Chapter 2

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Thought / Dreams / Event from the past

[Voice from the past]

"Dialogue"

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"Clean clothes, money, dried food . . ." Hiccup mumbled as he checked the preparation for his little vacation, which would be for a very long time since he was sure he couldn't stay in Berk any longer.

Hiccup was chosen to be the one who kill the dragon in the Kill Ring the next day, and he didn't think that he could do it, so he planned on leaving Berk. Not only that, if he stayed any longer, the possibility of him befriending a dragon being exposed was high, he couldn't risk his friend's safety just because he was reluctant to leave his homeland.

"Okay, that's nearly everything, only some tools in the Forge left." He said to himself once he finished checking his stuffs, he looked out of his room's window and saw that it was late afternoon, "It's good that Dad is still in the Great Hall with Gobber, or I might unable to leave with good preparation." He said with a sigh before carrying the bag to the back of his house then head out for the forge, he took the tools needed for the prosthetic tail fin from the forge and wrapped them with a cloth before walking back to his house.

Arriving in the house, Hiccup lifted a bucket filled with fishes that he took from the dock beforehand then head out of the house once again, he went to the back of his house before hurrying to the cove where his best friend was waiting for him while carrying his bag and bucket.

"Toothless!" He called out once he arrived in the cove. A happy croon answered as a black colored dragon came out from behind a rock, his scaly friend nudged his hand with his big head in greetings. "It's nice to see you as well, buddy." He said as he put his bag down to the ground before he pushed the bucket over and spilled it's content, Toothless's head was too big to fit into the small bucket anyway. "Here you go." He said with a smile, his smile widened as he saw how happy Toothless seemed when he ate.

While waiting for Toothless to finish his food, he pulled out a map from his bag and looked over it for a place good enough for them to stay for a long time. He figured that it would be best to not get too far and not too close from Berk, in case his Father would search for him, since he would surely thought that Hiccup would go to the nearest islands or the farthest from Berk, so his best bet was to settle on an island in the middle area. He also need to chose an island that would be accessible from another village, so that he could get to the village easily when he need to be, like using the forge for example.

One island caught his attention, from the look at it, the island was uninhabited by humans and had enough forest to hide them from outsiders. The island was not as big as Berk, about half of Berk, but it was more than enough for Hiccup and Toothless to live in. Not to mention it was near a village, he could come there if he need to the forge, maybe need a bit of payment but it didn't matter for him.

One thing that he knew of that area was the fact that they didn't get raid as bad as Berk by the dragons, his chance to explaining to them that dragons weren't really dangerous was better than with Berkians. His only job before trying to tell them the true nature of dragons was to find out the reason why the dragons keep raiding their villages, without knowing their reason, his chance to show the people that the dragons weren't dangerous creatures were as good as trying to fix a roof without knowing which part that needed to be fixed.

Hiccup was pulled from his thought when he felt a nudge from his side, he looked up to see Toothless staring at him with curious eyes, his dragon warbled questioningly at him. "I was just thinking, Toothless." Hiccup answered with a smile, "Anyway . . ." He stood up and put back his map into his bag before picking it up, "Now that you finished eating, let's get out of here. The sooner we go, the lower the chance of people finding us because they are searching for me".

Toothless shot Hiccup his toothless smile and nudged him to hurry up and climb on in his excitement, earning an amused chuckle from Hiccup, "Alright." Hiccup said with a grin himself and climbed on to the saddle, Toothless sprang into the air once Hiccup finished securing himself.

They didn't notice a lone figure who arrived in the cove just in time to see them took off. Well, Toothless noticed it but he just ignored it. Hiccup also didn't notice that his Journal had fell from the bag when he pulled out his map, the book was left behind in the cove.

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A blond haired Viking with sea blue eyes could be seen marching through the woods while looking around, her eyes narrowed and she was huffing, from breathless and frustration.

Astrid Hofferson was frustrated, that much was clear, not only that she didn't get chosen to kill the dragon in the Kill Ring, but she had lost sight of Hiccup. She was planning to follow the boy to see what he was always doing in the woods, but her parents had called for her and told her that it's alright if she couldn't win, that they didn't disappointed in her or anything, and that they were proud of her for managing to get the second place, and so on.

Fortunately, she could hear a voice not too far from her location, so she followed it. She was confused however, because the voice that she heard was only that of Hiccup, without any other voice answered the boy aside from some strange noise. She wondered if the Chief's son had gone mad, too nervous about the next day maybe, and decided to talk with some random animals.

And talking to an animal he did, but Astrid never thought that the said animal would be a dragon, the enemy of Vikings. One thing that caught her attention was the fact that she didn't recognize the dragon from the ones who had been raiding Berk all this time, so she could only assume that the dragon was the mysterious Night Fury. The other thing that caught her attention was the saddle on the dragon's back, she saw it when Hiccup climbed onto the saddle before they took off, and the fact that the dragon would allow a human to ride on it.

Her frustration flew away, confusion and disbelief filling her head instead, and she was left gaping like a fish. She couldn't comprehend what had actually happened, she didn't know whether her eyes were playing tricks on her or Hiccup the Useless actually did fly away on a dragon's back. One thing was for certain though, the boy was leaving for a long time, if his bag was anything to go by.

"What the hell?" She asked herself once she got her voice back, she blinked and looked around to see if there's any other person who witness the same thing so she could be sure that she wasn't daydreaming or something. That was when she caught the sight of a lone book on the ground not far from a bucket.

Her curiosity won over her confusion and she went to pick it up, she raised an eyebrow when she didn't see anything on the cover, so she flipped the cover to see the first page, her eyes widened instantly. The title was written on the first page, she immediately recognize it to be Hiccup's hand writing, even after so long she didn't see the boy's hand writing, the way the boy wrote was still the same that she can recognize it without trouble. But that wasn't the reason why her eyes widened in shock, it was the title in which Hiccup's hand writing formed on the first page.

" 'How to Train Your Dragon'?" Astrid mumbled before she gasped and looked at the spot where Hiccup and the Night Fury flew off to, "No way . . . Hiccup TRAINED A DRAGON?!".

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To be continued . . .

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