Fractal Fairy Tale Chapter Three: Why me, why now?Hiccup looked up no attackers had gathered around her and Toothless yet, she still had time to break them free. She quickly scavenged her vest finding an old dagger rusty and most likely could only cut butter but it would have to work. She tried to move away so she could get a better grip on the net but she was stuck, her left leg was stuck under Toothless. Toothless stared at her his eyes full of sympathy and a spark of fear
"Dont worry bud I'll get us out of here but you need to move"
Toothless had barely enough room to move but he did just enough for Hiccup to drag her foot out from under him. But her prosthetic had been shattered the pieces of metal fell to the ground upon lifting, but she couldn't worry about that now she turned to the net and profusely dragged the dagger across the ropes. Within a few moments the net was cut she released Toothless and tried dragging herself to her feet. Due to her unbalance she had to lean against the dragon for support, but this caused a commotion a group of attackers surrounded her threatening to strike if she even moved.
She couldn't do anything Toothless couldn't fly unless she had two feet and she was unable to run for the same reason. And there was too many for Toothless to take on alone especially when supporting a shaky Viking, but he tried anyway but his plasma shots didn't do much. The attackers were slowly come in on the two, there were determined to get to the rider and dragon.
Toothless stared towards his rider her eyes were moving back and forward frantically trying to come up with a plan. Fear also engulfed her eyes; suddenly fire arose causing the attackers to be taken aback.
Stormfly, Barf, Belch, and Meatlug circled above attacking the small army who soon retreated figuring the auburn was not worth nearly getting barbequed.
"You guys okay?" Fishlegs' asked
"Yeah we're fine but we can't fly my prosthetic broke!" she called up
"You guys go, I'll take care of Hiccup" Aston told the rest of the group
Stormfly landed as the rest headed towards the cove,
"Whats going on out there?" Hiccup asked
"There army is out numbered, we're chasing them back to their ships"
"Thank the gods"
Moments later the vikings and dragons returned to the village's center, and repair work soon ensued.
"Lets get you to Gobber bet he has a spare leg kicking about"
The two made their way to Gobber's forgery. Hiccup leaning against Aston for support as she slowly limped along. Toothless closely fallowed worried that his rider would fall; Aston stared over at Hiccup at the rate they were going they would make it to Gobber's by sundown.
"Whats wrong?" Hiccup asked wondering why they stopped
Aston took no more time than needed to scoop Hiccup up bridal style, her face turned a slight shade of red
"Hey I can walk you know!"
When no answer was given Hiccup simply crossed her arms and looked the other way, they soon came across Gobber's forgery and house. After a knock from Hiccup they hear a stumble fallowed by a few clacks as metal hit the flooring. The door creakily opened, Gobber was surprised by who was on his door step
"What can I do for you?" he asked
Hiccup opened her mouth to answer
"She broke her prosthetic" Aston answered instead
"Oh come in" Gobber said motioning for Aston who was still carrying Hiccup to fallow him
Aston fallowed him down a long corridor into the forgery, it was a large room adorned with weapons, sharpeners, tools, and spare material.
"Where do you want her?"
Gobber pointed towards a bench which Aston placed the short girl, he than noticed something flakes of dry blood on her right side.
"What are you doing?" Hiccup asked
"Hold still" he said peeling her shirt up,
Hiccup let out a small grunt of pain the fibers of her shirt had gotten dried in with her blood, on her side lay a set of large darkening bruises with a small open wound in the center.
"Gobber you have any first aid supplies?"
"In that cubert" he said pointing to his right
Aston soon cleaned out Hiccup's small wound she remained quiet throughout the whole process.
What just happened suddenly sunk in, she and Toothless were taken down by a net and her leg broke with surrendered her useless. If Aston hadn't been right there anything could have happened she or Toothless could have been killed.
She was taken out of her trance by the connection of the prosthetic to her leg which made a low click.
After thanks had been given they were shoed out of the forgery to go help with repairs, each Viking was assigned to their own buildings. The riders got to fix the academy's arena which had been brutally beaten. The attackers had tried to collapse all the major buildings: the academy, great hall, armory, and the supply buildings.
Fishlegs', Ruffnut, and Tuffnut worked away with their dragons help but Snotlout was missing, like always when there was work to be done he was nowhere in sight.
The arena wasn't in to bad of shape the roof was coming in, shields and weapons had been scattered, and a few pen doors were in bad shape but it wasn't the worst.
Hiccup was putting the weapons and shields back in line, Ruffnut and Tuffnut were fixing the roof, while Aston and Fishleg's fixed the pen doors.
Everything was going fine and dandy until Stoic entered the arena
"Hiccup!" the man boomed
Which resulted in Hiccup dropping a shield on Toothless' tail
"Sorry bud" she said moving it
Stoic instantly ran up to his daughter worried
"I heard you were attacked, are you alright are you hurt any wounds!?" he asked frantically examining the little skin Hiccup was showing
"Dad I'm fine, my prosthetic just broke and I have some bruising on my right side"
"Let me see"
Hiccup sighed before lifting up her shirt revealing the bruises
"How did this happen?" he asked
"I got a few rocks to the side"
"And your prosthetic?"
"Me and Toothless managed to get caught in a net and he landed on it"
Toothless nudged her making a sympathetic grunt, she began scratching his head
"Dad, I'm fine"
"You could of been killed"
"But I wasn't"
"Hiccup I have business to attend to now, stay out of trouble until I find out what to do with you" Stoic said walking off
Toothless nudged her again
"Dont worry bud, you did nothing wrong"
"Aww Hiccup, you need your daddy to check up on you?" Snotlout mocked
"Where have you been?" Ruffnut asked
"Avoiding work" he said circling his dragon
"The sun's going down, we should all get home" Hiccup stated
Everyone agreed and started making their way home in a group, everyone took the liberty to tease Hiccup and Aston about their upcoming wedding, again.
"So you guys decided anything yet, for the wedding that is?" Fishlegs genuinely asked
Hiccup and Aston exchange glances before saying
"Nope"
"I'm actually really excited for the wedding, excited to see Hiccup fall flat on her face walking down the aisle" Snotlout teased
"Or stuttering during the ceremony" Tuffnut added
"Ha ha ha very funny guys" Hiccup said sarcastically when they got to her house
Closing the door behind her and Toothless she entered the kitchen before serving the dragon dinner, he stared up at her worried from the previous events of the day.
"Eat Toothless you deserve it" she said walking into the next room which her father sat asleep
"Doll?" he called out as the auburn started to turn around
"Yeah..?"
"We need to talk"
The auburn took a seat beside her father
"I think we need to get you a body guard or escort" He stated
"Why..?"
"You could have been killed today and I refuse to what happened to your mother to happen to you"
Hiccup stared down remembering her mother's death, it was harsh winter a nearby island had wedge war. She died protecting those she loved, the second most honorable death at the time the first being killed by a dragon.
It had shocked the whole village she was a fierce warrior nearly on par with Stoic, the only person in the village who would stand a good fight against him could die such a simply death.
"Dad it's alright, Toothless will always protect me"
"But what if something like today happens again?"
"If it happened once I doubt it would happen again, and besides you can't win a war unless you take chances"
"Not if it's on your life Hiccup"
Hiccup stood up and made her way towards the stairs
"Where are you going young lady?" Stoic asked
"To bed"
"This conversation is not over!"
Daww Daddy Stoic still wants to look out for his little girl, anyways a review would be much appreciated.
Love Luna
