yay I finally got around to writing this actually its been sitting in my documents half written for about a week or two but today I had some free time so here's the second chapter.
Disclaimer: if I owned HTTYD I wouldn't have to write this so no.
Hiccup's POV
On the day after the trial I decided to look for any evidence that could prove Snoutlout set the buildings on fire with the help of his Monstrous Nightmare. I had made the decision last night though, so I could finish searching before people started rebuilding. I had woke up at the crack of dawn so very few other people were awake at the moment and those who were awake were probably at home or in the Mead Hall.
Just looking at the burned buildings and thinking about the effects of different dragon's fire and where the fire was blasted from you could tell it wasn't Night Fury fire. After seeing that the frame of the building still stood I walked over to the foot prints left in the dirt.
If you looked at the foot prints closely, and right next to one of Toothless' prints you could see that the two were very similar but not exactly the same. One thing was that they were smaller and they weren't as deep. i also took notice that they weren't the the same shape because the older foot print had shorter claws than the one Toothless had left.
With that and the fact that the fire would have had to of been a continuous stream of fire from above since the frame was still there, instead of a fire ball mixed with the fact that Toothless couldn't fly it had to of been Snoutlout that set the place on fire and the footprints probably came from another dragon that walked past that night. I mean come on the village is full of dragons it's highly probable. So Taking one last look around the crime scene I ran off to try and find my again and tell him again that Toothless was innocent but this time I had proof.
Finding him shouldn't be that hard considering that I had just spent about two hours looking for evidence so now that everyone was starting to wake up he was probably on his way to the Mead Hall for breakfast.
My earlier assumption had been right and I caught up to my dad at the bottom of the steps leading up to the hall.
"Dad" I yelled trying to get his attention which it did as he immediately looked over to me.
"What is it now Hiccup?" He responded sounding really irritated an being pestered so early in the morning.
"I have proof that Toothless didn't cause that fire."
"Oh not this again" he muttered. "Look Hiccup we went over this last night, we put the village at rest and until there's solid proof nothing will be done."
"But Dad!" I yelled. "This time I have proof it wasn't Toothless."
"Hiccup" my dad said interrupting me in the middle of my sentence. "The matter is over.". He said disapprovingly turning to walk up the stairs.
"No one ever believes me" I said to myself quietly. Turning to walk back to my house I thought to myself. "No one ever even listened to me till I ended the war."
Before I ran to my house I had to go to the forge grab a few things. I ran into the forge yelling for Toothless to go to the cove and wait for me there. Then turning around I grabbed a large basket that was on the shelf and threw in some leather, a needle and some threads and the automatic tail I made for Toothless at Snoggletog. I had decided to keep the tail in case of emergencies even though Toothless hadn't wanted it. After throughing these thing in the basket I ran out of the shop and up the hill to my house.
When I arrived at my house I went up the steps to my room as quickly as I could and started gathering my things. I decided to grab most of my clothes, a blanket some journals and some rope just in case it was needed. Throwing these into the basket along with the other things I had I went downstairs and added some food and water skins. Closing the basket as it was getting full I stashed it by the back door and ate my breakfast. As I ate I kept thinking about how Toothless felt in the cove right now, and these thought made me eat a little faster as he probably thought he was in trouble do to the fact that he was trapped without me to work the tail fin.
It was about ten o'clock by the time I was ready to leave for the cove and since it would take about an hour and a half to walk there I figured that I should leave immediately so my dad wouldn't question where I was going. Grabbing the basket and putting it on my back and ran zi to the forest towards the cove. After running through the trees for awhile I arrived at the cove and was promptly attacked by Toothless who like I thought he did think he was being punished.
After I explained to Toothless that he wasn't in trouble and what was going on we settled down for a little while to relax. Seeing as we had all day I took a nap for a few hours until Toothless woke me up. After I was fully awake I fished in the lake while Toothless lit a fire. When we were finished eating we went for a swim and did other various activities until it was near sundown, and we probable would have kept playing games until we heard a russel in the bushes. Looking up I saw who had entered the cove and was looking curiously at the basket and riding gear was none other than Astrid.
I figured that this would be a good cut off point and I promise the next chapter will be up sometime this week. Thanks to those people who reviewed and suggested names for the new night fury who will be in the story soon. And thanks to my friend kittysoftpaws01 for reminding me to update this.
*Hears noises coming from closet*
Kitty: what's in the closet?
Me: nothing there is absolutely nothing in there.
Kitty: *crosses room and opens closet and sees Hiccup*
kitty: Extraxi why is Hiccup in your closet?
Me: because imagine if people found out
Kitty: oh that makes sense but how did you get him hear
Me: magic and by that I really magic the magic portal that appears in my room
Kitty: oh well send him back
Me: No and watch what you say you're only in the chapter because I lost a bet.
Kitty: oh right shutting up now but at least untie him
Me: ok that I can do *unties Hiccup*
Hiccup: thank you
Me: bye see you next time