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INT. STOICK'S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS

Everyone sits silently still confined to their chairs waiting for the film to start again worried about the seething chief sitting in the aisle.

Hiccup enters to see...

STOICK, seated on a thick slice of tree-trunk. He is slouched over the fire-pit, stirring the coals with his axe. Embers waft around his beard. Hiccup tries to sneak past, up the stairs to his room. Stoick seems none the wiser, when...

STOICK: Hiccup.

HICCUP: (CAUGHT) Dad. Uh...

Stoick stands, takes a deep breath.

HICCUP: (CONT'D) I, uh... I have to talk to you, Dad.

STOICK: I need to speak with you too, son.

Hiccup and Stoick STRAIGHTEN at the same moment.

HICCUP STOICK I've decided I don't want to I think it's time you learn fight dragons. to fight dragons. (BEAT) (BEAT) What? What?

The Dragons look on in confusion.

Why would the alpha want the tiny dragon like human to fight dragons. Is the alpha ill?

The teens and Gobber notice Hiccup tried to get out of training,

TEENS: If he wanted to stay out of training. why is he in dragon training.

GOBBER: To think I tried to help the boy just in time for him to change his mind. The gods might really hate him. I wonder why he's a good kid.

STOICK: (CONT'D) You go first.

HICCUP: No, you go first.

STOICK: Alright. You get your wish. Dragon training. You start in the morning.

HICCUP: (SCRAMBLING) Oh man, I should've gone first. Uh, 'cause I was thinking, you know we have a surplus of dragon-fighting Vikings, but do we have enough bread-making Vikings, or small home REPAIR VIKINGS-

DRAGONS: "Of course, Dragon human fledgling boy wouldn't want to fight Dragons. Silly alpha."

TOOTHLESS: "That's my human he is Hiccup. The alpha is not ill the alpha just wants it's hatchling to be strong like him."

DRAGONS: " That's his sire?"

TOOTHLESS: "Yes, that is what the humans word father means"

Dragons begin to growl and roar in surprise at this revelation.

Villagers look to the dragons and begin to scoot away from them becoming angered at Rafayela for taking their weapons from them.

GOBBER: Hey boy you really have to work on your lying and quick thinking.

HICCUP: I know Gobber. I've always been an over thinker so quick fix ups for situations aren't my forte.

SNOTLOUT: Why didn't you go first Useless.

HICCUP: Respect for my father and the chief.

HICCUP: Even if he never really acts like my father especially if we add Gobber into the equation.

STOICK: -You'll need this.

Stoick hands Hiccup his axe. Hiccup avoids taking it.

HICCUP: I don't want to fight dragons.

STOICK: Come on. Yes, you do.

HICCUP: Rephrase. Dad I can't kill dragons.

STOICK: But you will kill dragons.

STOICK: I guess he really did try to tell me at least. I won't let those dragons bewitch him and take my son from me. (looks towards Hiccup) I won't let them take you from me you will be the viking I always thought you would be.

HICCUP: No, I'm really very extra sure that I won't.

STOICK: It's time Hiccup.

HICCUP: Can you not hear me?

STOICK: This is serious son!

Stoick forces the axe into Hiccup's hands. Its weight drags him down. He looks up to see Stoick under-lit with firelight.

STOICK: (CONT'D) When you carry this axe... you carry all of us with you. Which means you walk like us. You talk like us. You think like us. No more of... (GESTURING NON- specifically at Hiccup) ... this.

TOOTHLESS: How could your sire wish you to stop being you. My human Hiccup is far better than all of these ridiculous vikings will ever be.

Dragons attempt to calm Toothless down.

HICCUP: (whispers across the ial to Toothless) Stay calm bud it's fine. I'm used to it.

Toothless calms and goes as close to the barrier as he can trying to be close and comfort his human. Looks pleadingly to Rafayela to let him across the barrier.

RAFAYELA:(whispers to Toothless so no one can here) Soon you too will be able to actually see each other. Just wait until after the first (sarcastically) "Dragon training session".

HICCUP: You just gestured to all of me.

STOICK: Deal?

HICCUP: This conversation is feeling very one-sided.

STOICK: DEAL?!

Hiccup glances at the axe in his hands. It's a no-win argument.

HICCUP: (RESIGNED) Deal.

Satisfied, Stoick grabs his helmet and duffel bag... and heads for the door.

ASTRID: Is that how most conversation go with your father?

SNOTLOUT: Wow, At least my dad listens to me when I speak.

GOBBER: They haven't gotten any better at communicating with each other.

HICCUP: Yeah, that was a better one of our (sarcastically) conversations.

STOICK: Good. Train hard. I'll be back. Probably.

HICCUP: And I'll be here. Maybe.

Toothless's ears perk up as he begins to wonder and worry what his Hiccup meant by saying maybe he will be there. Toothless let's it off the hook knowing Hiccup will never leave him.

Stoick heads out the door, leaving Hiccup holding the axe.