AN:

Hey! This is my first story so criticism is welcomed. I wanted to start a story on here for a while now, I just never had the motivation to make one. But anyway, this may or may not have romance, still undecided (If there is, it won't be Hicstrid, sorry). Don't forget to rate and review!

I don't own How to train your dragon or RWBY.

Hello, my name is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. Strange name, I know. My parents thought that they would scare off "gnomes" and "trolls", but...eh. What can I do about it? Anyway, as I was saying, my name is Hiccup and I live a, what some might consider strange, life. I grew up in the centre of Vale with my Dad, Stoic, again with the strange names, who was chief of the police and my Mum, Valka, ok I'm starting to sense a pattern here, who worked as a local vet.

My Dad was quite a large man, standing at just over seven ft with a ginger beard that covered most of his torso with beefy arms that could swing his beloved hammer with little effort. He had ginger hair matching his beard that was tied in a small pony tail with a very gruff personality that had a caring side only reserved for his family and friends and his warrior body is partnered with an overprotective mindset that I at times loathe whilst I appreciate it at other times. In his youth he worked as a hunter but decided to join the police to work closer to his family until he got promoted to chief when the previous chief died in a grimm attack. My mother on the other hand was smaller in comparison to Dad. She was just under six ft with a very small stature and brown hair tied in a pony tail going down her back. She was a very caring person who was always complimented on her beauty or her kindness, however she could be stubborn and authoritative when she needed to be. Being a vet, she had a knack for caring for animals of all kinds including one of our two family pets being a large barn owl she called Cloud Jumper or just Cloud for short, whom she found looking into our window at me when I was just a baby.

Now, back to the present. It was an early morning in Vale, the troublesome noise of dust powered cars and people rushing to get to work was what I woke up to this morning. I groggily pushed myself up in my bed and turned to see what time it was.

...

"9:39 a.m?!" I hoarsely shouted, only now waking up to realise that if I didn't get ready now, then I would be late to the airship that was taking me to beacon. I quickly ran into the shower after discarding my clothes to get ready for the day. After the shower I garbed my battle gear, consisting of a long sleeved green t-shirt with brown, leather, scale like armour wrapped that was around my chest, with an extra layer of leather on top of that locate on the top half of my torso followed by a black metal chest plate that was infused with some basic resistance dust. My arms had leather gauntlets held together by some leather straps, with the right gauntlet housing a compass, because you never know when the occasion will arise and the left gauntlet having a pocket on top that held a hunting knife. My legs were only covered by a pair of black jeans that had two black metal shin guards. The finishing touches of my armour are a obsidian black pauldron on my right shoulder that had an emblem of a red dragon curling in on itself with only one tail fin. All the best hunters and huntresses had some form of emblem on them, so I wanted something that was simple yet memorable. Before I leave I take a quick glance in the mirror to see a 17 year old boy with slightly long, auburn hair with a few small pony tails on the lower back of my head. On this, should I say handsome young man are a pair of emerald eyes that show vast intellect. I have a very lean body since I was very scrawny as a child but my size should not fool anyone as I am still fairly strong what with puberty being one of the most awesome things to happen in my life.

I grabbed my pre-packed bag along with my weapons, with the first being a retractable sword, named eldr, that could light on fire using dust crystals with the metal being strong but not sturdy, much like my armour. My second weapon is a black, metal bow which can fold in on itself to make it more convenient to carry. The bow, which I named dreki, uses arrows made out of my aura, since I think that having to either make or buy new arrows all the time would be stressful for me and my wallet. I can also make the arrow explode, depending on how much aura I put in to it. The bow had a few other functions, including a grappling hook with could be attached to an aura arrow.

Running down the stairs in our three story house, I greet Cloud with a wave and grab breakfast from the table in the kitchen and I was about to make a run for the door when all of a sudden-

"And WHERE do you think you're going, young man?" Came the teasing voice of my mother.

"Well you know...Beacon, my place of learning for the next four years. As well as the subject which you seem to bring up around all your friends" I replied with a smirk.

My response was a mock expression of hurt on her face "Since when have I done that, and anyway shouldn't you be saying good bye?"

"Never mind come here" I walk over to her and give her a good bye hug since the next time I see her will be in the holidays.

"You better not be forgetting about your old man" I turn around to see Dad waiting in the door way with a proud smile on his face.

"Hey Dad, how could I forget my favourite crime fighting police chief"

After saying my good byes I leave the house grabbing a metal helmet, which has little spikes coming out in rows at the back with two slits for the eyes and a piece of brown leather covering where the mouth would be. The reason for this would be the second family pet. My best friend...Toothless. Now I'm sure your wandering what he is and it is kinda confusing, considering, well...um...how do I say this...Toothless is a dragon. A fire breathing lizard the size of a beowolf with wings.

After finding him trapped in a grimm trap in the borders of the emerald forest we took him home since he was tiny at the time and acted my age. From digging around in myths and legends about dragons, we found out that he is a night fury. The: "Unholy offspring of lightning and death itself".

It was a dragon that never showed itself, never stole food and never misses. The legends surrounding this species were scary yet curiosity caused us to carry on looking. Apparently it was an illusive dragon that hunted during the night to hide itself as it had never been seen, with the only warning of it's incoming strike being an unsettling whistling followed by a blue flash, then fire and destruction. In the end we decided to keep him as a pet since I was lonely and needed a friend and Mom being a vet would be able to help take care of him.

Now a full grown dragon, for his species anyway, I can ride him, but he needed a prosthetic tail fin since one of his tail fins was damaged in the grimm trap when we found him. So after a bit of trial and error I was able to make him one. I had it set up with a peddle which through a series of complicated but brilliant engineering on my part, it was able to move the tail fin into the positions that match his real one, allowing him to fly. So after an hour long argument with my Dad about if it was safe or not to fly with him, I was able to get in the saddle and see the world from the sky but not from inside an airship or from pictures on the internet.

At first it was a bit of a bumpy ride but once we were in sync with each other, nothing could out speed us. He was even my original inspiration for when making my emblem. I was filled with joy though when I found out that I could train Toothless and take him with me to beacon to aid me as a hunter.

"Morning bud, hows it going?" My response was a mixture of growls and gurgles which could be perceived as a positive response from the cat-like dragon.

"Good, now we should get going before we're late"

So with that, I jumped on Toothless' saddle and with a leap from Toothless we were suddenly flying in the air towards the air ship docks. Now I'm sure your wandering why we have to travel by air ship? Well the answer is pretty simple, we don't know the way to beacon and it was required that every new student arrive via the air ship.

Although the view was breath-taking. I could see a fair amount of the city from where I was. Seeing people rushing to work and others just opening up shop for the day.

This was the reason for me to make my helmet, since wind burn was pretty annoying to deal with after my first few attempts at flying. Although for the rare occasions that I could join my Dad or some of his friends to clear out a few grimm, the helmet came in handy. When designing it, I put as much thought into it as I did with my weapons. Signal required us to make our weapons so I had at least some experience with designing stuff.

I didn't want it for defensive purposes, but more for sight and protection against wind burn. I had put lenses into the slits where I would see out of. I had made these to be sort of like a scope for a weapon but more technical and less zoom. Its main features were helping me pin point where to aim my bow and the second being a inferred function to make it easier to spot grim from the sky.

Once arriving we quickly walked onto the airship trying to avoid attention, you know, large onyx dragon that hasn't been seen in a millennia walking around. Even though there were a lot of news stories and interviews about Toothless a lot of people are shocked to actually see him. It was annoying at first, since a lot of scientists wanted DNA samples, zoo owners wanted to buy him, and environmentalists wanted me to free him, but after a few harsh warnings from Dad they started to leave us alone. So in cases such as right now, me and Toothless just had to do our best to ignore any stares directed at us and just get on the airship.

After avoiding a blonde boy vomiting into a trash can we made our way over to a group of chairs where a familiar face was waiting for us. Astrid Hofferson. She was a small and slim girl of around 5 ft with blonde hair and blue eyes. Sporting a red hoodie with shoulder pads, a blue skirt and she carried her trusted battle axe on her back. She is considered beautiful to most boys, but to me she is more of a sister. I had bumped into her when I was around ten in one of the parks and we had instantly become friends, with both of us sharing a dream of becoming hunters/huntresses to help protect the world we live in.

"And what are you doing sat here all by yourself?" I questioned teasingly as I came up behind her.

"Hiccup!" She shouted, turning around to hug me, with her gaining a few confused words for shouting out "Hiccup" and me getting a lot of jealous looks from the surrounding boys.

"Hey yourself"

Her attention was then turned to the giant mound of what I like to call lazy lizardness that was currently pouting, trying to get attention.

"Hows my favourite Toothy-woothy?" She asked in that stupid voice, you know the one people use to talk to babies?

"Ugh! Astrid, please don't talk to him like that. He acts childish as it is"

My attention was suddenly drawn to the t.v as it suddenly displayed on of beacon's professors telling everyone that we will be arriving soon.

Five minutes later and we are walking back on solid ground with the group of soon-to-be students dispersed to look for where we were supposed to meet. The same blonde guy that was having stomach issues on the airship suddenly ran past everyone to reach a trash can that was conveniently placed just next to where we landed. I was about to go and ofer some help when Astrid dragged me, and in turn Toothless, towards the entrance of beacon in all its glory.

However, as I feel will be a recurring action, my attention was caught by something else. This something being what appeared to be a fifteen year old red riding hood imitation surrounded by fallen luggage and being scolded by a girl dressed in all white with cold blue eyes and a white pony tail. White, as I had dubbed the latter, was shaking a vile of red dust in front of Red, the former, which is obviously unstable as red dust can be seen escaping and entering Red's nose. Oh, this can't end well.

BOOM

Red sneezed causing White to get even more annoyed only for a girl dressed in all back to intervene. 'What is up with people and dressing in only one colour!?' I thought as I witnessed the disaster with Astrid also watching in amusement.

Well, even if the majority of my armour was black, it was all in good reason! It helped my blend in with Toothless at night, since he is all black I didn't want to give away where we were flying, so with black armour, I could blend in to the night sky with him. I even had Toothless' prosthetic tail fin dyed black.

Now back to the drama which is currently serving as my entertainment!

It seemed that Red had slumped in defeat as White walked off soon followed by Black, as I had dubbed the third character in this drama. I thought that I might as well go over there and see if she is alright, what with sneeze-exploding and all.

"Hey Astrid, lets go say hi, she looks like she could use a cheering up" Her response was a simple nod, so we made our way over there. The blonde guy seemed to have the same idea as he got there just before we did and offered her a hand.

"I'm Jaune"

"Ruby" I then arrived after hearing the two identify themselves.

"Hey, I'm Hiccup and this is Astrid, you looked like you could use a cheering up so we came over" I said calmly with a smile, hoping to brighten up the day that was clearly ruined already for the younger girl.

"Oh, thanks...wait you saw that earlier...?"

I just chuckled at her response.

AN:

Well thanks for reading this! I hope that you enjoyed this first chapter and will continue to carry on reading future chapters. Speaking of which, the next chapter should be uploaded within a few days.

-Leaper