First Story ever... actually it is the second time I did this one. The first one were gone to oblivion (corrupted hard drive). I was bored so that's why I made these. Sorry for the lack of grammar and those other English stuff. I don't do English. But i do Go Do :)
Enjoy!
Chapter 1
Beginning
If you said to me, "What relationship is greater: between two friends or two brothers?" I would say to you, "Between two species." Why? Because you will be attach to that species, becoming friends and eventually, brothers (That's very anti-climatic over there). Similar like this young lad I've been watching from a distance, playing with his only friend, his best friend, his brother. I didn't see it coming though, of him befriending the... um... the 'unholy baby of flashing lights and kill itself'… or, whatever the hell the name is.
It had been one week since the last raid on the isles of Berk and things were now as peaceful as they could be, if you could say that. During that raid, a young lad by the name Hiccup; took down the unholy offspring of lightning and death itself: the Night Fury. But since he was the village screw-up, an outcast of his own tribe, nobody ever listened to him. Everyday, being a blacksmith's apprentice, he created magnificent invention that no one ever thought of, just to prove to everyone that he was worthy Viking. But every invention he built always backfired.
But, during his search of the missing Night Fury he caught, there was where everything changed.
Instead of killing the dragon, carve its heart out and take it to his father to prove he was a Viking, he let the dragon free, because he saw something in the dragon that he could not brought him to kill it. That night when he came home, his father brought him good news, except it was actually a bad news for Hiccup. He will start dragon training after one week or so. Being very one-sided, he forced to accept it.
The next day, he began his normal day of his life: wake up, eat breakfast, go to the forge, beat and bend, tripped by Snotlout and the others, received some insults, go home, sleep. But he had a twist in his normal routines that day and the next day and the day after that. Let's just say everyday or whatever. During his work at the forge, his mentor, Gobber gave him an advice – that sounded more like a warning, "Dragons always goes for the kill."
Curious, Hiccup search for the fleeing dragon that afternoon after he finished his job at the forge and found it trapped in a cove. The dragon seemed to be missing its left tailfin. Time over time, his curiosity increased. What he doesn't realized, the dragon's curiosity was also increased of the young lad. Hiccup became incredibly curious the he came to face-to-face with the dragon itself the next day. During that time, he eventually bonded with the dragon, and he got his first ever friend.
That night on the watchtower, where the time Gobber called every teen that joined dragon training for 'bonding time' for battle tactics and some sorts. Hiccup's mind was centered on the Night Fury who he touched and bonded with, his friend. But he was oblivious to a pair of sapphire blue, ocean eyes were on him. He snapped back to reality when Gobber said, "It's the wings and the tails ye really want. If it can't fly, it can't get away. A down dragon is a dead dragon."
After hearing those words, he remembered back that the dragon was missing his left tailfin. And he was the once who caused it. Hiccup caused his friend to be crippled and grounded forever. He immediately left the watchtower and went to the forge to work on a prosthetic tailfin. Hours of working, he felt proud of his work once he finished and decided to test it on Toothless the next day. He named the Night Fury 'Toothless' because of his retractable teeth and the name kind of stuck.
His work was a success, before he got thrown and skipped along the pond of the cove. He realized that Toothless was unable to fly without him. So day by day, he upgraded his work and improving along the way. He was determined to put Toothless back into the sky even if it cost for him to sneak into the village to cut him loose after a minor accident.
Time after time, Hiccup and Toothless became closer and closer and not long after that, they immediately became best friend. Hiccup would rather be spending his time with Toothless than his own people since how they treated him and Hiccup fully trusted Toothless as Toothless fully trusted Hiccup. He told Toothless everything and literally everything. Toothless was always there to listen and comforted him if it made his human boy sad. During those times, he discovered more about dragons: their reaction toward a certain grass he named 'Dragon Nip', a pressure point at their neck, reactions toward eels and shiny objects.
He and Toothless always played with each other whenever they were not flying. He would splash Toothless when they were in the pond and ran away from Toothless when they played tag. Eventually, they would draw together, eat together and some point, napping together. In someone's perspective, they would swear that they were brothers who separated from birth and the older brother got cursed and became a dragon that finally reunites with his younger brother.
Stoick and Gobber became suspicion of his behavior of staying at the forge late at night and came home the next day. But Hiccup just said he just burn away his inventions and stupidity and work on some projects. And so, they accepted his fake facts and shrugged them off.
But not a certain young blonde female, whom he had a huge crush when he first met her.
She had been watching him went off to the forest everyday, carrying some mechanical in his arms. She once caught him at her training ground, carrying the same weird mechanisms and ran off somewhere. Unfortunately, she lost him before she could know where Odin he was going. She also caught him one late night sneaking around the village. She was about to confront him but he suddenly disappeared before she could face him, to her frustration.
Then, something bad happened. One night, that was this night, a week after the raid, Hiccup was busy working on his project on making Toothless to turn faster and sharper late at night when suddenly Astrid walked through the door. Okay, more like barged through the door with an axe in her hand.
"We're clos – Astrid! Hey, Astrid. Hi, Astrid, Hi. Astrid, hey. Umm… hi," he stuttered. It was common for Hiccup to act like this around Astrid: stuttering and nervous. "The shop's close y-you know, right?"
"I need my axe to be sharpens because I need it for my training tomorrow," she replied blankly.
"Sharpen, got it," he carefully took the axe from her hand, afraid of missing a limb by her using it. He slowly walked to the grinding stone because of the weight of the axe. Astrid took this opportunity to confront him so she suddenly talked.
"I normally don't care what people do, but you're acting weird," Hiccup stumbled back and forth over and over again, regaining his balance during the process and huffed after he regained his posture and proceed to sharpen the axe. "Well, weirder," Astrid added but he didn't reply. She took the time to look around the forge as Hiccup sharpening her axe. She came across a bundle of sticks with a piece of string tied together and the sticks are colored in red. "What is this?" she spoke out loud as she picked it up and examined it.
"What is what?" Hiccup turned around and saw Astrid holding the bundle, dangerously near to the fire pit. He quickly went into alarmed and nearly held her arm to stop her. Except that the fact that he will guarantee to lose his limb before he touch her. "Astrid, be careful with that."
"I'm always careful, unlike you"
"I know, but please, put the sticks do-"
"Shut up"
"I will, just please, its very explo-"
"Shut up," Astrid growled through her teeth becoming frustrated.
"I will, but keep it away from the-"
"I SAID SHUT UP!" to Hiccup's horror, she threw the dynamites to the fire pit.
"NO!" in the blink of an eye, he immediately pushed Astrid to the ground before the fire pit exploded upward. The village was woken up by a huge boom and a cloud of smoke came from the forge. They immediately and desperately trying to put the fire out and demanding what happened. The only person who knew was Astrid. She was safe, thankfully because Hiccup pushed her to the ground with such a strong force and only suffered some minor cuts and scratches.
But not Hiccup.
He was still standing when the explosion happened, unable to save himself. It was so intense that the force knocked Hiccup away to the nearby wall. Astrid watched as the scene unfolds in front of her. She watched in horror as Hiccup flew above her to the wall behind her. She frantically rushed to him, checking him if he was alright. His clothes were burnt and he suffered from some cuts but the worst were his eyes. They were swollen red and tears ran down his cheeks as he desperately gasping for air.
Hiccup was lying down on the floor as he was gasping for air. The last thing or person he saw before he blacked out was the one and only Astrid. It ridiculously brought a smile to his face despite the situation and then passed out. But what they hadn't realized that, his visions will be black.
…Forever
