Chapter Summary: Hiccup wants to kill a dragon to prove himself and Solveig just wants her hair done.
Note: You get 2 chapters for this one because this was at first one chapter, but it was over nine pages and 3000 words. Ms. Dragon Reader had decided to cut it down, for new readers that might not know Ms. Dragon Reader likes to write notes in third person over first person.
She would also like to thank Echo for helping to come up with a nickname for the OC.
'Solveig!' Hiccup called out.
Years had passed he's now 15 and his sister is seven it's a dragon raid this morning and half of his house is on fire thanks to a Nightmare and all Hiccup can do is dash around the village ignoring people to tell him to go inside.
'Hiccup, get back inside.'
'Get inside.'
'I will!' he says and paused. 'Have anyone seen Solveig?'
Nobody answered. They just go back to fighting with dragons and Hiccup does not care about the war around him. He has other worries. Where in Odin name was his sister?
'Hiccup.'
Great there was his father loud and booming voice yelled in his ear and he's picked up off the ground. Another reminded that he was light and not very viking like as most would put it.
'What are you doing out here? What is he doing out here?'
His father seemed to give up on wanting an answer and pushes him into Gobber shop.
'Get inside.'
'Have you seen Solveig?'
His father didn't answer. He just turned back to face an incoming Nightmare of course.
'Are there you are, thought you be carrying off.' Gobber said working away at the metal.
'I can't find her anywhere.' Hiccup stressed. 'She wasn't in the house, she's not out there. There's a dragon raid going on and my sister is missing.'
Gobber just stares at him, the man eyes glancing down beside Hiccup and Hiccup follows only to see his little sister standing there with messy red hair and her brown fur vast already got a couple of burn marks scatted over it.
'Big brother, braid my hair please.'
She's waving her hands happily at him and he picks her up and place her over his shoulders.
'Not at the moment Little Sun.'
'And this right there is why people don't think your viking like.'
'I'm viking like,' he said.
'Hair. I want my braid done big brother,' his sister pointed out.
He placed her down and braided her hair.
Gobber just let him be because he knows Hiccup wouldn't be able to get anything done unless his sister got her hair done first. Lucky for Gobber, Hiccup was quick with hair since he had been the only one to do Solveig hair. She could do her own, but often down right refused.
'Alright pass me the axe Little Sun.'
His sister picked up the axe with ease light it weighed little. Hiccup wasn't that lucky he still had to use two hands to work on the weapon.
'My Vikingness is just contained.'
'Contained,' his sister supports.
'Right. Because you know how to do someone hair quicker than throwing an axe.'
'I will kill a dragon Gobber.'
'Sure, when you fix up Solveig hair before or after you kill the dragon?'
Hiccup does not let Gobber words bother him used to the older viking teasing they're on a much more friendly terms than most in his village. So, he knows that the man with changeable hands does not mean it.
His sister frowns at the adult though for a whole different reason.
'Aye, come on lass you can't be mad at me still. That was three years ago.'
'She never forgets.'
Hiccup opens up the window and tells his sister with a gesture to get to work. She pushes over a stool to help her reach the desk and take the incoming orders.
'No, she never does I braid her hair once and she never let me do it again.'
'To be fair you did try with a hook.'
'I have a hook for a hand lad. What yer expect me to do? You were sick and she demanded her hair to be done.'
'I will kill a dragon Gobber and when I do my life will be a little bit better.'
'Hiccup you can't throw an axe.'
'He makes a good point,' Solveig said.
'You can't hold a sword.'
'Or, this.'
'Solveig put that bola down,' Gobber said.
His sister spins it happily in her arms only for it to get tossed out the window and barely hitting a nearby viking.
'Oops.'
'And, I'll take the front.'
Hiccup places his sister down onto the ground, but first he had to show Gobber his barrel contraption.
'This will throw it for me,' he said with pride. 'And no touching.'
Solveig frowned at him as he held her back a little, but he bumped something and sent a bola flying behind him actually hitting a viking.
'Ow.'
He winched when the larger man was knocked down to the ground.
'This right there is what I'm talking about.' Gobber pointed at all of him.
'You just pointed to all me,' Hiccup said.
'Yes, that's it stopped being all of you.'
'Look. I'll kill a dragon one day, maybe even today.'
'Sword. Sharpen now. Solveig, aye where did that girl go off to now?'
'Argh viking!' she heled the axe in her hand. Gobber snatches it away.
Gobber swap his tool for an axe.
'They need me out their Hiccup. Stay put. There.'
Hiccup had other ideas this was going to give him the chance he was looking for.
'Solveig where did she go now. This kid needs a leash on her or something.'
Hiccup eyes looked about for his sister only to understand where Gobber was going on about and she was nowhere in sight.
'Argh viking.'
'Oh no you don't lass.'
Gobber picked her up by the collar and passed her over to Hiccup taking away her axe.
'Both of you stay put.'
Gobber was gone out into the battle of viking and dragons.
'Alright Little Sun, now we go.
'Kay.'
Hiccup grabbed his contraption only for his sister to pick it up with ease and carry it out as they both ran out. Hiccup testing his sister about dragons and what statues they bring to the person
'Little Sun Nadder?' Hiccup asked.
'Will get you noticed.' she answered.
'Brilliant. Gronckles?'
'Tough, but they might get big brother a girlfriend.'
She winkled her face up in disgust.
'It's possible,' Hiccup said. 'Now. Zipperback?'
'Two heads, twice the statues.'
'Brilliant. Nightmares.'
'Only the best Vikings go after those like Stoick.'
'Dad,' he corrected.
'Stoick.'
There was also that problem his father didn't hang around his sister that much didn't bother to even try to get to know her. She was convinced he was just a strange man that enter the house and eat food only to leave.
'Place it over here.'
His sister does so and they both wait.
'Now, Night Fury.'
'It never misses and it never tries to steal food and is never spotted.'
'Which will make us the first to kill a.'
'Night Fury,' she finished.
He hears the roar of the Night Fury another attack was coming. Hiccup took aim at the catapult. His eyes followed the dragon in the night sky, his sister watching in amazement. The catapult goes off. The weapon is shot up into the night sky and Hiccup lands on the ground due to impact. The dragon screams and the outline of the dragon is plummeting into the forest.
'We did it!'
'Yay!' his sister cheered as he spins around. 'Did what? Thor he's big.'
He stopped and turned around to see what had caught his sister attention that Nightmare was indeed big.
'And we run now.'
He would have picked up his sister if it wasn't for the fact that she picked him up and carried him off. Like everything she holds she makes it seem like she can pick up anything with ease, nobody knows how she does it. They just know she does. She was now running, carrying her adopted big brother in her arms.
'Stoick, your kids!' he hears a viking yell.
He lands with a thud and plucks his sister of the ground running much faster than her whom covers her eyes as all she sees is a Nightmare after their tail. He had just shot down a dragon and now he's about to get him and his sister killed they hide behind the last standing brazier. Covering his sister, the brazier burns due to the Nightmare, but his father steps in and chase the dragon away.
'Big brother we made a mistake.'
Yeah, he could tell when the brazier on fire crashes down onto the village below and his father is glaring at him trying not to notice Solveig like Stoick always does.
'No. I made the mistake,' he takes his blame.
'I turn around and you do this,' Stoick states. 'Just this once Hiccup can you not cause trouble. Winter is coming soon and I have a whole village to feed.'
He wanted to point out that the village could use a little less feeding, but people are staring at not only him but at Solveig he blocks her view she does not need to take the blame or noticed the hater in their eyes. His sister is too young and apart of him fears that maybe she might notice what is wrong with her big brother and leave to.
'Aye, make sure he gets back into the house.'
Gobber slaps him lightly over the head the message is cleared he made a mistake his cousin and his friends laugh at him Astrid said nothing.
'Way to go that helped,' Snotlout mocks.
'Thank you, thank you I was trying,' he replies.
'Don't like you.'
'Ow. You little brat.'
His sister steps on Snotlout toe and he would have attack, but Gobber pushes his cousin aside and holds Little Sun by the hand to drag her back. They arrive at the hut when the morning sun comes up.
'He never listens.'
'It runs in the family. Whoa lass not this again.'
Hiccup pays little attention to Gobber being lift up into the air by a seven-year-old.
'And when he does it's always with this disappointed frown. Excuse me barmaid. I'm afraid you brought me the wrong offspring.'
'I think I'm going to be sick.'
'Wee!'
Gobber face is slightly green as Solveig spins him around Hiccup ignores them.
'I order an extra-large boy with beefy arms, extra guts and glory on the side. This here is a walking fishbone and the girl that can lift seven grown men isn't even mind. Can someone write a letter to the person that their missing offspring is eating my extra meet.'
Gobber lands on the ground after Solveig slips almost falling over herself if Hiccup hadn't caught her in time.
'Again,' she cheered.
'Not again.' Gobber said the most, green Hiccup had ever seen the man.
Gobber stands up and dusted himself his face going back to his normal colour.
'Now, Hiccup. You got it all wrong. It's not so much on the outside that he can't stand it's the inside.'
Hiccup frowns.
'Thank you for pointing that out.'
'Look. Just stop trying to be something that you aren't your many things Hiccup. A great big brother is one of them, but a dragon killer that's not you.'
'I just want to be one of you guys,' he opened up the door. 'Come on Little Sun.'
'Bye, bye.'
Gobber waves at her with his good hand and watches sadly as he saw the two leave. Little did he know both used the back door to go find a shot down Night Fury.
Note: Hiccup didn't even try to tell his father about the Night Fury he had just shot down this is because he already knew his father wouldn't believe him in this AU. He has intention in finding the dragon and bring back evidence that he had shot down a Night Fury and killed it. In saying that, we all know he won't. Updates happen once a week.
