So, again one week over. Please enjoy this week's update. Shout-outs:
AnaWinchester-Universe67: Thanks for the tip. I'm going to try this. Might take a few chapters though...
Gabrielly790: I'm working on Valka's line-count. In some scenes it is very easy to write her reaction and in others it's really difficult. About the length of the chapter: I'm planning to keep them this short because this way it is easier for me to prepare the chapters in time for the next update.
I hope you like it!
Chapter 6
[Scene cuts to the Haddock household. Hiccup runs past Stoick and quickly and quietly crawls up the stairs, but Stoick notices him ]
I was once again getting emotional when I saw Stoick. The pain was still too deep …
STOICK
„Hiccup."
HICCUP
„Dad! Uh... I have to talk to you, Dad."
STOICK
„I need to speak with you too, son."
HICCUP/STOICK (SIMULTANEOUSLY)
„I've decided I don't want / I think it's time you learn / to fight dragons. What?"
Well, this won't get you very far …
STOICK
„You go first."
HICCUP
„No, no, you go first."
STOICK
„Alright. You get your wish. Dragon Training. You start in the morning."
HICCUP
„Oh, man, I should've gone first! Uh, 'cause I was thinking, you know, we have a surplus of dragon-fighting Vikings, but do we have enough... bread-making Vikings, or small home repair Vikings-?"
STOICK
„You'll need this."
Hiccup was definitely right during the conversation with Gobber earlier. His didn't listen at all. Or at leaswt ignored what he said …
[Stoick passes Hiccup an axe]
HICCUP
„I don't want to fight dragons."
STOICK
„Come on. Yes, you do."
HICCUP
„Rephrase: Dad, I can't kill dragons."
STOICK
„But you will kill dragons."
HICCUP
„No, I'm really very extra sure that I won't."
STOICK
„It's time, Hiccup."
HICCUP
„Can you not hear me?!"
„No."
STOICK
„This is serious, son!"
„Maybe. But he is too." I shook my head in frustration.
STOICK
„When you carry this axe, you carry all of us with you. Which means you walk like us. You talk like us. You think like us. No more of... this."
HICCUP
„You just gestured to all of me."
STOICK
„Deal?"
HICCUP
„This conversation is feeling very one-sided."
„Indeed it was."
STOICK
„DEAL?!"
HICCUP
„Deal."
STOICK
„Good. Train hard. I'll be back. Probably."
HICCUP
„And I'll be here. Maybe."
„Had all their conversations been like this back then? All the time I was gone?
But what exactly had happened for everything to change? Was this a part of all that I was watching right now?" I thought as the next scene started.
To be honest, this is one of the harder scenes to write. The action-driven ones are way easier... Anyway, I really hope you enjoy this.