It had been a while since the last of the boats had disappeared over the horizon, but Hiccup was still standing where he had been when his best friend was taken away.

Slowly Astrid came up next to him.

"It's a mess," she said first braking the silence Hiccup had been trying to lose himself in. "You must feel horrible. You've lost everything. Your Father, your Tribe, your best friend."

"Thank you, for summing that up," Hiccup said sighing. "Why couldn't I of killed that dragon when I found him in the woods? It would have been better for everyone."

"Yep," Astrid agreed a slight smile on her face "The rest of us would have done it. So why didn't you? Why didn't you?" she asked turning to him.

"I dunno," Hiccup said turning to leave "I couldn't."

"That's not an answer," Astrid said strongly.

"Why is this so important to you all of the sudden?" Hiccup asked.

"Because I want to remember what you say, right now," Astrid replied a stern look on her face.

"Of for the love of..." Hiccup said anger getting to him "I was a coward, I was weak, I wouldn't kill a dragon."

"You said 'wouldn't' that time," Astrid pointed out.

"WHATEVER I WOULDN'T!" the heir said "300 years, and I'm the first Viking who wouldn't kill a dragon."

With nothing more to say Hiccup turned to leave when Astrid pointed something out.

"First to ride one though. So..."

"I would kill him, cause... He looked as frightened as I was," Hiccup said slowly "I looked at him, and I saw myself."

"Bet he's really frightened now," Astrid said referring to Toothless. "what you gonna do about it?"

"Meh... Probably something stupid," Hiccup said.

"Good," Astrid said nodding "But you've already done that."

"Then something crazy," Hiccup said getting an idea and running off to the arena.

"That's more like it," Astrid said smiling and going to collect the other teens. If Hiccup was going to do 'Something Crazy' there was no way in the whole of Valhalla that she was letting him do this alone.

***A Dragon Soul***

The boats have reached the border of Helhimes Gate and were just moving in.

"Sound your positions," Stoick said to the other ships "Stay within earshot." With that he turned his attention to where the boat was heading.

"Say Stoick," Gobber said coming up a bit nervous, never seeing his friend like this before. "I was over hearing some of the men just now, and well some of them, are wondering what it is we're up to here. Not me of course, cause you're always the man with the plan. But some of them not me," he said checking over his shoulder in case anyone heard "Are wondering if there is in fact a plan at all. And what it might be?"

"Find the nest and take it," Stoick said firmly.

"Oh of course," Gobber said slight sarcasm in his voice "Send them running, the old Viking fall back nice and shuttle..."

"Shh..." Stoick said silencing his friend as the dragon's ears started to move picking something up.

"Stand aside," he said taking over the helm.

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Noche had been wondering why he was here. But when he began to hear the Seadragonus' call he understood.

He tried to block it out to keep all there people alive, but the further they went the harder it was for him to do that.

'Come to me little Night Fury,' she said sensing him and the fleet 'We have some unfinished business to attend to. But I'll be kind seeing you're bringing be all this'

'No!' Noche said trying to block her out 'You will not hurt them. Their my brother's family.'

'There's no point in resisting little Night Fury,' the Seadragonus said her call getting louder and more harder to resist 'Sooner or later, you, will, come...'

Suddenly Noche's eye turned to slits and he began to point his head to the right following the call of the dragon turning his head where it was needed to avoid the rocks and sunken boats.

'Oh Hiccup please hurry...' he thought worryingly.