Hi! So, I didn't write notes in a long time, that's because I forgot about them at the start, so you get them now. First of all, welcome back! All thanks to the supportive people asking for the sequel, because without them I would delay it, but I said fuck it and wrote this shi-
Just so we understood each other, the story will be timed around rtte and httyd 2. Combination time! Also, as I counted, there will be around 200k words if not 300k... Yes, I can't sleep at night.
ALSO, IM PLANNING 4 BOOKS 100K OF IT. Somebody kill me, please. I am going to college next year. Where I'll find time for dating people like normal human beings.
Oh, I forgot I'm a shapeshifter writer.
Nvm, I don't need people.
(Regards to the guy who commented on the story first, before I was able to fully publish it. I love ya, call me.)
It was no surprise that everybody, who walked nearby Haddock's household, must have glanced at it, both shocked and not. The sound which was coming out of there was loud enough that it was audible miles from it, making everyone close to it alert.
Even so, nobody was eager to check the reason, until the one blond-haired woman, who, narrowing her eyes at the building, went toward it, curious. Certain that the knocking wouldn't work, she peeked inside through the created by her gap in the main door.
Immediately, she caught a glimpse of the reason for the racket, also known as her chief's laughter. The man was bent in half, his eyes were wet, and was gasping for air, standing in the middle of the room.
Noticing so, she lifted her brow at him, until detecting the other two figures by the table. Firstly, it was Toothless, who scowled Stoic, relying himself on the back of his chair, irritated. Just after him, she caught sight of Hiccup, supporting her forearms on his shoulders, leaning just over him, the same way annoyed staring at her father.
Eventually, while Hiccup's eyes saw her blue ones, she sighed, grinning weakly. "Hey, Astrid," she welcomed her, not bothering herself with Stoic's laughing. "Come in, please."
"If ya insist," she agreed, slipping inside swiftly. "Good mornin', chief," she greeted and tsked, when the man proceeded with his activity, "Hiccup," she continued, smiling at the young woman and then glaring at Toothless, "dick."
"Skank," he replied, while the line appeared between his brows, before he smirked, teasingly. "How is your thigh? Still hurts after our rematch?"
"How is yer ear? Still gashed?" She teased, pointing at his mentioned body part.
"Fuck you," he growled, looking to the side, hiding his ear from her view.
"I would tell ya the same, but that's Hiccup's work."
"Hold on! Don't brin' me up into whatever ye're doin'," Hiccup scolded and rumbled, seeing how both of them showed each other their tongues. "Like kids."
"Maybe, but well, I didn't come for that. What's with him?" Astrid inquired, pointing at Stoic with her chin. "How long does he-?"
"Hour and a half," Toothless answered, grasping the cup of water before drinking from it. "Sumbitch's got some strong lungs."
"Toothless, language," Hiccup warned, furrowing down at him, at which he shrugged. "Well, but that's true still."
"Why is he laughin' anyway?" Astrid asked, sizing Stoic up.
"We told him that we would like to move out of the village," Hiccup sighed, leaning her chin on Toothless's top of the head. "Since then, he's like that."
"Ya want to leave the village?" Astrid proceeded, humming while observing them nod. "Okay, so, what has he said?"
"Nothing yet. We're waiting for his answer, still," Toothless retorted and simpered. "Although, something tells me he's positive."
"What?!" Stoic yelled suddenly, halting his laughter. "What in the world would tell ya that?!"
"I knew it would work," Toothless muttered to Hiccup and inhaled, straightening. "Stoic, I took it from the context, from you cheering and laughing! You aren't positive? I was wrong?"
"Don't fuckin' ironize me here, because I swear that I'll kick ya out of here, literally!"
"I will help, chief!" Astrid proposed, squinting her eyes at Toothless. "Gladly."
"Astrid, please, it's not time for jokes," Hiccup pointed out, stroking her eyelids. "I hope that we'll talk normally now, right Dad?"
"Move out?! Leave the village?! What's with that bullshit?!" Stoic bellowed, gritting his teeth at Toothless. "Have ya pressed her into it?!"
Instantly, Toothless stood up, but before he could've done something more Hiccup came between him and her father. "Dad, I was the one to propose that," she revealed, pressing her hand to her chest, while her second arm covered Toothless, protectively.
"Somehow, I don't believe that!" Stoic fumed, glowering at the man, who stank his chest out, confidently. "Stop persuadin' my daughter-,"
"If I'm sayin' that I proposed it, then it's true, damn it!" Hiccup snapped, wrinkling her nose. "Since ya want to yell at somebody, yell at me."
"Damned right, I will," Stoic murmured, setting his jaw. "Generation of chiefs, our forefathers, ancestors, hundreds of years of their lives, and Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, heir, my only child, wants to flee away," he snorted, shaking his head. "I don't even know what to think."
"Well, I think that's for the best-,"
"How is that for the best?! Future Chiefness wants to depart from her tribe! How does it look?!"
"It's not me that wants to depart from the tribe, it's the tribe that wants to depart from me, and as a model chief I listen, and do!"
"Bullcrap! Ya are not goin' anywhere! I won't ever agree to this-!" He shouted, stepping forward to Hiccup and while he did, Toothless did the same, covering her with his shoulder, with his expression hardened. "She let me yell-,"
"So?" Toothless rasped and his lips drew in a snarl. "I didn't."
"Toothless, I got this, sit," she ordered, pointing at the nearby chair, and after he didn't move, barked. "Sit down, now!"
Afterward, he listened obediently, not taking his sight from Stoic, until detecting Astrid's stare and raising his brow at her. "Dominated," she whispered, pouting at him.
"Cram it," he mumbled back.
"Back to theme," Hiccup grunted, focusing the attention on her. "I think it's the time to say it, loud and clear, that we're just not happy here."
"Ye're not happy here?" Stoic questioned, sticking his eye on her.
"In the village."
"Ye're not happy in the village," he repeated, whiffing. "Hiccup, I understand that it's a harder time, but it's not the reason to make such decisions and it's only momentary."
"That harder time, that momentary period, lasts for two months now."
"It'll get better soon."
"Better? It's not gettin' better any time soon, the opposite from what I see it!" Hiccup stated and pressed her lips, hard. "Look, we're just not good, here."
"We? So I was right, he convinced ya into somethin'," Stoic growled, leering at Toothless, twisting his face.
"No, he didn't!"
"Then why we?"
"I am not good, here!" Hiccup boomed, suddenly. "Better?!"
"Very," Stoic groaned and sighed. "I consider it truth, however, I also think ya may overreact it, because, how bad is that? It's not a catastrophe! Nobody chases ya with axes and torches!"
"Yet," she snickered, crossing her arms.
"I just find it not as bad as you may."
"And I am with Hiccup," Astrid joined unexpectedly, swaying on her feet. "It's gettin' worse in the village, everybody noticed that, and the idea of them bein' absent through it isn't so wrong. The opposite. It might solve a lot of problems."
"Of course, it may, it's the easiest path, right? Although, the easiest path isn't the best path, sometimes."
"Since when you're such a philosopher?" Toothless coughed, mumbling.
"Right now, it's our only path," Hiccup droned, throwing her arms in the air, before loosening. "Dad, I get it, I really do. Ye're must be worried, that we," she paused, clicking her tongue, "that I wouldn't be able to take care of myself, but it's goin' to be okay-,"
"Ya think that I'm worried ya wouldn't take care of yerself?! I'm sure that ya wouldn't be able to take care of yerself."
"Ouch, that was harsh," Astrid hissed, grinning, awkwardly.
"Excuse me?! Ya think I couldn't do that?!" Hiccup snarled, narrowing her eyes.
"Of course I do! Hiccup, ya have no idea about survival!"
"And whose fault is that, since I could never leave the house to learn that, because of some sick chores?!"
"Spill the facts, sister!" Astrid shouted, gaining the eye roll from irritated Toothless and Stoic.
"Yers! In fact, I tried to teach ya some of it, but the last time I took ya on fishin' ya were lookin' for trolls!"
Suddenly, Toothless sniggered, loudly enough that everybody glanced in his direction. "Trolls?!" He laughed, gazing at Hiccup, amused.
In contrast to him, Hiccup wasn't delighted much. "For yer information, I was five then," she grumbled, sulking. "At that age, ya couldn't even say that word."
"At least I could fish," he mocked and smirked, while Hiccup grimaced, before Stoic yapped, boring his eyes into the young woman.
"Ya see?! How do ya expect to survive?! No abilities, no knowledge, what ya will do in the total wild?! It's far too dangerous!"
"It's way safer than livin' here, among people who daily plan my murder, and Toothless's!" Hiccup countered, gnashing her teeth.
"Okay, they may plan his murder," Stoic began, pointing at Toothless who puckered, "but they would never harm my daughter!"
"Ya don't know that, they might."
"They won't! Besides, ya'd better say me, what's yer plan for survival? Do ya know at least the basics?"
"She doesn't have to, I'll teach her everything," Toothless interrupted shrugging.
"Look who is talkin'! Weren't ya makin' fun of hers abilities yerself, moment ago?"
"It was a joke, and she knows that!" He noted, straightening at his spot. "Also, as for me, she doesn't need anyone's help. After all, my girl killed the biggest dragon known to mankind," he reminded and winked at Hiccup who beamed, reddening slightly.
"And so what! It's still dangerous! It's irresponsible! It's-!"
"The only irresponsible thin' is yer disagreement!" Hiccup yelled, while her nostrils flared. "We just gave ya the answer for the dread in the village, and hence, the ridden of all yer problems! Why won't ya just agree?!"
"I will never agree with that! I won't lose ya like I lost yer mother!"
Afterward, there was no person whose face didn't cross the uneasiness. Gazing at the floor, Toothless scratched his neck anxiously, while two women traded their glances, troubled. Finally, Hiccup opened her mouth to speak, but her father overtook her.
"Don't pity me. I don't need it."
"I wasn't gonna, just wanted to say that our leavin' doesn't mean that we won't be back, or that we won't visit at all," Hiccup responded, stroking her hands. "I think it'll be better if-,"
"What about yer family, Hiccup? What about me, Gobber, even Astrid? Ya will just leave us?"
"If my family loves me, then it'll understand that I'm unhappy, and they'll let me go, instead of keepin' me here like some depressed animal!" She barked, and once she did, turned her face away, while Stoic's expression closed up.
"Right," he murmured, inhaling. "Do whatever ya want," he ended and went away to the entrance.
Through that, Hiccup stared at him, hugging herself, and shivering after hearing the bang of the door. Consequently, Toothless stood up, concerned at the notice of Hiccup's anxiety, and placed his hand against her shoulder, before embracing her from back, encircling his arms around her middle.
"Don't bother yourself with him," he whispered into her ear, leaning his chin on her shoulder. "It's okay, you did a good thing."
"I don't feel like I did," she mumbled, resisting the side of her head against his. "Tell me it'll be alright," she asked, blinking swiftly.
"It'll be alright," he swore and kissed the corner of his eye, wincing at the salty taste.
"So, ye're leavin'?" Astrid interrupted, shifting one foot to another, embarrassed by the occurring situation, and tsking while Hiccup nodded. "Good, good," she stated, and witnessing Toothless's glare at her, the corner of her mouth lifted. "Don't worry, lover boy, I'm leavin'."
"Ya don't have to, Astrid," Hiccup offered, glistening at Toothless, who was smiling innocently. "Ya may stay if ya-,"
"No, no. I've got a lot of work, also ya may want to start packin' and I'll leave it up to ya," Astrid objected, moving to the door but stopping in the doorframe. "Just, don't forget to come by to say goodbye," she suggested, before disappearing behind the door, grinning.
Afterward, the two of them remained still, gaping at the entrance, until Toothless heard Hiccup's sniffling. Leaning over her he glimpsed her glistened eyes and sighing stepped in front of her, opening his arms.
Immediately, Hiccup sank in him, pressing her face into his chest, while he kept kissing her head, comforting her. Eventually, just as she began sobbing, he shushed, tightening his hold on her.
"It'll be alright, freckle," he vowed, whispering. "I promise."