Hello, Guys!
I know this is my 100000000th story and I didn't finish the previous ones yet… and I'm very slow when it comes to posting new chapters, so, if you start reading this be ready to wait for the next part for a month or even more. Sorry!..
I love humorous stories, but I was rather depressed after my pet passed away, and wrote this…
P. S. I do not own How to Train Your Dragon and its characters.
P. P. S. I hope you like it!
P.P.P.S. I do not give up my previous stories! I will update both soon!
Initially I wanted to write a one-shot but later I developed the idea and decided to make it longer.
This story is modern AU. Romance/Friendship/Angst/Humor and some Drama (only in the first chapter!)
Rating is T and it is here for a reason!
Hiccup lands a role in the How to Train Your Dragon movie, finds new friends and faces the difficulties of awkward age.
Disclaimer I do not own How to Train Your Dragon and its characters.
Prologue
Two years ago
One awfully self-willed and extremely stubborn black cat rose to his hind feet pressing his little fore paws and cute pink nose against the transparent wall of his glass prison to examine the source of noise that woke him up.
A lanky boy with outstandingly loud voice rolled his eyes for probably the thousandth time that day and snorted disapprovingly.
"Why do we have to pick the cat that is turned inside out?" he grumbled observing the bold creature purring in the hands of his dad's new girlfriend.
"It's a Canadian Sphynx" the pet shop salesman was speaking through almost clenched teeth and his eyes were showing the disapproval of the boy's ignorance.
The boy's father was ready to pay through nose to impress girls he barely knew but constantly banged. And that windbag, who accidentally became a salesman, was close to literally kissing his dad's ass to sell a fancy-price cat to the wealthy customer.
Since Stoick's wife Valery left him with a two year old baby he was changing women like women changed clothes. Valery Haddock just left without leving a note and he plunged into adventure full of greedy for money long-legged models and unsuccessful actresses to forget his only true love. Although the forgetting mission was never accomplished Stoick didn't lose hope.
"I want this sweety kitty, baabe" the doll face murmured to the men.
The boy screwed up his face. He did not appreciate such lovey-dovey behavior. It should be mentioned that he did not appreciate his dad's numerous girlfriends at all and in particular that very specimen.
"I'll call it fluffy!" the girl continued.
It has NO hair! the boy thought clutching his head with his hands.
"Hiccup" Stoick looked at his only son. His real name was Harvey but everybody called him Hiccup because he hiccupped when he was extremely nervous, and it happened on an annoyingly regular basis.
"Yes, dad" the boy stared back at his father anticipating an unpleasant conversation.
He was not a grumpy type, but today it was especially important to be at home soon. The first episode is in forty minutes!
The boy was already on the edge and a giant poster that he saw through the perfectly clean window of the pet shop only poured oil on the fire.
That was the poster of the new Disney show with the most beautiful Disney star ever. Astrid. Astrid Hofferson.
The blond girl with charming blue eyes was winking at him and Hiccup felt that stupid smile of a deep-in-love person was on his face again.
"Son?" Stoick demanded cutting the boy down to size "Can you buy a bottle of water for Missy?"
"Why should I buy water for her?" Hiccup grumbled.
"Son, can you be polite for at least one minute? You know Missy's allergic to cats!" Stoick said furrowing his brows.
The boy rolled his eyes again. She needed to take water with her diet pills that she claimed were the best medicine for allergy.
His dad's girlfriends. They were allergic to everything fluffy that can meow and bark if it was necessary, and Hiccup was absolutely sure that as soon as bold cats are out of fashion those bimbos would find someone hairy.
"A new show?" Stoick asked noticing the poster that his son was examining moments ago. "That girl's quite famous now. Her face is on all billboards in Berk! What's her name?" the man looked at his son.
Hiccup instantly felt blood rushing to his cheeks. When somebody mentioned her or the show she was acting in Hiccup's mouth became dry as a desert and his palms and back were sweaty as if he ran a marathon.
Some people are eager to tell everybody about their feelings, Harvey did not belong to this category. His feelings for Astrid were the secretest secret of all times, and he would never confess it to anyone. Even to his friend with a funny surname Fishlegs.
Hiccup shrugged turning even redder. Liar, liar pants on fire.
"Astrid Hofferson. Nothing special! I'm sure her parents know how to slip money" Stoick's girlfriend answered, and one can notice her face becoming visibly green.
Hiccup looked at the young woman disapprovingly. The boy knew from one of the interviews that Astrid's family came from Norway when the girl was only two. They were rather poor, but one day a famous filmmaker saw a pretty baby in the playground and made her a superstar. Since then Astrid was the breadwinner, and her mother became her agent.
Hiccup was furtively watching all her shows and films and even had some Blu-Ray disks he had spent all his pocket money on.
Glazing at the poster Hiccup caught himself thinking about his dimness again. She would never notice a guy like him. She was perfect from toe to crown, and Hiccup was an ordinary teenager obsessed with science. In the simplest terms, he was a geek. And relying on his own experience the boy could easily say that bookworms are not in the thirteen year old girl's "Hot guys" list. Especially such late bloomers like Harvey. He was much smaller than most of his peers, too scraggy and all covered in freckles. She was adorable and he was a dork.
The only parent he knew was a beefy man above middle height which left a hope in Hiccup's mind that one day he would become a little taller and less thin. Of course if his mother wasn't a one meter high troll, then he had no chance either to find a girl or achieve any success in sport.
"Ok. I'll be back in several minutes" Hiccup gave in.
"Good!" Stoick beamed "And meanwhile we'll pick a cat!"
"I don't like cats" the teen crossed his arms on his chest. He always wanted a dog. A big, fluffy buddy whom he could cuddle in the moments of happiness and sadness. A friend. The boy was in a desperate need of a friend that would protect him from the outer world of jerks and bullies.
Once his dream about a dog was smashed into a billion tiny, almost unnoticeable hopes the boy with auburn hair and big emerald eyes found Fred Fisglegs. Not the best alternative though. And Harvey would never appreciate it if Fred wanted to lick his face or cuddle him, but still he was good enough for playing video games and other bromantic stuff.
Hiccup wished he could give him advice concerning girls but Fishlegs was not the best dating coach. He was in love with his classmate Ruby Thorston since he was six and would not dare to talk to her even if a gun would be set against his temple. Once he even fainted when she asked him for an extra pen.
When the boy said that cats were not his favourite animals, the black kitten that was observing him became furious. He understood that Hiccup fostered hatred for his congeners and hammered on the glass separating him from the insolent fellow trying to draw attention to himself. The cat wanted to face that impudent boy and show him a thing or two.
"Oh, can you shut up, Scarecrow?" the salesman yelled.
The cat immediately sat back pressing his ears to his head with a sad look on his face. He stopped scratching the glass not because the pet shop salesman told him to do it, but because he was disappointed.
He got used to being called like that, but that was not his name.
Scarecrow.
The cat did not know what it meant, but was sure that it referred to something offensive, as whenever somebody pronounced it they were shouting at him.
He hoped that one day somebody would give him another name. The name that he would like.
Hiccup turned to look at the source of noise and saw that a little black cat was staring at him attentively.
The cat pressed his face and paws to the glass again. As if spellbound Hiccup came to the cage. The boy also pressed his nose and hands against the glass. For a minute both he and the kitten were still. Then something surprised the boy. It was a warm feeling of tenderness inside his chest.
The cat blinked and drew back to view the stranger. The boy did the same thing.
Both have bright green eyes, both are too small comparing to their peers, both looking for a friend. They were looking at each other and they both saw... themselves.
All his life Hiccup though that cats were ugly egoists. But now he wanted to make friends with this one.
All his life the kitten hated cuddling, baby talks and other sloppy sentimentalities that he considered inappropriate. He was a fully grown up four months old cat after all. At least he himself thought that he was an adult. But now he wanted to curl up on this guy's lap and purr.
Suddenly the cat yawned and Hiccup saw that the animal missed most of his teeth.
"You're toothless!" the teen smiled and he could swear the kitten smiled back slightly opening his mouth.
Toothless.
The cat liked this name. Boy's intonation was so pleasant when he pronounced it, and the cat decided it meant something very good.
"Son!" Stoick said loudly and Hiccup jumped up. "Water!"
"Yes...Yes, water..." the boy moved away from the cage casting last glance at the tiny animal in it. Dad will never let him have it.
"Sorry, bud. You're not coming my way..." the boy whispered looking in the sad green eyes of the kitten.
The latter meowed sadly and started scratching the glass again asking the boy to stay.
Hiccup left the pet shop with heavy heart. Small black creature sank deep into his heart and stuck there. Stuck for forever.
He had the same feeling when he was looking at Astrid. The feeling you have when you find your soul mate, you best friend.
The boy wandered around having absolutely no idea where to go. Finally he decided to ask a shop assistant in the nearest boutique if there was a supermarket somewhere nearby.
The shop assistant viewed him askance thought explained how to find the supermarket.
The boy was ready to leave the place when he saw that one of the girls from his school, Jessica, entered the boutique. She had a crush on his father and questioned Hiccup about him each time they met. Reluctant to be involved in the aggressive interrogation panic-stricken boy hid in one of the fitting rooms waiting for Jessica to leave.
Sitting cling fast to the wall he heard familiar voices from the next fitting room. The first voice belonged to Fishleg's beloved, Ruby Thorston, and the second girl was...
"Promise you won't tell anyone!" Astrid Hofferson blushed. Hiccup did not know she and his classmate were friends.
"I promise" her friend said with the most sarcastic intonation ever.
"This will be my first kiss!" the girl covered her face with her hand.
"First kiss on the screen?"
"First kiss... ever" Astrid confessed.
Hiccup forgot how to breathe. Astrid Hofferson have never kissed anyone! But she will kiss somebody soon. His heart sank and broke into a billion tiny pieces.
"EVER?! Like never ever?! SHUT UP!" Ruby cried.
It was supposed to be a peck on the lips but Astrid was sure that guy would take advantage of the situation and share some saliva with her. The only thought of it made the girl shudder.
"You were dating that boy from the children's advertising!" Thorston remembered.
"We were seven! And we were not dating! Snotlout wiped his snots on my dress!" Hofferson complained. "Oh... And my parents will be there! Ough!"
"Your parents witnessing your first kiss! What a pleasure!" Ruby chuckled.
"I hate you!"
"Love you too!" Ruby laughed.
"I don't want him to be my first!"
"Oh! Come on! It's just a kiss! And I can't believe you never kissed anyone before!"
"He is disgusting! And I didn't!" Astrid sniffed. "I'm ready to kiss the next person I see! Anyone who is not him!"
"Are you serious?"
"I'm desperate!" Hofferson nodded. "You know what?"
"What?" Ruby was curious.
"I'll kiss you!"
"Oh... Sorry... I'm kind of... taken" the girl laughed even louder.
Hiccup's phone vibrated and he took it out of his pocket to see the new message from his father 'Water'.
"That's enough from you!" Astrid smiled and left the fitting room. Hiccup did the same thing at the same monet and two teenagers collided.
Bright blue eyes met emerald green and it happened. She kissed him.
Astrid did not think twice before doing it. She closed her eyes and pressed her lips against his. It lasted five amazing seconds and then she moved back, her eyes wide, and turned on her heels to run away.
"Wait!" Hiccup shouted wake out of trance.
"What the hell?" Ruby screamed and pushed the boy aside to catch up with Astrid.
The boy ran after them knocking down several mannequins that appeared in his way out of nowhere.
Astrid looked back to check if the boy was still after her. Their eyes met and she froze on the spot enjoying the view. The girl did not care that she was in the middle of the road and she did not see the car crossing into the oncoming lane.
But Hiccup did. In the twinkle of an eye he jumped to Astrid and pushed her away.
A second later Astrid's mother ran out of the car to pull her screaming and crying daughter away from the unconscious boy.
Stoick ran away leaving his girlfriend one on one with the salesman. Nothing was more important for him than his son.
He crossed the street and saw a crowd. When he ran closer his heart almost stopped. Then it was as in a fog...
The cat continued scratching the glass and meowing shrilly.
After Mister Haddock left the pet shop the salesman seized the kitten by the scruff of his neck to calm him down.
"Why the hell are you so loud, monster?" the man yelled.
The animal contrived to change his position in the air and bit the pet shop assistance's index finger. The latter let the kitten go with a loud scream and swore to his heart's content. The man tried to catch the cat though he was not quick and agile enough, and while Hiccup's dad's ex-girlfriend was going out of the shop he managed to run out into the street and melt into thin air.
The kitten was looking for the boy than gave him the name in the hostile surroundings but Hiccup was nowhere to be found.
However, the black cat with green eyes was stubborn. One day Toothless will find the lanky boy with the same green eyes.
He will. One day.
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