Hello amazing readers! Last night I watched 'Tangled: Before Ever After' and this idea popped up and wouldn't leave me alone! It is genderbend Hiccstrid, and basically is a HTTYD rendition of the series. I'm not sure If I will continue this, or just leave it as a one-shot, but if you want me to continue it, please let me know!
Also, I will try to update 'Deaf Dangers' and 'This is Berk?' soon, but I am having a small case of writers block, as well as an issue with this thing called 'life', so bare with me!
Hope you enjoy!
"I still can't believe I agreed to this…"
Snotlout groaned as he followed his younger cousin through the woods, watching as she ran from one part of the forest to the next, doodling in her journal words and scribbles the elder would never understand. The young teen turned around and glared at him.
"Snotlout, you of all people should know what its like to be grounded and kept inside." Hicca smirked at Snotlout's incredulous look and spun back around, continuing her walk up the hill.
"Excuse me! I resent that!" Hicca rolled her eyes as she scribbled another set of words next to a quick drawing of the flower she was examining.
"You can resent it all you want, doesn't change the fact that it's true." Snotlout mumbled angrily before stepping up to the young teen, placing his hands on her shoulders to hold her in place.
"I still don't get what you did to get grounded… and also, why didn't you just ask Asher to sneak you out, or fly Toothless? Seriously, your starting to lose your touch cuz." Hicca jerked away from the older boy and continued walking. They were quickly approaching the top of Raven's Point, causing Snotlout to look back down at the village nervously, while Hicca just continued on, not even fazed by the height.
"1; I got grounded cause I snuck out for a midnight flight and nearly drowned cause Toothless' tail ripped when we were flying over the ocean. 2; Asher agrees with my father's grounding, so he was out of the question, and 3; taking Toothless would've been too obvious." Snotlout sighed for what felt like the hundredth time that night and rolled his eyes.
"Has the thought occurred to you that, oh I don't know, Toothless is a pitch-black Night Fury and wouldn't be seen in the pitch-black sky!? Ugh, lets just hurry up and get back before anyone notices you're gone." Hicca was about to respond, only to stop as they finally reached the top of the mountain, the sight of dark, almost ominously glowing spikes freezing her in place. The teen moved forward, green eyes wide, prosthetic clicking quietly as she neared the objects.
"Stoick will literally kill me if anything happens to y-" Snotlout was cut off at the sound of Hicca's shrill yelp, and twisted around from where he was facing the village, just in time to catch the young girl as her prosthetic snagged on a root in the ground. "Hicca! What, what happened!?" Snotlout followed her silent gaze and looked up, only just now noticing the glowing spikes. They started to glow brighter. Hicca gasped, causing him to look back down only to see her fingers glowing the same blueish color.
"Um… S-Snotlout!" Instead of responding, the older teen simply pulled Hicca up from her spot on the ground, grabbed her non-glowing hand, and started sprinting down the hill, away from the now near-blinding glow at the top.
"What did you do!" Snotlout shouted as they continued running down the hill, him having to pause occasionally to keep her from slipping on the ice-covered rocks on her prosthetic. As they ran, the cold night chill froze their skin, adding to the adrenaline rush from the escape.
"I just touched it! I didn't think it would-AH!" Snotlout looked back, only to see the spike-like objects that were at the top of the hill, now following them by shooting out from the ground. His eyes widened, and the grip on his cousin's hand tightened as he sped up, trying to get away from the danger behind them.
"You just touched it!? How did this happen if you just touched it! I swear, I'm going to ground you myself when we get back!" They jumped over some fallen down trees, and dove under others as they finally made it back to the base of the hill. The level ground made it that much easier to turn their fast-ish run, into a full tilt sprint towards the natural bridge-like structure separating the village from Raven's Point.
"I think at this point, I won't object!" Hicca pulled up next to Snotlout, causing him to drop her hand as they ran across the bridge. She looked behind her, checking to see how close the spikes were to them, when a new problem caused her eyes to widen, and her feet to stagger slightly in her sprint. "Oh no…" Snotlout looked back as well, eyes wide at the sight.
Trailing behind them, was a very long trail of blonde hair.
"HOW THE HECK-" Hicca was jerked back suddenly, falling to the ground at the stall of movement. She glanced up, only to see the long hair that was trailing behind her, stuck under one of the rocks that had fallen from the tremors the spikes caused.
"Snotlout! I-It's stuck!" Said teen skidded to a stop, then ran back to Hicca and helped her tug on the hair. After a moment of tense tugging, the rock finally moved, causing both teens to fall back, landing on the village side of the bridge. Because of all the tremors, the bridge became unstable, causing the whole structure to collapse into the ocean bellow. With nowhere to cross over, the spikes stopped advancing, the tremors stopped, and the only sound to be heard was the heavy breathing coming from the two teens on the ground.
"What… the heck… just happened…" Snotlout panted out, slowly sitting up. He glanced to his side, seeing his little cousin already sitting up, examining the long locks coming from her head with wide eyes.
"Snotlout…" Snotlout just grinned sheepishly as his eyes followed the rest of the hair, stopping when they met the edge of the cliff, where the rest of the hair fell down the cliffside.
"Well, at least we're alive…?" Hicca glanced at Snotlout incredulously as she stood, starting to pace as she tugged on the hair.
"Alive!? For now! Do you not see the fifty feet of my-father's-going-to-kill-me growing from my head!?" She grabbed Snotlout by the shoulders and shook him roughly.
"Hicca… HICCA!" He gripped her wrists tightly to catch her attention. "It's not the end of the world! We can just cut it off." Hicca took in a deep breath, then slowly let it out, looking back at the hair on the ground.
"You're… you're right. Let's just get back to my house and get rid of it before morning." Snotlout nodded and the both started walking, only to stop as Hicca was jerked back again by a root in the ground. They shared a look and sighed.
"This might be harder than we thought…"
0o0o0
Hicca heaved a sigh of relief as she dropped her arms to her sides, letting the large amount of blonde hair fall to the wood floor of her room. Snotlout tumbled in from the skylight after her, letting the hair he carried fall as well. The sun was just starting to rise, bathing the village in a soft sunlight. Hicca took another deep breath, the shut the skylight door tightly.
"There… we made it back before morning." Snotlout smiled slightly, then shook his head and stood up, looking at the hair that covered almost the whole ground. "So…"
"Just cut it. I don't care how, or how short, just get rid of it." The older teen nodded, pulling a dagger out of his boot. He brought it up to her hair, and started to cut it, only to jerk to a stop as the metal dagger feel apart in his hands. His eyes widened comically as he looked from the hair, to the dagger.
"Uh-oh…" Hicca's eyebrows rose as she turned around.
"Uh-oh? There shouldn't be an uh-oh! Just cut…" She trailed off as she looked at the broken dagger in her cousin's hand. "Uh-oh…"
"I… I don't think this is supposed to happen…" Hicca groaned and gave the older boy a look that clearly said 'no duh'. He shrugged and walked over to the wall, grabbing an axe that was leaning against it. "We'll just have to try something bigger then." Snotlout heaved the axe up over his shoulder, then with both hands, swung it down towards the blonde trail on the floor, only for the same thing to happen. He looked with wide eyes at the now shattered axe in his hands. "Its not working..." Hicca groaned and fell onto her bed, throwing a hand over her eyes.
"How am I going to explain what happened to my dad, if I wasn't even supposed to leave my room last night!" Snotlout shrugged as he made his way towards her bed, kicking hair out of the way as he went.
"Just don't tell him." Hicca rolled her eyes, and went to explain how that wouldn't work, when a knock on her door caused them both to freeze.
"Hicca?" Asher's voice rang out from the opposite side of the door. The door starting to slowly open jerked the two out of their frozen state, Hicca running to the door and leaning against it to prevent entry, Snotlout running around, desperately trying to hide the massive amount of hair in or under anything possible.
"D-don't come in! I-I'm r-really busy!" She pulled a chair over to the door, nudging it under the knob to keep it closed, then ran to join her cousin in hiding the hair.
"Oh, okay, well your father went to a meeting at the Great Hall and asked me to bring you some breakfast…" Asher's voice called once again from the other side of the door. The two teens in the room shared a relieved expression, happy to know they had a little more time before Stoick showed up.
"Great! Thanks! Just leave it-whoa!" Hicca shrieked as she fell to the ground, her left leg having snagged on some hair that was still on the ground. She could hear Asher banging on the door, yelling her name, and trying to get in. She gasped and grabbed the hair, standing up and trying to find a place for it, only to freeze at the sound of the door breaking of the hinges. She spun around, meeting the wide-eyed gaze of Asher, axe in hand, as he took in the sight before him. Hicca sighed and sheepishly waved.
"Hehe… hey Asher…" She trailed off shrinking back slightly as his face changed to a glare and he walked towards her, causing the hair in her arms to drop, and her to back up slightly.
"What. Did. You. Two. Do." Snotlout chuckled sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head, while Hicca started to nervously play with her hair.
"Hehe… so, funny story actually…"
Once again, not sure if I'll continue this… send a review and let me know what you think!
