Hiya everybody!
So, here it is! My promised sequel to "The Storm, the White, the Blizzard"! I really hope this turns out good, and I really hope you all like it.
Thanks to everyone who liked my first story. It means a lot to me.
Due to FanFiction cutting my original summary short, I put the full one here:
Five years have passed, but not everything is resolved. Blizzard is still trapped with her so-called destiny from the ordeal on Depth Island – and when she decides to visit Hiccup, everything gets worse. The storm she and Hiccup encountered five years ago wasn't anywhere near the battle up ahead, and as things spiral into irreversible places, Hiccup and Blizzard believe they might be able to stop it – if they can live long enough to do so. Sequel to "The Storm, the White, the Blizzard".
This is sort of a mix-of-genres story. I didn't really know what to put for the labels, so if anyone thinks I should change them, just tell me.
NOTICE: Do not read this story if you have not seen the movie HTTYD 2 or have not read the Storm, the White, the Blizzard. It will either have spoilers or make absolutely no sense!
The beginning is a briefing before the whole story really starts five years later . . .
The last time Hiccup ever saw Blizzard or Dawny was when they flew off to Shady Isle, approximately three hours away, and away from the inhabited Berk. Blizzard (blood-red hair, deep blue eyes, very pale complexion and unhealthily skinny) had done her best to put all the paranoia that haunted her on Depth Island away, shoving them in that drawer of memories that would never be opened. Dawny (white/iridescent scales, beautiful silver eyes) did the same.
The two became expert swimmers, diving down to catch fish for food and both became closer as friends. Blizzard continued talking, keeping her voice healthy-sounding and used, so it wouldn't be so croaky and rough as it was when she first met Hiccup. She refused to let her Spirit-filled dreams – that still occurred, even after the downfall of Shadow – bring her down. Dawny was always there to help her if that happened.
Years passed, and things changed. Blizzard never forgot Hiccup and Toothless, since they were the ones to change her life, but as she grew older she realized that she wouldn't be welcomed fully to Berk, being an outsider. Hiccup was the son of a chief –this was known due to a dream Blizzard once had – and was probably very busy at the age of . . . what, nineteen? Twenty? Blizzard was just nearing the age of nineteen herself. It had been exactly five years ago that him and Toothless came into her life.
Though she wondered about Berk more often after she saw a very peculiar sight not too long ago . . .
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Ocean Eyes
prologue
The eighteen-going-on-nineteen girl leaned her back on her faithfully loyal dragon companion. Said dragon lifted her head sleepily, her gaze questioning her rider.
"I was just thinking," the girl sighed, looking up at the sky, where the stars were slowly fading to replace the brilliant colors of the sunrise. "Wasn't it five years ago that we first met them? If the dates that we've kept are correct, then it's our little anniversary tonight."
Dawny clicked happily, and her blood red-haired friend giggled. "If you want, we can go swimming farther out tomorrow. Or, today, I guess, since it's already dawn." It was the normal routine for the duo to go swimming, but it wasn't too often that they swam out-of-sight from Shady Isle. "But . . ."
Her eyes became airy, and the silver-eyed dragon hummed in questioning. "D'you remember that sight we saw, maybe a week ago?" Dawny ducked her head in what looked like shame. Blizzard gave a tiny smile. "I know you didn't like that dragon. I didn't either, honestly. He had a weird . . ." she frowned. "I don't know what to call it. It was all just weird."
Dawny clicked in agreement. Blizzard sighed, nestling her back further into the crook of Dawny's figure, since the dragon had curled around her beloved rider. "That dragon was headed away from Berk. I wonder if it had gone there." Blizzard shuddered, making a loose strand of red hair fall out of its hairdo and rest on her cheek. Her slightly-less-pale hand brushed up and tucked the red strand behind her ear.
"I just think it's strange," Blizzard finally said after a pause. "And I can't help but worry about them. I feel . . . like something happened. Something bad.
"But at the same time I felt something good. Last night I had a dream." that was natural, since Blizzard always had strange dreams, so Dawny gave her a deadpan look, making the redhead's eyes flash in mock annoyance.
"Hey, it was even more different this time!" she defended herself playfully. However, her amiable manner slowly faded as she looked to the quickly lighting sky. "I felt like I was in the mind of someone on Berk. I saw . . ." she shuddered. "I saw . . . everything being attacked. I saw through the eyes of someone . . . I think . . . I think it was Toothless."
Dawny's eyes widened as her head bolted up from its rested position, obviously terrified for her only dragon friend. "He's okay, I think," the blue-eyed girl said quickly. "But I also think something happened on Berk . . ." her eyes trailed off in the direction of where Berk would be from Shady Isle. She then groaned. "I can't believe I'm worrying so much!"
She tilted her head to look straight above her and rest her head on Dawny's back, but the strange feeling on the back of her head stopped her. She grumbled. "I feel like growing my hair out was a bad idea," she muttered, reaching up and feeling the not-so-tight bun on the back of her head. "Remind me why I did it in the first place?"
Dawny gave her a smug look, making Blizzard push her head away to break the gaze. "Stop," she commanded, a smile growing on her lips. "Don't you mock me, Dawn's Frost . . ."
Dawny chirped like a bird as if to tease her rider, making the girl finally break and laugh. "Okay, okay," she said in between her giggles. "So what if I wanted to look more like a girl? I am one, so get used to it!"
Dawny hummed in amusement. Blizzard pulled at her sleeve and changed the subject. "I actually like this a lot better than that raggedy old outfit I used to have," she said, feeling the softness of the wool. "I mean, now I actually have more clothing. Courtesy of thievery," she added mischievously. "But at least those stupid people are gone now."
Both girls hated the people that arrived on the ships a while ago. They had left when they realized some of their stuff was being stolen, but they had been a huge nuisance and Blizzard had desperately fought to keep the duo's existence a secret. Several times it was almost revealed, but they thanked the skies above that it wasn't.
The shirt Blizzard wore was a light gray cotton shirt, with sleeves a bit too long while the torso was a bit too big. She didn't care; it was better than her old worn-out sad-excuse-for-a-shirt that she had when she was fourteen.
She was wearing a wool skirt, her normal sleepwear nowadays. It reached her mid-calf and was colored black. When she finally got up to start doing things for the day, she would change into her pants – also made of wool, as she didn't have too many options when she stole from the ship those blasted people were on.
"But going back to what we saw going away from Berk," Blizzard said, seeing the very last star glimmering in the sky, "I know we agreed not to go to there, but now . . . I just feel like we should at least take a look around. To make sure they're okay."
Dawny clicked four times in half-agreement.
"We won't be seen, promise," the girl added. "We can't be seen. We'll fly up high enough in the clouds so we won't be seen, then we can land outside the village. If I can just get a glimpse of Hiccup and Toothless . . ." she stopped talking, looking hopefully at her good friend, who was surveying the sky.
"And don't you go on telling me you aren't worried too," Blizzard added, smirking, nudging her dragon with her shoulder. "You think of Toothless like a brother, and Hiccup like a best friend." when her dragon gave her another stony are-you-serious look and she threw her hands up defensively.
"I never said I didn't!" she retorted, a smile still etched onto her face. "Besides, we haven't seen them in five years . . ."
A comfortable silence followed, but it was still edged with the saying that Blizzard left out.
I wonder how much they've changed.
"I wonder if they remember us," she said instead. "I mean, obviously we do, since you and me wouldn't be friends if it weren't for them, but still. Their lives weren't changed after they met us. They just returned to Berk and lived like they normally did." Blizzard looked at the horizon and squinted, seeing the sun crawl just a millimeter over the sparkling ocean.
Dawny and Blizzard looked at each other, eyes unblinking. "Your eyes are super pretty," Blizzard said affectionately, rubbing the UnderIce's chin. "If it weren't for my horrible drawing skills I'd for sure draw you."
Blizzard had realized long ago – meaning when she lived with her mother – that she was terrible at drawing. Perhaps if she tried now, she would be better, but she had nothing to draw with or on.
"I wish we had a drawing of right now," she said wistfully. "You, me, on this huge ledge above the quiet ocean, with the sun rising and color across the sky." as Blizzard turned back to look at Shady Isle's forest, she sighed again.
"So . . . ?" she asked, stretching her arms up and yawning. "What do you say to a visit to Berk tonight? We'll be as silent and swift as a Night Fury," she added jokingly, making Dawny blink in humor as well, before she looked out at the ocean with a rather forlorn expression. Blizzard mirrored this for a moment, before standing upwards.
"I'm sick of this," she said, pulling out the piece of rope keeping her hair up. Instantly the thin layer of hair fell down to her shoulders, wavy and curled from being up in a bun so long. It was the same deep blood-red color as it was five years ago, except it looked brighter in the dawning sunlight. "I'm cutting off my hair," she announced to the white-scaled dragon, who was slowly getting to her feet and stretching her elegantly-curved wings. "It's been bothering me ever since I grew it out, and it's just been getting in my way. I'm going back to my old hairstyle." she smiled happily as she began walking leisurely down the slope that led to the forest and their camp. "C'mon, Dawny," she said, bare feet against the green-brown grass. "I'm gonna cut my hair and change, and then we'll go swimming!"
Her cheer echoed off the cliffside as she walked closer to the half-decayed forest that had once been lush and beautiful. Dawny started dashing after her as the girl picked up running speed, jumped over a fallen tree, threw her arms up in the air and yowled at the top of her lungs to the sky.
"Hiccup and Toothless, here we cooome!"
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-Mitti