Chosen of the Wind
[I do not own Moana or How to Train Your Dragon.]
The songs are canon. Hiccup however will be...away from most, of them.
—They will not have a language barrier, although it was very tempting, I'm having a hard enough time writing this as it is.—
Tid-Bit Notes: The chapters will most likely get longer as we go. — artisticRadifyer
Summary:
After fighting the Red Death and a murderous tyrant by the name of Drago Bludvist, Hiccup wouldn't think he would have any more outstanding adventures as big as those. Yet, he must set off to try and stop this 'Darkness' that is spreading across the Barbaric Archipelago. Meeting two people who will not work together, being on a time limit, and trying to keep himself alive around God's, a Demigod, two limited-power elements, and a mentally challenged chicken does not help anything.
Chapter 3 — Storms Collide
"We really appreciate how much you are helping us, Njord, but could you let up a moment?"
The wind that was rocketing them forward settled to a regular updraft.
"Thanks. Agh. We can start up again in one last burst if we are as close as I'm beginning to gather."
After an hour of normal flight with wing movement rather than the stiff, updraft, banking-forever-forward, position they were holding earlier, the sky darkened with a storm of great measure.
"Well, hopefully a God wouldn't have a champion face this without a get-through-it-alive charm if he still wants them to do the original task." Toothless rumbled nervously as they both scanned the lightning arcing through the sky. "Here goes nothing."
The storm tossed and tumbled the two relentlessly, and they went down together; more or less as a controlled crash into the water. Toothless was able to keep his rider close when something had come loose on the way down.
Hiccup worked his way around Toothless before the flyer lost what little buoyancy he had and clambered onto his back to connect all the parts necessary for him to swim. Once a stable pace is set in the direction they thought they needed to go, Hiccup tied back together two frayed ends that caused him to fall off in the first place.
Without an ability to see in the brutal storm, Hiccup is surprised to hear grumbles from his ride that were more happy in tone than the effort filled ones he'd heard for some time now. And when Toothless began to walk instead of swim, the difference was vast enough, Hiccup would have fallen off if not for the harness he was in.
They bore the weather in between two boulders and each other's body heat. Once it came to a close, both the man and beast simply relaxed for a moment. Hiccup checked the entire ensemble of the flying harness before they set off to explore the island; since Njord gave no input, they could only assume they were in the correct spot.
They could hear rhythmic sounds of a song or chant start and end as they tried to find the voice it must have come from. The duo picked up the pace to reach the opposite side of the island; which showcased a girl launching herself off a rock to land not a foot away in the water from a sophisticated raft with a sail.
The huge man upon it opened up the sail and began to speed away. Before Hiccup could make up his mind to help the stranded girl, the ocean propelled her to it.
"I think we found the right people."
Toothless gave the speaker an unimpressed look.
"You're right, we'll watch them for a bit longer; just to make sure."
Njord disagreed, giving a continuous gale in their direction that was speeding the raft further away, "Okay, okay! We're going!" The two swiftly caught up and landed beside two startled people.
"..."
"..."
The first person to speak was the huge man, "Are you riding a dragon?"
"Yes. It's...normal where I'm from."
The girl exclaimed something in another language, and the man responded dryly, "What? Can you not hear? I know you keep repeating yourself, but just because you think I can't hear, doesn't mean I'm going to prattle uselessly."
She exasperatingly turns her attention to Hiccup and says a length of words expectantly.
"...I think she asked a question, but it sounds more like she's proving a point to you."
The man sighs, "Neither of you can understand each other, can you?"
As the hulking man rams his head into the main mast of the raft, the air pressure drops significantly around Hiccup. In the same moment, the raft is tipped just so for the girl to fall into the water and a high pressure forms around her. She is deposited back onto the raft after her ears have popped, just as the air pressure returns to normal for Hiccup's popping ears.
"Great. The Wind and Sea fixed the problem. You must be here for the same reasons she is."
"To help my Tribe, yes."
"Hey! You aren't talking crazy anymore!" the girl realized.
"Your Tribe must be pretty isolated to not know another language when you hear it." Hiccup observed.
"I know! We're not even allowed past the reef."
"Reef? How far south are we?"
"How are you dressed like that and not dying?"
"Actually, I am. But there are more pressing matters right now."
"Like what?"
"Do you have a plan to stop this 'darkness'?"
"We have to bring the Heart back to Te Fiti, and he's the one that needs to do it."
"So, eh..."
"M—" the man began.
"We are not doing that again! His name is Maui, he's a demigod, and I'm Moana of Motunui." the teenage girl, Moana, introduced.
"I'm Hiccup. This is Toothless. We're a viking and dragon of Berk."
"Viking?" Moana asked.
"Really loud, violent, territorial humans who took three hundred years to make peace with dragons, and regularly drink themselves to sleep. You?"
"My Tribe used to be voyagers, but they stopped a few generations ago. Now I'm on an illegal mission to get rid of the darkness; because of my father's long-standing order for no one to cross the reef."
"Your father...?"
"Chief."
"Mine was too."
"Was?"
"I'm the chief these days. My people voted for me to come."
"—"
"Well, since you now have a babysitter:" Maui threw Moana off the raft. "Go get her, and leave me alone."
"Toothless can't—" Hiccup said as he saw the ocean in action again.
"Aaaand she's back." Maui said at large.
"You will—Ah!" she fell off again. Maui sharply tipped the raft this time.
"Hey! Don't tip us off!" Hiccup indicated the dragon he was clinging to. "Neither one of us are very good at swimming!"
"Then take her and that blasted Heart!"
"I'm pretty sure Njord will restrict me from leaving as well." Hiccup thumbed the return of a panting Moana. He stood fully since Maui seemed done rocking the raft. "I'm hearing a lot about a heart?"
"You mean THIS Heart? The one that he needs to restore Te Fiti?" Moana presented.
Maui snatched it from Moana and threw it far, only for the Wind to launch it straight back into the man's forehead with enough force to knock him over. "Alright. I'm out." He tried to swim away, but was replaced onto the raft by the Ocean on his bottom. "Oh, come on!" A stream of water flew into his face.
"What is your problem, Maui?" Moana accused.
"..."
"Are...you afraid of it?"
"No! No. I'm not afraid." Everyone noticed Maui's tattoo cower as he bit his fingernails, ran around 'screaming', and then leaned on a hook pretending his actions didn't happen.
"Do all of your tattoos move?" Hiccup asked as Toothless tilted his head in confusion.
"Stay out of it, or you're sleeping in my armpit." Maui addressed his Little Maui tattoo, then Hiccup, "You: Yes." then Moana. "You: Stop it. That," Maui pointed at a green rock in Moana's hand, "is not a 'Heart.' It's a curse. The second I took it, I got blasted out of the Sky and lost mY HOOK! Get it away from me...!"
"You're responsible for this." Hiccup confirmed to himself.
"Get this away?" Moana teased.
"Hey, hey, hey! I'm a demigod okay? Stop that! I will SMITE you! You wanna get s-smote? Smotten?"
"Smitten." Hiccup supplied and then snorted at the implications.
"Agh! Listen, that thing doesn't give you 'the power to create life,' it's a homing beacon of death. If you don't put it away," Maui searched around them, paranoid, "bad things are gonna come for it."
"Come for this? The Heart?! —" Moana backed away to the edge of the boat.
"'Create life?' But..." Hiccup muttered to himself, "women can do that."
"—You mean this Heart, right here?! —" Moana raised it above her head.
"Don't! You can't raise your voice like that!" Maui fruitlessly tried to make Moana shut up.
She was waving her arms and jumping about the raft at this point. "—COME AND GET IIIT!"
"SHHHH! You are gonna get us killed!"
"No. I'm gonna get us to Te Fiti, so you can put it back. Thank you. ~You're welcome!~"
An arrow narrowly missed Moana's head. If she hadn't bowed slightly, it would've gotten her.
Hiccup, bewildered, noticed it landed between a chicken's feet. "There's a chicken on the raft?"
Maui plucked the arrow out of the wood of the raft and inspected it. "Kakamora."
"Kaka—what?" Moana attempted to repeat the name.
"Murdering little pirates."
"Wish I could say any of the ones I've fought were 'little.' Ey, Bud?" The dragon sniggers, and Hiccup sobered up quickly. "Though, I'm concerned about how that was an insta-kill shot instead of a warning one."
"Wonder what they're here for..." Maui glared at Moana and the Heart still in her hand.
They all inspect the coconut people. At Moana's comment about them being 'cute,' they draw on the husks of their armor to make themselves more menacing.
"Looks are almost always deceiving." Hiccup said. "...Although the music they're making is amazing. Gotta fighting feel to it."
"Ocean!" Moana kneeled on the side of the raft. "Do something! Help us!"
"The Ocean doesn't help you; you help yourself!" Maui grabbed a rope near the back and pulled it taut. "Tighten the halyard! Bind the stays!"
"..."
"You can't sail?!" Maui mostly accused Moana.
"I uh... I am self-taught."
"I know what those are," Hiccup tried to justify, "but I don't think I have time for a tour of the—I can't even call this a boat."
Maui launches the raft forward.
"Can't you shapeshift or something?!" Moana asked.
"Do you see my Hook?" Maui backtalked. "No magic Hook: no magic powers!"
"I'm gonna get off;" Hiccup said, "you'll go faster."
Toothless and Hiccup took off from the back, which lurched the raft forward. Roped arrows pelt the raft immediately afterward.
"I'm glad we left when we did. That is not a very big—uh, raft."
The raft connected to the ship, and the Kakamora split the ship's two extensions off to surround it, and began to board the raft.
"Their ship is turning into more ships! Isn't that cool?" Hiccup scanned the area to see where he'd be the most helpful. "Toothless, let's get the lines off the raft." The dragon blasts the middle of the ropes, but not all are removed and the raft is jostled badly. "Uh. We'll use my sword next."
Some of the Kakamora were able to board, having not been blasted away, and were scurrying all over the place.
The humans on the raft removed the last few arrows themselves.
"Or not."
Another arrow is shot to retrieve the little being that got ahold of the chicken.
"Okay, lost one source of food, and our group is being surrounded! Tooth, aim for the..."
The raft swiftly turns to the main ship and then turns further to a strategic exit.
"Nevermind. Wait, is she...?"
Moana jumped from the raft onto the ship.
"Let's aim for the coconuts then, Bud." Hiccup saw darts flying all over the place. "...Especially the ones with darts."
Moana retrieved the chicken and managed to get back to the raft.
Hiccup wondered if that was more of a pet, and not food as he originally thought. "Surrounded again. Blast them." Hiccup ordered. And Toothless hit the two smaller ships closing in on the raft.
The coconuts flew off with inertia as the raft sped the rest of the way between them.
"Wonder if any of that is salvageable..." Hiccup said, remembering the small size of the raft.
The base boat crashes into the other two.
Hiccup frowned at the wreckage. "I don't think any of it is." The two glide down to the boat where both Maui and Moana are in the midst of a conversation.