(A/N) So reasons for slow updates, down below in the other authors note. This chapter we have Berk finally getting introduced to their new allies, father son moments, Toothless and Hiccup finally getting to sleep in the same house, slight Hiccstrid, and more of those weird moments I personally love between Hiccup and his other best friend (Not Toothless or Astrid). Curious as to what any of these scenarios could lead to? Please read and reviews are deeply appreciated.
Hiccup woke up to the sound if A dragon roar outside his house and the feeling of being sick. "Ugh what happened to my-Ohhhh" The boy groaned mid sentence holding his head in his hands as pain ran thorough his small form. After taking in his surroundings, Hiccup suddenly felt panic race thorough him as his headache subsided. "Is that one of our dragons?" He voiced his thoughts to himself.
Hiccup kicked his legs over the side of his bed, put on his boots, and ran to the front door, only to see fire traveling thorough dry grass towards him. Once Hiccup turned around, he saw the back of his house had been shot by dragon fire as well. He turned back around, about to run out the door, when suddenly, A dragon fire blasted his roof, causing debris to fall, and the boy to go flying backwards.
Stoick was fighting off A Monstrous Nightmare, when it shot towards his house where his son had been sleeping with A slight fever. "Hiccup." Stoick stopped fighting the Nightmare, and ran towards his house to get his son. Once he got there, the houses walls were on fire. "Hiccup?! You in there?!" Stoicks muscles tensed when he heard A loud cough and someone fall over.
Hiccup heard his dad call for him, and stood to respond. Instead of saying he was fine though, smoke was in the air he breathed, causing him to cough loudly. Hiccup tried to yell again, but flames licked his skin, causing him to jump back and trip over A fallen chair. As his breathing turned to gasping, and the flames got closer, Hiccup couldn't help but become scared.
He didn't know what to do, as Hiccup slowly back towards the destroyed door, becoming cornered. He heard people trying to put out the fire with water outside, but it wasn't helping much. Once his back hit the wall, A small hole made him able to see his father. "Hiccup? Are you alright?! I'm going to get you out of there."
Hiccup nodded, about to tell his dad he was fine. As soon as he opened his mouth though, A large piece of wood fell on his shoulder. Rather than reassuring his dad, the boy yelled out in pain and fear unintentionally. "Dad!" His father moved A piece of wood, and Hiccup grasped his hand in A poor attempt to move charred wood, almost like A toddler trying to help there mother cook by placing there tiny hands on much bigger ones, thinking there being A good help.
As soon as the wood was removed, creating A much bigger hole in the wall, A beam in the roof fell. Both flew backwards, becoming separated again.
Stoick was relieved when he could see his son thorough A hole in the wall, but that relief quickly turned into fear. "Dad!" Stoick hadn't heard that cracked, shocked, scared voice since Hiccup was just A wee kid. This triggered every protective father instinct in him, as he tried to move wood from the inside of the house despite the strength needed and burns he earned on his arm through the hole in the wall.
When Stoick felt his sons small hands on his own much bigger ones, he was about to tell Hiccup to move when the week pull of small fingers on his own hands was present. He's trying to help Stoick thought and continued working wile letting his week from size, exhaustion, fever, and burns son pulled on his hands lifting wood. He smiled as the hole in the wall got much bigger, before something fell, causing his son to lose his grip and sending them both back.
"Hiccup!? Son!" And for the first time in years, Stoick the Vast, chief of the tribe, was literally shaking in fear. He had no idea what to do, before he heard A Night Fury roar. "Night Fury! Get down!" But only Stoick was well aware of the dragon who must have heard his rider in dangers call.
"Toothless!" He shouted as the dragon landed beside him. This seemed to confuse the other villagers long enough for Toothless to break thorough the side of the house. The building came down just as the black dragon came jumped out, holding A small boy by the shirt collar in his mouth.
"Hiccup!" Was the only thing Stoick could say as relief overwhelmed him. Hiccup was coughing, so couldn't respond as Toothless set him on his feet. That didn't stop his dad from grabbing his boy by the shoulders, and embracing him tightly, still shaking with what seemed like an after taste of dread.
Hiccup didn't really think twice, and his hugged his dads shoulders best he could with his small arms. His chest heaved with pain from overwhelmed emotions such as fear, and the pain in his lungs and limbs caused by smoke and burns.
The moment didn't really last long, as Vikings ran for Toothless and the Nightmare, who by the way was frozen in confusion at the Night Furies actions. Gobber, who has heard Stoicks story, stood between the Vikings and dragons, having seen what Toothless did for his apprentice, because he was standing by Stoick when it happened.
"Toothless!" Hiccup shouted wile still in his fathers strong grip. Gobbers reaction and Hiccups odd name for the most dangerous dragon in the entire Archepeligo, had all the Vikings (Other than the teens of course) frozen in confusion.
"Thanks Gobber." Stoick said wile Hiccups attention was focused on his best friend only. "Dad, what do we do now?" The boy asked, for once in his life unable to have any ideas.
Toothless, having been paying attention to the whispering crowd, looked to the side and saw A mother and her baby. He saw A wooden shelf above them about to collapse, holding bricks and weapons. If it were to break, they'd be doomed. No one seemed to notice this particular set of damage cause by fire blasts, so Toothless, and the Nightmare who was curious as to why Toothless had this new view on humans, jumped towards the mother and daughter, wrapping their wings around them just as the wood broke, causing supplies to fall.
Toothless roared in pain as an axe fell on his left tail fin. A long, deep cut was present, as dirt, dust, and rust that were thrown into the air with the wreckage made there way into the open wound. "Toothless!-Gods ow!" Hiccup tried to shout for his dragon as he escaped his dads hold. As soon as he was on the ground though, his week from fever and burned legs gave out from under him. His dad caught him of course, but it still hurt like hell.
At hearing his rider hurt and yelling for him, Toothless moved away from the mother and baby, making sure nothing fell on them. The Monstrous Nightmare, scared from so much confusion and so many weapons, flew away. Toothless nudged his rider, causing Stoick to let go of Hiccup and allow his son to check his dragons tail wound.
"Chief, what's going on?" One Viking asked. "Why would A Night Fury of all dragons save my wife and child?" Another questioned. More and more questions were asked as the Vikings were curious. They didn't go for the kill because their leader and his heir seemed to be fond of this particular dragon.
Stoick and Hiccup explained everything best they could wile some men started attempting to fix the chiefs house. After an hour of explaining and listing the pros of having dragons on the human side of the war, people seemed to like the idea of having winged allies. This thought was made more interesting since some of their kids apparently already had secret dragons of their own with names. Toothless was treated for his tail wound after Astrid, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, Fishlegs, Hiccup, and even Snotlout stood up for him.
The Night Fury needed weeks of rest, and Hiccup was told to rest to because burns, A small fever, and A pretty bad cold. He was pretty upset about this, but his father got him to listen and stay on bed rest only after he aloud Toothless to rest in the house with giant wings wrapped around his boy. The other teens, after A day of showing their parents there dragons, and each dragon helping with building, blacksmithing, getting wood, and even allowing their rider to ride them and fight during A dragon raid, got to keep their dragons in the kill ring witch was tweaked to look more inviting, filled with buckets of fish and targets for training. Even A few rock slabs in the cleaned out cages covered in moss.
The reason for this was because all the beasts did for the Vikings. Many lives were saved in raids, the Vikings got some dragon friends, and Hiccup was constantly trying to lose his fathers attention so he could go outside. To bad now of all times, Stoick had time to be around his son thanks to Berks new allies, so Hiccup was stuck.
Two days past, three morning since the morning Hiccup woke up. The village looked alive. Green, not scorched grass was on the ground, houses were rebuilt quiet quickly, and the sun was shining down on Vikings as Terrible Terrors who helped fish as long as they got A share of it were singing on the rooftops of painted houses on top of every hill. People were on dragons, the kill ring now had iron stables in ever wall, and Hiccup and Toothless were getting...worse.
Stoicks house was still being rebuilt, so they stayed in A small, two story, one room hut on mats until their home could be replaced. The bottom floor was A small kitchen with stares, top floor was A small room. The hut looked more like A giant building block with A ton of windows than A hut. Hiccup, holding his side from burns and two days worth of coughing, sat up when A pair of feet hit the floor of his room. "Tuffnut!? Does my dad known your here?" "Uh...no. He actually said I couldn't visit so I decided to sneak in." Tuffnut covered the side of his mouth wile whispering. "Woah dude, what's that all about?"
Tuffnut walked towards Hiccup who was shirtless and had way more bandages than when he just had had A few burns and bites. The thin boys chest, torso, arms, calve muscles and the side of his neck were wrapped in white bandages wet with medicines. He had to where shorts or his cloths would stick to his skin, and he was still laying against Toothless who was on his side, poor dragons scales hot with fever, though Hiccup didn't mind. The boy sighed.
"This is what happens when your burns, cuts, and bites get infected wile your sick Tuffnut." Hiccup gestured to his fever red face, spot on Toothless' wing, Toothless' hot scales, and finally Toothless' infected left tail fin. The fin had A heavily bandaged spot where the wound was, and the hold fin itself looked more like oozing charred leather than A functional tail fin.
"Ouch. Sorry T. You too Hic. Hey! Guess what. My mother got me new paints and charcoal to use with that journal you gave me. She say's it keeps me from being A nui-sance, whatever that means." Tuffnut thought about it, before continuing. "Show me how to use it?"
Tuffnut shoved the supplies into Hiccups lap, spilling some green paint on A bandage. "Tuffnut, I don't know. Won't my dad get mad if your here?" "Hiccup, Hiccup, Hiccup, you are poorly confused and mistaken. I, my fine fellow, am an expert on sneaking in and out of places better than anyone on Berk. Besides, pretty much everyone on Berk has something to be mad about concerning me, your dad has quiet A few, so what's one more?" Tuffnut smirked wile Toothless used his wing to protect Hiccup from flying paint and Tuffnuts...fidgety limbs.
"Okay Tuffnut, fine. Just please try to be A little less loud and A little more gentle." Hiccup gave in, grabbing his journal and turning to A new page. "Sure H. I'll try to be more gentle, though it's not really my thing." Tuffnut lay A gentle hand on Hiccups shoulder, opening his journal to reveal numerous pictures titles 'Night Fury the drawing' the first, second, third, and so on. Hiccup seemed surprised by all this, and it didn't go unnoticed.
"What?" Tuffnut questioned. "Well it's just...your never gentle, always stubborn, and always fail to follow instructions from what I heard, yet here you are. Listening to me, gently touching my wounds, and have.." Hiccup started counting the Night Furies drawn on paper. "Six perfectly drawn Night Furies following the steps I gave you." Hiccup looked closely at the decorations made by rust, mixed paint, mud, blades of sticky grass, and different colored chalk like rocks.
"Well, with you own 'Tuffnut spin' of course." The boy waved his hands as he exaggerated the creative changes made to the drawings. Tuffnut thought about what Hiccup said, as Toothless made A small laughing noise in his throat, before coughing witch caused A plasma blast to shoot the wall, making both boys duck. "Woah!" Both shouted as Toothless lay his head back down, groaning and closing his eyes. "I know bud." Hiccup pet his dragon as A minute went by.
"Well, I mean we're friends." Hiccup jumped before figuring out Tuffnut was responding to his previous sentence. "And with how small and hurt you are, I don't want to hurt you more. As for what the village says, your supposed to be A scrawny outcast. I think your pretty cool, and lets admit it, you can put on one hell of A tackle-tickle fight." Both boys shared A small laugh at the random comment.
Suddenly, A roar/squawk was heard, and Astrid climbed thorough the window like Tuffnut. "Hey guys, whatcha up to?" Astrid cracked her knuckles before gesturing for Stormfly to land A little ways down the hill. "Hey Astrid, what brings you here? Not that we don't enjoy your company-well I can't speak for Tuffnut but you know...Uh..what I m-mean? Damn it, i'm doing it again aren't I? Uh.." Hiccups voice trailed of as he answered Astrid with A question of his own.
"I was in the woods and decided to visit. So, why is Tuff here?" Astrid smiled at Hiccups rambling but didn't mention it. "He wants-" "Hic's teaching me to draw more pictures. Night fury the drawing one through five-" "Six" Hiccup corrected after being cut off by Tuffnut. "Six-thanks H." "No problem." Hiccup smiled and leaned against Toothless. "Anyways, they're getting old." Tuffnut continued rambling about noncense. They added onto each other in A way that seemed so normal to them Astrid couldn't help but smile. The way Tuffnut could cut Hiccup off wile Hiccup would lean back and read his journal. He acted like he wasn't listening, but would correct A babbling Tuffnut who talked with his hands anytime he said something wrong. Tuffnut would simply thank Hiccup who would shrug and go back to reading despite the talkative, wild, dangerous boy beside him. Astrid couldn't help but notice though that Tuffnut seemed to be careful not to hit Hiccup, witch was odd for him, and Hiccup felt safe and like he was A part of what was going on despite how loud and out there Tuffnut was. Tuffnut would look to Hiccup every now and then, waiting until the boy looked at him thorough the corner of his eyes, before going back to talking. Hiccup didn't mind Tuffnut confusing nature either, probably since he was the same way. Hadn't they only been friends A little wile? Then again, Toothless was only Hiccups friend for A little bit, yet they seemed to trust each other as if they were brothers.
Astrid gave Hiccup A questioning look, and the boy just shrugged before saying "Translation? Tuffnut was in my work room and wanted to learn to draw A picture of my Night Fury sketch. After his mom gave him supplies and I gave him A journal, Tuffnut drew six copies of his drawing titled 'Night Fury the drawing'. Today, he decided to sneak into me and my dads temporary room so he could learn to draw something different than his copy of my Night Fury. My dad didn't want him here, so Tuffnut used his powers of 'Super stealth' to sneak past him. Also, the hole nearly lost his head part was because Toothless sneezed and the blast nearly ,hit us. And the rest...just don't ask."
Astrid laughed at Hiccups sarcastic voice at some parts of his sentence. Tuffnut was now laying on A night Stand by Hiccup with his legs against the wall, watching Hiccup flip thorough his journal upside down. He seemed bored, and out of things to talk about, so he settled for watching Hiccup as if he was super interesting. Hiccup, on the other hand, was relaxed wile looking over pictures and notes, not minding the fact Tuffnuts upside down head was hitting against his shoulder. He just sat against his dragons wings, smiling when Astrid sat by him wile tying A bandage that was coming lose, not bothering for permission since she knew Hiccup didn't mind.
Every now and then, the three would look outside to see Fishlegs, Ruffnut, and Snotlout trying to control A group of Terrible Terrors that would fly back and fourth. Hiccup would sigh, frustrated. But, his two visitors always seemed to try and help him have fun despite being on bed rest. Tuffnut was trying to learn to draw, and Astrid would go downstairs to get water for them, or use it to try and break one of Hiccups random fevers that would sprout up and make him to tired to draw. In these moments, Tuffnut would hang upside down from A beam in the roof, holding A bowl of water in his hands like A chain on A bucket, and hand A cold rag to Astrid. He also tried to stay quiet because of Hiccups headache.
There was one moment when Stoick walked in. Astrid hid behind A long peace of wood holding the walls up, Tuffnut climbed to A dark corner in the roof, and Hiccup would quickly put up Tuffnuts journal and the water dish, before flipping to another page and continuing an old drawing. Stoick was there with Gobber and Gothi, so the healer could change Hiccups bandages. She also said that Toothless' tail fin, along with the boy, were still getting worse, though Hiccups cold was improving.
The news of his friends tail being severely infected, obviously made Hiccup not really care about the new stinging sensation in his newly bandaged wounds. Wile Stoick and Hiccup were petting the dragon, who's tail fin was so bad it would have to be removed if it didn't get better, Gobber looked to the roof and saw A sad looking Tuffnut, along with A hidden wounded looking Astrid at the sight of Hiccups burns. Gothi saw to, and the two teens both put their hands to there mouths with pleading looks. The two older Vikings simply shook their heads, Gothi not bothering to care and Gobber being happy Hiccup finally had friends who were so close they'd sneak into visit them. Besides, Hiccup would need someone to cheer him up after Stoicks not there.
As soon as the three Vikings left, Astrid was by Hiccup and Tuffnut as back to his original position on the night stand wile looking over his work. Hiccup was scratching Toothless, and continued giving the dragon attention until he went to sleep. Another fever was present, and with half an hour, Astrid and Tuffnut had it broke. Hiccup rested, but decided that since he couldn't sleep, even after Astrid insisted on letting him lean against her shoulder, he continued to teach Tuffnut to draw.
Hiccup explained how to draw Barch in the cove, Toothless slept, Astrid sat by Hiccup watching his and Tuffnuts art lesson, the ocationall fever or coughing fit had to be tended to, Toothless was helped back to sleep if he was to wake, and three hours of Tuffnut constantly moving spots so he could see the picture at different angles, distractions, and small breaks from learning how to paint the cove around the dragon Hiccup and Tuffnut drew filled with conversations went by. Three people who used to never spend time together, sat down like A normal trio, sharing laughs, Tuffnut being an entertainer, Astrid tying Hiccups bandages that Tuffnut would sometimes cause to slip lose when he'd grab Hiccups limbs wile the medicine caused knots to depart.
Things seemed to be good despite A cold that could be contagious but Hiccups friends didn't really mind. For now, things were in the good, and Berk finally saw the other side of dragons. But this..this was not even close to the end of winged allies.
(A/N) Hey guys! So updates have been slow because I have little internet, and can't get on my computer much thanks to stuff going on, so I write chapters in my Journal (How ironic considering..yeah) whenever I get time I copy them onto here. I wrote this chapter with A pen in two days so my hands are swollen and bruised because I'm so used to typing. Anywho, please review with ideas or inspiration for me to write more, i'll be sure to mention you in the beginning of my chapter, and until next fellow winged allies, your amazing!