Right here we are chapter 6 of this story, glad I got the time to do it. Hope its fun and a bit of laughter (no exploding toilet this time but still a Gobber tease) Ok the Italic Writing at first of a dream hiccup had basically the same dream as last time but with this say going over the voices from last time. also moved it up a year as I want to get toothless in within the next couple of chapters so we'll all have our beloved night fury in the frame soon but my burning question is should he keep his tail fin or go by what film? you decide my lovely lads and lasses (sound kind of creepy that lol) anyway, enjoy and lets get on with the shoooooow
Oh added note: the flashback part I found inspiration from watching the Yogetscast 1millionth subscriber video and from pirates of the carribean, watch it and you'll see what I mean :D
Chapter 6: Handy
Beware, beware of the metal arm man
for he will bring terror and madness to the sane
The metal arm man beware for he should be afraid
For the price of terror must be paid
A man, a saviour of hope and light
Shall face evil with all his might
For he is not alone, but they are those
Skin and scales together with him to oppose
Human and beast stand as one
For this is the new age of man and dragon
Hiccup woke up from his sleep suddenly as he felt his heart race in his chest, sweat pouring off his face as he wipes it with his vest.
"strange" he said to no one in particular "I haven't had a weird dream like that for around a year now" he pondered his thoughts wondering what all this meant "and who this metal arm man it kept saying?" he shrugged his shoulders as he realised it was still dark out and couldn't get back to sleep now "ah well might as well get to the forge and sort out a few of his inventions and give his scimitars a good tweak before meeting Astrid later for training.
It's been a whole year now since the incident in the cove between the two young Vikings which they agreed to keep their relationship a secret until Hiccup can prove himself worthy to be with her (even though in her eyes he already was the way she keeps looking at his butt) but she agreed to train him how to fight and even find weapon.
Or should I say weapons, since finding out he can work the scimitar easily in each hand, he opted to be trained in duel wielding which gave him the idea of making his own scimitars, two sets to be exact.
One set for practising purposes.
And the other set, is what he has worked on for the time he had in the forge to spare, and I'll let Hiccup explain later on why he was going to tweak them.
But I can tell you this, all those hours of practising with his girlfriend has paid off a lot, even if he's still small, his reflexes are quicker than when he first started and can swing both scimitar around with ease...
"WOAH!" Hiccup trips over one of his practise scimitars and lands head first into his chamber pot
...but, he's still as clumsy as ever.
As Hiccup pulled the pot off his head he was thankful it was empty or he would of been really pissed (no pun intended).
He eventually picked up his notes on his designs he worked on last night and headed downstairs towards the door ' hmm dad must be in another long meeting in the great hall again, most likely trying to figure out whole blew up the chicken house yesterday' he thought to himself with a smirk, only two people know more about explosions than Hiccup does and he also knows the Thorston twins love to play their pranks, although funny enough throughout the year the twins haven't pulled one on him all year.
"I'll have to ask Astrid about that later on" he said to himself as he ran straight for the forge.
Hiccup POV
As I ran towards the forge I notice it was already lit up which came to two reasons
One: Gobbers was there early
Or Two : I left the forge lit all night and the glow is it catching fire
At that last thought I ran as fast as I could towards the glow, but as I got to the window, to my relief, was Gobber stoking up the fire but wasn't getting it ready for smelt, but looks like he's cooking bacon.
He spots me next to the window and smiles "mornin Hiccup, yer up early" Gobber says to me as he gestures for me to enter the forge while he grabs the cooked bacon and puts it between two half sliced bread rolls and quickly takes a bite out of it.
"morning Gobber yeah couldn't sleep so thought I'd do some tweaks with my weapons" I reply back to him as I got my leather apron on, Gobber looks at me confused.
"tweakin lad? ye don tweak a weapon lad ye sharpen it" he informs me tapping me on the head with his hammered arm, ouch.
As I rub my head feeling if there's a lump forming, to my relief no, I head toward the back room where my latest project lay on the table waiting to be picked up.
Two long arm bands with metal rods and parts that look like discs with teeth all the way around the edges.
I don't know why I made them at first, it was something in a dream I had and how with several other like it they can all turn as one starts dragging the next one along which that drags the next, I didn't know what to name them at first, but for sure wasn't going to use Gobbers name for them "teethy circles" so in the end I called them gears, seemed simpler to say.
I walk out the back with both devices attached to my arms as I show Gobber then, he looked confused, nothing new, he never could get his head around half the things I made.
"err lad wha kind o weapon are those thing" he asks me as he takes another bite out of his sandwich.
With a sly smile, I hold out my left arm and using my fingers, press a button on the palm of my hand.
Suddenly one of the metal rods (this one has several leather strips around it) unfolded out, followed by a small broken blade unfolding, followed by another and another till it started forming the curved blade of a scimitar.
After if fully unfolded I grab the leather striped rod which represented the hilt and I twirled around once and struck at Gobbers sandwich which sliced it in half.
Gobber looked at me, mouth hanging wide open as he looks from his sandwich to the blade, to me.
"handy" he eventually said, shaking his head as I flick a tiny switch on my wrist which folds everything back inside the armband "seems everytime I see ye lad ye seem te have some sort o new crazy idea after the next, o course that wouldn make ye Hiccup other wise" he says to me with a cheeky grin.
"thanks for summing that up" I say dripping with sarcasm as I lay the armbands out and start messing with the spring coils to make the blade unfold faster while keeping it strong.
It took me a long while to get the adjustments right and I finally got it to a point it should come out perfectly, of course one day I need to find a stronger metal that'll be lighter as iron alone is sturdy but can get my speed up due to it being heavy.
"well lad I'm gonna take a nap, now" Gobber said as he finished his half sandwich "been in tha meetin all night and it's worn me out".
"okay Gobber" I say to my multi limb challenged mentor as he start to slowly hobble away towards his house at the back of the forge, but bfore he could go I shout to him "I'll come round later on the wake you up if you like" I say with an evil grin upon my face.
He quickly turns around and the look of shock was entire worth scaring him "don ye dare lad! not after wha happened las time" he shouts to me as I start to laugh, remembering why he doesn't want to wake him up
Flashback 6 months ago
Gobber found out about me and Astrid dating so took every opportunity to tease us about it and every time always stating when the babies going to be due, knowing full well I wouldn't do that unless it was the proper way as I don't want to dishonor Astrid for it.
But today I'll get my own back.
Dad asked me to go wake up Gobber for a meeting on the dragon problem...again. So before I head down towards Gobbers house I make a quick detour towards the village well and grab myself two buckets of freezing cold water as I dragged them towards Gobbers house and into his room where I see him snoring, perfect, now to put my plan into action.
"morning Gobber, I got you an ale, are you all right?" I gently say to him as he groans
*SPLASH!* Bucket number one gone
"wha, wha what the fu...oh odins beard!" Gobber shouts in surprise as he get out of bed, dripping wet giving me daggers "wha was tha fer Hiccup!?" he yells at me as I put an innocent face "dad wants you in a meeting and it hard some days to wake you up, seemed like the best option at the time" I say trying to hold back a laugh.
"well it was a dumb option"
"it work didn't it"
"ah ok lad I'll give ye that, I am awa..." he said but couldn't finish as...
*SPLASH!* Bucket number two went over him
"god dammit I'm already awake!" he shout at me looking like a drowned rat now
"that was for the smell" I say to him as high tail it out of the room and his house as he quickly hobbles after me.
"YE SON O A HALF TROLL! WAIT TILL I GET HOLD O YE!" I hear Gobber yell very loudly as I head towards the forest and hide there till he calms.
End of flashback
Smiling at the memory I finally get back to work as as the finishing few tweaks to my new weapons, strapping them to my arms I can't help but admire how my brain could come up with this.
Although these are great, It's not my ultimate design I want to do, but until I can get hold of the materials and that light and stronger metal, that'll have to be put on hold as I look up to where the sun is and realise its mid morning. so I tidy up the forge, put out the fires and head across the village.
Upon the way I spot Ruffnut and Tuffnut messing around with Mildews cart of cabbage, Mildew is, putting it nicely...
a git! always stirring up the island and giving my dad a bigger headache than he already has, so seeing the twin do something to his cart, I let them do it.
Suddenly they spot me, knowing they'll be over soon to beat the living daylights out of me like Snotlout I prepare for the worse.
But it never came.
Instead they just smiled and waved at me before going back to their prank. Very odd. Looking around I notice Snotlout no where near them, or me.
I shrug and carry on towards the forest.
An little while later inside of the forest Normal POV
As Hiccup walks casually through the forest, a figure in the tree's watching over him, blue eye's staring out of the shadow as they watch the auburn haired boy get closer and closer until the shadowed figure jumps out swinging her double-headed battle axe above her as she falls down next to hiccup to stike.
*CLANG!*
Her attack was stopped by two blade crossed together, protecting their owner.
She pulls her axe back and goes for a side swing but again
*CLANG!*
Blades meet blade again stopping the offense
The blond girl pulls her axe back again as she swings her axe faster and faster with each swing.
But the boy keeps on the defense parrying her blows each time but can't get a hit in either
Swing after swing both not landing a single hit upon each other until the girl took her furred boot and slammed it into the boys gut, sending him flying to the ground.
Groaning with his eye's closed he feels extra weight on his chest and can't move his arms.
He opens his eye's to see his attacker on top of him, both her knees on each of his arms so he can't attack.
"you put up a good fight Haddock but I'm the victor today, and I claim my reward" the blond girl says as she lifts up her axe ad puts it on her back as she cups Hiccups cheek in both hands and gives him a long passionate kiss before moving away from his lips and smiling.
"happy anniversary babe" Astrid says as she notices a goofy smile forming upon his face making her giggle.
"happy anniversary to you too milady, but you know there's a flaw in that reward you claimed" He said to her with a cheeky grin.
"oh really? and what's that?" she asks him, both hands on her hips but still with a smile on her face.
"well it felt like a reward to me" he said cheekily which got him a reply of a punch to the shoulder followed by an "ow!"
After their little sparring match in the forest, both teens headed down toward the cove to get some more practise in and have a day of enjoying the view and each others company.
After several minutes of silence, Astrid spoke first "I got to admit Hiccup, you have improved a lot in this short space of time, I'm really proud of you" giving Hiccup a genuine smile to which he gave one back.
"thanks Astrid but I'll never be as good as you" he replied back earning himself a punch in the shoulder again and a kiss on the cheek.
"well don't forget I've been training for years now, for you to come this far in only a year is impressive indeed and you'll only get better as time goes by" she say's to him giving him a reassuring smile.
"yeah but we're getting older now and I have a bad feeling that if I don't change the villages mind about me soon, they'll try to marry you off to someone like Snotlout" he said.
Astrid had to hold back the vomit at the thought of being married to Snotface "that's disgusting Hiccup! I'd rather run butt naked into a nightmares mouth than marry that!" she said in a disgusted tone of voice but turns to Hiccup holding his hand and smiling at him "my parents like you babe, they were well impressed that you made that axe and my fathers sword plus I noticed that the twins don't tease you much any more so there's a plus".
"yeah that's thing" Hiccup asked her "why arn't they picking on me now, why is that?".
Astrid starts to smile as she realises Hiccup didn't know "well you remember I told you about what I did to Snotface last year after I found out about the axe" she asked him and he nodded in reply "well afterwards from what Fishlegs told me was that the twins couldn't stop laughing at him, told him he deserved it as it was low even for them" she said shaking her head "anyway he didn't take kindly so he decided to ditch them in favor for another gang who believe he'll be the next chief." she scoffed at that last bit "yeah right, he won't last a week before he gets dethroned. But to cut a long story short since you earn some respect by your skills as a blacksmith, and believe me they stole every weapon they found to find your mark, they decided to give you a break which found more time for pranking to be done" she finished with a laugh as she snuggled next to Hiccup who held her tightly.
"okay I'll admit I'm not a complete screw up, but I still need to prove it to my dad" he said to her thinking of a way to make his dad proud of him.
Suddenly an idea pops into his head and his smile widens "and I know a way to do it" he says to Astrid as she looks up at his
"how?" she asks looking excited that her boyfriends brain is going to do something crazily good.
"come next raid, I'm going to kill a dragon"