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"HICCUP! Where were you last night!?" The voice boomed across the town, waking everyone up. Guards gathered around to watch the drama playing out in the plaza.
"Ah… As you can see… I may have gotten lost in the forest. But nothing to be worry about! I didn't get hurt or anything… And also, nothing is broken! Two for the price of one! I'm back now. Everything is fine. Let's go back to work guys! I'm just gonna… walk-" He pointed in the direction he intended to go.
Stoick grabbed Hiccup with his vest like he was a rag doll. "HICCUP! Is TIME to be SERIOUS! You CANNOT go disappearing like that! Do you know what responsibility is? You've just woken up from coma!" Stoick wanted to say something private, but spectators were nearby, pretending that they were still doing their jobs but clearly failing "Everyone! Go back to your job! Nothing for you to see here!" The crowds started to disperse. "And you, come with me. We have to have a little chat." His tone indicated the chat would not be about the fine weather Berk was having for the year.
"Looks like Useless gets in troubles again!" Snotlout commented jovially, a sneer on his face.
"Yeah! I've never seen the chief that angry before. He's even better than the time we blew up the storage!" Ruffnut said.
"Do you think the chief is going to tell him about the vote?" Tuffnut wondered.
"Maybe, but whether he knows or not, he'll still be cast out. I mean, what do you think Useless will ever do to get people to want him to stay? Commanding a dragon?" Ruffnut replied.
"Yeah! No junk should be staying around in Berk. I say that the chief made a right choice this time! Who wants him around anyway?" Snotlout said.
"But haven't you seen how the chief acts about it? I don't think he really wants to do it. He is his son after all…" Fishlegs said.
"The chief still thinks he is his son? What kind of nonsense is this?" Snotlout scoffed. "Stoick is willing to cast him out, but just doesn't want to show it, that's all."
As the door closed with a bang, Hiccup knew it wouldn't be another ordinary talk. He could feel his dad was more 'Stoick' than ever, and as furious as before, now with a scant of frustration.
"HICCUP! Do you know how much trouble you get me in? You are on the edge of being cast out! I wanted to tell you about it last night, but you just wandered off into the forest, completely neglecting my orders! This just gives the village more reason to cast you out." He sighed, letting off some his steam before getting more serious. "There's no time left, Hiccup! If you don't change now and become a proper Viking in the village, then you will be forced out to learn. When times come, you will be back. I won't tell you what to do now as I have no control of you, but remember, when the times come, I also will not assist you in any way. What's happening that day will be the result of your work from now on." He walked to the door, turning back at the last second. "Do whatever you want, kid. I will be off to my duty." He never said, "See you later" or even a simple goodbye.
Hiccup was left feeling mixed. On one side, he felt like he was free now. He could do whatever he wanted. Visiting Toothless every day, building new inventions anytime he wanted, even sleeping with Toothless every night was now possible! There was endless freedom. He could do everything. No one would ever set a time table on him again.
He felt free.
But the other side of him was crushed completely. His dad hadn't even said son or called him by his name. He had said 'kid'. Was he now not a son in the chief's mind? Did that count as a disowning him? Even though his wishes for his dad to care about him more were long gone, he never expected his farther to turn into a… stranger. He still had hope of his dad looking up on him. Now, al of the hope was washed away. What he did in the last ten years was to gain his dad's respect, maybe even the other's. Now… Now everything has changed.
Hiccup felt broken.
Also, with the hope of getting dad's respect, which had been his goal for his entire life, gone, what would he do now? When the time came, he was sure that no one would want him to stay. When he was cast out, where should he go? Were there any places that would even accept an outcast that was useless? What should he do now? He didn't have a goal.
Hiccup felt lost.
His dad had also said that he wouldn't care about him anymore. If he was cast out, the chief would not object to it. If Hiccup was killed, he probably wouldn't mind it. If he was gone, he might even be happy that the hiccup of the village was gotten rid of. He was his chief, but not. He was his family, but not. He was his father, but not.
Hiccup felt betrayed.
Now what should he do? Maybe it would be better if he just jumped off a random cliff. That would be better. No one even needed to see his dead body and clean up.
Hiccup felt hopeless.
But something in his mind was shining with a purple dim light. It was telling him not to give up. It was reminding him about Toothless, the one being that was his friend. No, not just friend. Toothless was more of a family to him than anyone. Toothless cared about him.
He must not give up.
The dragon was struggling to nap under a shadow. The recent event was messing up his sleep cycle. First was the absence of deep caves to sleep in. Second was the interruption of the human's visit. Now his problemwas his mind.
His mind was full of thoughts. He wondered how it was possible for his human friend to know about the Peace Crystal. Even the Ancients – those who didn't age physically, knew little about it. It was a long-forgotten, yet important history that he only remembered because he was The Iota's personal guard and it was a part of his job to remember the history for The Iota.
He thought it maybe the Iota's power, trying to tell him something using dream broadcast. Dream broadcast was one of The Iota's abilities. It allowed him to send his own dreams out to any living thing, replacing their own dreams. But there were a few problems with that explanation. First, for it to be working, Iota had to still be alive in this realm, which wasn't possible. Second, if The Iota wanted to tell him something, why did he send his dreams to the human, and not just send it to him directly? Unless The Iota wanted to tell something to the human, not him. But that didn't make any sense. Why would he do that?
He had thousands of thoughts and thousand of more solutions, but none made more sense than the firs tone. He wanted to forget about it, but it just wouldn't go away, bugging at his mind.
That's when he heard a footstep. He tensed up, thinking it might be one of the Vikings lost in the forest. If he was found, there would be no more surviving.
Luckily for him, it was just his lovely human. The human was back mush sooner than he had thought, especially when he heard the father's furious shouting.
"Toothless. I am back." The dragon could tell something was wrong. His human wasn't in a good mood. Something was bugging him.
The dragon crooned, "My human, what's bugging you today?" The human seemed to understand it.
He sighed. "I am lost… What should I do, bud?" He hugged the bulky head and the dragon crooned.
"Just tell me my friend."
"My dad, he... he said I can do whatever I want from now on. I should be happy. I mean, I get to stay with you all the time. I don't even have to go back to the village anymore! But… I just can't. He also hinted that sometime in the future, a public vote will decide whether I can stay in the village or get cast out. I already know how the vote will go. But then… What? What should I do? What should we do? Leaving Berk… That's just never entered my mind before. And now it's becoming a reality…"
"Well… Why not make the tail fin that you have talked about? With that, we can go anywhere we want! Exploring lands even, not that I haven't seen anything before. But we have to make the tail fin first!" Surprisingly the human knew what he said.
"Yeah! You're right! If I make it, then we can get food ourselves. Maybe even leave before the vote time comes, save the awkwardness for my father - not that he thinks me as a son anymore - but still, we can go far and explore the lands beyond the boundaries!"
"Now you're being positive."
"Thanks, bud. You always know how to cheer me up."
"That's what a friend should do." The dragon drew his human closer, but stopped as the human suddenly jumped up, pulling himself out of the dragon's hold.
"Well you know what? I am gonna go work on it. Don't go anywhere. I will be back soon!"
As if the dragon could get out if he wanted to.
"Wait what? You're actually going to build one? I thought you were just joking!" The human had climbed out of the cove already. When he was committed to do something, not even a fire-breathing dragon could stop his creativity.
The dragon let a great gust of air out of his lungs. "As if it will actually work. Why do the humans even think about crazy ideas that will never work?"
"Just need a ball bearing here and there… maybe a joint would be all right here…" Hiccup was making the tail fin's blueprint in his little room at the back of the forge. It was his eighth birthday present from Gobber for him to do his stuff inside and not cover the forge with papers all over the place. Stoick, of course, hated the room, but it was better than having Gobber not about to do his job or make the forge much easier to be burnt down.
"Hey, what's you doing back there? The big talk's over already?"
Hiccup jumped a bit, not expecting anyone. "Hi, Gobber. Why are you here?" It was not like a normal relaxing talk. Hiccup still hadn't forgot the previous talk with Gobbe and forgiven him yet.
"Well, it's my forge. Why can't I be here?"
Hiccup hadn't had the time to think how he should feel about Gobber. His mind was too focused on the more important stuff.
"Well, lad. I am… sorry, for what I have said last time."
"You don't have to sorry about that. You are true, after all."
"I came to here is to tell you about the training"
"Oh training! I am late, isn't I? I'd forgotten about-"
"No lad. I came to tell you that the training will no longer be continued. It is now terminated."
"Oh… Is it… because I got hurt?"
"Well… Don't mind about it." Hiccup thought that he would beat up much more the next time he met the gang, and he was right.
Gobber asked pointing at the blueprint. "Lad, what're you working on? Can I have a-"
"No! Ahh… It's… It's secret! And it's not important at all! You don't need to mind about it!"
Gobber was stunned. He never seen Hiccup minding about his privacy. Maybe that's good? The Viking wondered. He knew for sure that the blueprint was important, but he would not try to find out as Hiccup was already quite angry with him. Looking into something that Hiccup wanted to protect was not a way to repair a relationship. "Okay then… I will just leave you to your own work. I am going to return these axes."
"See you later!"
Before Gobber stepped out completely, he added. "Oh! Almost forgot! Stoick told me to leave you to decide if you want to do the job. He said something about freedoms and… Anyway, you don't have to repair the stuff now. You're free to go to anywhere you want. I wish I could do that…" He mumbled as he walked out the forge.
"Well, that's just leaves more time for me to do my own stuff. Where was I? Oh yeah, the joint. Is a joint enough? Maybe…" Hiccup was back in to his own creative world, murmuring to himself.
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