Welcome to How To Adapt To Modern Life. This book starts just after Season 5 of RTTE but Season 6 and HTTYD2 never happen now. Sorry for any spelling errors or grammar errors in advance, I wrote this when I had been awake for nearly 12 hours...so yeah, but ready for some errors...possibly
Introducing How To Adapt To Modern Life Chapter 1 : The Beginning of the End
First, it was a simple drawing Hiccup made when he was 12. Then, it was a simple side project after he and Toothless ended the war. Then after that, the project became Berk's only chance of survival after Hiccup and Toothless both turned 19.
Astrid had arrived back on the Edge with Stormfly one day, saying that she saw a huge wave that was nearly 500 feet tall. Hiccup and Toothless rode out and eventually found the wave, Hiccup then did the math, and figured out that the wave would hit Berk in exactly one month, and that it would cause the entire Archipelago to slide into the ocean. To say Hiccup was terrified was just an understatement, he was PETRIFIED at the thought of everything and everyone he knows and loves being killed by the wave. So he pulled out Project Arc.
Project Arc, is a huge ship that is designed to fly and carry over 1000 passengers. Hiccup then realized that this one project would have to become the life raft for Berk and the Dragons, Hiccup knew it was even more serious when he heard that the Archipelago was one of the biggest dragon centers of the world, so if all the dragons in the Archipelago died...then the species would go extinct eventually. Hiccup told Toothless and ONLY Toothless about it before coming up with a stupid reason for returning to Berk RIGHT NOW! His reason was that Toothless was homesick, and that he wanted to visit the cove and Berk. So they left for Berk, they rode into the great hall and Hiccup quickly dismounted Toothless and ran in with a bunch of papers, everyone turned to him with a curious expression.
"Guys...Ragnarok's coming" Hiccup states and slams the papers down, every looks at them, and then notice how Hiccup looks like he hasn't sleep't in days and that Toothless is shaking in fear.
"Hiccup, this better be serious" Stoick comments and Hiccup turns to him scared, actually scared.
"Guys, Astrid found a huge wave, its gonna hit Berk in one month's time and when it does...the entire Archipelago will slide into the ocean" Hiccup says with fear evident in his voice, everyone looks at Hiccup with determination and over confidence.
"Hiccup, we're Vikings, we've survived worse then a wave from the ocean" Gobber comments and Hiccup starts taking deep breaths.
"You wont survive this one! Not without Project Arc!" Hiccup comments in fear, he wants to show EVERYONE they need to build this life raft, and quickly.
"What is Project Arc?" Stoick asks and Hiccup takes a deep breath before starting.
"Project Arc is-was-a little project of mine, it was a huge boat with wings and some sorta propulsion fire holes to lift it into the sky and fly. It may be our best and only hope of surviving this wave" Hiccup comments and everyone looks at him skeptically before Gobber coughs loudly.
"So, how big is it?" Gobber comments and Hiccup sighs before saying the one thing that might turn them away from it.
"Bigger then this village...and bigger then the Red Death was, it's required to hold the 352 humans of Berk, counting the humans on the Edge, and all the dragons on Berk and the Edge" Hiccup says and everyone looks at him like he's gone insane.
"Hiccup, are you sure this is needed?" Stoick asks and Hiccup looks at him with complete certainty.
"I would give everything...EVERYTHING I own and have for this, I wont let you, Toothless, Astrid, or anyone else die from this wave" Hiccup states and Stoick realizes that Hiccup is truly serious. He then comes up with a idea.
"Hiccup, show me this wave of yours. And if I deem it required, we will TRY to build this Arc of yours" Stoick says and Hiccup smiles.
The next day, Hiccup and Stoick ride out to the Edge, and eventually find the wave, or the Ragnarok Bringer as Stoick has now named it, they head back to the Edge and Hiccup tells everybody about the wave and his plans, then Snotlout and the Twins look of the designs.
"Ummm, where's the S? Every flying boat needs an S! I NEED MY S!" Snotlout says and the Twins scowl.
"Boar pit, where's the Boar pit!" Tuffnut yells in anguish and Hiccup sighs and turns to Toothless who lets out a groan of annoyance at Tuffnut's antics.
"GUYS! We're sticking to this design, and making no changes unless its to fix something that doesnt work" Hiccup states and Snotlout and the Twins both sigh before settling down. They quickly round up EVERY dragon on the Edge and disassemble the WHOLE base and transport it to Berk piece by piece, even working late into the night. Hiccup and Toothless head back to Berk with Stoick and get started on the main frame of the boat, which is to be made of Gronckle Iron.
They start work on the frame, working endlessly into the night while the ENTIRE VILLAGE is being torn apart for parts, everyone stays in the great hall and works as much as they can before sleeping. The Village and the Edge are completely disassembled and put into a pile where the former village of Berk used to stand. The frame then gets finished in two weeks, Hiccup working endlessly to build the engines and machines that go inside the Arc. He eventually decides to take a break, so he and Toothless can play in the Cove while it still exists, they spend that day in the cove, playing and trying not to worry about their troubles.
They then receive a Terror Mail from the Berserkers, Defenders of the Wing, The Wing Maidens, and even the Outcasts. The Terror Mail announces that they are moving to Berk as they have no place to stay after the wave or Ragnarok Bringer destroyed they're homes. They make it to Berk, and their boats are disassembled and put into the Arc. The Arc is finally finished 3 days before wave's arrival. Hiccup stands upon the top of the Arc, looking at the finished ship. Everyone is going to move into the Arc, the Berkians, the Berserkers, the Outcasts, the Defenders, and the Wing Maidens. Which means over 3,000 humans, way over the Arc's limit, and thats not even counting the dragons.
"Come on Toothless, we need to get as much as we can into the Arc before the wave gets here" Hiccup announces and Toothless croons in agreement. They spend the next two days stocking the Arc with food, water, weapons, and everything else that they can think off. They move into the Arc on the final day.
Hiccup walks into the command center, which has Death Song amber windows and has a central control panel with multiple levers and switch's, their is also one big lever located to the left, two sliders on the floor in the middle, and a small control panel with levers and buttons on the right. Hiccup pushs a lever, causing the engines to start up. Hiccup controls the engine power and speed, Astrid controls defenses and exterior weapons, while Toothless actually pilots the ship, since he's a dragon and has more knowledge about flight then even Hiccup has.
They quickly fly to Dragon Island, and get as many dragons on board the Arc as they can before the wave hits the island. They quickly fly back to Berk, making it their in under 9 minutes. They hover in the sky and watch as the wave hits Berk and causes the island to slide into the ocean, gone forever under the blue waves of the Earth.
"Goodbye Berk" Hiccup says and everyone starts crying, even the dragons. Berk is gone, and soon...the entire Archipelago would follow. The age of Vikings...was over. Toothless quickly pilots them towards where the Edge WAS before the Ragnarok Bringer destroyed it.
Hiccup lets out a groan and shifts in his bed. Currently, more then 10 humans where packed into his room, along with 4 dragons. And those four dont include Toothless, who sleeps in the command center. Hiccup gets out of his small bed with a groan and walks out of the room and down the hallway. It takes him around 4 minutes before he finally makes it to the control center, where he finds Toothless sleeping. The Arc was currently in the water, somehow floating and not sinking. Its been nearly a week since they left Berk, and everythings going well, but their food and water stores are down 70%, considering that they have to feed more then 5,000 living creatures.
Hiccup walks over to Toothless and taps the Night Fury, who opens one of his eyes sleepily and looks at Hiccup.
"Hey bud, how are you doing?" Hiccup asks and the Night Fury croons, not happy but not sad either. Hiccup then sits down, resting his back against Toothless' side.
"Im not doing well, my room has 14 people in it, 10 humans and 4 dragons. Not counting me when I was in their. And my bed wasn't that comfortable, I probably shouldn't have picked the worst bed in Berk for my room. Well, I guess I could sleep here with you" Hiccup says and Toothless purrs at the idea before rolling over and using his legs to cradle Hiccup, and then wrapping Hiccup up in his wings.
"Good night, Toothless. Love yah, bud" Hiccup says before falling asleep, Toothless also falls asleep after a few minutes.
Around two weeks later, and the Arc is passing over the coldest place they've ever been too, and thats saying something since Berk was supposedly the coldest place on Earth before the Ragnarok Bringer destroyed it.
Hiccup continues throttling the speed of the ship while Toothless uses his paws to move two sliders that allow up and down, left and right movement of the ship. Suddenly, the entire ship shakes and a bell goes off.
"Thats the emergency engine alarm! One of the engines just went down!" Hiccup yelled and then turned to Toothless.
"Toothless, try to keep the Arc-and thus everyone on it-in the sky's for as long as you can!" Hiccup yells and grabs Inferno and his Gronckle Iron shield from the wall before running through the hallways and towards the engine room.
Eventually, he makes it into the engine room and enters to find three of the eight engines on fire, and then he finds VIGGO GRIMBORN and JOHANN standing their!
"Viggo! Wait...Johann?! What the Hel are you two doing! And how are you even here!" Hiccup yells in surprise and shock, also lighting Inferno, just in case.
"Oh look, the Runt" Johann says in anger while moving his hands in a certain motion, causing two daggers to come out of his arms. Hiccup then looks at Viggo to see him holding the Dragon Eye 2.
"Viggo, put the Dragon Eye 2 down, NOW!" Hiccup yells and then Viggo and Johann smile before grabbing two jars and throwing them into two engines, causing the engines to fail. Suddenly, the entire Arc starts tilting downwards.
"JOHANN! VIGGO! Are you crazy! Your gonna kill us ALL!" Hiccup screams as loud as he can, Viggo then laughs while grabbing his own fire sword and lighting it.
"I saw your fire sword, and I was so inspired so I made my own. I call it Night Fury's Pain" Viggo comments, but no one could do anything as the entire ship tilts onto a 45 degree angle downwards. Hiccup quickly runs over to the engines and trys fixing them, only to find the damage extreme. Viggo then smiles and uses his sword to light a small wire, which starts burning. Hiccup gasps and trys to stop it but Viggo and Johann pin him with arrows and fire. And before Hiccup can escape and stop the wire, a huge explosion rings through out the Arc, and the ship goes onto nearly a 75 degree angle downwards, Hiccup runs though the hallways and makes it to the control room to find Toothless knocked out and Astrid trapped under debry. Hiccup looks out one of the windows to see that one of the wings has been damaged majorly, and its engine is in pieces.
Hiccup looks out the front windows of the control room to see that the ship is about to hit the water. He quickly jumps onto Toothless and hugs the Night Fury with tears welling up in his eyes.
"Im sorry bud! I love you like a brother...im so sorry I couldn't save you...goodbye bud!" Hiccup says just before the Arc hits the water. Freezing cold water fills the ship in seconds, and somehow, all the ice freezes in mere moments. Causing everyone inside the Arc to be frozen inside the ship. Everyone had one last thought before being frozen, that this was the end...little did they know this was their beginning...
HOW TO ADAPT TO MODERN LIFE
Toothless suddenly realizes that he's actually conscious and awake! He then realizes that his body is completely freezing cold, he then opens his eyes to realize he's inside a ice block! He quickly trys shooting a plasma blast, it barely gets out of his mouth, but manages to melt the block around him. Toothless then takes in a few deep breaths while standing up, he then notices that Hiccup was thawed out with him!
Toothless nudges Hiccup, who lets out a small moan and manages to open his forest green eyes to the sight of Toothless' acid green eyes.
"T-Toothless? What happened? We-we where falling out of the sky, and we hit the ice and...it just, all went black. Where are we?" Hiccup asks into the darkness and towards Toothless' glowing eyes. Toothless can only see because he has very good night vision. Toothless opens his mouth and forms a plasma blast, revealing them to still be in the Arc! And the control room no less!
"We're...we're still in the control room? How are we still here?" Hiccup says and Toothless starts using his plasma fire to melt the ice away until he manages to thaw Astrid out, Astrid drops to the floor with a moan, and Hiccup grabs Astrid and moves her to the center of the room.
Toothless eventually clears away all the ice from the room, and then they notice that the ship is actually floating and not underwater! Hiccup quickly moves over to the window and rubs the frost off the Death Song amber window and they see that its day time.
"I wonder...how long have we been stuck in the ice? Weeks? Months? We'll need to find somewhere to check. After we repair the engines and get this place back in the air" Hiccup says and Toothless croons, Toothless then starts using his plasma fire to cut through the ice until he makes it to a room containing a bunch of Monstrous Nightmares and Stoick. Stoick unfreezes and quickly recovers, because he's Stoick, not even ice can stop him.
"Hiccup? What happened?" Stoick asks and Hiccup sighs.
"Viggo and Johann snuck aboard and blew some engines, and then blew the left wing! We crashed and somehow...the water froze into ice before we could drown. We got lucky" Hiccup says and Stoick takes some time to take this all in. Toothless finish's thawing out the Monstrous Nightmares and the dragons all get to work thawing out everyone else, and the rest of the ship.
"Ok, so what now?" Stoick asks and Hiccup looks at him confused.
"What do you mean by what now?" Hiccup says and Stoick sighs before sitting down on his bed.
"Hiccup, your the captain of this ship..." Stoick says and Hiccup coughs loudly.
"Umm, dad, you know Toothless is more of the captain of this ship then me, he actually pilots this thing!" Hiccup comments and Stoick sighs.
"Ok, then you and Toothless are co-pilots and Chiefs of everyone on the Arc" Stoick says and Hiccup sighs, Hiccup doesnt have the energy to argue with Stoick so he makes his way back to the control room, where he lays down on the ground next to Toothless, who has ran out of shots and wants to rest for awhile.
"Ok bud, where gonna have to fix the Arc, and then take off. And who knows how long that might take...possibly weeks! And im already tired" Hiccup says and lays down against Toothless' chest and belly, the dragon is also extremely tired.
"We'll *YAWN* we'll help in the morning, and get to work on repairs" Hiccup says and lays his head on Toothless' paw, Toothless' lets out a cute yawn and Hiccup smiles.
"Oh Toothless, you are so adorable" Hiccup says and Toothless looks offended at Hiccup's words! He is not adorable or cute! He is a Night Fury...and a very TIRED Night Fury at that.
"Goodnight bud" Hiccup says and falls asleep, Toothless shortly follows.
Thats the end of Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 will deal with repairs of the Arc and we'll get a hint at what year or time period they woke up in is. I'll give a hint, its after the 19th century, but before the 22nd century. Guess which year, i'll give a hint to the year, the real movie came out that year
So, stay tuned for Chapter 1. JustANormalHTTYDFan - Over and out