I always wanted to write a story where Hiccup and Toothless leave Berk and journey the world. Chapter 5 from my other FF To Belong gave me the motivation for it. So it will feature my Ocs Leandra Alvarez, Hiccups best friend, and Starchaser the Night Furry, Toothless mate. We will also meet other OCs as well, maybe some canon characters and characters from other franchises.
I promise you it's going to be a wild ride.
Please enjoy, like I enjoy writing for it. :D
Prolog
From To Belong, Chapter 5:
"Astrid, Toothless, and Starchaser. Toothless and Starchaser, Astrid."
"They are so not charmed to meet you!", adds Leandra dry and pets her growling dragon.
Astrid backs away, eyeing Hiccup, Leandra, Toothless, and Starchaser together with pure disgust. She turns and runs for the village.
"We're dead.", deadpans Hiccup.
Satisfied with Astrid's departure, Toothless and Starchaser turn away. Leandra flicks her long black hair and turns to their baskets.
"Where do you think you're going?", asked Hiccup the Night Furries and then turns to Leandra who picked up her basket. "And what are you doing?"
"If I remember right, we wanted to leave stupid Berk. Just getting my stuff."
"Lee, you can't beserious. Astrid is going to tell everybody about Toothless and Starchaser!"
"And? It's not like we stay here. Let her blab about it all she wants. No one is seeing us again."
From Hiccup comes only silence.
Frowning Leandra turns to her best friend and sees the fight in him.
"Hic, Hiccup, please no! Let us just go! What has Berk ever done to us besides making us feel miserable? We will be much happier in Spain with my Abuela or we can even see the whole world! Think about it, we will be free finally!"
The boy looks at the ground and makes a fist. He needs to make a decision now.
The night sky is beautiful today.
Were the stars always so bright?
Was the moon always so pretty?
Or was the world beautiful now, because they were finally free?
Leandra takes a deep breath and lets it out.
All her worries, all her sadness, all her struggles.
They will stay on Berk.
On this miserable rock, she had to endure for ten years.
She would have turned crazy if she didn't make friends with Hiccup.
The black-haired girl turns her head to her best friend who flies beside her on Toothless.
He also seems…serene, and calm…like a huge burden was taken from him.
And it actually was, he didn't need to kill the Monstrous Nightmare, he didn't need to be the heir of his father, and he could finally be himself without worrying to disappoint someone.
Now he was only Hiccup.
A boy who loved to invent, and learn new things and spend time with his best friends. A Night Furry and a Spanish girl, who never treated him like he was useless.
Leandra was right, should Astrid tell his father about Toothless and Starchaser, they would never return to Berk.
They would make the whole world their home.
But first, they wanted to make a stop.
"So how long will it take us to go to Spain?", ask Hiccup Leandra.
"If I study the map of my father right and how fast our dragons are flying and need breaks, maybe a week, two tops.", answered Leandra.
"I can't wait to see how you grew up.", tells Hiccup her exited.
"Oh guys, you are going to love it. The colors, the lifestyle, the food! The village of my Abuela is on the seaside so Toothless and Starchaser can eat plenty of yummy Mediterranean fish!"
The Night Furries practically salivated at that, which made the Riders laugh.
"Do you think we are far away enough from Berk?", wonders Leandra.
"Let's fly for a bit more.", tells her Hiccup. "Just to be sure. Toothless, Starchaser, you guys can still go on, right?"
From the dragon come agreeing huffs.
And so they fly under the starlight sky, full of new possibilities.
When Astrid reached the village she makes haste to find their chief.
She can't believe, no actually, scratch that she can totally believe that Hiccup made friends with a dragon. She feels like throwing up.
How could he do such a terrible thing?!
She didn't care for Alvarez, she was a foreigner, no Viking, and she could never understand what honor it was to fight dragons who invaded them.
But Hiccup should! He was even their heir! The next chief!
Hah, he was a fraud and a traitor to all humanity!
He never was a Viking!
She finds Stoick talking with Gobber in the Great Hall. He seems so happy, surely because Hiccup was given the honor to slay the Monstrous Nightmare.
It didn't sit well with Astrid that she had to take this away from the chief. He deserved a better and worthy son.
And what did he get?
A species traitor, who chooses them all over a dragon.
Like she goes into battle she makes herself ready to tell anything.
"Uurgh, I'm so tired.", groans Leandra from her makeshift sleep place.
She has her head buried in her pillow and Starchaser wing wrapped around her like a blanket.
Her Night Furry coo at her, giving her a gentle nuzzle.
Hiccup, who is like Leandra, cuddled up to Toothless yawns.
"Today was crazy. Let's sleep in before we continue our travel to Spain.", he proposes.
"Good idea.", mumbles Leandra and cuddles up to her dragon.
Not even a second later she is in dreamland.
The boy chuckles at the soft snores his best friend makes and cuddles himself to Toothless too.
His dragon crooks at him.
"You will see bud, this will be an awesome journey.", he whispers to his dragon, petting his snout. "Maybe we can find more Night Furries. So you and Starchaser aren't alone anymore."
At this Toothless cooes.
Finding more of his and his mate's species would be wonderful. They may have each other, but they still miss the flock they grew up in.
It doesn't take long that the boys fall asleep.
The last one to fall asleep is Starchaser.
She looks in the direction where they came from, this Berk.
The place that hurt her girl and also her boy.
Starchaser hopes with all her heart that these people will get what they deserved.
"What kind of giant-ass tree is that?", ask Leandra fascinated.
They are flying over a great big forest, bigger than the one in Raven Point, but this tree takes the cake.
It nearly reaches this high up where they fly.
"Don't know Lee.", answer Hiccup also fascinated with plant life. "I never saw something like that or read about it."
"Oh, I wanna look at it, you think we can take a break?"
"Well, I don't see why not, it's nearly lunchtime. What do you say, Toothless and Starchaser."
From the dragons come agreeing sounds.
So they take their lunch break under the enormous tree.
Leandra can't help herself and enters it through the hole in the trunk, Starchaser follows her girl without thinking twice.
"Don't hurt yourself.", calls Hiccup, sitting by their fire with Toothless to her.
"It's a tree, what can it do to me?"
The inside of the tree is really…creepy.
Even Starchaser is hissing at the small pool of water which is inside the tree trunk. Leandra guesses the water isn't pure enough to drink.
Why else would Starchaser hiss at it?
A bit disappointed the girls rejoin the boys.
"And?", ask Hiccup.
"There is a little pool of water in it, but Star hissed at it like it was an eel, so we better don't touch it."
Hiccup agrees and the humans start to pack their things.
They eat and explored a bit that was enough.
If they wanted to reach Span in a week, or two they needed to be on the road so to say.
Hiccup puts his last thing away when he hears it.
The sounds of someone who is breathing heavily.
His company seems to hear it too because they stare in the same direction he is looking.
Not a second later some stumbles out from the bushes. Leandra gasp shocked and even Hiccup can't help himself.
A girl.
A bloody dirty girl with an arrow sticking out of her shoulder, not older than ten perhaps falls on the ground before them.
She has blond hair with a band on her head and a simple dress on.
Her eyes a blue.
There is so much pain in it, so much suffering and sorrow, that Hiccup wants to cry.
The girl looks at them and their dragons with a resigned look. Like she is expecting them to kill her.
This doesn't sit well with either of them.
"You poor sweetheart!", coos Leandra at her and slowly kneels down beside her to not spook her. "Who did this do you?"
"Can you help her, Lee?", asked Hiccup, looking around for the danger the girl run away from.
Their Night Furries are alert, staring into the forest too.
"Maybe. But whoever did this to her, has to be near, we should take her with us."
It's like the gods or Leandra's god wants to prove her words right since they hear the barks of dogs, the galloping of horses, and the shouts of men.
"She has to be here!"
"She can't hide from us!"
"You will pay in the name of Fritz!"
"Let's go!", commands Hiccup practically.
He and Leandra help the younger girl up and get her on Starchaser. The little girl let it just happen, without a fight, without a word.
Leandra grips her frail arms and makes them put her around her waist. Hiccup jumps on Toothless and the five fly up in the sky right on time, before one of these men breaks into the bushes.
They wouldn't be safe here.
They needed to find an isolated island or something.
Leandra and Hiccup just hoped the younger girl would survive this long.
Can you guess who Leandra and Hiccup just saved and which Anime I just made not exist? :D
I hope you liked the prolog!
See you then next chapter ^^