Unseen Ch 4: From Bad to Worse
Hiccup ran home from work his sneakers smacking the pavement as his backpack thumped against his back and his heart hammered against his ribs, Johann's answers to his frantic questions about Jack still ringing in his ears.
'Who Jack? He's a nice kid comes in every other week or so to pick up book orders for his family.'
Hiccup shook his head that couldn't be true faeries and spirits were just violent monsters right? His mom's stories and his own memories proved that. Hiccup physically flinched, that was one memory he didn't want to think about seeing as he revisited it every night when he slept. Seeing the shadows lengthen he stepped up the pace he had to make it home before sunset, not that he was afraid of the dark but he was terrified of the spirits and faeries that called the night theirs. Flinching once more as he walked up the steps of his house and unlocked the door, once inside he immediately locked it once more before physically sagging in relief. He dropped his backpack before heading towards the kitchen knowing there would be food either in the Crockpot, microwave, or he could just make something any of the options would be fine. Rounding the corner into the kitchen he smiled seeing the Crockpot out on the counter, walking towards it he wondered what his mom had went if she had left the Crockpot do the cooking she must have went to work. Nearing the counter he saw a folded piece of paper with his name on it, figuring it was a note from mom he picked it up and read it laughing at the message that was written.
'Hey Hiccup XD
Work called me in Jessie is finally having her baby! O.O (about freaking time!)
So dinner is in the Crockpot and dessert (WHICH IS FOR AFTER DINNER!) is in the freezer.
Do your homework, don't stay up late, and lock the front door (but not the top latch).
See you tomorrow
Love Mom XOXOXO'
Rolling his eyes at his Mom's bubblyness he reached over to lift the lid off the Crockpot and started drooling what was inside was one of his favorite meals, Val's homemade beef stew with huge chunks of potatoes and carrots mixed in. taking a moment to think he replaced the lid before fetching his backpack from the front hall so he could work on what little homework he did have while he ate. After about forty-five minutes he was done with both food and work. As he washed his dishes curiosity was burning him alive wondering what his mother had made for dessert. Opening the freezer Hiccup couldn't believe his eyes.
"YES" he shouted as he reached into the freezer and pulled out a tub of fresh made ice cream peeling off the lid he took a spoon full of the creamy green colored ice cream and shoved it in his mouth. Humming with pleasure he couldn't believe that his mother had made one of his favorite flavors 'green tea' he grabbed a fresh bowl before scooping two generously sized scoops into the bowl hesitating he shrugged his shoulders before adding a third, before sealing the tub before shoving it back into the freezer. Hiccup ate the ice cream slowly savoring each bite.
Hiccup sat at his desk his sketch pad opened to a blank page as he tapped the end of his charcoal pencil against the desk. He had been trying to draw anything for over an hour and he kept coming up with nothing, the floor was littered with crumpled up pieces of paper where he had started drawing but hadn't like the way things were going and had thrown it away. Sighing he leaned back in his chair as he rubbed his eyes with the heels of his hands lowering his hands he looked around his room trying to find something to inspire him. Sighing that nothing jumped out at him begging to be drawn he turned back to his sketch pad thinking about the day he picked up his pencil and started drawing a few lines not really focusing on what it was, he added a few more then added detail smudgeing a line here darkening a line there. His eyes narrowed as he drew not focusing on what he was drawing as a whole but on each line as he drew them. Finally he dropped his pencil his eyes widen as he realized what he had been drawing. It was a perfect portrait of jack down to the last detail, it wasn't a picture of him as a human but as the fairy he was with snow white hair and teeth with slightly pointed ears and a hoodie covered in frost patterns on his face was the same mischivious grin that he had given him and even though the picture was black and white he knew the exact shade of blue the hoodie and his eyes would be. With a frown Hiccup tore the picture off the pad and started ripping into little pieces before throwing it into the trash. With a shake of his head, grumbling about annoying faeries, he lifted himself out of the chair before flopping face down onto his bed closing his eyes he was almost immediately asleep.
-Dream-
Hiccup was seven and he was over at his cousin's house working on a project for school they were making their own medieval castle complete with towers, ramparts, and courtyards. Hiccup was positively thrilled about this project he was easily the best artist in their class and he had already made several soldiers, peasants and other people to occupy their castle Snotlout, was in charge of the population of their castle, and had told him the first week of the project how many of each thing they needed to properly protect their castle not to mention keep it running smoothly. Hiccup was amazed he never knew his cousin was any good at figuring out how many people was needed to defend something not to mention who should care for those defenders, who should feed them, where they should be housed and countless other details his cousin had talked about while they had been drawing designs for the castle. They had even designed the area surrounding their castle giving the imaginary people the best chance of survival. Hiccup was about to compliment his cousin when both boys heard a knock at the bedroom door, they looked up to see Snot's mom standing there smiling.
"Hiccup it's getting late give me a minute and I'll walk you home okay?" Hiccup nodded his head and turned back to his cousin planning to tell him that they could finish tomorrow after school when he saw the angry look on his cousins face.
"Wha-" he started to ask before Snot interrupted him.
"You're a huge baby you know that!" his cousin spat at him, Hiccup was stunned they were working together just fine a minute ago what could he have done to get him angry.
"Wha-" he tried again and once more he was interrupted
"Your seven and you still need someone to walk you home? I mean GODS you don't even live that far" Snot growled as he pointed out his bedroom window and it was true Hiccup could see his house on the other side of the small nature park, it was a typical park with trees, flowers, a pond, and running, walking, and biking paths, it even had a really cool playground. Hiccup gulped before turning back to his cousin.
"I'm not a baby" Hiccup stated frowning. Snot had a smug look on his face as he challenged Hiccup.
"Then prove it walk home by yourself tonight" seeing Hiccup's nervous look he pushed
"unless you are a little scaredy baby" with a look of determination Hiccup grabbed his backpack and marched out of the room heading towards the front door where his Aunt was pulling on a jacket she already held a large flashlight in one hand. Hiccup hesitated his moms warning about the dark and what hunts it echoing in his mind he turned to look behind him to see Snot grinning like he had already proved that he was a baby and was planning to tell the whole class tomorrow. Squaring his shoulders he walked up to his Aunt and said
"I can walk home by myself Aunt Jill" Jill stopped and turned to Hiccup
"What did you say dear?" she asked convinced that she had heard him wrong. Hiccup raised his voice a little and made sure he spoke clearly
"I can walk home by myself its straight across the park." Jill blinked a few times letting the words sink in before kneeling down so their eyes were on the same level before saying
"Hiccup dear you don't have to walk home by yourself I don't mind and its already dark outside" Hiccup shook his head he had to do this or Snot would tease him forever.
"I'm a big kid I'm not scared of the dark" which wasn't a total lie. Jill watched Hiccup for a moment before sighing and standing up
"okay here take the flashlight you can return it tomorrow when you come over" she passed the flashlight to him, it took Hiccup two hands to lift the heavy iron flashlight he smiled at his aunt wishing her a good night before crossing the threshold and descending the stairs. He carefully crossed the street and stood at the entrance of the park taking a deep breath he started walking
'All I have to do is follow the path straight through' he thought keeping the flashlight turned off knowing that it would attract spirits and faeries like moths. He was almost half way through the park when he heard voices he halted looking around nervously not knowing if he should continue or head back.
"you were stupid to try and leave Tooth you knew what would happen" he heard one voice say, he then heard a scream while another voice laughed before he could think about what he was doing he was already running towards the voices
"the only thing stupid is that I didn't leave earlier with you two in charge its only a matter of time till war is declared and I won't have any part of it" another voice said this voice sounded labored like it was hard for them to breath. He heard a loud thump and another scream like some had taken a blunt object and had hit the speaker with it. Hiccup burst through some brush and into a clearing there was a group of people surrounding a figure huddled on the ground with the poor light he couldn't see but he was sure the guy on the ground was bleeding
"HEY GET AWAY FROM HIM" Hiccup shouted as he switched on the flashlight. When the clearing was illuminated Hiccup could feel himself go pale he had thought some people where beating up another person but apparently he had just burst in on some kind of Fairy/Spirit beat down. He was frozen to the stop his whole body shaking with fear as the spirits and faeries turned to look at him the two most notable ones had to be the leaders the shorter of the two had green grey skin with four eyes that had cat like pupils that were narrowed into slits and had a smug grin on his face. The other was tall and had the complexion of a dead person with amber eyes and spiky black hair, he smiled but his was full of malice.
"well would you look here apparently some of these bugs can still see us" the dead one said turning away from the guy on the ground the green-gray one laughed as he turned towards Hiccup as well
"you know isn't it true if you rip out a seers eyes and eat them you'll be unstoppable?" he said starting to slowly walk towards Hiccup who was sure his heart was going to jump right out of his chest. The green-grey guy was only a few feet away from him when the guy on the ground started shouting at Hiccup.
"WHAT ARE YOU STUPID OR SOMETHING RUN GET AWAY FROM HERE!" Hiccup blinked once then turned and ran as fast as he could away from the clearing he heard sounds of pursuit and tried to speed up before he was tackled to the ground Hiccup screamed and with no second thought swung the heavy flashlight at the creature that was on top of him. He expected the heavy sounding thunk what he didn't expect was the intense squeal of pain and the sound of sizzling. Turning to look before he scrambled to his feet to keep running he saw that where the flashlight had made contact with the faeries skin was bright red and bubbling like he had been severally burned. Hiccup could see the path up ahead he was sure he was going to back it when something stabbed him in his right shoulder with a scream he fell forwards the flashlight falling out of his hand. He reached out for it but before he could grab hold of it a foot stepped on his hand and started crushing it into the ground others held down his arms and legs as they stabbed and kicked at him. Hiccup screamed and thrashed trying to get away till one of them kicked his head and everything went fuzzy he could feel blood flowing over half his face and he knew several of his rib bones were broken he was sure the hand that had been stepped on was broken as well, the rest of his body felt like it was on fire, looking up he saw the dead skin person and grey-green person walking up to him. He immediately looked towards the ground so his eyes were hidden he didn't want them ripping out his eyes.
"Well that was fun you guys do what you want with him hearing him scream was enough for me" 'that is the grey-green guy' Hiccup thought scrunching his eyes shut as hard as he could so they wouldn't be able to yank out his eyes.
"Are you sure? Didn't you want his eyes?" the other asked with a slightly amused voice.
"Naw I'm done lets go home and let the others have their fun" Hiccup couldn't tell what was going on but he suddenly felt claws rake against his scalp as one of the faeries grab a fist full of his hair and yank his head up causing him to scream again
"well since the kings are out of the way now the real fun starts try not to die on us we shadows haven't had a plaything in a while and we want our fun to last" the faeries that were holding him down giggled their voices sharp and cruel. Hiccup whimpered thinking about what they were going to do. The fairy holding his hair slammed his head against the ground causing his already fuzzy vision to darken.
Hiccup sat up in bed gasping he was covered in sweat and shaking he ran his hands through his hair trying to force himself to calm down.
"Just a dream, just a dream" he whispered to himself over and over again before turning on the lamp that was next to his bed. He went to the bathroom to splash water into his face. He thought about what had happened after that night, he had woken up in the hospital screaming and thrashing, thinking that he was still in the grip of the faeries, his mother holding his hand telling him that it was alright that he was safe, he was vaguely aware of a doctor coming in and giving him something that sent him back to sleep so his body could heal. When he had woken up again he was aware enough to know where he was and that he was safe he had croaked out to his mother who was instantly by his side holding his hand and moving his bangs away from his face. When he was a little more awake she told him what had happened how some kid had brought him to the hospital and then disappeared how he had been unconscious for three days and that he had in fact a really bad concussion, broken two ribs, several bones in his right hand, and his left leg, multiple stab wounds that weren't deep but long a few that needed stitches, and several bruises covering his body. Nodding his head he thought that he was lucky to be alive at all, he then flinched, then gasped with pain because of said flinch, when he heard his mom ask him what had happened. Hiccup didn't want to lie but he knew his mom would go into overboard protective mode if she found out that faeries had attacked him, so he lied and said that he was attacked by some teenagers. When the police showed up the next day and Hiccup only could give them fuzzy details they marked it up to his injuries. The next day he had gotten the biggest surprise of his life his cousin and aunt came to the hospital and Snot apologized saying it was entirely his fault he was actually crying. Hiccup immediately told Snot that it wasn't his fault and wanted to know how he was doing on the project they spent fifteen minutes talking about it till their mothers interrupted them and said it was time for Snot and Jill to leave. He had been released from the hospital after a week and after about a month everything was back to normal though his mother and aunt wouldn't even considered letting him walk anywhere by himself.
With a sigh Hiccup walked back to his room trying once more to shove all those dark memories to the smallest corner of his mind to be forgotten till another monstrous reminder of why faeries and spirits shouldn't and couldn't be trusted.
'But what about that fairy on the ground he told you to run to get away' a small voice in his head spoke up like it always did when he started to think like this huffing he replied
'He was probably trying to draw attention away from himself to get them to follow me so he could escape' he thought back acidly he wasn't really convinced but it made sense
'Then how did you get to the hospital?' the small voice asked that stopped Hiccup he wanted to know that too everyone had told him it was just some random kid who had showed up with Hiccup in his arms then just disappeared. Hiccup shook his head as he tried and failed to come up with a decent response finally he decided to respond with the only thing he could think of
'You have no proof that it was that fairy that took me to the hospital' he challenge only to be shot down immediately by the voice that responded with
'you can't prove that it wasn't that fairy that saved you' Hiccup shook his head knowing that this conversation was going to just continue to go in circles he flopped back on his bed hoping that he wouldn't have anymore dreams.
The next morning the sun woke him up he smiled he had slept deep with no dreams rubbing his eyes he got up and started his morning routine everything was ordinary and normal. Getting to school was ordinary and normal as well Hiccup was starting to wonder what was going on why was everything just normal? It was weirding him out just a little.
'Great I'm so used to things being weird that now when things are normal I get all jumpy' he thought as he slid into his seat in his first period. He was having a conversation with Astrid about a project that would be coming up when the overhead speaker crackled to life and a women's voice spoke out.
"Miss. Ellis is Hiccup Haddock there?" Hiccup waved his hand at Miss. Ellis letting her know where he was she smiled before replying
"Yes he is here do you need him Silvia?"
"Yes can you please send him to the front office?"
"Of course immediately" the speaker went quiet as Miss. Ellis waved Hiccup towards the doo Hiccup stood up and left. Heading towards the office he tried to think of what he could possibly be needed for it was only the second day of classes there was no way he could be in trouble already could there?
Stepping into the office he caught the receptionist's eye and she smiled and waved
"just head on into the vice principals office she's in there waiting for you" she said pointing to a door he walked in and was greeted be a woman in her late forties he brown hair starting to gray there was a boy with white hair sitting in a chair with his back towards Hiccup, a backpack rested next to his side. Hiccup raised an eyebrow and asked
"What do you need me for Ma'am?"
"We have a new student joining our school today and he has the same schedule as you do so I was hoping you could show him around he hasn't been in the states long and hasn't been in a formal school either though his education is sound he might take a few days to adjust." turning to the white hair boy she motioned for him to stand up. As his did Hiccup could feel himself go pale, it was Jack from the book store.
"This is Jackson Overland Frost" Hiccup couldn't believe this, the Gods must hate him.
AN: yeah long chapter XD okay I know this update is a little early and I know how overjoyed you all must be (which is a little weird for me that people wait for my updates like I wait for others O.o super weird) but I'm still only doing once a week updates its just that the Saturday updates will change to Thursday XD
Okay thank you time I would like to thank randomobsession123, Skymello, xXTechGirlXx for reviewing the last chapter I love getting the questions and comments it makes me want to write more.
Next thing to tackle is the next chapter and I want to know if you guys want this one about toothless or do you want to continue with Jack and Hiccup I mean I can do a toothless one and we can see that night from his angle if you want to. So heres the deal tell me in the reviews if you want to see toothless's side or not if I get five or more reviews by Monday ill try and type out a decent chapter if not ill save it for later in the story.
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