Hello everyone! I am uploading this chapter today because I won't have internet at the house I'm watching over this weekend. I hope y'all can survive one day in between uploads!
(Last Chapter)
Hiccup walked over and sat on the bed, while Toothless sat next to me, gently rubbing me with his head.
"Are you okay? You yelled suddenly, and you're sweating..." I looked up and made eye contact with the first person I'd met after waking up in the past.
"Hiccup, I...I was attacked."
(Present Time)
"Wait wait wait! What do you mean you were attacked?!" Hiccup looked concerned and Toothless was suddenly on high alert, searching the room.
"No, no, not right now...I someone attacked me, somehow sending me here...I have no idea why though." I said to Toothless, then to Hiccup.
"How did you figure that out?" I cleared my throat and sat up a little straighter, trying to banish those emotions from my posture.
"I've been trained to observe my past memories through a different point of view. It's like I'm different person standing in the same room as myself. It's a useful skill to remember Martial Arts techniques. But I've used it for other things, like if I lost something, I've looked back to where I've last seen it. When I looked back to when I was walking home from the tournament, there was a figure in the alley I passed just before I was knocked out. The thing was...there was a black and purple...swirl? I don't know what it was, but that's when I started to panic, and dropped out of the process." The two of us humans sat there silently, thinking over what I just said. Nothing made sense, why would someone attack me? I didn't have any enemies, at least to my knowledge.
"Maybe it was someone at the tournament? I mean, someone might have been mad at the fact that you placed, possibly instead of them." My head started to hurt, and I stood up.
"I don't know..."
(Time Skip)
It had been two weeks since I had arrived in the past, and things had been going well. I had gotten Hiccup's permission to move into the loft in the stables, and set up "shop" in a small corner. Snotlout had decided to back off at some point, understandably not wanting to lose the use of his hand(s). Somehow the twins found me as there new idol, and it took me an entire WEEK to get them off my back. Other than that, things seemed to be going well.
...Me and my big mouth.
"OH GROSS! Come on Bud, really?!" I slowly rolled over and opened my eyes. I sat up and looked around. I walked over to the loft door and looked through Hiccup's window to see Toothless licking Hiccup in the face, obviously trying to wake him up. And it was working. "Okay, okay, get off! You know that doesn't wash out Toothless, gross." When I made the mistake of laughing, Toothless' head snapped around and saw that I was awake. His face broke into a grin, and he started bounding his way over.
Oh no... I slipped on some left over bedding and rolled out of the way. Just in time to dodge Toothless as he plowed in through the loft door. I rolled again as he tried to swipe at my feet using his tail, and ran down the stairs. Of course, Toothless, being a dragon, caught up with me, and I had to defend myself against his tongue.
"BAH! Oh that's- nasty! Okay, gerOFF!" I pushed Toothless back so I could sit up, wiping the dragon saliva of my face. He sat back, giving me a gummy smile and laughing. I gave him a deadpanned look. "You're worse than my dog..." I stood up and wiped a handful of saliva on his face. He jerked back and started wiping it off with his feet. I jogged up the hill to the platform of Hiccup's house and walked inside. He was leaning against the staircase with a giant grin on his face. Insert deadpanned look here.
"So...I'm guessing you tried playing tag?" I wiped more slime off my face and flicked it at him. He dodged it, his grin grew even bigger.
"You could've warned me."
"Nah, where's the fun in that? Come on, Astrid is on cooking duty, and I was gonna see if she wanted any help." I nodded and we walked over to the hall and asked if she needed any help. After confirming she didn't, Hiccup and Toothless tried to convince me to go on a ride. They had eventually gotten me on Toothless, and sooner or later I got comfortable sitting on a dragon flying up to hundreds of feet in the air. It was surprisingly relaxing for someone with a fear of falling.
(Small time skip: about 3 hours) Most of this is direct dialogue from the episode A Time to Skrill (S2:E11 of RTTE)
A small island was seen in the middle of the ocean, parts of it were charred and smoking. The entire group of Dragon Riders, including myself, were searching the island for any clue as to what happened. I dropped to one knee and picked up a discarded sword.
"What happened here?" I whispered to myself.
"I don't see any arrows or spears." Hiccup said looking around.
"No boulders from catapults..." Fishlegs stated, having taken notice the lack of damage from the massive weapons. Or rather, lack of damage from any explainable weapons at all.
"This really doesn't seem like a Dragon Hunter attack..." Hiccup concluded, still confused.
"Well, whoever did this, meant business." Astrid said, walking up to us.
"And where did everybody go?" Fishlegs said what we were all wondering.
"They must of evacuated."
"What could possibly scare the Outcasts off their own island?" I shrugged my shoulders in confusion, leaning the sword against a rock. The twins were mumbling about bed bugs or something, and the rest of us just ignored them. Hiccup walked up to a large boulder and was looking at the burn marks on it. I followed his gaze and froze.
That looks like-
"...I think this, has something to do with it...These scorch marks...Do they look familiar to anyone?" I noticed him and Fishlegs grow tense.
"Hiccup, do you think it could be..." I looked in between the two Riders, confused.
Next thing I know, Hiccup and I are back on Toothless and we're all flying in a different direction. Hiccup spots a snow covered island in the distance and calls out.
"There, that's the one!" We all rush down and land. The others hop off their dragons and walk over to a crevice in the frozen ground. They all gather around it and seem to be looking for something. Snotlout shakes his head in disbelief.
"Yup! The Skrill is gone." Tuffnut then says something about writing a song. I walk over as the Riders converse about something. I jumped in after Fishlegs said something about "The Skrill gravitating towards storms".
"Okay, Hiccup, what's going on? I'm completely lost. What's a Skrill?" They all seemed to remember I was the new kid, and until about two weeks ago, I didn't even think dragons existed.
"A Skrill is a dragon who attracts lightning from the clouds, and, either stores it in it's body for later, or uses it to attack. A couple of years ago, we found Dragon Hunters digging it out of a block of ice. We scared them off and brought it back to Berk. These three," Hiccup points to Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut, "Let the Skrill out of the ice. It then proceeded to attack Berk, causing a lot of chaos. We were eventually able to lead it back here, trapping it in the crevice. We thought we would never have to deal with it again...but it appears it got out." I just stood there, letting it all sink in for a minute.
"So, you're saying we have a lightning breathing dragon. (Pointing to the formerly mentioned Trio of Trouble.) Who, after you three idiots let it free, attacked Berk. And after a while, you were finally able to trap back in the ice. But now, it's out, and probably wants to fry us all. Did I get all of that or...?" I let the question hang in the air. Hiccup nodded.
"Yes, you did. Fishlegs, which way would the Skrill be headed?"
"Well, considering it's going to need to recharge, probably after that storm heading due south of Outcast Island." We all look in the direction he was pointing.
"Hey, isn't Berk...? Oh no." Snotlout states the obvious once again! We are on the dragons and flying at top speed towards their home. As we fly, Hiccup gives me more back story with the Skrill, about a man named Dagur, and that whole event. In the distance, lightning flashes in the clouds, then proceeds to strike the ground. Or, more accurately, a house. Ouch. As we get closer, I see multiple dragons fly out of Berk. Each one appears to have a rider on it's back. I see the Skrill turn and fire a beam of lightning towards the riders, which they all barely dodge.
"Hey look at that, the A-team already on the case." I look over at Astrid in confusion.
"Yeah, okay. You know, it might be a little early in their dragon riding careers to..." He trails off as all of the other riders get struck down. Snotlout shouts "Dad!" and rushes to help one of the riders.
"Cover the downed riders!" Hiccup yells as Toothless pulls up and hovers, growling at the Skrill, Hiccup is yelling at him to stop. The Skrill roars and charges lightning in it's maw. Toothless takes the challenge and flies forward. The two dragons fire, causing a huge blast to knock Hiccup and I off Toothless. We yell as we fall. Hiccup reaches for his ankles and pulls up some makeshift wings, slowing down and landing on a large man's passing dragon. I see a pile of hay and aim for it, spreading my coat with my hands, hoping to slow myself down even a little bit. Then I curl up and hit the pile, sending hay flying everywhere.
I slowly climb out of the pile, seeing Toothless pulling himself up from where he crash landed. The big man has his dragon land and Hiccup runs to Toothless. They both check each other real quick as Large, Red and Scary complemented Hiccup on his "strategy". I walk over, shaking my head. Both to get rid of the slowly forming headache, and the fact that Hiccup played no part in that. Hiccup introduces the large man and I to each other, and it turns out he's Hiccup's dad, Chief of the Hooligans, Stoick the Vast.
I definitely see where Hiccup got his looks from...not.
Everyone gathers together in the area, checking over any wounds. Hiccup and the others discussed the reason Stoick's house was the only one charbroiled. Turns out, the Skrill is holding a grudge against Hiccup and Toothless for sealing it inside that crevice. I make sure everyone is done with their bit before I say anything.
"So...what now?"