Okay, so this is my first try at expressing Valka's thoughts. Please leave a review what you think about it and what I can do better.
Shout-outs:
Jasmine Jowett: Thank you so much. But actually the last chapter wasn't really mine. I just translated it to German a year ago and now back to English. But the following chapters, starting with this one are 100% mine. I already have the conversation at the end written out in German but I think I'm going to change a few things...
Gabrielly790: Of course I'm going to continue! Here's chapter 3 for you.
Enjoy!
Chapter 3
GOBBER
„Man the fort, Hiccup. They need me out there!"
[He attaches an axe to his arm and begins to run out, but turns around at the doorway.]
GOBBER
„Stay. Put. There. You know what I mean."
[Hiccup runs outside the fort, bringing his bolas launcher]
I could have cursed Gobber. How could he leave Hiccup alone in the forge? Wasn't it obvious that the boy would take that chance to try his catapult out there?
VIKING
„Hiccup, where are you going?!" „Come back here!"
HICCUP
„Yeah, I know! Be right back!"
[Hiccup is pushing a cart with the automated catapult on it]
[Stoick captures several Nadders in a net and wrestles them. One tries to blast him with fire.]
It hurt to see the dragons fight. That wasn't in their nature. Most of them were actually friendly. To escape this I would have prefered to wake up.
STOICK
„Mind yourselves! The devils still have some juice in them!"
[Hiccup sets up his bola catapult on an empty hill and looks around.]
HICCUP
„Come on. Gimme something to shoot at, gimme something to shoot at."
No! Please don't shoot anything!
[The camera pans around the night sky, and catches on a shadow, visibly blotting out the stars. It fires, and an explosion illuminates it, showing a visible shadow. Hiccup shoots, and a loud cry is heard as the shadow is seen plummeting down into a forest]
Hopefully the dragon was alright. But when I thought back to Hiccup's words when we first met I had just seen Toothless plummet into the forest to be later found by Hiccup. Well, at least one of my questions was answered.
HICCUP
„Oh, I hit it! YES! I HIT IT! Did anybody see that?"
[A Monstrous Nightmare shows up and crushes Hiccup's bola launcher.]
HICCUP
„Except for you."
[A shrill cry sounds from the hill, and catches Stoick's attention. He turns to see the Monstrous Nightmare chasing Hiccup, and gets up to go help him.]
STOICK
„DO NOT let them escape!"
SPITELOUT
„Right!"
[Hiccup runs behind a torch pole and hides, just as flames reach around the corner. He looks behind it and on the other side, the Nightmare reaches to get Hiccup.]
„On the other side!" I would have liked to call but he wouldn't even be able to hear me.
[Stoick punches the beast and jumps back to defend himself. The dragon tries to breathe fire, but coughs up only a few drops of flaming liquid instead, having exhausted its shots]
Shot-limit reached.
STOICK
„You're all out."
[Stoick promptly defeats the Nightmare, which quickly flees. The torch pole collapses, the torch tumbles down into the village, leaving ruins in its wake.]
HICCUP (v.o)
„Oh, and there's one more thing you need to know..."
[The torch rolls onto the Nadders Stoick netted earlier, freeing them. The dragons manage to escape, hauling off most of Berk's food and livestock.]
HICCUP
„Sorry, Dad. Okay, but I hit a Night Fury."
[Stoick grabs Hiccup by the back of his shirt and drags him towards his house.]
Well, looking at it from the end of the story it's actually better that nobody believed him.
HICCUP
„It's not like the last few times, Dad! I mean, I really actually hit it! You guys were busy and I had a very clear shot. It went down, just off Raven Point. Let's get a search party out there, before it-"
What?! He had tried that a few times already?
STOICK
„STOP! Just... stop. Every time you step outside, disaster follows. Can you not see that I have bigger problems? Winter's almost here and I have an entire village to feed!"
HICCUP
„Between you and me, the village could do with a little less feeding, don't ya think?"
I burst into laughter as a viking in the back touched his belly, frowning, as if asking „Are you calling me fat?"
STOICK
„This isn't a joke, Hiccup! Why can't you follow the simplest orders?"
HICCUP
„I can't stop myself. I see a dragon and I have to just... kill it, you know? It's who I am, Dad."
STOICK
„You are many things, Hiccup. But a dragon killer is not one of them. Get back to the house."
How right he was! MY son could never kill a dragon. Right?
STOICK
„Make sure he gets there. I have his mess to clean up."
TUFFNUT
„Quite the performance."
SNOTLOUT
„I've never seen anyone mess up that badly. That helped!"
HICCUP
„Thank you, thank you. I was trying, so..."
Gobber shoves Snotlout aside. Astrid looks up from her axe, seeming worried.
New question: How had Hiccup managed to befriend those teens? Apparently they dislikes him as much as the whole village did.
HICCUP
„I really did hit one."
GOBBER
„Sure, Hiccup."
HICCUP
„He never listens."
GOBBER
„Well, it runs in the family."
He's right, you know.
HICCUP
„And when he does, it's always with this... disappointed scowl. Like someone skimped on the meat in his sandwich."
[Imitating Stoick]
„Excuse me, barmaid! I'm afraid you brought me the wrong offspring. I ordered an extra large boy with beefy arms. Extra guts and glory on the side. This here, this is a talking fish bone!
The hurt in his voice was clearly audible and struck me clean in the heart. I should have been with him all this time!
GOBBER
„Now, you're thinking about this all wrong. It's not so much what you look like, it's what's inside that he can't stand."
Could this be true? It probably was the entire package...
HICCUP
„Thank you for summing that up."
GOBBER
„Look, the point is, stop trying so hard to be something you're not."
HICCUP
„I just want to be one of you guys."
Hiccuo enters the house through the front door just to leave it again through the back door.
To me Gobber actually seemed to be the better father ...
So what to you think of my first attempt? Leave your opinion in the reviews.