Hiccup gone half fury

A/N

I really can't seem to keep the word count going. These updates are getting harder and harder, especially with school coming.

We'll get the dragons from the ring back eventually.

(response to anonymous review, skip if not interested)

To the guest who said my story is not the first story featuring the half human idea: I do know. If I haven't made this clear. Also, the description is currently wrong (as of the time of writing). When I said first fanfiction about hiccup transforming into half night fury. I meant it was my first fanfiction about hiccup transforming into a half night fury. I will change it so it's clearer. Although I do not appreciate you saying that my description was a clickbait: My description is only meant to convey the content of the story and not to clickbait users into reading it. Any viewers reading this story because of the description are accidental (I apologise to any people to whom this is the case. I will change that erroneous description and I hoped you enjoyed my story regardless). Thanks for saying it was a good story.

(end of response)

Chapter 11:

Hiccup woke to the tune of the rising sun. He noticed Astrid in the bed beside his, scowling as she slept. Hiccup did not want to face Astrid with her anger issues. He went towards the village to catch up with the daily affairs of his home. He brushed through the dense, lush undergrowth with ease and came to the top of the village. Here he revelled in the view of the village that was reminiscent of the time before his powers.

He was still unsure of his appearance around the village, so he donned a hood before traversing the uneven paths towards the blacksmiths; where he would craft until dragon training.

Astrid woke much later and noticed, to her annoyance, that Hiccup had gone before she had woken up. For a pair united in situation she was irritated that Hiccup seemed to try to avoid her. She picked up her axe, mounted it on her waist, and walked briskly towards Berk.

She arrived by midmorning and the sun had firmly acquired it's place in the sky, this was a problem since she was, like Hiccup, reluctant to show her face. She fashioned a hood in the traditional way to keep one's face hidden, before putting it on and walking stealthily through the awake village.

Hiccup was working on one of the broken weapon piles. He heard a quiet knock and wondered who would visit the house of the blacksmith's presumed dead apprentice. He warily opened the door, expecting to see the brutish face of his father, but instead saw the angry eyes of his fellow half dragon. He took a few steps back before steadying himself, he also tried to make awkward conversation with the irritated girl.

"Sooo- Astrid, what are you doing here"

Astrid gave him a look of distrust.

"why do you keep staying away from me? Have you got something to hide, Hiccup?"

Hiccup saw that this was likely to lead to a fight. A fight that, although he was stronger than Astrid now, he didn't want to happen. A voice from a mysterious location in his mind whispered a useful hint:

"step back into the shadows, the shadows will save you from this fight."

Hiccup, seeing no other option, took the voice's advice and started stepping back. Astrid, however, saw this as weakness and gave a slow advance to corner Hiccup and get him talking. Hiccup kept backing slowly into the darkened corner while Astrid pushed the advantage. Hiccup reached the corner, and, before Astrid could attack, disappeared into the shadows. Astrid swiped her hand through the air but encountered nothing.

Hiccup was aware that he wasn't in the corner of his apprentice area anymore, but rather in the normal forge area. He was confused until he realised with elation that he was no longer being cornered by Astrid. With this thought in mind he briefly poked his head into the apprentice area to speak a taunt:

"not a fan of the darkness anymore?"

Astrid both noticed he had moved mysteriously and had joked at her expense. She brought up her axe and gave chase to the fleeing boy. Hiccup acknowledged that he had played with fire and used all his speed to run from the girl.

"I thought I was supposed to be the night fury"

Astrid's fury increased, and Hiccup was staying ahead by sheer skill. They kept the close chase going until the ring where Hiccup hid behind the other teens, where Astrid couldn't attack him without hitting the others. Astrid fumed as Hiccup laughed in success at avoiding the violent situation.

Gobber Strode in to the tense situation. He was interested to see that Hiccup had gotten Astrid extremely irritated but continued his lesson regardless.

"Today you will be facing Hiccup and Astrid again. Keep in mind that Astrid is still a Nadder and Nadders get distracted with noise. Hiccup is unknown but at least you can see him before he attacks, you're far luckier than other Vikings in that aspect."

Hiccup backed to the dragon ring wall and let Astrid take on the trainees in her dragon form. She did well against the surprised trainee's until Snotlout accidentally screamed in fright. She was taken off guard and this was when the teens remembered Gobber's advice and banged their shields. Astrid stubbornly resisted and tried to shoot but in the end she was forced back into the deserted cages.

The trainees saw their victory and rejoiced. Astrid, confused and tired, stayed in the cage until she had recovered enough to go out again. Hiccup saw this was the perfect time to surprise the teens and shifted into his dragon form. The teens heard the body shifting and turned around to see the horrifying sight: a pitch black beast honed for the killing.

All were completely unsure how to beat the night fury. They tried to confuse him with noise again, but Hiccup simply ignored the deafening noise and swiped the weapons out of their hands. Attempts at trying to regain their lost weapons were met with humiliating failures.

Hand to hand fighting went equally badly with the only success was a lucky tackle by Tuffnut that made Hiccup trip, He was immediately enraged and glowed dark purple as he tail-swiped the offending teen to the walls of the ring.

Hiccup, enraged, continually attacked the teens who were still foolhardy enough to stand in a battle stance. Snotlout tried his hardest to throw his hammer at the night fury…

The hammer swung, whistling, through the air; the hard steel rotating slowly towards the head of the night fury. one more revolution and it was there, positioned, heavy with momentum, and ready to strike.

Hiccup saw the Hammer coming but it was too late, His draconic skull easily deflected the heavy projectile, but the impact shook his head and dazed him for a while.

The teens were now aware of this weakness (having been watching with occasional weak attempts to fight), they seized on Hiccup's weakness and pressed the attack. Suddenly they stopped dead; Hiccup shook off the daze with assistance from his fury.

The tendril of gas reached around his head, turning clear and lens-like around his poison green eyes. The teens were woefully unprepared when Hiccup recovered quicker than humanely possible and retaliated even stronger than before. The teens were fought back again and retreated under the disabling strikes (Hiccup was still trying not to hurt them badly).

Now on dire straits the teens backed away while Hiccup roared his victory. Astrid was irritated as she came out of the dirty, grey cages

"why does the noise not affect you? Them hitting their shields was so nauseating." [at which point she collapsed]

The teens looked at the sleeping, scowling Astrid and decided this was the best time to leave. Gobber sighed with this unnecessary complication.

"now who is going to get this dragon shifter out of my ring!"

Hiccup, not wanting to let Gobber know where their shelter was, volunteered to bring Astrid back to their home. Astrid lolled in her sleep as Hiccup fired up the DFP to help move her heavy, unconscious body. Hiccup then crouched and sprinted with Astrid in his arms.

Gobber watched them leave while a certain old man was wondering why there was dragon roars coming out of the ring (the village had been told about the departure of the dragons from the ring).

He planned to find out what this mysterious dragon was: once and for all.

Hiccup acknowledged how easy it had been to integrate into the village so far. Nobody had been extremely resistant, and Mildew was currently nowhere to be seen so far.

Hiccup walked awkwardly with the dead weight of Astrid blocking his view. Also, he was getting strange looks from the others since the pair had never shown romantic feelings towards each other. Hiccup walked faster to escape their wary gazes and continued to his destination. While he was briskly walking past the villagers he started wondering how the dragons that he had rescued from the ring were doing. He hoped they were sustaining themselves fine on the island's resources

The dragons of the ring were impatient. Hiccup and his assumed fiancée had left them for too long. Unsure of their current course of action a familiar face was remembered, someone who had wronged them many times during his life, Mildew. The dragons stretched their large wings, roared a challenge before setting off as a group back to berk.

Hiccup was nearing the forest, he looked around to check no one was following him before heading in. The shadows of evening became longer as Hiccup trekked through the forests. Hidden in one of these long shadows a man, coming to the main village from his far off home, stopped and watched Hiccup go by. Hiccup, only aware of Astrid's charming behaviour as she slept, didn't notice the crafty old man trailing him back to the camp.

Chief Stoick was still mulling over the message that had been given by Hiccup to him. He respected his negotiating ability and his draconic power would make him a good chief. So, it was not for personal reasons that Stoick worried about Hiccup's new abilities, but rather his superstitious village who would not accept Hiccup with his inhuman powers.

He needed to deliver his promised speech at some point, he was glad that Hiccup and Astrid had kept their powers secret for now, but he knew it wouldn't last. He started reciting the speech he would give to his villagers, one man's words against a boatload of superstitious belief against the supernatural.

Dagur was feeling the need for expansion. The island he was on simply couldn't supply the needs of his industrial development. He took a map from the disused library and looked around the home island. He saw islands too small, Islands too treacherous, and then he came across an amazing site: Berk. He felt it was time to expand and the fleet was prepared for war.

Hiccup placed Astrid gingerly on her bed before resting outside. Stormfly and Toothless were playing another game that Hiccup didn't understand, and he felt like relaxing. He laid his head on the soft grass.

Mildew couldn't believe what he was seeing. Why had Hiccup and Astrid made their camp far outside the rest of the village? Why did they live together? Hiccup hadn't been a lady's ma-.

His thoughts were cut off when he heard an excited shriek, not coming from the cove. He turned to look for the source. His eyes widened when he saw two dragons playing right next to the cove entrance, he gasped and immediately regretted his mistake

Hiccup had just got into a comfortable position before an unwelcome voice filled the cove. A man, location given away by his accidental gasp, could see their entire location. Rapid magnification confirmed the man to be Mildew: a known dragon hater. Mildew turned suddenly and fled the area, Hiccup deployed his wings and flew after the dangerously informed old man.

The dragons were coming into magnified visual range. They would find that damned old man who had given them many wounds over their time in captivity. And then they would find Hiccup to know why he was still on that island. Burning (one of their group quite literally) with vengeance and curiosity they came ever closer to the green, unaware island

Dagur' s fleet was coming into visual range as well. They saw the dragons rushing towards the island and Dagur took the decision to briefly weigh anchor: until the village was blind to their invasion because of the dragon attack. Dagur smiled, the dragons would weaken the large village until his men could easily take it.

Mildew was unaware of this peripheral drama, he just needed to get to the village, to safety. His panicked steps reached the flat grass of the village limits and he became hopeful for escape.

Hiccup cursed when he lost the old man in the dense forests that had, ironically, hidden his camp for so long. He pulled off his last reconnaissance run before half looping back for another run. His eyes caught the sight of his target and, after a sharp bend, he was descending upon the spy. He swooped low to retract his wings, lest they cause unwanted attention. Now it was just him, on enhanced legs, and his accursedly agile victim.

Dagur watched eagerly, the village, he assumed, would be in the midst of a dragon raid. He raised anchor, swiftly cutting through the water onto a beach ideal for disembarking. Dagur took the first step onto the island's soil before urging off all his warriors. Once all his hardy, excited warriors were off the ship he ordered them to attack the village. His warriors took off at a quick run towards their destination.

Stoick was striding through the village, his confident stance hiding his internal toil. The speech had to happen, but somehow, even now the seasoned warrior was feeling nervous.

The dragons of the ring were still surveying the area. Finding one man in the middle of a village was a hard task that these dragons, of course, had never done before. They flew high with an amazing view but still there was no sign of the weary man.

Toothless and Stormfly were confused when they stopped playing to find Hiccup missing. They would have shrugged off the wandering boy as just exploring the village, however they were horrified to hear the noise of dragon wings. Worried for their friend's life Toothless told Stormfly he would try to keep Hiccup safe. He travelled as fast as his quadrupedal legs could carry him.

Hiccup was irritated with himself. Mildew had gotten away while he was delayed by random villagers; the villagers stayed away from mildew but crowded around the young man who had been missing for so long. Hiccup was very aware of the danger that Mildew had, his witness could make the other Vikings hurt everyone he held dear.

Eventually, Stoick reached the centre of the village. His chest expanded as he prepared to speak his lines. No one was there but they would come when they heard his voice.

"People of Berk! My clan I am sworn to protect! Come to assembly, for we have important matters to discuss."

His people, slightly cowed at the strength of his words, came together to hear what their respected chief had to say. An excited rumour cut through the crowd: what was this 'important manner'? dragons? Or something else…

Once Stoick had the attention of most of his people his booming voice yet again descended on his audience.

"Odin has blessed us!"

The people assembled looked to each other in confusion, a good thing was never the subject of these kinds of assemblies! Was this Loki day?

Stoick continued his speech, not heeding the heated whispers

"we lost a boy, a boy I may add, was useless in this village [the Vikings were still confused why this was the subject, although they agreed he had been useless]. The boy returned, and I hear you ask: 'why this boy? Once useless, always useless' and I would have agreed! However, the gods have blessed us; this boy returned, imbued with power; power of a dragon!"

The villagers were stunned. Stoick had presented well and most of them thought about the capabilities of a dragon imbued warrior or were distracted by thoughts of how someone as useless as Hiccup could have dragon powers. Some, however, were wary of all dragons and that included someone with dragon powers, these people spoke up against the blasphemy of a dragon infested spirit:

"Chief Stoick! With all respect, why would you let any dragon related being into our community. For all we know he could be transmitting our every move back to the dragons!"

Although far-fetched, their accusations of being a spy resonated through the crowd. People argued louder and small fights broke out. Stoick was about to call for them to be silent when one person accidentally did the same

"Dragons!"

The villagers looked up to see a small group of dragons flying overhead, the natural warriors unsheathed their weapons but were irritated that these dragons were out of range. The only warrior that could hit them at this range was contemplating the new threat. The dragons didn't seem to be making a move to attack… another shout rang out from a panicked lookout guard

"we're being invaded! 30 ships manned by Dagur' s men!"

The Vikings were taken off guard. The knowledge of both a sea and air attack had a natural effect on the people of Berk:

"WHAT!?"

Mildew suddenly appeared, hobbling swiftly away from an unseen threat. The dragons overhead locked on to this new person and started to dive

Hiccup appeared too, shocked to see so many Vikings assembled in the village. Some Villagers noticed him and gave him suspicious glances but were too focused on something else to berate him. Obviously Stoick had finally gave his speech to the village, however the reason behind the villager's distraction was not clear. He powered through the crowd towards his father for an explanation.

Stoick saw his son approaching, obviously intent to find out about the commotion. Ignoring the dangers for a minute he explained the problems.

"Son, our village is currently being attacked from the air and by Dagur. If we don't hold both of them off then the damage will be intense, especially from Dagur."

Hiccup was confused by one part. Stoick said dragons were attacking? But dragons attacked during the night and there was still light.

"where are these dragons?"

Stoick pointed and Hiccup immediately understood why the dragons weren't attacking during the night. These were the ring dragons! But also, after the dive that had happened in the crowded situation, one of them had Mildew. Hiccup sighed.

"I don't think those dragons are after the village, just Mildew. I should be able to deal with that situation."

Stoick nodded thoughtfully. If Hiccup was right then they would only need to fight off the land invasion. He silently hoped Hiccup was right, for if not, this would be a hard battle.

A/N

Hope you enjoyed!

Please tell me if there is something I can do on new chapters to improve the quality! I do feel out of touch with most of the readers of the story and I would love more suggestions!

I really did not know where to end this. I decided to do the fight scene later.