A/N: What up It's GG, and welcome to my revised version of Chapter 3. thanks for being patient with me and I hope y'all are excited about HTTYD2, and if your reading this after the movie came out then I hope y'all enjoyed it. here's the revised Chapter 3 enjoy!
Chapter 3: The Silent Survivor
Hiccup stood and stared eye to eye at the Monstrous Nightmare. He shook his head at life's way of playing a joke on him by having the monstrous nightmare. He really hoped that someone saw what he had done, but apparently that someone ended up being the Monstrous Nightmare. Hiccup's eyes drooped down in annoyance and he continued to shake his head. There was nothing else to think of at this moment so he quickly dodged a swipe from the Nightmare's claws and a chomp from its teeth. After Hiccup dodged the bite he quickly ran across the high grounds of the village to try and escape.
Stoik had been in the battlefield helping every single villager drive off the dragons from their home. At the moment he had captured a few Nadders in a net and was doing his best to hold them there until a moment later a villager yells, "Stoik!" Stoik turned toward the villager to see what he wanted and saw that he was pointing somewhere. "look!" the Villager said. Stoik turned towards where he was gesturing and saw his son being chased by a very angry Monstrous Nightmare. Stoik shook his head in frustration and turned to the other villagers. "Do not. Let them escape!" he shouted to them and took off towards where his son was.
Hiccup had been running for a small while now and was thanking the gods that he had amazing agility or else he would have been done for. He briefly turned around and saw that the Monstrous Nightmare was charging up a shot of fire to incinerate him. Hiccup thought quickly and hid behind a post just as the Nightmare fired its shot towards Hiccup. He was glad now that his small body allowed him to hide behind a thin post that no viking would be able to hide behind. Hiccup turned to the left to at try and get a peak at the dragon that had tried to make him extra crispy. The Nightmare, however, was already sneaking up on Hiccup from the right. Before the hunter could strike the pray, it was interrupted by a tackle from an annoyed chief.
The Nightmare turned towards the attacker to retaliate with fire, only for the fire to come out in tiny bursts. Stoik focused on the Monstrous Nightmare and said, "You're all out." Stoik quickly charged forward and unleashed blow after blow against the dragon with his fists. The dragon backed up in dizziness when Stoik delivered a powerful punched to it's skull, leaving no other option then to try to flee. The Dragon couldn't get far because he was caught in a net and held down by a few Vikings. Stoik turned towards where Hiccup the pole where Hiccup was standing. The post immediately gave out and the bowl of fire at the time went tumbling down into the village.
Hiccup stared at the bowl as it caused some massive destruction in the town. Each time something got destroyed he could not help but wince at the thought of this increasing the amount of anger his father is feeling. The bowl itself rolled all the way down the village and by chance released some dragons from their binds. Well it seemed Loki was taking enjoyment of making such destruction that would leave Hiccup in trouble. Hiccup sighed and turned around to see his dad there staring at him with disappointment. Stoik was furious. Behind him were a battalion of dragons that him and the other vikings had worked so hard to capture leave with a huge amount of their resources.
At this moment Stoik wondered what he was going to do with Hiccup. Stoik immediately grabbed him by his collar and dragged him towards Gobber and put him down with a yell, "Hiccup! every time you step outside disaster happens. Can you not see that I have a lot more problems stacking up because of this! Winter is coming and I have an entire village to feed."
Hiccup did nothing but look away from his father. He really did not mind being reprimanded for his mistakes, but calling him a walking disaster is going to far. With that, Hiccup turned towards his father shook his head in sadness and anger, and walked away towards his house.
Stoik turned towards Gobber and said, "take him to the house... And make sure he stays there. I have HIS mess to clean up now."
Gobber turned towards Hiccup and gave him a light smack on the head before following him towards the Chief's house. On his way there he hears the shrieking laughter of ruffnut. When he turned towards the other teens he sees Snotlout's smug face as he says, "I have never seen anyone mess up that badly. That helps!"
Hiccup grew more impatient as he heard Snotlout's big mouth not know when to shut up. Hiccup looked passed Snotlout to see Astrid sitting on a boulder not participating in the teasing. Hiccup shook his head again and just continued his trek towards his house. Gobber kept following from behind, but not before grabbing Snotlout's head and slamming him into the ground.
When Hiccup got to his doorstep Hiccup was forced to listen to Gobber rant about listening and trying to be something he is not. He reached for his door nob to open the door, but not before he turned to Gobber with a nod without looking him in the eyes and then opened the door and entered his house.
Gobber recognized that look anywhere, he had seen it plenty of times when Stoik had ignored and verbally tortured Hiccup. Gobber knew he had to think of something he could do to make it up to Hiccup. With that thought he went to the great hall for a meeting that Stoik had set up earlier. What he did not notice was Hiccup exiting the back door of the house and taking off into the woods.
Stoik had a rough day cleaning up after the mess that his son had caused. Right now he sat in the great hall with a giant map of the area on the table. Stoik spoke out to every other viking, "I'm telling you all that it is our turn. It is time we fight back against these monsters. If we take the nest all the dragons will be forced to leave." he stabbed a knife onto the knife in a part of the ocean that no viking has ever explored: Helheims Gate. This vast ocean is covered by a large fog, that makes it almost impossible to see. Not only is vision a problem in this ocean, so is the fact that here is where dragons reside the most. Hundreds if not thousands are here, which means any boat would have to deal with dragon raid after dragon raid before it could even dream of escaping there alive.
"One more search. Before the ice sets in" Stoik said. One viking villager stood up and said, "Those ships never come back." Stoik turned toward the villager and said, "We're vikings. it's an occupational hazard. Now who's with me!"
Stoik looked around to see who would volunteer on his little quest only to see each and every viking turn away and try to make up an excuse as to why they can not go. Seeing this Stoik had no choice but to do something he was sure his wife would kill him for if she was alive today.
"Alright... those who stay... Will look after Hiccup," he said. Right after he said that almost every single viking raised their hands to volunteer for this expedition. Stoik smiled and said, "yeah, now that's more like it. Meet tomorrow at the docks armed and ready." with that message passed everyone else got up and left the hall for their house.
Gobber, being the last one in the hall, was about to get up and leave and said, "well I better go pack my undies." he was stopped by Stoik when he said, "no you're staying here to train some new recruits."
"oh sure. And while I do that, Hiccup can cover the stall. Molten steel, razor sharp blades; what could possibly go wrong," Gobber replied sarcastically.
Stoik sat next to him and said, "oh Thor... What am I going to do with him Gobber."
"put him in training with the others," Gobber replied.
Stoik shook his head and said, "no I'm serious."
"So am I," Gobber replied.
"... he'll be killed before you even let the first dragon out of it's cage," Stoik said.
Gobber shook his head and said, "oh you don't know that."
Stoik looked towards him and said, "I do actually."
Gobber replied again the same way, "no you don't"
Stoik looked towards him sternly and said, "no actually, I do"
Gobber grew impatient, turned to him and replied with a yell, "No you don't!"
Stoik shook his head and stood up from his chair. He replied to Gobber, "Listen. You know what he's like. From the time he could crawl he's been... different." Stoik sighed before he continued with, "he doesn't listen. He has the attention span of a sparrow. I take him fishing and he goes hunting for... for trolls."
Gobber quickly turned to him and said, "Trolls exist! They steal your socks, but only the left ones. What's with that?"
Stoik walked around Gobber and said, "listen... when I was a boy."
"oh here we go," Gobber said and continued to try to dig out his tooth, which had fallen into his drink.
Stoik continued with, "when I was a boy. My father told me to bang my head on a rock and I did. I thought it was crazy, but I didn't question him, and do you know what happened?"
"you got a headache" Gobber said jokingly.
Stoik ignored Gobber's truthful jab at his story and continued on. "That rock, split in two. It taught me what a viking could do Gobber; he could crush mountains, level forests, tame seas!" Stoik said with a sigh as he remembered exactly what his father taught him those days. He sat down next to Gobber and said, "Even as a boy... I knew who I was, what I had to become..." He turned towards his long time friend and said, "Hiccup is not that boy."
Gobber looked down in sadness at what Stoik was implying. He could not deny the fact that Hiccup was not born with the capabilities of a viking. His small body did not allow him to carry any type of weaponry that he tried to forge for him. Gobber sighed and turned towards his brother, "You can't stop him Stoik. You can only prepare him."
Stoik looked towards Gobber ready to reply only to be cut off once again by Gobber, "I know it seems hopeless, but you aren't going to be there for him forever Stoik. He's going to go out there again; he's probably out there right now."
Stoik looked down in thought and pondered what his friend was saying. He turned towards Gobber and gave him a smile before he left the hall to go finish helping with repairing the village
With Hiccup.
Hiccup had been walking for a long while and had not found a trace of the dragons presence. He had even taken out his notebook and made a sketch of each and every inch of the forest. Yet no matter where he went in this forest he found not a single sign of the dragon. Hiccup believed that the gods really hated him at this moment. Most vikings lose knives, mugs, heck even a sword, yet he managed to lose an entire dragon. He pushed a branch away in frustration, only for the branch to rebound back and swap him in the face really hard.
Hiccup grabbed his eye in pain and looked up towards the branch in annoyance. What he did not expect was to see that this branch was almost completely torn from its place on a tree. Hiccup looked forward from the tree and saw that there was a dirt trail along the ground. He decided to follow this dirt road in hopes that he would run into hopefully incapacitated dragon. Hiccup went over a hill and took a small peak towards the other side and immediately hid because of the huge figure lying on the ground.
He looked back up to check again, and sure enough there was the dragon lying on the ground at the end of the dirt trail of destruction. Around the dragon was a set of bola traps that Hiccup had used earlier. Hiccup walked towards it and smiled victoriously for his win. With an extra celebratory ego boost Hiccup rested his hands on his hips and one foot on the dragon.
Hiccup jumped back in surprise when the dragon stirred and growled for whoever had put weight on it to get off. When he got up again he pulled out his knife and pointed it at the dragons heart. Hiccup looked towards it's head and saw it staring him with wide green reptilian eyes. Hiccup shook his head and raised the knife above the dragon, preparing to make the killing strike. However no matter how many times he would believe he was a viking he would always think back to the dragon.
Hiccup took one last look into the dragons eyes and he saw something he did not expect to see. He saw fear. The dragon was afraid for it's life. Hiccup couldn't help but think he was doing something wrong here. He shook his head to build up confidence, and raised his dagger up once again. No matter how hard he tried he could not bring himself to take a life. What completely stopped him in his tracks to make a kill was the sound of the dragon moaning in sadness. Hiccup looked down at the dragon and saw that it indeed had closed its eyes in defeat. Here Hiccup realized that he was not a viking. He could not take a dragons life. Hiccup looked towards the ropes binding the dragon in its place and decided to do something for it. He looked towards his dagger then back towards the ropes, before he got up and began to cut off the ropes. When he cut off two of the ropes he smiled at the idea of doing something he felt was right.
His smile was replaced with fear when the dragon jumped up and pinned him to the ground. Hiccup looked up to the dragon. The dragon's eyes showed nothing but anger, before it began to open its mouth wide. Hiccup became afraid when he realized what the dragon was going to do. Hiccup closed his eyes in wait for the unavoidable death. Instead of pain Hiccup was greeted with the sound of the dragon giving out a loud roar into his face, before the dragon shot off into the forest with a chaotic flight pattern. When the dragon disappeared into the woods Hiccup did not realize that he was breathing extremely heavy. He got up to go walk to the village but instead fainted from the shock of what had transpired.
A/N: alright guys here's is chapter three revised. I hope you like it and leave a comment here and I will see y'all on the next revised chapter.