Hi! This is my first fanfic, I know it's probably not very good. But I hope you enjoy!
Sorry if there's any OOC!
I do not own HTTYD
Review please!
Chapter One- The Argument
The wind blows in his face as he rides his dragon at top speed. The sky is a pinkish purple around the setting sun. Clouds of light pink, ocean becoming a deeper blue. The waves spray him as he glides close to them. He has a white-knuckle grip on the saddle, trying to keep himself from flying back. Hiccup steers Toothless up into the clouds, and slows their speed. "You getting tired bud?" He asks his dragon as they glide through the clouds. Toothless moans and shakes his head. Hiccup laughs. "Okay, one more hour." He tells the night fury.
The wind blows in his face as he rides his dragon at top speed. The sky is a pinkish purple around the setting sun. Clouds of light pink, ocean becoming a deeper blue. The waves spray him as he glides close to them. He has a white-knuckle grip on the saddle, trying to keep himself from flying back. Hiccup steers Toothless up into the clouds, and slows their speed. "You getting tired bud?" He asks his dragon as they glide through the clouds. Toothless moans and shakes his head. Hiccup laughs. "Okay, one more hour." He tells the night fury.
Many hours later, Hiccup is still flying on his dragon when he feels a snowflake land on his hand. "Uh oh." He says. He pats Toothless on the head gently, enough to get his attention. "Time to go home." Hiccup then notices night has fallen around him, the moon full and high in the sky, just barely seen through the oncoming snow clouds. Hiccup also then realizes he was supposed to be home hours ago. Stoick is going to be very angry with Hiccup.
He sighs and steers Toothless home, hoping his father won't yell at him again.
He tries to be as quiet as he can, sneaking into the house. He softly opens and closes the front door. Toothless has already climbed into Hiccup's bedroom window, not making a sound. He successfully makes it to the seventh stair before he hears his father's door slam open. "HICCUP HORRENDOUS HADDOCK THE THIRD!" Stoick's voice booms, full of anger.
Oh no, Hiccup thinks, I'm in deep trouble this time.
He turns to his father, a nervous smile on his face. "Hey, Dad." He says. His father stands there, fuming for just a moment. "Care to explain why you are so very late for the tenth time this month?" Stoick's voice is full of anger, but he's no longer yelling.
He is angry, Hiccup hadn't been coming home at sundown for a while now. He knows Stoick worries about him being out after dark, he has reminded Hiccup so many times, then Hiccup doesn't listen and get home hours after dark many times. Stoick is fed up with it to be honest.
Hiccup laughs nervously. "Funny story really…" He trails off. Stoick crosses his arms on his chest, a peeved look on his face, waiting for Hiccup's excuse this time. Hiccup tries to think of a way out of this conversation. He decides to fake a yawn. "Boy, I'm beat, I'll just head up to my room and go to sleep. I'll explain tomorrow!" Hiccup bolts up the stairs and closes his door before Stoick could say anything. He looks at his night fury.
"I am so dead tomorrow."
Hiccup wakes up to the sound of thumps on his rooftop. Toothless is jumping up and down and roaring, full of energy, wanting to go on their usual morning flight. Things start to shake because of Toothless' jumping. Hiccup sighs, not wanting to get out of bed. He pulls on his fur vest he always wears. He then makes his way down the steps, trying to be as quiet as possible so he won't wake Stoick. Then he'd have to explain why he was late.
He successfully makes it out the door without waking his father. He softly shuts the door and walks over to the side of the house where Toothless has jumped to the ground. "Well good morning mr. bossy." Hiccup says, petting the dragon on the head. Toothless coos. He gets the saddle and starts putting it on Toothless. With one final click the saddle was on the night fury and ready to be put to use.
Hiccup shivers a bit, finally noticing the cold. There is a thick blanket of snow on Berk this morning. The rooftops of the houses have a thin layer of ice on them, so slippery even a dragon's talons couldn't get a good grip on it. No one has shoveled any snow yet, so Hiccup couldn't see the dirt road somewhere underneath the blanket of snow.
He then mounts and takes off into the clouds, Toothless roaring in excitement. Hiccup rubs his dragon's head, glad to be flying and not arguing with Stoick again. Hiccup understands that his father is worried about him, Stoick has already lost his wife, he doesn't want to lose his only son too.
But what Hiccup doesn't understand is why his father is always trying to keep him out of trouble, he's always getting into trouble, he's a magnet for trouble.
As Hiccup hears the horn signaling for the dragon riders to meet at the academy, he can't help but smile. He steers Toothless toward the training center and leans closer to the dragon, indicating to Toothless that he wants to go faster.
When he nears the academy, he sees Astrid already there. As always, she is the first person there. Hiccup gives a small yelp when Toothless decides it will be more fun to enter the academy by walking upside-down on the entrance. When they are right-side up again, Hiccup climbs off of Toothless, and greets her.
"Hey Astrid."
"Hi Hiccup."
"Ready for today's lesson?" He asks, getting things they would be using.
She smirks. "Absolutely."
The other riders arrive and Hiccup begins his lesson which, of course, leads to Snotlout questioning why Hiccup is leader and not himself.
"I just don't get it!" Snotlout says. "He's scrawny and cowardly and I'm strong and brave. Why does he get to be leader of the academy?"
"Okay, first of all, Snotlout, shut up." Astrid says, annoyed. "Second of all, if you were leader, you would probably burn down Berk in one day."
"Astrid's right. You're too violent Snotlout, you don't think before you act." Fishlegs interjects.
"I'm too violent? Have you met Astri-" She punches him in the face.
"Ooh! He's down! Do it to me Ruff!" Tuffnut says. Ruffnut gladly punches him in the face. "Harder! I wanna see stars." Astrid balls her fists. "I'll punch you so hard you'll wake up in next week if you don't shut up!" She says to Tuffnut.
Hiccup rolls his eyes and sighs in annoyance. This is going to be a long lesson.
After the lesson was over, Hiccup is putting things away when Gobber walks into the academy. "Hiccup! How are you doing?" Gobber says. Gobber's not one for small talk, so Hiccup sees right through him, and he gets straight to the point. "What's wrong Gobber?" He asks, turning away from putting thing away.
Gobber sighs, caught. "Your father wants to speak to you. He seemed angry." Hiccup groaned, "Can't he just let it go? Sure I've been late a couple times this month, but I'm always fine!" Gobber shakes his head, "He just worries about ya."
"I know but-" Hiccup groans. "Whatever, I'll go when I finish here." Gobber just nods and walks away without another word.
Hiccup finishes rather quickly, mounts Toothless and heads home. When he arrives home, Stoick is waiting for him in front of the fire. "Well, you're home rather early." Is the first thing he says when Hiccup walks in. Hiccup sighs. "Look Dad, I'm sor-"
"You should be. What will you do when you're chief? You cannot be late when you become chief."
"Dad, I know, I'm sor-" Hiccup tries to interject, wanting this conversation to be over.
"Do you not remember what has happened when you didn't come home on time?" Stoick questions. "You've been kidnapped-"
"Dad, I can take care of myself. You know that. Yeah, I've been kidnapped but I'm always fine-" Hiccup interrupts.
"And what if one day you're not? What if one day I'm standing at your funeral?" Stoick cuts him off. He just wants his son and heir to be okay, to be more careful of things. Hiccup is the only son he has, and the only thing his wife left him when she died. Stoick can't let anything happen to him.
"I'm really sick of arguing, Dad, can I ju-"
"I'm banning you from flying." Stoick says bluntly, and Hiccup stands gaping. He can't ban Hiccup from flying, it is the only time he can get away from the madness that is Berk. But Stoick obviously doesn't understand that, he has just banned him from flying.
"You can't do that!" Hiccup exclaims, getting angry himself.
"Can't I?"
Hiccup turns on his heel and makes his way to the door. "Where do you think you're going?" Stoick says, getting up from his seat. Hiccup turns and looks him straight in the eye, anger present in his own. "Flying."
"Hiccup," Stoick warns. Hiccup has done some pretty stupid things in the past, but he never acts like this with his father. "You can't take it away from me, it's the only time I can get away from everyone, everything!" Hiccup nearly yells, then opens the door.
"I swear, Hiccup. If you walk out that door, don't you dare come back." Stoick says warningly.
The door slams behind him.
As Hiccup is putting things in his satchel, Astrid walks up to him. "Hey Hiccup," she notices the things that are being put in the satchel. "Are you going somewhere?" She asks, but Hiccup doesn't look at her, but does stop what he's doing. She places a hand on his shoulder. "Is something wrong?" She asks, his grip tightens on the canteen of water that he's holding. She's never seen him this angry.
He finally looks up at her. "I'm leaving." He says, tears forming in his eyes. She understands, he needs to get away sometimes for a few days.
"When are you coming back?" She asks. He looks away, and this worries her. "Hiccup, you are coming back, right?" It takes him a moment to meet her eyes again.
"I don't know."
She looks at him and can see the sadness and hurt in his eyes. "Another fight?" He nods. This one must have been bad if Hiccup doesn't know when he's coming back. Must be the worst yet.
"Just-just promise me one thing?" She asks him, and he nods. "I don't care when, just promise you'll come back home one day." He looks away for a moment, as if deciding whether or not to make that promise. He knows he will have to keep this promise. Then he looks straight in her eyes. "I promise." He kisses her cheek. "Astrid, I'll be back. Maybe not for days, weeks, months, possibly years." Hiccup wipes away a tear Astrid didn't realize has fallen. "I promise, one day I'll come back. But it won't be for a while."
She pulls him into a hug, knowing what he is saying is true. The look in his eyes tells her he won't be back for a long while.
When they pull away Hiccup mounts Toothless and takes off. But he doesn't look back.
A/N~ So that was it! Chapter two is coming soon it will be set about 5 years after this.