Hey guys. It's been a while. I know. But to be honest, I am in High School and I never get to actually write anything for you guys. Also, the HTTYD 2 movie doesn't come out on DVD until NOVEMBER 11! That's about two months from now. So for the time being, I'm going to write little shorts, whether they come from Dreamworks or from my mind which usually comes up with stuff. This is Gift of the Night Fury: Hali-verse.
Disclaimer: I do not own Dreamworks, How To Train Your Dragon, or anything related of the sort. I am merely making this for entertainment purposes not for profit.
This is Berk, boasting the kind of balmy, fun-in-the-sun climate that will give you frostbite on your spleen. The one upside is our annual holiday. We call it Snoggletog. Why we chose such a stupid name remains a mystery. But with the war long over, and dragons living amongst us, this year's Snoggletog promises to be one to remember. (1)
Hali, still in bed and trying to sleep, woke up to the sound of a familiar roar and the house shaking. "Hali!" She peeked out from under the covers, her mind just catching up with everything. Knowing the usual alarm, she pulled her blanket over her head in an attempt to muffle the sound; but of course to no avail.
An even more excited roar sounded. "HALI! Come on! Up!" She rolled around to find any way to go back to sleep but the roars would have none of it. She sighed after realizing her attempts were fruitless and sat herself up.
"Alright, alright, I'm up!" she groaned pushing the blanket off of her head. She reached out blindly to find her helmet. She grabbed it, placed it on her head, and made herself get out of bed, the yawn escaping against her protest.
She walked through the house and out the front door into the chilly open air. She turned around and looked up to see Toothless perched on the roof just like every morning.
"Well, good morning, mister bossy," she said. Toothless laughed his dragonish laugh which Hali just had to imitate. The Night Fury climbed down the side of the house, keeping a close eye on Hali. "Do you always have to wake me up so early to go flyING!"
Hali's prosthetic leg slipped out from under her on a patch of ice. This was precisely why Toothless kept an eye on her. He quickly hopped down and caught her just before she could really injure herself. He pushed her upright as she looked down, annoyed at the leg, and kicked it against the ground. "Stupid leg," she muttered.
Toothless glanced at her up and down. "Are you okay?" he asked, starting forward as she slipped a little.
"Thanks, Toothless. I'm okay. Yeah, we can go flying now." She put her hands on both of his cheeks when he suddenly burped in her face. "Ew, ew, what? Argh. Toothless." She pushed her hand on his nose, laughing as she did so.
This was always Hali's favorite part of the day. That sense of freedom she always had when she was in the sky, flying through the clouds and over mountain tops. She didn't think any of the other dragons dared to go as high and as fast as she and Toothless did.
And so, when flying, she loved to go as high and as fast as possible with the tricks thrown in of course. It never started out the same though, each flight having its own unique twist.
Like this time, they were going high, low and really freaking fast.
Of course, neither of them would be themselves if they weren't doing any daring free falls down a mountain side.
They evened out for Hali to reorient herself. She saw that ledge. That same ledge that she and Toothless have been using for tricks and barely any of them had gone right.
The first time they tried it, Hali wasn't even high enough to make it over the ledge which caused her to ram her gut into the side of it and for Toothless to have to catch her before she fell into the water.
The second time, she forgot to unhook her harness so she went up (hardly) and down smack dab into the saddle. Thankfully Gobber knew how to work with both dragon and, especially, human teeth.
The third time, both she and Toothless were sure they would get it right. After all third time is a charm. Unfortunately, that's not how it went. Hali misjudged her jump and ended up going too short so she skidded on the top of the ledge, causing Toothless to claw onto the ledge. Fortunately for them Hali got onto the saddle just as Toothless had to let go.
So obviously, there was the chance of the trick going wrong. But with Hali being as stubborn as she was, you know she would try it again. And try she did.
"Okay, you ready?" she asked, making sure her harness was unhooked this time.
"Be careful," he warned, bracing himself for the tail-fin to close.
"Here we go." She took her prosthetic foot out of the stirrup and planted both feet on the saddle. As soon as that happened, Toothless' eyes went into slits as he struggled to keep himself in the air. Hali stood, braced herself, and hoped to the gods this jump would work.
And it did.
She flew, belly-first, over the ledge and back onto the saddle with a grunt. She slammed her prosthetic into the stirrup, bringing them into a smooth glide. "Yes! Finally!" she shouted.
Back at Berk, the Vikings were preparing for their annual Snoggletog celebration. This time, with dragons. There were so many people on dragons hanging up decorations at heights that they couldn't reach on their own. A giant wooden tree, decorated with shields pinned by Nadder spikes, stood in the center of the plaza.
The now dragon trainers were hanging up ornaments on the sides of houses and reefs in the front. Children were running around, wearing dragon masks, playing with the dragons walking about.
Stoick and Gobber were walking around as well. "By Odin's beard, Gobber," the chief was saying. "Vikings spending the winter holidays with dragons. What would the fathers say?"
"They'd think we'd lost our minds," Gobber replied happily.
Stoick returned the feeling with a hearty laugh as he turned to face his trip. "Well done. Well done, all of you. I never thought I'd live to see this day. Peace on the island of Berk. This will surely be the greatest holiday we've ever seen." The Vikings, who had all gathered in front of their chief, responded with laughter and cheers.
Suddenly, a roar pierced the sky, spreading confusion to the Vikings. "What the?" Stoick said, looking up and around. Gobber was doing the same. The dragons, though, seemed to know exactly what was going on. All of them snapped to attention of the roars as their eyes went to slits.
Filling the sky, were dragons of all species known. Nightmares, Nadders, Gronckles, Zipplebacks. They were all flying in one certain direction.
"What in Thor's name?" Gobber mumbled. Both he and Stoick turned to a rooftop as a Nightmare roared out and as if it were a cue, the rest of the dragons on Berk rose to the air. This sent distress through the village as they panicked over their dragons.
"Where's Hali?" Ashter asked, looking around. Surely Hali would know what was going on.
Unfortunately that was not the case. Both she and Toothless were still on their flight, going through the clouds, oblivious to the distress and panic on Berk.
"What do you say, love?" Hali asked, rubbing his side. "Wanna go again?"
"Sure why – what's wrong?" Toothless asked looking up at her. His attention was brought to the front when she let out a startled yelp. She ducked down, trying to avoid the flurry of flapping wings. She made sure to try to hand the reigns over to Toothless as much as she could while he maneuvered through the crowd.
"Whoa!"
"Oh, what the heck," Toothless muttered as he tried to keep them both out of harm's way.
Hali looked behind her at the flying dragons all flying in formation. It brought back a creepy feeling. But she wasn't watching ahead so this caused her not to duck when a Zippleback came by and knocked her helmet off. This was easy for her to notice. "Oh no, my helmet!" She looked down at the helmet that was now falling to the ocean.
"What?" Toothless looked down too and immediately after, dove towards it. "Hold on, we'll get it!" This came as a surprise to Hali.
"Aah! Toothless!" She gripped onto the reigns as Toothless concentrated on grabbing the helmet. While she was touched that he cared so much about her helmet, they had bigger matters on their hands. "No, no, wait! Toothless!" That got his attention. "Stop."
He threw out his wings, bringing them to a hovering position. "Why? But your helmet?"
"We'll get it later, love. Right now we need to get home and find out what's going on."
Toothless scanned the water, hoping for at least a chance to grab the helmet. Before he could though, Hali changed the tail fin position and Toothless had to go along with it. "Okay, let's go."
Hali hoped it wasn't going to be bad or horribly chaotic. But her hopes were downed when she saw the panic the village was in. Dragons were departing fast and Vikings were trying to stop them with futile effort.
The duo landed on the island where Hali dismounted quick. She met up with Ashter who was running up to her. Toothless came up behind the girl. "Hali, what's going on?" Ashter asked.
Hali didn't have time to answer before she was swarmed by Vikings with their frantic questions. She flinched and tightened herself up as she was circled in. Toothless wrapped his tail around her waist, giving her some sense of security. "Why did they leave?" one of them asked.
"What's happening?" a panicked lady asked.
"What if they never come back?" another Viking asked.
She put out her hands, trying to get any kind of sense into them. "Stop, wait.." Though she hadn't have needed.
"Calm down!" her father's booming voice came. He shoved some Vikings out of his way to stand in front of his daughter. "Give her a chance to speak." He turned his head to her, his expression turning from stern to worried. "Hali, where have all of our dragons gone?"
She let her shoulders go limp, her expression going to complete bewilderment. "Dad... I don't know."
(1) This is quoted from Gift of the Night Fury. It is the narration that Hiccup does in the beginning. Just wanted to point that out.
So I realized that I have not done this yet and I know it isn't Christmas but I just have to write it out. And I think I can make this super adorable given the relationship between the two. I'm just going to see where this goes because honestly, I have no idea. I'm going to start out with the movie plotline then add in my own twist.
Remember the birthmark? Yeah. That's going to be important.
So it is 1:30 a.m. And I have a marching band show today and I have to be at the band hall at noon. Well, I hope you enjoyed. I'm goin' to bed. Bye! Next chapter will be up soon. Promise!