Hello my peeps! Chapter 6 is up!
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Guest: Yes, this is after she finds Toothless, but someone told me she was OOC.
TheNightFury: Thank you!
capnbooth4: Yes he is, I got the idea from other stories I was reading.
In a puff of black smoke, Night appeared with another girl, "Hello again everybody, this is my friend, Hannah. She'll be down here to keep an eye on things while I'm off doing other things."
Hannah waved, "Hi" She was bouncing on the balls of her feet, "She'll sit between Snotlout and Tuffnut. Do not argue." She said sharply, as Snotlout opened his mouth to do just that.
She disappeared in her usual manner of black smoke. Hannah went and sat between Snotlout and Tuffnut. She squealed a bit.
STOICK: This isn't a joke, Hiccup (Exasperated) Why can't you just follow the simplest orders?
HICCUP: I can't stop myself. I see a dragon and I have to just... kill it, ya know? It's who I am, Dad.
STOICK: You are many things, Hiccup. But a dragon killer is not one of them.
Hiccup started laughing, Oh how right his father was.
Stung. Hiccup looks around to see many nods of agreement.
STOICK (CONT'D): Get back to the house. (TO GOBBER) Make sure he gets there. I have his mess to clean up.
'Excuse me?! I know we had a part in that, but so did a lot you guys. Don't be so rude.' Hiccup was going to go nuts, 'Where the Hel are those voices coming from' he thought. Night appeared beside him, "You'll find out soon enough, don't worry." She said quietly
Stoick lumbers off in the opposite direction.
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!
The dragons hissed angrily, though they seemed to direct it towards Snotlout.
HICCUP: Thank you, thank you. I was trying, so...
Hiccup avoids Astrid's glare and heads up towards a large jouse, standing prominently on the hill above the others.
HICCUP (CONT'D): I really did hit one.
GOBBER: Sure, Hiccup.
Gobber winced, "Sorry, Hiccup" He said "I didn't mean to sound so harsh" Hiccup rolled his eyes "Sure, Gobber"
HICCUP: He never listens.
GOBBER: Well, it runs in the family.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Hiccup and Stoick yelled at the same time. Several Vikings chuckled
HICCUP: And when he does, it's always with this... disappointed scowl. Like someone skimped the meat on 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 gut and glory on the side. This here. This is a talking fish bone.
Stoick was shocked, is that how Hiccup saw him? Around him the Viking laughed at how well Hiccup imitated his father.
GOBBER: You're thinking about this all wrong. It's not so much what you look like. It's what's inside he can't stand.
Everyone winced. He could have put that better.
Beat
HICCUP: Thank you, for summing that up.
They reach the doorway.
GOBBER: Look, the point is, stop trying so hard to be something you're not.
Hiccup sighs heavily.
HICCUP: I just want to be one of you guys.
'Actually, I don't.' Hiccup thought 'I did, but not anymore.'
Gobber eyes him sympathetically. Hiccup turns and goes through the front door...
... And strait out the back door. He hurries off into the woods, determined.
"Can't you follow orders for once?" Stoick asked wearily. Hiccup pretended to think for a moment, "Nope"
INT. GREAT HALL-DAY
The camera circles around a golden dragon impaled on a sword.
The dragons hiss and screech angrily, they hate that image.
A noisy din of protesting voices leads to... Stoick, glowering in the firelight. Surrounded by his men.
STOICK: Either we finish them or they'll finish us1 It's the only way we'll be rid of them! If we find the nest and destroy it, the dragons will leave. They'll find another home.
Hiccup, Astrid, and Hannah snort. "Umm... Dad? Where's the nearest island to Helhiem's Gate?"
"Berk. Why?" Stoick asked. "Don't you think that if we destroy the nest, they'll go to the nearest island?" Stoick's eyes widened, he hadn't thought of that.
He sinks his blade into a large nautical map, spread out on the table... the blade pierces the middle of an uncharted corner, swirling with painted sea monsters and dragons.
STOICK (CONT'D) (Decidedly): One more search. Before the ice sets in.
VIKING: Those ships never come back.
STOICK (MATTER-OF-FACT): We're Vikings. It's an occupational hazard. Now who's with me?
Stoick throws his fist up. No one follows. The crowd shifts in restless silence. Head scratches. Eyes averted.
VIKING (Feeble): Today's good for me.
VIKING (CONT'D) (Equally feeble): I've got to do my axe returns.
'These are the "Mighty and fearsome" Vikings' Hiccup was starting to piece it together, "Night?" He whispered, she appeared beside him "Yeah?" "Am... am I hearing... dragons?" "Took you longer than I thought it would, but yes, that's who you're hearing." Night replied. Hiccup was shocked, "Can the others hear them?" Night laughed lightly, "Nope, I'm not sure why only you and I can hear them. I guess we're special." Hiccup didn't respond.
STOICK: Alright. Those who stay will look after Hiccup.
Hands jut into the air. Everybody wants to go now.
Enthusiastic murmurs of prep and packing fill the room.
"DUDE! WHAT THE HEL?" Hannah screamed at Stoick "WHAT'S WRONG WITH TAKING CARE OF HICCUP?!" Stoick was shocked, to say the least, nobody had yelled at him in years. "I... well... you... he..." He sputtered. Hannah was fuming.
Night, who was still sitting beside Hiccup, muttered "Shit." And bolted towards her friend. "Hannah, calm down. Otherwise it'll happen again, you don't want to torch Tuffnut do you?" 'Torche?' Hiccup thought confused, 'What does she mean torch?' He looked closely at Hannah, she appears to be steaming slightly. Night sighs and waves her wand, "Protego" A moment later Hannah bursts into flames, similar to a Nightmare. Those sitting near her jump back in terror. Night stands next to her flaming friend until she calms down. "Now that you're done, can we continue?" Night asks Hannah, she nods. "Great." Night waves her wand one more time and Hannah sits down.
PHLEGMA THE FIERCE: To the ships!
SPITELOUT: I'm with you Stoick!
STOICK (DRY): That's more like it.
The Vikings rush for the door, leaving Stoick and Gobber alone. Gobber gulps back the contents of his tankard attachment and scrapes back the bench.
GOBBER: I'll pack my undies.
"Ew, Gobber, just...ew." Night says
STOICK: No, I need you to stay and train new recruits.
GOBBER: Oh, perfect. And while I'm busy, Hiccup can cover the stall. Molten steel, razor sharp blades, lots of time to himself... what could possibly go wrong?
"Hey! I'm more careful than that."
Stoick sinks onto the bench beside Gobber, his brow burdened.
STOICK: What am I going to do with him Gobber?
GOBBER: Put him in training with the others.
STOICK: No, I'm serious.
GOBBER: So am I.
Stoick turns to him, glaring.
STOICK: He'd be killed before you let the first dragon out of its cage.
Hiccup frowned, confused and slightly mad.
GOBBER: Oh, you don't know that.
STOICK: I do know that, actually.
GOBBER: No, you don't.
STOICK: No, actually I do.
GOBBER: No you don't!
STOICK: Listen! You know what he's like. From the time he could crawl he's been... different.
He doesn't listen.
"I do listen actually, I just choose not to follow." Hiccup retorted.
STOICK (CONT'D): He has the attention span of a sparrow. I take him fishing and he goes hunting for... for trolls!
"Trolls exist! They steal your socks. But only the left ones. What's with that?" Hiccup says with a smirk.
GOBBER (Defensive): Trolls exist! They steal your socks. (Darkly) But only the left ones. What's with that?
Everyone stares at Hiccup, shocked.
STOICK: When I was a boy...
Hiccup sighs, "Oh here we go."
GOBBER (GRUMBLING): Oh here we go.
STOICK: My father told me to bang my head against a rock and I did it. I thought it was crazy, but I didn't question him. And you know what happened?
"You got a headache." Hiccup deadpans.
GOBBER: You got a headache.
The Vikings were laughing, while Stoick was a bit hurt that his own son was closer to Gobber than him.
STOICK: That rock split in two. It taught me what a Viking could do, Gobber. He could crush mountains, level forests, tame seas! Even as a boy, I knew what I was, what I had to become.
(BEAT): Hiccup is not that boy.
"RUDE" Hannah and Night yelled together.
GOBBER: You can't stop him, Stoick. You can only prepare him. (BEAT): Look, I know it seems hopeless.
"Hey! Whose side are you on?" Hiccup asked sarcastically.
But the truth is you won't always be around to protect him. He's going to get out there again. He's probably out there right now.
Hiccup laughs loudly, "You have no idea how right you were." he says to Gobber, who just gives him a confused look.
ON STOICK, Gobber's words hit their mark.
EXT. WOODS- DAY- ON AN OPEN NOTEBOOK
A drawn map of the island, covered in X's. Hiccup looks up from it and peeks over a gorge, expectantly. He's sees nothing.
He adds another 'X' to the page, then scratches his pencils over the whole map in frustration.
Everyone laughs. "What did that book ever do to you?" Astrid asks Hiccup. Hiccup lowers his head and says, darkly, "Everything."
He snaps the book closed and pockets it.
HICCUP: Uggh, the gods hate me. Some people lose their knife or their mug. No, not me. I manage to lose an entire dragon.
Hiccup whacks a low-hanging branch. It snaps back at him, hitting him in the face. He looks up to see snapped tree trunk. His eyes follow it to a long trench of up-turned earth.
The Vikings go silent, though they don't like him a lot, they still worried about him.
He follows it to a downed, black dragon, it's body and tail tangled in a bola. It appears dead. Hiccup approaches, beaming.
The Vikings lean forward in their chairs, eager to see how Hiccup kills the Night Fury.
HICCUP (CONT'D) (IN SHOCK): Oh wow. I did it. I did it. This fixes everything. (Elated): Yes!
He strikes a victory pose, planting his foot in the fallen dragon.
HICCUP (CONT'D): I have brought down this mighty beast!
It suddenly shifts.
The crowd jumps. They thought it was dead.
HICCUP: Whoa!
Hiccup springs back, terrified. He turns his blade in it.
Rattled, Hiccup creeps along the leagth of the weak, wounded dragon, dagger poised to strike.
As he reaches the head, Hiccup finds the Night Fury staring coldly a him.
Some Vikings shudder, it's piercing gaze was unnerving.
Hiccup tries to look away, but he's drawn back to its cold, unflinching stare.
With the dragon safely tangled in the ropes, Hiccup jabs with his, puffing himself up with false bravado.
HICCUP (CONT'D): I'm going to kill you, Dragon. I'm gonna cut out your heart and take it to my father. I'm a Viking. (BEAT): I'm a VIKING!
The Vikings cheered. "Kill it. Kill it. Kill it!" They chanted.
Hiccup raises the dagger, determined to prove his Viking-ness. (?)
The dragon's laboured breathing breaks Hiccup's clenched concentration. He opens an eye, uncertainly leaking through.
The dragon holds the stare. Something profound is exchanged. Finally, the Night Fury closes its eye and lowers its head, resigned to its fate.
Snotlout looks back at Hiccup, "Of course he won't kill it. He's too wimpy." Hannah slapped him upside the head.
Hiccup tries to go through with it, holding the dagger aloft... fighting himself... until finally lowering it with a frustrated sigh.
The Vikings were getting restless, does he kill the dragon?
He looks over the dragon's chaffed rope wounds.
HICCUP (muttered, ashamed): I did this.
'It's fine, Hatchling. If this hadn't happened, I would have never met you.' This voice was deeper than the others. Hiccup had an idea. 'Toothless?' 'Yes, Hatchling?' 'Is that you?' 'Yes, young one' Hiccup was shocked to say the least, but also very happy. He could talk to his best friend now!
He turns to leave. Pauses. And glances back at the dragon.
Hiccup grumbles.
He checks over his shoulder to ensure that no one is watching...
Tuffnut breaks the silence, "What's gonna happen?"
Then hurries to cut the rope.
"HICCUP HADDOCK!"
Night looks at Hiccup, "Take Astrid and go to the dragons side. Now!" Hiccup grabs Astrid's hand and runs for the dragons. Stoick runs after him, Hiccup and Astrid pass through the barrier safely, Stoick on the other hand, smashes into it. It looked hilarious from the other side. "Toothless? Toothless?! C'mon, where are ya?" The black dragon pounces on the two teens, slobbering all over them. "Hey bud. I missed you too."
Annnd, done... for now. Sorry for the slow update, this chapter's longer than the others, so it took longer to write.
For those of you wondering: Hannah is my best friend, and I asked her to read this story, and then she asked me to put her in it, so there she is.
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Peace out- Princess Night