And here is a story that I've been working on for a LONG time. Back in late November was when I had the idea. (during class talking about Acadia in Canadian history)

Based hundreds of years past the end of Hitchups with the blessings and advice of Antic Repartee, the maker of "Hitchups"

Meaning that you should read Hitchups before reading this, not only because it's a great story, but also because Hitchups is one of the best fanfics on the entire site.

I hope you enjoy it as well as think of the story as a suitable continuation to Hitchups. I don't want this to feel like non-canon to Hitchups.


Note:

"Italics" between quotation marks mean it is spoken French. Otherwise normal dialogue is in English

Italics without quotation marks is thoughts

::italics:: is Toothless talking, which Hiccup can only hear.


Hitchups and the Expulsion of Acadia


Chapter 1


The atmosphere was dark and bleak over the hillside as dark evergreen fog flowed through the air going through the empty deserted town below. Storm clouds hovered over the landscape ready to start its watery assault on the land. The town was looked like a place of death, many bodies were lying in the streets, cold and lifeless in the dirt and tile. Most of the buildings were trashed, windows were smashed, broken furniture and items were all over the streets, a cold reminder of the mad migration out of the prosperous town.

Hiccup stood up the top of a grassy hill surrounded by the green mist, a shovel lying by his side, his clothes completely covered in dirt, looking over the town his eyes downcast and depressed. His body was tall and lean, his brown hair short with his bangs near to his eyebrows, the rest was bristled even with some small amounts of grey hairs. If someone were to guess his age they'd guess late forties but that was just an illusion of God's magic. His face was sharper, any remaining baby fat in his cheeks was completely gone in the hollows of his cheeks, his button nose now smaller on his fully grown face.

He turned away from the plagued site and walked over to the lone hovel of a home that stood on the very top of the hill. Beside the home was a lone crooked tree with two makeshift gravestones with two big rectangular holes dug out of the ground with a big pile of dirt lying on the left side and two bodies wrapped in white bed sheets covering their cold, lifeless faces to stare back at him.

Hiccup stared at the bodies unconsciously giving them long, solemn stares. He goes on one knee, he talks a deep breathe trying to steady his breathing that was threatening to become erratic. His eyes started to water as he looked at the smaller of the two bodies. Not being able to hold back his emotions any longer he sobbed into his dirty knee, his chest heaving as his breathing became a racket of sobs and cries.

Why had this happened, what did he do to deserve such a fate, why was he given so much life when the people around him were given so little?

He pounded his fist into the hard dirt just tired of the long years, tired of the many hardships he had to face. If Toothless wasn't with him he probably wouldn't have been able to last a week, let alone hundreds of years.

Suddenly Hiccup could hear a chorus of laughter coming from in front of him sounding like thousands of people laughing all at once. He slowly stopped crying as he noticed that the laughter was slowly turning into the laugh of one person. Hiccup looked up and standing in front of him was a man wearing extravagant golden armour with green fabric underneath. An evergreen cape flowed out from behind his back folded neatly behind his gauntlet boots. The man wore a golden helmet with two thin gold horns extended out in a crescent curve. His hair was raven black colour, flowing and long out of the back of the helmet.

The man was laughing in front of Hiccup showing his utter glee in seeing the dragon rider so utterly defeated. Hiccup put his hands on the side of his head in disbelief. He couldn't believe that this tragedy was of this man's doing, this evil trick to get back at Hiccup for his popularity with the God's.

Loki had played his trick on Hiccup, and now it left Hiccup without his loving wife and son.

All of the sudden he felt an unknown force shove off of the balance of his knee making him lay in the ground. Soon the first few drops of rain started to drop all around Hiccup as he started to drift to consciousness.


Present Day, June 1755

Hiccup gasped, his chest heaving up and down in a frenzy as he looked frantically around the room.

He looked beside him in his bed was his wife Zoe. All was her dirty blonde hair from the back of her head as she snuggled comfortably in the blankets. She let off a cute little snort in her sleep making Hiccup calm down a little and smile at his wife. They met during Hiccup's travels five years ago and even though he's had relationships through hundreds of years he couldn't help but love her as much as his last relationship.

Behind him he felt a deep breath roll over his back warming his back. He turned to see Toothless standing beside the bed, his light green eyes staring at him through the dim morning light of the summer. A sad expression was written across the dragon's face, Hiccup has been with the dragon enough to know this.

::You had another nightmare, didn't you, about the plague?::

Hiccup sighed exasperated. Toothless knew that he had a nightmare, he was just asking just so he could get him to start talking. It was just a part of their relationship.

I nod my head sadly looking over to my companion as the light started shine more on him.

The dragon had grown a lot since his adventure saving Berk from the demon of Jotunheim. He was probably a metre higher off the ground. His body looked a few metres longer than before, his tail much longer than before. His shoulders were also very strong from hundreds of years of carrying Hiccup. Toothless liked to boast that he was second the biggest Night Fury in the known world. Hiccup joked that their bond may have done something about this.

The dragon's wing span was ginormous to keep his weight as well as Hiccup's but the dragon managed even with a lot more weight from many supplies.

Hiccup patted the side of the dragon's face rubbing a little at his dry scales. "Let's go for a morning fly."

The two of them started to step out of the home, built by Hiccup and a servant boy, and now his apprentice, Sacha. The home had three rooms, a master bedroom, a main room and a storage room mostly used for food. The main bedroom was very wide open unlike other homes to give Toothless easy access inside. The doorways were even wider than usually for the dragon to go in and out with ease. Inside of the main room was a kitchen table in the middle right beside a nice sized kitchen with many utensils hanging off a rack. On the right side was a study table with Hiccup's many little ideas and sketches pinned in the wood around it. A small fireplace was close to the right with three chairs placed beside it. Between the kitchen and the family room was a small little staircase that went up to the little loft.

"Papa?" A small voice feminine said from the loft.

Hiccup looked up to the loft to see a pair of blues eyes staring back at him. He steps over to see his daughter, Manon, clutching her little teddy bear in her arms, rubbing her eyes from tiredness. Manon was nearly 5 years old, her body still small and frail but the signs of her growth showing everyday. Her hair looked like a mix between the red brown hair of Hiccup's and the dirty blonde hair of Zoe creating a dirty blonde hair with a little bit of red. Her nose looked like a small rounded button, her cheeks still showing baby fat and her lips looking like a beautiful mix between thin and blossomed. It was as though she got all of the perfect features of her parents.

"Yes Manon, get back to sleep, I'll be back in a bit" Hiccup says softly while climbing up the loft stairs.

Manon moved out of the way for her father and stepped through the small door to the loft, which now worked as a bedroom for Manon.

Hiccup steps into the little room looking around at the many charcoal drawings pinned on the wood showing pictures of the family and Toothless. In the corner was Manon's bed with a dresser on the side. He placed a hand on her shoulder and guided her to the unmade bed and waited for her to jump in. He pushed the covers up and tucked the little girl in.

He kissed the girl on the cheek giving her a look of love. "Sweet dreams"

She closed her eyes and looked relaxed in her bed. Satisfied that she was back to sleep Hiccup stepped away and went back down the ladder where Toothless stood waiting.

The two of them stepped outside through the door. The sun was shining in the distance just starting to rise making the sky give off colours of a warm yellow along with the clear blue, barely any clouds in the sky. It was a great day for flying.

Hiccup walked to his blacksmith workshop and grabbed the saddle from inside. He quickly fastened the harness around Toothless who crouched to make it easy for Hiccup.

One thing that was different about the routine of strapping the saddle onto Toothless was the lack of an artificial tailfin since it has fully grown back over a hundred or so years. Hiccup had to constantly make replacement tailfins that would fit onto the growing fin to give Toothless flight. It was a hassle, but it was always a happy sign when Hiccup had to make a smaller attachment.

The regrowth of the fin had been a slow and painful process some days, where the nerves would start to spark old pains of Toothless getting his old tailfin ripped off in the distant past. But Hiccup was always at Toothless' side even in the toughest of nights trying to dampen the pain with herbs as well as trying to talk Toothless through the pain trying to give him some comfort and distraction.

"You ready bud?" Hiccup whispered just as he tightened the last harness.

:Of course: Toothless answered in a satisfied smug tone.

Hiccup couldn't help but laugh at the dragon's display of smugness. His pride was one feature that distinctly made Toothless a dragon, even when the two of them have been together for more than half a century.

With a quick hop, Hiccup climbed over Toothless' side and onto the saddle getting the harness and grips onto his body. Hiccup nodded as he prepared himself for takeoff.

With a quick jump and a pair of powerful flaps of his wide wings Toothless got himself off the ground and with a quick arch of his neck skyward, the two of them went up high into the blue sky.

When they were just split through the thin sheet of white cloud Hiccup raised hands and yelled to the air. "Woohoo!"

And with a quick twist Toothless did a quick barrel roll and propped himself and Hiccup upside down as he flew downward back through the clouds.

Hiccup couldn't help but laugh as he looked over the skewed landscape of Acadia. The bright morning sun shining over the light green expanse of land with rolling hills of grass, the Atlantic air smelling like the sea through the summer air.

Toothless righted himself to a normal glide with a quick tilt of his wings, now just flying over Acadia just below the few clouds in the sky.

Hiccup never expected that he'd settle down so soon, especially in the new world when he travelled here, but Zoe caught his attention, and he's been here ever since.

Acadia was the small island colony started by the French a century ago spanning over the whole island. Meaning the population was completely French speaking except for the new British city of Halifax.

Acadia was close to the opening of the St. Lawrence River on two islands very near the continent. The land was heavily disputed between the French and the English because of how strategic it was to have military by the opening to the Lawrence.

Hiccup couldn't even remember how many times the land was switched over to the rival European power. It has happened so many times that it was almost impossible to keep track. At one point it seemed to be a tradition for Acadia to be taken under French control, to English control and then back to French control in just three years. Though recently, the current owners of the colony, the British had managed to keep control of Acadia for nearly three years.

Because of this many conflicts for control of Acadia, the Acadians would display themselves as neutral to any European conflict for the colony trying to distance themselves from the warfare and call of duty. This act of neutrality was the reason why the Acadians managed to never swear allegiance to the British monarchy whenever the British had power of the colony.

It showed that the British patience for the Acadians neutrality was frustrating them whenever Hiccup had met with them, especially with the rumored expansion of the French into Missouri and the Canadiens going farther into the West.

::You want to talk about your dream?::

Hiccup sighed as he patted the side of Toothless' neck. "It was just like all the others. Me in front of the graves and Loki standing over me laughing"

::Hmm…::

"And what does that mean?" Hiccup said accusing Toothless of some double motive.

::You know that I mean nothing by it, I was just thinking:: The dragon said reassuring the human.

"Yeah…" Hiccup said softly.

::Just try and focus on your current family. They really are great, but you know that:: Toothless said supportively. ::This wife was much more open to me playing with the kid and relatively prettier::

Hiccup couldn't help but laugh. "Are you kidding. She expects Manon to come home with one leg any day now. She just trusts my judgement and how well you're trained."

::What a foolish mistake, trusting your judgement::

Hiccup swipped at Toothless' ear with a laugh. "Shut up you!"

::Never!:: Toothless said playfully now dipping and diving playfully through the air as Hiccup tried to scratch at Tootless' scales around his neck to tickle him.


Toothless landed softly into the ground in front of their home. The blacksmith shop beside the home had the chimney brewing, meaning Sacha was already at work in the shop.

Manon ran out of the house and ran straight towards Toothless skipping excitedly. "Toothless! Let's play! Manon said with excitement trying to yank into his big foreleg to get his attention.

Toothless just stared down at the little girl nuzzling her playfully before licking her across the cheek.

"Ewwwww, Toothless!" she screamed in surprise, giggling happily as she rubbed away the spit on her cheek.

::Your child is quite something Hiccup::

"Yeah, much better than your kids. Those things were little demons" Hiccup said playfully.

::Yeah, and they were my, little demons:: Toothless said proudly while being yanked away by Manon, who pulled away the dragon with false authority, looking absolutely adorable by doing so.

Hiccup stepped into the smiths den deciding to shine a finished set of horseshoes from yesterday.

He stepped inside and heard the sound of a hammer striking down metal, followed by the hiss of hot metal meeting cold water.

Hiccup looked to the other side of the shop and noticed his blacksmith apprentice, Sacha. He was a blonde haired, blue eyed young man at 20 years old. Hiccup hired him when he was 15 to help with the construction of his home. At the time Sacha had just lost his parents from sickness leaving him at odds to get money, so Hiccup used that desperation to get some cheap labor. But the seemingly immortal Viking was impressed by his work ethic and high learning curve, so when Hiccup started up his blacksmith shop, he took on Sacha as an apprentice.

Hiccup nodded to him and picked up the horseshoe and started to rub away the blackness on all of the edges with the shining cloth while the apprentice worked on the bayonet blade that needed to be repaired.


Soon Hiccup started to smell the appetizing smell of sausage being cooked over the fire outside both the blacksmith shop and the home. Oh how he loved when Zoe made sausages.

He looked over to Sacha who was tirelessly working on the blade, trying to make it as straight and sharp as possible. He waved his hands to get his attention and said, "Do you want some breakfast?"

Sacha looked up looking a little apprehensive of the offer. "I don't know..."

Hiccup walked up and landed his hand on the younger man's shoulder, giving him a reassuring shake. "Come on, I insist" He said with a smile.

Hiccup smiled and gave him a nod as they strode out of the smith's shop walking into the home where Zoe was serving out the plates of food. Hiccup stepped up to her and gave her a kiss on the cheek, a silent thank you that only she understood. She saw Sacha and smiled, starting to set him up with a plate of food as well.

Not long after, Manon ran inside with Toothless playfully chasing her with his tongue hanging out, his teeth hidden in his gums, a guideline that Hiccup had for Toothless for any of his kids. The dragon then nudged the giggling child right into her seat his large forehead, giving her protective warble as he ran out the open door to start fishing for his own food.

Before they ate, Zoe did her customary prayer, thanking God for their good fortune and food. Hiccup went along with it, finding it too complicated if he ever told anyone of his true beliefs in the Norse Gods (that he'd been in contact with). The religion was a dying one and now Christianity was now the dominant religion of the new world because of European control.

When the prayer was done everyone started to dig in. Hiccup chewed into his meat, loving the taste of the meat juice, he then took a spoon full of the hash brown potatoes looking over to Manon who was chewing on the end of the sausage with poor table manners. He leaned over from his spot and used his fork and knife to cut her food into bite sized pieces.

"Merci" She said sweetly, smiling up to her father. Hiccup smiled back and tapped the top of her head lovingly looking over to his wife, who smile at the scene between her family members.

Zoe and Hiccup then started to interrogate Sacha on his efforts on trying to woo one of the farm girls of one of the farms in the outskirts of the farm. Making Sacha blush and try to dodge the questions, but Hiccup and Zoe naturally continued to push for the answers they wanted.

Suddenly the door was slammed open, as a young 14 year old boy ran into the home, panting heavily and obviously looking exhausted. Hiccup got up in an instant and looked the boy over and recognized him immediately. His name was Francois, a young boy who was the son of the major farms beside the town. "Francois, what's wrong?"

"There-There was an incident, we need you for a town meeting" Francois said quickly, still panting.

Hiccup looked to Zoe in worry and got up from his chair and followed Francois back to the town center, hoping that the situation was overblown like most of the town's problems he was called on.


Quick history lesson for context:

Acadia is modern day Nova Scotia, at first created and controlled by the French but as the fights between the French and English raged in the new world, North America, Acadia would switch between French and English control, like Hiccup said. Eventually, the British who were slowly winning control of North America decided to evict every French Acadian from the area to the states and France, because of some Acadians harbouring French troops. Most of the Acadians sent to France decided to settle in Louisiana, creating the ethnic group of Cajuns. The expulsion resulted in thousands of Acadians dying from disease or drowning during their trip.


I hope you like the first chapter!

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The next chapter will be up in 5-7 days. So look forward to that!


Until next time,

Prophet =P