Hiccup gone half fury

In Denmark currently so updates are not scheduled regularly. This chapter is mostly to give you this important note while giving you the story, so it is both legal ( rules) and people reading this after my break shouldn't notice the difference in the story.

Chapter 8. stoic against Stoick

Hiccup And toothless both streaked over the water at immense speeds. They were already travelling far over the speed of sound (thanks to DFP) while their blue trails sparkled against the pitch black sea. Soon they were across the water and into the hostile territory of Berk. From here they circled around to the cove and prepared to set up their shelter.

Astrid was still flying on Stormfly as she idly wondered how to make her long journey better. She currently wasn't talking to Stormfly due to how weird the experience was but knew after a while her resolve would fail against boredom. After the mental battle had finally drawn to it's inevitable end Astrid started a conversation with Stormfly.

"So Stormfly, how does flying work? "

Stormfly answered

"you stretch out your wings first."

Astrid did as Stormfly asked, a bit worried that Stormfly wasn't giving her a more detailed explanation before her own first flight.

Stormfly continued

"and the rest you will get the hang of"

She said as she flipped in mid-air. Astrid fell off Stormfly' s back and screamed as she fell towards the sea, her errant wings not doing much to slow her down or stabilise her.

Stormfly entered a dive and appeared next to Astrid. She stayed there for a while before offering her next piece of advice.

"your wings are moving around in random directions. Try straightening them out and you will glide."

Astrid struggled to put Stormfly' s advice into practise as she rapidly fell from the sky. Eventually getting it, she gasped at how close the sea was.

"you cut it close Stormfly! I could have fallen into that water at full speed!"

Stormfly looked at her fearful face.

"I knew you would be able to fly as soon as I told you the right way"

Astrid was annoyed by this.

"and why did you have to tell me how to fly right as I'm about to hit the water? Couldn't we have done that further up?"

Stormfly gave her reason to Astrid with a small tone of victory.

"You chased Hiccup all the way around the Island while firing at him and damaged his only shirt, all for the sake of how Hiccup kept me safe in the ring."

Astrid was shocked that Stormfly had had thoughts of revenge on Astrid. She was annoyed that she would now have to deal with this Nadder and her Affection to Hiccup for keeping her safe in the ring.

Now having done her piece of revenge Stormfly went on with Astrid's instruction on flight, specifically powered flight because she was close to the water.

"Now Astrid, to perform powered flight you need to begin with instructing your mind to go a certain place, this activates your flight reflexes, but I wouldn't worry about that."

Astrid did as she was asked from the accomplished dragon. Her thoughts of anger for the dragon were now overcome with the need to get away from the water that was coming closer. She mentally dictated she would now go up and her wings broke away from their static glide position to start propelling her upwards. Now climbing she decided thanks would have to be given before she went into her anger that Stormfly had given her such a dangerous prank.

"thank you Storm for teaching me how to fly but I am still annoyed that you couldn't just let me fly without pranking me"

Stormfly just laughed at that

"Loki'd"

Astrid was astonished at the knowledge of Viking gods

"how did you know Loki is the god of tricks?"

Stormfly replied

"I learnt a lot about how your society functioned while I was in the ring. I also learnt how to understand Norse, so I knew what you were saying, and I have some thoughts. Firstly, you say some pretty weird things when you go off into battle, mostly screams and grunts and not the Norse that I know.

Astrid was caught out when she realised that Stormfly knew about her war cry.

"it is meant to make us intimidating and boost morale."

Stormfly snorted in disbelief.

"why would a high volume animal noise intimidate us and boost your morale? You sound like high volume sheep sometimes."

Astrid was very displeased to know that the dragon thought her war cry sounded like a sheep's noise. She tried to emphasize her version of the war cry.

"it is used to channel the anger of the great god Odin into our fight. It is a mark of greatness to be able to create a piercing war cry?"

Stormfly was confused, but not in the way Astrid had expected.

"I thought Odin was a great war god, I didn't know you actually channel the anger of a god of sheep while charging into battle."

Astrid was utterly humiliated at this reducing view of the great god Odin but wisely held her tongue for expectation of even more humiliation from this dragon in response. In her silence she quietly wondered when what she perceived as a murderous beast had turned into the smart-ass she now knew.

Sensing that the comedic humiliation of Astrid was over Stormfly flew under Astrid to take the weight of flying off her barely used wings. Astrid appreciated the gesture.

"thanks for that, my wings were starting to get sore."

Stormfly squawked in understanding.

"your welcome. I know that your wings aren't built for flying just yet, so I'll carry you until they recover."

Astrid was surprised by the motherlike behaviour from the same dragon who had insulted her before but welcomed it as a show of affection from her at last.

As night fell Hiccup was busy cutting down trees with his talons. The shelter was coming along nicely with Toothless helping him as he cut down the trees and fashioned them into planks. After a short time, the basic shelter was complete, and it had enough space to house both riders and their dragons. After that Hiccup snuck into the village to gather bedding while toothless took a nap.

Hiccup surveyed the scene of the village at night with his night vision. Seeing no one in his immediate vicinity he trudged through the village to the animal fur storage. After gathering enough for the housing back at the cove he made his way back through the village, avoiding the guards easily as their torches gave them away. Stumbling upon Stoicks house (he wouldn't refer it to his if he didn't live in it) and decided to give him a heads up of their meeting tomorrow. He clawed in his message on the back of the chief's house while Stoick soundly slept through his scratching. After finishing the message on the wall. The inscription read:

'Stoick, this is a message for you from your son and on behalf of Astrid. We have not sided with the dragons although you believe this is so, we have sided with Freyr the god of peace. We do not want to see this war go on but unlike you we also don't want dragons to all die to achieve this peace. We believe in a peace between dragons and Vikings, a concept which is laughable to you. I ask you to meet us in the forest behind the village to talk about peace after we stop the next dragon raids.

Your son and ambassador of peace.

Hiccup.'

Hiccup then gave his talons a rest before sneaking up to Stoicks window to awake Stoick. He shot a small fire blast at the ground in front of the message, not to cause a fire but to smoulder. He then summoned small little bouts of dragon fire to form and react in his mouth. After he had reacted enough dragon fire he blew the scent of burning over to Stoick before flying off to survey his reaction.

Stoick woke up with the smell of burning in the air. He rushed over to his window to see if the dragons had given Berk a surprise attack but noted no sounds of dragons. He then noticed the smouldering earth at the back of his house and went outside to investigate. He came around the house to see if any other shots had hit his house. Finding none he was about to cease his investigation until he saw the back wall of his house now had scratch marks in the form of runes illuminated in the light of the smouldering grass.

After fetching a torch to see the message better he read. He was both angry and surprised to find out Hiccup had done this in the middle of night but was also curious that Hiccup now promoted himself as a patron to Freyr. He read with interest as Hiccup talked about creating a peace without killing dragons.

After reading it through he was angry that Hiccup had decided to confront him like this in the middle of the village but being a chief and used to the parliamentary side that came with it he was interested in his ideas of peace. Coming to a conclusion He decided he would meet Hiccup to discuss peace. He acknowledged it would be much easier if Hiccup showed him he could stop the night attack because then he has Chief Stoicks respect on behalf on his people.

However, he still decided to bring an escort of 30 guards in case this meeting was an attempt to murder him. After all he had become friends with a dragon and might have gotten a cunning personality because of it.

Stoick readied to do his chiefly duties in the morning that would lead to a potentially radical night.

Astrid arrived upon a tired Stormfly during midday. After flying around in a ragged circle, she saw Toothless fire a plasma blast into the air. After she had landed in the cove She barely saw Hiccup going about his chores before resting in the wooden shelter He had built. Stormfly followed soon after and Hiccup and Toothless were baffled at how quickly they had transitioned from flight to sleeping.

Hiccup brushed it off and re checked what he would say to Stoick. This would be his first and possibly the last encounter he would have with him. He affirmed that he knew what to say before checking the ambush points of the forest to remove any guards that Stoick had with him. He knew that guards would make the Chief more connected to his village more likely to at best ignore him and at worst kill him.

Dusk fell, and the dragon's screams ripped through the air.

Berk awakened and prepared to meet the scourge with equal vigour. As they came together the two sides could suddenly hear the rising pitch of a night fury. Vikings got down on the ground and the dragons were confused by the approach of a dragon they had not been notified of. Before the quaking Villagers eyes, they saw the plasma blasts being fired.

The plasma blasts never hit the ground and instead, confusing all the villagers, erupted in the air in front of the dragons, this was followed by another then another. As the dragons decided to try pushing forward through this blockade the air was ripped apart by a sonic boom. Both Vikings and dragons were completely stunned at this use of sonic weaponry.

Toothless pulled up from his dive and restarted pummelling the air in front of the dragons with plasma blasts. He was careful not to hurt any of them but wanted them to leave Berk alone for just one night for the negotiations. Stormfly joined him by covering the paths of the more courageous dragons with her flame. The Berkians were stunned by this defence of their island by two dragons.

While the rest sat stunned Stoick saw what had happened with respect. Hiccup had lived up to the promises of the first part of his message, now Stoick had to prepare for the next part

Stoick summoned his guards and prepared to meet Hiccup to discuss his terms. He urged his men to look out for any unexpected ambush attacks. with his instincts on high alert he prowled further.

Hiccup got out of his position behind a tree as Stoick and his guard passed by him. He was surprised when he had seen Stoick with 30 guards, he had only been expecting a personal guard of 6, unfazed he began his silent ambush.

Stoick pressed on focused on the scene in front of him and trying to make out the silhouette of his boy or a dragon.

Astrid dropped from the branches and used the Viking's own Axe against him as she suffocated him to unconsciousness. After the tailing Viking was sleeping soundly she pressed on to catch up to the rest of the guard.

Stoick was more and more nervous by the second, He was surprised by the lack of confrontation and was supposing that this meeting was a trick. He glanced back to see his obedient guard scanning the trees.

Hiccup and Astrid were steadily taking down the Viking's from behind. Already they had taken down half of Stoick's guards and were still going.

Stoick became more concerned as he thought he heard the number of footsteps echoing through the forest decreasing. He again glanced back he saw the same Vikings still diligently scanning and resumed his stalk through the forest convinced nothing was wrong.

Hiccup and Astrid took down the final guard before Hiccup blasted into the air and landed in front of Stoick.

Stoick heard a blast from behind him. Before he could turn his head he heard feet impact the ground in front of him. He stared into the darkness before seeing a dark figure with two softly glowing blue parts near the midsection. He watched as this dark figure, presumed to be Hiccup, gave two plasma blasts to either side of him before he could react.

Hiccup stared at his father through his thermal vision. He was very scared but didn't want to show it, instead pretending to be as scary as the Chief himself. He startled Stoick with two larger-than-necessary shots to the concealed Torches on either side of the chief.

Stoick was immediately baffled at how clueless he had been while walking into this carefully planned trap. Regaining an air of confidence, he gave Hiccup, for he could now see him in the light of the torches, the serious look of a man meaning business.

Hiccup gave a mental sigh as he saw his father fix up an air of confidence. He decided he would play his game and softly ignited both his DFP nozzles and his dragon markings. He opened his mouth to speak

Stoick was heavily shocked as Hiccup raised the game with his trick. He now was presented with a distinct fear at this show of fire from his own son. Suddenly Hiccup broke the silence.

"relax Stoick, my purpose now is the same as it was when I gave you that message. I harbour no ill will or thoughts of murder and I expect to do this interaction honestly. We are here to present to you the notion of dragon peace. We will help defend your village against the raiding Vikings while you can stay patient with us as we work to stop them altogether."

Now the pride of Berk had accepted the deal with a mute understanding. His own son had shocked him, and the lack of guards worried him. Deciding to remember the wishes for his people, for peace, he made his decision.

"your offer to help is accepted. Provided you protect berk and betray none of us you are welcome to stay in the village while you plan to stop the attacks forever. I trust on your honour that you will abide by the terms of the deal?"

Hiccup was internally happy at his Father's acceptance of the help. Putting on his serios face and extinguishing his provoking fire displays he affirmed Stoicks statement.

"Yes, on my honour I will live by these terms as I seek the permanent peace that I dream of."

Stoick only had one more question to be completely sure this was true.

"and this is on your human honour? Are you sure that no draconic cunning is being used to betray this deal and harm my village?"

Hiccup again clearly restated his conviction.

"yes, I swear on my human honour of which there Is no draconic side telling me to deceive you."

As Stoick realised the familial importance of Hiccup's permission to come back to Berk he embraced Hiccup strongly.

"I thought I would only see your face as the face of my enemies. For me as a father that is possibly a fate worse than death and I am glad to have you back here. in the flesh. As allies."

Hiccup was initially taken aback by the encounter but recovering he remembered to mention his new friend that his father did not know about.

"Astrid, you can step out of the shadows now."

Stoick turned to watch Astrid stride out into the torchlight. Stoick was slightly shocked but relieved that Astrid was alright.

"Astrid! We thought the dragons had killed you and I am glad that we were wrong. Welcome back into the village 'dragon fighter'"

Astrid looked away in concern. Stoick noticed this and questioned her.

"what's wrong? You seem troubled."

Astrid gave a small smile at the irony of her thought. She relayed it to Stoick

"nothing's wrong. I was just thinking about how apt my description as a 'dragon' warrior was."

Stoick was about to wonder what she was talking about when Astrid showed him her hand growing a scale before retracting it again. Stoick was overcome with thought.

"so, you're like Hiccup now."

Astrid tried to lighten the situation

"but I am still Astrid! These changes don't change who we are in mind."

Stoick was glad to hear the optimistic tone and realised the one part of the homecoming he had forgotten: coming home.

"Now that we have our deal I would love to reintroduce you to the Village."

He turned

"although I still am worried that this deal will not go smoothly I gladly welcome you back"

Hiccup and Astrid smiled. Their intricate plan had worked, and they had finally been welcomed back. Their acceptance rang through their minds as they made the hike back to the village