And I'm Baaaack. Took me long enough, eh? Well, here you go. This is a rewrite of another story I did a while back. So, like always, I don't own httyd, blah blah, only the PCs and the plot are mine, blah blah blah. You know the drill. And again, like always, if you want to see something in this story, or I messed up with spelling or something, you've gotta tell me. I'm not a mind reader. And I will always do my best to incorporate everyone's ideas. Yeah, ok, here's the chapter.
I fly through the air on my dragon, and look back one last time at what used to be my home. Oh well. I pull my cloak so that it covers me completely, and pull up the hood. I grin, because my cloak makes me pretty much invisible. My name is Tala and I've just escaped from my home.
Let me explain a bit. When I was about ten, I found a dragon in the woods. I eventually named her Leyna, meaning "conceal". She's a Changewing, one of the hardest dragons to find. Not because they're rare, but because they can pretty much turn invisible. After a while she finally started to trust me, and let me help her. She had been hit in one of the dragon raids, and had a tear in her wing, as well as some other cuts. It all needed stitches. When I first tried to fix it, she clawed me, causing some "problems". Then I learned about the wonder of dragon nip, and used it to pretty much knock her out. Problem solved. There were some...complications with having a dragon in the area I lived in. So, now I'm flying away from my home. Yay. That's pretty much my story.
It's a good thing I got this finished in time, right Leyna? Other wise I would've looked pretty silly up here. You can do your thing now." Leyna disappears and, between that and my cloak, leaves no trace that there was ever anyone here.
We fly towards an island that the I've heard about. People say that on this island everyone trains dragons. "Maybe I won't have to worry about being driven out of the village because of my wings." I say to my dragon. It took forever to get her to trust me, and there were some pretty huge "side effects". More on that later. After about 3 hours of flying, we finally reach our destination. Not that either of us are complaining about flying. Leyna hasn't been able to fly around like this for a while, because of her injuries, and I just love flying in general. Something about being up so high just makes me feel so happy, for some reason.
As we fly over the island, I spot what looks like smoke from a camp fire, and decide to investigate. "Can we land there please? After I get off go fishing or something, ok? I bet you're really hungry." Leyna snorts in a dissatisfied way. "Yeah, yeah, I know. But I'll be fine, they can't catch me if they can't see me, right?" She grunts, and lands near the smoke. Gods, she so over protective. "Just try and say close enough that you can hear me in case something goes wrong, ok? Yeah, ok, bye." I hop onto the ground and immediately lose track of Leyna, as she's still camouflaged. Oh well.
I walk off in the direction of the smoke, taking great care not to make too much noise. As I get closer I see that, to my luck, there sits 7 teens about my age, around a fire. And I almost squeal with excitement when I see the dragons sitting near the teens. I quickly study each dragon, noticing that none of them are like mine. I see a Deadly Nadder, a Hideous Zippleback, a Monsterous Nightmare, a Gronckle and...wait a sec. Is that a Night Fury?! I can't believe it! It's probably a good thing I didn't bring Leyna. Apparently Changewings don't like other dragons. I take off my cloak, and store it at the bottom of my satchel, making sure I hide it under the false bottom. It's mostly so if someone goes through my bag they don't dump it out and lose it. I step into the fire light, and clear my throat.
"Uh, hi! Am I on Berk? Do any of you know a guy named Hiccup, or where I can find him? I-" I start to ask, but am interrupted as almost everyone one around the fire points a weapon at me.
"Yeah, you're on Berk. Who are you and what do you want?" Asks one of the two other girls there.
"Um, my name is Tala." I reply. "I've traveled for a while to get here, I don't want to hurt anyone."
One of the boys stands up. He's about 4 centimetres taller that me, with brown hair and green eyes. "Well, ok gang. So, you can probably put down your weapons now. She says not going to hurt us." He says.
"Hiccup, remember what happened last time we just trusted someone?" Says the girl . She has blond hair, and is holding an axe like she's going to throw it at me soon.
"What do you mean, Astrid?" Replies the boy who I assumes is Hiccup. At least I found him. "*cough* Heather *cough* says one of the other teens. Hiccup rolls his eyes.
"Ok, that was one time! Are you always going to bring it up!?" He exclaims, turning his back on me to argue with the other teens.
The other girl, Astrid, says "Hiccup, we can't just trust her. Look, it's getting dark. We'll keep her here tonight and bring her back to the chief tomorrow, ok?" She put down her axe and gets some rope.
"Ok, sure. But what's the rope for?" He asks. Astrid tosses him the rope.
"She might run off in the middle of the night.", she explains.
"Hey, wait a sec! when do you plan on asking me about this!?" I yell at them.
One of the other boys speaks up. He sounds nervous, although I'm not sure why. He's not the one of to be tied up. "Well, you see, you might be a spy! We had almost the same thing happen before this, where a girl named Heather was "shipwrecked", and she turned out to be a spy. So we probably shouldn't trust you yet." Yeah, ok. That makes sense, I guess.
"Fine. I guess that makes sense. I probably wouldn't have trust you guys if something like that happened to me." I reply.
Hiccup walks up to me and says "Hey, sorry, I've got to do this. Uh, can you come search her, Astrid?" He says. She comes over, finds my dagger, and takes my bag. She dumps it all out
(that's exactly what the false bottom was for!) and searches through the stuff. It's just some food and water, so she puts it back. One of the other guys comes over and says "hey, babe. Why were you looking for him" here he nods his head at Hiccup "when you could be looking for me" and gestured at himself. Yuck
Astrid walks up behind him and hits him, then orders him to make sure I don't try and get away, while Hiccup ties me to a tree. I sit down in front of a smallish tree, and Hiccup ties my hands behind it. I make sure to hold them in a way to allow some slack when I move them to a more comfortable position (all though it pretty much impossible to be comfortable in my situation). He fumbles a bit with the rope, and mutters a few curses. I hold back a laugh. Then the other guy, (Snotlout, and think one of the other called him) leans up against another tree, and winks at me. I look down at his feet, raise my eyebrows, look him in the eyes and sarcastically say, "Nice socks." He quickly glances down and I snicker. There was nothing wrong with his socks. Talk the little victories where you can get them, I guess. He started grumbling and walked away.
Hiccup finishes tying the rope, and walk back over. "We'll take you to my dad tomorrow, ok? Try and get some sleep." He says. Right. I test the rope. Yeah, I can totally get out of this if I want. Thank gods for small hands. Astrid whispers something to him, and then sits down near me, probably to keep watch. The rest of them go to sleep. I settle down as well, and quickly doze off. Not that I would be able to sleep for very long...
wow, mysterious much? I think maybe I screwed up with the kids personalities a bit, but I think I nailed Snotlout. Also, that "nice socks" thing isn't mine, it's from a book called Unwind. Super good and i definitely recommend it. Also, Tala is using this trick where you sort of hold your arms in a way that when you relax them you usually have enough slack to get your hands out of the ropes, but it still looks like you're tied up pretty good if the person doing the thing isn't paying attention. Over 'n out.
*edit* so, I back again. I changed a few thing in this chapter, and I plan on actually writing the next one over the next few days (or tonight - who even knows at this point). I think what I'm going to do is write out the story and not really worry about quality, and then once I've got it all uploaded I'll go back and edit it so it doesn't suck as much. Also, I'm gonna be changing Tala's name so if anyone has name they like I'm taking suggestions. Originally her name had something to with her stuttering but I decided it doesn't really fit in with her personality if she stutters all the time, so I got rid of that. Also it's a pain to write so there's that. Anyways, sorry for being away for like a year, I had some stuff going on that I needed to sort out. In conclusion, I'll be uploading chapter pretty fast but they might not be very good quality, and then once the story is done I'll go fix that. Also it's not really going to follow that last one I wrote at all. Over 'n out!