He doesn't really know what he was expecting, but it isn't. . . whatever this is.
The room, if you can call it that, is huge, with a ceiling that seems to go on forever, and a sea of chairs that stretches across the room.
He takes a step back, away from his village, and he notices he's not alone.
There's a girl with big, curly red hair who seems so familiar, a blonde with very, very long hair who embraces a brunet man, and a white haired boy, who seems. . . sad. Hiccup tilts his head, and opens his mouth to ask what's wrong, but then decides that it's not any of his business, and closes his mouth.
"Attention! Hello! Excuse me!"
He looks up, and is surprised to see a young, black haired girl standing on top of a platform on the opposite of the room. (She has the ears and tails of a cream colored fox, he notices. Strange.) Flanking the sides of her are three girls, one of which is engrossed in a book. The girl with pale blonde hair and the dragon-looking wings looks bored, and the girl next to her, with dark auburn hair that fades to a royal blue, is fidgeting with something in her hands.
"Excuse me! EXCUSE ME!" yells the black haired girl, but the noise buzzing in the room swallows her voice.
"Oi! Shut up!" the blonde haired girl shouts, and she says it so loudly, so authoritatively, that everyone silences. The black haired girl mutters something to her, before looking up again.
"Who are you?" Astrid shouts up at her before she even gets a chance to speak.
"A god," replies the fox girl without missing a beat.
"She's joking," says the dragon girl, rolling her eyes. "Her name's Ivory, and she's just as mortal as any of us. I'm Sage, that," she nods over to the girl with the blue ends, "is Ash, and she," Sage points to the girl with the book, "is Alice."
"I'm more immortal than you are!" Ivory says indignantly. Sage shrugs.
The last girl, Alice, looks up when her name is called with a slightly baffled look. A look of comprehension dawns on her face, and she places a bookmark at her place and snaps the book shut, before sliding it under her chair.
Interesting names, Hiccup thinks, but then again, they're probably considered 'normal' where they come from.
"I didn't plan this through, so I'm going straight to the point," says Ivory. "Y'all are here to watch your future."
There's murmurs on whether or not she's telling the truth.
"What d'you think?" asks the red-headed girl next to him with a scottish accent. He turns to her, a puzzled look on his face. "D'you think she's telling the truth?"
"Well, if she did bring us here, she'd have to be really powerful," he says slowly, "so I wouldn't really put it against her to be able to see the future."
"I agree," says the blonde haired girl eagerly. Hiccup notices that her eyes are a really pretty shade of green. "She seems nice!"
"Blondie," says the brown haired man in an exasperated tone, "you think everyone's nice."
Hiccup zones out of the conversation. He briefly wonders where Toothless is, and then freezes. Oh, gods, the others don't know about him, and when they find out about him, they'll force him out as an outcast, or worse-
"H-hey, are you okay?"
Hiccup shakes out of whatever trance he had been in, and sees the white haired boy looking over at him with concern. His expression suddenly turns sour, and Hiccup is taken aback. Did he do something? Does he remind him of someone?
"Yeah, I'm fine."
The white haired boy blinks owlishly, before opening his mouth to say, "You can see me?"
"Y-yeah? I mean. . ." Hiccup scratches the back of his neck nervously. "Um. . . Why, uh, why do you ask?"
"Uh, I-I'd rather not talk about it." A blue blush dusted his pale cheeks lightly. He shuffles his feet, which are bare, uncomfortably. "It's just. . . Kinda personal."
"Oh. Then forget I asked."
They lapse into an awkward silence. Hiccup briefly ponders what topic they should pursue now. He glances around at the others in the shadows, and sees the other three talking in hushed tones.
"Uh, hi?" he says to the nearest of them, which is the red-head. Her head snaps towards him, and he recoils in surprise.
"Hi," she says bluntly. The other two turn to them.
"Hello!" the blonde girl smiles. "I'm Rapunzel, and this is Flynn, and Merida!"
The man waves hello, and the girl looks them up and down and nods. Hiccup has the faint, brief notion that he has seen her before. Maybe she just looks like a traveler that has visited Berk before. . . ?
Merida half-glances at Hiccup, and her eyes flicker with some kind of emotion he can't quite place. After staring at each other for a few, awkward seconds,he glances down at his feet.
"I'm, uh, Hiccup," he mumbles at the ground.
Flynn ogles for a moment or two, before snickering and earning a jab to the ribs by Rapunzel. Then they go silent, as if they are waiting for something, and then Rapunzel politely says, "Who is he?"
Jack blinks. "Uh, you mean. . . Me?"
Merida snorts. "Uh, who else? The funny looking donkey over there?"
"Snotlout," Hiccup says automatically.
"Snotlout, whatever." Merida rolls her eyes. "What's your name?"
Jack's expression turns elated, and he says, "Jack. My name is Jack."
"Nice to meet you." Rapunzel beams at him, and he grins toothily back.
They chat for a bit, in the shadows, and Hiccup wonders if they felt as alone as he does. He ponders if that's why they got along so well, why they just clicked.
"If I may have your attention, please," Ivory calls. "I'm gonna situate you all into your seats, so if you could please listen."
The sound gradually decreases, and Ivory directs everyone to their seats. She sorts the Berkians into the back, the citizens of DunBroch in the middle, and the kingdom of Corona to the front.
Ivory walks over to the people in the shadows, grabs Hiccup and Jack by their hands and drags them to the front. She slows down enough to glance over her shoulder and gesture for the others to follow, and, reluctantly, they do so.
As they near the very front, Hiccup notices that there are five bean looking things, each a different color.
One is an icy blue. The one to its right is a forest green, the next, a fiery red, and then a lilac colored one and a brown.
She forces Jack into the blue one, and he sits in the green, she directs, and Merida in the red and Rapunzel in the lilac and Flynn in the brown.
Hiccup sits in his bean thing, and is surprised to discover that it is pleasantly comfortable. He briefly wonders how difficult it would be to make one.
She's explaining something. Something about—A moo-vee?—And how it would show their future. He doesn't know what a moo-vee is, and, honestly, he had stopped listening about halfway through.
Something bright lights itself in front of him, and a large rectangle flickers to life.
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Okay I just wanna say that Jack's clothes are those he died in. Second, this is the first story out of seven, maybe eight. I'll be adding a new movie for each story, but I'm not telling which one's or in what order :))
Thanks for reading!