Chapter 4

Everyone stared nervously at Hiccup. They had not seen him look this angry very often in all the time they knew him. Snotlout stood up to face the taller viking and tried to keep a tough attitude. Before Snotlout could say anything Hiccup's expression suddenly went from furious to somewhat relaxed.

"Oh I'm sorry Snotlout, are you getting tired of helping me?" he asked in a sarcastic-calm voice.

Everyone was very unsure about Hiccup's response. They were all used to his frequent sarcasm but they expected him to start yelling so having no clue what was going to happen was just as unnerving.

"Uhh…I was just," Snotlout started before Hiccup raised his hand to silence him.

"Is anyone else ready to go home?" Hiccup said loudly to address the whole group at the campfire.

No one said a word so Hiccup gave a small laugh that sounded somewhat insane. He turned away from them with his hands behind his back. Astrid was really getting nervous now. Her boyfriend was reminding her of Dagur the Deranged. With his back still to them Hiccup continued, "I guess I forgot how self-centered people can be." He turned back to them and threw the small dagger and wood he was holding into the woods.

"You all have your dragons, soooo everything is fine right?"

Fishlegs got a moment of courage and said, "Hiccup of course we want to help you! I can't imagine being without my Meatlug. None of us deserve to loose our best friends."

Everyone nodded in agreement and the dragons growled approvingly. Hiccup seamed to calm down a little but unfortunately only until Snotlout decided to say something stupid again. "Yeah yeah we all love dragons. Hiccup why can't you just get a new one? Toothless obviously does not want-"

Snotlout could not finish his sentence before he found himself on the ground from being punched in the face by Hiccup. Astrid and few other riders had a hand on their face in disbelief that Snotlout had said that.

Hiccup panted in anger while he stood in a fighting stance expecting Snotlout to stand up and fight. Even if the other viking wanted to, he was still dazed on the ground from the sudden attack.

"Are you forgetting about everything Toothless has done for us?" Hiccup asked Snotlout raising his voice with each word.

Snotlout was silent and crawled backwards so he could sit against a log. Hiccup continued, but this time addressed the whole audience. "Thanks to him we made peace between vikings and dragons. He showed me the truth about them and if it wasn't for him…ALL of you would not have your dragons. You would still want to mindlessly kill them!"

No one said anything, because everything Hiccup said was entirely true. They nervously avoided eye contact with him. There was a long awkward silence before Snotlout said quietly "I'm sorry."

Now the normal-happy Hiccup with Toothless by his side would of forgiven Snotlout and just moved on, but not this Hiccup. He glared over at Snotlout and said, "Leave."

Snotlout looked at him confused, "What?"

"You heard me. Leave! You obviously don't want to be here so get on your dragon and go home," Hiccup said and pointed over at Hookfang.

Astrid did not like that idea. They needed all the help they could get. "I don't think that's the best solution."

Snotlout looked at her and then back at Hiccup who had not moved a muscle. "No I'll go, I can see I'm not wanted," Snotlout said trying to sound confident and casual.

He grabbed his bag of supplies, mounted his Monstrous Nightmare and flew into the night without another word.