The How To Train Your Dragon book series and all its contents belong to Cressida Cowell. The How To Train Your Dragon movie and animated series and all of its contents belong to DreamWorks Studios. I claim no ownership over anything in this fanfic. Be merciful.
Well, this fanfic is gonna take elements from the books, movies, and animated series. Hope ya like it, constructional criticism appreciated and welcomed.
Hiccup had walked over to his dragons, who were standing on the edge of the black circle surrounding the lifeless body of the monster. As Hiccup took steps though he could feel himself get lightheaded, his vision was blurring a bit and he would've fallen to the ground if he didn't fall onto one of his dragon's sides. He heard the emperor yell for his soldiers to lift Hiccup and take him somewhere, he couldn't really understand what was going on by now, and although he was still leaning on his dragons for a small while he eventually felt himself be lifted into the air and carried off. The soldiers carried him to a buildings that was bigger than any of the homes in the kingdom but didn't seem to be owned by anybody extravagant, there were also people, all of which looked injured or sick, sitting around and talking in low voices, not whispers but almost politely keeping their voices down. Wodensfang was listening to the emperor talk to the soldiers and some people walking around the building and was eventually able to learn that this was a building used to treat the people of the kingdom, whether they were sick or injured in any way. The emperor had called for the head healer in the building and explained the situation, he had Hiccup put in a room by himself with and positioned guards at the door, and he wanted Hiccup to be treated as though he were royalty and if possible, waken up as soon as possible.
Hiccup would lay in bed for a full day before he woke up. Toothless and One-Eye had spent the time going around the kingdom, at first all of the people that normally walked the street hid in their houses for the remainder of the day when Hiccup had defeated the beast. The people had slowly started to come out of their homes the next morning, most of them still avoided being on the same walking path as the dragons but the children almost looked without fear, any child that saw the dragons would run up to them and starting running their hands smoothly across their scales. The adults were extremely apprehensive at this but as the day went on a few adults out of every group had learned the dragons meant no harm, and by the end of the day the dragons were walking around town with the people as though they had been there their whole lives.
After missing the remainder of the day when he defeated the monster, and the full next day, Hiccup woke up the morning after, he was extremely dizzy and hungry. His dizziness probably came from the hunger so he stumbled to the door and opened it, the guards turned around in surprise and saw him standing there, and they tried to talk but kept messing up anything they tried to say.
"Ok well, before you two start a whole new language, can you calm down.
The soldiers looked at each other, returned their stares to Hiccup and nodded.
"Great. Can you tell me where I am?"
"You're in the healing building Lord."
"Lord?"
"You vanquished the Beast of the Amberlands, you are the bravest warrior to have ever been here. The kingdom owes you its eternal gratitude."
The soldiers dropped to one knee, removed their helmets and bowed their heads to Hiccup, though they were still reaching to Hiccup's chest. This is not what I was expecting.
"Stop that. Please stop that, get up."
Hiccup tried lifting the men by their shoulders but fell forward and was now leaning on them. They stood up and Hiccup almost fell backwards before they each gripped him by his wrists. They helped him back to the large bed he'd been lying for his whole time asleep.
"Do you need something Lord?"
"Again with the Lord, do you have to call me that?"
"What else would we call you?"
"Just Hiccup, Hiccup is totally fine."
"Are y…"
"I'm completely sure. Now, can you tell me what's happened?"
"Well as I said before, you courageously defeated the Beast of the Amberlands."
"Right."
"Then after the fight the sneaky demon must have some sort of terrible power from beyond the grave."
"What?"
"You passed out shortly after our groups' arrival at the corpse. We lifted you and brought you to the healing center as fast as we could and you've been under careful care of the Chief Healer."
"A power beyond the corpse?"
"That's the word for now."
"No it really isn't pair of morons, why aint ya standing guard like ya supposed ta."
"Chief Healer, we didn't think…"
"I know ya didn't think, now get out da room before ya mess anything up."
Hiccup was lying in bed so he could only hear a shrill voice coming from behind the two men, the source must have also been much shorter than them because it looked like they were almost staring straight down to make eye contact.
"Now get on, get outta 'ere. Boy, Hiccup, yer awake are ya?"
"Uh…yeah, I woke up a few minutes ago."
"Good, good. How ya feelin? Head, body, anything funny?"
"I think I'm fine."
"Well I gotta check ya anyway."
Getting a good look at the person, it was a woman. She was rather short with the top of her head reaching Hiccup's chest and apparently was rather old with most of her hair being a light shade of grey with some strips of white standing out as well. She had robes that were a dark grey, with symbols in white in a circle on her chest. She had a shawl as well that followed the same colors and a single symbols on the upper back very close to her neck. She was lifting his arms and running her hands up and down his chest, ribs, and back like she was searching for cuts or lumps. She pulled him down and examined his eyes one at a time, she turned his head and looked in his ears and eventually let him go and stepped back.
"Yer totally fine, whatever got hold o' ya is totally gone now. You can leave anytime ya want, the Emperors' actually eager ta see ya as well so ya best hurry."
"Thanks, for everything."
"Yeah, yeah, I'll be seein ya then."
She walked out the door and left Hiccup in the room. He looked around and found one of the large bags Hiccup and One-Eye carry on their travels, he rifled through it and found an incredible surprise.
"Wow, this is pretty awesome."
Rather than his normal clothes he found some pieces of leather armor that looked, and could probably defend him a lot better, than his old rags. The old clothes had also started to fall apart with holes and strands just falling off. The first thing he picked up was a helmet, it almost seemed to have two parts to it, the lowersection that would protect his jaw and ears was brown, almost untouched leather and would connect to the top half that protected the whole of his skull. The top had a line of spikes leading from the bridge of his nose to the the top back of his head, there was a line of spikes starting above each eye as well that would curve out and to the back ending the same place. Next he picked up a leather piece that had wo layers to it, the leather connecting to his left arm would lay under the piece coming from his right that would also strap in several sections. He had a small shoulder piece for his left shoulder that easily cover his shoulder but still provide great mobility. His right shoulder guard was a lot bigger and spread further onto his chest and a little down his arm. He also pulled out a pair of pants, they were a simpler design, just normal leather, but they had two pockets on each leg that were more deep than wide but definitely useful to hide some more things Hiccup could use in an emergency. Finally he picked up a pair of forearm guards, they were also leather and they had small pockets on each one that were probably left for Hiccup to decide what he would carry in them.
Hiccup had left the healing center and had just stepped out of the healing center when Wodensfang glided over to him and landed on his shoulder.
"Hey Woden, how you been buddy?"
"I've been just fine Master, but how are you? Are you well enough to walk around?"
"Yeah I feel totally fine. Really hungry but that's it."
"Ooh, the emperor should be able to help with that, he is eager for you to talk to him as well."
"Yeah I heard about that. So do you know what happened with me?"
"Well to be honest Master, the humans weren't useful at all. I was able to learn a lot about the monster from the acid left behind though."
"Great, so what'd you learn?"
"The acid had a very poisonous mix in it as well. Normally it might kill a person from the inside and outside, but you only took in smoke that came from the acid. That's probably why you passed out, also why you're still alive."
"Well, I wish I didn't know that now. Thanks for that Woden."
"Sorry Master, but perhaps…"
"Let's just get to the emperor. Where are Toothless and One-Eye by the way?"
On the way to the spiral where Hiccup thought the Emperor was though he saw a large crowd filling up the space between the buildings and the path they were taking. He tried to look through all of them when he felt a nudge behind him, he turned around and saw One-Eye looking down at him.
"Hey big guy, how you doing One-Eye?"
"I'm doing quite well Hiccup, are you well enough yourself though?"
"Yeah I'm doing just fine. You know where Toothless is?"
Before One-Eye could respond Hiccup heard the enormous crowd of people cheer. He couldn't see what was going on from where they stood so Hiccup got on One-Eye and had him fly over the crowd and look for the source of the excitement. They flew over a few buildings and saw a large opening with a wooden stand in the middle, Hiccup saw the Emperor and a few guards standing on the box.
"My people, my kingdom, for over a thousand years this kingdom resting in the Amberlands has lived in fear, in terror of the Beast that roamed outside the walls. We were confined to the walls, and if not to the walls we were confined to our homes, we have not had peace for over a thousand years. That Beast lurked, searched, and hunted for us all day and all night without ever resting. It does not search tonight though, it does not search or hunt or plagues us tonight. For the first night in over a thousand years, we are completely free of the Beast. For the first night, we celebrate, we feast, we dance, and we live for the first night in over a thousand years. We no longer live in fear of what will devour us. Tonight we live and celebrate our savior, Hiccup the Dragon Lord."
"Oh no…did he really come up with that."
"We celebrate this courageous and outstanding soul who with the aid of his dragons, Toothless the obelisk striker and One-Eye the ivory brute, vanquished the Beast and freed us."
The crowd erupted into cheers and chants that tried to form some sort of rhythm using Hiccup, Toothless and One-Eye, and while it may not have been the most pleasing thing to hear it was nice to hear people yell for Hiccup in a positive manner.
Alright, so normally I wouldn't do this but its a very short note. The leather armor Hiccup found in place of his clothes is the armor from the second movie. Hope you liked the chapter and continue to read and review, thanks.