FOR ALL NEW VISITORS: The first story, Addiction equals reality, follows the adventures of a young How To Train Your Dragon fan finally fulfilling his dream; arriving into his favourite fictional world. Join him as he meets his favourite characters and, unsurprisingly, becomes intimidated by the dragons. But not everything is as easy as it seems, even within the great world where dragons and vikings are close companions. I'd advise new visitors to read the first one before reading this one, but it's a choice, so do as you please.
Here we are again my friends. This story takes place two weeks after the ending of the first story.
Every so often, we like to take a gamble, or, to put in a different set of words, test our luck. It's a concept that's had a place for the faint hearted, but the odd time there is a motivation behind it that justifies it. In this case, Hiccup has been unable to get rid of this collection of uncertainty from his head, and it's starting to get to the point where he'd much rather see what other people make of the issue in a historical manner, and he'd take it from that point. Ever since the deadly rivalry between Tuffnut and Morgan had came to an end two weeks ago, where Morgan had barely came out on top, Hiccup hasn't been able to stop thinking about it, because he's felt that the way he dealt with it was poor, to the point that it made him question that if he couldn't deal with something like that, then how can he be sure that he'll be able to live up to his father's legacy as the Chief of Berk? he's still fairly new to the position, so he couldn't possibly make an answer towards it. At the same time though, he has Toothless by his side, who managed to overcome the Bewilderbeast from Drago on that threatening day, but that was mainly Toothless's accomplishment. Hiccup is his best pal, but Toothless did all the work when it came to defeating Drago, which made Hiccup beg the question, along with the one mentioned previously, if he can manage to handle the role of being the Chief of Berk with independence. He had also managed to end the war between the dragons and the vikings all those years ago, but that was in the past, and he hasn't been able to accomplish anything that rivals the drastic outcome of it. He just didn't know where to go from here, and it led to him having a numerous amount of sleepless nights.
That was the case right now, with Hiccup simply unable to sleep, due to those thoughts once again entering his brain. As Toothless was resting on the stone slabs in the corner of Hiccup's room, and as the entirety of Berk was fast asleep for the night, he simply couldn't force his body to go to sleep. He placed his hands across his eyes and rubbed them, sitting up afterwards to look across his room. Seeing Toothless asleep on the stone slabs was a sight he didn't see as commonly as you'd think, because Toothless would switch between sleeping in here, to sleeping with the other dragons elsewhere. Hiccup moved himself to the side of his bed, so he'd be sitting on the side of it in his night-clothes. Looking across to the little desk near his bed, Hiccup's eyes turned away from it towards Toothless, to ensure that the Night Fury hasn't woken up, and it appeared to be the case. Being as cautious as possible, Hiccup stood up off his bed to the floor, looking to walk towards the door. He was walking as slow as possible so he wouldn't cause any sort of colliding sounds between his feet and the floor. He succeeded, and got to the door with complete ease. He opened the door and walked through it to see the stairs in front of him, but that wasn't where he was aiming for. He turned to the direction of his right shoulder to a wooden cupboard on the wall, which was between Hiccup's bedroom door and the door that led into his studying/working/building room. He placed his hand on the small handle to slowly open the cupboard, and unveiled inside it within the dark atmosphere was a tiny book that was covered entirely in leather on the outside. Hiccup slowly took that, and next to it was a pencil-like object, which he had also taken. After closing the cupboard as slowly as possible, Hiccup crept back into the room with Toothless as slowly as possible, so he wouldn't wake him up. He did end up reaching the table, luckily, and once he got to it, he slowly grabbed a hold of the chair to move it backwards in order to make way for him to sit on it. As he moved some of his hair off of his forehead, he had managed to stealthily sit himself down on the chair, peeking over his bed briefly to see if Toothless had woken up; all that rested there was a black-cat like figure which was lifeless at this time of the night.
Hiccup opened up the little book as he sat at the little table on the right side of his bed, and looked around his room, trying to think about how he could write up what he's currently feeling. He wanted to write down what's keeping him awake, and what has been keeping him awake these past couple of nights. He had a good idea on what he wanted to write, and as it hatched into his brain, his face brightened up briefly as it looked towards the door, before moving back down towards the table in which the book was situated on.
He set down the pencil-like equivalent down onto the paper, and it was all within the viking language; there were symbols on the paper set out in lines, as they all started to create a paragraph with Hiccup's writing. As the pencil was being scribbled on the paper to unleash his thoughts, Hiccup was noticeably mumbling within his breath about what he was writing about, with words to convey a completely vague idea. He had stopped to think briefly every 10 seconds whilst he was writing.
"Uhh.." he emitted, before once again setting the pencil against the paper.
Over at the corner with the stone slabs, movement was starting to emerge from Toothless's sleeping body, which wasn't sleeping anymore. The Night Fury had woken up after hearing the sound of somebody writing. Of course, being a Night Fury grants you many skills, but when you have extremely good hearing when you're trying to sleep with somebody making noise, it wasn't ideal. He sat up from his resting position and simply tilted his head towards the right at the sight of Hiccup writing something on a little leather book. He let off a cute, yet quiet yawn whilst keeping his face over at his viking's direction. Toothless had slowly crept over to Hiccup as the viking wasn't aware that his best pal was awake. The green eyes of the dragon simply gave it all away, and Hiccup's eyes and head looked upwards at the sight of him.
"Oh bud, uh...did I wake you up? sorry, I'm just feeling a bit...unsettled at the moment.." Hiccup confessed to Toothless.
Toothless didn't look angry, but instead, intrigued. Hiccup lifted up the leather book to show the pages he's written on to Toothless.
"I'm uh, I've just gotta write out my selfish brain, or uh...empty it...haha.." Hiccup said, in his typical, adorably awkward tone.
Toothless moved closer to Hiccup as the dragon wanted his friend to be as happy as possible, and able to rest for the rest of the night. He nudged Hiccup with his scaly head, which caused Hiccup's arm to rest itself over the head of the dragon. Hiccup kept on writing though, despite the fact that his other arm was on Toothless. Hiccup let off a sigh, before looking at his dragon and the leather book.
"Oh forget it, I'll just try again.." Hiccup said, closing the leather book.
He placed the leather book right onto the floor next to his bed in the gap between the desk and the bed, before standing up and off the chair as Toothless was making all kinds of noises towards Hiccup, such as the one when he was observing him draw a drawing of him with a stick back at the cove when they first met.
"Toothless, go back to sleep, I shouldn't of been up in the first place..." Hiccup said, walking away from his dragon over to his bed, in which he slumped himself onto the top of it. "I need to stop thinking that I'm incapable of the tiniest things.." he made an expression of 'tiniest' with two of his fingers from his left hand, creating the tiniest gap possible between them.
A combination of purrs had emitted from Toothless as the Night Fury made his way to the other side of Hiccup's bed, in which Hiccup had turned himself around to. Toothless simply stared Hiccup right in the face the second he got to that direction, which caused Hiccup to sit up on his hard, but bearable bed.
"Will you cut it out? I'm tired over here, Toothless" he said, unable to stay grumpy or angry at his best pal.
Hiccup let off a sigh as he sat up on his bed, before looking back at Toothless, placing an arm onto his head again. He stroked Toothless's scaly head, not wanting to let his grumpiness get the best of him.
"I'm sorry bud, it's just...it's just everything that's happened, I was really like...wow..." he chuckled very briefly, before his face turned back to a straight one, "poorly handling such an easy situation to handle...w-wasn't I? you know, bud? the one with Morgan and Tuff?"
Toothless brightened up at the mentioning of Morgan, because the dragon had grown a heavy liking of the young lad. Toothless emitted more purrs as his face seemed to tell the story; he knew exactly what Hiccup was talking about.
"I'll...I'll deal with it tomorrow.." Hiccup said, still unable to get those thoughts out of his head. He carefully rested his back against the bed, moving the covers onto his entire body.
Toothless gave Hiccup one small lick across his face, which caused Hiccup to scramble his hands across his hair and face, but it put a smile on him at the same time, which seems to be something only Toothless can do at the times in which he's feeling down about himself. Afterwards, Toothless did a circling walk twice before finally resting down besides Hiccup's bed, placing his two paws in front so he could use them for his head to rest on. His tail fin and the tail fin that Hiccup had made were moved towards his legs, and he ended up curling up right into the bed. Hiccup placed a hand dangling from the top onto Toothless's head, stroking it back and fourth as he once again tried to get to sleep to escape the thoughts.
Can you see now what Hiccup's going through? granted, you might be thinking that 'well, that isn't really something to be bothered about at this point, why is he worrying so much?' but the thing is, what his performance of handling it revealed was that, when trying to deal with something without any companions by his side, he simply struggles. Stoick was a large viking, and if he wanted to, he'd be able to throw the vikings all over the place, but Hiccup cannot do that.
As Toothless was once again falling asleep with Hiccup's arm on his scaly body, Hiccup was thinking extremely vaguely about the solutions he'd go with to eliminate these thoughts; would a gamble on an important thing calm his thoughts? there appears to be nothing else that isn't popping up in his mind apart from that, and then suddenly, it hit him like a bomb. As he was still resting on his back, in order to not distract Toothless once again, his eyes widened and he briefly gasped at what he had just thought of; it was something incredibly historical, something that would never have been done on Berk before, if he actually goes through with it.
"Just get to sleep..." Hiccup said to himself in his whisper, and because he was unaware, Toothless was once again caught by the sound of the whisper.
The Night Fury didn't move, nor did he purr, but instead was breathing as quietly as possible whilst thinking about what he could do to ensure that his friend is happy, because at the moment, it looks like the complete opposite. He was also thinking about Morgan at the same time, and when you fit those two names into the same category that Toothless views them as, it's bizarre to think that he'd have that view for Morgan. He kept still, intending on getting to sleep for tomorrow. Hiccup was starting to do the same, but the idea that he's just thought of is something he MIGHT actually go through with, but it'll require a huge amount of support.
You know what else isn't helping him at the moment? the absence of his mother, Valka. She had gone off on some intention to discover new pieces of land, inspired by what Hiccup had told her what he and Toothless usually do, along with Astrid and Stormfly. This was one day before he had met Morgan in the cove, and it's weird that she has yet to come back, because she'd be in for a huge surprise with somebody she's never met before, and the major events that have occurred in her absence with Tuffnut. Although, the entire flock of dragons from the sanctuary, in which they moved to Berk following the defeat of Drago, as did Valka, went along with her, so it'd be pretty understandable if she's been away for this long because of the fact that getting the entire flock back to Berk is a pain in the backside. What he's just thought of is something that he'll require his mother to be around for, so he can discuss it with her, as well some other close vikings.
The two friends had both finally drifted off, with Hiccup finding it an uneasy process in doing so. This wasn't the first time that a night like this had happened, it's also happened the last couple of nights, but those were when Toothless had slept out with the other dragons, so luckily, the dragon hasn't experienced what he's just seen on a constant basis. Speaking of which, Toothless appeared as if he's having some sort of dream, one which he seems to be enjoying.
As the rest of Berk was well away into sleeping mode, everything had settled down following the commemoration, and it's as if nothing had happened between Tuffnut and Morgan. During the past few weeks, Ruffnut has shown a more hesitant side to her personality following the death of her brother, and Morgan has somewhat grown his confidence across the place. He's much more confident around the dragons nowadays, but the odd time he'll still be hesitant to say the things he usually says in his regular vocabulary when they're around. He was a viking of Berk officially, but he certainly didn't sound like one. His British accent had separated him from every single viking on Berk, and although it's not been noticed by some people, the others have, and the way he pronounces things sound funny to them. Toothless has even recognised that Morgan's talk is different to that of any other viking, which meant that he was truthful to his statement when he said that he was from an entirely different land. Incredibly, Toothless was the only one out of the entire Berk dragons to have recognised it, and it was obvious as to why.
Morgan's only touched the surface of the amount of dragons Berk has, and ever since he arrived here, Valka's flock hasn't been within his presence due to her going off on some random adventure, but when she comes back, it'll be a ton for him to take in. He's currently sleeping in peace and quiet in the darkness, as is the rest of Berk, but Valka's return is coming soon, and he'll have the opportunity to get his own dragon with her help, but there's going to be hundreds of them to choose from, so he'll be even more panicked and stressed out and apprehensive at a whole swarm of dragons than he was in his first few days on Berk.
Everything seemed so peaceful, so happy for Hiccup, after the commemoration two weeks ago, but clearly, the thought of him being unable to deal with the situation that led to the commemoration in an efficient manner has gotten to his head, and potentially his well being, and it's made him wonder if he has the capability of leading Berk as it's Chief with independence. There's something historical waiting to come out of his mouth to solve these thoughts, so he can live up to the legacy of his father, but what is that historical thing? it's been vaguely hinted at, and Hiccup himself hasn't mentioned a word on what popped up into his nest of ideas whilst trying to sleep. It's meant to be something that's never been done in the history of Berk before, so will it actually come out with the results that Hiccup's looking for?