A/N: what up! It's me GG. Welcome back to another chapter of Hiccup the silent. Things have started to heat up for Hiccup and abilities to speak. Alright, so lets set some things down. I'll admit last chapter had a high number of grammatical errors I'm a get to work on that after I am done. Reason why is cause I am too lazy to proofread my own stuff but from now on I'll do it. Alright. Lets see someone commented on English not being my first language. Okay I'll admit that I still have trouble typin some stuff down but I'll fix that up as soon as I get the chance. I do not find it offensive that you would suggest that. Matter of fact it helps me correct my mistakes, thanks. Alright, now that we got that settled lets start the show.
_Chapter 9: The Silent Friendship
Hiccup woke up this morning feeling really good. The soreness from his muscles has all but left his body. Now he was feeling a little more relaxed. His bed however did not give him much comfort and usually added pain to his already sore body. Quickly Hiccup jumped out of bed really excited for today. Since his bed offered little comfort he did wake up with a stiff neck. To fix the problem he twists his neck in both directions until he hears a snap.
Taking a deep breath Hiccup steps out of his house and walks calmly to his inner sanctum. As soon as he got there he started to think about what he was going to do for Toothless' tailfin. The last test showed him that it was a good idea to control the tail fin from his foot, but the problem was how it was going to work. When he attempted it the tail fin was not outstretched as far as it should be.
A candle popped up above his head as he immediately thought of a solution to his problem. To not lose the idea he pulled out the notebook and wrote his ideas down quickly before he pulled out a separate parchment to actually draw the schematics of the how the whole tail will work. The whole idea centered on how the tail corresponds to the formation of his leg.
Finally finished he decided not to try anything until he was sure this was going to work. Thinking about what happened last time he wants to make sure that he actually has it before he approaches toothless with it. Hiccup, at this moment, realized that these passed few days he had worked non-stop. Today he wanted to take it easy and relax. Since his dad was not home and he really did not like socializing he decided that it was time that he should spend the first few hours of the day with his best friend Toothless.
With his mind made up he left his home and walked all the way to where his friend calls home. Before heading to the woods to be on his way he remembered Toothless might be hungry. So he decided to head to the village to bring his friend some grub. Walking through the village he is surprised to hear everyone talking about hi in a light way. Though he did realize that because of his time with Toothless and actually learning about dragons that everyone else had seen his performance at the academy as incredible.
Truth be told that he did not want to be in this stupid competition anymore. He did not even want to hurt dragons at all. Especially now that he has a dragon as his best friend. At this moment he made a vow that with his life he will protect his only friend. He broke away from his thoughts when he realized he was at the market area of the village. He shook his head to get his mind together before approaching the fish merchant. Without exchanging any words with the merchant he hand signaled how many Fishes he would want. 'A good six is good,' he thought as he signaled the number, before he purchased the food and left with a nod to the merchant.
Walking away from the village with a basket with six fresh fish he started heading to his new home. He did not have a problem with Berk; it's just that he did not feel as comfortable here than he did with toothless. When he arrived he found Toothless sitting next to the lake waiting for him. Seeing him there Toothless immediately ran to Hiccup to greet him with a few purrs. Hiccup smiled at Toothless' antics, and just pet him on his head a few times before he grabbed the basket he had and spilled the contents on the ground.
Toothless quickly got to eating the food… okay eating was putting it lightly toothless pretty much inhaled the food. Hiccup smiled and shook his head. Toothless can be really crazy sometimes. Hiccup decided to try scratching Toothless behind his neck. He was surprised to see Toothless drop the fish from his mouth and lean in to Hiccups touch. Hiccup knew that Toothless enjoyed this scratching sensation and decided to try scratch faster and faster as Toothless continued to lean into his touch.
While scratching Toothless, Hiccup decided to try scratching below his neck. What caught him off guard was toothless giving a loud growl before passing out with a draconic smile. Hiccup chuckled before shaking his head and looking up. Once he saw the position of the sun Hiccup knew that he was late for today's dragon training lesson. Quickly grabbing the basket he made a mad dash for the village.
Once he arrived he dropped the basket off at his house before continuing his mad stretch for the arena. Once there was surprised to see that there was no one there except for Gobber. This was surprising to him when it took an extra ten minutes for the students to show up. One by one they all came later than he did. When he saw Astrid walk in with her favorite Axe he remembered that he forgot to pick up his favorite sword.
Quickly before the next lesson started he made a mad dash for his inner sanctum to pick up his trusty weapon. Once he got it he strapped it onto his new belt before running all the way back to the arena right before Gobber was about to give his speech.
"Alright kids. Today's dragon will be the deadly Nadder. Good Luck!" he said quickly before opening the door for the deadly Nadder pounced out of the cell and quickly observed the students and attacked them. Quickly he drew his sword and grabbed a nearby shield for himself before going into the most comfortable stance he has. Keeping his eyes on the Nadder and slowly moving he did not realize that Astrid was right next to him until she ran forward and threw her axe at the Nadder only for it to deflect it with its nasal spike and charge forward.
Astrid quickly moved out of the way, but Hiccup knew he did not have time to move out of the way. Especially with the Nadder fully locked him. With no choice he hoped right now that dropping his sword and shield and holding his hands up will stop the Nadder in its tracks. Surprisingly luck was on his side because the Nadder stopped and observed him before its attention went to a charging and screaming Astrid. After what happened with Toothless today he hoped that the Nadder has the same reaction.
So he started scratching the Nadder on the Neck quickly to get it to enjoy the scratching before going under its neck to effectively knock it out cold. Looking back up at Astrid, she looks at him in the eyes in surprise as she lets out a breath and annoyed grunt. Without emotion he just shrugs his shoulders and walks away from and arena and begins heading back to spending the day with his buddy Toothless. What he did not expect was for most of the students run to catch up to him to talk to him.
Most of the conversations were one sided as they just talked pretty much about him amongst themselves. He looked down as he realized his thigh was lighter than usual. He looked down and his eyes Widened as he realized he forgot his sword back at the ring. He tapped each student on the shoulder before turning around to run off. What he did not expect was Astrid to be the one behind everyone else. Running right into her he is knocked off of his feet and lands on his behind. He shook his head to shake off the daze he looks up to an angry Astrid. Quickly getting up he taps her on the shoulder two times to signal his apology and runs off to the arena to pick up his favorite sword.
All the students stared at him in awe, except Astrid Hiccup a suspicious scowl. For Astrid she had the competition in the palm of her hand. What she did not expect was the performance Hiccup was giving. She knew now that she needed to train extremely hard to make sure she had this win in the palm of her had. Quickly she walked away and charged for her favorite training ground in the forest.
Hiccup did not like this at all. He did not want to be in this competition anymore and yet every time he brings in everything he learns from toothless, it always makes him look like a great warrior in the eyes of the village. Getting back to what he was doing he picked up his favorite sword and sheathed it back into its sheathe. He shook his head at the thought of having to perform in front of his father. He did not want to hurt a dragon and he especially did not want to make his father look bad. Normally after everything that his father had done to him Hiccup would want to destroy his image.
Except there is still the fact of the matter, Stoic was his father. The more he thought about it the more he wished his mother was still around. Turning around he began to walk to where his friend was staying.
His thoughts the entire time were on how to stop himself from fighting the dragon in front of the whole village. He needed a way to make a fall. His thoughts were so preoccupied by this almost did not realize the axe flying straight for his face. The axe was followed by a shout of "HICCUP WATCH OUT!" on reflex he sidestepped and caught the axe by the handle.
Eyes wide he looked back at the person who dared throw the axe at him only to see an equally surprised Astrid staring at him with her arm outstretched. Sighing in relief he shook his head and looked at the axe and realized that it's the same axe he made all those months ago. Inspecting the handle and blades he sees that she had put the axe through way too much. Narrowing his eyes he looked at Astrid and gestured for her to follow him. So far the years she had owned this axe had caused it to not only lose its balance on the handle but the blades themselves had started to chip off.
He led her all the way back to the forge and got to work on fixing her axe. She had asked him what was wrong, he would have answered but he decided to just keep working on the axe. She had almost pounced on him when she saw him remove the handle from the axe blades.
She however, remembered that Hiccup had trained under Gobber to create and fix broken weapons. She had heard stories from her father on how well Hiccup had mended his broken axe and made it into something amazing. With that in mind she decided to look around the forge and check out everything Hiccup had to work with. She out of the blue found a door behind the forge that she was sure no one was supposed to see. Looking at hiccup she saw him busy sharpening an axe, so she decided to take a look.
Once she entered she was surprised to walk into a room full of drawings. None of them even looked like plans for anything that Hiccup normally tries and fails to create. All of the drawings weren't even drawings. All they had was just writing, looking to the corner of the room she saw a table with two candles and a metal plate attached to the wall. On the metal plate she read the 'Valhallarama.' Looking down on the table she saw a drawing of a woman with a little boy by her side, next to it what appeared to be a letter. In the beginning of the letter it said 'I miss you mom.'
She would have read more had it not been for the fact that she was interrupted by Hiccup tapping her on the shoulder. She looked at his face and she did not expect to see an angry scowl in place of Hiccup's usual calm demeanor. Handing Astrid her new axe he motioned with his hand for her to leave albeit very aggressively. Astrid did not need to think twice as she just walked right out of the house the small room and left before turning back to Hiccup on the exit and saying "thanks Hiccup. I'm sorry," As she turned and dashed out into the village to return to her home.
Hiccup did not ever like getting angry with anybody, however the thing is he did not like anyone to enter his mom's memorial room. This place was the only place he can remember his mom without having anybody interrupt him. He would have had this in his inner sanctum had it not been for the fact that the sanctum was for him to think and create new plans. Gobber gave this room to Hiccup because this room was always empty. When Hiccup found out that Gobber had no use for it he decided to take it.
He wrote a sign on the door after the first few weeks, telling Gobber that he had taken ownership of the small room. Turning back to the small letter on the table he quickly wrote down 'I'll see you at the crossroads. So you won't be lonely, mom' before letting out one more tear and walking out of the room and closing the door. Wiping his eyes he takes a small roll up bed with him before going to where his friend was.
Before walking into the forest he quickly changed into his new outfit and continued marching on into the woods to meet his friend. He had spent the whole day with Toothless after that. They played around and before the sun had set he pulled out his sword and checked to see if it was still good. When he checked it he was surprised to see Toothless chasing after the sun glare coming from his sword. Curious to see what will happen he decided to move it around and direct that little light all over the ground. Yet Toothless still chased after it and attempted to grab it. Smiling he put his sword away and spent the rest of the day and night there with Toothless. Rolling out his makeshift bed he goes to sleep. His last thoughts were of his mother.
A/N: All right so here is the next Chapter guys let me know what you guys think. I really tried to have few grammatical errors in this chapter. I almost have this down but it's going to take a while guys so bear with me. I'll see if I can post the next chapter soon. Peace!