SURPRISE, I'M COMING BACK EARLY!
Hello readers, my name is Sofia and this is my very first story. And I will be rewriting it to be better and longer! But I can't believe how many love this story. Thanks so much!
If there is anything I need to fix, please say so on the comments down below. I am trying to hit 1,000 words each chapter. Hope you like the story. This story is set during Race to the Edge after Heather joins the Dragon Riders but Dagur is still Deranged.
Third Person's P.O.V.
"Hmm, what do you think Toothless? Try this island next?," Hiccup Haddock said to his best friend while pointing at a island in the far south near the Buffalord's island. Toothless just mumbled boredly while looking outside at the early sunrise with the beautiful bright orange and scarlet colors leaking over the island, bathing the Edge. Lately he and the Night Fury had been agitated and itching for a victory after the Viggo fiasco. Hiccup lazily lays on the floor with his body stretched out, a map in front of him, and he was nibbling on the end of his charcoal pencil. His hut in a covered mess as himself as well.
While Toothless was taking a nap at the entrance of the hut and finishing his cod with the last chew and swallow. Toothless starts to lick his paw and claws cleaning himself from his snack, then rests his head back on his front paws.
The Haddock spent days of trying to catch Viggo or get the Dragon Eye but no success for the stresses teen. His hair all ragged from not combing, his eyes dull but still with its usual spark of taste for adventure, and his body tired and sore form lack of sleep.
Hiccup tried one of his many attempts of going after Viggo, Dagur, and Ryker but all of them executed by Astrid Hofferson. So this time he planned this search for weeks and chose a secluded island with many dragons gone missing. And where's there dragons on trouble, he'll find out why.
"Try to contain your excitement," Hiccup said sarcastically. "Come on Toothless, you love to go exploring new lands. Ooh lets try this island next to the Buffalord Island, we hadn't try that one." Hiccup pointed to a island that was pretty big on the map. They passed the island several times but never paid attention to it.
Toothless just ignored him like usual whenever Hiccup wants to go to a new island because Toothless knows they always get into trouble while exploring islands like Eel Island, Harmony Island, Changewing Island, Outcast Island, etc. Toothless swore to himself to never let Hiccup to get hurt but so far, he nearly lost Hiccup in the hands of the enemy.
"Okay, we are going to that island," Hiccup says rising to his feet. The one-legged Viking walks up to his chest at the back of his hut, containing all of his journals, experiments, and Toothless' saddles along with prosthetic fins.
"Since Buffalord Island is a little far, I am taking some food and water. Also a few prosthetic tails and legs in case if we break ours."
Hiccup grabs his usual brown leather bag loading up some dried, salted meat, a vile of water screwed shut, a thin blanket, a bandage wrap, and a tail fin with one metal legs. Applying the saddle on the dragon's back and tying the bag to the right side, Hiccup glances to his desk. The poor desk was bearing the weight of many journals and scrolls, each tied with a different colored ribbon.
A leather black journal with all the symbols of each dragon class, this was his journal that Hiccup puts all my findings of the Dragon Eye especially a certain myth that the Haddock found very interested in. The boy skims through the book and landed the page he was searching for. In a colored description, it was a five-petal flower in a star shape and it was silver just like the cleanest metal. Hiccup wrote the name beneath the picture but couldn't encrypted it as it was in a different language he wasn't familiar with. A tinge inside sparked as he looked at it, shrugging Hiccup closed it and left it back into its original position; underneath the mountain of other papers and journals he kept over the years. Toothless sniffs the journal but walks to Hiccup's side forgetting about the black journal.
"Ready Toothless?" Hiccup asked Toothless. Toothless nodded his head in agreement and the best friends started to walk towards the platform to take off. The two stroll quietly trying not wake any of the riders but they caught the attention of a certain blonde. Finally reaching their destination, Hiccup mounts the Night Fury then inspects the saddle for anything wrong or missing.
Saddle?
Check.
Supplies?
Check.
Dragon?
Check.
Then a voice startles him; breaking his concentration.
"Where do you think you are going," demanded a blonde girl behind them.
"A-a-strid, w-w-what are you doing up so e-e-early?" Hiccup stammered.
"Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, don't tell me you are going to do a recon flight alone again are you," Astrid replies with a sternness tone in her voice and tapping her foot on the wooden platform and her Deadly Nadder, Stormfly, behind her.
"Nope that is where you are wrong my dear Astrid," Hiccup stated with confidence but unknown to the girl he was nervously tapping the right handle of his saddle. "Toothless and I are going to explore an island and be back by dinner or maybe next morning."
"Tell me Hiccup, where is this island," Astrid said. Hiccup knew if he told here there are going to an uncharted island, she will tell the rest of the Riders and it will be a group exploration. That's when a brilliant idea struck Hiccup like a hammer being struck down.
"I am going to Buffalord Island to study the Buffalord and examine the herb it eats." Hiccup replied. "But PLEASE don't tell the Riders, I just want this to be a solo mission. Besides all I am going to do is to study and examine, and you have to secure the Edge while I am gone because Viggo might attack to get the Snow Wreathe tooth to activate the Dragon Eye."
Astrid sighed, "Fine you may go alone but be back by dinner or next morning, okay."
"Okay Astrid," Hiccup mounted on Toothless.
"One more thing Hiccup, be careful."
"Bye."
"Good bye Hiccup."
"Ready Toothless, lets go!" Hiccup said to the black dragon. Toothless purred in agreement; he spreads his ebony wings and took off into the sky and headed south. The dragon straightens up and pumps his wings and accelerates, relishing at the happy shouts of his rider.
"Whoo!" Hiccup cries as they fly over the island, leaving their behind to attend what they want to do. Toothless feels his tail fins widen as the duo gain a burst of speed and part the surface of ocean a bit.
(4 hours later)
Now the duo fly at a steady pace, not taking notice of the dark clouds floating above them. Then a crack of thunder shook them from the daze along with a bright flash of thunder. Toothless and Hiccup felt rain drizzling down on them; the tiny drops scattering all over them, decorating their bodies with the tiny dew.
"Looks like there is going to be a little stormy weather ahead but we can keep going right bud." Hiccup asked.
Toothless roared back to Hiccup and started to beat his wings a little harder to cut through the wind and rain. Then Toothless stopped that's when they noticed lightning striking everywhere, aiming for the both of them as they carry what's it attracted to; metal. The wind battered their faces, Hiccup's auburn hair hitting his head and flailing in the wind. The whole atmosphere grew darker as the clouds covered the sunlight; the only light was from the blasts of lightning as they flashed throughout the sky.
"We should turn back Toothless," Hiccup said to Toothless patting his scaly head. Toothless purred in agreement but when they turned around lightning struck Toothless' tail and causing it to burn and wither from the intense heat of the fire.
"Oh that's not good," Hiccup groans, why must this always happen to him. The rain increases the drops growing in size and weight, extinguishing the flickering flames as it danced on the fake tail. With a strong gust of wind, the tail flew away far from them. Without the fin, the pair starts to plummet, the battering waves seem like reaching for them with their height escalating to thirty feet.
About to reach the thrusting waves, they are drawn sideways as to their left. Hiccup spots something approaching them, something big! Hiccup sweeps his hand across his eyes moving his soaking hair from his face. His eyes widen; a column of water and water vapor carrying some bits of old ships and drawing in Hiccup and Toothless.
"Hang on buddy!" Hiccup shouts at the top of his lungs as he tightens his grip on the handles and presses his body into the leather saddle, clinging for his life.
The sheer power of the cyclone draws them into its clutches, spinning them around. Hiccup's ears pop from the violent winds then his eyes widen as a board of wood about five feet long came towards him. The wood collides into his chest; Hiccup loses his grip on the saddle and separates from Toothless. The dragon roars at his rider, unfurls his wings and tries to be reconnect but couldn't move. Hiccup pulls a lever behind his back and the Dragon Fly 2.0 catches the drift and opens up. Hiccup angles his wings and slowly glides toward his best friends; he extends his arms to full length, his fingers trying to grope the leather handles.
Half a foot away from connecting.
5 inches from being safe.
4 inches to go.
3 inches.
2 inches.
Then a ripping noise breaks Hiccup's concentration and glances over his shoulder: the flaps of the wings are tearing up. Then the same piece of driftwood comes into view, for round 2, and knocks Hiccup's flight suit into the ocean. Without anything to be stable in the cyclone, Hiccup takes off away from his dragon.
"TOOTHLESS!"
Hiccup cries out then plunges into the vast ocean, he resurfaces to catch a glimpse of his dragon flying off in the opposite direction of him. Another wave collides with Hiccup; the cold, salty water entering his mouth and flooding his mouth. He struggles with his skinny arms and starts to slip into unconsciousness.
"Toothless..."
Then everything went black but he felt claws grabbing his shoulders and taking him into the air: freeing him from the violent ocean. After a minute, he feels himself fall on the forgiving ground and his back breaking his fall. Opening his eyes into a sliver and through a blurry haze, he catches a group about five or six figures mounted on a variety of dragons. Then the leader waves a hand and spoke something that Hiccup couldn't hear. The rider seems like a girl and the dragon she was on top was a dragon a Hiccup thought that there was no more.
A NIGHT FURY!
Together the group flew off leaving Hiccup and a question burning in his mind.
"Who are they and why?"
His last thought slips through his mind.
Hope you guys liked the rewrite because I did! Check my other stories out please.
VERY IMPORTANT: READ BELOW!
For the mysterious figures, it will be a group of OC's, mine is the girl with the Night Fury. For the others, I will choose TEN other people, so give me the things below:
-Appearance
-Gender
-Personality
-Backstory of how I found you
-Weapon of choice
-Dragon
Answer in the new chapter coming in a several hours, so think about your character! Remember I will choose only TEN!
-Tahitiseabreeze