Hiccup and Toothless follow Valka and Cloudjumper as they sore through the skies over a majestic fjord the sun truly risnen now.
Looking over his shoulder seeing the rest (or most of) the nest behind him Hiccup called up to his mother "Hey I thought we were going to eat?"
"Oh we are?" Valka said in a mischievous voice telling them to stop, and looked down.
Confused the boys looked sown to see Seashockers circling around a shoal of fish and the Alpha then coming up and flicking the fish in the air making them rain down and the feeding frenzy had begun.
Valka laughing at the boys looks on their faces.
'Fish fish fish fish fish fish!'
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Notre looked around his big grin getting even wider at seeing all these fish just ready for the taking.
'What you waiting for then Bud?' Hiccup whispered in Dragonese to him.
'Better hold on then!' he said and dived after them scooping up as many as he can his mouth stuffed as they rose again, making Hiccup roll his eyes.
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After breakfast Hiccup decided to show his mother the map and all the new dragons he and his friends had found.
"And from Dragon Island, I found this archipelico," he said looking up finding his mum wasn't there anymore but instead drawing in the snow with her staff expanding the map even more.
Seeing this, Noche remembered to when he met Hiccup and looked for something to draw with. Finding a large icicle he snapped it off and began to draw things himself, circling around Cloudjumper who watched him curiously.
'Fare' Noche said coming to a stop trying to put his squiggle-stick down only to find it stuck to his tongue.
'Er... 'Iccup...' he asked looking to the boy for help but he was laughing too much. ' 'Iccup this isn't funny help!' he cried trying to shake the icicle off.
"Ok, buddy ok buddy, come here," Hiccup said calming down and calling his friend over and began pulling on the ice, but getting no where.
'OW! That hurts!' Noche said to Hiccup shaking him off.
"Well maybe if you hadn't put this in your mouth to start with it wouldn't hurt so much," Hiccup said forgetting Valka was there who was looking on with curiosity.
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"Ok I'm going to try and use Inferno to melt it ok bud?" Hiccup said getting an idea after Cloudjumper chirped something. "If it gets too warm of whatever tell me, and I'll stop."
Getting a nod from Toothless, who still held out his icicled tongue, Hiccup ignited his flame sword and held it up to the ice causing it to melt and eventually come off the Night Fury's tongue.
"There," Hiccup said as soon as he put the sword away being pinned down by Toothless who was giving him lots of 'Thank you's' and lots of dragon spit.
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"Ugh!" Hiccup said finally managing to get up and began to get rid of as much spit as he could "You Know that doesn't wash out! Why do you always do that Bud?"
'Because it's funny seeing you complain Bro-Bro,' Noche said laughing, Cloudjumper chuckling along with him.
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After Hiccup got as much spit off himself as he could, Valka then showed them to where the babies learnt to fly and the older dragons went for some fun.
The two brothers had jumped off the ledge of one of the icy spires of the nest, letting the warm sea breeze catch the dragon's wings, making them hover, the other dragons jumping off after him.
Once there were enough in the air, Valka began to walk from dragon to dragon, using them like stairs, walking across their wings with such ease as though she did this everyday.
When she got to Toothless she smiled at Hiccups look of amazement and patted his head when she moved from the right wing to the left, dropping off, only to be caught by Cloudjumper again.
After a couple of hours playing on the currents the four of them went higher into the sky.
"Oh, when I'm up here," Valka said in awe "I don't even feel the cold I just feel..."
"Free," both brothers said getting the two older rider and dragon to look at them and smile.
"This is what it is, to be a dragon Hiccup," Valka said spreading her arms out wide.
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'Oh Draco I so wish she hadn't just said that,' Noche said groaning slightly knowing just what Hiccup is going to do.
'Why?' Cloudjumper asked confused looking to the boy on the Night Fury's back.
'Oh come on Toothless it will be fine,' Hiccup whispered to him in Dragonese then looked to his mum and said. "It's all well and good to call yourself a dragon," he said locking Toothless' tail and unclipping himself. "But can you fly!" he said and jumped off of his brother scaring Valka and thinking her son would die, that was until he spread his wings letting the wind catch them and send him flying by himself.
'Wow!' Cloudjumper said amazed then looked to the smaller dragon 'Does he do that often?'
'More than you know...' Noche said rolling his eyes 'Well better go save him before he bumps into anything,' he said going after Hiccup.
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"Haha!" Hiccup said soaring the skies by himself smiling "Whoohoo!"
Turning over Hiccup looked back up to see his mother's face but she wasn't there.
Confused he looked all around until he saw her next to him.
Spinning around again the 'Amazingness' that this had died away when everyone saw a mountain coming up.
"Oh no..." he said.
'HICCUP!' Toothless called pumping his wings to get to his dumb brother using the power to push him through the hole in the rock soon following him wrapping his wings around the boy, the two of them coming out and tumbling into the snow.
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When the snow settled, Noche looked into his wings and found them empty.
'What! Hiccup!' he called looking around scared.
"HA!" Hiccup said popping up out of the snow laughing not seeing the 'We are not amused' look he was getting from his brother. "Man! Almost!"
'Achoo! What?' Noche asked looking to Hiccup shocked.
"We just about had it that time!" Hiccup said explaining, as he was putting the wings away.
Annoyed at how DUMB he brother was, caring more about his... his stupid suit than his life, Noche swiped his tail around making Hiccups feet come out from under him and making him fall back into the snow.
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Coming in for a landing, Valka slid off of Cloudjumper and straight away went over to Hiccup and began assessing his flight suit.
"Incredible," she said looking at the dorsal fin and seeing how the spring-coil work to make it come out, then going to the wings themselves.
"Well, not bad yourself," Hiccup said smiling looking into her eyes.
"All this time, you took after me," Valka said running her fingers through his hair, not seeing him bite his lip in nervousness. "And where was I? I'm so sorry Hiccup. Can we start over? Will... Will you give me another chance?"
Looking up Hiccup smiled at hearing this remembering his dad and the Villagers and their pleas of second chances after he woke up after the Red Death five years ago.
"I can teach you all I've learnt these past 20 years, like..." she said going over to Toothless and rubbing in a circular motion at the base of the neck causing the beast to shiver as a line of dorsal fins popped up.
'My fins!' Toothles cried as happy as can be clapping them and going over to Hiccup. 'See... See...'
"Now you'll be able to make those tight turns."
"Did you know about this?" Hiccup asked his brother.
'Of course I knew,' Toothless said clapping them again 'I just couldn't work out how to get them to come out.'
"Every dragon has it's secrets," Valka said to her son "And I'll show them all to you."
'I can start by showing who what these are for...' Toothless said bouncing off only to go digging and creating tunnels under the snow.
"We'll unlock every mystery, find every last species together, as mother and son."
Just as she finished saying that Toothless popped back up right next to Cloudjumper getting snow on the older dragon's head, which he just dumped onto the younglings one a small smirk on his face.
Not seeming to care Toothless began to she Cloudjumper his fins.
"This gift we share, Hiccup, it bonds us," Valka said to him "This is who you are, son. Who we are."
"Yeah... about that..." Hiccup said cutting her off before she got to far, laughing nervously. "There's something I found out five years ago that might want to to think differently."
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Hearing Hiccup say this Noche stopped playing around and ran up to him.
'You're going to tell your Human mum the truth?' he asked cocking his head slightly.
"Well... yes... yeah," Hiccup said nodding looking to Valka to see her expression of confusion. "You see... Another reason I get on so good with Toothless..." Hiccup began not sure if this was a good idea or not "Is because we're brothers." he said waiting for a question attack but he only got a confused look from his mum.
Sighing slightly, Hiccup told the story of how he met Toothless the best he could and where he came from.
"When I saw those Night Fury's that night, I thought you were just another baby they found and gave to us to look after," Valka said her smile growing tears coming to her eyes. "I never thought that you were actually their son."
"So... You're not upset?" Hiccup asked using the same line as she did when she showed him the nest.
Smirking Valka replied "It's a bit much to get your head around to be frank dear," she said "I mean it's not everyday, or just anyone, who can say their son is one of the two princes of the Alphas of the Night Fury's is it?"
'Yeah... That's exactly what I said,' Toothless said coming over, looking at a rolling eyes Hiccup smirking.
"What wrong?" Valka asked looking between the two.
"You remember when I called you 'crazy, feral, vigilante dragon lady' ?" Hiccup asked getting a nod "Straight after Toothless asked 'How about the fact that your son was born to two alpha's of the Night Fury's' and he was just reminding me of that."
"Well if it makes you any better Hiccup," Valka said smiling rubbing Toothless' head. "I don't mind at all. If you can accept me for being what I am, them I can accept you for being who you are."
That got Hiccup to smile even more seeing that his mum was happy with it.
"And you and me, we will change the world for all dragons. We will make it a better, safer place." Valka finished strongly.
"Yeah, that sounds amazing," Hiccup concluded.
Happy to have her son again, even though he was never hers in the first place, Valka stepped forward and wrapped her arms around him, running her finger through his hair, Hiccup soon hugging her back.
"Oh this is so great," Hiccup said beaming "Now you and I can go talk to Drago together."
"What?" Valka said confused "There's no 'Talking' with Drago."
"But we have to..." Hiccup said trying the same line he did with his father.
"No, we must protect our own," Valka said nurturing Cloudjumper a bit scratching his chin, not seeing Hiccup roll his eyes, fed up at hearing that that line.
"Come on," Valka said picking up her staff "We should be getting back."
Sighing, Hiccup turned to Toothless only to see he was still admiring his fins a big goofy grin on his face.
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"Liking those then?" Hiccup asked welcoming his brother back laughing.
'Uh huh,' Noche said nodding clapping them again 'I've waited snows for them to come out. And now I have them!'
"Yeah well you think you'll be able to keep your eyes on the sky and not your fins look enough for us to get back to the nest?" Hiccup asked climbing onto Noche's back.
'No need to be like that just because your mum told you what your dad keeps saying,' Toothless said pulling the fins back in and kicking off after Cloudjumper, but Hiccup wasn't listening.
No he was thinking what he had learnt long ago when he was a kid and Stoick was too busy with killing dragons to look after him. 'If you want something done right, and no one will help... Do it yourself.'