I said I'd update in a week, then I wait a month. I'm so sorry! First I was being lazy, then I was busy with homework. And it doesn't really help that I don't like to write. Why am I writing this story then? I have no clue. But I'm actually enjoying writing it and I'm not going to quit, so don't worry. :)
EDIT 1/18: I just fixed formatting, grammar, and the general OOC-ness of the characters in a couple places
Disclaimer: Eh, I still don't own Httyd or any of its characters.
Chapter 2: The Movie Begins!
Hiccup, of course, sat down with Toothless curled around him, grinning when Astrid sat beside him.
"This movie is called How to Train Your Dragon." Twilight addressed the Vikings as the wall that the chairs were facing came to life.
A boy is sitting on the moon, holding a fishing pole. A dark shape glides past.
Hiccup smiled, knowing it was Toothless.
Under the moon, letters move to spell DreamWorks. We are flying along a sea.
[Hiccup V.O.] This is Berk.
The Vikings, even Hiccup, jumped, hearing his voice surround them.
[Hiccup V.O.] It's twelve days north of hopeless and a few degrees south of freezing to death. It's located solidly on the meridian of misery.
Many Vikings murmured agreement. Hiccup smiled. It was a perfect description of his home.
We zoom up on a village, weaving in between huge statues rising up from the water.
[Hiccup V.O.] My village. In a word, sturdy. It's been here for seven generations but every single building is new. We have fishing, hunting, and a charming view of the sunsets.
Zooming in on several grazing sheep.
[Hiccup V.O.] The only problems are the pests.
Suddenly, a sheep is snatched up. Another inches over to where the other had been grazing and continues to munch on grass as if nothing happened.
Many Vikings laughed at this.
[Hiccup V.O.] While most people have mice or mosquitoes, we have...
Shows a thin Viking teenager opening a door.
[Hiccup] Dragons.
A Monstrous Nightmare breathes fire towards the boy. He slams the door shut, facing the camera, revealing the boy to be Hiccup.
[Hiccup V.O.] Most people would leave. Not us. We're Vikings. We have stubbornness issues.
Twilight snorted. "That's an understatement."
Hiccup runs out of his house.
[Hiccup V.O.] My name's Hiccup. Great name, I know, but it's not the worst. Parents believe hideous names will frighten off gnomes and trolls. Like our charming Viking demeanor wouldn't do that.
Hiccup is knocked to the ground.
[Viking] Arrrgh! Morning!
Several people chuckled at this, but Stoick was thinking about what Hiccup had said about his name. Did he not like it? Then he answered his own question. Of course. It had been sort of a tradition to name the smallest of them Hiccup. Every time someone said his name, it must have sounded like an insult. His son knew he was small and scrawny, but he was still constantly reminded of that.
[Viking #1] What are you doing here?! Get inside!
[Viking #2] What are you doing out?
[Viking #3] Get inside!
Hiccup ignores them, continuing to run.
Stoick winced. They sounded so harsh, but they really were only trying to protect him.
[Stoick] Hiccup!
Stoick picks Hiccup up by his tunic. Hiccup winces.
[Stoick] What is he doing out again- What are you doing out? Get inside!
He puts Hiccup down, shoving him to the side.
[Hiccup] That's Stoick the Vast, chief of the tribe. They say when he was a baby he popped a dragon's head clean off of its shoulders. Do I believe it? Yes, I do.
Stoick chuckled, amused that that rumor was still going around.
Stoick turns to another Viking.
[Stoick] What have we got?
[Viking] Gronkles. Nadders. Zipplebacks. Oh, and Hoark saw a Monstrous Nightmare.
An explosion forces the Viking to duck, but Stoick remains standing tall. He brushes a piece of flaming debris off his shoulder.
[Stoick] Any Night Furies?
[Viking] None so far.
[Stoick] Good.
Toothless and Shadow looked pleased that their kind was was feared so much.
"Ha," Shadow snorted. "Our kind is the best!"
"Shadow," Twilight scolded the dragon. "Be polite."
Several Vikings noticed this. "You can talk to dragons?" Fishlegs asked.
"Oh, yeah! Any animal."
"Wow..." Fishlegs muttered to himself.
[Viking] Hoist the torches!
Scene changes to three huge torches being raised. We now see Hiccup running into the forge. He takes his vest off, replacing it with a leather apron.
[Gobber] Nice of you to join the party! I thought you'd been carried off!
Hiccup lifts one of Gobber's hand attachments- with difficulty -onto a rack.
[Hiccup] Who, me? Nah, I'm waaay to muscular for their taste. They wouldn't know what to do with all... this.
He strikes a bodybuilder pose.
Snotlout laughed. "Please. Hiccup does not have muscles. I bet he can't even hold an axe, like a real Viking!"
Hiccup glanced down, murmuring, "I already know I'm not a Viking... Stoick made that clear enough." Astrid sighed, taking his hand, her thumb gently running over his knuckles.
All of a sudden, a plasma blast raced past Snotlout, singeing his clothes. He yelped, sounding rather like a scared puppy. (Although, in Hiccup's opinion, puppies were way cuter.) He turned, finding Shadow's head up, glaring at him with her ear plates perked. Next to her, Twilight looked frustrated- again. She snapped her fingers, pausing the movie.
"Snotlout, stop it. Hiccup's just joking around. Besides, you have been bullying and teasing him since you could talk. He knows he's different, but being different doesn't mean you, or anyone on Berk, for that matter," she continued, glancing pointedly around the room, "-should treat him like you all have for his whole life. Being different isn't even a bad thing! It's just who you are. You can't change who you are, and it is not something anyone should be ashamed of. Hiccup doesn't show that what everyone tells him hurts, but the thing is, it does! You know why he uses sarcasm so much? To hide his emotions!" Many Vikings looked down at this- Hiccup used sarcasm about half the time he spoke. Twilight walked over to Snotlout.
"You're his cousin, and yet you are the person who teases him the most often! You never miss a chance to put him down! For the love of your gods, please just keep your mouth shut for the rest of the movie!"
Snotlout shrugged. "Eh, no thanks. I am not going to be bossed around by a girl that looks three years younger than me! I will do what I want, thank you very much!"
Twilight laughed. "Oh, bad move, Snotlout. Did you not see what I did to Stoick? Or are you just really, really stupid?" Then she punched Snotlout so hard, he went sprawling a few feet out of his chair. She drew her sword, pressing it against his chest. "Now do you get it?" Gulping, Snotlout nodded. "Good." She sheathed her sword and walked back to her chair.
"Now let's continue the movie, shall we?" Twilight said, her angry aura gone, replaced by a relaxed and friendly one.
[Gobber] Well, they need toothpicks, don't they?
Hiccup opens the stall's window and takes a load of weapons to repair from a Viking.
[Hiccup V.O.] The meathead with interchangeable hands is Gobber.
"Hey!" Gobber exclaimed. "Who are you calling meathead?"
"The guy who calls me Toothpick." Hiccup responded, smiling.
"Well, I guess that's fair enough..." Everyone laughed at the two's interaction, even Twilight, but the Vikings also felt guilty. They had very rarely seen this side of Hiccup; him smiling and joking, actually happy, and if they'd given him a chance, the would have. But Stoick felt the worst. Gobber acted much more fatherly to Hiccup than he ever had.
Hiccup carries the weapons over to red hot coals.
[Hiccup V.O.] I've been his apprentice ever since I was little. Well, littler.
The scene changes to show Stoick giving orders to a Viking.
[Stoick] We'll counterattack with the catapults.
[Viking] Hurry!
A Monstrous Nightmare blasts a house, a fiery waterfall pouring over the building.
[Hiccup V.O.] See? Old village, lots and lots of new houses.
[Viking] Fire!
[Astrid] Alright, let's go!
Hiccup watches six teenagers from the blacksmith stall.
[Hiccup V.O] Oh, and that's Fishlegs, Snotlout,
Seeing himself on screen, Snotlout shouted his catchphrase: "Snotlout, Snotlout, Oi Oi Oi!"
Twilight replied, mocking him:"Snotlout, Snotlout, shut up now!" Snotlout scowled while Hiccup snorted. It was about time someone showed Snotlout what it felt like to be teased.
the twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnut, and...
Cue the loud declarations, courtesy of the twins, of how awesome they looked.
[dreamily] Astrid. Astrid is framed in a ball of fire. The other teens join her, looking heroic.
Hiccup blushed, but Astrid just snickered and gently squeezed his hand
Snotlout, who seemed to have already forgotten about Twilight, snorted and said "As if Astrid would ever even like him."
Twilight thrust her hand out, and Snotlout flew backwards into the wall. She slowly raised her hand, palm up, and Snotlout rose into the air. "Stop picking on Hiccup!" she exclaimed angrily. She waved him around a bit more, then let him drop- right on top of Toothless.
Twilight seemed to be saying something to Toothless in dragon language, and Toothless bobbed his head up and down, then picked Snotlout up by his tunic and threw him back to his seat, all without moving anything but his neck and head as not to disturb Hiccup and Astrid, who were still leaning against him. Twilight snickered.
"I hope you'll listen to me now without being sexist, because if you don't... well, that wouldn't be great for your health. And also, look at Hiccup and Astrid now. Does it look like she hates him?" Snotlout turned slowly, as if it hurt him to move. He looked at the two, curled up together against Toothless. For what was probably the first time in his life, he did something extremely smart. He kept his moth shut. The movie, which seemed to pause automatically when there was a distraction, resumed.
[Hiccup V.O.] Aw, their job is so much cooler.
Hiccup leans out of the window, but Gobber pulls him back.
[Hiccup] Come on. Let me out, please. I need to make my mark.
Gobber sets him down.
[Gobber] Oh, you've made plenty of marks, all in the wrong places.
[Hiccup] Please, two minutes, I'll kill a dragon, my life will get infinitely better, I might even get a date.
[Gobber] You can't lift a hammer. You can't swing an axe. You can't even throw one of these!
Gobber holds up a bola. Another Viking grabs it and throws it at a Gronckle with a grunt. The Gronckle falls out of the sky.
Hiccup winced. That had to have hurt pretty badly.
[Hiccup] Okay, fine, but this will throw it for me.
Hiccup pats a wheelbarrow-like contraption, accidentally causing it to launch prematurely. The bola flies out the window and hits a Viking outside. He falls with a surprised grunt.
Hiccup winced again. "Oops" he whispered.
[Gobber] See, now this here is what I'm talking about!
[Hiccup] But the mild calibration issue-
[Gobber] No, no- Hiccup! If you ever want to get out there to fight dragons, you need to stop all... this.
He gestures to Hiccup.
[Hiccup] But you just pointed to all of me.
[Gobber] Yes, that's it! Stop being all of you.
[Hiccup] Ohhh...
[Gobber] Oh, yes.
[Hiccup] You sir, are playing a dangerous game, keeping this much raw Vikingness contained.
Astrid chuckled. "Raw Vikingness? Really?" Even Twilight snorted, trying to keep in a laugh.
Snotlout, meanwhile, looked like it was physically paining him to keep his mouth shut. (Granted, his lower lip had started swelling.) Twilight noticed this and tossed him an ice pack. "Thank you," he muttered.
Hiccup blinked. Did Snotlout say thank you? Apparently Twilight was thinking the same thing. "Wow Snotlout, did I scare you that badly?" She asked, sounding amused. "Never thought I'd hear those words come out of your mouth."
[Hiccup] There will be consequences!
[Gobber] I'll take my chances. Sword. Sharpen. Now.
He gives Hiccup a huge sword. Hiccup struggles to lift it, but manages to get it to the grinding wheel.
[Hiccup V.O.] One day, I'll get out there. Because killing a dragon is everything around here.
Scene shifts to several Nadders surrounding some sheep.
[Hiccup V.O.] A Nadder head is sure to get me at least noticed.
The scene glides over to Gronckles taking racks of fish.
[Hiccup V.O.] Gronckles are tough. Taking down one of those would definitely get me a girlfriend.
The scene continues to move, showing two dragon heads. One breathes gas into a building, and the other ignites it. The two dragon heads fly out of the explosion, revealing one body.
[Hiccup V.O.] A Zippleback? Exotic. Two heads, twice the status.
We now see several Vikings on the platform of a catapult.
[Viking] They found the sheep!
[Stoick] Concentrate fire over the lower bank.
[Viking] Hurry up! Fire!
The huge rock sails towards a Nadder, taking it down.
[Hiccup V.O.] And then there's the Monstrous Nightmare. Only the best Vikings go after those. They have this nasty habit of setting themselves on fire.
The catapult catches fire, and a huge dragon -on fire- snaps at Stoick.
[Stoick] Reload! I'll take care of this.
He hits the Nightmare several times with a hammer. Suddenly a loud whistling pierces the night.
[Hiccup V.O.] But the ultimate prize is the dragon no one's ever seen. We call it the...
[Viking] Night Fury!
[Viking #2] Get down!
A purple-blue blast explodes a catapult, and a dark shape quickly flies over it.
Toothless, seeing himself on the screen, perked up and warbled happily, as if saying "Look! That's me! And look at all the destruction I caused!"
"Well, isn't someone proud of themselves?" A new voice said, followed by a laugh. Hiccup turned, surprised, and saw two teenage kids, one boy and one girl, who had appeared out of thin air next to Twilight.
The boy had short black hair -a military haircut- brown eyes, and a small scar across his left eyebrow. He was wearing a military uniform with tan combat boots. A dog tag with G.M.A.D. on it hung from his neck. He was wearing a black Data Glove Paired. (A.N- I admit, I actually don't really know what that is beyond that ArmyHumphrey told me it's a glove that lets you hack into stuff in Call of Duty Black Ops 2.)He had a M27 with ACOG Scope (night vision), flashlight, laser strap on his back, A M1911A1 was holstered on his left leg, in both his boots there were two throwing knives, a bow and quiver strapped on his back, and a SOG knife with a dragon around the handled strap inside his shirt.
The girl had black curly hair pulled into a ponytail and brown eyes. She was wearing a black cap with G.M.A.D. on it in gold cursive, a red T-shirt under a black hoodie, black jeans, white and grey Nike shoes, and black fingerless gloves. A Gronckle Iron sword hung in a scabbard on her left hip, two daggers sheathed in scabbards were on either side of her brown leather belt and had a bow and a full quiver strapped to her back.
"Hi!" Twilight greeted them. "Okay everyone, this is ArmyHumphrey," she spoke, gesturing to the boy, "Rider of the Night Fury Nightmare, Guardian of Loyalty, Epic Archer and Junior Sorcerer of the G.M.A.D."
"Call me Army." He intoned, waving causally.
Twilight introduced the girl. "And this is BerkDragonRider, Rider of the Night Fury Speedstrike, Guardian of Night Furies, Legendary Archer and Sorcerer, second-in-command of the G.M.A.D."
"Hi everyone! You can call me Rider." The girl said.
"Alright, back to the movie!" Twilight exclaimed as two more chairs appeared (also out of thin air, what was with these crazy, science-defying people, Fishlegs muttered) next to hers.
[Stoick] Jump!
Vikings jump off the ruined catapult.
[Hiccup V.O.] This thing never steals food, never shows itself, and...
Another blast is fired at the burning catapult, causing it to collapse altogether.
[Hiccup V.O.] ... Never misses. No one has ever killed a Night Fury. That's why I'm going to be the first.
Scene changes to show Gobber putting on his axe appendage.
[Gobber] Man the fort, Hiccup. They need me out there. Stay. Put. There. You know what I mean.
Gobber shouts a battle cry as he runs out of the forge.
Hiccup pushes his bola-launcher, weaving in between Vikings.
[Viking] Hiccup!
[Viking #2] Where are you going?
[Hiccup] Yeah, I know! Be right back!
We now see the Nadders surrounding the sheep again. Stoick throws a net over them.
[Viking] Let's get them!
A Nadder shoots fire. Stoick clamps its mouth shut.
[Stoick] Mind yourselves! The devils still have some juice in them!
Hiccup runs onto a cliff and sets up his launcher. He watches the sky.
[Hiccup] Come on. Give me something to shoot at. Give me something to shoot at.
A roar is heard in the distance. Then a whistling starts up -the sound of a Night Fury about to fire. Another purple-blue blast explodes a nearby catapult. Using the glimpse of the dragon, illuminated by the explosion, Hiccup aims the launcher in its path and fires. Hiccup is thrown backwards. The bola files through the air, hitting the Night Fury.
Hiccup looked down. "I'm so, so sorry, Toothless." He told the dragon, overwhelmed with sadness and regret. Toothless nuzzled Hiccup, seemingly saying, "It's okay." Hiccup still wasn't comforted, though. He had been so set on impressing his father that he had never considered it from the dragon's point of view- having your freedom taken from you in mere seconds. Astrid eyed him.
"You know Hiccup, you wouldn't have met Toothless if you hadn't shot him down. And look how happy and relaxed he is with you now. He's forgiven you." She gestured to Toothless, who had put his head in Hiccup's lap and was now looking up at them with wide, catlike eyes. Hiccup sighed and petted Toothless's head.
"Still, I was being so selfish. I never thought about how Toothless would feel when I shot him down."
The Vikings started to murmur their surprise and admiration, oblivious to how ashamed Hiccup looked.
Twilight, Rider, and Army, on the other hand, noticed and exchanged a Look. Twilight stood up and made an announcement.
"We're going to take a short break. Food and drink will be available in the atrium." The orb-lights, which had dimmed when the movie started, grew brighter, but no one moved. "The atrium is the room where I teleported you all in." Twilight added, giggling. Still, no one moved. Army got up and opened the doors to the atrium, dramatically gesturing with his hand.
"Here are the doors." He said, his expression saying something like 'Really?' There was a collective "Ohh" before everyone started getting up from their seats and making their way towards the exit. "Dragons, you too. There's fish for you guys in there. A stampede of dragons shot out of the room. Hiccup, Astrid, and Toothless stayed.
Rider's eyes glowed golden all of a sudden, and as quickly as it started, her eyes faded back to dark brown. "Toothless," She called. "They can understand you now."
"Huh? You mean the Vikings?"
"Yes."
Hiccup and Astrid were staring at Toothless. "You can talk?!" Hiccup asked.
"Uhh... duh." Toothless looked at Hiccup.
"But-"
Hiccup was interrupted by several yells outside and the Vikings that had gone outside to eat came streaming back in, followed by the dragons. Snotlout ran up to the three GMAD members. "They're talking!" He panted.
"The dragons? 'Course they're talking." Shadow said with a flick of her tail. "We talk, you just can't understand us."
Snotlout yelped.
"Everyone, calm down! I just cast a spell on the dragons so you could understand them." Rider raised her voice to be heard over the chatter. Her words didn't seem to have the effect she wanted, so she added, "Let's just start the movie." She knelt by the DVD player at the front of the room and pushed several buttons.
As the movie loaded, Twilight took Toothless aside. "Did you tell Hiccup why he shouldn't feel so guilty about shooting you down? 'Cause that was the whole point of the break and the spell so everyone can understand you guys."
"Uhhh..."
Twilight sighed in apparent fond exasperation. "Tell him now, while the movie's still loading." Toothless nodded, then padded back to Hiccup and Astrid.
"Astrid's right, you know." Toothless said softly, nudging Hiccup with his nose.
Hiccup frowned. "Huh? Right about what?"
"About shooting me down. You wouldn't have met me, and I'd still be blowing everything up. Even though that's really fun, I was never really happy. My family was killed ten long years ago, along with the rest of the Night Furies. You're my new family. I'm happy again."
Hiccup gave a soft smile. "Aw, thanks bud."
"See? I'm always right." Astrid told Hiccup with a playful grin.
"HA! Finally!" Rider yelled. She then noticed all the startled eyes on her. "Um, I mean... It loaded." She walked back to her seat with a sheepish expression.
[Hiccup] I hit it! Yes, I hit it! Did anybody see that?
A Nightmare comes up behind him, crushing his bola launcher. Hiccup turns.
[Hiccup] Except for you. Ahhhhh!
Stoick looks up from his net full of Nadders to see the Nightmare chasing Hiccup. He runs to help him.
[Stoick] Do not let them escape!
[Viking] Right!
The Nightmare breaths fire at Hiccup. He hides behind a pole- one of the Nightmare sprays fire at said torch. Hiccup cautiously looks around the torch, and the Nightmare approaches him from the other side. Right as it's about to snap Hiccup up, Stoick wrestles it sideways. The dragon tries to breath fire, but has reached its shot limit. Its eyes widen in realization and fear.
[Stoick] You're all out.
He hits the Nightmare with his hammer several times until it flies away, slightly dazed.
[Hiccup V.O] Oh, and there's one more thing you need to know.
Stoick turns to the torch. It falls over, revealing Hiccup. The top of the torch- still lit -falls off. Hiccup makes several faces as the torch bounces through the village.
[Hiccup] Sorry, dad.
The dragons were shocked. Stoick the Vast was chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe, the man who would stop at almost nothing to find the nest and kill them all- and the list went on. Hiccup was the only Viking in the last 300 years (except for a mysterious woman rumored to live with a Bewilderbeast far, far away) who wouldn't kill a dragon. There was no way he could be Stoick's son.
Toothless, though, was by far the most surprised. His jaw dropped. "He's your father?" He asked Hiccup.
Hiccup replied rather hesitantly. "W-well, he kinda disowned me, but he was." Stoick heard Hiccup, and how heartbroken he sounded. His heart sank. He'd forgotten about disowning Hiccup because of this movie thing. Obviously, Hiccup hadn't.
"What?"
"Toothless, it's fine-"
"NO, IT'S NOT FINE!" Toothless roared so loudly everyone in the room flinched. Twilight's dogs whined and scratched at their ears."You don't disown your own son! That's just not right! And you think dragons are cruel and emotionless? We never abandon our young! Or each other!" Toothless charged at Stoick but two other Night Furies dropped from the shadows and Shadow ran over so quickly you only saw a blur.
"Toothless, calm down! Stoick may not be... that great of a father, but you can't kill him for it!" Shadow exclaimed.
"He... abandoned.. Hiccup!" Toothless growled, straining against the other dragons.
"Toothless," a new voice rang out, "I know you're upset, but please don't lose your temper." The voice was soft, like a little girl coaxing a puppy out from under a car.
"Sapphire!" Twilight grinned. "Perfect timing, as per usual. Everyone, this is my little sister, Sapphire."
"Hi, everyone," Sapphire murmured. (A.N.- Sorry if this doesn't really fit in with the rest of the chapter, but I promised my sister I'd put her in this fic.)
"And these Night Furies are Nightmare, Army's dragon, and SpeedStrike, Rider's dragon. Now Toothless, please go back to where you were so we can continue the movie. I promise everything will work out in the end."
"Fine." He grumbled, obviously unsatisfied but calmed. Shadow walked back to five extremely disgruntled dogs and allowed them to curl up against her again. Nightmare and SpeedStrike each went to their respective riders. Another chair appeared next to the G.M.A.D members, and Sapphire sat cross-legged in it.
A Viking yells in surprise as the torch rolls along, running over the Nadder net, and the dragons escape. Hiccup watches as the dragons cart off the animals they caught.
[Hiccup] Okay, but I hit a Night Fury.
Stoick grabs Hiccup and drags him to their house.
[Hiccup] It's not like the last few times, Dad! I mean, I really, actually hit it! You guys were busy, and I had a very clear shot. It went down just off Ravenpoint. Let's get a search party out there before it-
[Stoick] Stop!
Hiccup blinks, his eyes wide.
Stoick looked down. There it was again, Hiccup was afraid of him.
[Stoick] Just stop. Every time you step outside, disaster follows. Can you not see that I have bigger problems? Winter is almost here, and I have an entire village to feed.
[Hiccup] Between you and me, the village could do with a little less feeding, don't you think?
[Stoick] This isn't a joke, Hiccup! Why can't you follow the simplest orders?
[Hiccup] I can't stop myself. I see a dragon and I have to just kill it, you know? It's who I am, dad.
"No. No, it's not." Hiccup corrected himself.
[Stoick] Oh, you're many things, Hiccup. But a dragon killer is not one of them. Get back to the house. Make sure he gets there! I have his mess to clean up.
Gobber slaps the side of Hiccup's head. Hiccup trudges back to his house. He passes the teens. Ruffnut cackles.
[Tuffnut] Quite the performance.
[Snotlout] I've never seen anyone mess up that badly. That helped!
[Hiccup] Thank you. you. I was trying so...
Astrid is sitting next to the other teens. She looks like she feels sorry for Hiccup.
Hiccup blinked, surprised. "You... you felt sorry for me?" He asked Astrid quietly and hesitantly, as if he was afraid of her reaction.
Astrid looked at him. "Yes," she plainly stated. "I never really disliked you- until you got good in dragon training -because I saw why you were so determined to kill a dragon. You just wanted your father to be proud of you."
"How'd you know that?"
Astrid shrugged. "I honestly don't know. It just seemed so obvious to me, even though no one else realized that."
Gobber pushes Snotlout down when he passes by.
[Snotlout] Ow!
Snotlout gets up and laughs. We now see Hiccup and Gobber trudging up the hill to the Haddock house.
[Hiccup] I really did hit one.
[Gobber] Sure, Hiccup.
[Hiccup] He never listens.
[Gobber] It runs in the family.
Hiccup pauses at the front door.
[Hiccup] And when he does, it's always with this disappointed scowl, like someone skimped on the meat in his sandwich.
"Oh, this is gonna be good." Gobber said.
Stoick looked at him, puzzled. "What do you mean?"
"Oh, you'll see." Gobber responded.
[Hiccup (mimicking Stoick)] Excuse me, barmaid? I'm afraid you brought me the wrong offspring! I ordered an extra large boy with beefy arms, extra guts and glory on the side. This here, this is a talking fish bone.
Everyone chuckled at Hiccup's imitation of his dad, even Stoick, but he also felt sad. He didn't think of Hiccup that way, but, he realized, from how he treated Hiccup, well, it made sense that Hiccup would think pretty much exactly what he just said on screen.
[Gobber] Now, you're thinking about this all wrong. It's not what you look like. It's what's inside that he can't stand.
Army burst out laughing. "Gobber... how is that supposed to make Hiccup feel better?"
"Well, have you seen Stoick pep talk? He's worse." Gobber told him, smirking.
[Hiccup] Thank you for summing that up.
[Gobber] Look, the point is, stop trying so hard to be something you're not.
Hiccup sighs, dejected.
[Hiccup] I just want to be one of you guys.
He turns and goes into the house... and straight out the back door. He runs off into the woods.
Stoick sighed. "Will you ever listen?"
"No, no I won't." Hiccup replied, smirking.
Once again, so sorry for not updating! I'll try to get chapter 3 up as soon as possible. Also, I would like to thank storygirl99210 for giving me a bunch of awesome ideas for this chapter!
EDITS 1/18:
If something still sounds weird, feel free to comment on it and what I might do to fix it.
So I didn't mean to do this at all- I hadn't even seen the show when I wrote this- but I happened to call my little sis Sapphire and characterized her exactly like Sapphire from Steven Universe. For those of you who don't know it, it's a kids' show but it has a lot of underlying themes about acceptance, loving whoever you choose, etc. and you should definitely check it out! The first few episodes may make it seem childish, but it gets a lot better, promise!