Fem Hiccup story idea
FemaleHiccup! MaleAstrid! AU sort of… This is just an idea I've had for a while now because I love femhiccup fics but I always re-imagine them in my own way so I thought I should write them down. Hope you like! :D
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing! :(
So you may notice that I skip a lot of the original intro and just kind of do my own thing, as much as I love seeing people rewrite it with there own tidbits I usually end up skipping to the parts where they start actually talking, I must admit I mostly just love reading about the romance between hiccup and astrid so you'll probably notice later on that it mostly focuses around their interactions with one another, I promise they're different from the movie!
This is Berk.
We start our story in Berk with Hicca who is somewhat of an anomaly in her village, you see Hicca is the village outcast whilst also being a favourite amongst the locals… Confusing I know.
But you see Hicca is a very talented cook who makes the most delicious roast chicken you will ever taste, she refuses to share her secret herbs and spices recipe with anyone, not even her own father! On top of that she invented something she called a cake but was renamed the 'cupcake' by the villagers as a play on words of her nickname 'hiccup', that and she baked them in mugs. There were numerous things she would bake and share with the villagers from time to time, hence why everyone loved her…
If only it weren't for her nasty habit of always getting into trouble and breaking things around town all the time. Inventions she would call them… needless to say everyone would much prefer she keep her inventive mind in the kitchen. Ever since she was given permission to help Gobber as his apprentice she would come up with new ways to unintentionally destroy the village, a call was made for her apprenticeship to be revoked but she threatened to never make another roast chicken ever again, and on the promise that she would test her inventions in the woods instead of the village she was allowed to stay in the forge.
Now only the odd house was destroyed every other month thanks to her… The rest on the other hand were thanks to the...
"Dragons." Hicca muttered to herself after slamming the door on a monstrous nightmare.
Now raids are a fairly common occurrence in Berk so after the coast was clear Hicca ran outside heading straight for the forge, calls for her to get back inside were ignored but she smiled at the one man who said morning to her. She was nearly fried alive if it wasn't for Stoic the Vast who snatched her out the way just in time.
"What is she doing out agai-What are you doing out?! Get back inside." he yelled at her before pushing her into the forge.
"Phew, hey Gobber. Did I miss much?"
"Ah nice of you to join the party. I thought you would've been carried off." He called to her as she grabbed her apron she smiled at him,
"Who me? Nah I'm way to muscular for their tastes, they wouldn't know what to do with all this." She joked, flexing her nonexistent muscles.
"Well they need toothpicks don't they?" He smirked.
"You laugh now but what would you do if one really nabbed me huh?" She joked not noticing his sudden jolt of sadness while she started grabbing damaged weapons from the window.
He may seem like a jerk but Gobber was probably her favourite person in the entire village, he was the only one who could really appreciate her sense of humour, and she appreciated his right back. It wasn't that she didn't like any of the other villagers, she just found it hard to hold a conversation with any of them. She had just returned a newly sharpened axe when she noticed the teens run past the window, there were only five other people in the village that were around her age and there they were dowsing fires and actually helping the village while she was stuck inside. She watched them with awe and envy.
There was Fishlegs, a large but timid boy. Snotlout her cousin, the biggest jerk to walk the earth. The twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut, pair of overgrown five year olds. Right as her eyes landed on the last one a huge fireball came down and exploded behind him making him look like a god in the firelight, 'Aster.' she sighed dreamily, leaning out the window to get a better look as they walked past.
Hicca was not proud of the crush she had on Aster, yes he was quite possibly the most handsome boy in the archipelago so she couldn't really blame herself and yet she was ashamed that all it took for her to like him was his looks alone! She barely spoke to the guy, not since they were five but she couldn't even remember much about back then only that she was happy and that they all used to hang out together! Until of course Snotlout started to get mean and competitive, she soon found herself ostracised from the group and couldn't do anything about it.
Gobber pulled her out of her musings quite literally as he carried her back away from the chaos outside.
"Oh come on Gobber please let me out! It's been months since the last incident and I promise this one will work!"
"Ooooh no its far too dangerous."
"Please just two minutes, I'll kill a dragon! Hell, I might even get a date."
"Ye can't lift a hammer, ye can't swing an axe. Ye can't even throw one of these!" He held up a bola only for it to be grabbed by a viking and thrown at a dragon.
"Ah but this will throw it for me." She put on her most convincing voice while petting her contraption proudly, only for it to betray her by flinging at an unsuspecting viking out the window. "Oops." she winced
"Now this right here is what I'm talking about!" He frowned walking towards her,
"Just a mild calibration issue." she tried to pass it off as nothing,
"Look Hicca, if you ever want to get to there and fight dragons you need to stop all… This." he finished rather bluntly,
"You just gestured to all of me!"
"Yes that's it. Stop being all of you." He said cheerfully as if it was an easy and obvious solution to all her problems.
"Oh thanks Gobber that should be easy, while were at it why don't you just grow back a new foot." She commented sarcastically, he whacked her over the head.
"Very funny. Sword. Sharpened. Now." He walked away and back to work,
"Well you started it." she muttered just loud enough for him to hear. Her face grew determined, 'One day I'll get out there and show them.' she thought, she started going through the dragons she had seen and how impressive it would seem if she killed them only to be interrupted by a shout of "Nightfury! Get down!" it was that moment she realised that if she ever wanted to be taken seriously around here then that would be the dragon she would have to kill first. 'All I need is an opportunity.'
"Man the fort Hicca, they need me out there." Gobber said arming himself with a sword,
'Perfect!' she thought trying act casual, but he turned at the last second and pointed to her.
"Stay. Put… There, you know what I mean. RAAAH!" he charged into the fray.
She paused for but a moment, 'Well… he didn't say for how long.' She grabbed her invention and bolted out of the shop as fast as she could with a big grin on her face. she tried to ignore all the shouts for her to get back inside, "Sorry, be right back!" She called hoping they wouldn't follow her. she ran to the quietest edge she could find and quickly set up her slingshot with full gusto only for her spirits to be deflated by the complete lack of dragons.
"Please, gimme somethin to shoot at. Gimme somethin to shoot at." She chanted, praying for something, anything to happen.
That's when she heard it, the night fury was close and he was about to shoot! But she couldn't see him! Desperately trying to catch a glimpse she was aiming haphazardly only for it to go off by itself again, but the cry of surprise was not her own. She couldn't believe her luck as she watched a dark figure fall from the sky landing near ravens point. She stood stunned for a moment, "I hit it… I actually hit it! Woo yeah! Did anyone see that?" She cheered searching for a witness, only to hear a crunch behind her. "Except for you." She said dryly to the Monstrous Nightmare that had crushed her slingshot. 'And I just named it too.' she thought until the dragon roared in her face. Naturally she screamed and ran for dear life.
She ran as fast as she could trying to get to safety, she was almost to the path to get to the torches when she noticed one of the younger children hiding outside his burning house looking scared and lost, so she leapt onto one of the rooftops, an easy feat when you consider the village was built on a hill. Trying not to think about how she was going to get down she just kept running and jumping rooftops trying to get away. She could hear faint cries of 'Hiccup?!' And 'What are you doing up there?' She didn't have time to answer however because she was running out of roof, the Monsrtous Nightmare was right on her tail so she didn't think to look before she leaped.
It would have been a rough landing too, Stoic was there to catch her but landing on him wouldn't have been much softer than landing on the ground, had it not been for the dragon talons that wrapped around her only to carry her off.
"NO!" Stoic yelled trying to reach for her outstretched hand, but she was too far up and he just missed her.
"Pa Paaaaa!" She called back to him, finally processing what was happening.
"Hiccup!" Stoic called, the village was stunned and barely noticed as the other dragons grabbed what they could and flew off in the other direction, but the Ngihtmare was taking her the wrong way. They watched in horror as she kicked and screamed only to fall from its grasp and into the forest. "She got away." he muttered in relief to himself, "Find her! I need a search party out there right now! Every able man and woman is to search for her!" People started moving all at once grabbing torches and forming teams heading towards the woods, those who stayed got to work putting out fires but there were only a few, even the teens had headed off on the search.
"Stoic." Gobber said quietly as they both headed to the woods, "Maybe you should wait here. The chances of her surviving a fall like that-" He stopped when he turned to glared at him, "Look she's the smartest viking I know and if anyone could survive it would be her, but the village probably shouldn't be left so unprotected." He said backtracking. Stoic paused looking extremely upset but he could see the point Gobber was making.
"Fine. But you had better find her." He told him before heading back, not that he was much use pacing in the centre square the whole time.
Thankfully Hicca was indeed smart enough to grab onto branches as she fell, she didn't have the strength to keep hold of them for long though so really she was half falling half climbing down as best she could, she was a good ten feet off the ground before she slipped and landed in a shrubbery. She groaned trying not to move, she was aching all over and her heart was still racing from the terrifying event, but she was exhausted.
She was also pretty sure she'd hit her head on a branch at some point, especially seen as how when she heard the search party coming to look for her instead of being relieved she just felt embarrassed and panicked so she tried to hide by pulling the shrub over herself. The sun had been coming up when she fell but it was still early and dark in the forests, 'Hopefully they won't see me.' She thought to herself before she blacked out.
So what do you think? :D pleeeeeease tell me! I respond well to any kind of criticism so don't hold back, but like most people I love hearing kind and friendly feedback! Even if you just want to tell me it's cliche and that Hicca is a 'Mary Sue', don't worry, I totally get it but at the same time I implore you to stay with me as I promise she's too sarcastic and awkward to be MS, I just felt that if he had grown up as a girl instead, she would have different hobbies pushed onto her at a young age and therefore only got interested in forging when she turned say 12ish. If you're still reading this, which I doubt, then kudos! :D