Hi! This is my first story on Fanfiction, and the first time I've written something like this for anyone other than, well, myself, I guess. Please review and tell me how I did! Shout out to LaurenJr, Ayame4679 and several members of the G.M.A.D. for inspiring me to write this, and to NightFury999 for helping me with the title! All I could think of was Watching the Movie and some other titles like that- but I wanted a title more creative and those titles have been used before. So… thank you to you all!
This story is in third person point of view. However, since this chapter was originally from Stoick's POV, it focuses on him a bit more than the rest of the story does.
Disclaimer: I don't own How to Train Your Dragon or any of its characters. :(
Chapter 1: Twilight
"Dad, please. I promise you can't win this one! Dad, no. For once in your life will you please just listen to me?!"
"You've thrown your lot in with them. You're not Viking. You're not my son. Ready the ships!" As Stoick walked out of the Great Hall, everything turned white.
The world faded back into focus, and suddenly he was standing on a soft red carpet in a huge room with a high ceiling and white walls. Comfy looking benches circled small fountains and potted plants were scattered about the room.
He then realized he wasn't alone; the rest of the Vikings of Berk were there as well. "What in Thor's name is going on?" he muttered. Everyone just stood in place for a few blissfully silent moments. When they seemed to realize where they were- Odin knows where, exactly; definitely not Berk- they, unlike Stoick who as chief had to appear calm for his people, started yelling all at once.
"QUIET!" a young female voice screeched. Stoick looked around for the owner of the voice before spotting a young teenage girl he didn't recognize. She had brown eyes, long brown hair, and tan skin. She was barefoot, wearing a long black skirt and a purple shirt. There was also a midnight black sword with sapphires encrusted in the hilt hanging at her side. Three dogs surrounded her like bodyguards.
"Who are you?" Stoick asked the stranger.
"I'm Twilight2022, Rider of the Night Fury Shadow, Guardian of Cats and Dogs, Exquisite Archer and Legendary Sorcerer. I'm a member of the G.M.A.D. Call me Twilight."
Hiccup looked up. Did she say Night Fury?
A burly Viking with an obnoxious voice spoke up. "Why we are here?"
"You're here 'cause I brought you here. I brought you here because I want you all to know Hiccup's story. I know no one will listen to him except Astrid and possibly Gobber, so I decided to take matters into my own hands." Twilight responded.
This time, Snotlout questioned her. "Wait, you mean Useless?"
Twilight sighed. "Snotlout, there is not a Viking named Useless living on Berk."
"But that's what Hiccup is!"
"It's not his name. You should show some more respect for your own cousin."
Snotlout scoffed. "Whatever. Why'd you say Astrid would listen to him, anyway? Astrid is out of his league. Unlike me! I'm so cool- "
"You'll see," Twilight cut him off, sounding exasperated. "Alright, now everyone follow me so we can start our movie!"
Everyone, Stoick in particular, had quite a few more questions, but the dogs, sword, and strange magic combined were fairly intimidating, so everyone stayed silent and followed her into a dark room. Twilight snapped her fingers, somehow activating small yet bright glowing orbs that were suspended in midair. Quite a few gasps were heard at the sheer enormity of the room. It had around two hundred chairs lined up in rows, each row slightly higher than the last, several feet behind one another. Higher up, there were no chairs, but the ledges were bigger and the lowest one had plush blankets and pillows on it.
Then all of the Berkian's weapons disappeared. "Where are our weapons?!" Stoick nearly growled.
"I took them so you won't hurt anyone." Twilight replied. "The movie might be kinda anger-inducing at parts, so I figured it'd be better to not take any chances."
The Vikings started grumbling, and Twilight's dogs growled at them."Oh yeah! These are three of my dogs, Comet-he's a German Shepard, and Oreo and Selene-they're Labrador Retrievers. They're all very protective of me and will do anything I tell them to. I have another companion too, also protective of me, and if you provoke her, she will probably kill you unless I stop her. As long as you listen to me, you'll be fine."
Stoick looked at the dogs, who were currently sitting at Twilight's side, appearing to be sweet and carefree. 'She must be lying.' Stoick thought. Those dogs didn't look like they'd attack anyone. As for her other companion, it was probably another harmless pet.
Another dog bounded up to Twilight, followed by seven little puppies, and barked at her. She groaned. "Helia, I'm in the middle of something here."
The dog yipped insistently.*
"Okay, fine. We're about to watch a movie. You can come with us and I'll watch the puppies." She told the dog.
"These guys are most of my other dogs." She said. "Meet Helia and her puppies: Thalia, Leo, and Astrid, all of them Golden Retrievers, and Selene and Oreo's puppies, Sakura, Itachi, Max, and Phoebe. Now that's enough about me-" Twilight was interrupted by Ruffnut.
"Why does your dog have the same name as Astrid?" She asked while pointing to said Viking girl.
Twilight shrugged. "Because I like that name. Anyway, as I was saying, that's enough about me; we need to start that movie. Please, sit." She said, gesturing to the chairs. Before anyone could move, she seemed to remember something else. "Oh, and one more thing. The dragons will be watching with you."
The Vikings (except for Hiccup and Astrid, although this went relatively unnoticed) started yelling, getting louder by the second.
"EVERYONE CALM DOWN! YOU ARE WATCHING THE MOVIE WITH THE DRAGONS, AND THAT'S FINAL!" A Night Fury burst out of nowhere and roared at the Vikings. That shut everyone up pretty quickly. "The dragons aren't what you think. You guys need to give them a chance. Now, this is my other companion. May I introduce Shadow, my Night Fury." The Vikings gaped. "Any more objections?" She asked.
Stoick stepped forwards. "Why should we even listen to you?" He asked angrily. "You can't tell us what to do."
Twilight made a clicking-ish type of sound before flicking her hand towards him, and her four adult dogs pounced with lightning speed. Before Stoick could even register what happened, the dogs had pinned him to the ground and were snarling at him, revealing teeth as sharp as any decent dagger. Twilight stalked up to him, her dragon beside her, both looking quite irked. Well, the Night Fury actually looked murderous. "Did it ever occur to you that I might be magical, and therefore stronger than you?" She asked. "Really, after teleporting you all here, as well as the dragons and then putting them under an invisibility spell-"she snapped her fingers and on the not-so-empty ledges hundreds of dragons materialized out of thin air.
Gobber gasped and said-surprise surprise- "I'm gonna need new undies."
Hiccup muttered back, barely audible, "What is it with you and undies?" Gobber didn't reply.
The Vikings were stunned. They had never seen so many dragons in one place. And with the dragons from the training arena, on the lowest ledge, the Night Fury that they had muzzled and chained sat proudly, free of its bonds.
"Toothless!" Hiccup exclaimed. The dragon turned, it's features lighting up, obviously happy to see his friend.
'That's impossible' Stoick thought. 'Dragons are emotionless, merciless killers- especially his kind.'
The Night Fury bounded towards Hiccup. When the Night Fury reached Hiccup, it, the unholy offspring of lightning and death, pounced and… licked him. Hiccup smiled at it and hugged it. "Hey there, Bud!"
Stoick gaped. Hiccup really had befriended that dragon. Then the dragon turned towards Astrid and- was it trying to smile?! Astrid looked at the beast. 'Surely Astrid has more sense than Hiccup...' Then she smiled back and scratched its chin. "What are you two doing?!" Stoick half yelled at them, trying to sound as intimidating as he could while knocked to the floor.
"Greeting my best friend." Hiccup replied.
Twilight had smiled at the reunion of the Hiccup and the dragon, but when she looked back at Stoick, her eyes were harder than steel. "-And the fact that I was talking to my dog like I actually knew what she was saying-because I did! Weren't you even listening to me earlier? I said my dogs and Shadow were very protective of me! If someone attacks, insults, hurts, or basically just poses a threat to me in any way, they will check with with me, then attack! You all WILL listen to me and watch the movie with the dragons.
"Comet, Helia, Selene, Oreo, heel!" She called as she sat down in a chair by the lowest ledge with dragons. "Shadow, you too!" With a few last growls, the dogs hopped off Stoick and ran to their mistress, the puppies following.
Shadow apparently felt that she needed to emphasize Twilight's point and roared at the Vikings -the ear-splitting kind that had everyone wincing- before laying down by Twilight's chair and allowing the dogs to curl up against her, while the puppies were all curled up on top of each other on Twilight's lap.
"Well?" Twilight asked the Vikings. "Are you going to stand there or sit down so we can start the movie? Oh, and Hiccup, Astrid, feel free to sit with Toothless if you like."
*Helia was saying: "Twilight, would you watch the puppies?" and "But I'm tired! Pleeease?"
How'd I do? Please review, but if you hated it or something like that please either give me constructive criticism or don't review at all. Did Twilight seem too mean? When I revised this I tried to make her nicer and less formal.
I'm going to be updating once a week on the weekends. I might update on school days, but that's doubtful; I get a lot of homework. -_-'
(That's what I originally said, and here I am two years later, with exactly three chapters written. XD I'm seriously going to try to update more now though.)
