Chapter VII: CRASH

After their first week at Hogwarts, all of the classes have finally kicked into gear. In Potions, they learned how to make their first healing solution! They were done with the big introductions and were getting into some spell casting. However, this was the day they were going to make their broomsticks, they were difficult to buy in this era, but fairly easy to make, and the students got to carve in their handles if they wanted to. However, the handle Jack picked out for his broom had the resemblance of a Sheppard's crook, and he kept it like that. It seemed unusual, but young Professor Pan said that it would work just fine.

They then had to attach the handle to the saddle of the broom, that way they'd have a comfortable seat when they were flying. They had already constructed the saddles in a previous class and had decorated them, they were a widened piece of wood, and sitting astride a skinny pole was found to be uncomfortable when flying for sport or long-distance travel.(Although said saddles don't seem to appear in the Harry Potter films).

After they had attached the twigs, Professor Pan had checked each broom for proper construction. Rapunzel's and Elsa's were in need of a little refinement with the twigs, but the others had done a fine job with theirs. Hiccup, being a blacksmith on Berk, had just about made his broom like a professional broom maker would. Even Professor Pan asked him if he was considering on making the brooms for a living. Hiccup explained that his talent came from being a blacksmith, and Pan was impressed.

Now the Friday had come where they met outside with Professor Pan. He had lined up the brooms in two rows and told the students to line up by them, stick their dominant hands over the brooms, and say: "Up". Hiccup, Jack, and Merida each got their brooms to come up at the first command. Rapunzel needed two tries. Elsa, being timid, struggled greatly with this, and with her gloves on, it was harder to channel her magic through them. So she finally grew impatient with them, and took them off, and a few times later, the broom came up.

Once they saddled their brooms, Professor Pan instructed that he just wanted them to practice some basic flying: take off, hover, lean forward, and touch back down. Hiccup chanced a look at the sky for a moment, and saw a large black shadow soar across the sky for a slit second. Could it have been the legendary dragon Berk had feared but had never seen?

Pan blew a note on his panpipes, and Jack, in hi excitement, rocketed up into the air, and began flying towards the forest while screaming.

"JACK!" Hiccup exclaimed, and he pursued after him in an effort to help him.

"Should we help them?" Rapunzel asked Merida and Elsa. The three girls were hovering as they were instructed, but before they could answer Rapunzel, Professor Pan called them down and cancelled the remainder of the class. He would have to get some help in order to retrieve the boys. They landed, but then they ran into the forest to track down their friends. Professor Pan was taking too long for them to get help.

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Hiccup caught up to Jack, wrapped his arm around Jack's waist, but they dove through the trees and crashed-landed.

"AAARRRGGH!" Jack screamed while clutching his left arm. Hiccup had heard a faint 'SNAP' at their impact. At least their brooms stayed intact. Still there was the matter of Jack's injury.

"What's wrong, Jack?" Hiccup asked.

"My arm… I think it's broken." He replied. Hiccup took Jack's school scarf and tied it around his friend to act as a sling.

"Come on, Jack, we need to get back to the school, somebody is bound to be looking for us." Hiccup stated. He looked down at the brooms and asked: "Do you think you can fly with one arm?"

"No, and I don't feel like flying anyway." Jack replied through his tears of pain. So Hiccup picked up both brooms and helped Jack get back up on his feet.

"Hiccup, Jack?" Elsa's voice called out a moment later.

"Over here!" Hiccup called back. The three girls found them within a minute.

"Are ye alright, boys?" Merida asked.

"Jack's got a broken arm, but otherwise we're fine." Hiccup replied. Elsa offered to take the brooms away from Hiccup, and he accepted in order to keep a free hand, while he kept another arm around Jack to comfort him,

They walked for about fifteen minutes, Hiccup and Jack decided that they were flying faster than they had anticipated, and after fifteen minutes, they met up with the creature Hiccup saw flying in the sky.

"Get down!" He exclaimed in a hushed shout.

"What is it?" Merida asked, trying to sneak a peek at the creature. It was a black dragon with a finned tail, sleek body, and large green eyes.

"Tha's a Night Fury over there. It is the most feared dragon in my homeland. It is also known as the unholy offspring of lightning and death itself. Nobody has ever seen a Night Fury, let alone caught one. Being from a village where we gain our honor by killing dragons, I've dreamed of the day I would catch a Night Fury and make my embarrassed father proud of me for once." Hiccup told them while pulling out a small dagger he always kept on his person.

His friends' eyes widened, and begged Hiccup to spare the beast and to stay hidden. However, stubborn young Hiccup didn't listen to them and walked over to the Night Fury. The dragon was smaller than he had expected a Night Fury would be, and it was busy licking a nasty gash on its leg. Looking around, he spotted a large splinter of wood with the dragon's blood on it. A second later, his foot snapped a twig, and he caught the Night Fury's attention. Hiccup dropped his dagger, and the dragon looked at him in curiosity and a touch of fear. Instead of picking up the dagger, he pulled out the bottle of his healing potion. With Rapunzel's help, he got an A+ on it.

"I can help you with that wound." Hiccup told the dragon. The Night Fury didn't react as Hiccup stepped closer to the dragon until he was close enough to pour the potion on the would to close it up. There was a bit left in the bottle, but it wasn't strong enough to heal Jack's arm too. Hiccup smiled at the dragon, and the dragon tried to smile back, exposing a mouth full of gums, but no teeth.

"Huh, you're toothless. I thought all dragons had teeth." Hiccup wondered aloud.

There was another snap from a twig, this time made by Rapunzel, and that caught the Night Fury's attention, and the dragon turned to snarl at Hiccup's friends, exposing its retractable teeth. Instinctively, Hiccup put himself between the dragon and his friends. He was so focused on them, that he did not notice what happened to himself ! However, it made his friends' eyes grow wide in amazement.

"No, don't hurt them!" Hiccup snapped at the dragon. The dragon stepped back with wide eyes, and sniffed Hiccup where he stood; while Elsa pulled out a pocket mirror.

"Hiccup." She said timidly. He turned to face Elsa, who showed him his reflection. Hiccup was shocked to find a large pair of forest-green eyes looking back at him while they were surrounded by navy and violet-blue scales! Hiccup leapt back with a scream, or in this case, a terrified roar, and he fell flat on his back. He was now a Night Fury too.

"How did you do this to yourself? It was one thing to ave been transfigured by Professor Maleficent, but you did this to yourself." Elsa told him. He flattened his ears on his head and gave Elsa a look that pleaded for help. Where he was from, dragons were to be killed, and now he was scared. What would Chief Stoick the Vast do if he found out that his own son changed into a dragon?

"It's alright, Hiccup, I'm sure the teachers can help you out with this." Rapunzel stated. Hiccup made a trilling noise while the other Night Fury sniffed his tail.

"Heh, heh, it looks like you've made a new friend, Hiccup." Jack stated, and the Night Fury nuzzled Hiccup.

I'll call him 'Toothless' then. Hiccup thought to himself.

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As they reached the end of the forest, they found Professor Pan, Maleficent, and Headmaster Manfred Lunar approaching them. Their faces were quite comical when they found the students exiting the forest with a dragon at their side.

"Is that Mister Haddock?" Maleficent asked.

They nodded.

"I'd award points for Ravenclaw for this, Mister Haddock, but I don't think that it would be appropriate given the situation." Maleficent told him. He gave her a pleading look.

"Can you change him back? He's rather scared of himself right now." Jack asked.

"My dear boy, your friend in an animagus, he can change between these forms at his own will. Although I am quite surprised that his form is a dragon. Normally the forms those wizards have aren't mystical." Maleficent replied as she circled around Hiccup.

"While I share your amazement in Mister Haddock's change, Maleficent, there still is the matter of Jack losing control of his broomstick and Hiccup pursuing after him recklessly." Professor Pan stated.

"Yes, Jack would you care to explain yourself?" Lunar asked.

"I was just excited to fly, I found out I was a wizard when I accidentally used the wind to blow me into the air. I really wanted to relive that feeling again, and it seems that my broom knew it. I don't even know how much control I had over the broom. Then, Hiccup chased after me to help me get the broom to land, only when he caught me, we crashed, and I broke my arm. It wasn't until we saw some creatures moving around in the forest when Hiccup changed." Jack partly lied. He wanted the girls to stay out of trouble and keep their encounter with the other dragon a secret.

"Very well, if that is the case, then I say that there is no punishment needed. I believe that suffering your broken arm is punishment enough for you, Mr. Overland; and I'll escort you to the Hospital Wing. Professor Maleficent, would you please help Mr. Haddock resume his human form?" Lunar said. With a wave of Maleficent's wand, Hiccup was back to his normal self, but he was shaking all over.

"You're alright boy, but your gift should be reported." Lunar stated.

"NO! No one else can know that I can turn into a dragon! My father would kill me, literally, he would kill me if he found out about this! We kill dragons where I'm from. Please, keep this a secret." Hiccup pleaded.

"Mr. Haddock, being an animagus is a wonderful gift, and it is not going to go away. You were born with that form inside you, and it stays with you. If you don't want me to send the word back to your tribe, then I won't do it, but you will have to come to terms with this gift. You'll also have to learn to control it so you don't turn yourself by accident, which means that you'll have to practice altering forms." Headmaster Lunar replied. Hiccup brought his trembling hands to his chest.

"Maleficent, would you care to aid Hiccup in this practice?" Professor Lunar asked.

"I'll help him after his class with me." She replied. The teachers escorted them back to the school, Hiccup holding his head low. Elsa looked at him with sympathy, she knew what it was like to have a dangerous gift that she no longer wanted.

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Late at night, Elsa woke up to the sound of faint crying coming from the common room. She got up and went down to investigate, and she found Hiccup sitting on one of the fat chairs with Hulda perched next to him and his back to Elsa. He occasionally stroked the large owl when he thought he was getting a grip on his tears.

"So Vikings do cry." Elsa spoke. Hiccup peeked his head around the chair to look at her and asked: "What are you doing up, Elsa?"

"I could ask you the same thing." She replied.

"Elsa… I've never said these words to anyone before: … I'm afraid for my life."

Elsa took the chair across from Hiccup.

"At home people look at me as an embarrassment, I'm constantly teased and ridiculed by my own tribe, and I have a cousin who constantly torments me. To make matters worse, I happen to be the son of our Chief, but behind my back people talk about giving my idiotic and reckless cousin my birthright. If that happens then I would have to serve under him, which would be torture. The only things I have going for me are my skills as a Blacksmith's apprentice and being a wizard. Other than that, I'm just a small and weak village pest."

"You also stand in your father's shadow, that must be a great deal of pressure on your mind." Elsa stated.

"My father is the best dragon slayer on the island of Berk. He wouldn't even hesitate to decapitate the Night Fury we met today. Elsa, if he finds out that I, his own son, can take the form of our tribe's worst enemy I'm sure that he'll disown me or worse!"

"Hiccup, you're his son, would he really be that cruel to you?" Elsa asked.

"He mostly just looks at me with a disappointed scowl unless he's heard some good news from Gobber, our Blacksmith; but to a dragon's eye, he must be their living nightmare." Hiccup replied. He looked Elsa in the eyes and asked her: "Do you have any idea what it's like to have an incredible gift that you don't want or have to keep secret?"

"Actually, Hiccup, I do. I have these special powers that allow me to create ice and snow without spells… I accidentally hurt my sister, Anna, with them when I was eight. These powers are the reason I wear gloves all day. I have trouble controlling them, and the gloves keep me from freezing everything I touch." She replied. Hiccup dried his eyes and asked her: "Can you show me something small you can do with them?"

On the table, Elsa constructed a small sculpture of the Night Fury they saw that day standing in a cute pose.

"Is that supposed to be me or Toothless?" Hiccup asked while taking a closer look at the sculpture.

"That's what you're naming the dragon?" Elsa questioned.

"He has retractable teeth. It seems fitting to me." Hiccup replied.

"In that case, it is Toothless… You know, for a dragon, he is pretty cute."

"I guess you can say that. You didn't make him look scared or scary." Hiccup told Elsa.

"Hey, I think I have an idea that can make your father proud of you that doesn't involve magic or weapons. You see, Arendelle has access to luxurious items, like: silk, chocolate, wine, and we have these wonderful orchards and vineyards. I'll bet that if we contact our parents, they would agree to set up a trade route. Arendelle doesn't have much in the way of defenses other than archers and a few walls." Elsa replied.

"That seems like a good idea, we can get started on this tomorrow." Hiccup told her. They got up to go back to bed, but Hiccup turned back to Elsa and told her: "Thanks for listening to me, and for showing me your secret powers. To be able to command ice and snow sounds like fun as well as dangerous, but then again, the same must go for you and being an Animagus with a dragon form."

"You're welcome, Hiccup, and you know what, you're right. I'll bet that once you get control of your gift, you'll learn to love it, even if you have to hide it." Elsa replied. Then, they retired for the night.

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I love the stories where Hiccup gets turned into a dragon. His gift may make it awkward when I build up the Toothless character, but I'll make it work.

All of these characters will have their own special abilities, Merida's will just come later.

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