I only reposted this chapter to take out the song lyrics. No other reason. If you came back: sorry if I confused you. And if you're new: carry on.

The dragon I have chosen for Aric is by Solarwave, as well as the name. You'll see what it is, but I chose it because of how it fits with a theme of hybrids in my story and is also very practical for Aric to train. I'm trying to keep my story practical. I know this is a fan fiction and I could technically do whatever I want, but one of the things I love about HTTYD is how rooted in reality it is despite technically being fantasy and that's what I tried to keep intact. Having him being able to train a dragon Hiccup, in canon, couldn't even fully train just wouldn't make much sense, which is why I said no to Skrills, Whispering Deaths, Titan wing dragons, and any other dragons that we see are much too difficult to train, especially for someone who just learned how to train/befriend dragons.

Anyway, thank you Solarwave for your help. Your dragon is awesome, and I can't wait to write more of her.

Now on with the last chapter of I am Not a Curse.

I Am Hiccup

The fire from the explosion had died down at last. All that was left was ash in the air floating onto the sand, and Stoick was frantic searching for his daughter.

"Hiccup?! Hiccup! Hun!"

He kept searching through the ash stricken earth and air, until he saw the form of a black dragon on the ground in the distance. He felt his heart miss a beat.

"Hiccup."

He ran to the form almost lying dead as fast as he could. When he got to it, he saw the dragon was breathing but was clearly tired and hurt. His saddle Hiccup made and the prosthetic tail fin in shambles, torn, burned off and broken. What he didn't see was Hiccup; she was nowhere in sight. Stoick could only assume the worse. She was gone. She sacrificed herself to save them; people who had cast her aside all her life because of her size, and wouldn't listen to her when it mattered most because of fear of what she was. Hiccup was gone and it was all his fault. His knees gave out and he crumpled to the floor of soot and ash.

"I did this", he whispered.

If he had only listened to her she would have never had to save them from his mistake. She would still be home, alive and safe. But instead he had failed; he was too stubborn to see she was only trying to make things better. He was too blind and because of him, she was gone. Just as he had vowed to always protect Valka, he had done the same for Hiccup. And just as he had failed his beloved wife, he had failed his only daughter too. Silent tears trailed down.

Everyone came to see where the chief had run to, wondering where their heiress and savior was as well. When the crowd arrived, they saw Stoick mourning his daughter; their chief on his knees before the Night Fury with no Hiccup anywhere to be found. Gobber, Aric and the rest of the teens pushed their way through the crowd. What Aric saw made him gasp in shock, his eyes becoming wet. Everyone's heads went down to mourn the loss of their heiress who nobly sacrificed herself for them even when they didn't deserve it. All was quiet.

Toothless began to wake up, lifting his head to see all of them. His eyes traveled to Stoick who was sitting in front of him, now looking up when the dragon had moved. They stared at each other for a long time; Toothless with tired eyes, and Stoick's with sadness and regret, until he finally said something.

"I'm so-I'm so sorry", the chief said. It was all he could say to the dragon.

Toothless' eyes widened in what looked to be realization and then unraveled his wings to reveal…

"Hiccup!" Stoick exclaimed.

She was wrapped safely in the dragon's arms, her eyes closed as if sleeping. Stoick ran to her and scooped her up in his arms to check on her seeing she was unconscious; at least he hoped she was. He moved her bangs from her face to get a good look at her, but he still couldn't tell. Quickly, he threw his helmet away and checked for a heartbeat. Only a second past before he heard the strong heartbeat of his daughter.

"She's alive. You brought her back alive", he said, his voice breaking slightly.

The crowd of Vikings behind him cheered and the teens were all filled with relief. The dragons that had come back even began to cheer and hop up and down with glee.

Stoick placed a gentle hand on the Night Fury's head, and the dragon tiredly placed his head down. "Thank you, for saving my daughter", he said to him.

"Well…most of her", Gobber, who had just come up, said.

It was a difficult two weeks. True to Gobber's word Hiccup's left leg, below the knee, had been severely injured to the point where they had to amputate it. She was still unconscious so she probably didn't feel it very much when it was done; however, that was the problem. She wouldn't wake up. Day after day past and there was no sign of life from her besides her steady breathing and heartbeat. But even those feigned away. During one morning Stoick woke up to find Hiccup was freezing cold, her breathing shallow, and her heartbeat slow. He immediately grabbed Gothi, but she couldn't find anything wrong to cause it.

Toothless, however, wasn't worried for her; in fact he was glad, because this state meant she was healing. Due to the severity of Hiccup's injuries, she had clearly fallen into a Dragon's Sleep Coma. It was a state where a dragon's body would focus all its energy into healing the dragon. To the untrained eye, they could appear dead.

The Vikings, of course, didn't know this. So, while the dragons that now inhabited their island were calm and some even happy, Stoick and the tribe were not; they feared she would be dead any day. That is until she began to return to normal on her fourth day in the coma. She had now returned to the state she had been in before, but Stoick still worried she might never wake up.

During this time Aric had found and trained a dragon of his very own. While walking in town one day he had come across a strange looking dragon flying overhead and into a field just outside of town. He followed it there and saw that the dragon had the body of a light blue and black Night Fury, but spikes similar to that of a Nadder's on its tail and head. Using the technique Hiccup taught them, he trained the dragon and brought it back to his friends. There, Fishlegs confirmed it must have been a hybrid like Hiccup; Fishlegs named it a Midnight Nadder. They later found that the Midnight Nadder was a girl, and Aric decided to name her Shadowstar because of the star shape around her right eye. At last he had his own dragon, and it was so much cooler than his sister's normal old Nadder. Astrid wasn't jealous though, no matter how childish her brother became trying to make her be. It wasn't long before he just gave up and returned to his normal slightly annoying self.

When Hiccup came to, at last, the last thing she could remember was Toothless' tail fin burning off and the Queen's tail coming towards them. The first thing she saw when she opened her eyes was Toothless staring down at her, whining and growling with impatience.

"Hey Toothless", she muttered as he playfully batted and nudged her. He began to nudge even harder after that, unable to contain his excitement, licking her as well. She began to move away from the overly excited dragon, holding a hand up to shield herself slightly.

"Okay, okay, I'm happy to see you to bud. Now just—Ah!" she yelped as he accidently stepped on her stomach, and she wasn't really sure if it was an accident or not, seeing how much Toothless wanted her to "Get up." Hiccup shot off of her pillow clutching her stomach, and then her ears went up in shock, her eyes wide to see where she was.

"I'm… in my house. You're…in my house. Does my dad know you're here?!"

Toothless began to run and tear through the house yelling, "… up, …up, … up!" (Get up, get up, get up) over and over like a child. Honestly, sometimes Toothless acted more like a child than the grown dragon he was supposed to be. He came up to her again at the foot of the bed ready to lick her again.

She held her hands up to shield herself once again, but then Toothless got the wonderful idea to leap onto the rafters. It only made Hiccup more stressed.

"No…no…Toothless."

"What?" he asked, poking his head down to look at her.

"Aw, come on."

Hiccup made a move to get up, but stopped when she felt something was off. Slowly she peeled back the blanket covering her and she saw her left leg, or, what was left of it. She wasn't exactly sure how to react. Sure, a lot of Vikings in her village had missing limbs; she would be able to get on fine, but that still didn't make it any easier. She had to move forward, though. One by one she placed each foot down on the ground, first her right foot, and then her left foot made from metal and wood.

"… sorry", she heard him say. She didn't know why he was apologizing, but she figured he must have had something to do with her losing part of her leg.

Before she moved any further, she checked her tail; it was still intact, and in perfect condition. She would still be able to learn to fly someday; Hiccup wasn't sure if that made her feel better or worse.

She turned back to attempting to stand up and walk. Hiccup took a few deep breaths, Toothless right by her side. She stood, holding on to one of the bed posts preparing herself to take her first step. She moved slightly forward putting just a little wait on her left leg; it hurt, but it wasn't too bad. She decided to be bold, and take one big step. Hiccup took another deep breath, and then stepped forward using her left leg, putting an awful lot of pressure on it. It made her stumble in pain and she immediately fell, but Toothless caught her and proceeded in helping her to the door. Once at the door, she let go of Toothless, and pulled the large wooden door open. She was greeted with the sight of a Monstrous Nightmare, and shut the door with haste and a scream of surprise.

"Toothless, stay here."

"When…come out?" (When can I come out?)

She ignored him, opening the door again, but this time found Snotlout riding the Nightmare with other Vikings on dragons following. Dragons were everywhere, and it looked as if almost everyone had one by their side.

"I knew it, I'm dead."

"No, but you gave it your best shot", her father said, coming up to her laughing, and placing a hand on her shoulder. "So…what do you think?" he asked gesturing to the village.

They began to make their way down towards the town when people noticed her.

"Hey look, its Hiccup!" They cheered and many came towards the chief and heir surrounding them happy to see she was okay.

"Turns out all we needed was a little more of…this", her father said, but when she heard it this time, it sounded less of an insult, and more of praise.

"You just gestured to all of me", she replied, a little taken back. Her father only smiled and nodded in return. Gobber came up just then, pushing passed some villagers.

"Well…most of you. That bit's my handy work, with a little Hiccup flair thrown in. Think it'll do?"

Hiccup picked up her foot as if examining it and replied, "Uh, I… might make a few tweaks."

Everyone laughed at the little joke, and Hiccup smiled at that.

She was then punched in the shoulder. When she turned she saw it was Aric, because of course it was. "That's for scaring me."

"Wha-what, is it always gonna be this way? Cause I…" He stopped her when he pulled her into a kiss.

"I could get used to it", she said a little shocked, but happy, when he pulled away.

Gobber came back with a new saddle and prosthetic and presented it to Hiccup. "Welcome home." She took it and in the next second Toothless came barreling through the crowd.

"Now?"

Aric and Hiccup only laughed at the sight. "Yeah buddy. How about we go flying?"

He ran up to her in excitement and then calmed down a bit to allow her to put the new prosthetic and saddle on. Hiccup got on to test it out; she unfurled the new red tail fin using the mechanism Gobber made to fit her own prosthetic. Now, it was as if they were one. Aric came up, ready to fly, on his Midnight Nadder she would have to ask about later.

"You ready?" she asked Toothless.

"Yes", he replied.

Hiccup then looked up and out into the village thinking about what she would write in her journal that night.

This is Berk. It snows nine months of the year and hails the other three. Any food that grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here are even more so. The only upsides are the pets. While other places have ponies, or parrots…we have…'

"Dragons", she finished looking down at Toothless with fondness. The four launched up into the sky flying all over the village, finding the other teens along the way and continuing to race. To get further ahead Hiccup spread and beat her own wings to give Toothless a little boost of speed.

And I'm one of them. I used to hate this side of me, but not anymore. How could I after meeting Toothless? He showed me what being a dragon truly means, and showed me that I'm not what I, or my father, ever thought I was. I may be small, I may be half dragon, but I am not a nuisance. I'm not a mistake, or, a demon. I am neither a monster, nor, am I a curse! I am Hiccup Haddock III! And that's who'll I'll always be.

Hiccup and Toothless shot up into the sky spinning with a triumphant roar—who made it, no one down below would ever know.

-Credits Song: Touch the Sky from Brave-

Well that's it for this story. I'll be back with Gift of a Night Fury. See you then.