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A Different Perspective
Dragon Raid
Silver: Got back from a bunch job interviews… and I'm poop, all I wanna do now is to watch movies… Please let me land a job! PLEASE! (Unfreezes time).
(Disclaimer: Plata-Azul Firebird does not own HTTYD… still waiting on the DVD/Bluray of HTTYD 2.)
Dragon Raid
Every Vikings stared at the boy, whose story is being played in the movie. 'He's the main character?! This boy who sides with the dragons?!' that's their thought. The dragons, on the other hand, chirp on the scene where one of their kinds almost burned the boy.
"Useless a hero in this story?!" Snotlout shouts in disbelief, even Hiccup himself looks shocked that he is the main character in his movie.
"Like I said before, he is quite well-known here." Silver points out with a small smile.
"The boy is a traitor! How can he be a hero?!" a random Viking shouts and murmurs in agreement and questions spread like wildfire.
But as soon as the murmur started, it ended quickly. "QUIET!" Hibari roared, causing everyone to shut their mouth as she stands from her seat. "Instead of asking questions that leads to nowhere, why don't we just watch the movie to find the answers." She stated firmly, before her eye turns at her pockets, she takes out a thin rectangular item and takes a look on it. "Oh and Eira is arriving soon."
"That's good. We're going to need a healer in these situations." Silver said as she takes her seat. The villagers look at one another before settling down, silently agreeing to watch the movie to find out why the boy sided with the dragons.
Meanwhile, Hiccup recognizes the scene and realizes that this is the dragon raid from a month ago. He groans on how much damage he caused on the village that time, but then pales on realizing that if this movie started on that time… he groans again and wishes the bean bag to swallow him whole right now. Toothless sense his friend's distress, coos at him as he nuzzles his snout on his stomach.
EXT: The scene changes to the open grass field, where the sheep are running away in fear and dragons would snatch them one by one. At the back, a dragon sets a flaming fence to prevent the sheep from running back. Running among the sheep, are two Vikings and one leap for a sheep which is snatched by a Deadly Nadder.
(V.O.) HICCUP: "Most people would leave. But not us, we're Vikings."
"That's right! We're not wimps!" Snotlout shouts, as the villagers agree and cheer on that. Astrid covers her ears as she snorts on that, while Silver, Hibari, Hiccup and the dragons either roll their eyes or looks unimpressed.
Another Viking flies into the scene as he hangs on and bashes a Gronckle on the head, until the said dragon tosses him off and flies away.
"We have stubbornness issues…"
The dragons laugh and agree at that and the Vikings just glare daggers at them.
"Very true." Silver quips with a smile. "Normal people would just flee and find a new land to settle in with that kind of invasion. But don't think you're normal yourself, Hiccup!"
"What?" he asked, looking confused on that statement.
"You too have stubbornness issues!"
"Since when?"
"You'll see!" Hibari sing-song with a smile.
The house's front door is burning, as Hiccup jumps off a porch and runs forward. His eyes spark in excitement and a smile on his face as he looks around. He stops, out of surprise, when a Viking falls in front of him. He tries to go around but stops again to avoid the axe that fell out of the sky. The said Viking just shakes his head, picks up his axe and goes charging off at the dragons again. Hiccup continues his way, avoiding heavy and sharp falling objects as he goes.
"My name's Hiccup. Great name, I know."
Hiccup went under a log which is carried by two Vikings… but an unfortunate one got distracted by the passing boy and hits his head on the hard wood. The impact causes both Vikings to drop the log, as one of them falls to the ground when the unfortunate one stumbles on him.
"But it's not the worse. Parents believe a hideous name will frighten off gnomes and trolls."
Hiccup turns to see that small mishap and his face says: 'Whoops! Sorry! I didn't mean that!', before someone bumps on him.
"I still say that it's a dumb tradition to give kids horrid names." Hiccup said flatly, earning him several glares from the villagers and chirping laugh from the dragons. Astrid, on the other hand, finds his comment amusing and smiles a bit.
"I agree with that. While in Berk and in the entire northern archipelago, horrid names are considered normal, in other countries it can be considered as an insult or a joke. Like Snotlout, does it means he's a nose booger that is very rude?" Hibari points out, as the teens laughs at that while the arrogant boy fumes.
"Really? Then what your names?! Plaza A-whasits sounds more stupid to me." Snotlout asked, as he stands on his chair and waving his fist at them… only to get hit by a cup full of fruit shake, drenching his face and upper torso. The blunette looks stupefy as she glance at her empty hand, turning to where her shake went, before looking at an annoyed host.
"For the record, it's Plata Azul and it means Silver Blue in Spanish! Learn manners, boy!" Silver huffs, as seats back with her arms cross. Snotlout also sits down, grumbling as the twins mutter and snicker on something about 'a fruity disaster'.
The blunette just looks back and forth between the two, as Hiccup makes note not to get on the woman's bad side. "I think we should continue with the movie." The girl points out and he just agrees.
Vikings continues to run as a Gronckle blew a fireball to the ground, knocking Hiccup to the ground.
"Like our charming Viking demeanor wouldn't do that."
A Viking, with small blisters on his beard, lands on top of him with a battle cry.
VIKING: "AAAHHHHHH!" He then smiles "Mornin'!"
The said Viking then runs off.
Everyone laugh, even the dragon finds this scene amusing, as the said Viking blushed and chuckles on that. "Welp, I guess I drunk a little, too much mead that night." He said.
"Little, too much? Sir, fix your grammar, because I think you did have too much mead." Silver points out with a grin, causing the villagers to laugh again.
"Oh! And speaking of drinks, Silver, you owe me a fruit shake." The blunette points out, while Silver just rolls her eyes and they continue to watch.
Hiccup continues on his way, he lands on the bridge and weaves through some Vikings. As he makes his way through, some of the Vikings snaps and barks at him.
VIKING #1: "What are ya doin' here?"
VIKING #2: "Get inside!"
VIKING #3: "What are ya doin' out?"
VIKING LADY: "Get back inside!"
Some of the Vikings blink at that scene and wonders if they really sound like that, annoyed and not so happy to see him. Others just groan on why the boy did not follow orders and just stay inside the house, where he can't cause more trouble in the village.
"Like they care…" Hiccup mumbled, as he crosses his arms and Toothless give him a comforting coo.
"Great neighbors and they're so concern…" Silver stated, as the villagers turned to look at her. Even Hiccup looked at her, wondering why she said that. Did she understand what they're trying to do? "One flaw though. Hiccup's house was burning back there. Are you trying to tell him to stay in a burning house, where he could possibly get burn, buried or suffocate to death? Really?"
On hearing that, the Vikings looks at the screen and remembers that a dragon did set his house on fire. They look at one another with guilt as they sink in their seats. Stoick's shoulders slumps on hearing that, and never thought that staying inside have a possibility of danger.
"Common sense, people! Use it!" the woman stated, as the movie continues.
Ignoring them, Hiccup keeps running and… he runs past a Viking picking his ear. Distracted on that sight, he fails to see a Nadder setting the path in front of him, in fire. Off the screen, a large hand immediately grabs the scruff of his vest and pulls him away in time.
(O.S.) STOICK: "Hiccup!"
Stoick holds the boy by the scruff of his vest as his father points at him, yelling at his fellow Vikings. Hiccup's face is scrunch up as if he got caught red-handed and is about to be punish.
STOICK: "What is he doin' out?"
He then turns Hiccup to his face, like a poor ragdoll.
"What are you doin out?! Get inside!"
With that, he set his son down and pushes him on his way.
Stoick can't help but to wince at that scene, did he really sound like that to Hiccup?
The teens, except for Astrid, laugh at that scene. "Oh man, he picked you up like a poor kitten!" Snotlout point it out.
"Well, at least a kitten is cuter than a rude, snotty bulldog!" Hibari yells back, causing the teens, including Astrid, to laugh again as Snotlout just grumbles on that.
(V.O.) HICCUP: "That's Stoick the Vast. Chief of the tribe. They say that when he was a baby he popped a dragon's head clean off of its shoulders. Do I believe it?"
Stoick scans the skies and spots a Nadder flying by, he then grabs a cart nearby and tosses it at the Nadder. The dragon was hit by the cart but still remain in the air, just a little dizzy from being hit.
"Do I believe it? Yes I do."
Stoick finds it amusing that the rumors are still around and that his son admires him. But it still puzzles him on why his son turns to the dragons, when he is a good example of a great Viking.
The young rider, on the other hand, feels nauseated that he once admired that. 'Why are my thoughts being projected like this…?' he thought as the black dragon lays his head on his lap to comfort him. Unknown to him, his seatmate winces a bit when the Nadder was hit by the cart.
"I find it ridiculous that a baby can pop a dragon's head… really ridiculous." Silver deadpans, that earns her looks from the villagers and a smile from Hiccup. 'If only they knew what Hiccup did when he was a baby…' she thought, as she smiles and remembering the sequel of this movie.
Stoick huffs a bit that it didn't knock that dragon off the air, before turning to one of his men.
STOICK: "What have we got?"
VIKING: "Gronckles, Nadders, Zipplebacks. Oh and Hoark saw a Monstrous Nightmare."
Suddenly, fire explodes behind them causing the Viking to duck under his shield. Stoick, on the other hand, didn't flinch on that as a small, burning debris landed his shoulder pad. He just absently brushes it off like dust.
STOICK: "Any Night Furies?"
Toothless perks up when his species was mention and Hiccup smiled as he scratches his friend's chin. "That's right, bud. You're there too." As the black dragon cooed in delight and gives him a gummy smile. Both Silver and Hibari smiles on their interaction.
VIKING: "None so far."
STOICK: "Good."
Hiccup jumps over an axe, which is wedge on the ground, and continues running across the screen. Viking lights up towering braziers and raises to the sky, illuminating a lot of dragons. Then the scene change to an interior of the blacksmith shop, as Hiccup arrives and takes off his fur vest. Crossing behind the counter, a large man with his blonde moustache braided and prosthetic arm, a huge hammer equipped. He hammers on a bent sword on an anvil, and swipe some sweat off his brow with his prosthetic arm.
GOBBER: "Nice of you to join the party. I thought you been carried off."
The old blacksmith smiles as he appears on the screen and approves on his appearance. He then chuckles a bit as the conversation play out exactly as he remembers.
HICCUP: "Wha? Who me? Aw come on! I'm way too muscular for their taste!"
INT: Hiccup puts on the apron and ties it, he then picks up one of Gobber's prosthetic equipment and places it on the rack full of said tools.
"They wouldn't know what to do with all this."
The boy then strikes a flexing muscles pose with his arms.
Everyone laugh at that scene, even the dragons themselves chirps and barks in laughter. The young rider, on the other hand, is embarrassed that this was shown, immediately pulls up his knees and hides his flustered face on it.
"Oh my…" Snotlout is still laughing and tries to calm to form a sentence. "That the funniest thing I've ever seen!" and he goes off laughing.
Chuckling a bit, Astrid turns to look at Hiccup. "Nice pose, by the way! You look funny and adorable when you do that!" she said out loud. Then the laughing slowly stops and they looked at Astrid, even Hiccup himself with his blush still visible. "What?" she asked.
"You called Hiccup, adorable?" Ruffnut asked, looking flabbergast on what her only female friend said.
The blonde would-be shield-maiden just shrug at that. "Well, I'm just being honest." She answers back.
"Yeah well, I'm more adorable than Useless." Snotlout stated, flexing his arms and trying to impress Astrid… only to yelp as he gets punch on his shoulder by her, as the blonde focuses on the screen once more and ignores him.
"I don't think Astrid agrees! Apparently you got too much muscle to look adorable." Hibari pipes up with mirth, as she and Silver high-fives. 'Bad girls like cute, nerdy boys!' they thought at the same time.
GOBBER: "Well, they need toothpicks, don't they?"
Hiccup opens the shop's window and everyone places their bent and wreck weapons on the counter. He takes a bunch of them in his arms, carries them to the forge and placing them down on the heated coal. He then uses the bellows to pump air into the forge to make the fire hotter.
(V.O.) HICCUP: "The meathead with attitude and interchangeable hands is Gobber. I've been his apprentice ever since I was little. Well...littler."
"Meathead?!" Gobber yelled at the young rider.
"Hey, you called me toothpick!" Hiccup retorts back. Gobber then attempts to counter, only to shut his mouth when he remembered he did call him a toothpick.
EXT: The scene changes at Stoick who's on the bridge, armed with his hammer and shield. He gives out orders to a group of Vikings, as he runs along with them
STOICK: "We move to the lower defenses. We'll counter-attack with the catapults"
One of the Vikings agrees with him, as they continue to run and carry their sheep with them to the lower part of the village.
VIKING: "Hurry!"
Then a Monstrous Nightmare set a house a flame, as they run pass it.
(V.O.) HICCUP: "See? Old village, lots and lots of new houses."
The Vikings couldn't help but to agree and laugh at that. Despite it is true, the way Hiccup says it is quite humorous.
VIKING: "Fire!"
As Hiccup grabs the other wrecked weapons, a blur of a group of teenagers pulling a large water barrel on wheels runs pass by the shop's window. Hiccup quickly leans on the window to watch with excitement and longing.
Seeing that scene, Astrid couldn't help but to feel sorry for Hiccup. He feels out of place, being different despite he got Gobber as a support. She sighs in guilt that she never even acknowledge that he's there and stays away from him when he tries to talk to her… so when did she start noticing him?
'Oh right…' she thought sourly, it was when he was improving in Dragon Training and her first reaction? Envy and suspicion. With that, she just face-palms herself.
ASTRID: "Alright, let's go! Come on! Hurry up!"
Setting the barrel not too far from the burning house, one by one the teens grab a bucket full of water and heads off to put out the fire. The first one to appear in the scene is Fishleg, holding his bucket with both hands.
(V.O.)HICCUP: "That's Fishleg."
The fat, blonde boy couldn't help but to smile widely at his appearance in the movie.
Then a determined Snotlout runs to the fire with his bucket in one hand.
"Snotlout."
"Oh yeah! Snotlout! Snotlout! Who's the Viking!" the arrogant boy cheers as Astrid, Silver and Hibari just sigh out of annoyance on his behavior.
"The twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnut."
The twins are doing a tug-of-war with the bucket.
"Hey! I told you that was my bucket!" Tuffnut shouts at his twin sister, as he headbutt her and the twins' parents groans.
"No! It's mine!" Ruffnut snap back and headbutt back at her twin.
"Enough! Back to the movie, you two!" Hibari shouts at them, before their bickering goes out of hand.
"And…"
Astrid runs into the scene, fully in focus on the task and throws the water at the flame. As she then turns around, a fireball hits the ground where she put out the fire and illuminates her frame.
"Astrid…!"
Then time just slows down as Astrid smiled a little as she walks away from the raging flame, with an unconscious swing of her hips. Back to Hiccup, he looks completely in lost for words and quite smitten, before his face relaxes into tranquil bliss.
'Why? Why?! WHY?! Of all things to show, why this?!' Hiccup mentally asked with mortification, as he wishes to be NOT in this room right now. The would-be, blonde shield-maiden is also blushing on seeing that Hiccup actually liked her way back before he trained a dragon. Other Vikings are chuckling at the boy's infatuation on their Viking prodigy, while Stoick seems to approve on Astrid as his son's potential bride.
"Useless with Astrid?!" Snotlout said loudly, before bursting out in laughter. "Yeah right! What Astrid want in guy is a real Viking, like me!" as he flex his muscle at the would-be shield-maiden, but didn't notice that she looked at him with disgust and anger. "Besides, I doubt any girl would like a useless guy like you."
Toothless growls at the arrogant boy and looks ready to pounce on him, if it weren't for his friend holding him back. Hiccup, as much as upset he is, manages to mask his emotion well in order to calm the black dragon. Strangely, he heard another growl near him, but is too busy holding Toothless back and then Silver stands up.
"Hey Snotlout!" Silver shouts and with a wave of her hand, a large cylinder item appears in his hand. "Do you know what this is?" she asked cheerily, waving the said item as the blunette's eyes bugs out on seeing it.
The arrogant boy looks around and takes a quick look at the said item. "Duh! It's a log!" he answers smartly.
"Ooohhh…! A bit close, boy." The woman stated as she raises the item. "This is actually the list of Hiccup's fangirls!" As if there is a sound effect of a ripping-scratch, everyone goes quiet as Snotlout is slowly processing what the woman stated. Astrid looks at the woman with disbelief on her face, as Hiccup looks at her with bewilderment. "I'm not kidding either." She quips with a smile.
"What the-?! That list wasn't that huge before!" Hibari stated out loudly, eyeing the said roll of paper in the woman's hand. Snotlout, on the other hand, just gapes as soon as the woman's statement sinks in.
"Yeah… about that, thanks to 'Number 2', the list just doubles or triples in size… I think." She sheepishly explains and looks at the rolled up parchment. The blunette seems to accept the reason but still a bit surprise.
"Wait, since when did Hiccup have fangirls?" Tuffnut asked.
"Yeah, there are not that many girls in Berk." Ruffnut points out. She and Astrid are the only teenage girls and there are a few younger girls in the village, the older females only admire Hiccup when they thought he was improving in dragon training. But the size of that list, it could exceed the village's population count.
"Thank you for asking a good question, Ruffnut." The woman replied with a smile. "As for the numbers, remember what I told you guy before: 'Hiccup is quite well-known around here'. Heck, even I'm one of his fangirls." She then looks at the young rider, who looks at her as if she grown another head. "Don't worry, I see you more as an adorable, little brother I wish I could have."
"Useless got fangirls?!" Snotlout shouts in disbelief, causing his peers to flinch in their chairs on his outburst.
"Wow, that took him long enough to let the info sink in." The blunette stated with a brow raised, before looking at Silver as she made the huge parchment vanish. "I'm more amazed that you didn't go bashing."
"And do what some 'others' do? Hibari, please, I have more class than that."
"Like how you threw my fruit shake at him?" She laughs as Silver playfully flicks her on her forehead, before the woman takes her seat and the movie continues.
Other teens join Astrid in the screen, as they walk away from the flames like heroes themselves.
"Oh… their job is so much cooler."
Then time returns back to normal as they run pass the shop's window. Hiccup pretends that he was doing his job, instead of watching his peers do theirs.
"What's wrong of being a blacksmith, Hiccup?" Gobber asked his apprentice, as the teens hoot and holler at their awesome scene.
"Nothing. It's just you don't get that kind of scene from the shop." Hiccup points it out.
"Oi, there are cool scenes involving blacksmithing!" Hibari said in defense, as both blacksmith looks at her. "You just don't see it in another perspective!"
Once they pass, Hiccup leans on the counter to look once more but his mentor sees it as if he's going to leave the shop. Gobber grabs him by the back of his shirt, hoisting him up in the air and turn to the middle of the shop.
GOBBER: "Ept!"
HICCUP: "Oh come on! Let me out please, I need to make my mark!"
INT: Gobber then sets Hiccup down in the middle of the shop.
GOBBER: "Oooh, you made plenty of marks." Then he points it out on boy with his prosthetic equipment. "All in the wrong places!" As each tap pushes the boy back in the shop.
HICCUP: "Please two minutes! I'll kill a dragon. My life will get infinitely better! I might even get a date!"
Snotlout snorts at that, fangirls or no fangirls, he doubts his useless cousin have the guts to ask them out.
Silver leans over at Hiccup. "Well, you didn't kill the dragon." She said in a low volume that only Hiccup, Toothless and Hibari can hear. "But you got to ride one and that got your crush." Her tone is full of mirth.
The young rider looks at her with a bit of surprise and smiled. His life just got complicated when he chose to befriend a dragon, but he did manage to get a date he wished.
GOBBER: "You can't lift a hammer."
Before Hiccup could reply to that, Hibari beats him to it. "But he can use it on forging!"
"You can't swing an axe."
"But he can sharpen one!" Silver quips, with the young rider looking at her in surprise.
"You can't even throw one of these!"
Gobber picks up a bola from the floor.
"Actually, Hiccup got an amazing accuracy and precision." The woman points out.
"Yeah, but he lacks on something…" the blunette added and they both look at Hiccup for a second, then looks at each other before turning back at the screen.
"Nope! I'm not going to point it out! Forget it! Just nope!" Both Silver and Hibari said it at the same time, earning them looks from both Vikings and Dragons. Hiccup blinks a bit, looking at the two and is quite confused on what they're pointing at.
Then a Viking leans in and grabs the bola from Gobber's hand. He swings it above his head before throwing it at a Gronckle, which is flying quite low. The bola wraps around the dragon's legs, surprising it and crashes down.
Hiccup winces on that, feeling sorry for the poor Gronckle.
The said Gronckle whined, remembering that night and the landing hurts. The dragon soon eases up as a hand gently scratches it's chin, comforting it.
HICCUP: "Okay, fine." He backs to an odd contraption that looks like a combination of a log and a wheelbarrow. "But this will throw it for me."
As Hiccup pats on the said contraption, it's hidden launcher sprang out suddenly causing the boy to jump away in surprise. Not only that, it threw a bola which Gobber easily avoided… and hits an unlucky Viking right on the head outside.
VIKING: "Ugh!"
The poor, unlucky Viking falls to the ground, knocked out.
"That hurts!" The said Viking shouts, as some of the villagers laughs at his unfortunate visit at the shop.
"Sorry!" Hiccup replied back.
"Quite a backfire, but not the worse I've seen." Silver stated.
"Yeah, compare with Ann and Summer…" Hibari pauses a bit and thinks, as the young rider wonders who those two are and looks at her. "Well, let just say… be not in the same room as those twins when they decided to do a test run. Yeesh!"
GOBBER: "See! Now this right here is what I'm talking about!"
HICCUP: "Bu-it-it mild calibration issue."
GOBBER: "Don't! No! If you ever want to get out there to fight dragons you need to stop all…"
He tries to find the right word as he examines Hiccup with uncertainty, and it wasn't long for him to point it out.
"… This."
"Gobber…" Silver voice out flatly, with a sigh as she rubs her temples. "That's the worst advice ever to say to a teenager."
Hiccup looks surprise but mostly hurt on that.
HICCUP: "But you just pointed to all of me."
He looks incredulously at his mentor, as Gobber points his finger right on him.
GOBBER: "Yes! That's it! Stop being all of you."
"You know what, I agree with her." Hiccup stated, on hearing the conversation in a different perspective and it's not that helpful. "That's not a good advice at all. I prefer to be me, thank you very much."
Hiccup eyes Gobber with a knowing look as he shakes his head, as his mentor does the same on the boy.
HICCUP: "Oooohhhhhhh."
GOBBER: "Oohhh yes."
Hiccup points at Gobber as his mentor looks uninterested on what he's going to say.
HICCUP: "You-you sir are playing a dangerous game. Keeping this much raw Vikingness contained. There will be consequences!"
"Definitely there are consequences." Stoick said, as he looks at his son with a stern glare. His people also agree with him as they looks at the boy, who sided with those beasts and fooled them to think he's improving as a Viking. The young rider gulps a bit as Toothless growls at them, putting his wings and tail around him to protect the boy.
"Enough." The woman said sternly and her voice is ice cold, thus breaking the tension. "Back to the movie."
GOBBER: "I'll take my chances."
Gobber then turns around for a moment and turns back, dumping a sword on his apprentice's arms. Hiccup's angry expression turns into a surprise and struggle, as his mentor just dumps the weapon into his arms.
"Sword. Sharpen. Now."
Still a bit mad, Hiccup carries the sword to a grindstone and begins sharpening it.
( V.O.)HICCUP: "One day I'll get out there."
His face is illuminated by the sparks from the metal and grindstone, his expression changes into a daydreaming one.
"Because killing a dragon is everything around here."
Hiccup can't help but to wince and disagree on that scene, mentally gagging on what he said back then. He can't kill a dragon and never will, not after he learned more about them thanks to his best friend. He gives the black dragon a scratch under his chin, to show how grateful he is to have him as his best friend. In return, the Night Fury purrs and nuzzles on his rider.
EXT: The scene changes showing the Nadder, gathering nearby a house like a flock of bird. A Nadder perch on top of the said house, serves as a lookout as its fellow Nadders scatters the sheep. Some of them fly off with a sheep in their talons.
"A Nadder head is sure to, at least, get me noticed."
The Nadders chirps in delight on seeing themselves on the screen, but a few screeches and huffs on the statement. Surely they are worth more than just being noticed.
Looking down are two Gronckles, one manages to pluck off all of the dry, clean fishes off the rack. The other just bites on the entire rack and they just flies away with their loot.
"Gronckles are tough, taking down one of those would definitely get me a girlfriend."
The Gronckles barks and rumbles in approval on being there, they somewhat look a bit proud though. A girlfriend is a human version of a mate, right? That's means something.
Panning to the left, shows a house… with a head of a Zippleback spewing gas into it by the roof. Its partnered head slides into view below, tapping the door open and igniting the gas with its spark.
"A Zippleback? Exotic. Two heads. Twice the status."
The Zipplebacks does a strange snake-like dance with their heads, showing they approved their appearance on the scene. Plus they like the word: Exotic, it suits them.
The house is destroyed in an instant as the two headed dragon take off, flying by a catapult tower where there's a Viking on top of it and Stoick finishes climbing the ladder.
VIKING: "They found the sheep!"
Stoick places his hammer near the said Viking as he ducks down on the wooden handles.
STOICK: "We'll concentrate fire on the lower bank!"
Stoick then pushes one of the handles, adjusting the catapult and aiming it to the right direction. With a few yells, they fire a boulder and hits one of the Nadders that is about to grab a sheep.
(V.O.) HICCUP: "And then there's the Monstrous Nightmare."
As Stoick scans the area, a dark silhouette flies by from his side. That alerts him and tries to looks for the said dragon, when a bright light goes off below him.
"Only the best Vikings go after those."
He looks down to see the lower walkway is on fire.
"They have a nasty habit of setting themselves on fire."
On cue, a Monstrous Nightmare burst thru the wood, fire completely covers its body and growls angrily.
The Monstrous Nightmare roars with pride and lit themselves up, seeing they are the best as only the best Vikings go after them.
"Oi! Even though this theater is fire-proof, doesn't mean you can light yourselves on fire!" Hibari stands up and shouts at them, the Nightmares quickly complied by sheepishly putting the fire out. Hiccup looks at her, stupefied that the Monstrous Nightmare obeyed her as the blunette sits down.
STOICK: "Reload!"
Stoick then turns to the dragon with a determined scowl, as he grips his hammer.
"I'll take care of this."
He hits the Nightmare twice and dodges the dragon's attempt at a bite.
(V.O)HICCUP: "But the ultimate prize is the dragon that no one has ever seen."
A high pitch whistling-scream is heard, stopping both the Monstrous Nightmare and Stoick on their fight. The dragon took only a quick glance on the sky and immediately takes flight, as the chief looks at the sky for the source of the noise. The noise grows louder.
The villagers can't help but to look around in panic and a few hid under their chairs to hide from the Night Fury. Stoick, on the other hand, knew that it's not happening right now and that raid happened a month ago.
"As I've said before… it's a movie! It's not going to harm you!" Silver cheerfully points out, then when Hibari is about to remind her about the horror movies. "Shut up, Spitfire!" she snaps at the girl, only for the blunette to just laugh.
'Spitfire?' Hiccup thought, quite puzzled on why the woman called her that.
INT: In the blacksmith shop, Hiccup is working on sharpening the sword when he too heard the high pitch whistling-scream. He stops sharpening the weapon and drops it to his side, as he reacts to the sound with fear and intrigue.
"We call it the…"
And Hiccup couldn't help but to grin at this.
EXT: Outside, several Vikings also heard the sound and one of them alerts of the incoming danger.
VIKING #4: "Night Fury!"
VIKING #5: "Get down!"
Suddenly, the catapult tower explodes as the blue blast hits it, causing the villagers to duck behind their shields. Then looking the tower from above, a shadow of a dragon flies by in great speed. On the tower, Stoick and his men didn't waste time to get off the collapsing tower.
STOICK: "Jump!"
They jump off the burning tower, as the counter-weight rock falls…
INT: Switching back to the blacksmith shop. Hiccup instinctively raised his arm to his head, out of the reaction to the blast. Although surprised, he drops the sword, dash for the counter and scans the dark sky for the Night Fury. Once more, the high pitch whistling-scream is heard.
(V.O.)HICCUP: "This thing never steals food, never shows itself and…"
EXT: Another blast hits the tower, this time hitting the base and disarming the tower for good.
"… never misses."
"Aren't you a show-off?" Hiccup teases his friend, as Toothless snorts a bit that he did a good job back there and hold his head high. "Prideful dragon." The boy chuckles a bit.
INT: Back at the blacksmith, Hiccup examines the sky one last time, memorizing how the Night Fury attacks before pushing himself back in the shop.
"No one has ever killed a Night Fury. That's why I'm going to be the first."
"No offense, but how are you going to kill a Night Fury?" Snotlout points out. "You can hardly kill a fly and you didn't have any training like us!"
Hiccup can't help to agree on that and sighs, as the Vikings stares at Snotlout warily and mentally wishing the boy to shut his mouth. Both Silver and Hibari look at one another before looking at the arrogant boy.
"Well that's surprising." Hibari said, still a bit surprise on what Snotlout said.
"I never expected Snotlout to point out an actual fact." Silver added, as she knew Stoick's over-protectiveness on his son. That prevented Hiccup from learning necessary fight skills and ended up as a blacksmith apprentice and a crafty inventor.
Hiccup and Snotlout looks at the woman, as she looks at the arrogant boy. "I'm letting you off with that one, boy. Only this!" Silver warns him, as the adults relax a bit.
Hiccup makes his way to the entrance of the shop, swiping his hands on his apron as he sees Gobber replaces his tool on his prosthetic arm with an axe.
GOBBER: "Man the fort, Hiccup. They need me out there."
Gobber limps his way out of the shop as he adjusts his equipment on his prosthetic arm. Hiccup watches as his mentor walks out to join the fight, when the handicapped Viking quickly turns around with a stern look.
"Stay. Put. There."
"Gobber! Why did you left him alone during a dragon raid?!" Stoick asked his friend, looking exasperated and angry.
"But I did tell him to stay put!" Gobber said in defense.
Hiccup just stared at him, looking quite innocent as if he was not scheming a moment ago.
"You know what I mean."
And with that, Gobber joins into the fray with a battle cry.
EXT: Outside, a small group of Vikings waiting in front of the shop, jumps away as Hiccup runs pass them with his launcher contraption.
Stoick sighs with annoyance as Gobber looks sheepish, before looking at his apprentice with a mock glare. "Seriously Hiccup, I told you to 'Stay. Put. There.'! What part of it do you not understand?"
The young rider looks at his mentor and shrugs. "Uh… all of it?" he 'innocently' replied and causes both the host and girl to laugh at that.
"Oh yeah! Hooray for teenage disobedience!" the blunette cheered until she got smack on the back of her head. "Ack!" she yelps.
"Oi! Don't encourage the teenage audiences on that!" Silver reprimands her friend, as she eases her laughter.
VIKING #6: "Hiccup!"
VIKING #7: "What are you doing?!"
VIKING #8: "Come back here!
HICCUP: "Yeah I know! Be right back!"
Hiccup weaves thru the chaotic battleground with ease, tripping a bit as he pushes his launcher. Then the scene changes to three Deadly Nadders surrounding the sheep, Stoick then appears on the walkway above them and he tosses a thick net over them. Surprised and trapped, one of the Nadders tries to blast its way out before the Vikings can hold them down. Immediately, Stoick jumps on it's head, clamps the dragon's jaw shut and slams it on the ground.
STOICK: "Mind yourselves! The devils still have some juice in them!"
"THEY ARE NOT DEVILS!" Both Hiccup and Hibari shouts angrily and standing at the same time, causing everyone to jump in their seats in surprise. The Vikings turns around and looks at the two, baffled and confused on why would the girl agree with him. Astrid also agrees with the two but eyes on the blunette warily, which something Silver noticed. Both Hiccup and Hibari blinks for a moment and then looks at one another with a bit of surprise on their faces. The young rider never thought that there is someone else who can see the dragons in a different light.
"Okay…" Silver pipes up and motions them to sit back down. "Can we get back to the movie?"
"Derp. Uh, yeah." The blunette mutters as they both sit down, as she looks sheepish and the young rider is wondering if she understands dragons like him.
At the unlit cliff, just behind a few houses and away from the chaos, Hiccup wheels his contraption near the edge of the area. He then place it down, opens it, pulls the launcher out, unfolding it and cocking the bow parts in place. He then pulls the handle back, which also pulls the bow back and locks it into place. Once he's done setting his launcher, he looks up and scours the night sky for any dragon to shoot down.
HICCUP: "Come on. Give me something to shoot at. Give me something to shoot at."
Silence reign in the theater as everyone waited with anticipation and doubt. Did this boy really shot down the Night Fury as he has claimed a month ago?
Doubt wins in everyone's minds as it is clearly impossible. On the Viking side, they thought that there is no way he can shoot that dragon down with that crazy machine of his. That thing will go out of control again and he's going to mess everything up again, big time. The dragons snorts on the possibility that this scrawny thing shot the Night Fury down, as the said dragon is way too fast and hard to be seen in the night sky.
Toothless cooed at his friend as the brunet boy can't help but to feel guilt and regret, as he is looking at how he shot his best friend and hurt him. The black dragon gives his rider a comforting nuzzle, as if to say 'If that didn't happen, then we couldn't have met'. As much as he misses his freedom, he cherishes his bond with the boy and wouldn't trade it for anything… even if it's freedom.
Hibari places a hand on the young rider's shoulder, causing him to look at her. She gives him a comforting look and silently says. "Everything will be alright." And she smiles, that somewhat relaxes him a bit.
A roar is heard, he squints to see a dark silhouette of a dragon blocking the stars as it flies. Then the high pitch whistling-scream is heard again and is increasing in volume, signaling that the Night Fury is going to attack. Hiccup quickly prepares, positioning his launcher, he looks thru the scope and waited for the right time to shoot. The high pitch whistling-scream turns into a loud bang as the catapult tower explodes, and it illuminates the black form of the Night Fury for a split second. That split second is all that Hiccup needed as he trails it and fires, but he closes his eyes in case his invention backfires. Although thrown off by the kickback and lands on his back, the launcher successfully fires the bola. The brunet boy scrambles up on his knees to see if he did hit the dragon. The sound of the bola making contact is heard, followed by a scream of the dragon. And Hiccup witnesses it with great surprise as the dark figure falls into the woods.
Jaws fell to the floor, both Vikings and dragons, as the village screw-up and the smallest of them all shot down a Night Fury… Hiccup just shot down the unholy offspring of lightning and death!
Hiccup, on the other hand, utters an apology on his best friend as Toothless rubs his head on him.
"You know, birds would roost in your mouth if you left it open that long." A voice said and everyone shuts their mouths, they turn to see a teenage girl by the door where the Vikings entered. She has short brown hair and green eyes that seems to sparkle.
"Eira!/Eira-nee!" both Silver and Hibari shouts as the brunette smiled and makes her way to the top level.
"Nice to see you join the viewing session." The woman quips, as Eira reaches the top. "Mind introducing yourself to my guest?"
"Oh yeah…" the brunette said, clears her throat and looks at everyone. "Hello I'm Eira Vitale, I'm a summoner and healer of the group called Inori Wings. Nice to meet you all." She bows in front of them and then proceeds to sit down on a bean bag beside Hibari. "So what part are we in the movie?"
"When the Night Fury is shot down." Silver answered.
"Yikes."
"Uh… how is…?" Hibari asked, trying to find the right words.
"Don't worry, they're stable right now and I'll check on them later soon." And with that, the blunette sighs in relief for a bit.
"Oh I hit it."
Hiccup looks at what he did with disbelief, and then he jumps up in excitement and turns towards at the village.
"Yes! I hit it! Did anybody see that?"
It seems that his victory is short-lived as misfortune appears behind him in a form of a Monstrous Nightmare. The boy cringes on hearing his launcher being crush by a huge thing, which happens to be the said dragon's wings. Hiccup turns around clearly not so happy and exasperation.
"Except for you."
Some of the Vikings can't help but to chuckle at the boy's dry humor, despite the fact he's facing danger.
"If Hiccup turns out to be a trouble magnet like a certain fellow I know, he's going to need someone to balance that." Silver points out, as the young rider looks at her with a brow raise. "At least you're not a murder magnet like Hibari's boyfriend!"
"Oh hey!" the blunette retorts. "It's not his fault dead bodies kept showing up and he have to solve their murders!" as Eira laughs and the woman shrugs at that and looks back at the movies. Meanwhile, Astrid just learned that the blunette have a boyfriend and seems to be at ease on hearing that.
The Monstrous Nightmare leers at the scrawny boy before rearing its head back, either to bite or fire on him.
Stoick can't help but to feel edgy and worried as the dragon is about to kill his son, while the Viking can't help but to wonder how Hiccup got out of that. A few, however, remembers what follows after this scene and winced.
The said Nightmare from the scene, can't help but to snort in laughter that he scared a wimpy boy... only to shut up when an unknown growl is heard. Hiccup also heard the growl just near him, but wonders where it came from and which dragon is it?
Silver: (Freezes time in the theater room) Kinda long huh? It took me sometime to type it down as I notice that the script has some differences to the finishing movie… So yeah, I'm editing the script as I look at the movie. Anyway… here's a reference list:
1. HTTYD 2 – Hiccup's baby scene and the fact that he grown into a bishie… I mean wow. O.o…
2. Blacksmith scenes… I was pointing at the blacksmith scenes of the Dwarves from the Hobbit movie… Damn badass.
3. Murder magnet… you know, who I'm pointing at! It's Shinichi Kudo! He got the worst luck, mind you.
Silver: Welp, I don't know what to add next and I'm extremely sleepy right now… I won't be updating as I was invited to a family trip in the province for 5 days… and it lacks the wi-fi. Meh… See you guys later! Ja ne! And don't forget to review!
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