After School
"A dragon will always, go for the kill," Gobber's words rang in Hiccup's head.
"So why didn't you?" Hiccup pondered as her examined the rope which just yesterday held down the most feared creature in all of Berk. Hiccup followed the path south. He realised where he was heading. He stopped and view the terrain. There. Right in the middle of this almost crater in the Earth was the lake. The lake where Hiccup and Jack first met.
Flashback to less than a year ago
Hiccup was out for a walk. He was having trouble sleeping and was trying to draw a map of Berk in his notebook. "So Raven's point is this way and it looks like this. OK, so heading west I'll..." He trailed off as he noticed this very spot. Curious, he started to climb down, but a loud CRACK stopped him. There, in the light of the full moon, was a large crack in a frozen pond. CRACK, the ice broke more and... "Who is that?" A boy floated out of the ice and as he stood on the ice, all the cracks were repaired. Hiccup began sketching this boy, it's not everyday you see someone just burst from a frozen pond.
What was even more extraordinary, was that the boy seemed to be making ice. Hiccup hurried to finish his sketch when suddenly the boy shot up in the air, "Whoa!" Hiccup fell back in surprise. He watch the boy land in a tree, looking east towards town, then heading that way. "Wait!" Hiccup stumbled up and ran after him.
By the time Hiccup reached town, Jack had realized that nobody could see or hear him. "Hey!" Hiccup shouted. Jack whipped around, along with several bystanders "Hey, I-uh-saw you back there and wanted to ask you-" he began, but was cut off.
"Who are you talking to, Hiccup?" someone asked.
"Uh. Him," he nodded his head toward Jack.
"You can see me?" Jack smiled.
"Who's 'him?'"
"I'm Jack Frost," he answered though only Hiccup heard. Hiccup gestured to Jack as though stating the obvious that he answered the question himself.
"Well?" they asked again.
"Didn't you hear him?"
"Hear who?"
Someone else whispered in 'person one's' ear, "I think Hiccup's gone crazy." They both laughed and walked away.
"Crazy? How could they not see you?"
"I don't know. But nobody can. Nobody except you."
"Yup, I'm going crazy. First I see you come out of a frozen pond, then you make ice, now only I can see you, what next?"
"No, I'm real!" Jack said. "And you saw all that? You were watching me?" Jack said a bit annoyed that someone watched him without his knowing.
"Oh-uh..." Hiccup blushed, "Yeah, sorry. Jack, right?"
"Yeah, and what's your name. I think I heard...Hiccup?"
"Yeah, that's my name. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III."
"Wow, that's a...unique name."
"It's not the worst. Over there is Fishlegs. That's Snotlout. And Ruffnut and Tuffnut."
"Is everyone here bad at giving names or something?"
"It's Viking tradition to scare off trolls or something."
After that, Hiccup and Jack became friends. Nobody could see Jack and nobody believed Hiccup, leaving him isolated, so it kind of worked.
"Hey, isn't this?"
"Uh-huh," Hiccup said with a smile.
"Man, I haven't been here in forever," Jack flew forward only to fall back when the Nightfury flew right in front of his face. "Whoa!"
"The Nightfury!" Hiccup pulled out his notebook and quickly drew the great beast. He observed it struggle to climb out, "Why doesn't it just fly out?" Well, it tried, and failed.
"I don't think it can."
I kind of feel sorry for it," Hiccup sighed, dropping his pencil. "No!" he failed to grab it as it clanked against the rocks, getting the dragons attention. They looked at each other for a moment, before Hiccup ran out, unsure what else to do.
