My first Fanfiction I hope you all will enjoy.
It was a nice day in Berk everyone was doing the usual when thunder clouds rolled in. A lightning bolt struck the village square causing a blinding flash. When everyone opened their eyes, they were inside a large building.
"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!" Stoick roared.
"Almighty Thor would you please not be so loud, sensitive ears here." A young man wearing obsidian black dragon scale armour says walking down a set of stairs.
"Who are you and where are we?" Stoick growled.
The young man walked up to Hiccup and got on one knee and bowed. This caused everyone frown.
"It is an honour to have you within my home my Lord." He said still bowing.
To the Vikings surprise...
"Please stand friend and explain for us." Hiccup said.
"My Lord I was tasked with bringing a warning for the rest of your tribe they are close to destruction and the gods say it is not Berks time yet." The man answered.
"I see, what is your name friend?" Hiccup asks.
"Leo, Leo Night Fury." Leo answered.
"Fury as in..." Hiccup began.
"Yes sir, but that information can not be disclosed at this time." Leo said.
"I see, then please show us this warning." Hiccup nods.
"My Lord, Night we may begin." Leo called out.
"Sure bro, ok you lot can come in now." A young teen girl wearing a white version of Leo's armour calls into a room.
What came out of the room made every Viking jump for their weapons only to find them gone.
"Why are their dragons here?" Stoick shouts.
"This has to do with them as well Stoick." Leo growls.
"Everyone sit and we shall begin." Leo orders.
Everyone sits in the seats provided.
We skim above a dark, wild ocean. The camera turns toward a lone island, Berk. It is a gigantic shard of rock jutting straight out of the water.
Hiccup (V.O.)
"This, is Berk."
All of Berk and some dragons jumped at his voice.
"It's twelve days North of hopeless, and a few degrees South of freezing to death. It's located solidly on the meridian of misery."
'Why does Hiccup think that?' Were the adult's thoughts.
The camera drifts over rolling hills to reveal a small village nestled on an outcropping of sea mount.
"My village. In a word, sturdy. And it's been here for seven generations, but every single building is new."
The camera drifts closer, circling.
"We have fishing, hunting which happens to be my favourite and a charming view of the sunsets."
"You like to hunt since when?" Stoick asks his son.
"The past five years food increase." Hiccup responded.
"That was you!" Stoick shouts.
"The only problems are the pests. You see, where most people have are mice or mosquitos. We have..."
Sheep graze peacefully on a hillside. Suddenly one is snatched and another just takes it's place.
CUT TO: INT. STOICK'S HOUSE – CONTINUOUS A door is pulled open… as a dragon swoops directly toward it, blasting fire. The door is slammed. The fires shoots through the slats of wood, illuminating Hiccup, a skinny looking teenage Viking.
"Dragons."
EXT. STOICK'S HOUSE
He reopens the sizzling door, leaping off the front porch. He weaves through the erupting mayhem as Vikings get ready for a fight.
"Will you please for once just stay inside!" Stoick shouts.
"Nope." Hiccup and Leo say.
"Most people would leave. Not them. Their Vikings. They have stubbornness issues."
"Boy what do you mean them you a Viking too?" Spitelout asks.
Vikings sound the alarm. Viking men and women pour out into the streets, axes in hand. ON HICCUP darting through alleys, sliding under dragon's fire, making his way through the battle.
"To the Vikings my name's Hiccup. Great name, I know."
'To the Viking's?" All of Berk think.
"But it's not the worst. Parents believe a hideous name will frighten off gnomes and trolls. Like their charming Viking demeanour wouldn't do that."
Dragons sweep back and forth, dodging axes and blasting the Vikings who throw them. A burly warrior gets tossed in an explosion, landing beside Hiccup.
VIKING
"Arggghhhh! Oh mornin' Hiccup!"
As the Viking leaves Hiccup shakes his head as he returns to running the gauntlet rushing past gigantic men and women.
HICCUP:
"Meet the neighbours. Hoark the Haggard..."
HOARK:
"What are you doing out!?"
"...Burnthair the Broad..."
BURNTHAIR
"Get inside!"
HICCUP:
"… Phlegma the Fierce..."
PHLEGMA
"Get back inside!"
HICCUP:
"… Ack.
"Yep just Ack."
"You've got some great neighbours there." Night said.
"I know right." Hiccup laughs.
ENTER STOICK, the biggest Viking of all. He yanks Hiccup from the path of a strafing dragon and hold aloft to the crowd.
STOICK"
"Hiccup!?"
(accusingly; to the crowd) "What is he doing out again?! (TO HICCUP) What are you doing out?! Get inside!"
"Why was the youngling supposed to stay in the burning den?" A voice asks making the Vikings look left.
"Oh yeah I forgot while here you all can understand the dragons." Leo said smacking his head.
"Again why?" Stormfly asks.
"He causes problems when out." Stoick answered.
"Then teach him." she groans.
The flames light up his scowling face and matted red beard. He sets Hiccup down and turns to the sky, searching.
HICCUP:
"That's Stoick the Vast. Chief of the tribe. They say when he was a baby he popped a dragon's head clean off its shoulders. Do I believe it?"
Stoick grabs a wooden cart and hurls it, knocking the strafing dragon out of the sky.
"Yes, I do. Which is one reason why I haven't challenged him yet."
All the Vikings laugh uncontrollably.
'My son wishes to challenge me, why?' Stoick thought.
An Explosion forces Vikings to duck. Stoick stands firm, brushing flaming debris off of his shoulder.
STOICK: (shouting order to his men)
"What have we got?"
VIKING #1:
"Gronkles. Nadders. Zipplebacks. Oh, and Hoark saw a Monstrous Nightmare."
STOICK:
"Any Night Furies?"
VIKING #1:
STOICK:
"Good. Any signs of a..."
VIKING #1:
"No sir."
STOICK :(Relieved)
"Thank the Gods."
"Scared Stoick?" Leo laughs.
"What do you know boy?" Stoick growls.
"Plenty I met one today." Leo smiles.
VIKINGS:
"Hoist the torches!"
Massive flaming braziers are raised on poles, lighting up the night sky… and revealing swirling dragons of all types. Below, Hiccup crosses and open plaza and slides into an open building with a tall chimney.
INT. BLACKSMITH STALL – CONTINUOUS He crosses behind a counter, where a peg-legged, one-armed hulk of a Blacksmith reshapes blades with a hammer and tongs appendage.
GOBBER:
"Ah! Nice of you to join the party. Thought you'd been carried off."
Hiccup dons a leather apron and starts to put away Gobber's scattered appendages.
HICCUP:
"Who me? Nah, come on! I'm way to muscular for their taste. They wouldn't know what to do with all this."
Hiccup strikes a bodybuilder pose.
All the Viking's laugh.
GOBBER:
"Well they need toothpicks, don't they?"
Hiccup gets to work, transferring bent and chipped weapons to the forge as Vikings crowd the counter for replacements.
HICCUP:
"The meathead with attitude and interchangeable hands is Gobber. I've been his apprentice ever since I was little and he is one out of the only three people on this island who really knows me."
"What's there to know you Usele...Ugh." Snotlout began.
Everyone looked to see a teen girl choking out Snotlout.
"Call my husband that one more time and I'll rip out your tounge and feed it to wolves." She growls.
"WAIT WHAT!" Stoick bellows.
Hiccup gets up walks over to the mystery girl takes her hand thus freeing Snotlout, picks her up bridal style and walks back sitting her in his lap.
"Dear what have we talked about?" Hiccup asks her.
"I know Hiccup but..." She sighs.
"Shade." Hiccup says moving her hair from infront of her eyes.
"Yes, Alpha I will try to stay calm." Shade says with a small smile.
"Good now then Leo shall we continue?" Hiccup asks.
"Of course, my Lord. Night." Leo says bowing.
"Wait a second Hiccup who is the girl she's not from the village!" Stoick shouts.
"Hush Stoick and watch what you missed out on." Night growls.
(With the dragons)
"Isn't that Shade?"
"Her mates a human?"
"She called him Alpha?"
"Wait until Nightwing hears this."
Was just some of the chitter secretly being held.
EXT. VILLAGE – CONTINUOUS ON STOICK
STOICK:
"We move to the lower defences. We'll counter-attack with the catapults."
Armed men rush past, flanking other who carry sheep to safety. Stoick follows up the rear as, overhead, a dragon strafes the rooftops with Napalm-like fire.
HICCUP:
"See? Old village. Lots and lots of new houses."
VIKING:
"FIRE!"
In response, the fire brigade charges through the plaza – four teens, tugging a large wooden cask on wheels. From it, they fill buckets of water to douse the flames. One among them is a cute, energetic Viking girl. Hiccup leans out of the stall to watch her.
HICCUP:
"Oh, and that's Fishlegs the living library,"
"Snotlout my ever so loving cousin and the next Chief,"
"The twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut the only two people that can cause more destruction than dragons,"
"And… (WITH RESPECT) Astrid the most beautiful warrior on the rock and soul mate which she denies."
"I'm not your soul mate!" Astrid yells.
"Keep telling yourself that... still have no idea what you see in her sweetie?" Shade smiles.
"You'll find out soon don't worry." Hiccup smiles back.
A SLOW-MOTION explosion erupts behind her, framing her in a sexy ball of fire. The others join her, looking awesome and heroic.
"Their jobs cool, but mines better."
Hiccup watches them run by with a smirk on his face.
GOBBER:
"You not planning on running out there are you?"
HICCUP:
"What? No of course not you know I never ditch work unless it's for a good reason."
GOBBER:
"So, when are you going to start courting Astrid?"
HICCUP:
"GOBBER! (sigh) You know that it won't ever happen she's to set on killing dragons."
HICCUP: (V.O.)
"Which reminds me I haven't gone over a dragons rank on this island"
EXT. VILLAGE – LOWER PLAINS – CONTINUOUS Nadders land, gathering like seagulls around a seemingly vacant house.
"A Nadder head would get you at least noticed."
"Just noticed are you kidding me?" Stormfly squawks.
The Nadders clamber onto the building, tearing the roof and walls apart. Sheep pour out and scatter. Elsewhere, Gronckles pick drying racks clean of fish and fly off.
"Gronckles are tough. Taking down one of those would definitely get you a date."
"That means a mate, right?" Meatlug asks.
"For human's it's right before a mate." Hiccup answers.
A stealthy, snake-like dragon head peeks over a rooftop, breathing gas into a chimney.
"A Zippelback? Exotic, exciting. Two heads, twice the status."
"Two head's always better than one." Barf&Belch plus the twins laugh.
"Interesting." Hiccup says.
A second head pokes through the door and lights it. KABLAM! The two heads fly through the explosion, their necks zipping together to reveal a single body. It flies past Stoick as he climbs to the top of a catapult tower.
CATAPULT OPERATOR
"They found the sheep!"
STOICK:
"Concentrate fire over the lower bank!"
CATAPULT OPERATOR
"Fire!"
Boulders are catapulted at the corralling Nadders… Just as a huge red dragon whips past, spraying the base of the catapult with sticky fire.
HICCUP :(V.O.)
"And then there's the Monstrous Nightmare. Only the best Vikings go after those."
"They have this habit of setting themselves on fire."
"Youngling you make us sound as scary as a mouse."
"When you run into Nightmare's on almost a monthly basis you get use to it." Hiccup smiles.
It emerges from the flames, climbing the catapult with a leering, toothy grin.
STOICK:
"Reload! I'll take care of this."
Stoick takes on the Nightmare, face to hammer.
Suddenly, a loud ballistic moaning streaks overhead. The catapult crew ducks.
INT. BLACKSMITH STALL – CONTINUOUS ON HICCUP, looking up from his work, reacting to the same sound with a large smile on his face.
HICCUP: (V.O.)
"But the ultimate prize is the dragon no has ever seen besides me. We call it the-"
VIKING:
"Night Fury! Get down!"
Vikings everywhere take shelter. The moaning sound builds.
EXT. VILLAGE – CATAPULT – CONTINUOUS
The Monstrous Nightmare suddenly stops fighting and takes flight. Stoick looks skyward.
STOICK:
"JUMP!"
KABOOM! The Catapult explodes as though hit by an artillery shell… sending Stoick and the crew leaping for their lives.
HICCUP: (V.O.)
"They never steal food, never show themselves, and..."
The sound recedes, leaving the crippled catapult in flames.
"… never miss. No one has ever killed a Night Fury. And no one ever will."
"Brother though I love your thinking that won't forever be the case." Toothless says.
"Oh, hey Tooth when did you get behind us?" Hiccup asks.
"Just a second ago now someone dropped me in the back." Toothless growls at Leo.
"Hey I'm still learning my magic Tooth." Leo grins.
"Um... Leo should Stoick be that shade of red?" Night asks.
"HICCUP WILL NOT CONSORT WITH THE LIKES OF YOU DEMONS!" Stoick hollers.
"Sorry human Alpha but it's already happened." Toothless smiles.
IN THE STALL Gobber trades his hammer for an axe.
GOBBER:
"Man the fort, Hiccup they need me out there!"
Gobber pauses. Turns with a threatening glare.
GOBBER:
"Stay. Put. There. You know what I mean."
Gobber charges into the fray, hollering. ON HICCUP, a smirk crosses his face.
EXT. VILLAGE – MOMENTS LATER Hiccup runs out through a wall of clustered Vikings. He weaves through the ongoing mayhem, as fast as his legs can carry him.
VIKING #6:
"Hiccup, where are you going!"
VIKING #7:
"Come back here!"
ON THE PLAIN BELOW The Nadders have cornered the house-full of sheep. They close in, ready to spring upon them. Stoick suddenly appears, hurling fishing nets over them. The surprised Nadders are caught. Stoick and his men rush in. A Nadder blasts a hole through its net. Stoick leaps onto it, clamping his thick arms around its head, forcing it jaws shut.
STOICK:
"Mind yourselves! The devils still have some juice in them."
ON THE PLAIN ABOVE Hiccup reaches a cliff overlooking the smoking catapult and sits down watching the sky. He listens and hears the Night Fury's approaching… and turns to the defence tower. They close in for the final strike, completely camouflaged in the night.
HICCUP: (TO HIMSELF)
"Soon my dear, soon,"
Hiccup stares waiting for the finally when he hears a cranking sound. Looking to his left he sees Snotlout and the twins messing with a catapult. KABLAM! The tower topples. The blast of fire illuminates the dragon for a split second. The catapult launches Hiccup can only watch as the boulders strike the bigger Night Fury out of the sky and into the forest below.
HICCUP:
"NO! THAT DOES IT THEIR DEAD!"
The dragons watching went nuts.
"What is going on with them?" Fishlegs asks.
"Oh, that they just heard the Alpha's roar." Toothless says.
"He's an Alpha we've been attacking and Alpha's nest!" They all cry.
"HOLD... PEACE..." Hiccup roars.
The dragons quiet down and sit. The Vikings jaws drop.
Hiccup runs off to go and beat the crud out of those three when he rounds a bend, he sees a Monstrous Nightmare chasing the three idiots.
HICCUP:
"Oh, come on. Argh fine."
Hiccup runs in front of the dragon yelling.
HICCUP:
"Come on big bad Nightmare come at me!"
ON STOICK, holding down the netted Nadders. He hears a familiar holler and looks up to see… Hiccup running through the plaza with a Nightmare on his tail. Alarmed, Stoick abandons the Nadders and runs off.
STOICK:
"DO NOT let them escape!"
IN THE PLAZA Vikings scatter as Hiccup dodges the Nightmares blasts with ease. The Napalm-like fire splashes up onto buildings, setting them alight. Hiccup duck behind the last standing brazier – the only shelter available. The Nightmare blasts it, spraying fire all around him.
Hiccup peers around the smouldering post. No sign of the Nightmare. He turns back to find it leering at him, blocking his escape. Suddenly, Stoick leaps between them, tackling the Nightmare to the ground. They tumble and wrestle, resuming their earlier fight. The Nightmare tries to toast him, but only coughs up smoke.
STOICK:
"You're all out."
He smashes the Nightmare repeatedly in the face, driving it away. It takes to the air and disappears. Winded, Stoick turns to Hiccup.
HICCUP: (V.O.)
"Oh, and there's one more thing you need to know..."
The burnt brazier pole collapses, sending the massive iron basket crashing. It bounces down the hill, destroying as it goes and scattering the Vikings who were holding down the netted Nadders. The freed dragons escape… with several sheep in tow.
Hiccup:
"Sorry, dad."
EXT. VILLAGE – UPPER PLAZA – CONTINUOUS The escaped Nadders fly past with sheep in their clutches. The raid is over. The dragons have clearly won. The murmuring crowd eyes Stoick, awaiting his response.
HICCUP:
"Okay, but I…"
Stoick grabs Hiccup by the scruff of his collar and hauls him away, fuming with embarrassment.
HICCUP:
"Would you stop, yes a Nightmare was chasing me but, Snotlout and the twins-"
STOICK:
"-STOP! Just… stop."
He releases Hiccup. Everyone goes silent, staring expectantly.
STOICK:
"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 looks around. All eyes are upon him.
HICCUP:
"Between you and me, the village could do with a little less feeding, don't ya think?"
A few rotund Vikings stir self-consciously.
STOICK:
"This isn't a joke, Hiccup! (Exasperated) Why can't you follow the simplest orders?"
HICCUP:
"First off I don't want to hear about me being a disaster to the tribe if I'm never allowed to contribute to the tribe, second the only reason I had a nightmare on my tail was because Snotlout and the twins decided to mess around with a catapult granted they did it a dragon, but the Nightmare was after them first, and third how am I supposed to be next in line when you don't listen to a gods dam word I say."
Most of the crowd takes a step back never seeing this side of Hiccup before.
Most in the hall did so as well.
STOICK:
"You are many things, Hiccup. But a leader is not one of them."
"I hate to break it to you Stoick but your wrong there my friend." Leo sighs.
"What do you mean?" Stoick growls.
"Hiccup has the heart of a chief and the soul of a dragon and well... Gothi, my Lord?"
"You may." Hiccup says while Gothi nods.
"Everyone has a different soul take mine for example I have the soul of a wolf. Some people choose to embrace that soul and in doing so unlocks hidden abilities to that person and if willing said person can learn how to use those abilities for their own use. I would go into more but we need to continue I promise before the end of this I will tell you the rest." Leo said smiling.
Angry. Hiccup looks around to see many nods of agreement.
STOICK:
"Get back to the house. (TO GOBBER) Make sure he gets there. I have his mess to clean up."
Stoick lumbers off in the opposite direction.
HICCUP:
"Fine, I got more important things to do than stand here listening to you berate me."
Gobber leads Hiccup through the walk of shame. They pass the teen fire brigade as they snicker.
TUFFNUT:
"Quite the performance."
SNOTLOUT:
"I've never seen anyone mess up that badly. That helped!"
HICCUP:
"I'd watch your back if I was you."
Hiccup avoids Astrid's glare and heads up toward a large house, standing prominently on the hill above the others.
HICCUP:
"I meant what I said back there."
GOBBER:
"Sure, Hiccup."
HICCUP:
"He never listens."
GOBBER:
"Well, it runs in the family."
HICCUP:
"And when he does, it's always with this… disappointed scowl. Like someone skimped on the meat in his sandwich. (MIMICKING 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 fishbone."
"Nice job my Lord who else can you do?" Leo laughs.
"Everyone on Berk." Hiccup laughs as well.
GOBBER:
"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.
HICCUP:
"Thank you, for summing that up."
They reach the doorway.
GOBBER:
"Look, the point is, stop trying get his approval just be you."
Hiccup sighs heavily.
HICCUP:
"I wish I could Gobber, I wish I could."
Gobber eyes him sympathetically. Hiccup turns and goes through the front door. And straight out the back door. He hurries off into the woods, determined.