OOH GOD, SOOO SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG, I was down about 4-5 different rabbit holes while I was away, and it took forever to get out.

So I've been rather obsessed hanging in the Zootopia section on FFN, honestly getting really annoyed there, I mean some are good, but lots of problems keep arising there, people seem to not get English (I mean bad punctuation, inability to spell [or mixing up lots of words], bad sentence structure and grammar, repeated statements, there are a lot of English issues [and I get it for the non-English speakers, but most are native English tongues]), and the romance idea is way overplayed. (I get it's cool and all to ship, but please give me a more unique selling point than romance, it's lost its flavor) Also please leave parenthesis out of stories, a good story usually doesn't need them, in that section, they are more abused, and lots of the most faved have those problems, I mean I get it's FFN and very few here are pros, but that's no excuse that the biggest fics can have huge problems like that, maybe it's the fact that it's a real young fic section with a Disney background, and I don't expect the quality that the HTTYD fics with the most favs have, but I shouldn't be preparing myself to look past the cringe in order to read.

Anyway, sorry, had to complain, I might talk more in another AN if I ever post on that section, and damn if I'm not going to make it as perfect as possible. I mean, I really liked Zootopia, it had lots of potential for fanfiction, and I honestly wouldn't mind a sequel or spinoffs, but I really am starting to get sick of the boring, cliche, and cringiness of that section of FFN.

Ok, sorry about that, I had to get that off my chest, hours there have shown me huge differences in quality between the HTTYD and the Zootopia section, and I think the HTTYD section has better writing. Not to mention Hiccstrid is not abused like the Hopps/Wilde ship is. And...I'm starting to complain, sorry, sorry, it's just been something I can't get enough of because there isn't enough good stuff I can read there. That's partly why I was gone for a while. AHH, STARTING TO COMPLAIN AGAIN.

Anyway, I have ideas to do for Zootopia, so I might some day post a few stories there as well, but until then, I got some rock to write.

Reviews:

NatBlake: Oh you bet, a duet is unlikely for a bit, but I bet you especially are gonna love this

Commander Chandell 919: Yeah sorry bout that, been stuck in a jaded state, but you really should see Zootopia, it was awesome, and no, I've not seen Interstellar yet. I will try to increase his role, my focus has been skewed a bit for the two most personalized characters, but we'll get to the others soon enough, and prepare for more badass Astrid, she shall finally reach her final form :P, no but seriously, she'll be more badass as we go on, also thanks. (Though I don't feel like I deserve a break, thanks for the words)

Now let's get to the story before I ramble on any further and waste thy precious time. Writer! Away!


Chapter 9: Party Time

Felix awoke next morning to once again find his father uncharacteristically cheery, so cheery that he didn't even bother to provide a Thursday wakeup call, and just left. Felix however was grateful, he didn't need his father to bother waking him up, breakfast was usually awkward between them. He just never had anything interesting to say to him, and the only thing ever asked was how Felix was doing in school. So he went downstairs, prepared a box of cheerios in a bowl of milk, and ate. And after he took up his hygiene routine, he drove himself to school, where once again nothing interesting happened. He returned home to prepare for a whole night of practice, being the last they would get before the party.

He sat down at his set, and sighed. "What'd you got for us today Hiccup?" He asked nobody as he waited for the rest of A Viking Siege. "What a ridiculous name, couldn't of picked a better name?" He chuckled as he decided to drum out the silence.

He was working hard and fast on his set. Frustration fueled him and he couldn't stop, it took Hiccup and Astrid actually tapping his shoulder to jolt him out of it. He realized he had been playing for a whole thirty minutes and he used it all just to drum out randomly. "Might want to wait to break your set until after the party," Astrid joked.

"Good thing I don't have a weak set huh?" He cracked back with a nervous smile.


Felix and Astrid started talking immediately after the former was broken out of his berserk drummer state. It took them less then ten minutes to decide, and most were spent talking about how cool it would be. The final decision was for Hiccup to perform Everything I Hate About You, so just after the talk, they told Hiccup. He was still nervously reluctant but Astrid assured him he'd do fine, and so she proceeded to give him a quick lesson on specific vocal exercises to help relax his voice. That covered most of his anxiety and so they then started to talk about the songs Hiccup wrote. He told them he didn't write the lyrics or melody to appeal to a specific voice, but given the right rhythm and bass, Astrid could probably do them well enough.

The only issue that arose was Astrid didn't know the melody for her voice to follow, and Hiccup didn't write that stuff down, so after a few minutes of Hiccup trying it out between his guitar, his voice, and her voice, they came up with a decent melody that could be done, which could be added to after.

So Astrid began to follow Hiccup as he started up a melody, and so she started with a simple chorus:

"It's a Rolling Thunder

Pain and Suffer

Life and Death

We can't take it

A Rolling Thunder"

In the first stanza, every syllable got progressively higher until Astrid hit 'Rolling' where they started rolling downwards. On the next line, she started lower, went up on 'and' and rolled 'Suffer' down then back. On the third one, she was faster, rolling down the key and inverted the progress on the following line. The last one repeated the first, and Astrid felt satisfied with the result.

The girl nodded her head as she thought about the lyrics and chorus. "I like it, what else you got on this?" She asked Hiccup, who scrambled for his notebook, less nervous about his writing. "Well I do got this, but I doubt is very good." He handed Astrid his writings, which took up most of the page, the chorus she sung scatter throughout, with chords written above certain words. She was looking at a completed song, and she was both shocked and impressed. "Hiccup, this...I'm not sure whether to say amazing or insane?" Hiccup looked back at her when she finished, smiling nervously at her. "Yeah, I didn't have any ideas for the drums or bass though, most of these were done way before we started practicing together." He pointed out. "I think I got a few idea."


Friday started uneventful until practice started. Hiccup was acting obviously and extremely nervous that day. Astrid and Felix were concerned, they expected Hiccup to sing, but they didn't want to hurt him. So they discussed it upstairs after everything was setup, and decided to have Astrid talk to him, she was more likely to get a true reaction.

"Hey, Hiccup," As she walked back down to the basement. "What's wrong?" He was startled by the question and quickly came up with something to avoid answering. "Oh, what? Oh, Nothing." He leaned on the wall uncharacteristically, trying to appear cool. "Nothing at all." He gave with a highly nervous smirk. "Hiccup, it's obvious you're nervous. Could you tell me, I don't want you to be nervous and I'm sure Fish doesn't either." She let her concern for a now good friend of her's show.

The nervous teen finally sighed in defeat, and deflated immediately, staring at his feet. "It's just...I'm scared, scared of what'll happen if I go on stage, scared of being recognized and being hurt, or of making a mistake, and then getting attacked, what if they actually don't care about music and just want to hurt me?" He looked at hurt, letting his fears take hold. "Well first, me and Felix are there, so don't be scared, I'll make sure neither of you'll get hurt. And don't worry about screwing up, you are amazing, all of us," She laughed as she leaned a hand over his shoulder. "Don't worry about doing good, you're already awesome." He beamed at Astrid. "Thanks Astrid, that helps, but doesn't make me any less nervous." He looked back down to his feat.

Astrid hummed in thought, removing her arm from Hiccup to massage her chin in even deeper thought. "I've got it!" She blurted where she went to a corner of the room and picked up a discarded black mask. It just looked black, no other remarkable features. She moved back to Hiccup, wiped it off, then placed his head in it. "What the hell are you doing Astrid?" He struggled from her grip holding him there. "You don't want to be noticed? Well, this might help." She forced his head in it, and took a step back to look at her work. "Not bad, seems like this could work. Do you still feel nervous if nobody knows who you are? We could also come up an alias for you too, nobody will even know it's you." She beamed back, joyful at possibly solving the biggest plight in the band. "Uh, I suppose this helps, but an alias? You already know I'm bad with names." Astrid then smiled deviously at the masked guitarist. "Oh no...what are you think?" Her smile only grew at the question. "I got the perfect name." She laughed. Then Felix called down from the stairs. "How about Night Fury?"

Hiccup looked up to the stairs, then back to Astrid. "Aww, I wanted to come up with it," She mocked sadness. "But that's better than what I was thinking." She nodded at the name in her head. "Yeah Night Fury sounds cool, but how about we just call you N. Fury, much more mysterious, makes the name even more interesting." She said with a small jump of joy. "Yes," And then she returned to being more professional. "Alright so, now that we've got that down, should we practice some before we go out, like a dress rehearsal," As she pointed to Hiccup in the mask. "I think we've used up enough time, let's get to practicing." Hiccup ethusatically said before Felix stepped down the stairs and they all started up.


The practice lasted four and a half hours. They finished with practicing Hiccup's song, and the one he was singing one last time, and then packed up Felix's rather stuffy car before they rode off to Snotlout's house. When the arrived at eight, the place was crowded with teens from school, lots of drunk jerks hanging around, making noise and doing stupid things. Hiccup caught someone pissing into a shrub. "Yeah, gotta love alcohol." He remarked. Felix was the most disturbed by the sights. "Why doesn't anyone call the police for a disturbance?" He asked. Hiccup answered. "Nobody here cares, they're so spread out, and most people on this street are never home." He kept trying to keep his head down afterwards. "Even then, Snot's father is pretty powerful, and encourages this shit, so he keeps his dumbass son from getting in trouble." Hiccup continued, obviously unhappy with his cousin. Felix and Astrid decided not to comment.

They entered the house, searching for the one of the likely coordinators of the party, Tuffnut or Ruffnut. They eventually found Tuff sitting at the corner of the house, preparing the classic shaving cream prank on a large drunk passout. "Tuff," Astrid snuck up behind. The other two stayed uncomfortably in a nearby doorway. "We're here, any place we could set up?" Tuffnut looked up from his prank. "Hold on, wait a sec." The cream was on the drunk's hand, so he used the feather on his nose, to which the drunk rubbed at, and smeared the cream. Didn't even wake. "Alright follow me. We got the perfect place." He said enthusiastically as he lead them outback where there was stage with a drum set and amps already set. "Wait, so we didn't need to bring drums or amps?" Felix said unhappily. "Doesn't matter, less to carry out at least." Hiccup told him. Tuffnut then joined in. "Yeah, Snot's shitty band was on earlier, got fucking booed offstage within two minutes, it was fucking hilarious. Probably gone weeping somewhere," Tuff laughed then directed the band, who had been carrying their instruments already, aside from Felix who only had his sticks.

On the stage, they set up and plugged in, distortion pads to amps, correcting the seat and set for Felix, and they were ready to play. Hiccup was still wearing his mask, and they had already decided to force Hiccup to start off with his song, forcing him to the mic.

Hiccup pressed his distortion pad and kicked up the volume, as was suggested by Astrid to get attention. He raced his fingers through the strings to get the loud overdrive sound. "Everyone ready to rock!?" He yelled, as he was also told by Astrid to do. He kept repeating the mantra in his head, act cool, yell to the crowd, give them intense, and play. Some of the random people replied yeah, but most only just looked towards them. "We're A Viking Siege!" That was a bit awkward to the band, but no one seemed to notice, so they started. "This first one is I Hate Everything About You by Three Days Grace." Hiccup said gentler. And they started the song.

First the guitar was strummed without distortion for about ten seconds. Then Hiccup began.

"Every time we lie awake

After every hit we take"

Then Felix started lightly pounding his set.

"Every feeling that I get

But I haven't missed you yet"

Then the drums got harder with cymbals and Astrid also started following.

"Every roommate kept awake

By every sigh and scream we make

All the feelings that I get

But I still don't miss you yet"

Then Hiccup threw a distorted guitar strum in, then another lower one while Hiccup was still singing.

"Only when I stop to think about it"

Another higher overdrive strum and then the drums followed and kept a short bridge before Hiccup started to yell into the mic along with the whole song picking up a heavy faster beat.

"I hate everything about you

Why do I love you?

I hate everything about you

Why do I love you?"

The verse then repeated with another set of lines, only heavier, and the chorus came back. But the following bridge was different. The drums slowed down a little bit while Hiccup played the guitar following his voice.

"Only when I stop to think about you

I know

Only when you stop to think about me

Do you know?"

To which Hiccup started strumming a bit again before the drums kicked back to the chorus, which was slightly changed.

"I hate everything about you

Why do I love you?

You hate everything about me

Why do you love me?"

Then the song changed slightly.

I hate

You hate

I hate

You love me

Then the chorus repeated with only the first two lines, and then Hiccup started a solo just for the hell of it while his bandmates continued their parts. He played for another minute before Felix played a quick solo till he ended it.

By the end of the song, the crowd was mostly cheering. Then Astrid came up in Hiccup's place while he moved his distortion pad. "Did ya like that?" She yelled back at them, to which the crowd responded hysterically. "Well get ready for some Back In Black." They had decided to randomize their list mostly cause they didn't care much, and what they picked had no real mood. So they started Back in Black.


They reached the last song in their list, the one Hiccup made, with a hyped crowd. They tried to stick close to the songs they were playing, and by the time they finished the others, more people were cheering. Astrid had sung Back in Black close to how they all had heard the song, and it seemed well liked, along with Burn, Scared, Rock and Roll, Let You Down, and Just Like You. By the end, they were preparing for Hiccup's song, which started with a light riff that slowly rode up the neck.

And then kicked into distortion right into the chorus.

"It's a Rolling Thunder

Pain and Suffer

Life and Death

We can't take it

A Rolling Thunder"

The the guitar speed up and drums slowed down, and Astrid slowed as well.

"Safely, we can not hold

Painfully we told

Hated all the way

Waiting for the day to come

When they breathe again

To suffer the eternal fate

Watching as they choke

Pain when they are wrong

Hate we were right

Wait for the day to come"

Then the chorus returned after a short guitar and drum bridge while Astrid held the note.

"A Rolling Thunder

Pain takes under

Wasteful blunder

Hate and take

A Rolling Thunder"

And then Hiccup started a guitar solo that lasted an upwards of a minute.

"A day to come undone

The war we raged is won

But death has brought

Suffering to tell

How do they continue here

Where you can return

Its seems a waste point

And yet they are not weak"

Which was followed by another bridge into the chorus.

"It's a Rolling Thunder

State brings hunters

Hated runners

Made in hell

A wasted blunder

Pain and Suffer

Rolling Thunder

Boiling Under

Toiling

Hating

Making

A Rolling Thunder"

Astrid held that last line before the guitar, bass, and drum continued shortly before Hiccup started a quick, heavy solo to end it all.

By the end of the song, the most of the crowd were either out or cheering. After some whistles and drunk cheers, Tuffnut comes up to the stage and whispers to Hiccup. "Hey, Hiccup, you know I'm the Man? That Anthrax song, also, what's with the mask?" Hiccup looked back to answer. "I know parts of it, and I didn't want people to recognize me, can you not say anything about it." Tuff nodded in understanding. "Ahh, it's sweet, was just wonderin', but could you actually play it, I got something to try." Hiccup had one other question. "You should ask Felix, it's a drum heavy song, and if you plan to rap, don't expect anyone else to join." Tuff just nodded back again. "Got it," Then Tony went to the drums. "Can you play Anthrax I'm the Man?" But Astrid overheard the conversation, and when Felix said he's only heard it once, and never knew it, Astrid decided to take his place for this song. "You mind Felix, I've got it, though drums aren't my best, I can do it, can you play bass?" Felix nodded. "I learned guitar early, though barely ever bothered." Astrid told him it barely ever uses it, and told him to keep it simple, so Astrid and Felix traded places.

So Tuff had Hiccup start it for second before he started a yell, and then Astrid started on the drums with a heavy beat. Then Tuff started the rap.

"So we're Anthrax and we take no shit, and we don't care writing hits. The sound you hear is what we like. I'll steal your pop-tarts like I stole your..." And then Astrid butt in with 'socks' which made Tuffnut smile while he walked around with the mic. "Yo, what's the matter with you." And then Tuffnut continued. "Beat the beat the beats you beat, the only thing hard is the smell of my feet. So listen up close or you might get dissed. Go drain the lizard or take a..." And Astrid returned with the word 'chair' which made the audience laugh. Tuffnut then said "Watch the beat," before the drums picked up and he continued rapping faster while jumping around the stage. "I'm on your case, I'm in your face. I kick you and your father back in place. Step off in the sucker understand, don't you know that..." And then Astrid squeezed her voice with "I'm the man, I'm so bad I should be detention, I'm the man" to which Tuff responded with "Shut up." with a grin and a middle finger the the sky.

The song continued that way for about four minutes while Tuff goofed off and rapped. Eventually the guitar took off and Tuff just drawled out the end, laughing maniacally. "I didn't know Astrid had that in her?" Her fellow bandmates said. "It's a funny song, much better than the modern crap anyhow." She said. "I'm not really surprised, that was pretty funny." Hiccup added trying to stifle a grin even if his face couldn't be seen. While that went on, the rest of the crowd was either laughing, being confused, sleeping, or not caring, most being confused.

That's when Tuffnut decided to step up and with what he thought was a two good ideas, with which he first approached Hiccup. "You guys are pretty fun, and I'm good with guitar, you guys cool if I join?" He asked. Hiccup looked to his bandmates, who heard the conversation. Astrid nodded from the drum set while Felix shrugged indifferently. "Why not? Sure. Could use a rhythm guitar anyhow." That made Tuffnut jump with a fis upwards in joy. "Yes" He said.


The next few hours of the party were spent lying around for Hiccup, Astrid, and Felix. They all understood how dumb the crap at a party was. That was until they heard an explosion outside, when they reached it, they saw Tuffnut and Rachel, Tuff's sister, also known as Ruffnut, cackling away from a mildly controlled fire by the swimming pool. "Are people really not gonna do anything about that?" Felix asked. Astrid responded with "It's a party, most are too drunk, or high, to give a shit." Felix then looked back to the fire. "So we're all gonna watch it burn? Not even gonna call the fire department?" He continued, and Astrid looked back to him apathetically. "I doubt we need to, Tuff and Ruff have somehow found a way to light crap for panic without getting in trouble, somehow, they can prevent burning anything."

That's when Tuffnut made back on stage, where it had been an hour since the last song had been played. He went up asking the band of the night to come up. "Must be us, Snot's sucks." Hiccup said from the doorway. They got back on stage with their instruments still being up there, and Tuffnut now had a guitar with him, a green one that somehow had bumps running up the back and sides of the neck. As soone as A Viking Siege stood on stage, Tuff yelled into the mic about doing live karaoke, they just had to come up to the try to sing the song. The rest of the band was rather unhappy with that curveball, but they decided it was better to do it and not piss of the drunks.

It took them half an hour of mostly terrible singing and rapping before everyone was too drunk to continue. So Felix decided to ask Tuffnut a question. "How drugged are you?" Tuffnut just chuckled maniacally and then said "None tonight, had to mess with Snot and his shitty band, was a bitch last time I pranked hard while was high."

While that went on, Hiccup took off his mask out front by the car, while he and Astrid finished packing the car. "Well that was fun." Hiccup leaned on the car looking back at Snotlout's house. "Maybe we should do this again sometime." Astrid leaned on the hood, next to Hiccup. "Classic line for idiots." She punched him in the arm and grinned. Hiccup didn't care about the punch cause he saw Snotlout and his cronies coming out. "Hey, loser, what are you doing here?" But Astrid responded. "Your band is shit, that should give you a clue." Snotlout ignored the comment and decided to continue his picking. "I didn't even give you a chance to give you your daily punch." That pissed Astrid off enough to threaten a move that scared most of Snotlout's posse away. "Leave him alone Snot, I've already kicked your ass twice now." But Hiccup decided to quip there. "Does knocking him out when he least expects it count? I could have sworn..." But Astrid glared back at him. "Shutting up."

Snotlout decided now was his moment to try something stupid, flirting with Astrid. "Hey babe, could..." And then he was knocked out by Astrid, again. "Two for two bitch." She said. That's when Felix came back from the backyard, seeing Snotlout laid out across the cement. "Bet he'll still try that tomorrow," Felix said. "Also, told Tuff where I lived and to meet us at like one, so he should be there." Felix then continued further while they all packed in the car. "Oh, Hiccup, did Snotlout know about you wearing the mask?" Hiccup responded with another quip. "His bird brain didn't even see the mask when I was standing next to him, wait, was he drunk?" Astrid decided to respond. "With how clear he tried to quickly flirt with me, I doubt it." Hiccup then shot back. "Oh, cause I was gonna say if he was, then it wasn't fair when you knocked him on his ass." Astrid then glared back from the front seat. "Shutting up."


So this is about 4,000 words (3.83k but close enough), double my usual, again, sorry it's so late, and while 2,000 is usually quick for me, this chapter was much harder for me. Anyway, I hope you liked all that, I really tried to do my best, but I feel like some sections went great while others turned a tiny bit flat. Sorry about that, but this is the point where they start to get bigger, slowly but surely doing more shit. Also, hope you liked Tuffnut rapping, especially you NatBlake, I know you really wanted to see that, so I chose the most immature, most hilarious metal rap song I could find, which was probably the first, I'm The Man by Anthrax, and the switch with Astird and Felix was actually kind of a joke, as iirc, how Anthrax did that song is the drummer and vocalist would switch places.

Anyway, I really got into the story of Zootopia, so I started writing a Fringe (the sci-fi tv show) inspired sequel type of fanfic for it, so if you like that, check it out.

Also, I've been programming a lot and looking for an entry level job in software engineering, so those are other reasons it took so long, I will try not to be so long.

And oh yeah, tried my hand and lyric/music writing, Rolling Thunder is what happened when listening to lots of AC/DC, I feel a bit unsatisfied with it, but I hope they aren't too bad. (As I said once before, I may at some point actual perform some of the songs, if I think they don't suck [much at least], so when/if I do, I may try to link to the youtube vid id, however, if I do, I'm a bit of a raspy singer, whereas I aim Hiccup and Astrid to be less raspy, so if that happens, pray its not crap)

Anyhow, if you liked this, please fav and follow, and no matter what, please review, it helps. Thanks for reading, and I'll see ya soon, Spartan out.

Chapter Songs:

Master of Puppets - Metallica

Happiness, Everything I Hate About You - Three Days Grace

Saint Asonia Album - Saint Asonia

Back in Black - AC/DC