A/N: Alright guys here we go, we actually get to see the first scene being filmed. Now I'm sure some of you will notice that I switch back and forth between using the character names I have created for this story and the names from the actual movie. This was done on purpose, Also I will not be writing every scene as I don't think it will be necessary. Rather I will cite that certain scenes have been shot and focus on other that have great deal of importance. Also keep in mind while these are teen actors, they are still actors and have been given motivations to follow. Though sometimes real life bleeds through and that is what Henry will have to figure out. Are they just acting or are they for real?
Httydastrid4ever- I know right, I have been a busy little Mexican ;p. I love that you are enjoying what I'm doing with Henry and Audrey, I am enjoying it as well. Enjoy the update.
John50- Glad you are enjoying the story, as for a schedule I try to get a chapter out at least once a week. Either Tuesday or Wednesday.
Guest- Oh Henry and Toothless will have a grandole time getting to know one another. As for the cast getting to meet Toothless they will have to wait, and Simon will be Simon.
gandalfnho- Toothless and Henry seem to be the exact same character just in different bodies and I feel that is why they were able to bond so well. Writing their relationship has been and always will be fun.
CB73- Oh you know me too well, they will get along juuuuuuust fine. Henry will always be around to point out when Audrey's temper is getting to her. She tries to work on it but as you can see in this chapter changing behavior is not always easy.
WinterBreath0602- Toothless will never not be a little shit, and we love him for it.
Thanks for all the reviews, I love them. Thank you. Hope your New Year is off to wonderful start, enjoy the chapter.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Mexican ;p
(Thursday, October 11th, 2018)
The booming sound of the raiding horns cut through the air stirring Hiccup from his sleep. Sitting up in his bed he saw flashes of light flood through his windows. Reaching over to the small desk by his bed he grabbed his dagger and pushed his blankets off. He pulled his boots on and made his way to the door, grabbing his vest which was hanging on the door.
He flew down the stairs and rushed to the door, he opened it only to be met with a wall of flames just outside. Hiccup screamed out in surprise and just a small amount of terror and slammed the door shut. Though he was certain the intense heat singed a few of his eyebrows off. Once he heard the roar of the flames subside, he cautiously opened the door to see that the dragon had moved on.
He made his way out of the house and into the chaos that were the streets of Berk. People running, shouting, ducking the flames and claws, orders being yelled out, weapons swinging wildly in the air, and fires trying to be put out. Hiccup started to run as he needed to get to his post, though as he was running through the village and he ran into a burly Viking of man he in turned shouted in his face, letting fly a stream of spit.
"AHHHHHHHHHH! Morning Hiccup!" The man greeted before he leapt into action.
"Morning to you too." Hiccup sassed back, though the man could not hear it.
He dusted himself off and stood up just in time to see a small Terror zoom by him. The small red and green dragon cooed at him and made to fly up to him.
"Sharpshot you can't come to me. You have to attack the village remember." Henry whispered to the dragon.
The Terror stared blankly at him and Henry was forced to groan out. He drew his dagger and started to charge the small Terror. Letting out a war cry Henry was successful in scaring the dragon off.
"That dragon is either an absolute genius or an utter numbskull." Henry said softly as he shook his head.
He turned and saw the forge once again and sprinted after it. He rushed through the village dodging stray dragon fire, spikes, and other Vikings. Many of the Vikings yelled at him to get to the forge, to stay inside, or get out of the way. A few offered him a greeting and a warning to be careful. He liked the ones that at least greeted him and gave him a warning, made him feel like one the tribe. The others he could have done without, he knew his job and where to go, plus how else was he supposed to get to the forge other than going outside.
He finally made to the forge only to be met with an intense heat and really bad singing.
"…Me axe and me mace and I love my- oh Hiccup there you are, was beginning to wonder if te dragons had carried you off." The portly blacksmith greeted the young Viking.
"Who me, nah. I mean they wouldn't know what to do with all this raw Vikingness." Hiccup replied as he tried his best to flex.
"Well I'm sure they need toothpicks." Gobber chuckled in response.
"You are hilarious." Hiccup deadpanned.
"Alright 'nough gab, back to work with ye." Gobber ordered as he motioned to Hiccup's apron.
Not needing to be told twice, Hiccup grabbed his apron, tied it on, and pumped the bellows a few times to get the forge up to temperature. In no time at all the forge was overrun by Vikings needing to have their weapons fixed as they had been damaged by the dragons or they had forgotten to get them fixed after the last raid.
"Hurry up boyo!" A man yelled at Hiccup as he set down his slightly bent sword.
"Oi! You just got here as did the boy, now be patient and we will get your sword fixed. Or you can come back here and fix it." Gobber snarled back, eyeing the large man down.
Receiving no reply Gobber turned back into the forge, taking the weapon with him and handing it to Hiccup. The young boy took the sword carefully and stuck it into the coals waiting for it to heat up. Hiccup took the time to take a look out the window and marvel at the scene in front of him.
Warriors rushing into battle, the chief shouting out orders as he rushed to protect his home, fire crews dashing all around and trying their best to put out the flames, crew manning the massive catapults and net launchers trying to bring down the scaly invaders.
A sudden flash of golden hair crossed his vision and he shifted his vision to follow it, there he saw her leading her fire crew, throwing a bucket of water on the fire and turning back around the building ended up exploding none the less. The explosion cast her in a silhouette causing her hair to glow, her metal shoulder guards to shine, and her eyes sparkled in light of the fire.
The blast from the house exploding finally reached the forge and blew Hiccup's hair back, though he did not notice as his eyes were trained on the fiery Valkyrie that was the center of his vision.
"Oi, Hiccup!" Gobber shouted pulling the boy out of his stupor.
"You can make eyes at the lass on your own time. Right now, I need you to pull that sword out before it melts to pile of slag." Gobber ordered as he pointed to the aforementioned sword.
Hiccup quickly scrambled to the sword and carefully pulled it out, hammered it back into working order and gave it a quick sharpen before presenting it back to the waiting Viking.
"About time boyo." The man grumbled as he rushed back out into the battle.
"Your welcome." Hiccup drawled out.
"Ah don't mind ole Spitelout. He probably just woke up on the wrong side of the yak." Gobber offered Hiccup.
"But he is always like that." Hiccup replied.
"Exactly." Gobber chuckled.
Hiccup chuckled in return and looked back out the window. Seeing Astrid leading the other teens in the fire crew, making their own mark and being seen by the rest of the village as young heroes. He sighed and sunk his head a little as he turned back into the forge.
"What's got ye down laddie?" Gobber asked.
"Let me go out their Gobber. I have to make my mark on the village." Hiccup pleaded with the portly blacksmith.
"You have made plenty of marks on the village already." Gobber reminded the boy.
"I know, but I fixed all of those marks, mostly. And besides I know this one will work look." Hiccup countered as he made his way to cloth covered item and quickly unveiled it.
It looked like some type of tube that had a bunch levers, a set of wheels, and was a good deal taller than Hiccup himself.
"What in blazes is that thing?" Gobber asked.
"I call it the Mangler. It will throw a bola for me and bring down a dragon for me." Hiccup said, his voice gain hope.
"Hiccup." Gobber sighed out, he had seen to many of these inventions backfire and wasn't ready to see another.
He didn't get a chance to voice any further concern as a high-pitched whistle broke through the air and silenced everything. The whistle suddenly stopped only to be followed up by loud, purple explosion.
"NightFury." Gobber whispered out.
"Man the fort laddie, they need me out there. And stay here! I don't want to have to explain to the chief why his boy was carried off as a snack." Gobber ordered as he charged out of the forge hammer in… well on his hand.
"Sure thing Gobber, I already forgot about it." Hiccup called back, maximum sarcasm in his tone.
He waited all of three seconds before he threw off his apron and began to wheel his creation out of the forge. It was heavier than he thought as he struggled to move it but once he got it moving, he was able to use the momentum to keep it going. He pushed it up a nearby hill that was overlooking a cliff. Hiccup unfolded the weapon and got behind it aiming it at the sky waiting.
"Come on, come on, give me something to shoot at." Hiccup muttered to himself.
An explosion light up the sky and soon Hiccup saw a black outline against the starry sky. His eyes widened as he led the target before he pulled a lever and let loose the bola. The kick back was great, and threw the young boy back several feet.
Dazed from the fall, Hiccup just had enough time to look up and see the black outline stagger and heard a roar of pain. The shape plummeted from the sky at great speed and crashed a great distance away.
"I hit it. I hit it!" Hiccup proclaimed.
"Did anyone else see that?" He asked, as he looked around.
In his joyous state, Hiccup failed to realize that a Nightmare had seen Hiccup from above and was stalking him for a great while. The dragon growled as he approached Hiccup causing the boy to wince and turn around.
"Oh, just you huh." He said sheepishly.
The dragon lit itself on fire and brushed against the Mangler, setting it ablaze.
"Oh really. You couldn't have just avoided the big obvious weapon." Hiccup groaned out, as his creation was burned to little more than embers.
The Nightmare roared in Hiccup's face which in turn caused the boy the yell out in terror and run back toward the village.
HELLLLLLLLLLP!" Hiccup cried out as he ran through the town.
"HICCUP!" A slew of people yelled as they saw the massive dragon chasing him.
He took shelter behind a massive pillar as the dragon unleashed its fire. The intense heat singed the tips of his clothes, he quickly patted them out and peeked around the pillar. The dragon was smiling menacingly at him as it inched closer.
Not seeing anyone around Hiccup took a deep breath and drew his small dagger, he stepped out from behind the pillar and faced the dragon. He knew his dagger wouldn't do much but if he was to die, he wanted to go down fighting.
"I'm not scared of you dragon." Hiccup stated, it was an obvious lie, but the dragon didn't know that.
Hiccup raised his weapon and went to charge when he heard his name shouted.
"Hiccup!" A booming voice rang out.
The chief sprinted into view and tackled the dragon, beating it away with his war hammer. The dragon went to spit another round of fire at the chief only to discover that it had run out of shots. The chief chuckled darkly and advanced on the dragon. The dragon choosing self-preservation over pride flew away into the sky.
"SCENE!" Helga called out.
Everyone relaxed and looked around, seeing Helga standing atop a platform that was being carried by several Gronkles. Allowing her to hover in place and watch over the scene.
"Well, that was a brilliant opening scene. Only I wish that it hadn't been as costly as it was." She said thoughtfully.
"What do you mean?" Audrey asked.
"Well I didn't count on Henry being such an excellent shot. He hit the NightFury and the tracker we place on it must be damaged since we lost its signal. And the Nightmare just burned one of our braziers to the ground chasing Henry." She explained, just as said brazier collapsed and crushed a nearby stall.
"Ooops, I'm sorry. I will help however I can." Henry said meekly.
"I'm counting on it." Helga replied.
"In the meantime, everyone back to your places, I want to get a few shots of the clean up and then we can call it a day." Helga ordered out.
The crew and cast all shuffled about and started to clean up the splintered wood and put out any remaining fires.
"Way to go Hiccup." Simon sneered at him as he walked by.
"Yeah, even we never messed up that badly." The twins remarked.
Finnick gave a sympathetic look but otherwise said nothing. Audrey looked conflicted, she knew it was an accident and that even though the dragons are tamed they are still animals and will sometimes follow their instincts. She looked up at Henry and tried to smile but couldn't find it in her. She felt torn about what happened and was trying to work on her temper, her face looked sad and she ended up turning away and walked toward the village ready to help with the cleanup.
Henry sighed out and made his way toward the village as well, they were going to need all the help they could get. As he started putting out some fires the words and looks of his fellow cast members had him thinking if it was all part of the scene or, were they being sincere?
A/N: Apparently Henry is too good at his job and as such a few more accidents have resulted. Audrey tried to reign in her initial reaction but is having a hard time doing it, some remarks were made that has Henry questioning their motives. And Toothless is missing, his tracker was damaged. I wonder where they were keeping it on him? Leave a review as you can see I love reading them.
(Published 1/8/2020)