How You Doing Insane Gang!
I hope you enjoyed the character redemption for Dagur. In my collection, I talked about not making Dagur an enemy anymore and I wanted to stand true to my promise.
Disclaimer: I don't own How to Train Your Dragon.
Hiccup didn't really know how to process this new information. He's glad that Dagur wants to be a better person but saddened that it has to take a death of his friend to change him that way.
Dagur lets go of his hand. "Anyways enough about me, you came to me brother which means you need something."
Toothless nodded. "We need information."
Dagur raised a slight eyebrow. "What kind of info?"
"What do you know about the White Knight?" Hiccup asked him.
Dagur's eyes widened. "What makes you think that I know anything about him?"
Astrid huffed, getting impatient. "Gobbler told us that you had info and we trust him enough to come all the way here to you to get it."
He nodded. "If Gobber sent you then okay." "Don't ask me how I got this address but I'm pretty sure it's the right one, that is if he didn't move in the past decade or two."
Dagur handed Hiccup a ripped piece of paper. He had to smooth the crumpled price over his leg once or twice to be able to see the scrawled writing on the front.
"Yoo never tried to find him yourself?" Toothless asked with a hint of suspicion in his tone.
Dagur shook his head. "I never really like the guy, he's a legend but he wasn't my inspiration."
Hiccup took a breath before handing the note to Astrid, who inspected it herself. "I'm trusting you heavily on this Dagur."
"This is it I swear, he lives in a little neighborhood in Washington, he's been really low pro, I don't think he races anymore."
Hiccup stood up, giving the cue to the others that it was time to go. Hiccup reached for Dagur's hand again.
"If this address is the real deal than thank you for helping me out on this, you know how important this guy means to me."
Dagur clapped him on the shoulder. "I owe it to you brother, I hope you guys find him."
Toothless and Astrid nodded their thanks to him before following Hiccup out the door.
"Are you really going to trust him?" Toothless asked once they were out of earshot.
"I am, I've known Dagur for years and I never saw him this disheveled before."
"The others aren't going to like this Hiccup," Astrid warned.
"You're right, they probably won't but, this is the only lead we have and I trust Gobber's judgment on this one."
Hiccup shielded his eyes with the back of his hand, taking a moment for his eyes to adjust to the brightness.
"Finally!" Snotlout threw up his arms.
Fishlegs studied his friends' faces.
"Something happened, didn't it?" He asked worriedly.
Snotlout jumped from his position, "I knew it!" "He didn't give it to us did he?" "We should take it by force!"
Toothless held a hand on his cousin's shoulder.
The twins circled up with the rest. "If we are really going to do this, can we head back to get our firecrackers?" Tuffnut asked.
Ruffnut nodded her head. "Yeah, I just got these new ones where it's filled with pellets that explode!"
The twins high-fived in their excitement.
Hiccup held his arms up to calm everyone down.
"We are not exploding firecrackers into the house, especially the one you mentioned...we got the address-"
"Why didn't you say so?" "Let's get going." Snotlout interrupted.
Hiccup rolled his eyes and sighed. "Look, Dagur changed."
"Changed good or changed as in he finally jumped head first into the deep end?" Fishlegs asked.
Tuffnut waved the question off. "Deep end?" "He was already in the deep end, hopefully, he jumped into an abyss instead."
The gang grudgingly nodded their heads in agreement. "Fair point." Toothless commented.
"He changed as in he's acting like an actual human being," Astrid answered.
"I'll give you guys the full story later but first let's head to Gobber's shop to authenticate this."
Gobber held a magnifying glass to said paper.
"Hmm...mmm...mhmm..."
Snotlout crossed his arms. "Well?"
The motorcycle repairer nodded his head slowly in appreciation.
"Seems to be the real deal all right."
They were all sitting on a table in his office of the shop.
"Now can you tell us about Dagur?" Fishlegs asked.
The twins waved their fists and then pumped them in time with their chant. "Stor-y, stor-y, story, story, story!"
Gobber rose a bushy eyebrow also intrigued.
Hiccup took a breath and reiterated the story.
The others who weren't there were left shocked. Eyes widened, and mouths left slightly gapped open, it was taking them a few minutes to process the information.
Snotlout's face was starch white. "He's really dead?"
Toothless nodded. "Yeah..."
"How along ago did this happen?" Gobber asked.
Hiccup shrugged a shoulder. "I don't know, he never said."
"I was hoping for a happy story," Tuffnut commented.
"Now I feel sad..." Ruff added.
"You want to blow stuff up and do donuts until we puke?"
"Hell yeah!" Ruff conked helmet to helmet with Tuff.
They raced off out of the shop. The squealing sounds of tires on pavement evident.
Astrid hit Snotlout's shoulder. "Tell me again what you see in her?"
Both of his hands cupped his chin, a love-struck gaze written on his face. "She's amazing."
Hiccup hung back with Gobber once everyone proceeded to the door.
"I'm guessing all of you are going to pack up and hunt for him then?"
Hiccup nodded absentmindedly. "Yeah, probably start packing tomorrow and head out the day after."
Gobber placed a hand on his shoulder. "Come on, out with it, something's bothering you."
Hiccup let out a huff, "Can you just keep an eye out for Dagur?" "I'm still not 100% sure about this whole thing."
He scratched his stubbly cheek.
"I will, don't worry about Derek and just enjoy this trip."
"Thanks, Gobber."
Chapter 6 should be when they actually start going on the trip, super excited to get this story really underway.
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