Title: Pencil
Word count: 236
Fandom: How To Train Your Dragon (movie)
Summary: Hiccup drops his pencil.
Notes: Um...pencils.
Hiccup fumbled with his pencil, slippery in his sweaty hand. It slipped from his hand and fell onto the rock at his feet, then tumbled down the cliffside, making awfully loud clattering noises as it dropped into the hollow.
The dragon heard the noise, and swiftly looked up. Hiccup was caught in the act, reaching for the long-gone pencil. The dragon's green eyes stared up at him, narrowed, but there was no hate there— a little fear, in fact, but mostly curiosity.
Nervousness fluttered in Hiccup's stomach, and he let out a little gasp. But the dragon did not shoot a fireball up at him, it simply gazed him, the fear gradually fading in those curious green eyes. It tilted its black-scaled head.
Hiccup leant back slightly, but his fear was fading, too. He was also curious— why had this dragon, the fiercest of all its kind, spared his life back at Raven Point? What could they learn from him?
The dragon eventually looked away, and Hiccup returned back home, his fallen pencil forgotten.
After Hiccup became friends with Toothless, he once remembered the pencil he had dropped and spent an afternoon searching for it. He never did find the pencil, though, which was a shame. It was because of that little stick of wood that he had befriended his dragon, after all, and it was sad to just leave it in the hollow unused.