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Chapter 5 - The Dragons
Stoick and Thornado land near Gothi's hut, they're carrying a passed out Gobber. Stoick drags Gobber off the dragon and into Gothi's hut. When he gets inside he sees Gothi patching Hiccup's arm up. She's finishing off stitching the wound closed when she hears Stoick enter.
"What happened to you, Hiccup?" Stoick asks, dropping the still unconscious Gobber on a cot.
"Just another flying crash, no big deal." Hiccup says, wincing when Gothi pulls a bit too roughly tightening the stitches.
Stoick's brow furrows. "Toothless has been here in the village all day. What dragon were you riding?" Hiccup is about to answer when Astrid bursts in, panting. "Stoick! There's something wrong with…." She trails off when she sees Hiccup sitting there.
"Wrong with…?" Stoick says.
"Nothing." Astrid says, giving Hiccup a suspicious look.
Hiccup glares back at her and jumps down from where he's sitting and walks past her, brushing her shoulder as he passes. She glares at nothing, then looks at Stoick.
"Where'd you find Gobber?" She asks.
"I was patrolling and saw him wandering in the woods. He passed out before I could ask him anything." Stoick says, looking at Gobber.
"Where could he have gone? And why?"
Astrid walks to the training academy to try and get Stormfly. Maybe today she'll let Astrid put the saddle on her and they can finally go flying. She's about halfway through the entrance when she hears a loud smack.
She looks and it's Hiccup-of course it's Hiccup-and Toothless.
Toothless growls at Hiccup. "Shut up you stupid dragon." She hears Hiccup say to Toothless. Toothless barks angrily at Hiccup. There's another loud smack. He just smacked Toothless.
Hiccup smacked Toothless.
Astrid walks in. "What in the hell are you doing?"
"Nothing." He says, stiffly patting the dragons head. Toothless growls deeply at him and backs away, towards Astrid.
Toothless is at Astrid's side, and he pulls on her tunic, away from Hiccup. "Hey, Toothless, let go." She tugs her tunic out of his mouth. Toothless continues to try and pull her further and further away.
"What is wrong with you?" Astrid says. Toothless roars at Hiccup, his eyes are slits.
"Come on, boy, it's me." Toothless growls and pounces on Hiccup.
After Gobber is taken care of, Stoick goes to talk to Astrid. He wants to know what he was going to tell him earlier. He finds her in the train academy, talking to someone. He can't make out words, so he gets closer, trying to stay hidden.
"What is wrong with you?" He hears Astrid. He hears a small roar, it sounds like Toothless.
"Come on, boy, it's me." It's Hiccup. Wait, 'boy'? He never calls him that.
There's a growl, and Stoick hears Astrid let out a small scream. He can't tell what's happening, but what he's hearing is not good. "Toothless! Get off of me!" He hears a lot of growling, then that all too familiar high-pitched noise. That's when he decides to walk in to see Toothless try and hit Hiccup with a plasma blast, but Hiccup manages to roll out from under Toothless and avoid the blast.
"What's wrong with you?" Hiccup says as he does a tuck-and-roll to avoid another blast. He tries to get closer to Toothless, but fails, earning a burn on his forearm. He hisses in pain and looks at where it burned him. He can smell his burning flesh, but he continues to dodge Toothless' blasts until he has reachs his six-shot limit.
"All out of shots, huh?" Hiccup says, slowly walking to the angry Night Fury. He raises his good arm and outstretches his hand. Toothless looks at it for a moment before growling and snapping at it.
Stoick goes over to the dragon and puts hand on Toothless' head and the dragon instantly relaxes. "What in the name of Thor is going on here?" Stoick questions. Toothless growls at Hiccup, that's definitely not like Toothless at all.
"Toothless just started attacking Hiccup. I don't know, it's like he doesn't trust him anymore." Astrid says, she decides not to tell him about the smacking.
Hiccup takes a good look at his burned forearm. The skin is blackened and disgustingly peeling. It must hurt a lot, but he doesn't show it. Instead he glares at Toothless, hatred in his eyes. Hiccup roars at Toothless and Toothless snaps his eyes towards Hiccup, almost glaring. Toothless roars right back. This goes on for at least a minute, because Hiccup roars and Toothless goes silent. Hiccup reaches for the dagger in his armor. Toothless roars.
"Hiccup, what are you doing?" Astrid asks carefully.
He doesn't answer. Instead he pulls the dagger out all the way, holding it in his hand, a white knuckled grip on it. He screeches at Toothless this time. Toothless cowers by Stoick's side, and he lets out a quiet roar.
"Are you threatening you dragon?" Astrids asks, glaring at Hiccup. This time he looks at her and gives a small smirk. "No." He says. "Something more precious."
Toothless whimpers. Hiccup looks back to the dragon, dagger still in his hand. Toothless roars again, and Hiccup roars right back. He lifts the dagger that's been resting in his hand by his side just slightly, making sure the Night Fury sees it. Toothless shakes his head, letting out a small whimper.
Hiccup eyes the dragon as he puts the dagger back in his armor. He then reaches his hand out, waiting for the dragon. Toothless reluctantly and slowly walks towards Hiccup. Astrid and Stoick watch in confusion. What on Earth did he say to him? Toothless presses his head against Hiccup's hand.
"How did you do that?" Stoick asks, very confused.
Hiccup just looks at him and smiles.
Astrid knocks on the door. Fishlegs answers and smiles. "Hey Astrid." She returns his smile. "Hey Fishlegs."
"Come in." He opens the door and she walks in.
"I need some help." She says once they're sitting.
"What's wrong?" He asks.
"I-It's Hiccup, actually." She says, looking down at her lap. His brow furrows, "Hiccup? What about him?"
She shakes her head. "I-I don't know. He smacked Toothless-" Fishlegs cuts her off. "He smacked Toothless?" She nods. "Weird, right? Then Toothless started attacking him earlier and he threatened Toothless, with what I don't know, He roared at Toothless then pulled his dagger out. I asked him if he was threatening his own dragon, like kill him you know? But he said, 'No, something more precious.' Do you have any idea what he could've meant?" She asks, looking up from her lap at him.
"Hmm. Can you imitate any part of the conversation between him and Toothless?"
She shrugs. "I'll try." She then attempts to roar like Toothless or Hiccup.
"It sounds like he said, 'play along, or your friend will be dead'." Fishlegs says, translating.
"Friend?" Astrid thinks. "Some precious to Toothless…"
"Hiccup."
"What?"
"Hiccup's precious to Toothless." Fishlegs says.
"What are you saying? That he threatened Toothless to kill himself? That doesn't sound like Hiccup at all." Astrid says, now she's even more confused than before.
"You've got to remember, Astrid, Hiccup's changed a lot since we last saw him. But I think that's what he meant. It's a little extreme, but I could be wrong."
She hopes he's wrong.
Hiccup goes to Gothi's tent. She looks up from Gobber to Hiccup, and sees his burned arm. She sighs and points to a cot for him to sit down. He sits, waiting for Gothi to finish with Gobber.
When she's done with Gobber, she walks over to Hiccup and inspects his arm. She shakes her head, and draws in the dirt. "You need to stop this." She has written. "I know, but it's not my fault." Hiccup responds after reading. Gothi grabs a small vial, and walks back to Hiccup.
She writes once more, "Then you need to tell them. They can help." Hiccup sighs, and Gothi starts to softly rubs the salve that was in the vial onto Hiccup's burn. "They won't understand. And how I've treated them, they'll never believe me. Let alone trust me." Once she's finished rubbing on the salve, she wraps the burn in gauze.
"Now don't go picking at that." She writes. "And at least think about telling them. They might understand."
Hiccup nods and thanks Gothi, walking out of the tent.
He knows he won't tell them. He just can't.
He sees Stoick, loading things into a satchel. He walks closer to see Stoick's loading weapons. To be more specific, dragon killing weapons.
"Are you planning to go somewhere?"
Stoick looks up, slightly alarmed. "That's none of your business, boy."
Hiccup cocks his head to the side. "Isn't it?"
Stoick gives the boy a glare, "No, it isn't."
"Okay," Hiccup says, nodding. "But if you're going after that dragon, it's gonna take a lot more than those puny weapons to kill it." Stoick stops loading the weapons. "Really? And how would you know?"
"I know more about that dragon than you think."
Stoick laughs humorlessly. "Oh really? Tell me then, what's its weakness?"
Hiccup looks at him seriously, "It's weakness is its helper."
"Let go!" Astrid says, struggling out of Toothless' grip. He's dragging her by her tunic and she's getting tired of it. She finally gets it out of Toothless' mouth, cringing in disgust. "You know dragon spit doesn't wash out." She glares at him, he gives her a gummy smile.
He's dragged her out in the forest, in the old, dead creepy part. "You had to drag me here, didn't you?" She sighs, she can't fly Toothless because the control for the tail is customized to Hiccup's metal foot. Great, time to walk and maneuver her way home.
She starts walking, Toothless following her. She has absolutely no idea how to get back to the village from here by foot, she's always been on Stormfly if she ever came near here. The place gives her chills. Every plant in sight is dead, hanging limply from its stem or branch. It is decaying, and falling at random times, often making Astrid jump and snap her head towards the noise. "Stupid damned forest." She mutters, wrapping her arms around herself. There's a chill in the air, well, more than usual.
She mutters some colorful curses towards Toothless for bringing her here, knowing she would have to walk back. Toothless nudges her, and she swats him away. "Quit it, you useless reptile." Despite her requests, Toothless keeps nudging her in a different direction. "Great. Thank you, Toothless. Now I have no idea which direction is Berk." She says, and just starts to walk in a random direction. She hears a growl.
"Toothless? Was that you?" She asks the dragon, but Toothless isn't listening. His ears are perked up, turned to the left. He starts to slowly walk towards whatever he's hearing. She follows him, not wanting to be alone after hearing that. After walking for a few minutes they come upon a clearing. Though, the clearing's not empty. The Echotri is standing there, breathing heavily, fangs bared and dripping venom. She then sees what it's looking at; Stoick.
He's lying on the ground, his face is contorted in pain. Astrid can tell he's trying not to scream in agony. He's clutching his side, there's blood oozing from in between his fingers. She's worried about him, but doesn't dare go to help him just yet. She doesn't want the dragon to know she's there.
So she and Toothless lurk in the shadows, waiting for it to leave. After a few minutes there's a dragon call, not one Astrid recognizes though, and the dragon flies away, leaving Stoick on the ground.
She rushes over to him once she makes sure it's far away. "Stoick? Are you okay?"
"No, the damned thing bit me!" He says, his voice raspy.
"It bit you? Jeez. Okay, um. Toothless, help me get him on your back." Astrid says, lifting Stoick the best she can, and Toothless helps best he can. Once they get him on Toothless' back, Astrid climbs on as well.
"Okay Toothless, take us home."
A/N~ Sorry if this chapter was confusing. So... yeah.
Chapter 6 is about half written. It should be up later this week.
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