The Dragon Boy - Part 16 - A Story
Frostcup fanfic

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Hiccup was strolling home, he needed to hang his sodden clothes over the fire after that unexpected ambush. He was soaked, but he couldn't help but grin at the memory. He'd enjoyed it, even if he was pretty certain he'd took the most hits.

Jacks voice caught his attention.
"-the night before last." He was saying. Hiccup froze. That was the night he appeared on Berk! He stopped to listen to what had happened.

"I was wandering along, minding my own business. When, suddenly." He paused, everyone in his seen, and unseen, audience leaned closer. "I heard it. The roar of a dragon. I knew that dragon- it was its three times bigger than one of these houses," Hiccup glanced at one of them. Wow, he thought, not as big as the Green Death, but still, pretty big. "... blacker than night, and it shot darkness from it's mouth." Hiccup didn't know how that was possible, but there were loads of unexplained phenomena in the world of dragons- or could he be making it up for the kids?

Closing his eyes, he could almost see it- big, black and furious.
"I knew what it's roar meant. It had found me, and it was going to attack. It had been after me for a long time, but I always managed to escape." Hiccup waited to hear why, but was disappointed. "Anyway, I took off, fast as I could, trying to escape it, blasts of darkness shooting across the sky."

Hiccup could see it like he was there. The dark night, the blizzard stirring, the surrounding landscape blurred as he sped away. Bolts of darkness shooting past him narrowly missing. "A few of them hit me." The image in Hiccup's mind blurred, and the movement faltered. Jack- for he realised, oddly, he was seeing things through Jack's eyes- had been hit. "I dodged, left and right, as I tried to avoid them, but a couple of them still scratched me." Dizzying turns of motion filled Hiccup's mind.

It must have been the bolts of darkness that had caused his smaller cuts, Hiccup realised. He remembered the many small nicks and cuts that had covered Jack's body- more than a few had hit their target, but, he guessed, he was going easy on the kids.

"The turning had slowed me down." Jack continued. "I started going straight, and looked back and-
BAM!" Jack snapped a pair of hand jaws shut, making the enthralled kids jump. "He was there, slashing his claws at my leg."

Hiccup saw it, the black dragon head-terrifying in it's blazing anger, yet dark and plotting at the same time.

The part of him not absorbed in the story, remembered Jack was limping when he found him.

"I tried to get away, but it launched attack after attack." The person in Hiccup's mind went through a couple of attacks- the night allowing the black to spring unexpected ambushes- the back and the chest were popular targets.

Some of Jacks worst wounds, Hiccup remembered, were on his torso.

"Eventually, I realised I wouldn't be able to get away from it, so I tried to fight it back, but it threw me away, and dived at me from behind, grabbing me by my shoulder."

Hiccup remembered that bite wound all too well.

"I managed to hit it in the eye, and it let go, roaring in pain, but it wasn't done yet. As I tried to get away it, kicked out. Giving me this."

The wound on his side, the worst of the lot, the one he'd been clutching when Hiccup finally found him.

He lifted the bandage a little, only enough for the kids to tell it was big, before he recovered it. "I hit the ground hard, and lay still for a while. When it finally gave me up for dead, I got up and stumbled towards the edge of the forest I'd landed in."

Hiccup could see the forest clearly, the snow covered pines, slowly, moving past his viewpoint, as the figure trudged forwards.

"Not long after I left the forest, I saw a skinny little, brown haired Viking running towards me, I stopped, and then blackout."

Hiccup even saw himself running towards his viewpoint, and, when it blacked out, he opened his eyes.

Ok, that was weird, he thought, that had been way to detailed to have been made up, but what else could it've been? He shook his head, putting the whole story in his head thing down to an overactive imagination.

One of the kids asked.
"So... is that how you got here?" Jack nodded.
"Yep." The kids didn't seem scared after the story, only in awe of it's teller. Viking kids, they were a strong bunch.

A couple of shouts rang out across the village. Parents calling their kids in for their evening meal. They'd been having so much fun, they'd forgot about lunch, even now, were reluctant to leave. They all looked at Jack, silently pleading at him to let them stay. Jack had an idea.
"Hey, I tell you what, there's a cove in the forest- do you know it?"He asked. Four heads nodded.
"Meet me there, after your dinner, and bring your ice skates." their faces lit up and they scampered off. As the grinning kids ran off, he yelled after them.
"Spread the word, tell everyone! Even the grumpy grandads!"

Hiccup chuckled slightly, and heard Jack getting up. Realising, too late, he should probably move or get discovered eavesdropping. Jack appeared in front of him, arms folded. Uh oh, he thought.
"Enjoy the story?" he queried, breaking into a grin. Hiccup breathed out in relief, something told him Jack had known he was there all along. The white haired boy chuckled, and ran off, in the direction of the cove.
"Hey Jack, what about dinner?" He reminded him.
"I'm not hungry." He shouted back. "Besides, I've got an ice rink to sort out!"

Hiccup so badly wanted to follow him, surely that had something to do with the ice breathing Sky Dragon, but, he had decided that morning that he was going to ask to see it, not sneak up on him without permission. He'd ask at the cove later.

He sighed as he watched Jack vanish from sight. There goes my chance, he thought. Turning, he continued back to his house.

Toothless was waiting outside, his bright green eyes seemed to be accusing him- what took you so long?