So I thought I'd try a Hijack story, so far I like it. It's Hiccup centered, most of the chapters focusing on him. I'm also working on writing longer chapters, keeping each above 4k words. So far I think I'm doing good. Hogwarts fic! This is focused on the Big Four's time in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry, with some twists. When doesn't that school have a good twist?
Description: Everyone makes promises. Some unbreakable, some simple. I prefer pinky promises, they're a muggle thing to do but something just feels binding about every one we make. Sure, the thing's I didn't expect were to make amazing friends with my Wizard (and Witch) companions. I expected to be an outcast, invisible to those whom didn't bully me. But when you're mixed up with Spells and Spirit's, hell breaks lose and you might just loose yourself.
Note: Pairings inclide (main) Hiccup x Jack, (small) Hiccup x Rapunzel, (small) Jack x Elsa, Rapunzel x Flynn, Merida x OC, (mentioned) Anna x Hans, Anna x Kristoff, Elsa x Astrid.
Note: This is my first ROTBTG fanfic, you would know this if you look on my page thing. I own nothing except for the story idea.
Note: Words for this chapter without AN- 4,414. With AN- 4,659
(Edit: I've gone through and fixed errors I didn't notice before publishing. No big changes.)
=Hiccup=
I have been many things in my life. Scared, nervous, frightened, confused, shocked. Okay so they were mostly negative and ended up with my face down the school's toilet. I had thought that this would change when I received my letter to Hogwarts, where I would be sorted into most likely Hufflepuff and disappoint my family, well my father. Surprisingly I had made it into a slightly more respectable house
(in his eyes,) Ravenclaw. I spent the year being teased by my cousin Snotlout and the summer with that pulse the disappointed looks from my dad. As you can tell, I don't have a good relationship with my family. I'm a disappointment to my father and my only friend is the outcast girl from Gryffindor named Merida DunBroch, who, like me was a pure blood and a disappointment to one of her family members.
Merida had been granted invitation to my humble home, on the Isle of Berk, commonly said that: it's twelve days north of Hopeless, and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death. Located solidly on the Meridian of Misery. Merida, who my father adored for her love of everything related to weapons, had fallen in love with the islands. Saying that is was much better than DunBroch, the kingdom her parent's ruled together. She was especially interested in all of the dragons that terrorized the island almost every night. Unlike me, she was aloud out of the house to help fight against them.
"I don't understand why you hate 't here." She said as we sat on a log eating a homemade lunch I had made for us. We were in the forest hidden away from the town and exploring. I know Merida didn't want to make a big deal out of it, considering her birthday had passed a few days ago with little event. This was my way of giving her a gift, we'd spend June and most of July here, away from her parents and in my own hell and then the rest of the summer in DunBroch her home.
"Everyone hates me Mer." I responded nibbling at the fish in my hands. "I'm useless, we're a dragon hunting tribe we should be big, bulky and not me." I gestured to myself getting her to laugh.
"You're not the only toothpick around, what about that Tuffnut guy, he's scrawny." She noted getting me to groan in frustration.
"He can pick up an Axe. I can't!" I threw my arms up in frustration, knocking my food onto the ground. "Just my luck." I covered my face and deflated. Merida laughed at me.
"Relax Hiccup." She rubbed my back and handed me some of her cooked fish. I glanced at her, wondering how I had ever managed to befriend this Scott. Her normally messy, red knot of curls had been temperately tamed by her mother the day she arrived, so instead of sticking out it was pulled back into a braid she hadn't bothered to take it out of. 'I like it like this,' she had said after I questioned. 'It's not in the way and I can see better for archery, but don't get used to it. It wont last forever.' Which was completely and entirely true as I could see parts of the braid falling out from her sleeping in it and wanting to return it to it's normal untamed state.
"Right," he agreed. Nodding and looking out into the trees and back towards my small town. I took the fish and finished it, giving her a small thank you before standing and stretching out my arms. My too large shirt falling off a shoulder when I brought my arms back down. "Well, we're both twelve now." I stated turning to her. "What can two, adventurous, magical children do on a day like today?" I wondered and she grinned.
"I was looking at some of your drawings you had on the wall." She told me standing up as well, she was in similar viking garb to that of what the female population wore here. Much to her mother's disapproval, but she had agreed to let her not bring the robes and dresses for fear of the Dragons. Thanking the gods that her father had taught her how to fight at such a young age. "I saw an interesting one of a Dragon." She picked up her bow and slid it over a shoulder.
"Oh," I blushed some, rubbing the back of my neck. "Those are just... doodles."
"No drawing of yours is a doodle." She informed me. "You've seen it up close haven't ya?" She wondered stepping towards me, I backed up a little. "Do ya know where it is? Can I see it? Meet it?"
"Now why-why would... you want to meet a Dragon?" I asked dumbfounded. She looked at me as if I was some stupid rat trying to steal food.
"Honestly Hiccup, I know ya better than ya think." She crossed her arms. "You don't harm animals, you befriend 'em." She told me. "Can I meet your friend?" I considered this for a long moment. The only other person who knew about Toothless was, well, Gobber. He works at the school with a man named Hagrid to take care of the grounds and the creatures in the forbidden forest. Last year he had snuck my pet dragon into the school so I could continue to look after him. Then, when the year finished, he brought Toothless home and back to the cove that had become his home.
"Alright," I agreed and she beamed. "But, you have to promise me to tell no one. Only one other person know's about him. And that's a strained relationship. I don't want the whole village to hunt him down."
"My lips are sealed." She pretended to zip her lips then bounced as I brought her to my first ever real friend. It took a half hour to get there, considering we were a ways off from the normal trail I took but eventually we made it. "It's beautiful." She said looking around at the hidden home of my friend.
"Watch your step." I told her, climbing down, she followed after me, effortlessly.
"Gods Hic, I knew you had a knack with nature but honestly, this is something else." She smiled at me and I looked at her.
"A knack with nature?" I asked, raising my eyebrow and She laughed.
"You're elemental base is related to Nature." She said. "Haven't ya noticed?" She wondered. I shook my head before looking around to see if Toothless was near.
"Alright," I said to her. "You're going to have to leave your weapons here." I noted to the rock we stood near. She didn't question it as she took off her bow, quiver and dagger. I added my dagger and hid them from sight with some moss then led her deeper into the cove. After a few minutes of silence and slow walking the black dragon stepped out of the shadows, watching us. I held my hands out cautiously, trusting that he wouldn't hurt me but he was wary of new people. Especially having been around the island so long. "It's alright," I told him as he circled us. "She's a friend. My friend, the one I told you about remember?"
"You talked about me with a Dragon?" She asked, slightly bashful. I looked at her.
"Well, yeah." I shrugged slightly. "He's my best friend." Toothless slowly stepped into my hands, nuzzling against them. I pat his head and he inspected Merida. I took her hand and lifted it to him, she started to draw back. "It's okay." I said to her, after a moment of hesitation she nodded and extended her arm. Toothless pressed his head against it and drew back, looking more like his normal happy self. She smiled at him and he gave her a toothless smile in return.
"No teeth!" She exclaimed, marveled by this new information. I patted his head as she inspected his mouth, she got closer.
"I wouldn't get too close-" Toothless growled, his teeth appearing and making Merida jump back. But he wasn't growling at her, his head shifted towards the entrance we had come from before he darted away to hide from the nearing intruders.
"Teeth!" She squeaked watching him hide and I laughed.
"Yep." I agreed. "I call him Toothless, I had met him when his teeth were retracted so the name just stuck."
"That's very clever." She noted and a snap grabbed my attention. Looking up at the cliff we had climbed down I could see a group of people stumbling through the brush. At the front was my bully, and sadly, cousin Snotlout. He was talking with Ruffnut and her twin brother Tuffnut, and a boy I recognized as Jack Frost from the Slytherin team. They were laughing about last nights dragon attack and telling jokes before my cousin spotted us.
"Look," he interrupted the conversation with his friends pointing down to us. "It's Baby Hiccup and Frizzle." Over the last twelve years of my existence Snotlout has never been one for good nicknames.
"Why don't you come down here and I'll Frizzle that smirk right off your face!" Merida yelled up to him, personally I think it's one of her lamer threats to my bully. She picked up a rock and chucked it as hard as she could, missing Snotlout but satisfying me with hitting Tuffnut square in the forehead knocking him over. Ruffnut only laughed at him.
"Nice aim!" Snotlout called back to her. "But you missed looser!"
"No I didn't." She responded as the male twin started wrestling with his sister successfully hitting Snotlout in the back and making him stumble towards the edge. Almost falling. Jack, who in my opinion was the sanest one out of the four, just watched the scene in front of him. There wasn't much I liked about the guy, but I couldn't say I didn't dislike like him. He hung around Snotlout and his gang at school and was normally there when Snotlout was giving me my daily punishment for being alive but he never participated in them. Which in my opinion was just as bad as my cousin shoving my face into the toilet and flushing it on me.
After a moment of us speculating each other he turned. Saying something I couldn't hear from this distance before walking off with the others watching him. "We'll finish this later losers!" Snotlout called at them before the three chased after their friend. Silence followed, Merida was fuming and I knew not to bother her when she was like that. There have been the few accidents where my face was at the end of her fist. Which was how we originally met, and she always made up for. After she had stopped fuming I dared to step near her again.
"Wanna cool off?" I asked and she looked at me skeptically.
"You mean like a dip in the pond?" She glanced at it distastefully.
"No, I have a better idea." I said, whistling and Toothless bounded over. The Dragon seeming eager to fly considering he held a bag filled with his harness in his mouth. He dropped it at my feet. "Care to fly?" I asked her, her eyes widened and I started to strap the mechanism to Toothless, making sure that everything was secure and working properly.
"Fly?" She asked excitedly. "On a dragon?" She was bouncing now, even more than she had been when I brought her here to meet him. "Are you kidding?" I climbed up onto the dragon's back and held out my hand.
"Would I offer if I was?" I asked, she took my hand and climbed up behind me, eagerly getting settled into the saddle and wrapping her arms around me. "You might want to hold on tighter than that." I told her before leaning forwards. "Alright boy," I patted Toothless's head. "Let's go!"
Almost a month passed like this, spending our mornings in town, afternoons with Toothless and sometimes flying into late evening. We talked about everything we could, things we didn't bring up at school like how our separate classes were. How we maintained grades, while Merida had crammed her head filled with everything she could for tests I had mostly relaxed for mine. She had always teased me about how being apart of the brainiacs was all I needed to get good grades but I said the stuff was just easily remembered and stuck in my head. I enjoyed learning. We talked about our few but other friends, a girl named Anna who always sat with Merida during their classes apart and at meals that they weren't able to sit together at. Rapunzel, the only other person I would think to be a friend who was in the same team as me and like Anna sat with me in our classes apart and lunches we didn't have together. She always had her book in her nose which often got her teased and there were more than one occasion where she would run into a wall, or the wrong classroom, or into the boy's bathroom which is how she had met me as I was participating in my daily punishment for being alive.
We talked about Quidditch and our house teams, where I didn't care much for the sport Merida was enthusiastic about it. She would often go on with rants about who her favorite team was and criticizing the players when they had the pleasure of sitting indoors during a Dragon attack and listen to a match as the people outside panicked. One of my favorite moments was when a dragon, a Nightmare had landed on our roof and looked inside the window, watching as Merida danced around cheering as her favorite team, and seeker for that matter had won the world cup. Then the Nightmare lit himself on fire and the house started burning, making me and her have to run for cover as dad and a few other vikings would put the house out.
Today was a special sort of day. We hadn't been teased by Snotlout and his gang as we spent the morning in the village, my dad actually complimented me on my best friend after she had beaten Snotlout in a public arm wrestling competition, giving her the title Junior Arm and there was a celebration of the town's so many years of survival so people were in a better mood than normal. Down at the dragon fighting arena, Astrid, a girl I had been crushing on since she saved my life last year in a dragon attack was going to face off against a Nightmare tonight for the grand finale, because she was the top in her dragon fighting classes. With this happy note, Merida and I descended into the forest for the daily meeting with Toothless and our usual flight before all the excitement happens.
"You don't seem happy about it." Merida noted as we climbed down into the usual nest to find Toothless jumping in and out of the water catching fish and eating them whole.
"I am happy." I said sarcastically, "because honestly my dad will be sulking for the next few weeks wondering why I got shown up by a girl. I was a man, a Viking none the less. I should be out there, at the top of my class proving my worth as a Viking man. Which is completely absurd because I'm only twelve. If I make that point he would go off on a rant about Snotlout or himself." I tried to imitate my father. "When I was three years old I had killed my first dragon," I deflated. "I'm never good enough for him." I sighed as Toothless came over with his bag and I started to get everything ready.
"Yes ya are." She put a hand on my shoulder as I worked. "Stoick's a lot like ma mum." She continued. "Stubborn as a mule and never listening to a word I say." She crossed her arms. "And completely oblivious to everything ma brother's do. Honestly they need more attention than I do." I laughed, remembering the story's that she's told me about the triplets. "Ya need a good fly, let's go." I climbed on, getting myself ready before helping her up behind me, she held on and we shot into the air.
Like the first time we flew together she was giddy with excitement. Which I completely understood. Flying with Toothless was one of my favorite things to do. We did the normal tour of the island, and in the setting sun made it look more beautiful than it normally did before Toothless's ear twitched. "What's wrong bud?" I asked a moment before he dodged a blast of fire. One of the largest blasts I'd ever seen.
"Hiccup?" Merida asked as Toothless wobbled out of the way of another blast. I looked behind us and my heart sank. The beast chasing us was like nothing we've ever faced.
"Oden help us." I said as Toothless did the bravest thing I'd ever seen him do, he charged right for the town, luckily for us, it was almost bare, as everyone had moved to the arena where Astrid was soon going to face off against the Nightmare.
"Hiccup?" Merida said a little bit more urgently as the beast of a dragon flew over us heading for the largest source of food.
"We're going to need help!" I said to her.
"Who will help us?" She asked.
"Dragons," I responded, her grip around my waist tightened as Toothless raced towards the arena.
"This is mad!" She warned me.
"What other option do we have?" I demanded to know, knowing that she didn't have any ideas. As the arena approached I could see the lights and the cheering of the town. They didn't know yet. "Get us in there bud," I said to Toothless and the dragon lifted into the air, a whistling came from deep in it's throat scaring several of the Vikings and a fireball shot into the metal chains surrounding the arena and diving in with the cover of the smoke. I jumped off, Merida following behind as the smoke cleared getting everyone's attention, including the Nightmare and Astrid who had been about to face off.
"Hiccup?" She asked confused and angry. The name echoed around the stadium.
"What do you think you're doing?" My dad boomed moving from his chair to stand over everyone else. "Hiccup what-"
"Dad you have to listen we're all in danger," I said to him.
"We're Vikings." He stated.
"More danger than normal." I continued. "There's a-a huge-"
"What is that thing you have with you?" He demanded, ignoring what I was saying. Toothless pushed against my back, encouraging me to go on.
"It's a Night Fury-"
"A what?!" His shock and anger echoed through the arena followed by calls of outrage.
"He won't hurt anyone but this isn't the problem!" I called over the noise. "There's a-" Too late. The scream of the beast thundered over us and I saw it land on the mountain above, knocking rocks down towards us. "Merida," she nodded climbing onto Toothless, I had taught her how to fly him once, she was okay at it but not as quick as I was. She didn't know the signs like I did. Astrid had come out of her shock and was now staring at me as I approached the Nightmare. I moved slowly, my hands outstretched and saw Toothless leave out of the corner of my eye. The Nightmare slowly stepped forwards sniffing at my hands and a few of the Vikings around us regained themselves some watching, some going for their weapons as Merida and Toothless prevented (as best they could,) anyone from getting squished by a rock.
"Hiccup what ar-" Astrid's voice stopped as the Nightmare nuzzled against my hand and moved to wrap protectively around me. I turned to her.
"Do you want to help me or not?" I asked, gesturing around to the cages that locked the other dragons up. "Pick a Dragon, any Dragon just hurry up!" She ran over to a cage and opened it, a Deadly Nadder stormed out, it's tail extended to shoot spikes at any moment. I repeated the process I had with the Nightmare and tamed it for her.
"How do I know if it's safe?" She demanded of me.
"I'm a Ravenclaw! I would've come up with something more logical if I didn't know that this worked!" I told her as Toothless returned Merida climbed off him and ran over to me.
"I can't get near it." She told me.
"Then you need to distract it, you and Astrid." Merida glanced at her fellow Gryffindor but nodded. Climbing onto the Nightmare. Astrid looked as if she were going to protest again but the monstrous dragon above us roared in rage causing more panic among the Vikings.
"If I die, I will come back and kill you!" She warned me, climbing onto the Nader and I ran over to Toothless. After getting set up we raced out of the arena and into the sky. I would like to say that I had a plan, that I was facing a Dragon I at least knew a little bit about, or that I had a logical plan that didn't risking my best friends and my crush's lives to an unknown fate. Or maybe this was some magical trick by the Ministry of Magic to test us. Because I'm just going into my second year of Hogwarts and I'm not aloud to use magic.
"Got a plan brainless?" Astrid called from my left.
"Find it's weak spots." I called back, "Make it angry, use up it's shot limit!"
"Seems like 'e can't get any angrier!" Merida called from my right. Above the monster blew fire into the sky, making it rain down onto us. I tried not to get lit ablaze.
"Just keep it distracted and learn as much as you can about it, when you think you've got it figured out, go in for the kill!" I told them and their silence was the only answer I needed. Toothless raced ahead and we reached it first, all four, six? How many eyes did this thing need? Well they were all focused on me and Toothless as we circled him. I heard a deep rumbling that seemed to shake all the trees around him and a moment later fire shot at us. Toothless dodged and rounded onto it's back as Merida volleyed arrow's at one of it's eyes. Probably hitting the mark every shot. Astrid was circling it like I was looking for a good opening, she seemed to find one because they went into a dive, her Nader sending out it's spikes hitting a spot just above one of it's wings, they were shortly followed by a burst of fire and a cry of rage.
Toothless shot out of the way as one of it's wings lifted, nearly knocking us out of the air. It fled for the clouds above, which were turning dark and stormy. Toothless fired after it, building up a shot and shooting it at the same wing Astrid had shot. A painful roar beckoned from the beast before it fully vanished in the clouds. "Great," I said to Toothless. "Now we're fighting something we can't see." The words clicked in my head. Something we can't see. I remember from my short time in the Dragon fighting academy similar words. The Night Fury got it's name for stealthy attacking in the night, it was one of the most dangerous dragon's because we couldn't see it, it blended in as well as moved at top speeds. "Toothless, let's become invisible." I told him, he tilted his head, looking at me with curious green eyes before nodding and vanishing into the clouds.
Toothless used his hypersensitive ears to guide him, evading blasts of fire the beast was throwing at us and in return occasionally sending his own blast back at him. I thought about the hesitation before each shot, how it needed a moment to build up. Then I remembered a day where Toothless and I had found a nice warm place to sit, I gathered wood for a fire, and we sat there for what felt like ages. While I was cooking my own fish, Toothless had gone out and caught some of his own. While we ate a Terrible Terror, some of the smallest dragons around, had come up and tried to steal a fish from Toothless. They fought and Toothless won by shooting fire into the Terror's mouth as it tried to form it's own shot.
I wonder if that concept would work here.
"Get us close, I have an idea." I told him and he entered the clearing the giant had made with it's wings. It looked at us venomously. "Shoot inside it's mouth when I tell you too." I said to him, he glanced at me as the beast made to shoot fire. "Hold," I said, waiting to see the spark, "hold," I said this because I was scared out of mind. Thinking of what would happen if it failed. "Now!" The first burst of light from the beast's fire rose out of it's mouth and Toothless blasted it. The fire exploded in it's mouth and the explosion knocked me off of Toothless. I couldn't hear him but I soon found myself falling out of the clouds. My mind going numb.
"Hiccup!" Someone cried moments before I was surrounded by black.