Hey yo! I'm back, as much as I'd love to update daily I can't… *starts crying* I have school… I will update as much as I can. But it will hardly be daily. at the latest I will update weekly otherwise it will feel more like a chore and less like a fun piece of writing. Anyway! Onto todays chapter! Enjoy!
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Thoughts
"Speech"
[Movie]
"Movie Speech"
Dragon Thoughts
"Dragon Speech"
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EXT. SKY - AFTERNOON
[Toothless and Hiccup soar through a perfect blue sky.
Billowing clouds rise like mountains. The ground seems miles
below them.]
Stoick eyes Hiccup worriedly.
The group stare at Hiccup as if he was insane. He probably was.
HICCUP
Okay there bud, we're gonna take
this nice and slow.
Toothless rolls his eyes.
[Hiccup checks a leather cheat sheet, clipped onto his
harness. Inscribed upon it are several tail positions and
their pedal position equivalents.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Here we go. Here we go...position
three, no four.
The group roll their eyes.
[He presses the pedal, causing the tail to flare. They roll
off into an arcing bank, gloriously lit by the late afternoon
sun.
Hiccup tucks tight against his neck, thrilled that his new
harness and vest are holding. The foot controls make the tail
appendage quick and responsive. He watches Toothless' every
fluctuation, trying to match it with the prosthetic.
Hiccup sizes up a target - a towering arch of stone, rising
from the sea.]
The twins jaws fall open.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Alright, it's go time. It's go
time.
[They dive toward it, lining up to pass through the arch.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Come on. Come on buddy. Come on
buddy!
[They zip through the arch. A perfect maneuver.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Yeah! Yes, it worked!
Snotlout stares at Hiccup in shock "I can't believe it worked!" Astrid nods her head in mock agreement.
[The triumph is short-lived. They smack into one of several
sea stacks as Hiccup tries to keep up with the turns.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Sorry.
Snotlout throws his hands up in victory "yess I was right" Snotlout and Astrid high-fived, Hiccup pouted.
[They hurtle into another rock pillar. Toothless grumbles.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
My fault.
[Toothless swats him with his 'ear' plate.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Yeah, yeah, I'm on it.
(referring to the cheat SHEET)
Position four, no three.
Snotlout smirks.
[They pierce the clouds. For the first time, Hiccup can see
the whole of the island below them. It shrinks with every
passing second. He SWALLOWS hard and tightens his grip on the
handles.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Yeah! Go baby! Yes! Oh, this is
amazing! The wind in my...
[He spots the leather guide tearing free in the turbulence.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
(PANICKED)
... CHEAT SHEET! STOP!
The group along with Stoick, Gobber, Gothi and a few others face-palmed.
Hope and Astrid groaned "let me guess he stopped?" Hiccup smiled innocently. Astrid smiled and quickly kissed Hiccup on the cheek while the others weren't looking. Hope smiled at the young couple.
[Hiccup grabs frantically for the airborne sheet...]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
No!
[... and NABS IT before it's carried out of reach. Toothless,
however, obeys the command and suddenly STOPS beating his
wings.]
"I KNEW IT!"
Hiccup huffs and tries to hide away from the other teens who were currently forgetting it was the past and fearing for Hiccup's life along with Stoick and Gobber. The twins however were loving every moment Hiccup got into trouble.
[As they slow to a stop, Hiccup goes weightless. The rings of
his vest float off of the harness hooks. Hiccup suddenly
finds himself detached, free-falling.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Oh gods! Oh no!
[Without Hiccup, the tail loses control. Hiccup and Toothless
spiral downward. Toothless FIGHTS to get back under Hiccup.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
(trying to calm Toothless)
Alright, okay. You just gotta kinda
angle yourself. No, no...come back
down towards me. Come back down—
Astrid and Fishlegs face-palm "you're falling to your death and your worrying about Toothless?!"
Hiccup shrugs as he sits back up against Toothless, petting him gently.
[Hiccup extends his arms and legs, giving himself as much
surface area as he can. He angles back towards Toothless as
the tumbling dragon WHACKS Hiccup with his wing.
After a few more misses, Hiccup finally GRABS HOLD of the
harness and manages to lock in - just in time to pull
Toothless out of his dive... barely shy of the tree tops.
They careen past the wooded cliff and directly into a
treacherous slalom course of jutting sea stacks.
Hiccup pulls the cheat sheet from his teeth and attempts to
check positions. It flaps violently in the turbulence, making
it impossible.]
Stoick and Gobber pale dramatically their faces almost like a ghost.
Hope rolls her eyes ugh it's in the past!
With no time to think, Hiccup throws it away and steers
Toothless' tail on instinct... with perfect intuition.
Together, they manage a tight, hair-rasing series of split-
second turns, making it to the open water, unscathed.
Hiccup takes a breath and glances back at the death-defying
obstacle course, now safely behind them. He beams, relieved.
He sits back and throws his arms up in victory.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
YEEAHHH!
Snotlout, the group and some villages mouths drop open, too stunned to speak.
Snotlout breaks out of the trance and pats Hiccup on the back "way to go cuz!"
[Toothless concurs with a happy SQUEAL and a fireball.
Hiccup's glee turn to dread as they fly directly into it.]
ON HICCUP'S FACE
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Ah, come on.
The group snicker.
Stoick and Gobber break out of their trance colour returning to their faces.
EXT. BLACK SAND BEACH - SUNSET
[Hiccup and Toothless lounge on a sprawling, deserted beach,
snacking of freshly caught fish. As Hiccup cooks his over a
fire, Toothless suddenly regurgitates a fish head. Hiccup
smirks with forced politeness.]
Fishlegs gags "please tell me you're not going to eat that.
HICCUP
Uh..no thanks.
(gesturing to his fish on
A STICK)
I'm good.
Fishlegs along with many others sigh with relief.
[Several Terrible Terrors land like seagulls, hissing and
nipping at each other as they approach Toothless' pile of
fish.
One grabs the regurgitated fish head and drags it away.
Another attempts to steal it from him. They face off and last
fire balls at each other to settle the fight. Hiccup and
Toothless watch, amused. That is until...
Toothless spots one of his fish leaving the pile. A stealthy
Terrible Terror is exposed as the thief. They tug on the
fish, and it snaps back into Toothless' mouth. He swallows it
back tauntingly.
Irate, the little dragon paws at the ground and blast
Toothless. He opens his mouth, the gas hiss comes, and
Toothless fires a tiny flame straight into its mouth, causing
the gas to backfire into the little dragon. It coughs up
smoke and staggers away, looking ill.
Hiccup laughs.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Not so fireproof on the inside, are
you?
Ruffnut looks at the others "I feel like that's going to be important in the future. Hope smiles they're a lot smarter than they seem.
[Hiccup throws the hapless Terror his freshly cooked fish.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
Here you go.
[The appreciative little dragon gulps down the meal and
approaches Hiccup cautiously. He curls up next to him. Hiccup
is amazed.]
HICCUP (CONT'D)
(PENSIVE)
Everything we know about you guys
is wrong.
Stoick is stunned, Hiccup, his son, was friends with a dragon a Nightfury for Thor's sake! These dragons they've known to kill weren't harming his son. Maybe they weren't so bad after all.
[Hiccup carefully pets him... sending the Terror into an
immediate, blissful sleep.]
The village look around at each other confused. Are dragons still the mindless killing beasts we once knew?
The group smile at one another, hoping to get through to the other Vikings.
Done! Chapter 13 another one down! Not long to go… I hope… anyway tell me what do ya think? Till sometime in the future…
-Hope signing out 'n' logging off!
