Dagur growled, pulling his fist from Hiccup's hand. "You and Heather should just accept your punishment for betraying your chief and older brother! Pretending to be on my side then to forgive me was very low for you, and the price for this crime won't be pretty." He tried to punch him again, this time hitting the teen's stomach hard enough to make Hiccup gasp out loud and fall on the ground as he struggled to find the strength to get up.

Not looking satisfied, Dagur grabbed Hiccup from his hair with a dagger in one hand after dropping his sword. "You have no where to go, such a pity I have to do this...But it does mark treachery to me at least."If anyone wasn't blinded from anger or shock, they could have seen Dagur's trembling hand around the dagger as he used the lethal weapon to slice most of Hiccup's hair! They could see small, big chunks of auburn hair on the ground as Dagur threw Hiccup back down at the ground. "...We could have been family, but it doesn't matter now, now does it?" He picked up his sword, then raised it up to the air to make the final blow but he couldn't do such an action because a certain razorwhip and deadly nadder shot their sharp spines to make the sword fly off from his hands!

He looked over to see that the gang snapped out of their trance fast enough to free Stoick, Heather, Toothless, and Windshear but when he looked back to where Hiccup was he felt a strong punch hit his face from the left of him! He yelped, looking to the side to see that it was Astrid who was the one who punched him as she yelled, "GET AWAY FROM HIM!"

Dagur fell on the ground on his back, his hand re-adjusting his jaw before he got up again to send a nasty glare at Astrid. "I see you finally decided to move instead of standing there like you saw a ghost." That only made Astrid angrier as she charged, pouncing on him to get back on the ground as she delivered five more punches to his face as he inner rage was screaming for her to do more than punches. She then lifted him up and slammed him against the wall, just a few feet away from where Hiccup was getting up from that strong punch. "You've think you've won but I'll always find a way to get you," Dagur smiled despite his purple left eye. "Deep down you know that no matter what you guys do, I can never be beaten completely."

Astrid's eyes narrowed down at the deranged boy, her axe was still on her hand as she whispered with fury, "We'll win Dagur, and you'll be put to justice for everything you've done and the pain you caused for your brother and sister...I don't even know if I should even consider you Hiccup's brother." She lifted her axe, ready to do it, ready to make the kill. He should never be forgiven for everything he has done! Life in prison is not punishment enough! Death sounds more appropriate! Yes, death!

"ASTRID, DON'T! STOP IT!"

Her eyes widened in shock, turning to see that it was Hiccup and Heather who both screamed for her to stop, their green eyes pleading for her to return to sanity. She suddenly snapped out of whatever dark world she was in the moment she heard them, dropping her axe but she did shove Dagur to the side. Dagur used this chance to get up on his feet to run away into the woods as fast as he could but no one paid heed to him right now since they knew this won't be the last time seeing his face around. Meanwhile Astrid still couldn't believe she was about to kill someone, but she especially couldn't believe that she was seeing Hiccup right there, alive as if nothing happened! Her breathing was getting heavy until she felt herself fall from all this stress she keep straining herself with but she never hit the ground.

Because Hiccup was fast enough to get her before she hit the ground. Everyone run toward him, still a little shocked themselves to see the heir of Berk still alive but they also needed to see if the shield maiden was alright! Hiccup gently shook her to see if she would wake up, and when she didn't he was about to panic until he heard her whisper, "Is it really you Hiccup?"

"Oh gods Astrid don't scare me like that again." He sighed, hugging her with relief until he let her go for some breath as he helped her up. Everyone else released a breath of relief and for a moment they were about to ask a million questions until Astrid punched Hiccup's shoulder, hard. "OW! What was that for?!"

"That was for scaring all of us half to death! And for running off with that lunatic and for making us all think that you were dead!" Astrid answered, before embracing him tightly as her eyes watered. "And that's for being alive."

Yes yes I know you all are either confused, sad, or even angry that Dagur has turned bad in the end but I hope this small hicstrid moment was good but hey this story isn't over yet so maybe...and i also hope that this isn't rushed. i don't know but i always believe that i rushed things.