Chapter one
This is Berk. A small city located in the middle of nowhere in Kansas. Usually cities are well known for their sports teams, historical sites, and festivities. Here we have, Music! See our town has been known for the hit singing artists, guitarists, drums, or any type of instrument and genre. All of them have gotten record deals from the hit record company, Dragon nest. They come every year looking for new talent. Sometimes they will find a few, other times there will be none. Anyways, they scout around Berk high school for new talents in any musical field. Most of the kids here go for rap, rock, country, and hip hop, anything that their voices or skills fit well to.
As for me, my name is Hiccup, I attend Berk high as a student for instrumental music. You would think I am good at playing, which I am, but it isn't what I want or what I am best at. You see, ever since my mother died, when I was five, my father has pushed onto me the tradition that has been passed on in my family for years and years. And that would be playing Symphonies from all eras. He won't let me do anything else but that. Sadly, cause of this, I have no friends and have been bullied since middle school.
In fact I am about to enter the school grounds now. Hopefully I can get to class before-. "Where do you think you're going useless?!" someone shouted from behind me. "Great, just great. I was so close to escaping too." I turn to find a large barrel-chested teen approaching me with a smirk on his face. His name is Snotlout. He was dressed in his usual black leather jacket with spiked shoulder pads, his black torn jeans, and his black hair a spikey mess everywhere. "Thought you could get away from your morning beatings cuz?" He said as he pounded his fist in his other hand. Snotlout is indeed my cousin, although we look almost nothing alike. He was the one that started bullying me in middle school and made my life a living hell. His talent in this school is heavy metal and tends to show off whenever a pretty woman enters the room. "I don't know what you mean Snotlout. I was simply heading to class." I responded before getting a punch to the face sending me flat on my back. "Shut your ugly face. Don't talk back to me useless." He said before laughing rudely and walking into the school.
I could only groan in pain as I slowly sat up making sure my head stops spinning before even attempting to walk into school. I arrived in my classroom… late. The class was whispering and giggling at the black eye I got from Snotlout as I made my way to my seat. I glanced around the classroom picking out faces I knew. I spot the twins Ruff and Tuff practicing their duet skills. They don't ever do romance duets, they focus on things like hip hop or rock duets. I look across from them to find Fishlegs looking into another book on Elvis. His goal was to sound as great as him and is actually pretty close. Next to him sat Astrid, his crush since elementary school. Her golden hair shone bright from the sunlight coming into the room making her blue eyes seem to sparkle. She wore shorts and a flannel t shirt with cowboy boots. Hiccup knew better though. She looks innocent but say the wrong things she will give you a beating. It's terrifying yet mysterious.
She has a talent for singing any genre and is most likely going to be recruited for The Dragon Nest record deal. Suddenly she looks at me and I quickly look down at my music notes. Crap did she see me looking at her? I thought to myself as I stared at the notes. After a minute or two I glance up to see her talking to another girl. I could only sigh in relief before class began. The rest of class was boring and nothing seemed to catch my attention. Nothing caught my attention till lunch time that a group of girls walked by my table and caught a bit of their conversation. "I can't wait to go to the Raven Point club tonight to hear the ever elusive Nightfury. What about you guys?" "I can't wait either! I heard that he only ever does two songs a night." "That's right but his voice is so amazing and affects my very soul." They gossiped to each other. I had to hold down a blush spreading over my face, because what people didn't know was that I was the Nightfury. I had started singing there in secret letting my feelings out in songs until my dad's friend and owner of the club discovered what I had been doing, instead of revealing my true talent to everyone he coached me in secret and let me sing in front of audiences in his club in disguise.
By the end of the school day I was planning what songs I would sing tonight before being shoved from behind. "What you doing useless? Teaching yourself to be one of us?" Snotlout said before laughing and shoving me again. Tuff laughed alongside Snotlout. "Ya useless you're going to need more than a music sheet to be as great as the rest of us." Tuff says before taking the sheets and ripping them to shreds. "Hey stop that you guys!" I shout at them trying to grab the remains before they were all ripped up but was stopped by Snotlouts fist. "Shut up useless hahahaha" he laughs as I was knocked back to the floor only to see all my papers ripped to shreds. "Go back to your crappy music. Stay out of modern music you weakling." Snotlout says snidely before laughing and walking away with Tuff.
I sat up in pain an angrily glared at their backs before I sighed sadly. "No one would ever appreciate me for me. I'll just have to continue this double life." I thought to myself as I got up and headed home. Hoping that tonight will help me forget my worries.
