21Racing Against Time
By: Red Hawkdude
Original Idea by NightStarFury, they are an amazing author who does epic tales. Based off their story 'Not What You Expected'
Rated: M for coarse language and violence.
Disclaimer: I do not own HTTYD or anything I may accidently use.
A/N A heavy rewrite of my original version after I talked with NightstarFury like I should have before I wrote my original story, any how this is now how it will be, the largest of edits will probably be well never mind I am heavily editing the whole thing.
Chapter 1: The War
For as long as we Vikings can remember we have been at war with the dragons, although there have been tales of people who have tried to stop the fighting but that's just it they are just tales. I am Hiccup Horrendous Haddock iii, Son of Stoick the Vast who happens to be the Chief of this village. Now most would think of that as a good thing, like people would worship me or something so as to not encourage the wrath of my father but that is not the case. I am mainly known as Hiccup the Loser (aka The Loser of Berk) my life is miserable, I am an outcast of Viking society I mean I look like bones, flesh, and a toothpick for dragons. Which reminds me, we live In a constant fear of dragons and there are raids almost once a week right now which sucks because every time there is a raid I get stuck in the smithery to sharpen weapons. Basically meaning I will never get the chance to prove myself as a Viking.
Anyways I am going somewhere with my ramblings, It's that I am an inventor and I have made something that will hopefully let everyone see that I can down and kill a dragon. Well anyways as it happens tonight is my chance to show Berk what I can do because Gobber decided to join the fight meaning I have a chance to escape the smithery and see what I can hit with my Boa launcher.
Just as Gobber walks out Hiccup turns around and runs into the back of the workshop where he grabs his latest invention and starts out the door.
"Excuse me coming through" I yell as I stumble around the streets of Berk trying to get to better vantage point to set up my bola launcher. Just as I rounds the corner on the outskirts of town I stop dead in my tracks as I almost ran straight into a Deadly Nadder which only glanced at me before continuing on its merry way before I could react with any more than a scared step back. I worked hard for a few seconds to just calm my nerves after looking a dragon in the eye and it not attacking me. Finally, I get calmed down enough that I can finish the last few hundred yards to my chosen vantage point. The vantage point I chose was a cliff edge at the top of town overlooking most of the town and the bay, as soon as I made it up I opened up the turret mount and readied the ballista crossbow I was using as my launcher, just as I finished I heard the unmistakable shriek of a Night Fury. I scanned the dark night skies for the unmistakable silhouette of the night fury. I still hadn't seen it when the massive archer tower just below me exploded in a ball of plasma from the night fury leaving me a short second to see it fly by almost at supersonic speeds. Before I knew what was happening instinct took over and I swung the Ballista around and guessed at where the night fury would go and squeezed the trigger with a slow and deliberate pressure I watched as the strings on the ballista were released from their small holding and shot the boa out of the launcher at astonishing speed toward the sky and maybe my saving grace.
The time the boa took to reach the desired height seemed to take hours instead of the mere seconds that passed by while I was hyped on adrenaline. I just stared as it hit something and I heard a cry of pain, a Night Fury's cry of pain. I was ecstatic that I finally hit something and I jumped and yelled for joy but no one was paying attention to see what I did. So I did something stupid and yelled and hollered saying "did anyone see that? Anyone?" just then I turned around hearing something that scared me, out of the corner of my eye I see a nightmare climbing up onto the ledge I was on. I was terrified and I just ran down the hill with it running right behind me "HICCUP" I stop and the nightmare stares me down, I look at it with a very questioning look as the world around starts to crumble "HICCUP" I hear that strange voice again before everything just fades.
I woke up in my bed at home and look out my window before I hear my dad calling up the stairs "HICCUP" I holler back at him "Yes Dad?" I wait for a seconded before I realize that it is Monday morning and I need to get to school, "Shit" I say to myself as I jump out of bed and ran to my closet and grab a set of clothes I laid out the night before.
"You're Going to be late for school hurry up" He Shouts up the stairs.
I slip into them quickly and look for my bag, I see it just under the bed I grab it and run down the stairs to get breakfast and almost forget my dad is there.
"Hiccup don't be late for school" Stoic says calmly handing me lunch and setting a plate of breakfast in front of me.
"Thanks dad, when did you get home" I ask curious because well last I checked he was on a business.
"late last night and I am heading out again this morning. I thought I would surprise you with something" Stoick chuckled after he said that.
"Oh thanks dad, also will you be home for the weeks around Christmas?"
"currently yes but that may change if they need me in Dubai." Stoick said with a frown
"They want me to do a demonstration of our newest vehicle." Stoick smiled at me
"I promise that I will be home for Christmas day that much I can do in remembrance of Valka" Stoick says gruffly
"Thanks dad I appreciate that" I said solemnly before quickly finishing breakfast and running to my car. One of the many things that nobody knows about me is that I am the son of Stoick the Vast, the CEO of the world's largest corporation and the owner of a true mansion. Not that anyone cares anyways since they all think that I am just another lowly nerd which I like cause then I don't get attention what I have, I get attention for who I am. Little did I know then that this was all about to change and for a while I can't say it was for the better.
I sprinted down the halls at school and slide into the classroom just as the bell rang for class to start.
"Good Morning Hiccup, cutting it close to the bell I see" Mr. King states
"Sorry Sir, had a surprise visit by my Father this morning" I reply as I walk over and sit down beside Andrew and Fishlegs, and just in front of Ezra.
"I understand" King Replies before walking up to white board and starting class.
I feel someone tap my shoulder and I turn to see Andrew, he is "Silent" though not really, after a traumatic event in his life he stopped talking except to extremely close family and friends.
(A/N for Andrew, 99 percent of what he says will be in sign language, when it isn't in sign language I will do an A/N above to explain when.)
"How do you feel the Concert went last night?" He asks in sign language.
"I personally think we did great, though I think next time we need to do some more with the audience because we don't ever do anything with them" I whisper in his direction knowing he has good hearing.
"Good idea, though how can we do it and keep our identities secret" he signs then shrugs his shoulders.
"probably just continue with the masks and face paint on, they work well enough right now so why not then" I ask him in a hushed tone this time.
"Good point, let's talk more about this during lunch" he finishes off
"Yeah good Idea" I tell him as the bell rings for us to go to first period of the day, Home room is just their way of getting all the info out that each grade needs without having to do morning announcements, so people tend to just talk and ignore what is happening during it.
I get up and walk out the door to go to math where we are apparently having a quiz during today's class. As I walk in the classroom I see a note on the smartboard.
'Quiz on the last 2 weeks of work you have the whole class time to complete. Please get out your pencils, rulers and calculator' hmm. I guess we do have a quiz today.
I sit down in my seat and pull out my tools that I will need for the test. Just as I finish getting them out the teacher walks in.
"Good Morning Class" Mrs. Ginzel says as she smiles then points to the board.
"I hope everyone has everything ready for the quiz today" she then picks up a pile of papers and starts handing them to the students.
"Let's get started, when you get it you can start" She says as she hands a small stack to each student in the first row of each column.
Once the test reaches my I pass the last 2 copies back to the student behind me. I then add my name to the test and get started, I should state that I have a bad habit of talking to myself… In Dragonese. As I am going through the quiz I keep mumbling (growling) to myself, apparently people haven't made the connection yet luckily for me, they just think I grumbling about the quiz.
Oh right I should tell you that I was born with, let's call it an Ability, to understand and speak Dragonese which is the dragon's language. Anyways back to the story.
I am already half way through the 4-page quiz when I glance up at the clock and see that only 15 minutes have gone by. Opps I guess I am going a bit fast… hehe I love math. Then I quickly finish the rest before the period is 1/3 done. Once I am finished I get up and hand the test to the teacher and wait to see what she says.
"Well Done Hiccup, that is a Perfect Quiz, you even got the bonus question right" Ms. Ginzel says
"Thank you" I say as I walk back to my seat with all the kids staring at me because they are only ¼ of the way done the quiz, except for a few people who are just over ½ way done. I pull out my sketch book and flip to a blank page, I let my mind wander as I put my pencil to the page and start sketching, after about 20 minutes I look down to see what I drew. It is lush cove with the sun peeking over the cove wall on the side, I see what looks like toothless hanging from a branch in the cove while I see a person, correction more like a toothpick of a person sitting on a rock with a stick in their hand. The whole sketch is grey and white, it almost looks like you are seeing it through a fuzzy lens on a black and white photo.
After Math I head on to the next period class which I have a spare since I have no need for any other courses. I spend most of the time of my spare in the library reading a book that I wrote, the book is called Ender's Game (A/N The real story is done by Orson Scott Card, all rights and the other stuff goes to him). Oh and let me explain how classes work at my High school, there are 4 periods in a day, technically there are 5 since there is one after school, but it isn't mandatory. First and second period are before lunch and are 70 minutes long, then there is lunch which is 60 min long, then there are the last 3 periods which to most students is 2 periods. Period 3 and 4 are after lunch and 70 min long as well, the odd period called period 5 happens after a 30 min break after period 4. The 5th period is only open to those who want to become dragon trainers, most students who take it have bonded dragons that they have at school with them each day, except me because I have a night fury which is the rarest dragon in the world, they only know of one in existence, and it is mine that I race. But I don't need my night fury because I can use any dragon as mine since I can talk directly to them.
So yeah the rest of the day was nothing special and since dragon training hasn't started because school only start 2 weeks ago, I went straight home after school. The reason dragon training hasn't started is because the wait till people get in the flow of class before the add it to their schedule. Once I made it home I dumped off my bag before I head off to Andrew's house for band practice since my dad was off at work somewhere in the U.S. doing another demonstration.
A/N
Thanks for Reading ladies and gents and until Next time.
Posted April 24th 2016
Edited April 24 2016