A/N: This is requested by the amazing secret love writer! Again, thanks for the awesome idea!
After the quick flight to the academy Hiccup dismounted Toothless, already having an apology for being late on his lips. Though it was little needed as he entered, looked around and realized except for the duo, the training arena was completely empty.
"That's strange..." Hiccup pondered, to himself or Toothless was a bit unclear. "The others should be here by now?" Toothless gave a slight growl in response as he sniffed the air. No signs of anyone else.
"They couldn't have left already, could they?" Hiccup murmured as he patted Toothless on the snout. "Come on bud," he continued a little louder as he headed for the exit with the dragon. The gang had all planned to go on another search for the Screaming Death to make sure it didn't disturb (not to speak of destroy) any other islands. Hiccup had been delayed by Gobber needing help in the forge as he couldn't get around with one hand. Therefor he'd expected the others to already be there before him, as promised the day before.
It didn't take to long for the two to find the gang though as Toothless could smell them pretty good (well, perhaps mostly Meatlug). The five other teens were all gathered around the front porch of the twins house at the bottom of the hill.
Hiccup were just about to walk up to them and greet when he saw Astrid and Snotlout in a argument that sounded over the empty area. So to not interfere Hiccup and Toothless continued to stroll quietly when his own name was heard repeatedly. Curious Hiccup stopped and listened to the conversation a little to hear what the fuzz was about.
"...been here an hour ago!" Astrid scolded with an accusing finger to his cousin.
"Well, sooorry ma'am but Snotlout needs his beauty sleep," Snotlout retorted as he dusted himself of a bit, as if to empathize it in a strange way.
"You should have slept a lot longer then," Ruffnut snickered but Astrid ignored them both.
"We all agreed to get of the island before Hiccup woke so we would be rid of him," Toothless turned his head questioningly towards his rider and Hiccup shook his own in confusion.
"Yeah, yeah I know but seriously you could have just told him we wanted nothing to do with him and for him to keep out of the way," Snotlout said while studying his short fingernails. Hiccup felt his chest ache at the words. They wanted to get rid of him? Had he done something wrong?
He hoped it was just morning words from his cousin but Fishlegs nodded. "Yeah, to take him behind the light like that is weird. But we don't want him with us so there's not much else to do."
Hiccup stumbled back a bit. This was something he had feared ever since the battle with the Red Death. A fear that with time had crumbled and reduced but now were back in full force. They'd gotten tired of him. He was used up. He was useless once again.
When the village accepted him after 15 long years he'd known the possibility of being the neglected runt again was strong. That didn't mean it hurt less now that it actually happened.
But at least before they were honest and clear about it. Now what were they planning? Ignoring Hiccup until he got the deal and left them alone?
Toothless looked at his rider with concern as he could feel the sudden change of mood. Hiccup tried his best to smile either way. He still had Toothless. Nothing would change that, so it wouldn't be as before. He just hoped his father wouldn't neglect him again as well.
"Come on, bud," Hiccup whispered and they left the area before taking to the air.
And so, Hiccup and Toothless found themselves soaring through the thick morning air, above the open ocean and hours from home.
They didn't have any destination or goal, but for Hiccup it felt really good to clear out some thoughts and calm his raging nerves. Toothless enjoyed this very much too. With everything that had been happening around the village with every changes and enemies, it was nice to be with his beloved rider like this.
The calmness didn't last much longer than that though.
Hiccup looked around briefly at the sky. It was still early, but the sky was kind of darkening. He also took notice of a collection of gray clouds and that the wind had picked up since they left. He had been to lost in thoughts to realize how the entire environment around the duo had changed more and more.
"This doesn't look too promising. We should probably head back now, bud," Hiccup said although he didn't feel to. Toothless gave a slight growl in agreement, also his senses taking in the surroundings. "Come on then," Hiccup continued as he shifted the tail-fin. Soon they were heading the same direction as the one they came from.
They continued on in silence, until they both almost in the same time realized the wind had grown even stronger. Hiccup sighed. Perfect, probably another storm. He hoped they made it back to Berk before... Yup, amazing there came the rain, Hiccup thought bitterly as the first drops reached his exposed skin.
"We should hurry buddy," Hiccup said even if he were pretty sure Toothless already knew that. As the minutes went by, bit by bit the pace grew slower and Hiccup found it harder to control the steer-ups because of the garret against them.
As Hiccup shielded his face with his right arm he found he nearly had to scream to get his voice over the dramatically up picking wind. "We need to find somewhere to land and wait this out, this isn't safe!"
Toothless immediately nodded his big head as he felt his wings almost scrunching from the pressure. They both searched out over the ocean, trying to find an island, sea stack or basically anything by now.
Hiccup thought hard about this. Shouldn't Dragon Island be near? It was hard to see through all the rain and everything but Hiccup was pretty sure they would at least have flown by Sun stone Island by now. With slight panic he realized what must have happened. They've flown of coarse. That's bad. That's really, really bad.
But there was not much either of them could do about it. They needed to land and find shelter, and that is quickly. With a worried glance, Hiccup saw that the reptile grew tired from what seemed to be Thor's wrath.
'How can this storm pick up so quickly?!'
He soon wish he hadn't gotten an answer to that, as it suddenly appeared through the dark clouds
A hurricane.
Hiccup remembered their first interference with one. Snotlout had disobeyed orders and suddenly they were trapped in one. That time they ended up almost shot at Outcast island. He wondered worriedly what consequences it would be this time.
"Toothless, we gotta turn!" Hiccup shouted, already desperately shifting the tail-fin. Toothless tried to obey, but when he shifted position and it turned to a crosswind, his wings snapped backwards towards the storms eye as it seemed to drag them towards it.
Toothless roared and Hiccup screamed as they power less was thrown back and forth in the powerful grip of the hurricane. Toothless tried uselessly to take out his wings as Hiccup did his best to open the snapped closed fabric of the fin who was quickly being ripped of at the same time he used all his might to stay in the rain slippery saddle.
"Come on, come on, COME ON!" Hiccup shouted feeling the panic as a tight knot in his chest as they came closer and closer to the center of the storm they were inside.
That's when not only the red material flew of, but the entire saddle contraption going along with it. So suddenly Hiccup felt the quick rush of air, the raging sound in his ears and the powerlessness of falling.
A short scream, and Hiccup was embraced by icy water.
A/N: This was short, but it's a starter :)
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