Hello!
This is a fic that was started a loooong time ago so the events in here are only up to the Dragons: riders of Berk series, when Hiccup was still in his teens and Alvin was still evil and a 100% obsessed with kidnapping the dragon conquerer.
I started this fic long ago but I never really had the drive to type the whole thing and you know what: no more!
That's why I will finally decided to start publishing this fic (even though I haven't completely written it out yet) to help me along with finishing this project.
I hope you guys will all enjoy this fic even though it is a bit some getting used to rewinding back about six years into the franchise...
My first fanfic! I'm so excited!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything except a character which will be introduced later on.
Prologue
Hiccup's POV
This, is Berk. It's twelve days north of hopeless and a few degrees south of freezing to death. It's located solemnly on the meridian of misery.
My village. In a word, sturdy. It's been here for seven generations but every single building is new.
We have fishing, hunting and a charming view of the sunset. The only problems are the pest. You see most places have mice of mosquitoes, we have dragons.
Well, that was before I made my mark, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
My name is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, 15 years old. Great name, I know, but it's not the worst. Parents believe a hideous name will frighten off gnomes and trolls.
My childhood has been a tough one if I say so myself. I, son of Stoick the Vast, chief of the village and strongest man of our tribe, have been granted many nicknames like Hiccup the useless, Stoick's little embarrassment and the most popular of all: The talking fish-bone.
For as long as I can remember, I have been disowned by my father, scorned by the adults of Berk and bullied and harassed by their children.
I was worth nothing in the eyes of the villagers and was about to fall into depression, but one boy saved me from this: Jack Frost.
I met him when I was 6 while hunting for trolls in the white-coloured woods covered by the snow.
My way too obnoxious cousin Snotlout and his gang felt it was time for them to 'show my place in the world' again. I closed my eyes and braced myself for the sure-to-come impact of their fists, but the only thing I felt was something akin of a cold breeze and a push on my torso which made me fall backwards.
After a few seconds, when I realised nothing was coming, I opened my eyes again wondering what happened and saw something I wasn't expecting. Standing before me was a person with a blue sweater, brown trousers, barefoot and... with white hair? When I moved my head to the side, I saw the bullies sprawled on the ground, face-first in the snow.
When Snotlout finally got his head out out of the snow, he turned to the mysterious boy with anger in his eyes, but this was quickly replaced with fear as he began to run away while screaming, startling Ruffnut and Tuffnut who were momentarily enjoying the pain my protector inflicted on them. It wasn't long before they too started yelling and running, following Snotlout.
The man – teen I noticed – turned around and looked at me with worry, something I was not familiar with.
He lowered himself to my eye level by kneeling down, grabbed me by my shoulders and asked me with what I can only describe as worry: 'Are you all right?'.
I was baffled. Okay. No one has asked me that question before. I thought, but apparently I thought to long, because the stranger was now snapping his fingers in front of my face while saying 'Hello? Earth to tiny!' to catch my attention again, effectively snapping me out of my thoughts.
'H-Huh? Oh, Y-Yeah, I-I'm fine', I answered stunned, but he didn't look satisfied. 'Then why were you blacking out like that just now?'.
'I just wasn't expecting you to ask something like that to me, so you surprised me.'
This seemed to stop the boy and confusion began to show on the stranger's face before it morphed into shock as he enlarged his clear blue eyes, but he didn't hold this for long as his gaze softened as he was standing up while extending his hand towards me.
'Well, I just did didn't I. My name's Jack by the way, Jack Frost. What's yours?'
'What? You don't know?' I asked incredulous. Hope started to bubble from my heart. 'Could it be that you're not from here?'
'Nope!', Jack answered. 'So mister popular? What's your name?'
'Oh right. My name's Hiccup, nice to meet you Jack!', I said happily while taking hold of his hand, letting him pull me up from the ground. I noticed his indifference in my not-so-normal name, but shrugged it off as he was once again talking to me.
During the rest of the day we stumbled around the forest, talking about our interests, ourselves or simply joking and laughing until dusk.
Since then, our friendship has been growing even though he could only visit me when winter was reigning in the southern seas, and he became the brother I never had.
Now, 9 years later, winter is almost at our doorstep again and that means one thing: Jack is coming! And man will he be surprised when he sees what has happened this year!
I'm no longer the useless and unappreciated nobody he knew before. Ever since I met Toothless and defeated the Red Death, my life has taken a turn for the better.
I am no longer bullied, I have made new friends, I am the one-in-charge of the Berk Dragon Academy and best of all, my father and the village have finally accepted me.
I don't know why Jack always appears when winter starts and leaves again at the beginning of spring – well, as springy as it can get in Berk with temperatures just above freezing – and I honestly don't care, as long as Jack comes to visit.
I waited impatiently at the open spot where Jack helped me all those years ago, as I do every year, but this time I had a surprise with me: Toothless.
The hours stretched and Toothless was beginning to become impatient and started urging me to return home because it was getting late.
I petted my Night Fury while saying 'Yeah Yeah Bud, I know, but just wait a little bit longer. He will be here any minute now.'
Just as I finished my sentence, I felt a cold breeze slide past my back and heard a light gasp as I turned around.
'Hey Jack, long time no see!', I said happily, but Jack's face wasn't so cheerful.
'Hiccup! Behind you!', he screamed.
He started rushing towards me with the intend of protecting me from Toothless and I saw that the dragon in question didn't like that one bit.
Before all hell would break loose, I put myself between Jack and Toothless while screaming 'Jack! Stop!'.
This brought the white-haired boy back to his senses and he stared wide-eyed at me as I attempted to calm Toothless down by petting him on the nose.
'Hiccup... Care to explain what's going on?'
DUN DUN DUN... The revelation!
See you lovelies next chapter~
