Sup guys! It's been a while! Almost two months to be exact! Sorry about that, school has been hectic and because I'm getting older I've been thinking more and more about my future. Anyway something I'm very passionate about is stopping people from owning any sort of exotic animal or going to circuses or anything that would involved any sort of contact with the animal, not just for the animals sack, but for the safety of the people as well. I will menchin that every once in a while because I feel like Valka would own a sanctuary of some sort. But If you have a different opinion please don't hate me... Plus some of my best friends helped me with this, thanks you guys! Any how, onwards with chapter one!
It was a beautiful night on a large, little known island on the cost of North America called Berk. It was the night of the blood moon, an event that only happens every so often, and the Mayor of the small rural town on the island Scott Haddock (nicknamed Stoick the vast for many reasons) was having a small celebration at the town hall. Everyone from the town was there, well everyone but the kids under the legal drinking age. So all of the children stayed home with their babysitters, played in the park or were having a small party of their own. That was the case for the Mayors son Hickory (also known as Hiccup) and Toby Haddock.
Today wasn't just the night of the blood moon but was also Astrid and Storm Hofforson's 16th birthday and the two sets of twins identical twins were having a small party at the Haddock household. They all sat on a couch huddle together wrapped a blanket in the Haddock brother's room and where having a marathon of marvel movies whilst eating ice cream and birthday cake. Astrid chuckled at something in the movie and rested her head on her best friend Hiccup's shoulder and he wrapped his arm around her shoulders. Once the movie was done they just chatted with one and other.
"Hey, do you guys want to go out on the roof and check out the moon?" Hiccup said and everyone else nodded, so he and Toby led them to the oak tree in the backyard that grew right next to their house. One by one they helped each other up the tree and onto the roof, where they all sat together and stared at the parsley red moon.
Toby smiled and wrapped his arm around Storm's middle, who kissed him in return. They both heard their twin siblings chuckling behind them, which earned the both of them a punch in the shoulder from Toby.
"Okay you two," Astrid whispered. "Break it up, we're on the roof, so who knows, the whole neighborhood can probably see us from up here."
Toby sighed, then released Storm from his grip, but not before he kissed her forehead once more.
"Goodness you two," Hiccup stated, "You've been dating for almost six months now and why are you still at your lovydovy stage?"
"Well maybe your just jealous that I have a girlfriend and you guys are both still single."
Astrid scrunched up her nose and stuck her tongue out at him. "Well maybe we still think we're too young to date."
"Or maybe you're too upset to admit that you and Hickory have gone to every school dance together, as friends!" Toby chuckled.
"And neither of you have ever been asked to dance." Storm replied in a joking matter.
Hiccup made a fake frown, and used his finger to simulator a single tear, then said "This conversation just got very personal."
"Okay guys, it's getting cold, we should probably head inside." Storm whispered and kissed Toby's cheek.
So once again, they climbed down the tree, one by one and returned underneath the warm blankets on the couch and continued their movie marathon.
After watching a few more movies they all fell asleep, huddled up in their little blanket cocoons.
About an hour later Hiccup was awoken by his cell phone ringing. He groaned tiredly and crawled out of the blankets and checked the time. It was 2 am, and he was by no means a morning person, he usually got up at around two in the afternoon when he could, so he wasn't particularly happy about being awoken at this hour.
He yawned and rubbed his eyes when he picked his phone off his nightstand.
"Hello?" Hiccup whispered in attempt to not wake his brother and best friends.
"Good morning Hickory." he heard his father say.
"Hey dad, what's up?"
"Well, you see, I drank a bit at the party, not much, but I was wondering if you could give me a ride home, just to be safe. Is that ok?"
"Oh, yea! Definitely! I'll be over in like twenty minutes okay?" Hiccup replied.
"That sounds great, thank you son."
"No problem Dad, see you in a bit." Hiccup said before hanging up.
He slipped on his shirt and opened the door to leave the room, but being the klutz that he was he tripped over his computer cord.
"Nrgg," Hiccup heard one of the girls grumble behind him. He turn around to see which one it was, their voices were very similar aside from Astrid's voice being slightly lower then Storm's.
There were a lot of similarity's between both sets of twins, no one would be able to tell them apart if Toby hadn't dyed his hair black or if Storm hadn't dyed streaks of blue in her's.
"Mmm, Hiccup?" Astrid whispered tiredly. "Where are you goin', Hic?"
"I'm just going to get dad, I'll be back in like an hour. Okay?"
"No, Hiccup it's late and your tired, I'll come with you to keep you awake, just in case. Kay?" She said and started to get up from her spot on the couch, but Hiccup set his hand on her shoulders and gently began to push her back down onto the couch.
"No Astrid." He mumbled as quietly as possible. "You stay here and sleep, okay?"
"No, Hic, you need..."
"I need you to stay here and get some sleep." He said then turned to leave the room.
Very suddenly Astrid jumped up and grabbed his arm. "Hickory Horrendous Haddock! I am coming with you!"
Hiccup sighed deeply, he knew he wouldn't win this battle, plus he was slightly terrified of her, especially when she was angry.
" Fine, come on let's go."
About ten minutes later they got into Hiccup's old pickup truck and drove off towards town hall.
Since the population of Berk was so small that they all lived outside of town with huge houses and acre's of land to themselves. Everyone lived at least a half hour from town, which they all loved. Most of the citizens of Berk moved there to get a taste of nature, but in Hiccup's sake his mother Valka wanted to start an animal sanctuary for big cats, and thought that this large island in the Pacific would be perfect.
So his parents bought an enormous amount of land, which was approximately 250 acres, and created her animal sanctuary she called 'The Ice Caves', it was focused on rescuing wild cats from fail facility's, circuses, ones whom were pet's ext. Valka not only did this for the animal's sake, but for their owner's or handler's as well, for owning an exotic cat is extremely dangerous. There was one thing she said to the public the most was that no matter how domesticated the animal seemed it still has its instincts are still there. Plus the fact that dogs and cats are completely domesticated animals, exotic cats are not. no matter how domesticated they seem. Dogs and cats have a slight possibility of turning on you, and so do wild cats, but when they attack the chances of survival are slim especially if its a 800 pound tiger that could kill you with a single swipe of it's paw.
Valka was the only person Hiccup truly looked up too, she inspired him to follow his dreams no matter what any one else said.
Her sanctuary now held 25 exotic cats after being opens for five years. The first animals she had saved was a circus tiger named Cloud Jumper and a lion named Scullcrusher.
Hiccup was snapped out of his daydream about his mother when Astrid swatted his arm.
"Stay awake buddy, we almost drove off the road."
"M' sorry." He whispered and rubbed his eyes with his free hand.
"That's okay, just keep those eyes open."
They drove for another twenty minutes, when Astrid heard a loud screeching noise.
"Uh, Hiccup, what was that?" She whispered, but he said nothing, he just stared in horror at whatever was coming towards them. "H-Hicory?"
Astrid looked forward and saw what he was afraid of. There was a van speeding towards them, the driver had obviously drank too much and was swerving on the wrong side of the road.
Hiccup reached out with his free hand and grabbed her's, they were both shaking, there was no way out of this one. Her grip on his hand tightened as the car collided with the frond of Hiccup's truck.
