Authors Notes: this fic takes place in a AU starting with all dragons being exiled from Berk in the episode In Dragons We Trust, while also mixing in ideas from the Fanfic Scars, and also Leaving Berk. If you have any ideas for the story leave them in a review and I'll see about adding it.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE FRANCHISE: How To Train Your Dragon

"Someone Talking"

Dear: Berk, and the Hairy Hooligan tribe

If you are reading this then me and the dragons have taken our exile from this place. Before anyone on Berk can cause us any more pain, thus we left during the night, I trust Toothless to take us to a safe place, that we can call home. My former father, though you fought to protect the village during the war, you were however not the one to lose your leg to end it. I Did! I have come to realize something in the past few days you never wanted me or the dragons on berk, for several reasons. You never wanted me because of me being a "Useless" fishbones, and because I remind you so much of mom. While the dragons, I've realized you never wanted to stop fighting them. You've never wanted to change in your life. I'm sure you'll enjoy Snotlout as chief of the village with me gone. So for the last time bye my former father and village.

From Hiccup the Horrendous

Stoick could only sigh heavily after reading not only the last message from Hiccup, but also one of the only thing that had previously belonged to his son that still remained on Berk. Most of Hiccup's other belongings had been taken with the young man during his and the dragon's exodus from berk in the middle of the night. The reason as for why they had left was that due to Mildew and some of the more dragon hating members of the tribe, faking "dragon" attacks to discredit the dragons. One of them even causing the death of two young children belonging to house Hofferson. Because of this it had caused a rift to form in the still being mended relationship between father and son, enough to during the last arguement they had ended with Stoick punching Hiccup to the floor, after Hiccup had once again said that Mildew had faked the dragon attacks.

Worst part is that Hiccup had been right about it, because after Hiccup and the dragons had left Berk. He finally decided to check to see if Mildew had really been the cause of the attacks. Yes, cause in his home were the discarded scales of Toothless, used spikes from Nadders, and the claws and saliva from Monstrous nightmares. Hiccup leaving had also caused a rift to form between him and his formerly best friend, and Hiccup's mentor, Gobber who constantly liked to bring up to Stoick that hadn't Hiccup been saying, before he and the dragons left, that Mildew was behind the supposed rogue dragon attacks and Stoick hadn't listened. Stoick realized quickly that though Hiccup had originally come from himself, it was Gobber's that had become the mans father throughout. Getting back to Mildew and what had happened to him after it had been revealed that he had caused the damages, unfortunately the crotchety old man had been able to use loopholes in the Viking law to avoid being either banished or executed for his treasonous acts.

While he was protected from those, he was unprotected from some beatdown from pissed off vikings, Stoick had also ordered that his property be moved further away from the village, along with him losing his elder status amongst the tribe, and his place on the council.

Quickly deciding it would probably be a good idea to check on the dragons, that they had been able to procure since the exodus, along with making sure everything was in order around the village because winter was two months away from approaching. He exited his hut, having eaten in his rather lonely home now that Hiccup had left. He started by checking out the Dragon training area, where the dragons they had been able t acquire resided. To start off, they only had one currently tamed dragon at the moment, and if his son was here he would certainly be surprised by the fact that it was trained by Stoick. With the dragon in question being a rather powerful, male, blue Thunderdrum, that Stoick had called Thornado. While the tribe had also been able to obtain two other dragons, unfortunately for them they were both hostile, rather deadly dragons. That the tribe had taken to calling the "Problem Duo." The first of the beasts being a highly aggressive Skrill, which had been found frozen in ice by Bucket and Mulch which they had defended against a couple of Berserker tribe warriors, and the duo had brought it back still encased in ice. When they finally unthawed the beast it immediately tried to break out and thank Thor the gates to the arena had been closed when it had tried to escape. The tribe had vetoed both the Thornton twins, as well as Snotlout who had wanted to train the deadly dragon. Most of the time they had the Skrill in a secure pen in the dragon training area for the safety of everyone else.

Now the other problem dragon was one that Astrid had been trying to tame, the same flightmare that ruined her families name, with help from Fishlegs the two had been able to capture it, while also learning that it's blast could paralyze its opponents. Thus clearing the Hofferson name, and people now called Astrid Fearless Astrid Hofferson. Still like the Skrill the flightmare wasn't willing to let Astrid or anyone else ride it, so like the Skrill it was often kept in a secure pen.

Speaking of Astrid, she had recently been told by her parents and Stoick, that her and Hiccup had been betrothed to each other since they were born due to Valka and Astrid's mom having been very close friends from a young age before Valkas untimely death. This had certainly made Astrid happy due to her still having feelings for the heir, while also preventing anyone else from trying to arrange a marriage between Astrid.

As he was walking to the Dragon training arena, he heard the cackles of a particular group, that had been recently causing him to have headaches. The group in question being his unfortunately new heir Snotlout Jorgensen who after the exodus had reverted back to how he was before of being a bully, with the man even hanging out with two of his old friends in Hogsbreath, and Wartihog. It seemed that due to Stoick having been forced to name Snotlout his heir, the young man's ego had sky rocketed, which was certainly not helped by the boys lackeys constantly feeding it with praise. He could only hope that Hiccup returned, so that he could take back the status as heir, cause Stoick had no doubt that letting Snotlout be chief would certainly doom the village.

Increasing his pace to the dragon training area. Looking down he found to no surprise that Fishlegs and Astrid were going over Hiccups journal that he had left behind and Bork the Bolds papers trying to come up with a way to train either the Skrill or the Flightmare that were currently locked in separate holding areas but finding little to no success. Deciding to check on the two he headed down the ramp.

"Fishlegs, Astrid. How goes the training of the two problem dragons." This startled both focused teens and caused them to jump before turning to face their chief.

Grimacing Astrid was honest, "to be honest with you. It's not exactly going that great Chief. The problem is that while Hiccup certainly knew about the types of dragons, when he was still here, he never thought about training either of the two species. While borks notes only talk about ways to fight the dragons, not how to tame and ride them unfortunately."

Fishlegs nodded in agreement with what Astrid had said, before adding, "we have been able to figure out what the dragon prefer to eat, so were hoping that makes them somewhat more agreeable. But we're not sure because we haven't tried yet."

Sighing yet again, "understood, try your best. Hopefully we can figure out ways to tame them, and soon. Anyways I'll probably take aerial patrol with Thornado later after getting some work done around Berk."

"Roger, chief."

"Gotcha, chief."

With that done, he began making his was around berk to see what he needed to focus his attention on, with the plan to patrol the air with thornado later on. It was certainly stressful on Stoick not only being the only Viking with a tamed dragon on berk, but in addition to that he also had to deal with the duties that were required the current reigning chief of Berk and the hairy hooligans handle. This unfortunately also meant that the search for both Hiccup and the flock of dragons that hopefully, had little time that Stoick could focus on that. Hopefully when Astrid and Fishlegs have trained the Flightmare and Skrill respectively, it will take some of the pressure off of his shoulders.