Author's Note:
Please read and do not skip over this! It is important that you read this so that you won't get confused when I upload more chapters! After many months of reading various fanfictions, I decided to sit down and actually write one out (If you don't believe me, check out my fav stories). Now, with that being said, do not beat me and roast me if it is not the perfect fanfiction alright. This fanfiction will incorporate characters from a different author, but this fic will still use characters from the movie (Serenity, Re, Aurora, Draco, and Tenor are not my characters but they belong to my favorite fanfiction author, Serenity Dragonrider. They will come into play later in the story). I will also use my own characters as well (So think of this as Game of Thrones where they incorporate a lot of characters). Dreamworks owns the rest of the HTTYD universe and its characters.
But DO NOT be discouraged from reading this fic! I will do my best to make it the best it can be. I have read stories where it had nothing but OCs and it was amazing! Feel free to review this chapter for good feedback and PM me for bad feedback! If you could do that, it'd be really appreciated! NOW LET'S DO THIS!
Italicized is dragon speech
The sun was high in the sky. The waves of rocked gently against the cliffs of Berk. The atmosphere was cold and loud due to the fact that autumn was ending and all the vikings were preparing for the deadly winter storms they faced annually. This was going to be Hiccup's first real test as chief. From the looks of every Viking there, they had confidence their chief would do well. If he could defeat not 1, but 2 alphas, then this should be too easy for Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, or so they thought…
Hiccup woke up with a groan. Ever since he became the chief of Berk, he hasn't been able to get a lot of sleep. He can't design inventions, map out new territories, go to sleep, and wake up from the tremors of his house cause by his best friend, Toothless the night fury, like he used to. Now, he usually has to get up right before the crack of dawn and go to sleep well after sunset.
"I just got to get through today, and tomorrow I can relax", Hiccup said with a sigh.
Even though Hiccup new that chiefs never take a day off, he decided to do things his way, as only stubborn Hiccup would. One day out of the week, he would go exploring with his best friend Toothless and chart new lands and discover new species of dragons. Some vikings thought that the idea was absurd, but the Viking gang (Astrid, Tuffnut, etc.) thought it was splendid. And who could ignore those big, puppy dog eyes of Toothless? Hiccup was just happy his off day was tomorrow.
"Well, I don't wanna be sleep-deprived tomorrow, so let's get started", he said to himself.
He got up and looked to his left and noticed that Toothless was not on his rock slab. "He's probably doing his chiefly duties, too", he thought out loud.
He put on his usual garments, and went downstairs to eat a quick breakfast. 15 minutes later, he approached his front door, took a deep breath, and stepped outside to begin another day as chief.
The village itself was even busier than usual now that Valka's rescued dragons moved in. But Hiccup was smart and lucky to have friends who would help him along the way. He left Valka and Fishlegs in charge of teaching the new generations on how to train a dragon. He put Snotlout and Eret as night patrolmen; watching Berk from the sky for any signs of trouble. Since the twins had a knack for explosions, they were left to help gather wood and fish every other day using Barf and Belch's gas and spark. In Astrid's case, Hiccup felt that she would be up for a slightly more challenging task. So what he did, was that he decided to make her his second-in-command. You could imagine her reaction: her screaming with joy, along with a firm punch to Hiccup's shoulder, followed by a strong, slightly overwhelming kiss.
As chief Hiccup had to check up on the gang as usual. Everybody was doing the jobs accordingly, much to the chief's relief. The only one who he was worried about was Astrid, since he could not find her in the village. Valka, his mother, stated that Astrid went with the twins to make sure they didn't burn all the fish as they did the other day.
He then found Toothless walking with Cloudjumper, conversing in their own tongue.
"Man, dragons have so many problems I didn't even know about. I don't know if I can handle them all", groaned Toothless.
"You can", consoled Cloudjumper, "All you have to do is make sure they learn from their mistakes and your job as alpha will get way easier, trust me"
"Thanks Cloudjumper, you really are a helpful friend""Anytime. If I could help the Bewilderbeast with his duties back in my old nest, I can sure as heck help you with yours", reassured Cloudjumper.
Just then Hiccup came up to them. "Hey bud, mind if I join in with you guys?", Hiccup questioned happily. Toothless warbled in agreement, and lowered himself down sp Hiccup could get on his back. The rest of the day was spent settling dragon disputes. By the time they were done with that, the sun was setting on the horizon.
"Wow, today wasn't as bad as I thought it would be", said Hiccup. Just then Astrid returned with the twins.
"Hello milady, I'm sure your day was as exciting as ever", Hiccup greeted with his usual sarcasm, followed by a quick peck on the cheek.
"Trust me Hiccup, watching Gobber's dragon, Grump, sleep all day would've been more entertaining", countered Astrid.
"Hey Astrid, not trying to ruin the mood or anything, but aren't you going to tell Hiccup, uh, what we found today?", questioned Ruffnut.
"I think we should have destroyed it but Astrid said not to", pouted Tuffnut. "Wow, my idiot of a brother can actually think out complete thoughts!", teased Ruffnut.
As the twins started to fight atop their dragon, Hiccup sighed in annoyance, "What are they talking about?".
"They are talking about this", Astrid said as she handed Hiccup a black, cylindrical tube, "We found it on an abandoned, sinking ship. We looked for survivors, but there weren't any to be found".
"Was there anything else on that ship?", asked Hiccup.
"Aside from scattered weapons,no. It looked like all they were carrying of value was that thing", Astrid replied, gesturing to the tube.
Hiccup inspected it more closely. The tube had curves and indentions that looked like weird markings all over the tube. The ends had silver knobs on them with a sliver of gold that connected the knobs to the cylinder itself. Even Toothless sniffed it curiously, wondering what it was.
"Let's take this back to the Mead Hall and gather the gang. This is something I want only us and our dragons to know about", he ordered the Astrid.
"You got it, Hiccup", Astrid said. She then took off with Stormfly and the twins to gather their friends while Hiccup took off towards the Mead Hall on the back of Toothless.
Once everybody was gathered, the moon was rising towards the sky. The whole gang, except for Astrid, Hiccup, the twins, and their respective dragons, were wondering why their chief gathered them at this time of day.
"Now, you are all probably wondering why I gathered you all here", stated Hiccup.
"Eh, no worries chief. Snotlout and I were gonna wake up for our night patrol anyways," Eret said in his thick british accent, brushing it off.
"The Ruffnut, Tuffnut, and Astrid discovered this", Hiccup said while placing the tube in the middle of the table for all to see,"on an abandoned boat while helping the fishermen out at sea. Now, we don't know what this thing is, so that's why I asked all of you to come here".
"So we can find out what it is, and why it was on that ship", finished Astrid.
Valka picked it up delicately, and inspected it from all angles. "Whatever this is", Valka stated,"It is pretty important, seeing as how there are many markings and drawings of some sort.
"It 'ooks 'ike it's made o' some fancy metal", Gobber chimed in.
Valka then put it next to her ear, and shook it. Her eyes widened in surprise,"There is something in here!", she exclaimed.
"Let me see it", asked Eret, holding out his hand. Valka gave the tube to Eret, who then went on to opening one end and failing to do so.
" .You !", shouted Eret with all his might. He gave up shortly after. "Whatever this thing is, it can't open", voiced Eret while waving the tube in the air.
"Give me that!", barked Snotlout as he snatched the tube from his hands,"You're not doing it right". He then proceeded to pry open the container with no luck.
"Uh, men", voiced Astrid. She then ripped the cannister from Snoutlout's hands, put half of it on the edge of a table with her foot holding it in place, and with one heavy swing from her axe sliced one of the knobs off. She handed the tube to Hiccup while Snotlout grumbled,"...well I could've done that, too".
Hiccup poured out the contents into his hand, which happened to be a scroll. He unrolled it onto the table and scanned his eyes over it. "It's a map", he announced.
While everybody was looking over the map, the dragons couldn't help but have their own conversation about the topic of interest.
"Why would a Viking carry only a map and nothing else?", Meatlug questioned confusedly.
"I don't know", Barf stated. "Humans are something else", finished Belch.
Stormfly, on the other hand, was trying to put the pieces together,"An abandoned, sinking ship, no crew whatsoever, and only one item on that ship. This doesn't make any sense".
"I think I figured it out", Toothless stated,"This map is important to somebody out there in the world. And from what I heard, it looked liked the crew of that ship were on their way to delivering it and gave their lives to try and protect this thing."
It seemed Astrid was thinking the same thing,"I think whoever was aboard that ship gave their lives to make sure this thing wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. That map, is important"
"It's a shame that it is not written in runes, or else we could've found some treasure", spoke Snotlout.
"Regardless of what it is, we are going to hold it until the owner claims it",declared Hiccup.
"How would we know if the one who claims it is the right owner?",questioned his mother.
"We will ask them questions about this map, the container it was in, etc. The bottom line, is that they won't be lying to us", replied Hiccup.
"How can you be so sure?"
"Would you lie to a dragon?"
Everyone couldn't argue against that, so with that, the meeting was meeting was over and everybody, dragons included, turned in for the night. All except Snotlout and Eret, who had started their night watch. Their main priority was to watch the sea for any invaders, since they were aware that Berk was the only place that made peace with dragons, so they didn't need to look up, only down. That was the first mistake. Hiccup kept the map and its container with him at his house. That was the second everybody wasn't aware of, was that they were being observed the whole time. In fact, they were being watched the moment Astrid and the twins picked up the map.
High up in the sky near the clouds was a good sized group of dragons, about 20 in total, gazing down at Berk and waiting patiently for their commander to give them the signal. At the head of the pack was their leader, the alpha of their nest. A female alpha to be precise. In fact, she was a rare breed of dragon; she was a night fury. This night fury was not like the few others of her breed. She was the 2nd of her kind to have a rider atop her back. Her rider waited until the night watchmen were a good distance away, and everybody else was sound asleep before he rider, covered in black, gave his mount the order,"Retrieve the map, and do not shed any blood", he said firmly. The night fury, nodded in compliance, relayed the order to the rest of the pack, and not even 5 seconds later, the bone-chilling whistle of a night fury's dive, filled the night sky, followed by the diving bodies of 19 dragons.