Nick's Poetry Notebook
"Expectations"
A/N: As hopefully you have guessed, this is not a story. Poetry, to me, is the best way to make words memorable. I think there isn't enough of it on this site, so I decided to fix that some.
Hiccup had but one true friend,
A dragon with green eyes,
And who'd have thought his world would end
After taking to the skies?
You see, Hiccup loved his dad,
Very much so, in fact.
But talking to him made him sad,
Like there was something that he lacked.
Stoick expected a lot of his son,
That much to him was clear.
But what exactly should he have won
To even come near?
He tried his best, he really did,
And he never even got close.
But though he was only a kid,
He cared more than most.
Stoick sailed away,
Hiccup was left to train.
He had to learn the 'Viking way'
And come to know of pain.
He learned to kill and maim by day
And got good with a knife;
But when the sun gave no more rays,
He lived another life.
A dragon, he'd downed, hurt and scared,
One as black as night.
But this beast, Hiccup had spared,
As killing wasn't right.
Toothless and he were best of buds,
Couldn't be separated;
Yet he knew there would be blood,
Because dragons were hated.
Berk would never understand
The friendship that they'd made.
His father, too, would not stand
For a son who'd disobeyed.
But by the end, he'd gained their favor,
And he'd almost died.
He'd used a little "Hiccup flavor",
With his best friend at his side.
He and Toothless had gone to fight
Against a fearsome monster.
The two had used up all their might
And they came out the stronger.
They had conquered the Red Death,
They'd saved all of the Vikings.
And the beasts with fire breath,
Had been found to their liking.
Hiccup had made his father proud
And earned himself a flagon,
But an idea he had was loud,
That he'd had to kill a dragon.
A/N: Hmm? How was it? I don't write poetry as much as I could but I do enjoy it and at least I can rhyme okay. This will be another one of my side projects, consisting of HTTYD poetry and the like. Hopefully, it isn't that boring. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I'll write one about almost anything. Just be aware, nothing rhymes with "Astrid" :)
-Nick (ncham9)
