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Finding peace - a HTTYD fanfiction

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A Hiccup runs away AU, follows the second movie closely at the end.

Summary:

Any fight he had in him drained. He looked into her eyes again, finding only understanding there, she put an arm around him, giving him a side hug.

“I understand,” she said, her voice soft, “but Hiccup, you can’t keep avoiding that place, for your own sake, we have done this many times, spying on Berk is nothing new."

Chapters: 59 Words:109,489

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“When are you getting him out of my home? You know we can never be at peace with them”

“We can! All you need to do is understand!”

“Stop with those foolish thoughts, the sooner the monsters go back to where they belong the sooner everything will go back to how it belongs!”

“How is it better than the future we could have together with them?”

“It just is!”

“Well it wasn’t better for me!”

“This isn’t about you, end of discussion, son”

“It never is, it never was and it will never be about me, dad, not to you or anyone”

“I’m sorry son”

“I’m not”

Hiccup’s eyes shot open, yet he remained laying still, he was used to the nightmares at this point. Five years had passed from that day, and he wasn’t alone anymore, yet the nightmares still hadn’t let him rest, and he knew they wouldn’t until he went back to talk to his father. He could do it right now, go talk to him and be free to rest, but he wasn’t ready, and he would never be ready by this rate, the hurt still too present for him to forgive, let alone forget.

He blinked the sleep out of his eyes. It was still dark outside his small hut, but he knew he won’t get any more sleep that night. Toothless was still sleeping on his slab, so trying not to make too much noise Hiccup slipped outside of his hut and went to the cliff side his home was on, and sat down. Being alone with his thoughts wasn’t his favorite pastime, but with Toothless and everyone else still asleep he didn’t have much of a choice.

He looked down to his small village. His village of six people, including himself. Six for now at least. By the weeks end there will only be two of them left. Hilda and Toke decided to move to join the Defenders of the Wing village as they were expecting a child, and with Hiccup’s insistence that his island wasn’t fit for a baby, joining Mala and her people was the best for them. The young couple were also taking a little boy, Ulf, and his sister, Frida, with them. The two kids that Hiccup himself found abandoned after their tribe was wiped out because of a land dispute. After they leave only Hiccup and Storm will be left on the island that they call their hideout. They and the dragons of course.

Storm, the one who managed to make Hiccup believe in himself. She was fierce, dedicated, kind-hearted and she was the sister Hiccup wished he had back on Berk. She was the only person he interacted with regularly and Hiccup himself sometimes couldn’t believe they were so alike, both appearance and personality wise. Apart from the unconditional love for dragons, they had a peg leg each, their hair color was almost identical, Mala was even convinced that they were siblings the first few times they’ve seen her. Their sense of humor was the same, and with Toothless’ contribution, they’ve annoyed more than a few dragon hunters with their dry sarcasm. The more he thought about it, the more he was convinced that Storm’s just a human Toothless and, as strange as it sounds, that thought comforted him. Storm had once said that the four of them were family in everything but blood, he, Toothless and she were three siblings and Shadow, Storm’s Skrill, was like the grumpy uncle everyone loved.

“What’s up Chief?”

Hiccup startled, not having heard her approach while he was lost deep in thought. He looks her over, looking for any wounds that might be obvious, having found nothing he relaxed. Storm made her way the short distance that separated them and handed him a cup filled with mead while sitting down next to him.

“So, what’s up Chief? Why are you out on your own in the middle of the night?”

“Oh, you know, nightmares.”

“Oh I do know, want to talk about it?”

“No really, I’d rather hear what news you have, considering you were gone for five days and didn’t immediately go to your hut to bathe, you have something to tell me.” Storm sighed deeply, and Hiccup turned his head towards her, looking into her eyes, knowing that whatever she was going to tell him he won’t like. He sees her eyes filled with sadness and he dreaded what she had to say.

“Okay, so first some good news!” she started, genuine excitement filling her voice. “The Wingmaidens are all good, no dragon hunters have come near their island, so they’re safe. Mala is getting ready to welcome Hilda and the others to her home, she said that they’ll be having a small feast and she’ll introduce them to her people during it, so they feel welcome, she even invited Dagur, and Heather already confirmed that she’ll be there, Mala also expects us to stay at least for a while after we accompany the young family there.” She stopped, taking a sip out of her cup, the excitement gone from her voice completely as she continued, this time about a topic he knew would be a sore spot for him.

“Berk, well umm, Berk was trying to capture a Nadder when I stopped there, I mean they managed to capture it, but that’s why I was a day late, I waited until it got dark and set the dragon free. B-but, Hiccup, the men that were capturing the Nadder were-were careful with him, they were saying things like ‘don’t hurt it’, ‘make sure that the wings are not straining’ and, fuck, I-I just don’t understand, I mean, you know that this isn’t the first time this happened” she trailed off, voice growing quiet, unsure, like she didn’t understand what they were trying to do, and truth be told she didn’t.

Hiccup didn’t understand either, what Storm said confused him, truly this wasn’t the first time that the Hooligans have tried to capture and not harm dragons, the ones who come to the island at least. They never went searching for dragons, and that made the occasional job of keeping dragons away from Berk, and its people, easier.

Hiccup didn’t trust those people near a dragon, wild or not. Especially after the reaction he got after storming out after the last argument he had with his father, he could never forget the fear and disgust that he saw in the people’s eyes. The way he saw every one of those hands grip one weapon or another, he still remembered the teenagers, he finally thought to be his friends, standing there with heads hung low, not daring to look at the runt that saved their lives. He remembered Astrid and how her father had to keep a hand around her because she was trying to go to him, the desperation in her eyes clear as day.

He remembered just walking into the woods with Toothless by his side, not saying a word, not looking back even once. Finding a bag with Toothless’ prosthetic fin, a saddle, all his notes that he had left in the forge and letters from Astrid and Gobber was also memorable. He had nightmares about that sometimes, about all of the Hooligans just attacking him and Toothless as they exited the house.

“Chief, we need to do something about that,” Storm said, staring into her now empty cup. Hiccup looks down into his still full cup and sighs, he knew that they had to do something, he just didn’t know what and that worried him. He always had at least an idea for a plan, but as soon as it came to Berk he felt lost, not knowing what to do, he’s been like that as soon as he left Berk.

“What do you propose Storm? Because I’ve got nothing.”

“Well, you might want to start drinking that mead Cheif, because you’re not going to like what I’m thinking,” she said, determination burning in her eyes, and waited until he drank before continuing. “So… at the end of the week we will be the only humans left here at the hideout, and I think that the best plan would be to head to Berk and stay there for a while, to-to gather information, to spy on the village and-“

“What?” he interrupted her, only then catching up on her train of thought. “Storm-what, no we can’t do that, i-if they find us we’re dead, no we can’t even think about doing th-“

“Hiccup! Calm down and listen to me, we will not get caught, we never get caught, no matter how close anyone comes to discovering us! We both have dragons that blend into the night and Berks forests are vast if, and I mean if not when, someone comes near us we will already be gone before they know we were there.”

“Storm I don’t know,” he trailed off, any fight he had in him drained. He looked into her eyes again, finding only understanding there, she put an arm around him, giving him a side hug.

“I understand,” she said her voice soft, “but Hiccup, you can’t keep avoiding that place, for your own sake, we have done this many times, spying on Berk is nothing new. We go there, get information and then decide what to do next. And while there you’ll maybe get some closure, you’ll see Gobber, Astrid, Stoick, and maybe you’ll stop wondering about them for a while.”

“Okay,” he said after a few tense minutes, “you’re right, and if anything does happen, at least I’ll have you with me.”

“I’ll always be with you Hiccup, that’s what family is for.”

“You’re the best sister out there, thank you. Now, go take a bath, you stink.” He laughed getting out of the hug, she scoffed in mock offence, getting up. She ruffled his hair while passing him her empty cup, after a few steps she turned to him.

“And Hiccup, I know it’s hard, I’ve been there, but know this, if the time comes the three of us will sooner die than let anything happen to you.” She turned and walked away with a small smile on her lips. He smiled too, knowing that he would do the same for them, after all, that was his family after all.

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