Chapter 11. Read it, review it, and tell me what you people think. This is just here for people to enjoy. Enjoy! :)
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Chapter 11: HTTYD, Part 2
"Guess it's true what they say," Zilla said to himself. "If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself." Looking closer, the book was actually in view, but Litwick didn't seem the notice it slip out. He was thinking of how to get the book when he stood up.
No one else seemed to notice. Lltwick to went a blank wall and pressed his hand against it. A thin white line spread up and down from where his hand touched and opened to reveal a hidden hallway. He stepped inside and the wall sealed again.
Zilla sighed. "Of course I'm going after him." He left his seat and went to the wall. He placed his hand in the position Litwick did his and the wall opened. Down the dark hall were torches. "What with this guy and torches? When was he born, 1575?" Shaking his head, he flew and ventured through.
The first thing Hiro felt when he woke was someone tapping his cheek. "Rise and shine, sleepy head."
He groaned and said, "Five more minutes…"He cracked open his eyes and saw Phoenix smiling with her head on the table, just inches from his. "Oh. That wasn't a dream."
INT. GREAT HALL - DAY
A noisy din of PROTESTING VOICES leads to... STOICK, glowering in the firelight. Surrounded by his men.
STOICK: Either we finish them or they'll finish us! It's the only way we'll be rid of them! If we find the nest and destroy it, the dragons will leave. They'll find another home.
As Hiro and Phoenix rejoined them, Gogo said, "That seems stupid. Won't they just go after your island for revenge?"
Stoick shook his "Of course not. They'll find someplace else."
"And not the guys who destroyed their home in the first place?" Before Stoick could continue, Gogo raised her hand and said, "Shut up
and talk to the hand cuz ain't listening."
He sinks his blade into a... LARGE NAUTICAL MAP, spread out on the table... the blade pierces the middle of an uncharted corner, swirling with painted sea monsters and dragons.
STOICK (CONT'D): (DECIDEDLY) One more search. Before the ice sets in.
VIKING: Those ships never come back.
STOICK: (MATTER-OF-FACT) We're Vikings. It's an occupational hazard. Now who's with me?
Stoick throws up his fist. No one follows. The crowds shifts in restless silence. Head scratches. Eyes averted.
VIKING: (FEEBLE) Today's not good for me.
VIKING (CONT'D): (EQUALLY FEEBLE) I've gotta do my axe returns.
Jamie supped his hands around his mouth and shouted, "Cowards! So much for big strong and scary Vikings."
"Right?" Dream said.
STOICK: Alright. Those who stay will look after Hicca.
Hands jut into the air, volunteers galore. Enthusiastic murmurs of prep and packing fill the room.
"That's just... despicable!" Rapunzel said. "You would rather die than look after a young girl? You should all be ashamed of yourselves!"
"Or me," Hiccup added.
PHLEGMA THE FIERCE: To the ships!
SPITELOUT: I'm with you Stoick!
STOICK: (DRY) That's more like it.
The Vikings rush for the door, leaving Gobber and Stoick alone. Gobber gulps back the contents of his tankard attachment and scrapes back the bench.
GOBBER: I'll pack my undies.
STOICK: No, I need you to stay and train some new recruits.
GOBBER: Oh, perfect. And while I'm busy, Hicca can cover the stall. Molten steel, razor sharp blades, lots of time to herself...what could possibly go wrong?
"I'm guessing, plenty, " Astrid Concluded.
"You're supposed to be on my side, Astrid."
Stoick sinks onto the bench beside Gobber, his brow burdened.
STOICK: What am I going to do with her Gobber?
GOBBER: Put her in training with the others.
STOICK: No, I'm serious.
GOBBER: So am I.
Stoick turns to him, glaring.
STOICK: She'd be killed before you let the first dragon out of its cage.
GOBBER: Oh, you don't know that.
STOICK: I do know that, actually.
GOBBER: No, you don't.
STOICK: No, actually I do.
GOBBER: No you don't!
STOICK: Listen! You know what she's like. From the time she could crawl she's been...different. She doesn't listen.
"There's nothing wrong with being different," Aria said. "Look at Merida, Elsa, jack, Rapunzel, and Eirc for example. They' re different in more ways than one, and that's what makes them special.
STOICK (CONT'D): She has the attention span of a sparrow. I take her fishing and she goes hunting for... for trolls.
GOBBER: (DEFENSIVE) Trolls exist! They steal your socks. (DARKLY) But only the left ones. What's with that?
STOICK: When I was a boy...
GOBBER: (GRUMBLING) Oh here we go.
Hiccup groaned loudly. "This story annoys me so many times! If I had a sack of coins for every time I heard it, I would've left on a passenger ship a long time ago." He quickly covered his mouth, but it was Loo late.
"Leave?" Astrid repeated. "Was it really so bad that you wanted to leave Berk?"
"Well... Not at first. I mean, I wanted to prove to you guys that was a Viking, that could kill dragons. But ever since met Toothless, T only wanted this war to end. Not just so that the dragon's wouldn't get hurt, but the people, either. Haven't we suffered enough just because of a stupid feud?"
"You know…" 3P said. "There's a play written by a famous literature man. His name wag William Shakespeare and he wrote play called Romeo and Juliet. In the story, two families at in a feud. A sort of fight where they kill when they get the chance. Romeo and Juliet were from the two families, and they fell in love. But the cost of their love was their lives."
"Their lives?" Anna repeated.
3P nodded. "Yes. They secretly married and planned to run away together, but their plans were halted when Romeo was forced to go into hiding. Juliet faked her death get away from her family, but Romeo thought she actually died. He took his own life, and when Juliet saw her lover's body on the floor, she took her own."
"What 's the point of this stupid story?" Snotlout groaned.
Half of the room said, "Shush!"
"The point is, people will indeed get hurt in a war. In this case, Hiccup and Toothless are Romeo and Juliet. They are the best of friends, and the cost of the war ending might just be their lives." She knew this wasn't true, but she they didn't need to know that. Not yet .
"So then..." Hiccup Erailed off. "Toothless and I might… We might die?"
"It's a Possibility, yes."
Stoick looked at his son. The cost of ending the war was his life? His biggest regret was disowning him. Now he wanted nothing more than to hold him close. But that dragon was protecting him. He was going to die and It was his fault.
"I failed you, Valka…" he whispered to himself.
STOICK: My father told me to bang my head against a rock and I did it. I thought it was crazy, but I didn't question him. And you know what happened?
GOBBER: You got a headache.
"Must 've gone mental," Merida said.
STOICK: That rock split in two. It taught me what a Viking could do, Gobber. He could crush mountains, level forests, tame seas! Even as a boy, I knew what I was, what I had to become. (BEAT) Hicca is not that Viking.
"Is it just me, or does it sound like he wishes to have a boy instead of a girl?" Jack wondered.
"But for Hiccup," Hiro said, "I think he means that he'd rather have someone else rather an him. Oh, God, how is he still a father he says things like that out loud?!"
The entire room turned glare at Stoick.
"Can I beat him up, Litwick?" Dream asked.
Silence.
"Hey... Where'd Litwick go? And Zilla?"
"Where right here." The two of them entered from the bronze doors.
"Sorry about that, Zilla wanted to talk to me."
"Can we beat Stoick up?" Dream asked again.
Litwick smugged. "You and Zilla can take him.
"What?" Stoick said. "What makes you think I'm going anywhere With you?"
Zilla's eyes gave a mischievous glint. "I have an idea." He snapped his fingers and Stoick suddenly rose into the air.
"Unhand me!" Stoick shouted. But he only got thrown into the doors .
Dream bounded along, pulling on Zilla's arm. "We won't be long!" As the doors closed, they heard her say, "I am going to make you feel SO much pain where the sun don't shine!"
"Olay, then..." Litwick said. "Let's get back to the movie, why don't we?"
GOBBER: You can't stop her, Stoick. You can only prepare her. (BEAT) Look, I know it seems hopeless. But the truth is you won't always be around to protect her. She's going to get out there again. She's probably out there now.
"Probably?" Flynn scoffed. "Try definitely."
ON STOICK, as Gobber's words hit their mark.
EXT. WOODS - DAY
ON AN OPEN NOTEBOOK
A drawn map of the island, covered in X's. Hicca looks up from it and peeks over a gorge, expectantly. Sees nothing. She adds another 'X' to the page, then scratches his pencil over the whole map in frustration. She snaps the book closed and pockets it.
"First a bed, now a book, what's next?" Hiro said.
"A cup!" Jack immediately shouted. "I don't know, I just said the first thing that came La my head."
"And the first thing that came to your head was a cup?" Elsa questioned, frowning .
"Don't tell me how to live my life."
HICCA: Uggh, the gods hate me. Some people lose their knife or their mug. No, not me. I manage to lose an entire dragon.
"I once lost my mind," Phoenix joked.
But Litwick responded with a clever, "It's a shame you never found it."
Hiccup WHACKS a low-hanging branch. It SNAPS back at her, hitting her in the face. She looks up to see a snapped tree trunk. Her eyes follow it to a long trench of up-turned earth.
"Oh, that was probably the most terrifying moment of my life," Hiccup said.
"It's a shame you didn't die," Snotlout said.
"Rapunzel, frying pan please."
Hiccup, though, thought. He turned to Toothless said, "Why didn't you kill me? Aaand I tm talking as if he's going to talk back."
Litwick smirked.
She follows it to a downed, black dragon, its body and tail tangled in a bola. It appears dead. Hicca approaches, beaming.
HICCA (CONT'D): (IN SHOCK) Oh wow. I did it. I did it. This fixes everything. (ELATED) Yes!
She strikes a victory pose, planting her foot on the fallen Night Fury.
HICCA (CONT'D): I have brought down this mighty beast!
It suddenly shifts.
TOOTHLESS: Who are you?
"What?!" Hiccup snapped his head up, "I just imagined that, right?"
"No, I heard it, too," Astrid said.
"But… how?"
"Oh, did I not mention?" Litwick said, feigning innocence. "Toothless is a bit different as well."
HICCA (CONT'D): Whoa!
Hicca springs back, startled. She turns her blade on it. Rattled, Hicca creeps along the length of the weak, wounded dragon, dagger poised to strike. As she reaches the head, Hicca finds the Night Fury staring coldly at her.
TOOTHLESS: You did this to me?
"But doesn't sound like a girl, " Hiccup remarked. "Or think, or whatever. Sounds like thought."
"Who said he was a girl?"
"And how the Odin's name can you hear thoughts?" Astrid added.
Hicca tries to look away, but she's drawn back to its unnerving, unflinching stare. With the dragon safety tangled in the ropes, Hicca jabs with her dagger, puffing himself up with false bravado.
HICCA (CONT'D): I'm going to kill you, Dragon. I'm gonna cut out your heart and take it to my father. I'm a Viking. (BEAT) I am a VIKING!
"No, I'm not." Hiccup said.
"Technicality, you are," Hiro pointed out. "You're just a different Viking."
Hicca raises the dagger, determined to prove his Viking-ness. The dragon's labored breathing breaks Hiccup's clenched concentration. He opens an eye, uncertainty leaking through. The dragon holds the stare. Something profound is exchanged.
TOOTHLESS: Fine. Go ahead. I have nothing left to live for, anyway.
"Oh, bud…" Hiccup put his arms around Toothless. "I'm sorry…"
Toothless licked him before resting his head on his lap, saying all was forgiven.
Finally, the Night Fury closes its eye and lowers its head, resigned to its fate. Hicca tries to go through with it, holding the dagger aloft... fighting himself... until finally lowering it with a frustrated sigh. She looks over the dragon's chaffed rope wounds.
HICCA (CONT'D): (muttered, ashamed) I did this.
She turns to leave. Pauses. And glances back at the dragon, chest heaving. Hicca GRUMBLES. She checks over her shoulder to ensure that no one is watching... then hurries back to cut the ropes. The Night Fury's eye shoots open. With the dragon watching his every move, Hicca hurriedly saws through the bola ropes.
"Hiccup, are you crazy?" Fish legs suddenly shouted. "You actually let it go?"
"I couldn't leave him to die in the woods, Hiccup countered. "I wasn't going to kill a dragon."
As the last rope falls free, the Night Fury suddenly POUNCES! In a blur, the dragon is upon her, pinning Hicca down, grazing her neck.
TOOTELESS: Give me one good reason why I shouldn't roast you into oblivion!
The younger children jumped, more from shock them fear.
"He sounds really angry," Pippa noticed.
Looking like it's about to kill him. Hicca is paralyzed. The dragon's breath ruffles her hair. Hicca opens her eyes to find the Night Fury's wolf-like stare boring into her. The exchange is intense, profound.
TOOTELESS: You're... different…
"Did I forget to mention that being different also saves lives?" Aria joked. "In other worlds, it actually does."
The dragon draws a deep breath, as though it's about to torch him, then lets out an ear-piercing scream instead.
TOOTELESS: DON'T COME BACK!
Hiccup rubbed his ears. "I'm surprised I didn't go deaf."
It turns and takes flight, flapping violently through the canopy of trees. It bashes against a nearby mountain side, recovers, and drops out of view some distance away. Winded, Hiccup struggles to his feet, staggers a few steps, collapses to his knees, and faints.
Stolck entered again, hig eyes in a frenzy. As he took his seat next to Gobber, his friend asked, "Loki's beard, Stoick! You look terrible and you don't even have a scratch an ya! What happened?"
Zilla smiled. "Let 's just say he'll have trouble sleeping for a while."
As he sat back down, Phoenix asked, "What you and Litwick talk about?"
"I'll tell you later. Let's watch the movie. I like this next .
FLASHBACK (Earlier)
Zilla kept out of sight as he entered a small room. It was big enough to only a car or two, in the chaos of a circle. Litwick stood near the center where a single plant was growing. It grew out of the ground and the wild roots and stems ended at a beautiful flower.
The flower was good and brown. Five pellets were on the base of each petal, each petal filled with a fading core of the rainbows. Zilla watched from the seam of the door as Litwick used a dagger to carefully cut at the weeds on the base.
"The Lillian Devine."
Zilla almost jumped when Litwick spoke. But he said nothing.
"The very last one of its kind," Litaick continued. "It's said to have magic so that when its nectar is consumed, the consumer re-experiences their most treasured and precious memories in sleep. It's seed was given to me a long time ago, and I've been tending to it ever since." Then he turned around. "Would you like a sample, Zilla?"
Zilla sighed and came out of hiding. "I'm guessing you knew I was following you this whole time?"
I did. I left in the first place because I wanted to talk to you alone." He took out the book.
"That girl," Zilla said. "She your sister, was she?"
He shook his head.
"But she was someone important?"
He nodded.
Zilla took a stab, a wild guess. He didn't every think it was true. "Did you love her?"
He hesitated before nodding. Before Zilla could speak, he said, "But that doesn't matter." He held up a purple stone.
"What is that?"
Litwick held it the palm of his hand. "This is going to do the same thing it did to Phoenix; it's going to store your memories of this conversation until I actually want to talk about it." Litwick waved his hand from Zilla's head to the rock. He closed his eyes and swayed a little as a stream of purple sparkles traveled from his forehead to the rock. "Just until I'm ready... Then I'll return them." But nothing happened. Zilla didn't seemed fazed. "Huh? That's strange. It should work."
"I know what you did to Phoenix, but my mind is protected from anything deeper by a series of psychic blocks." Zilla explained in a calm demeanor.
"W-What!?" Litwick reacted in shock. "But… How?"
"Well…" Zilla smiled sadly. "…I am, unfortunately a god. Artificially really." There was a moment of intense silence between the two friends. "I understand why what you did to Phoenix. I mean let's face it, she and Dream can't keep a secret to save their own skins." Zilla chuckled a little. "But I can keep a secret. Your secret." Zilla then turned and walked towards the exit. "C'mon let's head back to the theater."
Litwick began to panic a little. "W-Wait! You can't-"
"I won't tell anyone Litwick. You're my best friend." Zilla said. "Like you said; just until you're ready."
END OF FLASHBACK
Chapter 11 Complete! HTTYD Continues. And Zilla discovers only a portion of Litwick's secret. What will the rest be? Read it, review it, and tell me what you people think. This is just here for people to enjoy. :)