Part 2
Hiccup flew back towards Berk, in about four more days, two after he landed, University would be back on.
That was… weird of Dagur. Just to take them in, patch them up, warn them, and let them go…
He sighed. He didn't feel different, but when he got back to HQ he'd have Astrid (assuming she and Snotlout were back yet) check him out with the body scanner, just in case Dagur chipped him or something, he hummed, he wondered briefly if Toothless had filed for a new roommate, it was possible to do so before any holiday began.
To do so, the week before the holiday started one would have to go in to the registration office and request a change in roommates, this was done for all sorts of reasons, desire to share a room with someone else, being unable to live with your roommate, developing romantic relations with your roommate (though, to be fair, Hiccup thought, that would probably be the last reason he ditched his roommate).
He'd contemplated it last semester, but had decided not to go through with it in the end, for fear that somehow, someway he could end up with an even worse roommate than Toothless. He shuddered to think what would happen if his new roommate was Nightfury. And apart from all that, he supposed Toothless wasn't that bad a roommate. After all, sure there were times when Toothless brought girls back to their room and locked him out, and sure just looking at the guy made Hiccup's hackles rise, but in reality he wasn't that bad.
He never left dirty clothes strewn across the floor, and if he did it would never be for more than a couple of hours because he was likely recovering from a hangover. In addition he always vacated the room when Hiccup had friends over, not that he did have them over often seeing as how Tuffnut and Fishlegs were mutual friends of their entire group and shared a room. And to top it all off, Toothless had never really complained about having to live with him. So while they weren't 'best-friends' he didn't really consider Toothless a pest.
He frowned, worried, did he just admit that if Toothless had given the slip in he'd miss him?
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"Toothless," Baldy called, knocking on his door, "Toothless, you home?"
"Urgh, yeah?"
Baldy swung the door open, "Man, where've you been? Mom and dad have spent the past week and a bit worrying."
"Mexico."
"Alright, well, come on down, breakfast's on the table."
Toothless hopped down the stairs, tired as hell from his trip, passing Drachella in the corridor he handed her the disabled bomb that those three guys in Mexico, the schkrewnders, gave him.
They didn't need words to communicate what had to be done, and when a bomb had supposedly detonated over some 'shack' which may or may not have been an underground superhero society in Mexico, all of it's members who were away's throats slit, well, it's not like anyone could blame Toothless for it.
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Second first day at UOB. Well, there weren't any lessons as it was just a 'moving-in' day, but, well, yeah.
Hiccup made his way to his assigned room and was slightly surprised to see Toothless sitting on the left 'bunk,' a desk under the bed in the small 15 m squared room (4x3.75).
"Hey… I'm surprised you didn't ask for a roommate switch," Hiccup smiled (Did he seriously just fucking smile at that douchebag?)
"Yeah, I'm surprised you didn't either," Toothless's usually cocky exterior for once in his life sounding genuine.
There was a brief moment of silence.
"Not that it means that I'm going to be nice to you all of a sudden," Toothless smirked.
And for some reason Hiccup found the smallest of smiles tugging on his lips.
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"Nope, negative," Astrid confirmed, holding the scanner, "He didn't chip you."
Hiccup sighed, this was so not helping!
"I still don't get it," Snotlout said, leaning against a bookcase, "Just one more time. From the top."
Hiccup sighed, "They were about to kill us when Dagur showed up and killed them. He took us back to his hideout and basically nursed us back to life. When I tried to confront him it turned out that he had a message for me."
Oh wait, he'd forgotten to share this part, he realized as Astrid and Snotlout stared at him with wide eyes.
"Which was…?" they said at the same time.
"'Beware'" Hiccup quoted.
They frowned, confused.
"Wait…" Snotlout frowned, "What if the people who captured you- what if they were sent by Dagur?"
"No ways," Astrid said, "That's way too elaborate for Dagur."
"Wait," Hiccup frowned, "Snotlout might actually be on to something. Shortly before they captured us we found an arrow-head with Dagur's insignia."
"Right, but he inhabited that forest too, and besides, like you said, he was looking for you too, remember? He needed to tell you something."
"Astrid, we don't know what it was that he was after, not truly at least. The entire thing could've been-" and Hiccup's breath caught in his mouth. "A test. This entire trip, the arrow that I thought was from Camicazi, the tribe capturing us, this was all just one of his deranged tests!" Fire picked up in Hiccup's hands.
"Hiccup," Astrid said warily as Snotlout stared at him.
He didn't need her to elaborate, he knew he was the biggest wild card in their group when he got angry, and maybe- just maybe one day he'd let them know why.
"Anyways," he said, extinguishing the fire, "I still have to find Nightfury."
"Any leads?" Astrid asked, concerned.
"None."
This was not good.
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The sign on the noticeboard hurt many, but it probably hurt Hiccup and Toothless the most. They just-they couldn't.
A camping trip. A fucking camping trip the next week on the Friday, compulsory for first-years. Why!?
Worst of all, they had to share tents with their, their dorm-mates. Why!?
Hiccup cursed, fuck, why did he have to share a room that asshole!?
Toothless was driven close to tears. What had he done that was so wrong that the gods had decided to punish him this bad- oh, wait, no, he could think of a couple dozen(thousand) things that may've prompted this...
"Urgh!" Hiccup vented to Astrid, "Why does this stupid place have to keep trying to get us to get along!?"
"Well, it's probably because a ton of people got new roommates this term."
"Stupid people…"
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"But I don't want to share a tent with Count Dorkula!"
"Well, look at the bright side, the tents are for six people, right?" Hookfang soothed, "So Dogsbreath and I could share with you."
"And what about Barf and Belch?"
"Apparently they already made arrangements to room with the girls, because this school is incredible cool/reckless like that, and in addition they've got Stormfly and Meatlug- and who thought those two would ever get along-'s friends Emma and Heather with them."
Toothless sighed, "I guess Haddock's probably got someone we can room with."…
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"Hi, I'm Eret, son of Eret, it's a pleasure to meet you guys," Eret beamed at the Villains and Dogsbreath.
Toothless groaned, why had he even asked?
Well, on the bright side, it seemed that Snotlout and Dogsbreath had taken a shining to one another, and he had Hookfang, so…
He smiled, that just left the dude who shared a name with his arch nemesis to son of a son guy… yeah, he needed to find that guy a nickname…
He and Hookfang ended up taking a walk, leaving the nerds and Dogsbreath to entertain themselves.
"So… two more months, huh?"
"Yep."
"Hey, it's almost new year's!"
"And…"
"Come on, Toothless, we always have a huge party."
"I doubt we can do that out here."
Hookfang rolled his eyes, this is what he got for having the most pessimistic villain alive as his best-friend.
Oh well, why did rules exist if they weren't meant to be broken?
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:)))))) well this is the end of intermission 1 and the start of part 2, so :)
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peace out yo ;P