Okay peeps and peepets Mr Sandman here, time for a new chapter of something stupid something crazy, A long on in my case and we finally get to the where the movie finally starts with a little twist to make it interesting. so sit back enjoy the ye olde times of berk.
Chapter 7: I saw myself
Hiccup POV
"Okay tenth times the charm..." I say as I recalibrate the mangler again so it launches correctly.
This is the tenth raid that's happened where I failed to capture even one dragon, the only things I caught was a cold from jumping into the sea after it somehow caught fire and the neighbours cat, stupid animal, what would possess it to think sleeping on a bola is a good idea.
Still another first for me besides stealing Astrids heart, first cat on a flight path. Shame dad gave me the full scalding treatment on my inventions, once again. But like any other Viking, I'm stubborn and will keep trying till I prove to everyone on Berk I am one of them and finally prove I'm worthy of being with Astrid, of course she says differently saying I'm already am, punching me every time I say otherwise, that girl of mine really loves her violence.
"...Hiccup I kno ye wan te prove te the village ye a Viking, bu ye'll never change their minds when ye do things like this" Gobber remarks to me while gesturing to my invention.
"err you just gestured to the mangler" I reply back "makes a first" I mumble afterwards, sighing I turn around to Gobber and look him straight in the eyes "I want to show everyone my potential, to show them there's more to me than meets the eye, to show them...I'm not useless".
Gobber POV
Hear these words coming from someone I think as a son breaks my heart, hey even Viking have a soft spot and this lad is mine, if only Stoick and the rest of Berk can see it.
Excluding the Hoffersons of course, they simply adore the lad.
I know sometime Helga, Astrids mother, would come by the forge just to drop off something for Hiccup, sometimes fresh baked bread, sometimes fish but always with a smile on her face. I guess I'm not the only one who found out about Hiccup and Astrid little secret, more likely because of Astrid always looking...well, happy, something she's not seen in her daughter in a long time, and it all thanks to the lad.
Alfsted was like the other Vikings on the outside, but on the inside grew fond of him too, he only wanted to see his eldest daughter happy, which was a reason he wanted to get her an axe for her birthday last year. I remember a one day like no other...
Flashback
Pounding away at broken sword of Buckets, again, I wonder how he gets it this damaged so easily, and why's there butter all over the blade?ah well I'll never know.
Looking through the window of the forge I see Alfsted Hofferson coming this way.
"Mornin Alfsted, wha brings ye here at this time day, sword need resharpenin again?" I happily greet him as soon as he walk though the doorway.
"morning Gobber, no no, that sword is very sharp still thanks" he said to me waving his hands in front of me "I was actually looking for that apprentice of yours, Hiccup" he finishes.
Looking a bit confused as to why he wants to see Hiccup, to which he see's the look of confusion written on my face, he pulls his long sword from his back and shows it to me, like I haven't seen it before, of course Hiccup was the fine sharpener and creator of it and even to this day I am amazed how well it still look.
"Nothing bad but I heard from Ellaina Thorston that she overheard her twins about how Hiccup made most of the weapons on Berk includingmy daughtes axe, well may as well ask you. I the rumour true?" he asks me, look on his face said a thousand words, rare for a Viking I might add, but the one word that stuck out most in the blond man's face was "Interest".
Smiling from cheek to cheek I slowly took the sword from it's owner, tilting the sword to show the underside of the hilt where Hiccup left his mark I let Alfsted look "see fer yerself" I say as he looks at the mark "what do ye see?".
He looks as the mark carefully before his eye's widen, he then looks at me before speaking "t-that's his mark? H.H.H three?" he ask me still looking shocked but my wide smile never faded.
"that's right, Hiccup marks all his created weapons with that, in fact ye sword was the first one he made, besides his dagger" I said pointing at a dagger on a stand of its own.
I remember Hiccup trying to protest that it was just a dagger, but I won that argument saying that a blacksmiths first successful creation means a lot, it proves they can smith and a good omen of greater things to come. Naturally he gave up arguing and let it be.
Alfsted looks at the dagger then back t his sword then back to me before speaking again "Gobber this was his first sword he made? but I've had this for..."
"eight year? yep that's right, he made it to cheer ye up after wha happened with ye brother Finn an the Flightmare" I said cutting him off in mid sentence, shock was on his face still, jaw dropped so close to the ground, I thought he would trip over it.
Suddenly he did something I wasn't expecting at all.
He laughed, but it wasn't a don't-be-so-ridiculous but something else entirely different.
"oh that boy! he might be clumsy but if he's good with making weapons like these, then there's more to him than we all took for granted" he managed to say after calming down for laughing.
Finally someone else who see's him for more than just a...well...a hiccup.
End of flashback
...and from that day on Alfsted saw Hiccup in a different light, I gotta say Hiccup will never fail to surprise me, I just wish the other saw him like that too.
"Hiccup I know ye'll never give up tryin bu jus be careful, I don want Mildew coming round ere again complainin tha ye sent a flyin feline o death after him again, no matter how funny it was" I said to him trying to keep a straight face although I can tell it wasn't working.
"don't worry Gobber, this time I will capture a dragon, just have faith in me" he replies back with them puppy dog eye's of his.
Gods I hate it when he does that, try double effect when him and Astrid asked if he can have the plans for the scimitars which I was skeptical at first seeing as they broke the only one I had but gave them up when they gave me them eye's.
"ok, ok fine, bu don' let me catch ye cocking up this time" I finally say rolling my eye's
He smiles and runs off to the forest with those fancy weapons of his, realising that he was late for training with those things.
Well lets see how things go the next time we have a raid, who knows maybe he might capture a dragon, maybe a terror or something easy to catch.
Oh Odins beard, what he'll capture will be something non of us expected until.
That Night Hiccup POV
"Lets see, if I align the crank over here and place the buckets here this should help it moving water easier than just digging a well every three summers until it dries up plus it'll save hours of lugging water back and forth by hand" I say to myself as I sit at my desk in my room whilst drawing up designs in a nearly full sketchbook that had all sorts to go by, from farming to defense from invaders weither they be dragon or human.
It was a gift I was going to give to my dad once it was full, things that'll help improve the village and even help us with our way of life. But deep down I was hoping he will accept it and take my designs seriously.
*Yawn*
Woah I'm tired, well it was a long day of training, still a lot to learn when it comes to using scimitars since only one side is sharp meaning attacks would need to be slashes instead of the occasional stab, of course you can still stab but but not as effective, at the momet while I'm sill looking for the perfect metal to use for it, slashing techniques will do for now.
*Yawn*
"Ok I'm just going to rest my head for a biiii...zzzzzzz"
Dream
Purple light...
Scaled armour...
Demons...
Horned deranged man...
The metal arm man...
Green dragonic eyes...
BLACK DRAGON!...
*THUD!*
*BANG!*
*ROAR!*
"wha..." I said as I suddenly woke up as I hear what was going on outside.
After rubbing my eye's to wipe away the sleep, I then realised what was happen.
I get out of my chair, rush downstairs and open the front door only to be greeted by fire to which I slam it shut again.
"dragons"
Another dragon raid, perfect, with my new an improved mangler I will capture a dragon and the village will see me differently.
Opening the door again as I rush toward the forge where I'd best help Gobber with the weapons. On my way I hear the usual things thown towards me
"what's you doing out here boy"
"get back inside!"
"useless get inside, we don't want you mess to clean up too"
'wow uncle Spitelout really show the love for his nephew' I think sarcastically to myself
Suddenly my arm its grabbed by fat hands, unfortunately I know who it belongs to
"who let him out? what are you doing out? never mind get inside before you cause any damage this morning"
'well good morning to you dad' again the sarcasm is strong in me.
After he freed my arm I rush to the forge where a busy Gobber was hard at work.
"well goo mornin, thought ye'd be eaten by now"he says to me as he replaces a broken hammerhead.
Putting on my leather apron I start pumping air into the forge to get it hotter "come on Gobber they wouldn't know what to with all this" I said gesturing to myself.
"well they need toothpicks" Gobber replies laughing as I give him a scowl.
"you make that remark every raid, one day you'll get bored of it" I say back to which he shrugs, but back to the matter at hand, the dragons.
The way I see it here's how to get ahead in life of a Berkian when depending on which dragon to kill:
Deadly Nadder: fast poisonous, one of those should earn me some respect.
Gronkle: Armoured body, killing one of those would get anyone a girlfriend, of course I don't need one of those to get me one but it would give me enough popularity to not embarrass Astrid (good thing she can't read my mind otherwise she'd punch me on that one)
Hideous Zippleback: Two heads twice the status one releases gas, the other egnights it.
Then there's the Monstrous Nightmare: These hot-headed bad boys have this nasty habit of setting themselves on fire, only the most well trained Vikings go after those.
But all these dragons don't have the highest of status earning than the one dragon no one has even seen before:
"NIGHT FURY!" "GET DOWN!" some of the men shout as a purple blast from out of nowhere blows up a nearby catapult.
It's strange though for a dragon to do, It never steals food, its never seen and it never misses.
'That's the dragon to take out' I think to myself as I look at the mangler a realise tonight's the night, I just need a window of opportunity.
*BOOM!*
One of the houses catch again, I think I'd best design a house made out of stone for this lot, otherwise they'll be no more forest.
And just on time the fire crew arrive to put it out. The usual crowd, Fishlegs, the twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut, Snotlout and his new gang:
Ugthug: Name says it all, Snotlouts muscle and twice as stupid, hows that's possible I don't know. Shaved head so he can feel the cold he says, told you, stupid. And a face even a Gronkle would be ill to look at.
Samson: That the blond one, traditional Viking trait, bulging muscles, etc. However he's the brains of the gang but not the leader, this guys a kiss-ass thinking Snotlout will be on the throne next hoping to be his advisor.
Angelica: Only female of the group, dark brown braided hair, kind of like Astrids but never in the same league as my Astrid, where as Astrid has ocean blue eye's you can swim in, hers was acid green, the kind to cause pain if you swim in them. And the very big difference between them is that she has a crush on Snotlout, but still Snotlout still wants Astrid, fat chance.
Although I'm not paying much attention to any (well maybe the twins and fishlegs since they don't pick on me any more) the only one I see is a certain Blond haired Valkyrie who I still believe the whole of Asgard is still looking for.
Astrid, my Astrid, with a smile to put fear into her enemies and protect those she loves.
Who's walking up to me.
"babe you know if you keep looking at the flames you'll go blind" she whispers in my ears with a smile on her face.
"yeah but it's not the flame's that'll blind me, more of your shining beauty" I cheekily reply back, I feel her cheeks go red from blushing as she punches me in the shoulder but still smiles.
"I'll see you later Hiccy" she says before kissing me on the cheek and running off to get more water, wow that girl of mine really can stun anyone she want's.
I don't realise I still standin there in a daze till Gobber pokes me with his hook "ow!".
"come on lover boy keep an eye on the shop while I face a few dragons, so don' move" Gobber says changing his prosthetic arm from smith hammer to war axe, but before he leaves he turns to me again and shouts "now stay, still, stay put, that's a good boy!".
'Really Gobber, does he think I'm a dog ' I think to myself as I give him a deadpan look before sarcastically replying "woof" giving him a smirk before he shrugs and walks out mumbling "ay ya sarcastic twit" and with that starts yelling at a Gronkle that's in front of him.
Now here's my chance...
I remove my apron grab hold of the handle of the mangler and run out the shops towards the hill, avoiding Viking and dragons alike until I reach my position.
I release the stands of the mangler to keep is in one place as I flip the switch that triggers the whole lot to spring out and ready for launching.
Keeping an eye out on the sky for that Night Fury through the scope I made, I play the waiting game until I have a clear shot.
"come one, give me something to hit" I say to myself looking for anything out of place.
Astrid POV
The last of the fires put out for now, I sense that something's out of place, then it hits me as I look at the forge to see its empty.
Hiccups out here somewhere.
I panic wondering where he's gone and if he's hurt or worse.
'no don't think that Astrid' I think to myself as I still look around.
Suddenly a whistling sound is heard and before I knew it one of the towers is blown up engulf in purple flames.
Damn Night Fury.
But that's not what catching my eye, the black shape of that said dragon as it flies away but not before being hit by something hard and crashes somewhere deep in the forest.
"what? w-who hit it..." I was left speechless after that for what I saw upon the hill was.
Hiccup, my Hiccup, he did it.
He hit a Night Fury.
"I did it! did anyone see that!?" I hear him shout
"yes, yes I did babe" I say out loud smiling at him, but that smile turns to worry as I see a monstrous nightmare climbing up the hill towards him.
"oh shit! you saw it too didn't you?" I hear him shout sarcastically at the dragon as it crushes his machine and he runs away scream while being chased by the fire engulfed nightmare.
Of course Im not the only one to see it as one other see's it and goes chasing after him.
Stoick the Vast comes running up the hill towards his son and the dragon as Hiccup hides behind one of the fire pillars for safety as the dragon breathes it's last lot of fire upon the wooden structure before rearing round to finish him off.
But not before Stoick jumps the beast wrestling it to the ground giving it a few rounds of punches before it takes off.
As I finally reach Hiccup the pillar had fallen down and allowed some of the captured dragons to escape but not before taking some of the livestock with them.
Oh this will not go well for Hiccup.
Everyone starts glaring at him as he looks around nervously before saying "okay but I hit a Night Fury" to which everyone groans but me, I know the truth but as everyone keeps groaning Hiccup looks at me and shakes his head.
Even if he embarrasses himself he won't let me feel like that either.
Another reason I fell for him.
"But it's true dad, I really did hit it this time, you guy's were busy and I had a clear shot , it crashed somewhere near ravens point, we can send out a search party to look for ..." but he was cut of by Stoick as he gives him a disappointed look.
"Enough Hiccup! Just...STOP! Every time you step outside disaster follow. Can't you see I have bigger problems to deal with! Winter is almost upon us and I have the entire village to feed" Stoick can lay it on thick when he wants to, but why he's the chief a lot of people would leave it at that and take his orders.
Hiccup however was like his father, very stubborn and from what my father told me about Stoick when he was younger, sarcastic too "well to be honest dad, I think the village could do with a little less feeding don't you think?".
While most of the villages look down at their stomachs from what HIccup said, I was trying hard not to laugh, that boy of mine could face the Roman army with swords in every angle pointing at him and he would still be witty.
But Stoick wasn't amused "this isn't a joke Hiccup! why can't you follow the simplest orders!?".
Hiccup quickly responds "I-I can't help it dad! I see a dragon and I have to just..." he does a headlock imitation of what he would do to a dragon "..kill it, you know? It's who I am dad" Finishes with a sigh of defeat.
To which Stoick starts to sigh as well "You're many things Hiccup, but dragon killer Isn't one of them" he turns away from Hiccup and walks through the crowd towards Gobber "make sure he gets home, I have his mess to clean up"
Gobber walks up to Hiccup and smacks him around the head and I decide to follow them, hearing the jeers from some of the teens mainly Snotface and his gang.
"Quite the performance" Samson remarks
"you wreck more than err...what are those wing things called again?" I hear Ugthug ask
"Dragons you idiot!" I shout out
"yeah whatever at least he's not the worst thing to live in the village, that position is still Useless here" Snotlout remarks gesturing to Hiccup making his gang laugh
"good one my future chief" Angelica compliments making feel ill.
But not before I get angry.
I quickly kick Snotlout, Ugthug and Samson in their family jewels while giving Angelica a punch in the stomach since she has no jewels for me to kick.
I walk by with all four on the ground holding their injured body parts to which I see the twins and Fishlegs smile and give me a quick thumbs up. I smile and chase after Hiccup and Gobber who are talking now the crowds has dispersed.
"I really did hit one Gobber" I hear hiccup say to Gobber
"sure ye did" He replies back to Hiccup
Hiccup stops "He just never listens!"
Gobber scratches his chin as he replies back "well it runs in the family"
Hiccup carries on "and when he does, it's always with this...disappointed scowl, like someone skimped on the meat in his sandwich"
Oh boy I know when the way he stands like that, he's going to an impression of his dad, I got to admit, he's very good at it.
"Excuse me, barmaid! I'm afraid you brought me the wrong offspring! I ordered an extra-large boy with beefy arms, extra guts and glory on the side. This here, this is a talking fish-bone!" he finishes with his head hanging low, I can't take it now I rush up to him, punch his right shoulder "ow!" I hear him shout before engulfing him in a hug.
"you're not a fishbone Hiccup, you're just not built like other" I say to him not letting go of him and leaving Gobber speechless.
"But I barely have any muscles" he remarks which earns him another punch.
"you have very strong muscles right here" I reply tapping his head"and don't you forget it. To which he smiles and hugs me back "thank milady" and I start to smile.
Gobber finally picks his jaw off the floor as he shrugs and taps us on our combined shoulders "well I'll leave ye two love birds alone, I nee te be at a meetin anyway, don do anythin stupid while I'm gone" and with that he hobbles away leave me and Hiccup alone before I decide to head off too.
"well I'll see you later babe" I say to him as I kiss his cheek goodbye, and with that, he heads into him house.
But before I could walk away, I hear a bang like a door opening and shutting, I quickly look round the house to see Hiccup heading towards the forest. I wonder where he's going?
And then it hits me.
The Night Fury!
I decide to follow him quietly to see if he need's help.
The Great Hall Stoick POV
What a way to begin a morning, I wonder who is worse, the dragons or Hiccup.
Well one way or another these raids have to stop or I might lose my son like I lost my wife.
'Lets get this over with' I think to myself as look toward the men and women in the hall.
"Okay I'm going to come straight to the point, these raids are killing us and I can't stand it any more, either we finish them, or they'll finish us! It's the only way we'll be rid of them! If we find the nest and destroy it, the dragons will leave. They'll find another home! One more search, before the ice sets in."
Some Viking protest "Those ships never come back!" I should f guessed they'd say that.
"we're Vikings! it's an occupational hazard! So who's with me!?"
Not a single hand goes up okay now to threaten.
"okay...those who stay can look after Hiccup" I finish off saying.
Suddenly all hands go up,ouch that hurts, was my son so bad that they'd rather take death by sea than look after Hiccup?.
"that's what I thought, prepare the ships!" and with that the hall is empty except for me and Gobber who was finishing his drink before getting up.
"right best pack my undies" he says but I stop him.
"no Gobber I want you to stay and rain new recruits" I say putting my hand on his shoulder.
"oh ay leave me the dirty work while ye lot have fun findin the nest, well atleast Hiccup will have time te make some more inventions to occupy his time" he replies trying to finish the rest of his drink only for him to lose his stone tooth in th mug.
I however sit down near him sighing "what am I going to do with him Gobber"
"put 'im in dragon training with the others Stoick" he replies to me, he must be drunk.
"no, I'm serious Gobber!" I say to him
"So am I!" he replies back
"He'd be killed before you let the first dragon out of its cage!" I remark.
"ye don't know that"
"I do know that!"
"no ye don't"
"yes I do"
"no! ye don't!"
Pinching the bridge of my nose I speak once again "Listen, you know what he's like. From the time he could crawl he's been... different. He doesn't listen, he has the attention span of a sparrow... I take him fishing and he goes hunting for, for trolls!".
Now Gobber starts getting frustrated "Trolls exist! They steal your socks. But only the left ones. What's with that?".
I sigh "when I was a boy" I start saying hearing Gobber mumble "oh here we go again" but I carry on "...my father told me to bang my head against a rock and I did it! I thought I was crazy, but I didn't question him. And you know what happened?".
"ye got a headache?" he say's with a deadpanned voice while he tries to fish out his tooth from his mug.
"no! That rock split in two! It taught me what a Viking can do, Gobber, he can, he can crush mountains, level forests, tame seas! Even as a boy, I knew what I was, what I had to become... Hiccup is not that boy" I finish off sighing.
"I kno that Stoick, ye know that Hiccup tried that same trick?" Gobber asks me.
I was shocked, Hiccup banged his head against a rock? I never knew that so I shook my head "well ye know wha happened next?" he asks me.
"the rock split in two?" I said with hope in my voice.
"no, he got a headache" he replies back but doesn't finish there "but it gave 'im an idea, an he made a pickaxe, went back and split it then, ye boys doesn' face problems with strength, he uses his brain Stoick so if anythin ye can listen to him on what he wants te do. I mean ye can't stop 'im Stoick he's gonna get out there, in fact he might be out there right now".
In the Forest Hiccups POV
Two hours, two bloody hours I've been search for this blasted dragon as I scribble out another area I've check. Frustrated I scribble the whole map and put my book back in my jacket.
"oh the Gods must hate me. Some people lose their knife or their mug... No, not me, I manage to lose an entire dragon!" I say to no one in particular as I whack a nearby branch for it to retaliate and whack me back. "ouch!" I shout.
But stop when what I see before me is a wreck, like someone or something crashed though here.
I follow the carnage of broken trees as I come across a boulder, but what I see over the boulder surprised me.
It was a dragon.
A black dragon.
A black dragon tied up in bolas.
My bolas.
Wait, it's the Night Fury.
I jump up and down with excitement that I did something right "Oh, wow... I-I did it! Oh, I did it! This, this fixes everything! *Yes*! I have brought down this mighty beast...!" but was cut off when the dragon started moving as I put my foot upon it.
It was still alive?
I look from its tail to it's torso, to its wing then finally to it's head with it's eye's staring at me looking right at me but doesn't move.
This is still my chance, I pull the trgger on my armbands releasing my scimitars holding them out ready to strike. "I'm gonna kill you dragon. I'm gonna... I'm gonna cut out your heart and take it to my father. I'm a Viking. I am a Viking!" I say breathing heavily wait why am I breathing like I'm panicking? This beast should be panicking not me!.
I ready my scimitars again but shakily this time.
But this time I look into the dragons eye's and I see something as it widens its eye's...fear.
Wait fear, that can't be right but then it does something that surprised me even more, it closed it's eyes and laid back accepting it's fate.
Ready to strike but then I look at the frightened Night Fury and to my scimitars and I fall to my knee near in tears at what I was about to do "I did this...".
As my style I do something stupid and then something crazy, I slash the ropes with my blade, freeing the Night Fury, but I don't notice it open it's eye's and it pouncing on me, oh Gods it's going to kill me.
Forest green eye's meets forest green eye's, even it they're dragonic, like in my dreams. But I'll worry about that in the afterlife as I'll be there very soon.
Astrid POV
Oh gods what did that idiot of a boyfriend of mine do, he had the dragon in the palm of his hands and ready to strike, but he freed it and now he's going to pay. I can't watch but I have to so I'll remember what dragon I need to avenge Hiccup with.
*ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!*
What?
I don't get it, it just roared and ran off.
But thank the gods, my Hiccup is still alive.
Now I can kill him.
I jump out of my hiding place rush up to Hiccup and punch him in the arm hard.
"ow! Astrid why!?" I hear him shout.
"that's for scaring me Hiccup!, you could of been killed!" I shout back at him startling him.
"but I'm still alive" I hear him mumble.
I decide to grab his shoulders as I start to calm down "Hiccup, you had it trapped, you could of killed it. Why didn't you?" I say looking into his eye's I see curiosity.
"I-I'm sorry Astrid I just couldn't" he say looking down at his feet.
I wasn't buying that "that's not an answer" crossing my arms.
He starts getting frustrated, I can tell when he scrunches up his eye's "I swear we said this last year..." he says to me but waves his hands in defeat "okay! So I wouldn't kill a dragon, three hundred years and I'm the first one to not slay one!" he finishes catching his breath hanging his head low, he must be thinking that I'm disappointed in him, like the rest of the village.
But he's wrong.
I gently grab hold of his shoulders again and smile at him "first one to take down a Night Fury, that's pretty impressive" he looks at me and gives me a sad smile.
Lifting his head up he carries on "I looked into his eye's, and I saw that he was frightened as I was, I saw myself in those eye's Astrid, that's why i couldn't kill him".
So that's why he let it go. Not because he was a afraid for himself, but more for the dragon.
Okay that's a whole new sign of something stupid and crazy combined.
But it got me thinking.
Why didn't it kill Hiccup when it had the chance to?
Shaking my head to put that though at the back of my mind, because I just realised that tomorrow, us teens are starting dragon training tomorrow, how will Hiccup cope after this?
"Hiccup, what are you going to do about tomorrow? Dragon training starts tomorrow" I ask him, like always he'll come up with something.
He sigh as he looks at me but smiles "well it's clear from this I can't kill dragons, I'll just tell my dad, hopefully he might listen, pah! yeah right and you have more of a chance of kissing Snotlout" he replies back.
Okay that this punch is one he definitely deserves.
*WHACK!*
"OW!" he shouts holding his right arm.
"THAT Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is for even saying something that disgusting" I shout to him shuddering at that thought "now I'm going to have nightmares for weeks, unless..." I say giving him an evil grin.
He looks nervous "err un-unless what?".
I give him only a few words "...unless you cure me" before I tackle him to the ground with my lips pressed against his as I grab his ass...
One make out session later (no not sex to the dirty minded one's :P) Hiccup POV
Woah talk about a cure, both sets of cheeks feel numb after that as I stagger out of the forest and towards my house, Astrid already gone home after that, big smile upon her face. But it was nice to have her in my arms as we made out, it should give me the courage to face my dad.
As I open the door to my house, speak of the devil, he's sat there in his chair looking at a map, must be another nest search before the ice sets.
Well I got to admit, he's determined.
Well heres my chance to tell him.
"err dad, c-can I talk to you" I say to him nervously as he looks up
"I wanted to have a word with you too Hiccup" he replies back
Then like the stubborn idiots we are we both decide to speak.
"I think its time you learn to fight dragons"
"I've decided I don't want to fight dragons"
"what" We both say at the same time
"you go first" I tell him
"no, no son, I need to learn to listen, you go first" he replies back, shocking me a bit.
Shaking my head I come back to my senses as I say what I needed to say.
"dad I realised I can't kill dragons, you're right, I'm not a dragon killer, but I need to find who I am and at the moment dragon killing isn't one of them"
My dad looked surprised at first because for last few years all I kept saying was that I want to kill dragon but now I don't.
"I mean I'm good at blacksmithing, with a couple of more winters I'll be fully trained and be able to help the village that way" I finish off hoping no shouting comes from all this.
For once the gods cut me a little slack as I see a smile forming on my dads face.
"well I can't argue with that, from what Gobber told me, you do a fine job with that, okay son you get your wish, however while we're away, I want you to help Gobber with the new recruits, I know you have read the book of dragons more time than the Ingerman boy" he says to me patting my shoulders with his shovels for hands.
Wait, help Gobber with dragon training? Well could be worse.
He walks away toward a large sack upon the floor picks it up and walks towards the door, "okay I'll be back...probably" In a dull tone.
I reply back in the same tone "and I'll be here...maybe"
With a nod he walks out the the door and slams it shut.
"well that well" I say to myself as I sit by the fire, thinking about what a morning it's been.
Tomorrows going to be a very very interesting day.