Hi, yes, I'm writing the rest of this mostly as chats and texts, so if you're looking for long paragraphs and whatnot, I'd like to direct you to my other modern AU on my page.

Same disclaimer from here on out, too.


September 5. 4:17 p.m.

StormChaser is now online.

StormChaser: Doodoodoo.

StormChaser: You here, Night?

StormChaser: ...Obviously not.

NightFury is now online.

StormChaser: What timing.

NightFury: huh?

StormChaser: Nothing.

StormChaser: Miss me?

NightFury: eh

NightFury: i barely know you

StormChaser: Ouch.

NightFury: heh

NightFury: why?

NightFury: you miss me?

StormChaser: Like you said, I barely know you.

StormChaser: :P

NightFury: harhar

NightFury: how was class?

StormChaser: Perfect.

NightFury is typing...

StormChaser: Yes, that was sarcasm.

NightFury: oh okay

NightFury: same here

StormChaser: ...Do we talk about it? Because secret IDs.

NightFury: i guess? i don't think we're in the same crowds

NightFury: and wasn't that the point?

NightFury: like a venting outlet or something

StormChaser: True.

NightFury: you first, milady

StormChaser: ...Are you flirting?

NightFury: i hope not

StormChaser is typing...

NightFury: i was gonna ask you for girl advice tbh

StormChaser: Oh, okay.

StormChaser: I was gonna ask you for guy advice, tbh.

NightFury: whooaaaa

NightFury: true friendship

NightFury: i think we've found it!

StormChaser: Haha

NightFury: do my eyes deceive me

NightFury: did you just...

NightFury: NOT

NightFury: use a punctuation mark?

NightFury: WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?!

StormChaser: Oh, shut up.

StormChaser: That was laughing, it's acceptable to not to use punctuation marks.

StormChaser: And you? You just capitalized.

NightFury: i am sticking my tongue out at you right now

StormChaser: Nerd.

NightFury: that i am

StormChaser: Oho. Thanks for the clue.

StormChaser: (I'm winning this thing.)

NightFury: ...

NightFury: dang it

NightFury is typing...

StormChaser: Ugh, gotta run.

StormChaser: Again.

StormChaser: Sorry.

NightFury: is it always going to be like this?

StormChaser: Maybe?

StormChaser: I'll vent to you later.

StormChaser: Promise.

StormChaser: I'll be back. Probably.

NightFury: and ill be here

NightFury: maybe

NightFury: just text i guess

StormChaser: Yup.

StormChaser: Bye, Night.

NightFury: bye

StormChaser is now offline.

NightFury: *dancing with my se-elf*

NightFury is now offline.


The break was good for a couple of reasons: first, Hiccup already spent waaay too much time by his lonesome (though, for the most part, he liked to while away the hours by building things, not lounging on the computer), and second, today being the first day of school, they already had homework.

Which he probably should get on.

Like, ASAP.

"Blehhh, don't wanna," he whined to himself, dropping his head onto his hands. "High school sucks."

His gaze strayed to the computer screen again-the blinking black line and the empty login form. His new buddy. His cool new buddy, who didn't mind that he was a nerd.

The social pyramid would come a-tumblin' a lot sooner if the school set this up a lot earlier.

...Then again, it could just be that she was on the same lower-class plane. But he highly doubted that, considering he knew the nerd-class. And they didn't like him either.

So yeah, high school sucked.

Hiccup smiled. "But not that much."

'Cause now he had a shot at getting his act together.


1 new message from Stormy: Be home in 5. You free?

You sent: no, but i don't like homework, so yes.

1 new message from Stormy: You're going to be a terrible influence.

1 new message from Stormy: Wait, I thought you were one of the nerds?

You sent: i said i was a nerd. didn't say i was in their group

You sent: why? perplexed?

1 new message from Stormy: ...Dang it.

You sent: heh. i can still win this~

1 new message from Stormy: Oh, shut up.

You sent: touchy.

1 new message fromStormy: Home. Be on in a bit.

You sent: potassium


September 5. 7:43 p.m.

NightFury is now online.

NightFury: *whistles to self*

StormChaser is now online.

StormChaser: Nerd.

NightFury: not a nerd

NightFury: wait what ARE you

StormChaser: Why should I say?

NightFury: because so far you like fair play

NightFury: and giving that information would be fair play

StormChaser: It would be cheating, on your end.

NightFury: drat

NightFury: i've been found out

StormChaser: Ha!

NightFury: so where've you been?

StormChaser: Hmm?

NightFury: you left for like four hours

NightFury: quick beach trip? date? quick beach trip FOR a date?

StormChaser: No, I wish, I wish.

StormChaser: How 'bout you? Any of the above?

NightFury: i wish to all three

StormChaser: Stayed home with homework?

NightFury: i thought that that was established already, but yes

StormChaser: Touchy.

NightFury: don't use that on me

NightFury: i came up with that

StormChaser: 'Touchy' has been used since before we were born, nerd.

NightFury: i

NightFury: ...

StormChaser: HA.

NightFury: not a word of this to anyone

StormChaser: No worries. None of my friends know I joined the program.

NightFury: what

NightFury: why?

StormChaser: That's a loaded question.

StormChaser: Skip?

NightFury: okay but

NightFury: i mean

NightFury: they shouldn't judge you if they're really your friends

StormChaser: It's complicated, I guess.

NightFury: maybe im just an idealist

StormChaser: You say that like it's a bad thing.

NightFury: well lienea a jsda ghd ki

StormChaser: Uh...?

NightFury: ,mki dsea

NightFury: ":[ [artrg

StormChaser: Dude, are you okay?

NightFury is typing...

NightFury: yes that was just my cat saying hi

NightFury: sort of

StormChaser: Aw, hi kitty!

StormChaser: Can you tell me her name or is that a clue?

NightFury: nah

NightFury: no one knows i have a pet so

NightFury: also HIS name is toothless

StormChaser: Cutie.

NightFury: do YOU have pets? or...?

StormChaser: I have a greyhound named Stormfly. Hence the handle.

StormChaser: I don't talk about her at school, though.

NightFury: ooh. dog person.

StormChaser: Ha, does that mean our friendship is over?

NightFury: nahhh. im an animal person in general. how bout you?

StormChaser: Same.

NightFury: and again i say:

NightFury: ~true friendship~

StormChaser: I'm gonna assume that that was supposed to have confetti or something.

NightFury: indeed

StormChaser: Good. Then we're on the same wavelength.


The door creaked open.

"Son?"

The voice came from a large man with an equally large beard, caked in what looked like flour and wearing a stained apron with the words "#1 Dad" on the front.

(Hiccup had given it to him two years prior on Father's Day as a blatant message along the lines of: "Please don't let Mom cook the meatballs ever again PLEASE FATHER, IF YOU LOVE ME, PLEASE.")

(To the boy's credit, it worked. He has yet to receive meat-related stomachaches.)

Hiccup turned and Toothless climbed up to his shoulder, pretending to be a bird. "Yeah Dad?"

"I could use some, ah, help, with the-ah, baked goods," Stoick said, raising his eyebrows in a "your mother could be lurking around the corner-even though we both know she's still at work-and she can't know about the cake" sort of way.

"Oh, right, sure, right behind you," Hiccup replied hastily.

Stoick exhaled. Hiccup could hear him muttering as he left the room: "Okay, alright, I can do this. I'm a CEO of a bloody cake company, I can DO this..."


September 5. 8:25 p.m.

NightFury is now offline.

StormChaser: What the-?


You sent: sorry for cutting out. dad needs help with something

1 new message from Stormy: Just know: you can never complain about my leaving habits ever again.

1 new message from Stormy: At least I don't disappear.

You sent: fair enough

You sent: might not make it back

1 new message from Stormy: So dramatic.

1 new message from Stormy: Goodnight?

You sent: yep. g'night


What flair.

(hahahahaha refuses to have Valka leave in any and all modern AUs COME AT ME)

R&R? please?