Chapter Summary: Little Hiccup finds something Big hidden in Berk's forest
Disclaimer: I do not own How To Train Your Dragon or and thing related to the movie/ Netflix series. I do, however , own a Toothless plush.
Clarification: Hiccup meets Toothless when he is seven years old, so currently Hiccup is 6 and like 2/4 (Or ½ cause math) or something. In this fanfiction Hiccup does not chop of Toothless tail fin so naturally Toothless has both tail fins. The beginning chapters of this fan fiction will focus on Hiccup and Toothless relationship over the years till Hiccup is fourteen and forced to leave. This is an AU meaning alternate universe. I know this story line is used a lot but a lot of stories skip over the whole 'running away' part of the story and focus on the reunion part so yeah as you can tell Hiccup will go on a great big adventure. Enough of my ranting and enjoy! :)
Chapter One:Hiccup stared ahead.
Who would have thought that a six year old could easily get lost in the forest. I mean, he knew and everyone else that told him not to go inside the forest knew that he'd get lost but temptation was strong.
So this was Hiccup's problem: He was lost in the huge forest of Berk with the sun setting at an alarming rate and nobody new of problem. He couldn't exactly go scream his lungs out for help because Hiccup, for one, did not want to get eaten by a wild animal- he didn't think his dad would be too happy with him either.
Now it was Hiccup's job to find a way to get out of here before his dad finds out he's run off again, barely a week after a dragon attack. The recent dragon attack was a particularly bad and big one that had cause his father an even bigger headache. Not only that, but he had heard from the twins who heard from the daughter of Arne,while she was speaking to the wife of the tanner, that tidal class dragons have started taken a liking to attack the fishing vessels, stealing their catch and damaging their ships. So now they were in need of warriors to go out with the fishermen to protect the catch.
The twins made it sound like only the best warriors could go out to defend the catch-
"They have to be able swim," started Tuffnut.
"And make sure they don't barf while they're out in the ocean," continued Ruffnut while slapping Tuffnut making him stumble forward, "Ha, sucks to be you loser, you wouldn't even last a minute out there before you start puking everywhere."
Tuffnut straightened up, "Says the one that can't even swim." Tuffnut sneered. They had gotten into a fight after that which was nothing new."
But he shouldn't be worrying about these things at a time like this he should be worried about getting out of here alive and before his dad got home and found that Hiccup wasn't there, which would be pretty soon.
He looked around for a bit trying to figure out where he was except he didn't recognize anything and even if he did everything looked the same- bright green with a tint of color here and there, nothing but trees and bushes. He hadn't been allowed this far out into the woods-he hadn't been allowed into the woods period but his father didn't need to know that- so the only way for him to get home would be by trial and error. He looked around a bit more, he could see the Highest Point which was fairly close to the village so he started walking towards it.
The Highest Point is the highest point on the isle of Berk-kind of self explanatory if you asked him. It was said that once you reached the peak you'd die because seeing the beauty of the land from up there was just so much your heart and mind wouldn't be able to take it or because the gods would just kill you for daring to be so close to them.
He continued walking towards the Highest Point occasionally looking back checking to see that nothing was lurking behind him. It was a vast void of silence with the occasional chirp of the birds or the crack of a twig snapping from beneath him.
"Wow," he breathed out.
The forest of Berk was large. A large forest with big, strong trees that were sometimes cut down mostly during winter in order to make repairs to the ships and houses. When they were cut down all of the wood that made up the tree was used, leaving only a small stump that would soon grow into a new bigger tree.
So imagine Hiccups confused thoughts at having discovered a large tree snapped, bending low and touching the ground. His eyes followed it to a rather large trenched of upturned earth. It looked as if something big had crash here. He carefully scurried down the trench, managing to keep his balance for only half the way down. He had managed to trip on his own two feet and the rest of the way down consisted of him tumbling down. He shakily stood up all the while dusting the dirt from his trousers. He surveyed the area from his new point of view.
Nothing worth noting except some dark, blue rocks that had managed to catch his eyes. He walked over to it and bent down to pick it up. It was very smooth and had this wonderful blue hue to it that made it seem very rare and pretty. He wondered where it could have come from and if anyone knew about these shiny rocks. He looked around some more and manage to find a couple more scattered across the trench, quickly grabbing them and shoving them into the pocket of his trousers, as if they'd be stolen if he didn't get to them quickly enough. Soon enough his pockets were heavy with his new found treasure, making it a bit difficult for him to climb out of the trench but he soon managed to get out.
As soon as he stepped out of the trench he discovered that at the other side of the trench laid a wide path that looked to have been made not too long ago . There were branches-that were once parts of the trees- strewn across and a lot of the grass was up lifted making it seem as if something rather large had slithered out of the trench.
Hiccup didn't have much of a safety sensor, so to say, so it wasn't strange when the little boy decided to follow that path instead of sticking with his old plan and walking towards the Highest Point. He came across many more of the bluish blackish stones he had previously found in the trench. Not only that but he also managed to step into some sort of black goo. It was sticky and smelled metallic which kind of reminded him of blood; he should know how blood looks like since he's been in many accidents-many of which he had caused- up ahead he saw a very large rock structure leading down. He ran the remaining trail and carefully, using the rocks as steps he descended down into what he thought was a cavern.
Only it wasn't. It was a cove and a very large one at that. He looked around amazed to find that it even had its own pond in the middle, with giddish excitement, that could only ever be found in small children, he made his way over to the pond careful not to spill his treasures. He bent down to take his shoes off and rolled up his trousers. He made his way into the pond, waddling onto the water while watching the pink and red fish swim away at the intruder. He had all but forgotten about what had lead him here.
Hiccup was so interested in his little search through the pond that he did not notice the sky slightly darken nor did he hear the slight crack that sounded through the cove, nor did he notice the sleek, black creature that was currently making his way towards him. He was too busy looking at the patterns on the biggest fish which were rather pretty.
He did notice when the fishes moved rapidly moving even farther away. He notices when it seemed to have gotten darker even when the rest of the cove looked brighter than where he was standing. He did notice that there was something behind him when he felt a hot air blow at his neck making his hair part from where it gathered at his neck.
He turned around, splashing as he did so, and was meet with a black and blue wall of rocks, kind of like the ones he had picked out from the trench. He felt the need to touch them as soon as he saw them but stopped when he heard a low sound come from it. He looked up and was met with a pair of large, emerald green eyes -like his own! - glaring down at him, it's mouth was curved into a slight snarl which showed off its very sharp looking teeth.
"Um, hi?", Hiccup took a small step backwards, feeling the stones under his feet move at the pressure of him standing there.
The only thing it did was make the dragon take a step forward towards him, it's front paws moving into the water so to get closer towards him. It was close enough that it would be able to bite him if it wanted to. But it didn't, it merely sniffed at him which Hiccup took as a good sign.
"I think these are yours," he mumbled. He took out some of the stones that he had found in the woods today, "I found them in a trench," he explained, " They're really pretty, here." He stretched his hand up towards it, letting him see the hand full of pretty stones.
The creature looked at his hand suspiciously and carefully bent down to sniff it. When it realized that it was nothing harmful and just some of his own scales he relaxed a bit and dilated his pupils a bit more. He made a gesture at Hiccup with his head that Hiccup interpreted as a sign that he could keep them.
"Thank you," he said, " do you mind if I trade these? They're really pretty and I bet they could get me a lot from them."
The creature merely gave him a look and then retreated back towards the ground out of the water. "So is that a yes?" The creature didn't look back at him just shook the water from his paws and continued on his way as if Hiccup wasn't there.
"Hey wait!" he said while waddling out of the water, careful not to drop his precious rocks-scales, " What are you- if you don't mind me asking." Never let it be said that Hiccup didn't have manners. "Are you some type of Troll?" Gobber had always told him stories about the hideous Trolls that ate children and stole socks but only the left ones - "Now whats with that?" Gobber had always questioned.
It didn't respond just continued to do whatever it was doing before Hiccup had come and interrupted it. Hiccup had now fully stepped out of the water and stuffed his- it seemed to not want them- stones into his pockets, he proceeded to kneeling down and rolling down his trouser legs so they could dry out. Once he finished that he looked up and looked at the creature that once currently licking his wing.
"Oh!" he figured it out, " you're a dragon, like the ones my dad fights, but you're nothing like what my dad said they were like." He continued to make his way towards the dragon. " You're so small," the dragon looked up, looking slightly offended. "Sorry," he continued, " but i've never seen a real dragon before, all the little kids and mommies hide in this secret place- oops, don't tell anyone I told you about it." Once he sat down next to the dragon, the dragon stood, decided it was hungry and made it's way towards the pond.
Hiccup noticed something once he could look more clearly at where the dragon sat. "Hey, that was all over the place too." He scooted to look at it more closely and touched noting that it didn't look all that black anymore, it looked more red now, more like blood.
"Are you okay?" he asked. He stood and made his way over there towards the black beast. He suddenly noticed that the dragon had his wing sticking out kind of weirdly and made a move to touch it, but soon regretted it when the dragon tackled him to the ground with such force and let out a terrifying shrieked that had Hiccup wanting to run for his life.
"Ahh!" He yelled, "i'm sorry, i'm sorry," The dragon leaned down all while narrowing his eyes rather dangerously, it's eyes were no longer wide and comforting, they were narrowed and slit making him look terrifying, and letting out a snort which scared him all the more. He regretted not listening to his father or village and coming into the forest, Hiccup was now shaking all over, terrified at what would happened, he closed his eyes and let out a small whimper at the pressure and fright.
When nothing happened he opened his eyes to find that the dragon was staring back at him eyes no longer narrowed but no longer friendly either. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you I just wanted to see." He let out a small, nervous smile to show that he didn't mean any harm, which seemed to serve it's purpose because instead of looking anymore dangerous it instead tried to copy his smile looking very much harmless especially when he seemed to not have any teeth.
"What happened to your teeth?" Hiccup very much remember that he did have teeth and sharp ones at that.
The dragon seemed to have understand him because the next thing he saw was the dragon's teeth coming out from it's gummy jaws.
"Woah, that's cool but um, do you mind getting off?" The dragon got the message and got off Hiccup carefully handling his damaged wing. Hiccup got up to his feet, brushing off and looked up at towards the sky. "Aw, it's getting really late. Um, do you know where the viking village is at? It's kind of big and has a lot of houses-" the dragon gave him a look that he couldn't quite place before it went on towards where it was previously laying. It then gave a big huff as to say he was tired and hid his face behind his tail fins.
"Ok. I'll come back tomorrow to see how you're doing." He walked towards the entrance of the cove or rather the exit and started making his way up the make shift steps. He looked up and found that the Highest Point was really close from here. He looked back to see if the dragon would follow him but when it became clear that it wasn't going to, Hiccup went on his way towards the point, thinking of what he should do about the dragons wing that was clearly injured.
He came back the next day. It was difficult to leave the village and once he did it was even more difficult to find the cove. He had gotten lost so many times and he was almost ready to give up but his effort had paid off and he found the cove.
He brought some herbs, fish and wrappings that his dad had when he used to wrap a broken arm. Hiccup figured that a broken arm was kind of the same as having a broken wing; at least that's what he thinks.
"I brought some things for you." Hiccup looked around the cove, which he notice was lacking a dragon. HIccup felt kind of disappointed, he had been eager to learn about the dragon and had thought that the dragon might have been willing to become his friend. He sighed and turned around ready to leave but was surprised and happy to find that the dragon was still there and had not left.
"Hi," he started "I've brought some things for you" he repeated. He made to take out the fish he had in his satchel but stopped when the dragon started to growl. "It's okay, it's fish," he took out the fish from his satchel, "See?"
The dragon's eyes immediately went wide, he let out a croon and trudged forward licking his dragon lips. Hiccup stretched the fish up towards the dragon and let out a grin when he saw that it was toothless once again.
"Toothless huh, can I call you that?" The dragon was too busy eating the fish to pay attention to the little boy. "Okay, Toothless it is. Can I see your wing? I think it's broken and I think I can fix it." He made to move towards the dragon's wing but couldn't as the dragon moved away from the boy's reach.
Hiccup sighed, it was going to be a long afternoon.
After some time -and fish- Hiccup had finally been able to place some herbs and the wrapping on Toothless's wing. It had been difficult but he had managed. At first Toothless had thought that Hiccup was trying to hurt him and then he thought the boy was playing a game with him and then he understood what the silly string and plants were for so he decided to let the boy treat him.
Across the pond he saw Hiccup picking up what he had brought into the cove, all of Hiccups things had been strewn across the grass from there little game.
He crooned softly to get the boys attention.
"I need to get going to Toothless. I'll come back tomorrow, maybe." He added softly.
He walks towards Toothless until he is standing right in front of the dragon, and wants to hug him but the dragon moves away from him.
"Toothless?" He goes again to pet the dragon and again he moves.
Hiccup looks at the dragon for a moment and walks to it again this time stopping when they're face to face. Hiccup slowly extends his hand. Toothless hesitates. Hiccup turns his head away and closes his eyes. To his amazement, Toothless bridges the gap and presses his muzzle against Hiccup's hand.
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This is my first story ever so any type of criticism would be greatly appreciated. I had posted a while back a story similar to this but deleted it when it became apparent that I wouldn't be able to continue to write it. So I had Helen,a friend of mind, take a look at the outline of this story and she loved it so know its her and a little but of me writing.
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