AN: oh my gosh O_O I didn't think anyone would view my story but I've gotten fav'ed and followed*insert epic fan girl shrike* you guys have no idea what this does to my self esteem it's given me a huge boost XD
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Just to let everyone know I view the end of the week as Saturday because my work week starts on Sunday. I'm also starting a new job soon so I'm not sure how my writing will be affected but im planning on doing weekly or bi-weekly updates if something goes wrong and I don't update don't freak out an update will be up as soon as I can manage it and chapters will have at least a thousand words or more depending on the chapter and content. Without further ado on with the second chapter.
Chapter Two: Things normal people shouldn't be able to hear
School went as expected same thing as every year figuring out your class schedule and writing down the things you needed to buy. By the fourth period he had met up with almost all of his friends Astrid Hofferson a sporty blond who was on the lacrosse team, Ruffnut and Tuffnut Thorston both of them completely identical to each other the only different between them was Ruffs hair was longer, you could usually find them arguing with each other. Fishlegs Ingerman or just 'Fish' who was a walking encyclopedia on almost anything you could ever want to know. Last was Snotlout Jorgenson his cousin he was about the same height as Tuff but was bulging with muscles with a mop of dark brown hair only a sophomore and already the captain of the football team sure he was a hot head sometimes but he was an excellent athlete.
Hiccup was enjoying his first day there was only a few things that seemed to ruin it though he thought it didn't really matter, in his second period was in one of the room that always seem way too hot even with the air conditioner was blasting when the teacher went to the window and popped it open in an attempt to create some air flow as the teacher turned back towards the class a humming bird tumbled into the room, Hiccup didn't pay it any mind thinking the teacher would take care of it but he did glance up when he heard nothing out of the ordinary no one was looking at the bird or making any kind of comment and the teacher was rambling on about the semester projects. As the bird moved Hiccup noticed it had tiny human limbs and a human face, taking a deep breath Hiccup ignored it and focused on the teacher listening as he started to write down when the projects would start and wither they would be able to partner up or not. Hiccup tapped his pencil against the desk letting his mind wander he felt a tug on his pencil and before common sense could catch him he looked down straight into the little humming bird-faery eyes which were a really pretty shade of purple. He stared a moment longer then he should have that was when the little faeries eyes grew round with surprise, Hiccup shoved away from the desk causing his chair to screech across the floor before tipping over and clattering against the grey linoleum.
"Is everything alright Mr. Haddock?" The teacher asked. Hiccup looked around seeing the whole class staring at him blushing slightly he stuttered
"Sp-spider sorry Mr. Holt" he grabbed his chair and set it back up before sitting back down. He looked around but didn't see the little faery then he noticed his pencil was missing as well. Rolling his eyes and cursing about little thieves dug out another pencil from his bag. 'Well that broke rules one and possibly two' he thought and shook his head 'Mom will kill me if she finds out'
When lunch came he convinced the others to eat outside since the sun was out, they agreed and soon they were sitting at picnic table in the court yard swapping stories of their classmates, teachers and what to expect from the rest of the year. Hiccup was enjoying the plain ordinariness of it when he heard something that did not belong there. It was a high chittering squeaking noise turning around his eyes widen before turning back to the table it was the same humming bird faery from class and she wasn't alone there was three more just like her and they were heading towards their group. The little faeries circled around their group chittering at each other as they pulled at everyone's hair, the others absently swatted at their hair thinking it was bugs or something just as annoying, Hiccup tried to do the same but flinched a little. They all jumped when they heard the bell ending their lunch hour the others grumbled as they gathered their things but Hiccup was secretly overjoyed to have a reason to go back inside.
The rest of the day was unremarkable Art class was the most fun point of the day the Art teacher was some flower child lady that didn't care what inspired you as long as you spent class creating and expressing yourself. After that he went to athletics and enjoyed the physical activity of running though his lack of coordination limited him to running and running only the first and last time he tried hurtles he not only fail miserably but cause two others to go to the nurse's office.
He bounced up and down shaking out his legs and arms rolling his head he smiled he didn't care that there was an unusual amount of faeries and spirits around he didn't care that they all seemed to be looking at him and talking about him he didn't care, because when he ran he could let himself believe for that brief moment that it wasn't real that nothing was around him that it was just him and the wind in a race for the finish line. Hiccup was waiting for the first group to finish their run when he heard giggling he turned towards it thinking that, despite numerous warnings from the coaches, some of the girls that always hung around after school to watch the afternoon practices had come down on to the track. What he saw took his breath away it was a blown up version of the humming bird faery from this morning she was at least as tall as he was and fully covered in bright colorful feathers the wings on her back was constantly moving allowing her to hover a few inches, next to her stood the tallest faery he had ever seen he was over seven feet tall with gray skin, hair and to top it off he had two gray bunny ears sprouting from his hair, he had bright blue tribal tattoos across his chest and arms but the strangest thing about him other then the bunny ears were his feet they looked like they were rabbits feet they were perfectly shaped and proportioned so they looked natural.
'he looks fast' hiccup thought as he turned back to his group telling them in a loud enough voice that any faeries thaty might be listening in that he thought he had heard someone call his name.
"See I told you he couldn't see us" an Australian accented male voice said if Hiccup had to guess he would guess that it was the bunny like man 'why the hell does he have an Australian accent were nowhere near Australia!' Hiccup thought irritably as he returned to stretching.
"Aww but he turned around when I laughed like he had heard me and Babytooth swears that he stared at her this morning when she tried to steal his pencil." The voice was high pitched an a little girly but not unpleasant 'that would be the bird-faery-lady' Hiccup reasoned before an annoyed look crossed his face 'that faery did steal my pencil!' he thought as he shook his head and stepped into his lane. He was bracing himself against the starter block when he heard the bird lady hiss at her friend
"Bunny! What are you doing?" using his hair as cover he glanced up enough to see the large Bunny like faery moving into position in the open lane next to him.
"I told you Ana he can't see us so I want to race him and see how fast he really is" Bunny replied with a grin on his face. Hiccup rolled his eyes before focusing on the track ahead of him.
"If he can't see you he won't be really racing against you isn't it a little one sided in your favor?" Ana asked hovering in front of Bunny as she crossed her arms over her chest. She looked like she was trying to lecture him in good sportsmanship and Hiccup felt the need to smile but contained it.
"Doesn't matter anyway there is no chance that a weak human will be faster than me so really no contest so again doesn't matter" Bunny said with a smirk. Hiccup gripped tightly on his emotions before he grew too angry and responded with some snide remark. That would completely destroy all four rules, but still there was no way he was going to lose to this arrogant jerk. Focusing on the track he readied himself.
"get ready" the coach said coming up to the starting line whistle in his hand as he checked everyone's stances and positions then moving to the side line he brought the whistle to his lips and gave it a short blast. As soon as Hiccup heard the blast he was off running easily passing up his teammates but he hardly noticed his focus was on the faery next to him, he refused to let him pass him. Every time he got close Hiccup somehow found some reserve to shove forward keeping them neck and neck, as the finish line came closer it seemed that both of the runners put forth every ounce of energy into the last few inches at the last second Hiccup pulled a little ahead. When he was passed the finish line he started to slow down first to a jog, then walk, and finally stopping standing straight so he could breathe knowing full well that if he bent over and put his hands on his knees that he would constrict his air flow and possibly pass out from lack of oxygen. Hearing his name being yelled Hiccup turns to see the rest of the team running towards him the surround him yealling and screaming excitedly some were patting his back while others were trying to give him a high five. Hiccup was about to ask what was going on when the coach came up.
"HICCUP DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU JUST DID?" the coach yelled over the cheering teenagers who were celebrating at the top of their voices. Before Hiccup could even respond the coach yelled
"YOU JUST BEAT THE SCHOOLS RECORD BY 4.2 SECONDS" the coach shoved the stopwatch at Hiccup to see his time and it was true he had beat the schools record he completely forgot about the faery he had raced against and celebrated with his teammates.
It was only when practice was over and everyone was heading to the locker rooms that Hiccup remembered the faeries looking around he saw that they had disappeared shrugging his shoulders he walked to the showers to quickly scrub down before heading to his part time job.
Walking into the store he smiled he loved it here with the large iron work door it made it hard for faeries and spirits to pass through it without some horrible side effect.
"Hiccup that you?" came a voice from the back Hiccup rolled his eyes and threw his bag under the counter as he clocked it
"Yeah it's me" he called pinning on his name tag and walking towards the back as Johan was walking out with a several boxes in his arms. Hiccup reached up to take the top two boxes and head back to the counter.
"okay business like usual Monday means new arrivals and that means rotating the displays and filling orders which one do you want to do?" Johan asked wiping his brow with his shirt sleeve before readjusting his glasses higher up on his nose. Hiccup smiled before answering
"ill fill the orders last time you did it we had complaints everyday for a week" Hiccup said as he got the order slips and rubber bands as he pulled the boxes labeled orders towards him and pushing the other boxes towards Johan then smiled as he heard him complaining
"It's not my fault so many people in this town have the same freaking last name" he grabbed the boxes and walked off to the display grumbling as he went, Hiccup laughed and started getting peoples orders ready putting the right books together then rubber banding them together with the order sheet then putting them in the proper box. He did this for over two hours before he looked up rubbing the back of his neck feeling the ache that was starting to form looking towards the window he felt his heart stop. There was the large hummingbird faery and the bunny faery from track practice they were looking into the shop and straight at him but they weren't alone they were with another faery 'no one alive could be that pale' he thought the kid had white hair and was wearing a blue hoodie that looked like it was covered in frost forcing himself to look away slowly and naturally so that nothing seemed odd he went back to work, only to look back up when he heard the front door chime.
"Welcome to Books and-" Hiccup started before he realized that he was talking to the faery that had been standing in the window just a few moments before. Seeing the faery up closer he could see that he changed his appearance just slightly he wasn't as pale as before though he was considerably paler then Hiccup was, he was still wearing the blue hoodie although there wasn't any frost on it and what looked like a pair of blue jeans and combat boots. And he still had his white hair but he was close enough to see what color his eyes were, they were a bright startling sapphire.
"Hey" the Faery said with a mischievous looking smile as he walked up to the counter leaning against it causing Hiccup to take a step back. Hiccup did not know what to do if he followed his mothers rules he should just clock out and run for home as fast as his legs would carry him but there was something about this faery that made him want to stay where he was, thankfully Johan popped up.
"Hey Jack what brings you here?" he asked seeing the white haired teen. Hiccup stared dumb founded at Johan 'how in the world does Johan know a faery?' he thought as the faery turned to Johan with a smirk
"Just picking up my order"
"You're a little early aren't you?" Johan asked with a laugh as he turned to Hiccup "can you look for his order it should be under Forst J." Hiccup nodded and looked at the orders he had already rubber banded finding it he felt it was a little odd these were two of his favorite books he had them at home. Ringing them up without looking at Jack, if that was the faeries real name, he was able to get the money from him and hand him his books without making contact about to breathe a sigh of relief that Jack would be gone soon he felt something being pushed against his hand looking down he saw it was a slip of paper with a name and number on it looking back up he met those sapphire blue eyes again and he could feel himself fighting the urge to blush
"If you ever want to, there's my number, we'll have a little fun" he said with a wink as he walked out the door. Hiccup paled considerably "Oh Gods' he thought clutching the counter for balance 'I just broke all four rules didn't I?'
AN: okay time for reviewer shout-outs XD
First to Dailyhijack, Skymello, TheDarknessEndsAtDawn, and Hijack Fanboy you guys are awesome thank you XD it means a lot to me that people actually like what I'm doing so again thank you!
Second to Redphone thanks I haven't read the wicked lovely books in over a year so I can't remember most of the plot I'm thinking about rereading them but I don't want to them to influence my story too much and end up the whole copy and paste effect you know. I have a vague, very vague, idea of where my story is going. As for the toothless thing THANK YOU! You just validated my reasoning for not putting Toothless as a dog I know what you mean I've read stories where he is just a dog or a cat and for me it just feels like its missing something from the whole friend angle. I did write him as a dog in the first chapter but it didn't feel right to me so I chuncked it out the window and started playing with the idea of him being a darker fairy it's in the works right how but I'm thinking that Red Death and Pitch being the leaders of the darker faeries and spirits but toothless not liking the way things were done left to join the lighter faeries i.e. Jack and Bunny and Ana. I might throw north in there too but the idea in my head, at this moment, is that North died fighting and left jack to be the king but I'm also thinking of mixing this with Black Bird if anyone has ever read that manga. But I feel like I'm rambling now so back to you question of the whole Ink Exchange I'm not totally sure like I said before I haven't read the books in over a year so I can't really remember that books plot. All I remember is that one of ali's friends gets a tattoo that links her with the king of the dark faeries and that they feed off her emotions and then at the end of the book she gets the tattoo removed? Or at least I think that's what happened I don't remember but yeah I kinda like that idea but who knows.
Okay so next update will either be next Saturday the 15th or the Saturday after that the 22nd okay XD please post a comment or review if you want to pm me all suggestions and comments are welcome XD
