Heyyoo, so *coughs* new story yeh?
I'm well aware of my difficulties to keep up with my other works but this idea just got into my head and I'll work to update both my "long" stories and requests for one-shots. The trick is to work on whatever I feel most inclined to at night.
This will most likely be interrupted for a few weeks (mostly three) as my next period of evaluations is right on the horizon (*sigh* oh boy) but I'll give my best until then.
Without further ado, and a horrible migraine: Enjoy people!
PS: This story takes place after Blindsided before any of the following episodes. This way, it might change a biiit of canon and even characters so that it works. I'm not saying something like this would happen in the series of Rtte, but this is my idea. XD
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"He called my axe a toothpick!" Astrid roared, teeth gritted and ready to bite anyone. She waved her carefully sharpened axe dangerously about.
"She said my babies looked like I was having an allergy attack!" Dagur growled, flexing his arms to make his muscles look bigger.
"He said he fought better!"
"She said I was crazy!" Dagur cracked his neck, his eyebrows scrunching up and down as a small, weak clacking escaped his throat, "You know I'm out with that, Brother!"
Hiccup passed one of his hands over his face, letting it stay there, index finger and thumb holding the beginning of his nose cane in between them. He shook his head and sighed in exhaustion. "Guys, it's been the twelve'th time in one week, what do you want me to do?"
"Something about him, obviously!" Astrid jumped in, rushing to his eye sight while waving her arms about, "He called my dragon lame, Hiccup! Stormfly! Lame! And he's been messing in everything I do!"
Dagur, too, seemed to find that moving closer to Hiccup might just help his side, "And she keeps swinging her blondie head on and about on how I'm not good enough for my dragon, that I let Shattermaster down!" He stopped for a moment in his ranting, narrowing his eyes and pouting like a small child as he glared at the shieldmaden, "That's low..." Then, he turned back to Hiccup, who was honestly feeling rather uncomfortable with the distance, more lack of, between them, "Everywhere I go, she goes!"
"Everywhere I go, he goes!" Astrid complained.
"Eerghh..." Hiccup groaned, his hands up in front of his body in an uncomfortable way. He stepped backwards until he was side by side with Heather, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, Snotlout and Fishlegs some ways in their diagonal, "That's really something I can't control guys!" He defended.
"Hiccup's right, you know..." Fishlegs tried, slapping his mouth shut as, the moment he spoke, two pairs of blue and pale-green eyes had thrown daggers his way.
"Hiccup... aaand Fishlegs are right." Heather declared, crossing her arms. She, too, was sick of this. "It's up to you guys to solve your quarrels, you just can't be coming up to Hiccup in hopes that he'll get either one of you out of the Edge. There are far mor important things to worry about, and you've been driving everyone mad!"
Both the blonde and the red-haired seemed to freeze for a moment, their eyes fixated on said boy. Hiccup rubbed his temple, a headache starting to consume him. He wondered how, yes, even at his age, he hadn't already grown a fully white-hair.
Then, he realised where the two were looking at, expectantly. "Couldn't have said better." He agreed.
"But Hiccup! I'm your brother!" Dagur tried, more to his right.
"No you're not!" Astrid raged, her balled fists white in frustation, "And you don't even live here! You're just here because Berserker Island's destroyed!"
"And we've made a pause in searching for our father too, by the way..." Hiccup heard Heather mutter next to him.
Yes, that was true. The two siblings had been forced to that as the leaders responsible for the Berserkers. Only now, as the rebuilding was starting and there weren't many places to spend the night for the Berserkers, the two had decided that they'd leave whatever places there were for the villagers and soldiers, opting to stay at Dragon's Edge and hopefully help fight the Dragon Hunters in the mean time.
At first, it had been great. He recalled Astrid happily receiving Heather, the two chatting and smiling freely. Fishlegs had been thrilled to have her back. Snotlout, of course, had been pretty content with the prospecth of spending more time flexing his muscles and his dragon's with Heather there to watch. Dagur seemed delirious as he saw Hiccup, not that the boy could ever really understand why. The twins were in over their heads with the amount of destruction they could learn from a Berserker, especially given Dagur's historical.
All in all, the past week had started out just right and Hiccup himself couldn't have been happier. He and Astrid had been growing steadier and he too might just have been in over his head on how she seriously hung with him. In the end, their love was mutual and Hiccup couldn't express his feelings for the girl. Only then, as routines started taking definive places, hers and Dagur's quarreling had begun. They went to the same places to throw axes, train and do whatever fighters like them did. They both flew at the same time and used the arena at the same time. Astrid was serious as they trained, Dagur... not so much, for as much as he insisted on having overcome his derangedness, Hiccup could always see the mad glint in the Berserker Chief's eyes.
And most of all, he had understood, and Heather seemingly too, they both wanted to be with both Hiccup and Heather, alone, at the same time.
Astrid wanted to spend time with him, enjoying their secret, he wasn't that sure why though, relationship, relaxing and taking in all the time of the world that fit in the few couple of minutes they could take from preparing for the final mission they'd started to plan.
Dagur wanted to spend time with Heather. He seemed to feel somewhat replaced by the blonde girl, as if his sister prefered Astrid to him, Hiccup understood. When Dagur and Astrid both felt like training or simply being with the black-haired girl, it was like two Vikings pulling the same rope, each on an end, pulling in opposite ways.
Oh, how he could relate.
Because Dagur wanted to spend time with his little brother, Hiccup. And Astrid wanted to be with her boyfriend as well.
He was done with being pulled and hussled from side to side, having more than sharing-incompabilities to work on and solve. When the time to face Viggo and the Hunters came, they wouldn't be triumphing over the enemy with another Astrid-Dagur heated, literally meatallic argument on how "Dagur wasn't supposed to be there too, they were talking alone." nor how "Astrid was the one who was everywhere, everytime".
A few years back he couldn't even dream of someone wanting to be with him. Now... now he couldn't stop dreaming of someone NOT wanting to be with him.
Oh gods they were in on it again... Right at his ears, waving, shaking him then Heather. He could no longer hear!
"ENOUGH!"
The whole stables fell in a deep, heavy silence. Heather looked at the spot next to her, mouth agape and eyes wide for a moment, until, she too, blinking away the shock, nodded and stood scowling next to Hiccup. She could just spot four heads away being angled to the side, their eyes round.
In front of them, both the girl and the man had stopped dead in their tracks, frozen. They very slightly, subconsciously gulped.
"THIS HAS GONE TOO FAR!" Hiccup declared, his hands not in fists but in a rigid, claw-like way. He threw them to the sky, "I've had enough of listening to you two! Hiccup, Astrid did this!" He impersonated, the voices he made thin and irritating, "Hiccup, Dagur did that!"
He stuffed one hand in his the mop of auburn hair, pulling at it. "I don't think I've ever had this huge rush to go stuff my head in a barrel of water 'till you guys go quiet! Seriously expected more, not even the twins have been this bad!"
"But he-" Astrid started, her hand pointing in Dagur's way.
"But he nothing, Astrid. Expected more of you, of you two! With all we have in our hands right now you really think I have time to come Thor-knows how many times a day separate you two from straight out going on a full-out brawl? This is ridiculous!"
"Wow, are you seeing this? Is Hiccup really scolding at Astrid...?" Snotlout mumbled to Fishlegs in the background, his voice hushed. He didn't want them all to fall on top of the Snotman of course.
"It depends on the point of view." Tuffnut replied, "Because seriously, ever since he gave that shout I can't stop thinking the chief's coming to kick my butt out of Berk after changing all the water in the well for blue ink." The three teens by his side looked at him in sync. Ruffnut seemed pretty proud of her brother, while Fishlegs and Snotlout seemed to have an ich in their eyes.
"You did whaaat?" Snotlout whispered.
"But Hiccup, she's so impossible to stand!" Dagur complained, his eyebrows at first high in that remnant madness, "You're the boss here! Put her in her line!"
"I am NOT a damsel you can boss around Daggy!" Astrid roared, the very tip of her axe flying to the skin of Dagur's throat, "Got it? You, on the other hand, seem to be lacking some manners, maybe Hiccup should do something about you, huh?"
"Astrid's right Dagur..." The boy hissed.
"Thank yo-"
"But she's also wrong." He finished, "I'm not going to put anyone in their line. You know why?! Because you're both mature enough to behave and stop all this nonsense I have no idea why it's happening, really! Because I'm sick of it! I'm sick of this headache you two have been giving me lately! I'm sick that what one does, the other complains about it."
"Hiccup! Astrid breathed! Hiccup! Dagur exhaled!" He grunted in exasperation.
"It's not like that!" They complained. "Heyy!"
"Oh really?" Heather deadpanned. "Because right now you're literally inches away from cutting each other's heads off."
"Come on, sis! I'm your brother!"
"And I'm her best friend!"
"You can't be both their best friends!"
"You-"
"QUIET YOU TWO!" Hiccup exploded again, from behind them, Tuffnut whimpered. Hiccup now brought both his hands to his hair, pulling handful of strands, "I can't hear you anymore! It's like I'm dealing with little children all of a sudden! This is so unlike you, Astrid! I thought you were more controlled, Dagur! It's not my fault you both are so alike in many things and just can't see that! But I- I just can't cope with all the problems we have, much more like this!"
He turned around, whistling for Toothless.
"Where are you going?!" They shouted.
"To clear my head..." He sighed, his shoulders sagging, "There's just too much inside." Then, he straightened his spine, "And I expect you two to have it talked out by the time I'm back... I can't handle anymore of this."
The stables stood quiet as they watched him go, the black sillouette in the air becoming continuously smaller, progressively vanishing in the middle of the dark, heavy clouds.
Astrid let her hand fly to her upper arm, somewhat guilty deep down even if everything was still too hot for her to admit anything. As she sadly eyed the dot outside, Dagur rushed for Heather, who too eyed the empty spot beside her.
"Sis, wou-" He grabbed her upper arm under her shoulder blades but was instantly cut off as the girl looked at him, fuming. Her lips were tight in a frown, cheeks slightly puffed out, eyebrows hard. She briskly pulled her arm out of his grip, grunting. "Don't."
Heather shook her head, eyeing the two. Then, she too, turned around, heading outside. The riders watched in silence as Windshear took off, flying in the same direction the Night Fury had gone.
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Uhhhh, someone's having a bad day now isn't it?
It would be a shame if someone just *smiles knowingly* made it worse, right? Hehe...
On a different note though, I hope you've all enjoyed this small chapter. It doesn't say much, but later, of course and as always, it will. I just have been having this big craving for HiccupxHeather "sibling" bonding and AstridxDagur team work, so this story came up, and now I have to write it or else it will be bugging me for even more days. Of course, for this idea to work, Astrid and Dagur have to clash, so a bit of feelings can be added later*smiles innocently* and so I had to play with these explosive sides of theirs.
Anyway, I'll do my best to work fast, even though evaluations are right around the corner *sweats* oh boy... well...
Until then, buddies! XD