He was always a beast. He was merely one that needed you. But, if you wish him returned to you and the state I found him in, so be it.

[Once more he turns to regard Hiccup. Hmph, what a pitiful boy. Such a child would never survive the desert. What a pathetic people to have allowed such a whelp to survive.]

I wonder, though. Would you be doing it for his sake... or yours?