A/N: Hey second chapter here. Longer than the first, so that's good. Hope you like it.
Not seeing the student, he continued on to his Advanced Biology class, where the teacher once again called him out for having a 'fake' name and barely apologized when they learned it was his real name. He also managed to get on the wrong side of some jocks. Something about refusing to agree to do their homework after he'd been labeled the know it all teacher's pet.
In the hall during the passing period, Hiccup could have sworn he glimpsed the snow white hair in the hallway again. However when he tried to spot it purposefully, it was nowhere in sight.
Advanced English 9 went just about as well as Biology did. Hiccup liked the teacher, Mr. S. Mansnoozie. He was a short, plump blonde man, who never actually said anything and failed to get most of the class' attention, but Hiccup still liked him.
What caused the problem in the class was that most of the other kids in his class joined in on the popular kids' relentless mocking of his name. Unfortunately this easily carried over to the Health class that followed English.
Hiccup moped through the Health class, and flew as fast as he could to the lunch room once the bell rang. Hiccup shivered slightly as he stood in line, despite the fact he was wearing a long sleeve shirt in the middle of August. He noticed that most of the other students shied away from him in line, but at that point he couldn't care less.
He held tightly onto his tray as he stared out into the cafeteria. It seemed like every table had at least one person sitting at it, so he couldn't sit alone somewhere. Briefly the brunet considered trying to find Merida or Rapunzel to sit with but quickly dismissed the idea. He didn't want to ruin their popularity by sitting with probably the most picked on kid in the school.
Instead he noticed the group of kids who lived in his neighborhood, and had gone to the same Elementary and Middle School he had. He approached slowly, hoping to be able to snag the open spot at the end of the table without anyone noticing he was even there. That plan however went to the doghouse when his cousin called him out.
"Well if it isn't Hiccup the useless! I didn't think it was possible, but you managed it! You managed to make yourself more hated here than you were in middle school, in one day!" Hiccup's cousin, Snotlout, laughed loudly after that. He was joined in by the Thorston twins, and Fishlegs joining in weakly a few seconds later. Snotlout stopped laughing as something came up behind Hiccup, and he put on his most 'charming' face. "Hi babe. Name's Snotlout, and I would like-"
Snotlout was interrupted by Merida, who grabbed the hand he had held out to her, and pulled his arm behind him as she pressed his face into the table. Rapunzel stood behind her, trying to look like she didn't approve of Merida's actions, but the sparkle in her eye told everyone she thought Snotlout was getting what he deserved.
"Ever try and hit on me again, and I will beat you to a pulp." She held his face against the table for a second longer and then gave it one last shove before letting go. Merida then crossed her arms scrutinizing them before looking towards Hiccup. "You having trouble with them?"
"No more than normal..." Hiccup said this quietly, and Merida glared at those who were sitting at the table. Ruffnut, the female Thorston twin, elbowed Snotlout in the side, and leaned over.
"They're upperclassmen." Tuffnut, Ruffnut's counterpart, frowned at this.
"Wouldn't it be upperclasswomen? 'Cause they're both girls." Everyone ignored the comment, and Rapunzel, grabbed Hiccup's arm. He flinched away from the contact, something that did not go unnoticed by Rapunzel and Merida
"Come on! I want you to meet the rest of my friends!" She started to drag him off, while Merida glared at Snotlout.
"Why would you possibly want to have Useless around? He's... useless. He can't do anything right. Even his guardian hates him." Hiccup flinched again, this time at Snotlout's words. Rapunzel frowned at this, while Merida glared at Snotlout, looking like she was about ready to smash his face into the table again.
"Let's head to our table." Rapunzel ushered the fuming red head away from the table while still dragging Hiccup along with her. Merida sent a glare over her shoulder before turning her attention back to Hiccup.
"Why'd you even try and sit there? Obviously none of them are your friends. Why didn't you find us?" The brunet looked down at the floor, and stopped allowing the blonde to drag him along.
"Hiccup?" Rapunzel asked this, concern lacing her voice.
"You guys are obviously in the popular group. I don't want you to be seen with me, and have people start casting you out along with me. I'm Snotlout was right, I'm useless." Hiccup continued to look at the floor as he said this.
"I don't believe that. And neither should you. If the people you call friends tell you that, then you need to get new friends." Hiccup rolled his eyes at this.
"They'd never call me a friend, and neither would I. They're just the people who tolerated me the most. Nobody has ever wanted to actually be my friend, just pretending." He cast an accusing look at both of them, Rapunzel looked extremely offended.
"I hadn't realized that people could be that mean! I'd never do that!" Merida glared accusingly over her shoulder towards the table they had just left, and muttered under her breath. She then started helping Rapunzel guide the brunet back to their table, but they were stopped when a bubbly red head ran up to Rapunzel.
"Hey Punzie! You should come sit with me and the rest of the girls!" The red head motioned towards a table where it seemed like most of the girls were wearing cheerleading outfits, and were making googly eyes at the athletes who were sitting across from them. Rapunzel glanced over at them, and then smiled at the girl.
"Sorry Anna. I would love to, but Merida already asked me, and I said I would. I promise I'll sit with you and the other Princesses tomorrow. I'll even try and drag Merida with me."
The girl Rapunzel called Anna, smiled and giggled before running off back to the table, sitting down next to a blonde haired girl who seemed the complete opposite of the red head. Rapunzel and Merida then started to direct Hiccup towards the table they were originally pushing him towards.
"Wait, you said Princesses. I'm confused." To this Merida scoffed, and Rapunzel frowned at her.
"CGI High's mascots are the Princes. So the cheerleaders are the Princesses." Rapunzel explained it like it was something everybody knew. Hiccup frowned, and Merida rolled her eyes.
"CGI High? I didn't know people shortened the school's name to that."
"Seriously Hiccup? Would you rather have to say Central Grace Ison High School, every time you wanted to talk about the school?"
"The full name is a mouthful." Rapunzel backed up Merida, and Hiccup gave them both confused looks.
"So you'd rather be CGI High, like a Computer Generated Image high school? 'Cause that's what most people think of when they hear CGI."
"That's what they've been shortening it to for years now, besides I don't think it matters that much. People know that you're talking about Central Grace Ison High School if you say CGI High." Rapunzel said this while Merida rolled her eyes.
"Well, most people know what you're talking about." Merida grumbled this as she looked at Hiccup. Rapunzel ignored the comment, and continued on the conversation.
"Anyways, back to the Princesses. Most of them date athletes. But not all of them are cheerleaders, there are some girls who are considered Princesses, usually because they're dating a Prince. But not all of them." Rapunzel directed the last part towards Merida, who rolled her eyes.
"I'm not going to be labeled as a princess who need her prince to come save her. I have no interest in dating anyone." Rapunzel huffed, but sat down at a table, pulling Hiccup down with her, and sat him down in between her and Merida. Merida on the left Rapunzel on the right.
"Sitting across from you are Macintosh, MacGruffin, and Dingwall, all three seniors. I honestly never bothered to learn their first names, but everyone calls them by their last name, so it doesn't matter. Oh, also fair warning, you won't be able to understand MacGruffin. Nobody does, except his father. We're not sure how he passes his classes, but he does.
"To the right of them, and across from Rapunzel is Flynn, although there are rumors that's not actually his legal name. He's a senior who's been chasing after Punzie since she showed up freshman year. There's a betting pool on when they'll finally get together." Merida whispered the last part into Hiccup's ear.
"Anyways, to the left of me is Camicazi, keep an eye on your wallet when she's around, and when Flynn's around. Mostly Camicazi though, she's the better pickpocket. Left of her is-"
"Astrid..." Hiccup smiled as he looked at the blonde he'd had a crush on since they were little.
"So you know her? That's cool, I don't know her. I can only assume that Camicazi invited her to the table like Heather. She's across from you said her name is Astrid? Again I don't know her too well, just that Camicazi invited her." Hiccup nodded absently as he tried to take in all the faces and names he'd just learned.
Macintosh, was tall and skinny with black wavy hair, who had a mirror out in front of him as he messed with his hair. MacGruffin was large, and blond with a round childish face, he was talking to Dingwall quickly in some language that Hiccup couldn't understand. Dingwall was also blond, his gaze seemed to wander a lot.
Camicazi was a short blonde haired girl, who was picking at a school lunch as she talked at Heather and Astrid and looked through a wallet. Hiccup immediately felt his back pocket, relieved that it wasn't his wallet the girl was going though.
Heather had black hair with most of it hanging in her face as she ignored everyone and silently ate her lunch from home. Astrid looked like she always had in Hiccup's mind; perfect. She was stabbing the school lunch she had in front of her, and didn't seem to be paying attention to Camicazi either.
"Hey that's my wallet!" The senior Merida had called Flynn called this out as he looked towards Camicazi. Hiccup watched as the brown haired senior with a bit of stubble on his chin walked over to the blonde thief and tried to take his wallet back.
"You'll have to get it back from me. Eugene." Camicazi stressed the name as she jumped up and ran away from the now fuming senior. Hiccup was pulled back to Merida when he saw her shrug.
"Guess his name is actually Eugene. And now you know why I told you to watch your wallet. Oh shit." Rapunzel frowned at this, and gave the red head a friendly whack on the shoulder.
"Language!" Merida rolled her eyes, and ignored the comment.
"Here comes Drake. He seems to think that he's part of the group, but he's not. Honestly he's an asshole, and a bit on the loony side." Rapunzel frowned at Merida's language, and crossed her arms while looking at the red head.
"I don't think he's that bad."
"Well you've obviously never had him hit on you." Hiccup rolled his eyes at the girls' argument.
"Hiccup! What a surprise to see you! I haven't seen you in a few months! How have you been brother?" Hiccup flinched at this, and simply wished he could turn invisible. However he did turn around to face one of his neighbor hood bullies.
"I'm not your brother. But what I think is more important is that you go by Drake now?" 'Drake' frowned at this, and seemed to glare at everyone but Hiccup.
"My dear brother, they aren't worthy enough to know my Viking name." Hiccup raised an eyebrow.
"Really? I would have thought you would have flaunted it. You're deranged enough to do so." This seemed to set 'Drake' off.
"Wait! Drake isn't your name? I've known you for three years!" Rapunzel looked betrayed at this, and both Hiccup and 'Drake' rolled their eyes.
"I'm more interested in the Viking name. What is that supposed to mean?" Merida looked between the two arguing boys.
"His family has a Viking heritage and they still heavily support it. Including the traditional names, although most families choose a more common name for the birth certificate, and then use the Viking name at home. I'm surprised that he uses his common name." The red head frowned at the Hiccup's words.
"So what's his 'Viking name'?" Before 'Drake' could stop him, Hiccup had already responded to Rapunzel's question.
"Dagur. Technically Dagur the Deranged."
"I know he's kinda crazy, but are you sure he's deranged?" Rapunzel asked, as she looked uncertainly between Hiccup and Dagur.
"Is he deranged? He's been torturing me ever since I was little, well littler. He's been throwing knifes at my head ever since I could run, and last summer he tried to drown me. So yes, he's deranged." Rapunzel shrank away from Hiccup's outburst and Merida turned towards Hiccup.
"How do you know so much about Viking names and crap like that? Are you a Viking?"
"Yes, that's where my name came from. The runt was always called Hiccup, and for some reason my parents decided to actually put it on my birth certificate..." He trailed off as he realized that Merida was glaring at him.
"Guess we can't be friends then. You have your heritage, I have mine. I'm descended from a Scottish royalty, the sworn enemy of the Vikings. And that is part of the tradition my family continues to uphold." Hiccup swallowed nervously, and looked around the table for help, hoping someone else would tell her that it wasn't right.
Camicazi was nowhere in sight, Heather and Astrid could be seen leaving in different directions, and Dagur seemed to be bullying some kid several tables over. Macintosh, MacGruffin, and Dingwall all looked like they agreed with Merida's opinion. Rapunzel seemed to be torn between the two, and Flynn was just returning to the table, wallet in one hand, phone in the other, ignoring what was going on.
"It's not like I can do anything about my heritage! And seriously that fugue is from the tenth century, don't you think we can all forget about it now?" Merida and the three boys didn't seem to be listening, just trying to decide how best to deal with him. Seeing that things were going to be really bad if he stayed, Hiccup scrambled out of his seat, grabbed his backpack and raced out of the cafeteria.
A/N: So tell me what you thought of it! I respond to all of my reviews.
Orange Cat: Thank you for reviewing! I'm glad to hear that you liked how I started the story and I hope that you like how I continued it. It's also great to hear that they were all in character. I just hope they continued to be in character. To answer your question about how they were all in the same class. In the case of the math class, Hiccup is a freshman taking a math class meant for juniors and seniors. In the history class, it's that each student has to take one history elective at some point while they're in high school. It wasn't made for one specific grade. They just all ended up having it together.
So I'll see you all the next time I update.
