Chapter 1: Strangers and New beginnings
A/N: Hello fellow readers, my name is Michael, also known as bigmike33321. Yeah, I gotta go back and uppercase that 'b'. ANYwho, this story is a colab between myself, and Toothless-Nightfurry96 here on fan fiction. Go and give him a looksee. Anyway, heres what we started with, thanks Toothless(Huh, never thought I'd be able to say that :D) enjoy the chapter :)
Ryan PoV
My name, is Ryan. And that's about all I know about myself. You see, I woke up one day in the middle of a field. I groggily opened my eyes to see a strange light. I blinked and it was gone. That was 5 years ago. I was 10 back then, I think. And in those 5 years, I've discovered stuff about myself. Like the fact that I can do magic.
People learned of what I can do, and, they found me. They were bad people, and I've done some pretty bad things. And I may not know much about myself, but I do know this much, I'm not proud of what I did. So I ran away.
That was a year ago. I've been on the road ever since and found myself in a little Colorado town called Berk. I think it's time to settle down, at least for a while. And maybe I can find myself a dragon companion as well.
Hiccups PoV
This, is Berk. More accurately, this is Berk, Colorado in the United States of America. And even MORE accurately, this is the 5th Berk in history. You see, over 2,000 years ago, the original Berk was a Viking village just below the arctic shelf. After the world famous Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III showed the world that dragons weren't as viscous as everyone at the time made them out to be, he and his decadence spread the word around the known world. After about 500 years the dragons just, dissipated. Poof, gone, like the wind.
But that's not how the story ends.
300 years ago dragons came back out of hiding. No, wait, actually, they were resurrected. Some strange force brought them back to life, and not only the dragons that hibernated and never woke up, but the dragons who died naturally as well. And with this, came the dawn of Dragon Magic too.
You see, Dragon Magic, or DM's, is when a dragon bonds with you, like, soul bond. They establish a link in your head to where they can communicate with you telepathically. And if the link stays alive long enough, for a time at the beginning either party can reject the link and go on about their mary lives, the bond becomes stronger, and so does the magic, so much so that it can start changing you and your dragon companion.
And that all sounds cool and dandy, most famous people today have dragon companions and got where they were from the DM's that came with it, but the thing is, I don't have a dragon companion.
My name is Henry "Hiccup" or "Useless"(take your pick) Haddock. I'm a direct decedent of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. And I'm the first one since before the Dragon Awakening to not have a companion. Which is why it makes today all the more crappy. Today is the first day of high school, and I'm the only one in Berk, almost all kids find their companion when they start WALKING here in Berk, I'm the only kid in freaken Berk, to not have a companion. Oh joy
Later
The bell rings at 8:30 at the Berk Academy, and I saunter on to the school's field. Students start landing their dragons in the field and dismounting before sending the reptiles away for the next few hours. There are little cars in Berk, there never was any use for much anyway. Instead of roads like in Denver, or Chicago, Illinois, it's mostly all field. Sure there are sidewalks and other paths but if you don't have a dragon to fly, you're walking everywhere. With my luck, I don't have a dragon companion to fly. Landing in the school field is Freddie Ingerman on his Gronckle, Meatlug. We've been good friends since kindergarten. Sadly, we've been drifting apart a bit since Meatlug is more important than I am. Landing after him are the twins Renee and Travis Thorston and they ride on their Hideous Zippleback. I'm not really friends with them, but I'm not really enemies with them either. Next up to land on the Dragon Runway is Sam Jorgenson. Now we… don't exactly get along very well. He usually insults me that no dragon wants to bond with me. Considering his Monstrous Nightmare Hookfang is as stubborn and thick headed as him, they're the perfect pair. Last to land is Astrid Hofferson and her Deadly Nadder, Stormfly. What I wouldn't do be with her. She is perfect; blond hair, deep blue eyes. It disgusts me that she is dating Sam, he isn't right for her. If anyone had opened a history textbook at school, they would have noticed that these last names have been passed down from our ancestors who started a new era of life, when Vikings made peace with Dragons.
Everyone is so lucky; they have no idea what it is like to not have a dragon companion. So what if my soul can't bond with any dragon thus far? It will happen eventually, right? Who am I kidding; I have tried to bond with every Gronckle, Nadder, Nightmare, and Zippleback in Berk. I even tried to bond with a Whispering Death once(that I don't recommend) the one I want to bond with is a dragon no one has been successful with so far, leading some people to believe that it is impossible. Its 26 feet long, has a wingspan of 48 feet and is the fastest dragon of them all. It never shows its face during the day and only flies at night. It is covered from head to toe in jet black scales. We call it the Night Fury.
I tried to sneak past them on my way to my locker before class. Unfortunately enough though, Sam spotted me.
"Hey useless!" Oh good. "Whatcha doin here? Would have thought that you of all people would have preferred to be home schooled." Wow, that almost sounds sincere, "What, with you not having a dragon and all." And there it is. "What kind of person would go to a dragon training school without a dragon?"
"Why don't you take up skydiving Snotlout?" I half shout half whisper as I try to hurry away. Too bad that with a dragon companion comes perks with the link.
I felt a hand on my shoulder and wind ruffling the back of my hair, sometimes super speed is one of the perks. "What did you call me?" He asked squeezing my shoulder.
Mentally kicking myself for what I'm about to do, I look him straight in the eye and said, "I said, why don't you go and jump off a cliff, if you're so invincible, Snotlout," I said his hated nickname with emphasis.
His face went from pale to brick red in an instant, then he cocked his arm back and punched me in the face.
End of chapter 1
A/N: Well, this is the first part of what me and Toothless has come up with. Please and thank you for reading this, this is going to be a T rating for now, at least until I can see where this is going, the ratings may go up ;) Or down, depending on the content. Anyway, please go and check out Toothless-Nightfurry96 and my other works. As well as my youtube channel, The Adventures Crew :D Thank you all, this has been bigmike33321, Signing off!*BOOP!*
