Hey. This is the first chapter of my story. This was just really to introduce the OCs and there will be longer chapters coming... Hopefully.
I'm really bad at disclaimers so this is a disclaimer for any chapters I forget it on.
Enjoy
The day started as an ordinary day. Hiccup practically rolled out of his bed onto the back of his dragon and was off soaring through the crisp morning sky with his friends. A layer of frost coated Berk and it shone as the bright sun hit it. It was a beautiful sight and Hiccup was proud that at least two of his five friends was appreciating it.
"Why have you got us up here, Hiccup? We were watching sheep trying to cross the frozen lake." Ruffnut laughed with a smile.
Her brother also laughed. Hiccup rolled his eyes and continued to look forwards.
"Look at Berk, lit up my its own glow from the frost that covers it and..." Fishlegs said.
"Ohh!" Tuffnut said, looking down at the sight of Berk. "I... Don't see it."
Astrid told Hiccup that it wasn't worth it and went back to marvelling at the wonder of her home. Snotlout was moaning about the trip, saying how he would much rather be in bed. Astrid tried to make him quieten down by suggesting that he was only moaning because he wasn't strong enough to manage the trip like the rest of them but it didn't stop him.
As they crossed out over the sea, Astrid told Snotlout to think of it as a training exercise. She told him to tell them exactly what he saw and soon the twins had joined in.
"There's a sea stack. And another sea stack and a dragon... Oh no wait... That's just a sea stack." Snotlout groaned.
"And a cloud! And a cloud. And an Outcast ship. And a cloud." Tuffnut said.
Toothless pulled back so Hiccup was level with the twins. Hiccup looked around and caught sight of a ship. He took a deep breath. The large ship was firing at four flying creatures, clearly dragons. There was something very strange as well.
"They've got riders!" Hiccup gasped.
It was one simple sentence but it got the attention of the others. The group of riders turned so they could fly off to help.
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A wall of arrows flew through the air but a rippling burst of lightening cut through them and burn them to ashes.
"Thanks Aya!" a call was heard but no one was seen.
Hiccup frowned as he approached. He was sure he had seen four dragons, now he could only see three. He just hoped that it hadn't been shot down.
"Twins, Snotlout, lay down cover fire!" Hiccup shouted, getting Toothless to swoop down.
Astrid was shouting to Hiccup about the dragons she recognised.
"We've got a Boneknapper and a Skrill." Astrid said.
Hiccup looked around and saw a large Boneknapper soaring through the sky. The Skrill was trying to take out the Outcasts who were firing arrows.
"Do we attack the dragons who have just shown up?" a boy's voice called from the back of a large beetle like dragon none of them recognised.
Toothless fired a plasma blast at the boat and the men leapt back. As soon as the threat of the Outcasts were gone, the four strange dragon raiders turned tail.
"Split up!" the boy on the Boneknapper shouted.
The three dragons darted off in different directions and a fourth suddenly appeared. It was a grey dragon that Hiccup didn't recognise. The four strange riders began to dart off.
"Astrid, Fishlegs, take the Boneknapper. Twins, the Skrill. Snotlout, take that one."
Hiccup was pointing at the beetle like dragon. Before any of the gang had time to react, Hiccup and Toothless were chasing after the grey dragon that was disappeared through the clouds.
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Astrid and Fishlegs were chasing the Boneknapper across the sky. The Boneknapper was faster the two of them but Astrid and Fishlegs were managing to herd the large creature towards Berk. They would fire blasts to the sides of the dragon and it was refusing to risk a blast despite having an almost complete set of armour covering the olive green scales. The dragon was clearly trying to protect its male rider.
"As soon as we get him to Berk, we'll see what is going on."
Suddenly the Boneknapper flew upwards and into the clouds, disappearing from view.
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Ruffnut and Tuffnut were enjoying chasing after the dark purple Skrill. It was patterned with black markings over its top. Every so often the Skrill would turn back and a few bursts of lightening would streak across the sky. It wouldn't got too close to the twins but it would be close enough to make both twins jump.
"This is awesome!" Ruffnut cheered.
Barf and Belch were more than willing to press on. The young rider on the back of the Skrill turned around and smirked at the two. The hunt continued to press on.
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Snotlout and Hookfang were chasing the beetle like dragon. They had no idea what type of dragon the green and brown armoured creature was but neither cared. He wanted to down the dragon. He could see a boy riding it and he drove Hookfang faster.
"Pull over!" he called as he drew level with the dragon.
The boy looked at Snotlout and grinned. He nodded and told him he would. The beetle like dragon angled its wings so it suddenly slowed. Snotlout watched as the boy began to disappear behind him.
The boy on his dragon smiled. He had seen the Berk crest on Snotlout's clothing so knew where he should probably head.
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Hiccup was having to follow Toothless' lead. The other dragon had camouflaged himself and his rider and Toothless didn't need to see to follow them.
"Could you at least show yourself?" Hiccup called, looking out at the clouds.
He was getting very tired of having to rely on his dragon for directions.
"Hey." a girl appeared on the back of a suddenly grey dragon. "Are you following me?"
It had large ridges over its back which acted like sails. The girl stood on the back of the dragon, facing the opposite way that her dragon was going.
"Whoa, is that a Night Fury?" the girl gasped.
Hiccup paused and smiled, telling the girl that if she went back to Berk with him, he would let her spend some time with Toothless. The girl slowed down so she was riding along side Hiccup.
"So what's Berk like?"
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By the time Astrid and Fishlegs had appeared, the other dragon riders had already appeared. Snotlout had been followed by the beetle like dragon and now the rider had strolled off to find the rider of the Skrill. The girl Hiccup had very quickly befriended was marvelling at Toothless.
"We lost the Boneknapper." Astrid said.
"It's okay. Alfie is going to find us." the female rider of the Skrill said.
She had shining silver eyes and, under the left one, a crescent moon birthmark. She had long curling navy blue hair which was just settling down from the electric current which had been through it. It reached around her waist.
"So, since we're only here because Jarrick said Berk was safe, why do we actually talk about what was going on back there?"
Hiccup paused. He had recognised the name Jarrick. There was a Jarrick on the island. Jarrick worked in the forge when he could but he didn't work with Gobber so Hiccup had never really known him. Hiccup looked over at the boy who had been riding the unidentified dragon and instantly recognised him. The young man with slicked back brown hair was Jarrick.
"You're Jarrick Oakensheild! I didn't know you rode a dragon." Hiccup said, moving forwards.
He tripped over what he thought could have been thin air but then he realised the camouflage dragon was there. It turned grey and moved towards its rider.
"Why don't we just calm down?" Astrid said. "We'd all better introduce ourselves."
She turned to the strange dragon riders who had been with Jarrick. The girl with blue hair smiled and introduced herself as Skye Aysun Whitescar but told the group that they should call her Aya. She walked over to her Skrill that was being annoyed by Ruffnut and Tuffnut.
"This is Tempest." Aya said, brushing one of her hands against the dragon's snout.
The ginger girl with her invisible dragon smiled. She had long, straight ginger hair and bright blue eyes. She moved closer to her dragon and it turned to a deep grey.
"I'm Iesra. This is..."
The dragon pushed against Iesra slightly forwards and rubbed into her back.
"Hey, Ghost, stop it." she paused. "This is Ghost. He's a Stealth Dragon."
Fishlegs hurried forwards. He had seen a Skrill before but not even the Book of Dragons had a drawing of a Stealth Dragon. He took in the moving ridges on the dragon's back which allowed the rider to be camouflaged and also the darker grey marks and speckles on the dragon's back.
Finally the group turned to Jarrick and his dragon. They didn't recognise the type of dragon he had and, although some of them were annoyed that he had been keeping it a secret from them, everyone was intrigued.
"What sort of dragon is that?" Hiccup asked.
Snotlout moved forwards, patting the large armoured beast. The dragon turned to face Snotlout and gave a bellow towards him. Snotlout raised his club.
"Whoa, he's just excited." Jarrick said, looking straight at Snotlout.
He didn't want anyone to hurt his dragon. He moved between Snotlout and his dragon.
"This is Titan." Jarrick said. "He's a Rumblehorn. Stubborn, loyal and energetic."
Fishlegs and Hiccup ran towards the new dragon and began to examine the dragon. They took in the large beetle like shell and the horn on the creature's nose.
"Hello." Hiccup said.
"I think they're forgetting something, Aya." Iesra said, settling down on Ghost's back.
"What?" Hiccup asked, turning back.
"It's okay, boy number one, it's not like we need to know your names." Aya said with a roll of her eyes.
She looked at Jarrick and sighed, beginning to tell the teenaged girls the names of the riders and their dragons.
"And that's Hiccup. He's in charge of the dragon training academy." Jarrick said.
Iesra smirked to herself.
"So I'm guessing you and Alfie aren't really in his good books right now." Iesra said, leaping off the back of Ghost and wondering over.
She looked at Toothless and rested her hand on his snout, absent-mindedly. She didn't know the name of the dragon but she didn't mind. She knew enough about Night Furies to know that she would be safe so long as she didn't threaten him. Jarrick had stopped going through the names so he could talk to Aya.
"That girl?"
"The twin?"
"No, Jay, the other one. The one who went after Alfie." Aya said, pointing at Astrid. "Is she the girl who Aflie...?"
Jarrick (or Jay as that was his nickname) nodded with a smirk. He introduced Astrid to Aya and matched her with her dragon.
Iesra watched as the attention of the others fell from Titan onto her as she approached.
"So your name is Hiccup? What sort of name is that?" Iesra asked calmly.
"I know. It's bad." Hiccup grumbled.
Iesra smiled and shook her head. She looked at Hiccup.
"It just can't help thinking that I'm going to get introduced to someone called Barf or Belch or something like that." she said.
The boy frowned and turned to Tuffnut and Ruffnut. The twins were shocked, looking like they had just met a mind reader. Iesra read Hiccup's expression like a book and then her eyes landed on the Zippleback.
"You Berkians are odd." Iesra said with a sigh, reading the boy's expression.
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The Boneknapper landed on the cliffs above the training academy. The rider looked down and his lips pulled into a smirk. He was happy that all his friends were clearly safe. Part of him wanted to see his friends but he wasn't sure he wanted the academy to know about his dragon.
"We'll see them later, Shadowfire." the boy said.
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"They can't just stay here." Astrid hissed at Hiccup.
They were watching Aya and Jay try and control the twins and Snotlout who were trying to play games with the three new dragons. Iesra was looking at Toothless, thinking aloud about how he had managed to follow her so well. She had liked his name but hadn't understood it because Toothless has happily shown her his teeth.
"No, they can't. But how do we know they're safe? What if they're traps like Heather was?" Fishlegs said, shifting nervously.
Tuffnut wondered up to them, shaking his head.
"If they're traps, they're not very good. If we think that they're traps when we're not meant to think they're traps then they're not very good traps are they... Or something." Tuffnut said and was suddenly distracted by his sister.
"So... We're going to have to find them a house, the girls I mean. Not Jarrick, he's got his parents." Hiccup said.
There was a pause as they all tried to think of a place the girls could go.
"There's an empty one that could do."
"What? Where?" Fishlegs asked.
"No, you can't send them up there." Astrid said, suddenly understanding what was happening.
"Send them up where?" Jay said, approaching.
"Mildew's." Hiccup answered.
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"We'll have to build a shed or something." Jay concluded when he first saw Mildew's house. "It's never going to fit two dragons, Aya and Iesra otherwise."
Hiccup nodded. Astrid was showing Aya and Iesra around the hut. It was fully equipped with Mildew's things but it was clear the girls didn't really appreciate being put in the old house of a traitor and dragon hater.
"We'll add in an extra section later and then get some better furniture."
Suddenly, Hiccup noticed a dragon in the sky. It was getting closer. He recognised the dragon as a Boneknapper.
"Alfie, what's happening?" Aya asked, rushing out of the house.
The Boneknapper landed nearby and a teenaged boy leapt off. He had black hair and grey eyes. A birthmark was on his jaw, just off to the left. Freckled footprints journeyed across the ridge of his nose. Everyone quickly recognised him as Alfgeir Hjalte. He was an apprentice fisherman who wanted to cast off his family's trade. Astrid was sure that Alfgeir 'Alfie' wanted to become a warrior.
"Outcast ship!" he called, running up to them.
Shadowfire looked at the three new dragons.
"We've already dealt with one!" Tuffnut moaned.
"You've got a Boneknapper! How many people on the island have dragons that we don't know about?" Snotlout moaned.
Alfie looked at them as if they didn't understand him. He reminded them that he had seen an Outcast ship.
"Where is it?" Hiccup asked, taking control of the situation.
He was already moving to climb onto Toothless.
"Off the South coast. They're probably after us four." Alfie said.
He turned to Jarrick and muttered that they shouldn't have burnt down the Outcast food store. Hiccup frowned.
"You four need to stay here. If the Outcasts are after you, it's safer for you here." Hiccup said, taking off on Toothless' back.
The other teenagers from Hiccup's group began to take off and then Aya, Jay and Alfie were left looking around.
"Where are Iesra and Ghost?"
"I'll go get her." both Jay and Aflie said, running towards their dragons. "You take care of Aya."
Both paused to look back at where Aya had been but their attention was drawn to a Skrill shooting through the sky.
"We need to put leashes on those girls." Aflie muttered as his dragon took off and began to shoot across the sky.
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Hiccup could tell the Outcast ship wasn't expecting much of a fight. It was a single ship that clearly wasn't armed enough to take down one dragon. He guessed that Alvin had sent a ship pretty quickly after the food store had been burnt down to track them. Hiccup guessed that as soon as the ship had followed the riders back to their home, Alvin would send a whole fleet to kill or capture them.
The other dragons were beside Hiccup and Toothless, firing down at the boat and trying to not hurt the Outcasts on board too badly.
Astrid looked at Hiccup and realised that he was being targeted.
"Hiccup!" she shouted as a warning.
A series of arrows were flying through the air forwards the fifteen year old and his Night Fury. Hiccup tried to get Toothless to aim but he knew he couldn't be quick enough. Suddenly a ball of fire burst across, burning the arrows into crisps. Hiccup looked around and smiled when he saw Iesra and Ghost appear beside him.
The rest of the group appeared and Hiccup smiled. Alfie was giving Astrid cover fire as Stormfly fired at the ship and the twins were coating the water with the green gas that they easily turned to fire. Snotlout and Hookfang were dealing with the weapons and Fishlegs and Meatlug were keeping watch over the whole scene. Jay and Aya were taking dives at the ships, taking the larger weapons and dropping them into the sea. Within a few minutes, the ship was easily sunk.
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Hiccup was sitting at the table with his father. He had to try and explain why there were people with dragons on the island that had never really set foot in the academy. It was rather awkward.
"Dad, the dragon riders are always good things and these teenagers could be pretty useful." Hiccup reasoned with a grin. "If we don't let them stay then they'll get themselves killed."
"You seemed to have pretty much made up your mind." Stoick said with a sigh.
He told Hiccup that the girls could stay and the boys wouldn't be punished. Hiccup smiled and watched as his father left. He turned to face the back all where it looked like there were just shadows.
"You can come out now guys." Hiccup said, crossing his arms.
Ghost changed to his grey form and Hiccup sighed as the four teenagers squashed up on the dragon's back got off.
"Thanks for arguing our cause, Hiccup." Jay said with a smile.
He and Aya left and Alfie informed Hiccup he was moving out of his house with his parents to live with the girls. Iesra looked at Hiccup and frowned.
"So how does Toothless track Ghost?" she asked, patting Ghost's snout. "Can he smell him or does he had some form of heat vision or...?"
Hey, please review.
And Aya and Jay belong to HallowThorn.
Alfie belongs to LunarWhimsy.
