"7...8...9...10." Uncovering his eyes, the 7 year old boy looked around the room, hoping to find his parents for they're playing hide and seek.
Quietly giggling, the boy walked forward, looking everywhere. He looked in the bathroom, kitchen, laundry room, his room, and his parents' room. All the places he's searched in, they weren't there. He tried to think of any other place but none came in mind.
As he walked through the hallway, he spotted one door, and he knows that place. It's his dad's office. He's not allowed in there for personal reasons, but he has no other place. Shrugging, he walked toward it and opened the door. He looked around with his bright green eyes and let his hand slide off the knob.
He walked around the room, observing the work, the papers, the objects, and all the other things that are scattered all over the floor, and that he has never been able to see.
"Dad? Mom?" he called out, turning on the spot to take in more of the room. As he did, he noticed that the window was open just a crack.
"Hiccup!" he heard his dad, Stoick, call.
The boy, now known as Hiccup, turned to the sound of his father's voice and titled his head to the side when he saw him rushing over.
"What's wrong?" Hiccup curiously asked, being picked up by the waist and carried to the front door. He looked behind him and into the office, he never got to see everything that was in there...and he was curious to know.
"Nothing, son. We just have to go. Someone very bad broke in and they might take you, so we can't be here."
If Hiccup wasn't such a wee boy, he'd have known part of it was a lie. But being 7 and all, he believed it.
"Here, take him, Val."
Handing Hiccup over to Val, full name: Valka, Stoick descended back to the office.
"C'mon Hiccup. Let's go." Valka grabbed her son's hand, when she put him down, and led him out of the house and to their car.
"Mom? Where are we going? Can't we just call the cops?"
Shaking her head, Valka opened the car door and ushered Hiccup in. "No. I'm afraid we can't." Once Valka closed the door and entered the passenger seat, Stoick came out the house with a suitcase. He closed the door and speed walked to the car.
"Mom...? Where're we going?" Hiccup asked, a bit more sternly this time, but as sternly as a 7 year old can.
"To your uncle and aunt's house," Valka answered, not looking back as Stoick turned on the car and drove.
"Oh...okay." And with that, Hiccup stayed quiet the whole ride and looked out the window, his reflection appearing and staring right at him.
"I need you to stay with Uncle Gobber and Aunt Phlegma for a while," Stoick gruffly said, him and Hiccup standing in front of the front door.
"Do I have to? Why can't you take me with you guys?" Hiccup looked at his dad and then to his mom, who was speaking to his aunt and uncle and hugging them, which confused Hiccup a bit.
Stoick sighed as he felt tears well his eyes. "I-It's important. Where we're going...it's not meant for you." He stared at his son, for what felt like eternity, and knelt down, hugging Hiccup as tight as he could without hurting him.
"Remember to shower once or twice a day, listen to whatever your aunt and uncle have to say...and..." Valka choked on a sob, stopping her from finishing, and hugged her son tightly, not wanting to let go as tears slid down her cheeks.
Hiccup hugged back with his little arms and whispered, "How long are you guys going to be away?"
Valka shakily smiled. "I'm not...sure. But we'll be back soon."
Hiccup pondered over her words and nodded. "Promise?"
Valka looked behind her to Stoick with a worried expression and he stiffly nodded.
Taking a deep breath, Valka broke the hug and looked into her son's eyes. "Yes..."
"We promise." Stoick wiped his growing tears and knelt down so he could hug his wife and son.
Uncle Gobber and Aunt Phlegma both watched the family with sad smiles.
"We'll be on our way, now," Stoick announced as he and Valka stood in the doorway, getting ready to leave.
Hiccup stood beside Gobber and Phlegma, looking at his parents with teary eyes.
Do they really have to go? Hiccup thought as he clutched the hem of Gobber's shirt in a tiny trembling fist.
Stoick glanced at his son for a moment before nodding to Gobber and Phlegma in thanks and turned, walking out.
Valka looked at Stoick's walking figure before letting out a ragged sigh and look back to Hiccup. She gave him a reassuring smile and waved to the two adults before following Stoick's lead, but not before closing the door.
Hiccup watched the door close in silence and after a few moments, he let go of Gobber's shirt and walked to the glass door. He looked through it and was barely able to catch his parents' car as his father drove away.
Sighing, Hiccup turned to his aunt and uncle.
They both smiled at him with reassurance.
"Don't worry, lad. Everything's going to be okay." Gobber walked forward and knelt down to Hiccup's height, placing a hand on his shoulder.
Hiccup looked behind Gobber to Phlegma and she smiled. "Like he said, it's going to be alright..."
Hiccup nodded and returned their smiles, even though deep inside he's hurting. His parents did promise him that they'll be back one day...but...part of him doesn't believe it.
What if they don't come back?
What if they lied to him?
Will he stay with his aunt and uncle for the rest of his life?
What's going to happen?
But most importantly, what happened? What was the cause of this separation?
Hiccup might never know...
Um...konnichiwa... That's my new 'hello'.
Konnichiwa!
So...I made a new story, if any of you guys read my others then to you I did. I hope you guys liked the first chapter of this story. I've had the plot in mind for such a long time.
I'm trying my best to not copy everything in the movie, so if it bothers you that I'm copying the exact thing, if I do...I'm sorry.
So...more characters will be introduced the next chapter because this was just the beginning, like in the movie.
I will bring some scenes from the second movie of The Amazing Spider-Man to here, I think.
Alright. I'm gonna go now. Sorry for any mistakes and if it was short.
Sayonara!