Xxxxxx Astrid's pov xxxxxx
"Hiccup!" turning on hearing Valka's shout I failed to see the skinny auburn haired boy that we had all thought dead for so long anywhere, but suddenly she was rushing towards a prone figure on the floor. Feeling my stomach drop I ran forwards too racing to the downed figure, not even questioning how hiccup could have gotten here, he was always in the middle of the trouble. I could see other riders rushing to valka as well as Drago just stood there laughing as the dragons circled overhead. When we reached valka I was surprised to see her leaning over the limp form of the dragon lord his chest plate was rent and smoking as well as the shoulder of his armour. I watched still confused as she reached out and pulled his mask of revealing a handsome young face with a mop of messy auburn hair crowning the pale, freckled face.
One with a very familiar scar on his chin, gasping I said "hiccup?" shocked that the famed dragon lord was in fact hiccup! And he was dead or dying I amended as I saw his chest expand with a rattling breath. Tears threatened and I forced them back with my anger at Drago for doing this, a faint croon caught my attention and I turned to see toothless standing outside the circle of people looking around slightly lost, when he looked at me his gaze went past me and settled on hiccup's prone form. Eyes widening in horror that even I could see, he released an almightily wail of grief that had the dragons circling overhead faltering slightly.
Drago was just starting to make his gloating speech about his victory when toothless lunged forward preparing to blast the man, who interrupted himself to yell at the huge dragon to "shoot that night fury" the dragon stopped when the alpha launched a blast of ice straight at the him, he didn't even attempt to move. He just watched the approaching wave of ice with the kind of calm that could only be achieved by those that had nothing left to live for. A flicker of movement and rough sounding roar had us all turning in time to see hiccup sprint forwards practically falling into the very shocked night fury. The ice hit, encasing the two in a brilliant bluish white tomb. "noooooo!" the grief stricken wail tore from Valka's throat as she watched her son die for the second time. As the echoes of her wail faded there was a long stretch of silence, I was still watching the ice so I was probably the first to see the faint bluish white light being emitted by the ice as well as the faint hairline cracks that started to appear.
With a resounding boom the ice exploded outwards and toothless shot out with bright blue light shining along his back, rocketing forwards and firing rapidly at the shocked bewilderbeast the shots didn't seem to do much which apparently only infuriated the night fury, as the glow intensified on his back and he charged his next shot for longer and when he fired, his normal purple shot had turned a glowing white and as it contacted the bewilderbeasts tusk the tusk shattered sending the huge dragon reeling back.
A fact that all of Drago's shouting cursing and threatening could not rectify as the dragon continued to back up looking down as if unable to look right at toothless. The sound of wings getting louder had us looking up to see the dragons that had been circling the alpha were now circling us, roaring at the circling dragons they all started to fire on the once alpha dragons and Drago's men. Drago and his men all made a beeline for the water knowing that ruff and tuff had blown up their last ship not that long ago, I watched as Drago got on the bewilderbeasts remaining tusk and started to shout threats until one of Toothless's shots got too close and he stopped shouting in favour of trying to hold on to the now breaking tusk. He was plunged into the icy water and we all waited to see if he would resurface but he never did, the bewilderbeast backed into the water before submerging and vanishing below the surface, hopefully never to be seen again. It's over, blinking at the thought I relaxed slightly and finally looked back at the lump of ice expecting to see hiccups broken body only to see a shocked looking night fury.
Xxxxxx hiccup's pov xxxxxx
"shoot that night fury" that got my brain going and without any conscious though I was somehow on my feet and running, well more like really fast drunk staggering, towards my best friend and brother. Falling into him I felt a strange cold fill me just before the ice hit, and as it did I felt a horrible tearing sensation throughout my whole body.
Blinking my eyes I notice I could see every tiny detail in the ice and I wasn't cold anymore and my body which had felt like it was tearing itself to pieces now felt better that ever, in fact I felt like I could rip down a mountain with ease. Looking down at myself I saw a whole lot of black scales and ... Wha... Wow was that a wing? And I'm a dragon. The thought was so ludicrous I almost laughed but the sound of Toothless's voice snapped me out of it "hiccup, hiccup where are you? I can't see you am I squishing you, i...i... Oh please answer me don't be dead please please please don't be dead"
Smiling I said "I'm not dead bud I'm right here I'm just not sure I look like me anymore"
"what on earth do you mean by... Oh" I was now staring into a pair of eyes that looked like a carbon copy of my own "hiccup you're a dragon"
"surprise"
"i don't... Wha...how...i...i...i don't...what did you do?"
The slightly accusatory tone to the last bit made me laugh and I said "i think this is what the bewilderbeast meant when he said he wanted to gift me something, because at the moment that is the most logical solution to this situation and frankly I will think about this more later, but right now I'm more interesting in blowing up Drago because he is really starting to piss me off."
"uh" he didn't get any further as I stretched every single part of my body trying to uncurl my squished up form, the sudden pressure caused the ice to start to crack and as soon as I was free I was moving. Firing rapidly at the bewilderbeast. I mentally slapped myself when I saw they didn't do anything, raging at why nothing could go right for me, I felt a different kind of burning in my throat it went all the way down my back too. Mentally shrugging I charged another shot letting it gather power for an extra moment before releasing the supercharged shot, feeling a surge of satisfaction when the dragons tusk shattered.
I felt the shift in power as the other dragon conceded I was the alpha and I watched as it backed down refusing to meet my gaze, I listened as the dragons above felt the power shift and then they moved accordingly. Pulling power up from a well deep inside myself I let loose a roar that would rival thor himself "fire!" the dragons all began to fire on Drago's now retreating men, I focused my attention on Drago, where he was now perched on the bewilderbeasts remaining tusk shouting at his men and us
One of my shots got so close to hitting the vile man and he lost his footing on the now breaking up tusk, falling into the icy water I waited to see if he would surface but when he didn't I turned my focus back to the giant dragon it was still not looking at me and it backed up into the water before sliding under the waves retreating from the shore.
Finally relaxing I turned to see everyone looking between me and toothless who was still sat in the remains of the shatter ice block looking startled, when I locked gazes with him he immediately looked away. Turning I approached my best friend "what is it?"
"i...i... I shot you didn't i?"
"no, you didn't toothless. Your body did while under the control of the other alpha, it wasn't you bud and I don't blame you besides I'm fine now aren't i?"
"well I wouldn't call this fine, hiccup you're a dragon, what are you going to do you can't lead berk as a dragon that won't work they won't be able to understand you anymore"
"oh uh I suppose but ill figure that all out but hey at least I'm alive right?"
"yes and I'm so happy you are I thought I lost my brother"
"yeah I'm happy I'm alive too and now I suppose we really could be brothers now huh"
"well except for the blue glowing bit on your back"
"huh what?" whipping 'round I stared at my spine gaping at the bright blue glow coming from my double row of spines, "oh well that was unexpected" concentrated I tried to get the blue glow to dim and after a few moments it did, sighing I said "i wonder if it will be that easy to become a human again"
Giving the dragon equivalent of a shrug he said "you could try"
Closing my eyes to better visualise what I wanted I will my body to become human once more, I felt nothing at first and I was just about to give up and live the rest of my life as a dragon when I felt it, that same rush of cold I felt before.
Cutting of my excited warble I let out a pained yelp as my draconic body melted away to reveal a very tired hiccup. Swaying I reached up to rub my face muttering "oh Odin's beard this is going to hurt in the morning" and with that overly insightful comment I saw the ground rushing up to meet my very tired face.
Xxxxxx time skip because the author is feeling lazy xxxxxx
Blinking my eyes open I stared at the ceiling not really sure what had happened, toothless calling out "hiccup?" got my attention,
Turning my head to face him I said "hey bud what did I miss?"
"oh you know the whole village finding out who you are, your dad going mental at valka because she knew, your mum putting him in his place that whole town holding a party for the homecoming of its heir, you know the usual"
"wait what I missed my own party? That is so typical"
"haha I love how that is what you pick up on in that whole sentence."
"yeah yeah, so how long have I been out for?"
"two days, two very long days"
"what why?"
"well you defeated the old alpha so that makes you alpha and so the dragons are sticking around and everyone is trying to find places for them and for some its quite hard, not to mention the uproar it caused when I told them their new alpha was a Viking who can turn into a night fury."
"oh"
"yeah 'oh'"
"well I suppose I should get out of bed and go see what everybody wants me to do" rolling out of bed I padded over to the door and pulled it open and ambled down the stairs, tugging open the front door to the house I now recognised as the one I grew up in, I saw a whole flock of dragons swooping around. Smiling I stepped completely out the door toothless beside me when out of nowhere I Astrid appeared and proceeded to punch me on the arm, something that hurt far less than it should have "what was that for?"
"that was for scaring me and lying to me" opening my mouth to respond I was startled to find a pair of lips silencing me, groaning I threw myself fully into the kiss wrapping my arms around her waist I tugged her closer, electing a startled gasp from Astrid which I used to deepen the kiss.
A throat clearing caused us to pull apart and I was pleased to see a deep pink flush along Astrid cheeks as she said "and that was for everything else" her voice was husky and barely above a whisper but it sent shivers down my spine and I was about to go in for a second kiss when the throat clearing from earlier was repeated although it might have sounded more amused this time.
Turning I saw my dad shifting nervously I said "uh hey what can I do for you? Uh chief?"
Stoic smiled sadly and said "you could stay here and not leave"
Blinking in surprise at the unusually gentle tone I said "you're not angry I didn't tell you who I was or that I ran away or that I can now turn into a dragon?"
Laughing my dad replied "well I'm upset you didn't tell me but I understand why, I'm more sad that you felt you needed to run away than mad, and the fact that you can turn into a dragon, well I'm not mad or upset just surprised"
Processing what he said "well in that case I don't see why I can't stay if you'll have me?"
"if he said no he would be sleeping on the couch for the rest of eternity" I watched as my mother walked up and wrapped an arm firmly around my father waist "and that would be such a waste as we have so much catching up to do"
Unfortunately I was faster picking up on what my mum meant than Astrid so when I cringed and muttered "gross"
Astrid turned to me confusion on her face as she started to ask "what did she mean... Oh" she suddenly flushed and said "never mind I got it"
Smirking I grabbed her hand and started slowly backing away as my mum and dad started to whisper together once we were a good distance away I turned and started pulling her towards the edge of town. Stopping at the cliff edge I flopped down staring at the very blue sky I said "this really didn't turn out how I expected it would"
"well how did you think it would turn out?"
"honestly I naively thought we would defeat Drago and I would go home and everything would stay the same, guess I was a bit off"
"a bit?"
"okay a lot, but I did get two things right"
"oh yeah what?"
"well I always thought I would be going home, and I did just not the home I thought I would be going back too"
"what else?"
"well I always said I was going to get the beautiful girl in the end too"
"wha.. Oh" I cut her off with a toe curling kiss that had us both pulling away panting "so is this the end then?"
"yep it is definitely the end"
Xxx the end xxx
hope you enjoyed this i think it is quite possible the fastest fan fiction i have ever written, but for this the inspiration just kept coming, plus i just had to play with my new laptop so yeah this is the end, i may or may not write another as a continuation but for now this is the end of hiccups tail (haha did you get my pun, oh they are terrible but hey i just can't help it!) also just so you know I have update the previous chapters with some capitalisation and some grammar improvement some of my sentence structure still sucks though sorry and thanks again for reading please review on your way out bye :)
scarlet lupin xxx
