I hope you don't mind if I skip time and POV's
After that night Stoick and Hiccup were considerably nicer to each other. Hiccup wasn't giving him sarcastic answers and Stoick wasn't snapping at him about them.
"I wonder what got into those two." Wondered Gobber to the others.
"Ya Hiccup seems to have just released all his negative energy." Said Dawn.
"Ya remember what story he was telling Fawn last night?" Asked Claw.
"What story?"Asked Astrid.
"Black Rose." Recited Flame.
"What's it about?"Asked Snotlout.
"We really don't know we only know he only tells us the story when he's worried." Replied Claw.
"What could he be worried about?"Asked Fishlegs.
"I don't know." Replied Dawn speaking for all of them.
…
"Hiccup? You there?" Called Stoick looking into the boy's room.
"Ya right here." Replied Hiccup from a corner his nose buried in a book.
"What 'cha got there?"Asked Stoick.
"Black Rose." Replied Hiccup "I wrote it myself after I was captured." Stoick nodded and walked in.
Silence fell over them.
"So what are you going to do once the wars over?" Asked Stoick breaking the silence.
"I don't know. Travel the world I guess. See some new species of dragons. Fight some pirates. Anything to keep me interested." Replied Hiccup. Stoick nodded and quickly turned and started to leave.
"Why did you come here?"Asked Hiccup his eyes leaving his book to glance at Stoick before looking back at the words on the page.
"I don't know." Admitted Stoick. "Got bored I guess." Hiccup chuckled and smiled calmly.
"Nice." Laughed Hiccup gently. He stood up and walked over to a satchel hanging on the back of a chair and set his book inside. "A story of a fool never does die does it?" Asked Hiccup to himself.
"What?" Asked Stoick.
"Oh! I said that out loud? I meant nothing just a saying I've heard." Laughed Hiccup nervously. Stoick left it be and continued out of the door.
The boy stared at the door as it closed and cursed silently to himself. "Damn Hiccup, you trusting damn idiot! You're just going to be stabbed in the back again!" The boy looked down at his book and picked it up before setting it on a desk and scribbling on the cover with his charcoal pencil.
The cover than said…
'Black Rose'
'Written by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third.'
And Hiccup wrote under that.
'A Story of a Fool Never Does Die.'
Hiccup put the book back in his satchel before grabbing his journal and walking back to his corner. He sat down and flipped to the first page. He sighed and stared at it before dropping it and burying his face in his arms. The book landed open on the first page and it showed a picture of two people and a dragon. And under the drawing the names where as clear as day to anyone.
Hiccup quickly picked the book up and threw it away from him in mad rage. It hit the wall and landed closed a Night Fury sketched into it.
…
"Three weeks and still no sign of Hiccup's personality coming back."Growled Fawn. She had been able to walk around the boat and the other helped her whenever she needed it. Right now Fawn, Claw, Dawn, Flame, Astrid, Fishlegs, Snotlout, the twins, Stoick, and Gobber were sitting on the deck of the dragons' boat and chatting idly.
"He'll be fine." Replied Astrid.
"How do you know that?"Asked Ruffnut.
"Ya he could be dying of some disease right now that sucks away any and all personality from your body." Agreed Tuffnut. Everyone looked at them and they shrugged unconcerned.
"He curses more often now." Stated Claw sadly.
"Yes. Saying he's a damn fool." Agreed Flame.
"FLAME!" Snapped Dawn.
"What!?" Replied Flame. "He says that all the time."
"That doesn't mean you repeat it!" Cried out Dawn.
"Calm down. It isn't as bad as some of the others." Spoke Fawn quietly.
"Are you hurting again Fawn?" Asked Astrid worriedly.
"Yes…I…Just tired."Stammered Fawn. Her sister looked at her in her 'I know there's something wrong, don't lie.' Look.
"Fine it's just…He's like a brother to me and I can tell that something has been bothering him for a while I-I just don't know what it is. And when he is in one of his rages it's not like the ones other Vikings have…their worse." Stated Fawn looking confused.
"What do you mean Fawn?"Asked Fishlegs.
"Haven't you heard things breaking from his room?" Asked Fawn looking at them surprised.
"No." Said everyone in sync. Fawn sighed and stood up carefully starting her way towards Hiccup's cabin. Everyone followed her and they passed onto two boats to get to Hiccup's cabin. Fawn knocked on the door and when no one answered she opened the door and walked inside. A note on the ground caught everyone's attention and Fawn picked it up and read it out loud.
"Went on a flight with Toothless. I'll be back by tonight.
Hiccup Haddock."
"Come on." Said Fawn continuing into the room.
…..
Stoick had stayed silent while Fawn read the paper but on the inside he was chaotic. 'He had used Haddock! A name he had given up two years ago!' That stayed in Stoick's head while they walked into the room but swiftly vanished as he saw the devastation of Hiccup's belongings.
"Wow!" Gasped the twins' smiles donning their faces as the destruction tickled their insides.
Hiccup's books were strewn all over the ground some of them ripped in half, others looked like they had been thrown across the room. There was a pile of non-destroyed books in a corner and from the looks of it Hiccup had been reading a book in that corner before he left.
Fawn walked over to it and picked it up gently closing it to see the cover. "Black Rose." Stated Fawn quietly to the group still looking at the room in the door way.
"Look over there." Spoke Dawn pointing at a journal on the ground covered in a light dust. "It's one of Hiccup's journals." Then a gooey red sustains slid out of the book and covered Dawn's hands quickly. She dropped the book with a cry of surprise. The book fell and opened as it hit the floor.
The book landed open on the first page and it showed a picture of two people and a dragon. And under the drawing the names where as clear as day to everyone.
'Stoick the Vast,
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
Toothless the dragon.'
Stoick stared at the page and instantly recognized blood on the page.
Resent blood to be precise.
The blood splattered the page and a river of it poured out of a bottle full of it. "What the…" Began Stoick but he instantly recognized the blood. "That's deer blood." He said.
"Are you sure?" Asked Gobber not convinced.
"Of course." Stated Stoick positive that his statement was correct. Just then they heard screams of terror and yells of battle.
"What's happening now?" Complained Claw.
What do you think happened?
Black Rose plays a not so important part in the story but it will be in Unseen if you want to read it.