Racing Against Time
By: Red Hawkdude
Rated: M for coarse language and violence.
Disclaimer: I do not own HTTYD or anything I may accidently use.
A/N
Here comes the third rewritten chapter, this will probably have the one of the largest differences from the original for those of you that read it.
Chapter 3: The cause of my downfall.
(Dream)
I am running from the Nightmare again… quite literally actually. I run around a corner away from the Nightmare, which has now lit itself on fire to chase me. I duck behind one of the torch pillars hoping it didn't see me after it blasted the torch pillar with fire. I lean to my right, and look around the pillar and I don't see it. I sigh with relief and turn back to my left only to jump back in fright as I come face to face with the Nightmare. I close my eyes waiting for my death when I hear a Viking battle cry so loud that I know it is my dad. I open my eyes,and see him hit the Nightmare on the head with a mallet. The dragon cowers back and tries to spit fire but only coughs as it has reached its fire limit.
"You're all out." My father says in his booming voice.
Then he walks up to it and hits hard on the skull with his mallet. You can hear the resounding crack of the mallet hitting the hard scales of the dragon. The dragon opens its mighty wings and starts to take off as my tries to hit it a couple of more times before turning to me.
Just as he does the torch I hide behind falls down and rolls down the hill destroying several buildings and pathways while almost killing several Vikings in the process. Each and every time I hear a scream or a crash I flinch and my instincts try and make me as small as possible so as not to get hurt.
"I know I screwed up but hey I hit a Nightfury." I end as I am picked up off my feet and dragged towards my house. My dad sets me down and faces me with an angry look in his eyes.
"Why can't you follow the simplest of orders?" He yells in my face.
"Well you know me I mean I see a dragon and I just get the irresistible urge to you know kill it." I say back to my father who now looks at me and laughs.
"You are many things Hiccup but a dragon killer is not one of them." He states with a chuckle.
"NOW go back to the house, and stay there. Gobber make sure he gets there." He snaps at me.
As I turn to start walking the other teens just laugh, and Snotlout walks up to me.
"Great job Hiccup. That actually helped." He says in a voice laced with sarcasm
"Thank you, thank you I try very hard I will have you know" I grumble under my breath.
Just as I start walking away a loud voice starts speaking from the heavens.
"-3 today with a chance of flurries in the afternoon to evening and it will go down to -6 overnight with flurries and about 3 – 4 cm of snow." The voice says.
"Shit…. It's time for school" I say to no one in particular.
"Wait you know who that is" Gobber says looking up at the sky.
"Yes, yes I do." I say as I disappear because I am waking up from this dream.
"Holy Shit where did he go" I hear Gobber yell just after I disappear, and I wake up.
(End Dream)
I sit up in bed and get my bearings for a moment. I still don't understand why my dreams seem to react so much to me. t makes no sense. I mean why can I hear my dream after I have woken up?.
I look at my phone to see the time. It says 6:15 then as I am still looking at it, it flips to 6:16.
"Great I still have time for a morning flight" I groggily say to myself as I stumble out of bed.
Then I listen a little closer to the radio as it starts playing one of our latest songs from the band. I smile to myself then stretch. I quickly walk over to my walk in closet which is the size of most people's bedrooms. I look at all the different suits I have for flying, and put on my winter one. The suit is made to fit nicely over a t-shirt and a pair of jeans which I accidently slept in. I make a mental note to change and shower after the morning flight. The suit which I wear is all black, and is made with a metal that can only be made by dragons. Now most people would be like Gronkle iron right, well it's not Gronkle iron since that is used for almost everything these days. The suit is made out of a material that can only be made by a Night Fury, and a Gronkle. It is similar to titanium in strength but it weighs half to almost a ¼ of the weight. I like to call it "Night Iron" because of how it's made, basically the Gronkle takes the titanium which it can't melt and warms it up so that when a Night Fury blasts it with their plasma shot it heats up into a liquid rather than exploding. The first time I tried to melt the titanium I just got toothless to blast it, and well let's just say we now have a new forge. Then the Gronkle adds iron and a small mix of diamonds to reinforce it. When it starts to cool you have to work quickly and have a plasma torch ready to keep it hot until you are done. Then you drop it in water and duck for cover because it instantly boils water, and produces very hot steam…. I mean scalding hot steam. Yeah, so I basically stumbled across the recipe.
Anyways the suit covers all of me, even in small pieces almost like chain mail, and because of the way it is made the metal is all black, it is almost so black that light can't make it past it which caused a few problems for me, Because my mask is just t made out of Gronkle iron. Anywho enough with the suit I think to myself as I hop on Toothless by jumping out the window. With 2 short bounds Toothless jumps, and opens his wings to the full 48-foot wingspan, and glides a short distance before pumping our way high up into the sky. In a few short minutes we are above the clouds and we just glide along. I lean back and just look up at the stars while the sun slowly removes them from view.
"We will be doing stunts this morning, right?" Toothless asks me.
"Yes bud we can do some stunts" I say to Toothless in Dragonese.
I lean forward in the saddle as we rocket higher into the sky, dragons can breathe much thinner air than humans can, but after spending so much more time in the air than on the ground I have almost gotten to the point where I can breathe without an air tank at Toothless's highest altitude, almost.
Once we near the point where I pass out from lack of oxygen I let myself fall out of the saddle and towards the ground, after almost one minute of free falling, I let myself drift towards Toothless, I look down to the ground, I can see all of Berk from up here.
"Hey Toothless, want to race through town?" I ask him in Dragonese, which sounds like a mixture of barks, yaps, and grumbling.
"Hell YES" Toothless roars to me.
I wait about another minute for us to get close enough to the ground, then I glide over to Toothless, and clip myself into the saddle, once that Is finished I check our distance to the ground once again, we are just starting to match the height of the highest buildings in Berk. Toothless and I start to pull up, we race between the buildings at over 500 kph, and level off at about 50-100 ft above the ground, and quickly start weaving between the buildings, at the speed we are going, by the time people realize we are flying above them we are already 6 or seven blocks down the road.
After another 20 minutes of flying we head towards home. Once we get near the house, we land in the backyard and I run with Toothless to the stables, I put the tack away in the storage room before I grab him a basket of fish, and rush off to make sure I am on time for school.
I quickly have a 5 min shower and shave the 3 hairs on my chin that look really weird. I then run to my closet again. After I hang up my racing suit and close the false wall I walk towards the school section of the room, and grab a simple green tunic and black jeans. Once I get dressed I run over to my desk and quickly pack up my laptop as I look at the time.
"Shit it's already 8" I say to myself as I run downstairs to grab some random food from the fridge for breakfast.
I do a sort of speed walk/ jog to the garage where I store my car. As I walk in I press the garage door button and wait for it to open so I don't have to turn on the lights. Once it opens My custom built car is visible in the light. (Want to see his something close to his car, check my twitter redhawkdude for more info) My car is almost all black except for the spoiler which is half black and red with a skull pattern on one side. Anyways Enough about my car I need to get to school.
I quickly run to my car and hop in after unlocking it. As I turn the key I hear the engine purr to life as I back out of the garage and press the garage door close on my way out.
After the short drive I arrive in the school parking lot at 8:30 am, and as I pull into my normal parking spot I watch as Astrid walks into the school building. As always Astrid looks like a shield maiden (basically like an Angel tied to the ground). I quickly grab my stuff, and run to my locker which is right beside hers, literally it is on the right of her locker. As I am grabbing my stuff for first period English class I steal a quick glance over towards her and see that she is wearing a "Dragons Fury" T-shirt, the t-shirt is one that I designed, it shows a Night Fury in mid flight shooting a plasma blast at the name of the band. I was kind of amazed that she liked our band but then again why should I be, I mean every damn girl in the high school wants to meet us. I realise that I am staring, and quickly look back at my locker before anyone notices. That is what I hope anyways, but of course someone does.
"Hey Hiccup, why are you looking at my girlfriend like that?" Snotlout calls to me as he walks up. I notice that almost everyone in the hall stops to watch to see what will happen.
"What do you mean?" I reply in a dry tone.
"I mean why were you staring at something that is mine?" He states seething with anger.
"Oh, I am sorry, I didn't realize that you owned that t-shirt" I reply sarcastically, of course he misses it.
"I am talking about why you are staring at Astrid" He yells at me now.
"I SAID I was looking at the shirt; didn't you hear me? Or is your skull too thick" I almost spit the words out.
"You know I would never dare to look at Astrid because she is at the top of the social chain while I am at the bottom. I have no hope of ever being near her except when I get my books from my locker" I simply state the facts then turn back to my locker and grab my last book before closing it and turning to walk to English.
As I turn to walk to English I watch as Snotlout's stance change, I can tell that he is going to trip me and I let him because I really don't care to be at the top. All I want is for people to leave me alone unless they want to know me for me. Snotlout does trip me, he almost never fails to fit the cliché. As I fall face first on the floor I hear everyone around me start laughing, well almost everyone. I sneak a look up at Astrid before collecting my books. As I get up I can't help but think that I saw pity in her eyes, but then I again maybe it was something else, who knows with Astrid.
As I sit down in my seat at the front of the class I look up at the board and read "Today we will be starting a new project that will be going around at all the schools, it is a partner project, and if it isn't completed you will get an automatic fail." As I read that I grab my notebook and think about who I might get paired with.
Astrid's POV
I walk into class, and see Hiccup sitting there with a very sad look on his face, I wonder why he looks so sad. Then I look up at the board, and read the message that the teacher left for us to read as we entered the classroom. I sit down just as the bell rings, and the teacher walks in from the office across the hall.
"Alright kids today we will be starting a project that is county wide. So there is no backing out of it." Mr. King says in his droning voice.
"The project is in pairs that are predetermined. All the pairs will be boy, girl, boy, girl and so forth, so let's get into the details." King states as he walks around the classroom handing out the booklets.
I just toss my booklet in my bag before looking around the classroom, as I am scanning around the classroom my eyes fall on Hiccup, the only person who has better marks than me, he seems to be frowning at something in the project booklet.
The teacher then walks up to the front of the class and starts to explain the project.
"This project is designed to give everyone some real world experience, the goal of this project is to show you what it is like to work in a business, you will be part of a research team. It is your job to invent something new that can be used by different companies, you will have to do everything yourselves, the research, the creation, and the presentation. If you are smart you will patent your project so that you can get paid at the end of this." The teacher then walks over to his desk and picks up a piece of paper.
"Alright without further ado here are the pairs. Scott and Heather," Scott glares daggers at the teacher while Heather just smirks." Andrew and Camicazi" Camicazi glares at Andrew who blushes, and looks away." Fishlegs and Ruffnut" Ruffnut just does her maniacal grin, and Fishlegs looks distraught at the idea." Ezra and Ella" Both of them glance at each other and blush, it is almost easy to tell who has a crush on who."Tuffnut and Valarie" Uh I start thinking. That Means that, oh no oh no this is not good not good at all I think as I glance at hiccup and see a look of horror on his face for the same reason.
A/N
Thanks you again for understanding during this time that I have more to work on then just this story. I hope everyone enjoys this chapter.
Have a great one ladies and Gents and until next time.