"Great, he's gone mad with power." Hiccup said, with sarcasm so thick you could cut it with a knife.

He knew it was the ring talking, and under normal circumstances Dipper would never even be thinking along those lines. Still, the victory through fear mentality reminded Hiccup uncomfortably of Drago's worldview. A worldview, that had, at the end, been fairly successfully proven wrong.

"You think I don't know fear or being powerless? I wasn't aware being the weakest person in a village that was constantly being set on fire by giant flying lizards for fifteen years didn't count. No offense Toothless."

Toothless didn't take any. It wasn't like he hadn't been one of those giant flying lizards setting everything on fire, after all.

"It's not power, it's a crutch, One that has a bad habit of backfiring on people."