Chapter 2
Hiccup opened his eyes, his head aching, then noticed his mother standing over him.
"Ahh!" Hiccup exclaimed, as he jumped at the shock of her being there.
"How do you feel?" Valka asked as she got a damp cloth and placed it on his forehead.
"Like Hel!"
Valka chuckled at this and kissed her 10 year old on the check.
"You'll feel better soon," she said as leaned back in her chair. Only at this point did it dawn on Hiccup that Toothless was next to him….in his room….in his house….where his dad lives as well.
"TOOTHLESS?!"
Said dragon and Hiccup's mom both jumped at that wide eyed and scared.
"What? What's wrong, Hiccup?" His mother said as she rushed to look him over for any wounds.
"Toothless is in the house…..and and you're not killing him?" Hiccup looked wide eyed at his mother then Toothless, before grabbing Toothless and holding him tightly.
Valka sighed, happy to the fact her son was not hurt and leaned back in her chair.
"Relax sweetie, I wont hurt Toothless," she said with a smile.
"You wont?"
"I wont."
Hiccup smiled and loosened his grip on Toothless, letting the little dragon curl up in his lap and started purring.
"If I had known you took after me I would of taken you away along time ago," Hiccup was confused by this and looked up at his mother.
"But I loved you and Stoick, so when Cloudjumper took me and showed me the beauty of dragons I asked to be taken back...but I never forgot about the dragons," it seemed she was talking to herself more than Hiccup, and who's Cloudjumper? Hiccup thought. He could see his mother was upset, so he set Toothless down and gave his mum a caring hug.
"Love you too, my Hiccup," she whispered.
"Oh, silly me you're properly confused at what's going on, yes?" his mother pulled him away to look him the eyes.
"A little bit," he mumbled.
"Well those people you saw the other day are all part of the Dragon Cult."
Hiccup tilted his head to the side even more confused.
"Its a group of people who bond with and protect dragons."
Hiccups eyes lit up at that, a group of dragon protectors, people who were like him. And suddenly the world didn't seem as though it was him vs everyone else. there were other people who believed in what he does. Dragons are nice, everything we know about dragons is wrong.
"And last night when you stumbled upon our meeting our leader found you bonded with dragon, though I did not agree with forcing you to join, sorry about that," Hiccup nodded, but put on a puppy dog face.
"Oh don't give me that look," his mother laughed.
Hiccup smiled and laughed as well.
"So our leader decided to make you and Toothless' bond unbreakable, by making each of you drink each other blood that was mixed in the cup."
Hiccup felt slightly nauseated by the fact he drank his and Toothless blood.
"Gross," Hiccup whispered.
"I know, sweetie, but it only gets better," Valka told him.
There was a knock on the door. Valka nudged Hiccup to answer.
"Who...who is it?" Hiccup called out.
"Bucket! Open up!" A loud, male voice boomed from outside.
"Oh, come in!" Valka answered for Hiccup who opened his mouth confused.
The door swung open and a large, blonde man with a rusty bucket on his head came in.
He was carrying a large woven basket that reeked of fish.
"Hello happy family! I come bearing a gift for our newest recruit!" The man beamed.
"Oh, Bucket! Don't go scaring him!" A shorter man said stumbling in with a dirty, dark red beard.
"But I wasn't, Mulch," Bucket answered, looking sad.
"Ah, well, ever since a dragon took half your brain you can't tell anymore," Mulch muttered, staring at the two vikings and then at the ebony dragon.
Toothless sniffed the air and stirred in his sleep, then suddenly snapped his eyes open and pounced off his hind legs.
He jumped on top off Bucket.
"Toothless, no! Stop!" Hiccup yelled pushing away his bed-sheets to try and pull Toothless away.
He thought he was too late when he reached him, only to find his dragon munching away at the fish.
"Well anyway, we came to congratulate someone with such great potential to our cult," Mulch explained, helping Bucket up.
"Ok, well… thanks!" Hiccup said attempting a grateful smile… Attempting.
"And we are here to tell you when your first lesson starts," Mulch added.
"Wait, lessons? I have to take lessons?" Hiccup exclaimed.
"Well, yes, if you want to stay alive when facing wild dragons," Mulch said.
"Ok, let's get started! In this underground arena we have dragons of all classes, of all abilities and for your training you will attempt training each and every one," Gobber the Belch yelled as he gestured for Hiccup to follow him into the torch-lit area. Yes, Gobber. Even Hiccup laughed when his mother said Gobber was a member of the Dragon Cult. However it was cut short when Gobber walked in with a baby Boneknapper dragon in his hands saying;
"Look who I found!"
"Oh look! Another Mystery Class dragon, great find, Gobber!" A man said from a railing above.
"And Hiccup is here finally as well, ok then, Gobber, lets see what this kid can do," the voice said again giving Hiccup the shivers.
"Yup that's fascinating, sorry I missed last night's meeting. Stoick was being stubborn and made me stay late into one of his chief rants…...wait did you say, Hiccup?" Gobber turned around so quickly the baby Boneknapper jumped out of his hands a flew under one of the tables in the room. Gobbers jaw was, Hiccup sweared to thor, almost touching the ground when he finally realized Hiccup was in the cult.
"Well looks like I missed out on quite a lot last night," Gobber said while stroking his beard with a brush he had got out from his pocket.
Hiccup rolled his eyes at his 'totally calm yet properly freaking out on the inside mentor.'
"Well then lets start with seeing what you got then," Gobber said cheerily and hobbled over to one of the neat stone cages.
Gobber pulled the lever of the Gronckle dragon cage and watched with amusement at the new group of teens in the Berk dragon arena. The dragon blasted open it's cage door and seeked out it's first targets, consisting of the twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnut, and the husky smart boy, Fishlegs.
"I just moved into my parent's basement, you should come by sometime to work out. You look like you work out!" A black-haired boy named Snotlout called out to the only pretty girl their age, Astrid.
"Hiccup, get in there!" Gobber shouted out to the 15 year old boy.
When Hiccup stumbled past his mentor, Gobber told him;
"You know, I may have told you to pretend to be terrible at dragon training, but not this terrible."
"Yeah, well I have the gift of acting," Hiccup replied tiredly as he continued to trip away from the dragon's lava blasts.
"One shot left!" Gobber shouted as the Gronckle finally found Hiccup as his final target.
"Hiccup!" Gobber yelled and came running when it cornered Hiccup and opened it's huge maw to end him for good.
Gobber knew he wasn't fast enough to reach him in time, he knew this was the end of Hiccup.
Until the dragon started to back away from the boy, closing it's mouth again and Hiccup stood with his hand on it's snout, pushing the dragon away.
Everyone stood watching, until Hiccup realised what he was doing and dramatically dropped back onto the floor, holding his arms in front of his face as all rushed forward to help.
Gobber took his hook-hand and pulled the dragon back away into it's cage, then returning to the small crowd.
He helped Hiccup up, and whispered as silently as he could;
"Your scar," but before Hiccup could hide the mark from when he was 10, everyone noticed.
"Well that was a disaster!" Hiccup exclaimed as he followed Gobber to the trapdoor in the forest.
"It wasn't that bad, Hiccup. Although the other teens may not have believed the last act you pulled off," Gobber replied.
Down the trapdoor, they weaved through the tunnels and into the huge dragon cult arena where Toothless was waiting, a saddle on his back.
"And now, lad, you will have your first flying lesson!" Gobber said smiling.
Hiccup however was still down from the previous lesson.
"Oh, don't worry about it! Just keep being bad at dragon training with the other vikings and everything will be fine. Now, go to your dragon and test out the saddle I made all night," Gobber said pushing Hiccup in the dragon's direction.
Hiccup sat and adjusted the saddle straps, his mood returning.
"Alright, not just fly. I will be back in a few minutes," Gobber said and walked out.
Hiccup stroked the dragon's head and pulled the metal reigns up towards the ceiling. Toothless took off, and only then Hiccup realized how fast his dragon was.
After a minute or so, Gobber returned and stared at the two in the air.
He is a natural flyer, Gobber thought to himself smiling and watching them fly from one end of the arena to the other, doing all kinds of tricks.
Just as Gobber opened his mouth to praise his trainee, a dark figure walked into the room.
"Ah, Drago… How nice to see you again," Gobber said half-heartedly at the Dragon Cult member they all feared.
"I see the boy returned," Drago said in disgust, and Gobber figured why he hated Hiccup. All his life, Drago attempted to train and fly on a dragon's back, yet he never could. And a mere boy on the rarest dragon, could. It infuriated him.
I must do something about this, Drago thought.
Deadly Nadders, great! Hiccup thought to himself. He liked all dragons, but Deadly Nadders were just too fast. He couldn't act weak around them without getting himself or others hurt.
There was a wooden maze set up in the arena, and the other vikings his age were running around furiously, trying to beat the others.
Hiccup couldn't help but impress the other teens. He managed to hide from the dragon literally in front of it's nose.
"Hiccup, how are you doing that?" Fishlegs asked as he stood with the others, watching the boy they always thought to be useless and weak.
Hiccup sighed and let the dragon see him, then ran away yelling;
"Doing what?"
The dragon followed him yet lost sight of him and instead it then focused its attention on the group of teacup humans in front of it.
Astrid smirked as she saw Hiccup poked his head around the corner.
He quickly looked at her and said to her;
"Who you smirking at?" Before laughing and running away.
Then everyone scattered as the Deadly Nadder jumped in front of them, Astrid ran into the direction that Hiccup went.
The Nadder dragon followed her, tossing the occasional row of spines from it's tail.
The dragon then jumped up onto the wooden blocks that made up the maze, eventually knocking them all over.
Astrid fled to one of them, and as it fell, she fell right on top of Hiccup.
Her axe was lodged in his wooden shield and refused to budge. As the dragon came closer, she frantically pulled at the axe handle before taking it and the entire shield, and then smacking it to the side of the Nadder's head.
"Are you ok, Hiccup?" She asked holding out her hand to help him up gaining the attention from all the other teens.
Hiccup got up and brushed the dust off his fur vest, blushing. Astrid was too and stepped away after noticing all the eyes on them.
"Good work, Astrid!" Gobber said to break the silence.
Back in the woods, the cult was meeting in a clearing.
"These dragon killers have to stop!" Valka said.
"They're vikings, they won't listen to reason!" Gobber exclaimed.
"What if we attack on dragon-back and show them a better way?" Drago interfered.
"No, that would never work. We'd be dead before we land," Gobber replied.
An argument broke out between all the cult members, and Hiccup was just standing in between his mother and Gobber. He had all kinds of ideas running through his head, when he came up with one that seemed to be the best.
"Wait a minute, WAIT A MINUTE!" Hiccup yelled to everyone's surprize. There was silence and all eyes were on him.
"I am in the training program with the other vikings, the winner has to kill a dragon in front of the entire village," Hiccup started.
"Yeah, so what?" Drago said, rolling his eyes.
"'So what,' is that I can win, and instead of killing the dragon I can show the entire village I can train it!" Hiccup finished.
There was quiet mumbling until the head of the cult spoke;
"I think it is a brilliant idea. We should go forth with this plan," he said.
Hiccup smiled as more members agreed and nodded.
Further away from the current meeting, Astrid was practicing her axe throwing in the forest. She heard the chatter of voices and decided to see what was happening.
"Good job Hiccup, you no longer have to act in the ring!" Gobber congratulated him until a loud snap of twigs could be heard next to them.
This was all Astrid heard the crowd say. She then noticed she had been heard and shuffled back into the forest, making a reminder to ask Hiccup or Gobber the next day what all that was about.
"Hiccup, you're coming back with me to get Toothless. Today you are flying outside the arena!" Gobber told him as everyone went back to their underground houses, except a few others who lived in the actual village.
Gobber opened the hatch and the dragon jumped out.
Hiccup loved flying through the cool, night air on his best friend. The wind in his face and the moon-lit forest below him made him forget about all of his other troubles.
Gobber had left him to let him fly all by himself.
"So where should we go bud?" Toothless thought for a second and flew further up into the air.
"Toothless!" Said dragon suddenly flew straight down towards the ocean before opening his wings up at the same time Hiccup adjusted the tail fin. The impact made the water spray up into the air drenching hiccup.
"Useless reptile," Toothless snickered at that remark and continued flying over the open ocean.
Hiccup rolled his eyes at the dragon.
"So where are we going?"
Toothless just roared and continued flying over the ocean till they came across a little island that was made out of rock.
They both landed and created a fire were they then sat down and enjoyed some of the fish that they had caught earlier.
As Toothless took a nap as Hiccup rested his head and shoulders on Toothless' side and eventurally fell asleep.
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