It seems I love to talk some rather somewhat maybe slightly uhh...controversial subjects in here recently, that's kind of me on a normal basis. (water downed actually) But so far no one has gotten pissed (except that one random guy against a not so controversial bit of random) and I suppose no one cares, which is fine with me, I like to express my mind sometimes and I suppose it's best if some subjects be ignored on the intro-webs :P. Anyway let's continue into the AN.

I have recently watched Star Wars 7...and I kind of hated it. Sorry, for those who see it differently, I just feel it had horrid story telling, and was not able to stand on its own, and I doubt it will be able to with more movies, I found the characters unlikeable, and even the that one trained bad guy acted like he barely knew how to hold a blade. And that's the thing that's actually pissed me off really bad. Also, I've been annoyed with a friend trying to force me to like it (stating things like "Watch it again (already did btw, still hate it)" or "You have to accept it as Star Wars" [seriously Will, I hate it, I didn't ask to be forced to like it, my question was entirely different and now you've made me hate it even more somehow]), and he's caused me to nearly explode on the subject, so you might be safer leaving it at that...thank you.

Anyway, sorry bout that (had to get it off my chest), now to some other stuff:

I find it interesting that a good few of Vigilante/Superhero AUs make Fishlegs the sidekick, makes sense, though I do wonder about one with Astrid, or like one where Toothless becomes the sidekick (Does Dark Knight count for that? I'd suppose). I have been thinking a lot on modern AUs, especially superhero ones recently, ever since I watched Daredevil, and after seeing Fringe, I've been getting some interesting ideas, I really am thinking of doing oneshots to test the waters before I write them, but I don't know. I think I'll put up a poll on what I should do on my profile.

Also, I have tons of original works waiting to be written (or in some cases, partly written), and they too beat on me, but so far, this story attracts most of my attention, I think I might try to write a story inspired by this even at some point, maybe...

Also, you've seen how Astrid has been emotional early on with Hiccup, partly intentional, it brought some weight to her character and made her more human (and formed a connection with the group but especially with Hiccup), soon she's going to be the badass, take no shit type of character we all know and love. She'll actually kind of a roadie as well, more than just an aggressive bodyguard type, but that'll probably be her most prominent non-band member role. I have a lot of plans with each character for multiple roles throughout, so stay tuned.

Might I add I've seen Zootopia...and it blew me away, I mean, movie are not an easy medium for me, and I specifically thought it was a furries only movie, but damn was I wrong, which is also hard because I hate Disney, and strangely, I agree with most (if not all) of the messages portrayed, finding the movie really filled with amazing plot for a kids' film (it's written somehow mature yet not exclusive...so I'm impressed on that alone), and I ended up really interested in the character arcs, and my brother had a similar reaction. We ended up watching it 2.5 times instead of going to see another movie because of that. That movie has now given me ideas. I however recommend you see that movie.

So...Lastly, Reviews:

Commander Chandell 919: I'll get to that when you're ready then, and oh hell yeah, he is an ass, but it's going to bring her in as a good character, along with her activity in the band. And thanks and thanks for the review.

(Oh and it seems I've been neglecting Felix a tiny bit compared to everyone else, so let's start a focus with him, don't worry if you don't like it, it's short)


Chapter 8: Point of No Return

Felix woke up to his dad stirring him, like always, he never really trusted his son to wake with a clock. "Get up Felix, it's time to start the day." He had a cheery disposition today, though he was rarely ever enraged, it was odd to be this happy. "Up and at'em, you've got school today." Felix groaned at what that meant for him, another wasted day as none of it mattered. He never really minded school, he just felt that the honors and AP classes were still too slow for him. He was beyond the level of most people, Hiccup was one of the few on a similar level of intelligence, which was why they originally got along well. The difference was Felix wanted to move through school, drumming being just his favorite hobby, Hiccup was the inverse, seeing school as a hobby at best and music as a better objective. Each knew this of the other, and avoided discussion of it.

Felix got out of bed quickly, brushed his teeth, barely eating, got dressed, and left in his car with barely another bother by his leaving father. And when he arrived at school, there was a large amount of traffic, nothing really new, but still a pain. He eventually made it to the parking lot and was able to exit his car with his pack, entering the school and went to homeroom, on his way, he noticed Snotlout, alone, trying to once again pick on Hiccup. But Astrid came by and knocked him across the head, which as far as he saw, put him out. Felix came by wondering what was going on.

"What are you doing Astrid?" Hiccup whispered. "He's gonna be out for a few, we should probably get to homeroom...hey Felix." She nodded at the arriving blond boy. "Anyway, I think he deserved it, and you helped me a bunch, now I'm helping you." Felix was standing right next to Snot's limp body when that finished. "I'm gonna agree with Astrid here, we should probably get to homeroom, before he wakes. I don't think it'll last more than a minute" Felix said as a soft groan started on the floor, but they all ran to their homerooms before they could be called late. They each were lucky to make it as the bell rang.


The trio went back to Felix's after school, having less than nothing interesting to speak of after knocking Snotlout out. Scott didn't even bother Hiccup the rest of the day because of it, knowing he couldn't face Astrid.

Back at the house, they started decisions on what they would cover. The talks led them to prepare to try Three Days Grace's Everything I Hate About You, and Just Like You, along with Pantera's Walk. They had no idea if they could and wanted to see if they were capable of covering it. Astrid was especially hesitant regarding the Walk, because the raspy voice was a harder trick for her and she hadn't tried anything like it before. It was not very easy for her to strain her voice, and even more difficult was to try that song with the high-pitched voice she owned. "I'm not so sure if I can do that with my voice, Hiccup," She tried to argue.

Hiccup had another idea in the case she couldn't. "If you think you can't, we can try to make it more melodic, you know, to allow for a higher pitch and slightly quicker tempo. It would change the song drastically, sure, but maybe it'd be a new twist that could work."

After Hiccup's suggestion, Fishlegs chimed in with a crack. "I wonder how Hiccup would sound singing it." Trying to add to the teasing Astrid usually did about Hiccup's singing voice. He had no idea how well Hiccup could sing the song. "Oh, that's a good idea." Astrid gave an evil smirked. "Yeah, let's make Hiccup sing that one." The auburn boy was startled by his two bandmates betraying him on this subject. They wanted him to sing in a raspy voice? Did they really think he could go from nasally to raspy?

"You guys are nuts." Hiccup shook his head, trying to put the idea to rest. "Can we at least give it a shot? We won't laugh." Fish and Astrid both looked pleadingly at him, their curiosity peaked at Hiccup's actual skill. "How about no?" Hiccup deadpanned, but both of his bandmates persisted. They forced him to at least try, and finally he relented., "Alright, I'll do it," Henry surrendered. "But no laughing, you asked for this...And when this fails, Astrid's gonna do it."

And she responded. "Deal," Astrid grinned.

And so they quickly learned the progressions, for the group, it wasn't a hard song for the instruments. The hard part was to come, in Hiccup's mind, for him only. But he also decided he should try his hardest to prove to them how bad his skills really were. So they started the first legitimate round, where Hiccup would try to sing as well. As soon as they passed the intro, Hiccup prepared, he had some water at room temperature, the best stuff for trying out this first round.

They reached the verse, and his bandmates may have played, but their brains were failing. Astrid was more so teasing Hiccup to sing, and Felix was just suspecting he could do well, they thought it incredibly strange however, that he could get a raspy sound. One that felt somehow just right, through the whole song. He hadn't memorized the words and was looking at an upright sheet on a sill, but the two other mates were completely blown away. They were still trying to wrap their heads around Hiccup singing raspy, good. On the other side, Hiccup's voice wasn't entirely strained, though he thought this was his only time doing it, he did put a tiny bit of pain in his voice, a strain which shouldn't be a problem if he didn't go again.

By the end of the song, the mistakes were few, but not nonexistent, so they knew they had to work on it, but Hiccup had hugely confused them. Neither could understand it, and Hiccup thought he screwed it up. He didn't hear anything wrong with himself, but he suspected his ears just aren't as great for that. Hiccup looked back to his mates from the sheet. "I told you I'd suck, now can we get on with Astrid doing it." She was the first to break out of the confusion, her name being called helping. "Hiccup..." She said still partly dazed. "Yeah, I know, it was horrible." She shook her head and was about to speak, but Fish interceded. "Hiccup...that was amazing, how did you even...I mean how can you." His shock was becoming rapid speech, his stuttering also increasing. "Seriously, you, I mean, it was awesome..." Hiccup felt extremely confused at his friend, and was trusting Astrid to tell him the truth.

And she did, which confused him even more.


After Hiccup's mates made the discovery that he could sing, Hiccup shifted out of the basement. It wouldn't take more then a second for the rest of the group to follow, but he didn't know what to do, or think. He was sure he couldn't sing well, just as much he thought he couldn't hit a note properly. The encouragement from his band spun a whirl of emotions, conflicting with his beliefs. He was also feeling extremely nervous and shy just at the idea of singing in front of people. He was shy even on stage, but with his bandmates and the music, the small crowd faded away, but he had no idea how to do that while singing. He didn't even know if he could take a pressure like that, or if he could play while he talking, let alone singing. It just felt like a weight on him, and these were the thoughts flailing around in his head by the time the other two came back up.

"Hiccup," Astrid and Fish called as they reached the top of the stairs, turning to Hiccup on the closest couch. Hiccup Holding his head down in his hands, elbows on his knees, Astrid continued. "Hiccup, if you don't feel comfortable about singing, we'll leave it at that, but we both think you have a great voice, and I'm not gonna sing something that you should, so Haddock," She glared harshly, backing her voice with some forceful venom. "You'll either sing it or we're not doing it, got it." She placed her arms on her hips as to accent her point. That is when Felix decided to go back downstairs.

After long deliberation internally, Hiccup gave out a sigh of defeat. "Fine, but one song, and only one." He looked back at her and she beamed. She had finally got him to do a song. That alone caused her to become fidgety for the rest of the night.

They finally reached back down the creaky wooden stairs, to which Fishlegs was waiting at his drum set. "So did he...uh," He tried to ask Astrid without making it appear awkward to Hiccup, who was the one to respond. "Yes, but only one song, Fish," He told his good old friend, holding up a singular finger as he was the second down the stairs. That left them all with one question left, which Astrid ended up asking. "What is the song list gonna be?"


The group spent the next two days making up the song list, and for Felix and Astrid, figuring out which song should be Hiccup's. The specific parameters for the song list included only having a three piece band and rock music for a party, which left them with a very sparse set. They had decided upon using Burn, Just Like You, Scared, Let You Down, and I Hate Everything About You by Three Days Grace, Rock and Roll by Led Zeppelin, and and Back In Black by AC/DC. They had also agreed in trying to cut out the parts of the later two songs they couldn't play without ruining the songs. It took them the rest of the night before they could agree on the cut parts, and the next day, after school, they started practice.

That practice was entertaining to them, but the entire group had gotten bored of their small list of songs, even when each member, most notably Hiccup, added a relatively long solo, they could barely fill twenty minutes of time. To them, it seemed short, and wouldn't hold out in a party, so they had come up with a few options, fill the rest of an hour with solos, or write and practice to near perfection some more fitting music in less than half a week. Felix thought the latter insane for many reasons, and thus called his two mates the exact same thing when they agreed on it.

"Are you nuts? You really think we have the time to come up with new music out of the blue, practice it, not to mention it has got to fit tone of a party." Felix complained, nervous of the worst possible thing that could happen. "Come on, Fish, what's the worst that could happen?" Astrid asked with hands on her hips, nearly mocking him. "They could throw us out in a riot." Fish threw back impassively. "A bit dramatic? Anyhow, if we really suck, we could go back to the stuff we know, like Nirvana or maybe just some background music for sometime. Right?" Hiccup told the drummer. He continued with a sigh and nervous tone "In any case, if you guys like, I might have written up a song or two we could try." He was still anxious to show his songs to anyone, but recently his confidence around his bandmates has been increasing to a point.

To them all, they didn't exactly understand, but this was a point of no return.


Whoa, that took a lot more effort than I expected, but the next chapter is the party at Snot's, and I have a few interesting ideas on that. MUWAHAHA

Anyway, I'm sorry this took so long, nearly two weeks since the last chapter, but this month has been a pretty hectic, I mean I finally got out of school (I'm taking the GED tests [with some tutoring] instead of the remainder of my junior or senior year because I hate school and everyone I know thinks I'll definitely do better in that than wasting time in school, and if I pass, the school I had gone to has decided to allow me to use that to give me a diploma, that has both made me really happy and really driven me insane) Anyway, now I sit at home most of the time, as I haven't found a specific job I can exactly go for yet.

Anyway, as I said above, I saw Zootopia, which I think was a great movie, I mean I kind of wish it wasn't Disney, but even then, amazing. Anyhow, I might do a fanfic or few in that fandom, most specifically a fanfic in that universe inspired by Fringe (another amazing series on Netflix that should be watched, if you like crime, mystery, a show with plot, or sci-fi, it's one of the best shows I've ever watched, even more interesting it was written by JJ Abrams)

Anyway, thanks for reading, I'm having fun, but I think I might branch off this story for a bit, I'm not sure, but I've been stuck thinking on stories other than this some of the time and haven't been able to write them, hopefully I don't leave this on a temporary hiatus, and I don't think I will, but I can't 100% say.

Anyway, if you liked a fav and follow are to benefit all, and a review, whether critique or praise, is to benefit the future of all, and take care.

Chapter Songs:

Back In Black - AC/DC

Shepherd of Fire, Hail to the King - Avenged Sevenfold

Burn, Just Like You, I Hate Everything About You, Scared, Let You Down - Three Days Grace