What if Hiccup had left after being chosen to kill the Monstrous Nightmare. After three years of being presumed dead and freeing dragons from in and out of the archipelago and building his reputation as the man in dragon scale armor the Night Rider, the thief of the Vikings... what will happen when his quest brings him back to Berk? What will happen when the "Night Rider" becomes involved with problems around Berk? And what happens when he runs into an old love interest. Through fire and flames, dragons and destruction, pain yet persistence. What will happen to Hiccup and his best pal Toothless, and will he choose his role as heir to Berk, or the Night Rider... (Sequel Out) (This book takes place in a world if Hiccup would have left with Toothless after being chosen to kill the dragon.) Httyd belongs to Dreamworks

Hiccup is banished from Berk for befriending a dragon, a Vikings mortal enemy, rejected for the last time, Hiccup leaves Berk after the Vikings spit on his vision of peace with dragons and he is the only one who knows where the dragons nest is and the monster that sleeps within its mountains. Ten years later, the Barbaric Archipelago has heard of a new tribe called the 'Strike Clan' which is led by Hiccup and the island has become very prosperous for both man and dragons. With the dragon raids growing worse however each village pays a visit to the Strike Clan because they posses one man, that can end this madness. That man is the Dragon Master. However not all the tribes wish for the raids to end, the Outcasts and the Berserkers ally themselves and plot something that spells disaster for both man and dragons. Hiccup and his Strike Clan will protect the dragons to death if they have to, but can they stop the alliance between the two deadly tribes? Or is there something darker lurking in the shadows?