I made a promise which I'm planning to keep: SHOUTOUT! Please read the story: Dreki Vængr (Dragon Wing) by Angelwriter 10!
- This story includes one of my favorite OCs ever! Please, I recommend reading it :) story id: 10003992
Anyways, I'm slightly uncertain about what you guys think of the story, please review, I appreciate even the tiniest bits of feedback!
lol, whatever:
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3rd person POV:
Hiccup and Toothless were both awaken by a huge explosion. Of course the townsmen had got used to thunder roaring in the night but this voice was definitely nothing that could be compared to that. This voice was more of a wood splintering and cracking than the loud rumbles of a lightning.
"Hey bud, what was that?" Hiccup asked as he rubbed the sands of sleep off his eyes, sitting up on his rough wooden bed and pulling off the blanket that covered his thin body. Toothless quietly walked to hiccup and lowered his head so that Hiccup could take some support from it as he stood up. "Whatever it was, it was loud", He continued and lifted himself up from the bed. He carefully lowered his full weight on his prosthetic, delighted that he didn't feel the pain that he usually had on his first steps of the day. "Thanks bud"
"Uhh... what is that rattle, five more minutes please!" Osgar mumbled from his position while yawning and stretching his arms, looking at Hiccup with glassed eyes.
"We don't quite know..." Hiccup said and Toothless softly hummed in response, looking at Osgar and then back at the direction of the voice, letting out a worried, high-pitched growl.
"I know, we're going to check it out. Come on Osgar!"
"Wait... whaaaa" Osgar replied sleepily as he stared at Hiccup and Toothless already stomping down the stairs. "Ugh..." Osgar sighed and laid down on the bed, rubbing his face with his both hands until he threw them up and practically jumped out of the bed. "Ok, I'm coming!" he shouted after Hiccup.
They made it through the house and on to the front yard, stumbling their way down the steps and making their way into the center of the town. It wasn't raining much anymore but still enough to moisten up their clothes and hair.
At the center of the town they were greeted by a soft, orange light that radiated from the ruins of a shattered piece of wood that used to be a catapult. All the villagers were gathered in the square along with Hiccup's father, the chief, who was trying to calm people down.
Hiccup, Toothless and Osgar immediately rushed to Stoick who had a concerned look on his face, his hands pointing defensively at the crowd of people who were shouting questions at him with much anger in their voice.
"Dad, what happened?" Hiccup asked his father worriedly, looking at his nervous figure that was bathing in the lights of the fire. For some reason the fire made him look older this time and not the opposite. There were already some people putting out the fire with buckets full of water but the pure size of the area with the flaming wood was too great of a job for them with so little amount of buckets.
"I don't know son, but I must do something about it quickly. The town is getting out of control. They demand answers. I was actually hoping you could tell me more about this. This hasn't happened ever since the... dragon raids." Stoick said as peacefully as he could under these circumstances.
"What happened!"
"Why were we awaken from our sleep!"
"We need explanation!"
"It must have been the dragons! There are no lightnings on Berk!"
Stoick looked extremely tired and the load on his shoulders got heavier with each question asked. "Calm down! We don't know what happened but I'm more than sure it wasn't the dragons! They've already proved us that they are trustworthy! Calm down people!" He yelled in the crowd, silencing the people for a while but the voices returned just as quickly in the form of suspicious whispers.
"How can you be so sure it wasn't the dragons? They have caused destruction before, why not now?" Some random man shouted at the back of the crowd, raising the voices of the other people to shouts again.
"The dragons have never brought any destruction down on Berk on purpose! Besides, I know I've trained them well enough so they all stay at their nests or houses in the night. That is if they haven't been disturbed" Hiccup joined the shouting and as the chief's son and a local legend, he got a few agreeing mutters as a response.
"The boy is right, the dragons only help us during the day so why would they want to hurt us?" Some woman in the front row said, receiving a happy nod from Hiccup who was standing on the platform with his father and Toothless. Osgar only looked at the scene in amazement. He had been on the island just for a day and he was already pulled in an argument that included the whole town.
"Don't you see people! Have you all become blind? Have your brain filled with all this mumbo jumbo about dragons being good!? Can't you see it! It's obvious that the dragons are destroying our defense systems so that they could attack the village and kill everyone in it!" A new voice joined the conversation at the side of the crowd. Out of the shade of the houses stepped a skinny man with a walking stick, Mildew.
"That's nonsense! The dragons could never..." Stoick said but was interrupted by Mildew's quick and loud words
"The DRAGONS, eh? Have you forgot what used to be before the MIGHTY chief's son "tamed" the night fury?" Mildew said with clear sarcasm with the word mighty and tamed "Have you all forgot what the dragons did then? They killed our people! They stole our food! And now they're out of the food they once stole and are coming back for more in the form of human flesh!" Mildew spoke loudly, slowly making his way in front of the crowd. Hiccup and Stoick could only watch his form in disgust as they both knew it wasn't true but they still had to admit; Mildew was a good speaker and already starting to convince the crowd.
"We have to repair the catapult! In case of raids!"
"NO! Drive the dragons away!"
Toothless groaned at this, looking desperately at Hiccup who immediately started speaking "How do you even know it was a dragon! There was a storm! It could have easily been a lightning!" He said with his most convincing tone, a few people agreeing but the most still looking suspicious
"Oh come on Hiccup! I thought you would know your dragons better. Even I can prove you it was a dragon. I can prove you it was a NIGHT FURY!" Mildew said, emphasizing the word night fury with all his capability. "Look at the splintered wood! The wood has spread in a wide area but only in one direction! That means the catapult was destroyed from the side, not from above as a lightning would! I also know it was a night fury because no other dragon can pack such a punch in their breath, no other dragon can even push back objects with their fire!"
"That's not true! A Gronckle can, and also A Thunderdrum and a Scauldron can!" Fishlegs shouted from the side. He had just arrived there with the regular gang, Astrid, Snotlout, Ruff, Tuff and himself.
"But that only proves it was a dragon, eh? Besides, I've seen all of them shoot while they still raided the village! I know that the dragon Stoick has does not breathe fire! I know the water-lizard dragon can't do it either and the pathetic meatball of yours could never light up such a wide area of wood with its little fireballs" Mildew shouted in a mocking tone, convincing the crowd even more. "It was a night fury..." He finished, almost whispering.
Instantly after that the whole town bursted into shouts again, Mildew smiling widely at the sight of the people's minds and hearts filling with fear as Stoick did all he could to calm them down. It was no use anymore, he had won.
"Toothless, I think you should go. Go to the woods. I'll get you later." Hiccup silently whispered to Toothless who immediately understood and left, leaping from rooftop to another as he made his way out the village.
"Calm down people! If you want, we can build a new catapult!" There's no harm done! No one is harmed in any way!" Stoick continued his speech on his platform as Hiccup made his way to his friends, Osgar soon following behind him.
"We have to get the dragons out of sight. Mildew has done it again. We can't afford to let anyone see them under these circumstances." Hiccup said, Astrid and fishlegs nodding immediately but the rest were still looking a bit suspicious.
"So... you're saying I can't meet Hookfang for a long time?" Snotlout asked, rubbing his broad chin
"No, I didn't say that. We can still see them but we have to remain hidden. We'll still do the patrols for outcast boats every morning and evening but we must fly further away from the village, clear? "
"Clear." They all added in response
"Just for the curiosity? uhh... what's clear?" Tuffnut added in with his usual blank face.
"Ugh... Just meet me in the arena at dawn, we need to discuss how we're going to prove Mildew wrong"
"Umm, just for making it clear Hiccup, what if Mildew's not wrong? What if the catapult was indeed destroyed by Toothless..." Fishlegs said nervously but stopping immediately after Astrid gave him one of her signature I'm-going-to-kill-you-if-you-ever-mention-that-again looks.
"He's not right. I was with Toothless all night and the window was locked because of the storm. He could have never got out the house" Hiccup replied sternly
"But Mildew is still right about something. The explosion did look like it was caused by a night fury, a strong one."
"FISHLEGS! It's not Toothless!"
"I know, I know! I'm just wondering. But if it wasn't Toothless, WHAT in the name of Odin was it then?"
Okay then! you know the answer to that if you read the last chapter BUT that doesn't mean you could guess what's going to happen in the next chapter! Heck, Even I don't!
And sorry for this chapter only being a large conversation but it was necessary for the story. The other chapters will be more focused on detail.
Reviews are appreciated :) (I really need them to know how you think about this story. Is it good, is it bad? What is there to improve, what is there to change? I can't do any changes or improvements if you don't tell me your opinions) :D
-Dawnbreaker
Also check out my one-shot: -Dreamguard-