Day 2! Based on the quote "Then I won't speak. Just let me show you." - HTTYD

Wherein Hiccup and Jack are in elementary school.

"But guys! The Fireworm is right there!" he cried, pointing to the orangey-yellow dragon resting on top of the jungle gym.

Hiccup's face burned with embarrassment as Astrid and Snotlout laughed at him. Aren't you too old to believe in dragons? Gods Hiccup, you're already nine; grow up already. Berk Elementary was a very traditional kind of school, there wasn't any room there for any sort of fantasy. Hiccup was anything but traditional, or at least what that school believed was traditional. As a result the other kids had quickly labeled him as a weirdo.

Hiccup refused to look up at his tormentors, instead he turned and ran towards the dense woods that bordered the small school. He ran faster, his green backpack slapping against his back, not once looking back. He didn't notice the small figure following behind him. He stopped when he couldn't run any farther, dropping to his knees. As he caught his breath he looked around at the trees that encircle him. A grin made its way to his face as he began to picture all sorts of dragons there. His grin widened as a long black sleek dragon came into view. It was his absolute favorite, a Night Fury named Toothless.

"Hey buddy!" Hiccup spoke aloud. Toothless gave him a smile in return. Hiccup unhooked his arms from his backpack, digging through it until he pulled out his notebook full of his drawings and his pencil pouch. He sat cross legged, simply drawing Toothless. Occasionally he would say something to the dragon and Toothless would snort or growl in response.

He smiled as he finished his drawing. He closed his notebook and laid back on the ground. He watched in delight as Toothless pushed off of the ground and launched himself into the sky. He rested there, happily watching the performance. He didn't even hear the footsteps coming up from behind him.

He froze in terror momentarily as he felt something poke his cheek hard. "Are you alive?" he heard a voice say. Hiccup sat up and turned to see another boy around his age leaning on a giant stick.

The boy was strange though, Hiccup thought. He had hair as white as snow and he was barefoot. "Yeah. Why's your hair white?" Hiccup questioned bluntly.

"It just is. Even when I was a baby." the other boy shrugged, he was used to that question.

"I think it's cool! It's the same color as the Alpha dragon!" Hiccup clapped a hand over his mouth, waiting for the other boy to make fun of him, just like Astrid and Snotlout.

"Alpha dragon?" the boy tilted his head in confusion.

Hesitantly Hiccup nodded, "Yeah he's a huge white dragon and he's kinda like the king of all the other dragons. He takes care of them."

The boy smiled, "He sounds really cool." He was pleased with the comparison. "I'm Jack. Jack Frost."

"Like the fairytale?" Hiccup's nose scrunched up as he thought about how Jack Frost supposedly went around biting people's noses.

"Yeah. But that's really my name." Jack was used to people teasing him for it.

"Oh. Well my name's Hiccup." he waited for the laugh that usually came when he told people his name. Instead Jack just smiled and nodded. "How come you're not wearing any shoes?"

Jack looked down, lifting a foot and wiggling his toes. As he put his foot back down, he answered, "I just don't like wearing them. I do have some though!" He turned slightly and pointed to where he had sloppily tied his sneakers to his backpack. "How come you ran here?"

Hiccup frowned at the question, "Astrid and Snotlout were making fun of me. They said I shouldn't believe in dragons. But I have to believe! I see them all the time!" He flailed his arms as he tried to explain that there was a dragon above them right now. "Did you follow me?"

Jack nodded, "I wanted to make sure you were okay. You looked really sad. Who cares what they think anyway? You know, I pretend I'm the real Jack Frost sometimes. Especially when it's snowing and stuff."

Hiccup's eyes widened, he didn't know anyone else who still believed or pretended like that anymore. "Really? But you're bigger than me, aren't you?"

"I don't know? How old are you? I'm ten and a half." Jack boasted.

Hiccup shook his head, "I'm nine. That's awesome!"

Jack nodded, happy that he had seemingly made a new friend. He stretched his arms above his head, still holding onto the large stick that he had used to poke Hiccup's cheek.

"Why do you have that stick anyways?"

"It's my staff! I'm Jack Frost remember?" Jack chirped sitting down next to his new friend. Hiccup nodded because of course, that made total sense to him. Jack glanced around the forest floor and saw Hiccup's notebook. "What's that?" he asked, poking the book with the branch.

"It's where I keep the dragons." Hiccup whispered, he had to make sure no one overheard his secret.

Jack's eyes widened and he whispered back, "Can I see?"

Hiccup glanced around the woods, making sure no one else was around before he nodded. He grabbed the notebook and opened it to the first page. He pointed to the light orange dragon, "This one's a Fireworm. It's afraid of fire even though it's a dragon."

Jack snickered, "What kind of dragon's afraid of fire?"

Hiccup turned the page. He pointed at a blue dragon with a large horn on its nose, "This one's a Deadly Nadder. It has a ton of spikes!" He ran his finger over the spine of the dragon where he had drawn sharp triangles for the spikes.

"That one looks scary." Jack nodded seriously as if it would come alive and swallow him whole if he didn't agree with its fierceness.

Hiccup smiled in response because yeah his dragons were deadly and scary. The two spent a few more hours flipping through the sketchbook with him explaining what made each dragon different to an attentive Jack. The pair forgot that they had basically ditched school and had run fairly deep in to the woods. Well they had forgotten until they heard voices calling their names.

Jack and Hiccup looked at each other, they were so in trouble. They called back to the adults who had been looking for them. Before their parents and police officers reached them, they promised to meet up on the playground the next day.

Jack's mom had a deep frown on her face, "Jack you really had me worried. Really, you should know better, you're nearly eleven!"

Hiccup's dad simply shook his head, "Son, what were you thinking?"

"But dad...I made a new friend! His name's Jack Frost."

Stoick gave him a small smile, as he turned to Jack's mom. "Hello, it seems our children turned into troublemakers together."

She nodded, "Seems so. Jack say bye to your friend."

Jack nodded and hugged Hiccup, "Bye Hic! I'll see you tomorrow." Before he released Hiccup from the hug however he whispered into his new friend's ear, "I can see Toothless now. He's flying above us."

Hiccup's eyes widened and darted up to look at the sky. Sure enough his favorite ink colored dragon was still flying through the sky. Hiccup waved goodbye to Jack, excited for the first time about the following day of school.