Ok, I get it. It's really hard to be a new author :P
Anyways, Let's keep going then. This story has been in my head for a week already and I want it out! I want to share it!
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-Read on!
"Okay then guys, listen up *if you're capable of*" Hiccup declared in a somewhat bored manner, whispering the last part. Getting his word through to his friends has always been a tough nut, well, especially to Tuffnut and Ruffnut themselves...
"I don't NEED to be capable of listening. I'm Snotlout! The only thing I really need to do is to be able to fight and look fabulous" Snotlout said, admiring his face on his roughly polished helmet. "Isn't that a wonderful sight. Right Astrid?" He continued, getting a glare from Astrid
"Yeyyy, you heard that... " Hiccup said "Ok, anyway, today we don't have any missions on hand so we might as well take it easy for the day and get ourselves some rest."
"Rest in for the weak! I want to... I umm... Do something!" Snotlout shouted in his usual manner.
"How about you take your beauty sleep then?" Astrid launched back at him.
"Yes! I do need my sleep for... Whaaaaa... are you trying to mess with me again?" Snoutlout replied as the twins snickered at the sight of him losing the argument.
"Ugh... maybe if we just took a small flight patrol around the island and the rest of the day is off, okay?" Hiccup said lowering his left hand on Toothles' nose and petting him. The suggestion got an approving growl from the night-black dragon.
"Umm... I don't really get it Hiccup. First you said we'd get the whole day free so we'd get to... rest.. yea, rest. A-and then you say we must actually DO something to get the rest. Isn't that like a little conflicted or...?" Tuffnut yelled from the back of his dragon, his sister Ruffnut nodding in approval.
*sigh* "Just follow me please" Hiccup sighed "It's what we do every day, it shouldn't be that bad" Incredibly everyone actually got on their dragons. Astrid and Fishlegs are no wonder but the twins and Snotlout obeying him is a miracle. Of course this was a daily routine so that might have helped as well.
They took off and flew out of the dragon training arena to meet the chilly breeze blowing directly at their faces. It was of course a familiar feeling when riding a dragon but it still required some getting used to. One of the other things you need to get used to is the movements and the speed of a dragon, depending on the dragon of course. A Monstrous nightmare and a deadly nadder are both extremely fast where as a gronckle is slow but highly manoeuvreable dragon. A zippleback is medium class on both areas as the Night fury is on top of the class with his high speed and mobility in mid-air.
They rode through their ordinary route with not spotting any hostile boats or anything else alarming. Only a few terrible terrors fighting over a Fish and causing distraction on the outskirts of the town.
"Do we get to go now?" Snotlout complained after the regular route, not wanting to "waste" any more time of patrolling the island. "there's nothing exciting here! can I please go back!"
"Ok Snotlout, if you really want some excitement, I'm sure the twins are more than willing to give that to you for the rest of the day but as promised, you can all go. I'll stay here for a while. I want to test something" No more said, Snotlout turned away with a war-cry and disappeared in the clouds. "Umm, just for the curiosity Hiccup but does the thing you're testing... you know... blow stuff up?" Tuffnut said as they were just about to leave with his sister and their dragon.
"No Tuffnut, it doesn't" Hiccup answered dryly, obviously tired and somewhat cranky.
"Oh... I uh.. We'll be going then. I just wanted to make sure we're not missing anything cool or stuff so... see ya" Tuffnut finished and they also disappeared in the clouds.
"I want to see what you're testing. I'm staying" Astrid stated behind Hiccup, just what he had been afraid of. Hiccup just had to agree with it. If Astrid makes her mind, it's nearly impossible to change her thoughts on anything. This has been proven to Hicccup in a hard-ish way.
Hiccup still turned his head to Astrid, just to see Fishlegs hovering on Meatlug right behind her "What? you're staying too?"
"Of course Hiccup. You are obviously going to test something that might have a great impact on our future adventures! Have I never said no to a scientific invention or method? I don't think so and besides, my girl here saw some delicious looking rocks just a short distance from here so we're staying." Fishlegs said, patting the side of Meatlug, making her smile that awkward dragon-smile-ish-thing typical especially for a gronckle.
"Ok, as you wish but it's not going to be that great anyway. You won't even probably get to see the experiment yourself, it's too delicate" Hiccup said, pulling out his spyglass out of his left saddle pocket and waving it in the air. "Toothless, land on that cliff" He said and Toothless did what he was asked for.
As they had landed, Hiccup immediately placed the spyglass on his left eye and pointed it out in the sea, slowly moving it towards the land.
"Ahh, I see! You're trying to figure out what to... you know... I uhh... " Fishlegs started enthusiastically. It's true he's always been a fan of knowledge and inventions.
"No and no Fishlegs. Keep guessing if you wish but you'll get them wrong anyways. I haven't even started the experiment yet."
"Oh..."
"Anyway, Here's the thing. I noticed a few flaws in the design of the spyglass as I tried to look items very far or very close to me so I made a few adjustments to it and I just want to test if the adjustments are right" Hiccup explained as he twisted the spyglass in his hands.
"But why couldn't you do that at the town?" Astrid wondered
"I could have, yes. But at the town Snotlout and the twins would be making too much noise and if Gustav ever saw the adjustments, he'd be wanting me to make a new one for him. Also I find there's something... something beautiful in the scene here"
"Well that's a new one, Hiccup has a sensitive side" Astrid teased sarcastically
"Haha Astrid, really funny. Why don't you go and ask Snotlout for his sensitive side, I'm sure he'll reveal it to you" The comment made Astrid wince in disgust, just as Hiccup had thought.
Hiccup then raised the spyglass back on his eye, the scenes becoming more or less focused as he turned the thing in his hands. "It's working alright"
"Let me see" Astrid stated, not much caring about either the fragile device or Hiccup as she ripped the spyglass off his hands and placed it on her eye, the other hand on it for the turning mechanism. "Wow, you're right Hiccup, this really does work! I can see even the tiniest details everywhere! that rock in the sea, the wild thunderdrums at a distance, a shoe on the beach and..."
"Wait what? A shoe on the beach! I'm pretty sure this is not place for the people of the town to go to. There can't be a shoe on the beach!" Hiccup said, taking the spyglass back from Astrid in a slightly more gentle manner.
"Astrid... there's more than a shoe on that beach..." Hiccup said, lowering the spyglass with an astonished face "Now I'm even more happy the twins and Snotlout are away. Come on guys, I saw something we must get to see a bit closer." Hiccup said placing the spyglass back in the saddle pocket and climbing on Toothless "Ok bud, I saw something at the beach there, could you take me there"
Hiccup and Toothless got off, soon followed by the other two. Just a few seconds from the take-off they already landed on the beach and now everybody could see what Hiccup had seen from the cliff.
"It can't be! Another shipwreck victim? The last time we had one it caused us nothing but problems." Astrid said, referring to Heather who had "shipwrecked" on the island before and turned out to be Alvin the Treacherous' henchman but afterwards she turned out to be only blackmailed by him. Anyway, as Astrid said, it wasn't really a thing you could refer to with a word "fun".
The shipwreck in this case was a young boy, not much older than any of the island's teens. He was slightly longer than Hiccup and had short light brown hair. He was wearing a pair of soaked dark brown leather trousers and a matching shirt and a vest made out of a material that looked like bear fur. The trousers were being help up bu a broad belt that had a strange crest on it's buckle. He had somehow lost both of his shoes in the process though.
"Astrid's right, I don't really trust these guys that keep dropping at our island every once in a while. I never thought I'd say this Hiccup but I think we should leave him. You know, he's unconscious and if we leave now, he won't ever know we were here and so the things would be like... ok..." Fishlegs had to stop his explanation as Hiccup shot a death glare at him, soon followed by Astrid and toothless. Even Meatlug gave him a soft nudge on the side.
"No matter how much trouble they have caused us, we can't just leave him here to die!" Hiccup shouted, making Fishlegs regret ever saying a word about the topic.
"Then what do you suggest Hiccup?" Astrid said, looking at Hiccup who already had a determined look on his face. " I think we should take him to the Town to heal up and eat. Who knows how long he has been here in the cold, starving"
"I guess you're right" Astrid agreed
"Well he's not going to sleep at my house!" Fishlegs interrupted "I mean... I don't think we have enough space or food or... anything..." He soon corrected in the fear of another death glare or a shout from Hiccup.
*sigh* "Astrid, I suppose you don't really fancy a stranger sleeping under the same roof either, do you?" Hiccup sighed
"You got that one right."
"Yeah, I thought that too. So Toothless, what do you think? can we handle another shipwreck under the same roof?" Hiccup asked Toothless and was greeted with a small soft growl with a sharp tune to it. "Well, that's gotta do now. Can you carry us two to Berk bud?"
This was greeted with a voice more like to a roar.
"Yeah, Night fury pride, remind me to put that in my list. Now let's get this guy to Berk.
So what do you think? Good? Bad? Who is the new boy? And why in the world did he wash up on the shores of Berk? What is his past? So many questions to be answered, so much more chapters to come
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I always try to keep my chapters around 2000-3000 words long... just to let you guys know
-Dawnbreaker