The Dragon Boy - Part 8 - Mysteries
Frostcup fanfic

Authors note: hey guys sorry this ones so small I would've posted two today but ice had a really long tiring day so its just this one for today but the next one will be mug longer I promise (that'll be up tommorow as always) but for now forgive the shortness of this update. I hope you like it and please leave a review because it really makes me smile^^ that's all- enjoy the chapter!

The door to the academy creaked open, as the riders and dragons went through it. Hiccup and Jack were the last through.
"Soo... you do a lot of travelling, huh?" Jack carried on walking, Hiccup could sense the mental alarm bells ringing ,although you couldn't tell from looking at his face. He was saved from answering, when Tuffnut interrupted the awkward conversation.

"How come your hair's white?" he asked.
"Stuck it in the snow for a few days." he joked. The twins didnt hear the joke in it, though, and promptly stuck their heads into the snow that filled the arena.
"You know, they will actually stay there all day." Hiccup told him.
"Really?" Jack said, Hiccup really didn't like the look of the smile growing on his face.
"So, how's your hair really white?"Astrid asked.
"Why's your's blonde?" he countered, before shrugging. "It just is."

Ruffnut's muffled voice came from the snow pile, that was their heads.
"So, does this actually work?"
"Yeah! If you're blond and you're stupid enough." Jack told them, enjoying the entertainment of their brainless antics.
"Yes! We're blond, and stupid!" Ruffnut said, excitably.
"We are so gonna get white hair!" Tuffnut responded. The twins then attempted a high five, which failed miserably. Jack chuckled as he watched them. Hiccup sighed.
"Barf, Belch, pick them up, would you?" Hiccup asked the two headed dragon, prompting protests from the twins, as they were lifted from the snow and plopped on their dragon's neck's. Hiccup, patiently, tried to explain to the twins that it was a joke, and their hair wouldn't turn white, while Jack let his eyes wander, round the arena.

As he turned, he found himself staring into a pair of unimpressed Night Fury eyes. Toothless still wasn't happy with the new boy, but his anger turned to confusion, when jack grinned at him.
"Nice flying, Night Fury." he complimented, "Skilled as a Storm Seeker." he finished. Toothless' eyes and mouth opened wide at the compliment, all Jack's antics forgiven, and he looked around at the other dragons for witnesses.
"Storm Seeker?" Hiccup queried having finally satisfied the twins, and left them to do their own thing.
"Dragons that deliberately go looking for storms, and throw themselves in them. They might be crazy, but they're the best fliers of the dragon world, so it's a pretty big compliment." he explained. Hiccup got the sense that he was hiding something, whenever he talked about dragons, or his past, Hiccup could almost see the mental barriers going up.
"So, earlier, when you called him a blackbird?" he remembered. Jack chuckled.
"Yeah, it's a pretty big insult to be associated with birds- lesser fliers ,you know." he informed. Hiccup wasn't sure he did, but nodded anyway.

Hiccup's thoughts turned to that morning's activity, and he wondered whether Jack would help.
"So, you know quite a lot about dragons, then?" he commented. Again, Hiccup got the inexplicible sense of worry.
"I guess so," he said evasively, "Why?"
"Come on, I want to show you something. Alright, let's thaw this arena out!" he called out to the others.
"Wait!" Jack shouted, the dragons' fire died in their throats. "Can't we keep the snow?" Everyone looked at him, baffled.
"Why?" Hiccup asked him.
"It makes me feel... more at home." he told them, gazing at the crisp piles, a gentle, comforted smile on his face. "Plus," he added, "It helps with my wounds."
"Really?" Hiccup said, remembering how the bucket of snow had woke him up that morning.
"Wait, what wounds?" Tuffnut asked. Hiccup realised, he forgot to tell the others how Jack got here.

He started to explain how he arrived in the snowstorm, when Jack lifted the far-too-small, borrowed shirt, to reveal a heavily bandaged torso.
"Awesome." Ruffnut crowed."
"Wow, how did you get that?" Tuffnut asked, bluntly.

Jack's face darkened considerably, and even Hiccup, who was so good at reading the boy, couldn't tell what he was thinking.
"Dragon attack." he muttered, after a while. Those two words sparked off a thousand questions in Hiccup's brain, it wasn't in a dragon's nature to go round attacking people! But it was clear ,that was all the boy was willing to say on the matter. So Hiccup swallowed his curiosity.
"Right, then. We'll keep the snow." Hiccup said, loudly, changing the subject, gratitude emanated from the relieved boy, "We can use our dragons to keep warm. Now let's get on with what we came here to do."

Hiccup went to meet Fishlegs by the side of the arena- really, it was only them who took part in Friday mornings. On the way, he watched Jack as he held a handful of snow to his side.

So many myteries about this boy, Hiccup thought as he came to join them, he wondered whether he'd ever figure him them out.