The shores of Berk were lined with its people to welcome home the four of them. As soon as they landed, Astrid rushed down the beach, to throw her arms around Hiccup. After a moment though, she pulled away and landed a hard punch to his arm.

"Don't you ever do that again" she said.

Hiccup laughed a bit, "I don't plan to."

He felt a hand on his shoulder, glancing up into the form of his father standing behind him with a smile. His eyes then turned to his people.

"We are all home safe and sound, but we are well aware of what has happened as well as the threat. I will meet with some of you, and then address the rest later" he spoke with authority, taking charge, "until then, life is to return to normal. Alvin has no power here, so we should act as such."

The people began to disperse, and the chief looked down at his son.

"Good work Hiccup. I am not happy you disobeyed me yet again, but if you had not we would be in deeper trouble. Get some rest son" he walked up the sands, Thornado in suit.

Hiccup guessed in an odd way, that was his way of saying thank you, and it left a bit of a smile on his face. His father had never been too good with words, but that was alright. Ruffnut and Tuffnut walked up, smiling their usual goofy way.

"So, blow anything up?" Tuffnut asked laughing,

His sister elbowed him, "what he means is its good to see ya in one piece."

Tuffnut elbowed her back, "no, I really wanna know if anything got blown up!"

Astrid and Hiccup both laughed, before his eyes moved around the shore for a moment.

"Where's Fishlegs and Snotlout?" he asked, seeing an absence of the two of them.

"Snotlout is with his father, the two of them have been working on Berk's defenses and a plan against Alvin" she crossed her arms, "as for Fishlegs, he was practically passing out from worry and freaking out, so I sent him off with Meatlug to check up on Snotlout."

Hiccup nodded, that did sound like them. Fishlegs panicking and Snotlout the first to want to pick up a weapon and stab something. As the four of them and the dragons moved inland, they were sure to stop by there and assure the two of them things were alright. Snotlout refused to show it, but Hiccup knew he was relieved and happy to see them home. He kept talking about how he and his father would have braved all the outcasts and saved the day. Fishlegs nearly cracked his spine with a hug and kept going on about how worried he had been and wanting to know what had been going on. It was Astrid who finally told them to stop, pulling Hiccup away, saying he needed to rest. It was when she said that, that he realized how bad he must have looked, and even worse, how bad he actually felt.

He had been going practically nonstop sense they left Berk. It had been nearly a day there, plus the day of the trials, then the journey home. He had not slept or relaxed in about three days. His legs felt suddenly like jelly and glancing at Toothless, he could see the exhaustion in his eyes as well. His body was sore and tired, ready to collapse as he finally played attention to it, and the high of all that had happened began to ward off. Sleep sounded so good right now, that the thoughts of eating or even cleaning up were pushed out of his mind for the time being. Astrid was speaking to him, but the words barley registered to him.

He was focused on the feeling of exhaustion, as well as the nagging feeling at the back of his mind. All of this had been too easy. He had not expected to escape and get away from Alvin right away, but still, it did feel a little quick. He shook his head, he was over thinking things right now, all of this could wait until he was in his right mind and at his best. He said goodnight to Astrid, and walked up to his room. Toothless had taken the short way of jumping through the window exhausted, already curling up on his slab. Hiccup smiled, closing his eyes as soon as he managed to flop over onto the surface of his bed. It was only moments after, which sleep took.

He did not know how long he slept, dreams and reality of what had happened began merging together from exhaustion. He woke to a familiar roar though, sitting up to stretch his arms above his head. A blanket had been placed over him, so he realized his father must have come to check on him. Slipping out of the bed, he moved to the window to look out it. Life on Berk looked normal, people going on about their normal routines, like none of it had ever happened.

"Hey, Hiccup!"

Glancing down, he noticed Astrid waving up at him. Stormfly stood by her side, shifting from side to side.

"I'll be right down" he called back.

Turning away from the window, he hurried to make himself half way presentable, before hurrying down to meet her. His muscles a bit sore, but after all they had been through and then finally getting to relax, it was normal. It was no sooner than he was out the door and heading down to her though, that he was knocked over by a large black mass, who began licking at his face.

"Toothless" he laughed, pushing at the dragon on top of him.

He refused to budge though, happy to see his rider safe and awake finally. Astrid walked over, extending her hand out to him and helping him up.

"I thought you were going to sleep forever" she teased.

"How long was I out?" Hiccup asked, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Almost a day" she said, "your dad already met with the people, and things are being taken care of. Seems like it's over."

Those words brought back the nagging feeling at the back of his mind, but they were only there for a moment, before Astrid grabbed his hand.

"Come on"

"Where are we going?" Hiccup asked confused.

"Tonight, we're all celebrating" she smiled at him, slowing her pace a tad for him.

"But we didn't really win anything" Hiccup yawned slightly, but followed.

She gave him a look, "it's not about winning, everyone is home…and safe..."

He paused, looking at her before smiling, "your right, things turned out well. We should be happy and thankful."

"That's the spirit, so tonight, we celebrate!" she threw her fist in the air.

Before they knew it, the two of them were laughing together. Berk was at peace yet again.