Time for Chapter 3. I changed quite a few things. Enjoy!
Disclaimer:I only on Gabi.
VIKING: Hoist the torches!
Massive flaming braziers are raised on poles, lighting up the night sky... and revealing swirling dragons of all types. Below, Hiccup crosses an open plaza and ducks into an open building with a tall chimney.
INT. BLACKSMITH STALL - CONTINUOUS
He crosses behind a counter, where a peg-legged, one-armed hulk of a Blacksmith reshapes blades with a hammer and tongs appendage.
GOBBER: Ah! Nice of you to join the party. I thought you were carried off.
Hiccup dons a leather apron and starts to put away Gobber's scattered appendages.
HICCUP: Who me? Nah, come on! I'm way too muscular for their taste. They wouldn't know what to do with all this.
Hiccup strikes a bodybuilder pose.
Most of the teens, minus Fishlegs, Astrid, and Gabi, started laughing. Hiccup turned red in embarrassment, covering his face with his hands, groaning.
GOBBER: They need toothpicks, don't they?
Most of the vikings smiled at the interaction between Hiccup and Gobber. Stoick, however, frowned. He began to wonder why his son never acted this way with him.
Hiccup gets to work, transferring bent and chipped weapons to the forge as Vikings crowd the counter for replacements.
HICCUP (V.O.)
The meathead with attitude and interchangeable hands is Gobber. I've been his apprentice ever since I was little. Well...littler.
"Hey! Who are you calling a meathead?" Gobber yelled over to Hiccup, joking and mirth in his voice. Hiccup chuckled, glanced over at him.
"You are!" He yelled back, his voice also full of joking and mirth.
EXT. VILLAGE-CONTINUOUS ON STOICK
STOICK: We move to the lower defenses. We'll counter-attack with the catapults
Armed men rush past, flanking others who carry sheep to safety. Stoick follows up the rear as, overhead, a dragon strafes the rooftops with Napalm-like fire.
HICCUP (V.O)
See? Old village. Lots and lots new houses.
"Well, no dip. Seeing since we're always being attacked by those creatures." Snotlout muttered out, earning some glares from Gabi, Hiccup, and Astrid. "What?"
"Just shut up and watch." Astrid said before turning back to the screen.
VIKING: FIRE!
In response, the fire brigade charges though the plaza - four TEENS, tugging a large wooden cask on wheels. From it, they fill buckets of water to douse the flame. One among them is a cute, energetic Viking girl. Hiccup leans out the stall to watch her.
HICCUP (V.O.)
Oh and that's Fishlegs, Snotlout. The twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut. And...
(DREAMY) Astrid.
A SLOW-MOTION explosion erupts behind her, framing her in a sexy ball of fire. The others join her, looking awesome and heroic.
Hiccup and Astrid started to blush profusely, Hiccup because of embarrassment and the other because of other reasons. "A whole lot of good that bucket did!" Gabi shouted out sarcastically, smiling at her "joke".
HICCUP (V.O.) (CONT'D)
Their job is so much cooler.
Gobber frowned. He thought Hiccup liked being his apprentice.
Hiccup tries to join them as they pass, but he's hooked by Gobber and hoisted back inside.
HICCUP (CONT'D) (PLEADING): Ah, come on. Let me out, please. I need to make my mark.
"You sound like a dog that has to go outside and mark it's territory." Gabi giggled out. Hiccup rolled his eyes and swatted her arm.
GOBBER: Oh, you've made plenty of marks. All in the wrong places.
HICCUP: Please, two minutes. I'll kill a dragon. My life will get infinitely better. I might even get a date.
Snotlout snorted, earning looks from the others in the front row. "What? I doubt Useless over there could ever score a date. The only girls our age is Ruffnut, which no one would date her, and Astrid, who would only choose the best, which isn't that fishbone over there." Once he was done, he was on the receiving end of multiple glares.
"What in the name of Thor's Hammer is wrong with you?" Astrid asked through clenched teeth, speaking what was on everyones' minds.
"What? I was just telling the truth." Snotlout retorted. He then yelped as he narrowly missed Astrid's fist. "What has gotten into you?"
"The fact that you are so rude, is what." Astrid went to hit him again, but was stopped by Gabi. She looked back at her. "What are you doing?"
"As much as I want you to beat Snotface into the ground, I said that there would be no fighting." She glared at them, then turned to everyone else. "Back to your seats, everyone." She sat down, resuming the movie.
GOBBER: You can't lift a hammer. You can't swing an axe...
Gobber grabs a bola (Iron balls connected by a rope).
GOBBER (CONT'D): ... You can't even throw one of these!
A Viking runs by and nabs it out of Gobber's hand, hurling it at a dive-bombing Gronkle. The bola binds it's legs, sending it into a heavy crash.
Gabi, Hiccup, and Astrid all flinched when the Gronkle went down. Their reactions didn't go unnoticed by the others.
HICCUP (ready with the answer): Okay fine, but...
He rushes to the back corner of the stall and presents a bizarre, wheel barrow-like contraption.
HICCUP (CONT'D): ... this will throw it for me.
Hiccup OPENS the hinged lid of the device. An arm springs up, equipped with twin bows. They prematurely launch a bola, narrowly missing Gobber... and taking out a Viking at the counter.
VIKING: Arggh!
The crowd burst into laughter. "Sorry about that!" Hiccup yelled to said Viking.
GOBBER: See, now this right here is what I'm talking about.
HICCUP: M-m-mild calibration issue...
GOBBER: Hiccup. If you ever want to get out there to fight dragons, you need to stop all...
Gobber gestures in Hiccup's general direction.
GOBBER (CONT'D): ... this.
HICCUP (ASTONISHED): But... you just pointed to all of me.
GOBBER: Yes! That's it! Stop being all of you.
"But where's the fun in that." Hiccup
HICCUP (THEARTENING): Ohhhh...
GOBBER (MIMICKING): Ohhhhh, yes.
HICCUP: You, sir, are playing a dangerous game. Keeping this much, raw... Vikingness contained. (BEAT) There will be consequences!
Gabi snorted, earning a look from Hiccup. "Nothing to be concerned with right now." Hiccup sighed, but nodded, turning back to the screen.
Gobber tosses him a sword.
GOBBER: I'll take my chances. Sword. Sharpen. Now.
Hiccup takes it begrudgingly and lobs it onto the grinding wheel. He stews... fantasizing...
HICCUP (V.O.)
One day I'll get out there. Because killing a dragon is everything around here.
EXT. VILLAGE - LOWER PLAINS - CONTINUOUS
Nadders land, gathering like seagulls around a vacant house.
HICCUP (V.O.)
A Nadder head is sure to get me at least noticed.
The Nadders lift their heads proudly.
The Nadders clamber onto the building, tearing the roof and walls apart. Sheep pour out and SCATTER. Elsewhere, hippo-like Gronkles pick drying racks clean of fish and fly off like loaded pelicans.
HICCUP (V.O.) (CONT'D)
Gronckles are tough. Taking down one of those would definitely get me a girlfriend.
The Gronckles open their eyes tiredly.
A stealthy, snake-like dragon head peeks over a rooftop, breathing gas into a chimney.
HICCUP (V.O.) (CONT'D)
A Zippelback? Exotic, exciting. Two heads, twice the status.
A few Zippelbacks head butt each other.
A second head pokes though the door and lights it. KABLAM! The two heads fly through the explosion, their necks zipping together to reveal a single body. It flies past Stoick as he climbs on top of a CATAPULT TOWER.
CATAPULT OPERATOR: They found the sheep!
STOICK (FRUSTRATED): Concentrate fire over the lower bank!
CATAPULT OPERATOR: Fire!
Boulders are catapulted at the corralling Nadders... Just as a huge red dragons whips past, spraying the base of catapult with sticky fire.
HICCUP (V.O.)
And then there's the Monstrous Nightmare. Only the best Vikings go after those. They have a nasty habit of catching themselves on fire
It emerges from the flames, climbing the catapult with a leering toothy grin.
A group of Monstrous Nightmares grinned at their species on the screen. They looked fearsome and cool!
STOICK: Reload! I'll take care of this.
Stoick takes on the Nightmare, face to hammer. Suddenly, a LOUD BALLSTIC MOANING streaks overhead. The catapult crew ducks.
INT. BLACKSMITH STALL - CONTINUOUS
ON HICCUP, looking up from his work, reacting to the same sound.
HICCUP (V.O.)
But the ultimate prize is the dragon no one has ever seen. We call it the-
VIKING: Night Fury! Get down!
Vikings everywhere take shelter. The moaning sound BUILDS.
Gabi and Hiccup grin as Toothless come onto the screen. Hiccup not as enthusiastically as Gabi, remembering what event is going to happen next.
STOICK: JUMP!
"No, I think I'll stay here and burn to a crisp." Gabi, Astrid, and Hiccup say at the same time with heavy sarcasm. They looked at each other before busting up laughing.
KABOOM! The Catapult EXPLODES as though hit by an artillery shell... sending Stoick and the crew leaping for their lives.
HICCUP (V.O.)
This thing never steals food, never shows itself, and...
"And likes to like your face." Gabi whispered to herself, giggling. Hiccup glanced at her and shrugged at the whispered laughter coming from the other teen.
The sound recedes, leaving the crippled catapult in flames
HICCUP (V.O) (CONT'D)
...never misses.
Gabi smiled, as did Hiccup, if a bit restrained. Some of the others seemed to noticed them grinning, raising an eyebrow at them.
(BEAT) No one has ever killed a Night Fury. That's why I'm going to be the first.
"Nope. I am." Snotlout said, confidence oozing off of him in waves. Hiccup and Gabi both deadpan at him, rolling their eyes.
"Yeah, right." Astrid deadpanned as well, rolling her eyes at the overconfident Viking teen. Snotlout frowned, looking at the three looks of 'is he serious' on the teens.
IN THE STALL Gobber trades his hammer for an axe.
GOBBER: Man the fort, Hiccup, they need me out there!
Gobber pauses. Turns with a threatening glare.
GOBBER: Stay. Put. There. You know what I mean.
Gobber charges into the fray, HOLLERING.
Most of the teens look at Gobber, all of them concerned. "You're insane, aren't you?" Fishlegs asked, now concerned of the mentality of the small boy's mentor. Gobber shrugs.
ON HICCUP, a smirk crosses his face.
"Hiccup, why don't you ever listen?" Gobber groaned, shaking his head.
EXT. VILLAGE - MOMENTS LATER
WHAM! Hiccup pushes his wheeled contraption through a wall of clustered Viking. He weaves through the ongoing mayhem, as fast as his legs can carry him.
VIKING #6 (O.S.): Hiccup, where are you going!
VIKING #7: Come back here!
HICCUP: I know. Be right back!
"You know, I don't think he planned on coming back." Tuffnut pointed out, receiving facepalms from the others.
ON THE PLAIN BELOW
The Nadders have cornered the house-full of sheep. They close in, ready to spring upon them. Stoick suddenly appears, HURLING FISHING NETS over them. The surprised Nadders are caught. Stoick and his men rush in. A Nadder blasts a hole through its net. Stoick leaps onto it, clamping his thick arms around its head, forcing its jaws shut.
STOICK: Mind yourselves! The devils still have some juice in them.
Hiccup, Astrid, and Gabi all flinched with each hit the Nadders took. This received looks from the Vikings that saw the reaction as well as some of the dragons.
ON THE PLAIN ABOVE
Hiccup reaches a cliff overlooking the smoking CATAPULT and drops the handles on the ground. He cranks several levers, unfolding and then cocking the bowed arms of his contraption. He drops a bola onto a chamber and then pivots the weapon on a gimbal head toward the dark sky. He listens, with his eye pressed to the scope, hand poised on the trigger. He hears the NIGHT FURY approaching... and turns his aim to the defense tower. It closes in for the final strike, completely camouflaged in the night.
HICCUP (TO HIMSELF): Come on. Give me something to shoot at, give me something to shoot at.
KABLAM! The tower topples. The blast of fire illuminates the dragon for a split second. Hiccup pulls the trigger. KERTHUNK! The flexed arms SNAP forward, springing the weapon off the ground. The bola disappears into the sky followed by a WHACK and a SCREECH.
A stunned silence falls upon the group of Vikings, followed by cheering. "Hiccup, my son, we're sorry we didn't believe you. As soon as we get back, we'll go send a search party." Stoick annouced, beaming with pride.
"Don't worry dad, I already took care of it." Hiccup muttered out as he looked at the ground, trying not to cry. Astrid and Gabi noticed the silent tears falling down the boy's face. "Oh...Hiccup..."Astrid whispered, wrapping her arms around him. Gabi rubbed small circles on his back, frowning.
HICCUP (CONT'D) (surprised, then elated): Oh I hit it! Yes, I hit it! Did anybody see that?
Hiccup's victory was short-lived. A Monstrous Nightmare appears, slithering up over the lip of the cliff
HICCUP (CONT'D): Except for you.
The group bursted out in laughter at the comment. Even in the face of death, the small boy was sarcastic.
That's all I've got for Chapter 3. I changed A LOT. So i'm gonna have to change a lot in the next chappie as well. But alls well that ends well. Bye!
~Kittylover23114