(Edit: It's almost been a year, so I decided to go back and fix as much of the grammar and story itself as possible. I still don't have a beta reader, so I can't promise anything. I fixed as much as I could, but mistakes will still be in here. I also decided to keep from the ending of the movie Hiccup's missing limb to keep it more original.)
NOTE! This story was inspired to me after watching videos about Wilbur and Hiccup, since this couple is rarely seen; I wanted to give it a shot. Yes it's a Yaoi couple (BoyXBoy) so if you don't like, hit the back button now! If you do like, review please! It would be very helpful for opinions.
Out of all the people in the world, who would turn a simple research project into a fieldtrip to the past and exploit information never before known, it had to be Wilbur Robinson. Who'd be too lazy to go into a public library and "Research" the information like a regular human being would, but then again Wilbur isn't a regular, and when you're surrounded with family members like the Robinsons you're not even considered normal.
It's been a few hours since Wilbur decided to take the research project into a whole new level, taking the time machine and actually studying about Viking history in the making. So far all Wilbur has found was stones, the dirt under his feet, and trees. Trees everywhere!
Argggh! Maybe I pushed in the wrong buttons or something, or maybe the history books have the wrong date on these things! So far I haven't even found another living soul in this time. He thought as he walked with a frustrated scowl on his face.
He kept on walking ahead to where he hoped was a civilization of Vikings, and learn everything he could about their activities and pass time. He passed tree after tree and rocks after rocks. Everything looked the same that it was a miracle he hadn't gotten lost yet. Then again, he probably was already.
Little did he know as he kept walking near what he thought was a forward trail through the forest he was actually walking straight to the cavern where a certain brunette Viking and his dragon were playing and enjoying their solitude together.
Hiccup and his dragon Toothless manage to escape the villagers' hold of them and finally enjoy their time alone, and away from the world and their demands.
"Hey buddy, doesn't this feel great?"
Toothless purred back in agreement with Hiccup. It seems like forever since he and Hiccup ever manage to escape peoples grip on them both. Every one of them always asking with their request on dragon riding, suggestions on what to feed their dragons and to their surprise, autographs from some of the Viking females, which Toothless found vexing to his concept.
His friend Hiccup has manage to attain all of the Females eyes, and even go as far to attract a mate out of that Viking girl Astrid.
He saw that the both of them were happy; even so far that Hiccup would sacrifice time with him and spend it alone with Astrid leaving a lonely Toothless waiting for him on the house's porch. The times when they did spend it together, may it have been flying, or just sitting and laying down on the grass, Hiccup always had a certain shine on him, almost glowing and a sparkle in his eye.
It may not have been visible to the human eye, but to a dragon's, it was as clear as daylight.
However, as time went on, the shine on his friend just suddenly started to dim. Then one day the sparkle in his eye died completely.
Toothless later noticed his best friend was spending more and more time with him instead of his female mate to the point where Toothless never even spotted the girl at all. He saw the disappointment in Hiccups face, and worried for him.
Hiccup took notice of this, and reassured him that he was fine. Saying something about "It's just a break up buddy, it happens to humans all the time, no need to worry, its normal." Toothless huffed. If what this thing called break up is normal, then toothless dislikes it. If its normal for a human to pass a time with nothing but depression and sadness then toothless wishes for his Hiccup to be unusual.
Right now, Toothless wished for the sun never to set in, so he and Hiccup can stay here for as long as they want. Here is where Hiccup is the happiest. No worries, no thoughts, no concerns, just free time and relaxation to think about nothing and just hang with his best friend.
To his dismay, his wish won't be coming true today, for unbenounced to Toothless a pair of Earth colored eyes were set on both him and Hiccup, watching from afar at their every move.
Wilbur stared with awe, sure he has seen robots, and giant octopuses or squids, and even a live dinosaur, but never before has he seen a creature like the one across the cavern.
He was staring straight at what seems to be a reptile of some kind. It has a lean body, short stubby legs and a pair of giant wings on its back. It shined the color of night. Just laying down it looked like a predator ready to attack and if he was correct in his guess of what it is, it wasn't far off.
Wilbur resisted the urge of just jumping down and running to the creature to study it up close. If anything as soon as he stepped inside the cavern the beast could instantly turn and attack him on the spot with no questions asked, but gosh darn it! None of the history books or even teachers have ever mention of dragons existing in the past!
He always read fiction about creatures that can fly and breathe fire from his childhood book back at home. It was pretty old and very dusty and had specks of dirt on it, but he always thought they we're made up.
As Wilbur leaned closer towards the inside of the cavern and at the same time trying to remain hidden, his foot accidently kicked a pebble near the caverns edge and went rolling down with a huge echo flying across.
Damn!
He mentally cursed himself before a thought suddenly clicked in and Wilbur began to panic.
If the beast and human we're to realize he was here watching them, he would sure to get in trouble! He could get hurt, or injured or even killed, or worse! He could have damaged the timeline! If he went back to the future to find everything changed into a Viking dimension he would surely get grounded! And lord knows how Vikings punish their children in the past.
While Wilbur was internally arguing with himself, he failed to notice a pair of green cat-like eyes glaring at him. Toothless heard the pebble dropped and instantly turned to the direction of the noise. He had already spotted the tiny human child, but was debating on either to charge at the child or wait for Hiccups orders on what to do.
Hiccup noticed his dragon's actions, and turned to the direction of where he was staring. He saw nothing and wondered what his dragon could possibly be staring at, he turned back to his dragon, but at the corner of his eye he saw a black spot move. Instantly he turned back to the direction of the object, but saw nothing again.
I could have sworn I saw something move over there...
As time passed by what seemed to be an eternity, Hiccup got fed up and decided to take matters into his own hands.
He stood up and gave Toothless the signal to follow him in case something dangerous occurred. Toothless simply nodded and followed closely behind. Ready to throw his life away if needed.
Hiccup started to creep slowly towards the direction of the object, knife ready at hand and eyes focused. His heart started to beat faster as each step was slowly taken.
It's ok Hiccup, Toothless is right next to you, if something bad we're about to happen he would help you to the end! Just keep calm, keep calm.
Taking deeper breathes after another; he hid behind a giant boulder looking straight to a cave-like opening on the cavern walls.
Hiccup gained all the courage he could muster and shouted towards the small opening "Come out! Whoever you are! I know someone's there!"
Wilbur froze. His face was starting to become pale, and he had no idea what to do now.
All he wanted was to study the behaviors and pass time activities of Vikings. Watch how families grew from this time, and how warriors fought and with whom. He never wanted to actually meet a Viking or communicate with them. Who knows was sort of damage his already caused just by letting one see him!
"Come out I said! I'm warning you, if you don't come out now I'm making toothless jump in there and force you out!" He heard the other shout to him.
Toothless? Who in the world is that? He questioned. Wait! What if it's that dragon his talking about! Oh boy! If the stories about those things are true that thing is going to burn me alive!
He had no choice now. The time machine wasn't exactly close to run for it, and if the dragon can fly, he had less of a chance to actually manage and get out of the cavern, and he can't exactly fight back with a skilled Viking due to the fact that he could get killed or even alter the time line!
He gulped, took a deep breath and slowly started to walk in sight for the brunette kid to see him.
It was now Hiccups turn to freeze.
He just stood there, eyes wide and mouth open, staring at the human in front of him. He observed every inch and every stature of the figure he could catch with his eyes. This human, what he saw to be a kid like him, looked completely different.
He had same characteristics as him.
Blackish hair, just like Snotloud! But wasn't as big boned as him, he was actually slim like Hiccup; much to Hiccups dismay for he hated his body figure. However, what Hiccup was staring at the most was the others choice of clothing. It looked… different, too different. It had nothing like his villagers clothing, so Hiccup figured this person must be from another village. Then something else caught his eye.
The said person's hair, described with one word, Neat. The person's hair was so neatly put, combed up with a swirl at the tip. It almost reminded Hiccup of a dragon lick. He imagined a dragon licking the person's hair and somehow keeping it in place.
Wilbur coughed nervously. He had been standing there for ten minutes while the other person just stared at him. The whole time he was waiting for the other to suddenly jump up and stab him, or sick his pet dragon at him, but so far nothing.
Hiccup continuously watched at the other, after bypassing the clothing and hair, he saw him strangely familiar. Deep in his subconscious, he thought he somehow recognized the boy, but deemed it impossible. He never met him before in his life, but could not shake the feeling away. It wasn't strong, but it was there.
"Have I… met you before?"
Both boys blinked at each other. Hiccup just spoke without realizing it, and Wilbur actually understood what the other boy just asked. Vikings friendly communication? If only he can go back to his time to write this down for his research paper.
"Well I… Uh never seen you before." Wilbur replied nervously. How exactly you're supposed to talk with a Viking is beyond him, but judging from the last ten minutes, these Viking didn't seem as deadly as the history books and teachers made it sound.
He was scrawny looking, and actually had more of a body figure of a girl, without the curves and such of course. He had Messy brownish hair, and Greenish colored eyes, almost as green as the trees that he had become sick of starring at. He wore what seemed like a green jump suit with a furry brown sweater vest, and a green tunic with a brown leathery boot.
What really caught his interest was the mechanical limb.
What should have been a body part was replaced by a metal contraption. Genuine sympathy was placed on the foreign limb, but quickly vanished. The last thing a Viking warrior needed was pity. If anything, he probably thought of it as an honorable battle scar or victory of surviving.
More timed passed by, and neither bothered to make a sound, speak or move. Toothless on the other hand, was getting fed up and decided to make the first move. He growled at the stranger and slowly placed a front paw towards him.
Wilbur jumped back at the sudden movement, he imagined the worst. Waiting for the dragon to jump on him and claw his insides he embraced himself.
However, Hiccup had held a hand towards Toothless and told him to hold on. Toothless listened and remained in his spot, but kept glaring at the newcomer.
After settling his dragon, Hiccup turned once again towards the boy wonder. He cleared his throat nervously and coughed and continued his earlier question.
"Are you sure we never met before? You seem a little familiar."
"No I'm sure, I never came near this place." Or this time as a matter a fact
"Oh, well are you from a neighboring village? Or across the sea?" Hiccup questioned again
Wilbur scratched the back of his neck "No and uh, no."
Hiccup raised an eyebrow. About to question the boy again but Wilbur interrupted. "Well I'm neither from this Island nor across the sea, and I can't really explain where I come from, so don't bother asking me that."
Hiccup blinked. "If not from the island, or across the sea where else can one come from?"
"Now that is an excellent question!" Silence then continued.
Hiccup started to get impatient, but figured asking the same question again and again won't get him anywhere. "Well then," He held a hand towards the outsider. "I'm Hiccup."
Wilbur stared at the hand, and question what to do with it. When he figured the boy named Hiccup wanted to shake hands as a friendly hello and quickly accepted and replied "I'm Wilbur."
Wilbur? Strange name, but I guess it scares off gnomes and trolls
Hiccup? Guess he gets the hiccups a lot or something to be named that?
Hiccup not wanting to let the silence overtake again, continued with introductions. "Well, this here is my friend, Toothless." Toothless grunted at the stranger, and Wilbur just smiled nervously. "Hey there err, Toothless, nice to meet you." Toothless grunted towards Wilbur again, but more calmly.
"So then, can I ask what you were doing hidden behind the caverns opening?" Hiccup questioned.
"Oh, well that, I uh" Wilbur thought quickly, if one thing he didn't want to know is to let the other he was spying him for research, or treat him like an ancient artifact.
"Well you see that is also an excellent question, for I was wondering around the area then I spotted this cavern and wanted to investigate, then I saw the lovely view of the pond and such and wanted to maybe come and relax, but then I saw your presence here and didn't want to disturb, so I was going to walk back towards my time machi – I mean! Towards my uh, hiding spot, but then accidently kicked a pebble and your dragon heard it so now here we are!"
Wilbur let it all out with a huge awkward smile implanted on his face, but that has to be by far the worst lie he could have ever made up! It was on the spot lie; he didn't have enough time to make up a better one! And with a dragon glaring at you with its teeth waiting, you can't even think properly!
Hiccup questioned him first, but still accepted his obvious lie, he wasn't going to get anything out of this guy any time soon, and right now he really didn't want to try.
This intruder was ruining his and Toothless' time together and away from the world, and he was just plain tired. Figuring this person won't attack his village or himself, seeing that his unarmed, Hiccup decided to leave it at that. With a simple nod and an okay, Hiccup walked away signaling for Toothless to follow and walk back to their original spot.
Wilbur just stood there and watched the pair walk back to where they were sitting originally before he interrupted. Now that the awkward introduction was over, what was he going to do now? He already met a Viking and introduced himself, why stop there?
Wilbur slowly walked towards the duo, and waiting to see if there was a possible signal for him to get closer without causing any sort of attack. After seeing the pair sit and lay down, Wilbur slowly cautioned himself closer to them.
At first Toothless glared daggers at Wilbur, so Wilbur remained still for a while until Toothless' glares subsided. Once it was done, he walked closer, and right when he was next to Hiccup, he asked if he could take a seat.
Hiccup looked at him first, but still agreed for him to sit down with them.
The silence surrounded them was awkward. Wilbur motioned back and forth nervously and didn't know how to start a conversation. Still he had to try; here was a Viking right before his eyes, the key to his research paper being a huge success that can give him a B+! Or even an A-!
He's a Robinson darn it! One thing Robinsons are known for is starting conversations! May it be weird or normal they stilled started them!
Wilbur just wing it!
"So, how long have you and Toothless been friends?" Not the most fantastic question in the world, but it's a start.
The Viking teen slowly turned his head. "Mm? Me and Toothless?" Hiccup started towards the raven haired stranger, and debated on either to answer or lie. Just like he lied to him.
"Well, me and Toothless became best friends about 5 months ago or so, it's a long story on how it happened."
"Well tell me, I have time." Wilbur replied with excitement, and having one of his corniest smiles plastid on his face, trying to show friendliness but failing at it.
Hiccup blinked at him, nobody really bothered to listen to his story on how he and Toothless became friends. I mean sure, the villagers know Toothless is his best friend, and that he was the first ever person to ride a dragon, but not one ever question how he even got to know toothless, or let alone even come face to face with the dragon. Night Fury's are rarely seen after all.
Hiccup really didn't know how to start. "Well uh, back at the time when my village was still at war with dragons, I shot down toothless with one of my inventions I made to capture dragons while they flew."
Wilbur stared.
Shooting down Toothless form the sky and still becoming best friends? That's a strange way of getting your point across.
Hiccup continued, but added information he thought Wilbur should know about his past village life. "Well see the thing about my village was that, killing dragons was everything. Killing dragon's gave you recognition, and the more fame the dragon has the more recognized you get. I was a scrawny weakling, and always messed everything up wherever I went. Nobody ever let me out of the house when dragons attacked, and everyone always made fun of me."
Wilbur attended intently, somehow Hiccups story was very entertaining to listen and for some reason it was getting to him.
"So when one night, a Night Fury was attacking the village as well-"
"Night Fury?" Wilbur interrupted.
"Yeah, Night Fury, it's what Toothless is" Hiccup answered pointing at the dragon.
Wilbur replied with a simple "Oh."
"Anyways, that Night Fury was Toothless if you guessed it, so with my invention I shot him down-"
This time toothless interrupted with a low grunt at Hiccup's saying. Hiccup apologized to him and petted his head, and continued on.
"After I shot him down, I went to look for him. I found him tangled with the traps rope, and with my knife I was about ready to kill him, but then I saw something in his eyes…"
Wilbur stared at Hiccups expression; somehow he saw guilt, pity and sadness in his eyes. It really touched him.
"I guess you could say I saw myself in his eyes." Hiccup chuckled nervously with a faint smile
Wilbur smiled back at him.
He had a best friend moment with his dad's younger self once, Lewis, but this moment with Hiccup and Toothless was somehow different. Hiccup saw himself in Toothless, Wilbur didn't really see himself much in Lewis, but he still shared friendship like Hiccup and Toothless.
I guess it's sort of different because Hiccup had a knife pointed at Toothless Wilbur chuckled to himself.
"Yeah, but instead of killing Toothless, I released him from the ropes, but then Toothless held me against a rock and looked about ready to bite my head up, but instead just roared at me and ran off. All I know after that is I couldn't even walk back to the village because I was so frighten."
Toothless did a grunted laugh towards Hiccup, and Hiccup just playfully hit him on the side of his head. Wilbur smiled at the sight.
"Anyways again," He sent a mocking glare at Toothless then faced the raven teen again.
"Later on I found toothless in this very cavern, he couldn't fly because my device had chipped his tail wing, and became a down dragon. I couldn't just leave Toothless like that, so I got to work on somehow helping him to fly again, and that's where the saddle and make-shift tail wing came to place, then I became known as the first ever dragon rider."
He had a proud smile on his face. The one thing he rarely got to do was brag, and he didn't like it much either, but he had his moments where he just wanted recognition of his own, and from his own achievements.
Wilbur started to applaud. He loved the story, and found it very interesting for his research paper. He couldn't wait to get home and start typing it down.
Hiccup chuckled and just smiled, and at that very moment Toothless saw it.
It was faint, but it was there.
A sparkler in his eye, it came back for a second, but then it went away. Toothless was sure it was there!
The dragon then stared at the raven haired human. His hair was as black as his scales, so he approved, and in just one day this newcomer had manage to make his friend smile!
Not many people actually to do that on the first day, especially when they hardly even talked to each other let alone have a proper conversation. Hiccup was mostly doing all the talking, but clearly he was enjoying someone listening to him.
This human child is clearly special. Toothless caught Wilbur's eye and Wilbur just stared back. The dragon slowly nodded towards him, and Wilbur stared at him in confusion.
Hiccup then looked up at the sun in the horizon and jumped up. Almost falling again from his metallic limb getting stuck to the ground.
Gaining his composure he shouted. "Wow! I didn't realized how much I babbled on with my story! It's getting late, if I don't go back to my village soon they will worry.
Wilbur suddenly jumped as well. He surely did not want to get caught by Hiccup's village and questioned where his from.
"Yeah it's getting late for me too, sorry to have interrupted your time here."
"No, no it's ok. In fact I kind of had fun." Hiccup assured Wilbur with his most famous known smile he could muster.
Wilbur accepted it warmly and simply nodded "Well then, see you a next time?"
Hiccup agreed "Yeah, I'll see you here tomorrow?"
Wilbur grinned towards Hiccup "Yeah! It's a date!"
With that Wilbur ran out towards the caverns exit, and towards his Time Machine, wherever he parked it. Leaving a bewildered Hiccup behind.
Hiccup warmly smiled at his direction where he left, and felt a blush on his cheeks.
Date?
His heart felt strange, it felt fuzzy and tender.
He really is questioning if he met Wilbur before, he seems so familiar, but Hiccup can ask himself once his home. The last thing he wanted was his father to send a search party for him. Slowly he started walking back to his village, Toothless by his side, just staring at him.
There goes another sparkle in my Hiccups eye. I thought for sure I would never see him shine again; it seems that the newcomer will be a big part of Hiccup's life.
Toothless purred at the thought of his Hiccup being happy again, and did one of his famous grin's without his teeth in place.
I approve of it Hiccup...
Back in the Future for Wilbur, he just got out of the Time Machine and parked it in the garage. Making sure to lock it as well.
Can't have another bowler hat guy incident like 2 years ago. He thought to himself when he heard the key lock.
After a double take of the door he ran up to his room. It was still early for his bed time, so he went to his computer, turned it on and started typing about what happened throughout the day.
He typed everything from where he tripped on tree roots and landed on his face to when he accidently kicked the pebble down the cavern, and met with Hiccup and Toothless. Then Wilbur abruptly stopped his fingers.
He looked towards the ceiling and started thinking about Hiccup.
Hiccup really is a nice guy.
He is not related to any of those Vikings described in his book.
At the thought, Wilbur turned around and started to search for his favorite childhood book. He found it under the bed hidden between shoe boxes and an old T-shirt. He sat on his bed side and opened the book up.
As he turned the page, he actually started to scam through the words. As he paid more attention, he noticed he read names;
He figured this book was like a species volume. Since he read what seemed to be names along with pictures of dragon-like creatures with different colors and body shapes.
He kept going through every page and then stilled.
He gazed intently at the picture set before him.
Not only is this drawing of a dragon familiar, it looked exactly like Toothless!
Same wing shape, same tail, and same color.
He tried reading the words on the page, but half of the page was missing. Looking back, when Wilbur was little he was upset that his book was ripped from this page, but the drawing of the dragon was still intact. He frowned, this dragon resembles Toothless perfectly.
Wonder what it means… He questioned, but left it at that.
He closed the book and continued to write his paper on his the computer.
When he decided he was done, and typed enough information needed Wilbur saved and turned it off. He walked over to his bed and slowly tucked himself under his covers.
Wilbur laid there staring at the ceiling, recalling all the events that happened that day, and most of all, content that meeting Hiccup didn't change anything at all.
So maybe it was meant to happen?
Starting to drift off, one last thought became evident before darkness overcame.
Hiccup….
So this is my first official story! Tell me what you think, and if I should continue it. So far I like it and plan on finishing it all through, but please review! Also, sorry for the grammar errors and spelling, I kind of wrote this all in 3 hours x.x
Much Love~
Naferty~