Well 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME AND FOURTH OF JULY'! I hope you guys like this chapter!
Traitors
Valka and Stoick's Room
Stoick and Valka were still asleep in their bed unaware that Hiccup and Toothless had just left. As the two slept peacefully seafoam-green smoke filled the room entering Stoick's mind.
Dream
"Your not my son."
Stoick said as he closed the door to the Great Hall behind him making sure it didn't slam, so many emotions devoured his entire body; fury, hatred, pain, sorrow, and so much more, but the one that was on the top of the list was guilt.
Moments ago he was full of pride, his son was finally going to become a dragon slayer like the rest of the village, a true Viking. But, the gods always had a trick up their sleeves, Hiccup had done the unspeakable, he had befriended a dragon and not just any dragon a Nightfury. How Hiccup found it and was able to keep this secret for so long was a mystery, but that wasn't in his thought's right now. He had just disowned his own child, his own flesh and blood, and the last thing he had to remember her...
"Where did I go wrong?" Stoick asked himself as he shut his eyes.
"When the HE! did You do anything RIGHT ?!"
Stoick's eye snapped opened looking around to see nobody there.
Suddenly, Stoick saw seafoam green smoke coming from the Great Hall.
"Hiccup!" Stoick shouted as he ran into the Great Hall. "HICCUP, WHERE ARE YOU?"
The smoke filled Stoick's lungs, but this did not bother him he had breathed in worse fumes in his lifetime: what was important right now was saving Hiccup.
A ball of violet fire formed in the middle of the room, which cleared the smoke, and revealed a cloaked figure.
"Who are you? Where is my son?!"
The figure didn't answer, the only signs of response was the figure balled his/her/their fist in anger.
"Answer me: WHERE IS ME SON?!"
The cloaked figure raised their hands and the seafoam green smoke formed around him. Stoick felt as though he was be strangled. NO! DROWNING! The smoke entered his throat drowning him by the second. Stoick had his hands on his knees trying to caught the smoke out. The cloaked figure was now in front of him, the figure was short, not as short as Hiccup-short, but short enough for the kneeling Stoick to look down at them. Stoick's vision was starting to go black as the figure spoke.
'You were never his father!'
End Dream
Stoick awoken to realize it was just a dream... a nightmare. About the day he...
He turned to see that Valka was out of bed before him, he opened the bedroom door to the kitchen to reveal Valka, Toothless, and a sleeping Hiccup.
"Morning." Stoick greeted the two as Hiccup was still asleep.
"Stoick, has Hiccup been acting strange lately?" Valka asked as was looking down at their sleeping son.
Honestly, Stoick could write a book about Hiccup's behavior, but he understood what she meant. As his eyes turned to Hiccup he saw how pale his skin was getting, the darkening bags under his eyes, and how he looked all the energy was sucked out of him. Stoick knew that Hiccup's schedule got him up before the rooster crow and come home late as the moon was in the center of the night sky. But, this was something... different?
"We'll talk to him as soon as he wakes up." Stoick responded not knowing what else to say.
For all he knew Stoick was hoping it was just Hiccup getting the Winter bug.
(Skipping a few tings so I don't have to rewrite them, and you don't have to reread them)
Dragon Training
Hiccup and Toothless finally arrived at the Dragon Academy only to be greeted by -
"What took you guys so long I've been waiting for three hours !?" Snotlout shouted not pleased to be waiting for so long.
"It's only been three minutes." Astrid interrupted placing her hands on her hips.
"Whatever." Snotlout scoffed it off.
"Sorry, Toothless and I needed to do something important this morning." Hiccup apologized to the group.
"What you were shopping for a new flight suit or something?" Snotlout joked as the twins laugh.
"What the he! is your problem this morning?" Astrid yelled at Snotlout as she grabbed his shirt.
The two Viking teens started their usual spat.
'Your not really gonna let that fool get away with that are ya? How much longer will you be able to endure, until it's too late, until you finally snap?'
Hiccup gave a gasp as he slowly scanned the arena to see who said that.
"Hiccup?"
"Huh, wha?" Hiccup jumped a little as he turned around to see Fishlegs.
"I just wanted to go over the schedule for today. *ahem*" Fishlegs cleared his throat. "9:00 we study new uses for Dragon scales for armor, 9:30 we-"
'Oh, blah, blah, blah, dee blah! Your not seriously listening to what he has to say are you? He's not smart at all; sure he reads a lot, but he never went out of his way to learn about the unknown. Unlike you.'
A chill ran down Hiccup's spine as he heard the voice again.
"So what do you think?" Fishlegs asked.
"Yeah, sure, sounds good Fishlegs." Hiccup answered in a calm voice.
"Give me back my shield!" The two teens turned to see Tuffnut and Ruffnut fighting over a shield (again).
"What are you talking about this is my shield, I put my name on it." Ruffnut said.
Tuffnut looked at the top of the shield in in yellow paint it read 'RUFFNUT'S SHIELD, NOT TUFFNUT'S'.
"That doesn't prove anything, I could've painted that on there." Tuffnut argued ('smooth' comeback).
And the twins were back to arguing with each other.
'And those two, how the heck anybody allowed them to be anywhere near a sword or a flame is embarrassing. They purposely destroy anything in front of them, how long will this pathetic rock last against them..'
'That voice why does it sound so familiar?' Hiccup thought as he clutched his head.
"Hiccup?" Someone called him.
Hiccup jumped and turned toward Astrid.
"Are you okay, you don't look so good ?" Astrid asked with a worried expression written on her face.
"Yeah, just have something on my mind." Hiccup said with a smile.
"What do you mean?" Astrid questioned.
"I've just haven't been sleeping much lately." Hiccup answered.
"Hey if your not feeling up to it you can go home and get some rest-"
"WHAT?! Why does he get to go home early?" Snotlout interrupting the two.
"If he gets the day off can we get a day off?" Ruffnut asked with her shield in hand.
"Nobody is getting the day off!" Hiccup raised his voice surprising everyone.
Hiccup caught himself, this wasn't the first time he had to raise his voice. But something about this felt weird.
"Let's just begin today's lessons." Hiccup said as the lessons began.
Toothless kept a close eye on Hiccup- every few seconds he would jump for no apparent reason, but that would be a lie. Toothless kept getting chills down his spine the same time Hiccup would freeze up, Toothless suspected that something serious was up.
Three Lessons Later
The group was now flying back to the Dragon Academy after a race around Berk.
"YOO-HOO! FIRST PLACE!" Astrid exclaimed as she raised her hands in the air.
"We just let you win, Astrid." Snotlout made up a quick excuse, not wanting to admit he lost.
"Yeah!" Tuffnut agreed, only to turn to his twin and ask. "We were racing?"
Ruffnut just shrugged, not truly knowing.
"Okay now for the results; Stormfly's speed increased by 30%, Hookfang's by 20%, Barf and Belch's by 20%, and Toothless by-" Fishlegs looked up to see that Toothless wasn't around. "Hey where's Hiccup?"
As if on cue the two appeared, Hiccup jumped off Toothless with a look of melancholy on his face. Toothless took noticed of this and rubbed his head against his friend. Hiccup mustered up a small smile and started to pet the caring Dragon.
"Hey, what's up you guys, your usually first place when we race?" Astrid asked, now she was getting concerned.
"They're probably upset because their in last-OW!" Snotlout yelped as Astrid Punched him in the arm.
"Hey, look, in the sky!" Tuffnut pointed toward a speck coming their way.
As said speck came closer it revealed to be a familiar friend.
"It's Heather!" Astrid announced.
As Windshear landed in front of the Trainers and Dragons, Heather jumped off to greet them.
"Guys, it's great to see you again!" Heather greeted the group.
"Heather!" Astrid exclaimed as she hugged her friend.
"Nice to see another friendly face." Ruffnut playfully punched Heather in the arm.
"You won't believe all that's been going on since you've been gone." Fishlegs welcomed Heather with a hug.
Snotlout and Tuffnut were fighting each other to see who would say hi to Heather first.
"Great to see you again." Hiccup said as he came up to her.
Heather's smile turned to worry.
"Are you okay Hiccup, you look pale?" Heather questioned as she placed her hand on Hiccup's forehead to feel his temperature, it was normal, but it didn't match how Hiccup looked.
"I'm fine." Hiccup blurted out as Toothless rolled his eyes.
'You're not really gonna let her get close to him are you?'
Toothless heard a voice come out of nowhere. It wasn't one of the trainer's or Dragon's voices.
'She's just gonna betray them again. Mainly Hiccup!'
"Toothless!" Toothless turned to see Hiccup. "Come on bud, we're about to start the next lesson."
Toothless went over to Hiccup, but kept his ears opened for that mysterious voice.
The trainers and their dragons were currently practicing on their aiming skills. The next dummy was set ready for the next dragon to blast it to oblivion.
"Okay Hookfang, you're up." Hiccup announced as he started writing in his notebook.
Hookfang stepped in front of everyone, set his body ablaze, and harnessed his energy to form a fireball. Once, he was sure he had enough power Hookfang releashed the fireball blasting the dummy and filling the whole arena with smoke and smug.
*COUGH,COUGH,COUGH*
Everyone was now coughing out their lungs due to the smoke in the arena. As soon as the smoke cleared there was a huge black fire stain from the blast on the wall and the dummy only had its right arm blasted off.
"WHAT THE HECK, HOOKFANG!" Snotlout shouted, not pleased that his dragon missed such an easy target. " IT WAS THAT CLOSE TO YOU HOW DID YOU MISS THAT?"
Hookfang gave Snotlout an awful glare, clearly not in the mood for his trainer's little tantrum.
"It's okay guys." Hiccup said trying to break the two up before one of them got hurt. *COUGH-SNOTLOUT-COUGH* "Hookfang's footing was just miscalculated, that's all."
"I don't want to hear anything about footing from someone with just one foot." Snotlout spatted without thinking (as usual).
Fishlegs, Tuffnut, and Ruffnut gasped a huge gasped at the statement. Heather glared at Snotlout for saying something so hurtful to his cousin. Astrid was about to punch him square in the jaw.
'You've dealt with his bullying for far too long, it's time he got a taste of his own medicine.'
Before, anyone else could say another word or do anything, Hiccup punched Snotlout in the face so hard he blacked out.
DREAM
" I'M GONNA KILL YOU! " A voiced roared from the skies.
Snotlout jolted up from his slumber to find himself sitting in a dark place surrounded by water.
"W-where am I?" Snotlout asked in a frightened tone.
"YOUR END." The voice answered.
Snotlout turned to see the same hooded figure as before.
"Hiccup?" Snotlout questioned, but the hooded figure did not answer.
Instead the figure raised his/her/their hands making the water follow the same movement until it raised into a 20 ft wall of water. Snotlout whimpered at the sight like the other wall of water as it crashed down on him.
End Dream
*SLAP*
Snotlout was shocked when he felt a strong slap struck him across the face. He gasped as he woke up and felt something drip down his nose. As he placed his fingers under his nose and took a look at his hand he saw bright red blood.
Hiccup was shaking a what he had just done: sure, Snotlout really got on his nerves with the missing leg jokes, but never enough to physically harm him.
Hiccup felt a hand on his shoulder as he turned around to see a concerned Astrid.
"Hiccup are you alright?" Astrid questioned with concerned.
Hiccup looked over to see the other trainers with fear written all over their faces.
"I-I-I-" Hiccup backed away from the group clutching his bloody left fist.
'TSK! See they're not really your friends, just abominations that have it coming to them!'
*ROAR*
Toothless came between the group and Hiccup, deep inside he knew Hiccup wanted to be as far away from the rest as possible.
Hiccup got on Toothless and the two took off leaving the other trainers and Dragons confused.
'Hiccup, what's happening to you?' Astrid thought as she got on Stormfly and flew off.
"So does this mean we get the rest of the day off?" Tuffnut asked.
The Cove
Hiccup was on the edge of the lake washing off Snotlout's blood from his fist. Toothless hovered over him to make sure he was at least okay.
"Tooth, I-I have no idea what just happened." Hiccup explained. "I was just so mad at him and this voice came out of nowhere and -I. I don't know what I did."
Toothless curled himself around Hiccup to comfort him trying to ease the young Trainer's frantic mind. Hiccup felt warm against Toothless's body; was he coming down with something?
Above the cove a cloaked figure was watching the two and said to themselves.
'Don't fret. Those traitors will never harm you again. They were not there for you and the beginning, and you will not be there for their end.'
Goithi's House
Gothi was currently stirring water and garlic together in her cauldron, until one of her Terrible Terrors knocked a jar full of powder over. She shooed the small dragons away so she could clean the mess up. The red powder started to stir on its own as if something unholy was making it move. Gothi gasped and grabbed a handful of the powder and drop it into the cauldron to stir. The liquid soon turned violet as Gothi continued to stir. This unknown force was getting stronger by each passing hour, and Gothi needed to work faster on her potion, or Berk would soon be painted in blood.
Sorry this seems a little rushed, but today's my birthday and I want to enjoy it, my grandparents are here, and like I said in the last chapter nightshifts are evil. Well til the next chapter, and Valka, Stoick, Astrid, and Gothi will play a bigger role in it.
