Hi Guy and Gals 5th chapter up, and to be honest it can be a marmite effect on this one, you either love it or hate it but I think I gave it a good plot for this one. Once again thanks to Rumbling Night Cutter and httydlover626 for their awesome help and awesome stories, Fellow readers if haven't seen their stories, go read them please, especially if you like doctor who or vikings that can turn into furies. anyway enjoy the this chapter. just to let you know the Italic Writing at the start is dream writing and *this* means sound effects. So be nice or I might do what Valka in brother NightFury did to Gobbers outhouse :D
Chapter 5: You can use both?
Hiccup POV
The house's, the barns even the great hall of Berk are on fire, screams all round, men, women and children alike running in fear, but wait fear?, we're Vikings, we never show fear so what could frighten the people this bad?
I got my answer...
Large black devils running around the village chasing, capturing the women and children while the men lay dead upon the ground as the devils laughed at what they committed.
One black devil chased two small children into a corner, a boy and girl, they're so young looking at them, most barely into their third winter, the little girl with auburn hair and blue eye's cowered behind the boy who has blond hair and green eye's, he was holding out a dagger shaking as the devil got closer
"b-back off y-you! I mean it" the boy say nervously still holding the dagger up.
The devil laughed at the boy and stretched out his hand to grab the children but suddenly stopped, pain in his eye's as he looked down to his chest to see a flaming curved sword stick out of it, slowly turning his head to see the owner, only to come face to face with an armoured man, thin yes he looked but clearly seeing muscles underneath his armour, he must have to thrust his sword through a chest plate and through to the other side. The devil looked scared at what just happened but what scared him most was the attackers eye's, fiery glowing eye's, it showed something that was once so calm turn to full rage.
The attacker pulled out his curved sword and backed away for the devil to see who was in front of him, six other armoured figures but behind them is what shocked him even more...
Dragons!
Standing behind the figures so calmly but glaring at the devil, showing fear, it scared me more too, then suddenly a purple light appeared and the devil was on the floor...motionless
Looking around for the holder of the purple light I come face to face with something black and scaly but the eye's like the attackers...was green and staring right at me...
"...woah!" I fell out of bed, waking myself up very quickly, I look around the room only to see darkness, putting my hand to my head I feel sweat pouring off me, was that a dream? It felt so real "weird"
*thud thud thud bang!*
Suddenly dad comes rushing upstairs bursting through my bedroom door with a...chair in his hands. Seriously a chair? what was he going to do with a chair is someone broke in? sit them to death?
"what happened!? who's attacking!? where are they!? why are they her..." my dad shouted until he looked down to me sitting on the floor, his face going from angry defensive to confused deadpanned look "...you fell out of bed didn't you?" he said to me putting down the chair looking a bit calmer "Hiccup you scared the hell out of me! what was that about?" 'seriously? I've just woke up from a strange dream, sweat pouring off me and he asks that? and all this time I thought he didn't care' I sarcastically think to myself well better give him some sort of answer otherwise he'll never let me live it down. "just a bad dream dad, nothing too dramatic" I say looking at his bare feet, strange? I never knew he was missing some toes?.
Looking at me he sit down on the chair and starts to speak calmly "son" putting his large hand upon my shoulder "there's no need to be embarrassed about a bad dream, even I get them too, mine usually involves losing your mother" he finishes off with a sigh.
Wait. did my dad just open up to me? I must be dreaming still. But something in his voice when he mention my mom, sadness, I never knew my mom since she was taken before I was even past my first winter.
"dad"
He looks at me "what is it son?"
"I was just wondering? what was my mother like?" I ask him without even looking, I know I was asking a lot but while we had one of these rare moments I needed to ask.
He smiles back at me "she was exactly like you Hiccup, never very Viking like, sure she could take on anyone, which I have the scar to prove it" he says lifting up his left arm to reveal a faint scar, my mom did that? looking at it with confusion to which my dad chuckles "that's right, your mother was tough but gentle at the same time, but she refused to kill dragons, she wanted to study them, find ways to stop them raiding without death being the answer, so like I said son, not Viking like, but I still loved her, and she loved you too" he says sighing "it's a shame the same devils who she tried to learn from took her away from us, you do remind me of her, even though I know you try Hiccup to kill dragons, but it always ends with at least one building blown apart by one of your crazy inventions" he said shaking his head "but I do have a feeling one day you'll fight just as well as one of us, maybe even more" he finishes smiling at me before standing up and heading out of the door but not before he says a few last words "but not yet" and walks downstairs leaving me a little stunned at what he said, my mom was like me, but could fight.
"hmm" I say to myself "maybe Astrid helping me to fight might do some good after all". with that I remember what Astrid told me bout gathering different weapons and bringing them to the cove "gods this'll be a painful day today" I say glumly.
Several hours later at the Cove Astrid POV
Walking into the Cove I was expecting to be on the floor from exhaustion from just carrying a couple of weapon down to here from the forge, but as I head into the clearing my eye's widen to what I see before me.
Lot and lots of weapon laid out on the floor different shapes and sizes ranging from small daggers to large warhammers, by the nine realms how did he even get all this here?
Looking around again I see something even more shocking, practice dummies. 'I didn't tell him to get them? sure they'll help but I never thought Hiccup would really want to do this. Did he really love me that much to try and impress the others just for my sake?' smiling at that thought but my attention is broken when I hear someone behind me, warrior instincts kick in, I grab my axe and ready to turn and swing but stop as I see..
"Hiccup!"
"ahh Astrid!, please don't chop my head off, it's the only one I got" he quickly says flinching a bit. I see him holding in his hands a bow and a quiver of arrows as well as his sketchbook in his arms, which drops out of his hand to which I catch.
Lifting it up I decide that now's the time to look inside at what he does in it.
But to my surprise as I open to the first page I see drawings, amazing drawings, different designs of inventions and calculations on how they function, did he really do all these? "Hiccup..." I say skimming through the pages, there wasn't just designs but drawings of houses, wildlife, a couple of dragons, he really has captured the monsterous nightmare really well, as well as people "these drawings are incredible! I never knew you could dra..." I was cut short when looking at one page to find...me, he's drawn me in perfect detail even down to the many spikes on my skirt, but how, I never stood still long enough for him to draw me, that's when I realised how much I mean to him. I smile at his and rush right up to him a give him a real passionate kiss.
A few minutes later I pull away from a goofy smile Hiccup, still dazed from the kiss, shaking his head back into reality he finally speaks "wow Astrid, what was that for?" to which I reply back "just for being you, and this..." I punch him in the shoulder to which he drops the bow and quiver "...is for not telling me how talented you are at drawing" I finish off with a sly smile.
Hiccup POV
This is still new to me, she punches or/and kisses me, probably why I love her so, cause she's as crazy as me.
Anyway enough of that, I spent all morning dragging these weapons here and it wasn't easy by myself so hope they come in handy.
"so err Astrid, shall we...get started with err training?" I say nervously to which she shakes her head realising why were out here "oh yeah, thanks for reminding me, right okay Hiccup now we got all the weapons available for us to use, the first step to what my father told me about fighting is to first find the right weapon to suit you so with that in mind lets get started, but I will inform you through Hiccup, daggers and bows are good weapons but only as secondary one's you need a weapon strong enough to handle melee attacks both defensively and offensively" she finishes off with us both walking back into the cove.
She walks up to the large warhammer right in front of us and easily picks it up in both hand "the warhammer, good for defense and offense of used correctly" she says as she tosses it to me
*thud!*
"ow" I say as I lay on the ground with the warhammer covering most of my body, I can't even move it let alone hold it in my hand, I only got it here by dragging it.
"right...warhammer off the list on that one" she say's to me trying to hold back a laugh but pulls herself together as she comes near me to lift the warhammer and me off the ground.
She goes to the next weapon which happens to be a battleaxe, again she lifts it up with ease and tosses it to me, this time, I manage to grab it without falling, wow there's a first for me to which she smiles "go ahead, give it a swing, see how it feels" she says to which I regret as the force of the swung axe in my arms pulls me in the same direction as the axe itself which happens to be in the lake.
*splash!*
I surface out of the water spitting water out only to see Astrid on the floor laughing clutching onto her sides.
"oh yes very funny, I can feel the love Astrid" I say sarcastically
Several painstakingly hours later
"okay Hiccup, well at least we established what you can and can't wield" Astrid says as we both sat down eating the fish we just cooked, well I cooked Astrid managed to burn hers to charcoal, lucky enough I gave her half of mine so no worries on that, like I eat a lot anyway.
Astrid carries on as we look around the cove at all the weapon all over the place, some embedded in nearby trees, most in the lake, I'm not saying how many times I was in there today "so we know you can't handle warhammers, battleaxes, maces, long swords, flails, spears, hachets and even a staff" she say rubbing the top of her head on that last one "sorry again for that one Astrid, I didn't think I'd be that bad as I thought" I say look down at my feet, but her hand gently grabs hold of mine, I look up to see her smile "you don't need to say sorry Hiccup" she said calmly at me "we all have a weapon out there that suits us all, even you" she finishes kissing me on the cheek "besides, there's one more weapon we haven't tried yet" she says point at a sword on the ground, she picks it up and examines it and starts to look confused "huh? it's a little curved, did you pick up a broken one by mistake Hiccup?" she ask's me with a questionable look but I smile and reply back "you know I thought that too when I showed Gobber, but he said it's suppose to look like that, he got it from trader Johan who told him it was from somewhere he called the middle east or something like that, says this particular sword is a prototype, called it a...what do you call that now? a schitmer? a shimmy? a shesh kebob?" rattling my brain I try to think what Gobber said, suddenly it hit me "a Scimitar!" I blurted out.
Astrid still looking a little confused on the design of the sword shrugs her shoulders and tosses me the scimitar to which I catch with my left hand with ease but quickly change to my right, Astrid notices but doesn't say a word.
I give the weapon a twirl in my right hand, it feels so like but as I slash it through the air I feel something different with this weapon, it moves freely with my arm, like it's an extension, a fifth limb you might say, it just feels so natural to me, so easy, so...right.
Astrid POV
I don't what am I seeing, I mean I know Hiccups different to a traditional Viking but he's slashing the air with the most unviking weapon I've ever come across with ease, even when hiccup was using the short sword he never felt as free like he did with this, but something else caught my attention earlier, even though he's using his right hand, he grabbed it easily with his left hand instead, I wonder? "hey Hiccup can you err do me a favor please?" I say to him and he nods back in reply "can you put that thing in your left hand and use it the same as you just did now?" I ask him "okay but why Astrid?" he asks back with a confusing look on his face, I decide to shrug my shoulders "no particular reason just want to test something out" I reply back to which he shrugs his shoulders before placing the scimitar in his left hand and starts to copy what he just did with his right.
Just like his right arm, his left can handle the scimitar easily with equal measures. Looking down at hi feet I see something interesting, they're moving to the scimitars movements, like some sort of dance, this boy of mine is amazing, and only finding this out in just a couple of days, why couldn't see this talent of his...besides Gobber of course.
And then it happened.
He just did a Hiccup
Tripping over his own feet the scimitar flies out of his hand and towards a large stone snapping in two. But that wasn't worrying me, Hiccup, my Hiccup might of hurt himself, 'did you just say that Astrid?' I thought to myself, never thought in my life I would be worried about Hiccup and even calling him that 'ah screw it, he is my Hiccup' I smile at that last thought as I walk up to Hiccup only to hear him laugh.
I turn him over only to him cheering to himself
"woohoo wow that was a rush, I almost had it!" he shouts with a smile upon his face, I myself am still feeling the shock at what he acomplished with that weapon and even more shocked he could handle it with each of his arms.
"Hiccup, y-you can use bo-both arms on that weapon with ease?" I say to him, still can't believe what I saw, he looks at me with a straight face and shrugs "well to tell you the truth Astrid, my power is in my left arm as I found out ages ago while holding a hammer but I favored my right arm so I wouldn't feel too much of a freak so I guess using most of right arm gave it a bit of strength to be as strong as my left..." he said but stopped as I see him thinking about something then turns his head to look at me.
"say Astrid, do you know anything about wielding a weapon in each hand?" he asks me excitedly.
I think for a minute before smiling back know what Hiccup wanted to do "I do know about it babe, it's called duel wielding, can be like a dance but it's very difficult, only a handful of people that ever lived managed it, it's tricky to learn and if you're not concentrating on the practise it can be something stupid" I say to him as he frowns at me one second "well I already did something stupid" he says gesturing to the broken scimitar by the rocks "but now I want to do something crazy!" as he says this he runs up to me kisses my on the lips runs up to sketchbook and grabs it before doing the same with the broken scimitar before running out of the cove.
"you milady are amazing!" I hear him shout as he leaves
I smile at what he said before I say to no one in particular "no babe, you're amazing" knowing what he was going to do with that incredible brain of his.