Wow, right on time! Yay! Sadly, updates will stick to once a week after this; I made it into my school's play! So, I'll have play practice and not much time to write. Oh, well.
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INT. BLACKSMITH STALL - HICCUP'S CLOSET - CONTINUOUS
Hiccup cuts and stitches leather, working by candlelight. An overhead shot reveals what he's building: a saddle.
"Don't tell me you continued to HELP that creature?!" Stoick yelled back, his face as red as his beard.
Hiccup sighed. That didn't deserve an answer in his book.
EXT. COVE - DAY
Hiccup appears before Toothless, holding the saddle. Toothless runs off as Hiccup chases him down.
HICCUP
Hey!
One very brave little boy – stick skinny – turned to Toothless, touched his snout and said, "Tag, you're it." He then got up and tried to run down the stairs, Toothless chasing him. The boy's parents tried to jump out of their seats to grab him but it was too late; Toothless had seized the boy's shirt and was carrying him back to his seat. All the parents stared, confused at this.
EXT. COVE - DAY
Toothless and Hiccup are zooming over the cove, Hiccup holding a rope. He tugs the rope to pull the tailfin, only to go forward off Toothless.
INT. BLAKCSMITH STALL - LATER
Hiccup adds a harness and uses a metal hook and ring to affix himself to Toothless' saddle.
Fishlegs and Gobber stared, interested in the changing saddle system.
EXT. SKY/FIELD - DAWN
Hiccup and Toothless zip through the air - his rudimentary harness and tail controls – now controlled by his foot - are working, barely. They crash- land in a field.
Hiccup recovers to find Toothless rolling around in the tall grass. Toothless writhes on his back, tongue wagging, in complete bliss. Hiccup holds up a tuff.
EXT. TRAINING GROUNDS - MORNING
The Gronkle is out again, now coming after Hiccup. He holds out the tuff… It immediately stops in front of him, wide-eyed, and goes weak in the knees. Hiccup scratches the Gronkle and it goes down, whimpering and blissful.
Stoick sputtered while everyone else stared. Why hadn't they discovered that before?! How hidden was that grass? Hiccup was just smirking and doing a happy dance in his head.
EXT. WOODS - AFTERNOON
The recruits walk home together, surrounding Hiccup and
BOMBARDING HIM WITH QUESTIONS ALL AT ONCE.
SNOTLOUT
Hey Hiccup, I've never seen a Gronkle to that before.
He squirms and invents an excuse.
HICCUP
I left my axe back in the ring.
Astrid turned to Hiccup and said, in shock, "You never even brought an axe that day!"
Hiccup turned to her and leaned in very close. Her breath caught as she saw the twinkle in his eyes and he whispered, "I had to come up with something. You all just believed it."
Astrid didn't know if she should feel insulted.
He turns and hurries back, bumping into Astrid.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
You guys go on ahead. I'll catch up with you.
Astrid watches, suspicious.
Stoick sighed in relief. At least someone thought that Hiccup was acting weird.
EXT. COVE - LATER
Hiccup scratches Toothless on his neck while wearing a new riding vest. He rubs Toothless under his neck, causing him to relax and fall over.
Gobber was staring, intrigued. Stoick had only been gone a couple of weeks and here was Hiccup discovering secrets that Vikings never even knew! Stoick, you fool. Your son is more incredible than you even thought.
EXT. TRAINING GROUNDS - LATER
The Nadder is out again. Astrid throws her axe, only for it to be knocked away. It then approaches Hiccup, who steps into the blind spot. Just as Astrid moves in to strike, Hiccup performs his special rubbing technique, which sends the Nadder down. Astrid looks at Hiccup with confusion.
Hiccup burst out laughing. Her face was hilarious! Astrid buried her face in her hands and tried to glare at Hiccup. It wasn't working.
INT. MEADE HALL - CONTINUOUS
Hiccup sits down at a table to eat. The other recruits notice him and move over to his table to talk to him – leaving Astrid alone.
EXT. COVE - LATER
Toothless claws and chases a light patch like a cat chasing a laser pointer. We then see Hiccup using a hammer head to create said light.
Up in their booth, Vesper tapped her sister on the shoulder. When Shilo turned her head, she saw a laser light. Vesper then walked over to the light window, turned it on and shined it on Stoick's head.
Toothless, seeing the light, took off. He leapt toward Stoick, only to watch the little red light move away. For ten whole minutes, he chased it around the room, over different people's heads, putting Hiccup, Astrid and Gobber in stitches. Finally, it went away and he returned to the top.
EXT. TRAINING GROUNDS - DAY
A beam lifts from the door of another dragon pen.
GOBBER
Meet the Terrible Terror.
A tiny, pint-sized dragon steps out.
The Terrors trilled in excitement at seeing themselves.
TUFFNUT
Ha. It's like the size of my-
Tuffnut is taken down in a blur.
TUFFNUT (CONT'D)
Get it off! Get it off! Oh! I'm hurt, I am very much hurt!
Tuffnut buried his head, thinking, Why me? This is embarrassing.
Hiccup stops the Terrible Terror with the same light-patch trick he used earlier with Toothless. The tiny dragon retreats back to its cage. The teens approach him yet again as Astrid looks on with suspicion.
TUFFNUT (CONT'D)
(TO ASTRID)
Wow, he's better than you ever were.
Ruffnut glared at her brother, asking, "Why did you think that was a good idea?" He had no reply as he was still feeling humiliated.
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EXT. FOREST - MOMENTS LATER
Astrid furiously hurls her axe at nearby trees. She notices Hiccup walking by in the distance, carrying one of his trademark harnesses. She quickly tries to follow, but he loses her in the woods. She HUFFS, frustrated.
"I was behind the rock." Hiccup said.
EXT. COVE - LATER
Hiccup straps a newly designed harness onto Toothless as he eats. Hiccup rides him in the air - while tied to a tree stump. Toothless looks like a giant kite.
Some people laughed but others just looked curiously at the setup.
Fishlegs turned around and asked "Why…?"
"I needed to figure out tail positions and what they did. I felt it would be easier to do while stationary." Hiccup replied.
The village took that in and was shocked. Had Hiccup always been that smart?
This harness seems to work. He clicks the pedal to adjust the tail, takes note of the position and write it down. Toothless jumps back up…
EXT. SKY - MOMENTS LATER
The rope breaks and the pair CRASH into a tree. Hiccup's face is red. Toothless stands up, only to pull Hiccup with him. He realizes the ring is stuck.
HICCUP
Oh, great.
Gobber wondered why Hiccup was mad. Couldn't he just pry it…Oh no.
EXT. BERK - NIGHT
The streets are empty save for a lone Viking who crosses Hiccup's path.
VIKING
Hiccup.
Hiccup nods, trying to look casual. Once the coast is clear, he covertly steers Toothless into the Blacksmith's stall.
Stoick was currently the same shade of red as his beard in anger. He turned toward the rest of the village and said, "Why did no one SEE A DRAGON IN THE VILLAGE!?" No one said anything; they were too ashamed and feeling like real idiots.
Toothless PRESSES himself inside, rooting through stuff and making a racket. Astrid, walking nearby, is alerted.
ASTRID (O.S.)
Hiccup?
Hiccup frantically tries to pry the ring off the saddle hook. He FREEZES, hearing Astrid.
Stoick was even MORE mad at seeing that only Astrid was aware of SOMETHING going on.
ASTRID (CONT'D)
Are you in there?
Too late - she's right outside.
Hiccup JUMPS OUT the window – now wearing his apron - and CLOSES the shutters behind him. Hiccup's harness line is stretched through the window, still attached to Toothless' saddle.
HICCUP
Astrid. Hey! Hi Astrid. Hi Astrid. Hi Astrid.
"Real obvious, Hiccup." Snotlout said. No one thought that was funny, so he just sat back down.
ASTRID
I normally don't care what people do, but you're acting weird. Well, weirder.
Toothless spots a nearby sheep and makes a move toward it.
Oh no, all the dragons thought.
As a result, Hiccup is suddenly PULLED TIGHT against the window shutters. He STRIKES A POSE to compensate... then gets PULLED THROUGH the shutters. They snap back in Astrid's face. Astrid reopens them and finds nothing but an empty stall.
In the distance, Toothless and Hiccup slip off unseen.
Stoick was turning an even darker shade of red. It got so bad that Vesper had to dump a bucket of ice cold water over his head. It's worked…sorta.
EXT. DOCKS - DAWN
A lone, battered ship is pulled into a slip, overloaded with equally battered-looking men. They disembark to a crowd of onlookers, looking like a team of hometown heroes who just had their butts kicked. Gobber hobbles through the MUMBLING crowd to find Stoick,
glowering with battered pride.
Stoick lumbers past Gobber.
GOBBER
Well, I trust you found the nest at least?
STOICK
Not even close.
Hiccup, Astrid and all the dragons breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't want the Vikings finding the Nest…
GOBBER
Excellent.
Gobber follows Stoick up the ramp and snags his duffle bag with his hook appendage, sharing the burden.
STOICK
I hope you had a little more success than me.
GOBBER
Well, if by success, you mean that your parenting troubles are over with, then... yes.
Stoick stops. What does that mean?
Hiccup leaned forward. Where did he think that was going?
A group of merry villagers rush past.
VIKING #1
Congratulations Stoick! Everyone is so relieved.
VIKING #2
Out with the old and in with the new, right?!
VIKING #3
No one will miss that old nuisance!
VIKING #4
The village is throwing a party to celebrate!
Stoick is stunned, overwhelmed by the insensitivity. He turns to Gobber.
STOICK
He's... gone?
Astrid turned to see Hiccup glaring daggers at his father for that comment. His rage continued to grow to the point where he stood up and began to speak in a tight, restrained voice, "So you hear all that and your first thought is I'm DEAD?!" Everyone shrank in their seats at the pure rage in his voice and tried to hide from his eyes.
GOBBER
Yeah...most afternoons. But who can blame him? I mean the life of a celebrity is very rough. He can barely walk through the village without being swarmed by his new fans.
Stoick is doubly confused.
STOICK
Hiccup?
GOBBER
(BEAMING)
Who would've thought, eh? He has this...way with the beasts.
Stoick is IMPRESSED.
Hiccup just scowled. At this point, it didn't matter what his father thought of him; he'd never be truly impressed with him.
Then, he remembered what he and Toothless had been doing the day his father got home. A smirk grew on his face.
Let's see what this little Hiccup can do…
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Wow, that was long. But good! I hope Hiccup isn't too OOC…
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