***Guys just so we are clear we un-talic because we can't italic again***
Hiccup's POV
Well that complicates it up very nicely, Toothless. This is weird. I muttered back as all of us just stood there, trying to make since of the situation.
"Come on in." Hildegard said, waving the scepter to us. I just stood there, open mouthed with the others… She seemed nice… I glided down to the platform in which she stood and the others followed. I nearly face planted into the ground... Typical.
Hi there. I said, finding it strange to be talking with a human after not being able to for about 7 days. She nodded to me softly. Everyone slowly landed behind me.
"Why don't you and your friends come with me to see the Alpha?" She said.
Toothless spoke up, How do we know we can trust you? Typical Toothless. Distrustful in other dragons.
"Do your friends trust me?" He looked around to see us nodding at him as an answer.
He sighed, Fine but it doesn't mean I trust you.
She simply nodded, started to walk, and gestured us to follow.
She was going on and on about how the Great Alpha had made this place with its breath, and was slowly explaining all the different passages. I may or may not have zoned out a couple of times.
"That one there leads to a nice roomy area for the little hatchlings." She gestured to a passage to our left. "That one over there would lead you to the training grounds. Over here, the laying and hatching of dragons. If you want to go to sleep, just find a place, or over down those paths are caves for the dragons." She went on and on.
When is she going to decide to be quiet? Toothless whispered in my ear. I just barely hid my laughter.
We stopped after what felt like forever. It most likely wasn't that long.
"And this is the home of the Great Alpha, Blizzard." He brought his head up to us.
Hello Hildegard and newcomers. Do feel welcome to stay as long as you wish. May I ask your names? The Alpha smiled at us with great respect. I had no idea if it was normal or not. I guessed I would find out. Feather spoke up to respond.
I am Feather, that is Toothless, his mate Hiccup, and my prince, Gavin. Gavin blushed at this remark. I rolled my eyes at the fact that I was labeled as Toothless' mate.
Hiccup and I are not mates! Toothless nearly yelled while Feather let out a light giggle. He didn't need to mention that so angrily. Thanks, you weirdo.
I'm Blizzard, welcome to my clan. The Alpha smiled warmly, again.
Yes, newcomers, welcome to the clan. I'm Cloudjumper. I normally carry Hildegard when we need to fly. We all turned to the Stormcutter.
I then got a strong sense that I had seen this dragon before... I couldn't remember where though... I guessed I'd find out later. Like about everything else.
Thank you for your warm welcome. It seems so amazing here. You did a great job of making it, Blizzard. It is honestly amazing sight. Gavin said with a big smile on his face.
Thank you, Tiny Nadder. He says slowly to Gavin, blowing some snow on us. It tickled. I giggled softly.
I then heard Gavin whisper to us, Am I really tiny? We all broke into laughter at that question. He was slightly small I supposed... slightly. Toothless was rolling around laughing and fell off a small cliff into some bushes, which just made us laugh even harder.
I hope we will know Gavin and Feather for a long time, I thought to myself.
Toothless' POV
I'm bored, I thought to myself. Then I thought, Oh LOOK! A BUTTERFLY! I might not have been in the best mental condition.
Let's play hide-and-go-seek! My brain spoke for me. It really shouldn't have. I must have seemed like a complete idiot. Maybe I was. I was too dizzy to tell.
Gavin's POV
Is he alright? I nudged Feather. I was confused as to what was wrong with Toothless.
I'm going to go with an answer of no. She tried to whisper back to me. Everyone else heard, anyway.
Is he always like this? Cloudjumper asked. He didn't know Toothless, he was just meeting him. What a terrible first impression Toothless was making.
Are we playing hide-and-go-seek or what? Toothless asked with a weird accent. I was still confused and I didn't want to deal with that Toothless then. He was too silly, or intoxicated to be around.
Or what. Hiccup replied flatly, clearly annoyed with the idea that she'd have to start moving.
Ok! I'll count. Toothless announced, not taking the hint.
Really? Cloudjumper asked, everyone ignoring him. We weren't going to deal with him until we finished dealing with the nutty Toothless.
We just flew for a long time, we're tired. We don't want to play hide-and-go-seek. Feather said sternly. She was right. We didn't want to play. We took a long flight. Feather was tired. Hiccup was tired. I was tired.
1...2...3...4… Toothless started, like he was singing. It was rather annoying at a time like that.
I'm going to go find a nice, little, quiet... Hiccup started, but was soon interrupted by her annoying "best friend" of whom may or may not be her mate.
6...7...8… Toothless counted louder. Hiccup was definitely getting annoyed with him.
SHUT UP! Hiccup yelled and then turned back to us and talked over Toothless' idiotic counting.
I'm going to go and take a nap. I'll see you all later. Tell Toothless to go to bed or stop talking. Bye. Hiccup shouted over Toothless' nonsense and flew off. Cloudjumper sat down.
Toothless, please be, Feather was cut off. Guess who was still counting?
13...14...15! Toothless bellowed. He sure wasn't giving up.
Can you just snap out of it? Cloudjumper yelled to Toothless. He seemed like he was going to start using a more colorful vocabulary then "snap out of it".
16...17...18! He insisted. There were many more shouts from dragon to dragon. I just sat there, confused. I didn't know quite what to do. Another curse from Cloudjumper rang out. I covered my ear fins in an attempt to shut out the deafening noise.
Take me with you, Hiccup, I thought to myself.
Feather's POV
Gavin, lets go. Come on. I spotted Gavin on the ground, covering his ear fins like there was no tomorrow. I picked him up off the ground and forced him off the ground. Cloudjumper and Toothless kept at their yelling. Cloudjumper was swearing red and orange. And yellow and green and blue and purple. It was a rainbow of swears.
Too...far. Gavin complained. He was still in his own little world, cleary. I knew he didn't do well in situations like this. He was overwhelmed and confused.
Get up. We're going to go take a nap somewhere. Well that got him up right away. He leaped up and ran the way Hiccup had gone when she left.
Gavin! I exclaimed. He surprised me when he flew so fast. He never flew that fast, and I guessed that his anxiety was getting to him.
After we found Hiccup, asleep on a rock under the sun, we sat down too.
Are you okay now, Gavin? I asked him, hoping for a positive answer.
Yes. I'm fine, Feather. He said calmly. The way he said my name delighted me, for he said it as if it were a privilege just to know me. What he didn't know was that it was a gift given from the gods to know him. To know his name. To hear him say my name every morning when we woke. To be his mate was my life, and I was fully committed to him. He reminded me every day why I love him. I always tried to return the favor whenever possible.
I love you, Gavin. I told him. I meant every word.
I've been aware of that. He smiled shyly.
I just wanted to remind you. I told him, expecting the conversation was over. But it wasn't. And Gavin continued it.
Okay. Then I'd like to remind you as well. I love you Feather, with all my heart. He looked in my eyes when he told me this. My heart fluttered and did a little happy dance. Then Hiccup stirred.
Lots of love, I hear. She spoke with her eyes closed, but her voice sounded fully awake.
Eavesdropper. I pointed a figurative finger at her. Her one eye opened briefly, but shut as fast as it had opened.
I'm not an eavesdropper. You shared some very deep and personal information near me, expecting me not to hear. But I did. Thats not eavesdropping. Hiccup said with dignity. She was trying to make a point, but she just proved me correct.
Actually, that is eavesdropping. Sharing information and expecting other dragons, out of the kindness in their hearts, to not listen to your personal business. The dragon who listen is an eavesdropper. And if they do, they're eavesdropping. I said simply. I was correct.
I don't like that definition of 'eavesdropping'. Hiccup said. I laid down on the ground to be near her, my belly faced the sun.
This is warm. I said, making an observation.
That it is. Come, Gavin. Come lay in the sun with us. Hiccup said, gesturing to a patch of grass next to me. I patted it, and Gavin sat down. He laid down and rolled over next to me. Our paws were touching.
Did you ever think the sun was… Gavin stopped in the middle of his question. I knew this game. We were going to go through a long process of repeating the past few words and not getting to the end of the sentence. I was a champion at this game. The waiting for an answer part was the only part that still phased me.
Was alive? Hiccup asked, curious of Gavin's question. She thought she could get an answer out of him. Silly Hiccup.
No. Was… Gavin restarted the question, as usual.
Can you just say the words together so they make sense and stop pausing for so long? Hiccup tapped a claw.
Yes, did you ever think the sun was an object? Gavin asked.
Seriously? An object? No. No I did not. It can't be an object, its a god. I mean, it grows our food, how could it not be a god? Hiccup asked.
I don't know. You were taught to believe that, but what if its wrong? What if its not a god? What if its an object? Gavin questioned.
Well, if it is a god and not an object, it'd be able to hear this conversation right now and be very mad that we are insulting it by saying its an "object". Hiccup said. I thought that was stupid, because nobody had ever seen the sun talk. Because in my mind, all gods talked.
Don't all gods talk? Gavin asked.
Not necessarily. Gods don't all talk. Their voices can't reach us. Said Hiccup.
Hiccup's POV
Toothless started to sing as he walked in.Oh shush little Fury, for I promise you a herd of sheep when you awake!
But either way, on one inevitable day we will find out. Everyone sat quietly, as if they knew what I was talking about and respected that it truly was inevitable.
So Gavin, you never really told me about your father. At the sound of that, Gavin immediately sat up, but laid back down as if nothing had odd had been said.
Uhh…...well…. He mumbled hesitantly.
Gavin's past with his father isn't much better than his mother's.Said Feather. Maybe we shouldn't talk about it.
No, it's ok, and I would be curious as well. Said Gavin. He continued on.
Well, during my hatching, my father kidnapped another dragon. We don't know who it was or why he did it, but when I came back from the dragon retreat, he was just… gone. Gavin hung his head. I felt bad about asking, his life was difficult enough. Talking about it must have made him feel even worse about it.
Its fine though. I can talk about it. It was his stupid mistake, not mine. Gavin lifted his head.
What if he could fly? Toothless asked suddenly.
Who could fly? Gavin asked. He sounded bored of Toothless' antics.
Gavin's dad. Like really fly. The pitches of his words wavered, going high and low.
That makes about zero sense, you idiot.Cloudjumper said matter-of-factly. If he could, he would.
I wouldn't prefer that, actually. Gavin said clearly. Toothless' question seemed more legitimate after Gavin said this.
Why not? And we were back to the drunken Toothless.
Because you wouldn't exactly want your parents, who kidnapped other dragons and poisoned you as a baby. Feather explained.
Oh. That's weird. Toothless smiled goofily. I rolled my eyes.
So has everyone already told their backstory? Cloudjumper asked us all in general.
Pretty much, yeah. We all nodded in agreement. We had told all our backstory's.
Do I have to? Cloudjumper asked. I answered.
Not necessarily.
Okay. I'll just tell the part when I met Hildegard. Cloudjumper...smiled? I wasn't sure, I couldn't read his expression.
Is it a comedy? Toothless giggled. Feather, Gavin, and I turned to give Toothless a confused look. In case it wasn't said, Toothless rarely "giggles".
No, shut up Toothless. Its when I met Hildegard. Cloudjumper restated the Hildegard thing.
You already said that. I stated flatly, with the boring and unenthused tone of a boring book. Cloudjumper huffed.
I know! I was setting the scene. One fateful night, I was on an island that was mostly destroyed. Everything in sight was rubble. I, being a curious Stormcutter, wanted to see if anything was left in the rubble of human-made structures. As I flew over to a new pile of ruin, I saw a house that wasn't destroyed among everything. So I went in. I went up to the loft to find a baby human in a cradle, asleep. I looked curiously at him, until another human came in. I looked curiously at her, she wasn't scared of me. She was just confused. She looked at me, and I stared back at her. Then a fat, male human stormed in the room and threw an weapon at me. That was fun to dodge. So, wanting to keep the human, I picked her up, and took her away with me. She called back to the male, but didn't seem too attached to him. I took her fairly far away from the island she came from before I let her down. She had screamed a few times out of fear in mid-flight, but she wasn't too afraid of me or flight.
How did you get those wings? They are soooooo weird! Toothless started to reach out and touch Cloudjumper's wings, but Cloudjumper dodged Toothless' greedy paws.
You didn't listen to a word I said, did you? Cloudjumper frowned.
Wasn't it about you eating hatchlings? Toothless reached out again, slower that time.
Are you accusing me of cannibalism? Cloudjumper roared.
No, you accused yourself! Toothless' voice wavered.
I said nothing of the sort! Cloudjumper started to walk closer to Toothless.
Then no! No I wasn't listening! Toothless said with a dizzy smug look on his face. I couldn't resist a giggle at that face.
Feather's POV
Hey Gavin! Can you tell us about the two retreats you were in? Please. Hiccup said. As she said this, I saw Gavin's face light up. He loved telling his stories.
Sure! Well the first retreat I was in was absolutely beautiful, It was full of nature. There were no walls that trapped us in, we were basically free. The others were great also. One of them always went out to go get fish and he would always ask everyone what kind of fish they wanted and would take the time to catch each fish for each dragon. I was there for 2 years-
He was interrupted by an astonished Toothless going, WOW! I HAVE A TAIL! He started inspecting it, but then he started dragging it away from his head. Hey! Get back here! He then started chasing his tail. It was a bit embarrassing.
Gavin just continued like nothing ever happened. As I was saying, I was there for a good 2 years then moved. I didn't have a choice of where I went and of course I got moved into the most well known place. Alot of the dragons from the first retreat got moved there also. This new place was closed up and we felt like we weren't free at all but prisoners instead. Most of the others started going even crazier. Thats about it, actually.
The first one seems like a nice vacation, but the second just sounds like my life before Toothless.Hiccup had a good point. Then, the awful memories of me crying every night he was away came to mind. The sad, desperate times he was away. When he was gone. I immediately gave in to my emotions and started sobbing.
Of course, Gavin immediately noticed and got up. He walked up to me, curled himself around me, and started nuzzling me. Hey, what's wrong? He asked.
Just... I'm thinking about when you were away, when I cried every night... when I thought you would never be yourself again. I was so lonely... but... but its okay, I have you now and I couldn't be happier. I started to feel better and snuggled into his shoulder. I sniffed up and relaxed on him.
You know what? You two look cute together. Said Toothless with a dizzy grinn. The same on in fact, that made Hiccup giggle.You should cry more often, Feather. It makes you look better.
Thanks Toothless… I think. I was better. I'm ok now.
I noticed Hiccup had a grim look on her face. You okay, Hiccup? I asked.
Hiccup's POV
No. I admitted. Toothless chasing his tail reminded me of what I took from him that's ever so precious. I said.
Its ok, isn't it Toothless? Feather asked him.
Butterflies! He giggled.
I think Cloudjumper just had enough of him just then, because he got a mouthful of water from a puddle and spit it all on Toothless' face.
Toothless' POV
Huh?! Where am I?! All I knew was that I was covered in water and spit.
Uh, Toothless? Whats the last thing you remember? Feather asked me.
Uh… I fell into a bush. I said.
Ok, anyway. Hiccup is crying because she took away your flight so… can you help out here please? Feather explained the situation.
At those words, I bounced over to Hiccup, curled around her, and started nuzzling her. Its ok, Hiccup. It really is. You are practically a broth... sister to me. I don't care if you shot me down. Plus, a leg- er- tailfin for a tailfin, right? I said.
Hiccup started to brighten up. That was good, I hated to see her sad. She was a sister to me. Thanks Toothless, you always know what to do to make me feel better. Hiccup smiled.
A baby Gronckle walked in just then. I decide to check on the little guy, since he was alone. I walked up to him, and he went under my wings. I lifted them to find him creeping towards my tail. I decide to play along. Hey! Where did you go!? I searched wildly for him. He then bit down on my tail. His teeth were too dull to actually hurt, but I still played along and rolled onto my back. OW! OW! OW! He jumped onto my stomach. Ok, ok! Dragon down! Dragon down! Just then, a female Groncke walked in. There you are! Come on lets go. She baby Gronckle then walked up to his supposed mother. She smiled at me, then turned around and left. This reminded me of my own parents.
You know, I never actually saw my parents dead… if there's a chance they're alive… I trailed off.
Toothless, if they're alive, we will find them. Said Hiccup.
Feather's POV
I wanted to change the topic and I thought of the perfect way to do that. Soooooo, you two still aren't a couple, huh? I joked. Toothless took it so seriously. Hiccup answered calmly.
No Feather, we are not… I knew he was only comforting her, but I wanted to change the topic.
Thats not what your body language was saying when you two were snuggling...I trailed off.
WE ARE NOT A COUPLE FEATHER! Toothless roared.
~Turtle's A/N
I went on a 3 day long school field trip. On the first day, someone IN MY CABIN went home. It was kind of funny today though because one of my friends admitted she predicted it. It was kinda funny. But mostly sad. Anywho… oh gross, I'm using Karter lingo...ewww gross*HEY! I TAKE OFFENCE TO THAT! ~Karter *Deal with it, you know I'd never EVER say that, I said "lingo". Um, I noticed muscles forming on myself earlier. I laughed, because I'm not athletic. I caught a football the other day and everyone cheered because they thought it'd never happen. They even had to throw the football to me. Soooooo, I am going on ANOTHER break this week because my family is going on a vacation! TO A DUDE RANCH! I love horseback riding. Like, love it. I jumped on a horse last summer. Like, the horse jumped while I was on it, purposely! So I'm very excited. I'm also going to see Insurgent with one of my amazing friends! *Spoiler: I hear they don't have the part where she's on the peace serum. For those of you who've read the book, don't worry. I'm p***ed about that too.* So, my week of spring break will be relaxing. If you read this next week, see you then. If not, I don't care.
~Bacon's A/N
Heyo. This week was pretty casual. Other than school it was just hanging out with everyone. But I am excited for a trip our school will be having soon. We're going to Baton Rouge! I am really looking forward to it. One cool thing that did happen this week was that I got to write! YES! Well I guess it would be best to leave off .
~Will's A/N
Hello, this week I did help out a bit but still not much. My computer is still low on hard drive space but I am still able to use it. My writers block is not as bad as it has been but its still there and preventing me from writing. On top of all of this I've been thinking about taking up a job to make money this summer so I can upgrade to a new computer… that is all that I have for you this week. End of log.
~Will
~Bigs' A/N
Ah! This week has been wonderful and stressful in so many ways. Also I think fortune cookies deserve more credit cause the one I got said a close friend will return and behold one of the early founders of L.E.G. has came back! To make it better he was a person I helped greatly. Adam is his name and he is working with us on the story now. Adam and I are basically brothers. He is the one person I can fully trust and I know I've helped him through a lot. We share many interests and he has taken a real liking to the story. Another thing that happened this week is I wrote about 3 quarters of this chapter. Which I think I did a fairly good job (I've been practicing and Laura has been giving me pointers). My poison oak is gone! Yay! I just spent 3 hours reading to Adam so my throat is sore to heck. When I was reading to him however, I found multiple errors so im going to have our beta go in and correct them for us Wednesday. My coaching job is going well. For the past few days me and the rest of L.E.G. have been talking quite deep stuff which I do enjoy the bonding time. OOOOooooo! I wrote a poem of how I grew up! I will share it with you:
Beacon of Hope
I come from the real
bad side of the world,
I come from the world
of hate.
I grew up alongside
the abused, the ones
who fell victim to the
insanity of isolation
of this world
I grew up with
the constant fear of
being found, the knowledge
of your family not being
able to be trusted, only
the ones outside of your family
I grew up running
from who that share
my DNA, but not
my blood, I grew
up learning how to cover
my tracks and stay low.
I grew up not being
able to be normal, as the
poison still courses through
my blood, as it may
be weak but it is
still there
I was not raised by
anything, I was raised
by myself, I was raised
by fear of the unknown,
I raised myself to
rise above the rest
I raised myself to speak
the words the cowards are
afraid to speak. I raised
myself to be a reader and
writer. I raised myself to
be the leader that people
would be proud to follow
I raised myself to be
a inspiration for those
who hear my story, I raised
myself to not fall to those
who are weak and prey on
the weaker.
I raised myself
I came from hope
I am the one who survived the storm
I once lived in hell
Now I live in paradise
I'm quite proud of this one to be honest. I do love going deep in my poems. Anywho! BTW! THATS MINE AND ITS NOT "EWWW" LAURA! XD! Anywho! I hope you liked the chapter please leave a review and if you're enjoying our story please make sure to let us know by reviewing us. Now! On to fixing up the huge pile of mistakes on our first 2 chaps! And remember! "Everyone can have a good life, but only those who look for the good have a great life" ~Karter