Chapter 10
EXT. HIDDEN COVE - DAWN
Hiccup arrives, winded, straining under the weight of a full basket. Toothless approaches, sniffing him.
HICCUP
Hey Toothless. I brought breakfast. I hope you're hungry.
Hiccup drops the basket and kicks it over. Fish spill out.
"Red do you think we need to hold the dragons back?" I ask as several dragons are eying the fish on screen. "I need the screen for the sequel."
"Nah, I know how to restrain them." Red says as he starts tapping away on his watch.
Red stops tapping on his watch and smirks, I notice a slight shimmer around where the dragons are sitting. Opal and Gandor are watching the proceedings with sudden interest.
"Did you really do that?" I ask him. In response he just smirks.
"Ai Baja" I say as I facepalm.
I watch as the dragons start to charge at the screen to get the fish, then they all stop when their faces impact the force field.
Most of the Vikings laugh at the scene, to which Red replies.
"Don't laugh yet, you may be next" Red says with a sly smirk as I press a button on my remote creating an evil laugh.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Okay, that's disgusting.
Toothless approaches, settling in to devour the feast.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Uh..we've got some salmon...
Toothless swallows it.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
... some nice Icelandic cod...
Swallows those too.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
... and a whole smoked eel.
Toothless shakes his head violently, and backs away afraid. Hiccup takes note.
The dragons begin to screech in fear.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
No, no, no! It's okay. Yeah, I don't like eel much either.
"Since when don't you like eel Hiccup? Stoick asks.
"Since you put a half dead one on my plate." Hiccup shudders as he says this.
Toothless focuses on the remainder. With the dragon distracted, Hiccup unwraps his prosthetic fin and opens it like a fan.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Okay. That's it. That's it, just stick with good stuff. And don't you mind me. I'll just be back...here. Minding my own business.
"How did I not notice that?" Toothless grumbles earning laughs from the rest of the dragons.
Hiccup cautiously approaches the injured tail, but every time he gets near it, Toothless sweeps it away like a cat.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
It's okay.
Hiccup drops a knee on top of the tail. Toothless' head juts up, slows its chewing to a halt.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Okay...okay..
The dragon tenses, slowly spreading his wings. Hiccup straps the prosthetic fin in place. He cinches the straps.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
(PLEASED)
There. Not too bad. It works.
Toothless BOLTS! He snaps his massive wings and takes to the air, carrying Hiccup with him.
"Toothless that nearly gave me an heart attack you know." Hiccup glares at Toothless who tries to look innocent.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Woah! No! No! No!
Hiccup struggles to hold on to the tail. As the ground speeds away, Toothless immediately TIPS into an uncontrolled bank and dive. Hiccup sees the folded fin rattling uselessly in opposition to its flared counterpart. Flap as he may, Toothless can't correct his trajectory.
Shouts, and roars of concern came from the audience. "OH MY THOR!" Stoick yells gripping his seat.
Hiccup swallows his fear and crawls toward the folded prosthetic. He reaches it and YANKS it open. The flared, fan- like appendage catches the air, stabilizing the twisting tail.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
(excited, terrified)
It's working!
Toothless arcs just short of the water and climbs... high into the air.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Yes! Yes, I did it.
He glances back at Hiccup, busily holding the tail open while trying to hold on.
They're going to crash.
Whoomp! Hiccup is suddenly thrown from the tail in the intense force of a turn.
"Hiccup!" Stoick screams.
"Don't worry dad that wasn't my roughest landing." Hiccup says.
"You need to stop doing that or I will have white hairs by the end of the story." Stoick says face palming.
"Considering how you were back in the day, I am pretty sure you father had grey hairs before his time" Gobber remarks with a far off look of reminiscing.
"I was never that bad." Stoick says.
"Well now that I think about it not much has changed really. Remember the time Valka caught you by wash pond" Gobber says before he gets cut off by Stoick.
Gobber is unfazed by Stoicks attempts to silence him. "Why, she ran after you with her broom through the entire village."
Laughter can be heard through the theater as Gobber finishes his story, all the while Stoick is grumbling about meddling blacksmiths.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
AAAAAGGGGHHHHH!
He bounces across the water's surface and takes a dive. Without Hiccup to operate the tail, Toothless does the same, plunging in a massive cannonball. Hiccup resurfaces, roughed up, but beaming. Toothless appears seconds later.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Yeah!
"Only you hatchling, would be happy after being thrown off a dragon." A female Monstrous Nightmare remarks.
"It is a wonder that the Night Striker doesn't have any gray scales yet." Says a male Nightmare next to her.
"Don't I know it." Toothless huffs.