"Boarheaded! Just like his mother! Aye, she could never stay put either." Stoick ranted as he and Gobber rode through the same icy Tundra as Hiccup and Toothless, but the clouds rose and it was now snowing.
"Eh! He's just 20 and a Viking! I mean there couldn't be a worst combination!" Gobber exclaimed with an undertone of dismissiveness, "Heh! When I think about how stubborn and senseless you were back in the day!" He continued before looking down in thought, "Oh, well not much had changed actually." He muttered under his breath and Stoick flew up to him and sighed.
"You know what he's like, he won't give up Gobber, if Hiccup finds Drago before we find him..." He trailed off, looking down at the ice as Gobber flew other to his other side.
"Eh! Nothin' can hurt Hiccup so long as that Night Fury's around! It's a Night Fury! Not to mention he can become one at will." Gobber said as Stoick ignored him and gasped as he spots the break in the ice where Toothless fell through. He turned his dragon around before Gobber gave him a confused look and followed. They swung by as Stoick leaned down and grabbed Hiccup's helmet from out of the water before looking at it in utter fear as Gobber shared his terrified expression. Stoick then looked down at his dragon and held the helmet in front of its nose.
"Find them Skullcrusher. Find them." He said as the dragon sniffed it before roaring and flying faster.
"Mom! Oh gods! I've waited so long to meet you!" Hiccup exclaimed as Toothless and Valka lead the way, him struggling to keep up.
"Come, quickly." She said with excitement as Hiccup started to hear roaring as Toothless ran past them both.
"The sanctuary! Oh gods how I've missed this place!" He exclaimed as Hiccup laughed slightly before turning his attention back towards his mother.
"H-Hey! I have questions!" He yelled as Valka continued her quick pace in front.
"Where! Where have you been all this time?! Wh-What have you been doing?" He prodded, why could she just give him an answer?! They then spotted some light as Valka disappeared and he ducked before entering a giant cavern and the one word that escaped his lips was:
"Dragons."
Everywhere. The scaly beasts crawled around every inch of the icy nest and flew in a big circle around a pillar in the center.
"You like it?" Toothless asked with a smirk as he walked up behind Hiccup and looked around happily.
"I-I don't even-" Hiccup was cut off by Toothless nudging him forwards a bit as he noticed Valka sitting atop the Stormcutter's back as she craned her neck to see them better.
"This is where you've been, for 20 years?" Hiccup asked in shock, sure Toothless had told him much about the icy nest he grew up in, but this was still such a hard topic for the boy to wrap his head around.
Valka nods with a little half-smile.
"You-You've been rescuing them." He continued as Toothless's attention was taken by a dragon who tried to nuzzle his neck, but he turned away.
Valka nods again.
"Unbelievable." Hiccup breathed as the dragon continued to try and woo Toothless, but he tried his best to ignore her.
"You're not upset?" Valka asked with a bit of shock, nervousness, and a slight undertone of relief as her pupils expanded.
"What? No, I don't know. I just... It's a bit much to get my head around to be frank. I mean, I've known you're alive for 5 years but..." He trailed off as Valka used the dragon's wing to make her way down to the ground as the dragon jumped down and followed her.
"But you never expected me to be like this. Well, at least I'm not boring. Right?" She asked hopefully as her pupils turned to nervous slits.
"Well there is that, one specific thing..." He trailed off as a friendly dragon tried to nuzzle him.
"Thanks, but no thanks." He said as the dragon nodded and walked off before Toothless padded back to up them excitedly.
"*gasps* Toothless, you've gotten so big!" Valka exclaimed as Toothless purred and nuzzled her.
"Well the last time you saw me was when I was 7." He said as Valka laughed and ran her finger along his head as Toothless purred some more.
"You definitely have gotten bigger. And hopefully wiser." The Stormcutter said as Toothless smiled and rolled his eyes.
"Hey, mom and dad wanted to go down to the archipelago Cloudjumper. I just went along with the ride." He said before leaning back in a relaxed position before Valka turned her attention back to Hiccup.
"So, how did you two meet?" She asked curiously as Hiccup shot Toothless any annoyed look as his eyes widened nervously as Valka looked at him expectantly.
"Well, Valka, before you yell at me. I just want to say, I did it for a good reason." He said as Valka gave him a confused look.
"I don't understand." She said with a furrowed brow before Hiccup sighed and smile before growing wings and a tail, making her and Cloudjumper step back in shock.
"Y-You're a shifter?" Cloudjumper asked in shock as Hiccup nodded before Valka's attention snapped over to Toothless as she glared at him.
"You better have a good explaination for biting my son." She said, eyes narrowed as Toothless looked around nervously as Hiccup snickered slightly.
"He is the boy from the prophecy. So technically, to bring peace to Berk, I had to bite him." Toothless defended as Valka sighed before looking at some of the dragons around her.
"This Snafflefang lost its leg to one of Drago Bludvist's attack dragons." She sighed as she stroked a dragon who was missing a leg as it looked down at the stump sadly.
"This Raincutter had her wing sliced by razor netting." She sighed as she used her staff to gently lift the dragon's wing up before a dragon with cloudy white eyes inched its way towards them as Valka made a slight noise of sympathy.
"And this poor Hobblegrunt, blinded by a treesnare, and then left to die alone, scared." She sighed before looking down at Hiccup's prosthetic leg and gasping.
"And what of this? Did Drago or his Trappers shoot you down too?" She asked with a tone of anger as Hiccup looked at Toothless.
"Yes, oh dragon who knew everything about what you did to me. What happened to my leg?" Hiccup asked with a smirk as Toothless rolled his eyes before shooting him a quick glare.
"Well, after we pretty much killed the Red Death, there was an explosion, and a slight incident involving her tail and Hiccup's foot." He said as Hiccup laughed as Valka gave them both confused looks.
"So basically, after the battle with the Red Death, we were flying away from the fiery explosion, like any sane person would do. But apparently as weakened Toothless's magic to the point that I turned back into a human, which was when my foot was crushed." He explained before Toothless grinned and snuck under Hiccup before throwing him onto his back as Valka let out a slight snort of amusement.
"So, what did your father think about all of, well, this." She said, gesturing to the duo as Hiccup laughed a bit.
"Well, he didn't take it all that well in the beginning. Because someone had to make it look bloody, so it looked like I was murdered by a dragon. So that month of being chased around Berk wasn't what I would call 'fun'. But then, he changed. They all did. Soon everyone back home had dragons of their own." Hiccup said with a bit of excitement as Valka scoffed.
"If only it were possible." She said dismissively as Hiccup shook his head.
"No, really. He even has a dragon." He tried to explain, but Valka shook her head in dismissiveness.
"Believe me, I've tried as well. But some people aren't capable of change. Vikings are a great example. But don't you worry, some of us,"
"Hey Val, I'll be right back." Cloudjumper said before joining the swarm of dragons.
"-were just born different." Valka finished as Hiccup looked at her, slightly confused.
Dragons swarmed around Berk, roaring angrily as they attempted to gather food for their queen as Vikings ran around frantically, trying to fend off the 'devils'.
"Berk was a land of kill or be killed. But I believed peace was possible."
On the ground, a Nightmare was shot down and a Viking readily ran up to it with an axe, totally ready to lob its head off, until Valka sprinted out from nowhere and grabbed his arm.
"Stop! You'll only make it worse!" She pleaded as the Nightmare got away before the man glared at her and yanked away his hand.
"It was a very unpopular opinion."
There was a sound of breaking wood as Valka's attention snapped over to a house, where a dragon was crawling into the wooden structure.
"Hiccup!" She yelped in fear as she ran straight for the house.
"Then one night, a dragon broke into our house, finding you in the cradle.
Valka sprinted into the house and grabbed a sword hanging on a rack as she approached the dragon with the sword raised above her head, even though she hated the killing, she'd be more than willing to kill one if it meant Hiccup's life.
"I rushed to protect you."
She was just about to swing, until she noticed the dragon wasn't hurting Hiccup, it was playing with him!
"But what I saw, was proof of everything I believed."
Valka lowered the sword and watched in amazement as the dragon held its claw in front of Hiccup as he grabbed for the dragon's claw and cooed happily before the dragon leaned a bit too far forwards and the cradle rocked, making its claw scratch Hiccup's chin as he started to bawl and the dragon turned to Valka, who held up the sword warily before lowering it again and looking deep into the dragon's friendly golden eyes.
"This wasn't a viscous beast, but an intelligent, gentle creature, whose soul reflected my own."
The seemingly timeless moment was cut short as an axe was throw directly between them as the dragon roared angrily and Stoick came bursting into the house.
"Valka run!" He screamed as fire burst from the dragon's throat, lighting the entire house on fire in less than a second.
"No! Don't!" Valka screamed before yanking the dragon's wing as it turned around to face her before she carefully put out her hand as a sign of forgiveness, but the dragon bites down on her hand before it realized what it just did and backs away as Valka's irises flood the whites of her eyes and her pupils stretch out and turn to slits.
"Hold on!" Stoick screamed before jumping over the flames and grabbing Hiccup, who was bawling at the point as Stoick was just about to turn around and fight the dragon, Valka's terrified screams hit his ears as the dragon took off with her in its talons.
"Ah! STOICK!" She screamed in horror as Stoick ran to the hole in the wall and realized, it was too late.
"VALKA!" He still screamed as the dragon flew higher and higher.
"Stoick!" Valka yelled, a bit more halfhearted as Stoick watched Valka being taken away in despair.
"Valka." He muttered in grief as Hiccup whimpered as he watched the sky, almost knowing his mother would never return.
Okay, I am extremely tired so I'm just gonna do the Bewilderbeast part next time, sorry! Please favorite, follow, and review!
