Hiccup P.O.V
"Imagine your machine, or robot as you teens call, as a human body" a large, middle-aged, black man said has he stood in the middle of the classroom."We have the wires as the veins, the oil ,or whatever you are going to use has energy, as the blood, the chip as the… "
Did the professor just made robots sound boring?…He did. The year just started and I'm already bored. Well, it's still better listening to him then the chitchats of my, so called, classmates.
I bet they are saying "Who is that kid?", "Why is he in the university?" or "How old is he?". It's always the same thing. Every time on a new year, these questions will come up and the answers will never change. I'm Hiccup, I'm here to learn, I'm 2/3/4 years younger than you guys because apparently my intellect can be compared to yours…Or the professor. It's just a matter of time before the mocking starts just because I'm younger than them. Toothless say because they feel threaten for my intelligence or they're jealous. I honestly stopped caring anymore and just started to ignore them.
Like now, I'm just focusing on the world on the other side of the window. Nothing special unfortunately, just some students wandering around, trees with different kinds of leaves, each one of them with a different colors and some cars and motorbikes… New distraction.
Analyze unknown territory.
The university wasn't something unusual. It was like any other university, it was build around the XVIII century and had wallshth vines to decorate them, who covered their purpose. Protect it. Right in the middle of the front walls, there was a gate who itself had a keeper. Outside the fortifications, there was a parking lot for the students and workers of the university. I'm hoping to see a big black motorbike, praying for Toothless to be here…Nope
"Not wanting to waste your precious time", the professor said with a mocking tone "I wish for all of you a happy year and I hope we won't have any troubles."
Silence. We were all waiting for those two golden words. Just two words to get us out of this prison that society call classroom.
"Class dismiss."
Release the bulls.
Not wanting to be mean, but the way that they run away from the class and the sounds that they made looked exactly like bulls. And like bulls, they don't care who is on their way, they will stomp you with their woofs. I learned that the hard way. So I just wait for everybody to be gone.
Big mistake.
"Mister Haddock?"
Oh boy. I looked at the source of the sentence and saw the professor, moving from his previous place to the back of his desk.
"Yes, Professor?" Nice one Hic. Good first impression, I thought to myself.
"Please, call me Mister Rose" He said proudly, while gesturing his hand to the seat before in. He wants me to sit? ...Ok.
"As you wish, Professor" Couldn't keep it, could you?
"Very well…How are you?"
"Hm… Good?" Why is he asking that? Unless he… "You want to ask me about my talent, don't you?" I said rudely. Didn't mean to but I wanted.
"I assume this isn't the first time?" Mister Rose said while leaning back to his chair. And grinning. I hate it when people do that. It always look like they knew something that I didn't or that were mocking me.
"Every single educator, professor, doctor or scientist that heard about me, wanted to ask me about my past and present, if I had a accident or if I was like that has far as I remembered" It's true, there wasn't a single person, besides Toothless, who didn't asked me question about my, so called, talent. "If it wasn't a question they will make me do tests "Also true. In every school year, my teachers would make me tests, harder and longer one than the other students, to see if it was true. Every time I went to the hospital make, what it should be, a normal check-up, they will poke me with some random medical objects and exams that aren't normal in a check-up, like an X-Ray or blood tests "Like I was some sort of experiment."
"I see…"
"No you don't, I can see it in your face" A familiar voice cut the professor like a knife.
I turned my head so quickly that it surprised myself that I didn't break my neck. I was so happy to see a familiar face. And it wasn't just a normal one. It was Toothless, my best friend.
"And my ask who are you?" Mister Rose said angrily, while examining the strange person before him. Toothless, who real name was Noah, was my best friend.
When together, the peoples around looked at us questionably. While Toothless was a tall 18 year old boy, had a type of body that could be mistaken of a athlete, type of skin who is often compared to the one of a Indian and raven hair that passed his shoulders and covered one of his eyes, I was a short 14 year old boy, had a scrawny and skinny type of body, freckled skin and auburn hair that barely reached to my shoulders. The only thing that we had in common, bodily wise, was our eyes. We both have vivid green eyes that could be compared to the green of a emerald. And our "style" was also quite different. Toothless worn black clothes, complete with black combat boots and black letter jacked, he looked like biker. I worn green shirts that always included something about dragons or Viking themed, winter brown boots and, sometimes, black glasses, I looked like a nerd.
"Toothless" He said while smirking, enjoying the confused face of Mister Rose, and walking down the classroom, stopping by the professor desk "And I'm here to take your student back home."
Using the surprised pause of Mister Rose, Toothless took me by the wrist and we ran out of the classroom like it was a casual thing to do. Which it was, considering the fact that it wasn't the first time that Toothless saved me from the claws of a irritating person.
"You didn't have to do that, Toothless." I said, more like screamed, to him.
After that little 'runaway scene' from the classroom, Mister Rose finally came down his senses and started screaming, demanding us to come back. Of course, we ignore it him and continued running, which gained us a lot of attention. Especially with Mister Rose, seeing that screaming wouldn't get in far, behind us looking like a raged pig.
"Are you saying you're regretting?!" He also screamed, still looking ahead making sure that wasn't anything in our way and focusing only in one thing. Getting to his motorbike to go us home.
"Hell no!" Past years of us running away from superiors, it still hasn't lost his fun. I always found myself laughing at those moments.
"Good, because it's too late for regrets!" What?
As I looked forward us and saw the opening gates of the university, I also heard Mister Rose screaming to the gate keeper :" Close the gates! Don't let them to get away!" Was he that desperate to analyze me? I thought.
When I turned my head back, I really wish I didn't. Mister Rose was right behind me with his arm stretched and his hand wide open. But what scared me was his face.
His dark skin turned into a horrid type of white and his veins were popping out. Much like a corpse. The mouth was still open from his yell and I could see teeth of sharks and the tongue of a snake. And his eyes were black, pitch black. You couldn't even see the iris.
Without knowing, I wasn't laughing anymore. I was screaming.
That made Toothless to lose his focus and to turn around. Unfortunately, because of that, he hit the gate, looking slightly confused and making us stop. Which was the only thing that Mister Rose, or whatever that was, needed to catch me.
Toothless, seeing that he had caught me by the neck, punched Mister Rose right in the face, making him and me fall to our knees and gaining the security attention.
One curiosity about Toothless. While I am in University of Engineering, he is on Aviation school and that includes military training. Now, joining the fact that Toothless fought since he was little and he's pissed because they hurt me, my calculation is that Toothless is going to leave the security guard with a black eye and is going to knock him out after.
…
My calculus was right.
When Toothless saw that Mister Rose was still on the ground and that everyone attention was on the knocked out guard, he saw our opportunity to freedom.
He grabbed my arm with gentle force and put me in his back, like a piggy ride. Toothless started running from the gates to the walls. He stood in front of them and reached a hand to the plants. He was looking for something. He swoop his hand for a second and I saw a pair of wood.
Ladder
He grabbed it and I finally understood. We were going to climb the wall. I reached my hand to grab the stairs but then Toothless moved away. Just for a few meters.
No. He couldn't. I knew he did parkour for fun, so that was a play child to him, but jumping a wall with me on the back wasn't a easy thing to manage.
"Hold on tight" He said leaning forward.
"Toothless don't you - "
He ignored me and started running at full speed. I held on tightly to him, trying not to fall. Suddenly…
He jumped.
It was a good jump. But not enough, we only reached half of the wall, but Toothless grabbed the stairs and started to climb with such ease that it could be compare it to a monkey… Oh I am so going to mock him after this. I thought, ignoring the fear of falling.
"Hm…" Toothless mused and I realized that we had reached the top.
"You don't know how to come down, do you?"
"Shut up, I'm thinking." He said has he sat in the top of the wall, with me still in his back.
"Just climb down the ladder!"
"Oh, why didn't I think of that? Genius, there aren't more stairs." There was a hint of mock in his sentence and a bucket of impatience in his tone.
"Well, keep thinking. I think that they are starting to realize that we aren't there anymore." The crowd that had been watching the guard and Mister Rose, started to look around them, obviously trying to spot us.
Suddenly, I felt movement and I saw Toothless standing up and stretching his arms to both sides of his body, clearly a pose to keep us balanced.
"What are you doing? You are going to fall" I said, with a worried tone without wanting it.
Toothless didn't hear me, or choose to ignore me, and started to walk.
"Toothless are you hearing me?"
"Hush Hic, I'm trying to keep focus here."
I kept quiet, although I didn't want to. Instead I was switching my view to ahead from down the wall, analyzing how much pain will I feel if I fell.
Toothless stopped and I looked at him, thinking that he had gotten hurt for some reason. Maybe a cramp…
He was looking down and I followed his rail, only to find a green dumpster. I immediately knew what was Toothless thinking.
"Are you seri-"
"Geronimo!"
"Toothless!"