FURY

This is Berk. Its twelve days north of Hopeless, and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death. It's located solidly on the Meridian of Misery. My village. In a word, sturdy. And it's been here for seven generations, but, every single building is new. We have fishing, hunting, and a charming view of the sunsets.

The only problems are the pests. You see, most places have mice or mosquitoes. We have...

An auburn haired teen slams the doors just as a large flaming reptile fires at him..

... Dragons!

Most people would leave. Not us. We're Vikings. We have, stubbornness issues. ..My name's Hiccup. Great name, I know. But, it's not the worst. Parents believe a hideous name will frighten off gnomes and trolls. Like our charming Viking demeanor wouldn't do that.

The boy 'Hiccup' runs out of his home, in awe of the battle raging around him. Of course, he bumps into a few very "friendly" neighbors…" ARGGGHHHHH! Mornin'!" A random Viking pounces out of nowhere, yelling all the while before leaping back into the fray..

Getting onto his own two feet Hiccup runs into the action, not so subtly..." What are you doing here?!" "Get inside!" "What are you doin' out?" "Get back inside!" More Vikings notice him and finally he nearly runs into a pathway about to be scorched. Right before he gets roasted alive a mammoth of a Viking grabs him and pulls him outta there

This particular Viking is dressed in a deep green tunic covered by heavy chain-mail, with metallic should pads and a VERY large fur cape. Turning around he faces the boy, picks him up and... "Hiccup?!" he shouts clearly not pleased with the frail child...teen…ah whatever..." What is he doing out aga-?!" He continues shouting towards fellow warriors, stop and repeats himself this time at the lad. "What are you doing out?! Get inside!"

That's Stoick the Vast. Chief of the tribe. They say that when he was a baby, he popped a dragon's head clean off of its shoulders. Do I believe it? Yes, I do.

The burly man now known as Stoick 'The Vast' looks around before asking the man next to him "What have we got?" to which he replies "Gronckles, Nadders, Zipplebacks. Oh, and Hoark saw a Monstrous Nightmare".

Looking around and flicking off embers from a mini explosion off his shoulder pads, he asks a famous question "Any Night Furies?" "None so far." "Good.". If only they knew…

Around them dark shapes fill the skies, obviously dragons, and in response the men raise large towers with bonfires attached to the top

Meanwhile, Hiccup runs into a building with a very and I mean VERY fat Viking.." Ah! Nice of you to join the party! I thought you'd been carried off!" Says the man. "What, who me? Nah, come on! I'm waaaay too muscular for their taste. They wouldn't know what to do with all...this." Hiccup responds "Well, they need toothpicks, don't they?" the man quickly retorts while changing his hand? Anyways, these two are clearly close friends, judging by the way the talked to each other

The meat-head with attitude and interchangeable hands is Gobber. I've been his apprentice ever since I was little. Well...littler.

Back to Stoick…

"We move to the lower defenses. We'll counter-attack with the catapults." He tells a man.

While running down wooden path a dragon sets fire to one of the houses, but none of the Vikings seem to mind it all that much…not in the good way of course.

See? Old village, lots and lots of new houses.
Seeing the blaze one man shouts out "FIRE!" and Hiccup being the obvious curious cat leans out of the forge to watch the action unfold while a bunch of teens presumably his age run and grab buckets filled with water

Oh, and that's Fishlegs, Snotlout, the Twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnut, and...Astrid... Oh, their job is so much cooler.

Now there was the face a love struck teen…..NOT THE POINT!

Back to the story, Hiccup leans further out of the shop until he's picked up by the 'clamp-for-a-hand' Gobber

"Oh, come on. Let me out, please? I need to make my mark!"Hiccup whines "Oh, you've made plenty of marks. All in the wrong places!" Gobber retorts back

"Please, two minutes. I'll kill a dragon. My life will get infinitely better. I might even get a date."

"You can't lift a hammer, you can't swing an axe, you can't even throw one of these!" Gobber say lifting up a bola ( two or more rocks held together by rope)

"Okay, fine, but this will throw it for me."hiccup says.

Hiccup walks over to an odd contraption and gently pets/strokes it unravels itself and fires out a bola at a Viking in the queue outside the forge.

Pointing at hiccup and the machine Gobber says "See, now this right here is what I'm talking about!" Quickly the boy tries to defend himself "Mild calibration issue-" but before he could finish he was cut off by the older man "Don't you- no- Hiccup. If you ever want to get out there to fight dragons, you need to stop all... this." he says gesturing towards the boy. "But, you just pointed to all of me!" Hiccup says slightly annoyed "Yes! That's it! Stop being all of you!"

"Ohhhh..." Hiccup mock threatens
"Ohhhh, yes."Gobber imitates

"You sir, are playing a dangerous game. Keeping this much, raw... Viking-ness... contained? THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES!" Hiccup yells-ish "I'll take my chances. Sword. Sharpen. Now."Says Gobber unamused (i think) and hands him of long sword to sharpen.

Hiccup looks out of the forge and watches the battle rage on.

One day, I'll get out there. Because, killing a dragon is everything around here.

A Nadder head is sure to get me at least noticed. Gronckles are tough. Taking down one of those would definitely get me a girlfriend. A Zippleback? Exotic. Two heads, twice the status.

A man on one of the many catapults notices the Zippleback flying away after blowing up what looks like a barn
"They found the sheep!"he yells"Concentrate fire over the lower bank!"Stoick commands. With a grunt the Vikings aim the contraption and "Fire!" they fire a round [a large boulder] at the dragons hitting one. While the men load another boulder in, Stoick notices the lower regions on the machine catch fire. Moments later a dragon (which I might add was ON FIRE!) breaks through the pathway up to the canopy, snarling and growling at the large man.

And then, there's the Monstrous Nightmare. Only the best Vikings go after those. They have this nasty habit of setting themselves on fire.

"Reload! I'll take care of this." Un-fazed by the dragon's display Stoick readies his war hammer and smashes it into the dragons head. Recovering the nightmare attacks again only for Stoick to bat it away with his fists.

However, before either combatant can make another move a ear piercing shriek is heard all over the battlefield. Hearing this the dragon flies away leaving Stoick and his fellow Vikings alone on the catapult. Looking up he looks around before...

But the ultimate prize is the dragon no one has ever seen. We call it the-

"NIGHT FURY! GET DOWN!"

"JUMP!"Stoick yells as he jumps off the falling tower alongside the flaming debris.

This thing never steals food, never shows itself, and... Never misses. No one has ever killed a Night Fury. That's why I'm going to be the first.

"Man the fort, Hiccup. They need me out there!"said Gobber (while switching out his hook hand for a hammer) before adding "Stay. Put. There. You know what I mean." And with that he hobbles off into the battle.

Moments later Hiccup grabs his bola launcher and runs through the crowd. Shouts of "Hiccup, where are you going?!" and "Come back here!" are heard to which he responds with "Yeah, I know! Be right back!"

Stoick meanwhile tries to hold down a captured Nadder which burns off the ropes of the net, but, Stoick hits it and pins it down, warning the others helping him "Mind yourselves! The devils still have some juice in them!"

Hiccup reaches a cliff and unpacks his launcher and takes aim into the night sky, searching for something to shoot at."Come on. Gimme something to shoot at, gimme something to shoot at."he mumbles. Hearing a roar he quickly aims in the direction of the noise and sees an unmanned catapult. Suddenly it bursts into flames and a dark figure flies zooms back into the sky. Hiccup fires and and falls onto his rear while the bola travels towards its target.

It connects and a pained shriek is heard and the figure falls from the sky towards the woods in the distance. "Oh, I hit it! YES! I HIT IT! Did anybody see that?-"He triumphantly yells out. But his victory is short lived as a Monstrous Nightmare climbs up the cliff and crushes the Bola Launcher beneath its large claw. "-Except for you." he says sarcastically. Some kid, able to be all sassy in the face of danger.

Hearing an awkward scream and seeing Hiccup being chased by a dragon Stoick groans and leaves the other Vikings to hold down the downed dragon " Do NOT let them escape" he instructs right before running off after the small boy.

Hiccup runs behind a torch pole and hides, just as flames reach around the corner. He looks behind it and on the other side, the Nightmare reaches to get Hiccup. Stoick punches the beast and jumps back to defend himself. The dragon tries to breathe fire, but coughs up a small amount of magma dragon just gives a sheepish/ scared look if that was possible... O.O

"You're all out." Stoick states smugly. But before he can do anything else the dragons fly off and the tower Hiccup hid behind moments before topples over and breaks, with the torch part of it rolling of the side of the hill breaking and tearing down everything in its path, before finally missing a random villager and falling off a cliff.

Oh, and there's one more thing you need to know...

Hiccup winces and slowly turns around to face the large man.

"Sorry..., Dad." WHAAAAT there is no way they could be related.."Okay, but I hit a Night Fury."he quickly says but Stoick just grabs Hiccup by the back of his shirt and drags him towards his house.

Flaying about Hiccup says "It's not like the last few times, Dad! I mean, I really actually hit it! You guys were busy and I had a very clear shot. It went down, just off Raven Point. Let's get a search party out there, before it-" only to get interrupted by his father. "STOP! Just... stop. Every time you step outside, disaster follows. Can you not see that I have bigger problems? Winter's almost here and I have an entire village to feed!" he yells at the boy while face-palming..kinda..

"Between you and me, the village could do with a little less feeding, don't ya think?"Hiccup tires to lighten the mood with his funny quips. A few umm...plump? Vikings rub their bloated bellies in a self-conscious move..

Not getting the joke Stoick continues his shouting "This isn't a joke, Hiccup! Why can't you follow the simplest orders?""I can't stop myself. I see a dragon and I have to just... kill it, you know? It's who I am, Dad."
"You are many things, Hiccup. But a dragon killer is not one of them. Get back to the house." he then turns towards Gobber and says "Make sure he gets there. I have his mess to clean up."

The duo make their way past the crowd of Vikings and walks past the teens who give their not so subtle insults and make fun of the poor boy.

"Quite the performance." says Tuffnut

"I've never seen anyone mess up that badly. That helped!" said Snotlout while trying to hold back his laughter

"Thank you, thank you. I was trying, so..." Hiccup remarks, unfazed by the harsh comments.

Walking up the path hiccup says "I really did hit one." "Sure, Hiccup." Gobber replies."He never listens." he continues "Well, it runs in the family." said Gobber smugly. not noticing the smug tone of his mentor. "And when he does, it's always with this... disappointed scowl. Like someone skimped on the meat in his sandwich."And imitating his father he continues "Excuse me, barmaid! I'm afraid you brought me the wrong offspring. I ordered an extra large boy with beefy arms. Extra guts and glory on the side. This here, this is a talking fish bone!"

Taking sympathy on the boy, he tries and offers some Viking like advice "Now, you're thinking about this all wrong. It's not so much what you look like, it's what's inside that he can't stand" but Hiccup just sarcastically retorts, "Thank you for summing that up."

"Look, the point is, stop trying so hard to be something you're not." Gobber said sighing and lets the boy enter his home.

"I just want to be one of you guys." Hiccup says weakly and walks indoors...

Well that's Chapter 1. Hope you lot enjoyed that, wanted to upload this 2 weeks ago but I was just so darn lazy...

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