Really sorry for the long wait. Suffered from really bad writer's block, so I decided to catch up on some programmes I've wanted to watch and time flies. Really hate this chapter so just bare with me (I know I keep saying that). As always same warnings apply blood, gore, bad language and adult themes. This is a Hijack story so will eventually contain boyxboy. As always reviews are welcomed. Forgive my grammar and spelling mistakes. I may have rushed this a tad to get it up. Thank you to all of you that are reading and enjoying, I'm always open to suggestions and advice.
Thanks to Dragonloverr who reminded me I was in the middle of writing a story L.O.L. I did start it straight away, but I dropped my laptop and had to get another one.
Thank you for your review Timberwolf101 nice to know your still reading thank you.
Chapter 10. A Simple Walk to School.
Elsa strode through the narrow hallways of her manor home, her heels snapped against the marble floors echoing loudly around her. Still able to feel the burn of humiliation across her pale skin, she kept her mask of cool indifference in place. She couldn't show any emotion...not yet. "Just hold it in" she chanted to herself over and over. As she neared her personal chambers her humiliation shifted to fury. The large oak door of her bedroom came into view. When the white hired beauty was within arm's reach of the door she let out a snarl of untainted untamed rage as she threw the heavy door open with enough force to tear it from its hinges. The detached piece of wood fell to the floor with a dull "thud". With one quick sharp stamp of her foot ice shot out from under her shoe. In a wave of pure raw power the room was encased in ice. It rolled across the floor like smoke, it twisted and curled up the walls and it crawled across the ceiling before forming long sharp icicles that hung towards the ground. There were no pretty intricate patterns, no delicate beauty in this icy cavern...no the whole space was covered in harsh lines and sharp edges creating an icy palace around its enraged queen.
The blond cheerleader rubbed her forehead. She still couldn't believe the way Jack had waltzed into the middle of the conference spouting nonsense such as "fledgling", "innocent" and worse of all "alibi". That word had cut Elsa like a knife, to know her own brother had spent the whole night with her prime suspect just to clear his name. The blond princesses felt betrayed by her twin. With Jackson's revelation North had completely thrown Elsa claim out. The robustly large man had been absolutely horrified at the idea that a fledgling (in his words) had been neglected and this oversight had to be amended at once. An hour later Hiccup Haddock was placed in her brothers care, it was the platinum blond jock's job to watch over, train and advise the younger vampire. As well as to get him to come and register here at the manor for his dietary needs. Elsa laughed bitterly to herself, Jack entrusted to take care of someone else, and the fool couldn't take care of himself. More importantly why was Jack going so far out of his way for someone he hardly knew? Jackson was overly friendly by nature that was true, but he was also quiet a selfish being only helping another as long as they could hold his interest. Elsa pondered the possibilities around in her agile mind for a moment. If the council thought she was just going to drop her investigation into Hiccup Haddock that easily, they were very, very wrong. In her gut the princess knew something big and bad was just on the horizon and her gut told her Hiccup Haddock would be at the centre of it. How does that saying go? Keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer. That's exactly what she'd do. In Elsa's mind Hiccup was far from innocent and she would prove it. This was far from over this was just the beginning.
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Astrid happily scratched Toothless' ear as she ignored the heaving noises coming from behind her. Toothless on the other hand kept turning his acid green eyes back to his master. Although the large back dog kept growling at something across the street, but Astrid couldn't see or hear anything. She supposed he was just on edge because Hiccup was so weak at the moment. Astrid smiled to herself before calling over her shoulder.
"That's what you get for running out the house while your dad's still trying to talk to you."
Hiccup straightened up from the bush he was hanging over. "I didn't run, I thought we were late for school." He replied weakly.
The honey blond teen scoffed and rolled her eyes. Thanks to Hiccup's desperation to escape a father son talk he'd dragged them out the house with over an hour until school started. Even if they walked at a slow pace it only took twenty minutes from Hiccup's house. Astrid's fist had barely struck the panel of the Haddock household's front door when it swung open and Hiccup (grabbing a tight hold of the blond teens wrist) had sprinted past her like the hounds of hell were nipping at his heels. As the heaving began again Astrid glared over at her friend. He was not being sick anymore just retching which should have been a good sign, but to Astrid it just proved that her auburnette friend had nothing left in his stomach to bring back up.
"You skipped breakfast." It wasn't a question.
Hiccup looked over with glassy emerald eyes. "Well with my dad and everything I forgot."
Astrid narrowed her sky blue eyes. "And dinner last night?"
Hiccup nervously scratched the back of his head. "W-well Jack t-turned up so..."
The blond teen closed her eyes and started to count backwards from ten. When she finished she met the smaller boys stare once more. "So Hiccup, when exactly was the last time you eat?"
Hiccup opened his mouth then closed it. Now he was thinking about it he wasn't so sure. He definitely missed breakfast this morning because his dad had barged in his room, and the two of them had ended up arguing. Ending in Hiccup fleeing from his farther the minute Astrid had wrapped on the door. He missed dinner last night because of Jack's unexpected visit (not that he had planned on eating anything). Dinner yesterday was when he'd been cornered in the classroom by Jack and Elsa. And he felt to sick that morning to eat anything. Wednesday night Hiccup had been exhausted so had skipped eating again, but Astrid had forced him to eat lunch in the cafeteria with her. So Wednesday lunch time was his last meal, if a few bites of a sandwich counted.
"Wednesday." Hiccup mumbled.
Astrid leapt up from her seat. "Wednesday!" She screeched.
The freckled boy flinched a bit at the tone he was sure only bats could hear that pitch. He tried to causally shrug it off. "Yeah but a lots happened."
Astrid stalked towards him and Hiccup felt his body tense.
"A lot has happened. That's your excuse? Hiccup you need food to live" Astrid scowled.
"Well apparently not, just blood." The smaller teen growled back.
Astrid threw her hands in the air. "Of course because you're a vampire what was I thinking? Quick let's go get you a coffin and some sun block."
The sarcastic tone made Hiccup's blood boil. Taking a step forward he grabbed hold of the jock's forearm. Astrid's blue eyes widened in surprise. Suddenly an image of honey blond hair stained in crimson and lifeless sky blue eyes filled Hiccup's head. A rush of excitement flooded Hiccup's body and it moved of its own accord. Hiccup yanked the girl forward with much more strength then his weakened frail body should be able to muster. His free hand snaked into the thick coarse locks and bent the head they were joined too to the side. A hunger burned low in his stomach and though somewhere in his mind something was screaming stop, he ignored it and decided to indulge in the this forbidden treat. He was so hungry and the vision of her blood soaked body kept replaying through his head. He wanted it; it was as simple as that. Closing his glowing green eyes Hiccup closed the distance allowing instinct to guide him.
A sharp pain in Hiccup's right calf brought him rushing back out of the fog that had settled over him. Emerald coloured cat eyes tried to focus on the quivering mass under his hand. With a shout of realization Hiccup jumped back landing in the bush next to the one he'd been crouched over. Hiccup stared wide eyed at Astrid's panicked blue ones. "Did I just do what I think I did?" Hiccup thought widely to himself. Astrid who was clutching her neck let her hand drop to her side. No blood, Hiccup let his eyes fall to the floor partly in relief partly in shame, he hadn't. But it was to close. Hiccup turned his pleading emerald eyes back up to his friend.
"A-Astrid I-I'm so sorry. P-please..."Hiccup half sobbed as the reality of his actions started to sink in.
He had tried to bite Astrid. Astrid his best and only friend. Hiccup had tried to feed on her. He would have fed off her if it hadn't been for Toothless. The black beast had obviously sensed something amiss. Toothless must have known his master wasn't in his right mind, so he bit the auburn haired boy. Not hard enough to hurt or draw blood, just sharp enough to penetrate the haziness Hiccup had been trapped in.
"Hiccup?" Astrid asked with a tremble in her voice Hiccup had never heard before. "Your eyes."
Hiccup's hands shot up to cover his eyes. He bit his lower lip and yelped. Carefully he ran his tongue along his teeth or should he say fangs. Two slightly larger k9's on the top row of teeth and two on the lower. Hiccup continued to carefully prod at them with the wet muscle. They weren't long and pointy like in the movies, only slightly bigger than his normal teeth. But they were sharp and strong; Hiccup could feel a little nick in the back of the tips of the top set. It was a small imperfection but he still wished he had a mirror so he could see exactly what it was. In the back of his mind it annoyed him that even as a vampire he couldn't have straight teeth. The freckled teen was so engrossed in his exploration he failed to notice Astrid timidly approaching him.
"H-Hiccup?" It was barely a whisper.
The small teen scrambled to his feet. "Stay back. Stay away from me."He screamed failing his arms around. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Just stay back."
Astrid paused. "It's okay I'm fine."
"No, no, no, it's not fine. Do you not understand what I was going to do?" His arm movements becoming more frantic with every word.
The blond girl tried again to calm her friend down but Hiccup seemed to be in the midst of a panic attack, his breathing was erratic and his words were becoming jumbled making it hard to tell what he was trying to say. Astrid had to admit up until now she had thought the whole vampire thing was a cruel joke Jackson was playing on her gullible friend, but now she could see Hiccup's green eyes silted down the middle and the two fangs occasionally peeking out from under his upper lip. She had felt a dark energy surround her friend as his mouth hovered inches above her neck. It was so potent that she'd been unable to do anything, frozen as still as a statue even though she knew what he was going to do. Thank the gods Toothless had followed them to school this morning or who knows what would have happened. Scratch that Astrid knew exactly what would have happened.
"I have to leave."
Astrid snapped her attention back to her erratic friend. "What the hell are you talking about? I'm taking you home."
Hiccup shook his head backing away. "It's too dangerous, I'm too dangerous. What if I attack you again? What if next time I don't stop? What if I attack someone else?"
With those last words Hiccup spun on his heel and ran. Astrid not willing to lose her friend so easily gave chase, Toothless easily catching on to the idea of chasing his master and over taking the female jock. Hiccup ran down the street when he reached the corner he took a left then a right. As he ran he could feel Astrid closing in on him. Continuing to take random turns here and there trying to lose his pursuers, darting out of a back alley Hiccup didn't bother to look before he ran across the road. What happened next Hiccup wasn't really sure. He heard Astrid scream his name. He heard an awful screeching sound and then something solid hit his right side. Hiccup felt his body leave the ground and closed his eyes tight shut preparing for the impact that was inevitable. Just as he predicted the small teen hit asphalt hard, Hiccup felt the back of his head split open and a gush of warm liquid soaked his hair. Dazed and in pain Hiccup could only groan as distorted voices drifted around him. A wet nose touched his check and Hiccup knew Toothless was there at his side. Astrid's was shouting Hiccup couldn't make out the words through the fog clouding his brain, but he knew she was scared. Was she scared for him or of him? Hiccup wished his eyelids weren't so heavy, and then he could open them and show his friend he was okay. The liquid was still flowing freely from his head, but where some had started to dry in his hair it became sticky.
A shadow broke the light he could see behind his eyelids. Was someone standing over him? Hiccup managed a whimper.
"It's alright don't move." A female voice cooed, but it wasn't Astrid there was a slight accent to it.
With great effort Hiccup peeled his eyes half open. He heard a gasp from above him and then the girl shouted.
"Aster stop, don't ring an ambulance. He's a vamp ring the manor."
The manor? Hiccup let his eyes close again; it just took too much energy to keep them open. She called him a vamp. So that must mean she knows about them. Maybe she was one. Then Hiccup felt a firm strong grip on his hand and heard Astrid's trembling voice.
"You'll be fine. I'm right here. You'll be fine." She whispered.
The last thought to pass through Hiccup's mind was "Why don't I believe you?" Before darkness consumed him.
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A dark chuckle escaped the shadow's lips. This boy wasn't just clumsy he was a walking magnet for accidents, bad luck and problems. The spy had been less then pleased to be given the task of following the freckled teen by the master, but now the figure had to admit in less than twenty four hours Hiccup Haddock was proving to be an amusing assignment. "It would be so much more fun if I didn't have to hide." The figure silently pouted to its self. Though it would have to admit it was a lot easier than it should have been, silly teens hadn't once noticed the figures presences following them from the shadows the blinding sun created. Any other person would have felt the figures malicious aura, but these two were so completely wrapped in each other they had missed it. The great black beast that followed them on the other hand, had stopped a few times and growled in the figures general direction. Yes the beast knew of its presence. Bi-coloured eyes followed the flurry of movement on the road. The small teen lay limp in a puddle of his own blood while the alpha's daughter barked orders at her personal guard Aster. The figure bared its teeth in a feral smile. How curious for Hiccup to run into those two. The shadow knew Jackson and Aster were close friends, maybe best friends. How would Jack react when he finds out Aster ran his little "fledgling" down? Would it cause conflict in the manor between the wolves and vampires? Mismatched eyes were drawn to the blond gripping the small auburn haired boy's hand. Honey blond hair tied in a messy braid, the most brilliant sky blue eyes and supple skin. The figure couldn't blame the little vamp's lack of control. She was certainly appetizing. Licking its lips at the thought of sinking its sharp teeth into that slightly tan skin. "The master only said Haddock was off limits, he never said the Hofferson girl was." A familiar tingle travelled up its spine, it was a welcome feeling. It was a feeling the shadow always got when it locked onto its new prey.
