A/N-Finally, we get to return to my house! :) Also, we're about a third of the way through this first book, so you can start to expect time to move faster, and events begin to pile up more and more. Plenty of downtime here, but there will be plenty of action and antics later on!
Chapter 13
Heading Home
Sleep. What a wonderful thing.
That is, until I found myself being tackled off my makeshift bed by something very large and heavy. "What the…!" I began, and then my face was covered in dragon slobber. "Augh! Toothless! Get off me!"
I shoved him off and sat up, wiping the thick spit off my face. "Why in the world did you do that? I was comfy!" I snapped. Turning around, I saw Hiccup laughing next to the table. "I see you're part of this too, huh?" Hiccup shrugged. "If that's what you think, fine."
I looked back at Toothless, and saw he had his riding gear on. "Oh, so that's why you're so excited." ::Yeah, we already went out, but we didn't want to wake you before, since we weren't sure if I could fully fly yet.:: I gave him a deadpan look. "So when you found out you could, you decided to use me as a living trampoline?" Looking back at Hiccup, I asked, "What time is it, anyway?" "About mid morning. You slept rather late, surprisingly, considering what day it is," he replied. "You get to go home, remember?"
That woke me up. I stood up and stretched. "How the heck could I forget? My parents are probably freaking out and tearing the city apart right now." We laughed. "What about when, you know, they find out?" Hiccup said, gesturing to the pair of wings I still had folded behind me. I sighed. "They'll probably freak out even more, so I'll let things calm down a while before I break the news." Hiccup nodded, and turned and headed for the door. "Well let's not waste any more time. The sooner you're back home, the better. And the sooner you can come back."
We headed out the door, and Hiccup jumped up with practiced speed onto Toothless. "Alright, follow me." I focused on my newfound flying instincts (that's the best I can describe it), and lifted myself into the air. We gained height, and turned to head slightly to the northwest, past Hiccup's house and in the direction of a peninsula on one side of the island. "So it was this way," I muttered. Hiccup looked over at me. "What?" I shook my head. "Oh, nothing. I was just thinking out loud. The movie never explained where the cove was." He nodded. "Ah, okay."
We continued our flight in relative silence. After only a few minutes, the cove came into view. "Alright, now exactly where near the cove was this, uh, 'time-rip' thing that you came from?" Hiccup asked as we glided down. I looked around and saw that we were on the side of the cove with the ground entrance and the rock ledges. "On the other side, I think," I said, "opposite the ledges down below." We glided across the top of the cove, landing on the other side. Looking down, I nodded. "Yeah I remember this view."
We started walking along the edge, checking through the trees to catch a glimpse of anything unusual. Luckily, it was barely 30 seconds later when I spotted the glow, in a small clearing off to our right and hemmed in by wall-to-wall trees. "There," I said, pointing. "Well, that's certainly never been there before," Hiccup said, gesturing to the wall of trees. "Trees never grow that thick anywhere on the island."
As we got closer, the shimmering-type light became more apparent, and a low, humming vibration could barely be felt. "You feel that?" I asked. Hiccup raised an eyebrow and shook his head. "No, what?" ::Must be something only dragons can feel,:: Toothless commented. ::We can feel and hear things at much lower frequencies than people.:: I smirked at the hint of arrogance in his voice, and shook my head. I reached out toward the glow with my hand, and just like when I first went through, my hand blurred. "Well it's working," I said, turning to the two. "Alright, I promise to come visit if this still stays open every few days, okay?" Hiccup stood up straight, and Toothless sat down so as to look me in the eye. I held out my hand, and Hiccup took it.
As we shook, we both smiled. "I'll see you around," I said, and Hiccup nodded. "You better," he replied, smirking. I then turned to Toothless, giving him a rub on the head and a scratch behind the ear. "See ya around," I said. ::You'd better return and hold to your promise,:: Toothless rumbled back, ::or I'll personally brave whatever's in your world to drag you back for a visit.::
I laughed, and stepped back toward the portal. Taking one last wave, I said, "So long for now," and stepped through. Hiccup, Toothless, and the forest faded, and in their place, my own backyard, thank goodness, began shimmering into view. Slowly, I stepped out onto the rocks, and turned around to see the light still there. As I watched, the shimmering slowly stopped, locking in place as a solid glow. Looking down, I also saw a grayish tail and a pair of wings.
Oops," I muttered, and focused on removing them. Once fully human, save for the scale spiral on my forehead, I looked over at my untended garden, and stepped by and onto the grass. Looking up at my house, I smiled.
"HAWKEN!"