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AN: Jornambre: Thanks man! It really means a lot when people phrase me for something I'm not really good at :D

Arc: Till Death Do Us Part

Days Until Wedding: 1 month and 4 days

Note: This would be a flash back chapter so when the sentence or paragraph is like this then it is from the present and the normal text is in the past… Kapeesh?`

"Does Everything Got To Have A Price"

"Later that day, the strangest thing happened, a witch visited our village" Thuggory continued

Heather gasped "A witch?!"

Stoick steeled his gaze "When a witch appears at a village, that usually means nothing good"

Thuggory nodded "She requested to see my father. She said that she has something that could help revive me dead body." Thuggory sighed sadly "They shouldn't have accepted her offer to help them. They should've made her leave."

"What do you mean?" Astrid asked, puzzled

"She said her name was Excellinor. She claimed that she knew of a way to revive me back, for a price" he glared at the table and clenched his fist.

"Please, help us!" Thuggory's mother kneeled infront of Excellinor and begged. "We'll do anything! We have enough gold here to last you a life time!" she bargained. All Mogadon could do was nod his head in agreement. He still thought it was his fault why Thuggory died.

"But it was an accident" Heather reasoned.

"Even though it was an accident, it was still the cause of death of Thuggory." Hiccup said. "Even if the dragon killed him, Mogadon would still feel responsible because he wasn't able to protect his son"

Thuggory nodded sadly and continued with his story

Excellinor waved her hand "What I need isn't of a concern right now. What you need to do is the Dagger of Resurgence"

"What's that?" Mogadon asked as his wife didn't have anything left in her to talk at the moment.

"It's one of the legendary artifacts in the world. With it you can give back life to the ones who had once lived." Excellinor gave them a crooked grin "It can also bring your son back to life. Good thing is that I have the dagger right here with me"

Mogadon was being skeptical but seeing his wife like this was making his judgment imbalanced.

"I don't I'll like where this is going…" Hiccup said as Astrid covered his mouth so that Thuggory could continue

Mogadon sighed "Is that all we need?" he asked

Excellinor nodded and raised her arm so she and Mogadon could shake hands "All I need is to confirm our deal and the dagger is yours"

Mogadon reached for her arm but before he could touch it, his wife intervened and shook with her hand instead. His wife looked at him sadly "If anything happens to me, please take care of our son"

"Wha-?" before Mogadon could finish his question, his wife exploded in a cloud of smoke. Mogadon reached in the dust cloud but his hand just went through it "Where is she? Where is my wife?!"

Excellinor just laughed "Fools! You didn't even care to listen to my side of the deal! She belongs to me now!" Excellinor stood up and reached for her pockets "Now the dagger, here you go" she offered it to him but pulled it back "Wait, I forgot something" she rolled her sleeve up and pierced the dagger through her old skin. "For the spell to work, you will need to drench this dagger with blood, witch's blood, and then you should pierce this through your son's heart and he would be back to the way before he died"

"Where's my wife! Damn you!" Mogadon slammed his hand on the table and breaking it apart

Excellinor just laughed in response and tossed him the dagger then disappeared just like his wife. Mogadon was left there to regret the things they just did. They shouldn't have believed her. Mogadon reached for the dagger and stared at it for a long time. He cried and threw the dagger across the room.

Dad tried to forget what happened that day. In fact, I was dead for about a year according to him.

Hiccup furrowed his brows "Wait, if you were dead for a year, then wouldn't your skin rot?"

"It's confusing, I know. None of it made sense"

-A year later-

Mogadon finally had the guts to dig his son out of the grave. After a year of grieving, he finally decided to try his luck. When he finally found the crypt for his son, he carried it out and opened it. What he saw inside was the bones of his once lively son, Thuggory. There were still some tissues here and there and luckily the muscle near the heart was still intact. He braced himself and forcefully brought the dagger down his son's chest and waited.

Minutes went by before Thuggory's corpse glowed and levitated above the ground. Mogadon backed away and was fearful of what might happen. Suddenly the glow was getting more intense until it was too much to look at. When the glow dimmed, instead of seeing a rotten corpse, what he saw was his son wearing the same clothes from the dragon attack.

Thuggory looked at his hands and blinked "Dad? I thought I… I'm alive?"

Mogadon cried and hugged Thuggory tightly "Of course you are, my son! Why wouldn't you be?"

Thuggory broke the hug and looked at his father confusingly "But I was stabbed through the heart… How did I survive?"

Mogadon sighed and decided to tell him the truth

Dad told me everything. He even told me about the woman she married because he was afraid he was going to kill himself from loneliness. Then his other family started to grow as more children were born. Eventually, I felt like I didn't belong so I decided to travel around the archipelago and explore beyond our borders.

"Wow…" Heather breathed "This is a lot to take…"

Thuggory grabbed her hand "Does that mean you won't hang out with me anymore?" he asked sadly

Heather made an exaggerated thinking face "Hmm… I'm not sure…" she stood up and pulled Thuggory with her "Let's talk this over lunch" she winked and started dragging him outside.

Thuggory smiled gratefully "Ok, I like that"

When the two left, Astrid turned to Hiccup and elbowed him

"I thought you were against those two?" she asked

Hiccup shrugged "Meh… After hearing his story, I don't think I have any right in taking away his happiness…" he sighed "Even if it means letting him go out with my sister"

Astrid kissed him on the cheek "Finally…"

AN: Well… What do you guys think? Enjoy and Review!