CH2
Hiccup inhaled one last good amount and looked at the girl trapped in his body. "Sleep well?"
"Why bawbag did this happen!" Merida stood up in Hiccup's body, but it wasn't easy because she wasn't use to his leg.
"Careful." Hiccup tried to help her up, but was pushed away angrily.
"Oh stop it! Where the devil is that pendant?!" She demanded, twisting all over to try and see it.
"Lost in some Thor forsaken tree right now- why does that matter?" He asked, then blew her frizzy hair out of his view.
"Don't you get it; we've been cursed by a witch! We need that pendant to read the instructions of why!" Merida explained, even though it seemed right there to be seen.
"And why would magic instructions be on there?" Hiccup asked, not familiar with enchanted jewelry.
"What else are we going to look at? The invisible shop?!" She was exasperated enough to choke her own self.
"Okay, take it down an octave." Hiccup told himself; with Merida's voice covered with his dry tone instead of her Scottish accent (like his father's, which he would not grow into for a few more years).
Merida considered trying to explain how serious this issue was (she was tugging on Hiccup's face in annoyance) but if he didn't get it yet then she'd save more time just leaving. "Just stay here and don't hurt me."
Ignoring the weirdness of the fake foot, Merida walked off at a respectable speed. She noticed her body following her; she wasn't happy to see it at the moment but like that the soul in it wasn't too lazy. "Uh, like I'm gonna let my body wonder off in the woods of mystery. I'm pretty sure you threw it this way and (insert fancy math language) it should've landed over there."
Merida raised Hiccup's eyebrow, "You aren't as hopeless as the noodle-arms suggest."
"Thank you, sir." Hiccup said in an extra high voice.
Hiccup's calculation was right on the target, about eight feet high in a tree.
"Ladies first?" Hiccup gestured Merdia's arms to the tree meant for climbing.
"I'm not even sure how to respond to that." Merida said in such deadpan Hiccup almost thought he was looking at himself. "I know I'm physically stronger, so up you go, missy."
Uneasy bright teal eyes looked at the high tree, but then he sighed and grabbed a branch.
"This is not easy in a dress, I may remind you!" Hiccup told her as he made his way up.
Merida leaned against the tree and picked at Hiccup's fingernails. "I'm not risking breaking your neck with this bad leg. Keep it up, you're the man!"
Hiccup rolled Merida's eyes. "We gotta stop these jokes before it gets out of hand."
In his mind Hiccup made a pro and con list of the dress; he still preferred pants but the breeze wasn't too bad.
On the ground, Merida was exploring Hiccup's vest; it came with a shiny little blade (not bad), a funny little tool (it had a little button that switched miniature weapons) and a black whistle in the shape of something bat-like.
Out of curiosity, Merida put the whistle to Hiccup's lips. At the same speed the whistle went to the lips, Merida's hand reached out for the pendant Hiccup saw.
He grabbed it with his girly, sweaty fingers then heard the whistle he made for Toothless. The shock of hearing it shook his balance and Merida heard her body fall from the eight feet into a convenient bush.
She turned around to see Hiccup(in her dress and skin) slowly stretching out of the bush. "Ouchies."
"Did you get it before falling?" She asked through his lips.
"So you did notice the fall part. Yeah, I got it." He held up the accursedly evil pendant.
With nothing broken or fractured in Merida's body, the two kids stood close to read the scribbling around the gem.
"It's in Latin." Hiccup stated.
Merida could see it too. "Yeah, I know that; and yet it's still gibberish. Know your place, pfft." She missed twirling her long hair; it was something she did when anxious.
"Good news is it'll only last until the next full moon; that's a month from now." Hiccup was being factual but then it hit him. "I'm going to have to live with a family of squirrels on my head for a month."
"I'm a foot shorter than I use to be (she then blinked angrily) what's wrong with my hair?! " Merida put Hiccup's hands on his hips.
"Nothing, but would you mind if it's circumference lessened a bit?" Hiccup grabbed a hand full of Merida's bright, bouncy hair, like he was testing lengths she could be comfortable with.
Merida was about to say she thought she'd sooner chop of his hand than let it touch her hair- but that didn't come out because they were interrupted by a familiar growl.
They turned to their right to see Toothless had jumped into the scene. Since hearing the whistle made for him, he'd run to his rider. All the way from the parking lot of other enchanted beasts and chariots, and pass three lost boys.
Merida's face smiled at finally seeing the best dragon a boy could ask for. But Hiccup's favorite creature's eyes were concentrating on the figure of his favorite human. And Hiccup saw that his face was less than excited at seeing the Nightfury.
He also noticed she was heading for the little blade he knew was in the vest.
"Don't!" Hiccup begged her quickly, he put her hand over his and tried to explain, "this is Toothless; my dragon, my best pal and the last living thing in this world you- or I would ever harm."
"What do I do with it?" Merida asked through barely open lips.
Hiccup got behind his body and gently pushed it- Merida didn't put up a fight because she trusted Hiccup wouldn't feed himself to a dragon.
"Just pet his noise."
With a thin finger, Merida put his index finger on the scaly, flat face for a second then pulled it back.
This lack of affection made Toothless' pupils dilate and go pouty.
Hiccup did not like the view. "Have you ever had a pet before?"
"Horse; much softer." Merida told him, she looked into the creature's big sad eyes. In her soft side, she felt pity for the animal. She looked at her face then back at the dragon and put a full hand out to its face.
Merida hears a rumbling purr sound in Toothless' throat. She relaxes and gives him a better pat. This encouraged a lick she was not ready for- with his big forked tongue, Toothless went for the face- causing the rest of his rider's body to move away from the embrace.
Toothless was confused and sad again, Hiccup didn't like seeing that. "Step backwards; go to him!"
"Give me a break, I've never been so close to a giant lizard before." Merida didn't enjoy feeling like a coward.
"Well he's use to me coddling him, so both our sakes show him love!" Merida's hand grabbed Hiccup's and Toothless had to watch his best friend be pushed next to him.
Merida took a deep breathe into Hiccup's lungs and stared at the dragon again, more determined. "Hey there….you…want a…hug?"
Hiccup threw Merida's head back, "Oh Gods I can't believe I'm hearing me say this."
Sick of his complaints, the Princess got a stiff upper lip and pushed the hands off Hiccup's shoulders.
She walked up to Toothless, who held up a paw in defense but didn't push her away.
Merida, who made Hiccup's eyes look fierier than Toothless was use to, grabbed the nighfury's face. He wasn't cold, not exactly warm either, but putting preference aside, Merida pulled the weird lizard face to Hiccup's lips and gave the dragon a wittle kiss.
"Are ya happy now?" the dragon heard his rider ask.
Toothless put his head to the side, raised an eyebrow as he lowered his eyelids. Before Merida could guess how fast it'd take for him to eat her (in Hiccup's form) the dragon started to rub against her. Not very roughly, though Merida could still feel the strength in his limbs and better examined his wings. The pushing wasn't annoying, she figured out he was trying to play cute so she went with it.
She kept Hiccup's eyes on the dragon's cheeky face. With happy memories of Angus in mind, Merida's feelings for the reptile improved.
Now this was an image Hiccup was comfortable with seeing. But inside he was a little jealous of not being the one in the tangle. "Okay, now lead him back to me-
Merida had Toothless' neck in her grasp, she heard half of what she (Hiccup) said.
Merida gave the dragon an affectionate noggie. Toothless wasn't use to his rider being so rough but the little human smiles always brightened the dragon's day.
"Uh, hello, the true dragon trainer over here; wanting dragon…sometime soon…" Hiccup put his hands on his hips- then became distracted on how they curved. The soft curve of a girl body... his rational side felt only fingers on material that was on him and it didn't do much. He wasn't interest in playing with himself because this wasn't him nor did it feel right: ethically or physically.
"Getting familiar with your new home for the time, aye?" The princess inquired playfully while still hugging the dragon.
Hiccup stopped touching at his girl hips and looked what really lit his heart on fire. "He seems to like you well enough."
Merida smiled with Hiccup's mouth. "I got a Clydesdale back home, who's almost as sweet as this giant frog."
From Toothless' perspective, Hiccup was friendly and loving; which was normal. But almost polite with touching, which was horribly bizarre.
In the boy's eyes, it was like his was a new toy. When the dragon look at the female human, the eyes looked deeper like Toothless was his favorite toy ever. Talk about weird on the reptile's side.
Crack
The tiniest branch being stepped on alerted Toothless that something was coming toward were he and the humans were. Not smelling like friends, Toothless' ears dropped and he let his teeth retract.
The growling pushed Merida back a few steps.
"Your boy here doesn't sense something he likes."
Hiccup walked over to his dragon, standing so that they were facing east together. His human eyes didn't see anything but he trusted the dragon.
"It could be pirates, or trolls maybe." Hiccup suggested, pushing red hair out of his face (again).
"Or Vikings. Does your dragon like the taste of horny bastards?" Merida asked, putting her fingers on Hiccup's hidden dagger.
Hiccup scrunched Merdia's face and turned it to show he'd been offended. "Yeah, uh he wouldn't bite the hand that feeds him."
Watching Merida make a confused Hiccup face only lasted a moment, then just wide eye shock. "Wait, you?"
Hiccup rolled Merida's eyes. "What, were you expecting someone with more beard and blood stains?"
"Well you could've at least worn the horny hat, ye bastard." Merida was embarrassed so she tried covering it with anger.
Hiccup dropped Merida's chin in astonishment. "Oh of all the trite stereotypes-"
The insults were hushed when Toothless pounced at a bush, growling ferociously.
Hearing a high pitch scream that Merida would compare to a sow, she dropped her anxiety.
"Macintosh, ya bam." Merida shook her new head in pity.
"Toothless, down!" Hiccup commanded, but in Merida's voice the dragon ignored it.
Putting action before thinking, as to help Merida's friend, Hiccup ran to his dragon. Under the dragon's front paws was a young man with blue tattoos; he wasn't getting mulled, but was plenty terrified of the Nightfury's many teeth.
Merida, as Hiccup, was on the opposite side of the beast; unsure what exactly would help because the animal was too good to hurt.
With Merida's hand, Hiccup scratched that one little spot that makes all dragons into jelly.
In pure pleasure, Toothless felt all his muscles limp and the dragon rolled to the side.
"Wow. You two spend a lot of time together, huh?" the observing Princess stated.
Hiccup had Merida's cheeks blush a little. "I guess you could say-"
He was interrupted when he saw the boy that was under his dragon jump up and attack Hiccup's body.
Real-Hiccup would've gotten hurt then, but Merida as Hiccup was a bit quicker.
Despite the bad leg, Merida could still take Hiccup's little dagger and use it in defense against the sword Macintosh tried to pull on her.
"Nice job taking that slimy monster thing out the way, Mare Mare! " Macintosh said to the princess, keeping his eyes on the short dude; the bratty short dude who really shouldn't be hanging out alone in the forest with Macintosh's princess friend.
"That is a stupid nickname." Merida said, in Hiccup's voice, and it was something ignored obviously even in her real voice.
"Hey, no one asked you, shorty!" Macintosh tried slashing at Hiccup's body again. Merida was too fast, she kept Hiccup's thin body away from the blade with better grace than Hiccup tried before.
"Macintosh! This is ridiculous, would you listen to me-" Merida wanted to explain before she was forced to hurt him.
Hiccup didn't like being useless, so he looked for a really big stick. His plan; knock out tall guy, tie him up then explain the situation, all very simple.
He turned Merida's body to look for the stick, "Give me a second."
Merida kept trying to talk while avoiding the sword; the boy was strong. "I'm not what you think I am; Merida is me and I-"
"Oh, in your dreams you little dweeb!" Macintosh got very close as he denied what he didn't wanna hear.
Annoyed with his arrogance (really it was amazing she made it this long) Merida avoided a swipe, then stepped closer to Macintosh's torso to give a few blows.
Hiccup found a decent, heavy branch and calmly waited for his opportunity to put in a hit.
Watching himself beat up this tall, well-toned guy was interesting brain food; it was weird watching himself from the side, but Hiccup also thought it was funny how Merida kept her strength.
What broke him out from his thinking was Toothless growling from under his fluffy cloud of delight; someone else was around. Hiccup put Merida's bright blue eyes in every direction. In a tree above Merida as Hiccup, whom had Macintosh a little scared and bent, there was a…giant squirrel?
Wee Dingwall jumped from the high branch on to the top of Hiccup's head. Merida didn't sense it coming, so the tugging and pulling distracted her. Hiccup didn't have nearly as much hair as her but she still felt it while Dingwall bit the ear she was connected to.
And that was the queue to step in; Hiccup lifted the branch, analyzing the best point to hit the squirrel instead of Merida/his body.
He ran, the dress made it uneasy, Hiccup felt totally in power- until someone threw a potato at his head at the just right speed and angle to knock him out.
In Merida's body, Hiccup fell to his side- becoming as limp as his dragon and seeing little stars twirling around the bouncy curls.
Merida had slammed Dingwall into tree, about four times, until his body hurt enough to let go.
She felt guiltily for hurting his pals, but she tried to warn him; just because she was wearing Hiccup's face, and speaking with his voice, that didn't mean people couldn't listen to her.
The princess stood in the Viking boy's body, her friends holding themselves sadly and her body unconscious.
"Alright boys, that's enough horseplay; this is all silly, but I am Pri-"
WHAM
Another potato to the head; this time right on Hiccup's left ear, knocking Merida out cold.
McGuffin came out from the trees; he got there last because he wanted to try being sneaky. Well, that and he wasn't the type to lead an army into battle.
Macintosh continued to rub his hurting abs, but his head straightened up enough to say, "You hit Mare Mare; I thought you were working on your aim!"
"Ji buvo apie smogti jums, turinti filialą!" The large boy tried to explain.
Dingwall rubbed his back, "Why would she try to hit him with a branch? She was probably going after the pervert who was attacking her with his dragon."
That was not what he saw, but McGuffin didn't argue because he saw it as futile.
Standing straight, Macintosh went to Hiccup's unconscious body. "This little perv was roughing up our Princess, men."
Macintosh kicked the kick that laid a good amount of damage on him; it didn't fight back then.
"I say we pants him and hang him upside down; whatcha say, lads?" Macintosh excited suggested.
The other two were hovering around the Nighfury; he rumbled but was stayed under the layers of bliss.
"Lads, that thing didn't budge the whole time; let get to unpantsing!" balling his hands and punching the air, Macintosh wanted them to join his glee.
His failure to encourage them was officially done with when some really big and solid clouds came above.
The boys figured they were birds; not the cleverest idea but they didn't know what else could fly. McGuffin picked up (Hiccup in ) Merida's body, gently and held the it securely in his thick arms.
"I think we're getting some company." Dingwall stated; his dull expression didn't change. Then again, other than in battle it rarely did.
The shadows didn't belong to birds, shocking as that might be, but much larger creatures; scaleyer, fire breathing type creatures.
With their backs to backs, the boys kept their heads up. The dragons descended with roars and screeches. Macintosh hugged Dingwall as the hideous, monstrous dragons surrounded them.
Off the dragons hopped some kids that were not less frightening than their pets.
The dragons had fangs, claws and horns; and their riders had horns and devilish smiles.
"Now what do we have here?" asked a guy with curved horns on his hat.
Dingwall kept hugging Macintosh; they had their backs to McGuffin who was still holding Merida's body. None of them considered the thought of fighting back people with giant, people eating pets.
To Dingwall's north was the curved-horn guy, to the east was a guy who seemed extremely familiar for some reason, the west had a girl without horns but a spikey skirt and behind him McGuffin was looking at some mischievous looking twins.
"Seems like a party," the male twin said, grinning wickedly.
"That we weren't invited to" his sister continued.
"That's not cool." Tuffnut concluded.
The girl with the spikey skirt walked to the unconscious, skinny body she knew. Dingwall could tell from just a short look on her face that she was not happy.
"Oh, very uncool. And very stupid." Each word was pronounced menacingly, she showed only one furious eye, and other was covered by her blonde bang.