I forgot I'm pretty sure you have to do a disclaimer... I've forgotten to do that with my other stories, I don't own those either, I'm an eight-grade girl for goodness sakes!
Disclaimer: I do not own HTTYD or the characters in it. I do own Sage though. But I don't even own Radicus, that was an OC from a guest. Thank you for that by the way!
Chapter 2
(Sage's POV)
I woke up that morning when the sun was just beginning to rise and everything had a blue-gray tint to it. I pushed the still-sleeping Prygun's wing off myself and stood. I stretched, my bones cracking slightly after being trapped in one spot by a dragon's wing for several hours. I took off my satchel, which was slung over my shoulder, and opened it. I started rummaging around in the chaotic bag, looking for a comb. I found one and started combing my straight black hair (which wasn't really that straight at the moment).
I finished combing my hair and put the comb back in my satchel. I dug some more for my mirror I had snagged awhile back. I held up the simple mirror, and looked at my reflection.
I was a pale girl, with faint freckles under my eyes and over my nose. My black chin-length hair was now untangled, and had a faint sheen to it. Radicus always said my eyes were my most beautiful feature. My left eye was silvery blue, and my right eye was a dark vibrant jade green. I always thought it made me look ugly though. I sighed and put the mirror away. The sun was now slightly higher in the sky so I went over and woke Radicus up.
"Wha-what?" Radicus mumbled as I attempted to shake him awake.
"It's morning, Rad. We should get going." I said.
Bolt woke up and stood, knocking the sleepy Radicus of the rock. He landed face-first in the sand.
He spit the sand out. "Blech."
I laughed at him, waking Prygun up, who also came over and started chortling at him. Radicus scowled playfully. I turned around to climb on top of Prygun when I felt Radicus grab me from behind and lift me off the ground, for he was pretty strong and could lift frail little me with ease. "Radicus! Put me down!" I yelled at him, kicking and flailing. "Prygun! Help me!" Prygun rolled her eyes, knowing we were just playing.
Radicus laughed at me. "Say you're sorry."
"For what?"
"For laughing at me."
"You would do the same!"
"Hmm. True, but you would force me to apologize, too."
I huffed, stopping my pointless flailing. "Fine. Sorry." I mumbled.
"What was that?" Radicus asked with a smile.
"I'm sorry!" I yelled at him. "Now put me down."
Radicus put me back on the beach and grinned at me.
"I told you I didn't like it when you did that! And that if you did it again I would do- this!" I leaped onto Radicus, knocking us both over, and started slapping his face. "Take that! And that!"
Radicus groaned. "Stop it!"
I stopped slapping him and peered at his slightly red face. It must've been because I was slapping him. I stood up and stuck out my hand to help him up. He took it but pulled me down into the sand with him and I got a mouthful of sand as well.
"Blech! I can see why you didn't like that." I spit the sand out and wiped my tongue furiously.
Radicus smirked, stood up, and held out his hand for me.
I grabbed it and pulled myself up. "Can we get going now? The sun's already up." I said, pointing at the horizon, where the last tip of the sun was rising from the ocean.
"Yeah. Let's go." He said, climbing on top of Bolt and taking a mouthful of water from his leather canteen. I did the same and we took off, still heading west.
(Berk, Hiccup's POV)
I sat back on Toothless's saddle, as we flew over Berk as the afternoon sun shone on my village below. I sighed. "This is the life, bud."
Toothless purred happily.
Suddenly Astrid flew up beside me. "Hiccup!" She yelled.
I jumped. "Ah! Oh. What is it?"
"The twins and Snotlout have been causing mischief again."
I sighed. "Great. What happened this time?"
"You might want to come and see for yourself."
I nodded and followed Astrid down to the outskirts of the village, where I saw a red monstrous nightmare and a green hideous zippleback I knew could only be Hookfang and Barf & Belch.
As we landed I noticed two other dragons in protective stances, wings spread and and claws planted firmly on the ground. I gasped. "Is that a Skrill?" I said as I dismounted Toothless and Astrid did the same.
Snotlout came running up to us. "It was their fault!" He said, pointing at the twins who were currently punching each other and laughing.
I pinched the bridge of my nose. "What happened?"
Snotlout rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, we were having a competition to see who was better at shooting things with our dragons, and we kind of shot these to dragons out of the sky. They managed to flip over in midair and and not crash too hard. But they had two people on their backs and they just barely caught them and now the people are unconscious."
"There were people on their backs? Where are they?" I asked, ignoring for the moment the fact that Snotlout and the twins and shot two people out of the sky.
"Behind the dragons." Snotlout pointed.
I looked past the dragons and saw two kids, a male and a female, that looked about our age, 17, sprawled on the ground with their eyes closed, unmoving.
"Alright, we have to get them back to Gothi's healing hut." I walked up to the purple Skrill and the other dragon I now saw was a purple and red scuttleclaw. I walked slowly up to them as Toothless stayed back, knowing the drill.
"Hey, guys, we just want to help your friends, okay? We're gonna bring them somewhere to heal them." I said, holding my hands out in front of me in a gesture of peace. The dragons growled softly but stood apart so I could get to the teens. I walked slowly over to them, not wanting to startle the dragons, and crouched next to the girl and picked her up bridal-style. She was surprisingly light. "Snotlout!" I said. "Come get the other one!"
Snotlout swaggered over and tried to lift the muscular kid. He couldn't, so he just dragged him by the feet towards his dragon. I rolled my eyes and carried the girl back to Toothless and set her on his back and then climbed in front of her.
I turned to the dragons. "You should come to. We have fish and you look like you could use a decent meal." I said. It was true, the did look a little thinner than they should be.
We all took off, the two new dragons following, and headed towards Gothi's hut.
(Sage's POV)
I woke up, my vision slightly blurry. Yesterday's events flashed through my mind. We were just passing by an island when we'd been both been shot by a fireball, and then the world went black. Oh, gods. Radicus!
I sat straight upright and looked frantically around me. My vision cleared and I realized I was in a hut. What was I doing in a hut? I scanned the room and saw Radicus asleep in a bed next to my own. "Radicus!" I hissed.
When he didn't wake up I pushed the blanket off of me and stood up. My vision blurred slightly but I walked over to Radicus's bed. As my vision cleared, I remembered that old trick I'd done to wake Radicus when he wouldn't get up.
I leaned down and tugged the back of his hair.
He yelped and sat up suddenly. Then he hissed and reached for his back. I realized he was shirtless and had bandages around his stomach. "Oh gods what happened?!" I exclaimed.
Radicus rubbed his head. "I dunno. Wait. Where are we? Where are our dragons?" He looked slightly panicked so I placed a gentle hand on his shoulder.
"I'm sure they're fine," I said. "As for where we are, it looks like a hut. What we are doing here, I don't know. I sat on the bed not to him and looked at the bandages on his back. I could see a bit of dried blood on the old bandages.
"You must've hurt yourself when we fell, you probably landed on a rock or something." I said worriedly.
He shrugged. "I'm fine. Are you okay?" He looked me over and checked for injuries.
"I'm perfectly fine. At least I'm wearing all my clothes." I huffed, neglecting to mention my eyes blurring.
He blushed slightly. "Whatever." He mumbled.
Just then the door opened and in walked a short, hunch-backed old woman with braided gray hair and a staff. With her was a skinny kid our age with auburn hair and forest green eyes.
I jumped up and backed away slowly. Radicus stood in front of me protectively like the big brother figure he was.
"Oh hey, you're awake," The skinny kid said, smiling slightly. "Are you feeling alright?"
"We're fine," I said curtly. "But who are you, what are we doing here and where are our dragons?"
The kid laughed. "Questions, questions, questions. My name is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the III,"
"Nice name." I snorted.
He continued, ignoring my comment. "You are here because to of the teens here stupidly shot down you and you're dragons, and you're dragons are fine, they are eating from the feeding stations at the moment."
I frowned but stayed silent.
Radicus finally spoke. "But where are we?"
Hiccup smiled. "You are in the village on the island of Berk."
Hi! I hoped you liked this chapter, I wanted to update again quickly :) Thank you Princess Gakoshi for your kind review! Don't worry. I will incorporate your OC into the story soon! So there was some Sage/Radicus bonding going on there, just to give you an idea about their brother/sister relationship. Also, this will not be a Hiccstrid because I don't really like those. Did ya like the mismatched eyes thing? I liked it, I often wished I had different colored eyes, instead of my dull blue-gray ones. I'm a bit obsessed with eyes at the moment, I don't know why. They're fascinating. Sorry if there were typos, I was too lazy to spell-check :D Please R&R, I hope you like the story!
