(this is also on ao3,i put mature on just in case idk if there will be any 'bad' things in it but if there is ill put it at the top of the chapterr) Hiccup runs away from berk before he's forced to kill a nightmare. He spends four years on the edge, preventing Viggo Grimborn and the trappers from selling and capturing rare dragons. Eventually, the trappers move towards berk, and hiccup is forced to follow. The shifter is destroying all the dragons she catches. She seeks revenge on the one who turned her. She wont accept he is already dead. She is unaware that Ryker is playing her for a fool. berk believe hiccup is dead. Astrid is shown that dragons are not the enemy, and after the heir's disappearance, she tamed a Nadder. She freed the dragons caught by berk, with no one in the village suspecting her of anything like this. The Nadder was shot down and killed by the trappers. She spent a year finding out why. She discovered project phantom, and saw the woman in charge of it all.