An: Hey, everyone - I know I said I'd hold off on new stories...but I'm going crazy. So, here's something of a preview for the winner of the little mini-poll I posted near the end of Bloom in Asgard - Winx Club X HTTYD! Thinking of the title 'Dragon Princess' at the moment. Please review for suggestions! P.S. All spoilers in this chapter will be summarized at the bottom.
"Hey, Dagur! Remember that time you took me into the woods and tried to drown me?"
Dagur feels a burning sensation, and looks around to see Bloom giving him a death glare at her brother's question - he remembers that day, and so does she…unfortunately for him. "Yes, uh, how did you two manage to get back to Berk anyway?"
*Years Ago*
Bloom's walking through the forest with Shift, a Changewing she met a few weeks ago. She humming away a wordless tune, when suddenly she hears a loud splash followed by another one from the nearby lake. When she goes to see who else would be in the forest, especially during the annual visit from the Berserker tribe, she sees Dagur swimming in the water.
Great, that psycho. Looks like I've got someone to avoid. Here's hoping the dragons know to avoid him to.
She feels every drop of blood leave her face when a small brown head of hair surfaces only to get pushed back under - HICCUP!
Dagur's having fun in the lake, trying to see how long Hiccup can hold his breath underwater, when suddenly there's another splash - where in the name of Thor did Bloom come from?
Unlike her brother, she's a strong swimmer - she makes her way over to him in moments, and grabs the knife he keeps strapped to his arm…and then buries it in the same arm. He screams in pain, holding his arm with his good hand as Bloom dives under the water for her brother.
When she resurfaces with a very unconscious Hiccup, he receives a good kick in the stomach as she propels herself and her brother towards the edge of the water. She drags him away, completely ignoring him - which he's grateful for, otherwise he's sure she'd give him far more than his own knife in his arm and a kick in the stomach.
"Hiccup! Hiccup, please wake up! You've got to wake up!" Bloom kneeling over Hiccup's unmoving body, trying to wake her brother up. Two Terrible Terrors appear, along with Shift and a Deadly Nadder, and the Nadder sniffs his body while the Terrors cuddle with her.
"He's my brother…" She sniffs, wiping her wet face that she's blaming on Dagur and the lake, and the Nadder pushes its nose into Hiccup's chest.
He suddenly coughs, and she quickly turns him on his side and starts hitting him on the back. She mouths 'thank you, thank you, thank you!' as the dragons disappear from view. Once Hiccup stops coughing and starts breathing normally, Bloom crushes him in a hug until he starts struggling.
"Sorry…you're alright! I thought that gods-cursed jerk had drowned you!"
Hiccup coughs again weakly, then starts shivering not-so-weakly. "I'm cold…"
"We need to get back to Berk, get you in something dry."
"Your all wet to…"
"I saved you, Hiccup. And I don't care that I'm wet. Can you walk?" Hiccup tries, but then his legs almost immediately give out under him.
He shakes his head, and Bloom says "I'm not leaving you here." She bites her lip, then says "I've got an idea. Whatever happens…keep your eyes closed, Hiccup."
He nods, and closes them.
"And no peeking!"
When she's sure he's not looking, she yells "Shift! We need your help! Please!" The Changewing appears behind Hiccup, and she says "Please, can you take us back to Berk? Hiccup will freeze out here!"
The dragon nods, and extends his feelers out towards them.
"Hiccup, don't freak out. We're getting a lift back home. Just hang onto me and don't look." He nods, and wraps his arms around her.
When Shift's vine-like feelers wrap around their bodies, Hiccup squeaks out "What's that?"
Bloom holds him tighter, saying "It's okay, Hiccup. Don't freak out."
Hiccup buries his face in her shoulder when their feet leave the ground. They get surrounded by warmth, and Bloom is beyond relieved to fell Hiccup's shivering stop almost at once. He's scared stiff, but he's not shivering from cold - he'll die much faster of cold than of fear, especially when there's no real reason to be afraid.
Dragons aren't evil or bad, they're just trying to survive - and seeing as they can't communicate with people, they usually have to resort to hunting. Unfortunately, most usually hunt villages. Not the ones in the forest though, she's never seen any of the dragons hiding in the forest ever hurt anyone from the village - or even show themselves to anyone but her.
After a few minutes, she sees Berk come into view and points out the right house - soon enough, they're set down in their room and Shift's feelers are unwrapping from around them.
Bloom gives Shift a smile, and says "Thank you, Shift!" Hiccup mumbles "Thank you, Shift."
He only looks up when Bloom says "Hiccup, you can open your eyes. We're in our room."
He looks around, but doesn't see anyone or anything out of the ordinary. "Who's Shift, Bloom?"
"He's a friend, lives in the forest." She gives him a serious look, and says "Hiccup, this is going to sound weird, but you can't tell anyone about that."
"What? Dagur trying to drown me?"
"No, how we got back. I'll say I carried and dragged you back, just say you don't remember anything." When he opens his mouth, she desperately adds "Hiccup, please!"
He shuts his mouth and nods, Bloom's his sister after all. And, unlike everyone else in the village, she cares about him. Snotlout and the Twins pick on him, Dad's always too busy to be around most of the time and is always disappointed in him the rest of the time, and the rest of the village makes him feel like an outcast that just hasn't been exiled yet.
Bloom, though? She cares about him, she supports him, she'll go ballistic on Snotlout, the Twins, and even Dagur for him. She's maybe the one person besides Gobber who cares about him. What's one little secret compared to all that?
Besides, it's not like he knows who this 'Shift' is anyway - he never saw anything, just felt something wrap around his and Bloom's bodies securely enough that they wouldn't fall but gently enough that they weren't getting crushed and a lot of heat as they were taken back to Berk. Nothing that could lead to anyone.
She all but orders him into bed after that - he's not arguing, as he's getting cold again even after getting into dry clothes.
Of course, twenty minutes later, he hears Dagur scream and then Bloom's shout of "I'M NOT THROUGH WITH YOU, YOU PSYCHO! GET BACK HERE!"
He wraps the fur around him and watches through the window as Bloom tears through the village after Dagur, only for the chase to end up in his and Bloom's room. Dagur dives under the bed, just as Bloom runs up the stairs after him.
Moments after, Oswald the Agreeable and Stoick get in, Stoick asking "What's going on here?! Bloom, why are you trying to tear Oswald's son limb from limb?"
"Where is he? I'm going to do exactly that! Nobody hurts my brother!"
Hiccup waves his hand, and then points at the bed - just as there's a faint whimper from under it. Bloom dives under the bed in a burst of speed, prompting another shriek of terror and Dagur's hasty exit to hide behind his father's legs - not that it's ever worked before.
"You want to drown Hiccup, you're going to have to go through me!"
Stoick grabs Bloom at that, and Oswald picks Dagur up as she's known to have slipped Stoick's grip multiple times before. Oswald looks between the extremely-furious Bloom to the scared-stiff Dagur, and says "Explain."
"I found him holding Hiccup underwater in that lake in the forest! Before he says I stabbed him in the arm, I did - to make him let my brother go! It's his own fault in the first place - both for trying to drown my brother and for having a knife where I could get to it."
Stoick sighs, then asks "So you thought chasing Dagur down and attempting to tear him limb from limb was a good response?"
"Aren't they called the 'Beserker' tribe for a reason?"
Oswald bursts out laughing, saying "She's got spark, no doubts there. You've got a fighter on your hands, Stoick! I'll see to it that my son never attempts anything like this again. My apologies."
*Present Day*
Hiccup shrugs, and says "You know I don't remember, Dagur. Not a thing. Bloom says she carried and dragged me all the way back to berk, though." We got carried by a Changewing she named Shift that lives in the forest. Dagur, it's a miracle you haven't been eaten by a dragon given the number of times you've set her off.
Dagur fingers the scar on his arm, a reminder of why it's always a good idea to keep your weapons hidden much better than he did then - and, to never let Bloom catch him trying to drown Hiccup ever again. "Yes, well, so you two say."
Bloom scathingly says "Well, seeing as we've had the same story for all these years, it must be true. C'mon, Hiccup."
She moves to walk away, but Dagur almost immediately asks "Going somewhere?" His hand closes around Bloom's wrist once again, much to her disgust - which Dagur seems to be oblivious to. Unfortunately.
Spoiler summary
A: Bloom is growing up on Berk. Obviously.
B: Bloom and Hiccup are siblings.
C: Bloom is WAY overprotective of Hiccup - I honestly hated how every single person other than Gobber seemed to hate him just for breathing, and Bloom takes it a step further than that.
D: Dragons REALLY like her. Guess why.
E: I also more-than-likely changed up a few things about all of Berk knowing about the dragons that apparently live in the forest around the village - in the cartoon, the place seemed full of them (How'd Gustav find Fanghook there if there wasn't?) yet HIccup managed to walk all over the place looking for Toothless without a care in the world about getting eaten by a wild dragon.
