Okay so I know I said I wasn't going to update anymore this month, but I wasn't expecting to finish this chapter early.


Key:
"Dragons/Hiccup dialogue"
"Normal dialogue"
Red Death dialogue
Thoughts
"Movie dialogue"
"Dragons/Hiccup movie dialogue" (happens later)
Actions on screen

EXT. HIDDEN COVE - DAWN Hiccup arrives, winded, straining under the weight of a full basket. He clicks the scale he found (like a jar top). Toothless approaches, sniffing him.

"How did you manage to carry a basket of fish and your invention without killing your back?"

"I did kill my back, but it was worth it. Even when I awoke with an aching back."

HICCUP
"Hey Toothless. I brought breakfast. I hope you're hungry."

"The real question is, when isn't he hungry?" Hiccup chuckled then got slapped in the face.

Hiccup drops the basket and kicks it over. Fish spill out.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Okay, that's disgusting."

The dragons stared at Hiccup. He looked ashamed. "Well, um, I'm sorry."

They nodded in acceptance. Gothi smirked knowing she picked the right one to "kill" the Monstrous Nightmare.

Toothless approaches, settling in to devour the feast.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Uh..we've got some salmon..."

Toothless swallows it.

"... some nice Icelandic cod..."

Swallows those too.

"... and a whole smoked eel."

Toothless nabs it, chews a few times, then spits it out. He shakes his head violently, snorts and scrubs his massive tongue on the sand. Hiccup takes note.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"No, no, no! It's okay. Yeah, I don't like eel much either."

Everyone looks at Hiccup. "What?"

"Why don't they like eel?" Fishlegs asked.

"It makes them sick," said Valka.

Everyone nodded. Astrid smirked. Sounds useful. Maybe we could win this war after all.

Stoick frowned. "Wait, you don't like eel?"

Hiccup shook his head. "Last time I ate eel, I fell sick and threw up my guts the whole time."

"Oh ya, the lad hated being bedridden that day. I had to threaten to tie him to the bed." Gobber chuckled at the memory of the stubborn boy.

Valka looked between the three boys. "When did this happen?"

"I was seven and Dad didn't know about it. He was gone hunting for the nest."

Stoick's eyes widened. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Wasn't much of a big de-"

"Hiccup, stop. When you're sick, scared, or hurt tell me."

"Vikings don't get sick, scared, nor feel pain. Those are signs of weakness." Hiccup stated bluntly.

Everyone's eyes went wide. They didn't realize that the way they treated him made it to where he'd refuse to show weakness. Valka pursed her lips at this.

"Um, let's get back to the movie." Hiccup shifted uncomfortably not used to this much attention.

Toothless focuses on the remainder. With the dragon distracted, Hiccup unwraps his prosthetic fin and opens it like a fan.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Okay. That's it. That's it, just stick with good stuff. And don't you mind me. I'll just be back...here. Minding my own business."

Toothless facepalmed, well, more like he slapped himself in the face with his tail. "How did I not notice that?"

Hiccup shrugged.

Hiccup cautiously approaches the injured tail, but every time he gets near it, Toothless sweeps it away like a cat.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"It's okay."

Hiccup drops a knee on top of the tail. Toothless' head juts up, slows its chewing to a halt.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Okay...okay..."

The dragon tenses, slowly spreading his wings. Hiccup straps the prosthetic fin in place. He cinches the straps.

HICCUP (CONT'D) (PLEASED)
"There. Not too bad. It works."

Toothless BOLTS! He snaps his massive wings and takes to the air, carrying Hiccup with him.

"HICCUP!" The village yelled except Gothi who just sent a knowing smirk at Hiccup.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Woah! No! No! No!"

Hiccup struggles to hold on to the tail. As the ground speeds away, Toothless immediately TIPS into a uncontrolled bank and dive. Hiccup sees the folded fin rattling uselessly in opposition to its flared counterpart. Flap as he may, Toothless can't correct his trajectory. Hiccup swallows his fear and crawls toward the folded prosthetic. He reaches it and YANKS it open. The flared, fan- like appendage catches the air, stabilizing the twisting tail.

HICCUP (CONT'D) (excited, terrified)
"It's working!"

"Wow."

Astrid looked back at Hiccup. "Seriously! You can fall to your death and you're worried about it working!"

Hiccup shrugged and smirked. "Keep watching."

Toothless arcs just short of the water and climbs... high into the air.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Yes! Yes, I did it."

He glances back at Hiccup, busily holding the tail open while trying to hold on. They're going to crash. Whoomp! Hiccup is suddenly thrown from the tail in the intense force of a turn.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"AAAAAGGGGHHHHH!"

He bounces across the water's surface and takes a dive. Without Hiccup to operate the tail, Toothless does the same, plunging in a massive cannonball. Hiccup resurfaces, roughed up, but beaming. Toothless appears seconds later.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Yeah!"

Everyone (including the dragons) turned to look at the boy, who was trying to hide behind Toothless' wing, with an incredulous look. Valka just seemed amused. "Only you would enjoy being thrown into a pond."

Hiccup smirked. "I'm just special that way."

Hiccup swims to shore laughing.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Wow, that was awesome. I really to make something that helps control the tail. Wait, that means I'll have to if you can't."

Toothless nods. He looks up as if he remembered something. Hiccup is about to leave when Toothless pounces on him.

HICCUP (surprised)
"Ack!"

Toothless licks his face.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Toothless, what - eww! Stop. What is it? I need to leave or they'll start asking questions. What do you have there?"

The audience laughed at the duo's actions.

Toothless pushes a green gem toward Hiccup. Curious Hiccup picks it up. The gem starts glowing a bright green.

Everyone frowned at that. Why would the dragon give Hiccup a gem?

Hiccup took a shaky intake of breath. "Uh, c-can we skip over this part?"

Nightwolf shook her head. "Nope. Sorry."

Hiccup groaned and hid himself behind Toothless' wing. Many were confused by this action.

HICCUP (in pain)
"Aah!"

"Hiccup!"

"I'm fine, guys. Just keep watching."

The screen turns white for a second before opening up from someone's point of view. The person is blinking.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Ow what? How long was I out?"

TOOTHLESS
"You've been out for a minute."

Everyone jumped. "Son, who was that?"

No response.

The camera shows Hiccup jumping and scrambling away looking around before veering his gaze to Toothless.

HICCUP
"Is anyone else here?"

TOOTHLESS (shakes head)
"No we're the only ones here."

"Wait, you can understand dragons? But you said you can't." Astrid looked at him confused, but Hiccup was still hiding behind the wing.

"YES!" Fishlegs jumped to his feet. "Haha! You lose the bet Snotlout. You know what that means, you're to be Hiccup's slave for a whole day!"

Hiccup came out. "What? I had no say in this! When were you going to tell me?" He asked frustrated which made him look adorable.

"When Snotlout lost. I also don't have to burn my books." Fishlegs smiled.

Hiccup looked at them with a disbelieving look with his eyebrow raised before rolling his eyes. "Yeah, okay."

Hiccup's eyes widened. He shot to his feet.

HICCUP
"T-Toothless? Y-you're talking! I can understand you! I've gone insane. That's it I'm insane!"

People chuckled at his reaction.

Toothless just stared at him as he paced. He closed his eyes and a silvery purple Aura wrapped around a forest green one. It was trying to calm the forest green one down. Hiccup looked up and saw the silvery purple.

Many gasped at this.

"Silvery purple is Toothless. While mine is the forest green. Also, no. The Dragon's Gem won't work on you." Hiccup looked pointedly at the twins whom had a smirks on their faces.

HICCUP
"H-how? What?"

TOOTHLESS
"You should go. I'll explain later. If you hear other voices just try to ignore them. It'd be difficult to explain and you will be thought of as insane."

Hiccup wide eyed nods before his face splits into a grin. He laughs and hugs Toothless. Toothless let out a dragon-like-chuckle and uses his front paws to hug back.

"Aww."

EXT. TRAINING GROUNDS - MORNING GOBBER (O.S.)
"Today is about teamwork. Work together and you might survive."

"And thank you for ruining the mood, Gobber."

"Yer welcome, lad." He obviously missed the sarcasm.

ON A DOUBLE-WIDE DOOR. Gas seeps through the cracks. It BLASTS OPEN. A cloud of smoke engulfs the ring, swirling around the paired-up teens. Astrid with Ruffnut. Snotlout with Tuffnut. Fishlegs with Hiccup. All carry buckets of water, poised to throw them.

GOBBER (CONT'D)
"Now, a wet dragon head can't light its fire. The Hideous Zippleback is extra tricky. One head breathes gas, the other head lights it. Your job is to know which is which."

The smoke encircles them, cutting them off from each other. The teens LISTEN and WATCH for any sign of the dragon.

FISHLEGS (muttering to himself)
"Razor sharp, serrated teeth that inject venom for pre-digestion. Prefers ambush attack, crushing its victims in its..."

HICCUP (TENSE)
"Will you please stop that?"

"Yes, please." Astrid scoffed. She then sat up straighter wanting to know how he got so good.

On Barf and Belch. Shows a serpent-like dragon with two heads. They seemed to be chuckling.

BARF
"Well, thiss iss gonna be fun."

"This is still hard to get used to." Stoick muttered.

"You'd get used to it!" (Guess who said that.)

BELCH
"Mossy definitely. Do you ssmell a Night Fury?"

BARF
"Why would it ssmell like one?"

They look at each other and shook their heads.

BARF AND BELCH
"Nah."

"I am so sorry for what I did to you."

"It'ss okay, Riegan." Barf rubbed his head against the boy's cheek. Belch nodded in acceptance.

Hiccup smiled.

ON SNOTLOUT AND TUFFNUT Moving nervously through the fog, back to back. Snotlout is singing to himself to calm his nerves.

SNOTLOUT
"If that dragon shows either of his faces, I'm gonna- (spotting an approaching shape, terrified) -There!"

Snotlout and Tuffnut HURL their water into the fog.

ASTRID
"Hey!"

RUFFNUT
"It's us, idiots."

Astrid and Ruffnut are soaked.

TUFFNUT
"Your butts are getting bigger. We thought you were a dragon."

SNOTLOUT (TO ASTRID)
"Not that there's anything wrong with a dragon-esque figure."

"Um, actually they could mistake her as a dragon and kill her." Hiccup cleaned his nails looking very uninterested in this scene.

Snotlout looked at him then at Astrid, pale.

Astrid ELBOWS Snotlout in the face. Ruffnut DROPS Tuffnut with a PUNCH to the throat.

ASTRID
"Wait."

They FREEZE. A tail SWEEPS out of the fog, taking them down. Their buckets spill. ON FISHLEGS AND HICCUP coming across them. They see the puddles of spilled water.

TUFFNUT
"Oh, I'm hurt. I am very much hurt."

Some snorted and some even chuckled.

FISHLEGS
"Chances of survival are dwindling into single digits now..."

HICCUP
"Look out!"

A Zippleback head emerges out of the smoke. Fishlegs hurls his water at it, completely dousing the head. It leers and opens its mouth, spewing gas into the area.

BARF
"How dare you?!"

FISHLEGS
"Oh. Wrong head."

GAS FLOWS around their legs. Fishlegs flees in a panic.

GOBBER
"Fishlegs!"

Beat. A clicking sound comes from behind them. Sparks flash in the smoke.

GOBBER (CONT'D)
"Now, Hiccup!"

The other head sweeps out of the smoke. Hiccup hurls his water with all his might. It arcs and drops short of the dragon's sparking mouth. The dragon grins, savoring the kill.

HICCUP
"Oh, come on!"

Everyone laughed at the boy's misfortune while said boy turned bright red.

BARF AND BELCH laugh at the boy's misfortune.

BARF
"He ssmellss like a Night Fury."

BELCH
"Impossible."

GOBBER
"RUN, HICCUP!"

Gobber COVERS his eyes.

"Thanks a lot Gobber. I know you have so much faith in me."

"Eh, sorry lad."

GOBBER (CONT'D)
"Hiccup!"

Beat. The Zippleback hesitates. SNIFFS. Then retreats.

BARF AND BELCH
"Eel!"

The teens get to their feet, watching transfixed. Gobber peeks through his fingers to see...
The Zippleback backing away from Hiccup. He stands and holds his hands out, as if controlling it.

HICCUP
"BACK! BACK! BACK! Now don't you make me tell you again!"

The Zippleback retreats through its door and into its cave, hissing.

BELCH
"Get that away from uss!"

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Yes, that's right. Back into your cage."

Hiccup slyly OPENS his vest, revealing the spotted smoked EEL from earlier. He TOSSES it inside the door, then SLAMS it shut.

"That's how you did it!" Astrid jumped to her feet and pointed an accusing finger. "You cheated! I should've won?"

Hiccup looked at her unimpressed. "Really, that's what you're worried about? Wow. Plus, it's technically not cheating. I just used a different method so I didn't hurt them."

Astrid fumed in anger and sat back down crossing her arms.

BARF AND BELCH
"Help! Please!"

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Now think about what you've done. I am so sorry."

"I didn't hear you say that." Fishlegs stated.

"I actually thought that, must've accidentally said it through the Zoolinguism."

Hiccup turns to the teens and Gobber. They stare, slack-jawed

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Okay! So are we done? Because I've got some things I need to..."

Hiccup jogs out of the ring, past the speechless group.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
"Yep...see you tomorrow."

Astrid SNEERS. Something's going on.

"So she was the only one to noticed something was up? Just come on. No one, especially her, have noticed me and now you want to know my every move?" Hiccup stood up and looked at them.

"Ask them, if the only reason they spoke to you was because of your progress in the training."

"Was the only reason you guys ever spoke to me because of the training?"

Nobody answered him. They looked at the floor in guilt.

"Again wow." Hiccup sighed.

"You know you can get revenge on them. All you have to do is follow my exact commands."

"No! I will not! Go away!" Hiccup had to control his anger.

Toothless could feel his rider's anger looked at him. "Riegan, what's wrong?"

"It's noth-"

"Stop it!"

Everyone looked up at the sudden roar and saw Toothless growling at Hiccup, clearly angry. They were confused onto why and watched.

"Toothless?"

"Riegan, I've gave you your space now tell me what is going on. And don't say it's nothing."

Hiccup sighed as he dropped to his knees in defeat. "I'm sorry Toothless, but I just didn't want to worry you."

Toothless' features softened. He crooned in concern and urged him to go on.

"The queen, she has been taunting me and wanted me to 'have me revenge' on my tribe."

Toothless pulled the boy down and curled around him. "Don't let her get to you. Anything she says is a lie."

"Some of the things she's said turned out to be true. Most of what she said about the village that is," said Hiccup out loud thus confusing the said village.

Siren leaned closer to speak with Nightwolf. "Dum, by any chance you have any spells for this?"

"Nope. We should get back to the movie."


Again, I didn't know that I'd finish this chapter early. How did y'all like this chapter? Questions or comments? Thank you.