Hey, I'm Hakon. Life was pretty normal for me on Berk, well as normal as it can get for me. Berk is a small island inhabited by Vikings, yeah you heard right. Although we're not the bloodthirsty kind you hear about, we really don't have the time for invading and pillaging unless it's one of our neighboring islands. The reason we don't really travel is because of the dragon attacks, yeah they exist.
Berk was a pretty nice place. It's only a few miles south of Frostbite and Hypothermia. You can reach us by traveling to Hopelessness and sailing north for 12 more days. It's located smack dab on the Meridian of Misery, real name. It snows 9 months out of the year, and when it's not snowing it's hailing.
I'm just your average run of the mill 15 year old viking. Well, that's not completely true. Ya see, I'm only half human, the other half is dragon. I bet you're wondering, "How the heck?!" Well it's very simple, when a mommy and a daddy love each other very much... Just kidding, you see my dad was a shapeshifter dragon, a dragon that has the ability to shapeshift.
My mom, a viking, saw him as a human and they fell in love. The rest is what they teach you in health class. My dad, of course, didn't stay long. Which was unfortunate for me due to my unusual eyes. Because my dad was a dragon, my eyes were those of a dragon.
My mother saw my eyes and instantly called me Boltorn, or literally "Miserable Thorn". She then tossed me out to starve, or be eaten, or some other death. Lucky for me, help came in the form of Frigg. She was the Viking goddess in charge of childbirth, marrige, and a few other things.
Frigg, saw me and had compassion, renaming me Hakon, or "Of the chosen". She took me in until I was 10. For ten years I was raised in Asgard, having arguments with my adopted family. I was considered a miracle worker in Asgard: I could calm Thor down when he was angry(no easy feat), I was one of the only people that Loki would open up to(mainly because of how I had been abandoned), and I could make anyone laugh(even some of the gods that were rumored to never laugh.)
Once I reached age ten, I was sent back to Berk. I still talk with my Asgardian family, especially Frigg. I wasn't sent back to Berk alone though, a fairy was sent with me. Her name was Jewel and she had been one of my closest friends. She resembled a tiny human mixed with a hummingbird. With green feathers and bright amethyst eyes.
Jewel and I would often help Loki with a practical joke in Asgard, turns out he's not as bad as the stories make him out to be. Sure he could get a little crazy, but murder? No. I guess the Vikings just didn't get the full story, or they decided it needed more violence. Even so, Loki was still a pretty much lone wolf, keeping to himself almost all the time.
On Berk I was raised by my only two human friends, Gobber and Gothi. Gothi's probably the oldest person in the village, and being mute, she communicates with markings in the sand. Only me and Gobber can understand the markings. Gobber is the blacksmith of the village, and the good friend of the chief. He's missing an arm and a leg, and has prosthetic replacements for the lost limbs.
A few years ago, I had befriended the son of Chief Stoick the Vast, Hiccup. Yeah, yeah, laugh it up. Honestly it's not the worst name ever. He and I became friends very easily due to both of us being outcasts.
Hiccup was short and skinny, the complete opposite of his father. He has short brown hair and green eyes and was 15 like me, even if he looked younger. He almost always carried a note book and charcoal pencil. He was probably one of the smartest vikings of all time. He and I were both apprentices to Gobber in the art of blacksmithing, so each of us knew how to make a variety of things.
He also had a twin sister, Kira. She has her father's red hair and brother's green eyes. I hadn't become as close with her because Stoick forbids her from seeing me. That didn't stop us, we would often meet up late at night while everyone else was asleep. I would tell her about the many kinds of dragons and their abilities, since Stoic pretty much kept her in the dark.
I had had a crush on her forever. Freya, goddess of love, had offered to help me get her once. I told her that I didn't want to cheat to get her, I wanted to work to get her.
But enough about that, the real story is about to begin...
It was just any other night on Berk when I was awoken from my slumber by the sound of an alarm. This meant that the dragons were attacking. I jumped from my bed and ran outside. I saw Deadly Nadders, medium sized dragons that have only two legs and a tail armed with poisonous spikes; Gronkles, smaller dragons with hides tougher than rock; and some Hideous Zipplebacks, dragons that have two heads, one that spits out combustible gas and the other head lights it. A bit farther away I saw a Monstrous Nightmare, one of the larger dragons that have this habit of setting themselves on fire.
I ran towards the blacksmith shop and instantly got to work next to Gobber. Hiccup and Kira ran into the building.
"Nice of you to join the party," Gobber said to Hiccup as Kira sat down, "I thought you'd been carried off."
"Who me?" Hiccup asked, "I'm way to muscular for their taste. They wouldn't know what to do with all this." He struck a body builder pose.
"All of what?" I asked, smirking. Hiccup deflated even more when Gobber decided to add,
"So they need toothpicks, do they?" I fist bumped Gobber, nearly falling down. A drwgon attacked a nearby house with it's flames. Five kids came running, dragging a water barrel behind them.
The first was a blonde girl wearing a battle skirt with a metal skull on it. This was Astrid, Hiccup's long time crush.
The next two looked nearly identical, it was hard to tell them apart. One was a boy and the other a girl, both had blonde hair. The twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut.
The fourth was a large boy who had the size category in check. He also had blonde hair, a lot of people on Berk had blonde hair in case you didn't notice. This was Fishlegs.
The last one was a boy who easily beat Hiccup in the muscles department. He had black hair and cruel eyes, oh and did I say cruel eyes. This was Snotlout, most likely the most obnoxious Viking in the whole world.
Astrid threw a bucket of water on the house, putting a bit of the fire out. Only to have a dragon blow it up again, causing more flames. Hiccup was at the window watching them, and he nearly climbed out. Gobber used his hook to grab Hiccup by his vest and pull him back.
"Ah, come on. Let me out, please." Hiccup pleaded, "I need to make my mark."
"You've made many marks," Gobber told him, "all in the wrong places."
"Please, just two minutes. I'll kill a dragon, my life will get infinitely better." Hiccup said, "I might even get a date!"
"I'd pay to see that." I mentioned, pausing from fixing a broken bola to look at him.
"So would I." Kira joked, and the two of us laughed.
"You can't lift a hammer.". Gobber agreed, "You can't swing an axe. You can't even swing one of these." He grabbed the bola I was working on and a Viking grabbed it out of his hands, throwing it at a passing Gronkle. Hiccup walked over to what looked like a wheelbarrow.
"But this will throw it for me." He lightly placed his hand on it, causing the thing to spring open and fling a bola at a Viking behind Gobber. I kinda felt bad for the poor guy, that looked like it hurt.
"See, now this right here is exactly what I'm talking about." Gobber walked over to Hiccup, Kira watching from her sitting position.
"Mild calibration issue." Hiccup defended.
"Hiccup if you ever want to get out there and fight dragons, than you need to stop being all..." He paused to gesture at Hiccup, "this."
"You just gestured to all of me."
"Like always." I muttered.
"Yes!" Gobber exclaimed, "That's it, stop being all of you."
"Ohhhh!" Hiccup said, trying to sound threatening. He didn't. Gobber copied him mockingly.
"You, sir, are playing a dangerous game." Hiccup said to him, "Keeping this much raw Vikingness contained. There will be consequences!" Gobber looked at him, unimpressed.
"I'll take my chances." He gave Hiccup a large sword, "Sword. Sharpen. Now." Hiccup got to work with the sword.
"Nice try." Kira said, and Hiccup gave her a smile of thanks. And then we heard it, the familiar screech of the Night Fury. No human has ever seen it... And lived.
A catapult tower exploded in a flash of blue, violet, and white. The Night Fury had struck again.
"Man the forges, you two." Gobber said, turning to us and replacing his hammer with an axe, "They need me out there. Stay. Put. There. You know what I mean" the last part was directed at Hiccup as he ran into the fray. Hiccup and Kira turned toward me, I just waved my hand and they took off, Hiccup's invention with them.
I checked to make sure no one was around and ran to where there was no one fighting. I jumped off a cliff and willed for what I wanted to happen.
Instantly, my bod felt as if it was ripping, but it didn't hurt. A pair of golden wings unfurled from my back. My body grew longer and my limbs turned shorter and stouter. My skin started to turn to gold colored scales until I was completely a dragon. This is a perk of being the son of a shapeshifter dragon.
I flew off into the battle, sights set on making sure none of my brethren got injured.
~~~Kira's POV~~~
Hiccup and I ran through the crowd, people dodging around and shouting at us. Hiccup pushed his invention to a cliff and opened the contraption. He was ready to fire it at a moments notice.
While waiting, I thought about Hakon, my best friend. But I wished it could be more than that, but it would be forbidden and Hakon would either be exiled or killed. I couldn't do that to him. But would it be worse to be shipped off to marry someone I've never met when I come of age.
I was snapped out of my thoughts by another tower exploding. A black figure was illuminated in the sky for just a second. Hiccup fired his invention. Not long after, I heard a "whack" and an angry screech.
"Hiccup!" I exclaimed, "You got it!"
"I hit it." he repeated, not quite believing it himself, "Did anyone else see that?" Something moved behind us and we turned. A large Monstrous Nightmare towered over us, it's foot on top of Hiccup's now destroyed invention.
"Except you." Hiccup muttered. I did what any rational person would do, I screamed.
~~~Hakon's POV~~~
I heard a scream as I freed a group of Nadders from a net. Kira! I flew towards the sound and saw her and Hiccup being chased by a Nightmare. This was bad. They tried to hide behind a pole but the dragon breathed fire on it and started to walk around.
I dove down and smashed into the dragon's side. It looked at me with slited, reptilian eyes. I growled, "Do not hurt them!" I launched a golden blast of fire that resembled the kind a Night Fury uses. The Nightmare flew off and I walked towards the two children.
"The Paladin." The said in unison. I grinned inwardly, ever since I had started getting involved with the raids, making sure neither side had too many casualties, the two had always called me the Paladin dragon. It was name that helped to boost my small ego.
I felt an explosion of pain in my jaw and saw Stoick the Vast. He kept trying to punch me, but I dodged each hit. Finally, I let a blast of fire loose on the ground and flew away, to change back into my normal form.
As I flew, I could hear Hiccup say, "Sorry, Dad."
Okay, so basically this is a redo of a story I had a long time ago titled, "The Dragon's Eyes". Many things have been changed, I kept the two OCs I had put in, Hakon and Kira. But this time I made sure to go into more detail, and I changed Hakon's backstory.
And yes, there is a reason he grew up in Asgard, it wasn't just some random thought.
