Well, this is the finale, but its also Part One of a saga. However, Part Two won't be up for some time. But please stay tuned.

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The Dragon Pirate.

"C' mon, not far to go now!" Hiccup cried desperately as he tried to regain some degree of control over the tail-fin by repeatedly moving his foot pedal in the hopes the continual movement nudged the axe a bit while Toothless remained flying closer towards their island. He kept throwing worried glances over his shoulder at the prosthetic, and he was horrified as the tear caused by Astrid's stupid axe only became wider as it the leather was subjected to the stress of dragon-travel, but he needed to regain control.

He went on struggling with the pedal, but he guessed his idea was only making things worse but there was nothing else he could do.

His idea had worked to a point, he had managed to nudge the axe out of the way but it was still lodged in the tail-fin mechanism quite tightly but the good news was he'd managed to regain some control over the tail-fin, but he needed more if he was going to land the Night Fury safely without injuring them both.

The cry that had come from his mouth had startled Toothless's sensitive hearing, but Hiccup didn't pay much heed to his draconic friend as he struggled to regain control. The axe had made it virtually impossible for Toothless to be as acrobatic as he normally was, but Hiccup didn't care about that; all he was interested in was guiding Toothless to a safe landing site, his mind recalling how chaotic things had been for the pair of them in the early days when he had tried out the numerous adjustments of the tail-fin prosthetic. He didn't want to go through any of that right now, but it looked like they'd have no choice.

Hiccup looked down and saw they were at a respectable height in the air, but would it be enough? Without the tail-fin, it would be next to impossible for Toothless to fly properly, never mind slowly dive down.

While Hiccup had been struggling to control the flight of his dragon, he had been cursing himself for not doing more work on his dragon to make sure things like this never happened, but it had honestly not occurred to him someone might get a lucky shot like what Astrid had done. He had also cursed Astrid, the twins, Snotlout, Fishlegs, the entirety of Berk (except for Gobber and Gothi) to the deepest depths of Hel.

A metallic wrenching caught the attention of both Hiccup and the Night Fury, who turned his head and crooned worriedly, clearly wondering what was happening this time, but Hiccup's attention was already focused on the problem even though their island base was now not so far away, but when he turned his head the young renegade Viking realised things were capable of going from bad to worse. The axe was still wedged in the control mechanism, and while he had managed to regain control by continually using the pedal to adjust the fin he had also caused the fin to split.

Hiccup groaned when he saw the half of the fin caused by Astrid's stupid axe split even more due to his stupidity. No wonder I'm getting more control for the tail-fin, he mused to himself in growing horror and he turned around and did his best to manage the flight back to the island. I'm tearing the stupid thing apart!

It took longer than it should have done, but with the tail-fin so badly damaged thanks to the axe and his own thoughtless stupidity and the stress of flying in the air, Hiccup managed to persuade Toothless to fly softly and slowly through the air while he tried to think of a way they could get back down again safely.

In the end he realised there was no other option, they would find out just how well they could land when they got there, but his mind still raced as he tried to think of a safe way they could fly through the air, find a landing site, and land, maybe not too gracefully, but safely on the ground.

He was shaken from his musings when Toothless was buffeted from side to side, and he quickly regained control, cursing himself for not being more alert. It seemed the Night Fury agreed with him because the dragon grumbled at him.

"I know, bud, I know," Hiccup sighed. "I was just trying to think of a way you can land when we get back to the island. I don't want us to go through another crash like we did in the cove."

Toothless grumbled again and he seemed to give a very human shudder at the memory of the event which had seen both himself and Hiccup in pain for hours, but Hiccup refused to think anything more of it since he still had the scars from the incident. The only good thing that came out of it was finally seeing the need for the harness.

Hiccup gave his dragon a consolatory pat on the head and looked around in the air while they travelled slowly through the air towards the island - slowly by dragon standards, but too fast for any Viking on the sea to do anything about them, which relieved him no end.

We have enough problems as it is without Vikings doing what they like doing most, he thought to himself as he methodically guided Toothless back to their island, but as he did he spotted something interesting not very far away.

An ordinary seabird was flying down through the air in a spiral towards the sea, and as Hiccup watched from where he was the bird snagged a fish out of the sea and he watched as the fish's silvery scales glinted in the sun.

"A spiral!" Hiccup shouted the epiphany. Toothless, stunned by the shout, nearly lost altitude but when it was regained the dragon smacked Hiccup in the face with his ear plate.

"Ow!" Hiccup rubbed his face and glared at the dragon with his one good eye, but he guessed he deserved it considering their current problems. "Sorry bud, but I've just had an idea."

For the next few minutes, Hiccup told Toothless what he had in mind. Toothless turned his head around as far as it would go, and Hiccup could tell the Night Fury was mulling over the idea in his mind. Both of them were, but Hiccup was also keeping in mind the tail-fin, with the damage he and Astrid had caused it, might not be able to survive it as they went into a glide down, but there was nothing they could do. They would just have to take the risk.

Toothless grumbled in the end, and Hiccup patted him on the neck sympathetically. He knew how hard this whole mess was for the Night Fury; the lack of a proper tail-fin was a sore point for the pair of them, and it did sometimes cause friction between the two even if Toothless was evidently grateful to him for being able to give him his flight back.

"Alright, bud," Hiccup whispered, "we need to find a way of going into the spiral without any problems…"

When they reached the island Hiccup had Toothless overfly the land to the small lake that was quite close to the caves that they'd adopted as a base. They both knew the lake was fairly deep, so if they needed to crash-land at least they'd have a softish landing. Once they were over the lake, Hiccup had Toothless tilt his wings downwards at a gentle angle while they fell in a controlled spiral down to the ground. The Night Fury beat his wings gently to give him some control over the glide so they didn't fall out of the sky too quickly while Hiccup slowly controlled the glide so the tail-fin wasn't needed that often.

Hiccup resisted the urge to pat his dragon on the head reassuringly, seeing Toothless was concentrating on the glide. They were almost landed and it was almost over. "Good boy," he settled for under his breath, glancing over his shoulder to look at the tail-fin, listening to the creaks and the cracks coming from the prosthetic. He winced at a particularly loud snapping sound, and he swung around to see the prosthetic split in half and come away.

Hiccup turned around in a panic, looking at the lake's surface and cursed. "It looks like we're going to get soaked anyway, bud," he said apologetically to the dragon.

Toothless huffed, but Hiccup got the impression the dragon didn't really care if it ended this mess. But fortunately their luck continued to hold since Toothless was able to hold onto his glide, and it didn't really require the tail-fin with the dragon's wings providing some stability, though it was still an uncomfortable flight downwards.

When the Night Fury finally landed on the ground safely, Hiccup took a deep breath and sighed with relief when he slowly unbuckled the harness and jumped off of Toothless' back, realising that, deep down, he hadn't really expected them both to land on the ground again.

"C' mon, bud," he said, "let's get something to eat. We've got a big day ahead of us tomorrow."

The Night Fury huffed and turned away, and Hiccup glared at the dragon. "Hey, don't be like that," he chided, "I know things have been rough recently," he rubbed his eye-patch absently and far from Toothless' line of sight since it would only make the dragon morose and the last thing he needed right now was a morose Night Fury. "But I've got something to tell you," Hiccup practically sing-songed.

Toothless warbled.

Lowering his voice as though he were about to impart a secret, Hiccup said, "We're leaving, bud!"

Toothless' head swung around so fast in the blink of an eye Hiccup didn't really see it. The dragon knocked him down to the ground, knocking all of the air out of his chest. While he was panting for breath which wasn't easy considering Toothless' weight, his attempts to breath were even more difficult with the Night Fury licking him with such enthusiasm Hiccup felt bad for keeping them here for so long in a part of the world neither of them really liked, not with a whole world out there.

Although it had been on his mind for a while, this was one of those moments where Hiccup was truly ashamed for keeping them here.

"Okay, okay," Hiccup struggled to get out, spitting out the Night Fury's saliva out of his mouth when it dribbled past his lips, but he forced back the urge to choke so he didn't drown on dry land. "Come on, bud, let me up so we can get ready!"

Finally, the dragon stopped licking him but after being pressed to the ground by Toothless' paws and the weight of his body and after being licked almost to death, Hiccup felt as though he'd been stuck to the ground, but he forced himself up, wincing when he felt the saliva sticking to him like sap from a tree.

"Oh!" he groaned as he struggled to wipe the substance off of his clothes. "Toothless, you know this stuff does not wash out!"

The Night Fury just laughed, even when Hiccup scowled at him. With another groan, Hiccup walked in the general direction of the caves, but the weight of the saliva on his clothes, never mind the stench, made him walk back to the lake and he walked into the water, ignoring his dragon's croon of surprise.

Once he was out of the water, dripping from head to toe, Hiccup walked towards the caves followed by a laughing Toothless. The dragon had figured out what he was doing, and he found it really amusing.

"Figures I'd have a dragon with a really bizarre sense of humour," Hiccup muttered sarcastically to himself which elicited another round of laughs from the Night Fury, earning more grumblings at mad dragons.

As they approached the caves. Hiccup walked in with Toothless and he began to check the supplies they would need for their journey. It was just a basic checkup - he and Toothless had been stockpiling things for their journey out of the archipelago for months, but it was still a good idea to organise everything.

In the meantime, Hiccup went to grab a new tail-fin for Toothless, thankful he'd made a few ever since he had become the Dragon Pirate. It had always been logical the tail-fin would be so badly damaged he'd need a fresh one at a moments notice. He'd had the time - between the pirate raids and experimenting with a prosthetic which would allow Toothless to fly on his own without any input from him, he'd had the time and the motive to further develop the technology.

And he was glad he had. If he hadn't then it would have taken Hiccup hours to forge a fresh tail-fin from scratch from his memory. Once he grabbed the new fin, he took it to the mouth of the cave and laid it down in preparation for the flight in the morning.

Once he was finished wrapping the tail-fin in a protective shroud, Hiccup turned to his friend. "I'm going to get some food for you, back in a few minutes," he said, grabbing a spear in one hand and a basket in the other before he walked out of the cave and went back to the lake.

When he was at the bank, Hiccup stripped himself of his clothes and he took a long wooden cane from out of his clothes and jammed it in his mouth while he wadded his way into the water, taking slow deep breaths through the tube, as he walked slowly through the water and let it rise higher and higher until it reached under his armpits, and he ducked his head beneath the surface, preparing himself for the pain in his one good eye.

Lifting up the spear, Hiccup began swimming gently through the lake, methodically spearing fish and strapping them to his waist before he returned to the surface and shoved the fish into the net before he went back down.

Ignoring the water dripping off him like mad and shivering in the coolness of the cave, Hiccup dumped the full net of fish on the rocks Toothless had taken as a bed. Instantly the enthusiastic dragon tucked into the slimy meal with gusto, and Hiccup took his leave of the dragon for the time being though he knew he would need to go back down in the morning and collect another load of fish.

Preferably a large one, Hiccup mused to himself as he wandered back to the fire Toothless had made during his absence, and he smiled at his dragon's intelligence and common sense while he went and prepared his own dinner of smoked boar, the animal he had trapped and killed only yesterday, and he ate the meat with gusto himself. Once he was full, Hiccup wandered over to his Night Fury, Toothless opening his wings instantly and they both snuggled into one another and went to sleep. Both of them had no idea what the future might bring, but they would face it together.

Well, it was time. Once he woke up in the familiar embrace of his best friend, Hiccup stretched to get the kinks out of his arms and back, and he yawned for a bit before he headed back out to fetch his dragon's breakfast. Returning an hour later with the fishes, he found the hyperactive Night Fury jumping up and down outside the cave.

Rolling his eyes, Hiccup opened the net and poured the fish onto the ground, leaping back instinctively when Toothless leapt onto the fishes and immediately began to eat everything in sight with a speed that made Hiccup worry for the dragon's gag reflex.

"Hey, calm down, bud! Eat all that slowly; I dunno how long we're going to be in the air for. It could be hours before we get another bite to eat!" Hiccup chided his dragon, rolling his eyes at the Night Fury's greediness.

Toothless huffed through a mouthful of fish.

Rolling his eyes again, Hiccup walked back into the cave and went for his own stores. He ate some of the cold pork he'd cooked the night before, some apples from a tree he'd found, and he washed it all down with some water.

Once he'd had his full though he grabbed another apple to eat, Hiccup began getting some food and water ready for himself for the flight ahead, knowing that Toothless was capable of diving down to snag a few fishes from the sea to keep him going though he'd need a large quantity later on. He tied the food and water into small bundles and placed them in the saddlebags.

The easy part was over, then it was time for the hard part.

Hiccup went into the caverns where he'd stored the parts he'd prepared for the flight ahead, and he grabbed as many as he could carry and took them back to the smaller saddlebags he'd mounted on Toothless.

The Night Fury had four saddlebags - two on both sides - two would be used to carry Hiccups' food, clothing, possessions, maps and sketchbooks and journals which he planned to use to document everything that he saw on his travels with Toothless, and even carry one or two souvenirs he planned to get over time. With the help from the travellers he'd run into on Nadder's Point, Hiccup had been able to draw a rough map of where they could both go.

The travellers and the merchants he'd encountered had been delighted by his interest, and while a few of them had reminded him somewhat of Trader Johann, they'd told him a great deal about what lay beyond and they'd shown him their logs and their own journals to further interest him. Hiccup had made copious amounts of notes from the people he'd spoken to while he'd used the hub as a small base while he did work on Toothless' tail-fin and made new parts and gathered supplies to leave the archipelago behind - the unexpected visit from the Berkians had stopped him from finishing the map among other things, so he'd been left with whatever information he had left on the notes, and used them to draw this map out as best as he could, but Hiccup knew this map was still too vague since the traders and merchants he'd met at Nadder's Point had set a specific course, so they didn't all know what was out there, but still it was a good idea to get some knowledge of what to expect.

Sure, he knew the map wasn't entirely complete, but he had gathered enough knowledge out of the journals to make a few educated guesses, and they had included maps of their own journeys to help him draw out the new copy. It had taken Hiccup months to draw the chart, but it was a start. All he would need to do was go out there, see what was beyond Viking knowledge, and look for more.

His days as the Dragon Pirate… well, he wouldn't say they were completely behind him. He figured he would still use Toothless as a weapon to fly to various places, raid them for what he needed, only he would continue on his journey.

Gathering up the tail-fin prosthetic he'd left in the cave's entrance the night before, Hiccup went out to Toothless, who was bouncing about everywhere in eager anticipation, but the moment the Night Fury caught sight of him Toothless did his best to calm down and let him attach the fin to his tail.

Once he was finished, Hiccup led Toothless away, but then he paused and looked deep in the bushes near the cave. Toothless crooned and warbled worriedly, gazing at Hiccup in concern and was clearly interested in why his human rider had stopped. But Hiccup didn't notice his dragon's reaction.

A metallic shine had caught Hiccup's eye just as they were nearing a small clearing that would be perfect for them to lift off and begin their journey to… wherever, and he turned and walked towards it to investigate it properly, wondering if it was one of his inventions he had just left out in the open. He killed that thought when he found what was creating the shine.

It was the old tail-fin and it somehow still had Astrid's axe stuck in it.

Hiccup couldn't believe it, he had thought the remains of the old prosthetic, never mind the axe, had been blown much further away.

But no.

For a moment Hiccup wondered if Loki had purposefully manipulated the wind to bring the damaged and battered prosthetic to the ground along with the weapon to spite him. Hiccup bent down and examined the prosthetic up close with his good eye.

The leather was torn and ripped in places, and the metal frame was bent and warped which was a clear sign of metal fatigue. But what annoyed Hiccup the most, and it was slightly petty of him though he couldn't help it, the axe itself was still intact. Sure, the weapon was still the same sharp, powerful thing Astrid had always favoured in a fight, but not even the sight of the dents in the iron filled him with pleasure.

The sight of the weapon lodged firmly in what was left of the fin's control mechanism filled Hiccup with warring emotions- fury was the most prevalent. He had made both of these objects with his own hands, and he had repaired, fixed, and sharpened both of them respectfully, but between the tail-fin and the dented but still sharp axe he knew which one he preferred.

That self-important bitch had nearly killed him and his dragon, hounding him, hunted him. She had sold him out to Stoick and the others, but that wasn't enough for her or her precious family honour.

No, she had twice gone out of her way to track him and Toothless down to kill them both. He had seen it in her eyes when she'd thrown this very axe into the tail-fin mechanism, fanatic obsession. She wanted to kill him. If they ever met again she would likely not hesitate to try again and the second Hiccup realised that he felt his own temper begin to burn, just beneath the surface.

Hiccup glared at the axe with his one good eye, finally giving to the rage that had been festering within him. Lifting up his head, his face white with anger, Hiccup shouted into the air, scaring what few Terrible Terrors who mingled with the birds of the island, and startling Toothless himself with the uncharacteristic anger.

"I'll get you for this, Astrid!" he yelled. "I'll restore my dragon's tail-fin to what it was! I'll come back one day, and when I do, you will pay! You hear me, Astrid, you will PAY!"

The End of Part One.

Please don't tell me Hiccup wouldn't declare revenge against Hiccup - this is a totally different version.