Helloo my fellow dragon riders! Missed me? Of course you didn't!
Well here I am with the promised first Chapter of How To Teach Your Jorgenson To Swim! Yes FIRST chapter. This won't be a one-shot after all. It won't be a big fanfic either.
This takes place in the second season of Race To The Edge while they still have the Dragon Eye.
I hope you like it and I also hope my idea for this one doesn't sound dumb. I just had this idea and it is stronger than me so I had to write it just THIS way.
Ready?
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"Well hum… should we wait for the critical moment or just…. stop now?" Hiccup asked Toothless.
It was a hot afternoon – and by hot I mean like really HOT- in the Edge. The riders were supposed to be upgrading the Edge in order to be prepared for one of the Dragon Hunter's attacks which could happen anytime now- courtesy of the Dragon Eye- or just be training but as it was already said- really HOT.
Toothless cooed in response.
"You're right bud. Critical sounds better…" Hiccup replied.
Toothless sniffled which obviously meant 'that's not what I said you idiot' but still approached Hiccup and pushed his rider with one of his paws. Hiccup started spinning.
They were free falling, high on the sky. It sounds something stupid to be doing in such a hot day but at least the draft caused by their bodies cutting the air could refresh them slightly.
The sea soon appeared shining under them and at the last minute Hiccup mounted Toothless and the two started soaring over the calm waters.
"Come on bud, let's tell Snotlout the result." Hiccup told Toothless and they headed back to the Clubhouse.
Astrid leaned against the door of the Clubhouse watching Hiccup and Toothless falling from the sky, cutting the wind in their wake. She couldn't help but smile.
Soon they were both landing in the platform outside the Clubhouse. Hiccup dismounted and walked in, Toothless following his rider. Hiccup stopped besides Astrid. She looked at his hair, it was messier than usual. Hiccup probably noticed that but didn't even bother fixing it. Astrid was glad he didn't, she liked it messy- kind of how it always was.
Snotlout, the twins and Fishlegs were sitting inside.
"It actually works Snotlout. Only when you're falling but it works." Hiccup announced.
"Yeah… but not everyone is as crazy as you are to jump off a dragon to cool down! Dragons fly, not fall! And that includes those who mount on the dragon!" Snotlout blurted.
"Easy Snotlout. You're crustier than usual!" Astrid protested.
"Crustier?! Crustier? I'm not the one who went outside and jumped from a dragon to just get me on my nerves!"
"I actually do that every day with Toothless when we go for a ride." Hiccup informed.
"That's not the point!" Snotlout exclaimed, getting up.
"You said that free falling didn't help decreasing this heat, I told you it did. You didn't believe and I just tried to prove it since there was nothing else to do!" Hiccup exclaimed "It's something stupid to do? Maybe." He shrugged his shoulders.
"Maybe? It is stupid!" Snotlout exploded.
"Hey! This heat is affecting us all Snotlout! Not just you!" Hiccup replied, he was starting to lose his patience. They had been trying to find something to do to cool down. Hiccup had suggested the free falling; something that he loved doing, he felt free and the wind on his face usually blocked the sun on the hotter days. They had also though about diving in the sea- the Edge had some beaches- but there was just too much sunlight there.
Snotlout didn't believe that what Hiccup suggested could work and Hiccup went to prove it. Snotlout was now acting like a little kid just because he was wrong- and most important of all- Hiccup was right.
Snotlout looked behind to see Fishlegs desperately trying to get out of Tuffnut's reach- the male twin was trying to paint his friend's face. Ruffnut was holding Fishlegs so he couldn't run away. Tuffnut was also muttering something like 'chubby painted statue'… exactly it didn't make any sense at all.
Snotlout turned around to face Hiccup and Astrid again and broke through the middle of the two, brutally.
"Come on Hookfang…" Snotlout muttered before disappearing.
"Woah, what happened to him? He's so bad humored today." Fishlegs suddenly asked, his voice behind Hiccup and Astrid.
Astrid turned to Fishlegs but whatever she was going to say wasn't said at all, she couldn't help but look at Fishlegs new facial paint. "More like what, happened to you?"
The twins were now bashing their heads together in a corner of the Clubhouse, their hands, clothes and faces all full of ink, the same colors of the ones on Fishlegs' face.
"Apparently I'm a chubby painted statue now…" He muttered.
"You guys need a shower." Astrid told the twins after laughing at Fishlegs face.
"Hum… we'd usually decline that offer but right now it would be good." Ruffnut answered.
"Freshy!" Tuffnut agreed before jumping and landing on Ruffnut.
"I wish we could have some shadows on the beach. Even inside water the sun is strong…" Fishlegs muttered while trying to clean some ink on his face.
Astrid looked at Hiccup and smiled. "Oh I know that face. What are you thinking about?" She said.
"Maybe we don't have to go to the sea where there is no shadows to cover us from the burning sun. Maybe we can bring the sea to us in a place with shadow!" Hiccup smiled. They all looked at him as if he was crazy. Hiccup sighed. "Ruff, Tuff, how-how's your boar pit going?"
Snotlout left his hut- he was still mad at Hiccup but that wasn't a valid reason to just stay inside his house forever. He walked to the Clubhouse but there was no one there. He turned his backs to the building wondering where the other riders could've gone without him. They had previously talked about a dive in the sea but it was too hot and the sun was just too strong. They had to walk on shadows because the intensity of the sun was enough to leave anyone dizzy, therefor that idea'd been forgotten.
His gaze went to the sky. A black dragon flew in the direction of the twin's hut caring a container full of something heavy by the way it looked.
"Let's go Hookfang" He told his Monstruous Nightmare while mounting him. They took off.
Hookfang landed in front of the twin's hut. Snotlout dismounted and walked in the direction of his friends' voices. He stopped near the hole the twins called 'The Boar Pit'.
"Humm… what are you guys doing?" Snotlout asked at the sight of Astrid, Fishlegs and the twins leaning against the hut's wall while Hiccup and Toothless dropped the container's contents to the Boar Pit. Fishlegs' face was still dirty from the blurred ink, Astrid watched Hiccup and Toothless' every move and the twins… were crying?
"We're bringing the sea to us and to the shadow." Fishlegs answered.
Toothless landed next to the pit and Hiccup dismounted. He lost his balance for a moment and Astrid ran to hold him.
"T-thanks. Wow. Stay out of the sun!" Hiccup mumbled after recovering his balance. Even Toothless was dizzy from the heat. "You ok bud?"
Snotlout looked at the Boar Pit. It shouldn't be called Boar Pit anymore. It should now be called Water Pit because that's what was filling the big hole: water.
"H-how did- did we agree on doing this!" Tuffnut cried, slowly approaching their ex-hole for boars.
Ruffnut too was crying but when she finally realized how good looking the water was, she pushed her brother inside and jumped after him too. "Yohhoooo!" She screamed.
Fishlegs dove in the fresh waters after that.
"I'm going to miss the old Boar Pit a lot but this is great! I mean look at this fresh water and this cool shadow we have here!" Tuffnut celebrated.
Hiccup watched as Astrid dove in the water and then turned to Tuffnut. "But that's the thing. We can take the water out of here when these heat days are over and fill it again when the weather's like this! You'll have your Boar Pit back but now we can just enjoy the water."
Ruffnut and Tuffnut looked at each other "Awesome!" They laughed before diving.
Hiccup jumped inside, enjoying the feeling of the heat leaving his body, especially after flying several times under that burning sun to fill the container with water from the sea. It would've been faster and less hard for him if the others'd helped but Hiccup himself insisted that he could do it alone. His friends just had to wait in the shadow.
The dragons also enjoyed this moment to cool down a bit. Being a dragon helped them with this kind of almost melting situations but they had to admit it, it was a HOT day. Toothless splashed water everywhere with his tail. The dragons were too big to fit in but they all found a way to participate. This is… all but Snotlout.
Hiccup realized that Snotlout was the only one out of the water and ignoring the fact that his cousin was probably still mad at him, decided to ask what was going on.
"Hum… you're not coming Snotlout?" Hiccup asked.
Snotlout though about the height of the hole when dry. It was the same height it had now. That meant he had no standing when inside, it was too deep….and he didn't know how to swim. Of course he had 'swam' before with the other riders, only the other times he could reach the bottom of whatever the place they were in was, that way it looked like he knew how to actually float and swim. Well, they weren't going to find out that he, the Great Snotlout Jorgenson, didn't know how to swim now!
"Pfff… I don't need that." Snotlout answered with the first thing that popped to his mind. "Let's go Hookfang… HOOKFANG!"
It was obvious that Hookfang wanted to continue the fun time on the 'Water Pit' but after a while the Monstrous Nightmare headed in Snotlout's direction, who instantly mounted his dragon and took off to Thor knows where.
"Did- Did I say something wrong?" Hiccup asked, floating in the water, his green eyes following Hookfang's silhouette until it was out of sight.
"No, you didn't. It's just Snotlout being… Snotlout. Only more impossible than usual. I guess that's the effect of the heat on him." Astrid answered, placing a hand on Hiccup's shoulder "Just don't worry about it ok?"
Hiccup looked at her in the eyes and faked a smile. Something in his gut was telling him that Snotlout was about to do something stupid… deadly stupid.
Soooo yep this is Chapter 1! It might sound kind of stupid the free falling part and the no shadows on the beach part, but I had this idea –the transforming the Boar Pit into a Swimming Pool one-a long while ago and later I had the idea of a Hiccup/ Snotlout cousin bonding in which Snotlout didn't know how to swim but Hiccup would teach him- this while I was writing the past fanfic. Well this two ideas, both involved water so I though "Why not?!" And that's basically it.
I believe I'll turn this fic in a three-shots one (there's the possibility of a two-shots but nahhh I don't think so, I just write too much lol).
Well I hope you liked it and I have another…
…WARNING!: Tomorrow is Friday and I'm so sorry but I won't be able to post. After that there's the weekend in which I don't write nor post. This way I'll post the second chapter on Monday. I'm so sorry about that *runs a marathon in tears*
Well this was the first chapter of How To Teach Your Jorgenson To Swim! XD