Disclaimer: I don't own httyd… Big surprise there…

Author's Note: Another chapter for you guys! Oh, one more thing, this is not "Cute". This is MANLY!

Yes! We have finally come to the beginning of the movie! I've been itching to write this down! Let's go!

Oh, I'm not gonna do Hiccup's intro because most, if not all, people had done it.

Setting: When the movie started.

"Would You Look At That"

It was in the currently 3 am in Berk. Everyone was asleep except for a few night guards here and there. It was so peaceful.

That is until a blast of burning fire blew the roof of a house.

"Dragons!"

Ah yes, dragon raids. Nothing lifts the spirits of Vikings like when dragon attacks.

Hiccup peeked through his front door when suddenly a monstrous nightmare swoop down and gazed fire at his door as he slammed it shut.

Hiccup tsked "Great. Just what I needed" He sarcastically droned.

He peeked through the door again and when he was sure nothing was going to roast him he dashed out. He passed several vikings that were currently duking it out with dragons. He ducked, swerved, rolled and side-stepped attacks from vikings and dragons alike since it was very chaotic and no one was sure who was hitting who towards his destination.

The forge.

As he went inside, he saw Gobber, his mentor, having trouble attaching his retractable hammer on his arm.

"Oy! It's good te' knoa yur up an' about!" he said with his thick accent

Hiccup snorted as he put on his apron "And miss out on all the fun? I mean, it's a waste if I don't use all this raw vikingness!" he flexed his arm but since he was wearing a very baggy tunic it didn't show his developing muscles

"Well, I'm sure you are." Gobber droned as he handed a viking an axe and shield.

"If you'll excuse me" Hiccup said as he was about to go out when Gobber lifted him up by his shirt

"Oh noa where do ya' tink yer goin?" Gobber asked as he dropped Hiccup infront of him

"Isn't it obvious? I'm going out there to help!"

Gobber laughed "With what exactly? You can't lift an axe"

Hiccup raised an axe, a heavy one at that and gave Gobber a raised brow "You were saying?"

Gobber huffed "Ok fine, maybe you can lift one but can you lift a shield WITH that axe?"

Hiccup sighed and picked up an iron shield next to him "Are we done?"

This caught Gobber's attention. In all the years he and Hiccup were together in the forge, this was the first he saw the boy show tremendous strength. He rubbed his thumb and forefinger on his unibrow in thought. In just a few seconds, Gobber released a sigh "Fine, but we are going to hav' a long talk abou'… this" he gestured towards Hiccup

"But you just gestured towards all of me?" he asked confusingly

"Exactly! All tis time and ye never used that strength of yours around here" Gobber said as he grumbled and wobbled outside to also fight.

Hiccup was about to follow Gobber when he suddenly had a great idea. He looked towards the corner and saw it, his boa launcher. He made it a few weeks back and he was itching to use it.

"What better time than a dragon raid I guess." He said as he pushed the contraption between the chaos around him. Surprisingly everyone, including the dragons, was completely ignoring him. Being useless did have its advantages after all.

He positioned himself on top of the hill and he was going for one target, the night fury. He knew that if he shot it down everyone would finally acknowledge him. Technically dad has finally opened up to me for the past few years but I still don't know what I did that changed his mind about me being a disgrace. He thought as he positioned the boa launcher

"Come on" he said as he looked in the dark sky for anything to hit "Give me something to hit"

Then he saw it, the silhouette of the dragon he was looking for.

"There!" but before he could fire it, he heard a scream, it belonged to someone he knew all too well.

When he looked down, he paled. He had to hurry before it was too late! He jumped down and ran as fast as his legs could take him to her.

He was a few meters away from the Nadder and Astrid as the latter was pinned and was bleeding from the claw mark the former gave her.

"Come on! Give me your best shot!" Astrid shouted towards the dragon which urged it to lunged towards her, mouth wide open to bite on her.

Time suddenly slowed down that a single second was just like a minute.

Hiccup ran towards them in a very slow pace and he could clearly tell that he was not going to make it

Shit! He mentally swore.

It was just his luck when the Viking infront of him threw a spear towards a gronkle on his right

I only have one chance to do this! Slowly his hand reached for the middle of the spear and since he was still weak compared to the others, his body was carried with the spear but he just stomped his foot down and he started spinning around along with the spear. Just as he made a complete circle, he released the spear and it went straight towards the nadder. Please make it!

Just as the nadder was about to take a huge bite on Astrid, it noticed the spear racing towards it. It tried to back off but that only made her head more exposed to the spear and poked her in the eye.

Time returned to its normal pace

AN: No, Hiccup doesn't have powers to slow down time, I was just showing a split second move where adrenaline helps.

The nadder roared a painful cry and flew away just in time when another spear came towards where it stood before.

The dragons were retreating. They won.

Except nobody was celebrating. Everybody was still shell-shocked from what they saw just a few moments ago.

Hiccup, aka the village screw up, had just saved Astrid, aka the best teen female Viking, from a deadly nadder. And to top it all off, Hiccup used a spear that was meant for a gronkle which was ways away from the nadder. Nobody knew how to react to that so they just stood there gawking at the chief's son as he lifted Astrid by her hand.

"Are you ok?" Hiccup asked worriedly, completely oblivious to the people around him.

"Yeah." Her eyes shined with something Hiccup didn't know. Was it admiration? Astonishment? Or something else entirely.

"What's going on?!" Stoick asked as he approached the quiet villagers "Odin, did someone die?"

Spitelout, who saw everything, shook his head "No, but we saw something more astonishing than that. Hiccup, your son, just saved that girl's life" he pointed towards Astrid, who apparently thought that Hiccup's neck was the most comfortable place in the world since she buried her face there.

Stoick looked proudly at his son and approached him. "Hiccup"

Hiccup looked up towards his father "Yeah?"

Stoick did something he had never done in his whole life "I'm so proud of you. You just saved someone's life." Stoick eyes' shown pride towards his father but just as fast as it came it was quickly replaced with amusement "but I think you two are little bit comfortable down there, don't you think?"

Hiccup clearly blushed and Astrid too as soon as she realized what she was doing and the villagers around them recovered and laughed good heartily at the blushing pair.

Stoik offered his hand and Hiccup accepted it as his father hoisted both of them up

"Ok you two, meet me at our house by noon. We have something to discuss" he said seriously as he turned around and started ordering people to help fix the buildings that needed repairs.

"What did he mean by that?" Astrid asked Hiccup

Hiccup made an 'I don't know' noise.

Neither of them noticed that they were still holding hands and started walking towards the cliff.

"Hey, where are we going?" Astrid asked as they climbed the hill.

"To get my invention"

"Which one?" Astrid by this point already knew of Hiccup's inventor side and thought it was kind of cute of him.

"My boa launcher. I don't think you've seen it yet because I just finished it a few days ago."

Just as they arrived at the place where Hiccup left the invention, Hiccup immediately knew that something was wrong.

"Someone used this." He observed as he didn't see the boa anywhere.

"Really? Well forget about it. It's not like someone got hurt or anything, right?"

Hiccup sighed "I guess… But we still need to find that boa. That was the only one I own" he said sheepishly as he gestured Astrid to the forest.

"Are you serious?" Astrid groaned "Fine, but don't you think I'm doing this because I like it. I'm just doing this because I owe you my life." She said unconvincingly

Hiccup chuckled silently "Ok sure… come on" he said as he and Astrid went towards the woods, still holding hands.

Who could've found a way to use it? I mean, it's a very complicated device and needed someone smart enough to aim with it. Hiccup thought

-Forest-

A few hours had passed and they still couldn't find it

"Can we go back now?" Astrid whined "It's not like you can't replace it or anything"

"But-"

"No buts. How about this then, if we don't find that stupid rope behind this huge rock then we're going back"

Hiccup sighed. There was clearly no way to win against her.

"Fine"

Just as they turned around the rock, the saw it.

Black scales with black wings. A neck as thick as its head. It was clearly bigger than a gronkle but smaller than the deadly nadder. Night Fury.

Hiccup had to double take

"No way" Astrid whispered as she clutched Hiccup's arms "Is that what I think it is?"

"Either we're dreaming or dead then I think it's safe to say that that thing in front of us is the night fury"

"This is it Hiccup!"

"What do you mean?"

"Our ticket to dragon training! If we can somehow bring this dragon back to the village then the adults would finally acknowledge us."

Hiccup looked towards the downed dragon in thought. After a minute of thinking he turned towards Astrid and said

"No"

"No? Are you crazy or something?"

"Maybe but this isn't ours. Someone else caught it. It would haunt me forever knowing that I got my from someone else's capture."

Astrid gritted her teeth and stomped her foot childishly while she pouted "I hate it when you're right" she crossed her arms and looked towards him "So, what are we gonna do about it?"

"Well… Let's release it" he grinned as he produced a knife.

Astrid's eyes widened "Are you crazy?! That thing's going to kill us the moment it's free!"

"Don't worry. I think it's still asleep" Hiccup slowly crouched towards the dragon and cut the ropes around it. Just as it was done, it pounced on him

"Hiccup!" Astrid shrieked as she didn't know what to do

Hiccup stared eyes wide at the dragon above him Ok, not one of my best moments he thought sarcastically

Just when the two teens thought they were gonna be killed, the dragon roared infront of Hiccup's face and dashed off towards deeper in the forest, leaving very confused and frightened teenagers.

"We-well the-that we-we-went buh-better tha thought…" Hiccup shakily said as he stood up. When he was finally sturdy enough to stand Astrid grabbed him by his tunic and started to shake him wildly

"Do you how close you were to die!" she shook him harder "I don't want to die being a maiden forever you know!"

Hiccup, poor poor Hiccup, couldn't take it and passed out as Astrid started to shout at his face.

When he finally woke up though, he wasn't in the forest but instead found himself in his house.

"Good, you finally awake" Hiccup turned towards Astrid as she sat at his side.

"Uhm… How long was I out?"

"For about an hour or two" Astrid said casually. "Come on, we need to go downstairs"

"Why?"

"Did you forget that your father told us to meet him in this house after noon?"

"Oh right" Hiccup smacked his face as he got up

Both the teens went down and saw not just Stoick but also Grudge talking animatedly to each other.

"Uhmm Hiccup, do you know what's going on?" Astrid whispered to Hiccup worriedly

"As much as I don't want to admit it but I'm not curious enough to know"

Author's Note: Well, I clearly had fun writing this one as well :D Enjoy and leave a review!