DISCLAIMER: Sadly I don't own Httyd. Just my concept I placed their altered versions.
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-Receiving Transmission: Unit Sneaky-
-Status: Accepted-
-Begin Transmission-
-Location: Berk; Connecting Bridge to Training Arena-
-Time: 1603 ( 4:03 PM )-
-Alert Status: Terror Green-
After running out of the arena Ashton is quickly flooded by the other trainees. "So." Snotlout asked.
"So what?"
"What was it like?" Questioned the Twins.
"What was what like? What are you three talking about?"
"How did she feel?"
"Really! After all of what just transpired you ask me 'how she felt!?"
"Well duh. We can't exactly see her figure with that stupid cloak of hers."
"So is he flat or what?"
"You're her cousin, why should you know, and it that's just plain creepy. Besides, it was all a stupid accident."
"Didn't seem that way." Tuffnut retorts earning him slap upside the head.
Ashton tries to move away from the group but is still blocked by the trio, Fishlegs is still standing behind Ashton. "Move."
"Not until you give us the information we asked for."
"Real mature you three are. I'm not going to answer you because this is all messed up and this isn't something to be talking about. Now move!"
"No way."
"Snotlout if I tell you three will you move out of my way."
"That's what we said we would do."
"Arg fine." Ashton walks over to the trio blockade, raises his arms up, grabs the twins helmets, and smashes their heads together. Knocking the trio to the wooden flooring.
"Ow, hey!" Cried the dazed trio.
"I told you to move. So I took matters into my own hands."
"Um." Spoke Fishlegs.
Ashton turns around to Fishlegs and glares at him, causing him to try and hide. "Fishlegs I'm not telling you either, end of story."
"O-oh. Uh, I wasn't going to ask. I'm more worried about Helena… Cuz… You know."
"Oh right. I'm sure she's fine Fisher. Maybe a little pissed but I'm sure she's ok. She has Goober and Gothi with her."
"Oh okay." Fishlegs agrees then he starts his trip crossing the bridge.
As Fishlegs leaves Ashton turns and watches as he leaves. But at the same time Gobber walks up behind him with Helena slung over his shoulder and Gothi in tow. "Lad?"
"Hm?" Ashton turns.
"Mind explanin' what happened here?" Referring to the dazed trio on the bridge.
"They wouldn't get out of my way."
"Oh alright then. Say, why don't ye come with us to Helenas house. I'll answer yer questions there."
"Might as well, since my ax is in a wall."
"Sorry 'bout that. I'll have her take it out when she's sober." Giggles start coming from his back.
"I am so sober. Have you ever seen how many holes fabric has. There's so many."
"Lass yer on three cups of mead infused with nip."
"Pfh. Mommy is gonna be so mad at you again." The giggles kept coming from his back.
"Yes, yes, I know she will."
"Um, Gobber?"
"Yes laddie."
"Didn't her mother-"
"Best keep that statement in lad. Anyhow let's take her home. I'll answer yer questions there."
Gobber restarts his walk across the bridge with Ashton now in tow and surprisingly they spotted Gothi already in the center of the village. Helena looks up from Gobbers back and spots Ashton. "Hiiiiii Ashie, Mommy is out right now so I can't play today."
"Uh, it's okay Helena." He mumbles. "I think?"
"Okay." She lowers her head once more.
"Hey Gobber."
"Yes lad."
"What is she going on about?"
"Well since ye asked and I don't see no reason to hold answer to ye. Helena thinks she's five whenever her mind is fuzzy. So what she just said makes some sense, not that you would remember, that is. Now, I'll ask you this, how old were ye when Finn lost to the flightmare?"
"Six almost seven. Why?"
"Placing this simply, her mind goes back to a simpler time. Now think on this lad, her life currently isn't exactly a happy one, and yes I watch over her even though she doesn't really need it. Like I said, her current life is filled with torment, loneliness, secrets, over working, betrayal and heartbreak. She lost her mother lad, is mostly ignored by her father since that event, and most importantly, her friend. So to compensate the pain, she reverts to one time where she feels loved, is accepted, isn't bullied, isn't ignored and most importantly, has her best friend."
"Where doesn't my uncle Finn fit into this?"
"Ladd, she lost her mother three days after yer uncle lost. When he lost, you stopped being around her, and focused more on training yerself to fight the Flightmare to restore yer family's honour. When she need someone to help her, you were her second go-to. But once her second go-to stopped talking and seeing her; she felt like she had finally lost everything. What you saw in the arena, is one result of her losing everything. Anger. That's why Sharpshot; is a customized AI unit, she needed someone to talk too, but even that isn't enough. Ah, here we are." Gobber opens the household's door and heads in.
"So make yerself comfortable I'm going to place her in bed before we continue." And with that he heads upstairs to place Helena in her bed.
"We used to be friends?" Ashton questioned himself as he took a seat by the central fire pit.
Gobber then starts to come back down and takes a seat across from Ashton. "So, what else do ye want ta know?"
"What exactly is Helena?"
"Okay, but before I tell ya, I need ya ta know that what I'm about ta tell ya DOESN'T LEAVE THIS HOUSE. Because if this were to ever publicly surface she would be killed or cast out. Got it?"
"Uh, sure thing."
"Good. Now to understand Helena you need to understand her mother's side. Now from what I understand what yer were told that Valka was a Jorgenson. That is true, but that is only half of it, you see, Valka was from another village. Meaning that she, like the Ingermans, moved to Berk. Now unlike the Ingermans, Valka came from a village up north that was destroyed and its people were forced to scatter to avoid being killed or made slaves. You still with me lad?"
"I'm following sir."
"Just checking. So, the village, or more accurately the island, she was from was once called Jumper Isle. It was home to the, well, the jumper people. They were a peaceful tribe, filled with people who would help out others, and ones who never tended to pick a side during other tribe conflicts.
Now the inhabitants of Jumper Isle were a very special kind of people. They were, well they still are due to Helena, draconic hybrids. The had two forms from what I understand from Valka. One form was their 'dragon' form and the other was how we saw Valka on a normal basis; her 'human' form.
Now their 'dragon' form has the features of whatever dragon he or she matched in personality. Valka being kind hearted, smart and wise, caring, and strong not just in the mind but physically as well. So her form was that of what is to us a fabled Stormcutter.
Now you might be thinking to yerself "how could she be physically strong even though she was a fishbone?". In truth, according to what Valka had told us for passing along information and for Helena's sake; draconic hybrids, although in their 'human' form look completely normal like everyone else. Their dragon senses are still active like their enhanced sense of smell, hearing, sight, and strength. So for example, if Valka was still with us and wanted to, she could have picked up Thornado without breaking a sweat.
Moving on, when Valka moved here all that time ago, she proved her worth to join the tribe. She was then latter taken in by the Jorgensons as they offered to take her in. But Valka kept her, uh, what's a decent word for it, uh, ability a closely kept secret except from Gothi and I.
Even when she had married Stoick she kept it from him in fear of being killed or banished. And then Helena was born; now here is the thing with newborn hybrids. As clear as day you noticed Helena's dragonic features earlier today. That's because at the age of 3, when a hybrid newborn's personality starts to form, they start to grow their features. Sadly in order for them to 'hide' their features, they must learn how to control their dragon side along with learning how to morph their features into their bodys.
That being said, most young hybrids learn this at a young age like when they are nine or ten. Once again due to Valka being taken when Helena was only six, she was never able to learn it. So after Valka was taken, we had her wear a cloak to hide herself until she could learn to morph her features. She has the books that Valka had written just in case if something happened to her. But because of her rude departure only Gothi knows where the books are. And judging by Helena's talk with Gothi the day when you all were in yer mechs training and by today's incident in the arena; she has too much built up anger and other emotions that mess up this teaching."
"So, if Helena is a hybrid then what dragon is she? I've never seen a dragon with white scales with a hint of violet before."
Gobber stands up and starts to fix up the central fire pit with some fresh logs. "Like her mother lad, her dragon half is what we still have only as rumors from Bork's papers. From what we discovered Helena is what has been named a Light Fury, the fabled female equivalent to that of the Night Fury. At least that was Bork's papers have described as one. Now with the mention of the Night Fury it is entirely possible that Helena did shoot one from its flight. And knowing her instincts for peace and mercy, she most likely spared the creature. So be on yer guard hen ya enter the forest okay laddie."
"If you say so."
"Excellent. So, since it's getting pretty late now, I'll leave you in charge of her, which shouldn't be too long." Goober starts to make his way to the door. Causing Ashton to jump up from his seat.
"No. No. No. Wait you're leaving me here with her!"
"That's right."
"No way, you are staying here and I'm going to go on my own business."
"Sorry lad, you're the one who caused this mess, so I'm having you clean it up. Good luck." He opens the door and leaves.
"My fault, SHE'S THE ONE WHO-" He yells at the stationary door.
"Ahem!" Came Helena's interruption at the base of the stairs; standing there without her cloak.
"What do you want." Ashton glares at her.
"If I wasn't still on some nip, from today ancciednt, you would have thought twice on what you would have said just then."
"Not my problem. You still-"
"Hofferson do I need to break some bones here."
"If it's your bones then fine."
"Har de har har, very funny. I mean you can try, but you'll just hurt yourself more than the damage done to me."
"And why would that be?"
"Easy, I have stronger bones and muscles."
"As if." Ashton huffed in denial.
"Hofferson I wedged your ax in stone thirty meters from the other side of the arena. If that doesn't prove my point, well... I don't know what else to prove it." Helena starts to grab some raw fish placing one into her satchel.
"Still means nothing whatsoever to me." He retakes his seat.
"You are so lucky that nip calms me. Also could you stand by the door."
"Why?"
"Just do it Ashie."
"Don't you dare call me that."
"Okay Ashie."
"You aren't going to stop are you?"
"Please Ashie." She holds her hands behind her back and starts rocking on her heals back and forth.
"Arg fine." He gives in and heads over to the door.
"Besides why do you want me here anyway?'
"So I can stretch."
"Yeah right."
"Hey, you try not moving your arms for several long hours." She starts to unravel her wings and tail.
"Oh, gods, so much better."
"So how does having wings and a tail feel exactly?"
Helena starts to close up her wings after doing some pumping actions with her wings and basic swing movements with her tail. "Now before I tell you anything more, unlike Gobber, the information coming from ME specifically should not be used to try and kill me, got it."
Ashton rolls his eyes. "Understood."
"Okay, so I guess a better example on how they feel, just imagine yourself with several extra limbs." To prove her point he moves her tail towards the kitchen table chairs and picks one up.
"Also answer the door here in ten seconds and move out of the way. Then quickly close and lock it."
"Must I ask why."
"Nope, the door answers it for you." The door starts receiving heavy knocking with someone's weapon.
"HEY MECHLESS I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE. OPEN UP. WE STILL HAVE SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS FROM EARLIER THIS MORNING!" Came Snotlout's voice.
Ashton opens the door startling Snotlout. "Hey Ashton what are you doing here?"
"Goober his having me watch her as punishment."
"Hah loser, anyway, move so I can finish some business with mechless."
"Okay." He moves out of the doorway.
"Sweet, hey mech-WOAH!" He yells at the chair Helena picked up was thrown at him. It crashes into him with so much force it moves him out of the doorway and onto his back on the ground. Ashton thanks Snotlout for stopping by, closes, and promptly locks the door.
"Now that, little nuance is taken care of, anything else you wish to know?" Helena takes a seat, clasps her hands, slightly tilts her head, and smiles.
"I guess I can ask a few more." Aston takes a seat across from her.
"So explain our childhood."
"Do you really wish to know how we were back then?"
"I did ask didn't I?"
"If you wish. Just be aware that you wanted to hear this."
-Receiving Transmission: Unit Sneaky-
-Transmission Terminated-
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DISCLAIMER: Sadly I don't own Httyd. Just my concept I placed their altered versions.
AND NO I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT TOOTHLESS!
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Thank you those who reviewed chapter 6, I may have to start doing some answers at the end of the chapters now... I'm still deciding.
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